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those who grow up in an atheist household are least likely to maintain their beliefs about religion as adults, according to a study by georgetown university's center for applied research in the apostolate (cara).only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults.
this "retention rate" was the lowest among the 20 separate categories in the study.. there were 1,387 atheists (weighted) in the survey.
BTS - I know that critical thinking skills are great, but for goodness sake I was just being sarcastic. Kindly remove yourself from your own arse and don't forget to wipe on your way out.
What the survey shows, if anything, is that where culture, the need for group identity and religion are tightly intwined then people tend to identify with the religion in which they were raised. Who would have thought?
article found here.. .
those who grow up in an atheist household are least likely to maintain their beliefs about religion as adults, according to a study by georgetown university's center for applied research in the apostolate (cara).only about 30 percent of those who grow up in an atheist household remain atheists as adults.
this "retention rate" was the lowest among the 20 separate categories in the study.. there were 1,387 atheists (weighted) in the survey.
Proof that god is real. Hang on - but Hindus have the highest retention rate. So they must have the truth.
this is wide open for all - lets have fun!.
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question # 1) why dont my children come see me any more?.
Question not to ask an old person
"Can you show me your old helmet in the shed grandpa?"
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question # 1) why dont my children come see me any more?.
"Sure, I'd like to go with you to the early-bird dinner special, but who can we get to be our chaperone?"
A. Just take Bert. I know he's been dead for a few days but no one in the home has noticed and if you put some mothballs in his pocket no one will notice the smell. Just leave him in the front seat when you want to get down to business. Remember to take your teeth out first though Martha. You know how they can spring themselves shut sometimes."
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question # 1) why dont my children come see me any more?.
Maybe because the last time your daughter came to visit you, you tripped her with your cane and broke your leg in revenge for her not buying you one of these:
Almost right Flyinghigh - the only bit I suspect is wrong is that his daughter tripped him with her cane. And the picture has one too many wheels for Mr Golfer
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question # 1) why dont my children come see me any more?.
As someone who used to own a Robin Reliant perhaps you are well placed to tell us the questions old people ask? Perhaps
"When did they start making cars with four wheels?"
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question # 1) why dont my children come see me any more?.
"......sorry, did you say something?"
"Is masturbation harmful...with the meds I'm on?"
"Am I ready to date?"
"Is this person right for me? 60 years and I think I hate the cow"
"Should I stay a virgin?"
"What is happening to my body?"
so i won't name where i work (some may already know) but since i decided to go to college i started working in at a retail chain so i could get flexible hours.
the pay is poor, and it is a pretty silly job, but it puts at least some money in my pocket while i work towards something better.
anyway, they recently made every one attend a big meeting where they rolled out the new "restructure" of the work force.
Go to socialist Sweden and taste a 7.8% unemployment rate, socialist Australia 5.1%, socialist Norway 3.0%. Reasons for unemployment are a bit more complicated than the how interventionist the government is. Please do not selectively use statistics to make a point.
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i am armageddon messenger, the one that jesus said he would send to tell "you" the things coming.-john 16:12-14. .
as it should be expected, the governing body of jw's are not willing and will not accept me as a "prophet" because according to them, jehovah only communicates trough them.... .
The spell checker does not work on this forum, nor I can paste Word documents from OpenOffice.org software, that normally I would do to try to correct some of those mistakes
You had me until you posted this - very good though. Methinks this is someone having a laugh.
Either that or god should have picked someone with basic word processing skills or enough money to buy Word rather than rely on freeware. doh.
this follows on from the other thread on michael jackson and an earlier one this morning.
sufficiently different to start a new thread i thought though.. on the mj thread i had a bit of a poke at glander and used a load of anti-gay terms.
what i thought was interesting was that they were all terms that i used to use as a witness.
Farkel. For some reason that reminded me of something else. In Australia we used to call each other 'twat'. It was just like 'twit' so we used at the KH. In the UK it is on a par with c**t.
