How do I get over the grief of having a Joel Osteen block me on Twitter?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 28, 2017:

Invite all of us, we will bring lots of alcohol, and we will help you get over your grief. There may be dancing.

Why did you choose your username/avatar?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 28, 2017:

I have nothing to hide, so I just use my name. It is unusual enough to almost guarantee nobody else is using it.

What is the worst X-mas song ever? I'll go first.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 28, 2017:

Holly Jolly Christmas.

What are you doing this Christmas Eve?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 28, 2017:

I am having dinner with friends on Christmas Eve. Christmas day was a hike and a picnic.

Can you be agnostic and still think evil exists?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 28, 2017:

Evil is a social construct we impose on people. Do I believe all societies have the same standard of evil? No, I do not. Do I believe there are evil people? Yes. Do I believe in an external, malevolent force that we would call evil? No.

Well, I guess my blathering about this and that earned me a 7. Woot!

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 28, 2017:

That's a lot of blather.

Would you raise your children religious just to fit in?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 27, 2017:

Hell no! (or will I get in trouble saying "hell" here?)

Do people actually find a soulmate or is that fake?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 27, 2017:

I had a soulmate for more than 20 years, but cancer took her 10 years ago. I love to think I will find another, but I'm not very hopeful.

So do atheists eat Chinese on Christmas day?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 25, 2017:

I did when I was so busy I forgot what day it was until it was too late to buy food for the next day. I like Chinese, so it was ok.

I'm an Atheist, but being here alone tonight, my loved ones dead or very far away really sucks.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 25, 2017:

This time of year has been hard for me ever since my wife died. This is especially true since the anniversary of her death starts the holiday season, and to me, the holidays have always been about spending time with the people close to you. The traditional forced jolliness does not help a bit.

What is your response when people threaten you with religious punishments? (i.e. Hell/Jahannam)

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 24, 2017:

Either laugh or shrug.

My dads entire life he was an Atheist.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 23, 2017:

I wold also be angry. She went against your father's wishes. Just be glad she is no longer part of your life.

Has anyone encountered scammers on this site?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 23, 2017:

Not yet, but I'm sure I eventually will.

Where have the nice Atheists & Agnostics gone during the Trump times?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 23, 2017:

We stopped being nice.

Yesterday, while helping my great-nephew (aged 9) with homework, I ran across a "10 Commandments" ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 22, 2017:

I don't live in the same part of the country as niece / nephews so this has never been an issue.

Rapture by 2018?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 22, 2017:

The world will end before the end of January? Time to run up some immense debts. Buy sports cars in sets.

How to explain the Adam and Eve story?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 22, 2017:

I feel no need to explain the Adam and Eve story.

Anybody here raised as an Atheist!

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 21, 2017:

My dad was an atheist, my mom was not. I went a few years to Catholic school before we moved to a small town where that wasn't possible. When I started thinking about it, I realized I didn't believe any of that stuff. Knowing that my dad didn't believe any of it either made it easier to accept.

Is ignorance bliss?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 20, 2017:

In the words of my favorite sage, here is proof that ignorance is indeed bliss: http://savvyandsage.blogspot.com/2011/05/calvin-and-hobbes-ignorance-is-bliss.html

About three weeks before I got fired on November 22, 2016, the man I now presume to be the head ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 20, 2017:

Obviously not a Christian, no matter what he calls himself.

Conservatives Worry Feminists Are Using Witchcraft To Destroy Trump

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 20, 2017:

But it's true.

If religion wasn't here, what would atheists bitch about?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I don't bitch much about religion. I am much more likely to complain about the weather.

Any booklovers on this group? What authors/genres/topics do you like reading?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 18, 2017:

I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, heavy Sci-Fi. Read a lot of other books also.

For atheists - what makes you believe no deity exists?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 17, 2017:

There is no proof for the existence of god and the whole concept is silly.

Is there such a thing as an athiest jew?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 17, 2017:

I went to a talk given by somebody identifying as an atheist Jew. He explained that being Jewish is a culture and is separate from just being a religious choice.

Do you get angry, annoyed or just plain amused when people think you are the devil for your lack of ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 17, 2017:

My friends don't care (or don't tell me) and the rest don't matter.

What’s your thoughts on people’s claims of seeing Heaven & Hell?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 12, 2017:

I don't believe them. I don't concern myself with figuring out their motivation. They aren't worth it.

