What flavor of atheist are you?

[Book Lover]

Poll question: What flavor of atheist are you?

What with the discussions going on in GD today, I was wondering how my fellows here in this group think about this thing we call nonbelief. Do you feel you are a/an...

(Comments welcome. I'm open to changing poll options up until I can't any longer)

[Modem Butterfly]

1. I'm more of a dark chocolate with a caramel and cookie center

Soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside.

[Book Lover]

2. Hey, that's clearly covered

under "Other" :-)

[Beetwasher]

3. Hmm, I Suggest Modem Butterfly and Beam Me Up Scotty

Lick me all over and then they can tell you what flavor I am!

How about it ladies? :evilgrin:

[Modem Butterfly]

4. I don't know about that...

But if you asked, I'll bet Bryant69 would bite you!

[beam me up scottie]

6. Two questions:

Are you a vegetarian?

[Beetwasher]

8. And The Other Question?

n/t

[beam me up scottie]

12. Do you have an ex-wife

who owns an axe?

[Beetwasher]

14. ROFL!!!

No X-wife and I'm not a veggie...

When can the licking commence?

[beam me up scottie]

16. I've got to do laundry and

then I'll be right over!
:P

[Modem Butterfly]

19. Oh how many times I've awoke to that ever so romantic phrase...

When can the licking commence?

:evilgrin:

[beam me up scottie]

21. ROFL!

Men are such romantics, aren't they?

[Beetwasher]

26. Then You're A Lucky (Licky?) Woman!

:thumbsup:

[beam me up scottie]

5. Did you get permission to define

us from the other side?
We wouldn't want to confuse anyone...

[trotsky]

7. LMAO!

Yeah, maybe we should ask the kind folks in R&T what we are. They are generally more than willing to let us know, and correct us when the need arises.

[beam me up scottie]

17. Um...

And where were YOU?

[Gelliebeans]

20. I have to agree with you trotsky

the peeps over there seem to better handle on defining us than we do, if you don't believe it, just ask em cause they are waiting to tell us ;)

[Book Lover]

18. Darn it!

I knew I forgot something. I'm off to R&T to beg permission to talk to my fellows....

[Beetwasher]

9. Just Checked Your Profile And Noticed That

You're female. You can also lick me all over to find out what flavor I am. I didn't want you to feel left out. :evilgrin:

[Modem Butterfly]

10. You're such a dog!

A pure-bred American horn dog, that is!

;)

[Beetwasher]

11. Guilty!

But I'm an equal opportunity, all inclusive horn dog! There's enough of me for everyone! ;-)

[Book Lover]

13. Well, Miss Manners dictates that I thank you for your kind offer

Though I'm sure my dearest husband would have something severe to say about that :-) Um, can we race our cars instead?

[Beetwasher]

15. Vrooooom!!!

Ok, you'll just have to ask BMUS what flavor I am.

[Gelliebeans]

22. gelliebean flavor n/t

I am leaning toward buttered popcorn :popcorn:

[Taxloss]

23. Pure atheist.

We live in a mechanistic and materialistic universe. The laws of thermodynamics have more relevance than the Ten Commandments. There's a space in science for God, but if there's a God in the space it's cold, distant, and probably has no conception of our exitence. There certainly aren't any angels sitting on clouds.

[NMMNG]

24. Regular old atheist

I simply don't believe in any gods...I don't care to try to disprove their existence.

[goddess40]

25. non - apologetic atheist

I have been forced all my life to be respectful of their before meal prayers, invocations and feeling while they refuse to respect my beliefs as legitimate. To them we are a bunch of loser heathens who are going to hell.


I had so looked forward to going to the state convention and turning my back during the invocation this year but because of family health problems I can't go - that's $150 in hotel fees gone.

[immoderate]

27. God is a silly idea.

Never bought it.

--IMM

[fshrink]

28. No god no master.

[PassingFair]

29. My favorite rhetorical trick:

Ask ANY believer to define God....
then ask why they believe in it....
(most will attempt to describe a non-gender, non-specific, nonthing....)

[beam me up scottie]

30. And then insist we have a belief system

or a religion based on actively not believing in said non-thing.
:evilgrin:
My head hurts again...

[PassingFair]

31. Relax Scottie!

It's THEIR heads that are meant to implode!
:evilgrin:

[beam me up scottie]

32. ROFLMFAO !!!

That must be what those funny sounds I kept hearing the other day were...

:rofl:

[luzdeluna]

33. other

I believe everything is just floopy

ldl

[southpaw]

34. Granola

[enlightenment]

35. Agnostic

I'm a fence sitter on just about every issue (except politics. I used to be, back when I felt like I could -- but no more). I believe, for myself, that fence sitting allows me a certain measure of distance from most topics.

I would debate, however, if agnosticism is a "flavor" of atheism. Seems to me that atheists are definitely off the fence.

Not a problem for me; just an interesting exercise in semantics.

on edit: can't spell

[Book Lover]

36. Good point

I'd change the title phrase were I able to at this point to something more generic. Perhaps atheism is a "flavor" of agnosticism? Or perhaps it is better described as a continuum of dis/belief...

[enlightenment]

37. I like the idea of a continuum,

(fits right into my sensibilities, after all!)

Not long ago I was reading about a new methodology of "categorizing" sexuality/gender -- the idea was that a simple continuum was too limiting to accommodate the varieties of feelings on the issue, so the researcher came up with a multi-dimensional grid (kind of reminded me of that three-dimensional chess game).

I think the issue of faith, belief/non-belief, and religion is at least as complicated as gender and sexuality. Perhaps a similar hypothesis would prove useful.

[alarcojon]

38. Agnostic in theory, Atheist in practice

As the poll states, we can't know either way, which I feel compelled to acknowledge, so I consider myself an agnostic. However, I have no use for organized religion. I meditate, so I guess that can be considered spirituality....

[BiggJawn]

39. Meat flavour.

Maybe Beef, maybe Pork....