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FAGGY CLAUSE
Apr 9, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
for 500k i want a blowjob from the man

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Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014
ok that's it, i'm done being an atheist. this poo poo has been ruined beyond all hope of reclamation.

could someone help me out real quick and tell me which religion is the true one so i can just convert to it and get on with my loving life?

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose
scientology

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

islam

Tweet Me Balls
Apr 14, 2009

try agnosticism. only downside is that you have to walk around with a perpetual shrug, which is like being a jew without the dietary restrictions

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Benedick Cuckold posted:

ok that's it, i'm done being an atheist. this poo poo has been ruined beyond all hope of reclamation.

could someone help me out real quick and tell me which religion is the true one so i can just convert to it and get on with my loving life?

Buddhism. I will fight any of you fuckers that picks a different religion.

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

discordianism

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
yazidi. hail fabulous peacock satan.

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014



wtf. which one of is you is joking? or are you both joking? come on guys this isn't that hard, it's just a simple question. i was hoping you could save me the trouble of googling it but i guess not

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.
Pretty sure Scientology is way more expensive than Dawkinism.

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Tweet Me Balls posted:

like being a jew without the dietary restrictions

im not seeing the problem here

Tweet Me Balls
Apr 14, 2009

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Buddhism. I will fight any of you fuckers that picks a different religion.

you know what we do to buddhas we meet on the road 'round here? *cracks knuckles*

Starving Autist
Oct 20, 2007

by Ralp


whenever i read any of these i assume it HAS to be a parody account, this can't actually be a respected genetic biologist, but then i notice the blue checkmark...

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Buddhism. I will fight any of you fuckers that picks a different religion.

i just looked this up and it appears to just be another form of atheism except where you shave your head and wear ugly clothes. and i already do one of those things

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose

Benedick Cuckold posted:

i just looked this up and it appears to just be another form of atheism except where you shave your head and wear ugly clothes. and i already do one of those things

yeah but it also grants you the ability to be the human torch irl

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Benedick Cuckold posted:

i just looked this up and it appears to just be another form of atheism except where you shave your head and wear ugly clothes. and i already do one of those things

That's only for the monks though. If you are planning on being a monk I suggest Catholicism because I've seen quite a few short films on the subject & it appears they get a lot of slutty nun action.

I'm Crap
Aug 15, 2001
a lot of buddhist monks spend their time off getting gently caress wasted, chasing hooers, and going about the place armed and carrying out feuds with other monks.

bigzak
Aug 15, 2003
no lie, farming and carrying buckets seems like a pretty chill life

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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for a donation of only 2.5 million a year i will let you eat a whopper value meal at burger king with me (ur buying)

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦
Tantric yoga is pretty cool

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
Eh, I signed up for a month a while back and it was actually pretty good all things considered

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Khanstant posted:

Eh, I signed up for a month a while back and it was actually pretty good all things considered

what did you buy from the richard dawkins store

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Khanstant posted:

Eh, I signed up for a month a while back and it was actually pretty good all things considered

grats on getting swindled

Mahuum Aqoha
Jan 15, 2004

SHEPARD!
Do it for the universe!
Fun Shoe

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.
I haven't paid much attention to Dawkins lately, but back when he was writing more about biology and evolution I read a lot of his books. Reading the Selfish Gene at the end of high school inspired me to become a biologist. It's pretty annoying how every single person ever likes to blast it because of the word 'Selfish' when they know absolutely nothing about genetics nor truly understand what he's talking about.

That cult of personality stuff is pretty whack though if true. Though I loled at how the article chose the most evil emperor palpatine looking photo of him.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Starving Autist
Oct 20, 2007

by Ralp

like did they actually call him that? or is he just a crazy idiot? either way, lol

Kombotron
Aug 11, 2011

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Buddhism. I will fight any of you fuckers that picks a different religion.

lol i you think u understand anythig about Buddhism

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Kombotron posted:

lol i you think u understand anythig about Buddhism

lol if u understand anything about not being an unironic racist evil gently caress

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Hail Dick Dawk

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Kombotron posted:

lol i you think u understand anythig about Buddhism

Do you?

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

Benedick Cuckold posted:

ok that's it, i'm done being an atheist. this poo poo has been ruined beyond all hope of reclamation.

could someone help me out real quick and tell me which religion is the true one so i can just convert to it and get on with my loving life?

militant solipsism

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)
You know in the Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf says that Sauron couldn't imagine that they would want to get rid of a Dark Lord without replacing him?

It is kind of like that.

Most of the people who are in the Richard Dawkins/new atheist personality cult were people raised in religious, authoritarian environments and they can't imagine getting rid of one hierarchy without replacing it with another. They really do want some source of authority to tell them what their comfortable, static reality is and they can't imagine not having that.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

glowing-fish posted:

You know in the Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf says that Sauron couldn't imagine that they would want to get rid of a Dark Lord without replacing him?

It is kind of like that.

Most of the people who are in the Richard Dawkins/new atheist personality cult were people raised in religious, authoritarian environments and they can't imagine getting rid of one hierarchy without replacing it with another. They really do want some source of authority to tell them what their comfortable, static reality is and they can't imagine not having that.

ppl dont like the explanation that there are no good answers and clinging hard to any metaphysics is dumb as poo poo. its too woolly and vulnerable, regardless if its true

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

glowing-fish posted:

You know in the Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf says that Sauron couldn't imagine that they would want to get rid of a Dark Lord without replacing him?

It is kind of like that.

Most of the people who are in the Richard Dawkins/new atheist personality cult were people raised in religious, authoritarian environments and they can't imagine getting rid of one hierarchy without replacing it with another. They really do want some source of authority to tell them what their comfortable, static reality is and they can't imagine not having that.

This a thousand times. And if it wasn't atheism it would be faith in government to make things tidy and right.

SirDan3k
Jan 6, 2001

Trust me, you are taking this a lot more seriously then I am.

Benedick Cuckold posted:

ok that's it, i'm done being an atheist. this poo poo has been ruined beyond all hope of reclamation.

could someone help me out real quick and tell me which religion is the true one so i can just convert to it and get on with my loving life?

Just start considering yourself a non-spiritual person and break from organized atheism.

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Kombotron posted:

lol i you think u understand anythig about Buddhism

I AM THE SERENEST!

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

THS posted:

ppl dont like the explanation that there are no good answers and clinging hard to any metaphysics is dumb as poo poo. its too woolly and vulnerable, regardless if its true

What is especially ironic is that a lot of what atheist thinkers from 1850 to 1950 were about was not attacking the idea of God, or even trying to prove that religion had done historically bad things, was to try to tell people that you couldn't just find a truth and then camp on it like a fat man in his recliner watching college football. When Nietzsche said "God is Dead", he was only incidentally talking about "God". Most atheists don't really read Nietzsche though, other than for some out-of-context quotes, and I don't think the "new Atheists" have any idea of who Jean-Paul Sartre was and what existentialism is. Existentialism is closer to religion than it is to science, after all, because it says we have to base our understanding of the world on our own, subjective experiences, and not on any type of "objective" metaphysics, including empiricism.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Reporting for shovel mission Sir.
Dick Dawk

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Lassitude
Oct 21, 2003

Rdawk is a secret fundie plant designed to make atheists act like idiots and spur the growth of religious belief by putting theists on the defensive against rear end in a top hat nonbeleibers

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