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Ag, well most of the stereotypes about women having are ridiculously heteronormative in there view anyway. it's like they haven't progressed from the eras when men were expected to marry virgins but that brothels were still needed because the men needed to fulfill 'their animal desires.' The naysayers you mentioned aren't even thinking about the bisexual and homosexual communities when they make there statements.
Puritan Pundits Should Chill Out -- Here Are 5 Reasons I'm Happy I've Had Lots of Casual Sex
The phenomenon of women who have sex for its own sake seems to baffle many people. It's widely believed that women have sex for love, commitment, poor self-control, to manipulate men, to please men, to make babies, to sooth their low self-esteem, and just about any reason at all other than thei...
Is Bastrop High School ever going to be taken to court for their behavior in this incidence?
High School Atheist Ostracized by Town -- Atheist Community Steps Up
This piece was originally published on AlterNet. When a high school atheist tried to stop prayer at his graduation, he was ostracized, threatened, and kicked out of his house. But the atheist community stepped in. Whatever you think about atheists -- good, bad, mixed, indifferent -- this story sh...
Camping has moved the date to the day he first said the world would end, October 21st 2011.
Damn! My bet was out by a month
Live-blogging the Rapture
Well, if the end of the world really is nigh, there ought to be some documentation of it for future generations. Oh, wait. There won't be any future generations. Still. It stand to reason. I mean, if hundreds of years from now, space aliens or something visit the charred remains of our post-Ap...
19:52 in South Africa, and there are certainly a lot of people identified as Christians here. So we don't even have 'godless country' as an excuse.
Looking forward to the post-18:00 reports from Harold Camping & Co.
Feel bad that these people aren't taken to court for their con-artistry...
Live-blogging the Rapture
Well, if the end of the world really is nigh, there ought to be some documentation of it for future generations. Oh, wait. There won't be any future generations. Still. It stand to reason. I mean, if hundreds of years from now, space aliens or something visit the charred remains of our post-Ap...
It occurs to me that its actually very clever to say that the rapture will happen at 18:00 pm in all time zones, because it means that when Mr. Camping & co. sees that The Australia New Zealand area has had nothing happen to them, he has a lot of time to backtrack and make up alternatives long before its 6 there.
Live-blogging the Rapture
Well, if the end of the world really is nigh, there ought to be some documentation of it for future generations. Oh, wait. There won't be any future generations. Still. It stand to reason. I mean, if hundreds of years from now, space aliens or something visit the charred remains of our post-Ap...
Was thinking a bit more about this and I have to say that the only thing I want now is for yesterday to be over with so that Harold Camping can reveal the date he probably thought of prior to this when "the Rapture will actually happen" after tomorrow is inevitably a no-show. I'm betting September?
Rapture Fear: What If The End Really Is Nigh?
So I have something embarrassing to admit. With all the talk about the Rapture that's supposedly coming on May 21? With all the Rapture parties, the snarky jokes, the atheist conferences around the country specifically scheduled on Rapture Weekend for the purpose of making fun of it? There is a...
I can't say that I've ever been that concerned with doomsday predictions from religions or mysticism. Maybe its because I've been overloaded with the amount of physical things which could kill us (comets, solar flares blah blah blah) that are horribly unpredictable.
A few years back there was some report from NASA that said that earth had almost been hit by a solar flare... 1 year after it would have hit. So I think that it'd be more realistic to be terrified about sudden unpredictable global destruction. But we can't really be scared of that cause their unpredictable so then we'd be scared all the time.
Incidentally, I find that the idea that the whole earth, let alone the human species, is inevitably going to be destroyed doesn't really depress me as much. Its similar to how lots of people tell me atheists should be depressed that we won't live forever or see our loved ones after death. I've gotten that alot recently as my dad passed last year September and I'm the only atheist in the family. I've found that it is sad, but I accept it as a fact of existence. I can't really become depressed about believing there's no life, it'd be like being upset that I was physically incapable of flight. I just can't imagine people living on after they die, it goes against what I believe about the universe, so I can't even wish I believed in it for comfort sakes
Rapture Fear: What If The End Really Is Nigh?
So I have something embarrassing to admit. With all the talk about the Rapture that's supposedly coming on May 21? With all the Rapture parties, the snarky jokes, the atheist conferences around the country specifically scheduled on Rapture Weekend for the purpose of making fun of it? There is a...
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