Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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ananda and bareclaws, so very accurate. It's great to see communities coming to together to help each other.
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Mr. Osteen, you will INDEED have your day of reckoning with the Lord, my dude.
And millions of decent, generous Christians are shaking their heads in dismay and shame all across the country.
Yes, this is how we demonstrate "the Love of Christ."
Thanks a lot, pal.
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Ugh. So insensitive:
Joel Osteen Tells Harvey Survivors Not To Have A 'Victim Mentality'
"We're not going to understand everything that happens, but having a 'poor old me' mentality or 'look what I lost' or 'why did this happen,' you know that's just going to pull you down," he said in his first sermon at his Lakewood Church since the storm.
Instead, he urged his followers to "turn it over" to God.
"God won't allow it unless he has a purpose for it," he said. "We may not see it at the time, but that's what faith is all about."
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What is gods purpose for chiggers and ticks and mosquitos?
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Food for bigger critters?
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what is God's purpose for me?
I have just been Dx'd with 20 PLUS brain mets. And two of them are over 1 inch and 2 inches.
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YIKES!! That is definitely not good news. Do they have a plan?
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Crap that its a holiday wkend. Will try to get referral to onco neurologist after holiday.
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Lita, this is why I am an atheist.
I know you believe, and it must be so hard to understand why God would let you suffer like this. If there is a God, then he damn well better beg for your forgiveness.
That was probably inappropriate, but I'm just so angry that you are going through this.
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Thanks Freya. i'm pretty pissed too. Fell and broke glasses 2day. Not good. Face IS messed up too.
Is my life slipping away?
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Lita57, Ack! This is a link to the clinical trials posted on PubMed. https://clinicaltrials.gov/
I hope there is something for you.
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Not slipping away if you can laugh about weeding in your garden, falling on your face and needing to get help to get up. It could have been much worse, what if they'd had to call the fireman and all your neighbors came out to see what was happening?
I'm sure you've heard the Yiddish saying, "man plans, God laughs".
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Yep, sure have!
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Freya...great poster!
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Lol, so true. I just stole that pic Freya
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Leta57, Did you get your referral?
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Lifelong atheist here living in deeply religious part of USA.
However, I do not get upset when people, including those who are aware I am atheist, say that they will pray for me. It is only natural that a believer in deities would turn to their deities for comfort. Thus, I consider prayers to usually be a religious person's expression of sympathy, empathy and compassion for a fellow human being.
When I recently expressed the possibility of stopping treatment due to health issue possibly more serious than my cancer, hospital nurse asked me what I thought happened when we die. Stated that we decompose. She pressed on with the interrogation and pronounced sadness that I did not have a belief in her god. She asked me what if was wrong. I borrowed Richard Dawkins's counter point, "What if you are wrong?" It does get old when people like her persist and deem you as morally inferior for not sharing their religious beliefs.
Oops, just saw this thread is years old.
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Ananda, I got my referral and am now undergoing FULL BRAIN radiation Tx's.
Trying to stay strong and not freak out over neurological deficits and dysfunction that the whole brain rads will cause.
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When the worry starts to get the best of you
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Good advice, Ananda!
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I say we put one in every church
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The meme about the robot enforcing biblical laws is meant to be scary but it assumes that Christians have read the bible. Of course that is not the case or there would be a lot more atheists.
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Absolutely agree Ananda. I've read it 3 times, if you are going to discuss/dismiss something you should know what you are talking about. It is funny how often those that should know, don't believe you when you tell them unicorns are mentioned numerous times in the bible for example.
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There is also the thing of which "Bible" are we talking about. What goes in the King James version includes writings by certain ancient writers, but not others. What about the apocrypha?
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KB 870, thanks for the laugh!
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KB...oh, these are WONDERFUL!!!
They made my morning!
Hugs,
L
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During one of the first pride parades here, they passed out pamphlets. The cover said "What Jesus Said About Homosexuality" - the inside was blank.
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