Today is my 42nd birthday. Whoopadee-doo. I’m spending it working all day and sleeping in a moderately-priced hotel room alone. Whee.JWs don’t celebrate birthdays, and I think that’s just silly. We all need one day a year to say “MEEEE”. It’s one thing we all have in common; we all have a birthday (actually, a birthday anniversary), and I really find it repugnant that a religion has taken that away from its people.Then I get over it. Too bad. More presents for Meeeeeee!
Comment from: TXatheist
Well that explains alot…
What’s wrong with this picture…?
Happy Birthday, David! Hope it’s been a great day for you.
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I found the report on women who have had abortions to be really interesting.
I know someone, very close to me, who actually had two elective abortions. She felt bad about them at the time, but felt that it was the right decision. No depression after either one. She went on to have a child who is now a teenager.
She loves her child but sometimes thinks that maybe she wasn’t cut out to be a mom. She’s had a lot more depression from being a mother than she ever had from having abortions.
I assume that you are asking why the existence of life on other planets is acceptable to me but gods existence isnt. The obvious answer is that we have an example of life evolving here on planet Earth and we know that there are many other planets orbiting within the “Goldilocks Zone” of other stars so there is no reason to doubt that life could also evolve on these planets. Its a scientifically valid deduction based on what we know of biology, astronomy, geology, etc and one day will probably be testable as we improve our technology. Since there is zero observable or testable evidence for supernatural gods we can dismiss this idea as nonsense.
thanks for all your best wishes folks!
One thing we can say with a degree of certainty, if life on other planets or god(s) exist they have come about by evolution by natural selection.
Phreedumbs leading questions are SO TRANSPARENT..it really gives away his lack of intelligence.
Neowolfe
And what does a “bad person” look like, sound like or behave like. This is an appropriate time to quote Steven Weinberg.
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
Happy BirthDave!
Pixel
Being a parent is hard and consuming work. Best wishes to your friend and her child.
Phreedm, also ex-catholic, ex-methodist and I looked into mormonism but never attended or became confirmed like the other 3 xian sects. I gave xianity a fair shot and became an atheist.
TX…I’ve got a question…
In all seriousness…What do you consider a “fair shot”…?
TX
Here’s Phreeky’s next response:
You may have just needed to try a little bit more. You were almost there! The human potential for deluded thinking is almost limitless. Shame on you for not living up to your potential.
Happy Belated Birthday Dave!!!!!!!!
I personally like having one day that I can be selfish and think of me ? MY birthday. The other 364 days I?m always looking out for others. When my dad died, I didn?t cry. I was too busy taking care of business and my Mother. 6 months later, on my birthday, I cried that my Daddy was not there.
I had a great time celebrating my last birthday at the American Atheist convention.
What,
I understand your comment and agree that when good people commit unspeakable acts, religion is usually not far away.
But no such label hung over the Civil War. It was just one segment of society whose social structure and economic dominance levered upon the oppression of an entire race of men. Unspeakable acts committed in the name of greed. Religion is not the only influence cripples our civilization, and the job of a free thinker with a conscience does not end with the extraction of religion from our government.
NeoWolfe
Neowolfe
Weinbergs quote reads: “But for GOOD people to do evil things, that takes religion.” I wouldn’t consider the greedy to be good. Weinberg’s quote stands.