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Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
#41
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
Meh, make em a deal. You go to church, they go to a gay bar. Not like it'll make them gay, right?
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#42
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
I'll go to the strip bar down in lexington, maybe if they see a naked women doing her tang it'll make them lesbian. They waste my 2 hours doing something they enjoy, I'll waste their 2 hours doing something they won't enjoy. If they got money for the services at the church, then they got the money for a lap dance. :d
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Religion is like a Penis, you shouldn't whip it out in public and you shouldn't shove it down your child's throat.
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#43
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
(August 10, 2011 at 11:56 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: That's what you'd say now... ever chewed a fish eye? Has the consistency of goddamn rubber.

Taste isn't exactly delicious either.

And to set the record straight here: It was a raw fish eye. Cooked changes everything.

How big a fish did eye belong to? Because if the eye was small enough, I would swallow it whole, without chewing it Tongue

When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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#44
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
(August 11, 2011 at 7:22 am)Kayenneh Wrote: I would swallow it whole, without chewing it Tongue
That would be one weird shit!!!
...and surely if you're a true skeptic you would go to church with an open mind. So many fatalists... tut tut! Big Grin
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#45
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
I just want to say that this thread is full of win Smile
When I was a Christian, I was annoyed with dogmatic condescending Christians. Now that I'm an atheist, I'm annoyed with dogmatic condescending atheists. Just goes to prove that people are the same, regardless of what they do or don't believe.
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#46
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?

I've played music for churches before on dulcimer (when they paid me). I have no particular qualms about attending a church as an employee such as a musician.

I do have a large repository of religious music, because when I take requests at performances I occasionally get those; gotta keep the paying customers happy.

But I don't need to go into a church to find out what I might learn about myself or the church: I can probably do that better without their help and get a more balanced response.

"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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#47
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
I made a Dulcimer as part of a (year long) instrument making course Any. when you say 'hammer' do you mean one with keys??

I'm prolly the same as you... I think I know it already/ well I don't want telling so hard Tongue But then we're a bit arrogant right Wink Big Grin
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#48
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
fr0d0 Wrote:...and surely if you're a true skeptic you would go to church with an open mind. So many fatalists... tut tut! Big Grin

Not that I am one, but what does being a fatalist have to do with the topic at hand?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#49
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
(August 11, 2011 at 7:36 am)fr0d0 Wrote: That would be one weird shit!!!
...and surely if you're a true skeptic you would go to church with an open mind. So many fatalists... tut tut! Big Grin

Nah, I think one's digestive juices would take care of it, but if they didn't.. XD

And I can only speak for myself, but I don't mind being in a church per say, I just think that the sermons are bullshit. But I'll probably go to one of the biggest churches this Christmas to listen to a midnight concert, the acoustics there are fantastic! Big Grin
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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#50
RE: Would you go to church just to prove it won't change anything about you?
(August 11, 2011 at 7:45 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I made a Dulcimer as part of a (year long) instrument making course Any. when you say 'hammer' do you mean one with keys??

I'm prolly the same as you... I think I know it already/ well I don't want telling so hard Tongue But then we're a bit arrogant right Wink Big Grin

Nope, one with small mallets (dubbed "hammers") held in the hand used to strike courses of strings.

My own latest dulcimer (purchased in 1993 for about $1,500) comes with eighteen courses strung over one bridge creating two sets of notes each a fifth apart, and another seventeen courses strung over a second bridge making a set of bass notes).

"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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