Now you're just playing dirty.

Glimpses of a 'beyond'?
Or
People hallucinate when they're nearly dead.

To be clear, my point is not that anyone should take the existence of Eric as a remotely serious proposition, but rather that supporting a proposition with "can't prove it doesn't exist" is supporting it with nothing at all -- it's a bald assertion. It should be dismissed as such.

That gives license to pretty much anything.
Just replace 'God' with whatever you like.

For example, Eric, the Magical God-Eating Giant Bunny, who, whenever a god pops into existence, runs over and eats it.
There is no proof Eric doesn't exist, ipso facto, there are no gods.

The all new, 2025 MAGA: Democrat Edition.

No Vikings?

We still have the watermelons -- green on the outside, red on the inside.

It was more of a book publishing phenomenon than any sort of 'movement'. The term was coined by someone who didn't like some of the books.

"Atheism+" was a definite attempt to create a movement. Bad idea, but there was certainly effort and intent behind it, as well as evangelicalism.

American Atheists
Freedom from Religion Foundation
James Randi Educational Foundation

1. It's not just 'this dumfuck'.
2. I'd rather humanity not have to go through another span of centuries of going backwards and having to rediscover things that were known centuries earlier.

The only thing flat Earthers have to fear, is sphere itself.

- unknown, after a quote in Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inaugural U.S.A. presidential address

One wonders if, in 1930's Germany, the experts were also sitting around, stroking their chins, and pondering:

"Hmmm, they appear to be doing precisely what the lay people pointing and shouting in the streets are accusing them of doing. This will not go well."

It seems?

Thanks guys!

One of the side-effects of dumping the notion of an official state religion was the creation of a 'free market' of religions, each having to compete for customers to generate revenue to keep the lights on to sell more product and grow.
Same as any business.

My Own Private Idaho

(yeah, I had to look that up... and then the dog wanted out, the cat wanted in and I probably stopped for a snack, but, finally, there it is.)

Exactly right.

They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work.

It’s cheat codes all the way down.

I dunno, I kinda like it. It's good to know.
I lament that I don't get some notification when someone blocks or unfollows... it's like stealing little bits of joy.

We're failing.
Hard.

The FBI director whose prior career was “podcast guest with an enemies list” thinks other people are engaged in “political weaponization”

The one with River Phoenix.

I want a turn!

Where do I sign up?

You are made of atoms. We know how atoms work.
We know what happens when you die.

I'm considering it myself, just to show them what *real* incompetence looks like.

I dunno, maybe it's Polish thing.

I had heard, before the reduced requirements, that there were groups of retired LEOs considering joining up just to bumble their way through things, gum up the machine, so to speak.

Now, we can all do our part!

It's on the 'Cons' side of the eligibility questionnaire.

Oooh, horoscopes!

Front Page of the Day:

He will not be deterred.

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality

Traditionally, I believe it involves "the disgruntled, disaffected masses", torches, and pitchforks.

Apparently, most of us are still gruntled and affected.

I'm confused. You seem to be saying that as if it isn't the point of the enterprise.

Indeed.