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I could imagine Rimmer making that speech.
See I have no idea what you are saying at least I understand Astrology. ;)
We all tend to be braver and more outspoken behind a keyboard than we would be face to face.
Someone on here (apologies for forgetting who) has made many anti religion speeches, but then told a story of being faced with a God fearing lady in a church recently and he was much more polite and apologetic in his stance as a non believer.
As would I be, and everyone else come to that.
Anonymity makes us brave. Just as being in a high speed metal box gives us the balls to wave our fists and shout at other people, which we would likely not do in the streets.
I find astrology tedious and have never, ever read my 'stars'. I'm not even 100% sure of my star sign. But, I will defend anyone's right to believe in it if they so desire.
Howdy there. That situation was less a case of me only being "brave" enough to speak out behind a keyboard, but more a case of me being at a funeral in a church that was about the least suitable location you could imagine for an atheist vs. theist debate; to act outspoken would be to rudely crash a ceremony for a dead woman I'd known. In the comfort of that "God fearing" woman's home, or another less public area I'd have been happy to take the discussion further, but a woman was dead and it all seemed in bad taste to say anything beyond identify myself as a non-believer, as one could imagine.
Yes, that's fair enough. One has to be tactful at funerals.
Ahaa, it was you Brady. You make the point I was trying to make (badly). We are less inclined to be boarish and confrontational in the real world where the circumstances can dictate our actions.
It doesn't alter my point that we are braver behind keyboards, although that wasn't aimed at you Brady, anymore than it was aimed at myself.
No problem, Nackers. I also know the religious woman (I grew up with her daughter and by association have known her for most of my life), so to back up your point I was more willing to be lenient with her and drop the conversation than I probably would be with a stranger I didn't know. But more than that, it just wasn't the time for it and my anger with religion isn't with small town believers, but more the institutional nature of it.
The woman asked me flat out what I believed, and I think my honesty put the ghost in her as she was beyond shocked to learn of my atheist (not sure why?) and promised that she'd make me change my mind about what I believed (I laughed this off and walked away, as I know where these things go). It's since been three weeks since I outed myself to her as a heathen and she's yet to send any Jesus pamphlets to my doorstep or buckets of miracle water, so I must say I'm disappointed. Jehova's Witnesses don't slack like that.
Who has time to inspect a pizza? I can't look at one for a second without taking to shoving it down my pie hole.
That's because you don't know how to read it.
According to the Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense:
Ah, I see. Well, I stare at the glistening pepperoni slices on the pizza as they come to my mouth and they always scream, "EAT ME! EAT ME!" so I think I'm fairly fluent in this pizzalogy business.
Sean Connery and George Lazenby-Virgo
Roger Moore-Libra
Timothy Dalton-Aries
Pierce Brosnan-Taurus
Daniel Craig-Pisces
Dalton shares his with Fleming s Bond. Date of first publication, that is.
I'm with Sir Roger as I was born on the same date, 14 October.
He's a Libra too, then. Small world.
Nothing keeps the proverbial balance in life quite like state-sanctioned assassinations on political rivals and whistle-blowers. Putin truly lives a Libra lifestyle!
I'm a Law graduate so maybe Libra was right on that? The scales of justice etc.
You wouldn't happen to be a Scorpio, would you? ;)
BS.