Anyone non-religious here? Please be nice!

[curliet]

I've always been so full of questions, and they always got me into trouble. Even as an adult, I still ask a lot of questions, and one friend once said to me "You think too much, would you please just stop thinking?!" haha That's what we have all that brain for, to think with and ask questions about what we're thinking. Anyway, the thinking and questions were the most trouble when I was at church or bible study. I remember asking a Sunday school teacher once about the fact that I had read in the bible that everyone drank wine during Jesus' day, because the water was bad. So I wondered if maybe all those fantastic things and miracles that they saw happening were because they were drunk. "Please wait in the hall until it's time to go home." But to this day I still think that's a real possiblility.

SunnyDawn...I don't drink or smoke or gamble either (oh wait, once in awhile a scratch off ticket) but every now and then, if I get really riled I fire off a good word or two. haha, no one's perfect, right.

 

[MoSo]

It's the use of swear words as adjectives that I'm not fond of.

Drop one of the concrete footings being used as a base for the coop on my foot? Oh, yes, you'll hear a swear or two out of my mouth. But in casual conversation the various swear words really have no good use. And if you use them as adjectives, instead of saving them up for when you NEED them, it just doesn't quite have the same punch.

There is a theory of brain evolution and the development of the "bicameral" (ie "two-lobed" or right/left split) that says that at one point the two halves of the brain didn't communicate well, and as a result people frequently heard the voices of the gods or suggestions from the ether, when it was really their own brain "talking" to them.

Always liked that theory, no matter how many holes I can poke in it.

 

[curliet]

OMG, you mean all this time I've been talking to myself after all??!!

 

[deb1]

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Not only are you talking to yourself, but this forum doesn't really exist. You are just staring at a blank screen imagining us all.

(cue Twilight music)

 

[deb1]

Have any of you experienced discrimination for being nonreligious?

 

[OccamsTazer]

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Yes. A lot.

My best friend and I were "lesbian satan worshippers" in HS. We didn't have any other female friends for the most part, nor did we go out of our way to fit in, because the girls around us were quite silly. So naturally, we were evil and gay.

Anyone who knows me, knows that if I were gay, I'd BE gay.
When we started studying pagan paths, hoo boy. Don't want to be seen with books about that in Alabama. My friend actually got a talking to about it from a TEACHER! Completely inappropriate!

There's also just the general feeling sometimes of being the odd one out everywhere. When people start spouting religious stuff, say, at work, and I'm the only one who doesn't share those beliefs, it's easy to feel a bit...trampled.
I've also had clients try to proselytize. Ick.
Then there is trying to plan a wedding. Just kill me

 

[Organics North]

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YES, Big time!

Subtlety, most of the time. Spouses Catholic parents are the worst offenders. I honestly feel like they do not like our children as much because we do not go to church with them. I am over it. But is just so sad, that something like that keeps them from enjoying their grandkids more. Our boys are 4 and 7.. Such a fun age

ON

 

[deb1]

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YES, big time!

Subtlety, most of the time. Spouses very Catholic parents are the worst offenders. I honestly feel like they do not like our children as much because we do not go to church with them. I am over it. But is just so sad, that something like that keeps them from enjoying their grandkids more. Our boys are 4 and 7.. Such a fun age

ON

Why do some religious people discriminate against members of their own religion based on what church they attend?
Do Buddhists or other religions discriminate against their own members?

 

[KDbeads]

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yep. Loads.

 

[KDbeads]

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Not only are you talking to yourself, but this forum doesn't really exist. You are just staring at a blank screen imagining us all.

(cue Twilight music)

Uhmmmm.... cue Mysterious Stranger...... (Mark Twain? tell me I'm not the only one here who's read that?)