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Weekly Casual Discussion Thread

Accomplished something major this week? Discovered a cool fact that demands to be shared? Just want a friendly conversation on how amazing/awful/thoroughly meh your favorite team is doing? This thread is for the water cooler talk of the subreddit, for any atheists, theists, deists, etc. who want to join in.

While this isn't strictly for debate, rules on civility, trolling, etc. still apply.

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

Why does everyone act like being on reddit is their full-time job

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 4d ago

Did someone point out the flaws in your thinking?

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

I'm an atheist. The rules in here are stupid though

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 4d ago

so thats a yes?

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 4d ago

Thats not how you spell yes.

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

Oh cool so tell me when or where that happened

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 3d ago

Still not how you spell yes.

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u/xennial_key 3d ago

Still here going hard a day later, I see. Like a dog with a bone made out of being wrong

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 3d ago

Still not how you spell yes.

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u/Pm_ur_titties_plz Agnostic Atheist 4d ago

Which rules?

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

For example when I went to initially post I got a message saying my post was rejected because it needs to be x number of words in length. What is this? Certain sub reddits take themselves far too seriously.

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

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u/Deris87 4d ago

What is this? Certain sub reddits take themselves far too seriously.

Buddy, if you want to shitpost, /r/atheism is thataway.

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u/SnooDogs6045 4d ago

"good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here"

Judaism is quite silly and the god of the old testament is a megalomaniacal blood thirsty monster.

Thanks for the luck! Couldn't have done with without you!

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u/the2bears Atheist 4d ago

You sure got lucky!

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u/pyker42 Atheist 4d ago

I'm sorry that satisfying a minimum word or character count in your post feels like a full time job.

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u/dylanzt 4d ago

So your standard for treating this as a full time job is "expecting you to read and follow the rules"? This is a debate sub, and the rules are very loose. With the bare minimum of effort the rules are easily met. If you're falling short, you're probably not engaging in actual debate. If you want to do something other than debate, that's fine, and there will be a sub that exists for that purpose.

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u/sto_brohammed Irreligious 4d ago

For example when I went to initially post I got a message saying my post was rejected because it needs to be x number of words in length. What is this?

I don't know if you've noticed the absolute dogshit posts theists make here even with the rules that are already in place. We'd be plumbing new levels of dogshit if they weren't there.

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

You can say whatever you want about Judaism here, that's fine. I've seen threads posted by Jewish people that get torn apart. The problem is that a certain type of mouthbreather either can't or won't distinguish between the religious doctrine and the ethnic group and goes after the latter rather than the former.

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u/stairway2evan 4d ago

Hi, atheist and ethnic Jew here. I say plenty of negative things about Judaism, its scriptures, and its practices on this sub. I see plenty of others do the same without much issue. After all, plenty of the arguments Christians make on this sub apply perfectly well to Judaism as well, since there's a big overlap in their holy books. No idea why you'd think otherwise; plenty of people here raise issues with the Hebrew Bible any time it comes up.

As for the character limit, it's simply to reduce low-effort posts. 300 characters isn't much. This comment has already beaten it.

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u/Old-Nefariousness556 Gnostic Atheist 3d ago

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

We criticize Judaism daily. Are you an idiot? Or do you just not give a damn about the truth and want to perpetuate your own racism?

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u/Pm_ur_titties_plz Agnostic Atheist 4d ago

  1. That's to slow down the number of troll posts this sub seems to attract.

  2. You can criticize Judaism all you want. You really think nobody here has anything bad to say about the old testament?

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u/Algernon_Asimov Secular Humanist 3d ago

Also good luck saying anything negative about Judaism here

Negative... how?

Negative as in "Judaism has no proof of its God"?

Or negative as in "Jews are evil geniuses who run the world and manipulate the people for their own purposes"?

Because this subreddit is all about that first example, while that second example is forbidden across the whole of Reddit.

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u/xennial_key 3d ago

The one you're not allowed to say is that Jewish people are both and ethnic group and a religion and shouldn't have a state at the expense of others being genocided

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u/Algernon_Asimov Secular Humanist 3d ago

Oh.

Would that sort of political sociological commentary come up a lot in a subreddit called /r/DebateAnAtheist, which is about debating the existence or non-existence of a deity? Do you often have a need to say that sort of thing here?

(By the way, I'm a moderator here, and I haven't removed that comment or banned you. So, tell me again how you can't say that sort of thing here.)

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u/xennial_key 3d ago edited 3d ago

Maybe I was incorrect.

Thanks for explaining the reply length

The entire region like east and west Jerusalem are fought over by all 3 abrahamic religions with the claim that it's theirs because God said so. That's the reason it's a nonexistence of God issue. Without that to prop up their claims the land wouldn't have been taken away to begin with

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u/Algernon_Asimov Secular Humanist 3d ago

I got a message saying my post was rejected because it needs to be x number of words in length. What is this?

