01-02-2010, 01:15 PM
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Tongue biting.
Anyone constantly having to bite their tongue and hide their atheist selves in a social setting? I personally wear my atheism with pride, ( if this can be done), but as we all come from different parts of the globe I am sure many have to keep quiet, maybe even pretend to tow the line, for the sake of safety. Do you think there are enough groups, social settings, events for those of a skeptical nature to meet others like minded?
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01-02-2010, 01:49 PM
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I work with fundamentalist Southern Baptists, Pentecostal holiness, a Mormon, a born again type, all Republican social conservatives ( I know they can't be fiscal conservatives cause I've seen their checks)
I am constantly "biting my tongue", although except for the born againer, they really never get all preachy
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01-02-2010, 01:53 PM
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How is preaching atheism at the Luton Kashmiris from the safety of your tat stall working for you ilj?
thank goodness he's on our side
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01-02-2010, 02:31 PM
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How is preaching atheism at the Luton Kashmiris from the safety of your tat stall working for you ilj?
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Actually that isn't such a bad question. I have had many discussions with muslims ( at casinos mostly lol) and most of the time they get stumped pretty quickly and change the subject onto something a little less intellectual. Ok these guys are not your extremist sympathisers, but I take pride that I am known to be atheist and as of yet have seen nothing but stumped verbal attacks and astonishment that logic prevails better outside of the Quorn.
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01-02-2010, 02:59 PM
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I don't get much trouble from it- apart from the odd comment from people on facebook when I post something lol- at work I do have to bite my tongue witht he patients cos its a nono as much as preaching religion and any politics is with mentally ill children- but I do have difficulty when I get an extremely religous family who want me to 'fix' their kid and they fail to recognise that their religion is what is breaking the kid- I have to be a bit more diplomatic than I am on here in those situations
“'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." Fry
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01-02-2010, 03:03 PM
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Not really. I currently work at a CofE girls boarding school though, where I do bite my tongue a little, but I rarely have need to. Everywhere else, I'm as open about it as I feel like being.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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Charles Darwin.
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01-02-2010, 03:09 PM
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ILOVEJESUS wrote
Anyone constantly having to bite their tongue and hide their atheist selves in a social setting? I personally wear my atheism with pride, ( if this can be done), but as we all come from different parts of the globe I am sure many have to keep quiet, maybe even pretend to tow the line, for the sake of safety. Do you think there are enough groups, social settings, events for those of a skeptical nature to meet others like minded?
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When people see you lying in a pool of your own urine and fecal matter, with scabby sores all over your face and no pants on they probably don't immediately wonder if you are an atheist or not, they are more like to wonder "why is that filthy tramp masturbating in public?"
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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01-02-2010, 03:11 PM
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As I just said in another thread, I have two very christian patients who like for me to read their prayer books to them and pray with them at night. I do these things not out of fear of losing my job, but because I am there to take care of them and I feel that comforting them with all of that bullshit is just good business and manners. I do draw the line at taking them to church. I have been known to say things like, well, she is with so and so now" to a family member when one of my patients has died. I learned that when I was a funeral director. It is just a way to make a grieving person feel better about the loss. I even whispered in my mother's ear as she was dying to go be with her brother (you know...in heaven). She was having a hard time giving up the ghost and that was all I could think of to say at the moment. Anyway!
I have no problem telling my patients and their families that I am Atheist. Maybe not during the interview, but eventually. None have minded as I ROCK at what I do! They don't mind all of my tattoos either.
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01-02-2010, 03:13 PM
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are there any other idioms that mean 'bite your tongue' or 'hold your tongue'? Something wacky and British sounding, like 'cap one's merkin' or 'oil the microscope'...?
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01-02-2010, 03:15 PM
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shut yer gob
(it doesn't really mean "bite your tongue", I am just very rude)
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
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01-02-2010, 03:19 PM
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Quote:
psychodiva wrote
I don't get much trouble from it- apart from the odd comment from people on facebook when I post something lol- at work I do have to bite my tongue witht he patients cos its a nono as much as preaching religion and any politics is with mentally ill children- but I do have difficulty when I get an extremely religous family who want me to 'fix' their kid and they fail to recognise that their religion is what is breaking the kid- I have to be a bit more diplomatic than I am on here in those situations
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95% of my facebook friends (former classmates) are very conservative...very christian folks. I babble daily about my dislike for christians and no one has dropped me yet. I recently got into a 3 day long fight with a few people for making a very negative comment regarding trusting god.
One of our classmates was killed 2 days before xmas by a drunk driver. Some dumb ass posted (in response to this woman's death) on a fellow Atheist's wall some crap about trusting god and he will lead you. I said, "yes...into the path of a drunk driver". I totally enjoyed the arguments that followed.
I do bite my tongue regarding religion, but only when my job and my daughter are concerned.
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01-02-2010, 03:25 PM
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Why with your daughter, if I may ask? My girls are quite good at the atheistic life and I doubt they would have forgiven me if I had kept my mouth shut when their father tried to bring teh jeebus into their lives.
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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01-02-2010, 03:25 PM
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ILOVEJESUS wrote
Actually that isn't such a bad question. I have had many discussions with muslims ( at casinos mostly lol) and most of the time they get stumped pretty quickly and change the subject onto something a little less intellectual. Ok these guys are not your extremist sympathisers, but I take pride that I am known to be atheist and as of yet have seen nothing but stumped verbal attacks and astonishment that logic prevails better outside of the Quorn.
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If it's anything like your logic on here they should be paying you for reinforcing their faith.
thank goodness he's on our side
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01-02-2010, 03:51 PM
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Quote:
Kate wrote
Why with your daughter, if I may ask? My girls are quite good at the atheistic life and I doubt they would have forgiven me if I had kept my mouth shut when their father tried to bring teh jeebus into their lives.
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For instance, recently her science teacher was preaching in class about crationism. Talking about how evolution is bunk. I was enraged and she asked me not to say anything to him or the school. I understand her wanting to keep the peace. I kept my mouth shut. She has no problem with me being an Atheist and she is definitely leaning in that direction. She also knows how I can get when I get on a rant and she didn't want it to come back on her in class.
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01-02-2010, 03:52 PM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
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Oh! I see. Not to her, just where it would cause her ass-pain. Got it!
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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