M: What about us atheists? Why should we 'ave to listen to that sectarian turmoil?
W: You're a lapsed atheist, dear.
M: The principle's the same. The Mohmedans don't come 'round here wavin' bells at us! We don't get Buddhists playing bagpipes in our bathroom! Or Hindus harmonizing in the hall! The Shintus don't come here shattering sheet glass in the shithouse, shouting slogans-
W: All right, don't practice your alliteration on me.
M: Anyway, when I membership card and blazer badge back from the League of Agnostics, I shall urge the executive to lodge a protest against that religious racket! Pass the butter knife!
W: WHAT??
M: PASS THE BUTTER KNIFE!! (pause) THANK YOU! IF ONLY WE HAD SOME KIND OF MISSILE!
W: 'OLD ON, I'LL CLOSE THE WINDOW.
M: WHAT?!
W: I SAID, I'LL CLOSE THE WINDOW!
(Sound: Window closing, bells get faint, but are still there)
M: If only we had some kind of missile, we could take the steam out of those bells.
W: Well, you could always use the number 14-St. Joseph-the-somewhat- divine-on-the-hill ballistic missile. It's in the attic.
M: What ballistic missile would this be, then?
(Sound: Bells begin to get increasingly louder)
W: I made it for you, it's your birthday present!
M: Just what I wanted, 'ow nice of you to remember, my pet. 'ERE!
W: WHAT?
M: THOSE BELLS ARE GETTING LOUDER!
W: WHAT?
M: THOSE BELLS ARE GETTING LOUDER!!
W: THE BELLS ARE GETTING LOUDER! OOOH, LOOK!
M: WHAT?
W: THE CHURCH, IT.. ITS COMING CLOSER! ITS COMING DOWN THE 'ILL!
M: WHAT A LIBERTY!
W: ITS TURNING INTO OUR LANE! WELL, YOU BETTER GO PUT IT OUT OF IT'S MISERY.
M: WHERE'S THIS MISSILE, THEN?
W: IT'S IN THE ATTIC. PRESS THE BUTTON MARKED CHURCH!
M: 'OW DO I AIM IT?
W: IT AUTOMATICALLY HOMES IN ON THE NEAREST PLACE OF WORSHIP!
M: BUT THAT'S ST. MARKS!
W: IT ISN'T NOW, LOOK!! OH, ITS OP'NING THE GATE.
M: WHAT? USE THE MEGAPHONE!
W: IT'S OP'NING THE GATE!! 'HURRY UP, ITS TRAMPLING OVER THE AZALIAS!
(Sound: Missle launch, explosion, bells diminish)
M: Did I 'it it?
W: Yes, right up the aisle.
M: Well I've always said, There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not.
Is this a Monty Python bit?
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I will say, at least in Australia and it would not surprise me if it happened in other less religiony areas is that there is probably more religion in England and Canada than you think, it's just way less public and as an adult you just tend to group with people of a similar background as you.
So many of the kids that I teach believe in religion, I've seen flat out rat bag kids having an argument over scripture on the basketball courts and I once let slip that I was an atheist and you should have seen the shock and concern these kids had for my eternal soul. But as an adult I don't really see people like that because the majority of my friendship group see things the way I do.
There's a LOT of new churches springing up in the more blue-collar Hills suburbs.
Shit Forrestfield already has like 6 different churches and there are two more planned as far as I know?
There's a strong resurgency in Christianity, at least that's how it seems to me. There were a bunch of small churches in Lynwood catering to specific nationalities when we lived there (there's the Korean evangelical Christian church, the Somali Christian church, the Filipino Catholic church, the Sudanese Orthodox Catholic church), there just feels like there's a very hard push from most major religions to kind of recruit more followers from my point of view. Even in Chidlow back when I was young there was only like two churches, and now there's four or five, and the population hasn't really grown very much at all.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Ok but have you all tried peanut butter and pickles
Or my ultimate peanut butter, pickles, banana and jelly sandwich
One thing I had when I was a kid and I've never had again was celery sticks with peanut butter in the groove, with a toothpick "mast" and a cheddar cheese slice stuck on the toothpick.
Honestly I don't remember them being bad, the peanut butter was tasty enough that I happily ate the celery stick it was in (despite otherwise successfully avoiding celery in my life) and finishing off with the slices of cheese.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I go with my in-laws on let's see: Easter, mother's day, Father's day, their birthdays, near Christmas although not on Christmas, and I think that is it. As an atheist this is less then ideal but for my wife's sake I go and behave. They are deeply religious in a way that pretty old southern people tend to be. My brother and parents are religious but I have been an atheist my entire life. My wife was religious but as she became more educated she is more agnostic now.
