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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 9:34 pm


I thought I would bring this back to life since it has been forgotten. x.x

How is everyone doing? I finally finished my classes <33 All A's and one B.
PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:17 pm


I'm doing so so...suffering from a migrane that waxes and wanes...but other than I've been doing okay.

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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:25 pm


Congrats on good grades.

I'm really enjoying We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse.
PostPosted: Fri May 25, 2007 6:50 am



      My future is full of curly fries now. Working at Arby's this summer.

      I wonder why nobody chats here anymore. Sadness. D:

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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 9:17 am


c a u s t i c

      My future is full of curly fries now. Working at Arby's this summer.

      I wonder why nobody chats here anymore. Sadness. D:


Hook a brothah up wit dem currly fries bebeh! I love dem shits. I just don't like Arby's raost beef. It's kind of nasty. I like Zel's, but choo prolly ain't got's dem. crying
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:51 pm


      No, just Arby's, you blasphemer D:<
      xD

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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:18 pm


Does anyone but me feel like some of the things that are said by some (no here (I refuse to say names) are really no more mature or open-minded than some of the things said by the certain over-voiced, over-zealous that we poke fun at? (And the entirety of the religion, to boot.)
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:46 pm


-edited to avoid unneeded rant- D:

Yes, I think we have brought this up a few times already, yah?

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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2007 4:12 pm


c a u s t i c
-edited to avoid unneeded rant- D:

Yes, I think we have brought this up a few times already, yah?


Already read. 3nodding
PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:49 am


That's fine, I thought you probably did since you were on, I just didn't wanna leave the chat thread all ranty so people would still talk here n such.
I was mostly in a bad mood, I had the bad judgement to go looking through the trash subforum and read the old april fool's threads xD
Yeah, but if you have any issues still with it feel free to PM me. 3nodding I didn't mean to cut off your response as well.


And there is an image edit contest thread in the random subforum. :0

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:04 pm


http://www.crummychurchsigns.com/hallofshame.htm

Bweheheheh...

I love church signs. xD

There's a few near where I live that get changed around quite a bit.

One in particular. The pastor either puts up a typical message or one of his weekly puns, and honestly, they can be pretty horrible. I'm still waiting for one to submit to a site like that, though I doubt I will be for long.

(None of his, though, have yet outdone the Alberta Church of God's "X-TREME praise 4 kids!" announcement.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:42 pm


I just moved some topics to the shiny new Q&A.
And made a new announcement. :]

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:23 pm


You know...

It seems to me that the only real attack left to make that would have any effect on certain individuals would be to publicly dissect, not their religion in and of its self, but their own constant faltering attempts to defend it.



Not that I advocate making waves intentionally, but a disturbed dog has its moments to bite back. Just beware the psychological repercussions that such a strike would have on its target. After all, the only reason people fight so stubbornly-but-enduringly about these things is because they are defending the very thing which their life is based upon.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:28 pm


When I shrugged off religious thought I was very intimidated. I felt I had to learn everything over again.

Luckily, it's not that hard. But when you're staring in the face that the foundation of your life was a fraud, it's very scary. I hovered for about six months in a state of failure to acknowledge my Atheism because I was so terrified at the thought of losing a huge part of my social and internal structure. It was when I made the most radical steps and progress in my religious education, too.

So I know what you're talking about, TSW, and I know the desperation of being faced with the truth of superstition's grave emptiness.

Theophrastus


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:58 am


I've even gone to a youth group meeting before.

It was, summed up in one word, beautiful. Even I could feel the aura of comfort and security there. Even past the half-truths that were being told.



I never did have the chance to see the other side of things before I reached where I am, and I'm not ashamed to say that I would have chosen to be a Christian if given such long ago.

To say that someone "founds their life" on something is to use words with far from enough power. The zeal we see, as disgusting as it may be, really and truly is understandable.





During that meeting I spoke of, there was those present were asked that if they were facing issues, they stand forward and kneel down to pray. While it's an assumption of human nature to believe there were some worried over trivial matters, the tear stains on the floor were as clear a sign as anything that some of these people did share in the worst pains of life. I would give almost anything to be able to escape into that feeling for a moment, and not long ago, I began to wonder why, for all we do and try, we are forbidden the same such comfort.



I wonder if such a thing could be conceived for a number of us to come together in support of one another that way, but lacking of the theology of prayer.

If only. -.-
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