Where are all the good, tolerant, creative, funny, open-minded and available men?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 11, 2017:

I have to be good too? crap!

An unofficial question: if Agnostic.com had a mascot who or what should it be?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 11, 2017:

A hedgehog, just because they are so darn cute. Can't be a penguin, Linux has that sewed up.

Do Americans generally understand Islam?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 8, 2017:

But I'm not surprised, considering how few Americans understand Christianity.

My stepmother told me that a white pastor to his majority white congregation that Jesus wasn’t ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 8, 2017:

Ha!

Holiday blues

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 8, 2017:

I get depressed for many reasons this time of year. All of the forced jolliness and stupid Christmas music is very annoying.

Rapture in 5 years?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 8, 2017:

I bet it doesn't happen.

What do you like to do to relieve stress?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 8, 2017:

I like hiking in the desert with my camera.

I used to have the cutest, most adorable birthday suit.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 7, 2017:

And ironing does not help.

Facial hair: What do you think of it? Do you have it? Like it?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 6, 2017:

I like having a beard, I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm hiding. So, yes, as you can see from my pictures, I have a beard. I have had one continuously for over 30 years, so I think it is permanent.

Do you believe in love.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 6, 2017:

Yes I do, and I want to experience it again someday.

Is there anyone else who hates the Christmas Season?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 5, 2017:

The only time I remember enjoying Christmas music and decorations was when I was in China. It wasn't very common and was always so unexpected and a bit bizarre. I hate Christmas music, I hate Christmas traffic. Two nights ago I spent 1-1/2 hours getting out of a mall parking lot. Some of the lights are pretty.

Do you think dreams have any real meaning?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 4, 2017:

Your dreams incorporate fragments of your thoughts and memories, so in that respect they have some relevance to you. There is evidence that animals dream, and dreaming must perform some necessary function for the brain, otherwise it would not exist. But I don't believe it has any function associated with seeing the future.

Are you an open or closet agnostic/atheist, and why?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 4, 2017:

If I am asked, I tell people. I will only voluteer that information if the other person is assuming I am a Christian and is using my lack of comments as agreeing to thier point of view. As in "We are all Christians here.". "Um, I'm not a Christian". Tends to kill a conversation pretty quickly.

If aliens landed on Earth, would that spell the end of Earth's religions?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 4, 2017:

I have found religious people are able to believe amazing things in the face of overwhelming evidence. Why should a few aliens cluttering up the place change that?

Why do I find people who believe in the bible so unattractive?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 3, 2017:

I find intelligence attractive. I am not a fan of rude behavior. Many people that believe in the bible are not very smart, others try to push religeon on me, which I find very rude. And some are both.

"The Room" Secretly a masterpiece?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 3, 2017:

I recently saw The Room as part of a run up promotion for "The Disaster Artist" and I'm still not sure about the film. If I went to see the film expecting to see a serious movie, I would have walked out. But I saw it, knowing it was bad. We were throwing footballs and spoons around while yelling back at the screen and that was kind of fun. It was amazing to watch the acting, directing, producing, and writing of Tommy Wiseau and realize he has absolutely no talent for any of those things.

I have a wicked case of Chronic Curiosity

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 3, 2017:

Fairly new. My one attempt was rebuffed, oh well. Chronically curious people are the most interesting people.

Do you believe people when they say they've seen god?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 3, 2017:

No

Who believes as i do of aliens visited earth and they were made out to be gods, only because of ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 3, 2017:

I have seen no evidence of such a thing.

Has anyone among y'all actually ever converted a believer into an agnostic/atheist?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 27, 2017:

I don't understand how to externally convert somebody, most people I know that converted, did it on their own. You should offer support and answers, if asked. Knowing that there are many people who have been through it, will make it easier.

What should I do when I get threaten with going to Hell?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 26, 2017:

Say "whatever" and walk away. You are not required to be the Jackass Whisperer.

What do you want for Christmas?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 26, 2017:

I want all the stupid holiday music to SHUT UP!

What are some of the dumbest arguments made against atheists/agnostics you have heard?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 26, 2017:

"If you don't believe in God, you believe murder is Ok" Uh, yeah, and I am just finishing my list...

Time to have churches pay tax. They want to play politics. Time to pay for playing!

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 25, 2017:

Yes, absolutely!

