My kiddo started telling me she was an atheist at 9 years old, and when I asked her when and how she knew, she said she was born that way. She, without trying, was the main factor that finally moved me off the fence from my ambivalent agnosticism.
Impressive! I’m in awe of your little girl, good on her… and she’s right, too. Theism is new information superimposed over the default setting, a-theism.
It’s the club mentality. I can understand it, i was baptised catholic, but it’s not the healthiest of contracts given you don’t have a say in the matter.
Must be a glitch in the simulation; a rogue line of code. It’s not the first time, probably won’t be the last, but for some awkward reason it always seems to produce baby roasting conversations.
I think the fact that my two older children have a very healthy attitude toward religion, despite attending a Church of England school who are quite staunch with their bible- bashing, is testament that I am a good parent and that I still have control. However, despite my own staunch efforts to stop them being brainwashed, my middle son in particular has struggled a little with the idea that actually the world wasn’t created in six days. He is only 6 though. I think if my three children can get through this experience unscathed and untouched (euww!)by the word of god then I know that will be able to deal with much in their lives.
I bet you’d make (have been/are being) a great mum, my supernal friend!
Schools can be the tricky part, but I think I got very lucky with the colleges I attended. The Carmelite nuns resembled witches in their nunnery housed in the woods, so as a young kid I avoided that coven with great gusto. The Augustinian priests were atheists, although they never admitted it… not in so many words. Religion was never an issue.
I love the imagery you evoke in my tiny little head John, it makes it such a pleasure to stop by your, whatever space you occupy within the blogoshpere đŸ™‚ Lucky for you that The Augustinian priests were secret unbelievers. Unlucky for me I have to put up with the BS my kid’s come home with after a day at religious-school (they tone it down a bit because they have to follow the national curriculum, therefore they have to consider that there is another reality extant outside of their six-day-wonder of a bubble). It does mean that I’m left with having to re-brainwash them with common sense more often than I would like.
That’s exactly the way i described it in some earlier post! Except i didn’t say religion, rather, returned to the point of my departure and seemed to know it for the first time.
I don’t really get this – could we not just as easily call them the supreme council of a-linguists? Theism is natural, you just have to grow into it. đŸ™‚ (I’m disappointed PeW didn’t have a proper go – he’s lost all will to be irritatingly pedantic since Ark disappeared!)
In Theo we trust..no no hang on..in Zeus we trust? Nope…not quite….in Neil we trust? Eh…..nah….oh no…I’ve got it…in Dog we trust! Nah too bestial….ok wait a minute….in Goat we trust! Yes that’s more like it – hang on too German….that’s Got not goat…..oh yeah….uh….what then? In Good we trust….oh I don’t know I give up!
I have an orthodox one in my street… a rabbi, not a PĂºca. I have no idea how an orthodox jew wound up in a countryside Brazilian city, but there he is. Nice bloke, actually. Great curls and fucking FANTASTIC hats… although they’re all black.
They get about them there Rabbis. Yeah apparently they pay a ton for those hats, custom made and the pride of every Rabbi and his jewish community! Aren’t Roos just overgrown rabbits?
Really? We don’t get that many magpies here, quite rare – even though we have a pair nesting at the bottom of the garden. Actually my cat is petrified of them after she was dive-bombed by one as a kitten years ago.
May I just post this here for 5 minutes or until however long you want to keep it. Has nothing to do with a reply to this cute post. But somehow I copied it and I want to dispose of it and I just can’t find a dump. It is stuck in my clipboard and promises to stay there until someone accepts it and is more capable or mature to handle it. I am breaking out in a sweat and a rash. Haven’t been well and do not need a relapse.
Pope Francis has expressed his “closeness to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado,” with special concern for “those who lost young children.”
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Am missing from the council đŸ˜¦
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Well, it’s a rotational position… You had your time on the board 20+ years ago đŸ™‚
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Ah I see! They are great kids, if only they can be allowed to grow up without influence of superstition!
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Oh, they’ll always be prone to some sort of superstition, paranoia is written into our genome. The trick is to not let it get organised…
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Yeah that’s the kicker.
Kids don’t grow up thinking rationally. It has to be taught.
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Ah PeW, are you being facetious?
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Not letting it get organized is the tricky part; that’s what I was saying.
