"I do think that the two different terms have differing connotations, but they're mostly synonymous. "Making love" sounds more smarmy to me than "having sex" but there's no reason IMO to require one over the…"
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Aaron S. (USA) replied to Tom Sarbeck's discussion Men have sex and women make love. Or do they? in the group Secular Sexuality
Aaron S. (USA) replied to Debra Stevenson's discussion LDS Temple Rituals and being annointed from the 12 Hebrew Tribes in the group Ex-Mormon Atheists
"I left my parent's fundamentalist church/cult before I could learn anything about the temple rituals, but I know the stuff about Native Americans being from Israel is complete bullcrap. There's obviously no reference to it in the Christian…"
Aaron S. (USA) replied to Loren Miller's discussion Episcopal Church becomes biggest US church to bless gay unions (MSNBC) in the group Atheist News
"One of my friends spoke up at this conference. I'm really proud of her :) Though, at the same time, it's sad that it even needs to be done in the first place."
Aaron S. (USA) liked Loren Miller's discussion Episcopal Church becomes biggest US church to bless gay unions (MSNBC)
Aaron S. (USA) replied to Ruth Anthony-Gardner's discussion Sex education that's forbidden to mention puberty? in the group Secular Sexuality
"P.S., the Utah bill passed legislation but was luckily vetoed by the governor after a huge public outcry - I don't remember the exact figures now, but between 60-80% of Utahns were polled as being supportive of sex ed in public schools, so it…"
John Jubinsky replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer in the group Atheist News
"Nice to hear that something regarding religion goes halfway right once in a while."
Michael OL replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer in the group Atheist News
"One thing that always confused me was the question of why divine intercession in prolonging life would be desirable.
If I believed in a heaven, wouldn't I wish to get there as quickly as possible? I mean, why bother with the trappings…"
Sentient Biped replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer in the group Atheist News
"Well, if Jesus doesn't heal cancer, exactly what does he do? Next you'll be saying he doesn't heal amputees either."
Loren Miller replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer in the group Atheist News
""A message of hope"?!? More like "a wild, arrogant, unverifiable statement, whose hope is false and presumes a completely undemonstrated capacity." Jesus never so much as cured a hangnail, never mind cancer. The…"
Joseph P replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer in the group Atheist News
"Now, how do we get them to apply a sane standard like this to billboards in the US?"
Jonathan Simeone replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer in the group Atheist News
"Thank you for sharing this. I really like getting my day started with a good laugh."
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It's Official, Jesus Doesn't Heal Cancer
"The New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority made a no-brainer of a decision earlier this week when they determined that a church billboard reading, “Jesus Heals Cancer,” violates advertising standards.Thank you, Captain Obvious!According to The New Zealand Herald:The [ASA] complaints board acknowledged the church had no intention of causing offence with the billboard and instead wanted…See More
Michael OL replied to Aaron S. (USA)'s discussion What's a good job for an INTP? in the group INTP-ers
"It does indeed make sense. I am not a teacher, but as part of my job, I occasionally lecture to groups of students or similar audiences. As an introvert, I don't really "connect" with the audience, but instead focus on…"
Aaron S. (USA) commented on Suicidal Machine of the Gods's group INTP-ers
"Welcome, Steph :)I have to admit I considered not saying anything. If no one did it it'd be pretty funny. "
Aaron S. (USA) replied to Steph S.'s discussion PETA's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History of Killing Animals in the group HUMANE ATHEISTS
"I did a little reading on this before and from what I gathered, the 2.5% figure for PETA is the very lowest it had and the 44% figure by the Virginia shelters was an all-time high, with average figures closer to double or triple that for PETA and…"
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- At 12:20am on April 4, 2012,
Steph S. said… - Hello Aaron thanks for welcoming me!
- At 7:37pm on September 20, 2010,
Scooter Crone said… - thank you fellow rational person.
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- At 7:08pm on September 12, 2010,
Jezzy said… - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Forget it! No more paying YOU for sex!!
I think I'm going to go cry... alone... in the bath... and listen to Mizerable... while I fondle my Gackt puppet... inappropriately...
- At 5:58pm on September 12, 2010, Jezzy said…
- Malice Mizer? What the Gackt? O_O
- At 10:02am on May 21, 2010,
Eric Luther said… - It's no problem dude. Honestly I just love to debate.
- At 12:39am on May 12, 2010,
BilLee Miller said… - You're probably right about us all being nerds here. Although, I tend to think of myself more as a geek, but the point remains valid. I'm not specifically trying to persuade nontheists of my views. I actually spend most of the time offline trying to persuade the "spiritual but not religious" crowd. They're usually my target market and I slowly dissuade them from supernaturalism of the various types. Although, I guess they too are a little turned off by the word religion. They generally agree that it is the level of organization, the form if you will, and not the content that defines religion.
As I say this, I realize that you might be right after all. I guess I am trying to persuade people generally that have been turned off by religion, because those that are happy with religion or seldom in the market for a new one, even a nonsupernaturalist one.
Thanks for the insight.
- At 1:48pm on April 17, 2010,
Jo Jerome said… - Aaron S graciously accepted my friend invite thingy! Now I know I'm in the cool club!
;-)
- At 11:00pm on March 21, 2010,
Zeynep Ozselcuk said… - No, don't worry about it... it was appreciated. ^^
- At 8:53pm on March 21, 2010, Zeynep Ozselcuk said…
- Ah, thanks for the correction. :) It was my assumption that atheists tend to be more skeptical.....or at least the ones who seek out other atheists to have discussions with.
The friend I was referring to in my story is actually atheistic towards the Christian god but still believes in the existence of souls and ghosts...I find that most people on these atheist websites are skeptical towards those types of things as well.
When I tell some people that I'm a skeptic, they assume that I mean "conspiracy theorist". Hahahaha.
- At 6:21pm on October 7, 2009,
William Hutton said… - Aaron, thank you for your comments. Your opinions were quite valid and I appreciate you taking the time to weigh in.
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