*ahem* i take this moment to interrupt the usual in-fighting, cat calls, horrible insults, and general sniping to introduce a brief spelling lesson:.
it's loser!
that is how you spell someone who is not a winner.
dictionary.com...takes a bit more time, but well worth it.
Get Atomica, Wendy. http://www.atomica.com/
Install the software, then go to preferences and uncheck "Enable the answerbar." The answerbar just gets in the way. When you want to get the definition of a word or check its spelling, just hold down the Alt key and click on the word. Atomica will do the rest. I've had it for a couple of years now, and still use it every day.
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saw this one the other day.
"jesus loves you!
everyone else thinks you're and asshole"
I bought this one from http://www.evolvefish.com and have it on my bumper:
*ahem* i take this moment to interrupt the usual in-fighting, cat calls, horrible insults, and general sniping to introduce a brief spelling lesson:.
it's loser!
that is how you spell someone who is not a winner.
I will never forget Kent, in insult-festive rare form, shouting at a poster, "CAN YOU SPELL LOOSER?"
It was a Kodak moment.
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us, a civilized or a barbaric country?
i am fully aware i might upset some people on the board by asking what i do in this thread, and i wouldnt be surprised if someone would accuse me of attacking americans again.
i do, however, have a reason for asking and my question is an honest one.
When I decided to go to college, I had my two sons, ages 13 and 15, living with me. In order to attend the classes I needed for the degree I wanted, I had to find employment during off hours. I took a job as a stocker in a grocery store, making $5.00 an hour. This was in 1990. I usually worked between 35 and 39 hours a week; my take-home pay was usually about $135 a week.
I obtained a Pell Grant ( http://www.unclesamgrants.com/home.htm; http://www.freegovmoney.net/) which, each semester, covered the cost of tuition and books and left over about enough money to pay one month's rent. I also got about $160 a month in food stamps. Further assistance came from a locally organized group called the Council of Governments, who provide financial aid to people trying to better themselves.
Since graduating, I've increased my income three times over what I was making before I went to college. I hope my taxes are going to support food stamps and pell grants. They were the means by which I hauled myself up out of Window Washer U (literally).
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on varieties of atheism:.
can we even speak of clear and distinct ideological borders among atheists, agnostics, and theists?
absent any commonly accepted scientific proof of the existence of god (or gods), we must consider that the labeling is based on an individual's personal interpretation.
Rex, talk about something you know, please (assuming there is such a thing). You're just babbling nonsense on this topic.
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on varieties of atheism:.
can we even speak of clear and distinct ideological borders among atheists, agnostics, and theists?
absent any commonly accepted scientific proof of the existence of god (or gods), we must consider that the labeling is based on an individual's personal interpretation.
I didn’t choose to believe this way.
It's no use, sis. He's locked into a mindset, he isn't hearing anything.
Without the crutch of God and religion I found a feeling of intense responsibility and appreciation of life. I also love others and myself so much more now that I don’t have guilt, fear, and the constant message that I’m not living up to his expectations.
Amen, alleluyou, sister! Tell it, tell it! Dass right, mm-hmm, dass sho right!
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on varieties of atheism:.
can we even speak of clear and distinct ideological borders among atheists, agnostics, and theists?
absent any commonly accepted scientific proof of the existence of god (or gods), we must consider that the labeling is based on an individual's personal interpretation.
(Atheism) ...usually is a choice.
I doubt it.
Belief is no more a matter of choice than is sexual orientation. What you believe is what you percieve to be true. This is not a choice; it's a perception. We can't "choose" to believe something. We can only choose to pretend to believe... an action which describes Christian faith far better than it does atheism. It is the Christians who have not "examined the evidence and arguments" and who, when presented with evidence damaging to the notion of a divinely inspired bible and an all-powerful, all-wise God, get angry, threaten fiery retribution, clutch at straws to save their fragile belief system.
I think that there are several probable motivational factors and more than one may exist for any particular person.
Christians usually do. They go to great lengths to explain away the obvious, searching for something to cast the unbeliever in a shadowy light that feels comfortable to them as they try to justify their faith.
Perhaps the most common reason for choosing atheism is not a personal conviction that God doesn't exist, but rather a negative reaction against religious practices one observed (or was forced into) as a youth.
You continue in the notion of "atheism as a choice"... beating a dead horse in hopes it will gallop for you.
the Problem of Evil... the fear that theism may be true...many or most theists are stupid, low-class, and gullible.
How about, because the mass of evidence sways logical, reasoning people to disbelief?
how many "strong" agnostics are out there?
That would be me. I didn't arrive at agnosticism lightly, or by choice. It took me about five years of reasoning, examining, pondering, asking, listening, discussing, and meditating to finally reach the point where I could call myself an agnostic. It was not a particularly welcome designation; simply the result of my thoughtful examination of reality.
I do so get tired of seeing atheists/agnostics cast in this shadowy light you're trying to perpetuate here. It is as misrepresentative of the facts as it is to say that most blacks are lazy, most Mexicans are thieves, most whites are bigots, most women are masochists.
As you will have perceived by now, I don't like the tone of your post. Oh, well...
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cus i told him to!
har!!.
people sometimes wonder why, if i created puny humans in my image, i don't have a sense of humor in the bible.
< http://www.sharif.org.uk/priests.htm.
raphael - former jehovah's witness minister .
a forty-two-year-old latino, raphael, is a los angeles-based comic and lecturer.
I said, These Muslims are friendly.
Define "friendly."
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i read this letter in the editorials/letters secion of the new york times today (oct. 21, 2001, pg.
i thought you guys would find it interesting.. atheists at ground zero.
to the editor:.
First of all, you don't know 'most Christians' by any stretch of the imagination. Second, you don't know the 'agenda' or lack therof of any atheist.
Oh, the irony, the incredible irony of it all... WW himself, the all-time undisputed champion of the unfounded assumption treated as fact, now arguing against making assumptions.
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