Does This Ability Require Normal or Above Average Intelligence?

[megabyteme]

You must have been talking to someone else or fingerbanging yourself when you were reading my post.

The thought of an aged woman fingering herself brings mixed emotions...

[chalice]

You must have been talking to someone else or fingerbanging yourself when you were reading my post.

The thought of an aged woman fingering herself brings mixed emotions...

Today a survivor of the Dunblaine massacre was sentenced to 20 years for the attempted rape of an old age pensioner. Go figure.

[Quarterquack]

That's because we're not backwards fucks. Organised religion evolved to form a system of governance at a time when the majority of the population couldn't read and were even more prone to acts of random barbarism and sociopathy than today. As soon as societies became educated enough they formed alternatives to religion that didn't rely on fear and rote learning to control the population.
An advanced civilisation will find ways to be socially helpful and aware that don't have anything to do with churches. If you're an atheist or even agnostic, and you have anything to do with organised religion you're just prolonging its agony and validating it, and you don't have the balls to stand up and be counted.

There's a time to stand for what you believe, and a time to wait for that time.

Everybody knows what the future holds for internet laws and copyright laws. My generation is pretty twisted when it comes to being self-entitled little bitches. SOPA/PIPA/ACTA etc. are all meaningless because by the time my generation stops being students and starts being the law makers we'll vote them out almost immediately.

Similarly with religion. Obviously religion has no place in a civilized, modern society. But I'm not about to alienate a subset of the population who needs valid help, simply because they choose to live in comfortable ignorance. I'd rather just wait a few years and watch religion eat itself away. I'm unaware of a single country where atheism is shunned politically currently, that has not dissociated into civil wars. Embracing logic and reason is something all societies are bound for. I'll let fit societies evolve, and help the old generation move on, while watching a better time get ushered in.

My standing against the herd now will do nothing, because religion is still important to a vast majority. In a few years generations upon generations of people who grew up in secular classrooms, chatting on the secular internet, and consuming secular media are going to realize how pointless it is to vote politicians for religious reasons, and that's the minute the world will change for the better, with no part for me in its doing.

As for Mary and Darth of Integrity, there's a reason they help the church. They want to be charitable but in a way that fits in with the people around them. It's just a basic lack of character or imagination. And they probably haven't thought about it like this, but they're sort of masquerading as sheep when they're really wolves, which isn't really fair to the real sheep.

I'm very vocal about being atheist in my community. I don't go around with a sign, but when asked I give a straight answer. Even the priests at my Church know that I'm an atheist. I don't masquerade or hide what I am, and if my local Church ever believes that they are better off without me, I will gladly volunteer at the local hospital, the local library, or start working for Red Cross. This isn't about me being unimaginative. It's about me growing up in a certain environment, seeing the amount of good a Church can do for someone, and knowing that I want to be part of that. I'm not sure if you and Chavis are serious about your Heroin addiction, but not too long ago the Church was a viable place to get treatment and seek help for these things, and to this day many Churches will still take people off the streets and make sure they have something better off in their lives when leaving than when they came in.

Just because you and I are strong enough to curb addiction on our own, and need no external moral compass, doesn't mean we should exclude everyone beneath us from the benefits of our lifestyles (whether by knowledge, health or otherwise).

[chalice]

I'm not sure if you and Chavis are serious about your Heroin addiction, but not too long ago the Church was a viable place to get treatment and seek help for these things, and to this day many Churches will still take people off the streets and make sure they have something better off in their lives when leaving than when they came in.

Just because you and I are strong enough to curb addiction on our own, and need no external moral compass, doesn't mean we should exclude everyone beneath us from the benefits of our lifestyles (whether by knowledge, health or otherwise).

That is all.

[Quarterquack]

That is all.

Meanie.

[chalice]

That is all.

Meanie.

Sucker.

[Quarterquack]

Sucker.

Oh, you think so?

[chalice]

Yeah, what ev's.

[mjmacky]

I used to be addicted to internet porn, but I don't seem to be anymore. I think I broke my addiction. I'm strong.

[Quarterquack]

I used to be addicted to internet porn, but I don't seem to be anymore. I think I broke my addiction. I'm strong.

I used to be addicted to being superior to people, but with the help of the mighty lord using his Church as an ark of resolution, I can say my life is better now.