"A few posters have written of young people not performing up to their levels because they feared rejection by others their age.
I right away remembered from my two junior college years that I often saw an attractive young woman student by herself.…"
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"Say 'Amen' one hundred times each day." WHAT!?!?! Say 'So be it' a hundred times each day?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kairan Nierde Jun 23, 2013. 7 Replies 0 Likes
At the first religious service I've been to in about six years -- a funeral service for "Hank", a religious friend, the minister asked the attendees to say "Amen" 100 times each day. (That…Continue
Tags: rebellion., obedience, passivity, religion
"Once We Free Ourselves of the Shackles of Religion, and Bible-based Big Bang Theology...
Started this discussion. Last reply by archaeopteryx Sep 20, 2013. 45 Replies 0 Likes
...the living universe is revealed for what it is: infinite and eternal. A universe which consists of infinite space that has no beginning, and no end."So say the authors of The Big Bang: A Critical…Continue
Is your life after religion what you expected?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Lewal Apr 20, 2013. 1 Reply 0 Likes
If I had put my expectations into words I would have said "Life can't get any worse!" (Before college I was a Catholic.)Life couldn't get any worse than that of the only Catholic I knew well: my…Continue
The "under God" and the "under": which does what kind of harm?
Started May 3, 2012 0 Replies 1 Like
Do you want to play a switch in a relationship, or do you want to play the submissive in a dominant/submissive relationship?Look carefully at the words "under God".I dislike the "God" part; I believe…Continue
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'Brag about yourself!'"Humility?
In Catholic schools I heard a lot about humility.
In a college math class the professor told me, "You have to toot your own horn. No one else will toot it for you."
The nuns had it wrong; the math professor had it right.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'Brag about yourself!'"I ask "Why?" real well. Sometimes superbly.
Hi, Belle.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Kari Flores's discussion 'Dealing With Religious Customers At Work'"The boss chooses religious music and the employees talk religion?
Sounds like they are "in Rome" doing what the head "Roman" does.
My brother and I worked after school and Saturdays in our dad's grocery store and Dad…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Gallup's Mirror's discussion 'Extinct humans'"Bible study has hollowed out the thinking regions of Robertson's skull.
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Tom Sarbeck commented on Belle Rose's blog post 'The simplicity of happiness'"No one asked me 85 years and 11 months (which includes those 9 months) ago if I wanted to start the ride and no one will ask me if I want to end it. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Roxi's discussion 'What makes you you, without falling back on a "soul" argument?'"To people who cast doubt on existence, I might say "If you will consent to my sticking a needle or pin into your arm, you can tell me if you exist."
I will want their consent in writing.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Monica McGee (Monicks)'s discussion 'Are feelings questionable?'"Feeling motivates me. Thinking keeps me out of prison.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Renee's discussion 'Isolating Potential Allies'"boBisms!
Good idea, Gregg. boBisms are enough more subtle than Spoonerisms that they require:
1. Catholic school educations,
2. Aging to allow the mental harm to mature, and
3. Vintage numbers to identify quality.
I would give the above most…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Renee's discussion 'Isolating Potential Allies'"Reg:
That is because prayer does nothing.
I agree what prayer does nothing.to remedy the problems that move believers to pray.
I'm dealing with failing membership organizations and I tell their leaders that praying for visitors allows members…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Renee's discussion 'Isolating Potential Allies'"Bob, with a doctorate you don't know that using guilt, shame and isolation succeeds with children and fails with graduate students?
Can you be any more willfully ignorant?
Events in my life took down my wall between the world and my…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'Wife, girlfriend, mistress, daughter.....'"PB, your reply had me wondering if you're a masochist.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Renee's discussion 'Isolating Potential Allies'"MikeLong, adding...
I've heard Catholics talk of the ease of confessing. sinning again, and confessing again. They're in danger of next life punishment only if they die between their most recent sinning and their next confessing.
As GB…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Renee's discussion 'Isolating Potential Allies'"MikeLong:
Yes, briefly now. Twelve years of daily religion classes [with all the guilt, shame and isolation they use] helped me build in my mind a defense [a wall is a good metaphor] that kept "dangerous" issues out of awareness. Time [if…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'Wife, girlfriend, mistress, daughter.....'"Belle, I appreciate your acknowledging that reality. You increased my respect for you.
My guess is that if you, in an relevant scene with male ironworkers, can respond with that kind of honesty, and with a chuckle, you will win the respect of those…"
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- Atheist
- About Me:
- Korean War veteran, was an electrician aboard a US Navy destroyer. BA in math and economics from the University of Florida. Married for 6 years to a freethinker, and for reasons too complicated to tell here we chose to remain childless. Retired from computer manufacturing. Running for election to Arizona Legislature was another education; I learned a lot but happily the incumbent won. Now living in SF Bay Area's Napa County and loving it.
- Age
- 77-82
- Relationship Status
- Single
- Why are you here?
- For 16 years I've been one of a very few out atheists at a home for retired veterans. Most here are xians, some of them extremely conservative. Most here are Dems and they give me no flak. They all accept my refusing to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth; I told them I will discuss the issue when they pledge allegiance to the Constitution. I enjoy the mental exercise I get in conversations on atheist websites.
- The religion you left
- Catholic
- Why you left your religion.
- When my parents told me I was going to college because I was too lazy to get a job, I threw them and their god out of my life. Several years later I made a peace of sorts with my parents. In April of 2012, in a Toastmasters Club here, I told of my leaving Catholicism for agnosticism and 50 years later leaving agnosticism for atheism. There are many out xians here. Very few try to recruit me; I tell them that but for 12 years in Catholic schools I might still believe one or more gods exist. To the very few who try to recruit me, I say religion is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on humankind. They stop trying.
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- No
- How did you hear about Think Atheist?
- When TA was a contestant in the About Contest.
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 8:28pm on July 16, 2013,
archaeopteryx said… RE: "arch, your posts have shown me that you are a worthy debater" - only because I'm out of vodka.
As for Google, you seem to be more popular than I - try, http://in-his-own-image.com/2010/01/24/-in-his-own-image-.aspx
- At 2:25am on June 23, 2013,
Karl Hanks said… Hi Tom! Just joined so I only have said hello! Hello!
- At 2:32pm on June 9, 2013,
Simon Paynton said… Thanks Tom. I'm glad to hear it. Yes I am.
- At 11:05am on December 16, 2012,
Denise M. Purtell said… Dude, all I was saying is that religion, or the lack there of, rather - has nothing to do with some nutcase and killing children. Holy rollers have been seemingly blaming the fact of "no religion in school" is the cause. It is an observation I've made. So all I was doing was trying to make a point that it is nothing to do with that and it has everything to do with the individual idiot just being a crazy bastard.
That is all I was saying.
- At 8:42am on February 27, 2012,
Robert Karp said… Welcome to the Think Atheist community Tom! Join us in the chat on the bottom right of the screen and feel free to ask questions and get involved as much or as little as you want! If you would like to, add me as a friend and I'm also on twitter as RSAnative if you care to follow. Welcome again and make yourself at home!
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