Grim, I'd be disappointed if it was a fairytale… as I recall it was woot's example of prejudice against atheists and the reason for his attending the conference was to find a solution. Maybe exquisite joy and afterglowing was sufficient?

Should I be talking to an apatheist? 'Splitters'

It risks being like a rewritten amphitheatre scene from The Life of Brian…

Brian: ...I hate the religious already.
Dave: Listen. If you really wanted to join the AFA, you'd have to really hate the religious.
Brian: I do.
Dave: Oh yeah? How much?
Brian: A lot!
Dave: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the religious are the funking Australian Apatheist Front.

Whatever happened to the popular front?

Sincere apologies,
I forgot to demonstrate the enormous size of my -rather tight- codpiece.
Peter Grimley,
Most Exalted Lord High Mufti,
Society Of Apatheists Profoundly -Yet Serenely- Opposed To Theism'S.

Next meeting will be held in the basement of the Society's headquarters,
Tattoine, in the Dagobar system, on:
27 October, 1984
Failure to attend will result in instant expulsion.

Pericles,

“Hmmm. I wonder whether that is better or worse than being a know-it-all smartarse in real life, and an ineffectual blowhard on the internet?

Purely hypothetically, of course.”

Well, I suppose you would have to look into your hypothetical mirror for an answer to that one. My thoughts purely from observation and a tad amount of reasonable guessing are yes, you are probably a know-it-all smartarse in real life, and definitely an ineffectual blowhard on the internet?

Anyone who can’t actually comment on pertinent statements, as is your modus-operandi, certainly fits the above description. Repetitious sniping at self-made shadowy strawmen and the over-emphasis on unimportant minutia is very Don Quixote-ish. I would be exceedingly embarrassed if I were you but possibly your relentless bitterness blinds you to that but I doubt it.

Deep down this insecurity is what keeps you fearful about appearing on the AFA Forums. IMHO that is one of your better decisions. :))

Stand by for nervous bravado 'proving' me wrong.

David

WM Trevor, fear not about your poor internet-connection, there will be a DVD available within a couple of months. Specific cures for absurd parts of religion are not going to be brought about by a magic wand.

Grim, there’s no compulsion to join an atheist ‘club’. But social change can happen when people band together. Arse-sitting has never been a very effective method.

Squeers, I don’t need omniscience, gossiping is a favourite pastime. I know lots of humans willing to betray confidences, as you could imagine. ;)

Interestingly enough, some of the ‘mutual acquaintances’ alluded to recently have tried starting various forums and even secular-clubs, on a number of occasions as you know, with poor results. But I’m not a gossip in specifics.

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david/quote..""I don’t need omniscience,
gossiping is a favourite pastime...I know lots of humans willing to betray confidences,..as you could imagine...;)""

i imagine something much like a confessional
instead of a light..you set a topic?..how will we know confessional is in..

but really...try to aviois rules[creed]
if its about nuthing..at leasst have the inteligence..to feel nuthing too[getting angry..re nuthin..thats a sign of madness..not that im saying anyone is mad

but why you trying so hard..to get even
equal time?..for what..to diss cuss nuthin

morality without creed
creed withhout thought?
no...creed without thinking

all the benfits
none of the overseeing obligato?

it must delight the ego
your accuse has made it into a topic
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5216

the best thing you achieved so far?

David,

"...I don't need omniscience, gossiping is a favourite pastime. I know lots of humans willing to betray confidences..."

Not a particularly good look for someone who's out to expose all the 'nasties" of religion. It seems that these nasties are a purely "human" phenomenon and that atheists are just as likely to display them as religious folk - especially if they band together in "clubs".

(if we did make a bigger and better atheist club and we still disagreed - could be then have a "schism"...sounds like fun)