Facebook with theists

[kingschosen]

(18-08-2012 05:15 PM)Chas Wrote:  

(18-08-2012 05:10 PM)kingschosen Wrote:  Your wish is my command, master.

You forgot to bow. And scrape.

Master, do you wish for me to eliminate this "terse and deadly" one?

Awaiting orders.

[Stark Raving]

(18-08-2012 05:10 PM)kingschosen Wrote:  

(18-08-2012 05:09 PM)Stark Raving Wrote:  Thanks KC.

Your wish is my command, master.

Call me master again and I'll take away those fluffy pink handcuffs of yours.

[kingschosen]

(18-08-2012 05:23 PM)Stark Raving Wrote:  

(18-08-2012 05:10 PM)kingschosen Wrote:  Your wish is my command, master.

Call me master again and I'll take away those fluffy pink handcuffs of yours.

Hey, you programmed me.

I just think you're jealous that I'm with lucradis now.

[Red Celt]

Not really deserving of a screenshot, the son of a cousin of mine posted this as his Facebook status:-

"At church #lovegod"

To which a friend of his replied: "Good nick"

And I replied: "Bad Nick "

[amyb]

A couple weeks ago, I apparently "liked" a comedy post making fun of bad paintings of Jesus. In one, the commentary joked about him looking like a pedophile (in a specific painting).

Last week, I got a phone call from a cousin explaining why it's unacceptable to like a post suggesting Jesus was a pedophile, and that's "just bad." I was sort of interested in the crazy stuff she would say, so I didn't hang up. She went on to tell me I have no interest in the world, am "not curious," and that evolution is silly. I just "need to invite Jesus into my life." I was enormously offended that she suggested I just haven't though about religion very much, and because she was so arrogant and pushy. And I minored in a social science, and took every friggin science class the college offered. Is that because I have no curiosity about the world?

I was also offended because she seemed to think that religious experience counts as proof, and that I should believe in her god based on her religious experience. She said I am not "open-minded" enough to see that God is real and exists, and I should spent more time trying to get into Heaven.

Anyway, this was a phone call, but it started with Facebook. She also posted religious stuff on various other posts I made. I just want left alone, you know? I don't even bother with talking to people like that anymore, but it really upsets me to be called stupid because I examined the evidence and came to a different conclusion than she did.

[Seasbury]

I've improved my Facebook experience significantly over the last month!

Those that piss me off, I've deleted or put on ignore - and I've picked up a great number of atheist/free thinking friends over the past year - makes my newsfeed rather pleasant

Of course there's always the occasional "Share if you love Jesus" pic that floats around, but they're easy to ignore...

[SomeOne]

It says "Jesus Christ. In Him you will find all you need" (obviously referencing Google.com)
then it says "Read the bible"


I used to ignore those kind of posts but now I tend to lol at them.

[calmblueocean]

(23-08-2012 05:51 PM)amyb Wrote:  A couple weeks ago, I apparently "liked" a comedy post making fun of bad paintings of Jesus. In one, the commentary joked about him looking like a pedophile (in a specific painting).

Last week, I got a phone call from a cousin explaining why it's unacceptable to like a post suggesting Jesus was a pedophile, and that's "just bad." I was sort of interested in the crazy stuff she would say, so I didn't hang up. She went on to tell me I have no interest in the world, am "not curious," and that evolution is silly. I just "need to invite Jesus into my life." I was enormously offended that she suggested I just haven't though about religion very much, and because she was so arrogant and pushy. And I minored in a social science, and took every friggin science class the college offered. Is that because I have no curiosity about the world?

I was also offended because she seemed to think that religious experience counts as proof, and that I should believe in her god based on her religious experience. She said I am not "open-minded" enough to see that God is real and exists, and I should spent more time trying to get into Heaven.

Anyway, this was a phone call, but it started with Facebook. She also posted religious stuff on various other posts I made. I just want left alone, you know? I don't even bother with talking to people like that anymore, but it really upsets me to be called stupid because I examined the evidence and came to a different conclusion than she did.

For the most part, my Facebook friends are at least agnostic or open-minded enough to not fuss at me over any freethinking or anti-religion stuff I post. I have a few who will occasionally toss out a 'share this if you'll pray for this person who has cancer' thingy, but I just hide those, shrug and move on.

There's one ... 'individual' ... whom I know in meatspace who, in a nutshell, is the center of the universe and is right about everything, and, oh yeah, the world is forever oppressing poor poor her, waah. She picked a fight with me last night over a AHA post I put up over a week ago (said image mentioned 'miracles' being those made from human endeavours), saying, "Miracles happen every day. I'm sorry you can't see them." Then she followed up with a definition of miracle out of the dictionary, referencing things that are attributed to supernatural forces, and gave 'thunderstorms' as an example of a miracle. Er. Thunderstorms are completely explainable by science, thus not a supernatural 'miracle'. But this individual is not rational or reasonable, so it's so not worth my time to explain this to her. She's right, period, end of sentence.

I look out my window at the butterfly bush out there and there are butterflies and bees and occasionally a hummingbird moth (they're one of my favourite insects) and I hear the echoes of this madwoman. Her pity is misplaced; it belongs with her. Anyone who can look science dead in the face and pretend only woo-woo fairy dust and *expletive* can explain such things ... well, it makes me violent. And gives me gut pains. Which is bad.

*looks up at size of comment* Er, sorry ... didn't mean to hijack. Sometimes I get so damned sick and tired and angry at people who can't just shut the *expletive* up, who have to pound their idiocy into everyone's heads. Grr...

[LadyJane]

(24-08-2012 11:04 AM)Seasbury Wrote:  I've improved my Facebook experience significantly over the last month!

Those that piss me off, I've deleted or put on ignore - and I've picked up a great number of atheist/free thinking friends over the past year - makes my newsfeed rather pleasant

Of course there's always the occasional "Share if you love Jesus" pic that floats around, but they're easy to ignore...

Me too! I did this a few months ago and I have a much more balanced Facebook life now. Less boiling blood and SPAM. One friend posted shit hourly from Joyce Meyer sites and other Facebook groups- ugh! Even for the best of topics, that's a bad idea!

[cheapthrillseaker]

I've stopped going to facebook since I came here. I still have my page up. Several times a day there's posts like 'God is Great' and 'Going to Church today'..

I think if I do go back, I'm just making a completely different facebook and starting from scratch.

But right now I'm just happy not going there every five minutes. TTA replaced my FB. I'm happy with that.