The problem with being a proper fundamental atheist

[2 Strikers?]

is that there's one thing that really pisses me off, other than dickheads using their fog lights in the rain (they're f**king for fog you c**ts, they don't call them rain lights, or oooh, there's a bit of light mist on that tree, in that field, half a mile away lights...).
When these religious nut jobs die, expecting white light, pearly gates, virgins waiting, or even reincarnation as a newt, or whatever their particular brand of un-provable mumbo jumbery promises them in the afterlife as long as they accept **** in this one, I am robbed of the joy of imagining the look on their face when they find out there's nothing but nothingness, there's not even a whiff of 'what..? I put up with working in a Gap sweatshop and giving blow jobs for rent, supporting Spurs and there's nothing!!!
because they're just dead!
It's all wrong, there should be something, a brief moment before the nothing when they get to realise that it is just nothing and all the kneeling, bowing, scraping, warring, not whoring, and generally being a righteous smug c**t was all a complete waste of their life.

[Pat Vegas]

when I was out driving my new car and tried to flash my lights to let this fella go ahead.

Rather than flash they just stayed on full beam and as I tried to fix it I just ended up giving numerous confusing indicator signals :-(

I wasn't used to the controls

I just found a cruise control stick behind the wheel that wasn't there before.

[Monty91]

of educated people who claim to do so, do not.

After all, how could they? Credulity to that degree is utterly incompatible with being an educated person.

[Classic Jorge]

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[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

depressive thoughts looming ahead as we get older :-(

[Classic Jorge]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

your soul-less, blasphemous philosophies are somehow self evident and irrefutable.

Atheism is actually the intellectual path of least resistance and is always clung to by you and the other one hundred million pseudo educated mediocrities.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

[Berni]

That's when intimations of mortality really f**ked with my head. These days I sort of think I'm pretty 'meh' about it.

Of course, it isn't being dead that really worries a chap. It's the ghastly, undignified business of dying.

[Classic Jorge]

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

burying your clothes into the ground so that they could start to rot and get that grave scent.

[Classic Jorge]

By the way, you'll appreciate this, hopefully.

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[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

hand that transitioned you?

[Berni]

one's utter helplessness in the face of of disease, decay and ultimately death.

However, I think it's as much age and the realisation that life is just f**king tiring. I'm knackered now, so f**k knows what I'll feel like if I make it to 70.

[Berni]

You realise, of course, that the only intellectually valid path is agnosticism, don't you? Atheism is just as evidence-free a doctrine as religious faith.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

overwhelming panic attack or two. I usually deal with it by desperately throwing my arms around my girlfriend in hysterical embrace, which she sometimes finds rather creepy of me.

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

cocaine off a hooker's titties or something. Are you even fifty yet?

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

[Berni]

A nice long lie-down in the ground would be just the thing, tbh. :yawn:

[Classic Jorge]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

essentially naked but for your own fragile psyche, then death's cold, bony hand can reach inside you and tweak your very soul.

[Berni]

'The grave's a fine and private place/But none I think do there embrace', as Mr Marvell so rightly put it.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

took him round Sofia when he was here, on the hunt for WW2 stuff. He was a proper collector, he is listed among the top ones. Overall, met him a few times and besides loving his music and what he stood for, I don''t think I've ever met such an honest, decent and cool person. Very, very intelligent too. Oh well,he lived on his own terms for the best part of 70 years,like he said "can't complain,I've had a pretty good run".

[Classic Jorge]

You have to love someone who is so cool their fetishism for Nazi gear is even loveable.

[Monty91]

Not that I claim any particular credit for this

I didn't call myself an atheist, did I?

Anyway, all the cool kids call themselves anti-theists, nowadays.

[Berni]

toxic by being obnoxious little know-alls who think that achieving an insight that's blindingly obvious to a half-bright child makes them intellectuals and who imagine there's some moral virtue in doing the equivalent of telling children there's no Santa Claus.

[Paul Vaessen's moment of glory]

me literally jumping out of bed, with a cry of "Oh Fuuuck!" bouncing against the walls, as they stand witness to my horror. Then I usually let out a quiet helpless sigh and fall back into the bed.

[Monty91]

proves that, however smug its advocates, atheism is still a fight worth fighting?

How many religiousers would Dawkins have to convert to offset his smugness? Anecdotally he has already converted hundreds...

[Berni]

But then saying you think banning guns is a good idea, that maybe America isn't necessarily the greatest country on earth at everything or that that abortion is probably a necessary evil also make you unelectable, so it's not the best guide.

[redgunamo]

[Berni]

That'll send the Chief into another eight-year spiral of depression and rage :rolleyes:

[Classic Jorge]

Mind you, if they elect trump he'll be like you in May.

May 8th onwards, dont worry, we wont speak of your May 6th-7th wobbles

[Berni]