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Oh, OK… I thought you might have been baiting. My bad.
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Nah, not in a baiting mood today. đŸ™‚
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Praise the one true lord, Veles!
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Cute. No funny hats required too.
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Well, no funny hats most of the time đŸ˜‰
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If only we had a say in what family we were born into. đŸ™‚
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Retroactive family selection…. that’d be great!
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My kiddo started telling me she was an atheist at 9 years old, and when I asked her when and how she knew, she said she was born that way. She, without trying, was the main factor that finally moved me off the fence from my ambivalent agnosticism.
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Impressive! I’m in awe of your little girl, good on her… and she’s right, too. Theism is new information superimposed over the default setting, a-theism.
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Aw, you mean there are no Muslim babies, no Catholic babies, like they tell us. Quick baptise them while they are still non compus mentus!
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I think that was Item #1 on the agenda at the 1st Council of Nicaea… “Get em’ before they even know who the fuck they are!”
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I hate the emotional blackmail that’s used against parents that causes them to try and force their children into a particular religion.
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It’s the club mentality. I can understand it, i was baptised catholic, but it’s not the healthiest of contracts given you don’t have a say in the matter.
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Greatest majority of atheists I’ve known: all Catholics. True story. Must be somethin’ in the holy water. Kudos on your kudos btw.
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I swear the Augustinian priests who ran my school were closet atheists. No interest at all in promoting religion.
Which kudos?
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http://dustandsoul.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/interesting-and-versatile/
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Ah, my heathen friend! Baby eaters stick together đŸ™‚
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Good, it saves me time surfing for awesomeness if I have a one stop shop
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… and who doesn’t love a good barbecue!
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oh man! wouldn’t that be incredible if you could be in brazil, the US, and the UK all at once having the most awesome grill-out EVER?
wishin’ i had me some of that omnipotence right about now…
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but UK babies taste awful!
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i’m american. i have lots of ranch.
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So you have free range babies? They’re the best kind đŸ˜‰
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oh, but of course. grass fed, massaged, the whole bit. tried growing pot, but the cops kept taking it for “medicinal issues”
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LOL!
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I don’t know how this got from atheism to eating babies but I must confess I quite enjoyed the exchange.
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Must be a glitch in the simulation; a rogue line of code. It’s not the first time, probably won’t be the last, but for some awkward reason it always seems to produce baby roasting conversations.
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You left me out of the pic! *sulks*
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Sorry, I didn’t have the 360 panorama on… but you did a hell of job behind the camera saying “Look at the birdie, you little heathens,” Heathen
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LOL Ok I can accept that, then đŸ™‚
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I think the fact that my two older children have a very healthy attitude toward religion, despite attending a Church of England school who are quite staunch with their bible- bashing, is testament that I am a good parent and that I still have control. However, despite my own staunch efforts to stop them being brainwashed, my middle son in particular has struggled a little with the idea that actually the world wasn’t created in six days. He is only 6 though. I think if my three children can get through this experience unscathed and untouched (euww!)by the word of god then I know that will be able to deal with much in their lives.
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I bet you’d make (have been/are being) a great mum, my supernal friend!
Schools can be the tricky part, but I think I got very lucky with the colleges I attended. The Carmelite nuns resembled witches in their nunnery housed in the woods, so as a young kid I avoided that coven with great gusto. The Augustinian priests were atheists, although they never admitted it… not in so many words. Religion was never an issue.
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I love the imagery you evoke in my tiny little head John, it makes it such a pleasure to stop by your, whatever space you occupy within the blogoshpere đŸ™‚ Lucky for you that The Augustinian priests were secret unbelievers. Unlucky for me I have to put up with the BS my kid’s come home with after a day at religious-school (they tone it down a bit because they have to follow the national curriculum, therefore they have to consider that there is another reality extant outside of their six-day-wonder of a bubble). It does mean that I’m left with having to re-brainwash them with common sense more often than I would like.
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I was born an atheist but it took me 47 yrs to finally come back to the religion of my birth!
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That’s exactly the way i described it in some earlier post! Except i didn’t say religion, rather, returned to the point of my departure and seemed to know it for the first time.
This message really drives theists nuts.
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*gigle
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đŸ˜‰
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The future is looking bright
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Indeed it is!
