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The Magic Pudding..

Quote from: Icarus on December 26, 2024, 04:25:24 AMIt is December 25.....Though I do not believe that that date has any historical or religious authenticity, It is a date that even we heathens recognize.

With that I wish my HAF friends a very Merry Christmas.

Yes but you can't eat wishes, where is the cake? no one has brought any cake.

I brought a cake.

If you suffer from cosmic vertigo, don't look.

Tank

Quote from: billy rubin on December 26, 2024, 05:05:46 PMmy daughter got married last night. we were eating dinner and she announced it was to happen  right then.

nobody had officially told me so i made them tell me personally, then i offered to officiate, since i am ordained. my youngest son and oldest daughter are ordained too, but only the daughter had paid the twenty bucks to the state to be authorized by the government.

so she did it, in front of the plastic christmas tree thing my wife drags out every december.

then they signed the marriage license and i had to go to bed.

now i have to get much better in spanish to be able to talk to my new son in law

Congratulations to the happy couple.
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Icarus

Though some of us may regard Christmas as humbug, many of us continue to participate in the observation of the date. We HAFers are a cool lot. Although the name of the forum involves the word atheist, we seem to be immune from the need to bash the Xtians or other godly folks. 

I am pleased to note that the last post in the religion section was dated October 27. More than sixty days without any mention of Jesus, Allah, Confucious, or any of those other sky guys.  Good on all of you.   

Dark Lightning

Many people don't need to ride that train. When I first got around to admitting that I was a "filthy atheist", I got into some real set-tos with religious people who came into the forum (not here, obv). But I got tired of that pretty quickly. It's repetitive and boring, and the likelihood of one changing their mind one way or the other is pretty low. We don't get many god-botherers here, thankfully.

Tank

If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

billy rubin



elon musk's net worth is $486,000,000,000. if elon spent a million dollars a day, every day of the year, it would take him 1342 years to spend all his money.

hermes2015

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
― Charles Eames

Dark Lightning

Happy New Year! Though the actual change is about 4+ hours, away, and I sleep with earplugs.

Recusant

Quote from: Icarus on December 31, 2024, 12:38:37 AMThough some of us may regard Christmas as humbug, many of us continue to participate in the observation of the date. We HAFers are a cool lot. Although the name of the forum involves the word atheist, we seem to be immune from the need to bash the Xtians or other godly folks. 

I am pleased to note that the last post in the religion section was dated October 27. More than sixty days without any mention of Jesus, Allah, Confucious, or any of those other sky guys.  Good on all of you. 

In the intervening few months there's been a steady flow of reports of various professional god-botherers using their revered positions for extremely unsavory ends. I'd post them in that section but it gets tedious noting every time another religious leader is revealed to be a predator. Or that his fellow racketeers have been protecting him for years.

"News of the Godly" items appear nearly every week in Harry Shearer's show. It's a catalog of the misdeeds and machinations of religious leaders and their organizations, sometimes several items in a week. I genuinely appreciate the work he does on that beat but I haven't been keeping up here. Perhaps I'm a bit jaded, but I'll put it down to avoiding a tiresome monotony of repulsive behavior. It's convenient for them that all they have to do is ask Jesus for forgiveness and he'll welcome them into eternal wonderfulness.

:lol:  I know you were appreciating the absence of vituperation, just noting that sometimes it's well deserved.  :smilenod:

. . . And a Happy New Year to you and yours and all the rest of youse as well.  :bender:
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth."
— H. L. Mencken


Icarus

Thank you for keeping the religion section swept clean of that vast army of misguided "do gooders".  :sweeping:

Asmodean

Quote from: The Magic Pudding.. on December 27, 2024, 02:24:44 AMI brought a cake.


:watching: The Asmo is not sure if He is fascinated or horrified.

He is, however, certain that He approves because that thing is totally evil. :smilenod:
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

The Magic Pudding..

The radio people keep playing this line to me.
Today it is the Palestine cease fire, thank the lord some guy says.
A while back there was an earthquake and it had taken most of some blokes family but one child survived, "thank the lord" he says .

In the kitchen I often listen to live free to air radio, stuff I don't specifically choose to.
The Spirit of Things is a radio thing.
I'm making my lunch.
She says she had an awesome experience at a concert or something and she tried to rationalise that it wasn't god sent.
She tried to be an atheist, new atheism is so dead, the young want woo.  :o  :???:  ::)

Granddaughter is 1.5 now, I build and she breaks. 
I draw a chalk face, smile, eye, eyes, nose, lashes, call him Bob and she dusts him.
I read the stories, she supplies the last word of the significant lines
No! this book again not that book!

Ah, computer woes..
it works for 13 months and then it doesn't want to start most of the time but when it does it's rock solid for hours until turned off.  Maybe my new I5 and motherboard will arrive tomorrow, and I'll make the move to 11.  I think I'll make a warranty claim on the AM4 motherboard, surely the fault isn't with the processor, the pins of which I bent all those months ago.

If you suffer from cosmic vertigo, don't look.

Recusant

"The Spirit of Things" eh? That sounds like it could be a wonderful can of worms of all sorts. From the example given and the title it sounds like an invitation to embrace magical thinking, though I could have the wrong end of the stick. The "spiritual but not religious" thing is pretty common, catering to it seems like it could be popular.
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth."
— H. L. Mencken


The Magic Pudding..

I hate the windows 11 taskbar, it's fucking ghastly.
Maybe I'll get used to it eventually.
If you suffer from cosmic vertigo, don't look.

Icarus

Most recently, I became an admirer of a religious spokesperson.  The Bishop at the Episcopal church in Washinton D.C. is Maryann Budde. During recent service in which the Trump was present, she offended him politely. Her remarks were intended to urge common decency and care for the less advantaged, a characteristic missing from the Trump madman.  Trump later demanded an apology. She has not done so and said that she will not do so.