Since some of you are not from the US, and most of you from here are not from the South, you can't really understand the reach of Christianity in the area. There are at least 7 churches I know of within a 10 mile radius of my house. Probably more I am forgetting. It is strange to me to drive through a town and not see a church every two or three miles.
Edit: I should have added I live in a relatively small town as well. In one of the bigger towns you could triple that number no problem.
Oh there are no shortage of churches in England. The oldest ones are like 1500 years old so that's plenty of time to build up a collection. We have 13 churches within a mile radius of our house. Just I don't think that many people go to them.
I feel as if most Christians in the UK are very Christian-light at least compared to the US.
Like you’ll almost never be asked if you go to church, or what church you attend, and religion just doesn’t factor into many conversations.
It took me two decades for me to discover my bff was Christian. I kind of assumed she wasn’t as she never mentioned church and her family didn’t have the same prudish hangups my family did. I only really found out when she got married.
Other things that aren’t common, even amongst the most devout Christians in the UK, include crucifixes on walls or bible verses as decor or Christian bumper stickers on cars.
Me being the one non-Christian in the family means when I visit for 0Christmas, I get to make sure breakfast doesn't burn in the oven while everyone else is at Mass. Which means no one has to wait additional time afterwards to eat, and more importantly, I get first dibs.
I went to church as a kid just long enough to get communion and confirmation so I could continue going to the Catholic school board, which both had a knack for not constantly overspending and being in debt compared to the public one, and had burn courses in religion that boosted my average nicely
It did have an actually useful mandatory class on World Religions in Grade 11, which I actually quite enjoyed anyway
Though compared to the US equivalents it sounds like it was much more sensible in teaching us actual sex ed, e.g. yeah sure abstinence is 100 percent effective whatever but ALSO y'all heard about condoms?? Here's how to use them and the effectiveness rates of all currently available birth control methods!
Me being the one non-Christian in the family means when I visit for 0Christmas, I get to make sure breakfast doesn't burn in the oven while everyone else is at Mass. Which means no one has to wait additional time afterwards to eat, and more importantly, I get first dibs.
Who's having a blessed day now????
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Honestly the minute I turned 21 my lower dating boundary became 21 and I've never regretted that move once
heck at age 24/5 even dating 21/22 year olds feels weird as hell because that gap between college undergrad and the "real world", which happens at 22-23ish for most people, is a heck of a thing and most people at that stage have just not emotionally been what I'm looking for
I am very nearly 10 years older than my partner and when I think about it mathematically it bothers me a tiny bit
but spending time with her is a breeze and we click perfectly so I guess we’re old enough that it doesn’t matter.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
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when I was 19 I was 'dating' a 24 year old
it got reaaallllll awkward since I was living at home and commuting to school
and she had already graduated, purchased a condo with a roommate, and had no intention of letting anyone know we were "together"
so she'd have me up for a weekend, but only after her roommate (who worked nights at a bar) had gone out or was already asleep
so I could come over, but only after like 10:00 pm, and then I'd be kicked out in the morning at around 6:00 am
we'd watch movies, cook dinner, do a sex, and like... pretend things were normal for a while, and that was nice
but for all that it was exciting to be with someone who was way more established and mature than I was, it kinda sucked being somebody's embarassing secret
it probably contributed to this nagging fear that I wasn't actually worth loving that dogged me for most of my 20s
There were a couple of people in one of my parenting groups who were married at 18 and had 4 kids by 23-24 and I wonder how they’ll feel in their 30s
Going back to the church discussion - this kind of thing is rife within the evangelical circles I’ve been part of, to the point where it’s actually disturbing.
The concept of a proper family needing to have a “quiverfull” of kids in order to be considered complete, combined with the already messed up attitude towards sex education and support, results in so many young and uninformed marriages jumping straight to making as many babies as possible as soon as possible.
I had a nice 2nd date with a nice person and I guess things happened and it had been some time but I dunno how I feel about it or my desire to date or I dunno
I’m not in a good place to date maybe
But maybe I should just go on more just to learn more about me and idk I’m under no obligations just because I go on a 3rd date
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Folks I am tired in body and soul and I know not whether relief may lie beyond the next horizon
stop copping my bit
hey you guys should watch Support the Girls
PBR? yes please!
also I'll never die
Oh god Which one do I shoot WHICH ONE DO I SHOOT
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stop copping my bit
I... oh man, I can just go and do this, can’t I
Like, I don’t have to ask permission or anything hey
I can just dump a bag of mini m&ms into a jar and mix them up and nobody is going to stop me huh
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Is this a Monty Python bit?
There's a LOT of new churches springing up in the more blue-collar Hills suburbs.
Shit Forrestfield already has like 6 different churches and there are two more planned as far as I know?