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I don’t really get this – could we not just as easily call them the supreme council of a-linguists? Theism is natural, you just have to grow into it. đŸ™‚ (I’m disappointed PeW didn’t have a proper go – he’s lost all will to be irritatingly pedantic since Ark disappeared!)
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Oh you are so stubborn…
I do believe we’ve broken PeW’s theistic spirit. Clock one up for the Justice League!
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I always believed in God. Religion and superstition, not so much.
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To be accurate, you believed in a god ‘after’ it was told to you đŸ˜‰
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I always knew God. I didn’t call it that since I didn’t know words is all.
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You knew a god, or you had an imaginary friend?
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In Theo we trust..no no hang on..in Zeus we trust? Nope…not quite….in Neil we trust? Eh…..nah….oh no…I’ve got it…in Dog we trust! Nah too bestial….ok wait a minute….in Goat we trust! Yes that’s more like it – hang on too German….that’s Got not goat…..oh yeah….uh….what then? In Good we trust….oh I don’t know I give up!
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I like “In Good we trust”….
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Me too! đŸ™‚
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Sweet rabbits in tuxedos, I think you’re onto something here!
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Rabbits look good in tuxes don’t they? đŸ™‚
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The one’s I see, do.
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Are they big rabbits or small ones?
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Over six feet, Mary Chase type rabbits, which are actually PĂºca’s who just resemble very tall rabbits.
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Awesome, unfortunately I just see people. Rabbits would be more entertaining, in fact Rabbis would be even more entertaining than that!
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I have an orthodox one in my street… a rabbi, not a PĂºca. I have no idea how an orthodox jew wound up in a countryside Brazilian city, but there he is. Nice bloke, actually. Great curls and fucking FANTASTIC hats… although they’re all black.
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They get about them there Rabbis. Yeah apparently they pay a ton for those hats, custom made and the pride of every Rabbi and his jewish community! Aren’t Roos just overgrown rabbits?
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Depends on how much acid you’ve dropped. I was attacked by a vicious son of a bitch Roo on my Confirmation day. I kid you not. I wrote a post on it:
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I know I read it.By my reckoning it’s your birthday already, at least here it is. So happy birthday!
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Cheers, friend. Your boys b’day as well, huh?
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You are most welcome my good friend. Yeah my youngest was three today/yesterday. That must have been seriously scary to be attacked by a roo!
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Magpies in summer are a thousand times worse!
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Really? We don’t get that many magpies here, quite rare – even though we have a pair nesting at the bottom of the garden. Actually my cat is petrified of them after she was dive-bombed by one as a kitten years ago.
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Oh, they’re nasty fuckers. Beautiful song, but when nesting they can be horrible to anyone passing by. Where are you, anyway… geographically speaking?
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Next door. Just kidding! In the UK
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Ahhhh, I figured you in Spain. Anyway, enjoy the post-party đŸ™‚
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No I wish! And thank you I will đŸ™‚
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Anyway, enjoy your b-day Mr.Zande. I’m off to dream of rabbits and rabbis; semantics schmantics!
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Thanks!
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Wow! Who knew that dreaming of rabbits and rabbis could be so stimulating! đŸ˜‰
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The little girl with the ponytails is definately my favorite! Thanks for posing this stimulating blog of rabbits and rabbis.
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Far, far, far too little time is dedicated to rabbits and rabbis. It’s where our civilisation has gone wrong đŸ˜‰
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You got me. Maybe we need to ask the rabbi? http://www.segmation.com
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May I just post this here for 5 minutes or until however long you want to keep it. Has nothing to do with a reply to this cute post. But somehow I copied it and I want to dispose of it and I just can’t find a dump. It is stuck in my clipboard and promises to stay there until someone accepts it and is more capable or mature to handle it. I am breaking out in a sweat and a rash. Haven’t been well and do not need a relapse.
Pope Francis has expressed his “closeness to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado,” with special concern for “those who lost young children.”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/21/pope-expresses-solidarity-with-survivors-
oklahoma-twister/
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Page not found!
YAY!!!
Odd, though, that the head of an international pedophile club expresses concern for children….
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How crazy, I just read the very page. But no complaints that it is gone.
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Fox lost all its appeal for me after they stopped allowing comments.
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