Fe203girl, I totally agree with what you said, when I hear my mother say it can't go on much longer I definitely feel her desperation, her father that she adored and that got her in the org is gone, her husband of 59 years is now gone, her health is going. when she says it, it sounds like mantra that you might hear a long distance runner chant, just a little farther, just a little farther....
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"This just can't last much longer...."
by BrendaCloutier ini went over and visited my parents today.
my mom broke her hip while we were in hawaii, and i've been mostly house/bed ridden myself since we got home.
so i finally got over there today.. we talked a little about the hurricane, which was on the news she turned off.
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"This just can't last much longer...."
by BrendaCloutier ini went over and visited my parents today.
my mom broke her hip while we were in hawaii, and i've been mostly house/bed ridden myself since we got home.
so i finally got over there today.. we talked a little about the hurricane, which was on the news she turned off.
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I hear that phrase alot from my mother, in between her crying jags about how I won't be there with her in the new system and how sad that will be. Sometimes I feel like a real rat for making her so sad, I have even thought of lying and telling her I went back to the hall etc. just to ease her mind. She's 84 and probably doesn't have all that much time left, I know it tears her up to think her youngest won't be there with all the rest.
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maybe I'm making too much out of it.......
by under74 ini'm going to try to make a long story short.... i moved away from my home city for grad school 2 years ago and left a couple boxes at my mom's for safe keeping.
my mom ended up moving to a new place during the 2 years i was in school.
i noticed on visits that there was only one box i recognized stored out in her new garage and asked her about it...she got defensive and said she took all that was boxed.
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Sometimes all we have to remember someone by is a material item. I have my father's wings and rank insignia from when he was in the Air Corps, long before he was a dub. Its all I have to remember him by and it means the world to me, I don't think its pathetic at all.
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What Motivates YOU to Post Here?
by trevor indefd has said he will leave and it caused me reflect on how he was treated.
are we happy with the way we responded when he tried to defend his faith?
this and comments about my own attitude have caused me to review my motive for the posts i make.. when i first started posting here i was thoughtful and sincere as were most of the posters back then.
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I joined the forum after being out of the org for over 20 years but never having actually talked with others that had left. In retrospect I find that amazing that I never had a chance in all that time to hash out things about the org with another person who had been there and left, but I simply did not know any. So I joined and enjoyed getting to vent and have alot of what I felt validated through hearing stories similar to mine or thoughts similar to those I had.
I tend to run the whole gamut, I like to post on all types of threads from the very serious to the total fluff, I like to have fun and crack wise from time to time. I always try to be respectful when I post following what I think of as the golden rule of disscussion/debate, attack the issue not the person.
But lately I have found myself growing tired of the politics of the forum, the popular posters that run roughshod over others, and those that are just arrogant in the extreme. It is diminishing my enjoyment greatly and has me thinking now that I'm typing this might well be my last post. This was my first experience ever on a forum, and it has been educational that's for sure.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The "Just Pretend" Religion
by RunningMan inthe just pretend religion
i was rooting around on the internet today, and i came across something that gave me a unique insight into how fundamentalists have a good time.
one suggestion was to have the kids re-enact the ten plagues of egypt.
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Runningman: The consensus seemed to be that having children re-enact the biblical plagues seemed ghoulish in the extreme, and while I agree that seems a bit odd I pointed out that other children's games/songs might have some fairly ghoulish origins themselves, but then I was told that was total nonsense so strike that comment.
The point about violence was that children will invent their own violence even if some religious fundies don't provide it for them through warped games based on bible stories, so again while I agree re-enacting the plagues is a bit strange its no worse than what children imagine in their own minds.
But as you pointed out I am impovrished and living on the streets as I can't seem to even get anyone to understand what I am saying much less make an arguement, so as I said before, the floor is yours and I won't be so foolish as to intrude on it again. Besides I have to give this lap top back to the guy I stopped in front of my cardboard hovel who was kind enough to let me use it. -
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The "Just Pretend" Religion
by RunningMan inthe just pretend religion
i was rooting around on the internet today, and i came across something that gave me a unique insight into how fundamentalists have a good time.
one suggestion was to have the kids re-enact the ten plagues of egypt.
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Okay, now with the personal attacks, eh? Whatever Runningman, sorry if I got in the way of your self agrandizement, please, the forum is yours. Yes, I live in a cardboard box and dumpster dive for food, I'm so sorry that I was foolish enough to comment or question anything you wrote. You have the floor, I won't intrude on your forum again.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The "Just Pretend" Religion
by RunningMan inthe just pretend religion
i was rooting around on the internet today, and i came across something that gave me a unique insight into how fundamentalists have a good time.
one suggestion was to have the kids re-enact the ten plagues of egypt.
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Yes I read the whole thing, I'm not impressed, I make arguements for a living, give me the material and I'll argue any point you want convincingly. As folks are fond of saying around here, show me the facts.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The "Just Pretend" Religion
by RunningMan inthe just pretend religion
i was rooting around on the internet today, and i came across something that gave me a unique insight into how fundamentalists have a good time.
one suggestion was to have the kids re-enact the ten plagues of egypt.
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Also, I had friends that vowed they would not buy their children violent toys, they were pacifists and didn't believe in violence and wanted their children to grow up to be like them. I asked how it was going and they rolled their eyes and told me their children (twin boys) would get sticks and either pretend they were swords and hack each other to death or guns and shoot each other. Its in our nature to be violent and blood thirsty, so I'm not shocked and repulsed by the ten plagues game, its a bit bizzare but nothing that is that big a deal from what I see children come up with on their own.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The "Just Pretend" Religion
by RunningMan inthe just pretend religion
i was rooting around on the internet today, and i came across something that gave me a unique insight into how fundamentalists have a good time.
one suggestion was to have the kids re-enact the ten plagues of egypt.
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Oh my, if its on Snopes.com, then it just must be true.
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"You guys are the most preachy atheists I've ever met!"
by GetBusyLiving ina christian friend of mine had a melt down this weekend and screamed at my roommate about both of us being "preachy atheists".
he also said, in talking about me, that "i can see it in his eyes, he think's he's right!
" it was after a bunch of drinks at a bar and my roommate said that he was nearly in tears.
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Tetra, I agree, I don't know that all of the evils that the Soviet Union committed were because of atheism, but by the same token I don't think that every evil committed by man has been because of religion either so to me that leaves us back at square one, as you put it, big brained apes piddling along in our quest for food, shelter, and clothing. And religion being the most dangerous label that separates people? Hmm, not sure if I buy that, seems to me race is a pretty strong selling point for hate and the division of the human family.