Watch out. It's fattening

@Remiforce

Oh yes. I workout maniacally, just so I can feed on it like a rabid dog.

Queen

@darthfaja

Queen of chocolate.

@Athena Good for you. I found a 95% dark chocolate with very little sugar. It does have saturated fat, though, so I have to be careful. I understand dark chocolate lowers blood pressure

@Remiforce

Dark chocolate is delicious too. I like the Lindt dark with chili peppers and the roasted almond and sea salt. They're both under 50% cocoa though.
What most don't know is that the higher the cocoa %, the higher the saturated fat. Milk chocolate is much higher in sugar but low in saturated fat.

All the new research states that we have been vilifying saturated fat, unjustifiably, while sugar is the culprit for obesity and spikes in cholesterol.

The key is to eliminate sugar and starches on days you want to eat high fat. Eggs, meat, butter, bacon etc aren't as "fattening" unless you eat high glycemic foods. There's a very reasonable science that goes with this and many training athletes are eating 70% fat in their diets (ketogenic diet) and getting extremely lean.

I'm not recommending this diet for you!... I tried it for 6 months for my own research and had to force feed myself so I wouldn't lose weight. The diet is not for everyone but has been known to cure seizures in epileptic patients and some other seizure related illnesses or afflictions.

More info than you were looking for but fyi anyway.

Oh dear,. I tread lightly. No I don't. F. It.

KKGator, I look forward to your comments, but I disagree with you on this one. I can sort of agree on the state of being thing. Atheism is a lack of a belief. I hate that I am called something simply because I don't believe in something.

If atheism isn't a movement, shouldn't it be? Let's face it. The biggest supporters of the orange turd are brainwashed Christians. Brainwashing Christians wins support for a ton of corporate crap. This includes warfare and destroying the environment.

Atheism has a negative stigmatism. Getting rid of that stigmatism might like improve things in the long run. Let us atheists stand tall and make a movement somewhere besides over a toilet.

@Heathenman Knock yourself out. If you want to start a movement, start one.
If you want to brand said movement, brand it.

@Heathenman That's right. As long as people who agree with us behave like a group of herdless cats, we will be political neuters & the dumb-dumbs will lord it over us

To my mind, a Humanist may be an Atheist, but they may also be an Agnostic, a Skeptic, a Freethinker, or simply a Humanist. I believe the other terms are based largely on oppositional values, but Humanist expresses positive values.

Are you trying to resist by any chance - without evaluating?

Yup.

But IRL, if we don't have a voice, we are voiceless

@Remiforce i have a voice. look, you're reading it now. i don't need to proselytize about nonreligion. that is not how i choose to use my voice. i'd rather work on separation of church and state, which presupposes the existence of "church." it's like... i'm a blonde and blondes need a voice! yeah, but not necessarily about being blonde. let others be brunette if they want. until and until they chase me around with the clairol, i don't have a dog in that race and i am not wearing any placards.

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I agree. "god" has no clear definition, or rather definitions all over the place, so the question of whether he,she,it exists becomes irrelevant. If you cannot define it, you cannot determine existence or non existence. Of course you can't definitely prove something doesn't exist--Russell's teapot

Tell it to the nonbelievers losing their jobs by Christian bosses. Atheists have the fewest rights of any minority group.

@808Girl Religion, or lack thereof, is a protected classification in the United States. Employers have been successfully sued for discrimination against atheists, a violation of the 1st Amendment. Were you aware of that?

@Shawno1972 Yes, but it's a difficult thing to prove. Bosses could say it's due to other factors. The federal government recently OK'd rules to allow religious federal contractors to discriminate. Were you aware of that? [regulations.gov]

Take a look at the Hobby Lobby case, which allowed an employer to deny contraception to his employees on a religious basis. Businesses don't have religions, but business owners have, & their businesses are considered to be "persons" who can discriminate based on religious views.

Or take the baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding on religious grounds, even though his bakery was a place of public accomodation. This was like denying blacks the right to sit at the lunch counter based on race, but the Extreme Court decided with the baker.

Atheists & other non believers are an oppressed minority. We must fight for our Civil Rights & refuse to accept the status of second hand citizens

@808Girl: That's not actually what that regulation is designed to do, nor will it be the effective outcome.

@Remiforce: Your infamous examples are a little more disturbing, but they're not even remotely apropos to the discussion. Whatever the case, your assertion that we atheists are oppressed second-class citizens would be terrific standup comedy were it not for the fact you expect me to take it seriously. I'm not really into the paranoia thing, thank you.

@Shawno1972 Of course the new regulations allow the religious to discriminate against those who don't share the same views. They're taking their tips from the Hobby Lobby case. Did you even read the new Dept. of Labor regulations?

@808Girl Of course I did. It's an anti-discrimination regulation clarification, not a discrimination regulation clarification. You've attempted here to flip-flop the meaning of the whole thing, for goodness sake.

@Shawno1972 It allows discrimination by the religious (read Christians) to discriminate against those who don't believe as they do, based on their personal belief systems. There are 108K+ comments. Try reading a handful of them if you don't feel like reading the legalese of the regs. It's Hobby Lobby all over again but specifically applies to federal contractors.

That works will with me, I must say!