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DemPGH
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« on: January 18, 2017, 11:43:37 PM »

Angry? Probably not.

No one has suggested such an action to me in well over 25 years, and if they did now, I would regard the suggestion as a non sequitur, and hopefully approach someone with a more helpful suggestion!

But I doubt at this stage of my adult life that I would approach a person who would suggest such an action in the first place.
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DemPGH
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2017, 11:23:50 PM »

Angry? Probably not.

No one has suggested such an action to me in well over 25 years, and if they did now, I would regard the suggestion as a non sequitur, and hopefully approach someone with a more helpful suggestion!

But I doubt at this stage of my adult life that I would approach a person who would suggest such an action in the first place.

Wow, this might actually be the most insufferably smug and euphoric way humanly possible to word this. Especially the last sentence--nice to know religious people exude some sort of aura that you can detect to avoid accidentally confiding a problem in one of us.

You still sucking up to Trump, by the way?

Hi, Nathan! I had lost interest, decided to check back to see if the place exploded or not as a result of the election, and voila, I'm sucked back into this. Wink Did not miss it. Did miss it. And I'm composing a reply that surprises me, because there are more constructive things for me to be doing at 11:00 p.m., like getting sleep.

The election is a different issue. The Democrat ran the worst campaign from that party in my lifetime, so we'll see.

As to the issue at hand. There is nothing 'euphoric' about being non-religious, but perhaps 'euphoric' as a choice adjective says more about you than me.

Anyway, it's possible that I never explained this (because I lack the patience and time), but what bothers me is the SMUG self-righteousness of someone who would assume that their own personal, weird beliefs would benefit others if others would adopt them. Really, I do not care what people believe or choose to accept. It's when they go around throwing it at other people that I begin to object and to have a problem. No one has ever knocked on my door with a pamphlet explaining why evolution by natural selection, despite the evidence for it, is "right." However, people have knocked on my door with pamphlets explaining why various mythological stories are crucial to my life. I don't see it. And of course they have no evidence other than that their stories were found in an old book. That's my issue.
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