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Megan
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 01/27/2002 : 16:25:41 [Permalink]
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Yeah, my g-parents dont know, and I don't know when I plan on telling them. In fact I probably won't tell them. But they do know that I don't go to church. I think that the easiest way to tell someone that you're not a believer, is just to let them down easy, Like tell them little bits at a time. I don't know if that helps.
~Megan~
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." - Zandermann |
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/27/2002 : 18:43:20 [Permalink]
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I have a nephew who is a priest. About ten years ago he was talking to me about Atheism. He shook his head and told me it was sad, so sad, that I couldn't see the truth and the light. I laughed and said that that was some coincidence. I was about to say the same thing to him.
A crease appeared between his eyebrows. I leaned forward and said-- '"But ya know, Joe, between the two of us guys you're the only one whose wearing a dress."
LOL!
Ya know, Slater, you're a cruel SOB...
But funny as hell 
-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2002 : 19:21:20 [Permalink]
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Well James, if you are ashamed of being a non-believer then you better get started believing.
But if you're not, then just be who you are. Your Uncle & Aunt will understand or they won't. That part is strictly up to them and there's nothing you can do about it.
I don't think that telling them would be a problem; heck, I could tell my Dad and he could set them up for me, but I guess I don't know what to say if they ask why I don't believe. Heck, a former classmate of mine was religious and I couldn't even explain why I didn't believe to him.  http://www.theunholytrinity.org/cracks_smileys/contrib/lynx/orngsick.gif>
Should I just stick with my usual defense of being half nuts?  
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I have a nephew who is a priest. About ten years ago he was talking to me about Atheism. He shook his head and told me it was sad, so sad, that I couldn't see the truth and the light. I laughed and said that that was some coincidence. I was about to say the same thing to him.
A crease appeared between his eyebrows. I leaned forward and said-- '"But ya know, Joe, between the two of us guys you're the only one whose wearing a dress."
ROTFLMAO
Oh, that was good! http://www.duhspot.com/users/smiley/s/otn/realhappy/xxrotflmao.gif>
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." -Buddha
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2002 : 23:24:33 [Permalink]
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If I might be so bold as to put a few words in your mouth for you.
The reason that you don't know the reason you don't believe is that you don't have, nor do you need. a reason not to believe something.
Not believing is your natural state. Believing is an addition to your natural state.
What you DO need is a reason TO believe something. A reason to suspend your disbelief.
Since you have never been presented with a "reasonable" reason to believe you must perforce remain in your natural state.
You do not have a "disbelief" you simply lack a "belief."
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 01/28/2002 : 09:44:57 [Permalink]
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If I might be so bold as to put a few words in your mouth for you.
The reason that you don't know the reason you don't believe is that you don't have, nor do you need. a reason not to believe something.
Not believing is your natural state. Believing is an addition to your natural state.
What you DO need is a reason TO believe something. A reason to suspend your disbelief.
Since you have never been presented with a "reasonable" reason to believe you must perforce remain in your natural state.
You do not have a "disbelief" you simply lack a "belief."
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The brain that was stolen from my laboratory was a criminal brain. Only evil will come from it.
I thank you, kind sir, for that has made the most sense to me. *bows in awe and respect*
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." -Buddha |
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