October 2011
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Fridays
So, I have decided (fairly spur-of-the-moment) that Fridays will have a theme. This way, at least, one day of the week will have a unifying concept. If any of you have an idea for a Friday theme, just send it in an ask.
And, as always, if anyone has original art (poetry, short stories, digital art, paintings, anything) that they would like to submit, I would shower you in adulation and then post...
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One and all, religions have their original prophets, their sacred books, their...
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American sociologist, novelist, writer, feminist, atheist)
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Just a Note...
…to my followers - apparently the queue is absolutely effed today, so I’m sorry that posts are delayed as I’m having to do it manually when I
a) remember, b) am not in class and c) can access my laptop.
In short, I got 99 problems and the queue is all of them.
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The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen...
– Ferdinand Magellan (Portugese navigator and explorer)
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Atheist Wedding Vows from 1862
“NASHVILLE DAILY UNION, November 20,1862. p. 3, c 3
A singular couple got married in Chester County, Penn., the other day, merely making the following declaration in the presence of friends.
“We, Orson S. Murray, and Lydia P. Jacobs, make known to these our friends that we have chosen each other for conjugal companionship, in prosperity and adversity, in life and till death. We ask no...
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose...
– Thomas Paine (Anglo-American political theorist and writer)
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The Night I Lost my Faith →
“I’d always been a man of faith—a born-again, Sunday school-teaching Christian who believed that his religious grounding made him a better doctor. But a dead baby can change everything.”
Certainly a tearjerker. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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American Atheist
Life is less than comfortable for the atheist. The unsaved, the unforgivable. In America, you never walk alone, no There’s the weight of the big “G” you got to drag along with you. Try to shake it off and it’s like abandoning your little brother. You mean you’d just leave him like that? ‘Scuse me folks, but I think God can take care of himself. My parents were born in one nation under God...