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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 02:06 PM
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More distrusted than a gay black liberal Jew. Yup, that's me.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 02:22 PM
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1. fortunately, all you need is a cross necklace
and nobody will know that you are not an agnostic.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 02:27 PM
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2. Reminds Me Of That Woman On TV's "The View" Who Said...
... that she would NEVER trust an atheist. (Or that atheists couldn't be trusted... or some similar negative broad-brush comment about atheists.) What a bitchy thing to say!! -- Which one was it anyway?
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:32 PM
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5. "Star" Jones
She was a spokesperson for Payless Shoes.
I wrote them a letter a couple of years
ago and told them what I thought of their
choice of "spokesmodel".

I haven't bought a pair of shoes there
since.

DSW is my best friend now.....
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:39 PM
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7. A Real Piece Of Work, Ain't She?

Maybe she's afraid that the mean old atheist might steal her pie.
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:45 PM
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12. she had weight-loss surgery
this is what she looks like now
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 02:32 PM
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3. Here's an interesting phenomenon.
I am a Buddhist. I am, therefore, an atheist; I do not believe in a personified deity. I do believe in a sort of divine universal principle; I have a sense of the spiritual, of the numinous, but I do NOT personify it, and do in fact often tell people I am an atheist because I am a Buddhist.

Yet the reaction I get from people when I have this conversation is, "That's different; you're not REALLY an atheist."

I wonder why?
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:37 PM
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6. Because their labeling system cannot compute such a concept.
Adjusting said system requires thinking, which is painful to the majority of humans I've met.
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:56 PM
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13. i think the masses hear 'atheist' and they translate that to:
'hates God and Jesus Christ'

it's just too much for them- their brains implode.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 02:39 PM
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4. My tax dollars at work
why oh why does the state of MN insist on funding such intellectual pursuits?
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 03:42 PM
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8. Goodness. That's distressing, though not surprising.
But in some small way I take comfort in the fact that people who worship imaginary playmates don't trust me.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:03 PM
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9. Yeah, sometimes I think I should "come out" more often.
Make use of the filter, you know.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:20 PM
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10. Why do I never get these calls at my house?
I'm a Christian who has no problems w/ atheists.

I bet I've been blackballed from all calling lists.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 06:42 PM
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11. Me, too.
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