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Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

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  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited August 2021

    Wren44, that's so encouraging!

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    edited August 2021

    Alice you are heading for hell! LOL

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,783
    edited August 2021

    If only Jehovah's (according to my sanctimonious brother) go to heaven, then Alice, hell is where you want to be. You'll have lots of good company.

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    edited August 2021

    I heard a fun joke the other day. God was going to sue the devil. The devil said good luck finding a lawyer in heaven. If there are any lawyers on this post...sorry.

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited August 2021

    Oh, all the best and most interesting people will be in the Netherworld. Or the Netherlands. Or Nether-Netherland. Chocolate, tulips, Peter Pan, and weed for everyone in the hereafter!

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited August 2021

    Oh, and lovely Edam and Gouda in the Netherworldlands!

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  • everymoment
    everymoment Member Posts: 6,656
    edited August 2021

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  • trishyla
    trishyla Member Posts: 698
    edited August 2021

    Took me a minute, Alice, but that's hilarious. I live around the corner from a Jehovah's witness church. They used to come around constantly when I first moved here, a gaggle of Hispanic ladies in their dresses and hats. They stopped coming to my house after a while. I think the word got back to them to not annoy the crazy lady with purple hair.

  • everymoment
    everymoment Member Posts: 6,656
    edited August 2021

    Trish...the world needs more "crazy lady with purple hair."

  • elderberry
    elderberry Member Posts: 1,068
    edited August 2021

    Alice: I laughed out loud with the mice!!! We once lived in a house close to a Kingdom Hall. They never bothered us. It seemed for them like a good plan not to bother their neighbours. At another time , another house, we had the President of the local Hells Angels chapter living next door. He was a really good neighbour. Give me a burly guy with a big bike any time over someone with a case brimming with copies of The Watchtower.

  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,747
    edited August 2021

    Trishyla, when the Bible beaters come around my house I say “I’m not buying anything, thank you”, they say “oh, we’re not selling anything” and I reply “aren’t you though?”. They understand immediately and walk away, no rebuttal, just silence.

  • elderberry
    elderberry Member Posts: 1,068
    edited August 2021

    Way back when when I was living in a tiny apartment at the top of an old house (not the place close to the Kingdom Hall) I decided the living room needed a lick of paint. I put on a head scarf to protect my hair from drips when I was doing the ceiling. There was a knock on the door so I went down to see who it was. There was the bulging case of Watch Towers. I decided to not even give her an opening so I said "I am sorry, but I am Muslim". I am not but I thought maybe that statement and my scarf might do it. She replied "Oh my - I have never met one of God's Little Brown Children" WTF. Brown? Children? Beside the condescending tone, I am Irish/Scottish/French. I have a black friend who once said "You are so white, you'd glow in the moonlight" I just replied "I am closing the door now" and shut it in her face.


  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited August 2021

    Elderberry, When my husband was Very Catholic instead of his current Sorta Catholic, he belonged to the St. Vincent de Paul thingy. Mostly all they did, in the barely-working class neighborhood where we lived at the time, was deliver food boxes to anyone who needed them, no questions asked about religious affiliation, no preaching. It was one of the few churchy things that particular parish, at least, got right. One of the members looked like such a Hell's Angels type - long hair, beard (much rarer in the 80s), burly bod with tattoos, the whole look. But he was actually very sweet. Since there was quite a bit of street crime in that neighborhood, Biker Bod Guy was VERY popular and in high demand as a food distribution partner of the geekier looking members. One advantage of bad neighborhoods - not many squeaky clean JWs annoying the residents!

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
    edited August 2021

    The JWs knocked on my door. I opened, told them I was a witch. They couldn’t scramble away fast enough. Haven’t been back either.

  • miriandra
    miriandra Member Posts: 2,240
    edited August 2021

    What happened when the man didn't pay for his exorcism?

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    He got repossessed.

    Why didn't he pay?

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    He thought it was just a demon-stration.

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
    edited August 2021

    🤣🤣

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited August 2021

    😅😅😅😅😅

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited September 2021

    Oh, for shit's sake. Somebody just posted this in the Covid rant. I'm assuming she's not joking. AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!

    "I'm against the COVID vaccine because I think it's the sign of the beast."

  • melbo
    melbo Member Posts: 266
    edited September 2021

    right?!??!??!? I’m waiting for that board to explode.

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited September 2021

    Melbo, it was SO tempting to respond to her with 😈👹😈👺😈👺😈👹😈 "I see your beastie and raise it, usually during a full moon!"

  • melbo
    melbo Member Posts: 266
    edited September 2021

    on the plus side, it should be pretty clear to all of us in that board that there is no arguing with someone like that. If they have gone that far off the deep end then it’s not even worth engaging.

  • spookiesmom
    spookiesmom Member Posts: 8,178
    edited September 2021

    I gave up on that thread. You can’t argue with stupid but you can fix it with a 2x4.

  • alicebastable
    alicebastable Member Posts: 1,962
    edited September 2021

    Now that The Mod Squad has said they'll remove posts that go against facts as presented by the CDC and WHO, I expect to hear some screams of censorship from the usual suspects.


  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,783
    edited September 2021

    Spookiesmom: I read but do not post on that thread either. I agree with your solution and am so tired of the convoluted, meaningless rants of some posters. One poster months ago spent days posting about a healthcare scare, using losts of projection and convoluted analogies because they were afraid of another cancer and dying, yet claims not to be antivax, but anti-mandates, loss of liberty, etc. Makes me want to scream but not to waste my breath.

    Agree, Alice.

  • trishyla
    trishyla Member Posts: 698
    edited September 2021

    With you 100%, Betrayal. I hate drama queens of either gender. So tiresome. And I say that as someone who has made my living writing dramas for tv. 😏

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0
    edited September 2021

    I gave up on that thread too. Tired of people fighting. Arguing won't change anyone's mind.

  • illimae
    illimae Member Posts: 5,747
    edited September 2021

    I guess I missed the mark of the beast comment, lol

    Melbo, I love the Frenchie profile pic, they’re the best.


  • elderberry
    elderberry Member Posts: 1,068
    edited September 2021

    "Sign of the Beast" ???? My eyebrows went up. I am not sure if it is as joke or not. We are living in a totally insane place right now. The Earth is flat. The sun revolves around it. Heaven is in the sky. (somewhere beyond the ever expanding universe I presume)

    I am glad the Covid ranting moved to its own thread. I began to feel like we were all pissing into the wind. Pardon the language.

  • tb90
    tb90 Member Posts: 299
    edited September 2021

    You are copying the thread here.

  • betrayal
    betrayal Member Posts: 3,783
    edited September 2021

    Perhaps we are but we are being more civilized and with less drama. I think some of us needed to decompress from all that wasted rhetoric.