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No Disappearing Act  

Red_Elf 51F
578 posts
6/6/2017 6:28 pm
No Disappearing Act


Okay, I'm trying to not do one of those things again where I disappear for months or years or wherever my impulse drives me. I'm going to try to be at least dependable enough to show up in the blogs once a week.

This week is just super busy for me professionally and there isn't a whole lot left for blogging.

Besides, there is someone, somewhere, on the internet who is wrong, and I have to straighten them out, yanno?

In other news, broke it off with hot new guy, cos...he flipped when I told him that evolution was real, and that saying "just a theory" means you really don't understand what a scientific theory is, and that I didn't really have any belief in some invisible god in the sky who is going to take care of anyone after they die. Okay, I didn't put that last part quite that way...but...that's my thinking on the matter and I don't feel the least bit bad about disagreeing with all the religious folks out there. The only thing I ever feel bad about in that regard is how people treat me when I tell them what I really think. So, yeah. I didn't like his reaction. I didn't like the follow up arrogance about how "True science and creation go hand in hand" as if it is some kind of undeniable factual claim.

I'm not interested in training a new man. YES, I COULD straighten him out. It's what I do for a living. That being said, I'm looking for a primary relationship that is less work and more pleasure...so...he's out.

NEXT!

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tickles4us 62M
7262 posts
6/6/2017 7:54 pm

Educating the deluded isn't usually feasible when the delusion is religion.

Vive La Difference


Red_Elf replies on 6/6/2017 8:12 pm:
I get that. I also know I'm more successful at it than most because of my upbringing.

redrockrascal 65M
23580 posts
6/6/2017 8:39 pm

    Quoting tickles4us:
    Educating the deluded isn't usually feasible when the delusion is religion.
Amen and Hallelujah ! ! !

Besides, there is someone, somewhere, on the internet who is wrong,
This must be blasphemy

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.


Red_Elf replies on 6/6/2017 10:41 pm:
As you can see, I'm not too worried about things like that!

porterpiper1 57F
3755 posts
6/6/2017 9:01 pm

Religion is the reason so much hate is in this world, if you don't believe the way they believe you are damn, To me if there is a God why would he allow things to go on the way they are happening, children killed, hunger, hate but they believe in GOD, naw I lived that life sad life for a long time, I woke up, I don't tell anyone what to believe and I am not mad at them for they way they believe, so why do they get so upset when someone tell them they don't believe, they get really nasty about,


Red_Elf replies on 6/6/2017 10:43 pm:
Yeah, I am not going to pretend that atheists and agnostics are more moral or more respectful, overall.

What I am going to say is that if someone starts off acting like I'm offensive for saying I don't believe, if they go off about how I'm insulting their intelligence by my lack of belief, if they then insult my own, well, probably we aren't going to get along well enough to have a primary relationship.

ProfPlayful 53M
3861 posts
6/6/2017 9:33 pm

It's possibile that religion doesn't cause people to judge and look down on others. It's possible that people who are prone to judging are attracted to religion.

I'm not one to judge anyone's romantic choices, but in the people around me when one partner is judgmental the other usually ends up unhappy.

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Red_Elf replies on 6/6/2017 10:44 pm:
Been there, done that. I'm not a rinse and repeat kinda gal. Too many red flags!

Dick4001567 64M
3941 posts
6/6/2017 10:35 pm

Where are the bench warmers are Elf are they on standby like on a airplane runway?

Religion is always a tricky subject I feel when talking to someone new?


Red_Elf replies on 6/6/2017 10:46 pm:
No trick at all...you either respect one another enough to respect differences and be curious about them, or you don't.

I could have reeducated him. It probably would have worked. At my age, I have better things to spend my time on, frankly. I'm certainly not desperate or lacking options.

xptsing 53M
250 posts
6/6/2017 11:42 pm

No more bj for him then because it is against creation.


Red_Elf replies on 6/7/2017 12:43 am:

KItkat1415 61F  
20051 posts
6/12/2017 7:18 am

Aw, now... you and I agree that retraining some guy isn't all that it is cracked up to be.
I'm an agnostic atheist; I don't know if there is a g-o-d and I don't care. What I do care about is living my best life which means being honest with those around me and leaving those that can't be honest alone (I don't need them in my life and I wish them to be better people but I'm not the morality police).

When my kids both came out as atheists (coming out of the closet takes on different dimensions), they would often giggle when people say that they were praying to g-o-d for something. "You mean, they're talking to their invisible friend in the sky? Isn't that a verifiable psychiatric diagnosis?" I homeschooled my kids because we traveled 6 mos at a time out of the country but it also put us in a lot of contact with the religious homeschoolers when we were back in the states. So my kids were "witnessed" to when Darling Daughter was 4 and Darling Son was 5 by kids that were 2-3 years older. I actually found it offensive that people could raise their kids to say such judgmental things at 6 but I simply told my kids to ignore that and then had a conversation with the mom (they were neighbors). She agreed her kids should not preach at their ages because they might not be able to answer enough questions with biblical quotation the the newly saved. I reserved my opinion at that moment. Later on, I told that mom that we were atheists and we respected their "choices" putting a new spin for her on that word.

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Red_Elf replies on 6/12/2017 5:06 pm:
I do think there's a better case to make for no gods than for any gods. I'm also not interested in discussing it in any detail. My best explanation is it seems like a form of escapism that allows people to distance themselves from reality in favor of wasting their time and energy on something with very little practical application or value when there are so many more interesting things to be doing.

discreteSteve62 50M
2169 posts
6/23/2017 3:33 am

One of the ironies I've observed about religion is that my most openly atheist friends are also the best informed about religion.


Red_Elf replies on 6/23/2017 5:33 am:
That's because we've had to fight off the pushy bullshit most of our lives. It's a defense against the dark arts of magical thinking and evangelism.

discreteSteve62 50M
2169 posts
6/24/2017 2:19 am

It's a defense against the dark arts of magical thinking . . .

The Harry Potter reference made me smile, particularly since magical thinking is correct in the books' setting.


Red_Elf replies on 6/24/2017 6:57 am:

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