There's a strong resurgency in Christianity, at least that's how it seems to me. There were a bunch of small churches in Lynwood catering to specific nationalities when we lived there (there's the Korean evangelical Christian church, the Somali Christian church, the Filipino Catholic church, the Sudanese Orthodox Catholic church), there just feels like there's a very hard push from most major religions to kind of recruit more followers from my point of view. Even in Chidlow back when I was young there was only like two churches, and now there's four or five, and the population hasn't really grown very much at all.
One thing I had when I was a kid and I've never had again was celery sticks with peanut butter in the groove, with a toothpick "mast" and a cheddar cheese slice stuck on the toothpick.
Honestly I don't remember them being bad, the peanut butter was tasty enough that I happily ate the celery stick it was in (despite otherwise successfully avoiding celery in my life) and finishing off with the slices of cheese.
Oh there are no shortage of churches in England. The oldest ones are like 1500 years old so that's plenty of time to build up a collection. We have 13 churches within a mile radius of our house. Just I don't think that many people go to them.
Like you’ll almost never be asked if you go to church, or what church you attend, and religion just doesn’t factor into many conversations.
It took me two decades for me to discover my bff was Christian. I kind of assumed she wasn’t as she never mentioned church and her family didn’t have the same prudish hangups my family did. I only really found out when she got married.
Other things that aren’t common, even amongst the most devout Christians in the UK, include crucifixes on walls or bible verses as decor or Christian bumper stickers on cars.
It did have an actually useful mandatory class on World Religions in Grade 11, which I actually quite enjoyed anyway
Though compared to the US equivalents it sounds like it was much more sensible in teaching us actual sex ed, e.g. yeah sure abstinence is 100 percent effective whatever but ALSO y'all heard about condoms?? Here's how to use them and the effectiveness rates of all currently available birth control methods!
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it is, one of my favorites from the Contractual Obligation album:
Well that sure is mostly 19 year olds messaging me
this may be good or bad, depending on a few factors
Who's having a blessed day now????
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Worst date I ever had
Ha, I KNEW I recognised it, but I've only ever heard that album once, and it was decades ago.
Satans..... hints.....
she had no idea what she wanted
hey you guys should watch Support the Girls
PBR? yes please!
also I'll never die
When I was 21 I was dating a woman whom was 27 at the time
heck at age 24/5 even dating 21/22 year olds feels weird as hell because that gap between college undergrad and the "real world", which happens at 22-23ish for most people, is a heck of a thing and most people at that stage have just not emotionally been what I'm looking for
but spending time with her is a breeze and we click perfectly so I guess we’re old enough that it doesn’t matter.
it got reaaallllll awkward since I was living at home and commuting to school
and she had already graduated, purchased a condo with a roommate, and had no intention of letting anyone know we were "together"
so she'd have me up for a weekend, but only after her roommate (who worked nights at a bar) had gone out or was already asleep
so I could come over, but only after like 10:00 pm, and then I'd be kicked out in the morning at around 6:00 am
we'd watch movies, cook dinner, do a sex, and like... pretend things were normal for a while, and that was nice
but for all that it was exciting to be with someone who was way more established and mature than I was, it kinda sucked being somebody's embarassing secret
it probably contributed to this nagging fear that I wasn't actually worth loving that dogged me for most of my 20s
that started in october of 1st year
so technically I was 18 for most of that
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Going back to the church discussion - this kind of thing is rife within the evangelical circles I’ve been part of, to the point where it’s actually disturbing.
The concept of a proper family needing to have a “quiverfull” of kids in order to be considered complete, combined with the already messed up attitude towards sex education and support, results in so many young and uninformed marriages jumping straight to making as many babies as possible as soon as possible.
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I’m not in a good place to date maybe
But maybe I should just go on more just to learn more about me and idk I’m under no obligations just because I go on a 3rd date
This is uncanny. Stop please.
Oh god Which one do I shoot WHICH ONE DO I SHOOT
Rorshach Kringle is the one who will be subtly trying to edge his way directly in front of the gun barrel, Grey Ghost will be trying to convince you to shoot yourself.
Both?
It's a very pretty instrument that I think is more or less a North American native?
I think so.
Well anyways, my towels are fine and off the loom. I ended up making three, probably could have squeezed in four and the last one is kinda long.
But since it's cotton, they'll shrink in the washer.
So tomorrow I'm gonna cut them apart, then they go into a hot wash and a tumble dry and then, boom. Towels.
So. Excited.
My next project is to make some rainbow cotton washcloths/dishcloths from some rainbow and bright pink that my kid picked out.
Might try to play with some pick up sticks to make texture.
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in fairness I've dated 30 and 40 year olds who had no idea what they wanted
I'm not even sure I know what I want, but I know what I don't want.