Discuss while I begin two editing projects and several papers. Also, there's a poll on the sidebar to discuss. I can't do everything around here, after all.
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Discuss while I begin two editing projects and several papers. Also, there's a poll on the sidebar to discuss. I can't do everything around here, after all. |
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| nat April 4, 2009 07:12 AM PDT  LOL. Oh, my nuns would slap your wrists with a ruler! They'd say that, indeed, the other men wrote the words, but they were directly from God's mouth to their ears, so it is GOD's word, may you burn in hell. ;) I saw a couple of chicks talking to Bill O'Reilly (hey there was nothing else on tv) about the rise of atheism and how horrible it is. Christians, they agreed, are being attacked in media. Apparently, practically every show has anti-Christian messages/themes. I want to know WTF they're watching. As for atheism rising, I don't know. I know I've never questioned the god thing more than I have in the last several years. Maybe it's my age coupled with the lack of evidence of some all-knowing creator. (Which constantly draws the "But Nat, how can you look at a sunrise and not know it was created for you by God?" Hello? You mean that sun that's millions of miles away, that provides energy to sustain our planet? That one star in one galaxy? ) Organized religion is an excuse for peeps to share a common belief and to have potlucks. It's not for me, even if I do go along with accomanying my husband to Mass every week. Hey, I make up my grocery lists and plan my week during that hour. Does this mean I eat babies and carve pentagrams into flesh? | ||
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| Paula April 4, 2009 07:52 AM PDT Well, it doesn't matter to me who said what, as I don't believe in god anyway, but I know it's a big farooking deal to a lot of others. What I find amusing (though it's a bit OT here) is how the most strident believers are the most afraid of death. But, but...I thought God and Jesus and heaven was waiting over there for ya, so why do you need every possible last second here on earth connected to machines and tubes? Hmmmmmm. | ||
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| Jodie Kash April 4, 2009 09:54 AM PDT Bet a few forward-thinking broads had a complete ideas too. | ||
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| Tim April 5, 2009 10:40 AM PDT Considering that Jesus is actually only in the last 1/6 th of the Bible, I'd think that graph would be 83% to 17%. Paula- I'm a believer and yes, I don't want to die (now, @ 47). There is no guarantee, after all that there is an afterlife. Still, I would not want to be doin' the whole Terry Sciavo thing. If you're knockin' at my door and no one is home, please turn out the lights. When I'm 90, and I can't remember what I ate for breakfast (oops! can't do that 1/2 the time now), and it hurts when I pee, and I can't recognize my own kids, I think I'll have had quite enough of this thing we call life on Earth. How does a non-believer cope with the fear of death? Just not think about it? Just askin'. | ||
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| nat April 6, 2009 06:19 AM PDT I don't know about other non-believers, but I don't think about death. Perhaps that will change as I get even older, but I focus on the life part and the death part will take care of itself. Hubby and I are planning for our retirement/eventual deaths, cuz we're not stoopid. Afterlife? If there is one and I don't get to experience it because I don't believe..I'm ok with that. | ||
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| Cheezy April 15, 2009 12:55 AM PDT I'm a non-believer who DOES think about death... quite a bit actually... and I agree that, on the face of it, it's an easier and more comfortable event for believers in God to contemplate - the idea that there's some sort of sense and meaning and, more importantly, continuation. I can absolutely see the attraction of it all. Still, I'll be fucked if those idiots who dress in black and preach hatred (as much as they preach love) and bullshit have got it right, so - for me -going from existence and consciousness to non-existence and unconsciousness, while spooky and incredibly hard to imagine, remains the most likely scenario. | ||
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