fasgnadh
2009-04-07 03:55:36 UTC
So I'm working on my car and not paying any particular attention to my
next-door neighbors who are hanging out on their back porch and chatting
with a friend. They're about 40 feet away and voices carry pretty
clearly.
"It is utterly impossible for anyone to be an 'atheist'! You can BELIEVE
you're one, but you're really not because everyone's got a god, whether
it's Gawd or TV or themselves."
YOur neighbours are smarter than you, they must have been reading mynext-door neighbors who are hanging out on their back porch and chatting
with a friend. They're about 40 feet away and voices carry pretty
clearly.
"It is utterly impossible for anyone to be an 'atheist'! You can BELIEVE
you're one, but you're really not because everyone's got a god, whether
it's Gawd or TV or themselves."
posts carefully logging all the forms of closet theism among atheists;
- Athei-Buddhists, like Mark Richo and the others who believe in Karma,
re-incarnation, deva's, demigods and follow the One who Walked on
Water, just like Jesus!!! BD
- Atheist Bastets:
# "it makes utterly no difference which goddesses or gods
# you believe in, as long as you have some...
# Me, I'd suggest Bastet." - Cary Kittrell
#
# (has he misspelled 'Kitten'? ;-)
- Atheist worshippers of Poseidon, Thor and other Norse and Roman gods
eg They call me Trinity revealed his closet theism:
"I have poured a libation, and slaughtered a fattened calf,
placing its thighs on a thick layer of fat and burning
it in the fire, enabling me to send a prayer
for you to the Almighty Earthshaker, the Girdler of
the World, Poseidon Lord of the Seas."
'I'd like a Viking funeral" - Raven1
http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17453?context=latest
- Those who reveal their closet theism by blaming God everytime
something BAD happens (but are blind to all the Good in the World;-)
Mark Richo, Bukakke and a host of other low IQ, conflicted believers !
http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:10645?context=latest
http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17457?context=latest
http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17458?context=latest
- The 'anti-atheist' members of just plain nutty cults;
The Atheist Catechism:
Published as part of the Official "Atheist Quote of the Month" liturgy
where all the Atheists gather to affirm what best expresses their beliefs:
# Subject: aa - The Polls are Open! AQOTM for Nov 2008
# Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:10:11 -0500
# From: *nemo* <***@earthlink.diespam.com>
# Message-ID: <***@earthlink.com>
#
# 1) The universe is ruled by a wizard, a zombie, and a ghost.
# Only the ghost is with us now, even though
# the zombie shacks up in our gall bladders and the wizard
# is omnipresent. You'll want to stay on the wizard's good
# side, because he has this thing for the aroma of
# flame-broiled human flesh. Oh, and this ripple and
# this Wheat Thin will turn into chunks of the zombie
# if a designated wizard's apprentice casts a spell on them.
# Thus enchanted, the cracker can be used to reveal the
# true demonic nature of Jews, much as a garlic pizza
# could out vampires (if we believed in such things,
# which we don't cuz that would be silly, dontcha know).
# We know these things to be true despite having not
# one damn reason to believe any of them.
#
# Authior By: DuhIdiot (Atheist )
# Nominated: Christopher A Lee (Atheist )
# Seconded: AZ Nomad (Atheist )
#
# Supported by the following card-carrying
# atheists:
#
# DuhIdiot (Atheist )
# Christopher A Lee (Atheist )
# AZ Nomad (Atheist )
# Robibnikoff (Atheist )
# Kilmir (Atheist )
# Smiler (Atheist )
# Douglas Berry (Atheist )
# pbamvv (Atheist )
# Uncle Vic (Atheist )
# johac (Atheist )
# Louis 14 (Atheist )
# Frank Mayhar (Atheist )
# Tim McGauchy (Atheist )
# Vipera Berus (Atheist )
# http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17445?context=latest
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing
Well shit!
I give up.
Most atheists do.. once they grow up past adolescence and learnI give up.
something about the history of atheist regimes, they wake up!
I'm not going to argue for custody of Doook or the other trolls--if I'm
not really an atheist, they don't matter anyway, right?
Most atheists are not really atheists, it just takes them a whilenot really an atheist, they don't matter anyway, right?
to realise their unhappiness comes from the strain of trying to
reconcile their contradictions.. what is amusing is how the die-hards,
realising they are as miserable as Soviet and Maoist atheists, try
to perpetuate their illusion by pretending the happiness of others
is 'false' happiness; B^D
http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17456?context=latest
Dude, when you start rationalisng their own misery and despair like
that you KNOW that Jung was right!
"Among all my patients in the second half of life, that is, over
thirty-five, there has not been one whose problem in the last
resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because
he had lost that which the living religions of every age
have given their followers, and none of them has really
been healed who did not regain his religious outlook."
-Carl G. Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Who wants my rubber chicken?
Have you washed the KY jelly off it?And who wants to go to Easter services with
me?
No thanks, how about a Hot Cross bun with lashings of butter instead?me?
"The saggath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath"
82
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
747
There is a strange frenzy in my head,
of birds flying
each particle circulating on its own
is the one I love ..everywhere
Jalal'u'din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Rumi understood the link between Faith and Joy in the 13th century;
While Europe was in Darkness, the next dispensation in the spiritual
evolution of man was a glittering civilisation of astonishing beauty.
--
~ Just Sit There ~
Just sit there right now.
Don't do a thing.
Just rest.
For your separation from God
Is the hardest work in this world.
Let me bring you trays of food
And something
That you like to drink.
You can use my soft words
As a cushion
For your
Head.
- Hafez