unapologetic

PopeBeanie wrote:
He sure looks a lot older than Trump, or any other potential GOP candidate.

He is only 4 years older than Trump. There have been older presidents.

I have stopped voting for ANY republican after 2015. Even for my local town council.

But this year I have changed my voter registration to republican so that I can vote AGAINST Trump in the primary.

I encourage you to do likewise.

Dolphins never developed a technical civilization because they spend their whole day SURFING.
You wouldn’t either.
Seriously, octopi probably have an easier life than us. We spend all our time fighting. Each other, our environment, the blogosphere. We invent reasons to fight along with the tools to do it. Does any other critter on the planet NEED…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
But I presume that people sincerely get their spirituality from the Bible and the life of Jesus, so it’s not all useless and wacky

Wisdom/spirituality in the bible is like corn in a cow patty.

Sure you can find some whole (undigested) kernels (of wisdom) in there. But is it really worth the trouble to dig them out, when y…[Read more]

I found 4 issues of SON-O-GOD comics at pinterest. full scans, all pages.

https://www.pinterest.com/hairypothead/son-o-god-comics-by-neal-adams/

Unseen wrote:
Humans swallow an average of eight spiders a year while sleeping.

Yeah, 73% of statistics are made-up. This one is obvious. How the hell would you collect the data on swallowing spiders? Watch a random sample of people sleep for a year? For a week and multiply by 52? In the lab? How clean is your lab? In their homes? What…[Read more]

rhonjon wrote:
That would be kewl—new gods.

NO!

No gods. We don’t need them.

I don’t remember anything about New Gods. I only remember that I read a few issues and didn’t like it.

Jesus Comix, underground comix from 1969, 70, 72.  Somewhere I’v got Son O god comics 1,2 by Neal Addams from the National Lampoon. I’ll try to dig them up.

No comment.

Devorice? No, I see it as a liberation from an oppressive despot.
A divorce is separation from an equal former partner. But god proports to be our master.
Yes I am angry. I am angry at being conned. continually.
I was conned about santa, but the truth came out, and people stopped. So I was able to forget and move on.
Since then, I was able to see…[Read more]

Glen D wrote:
Therefore, there must exist what it takes for the universe to exist.

But we don’t yet know what that is. Anyone who claims they know (the church) are liars

What it takes for the universe to exist cannot exist within the universe or be bounded by space and time.

How do you know?

PopeBeanie wrote:
they should easily be able to admit the simple fact that humans invent gods.

Yeah, some gods, but not their god. Their god is real.

Simon Paynton wrote:
I agree that religion seems to bliss people out a lot of the time, so if people don’t have something to bliss them out, they are going to seem miserable in comparison.

So legalize drugs

Rhonjon said “theists would have us believe that knowledge is a great loss.”
* christians paint a lot of stuff back-assward.
* Eve acquiring the gift of knowledge for us, is portrayed as disloyalty.
* Abraham’s attempt to kill his own son, is portrayed as inspiring.
* god lets his son be tortured to death as a scapegoat, is portrayed as god’s…[Read more]

Hi, I’m new. Starting this thread from the top:
“Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual?”
If you want to “Don’t worry, Be happy” fine, but find some other word for it that doesn’t contain the word ‘spirt’.
I have never felt the need to be “part of something greater than oneself.” I don’t understand that need.
Sure I have occasionally…[Read more]