In Stev13jay's opinion

[Stev13jay]

Poor Steve, starts a thread and we go and de-rail it.

Serious question. Will you send your kid to school or home school? What factors will influence your choice.

As of right now I plan on sending my son to public school my sons very young and I have time to decide. Some factors that weight in are the separation of church and state in public school. I don't think the government needs to be preaching to our kids. Teach children about religion or notbisnup to the parents. Also another factor is test scores ibwould really like yo find a private non religious school but in my area I can't find one. I hope that answers your question.

[OldGit]

Sell that's sort of a tough question according to pastafarians you can be but by definition of atheism you don't believe in a god or gods so to be pastafarian and believe in the flying spaghetti monster as a creator or god would contradict being an atheist but if you look at the fsm as a parody religion like myself you can be but according to he creator of the fsm or founder or the one who discovered it claims it as real religion so in my opinion a pastafarian can be atheist but a true atheist wouldn't believe in the fsm kind of contradicting I hope that makes since

Steve, that's a sensible answer, but - if I might offer a bit of well-meant advice - some basic punctuation would make it so much easier to read.

Sell, that's sort of a tough question.  According to pastafarians you can be, but by definition of atheism you don't believe in a god or gods. So, to be pastafarian and believe in the flying spaghetti monster as a creator or god would contradict being an atheist; but if you look at the fsm as a parody religion - like myself - you can be, but according to the  .....

I do hope you don't mind my doing that as an example.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Please do not joke about the Holy Food; our Noodly Lord boiled for your sins.  

Stev13jay, can a Pastafarian be an atheist, or vice versa?

Sell that's sort of a tough question according to pastafarians you can be but by definition of atheism you don't believe in a god or gods so to be pastafarian and believe in the flying spaghetti monster as a creator or god would contradict being an atheist but if you look at the fsm as a parody religion like myself you can be but according to he creator of the fsm or founder or the one who discovered it claims it as real religion so in my opinion a pastafarian can be atheist but a true atheist wouldn't believe in the fsm kind of contradicting I hope that makes since

Do you believe in periods?

[Tank]

Please do not joke about the Holy Food; our Noodly Lord boiled for your sins.  

Stev13jay, can a Pastafarian be an atheist, or vice versa?

Sell that's sort of a tough question according to pastafarians you can be but by definition of atheism you don't believe in a god or gods so to be pastafarian and believe in the flying spaghetti monster as a creator or god would contradict being an atheist but if you look at the fsm as a parody religion like myself you can be but according to he creator of the fsm or founder or the one who discovered it claims it as real religion so in my opinion a pastafarian can be atheist but a true atheist wouldn't believe in the fsm kind of contradicting I hope that makes since

Do you believe in periods?

He has a wife and a son so I woulld think so.

[Stev13jay]

Periods? Female periods yes. Periods of time yes pretty much any periods yes. The ones at the end of my sentence yes. So my answer is yes all around.

[Stev13jay]

Well it seems like I've been getting a few questions on here. I thought I might try to ask everyone on here a question. As atheist what is everyones opinion on gay marriage? I've debated my wife about this we are both atheist and share different opinions about this subject. So let me hear all yours. Thanks for your time.

[DeterminedJuliet]

There's another thread about this, but I am pro-gay marriage!

[Asmodean]

There's another thread about this

Several, in fact... Or so I seem to remember.

In any case, I'm not exactly pro mattiage in general (Why bother?), but I do not discriminate. If someone wants it, no matter whether gay, straight, transgendered, bisexual or whatever, let them have it, I say.

[Tank]

If any two (or more) people want to stick a public label on their relationship they are perfectly entitled to do so; whatever that label may be, none of my business or concern as it has no material impact on me or anybody else.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Well it seems like I've been getting a few questions on here. I thought I might try to ask everyone on here a question. As atheist what is everyones opinion on gay marriage? I've debated my wife about this we are both atheist and share different opinions about this subject. So let me hear all yours. Thanks for your time.

I don't think too many people on this forum are going to have a problem with gay marriage. Does that agree with your position or your wife's position?  Do you actually debate her?  Who moderates?

[Stev13jay]

Well it seems like everyone pretty much agree about gay marriage, which means everyone agrees with me. As to who moderates my wife and myself when we debate no one. It end with my wife saying she doesn't want to hear my reasoning . She believes what she does and doesn't like to debate at all actually. So it doesn't go far, we just agree to disagree.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Well it seems like everyone pretty much agree about gay marriage, which means everyone agrees with me. As to who moderates my wife and myself when we debate no one. It end with my wife saying she doesn't want to hear my reasoning . She believes what she does and doesn't like to debate at all actually. So it doesn't go far, we just agree to disagree.

Time for a couple of blatantly sexist jokes:

"There are two theories about arguing with a woman - and both of them are wrong."

"The woman always gets the last word in an argument. If the man says anything after that, it's just the start of another argument."

[DeterminedJuliet]

Well it seems like everyone pretty much agree about gay marriage, which means everyone agrees with me. As to who moderates my wife and myself when we debate no one. It end with my wife saying she doesn't want to hear my reasoning . She believes what she does and doesn't like to debate at all actually. So it doesn't go far, we just agree to disagree.

Time for a couple of blatantly sexist jokes:

"There are two theories about arguing with a woman - and both of them are wrong."

"The woman always gets the last word in an argument. If the man says anything after that, it's just the start of another argument."

If they're blatantly sexist, why do you think they're okay? If I said "here are some blatantly racist jokes" should I still expect everyone to laugh?

Seriously, between this, the "end of the male" thread you started, and some of the other comments you made, I'm seriously starting to wonder if you have unresolved issues towards women. 

*sits and waits for "humourless feminist" comments*

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Well it seems like everyone pretty much agree about gay marriage, which means everyone agrees with me. As to who moderates my wife and myself when we debate no one. It end with my wife saying she doesn't want to hear my reasoning . She believes what she does and doesn't like to debate at all actually. So it doesn't go far, we just agree to disagree.

Time for a couple of blatantly sexist jokes:

"There are two theories about arguing with a woman - and both of them are wrong."

"The woman always gets the last word in an argument. If the man says anything after that, it's just the start of another argument."

If they're blatantly sexist, why do you think they're okay? If I said "here are some blatantly racist jokes" should I still expect everyone to laugh?

Seriously, between this, the "end of the male" thread you started, and some of the other comments you made, I'm seriously starting to wonder if you have unresolved issues towards women. 

*sits and waits for "humourless feminist" comments*

Apparently my sense of humor and what I am used to doesn't play well here.  I work with a number of women in an office, and generally there is fairly good-natured office banter about this subject.  My typical female co-worker would simply use my jokes as an opportunity to say something about men.  My apologies for offending you.  I hereby banish myself to further sensitivity training.     

[DeterminedJuliet]

I appreciate your response, and I know it's hard to draw the line on being "PC" (especially on the internet), so thanks for that

I just think the whole "battle of sexes" thing does a disservice to everyone. I work with a lot of women too (everyone in my clinic is a woman, actually) and I hate it when they get on with man bashing. I have to sit and bite my tongue when they talk about "being whiny like a man" and garbage like that. They expect me to shit-talk my husband a lot, and they get annoyed when I won't, so I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine, coming from anyone.

Anyhoo,
Back to your regularly scheduled thread!