Quote of the day; “The best defense against Sasquatch attack is a camera.”

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 25, 2017:

True. I always have a camera in my hand, and I have never been attacked by Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, or probed by aliens. I have also never photographed Superman, but that may just be a shutter speed issue.

What are your favorite sacrilegious quotes, lyrics, movie scenes, etc.?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 25, 2017:

Faith n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

What are your favorite sacrilegious quotes, lyrics, movie scenes, etc.?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 25, 2017:

"...Gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

WOW! I keep hearing that the proof of a god is soon to be revealed.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 24, 2017:

Will the existence of God be revealed before or after the 30 day plan to exterminate ISIS?

Should an atheist study world religions or not?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 23, 2017:

If you want...or not. It's not like you will go to hell if you don't.

Best movie of 2017?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 22, 2017:

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat - The ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 22, 2017:

How hard could it be? It's not rocket science...

Do you agree that the answers to all of the questions life poses to us are either true or false?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 21, 2017:

I believe that most of the meaningful questions are more nuanced than that.

Favourite Relgion, Atheism Quotes ?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 16, 2017:

From The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce Faith n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

If you knew tomorrow was the end of the world. How would you spend your last day?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 16, 2017:

Take my camera and go for a hike in the desert. Almost anything involving other people would take too long to get organized and time would run out.

How do you react when a friend or relative dies from a disease or accident and someone says ...

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 14, 2017:

I try not to respond, but if I am force to, I say, "I don't believe that", and try to walk away.

Thank you all for being bitter, sarcastic assholes. I feel a little more at home here. :D

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 14, 2017:

Just another service we provide.

How do you respond to "It takes more faith to be an atheist"?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 13, 2017:

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

Is it possible to be agnostic atheist AND spiritual at the same time?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 10, 2017:

I can't figure out what this would be, so I'm saying "no".

would you date a trump supporter?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 9, 2017:

No.

Engage or Ignore Trump Supporters?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 7, 2017:

I don't feel the need to engage them, I am not the dumbass whisperer.

Women asking a man for a date.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 6, 2017:

My wife asked me out, we were together more than 20 years.

Have you ever been a Christian's pet project?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 6, 2017:

They just give up on me as a hopeless case.

Why don't you attend atheist events?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 6, 2017:

I attend some, but many of the events are of little interest to me or happen at inconvenient times.

When having an orgasm, theists say, "Oh God", because it's so heavenly.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 5, 2017:

Ha!

Does anything at all require the word god?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 5, 2017:

It comes in handy during an orgasm.

What does it mean when they talk about how we are living in a holographic universe or a SIM?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 3, 2017:

So, just how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Fellow agnostics, how do you feel about believers joining?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Nov 3, 2017:

I have met many people that were religious that have legitimate questions and need to feel that there is a supporting community of people that have made the same journey before them. I support and welcome those people, no matter where their journey eventually ends. Hopefully anyone coming here to troll will quickly get kicked to the curb.

Do you follow and know more about politics now than any other time in your life?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 31, 2017:

The orange guy sets my teeth on edge, so I never listen to him. I pretty much don't listen to anyone that speaks for him either.

How do you tell religious people that you're an atheist?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 28, 2017:

I usually don't bring it up until they get annoying, then I just say "I am not a Christian". This usually derails the conversation and I end up walking away.

Should Jesusween replace Halloween?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 28, 2017:

When they ring your doorbell, you crucfy them? Yeah, works for me...

Do you ever miss the religious life?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 26, 2017:

There was a time when the idea of community had an appeal, but I found a different community and don't miss it at all anymore.

Would you want a Christian God to be real?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 26, 2017:

No, of course not. What a dick!

How do you respond when people say they will pray for you?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 26, 2017:

I usually say something non-commital like "Oh", or shrug. I'm not going to change their mind. If they are a friend, I will try not to be rude. If they are rude about it, I won't respond at all.

Would you raise your children religious just to fit in?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 26, 2017:

No.

How many have been defriended on Facebook over your atheist memes and opinions?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 23, 2017:

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, but I don't care enough to pay attention to anyone that would block me over my lack of belief.

What moral code do you follow now that you are non-religious?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 17, 2017:

This question makes no sense. I don't understand what a moral code has to do with religion.

How do you deal with Door-knockers?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Oct 17, 2017:

I close the door. I figure that makes my position clear. I treat them the same way I treat cable salespeople.