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Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

virginia baby

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Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
I need a good non-answer like "I'm getting by comfortably" when people ask you how much money you make.

Ocean Book
Sep 27, 2010

:yum: - hi

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

I hope you are trolling people when you say that, because it's asinine. The feelings referred to by words such as "love" or "drunk" are not communicated in those words, the words describe by definition. That is to say, they are ways of defining feelings that the listener is expected to be aware of, if not have a familiarity with, independent of hearing the words for them. To suggest that language cannot be used to describe your "spiritual experiences" is to suggest that they are truly unique to you, and therefore incomprehensible to anyone else, which you can't possibly have any real reason to believe.

the tao that can be spoken is not the true tao

Affe mk2
Mar 9, 2004

Chicks dig giant robots

RaceBannon posted:

Seriously, where do you people live where people ask your religion?

the u.s.

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Laslow posted:

I need a good non-answer like "I'm getting by comfortably" when people ask you how much money you make.

try just saying that

Ocean Book posted:

the tao that can be spoken is not the true tao

tao isn't a real thing, though, it's a nebulous descriptive noun for a particular flavour of "spiritual experience", to which the same applies as above

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


sometimes i say agnostic and other times i say christian. depends on how i feel about god's existence at that moment.

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW

Ocean Book posted:

the tao that can be spoken is not the true tao

He is rigid, like his anime love doll, not flowing and formless like ganja smoke. He does not walk the path.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
what if god is a bad guy

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Zzulu posted:

what if god is a bad guy

then the bible might really be the word of god

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
A tourist in Ireland was in a shady spot of town when he felt a knife get pressed against his back "Catholic or Protestant?" asked a voice. The tourist nervously replied "Jewish."

The man with the knife said "well then I am surely the luckiest Palestinian in all of Ireland."

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

Zzulu posted:

what if god is a bad guy

Have you read the bible? God is totally a bad guy (Jesus is the good cop in the relationship).

Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

usually i say i'm a satanist, or a jedi

or "agnostic" if it's my relatives

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

metaphysico-islamist

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

lucifer was much cooler to people but these things are fully beyond my comprehension

basement jihadist
Oct 3, 2002

Khorne posted:

please do, but I think it's a troll pic

i dont get it

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
you are a loving pussy op

Your Rain
Nov 29, 2006
All those born beneath an angry star.
Why would you associate Atheist with that stereotype anyways.

Theres like a million in USA maximum, but a couple billion atheist in China and they don't even know what fedora is. Stop being self centered

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014
"Atheist" is just coded language for letting people know you are racist and into Eugenics. "Non-religious" is a better answer, OP.

reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008
lol if you let your fear of the internalized voices in your head stop you from admitting you are an atheist

#notallneckbeards

Khorne
May 1, 2002
I think someone took a picture of a neckbeard weirdo, put a really dumb series of words on it with an intentional grammatical error, and pretended the person in the picture put the words there sincerely.

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot
When someone asks me if I'm religious I react as if they had asked me about my genitals or my bank account

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

mdm posted:

When someone asks me if I'm religious I react as if they had asked me about my genitals or my bank account

You brag about how huge your religious beliefs are?

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW

Agag posted:

You brag about how huge your religious beliefs are?

Go the other way with it.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Your Rain posted:

Why would you associate Atheist with that stereotype anyways.

Theres like a million in USA maximum, but a couple billion atheist in China and they don't even know what fedora is. Stop being self centered

uh they believe in the gods in China duder

also atheist is a dirty word for plenty of people who don't know about internet atheists. like being irreligious is fine in most places but people would rather have a gay Jewish president than an atheist

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

eSports Chaebol posted:

uh they believe in the gods in China duder

They straight pray for news cars and winning lotto numbers. Chinese are the realest in the religion game.

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

Agag posted:

You brag about how huge your religious beliefs are?

Close, I talk about how I use my genitals to make money

I am a preacher

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe

Ultramega posted:

Islam whale holy grail

I live right next to a Mosque and a really nice middle eastern supermarket, I do occasionally have people inviting me to the mosque, I just wish them well and good luck on their path to Buddism.

basement jihadist posted:

metaphysico-islamist

Sado-Bhuddist

Rhythm Methodist.

the list goes on.

staberind fucked around with this message at 01:33 on May 23, 2015

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

Gazpacho posted:

source?
          \




drat good poo poo

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Moridin920 posted:

Atheists just so happened to murder SIXTY MILLION BABIES in America since 1973. Atheists have murdered more Christians than any other group, including Muslims. That is saying something.

Christians built all the hospitals, colleges, universities and charities in this nation you lying ignoramus! Only recently did secularists finally begin to do what Christians have done ALL OVER THE WORLD for 2000 years. Christians feed and clothe the poor, atheists and liberals exploit them, take advantage of them, and manipulate them through lies TO GET VOTES AND POWER.

stfu beef turret

Fergus Mac Roich
Nov 5, 2008

Soiled Meat
it seems really unlikely to me that random people and family members would have any concept of the internet atheists

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,
fuckin normies don't even know about goatse...smdh

I do think it's really funny when right wing Christians say they don't believe in Allah though. do you not believe in dios or dieu or gott either? I mean the existence of multiple languages is literally explained in the drat bible morans

Zoinker
Jan 18, 2009
I'd just give them a big happy hug.

Alternatively:

"I belive in YOU!"

and then I hug them.

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
real talk i usually say zoroastrian because no one knows or wants to know what it is and enough people associate it with freddy mercury that they avoid me like the gay plague from then on

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS

Laslow posted:

I need a good non-answer like "I'm getting by comfortably" when people ask you how much money you make.

How about "it's none of your loving business"?
Come to think of it, that's a good answer to any personal question.

Withnail
Feb 11, 2004
I tell people I'm catholic. Then I give them a long disapproving/judgemental look.

satanic splash-back
Jan 28, 2009

ghlbtsk posted:

How about "it's none of your loving business"?
Come to think of it, that's a good answer to any personal question.

congratulations on being an insufferable nobody

Amarcarts
Feb 21, 2007

This looks a lot like suffering.

Laslow posted:

I need a good non-answer like "I'm getting by comfortably" when people ask you how much money you make.

Tell them "Those who know don't say and those who say don't know. Now take this dick."

a gay lion named Tangiers
Jul 30, 2013

withak posted:

If you want to be kind of a dick then you can answer that you aren't superstitious. They will be offended because you have implied that their religions is a superstition (it is).

See this is straight up atheist bullshit and it's why I describe myself as non-religious.

And to all the people saying "UHH WHY WOULD SOMEONE EVER ASK WHAT YOUR RELIGION IS THAT IS STUPID:" it isn't stupid, it's a completely valid question if you're getting to know someone as a friend. If they decide to end the friendship based on your answer then that's loving unfortunate and you should find new friends.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Realtalk though believing in God as the bible describes it and taking that poo poo seriously is on par with believing in santa or the tooth fairy

poo poo's fake

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vug
Jan 23, 2015

by Cowcaster
I dreamt that I applied to a catholic initiation course but I had to learn how to safely handle a variety of cute baby animals and I kept loving up so they wouldn't let me in

also I was racked with spiritual doubt because it would mean I wouldn't be able to look at porn ever again

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