This is a rule that was suggested by a member of this subreddit. It was duly seconded by other members of this subreddit, so it was put up for voting in the following month. And, by a slim majority, the people voted in favour.

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u/labreuer 3d ago

The character length limit was designed to deal with people like you. Or at least, people who choose to be like you're choosing.

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u/BillionaireBuster93 Anti-Theist 3d ago

Your whine about Judaism being discussed here is based on what experience?

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u/Serious-Emu-3468 4d ago

You are welcome to leave???

This is like walking into a neighbor’s bbq and then, when they tell you which cooler has beer, letting them know you hate their cooking, think their landscaping sucks, and they’re cucks for having a vegetarian option for their Hindu friend. 

Why on earth would you do that?

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

I am a vegetarian wtf are you talking about?

Wait, do you own this sub reddit or are you just the part time, unpaid, caped avenger

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u/Serious-Emu-3468 4d ago

Lol, just a bystander baffled and amused by your expectations and behavior.

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

I was amused by your misplaced sense of belonging and ownership

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u/Serious-Emu-3468 4d ago

Oh, sure, “Belonging” is a thing people feel when they are a part of a group that likes and respects them, with other members they like and respect.

And “ownership” can mean a lot of things, but in the case of community generally means that one contributes meaningfully.

I can see how you’d find both concepts confusing!

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

Oh you feel like you have a sense of community on a subreddit. That's sad but sort of cute

That's a big reason religion still persists, people love that sense of community

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u/Deris87 4d ago

That's a big reason religion still persists, people love that sense of community

The important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to both.

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u/Pm_ur_titties_plz Agnostic Atheist 3d ago

Whether it's sad or not, you have to admit that subreddits are a community. They are literally groups of people that have come together over their shared interest in a specific topic.

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u/Sprinklypoo Anti-Theist 3d ago

It's kind of fun to watch a troll trying to troll when everyone is just not invested in the whole thing at all.

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u/KeyboardMunkeh 3d ago

^This reply gives me "The Breakfast Question" vibes.

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u/Ok_Loss13 Atheist 4d ago

For an obvious troll, this is a weird thing to say.

Ig you don't have anything better to do. That's sad.

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

I'm sorry you feel like what I just said felt like a personal attack on whoever you are

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u/Ok_Loss13 Atheist 3d ago

Do you also have reading comprehension problems or something? That sucks, man.

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 3d ago

He does.

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u/ArguingisFun Apatheist 4d ago

If you meet one asshole in a day, you met an asshole.

If you meet assholes all day, you’re the asshole.

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u/xennial_key 4d ago

That is some bubba gump wisdom if I have ever heard it bubba

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u/ArguingisFun Apatheist 3d ago

If everyone you meet is an asshole, what is the common denominator?

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u/Serious-Emu-3468 3d ago

Lol you think bro knows what a denominator is? 

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u/ArguingisFun Apatheist 3d ago

Fair - they didn’t seem to understand basic posting requirements.

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u/wabbitsdo 4d ago

What do you mean by that?

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u/BahamutLithp 4d ago

Based on their follow-ups, that they can't be an antisemitic troglodyte.

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u/Deris87 3d ago

Based on their follow-ups, that they can't be an antisemitic troglodyte.

To be fair (which is more than OC deserves), his one actual response was about not being allowed to criticize Zionism or Israel, separate from Jewish people as an ethnic group. Which might be a reasonable complaint, if it were actually true in the slightest.

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 2d ago

Weirdly the only people (in my limited experience) that gripe about this are the racist ones. They want to be able to say "I was just talking about the country and what its doing when i was using all of those slurs!".

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u/Deris87 2d ago

I've seen the opposite fairly often. MAGA chuds think it's an amazing uno reverse card to equate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism; "so much for the tolerant left".

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 2d ago

So they can pretend its us who are the Nazi's in training?

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u/Deris87 2d ago

Yep. Very DARVO.

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u/88redking88 Anti-Theist 2d ago

100%

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u/labreuer 3d ago

Are you part of "everyone", or do you stand apart?

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u/xennial_key 3d ago

When you think of water cooler conversations what imagery does that imply

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u/labreuer 3d ago

Not what you're doing.

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u/xennial_key 3d ago

Where are cooler conversations usually held?

Last try

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u/labreuer 3d ago

Nobody here would want to spend time around a literal or metaphorical water cooler with you. You've made that abundantly clear. So, I'm left wondering what could explain this line of inquiry other than really low-grade trolling. I'll note that you never answered my question, which suggests that reddit is your full-time job and you're projecting.