"Holy, please don't insert your enthusiasms into the minds of five-year-olds.
In years of volunteerism at San Francisco Sex Information (www.sfsi.org), I personally answered hundreds of five year olds who asked ONLY "How do people make…"
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Is your life after religion what you expected?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Lewal Apr 20. 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
"When X changes my mind, I'm an atheist. What is X?" Is it a nonsense question?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jewelz Apr 19, 2012. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Here, lightly paraphrased, are three assertions I found in a Kindle book from www.edge.org (What Have You Changed Your Mind About?).When thinking changes my mind,…Continue
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Christianity, slave morality, and freeing ourselves.
Started this discussion. Last reply by archaeopteryx Sep 18, 2012. 10 Replies 0 Likes
Friedrich Nietzsche, in his On the Genealogy of Morals, said there are two types of morality: master morality, which weighs actions by their [perceived] good or bad consequences, and slave morality,…Continue
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Mercedes's discussion 'Why do atheists ask for so much proof to believe in God?'Tom Sarbeck replied to Mercedes's discussion 'Why do atheists ask for so much proof to believe in God?'"Holy (you do seem dedicated to the cause of a new holy writ), ....
'Nuf said.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Mercedes's discussion 'Why do atheists ask for so much proof to believe in God?'"Surely, Rocky, you can do better than You're ridiculous.
Add a bit of evidence to support your charge."
Tom Sarbeck replied to Mercedes's discussion 'Why do atheists ask for so much proof to believe in God?'"I agree, Holo, that many of us put a lot of effort into stating how we differ.
Aquinas would agree with your suggested single Book of Atheism.
Drop the word Official; put WikiAtheism in the title."
Tom Sarbeck replied to Holo Gram's discussion 'Should illegal aliens in the US be denied medical care?'"Holo! Please!
Your Help sometimes comes in mysterious ways resembles so much the line God works in mysterious ways.
You have some more head cleaning to do.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!'"Matt hasn't encountered Phyllis Schafly and her many women allies whose thinking has been poisoned by their religions.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!'""Those women need to be empowered from the outside in....from people who are already empowered to speak up for them."
So very true.
I'm now reading Peter Drier's The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!'"Holo, methinks...no, meknows you jest."
Tom Sarbeck replied to Holo Gram's discussion 'Should illegal aliens in the US be denied medical care?'"Several years ago a news broadcast told of Mexico's strict rules on health care for non-citizens.
One way to get a reciprocal agreement is to have similar rules.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!'"Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
I understand his words to mean something like People who wait to be empowered won't be empowered.
Does his observation apply here?
Idealists live hard…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Mercedes's discussion 'Why do atheists ask for so much proof to believe in God?'"Holo Gram, the folks who are answering you haven't seen your using:
1) the word religiously as a synonym for strongly, and
2) the word religion in its more widely-used sense.
My question is Do you see your using a tactic that might help you win…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Adam's discussion 'Do Men have the right to a "financial abortion"'"Rocky, neither of the above. The object of child support laws is to protect taxpayers who don't want to pay for children irresponsibly conceived by others.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Adam's discussion 'Do Men have the right to a "financial abortion"'"Unseen, you've come closer to a solution than anyone else who has posted: you've seen that taxpayers have a right to not have to pay for irresponsibly conceived children.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Mercedes's discussion 'Why do atheists ask for so much proof to believe in God?'"Hm-mm, I last visited TA several days ago, before Mercedes arrived.
Who works harder to win converts, TAers or Jehovah Witnesses?
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Tom Sarbeck replied to Adam's discussion 'Do Men have the right to a "financial abortion"'"So far in this discussion no one has written of the community in which these people live.
According to a book I was browsing a few months ago about medieval (post-feudal) England, an unmarried woman who became pregnant was ordered to leave the…"
Tom Sarbeck replied to Bo Fowler's discussion 'What is not believing in God like?'"Davis, I enjoyed your spoof. It was a spoof, wasn't it?
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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.
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- 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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