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Offline Hello, I am Press_Tilty.
I guess you describe me as hard-core atheist. I love arguing about pretty much anything, but theism is my favorite. One thing that really bothers me is that the word atheist isn't a noun. You can be atheist, but not an atheist. Now, I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but I still believe that it is an adjective. It requires some thought into sentence construction, but there you have it.
I also appreciate proper grammar. As far as I can tell, this site looks like people know how to use grammar. But be warned, I will correct you if you swap there/their/they're, your/you're. Also, who/whom. I'm not snobby about that, but saying "whom" makes you sound more professional. Don't take it personally, I do it to everyone.
My favorite quote is
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
-Marcus Aurelius
I'm going to put it in my signature, but I haven't yet.
-PT
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Welcome aboard, I try to be careful about spelling but got to admit that I screw up correct punctuation from time to time.
Looking forward to hearing more of your input.
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno
Nah, punctuation's okay with me. I get that wrong key strokes happen, but your/you're is unexcusable.
Not sure I can agree with you on use of the word 'whom' instead of who. Another thing that annoys me is use of the word 'whilst' in technical press releases like we're all writing Jane Austen novels now. As a magazine editor there's nothing more annoying to me than overwriting. I prefer Hemingway's chiseled prose. I even like his endless use of 'and' to make a flow of words shift across a scene like the movement of an eye. I do like Marcus Aurelius. A perceptive, excellent man.
Have fun here. I look forward your meeting Jean Chauvin, a fire and brimstone Calvinist who drives the English language in reverse and without regard for synchromesh.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
At least no one says thy, thou or thine.
Welcome to the forum.
Eh, how is it not a noun? A noun is a person, place, thing or idea. An atheist is a person that doesn't believe in God.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Welcome press_tilty and my grammer is perfect; she was married to gramper for 57 years so I no thats.
"Very funny Scotty; now beam down our clothes."
VEGETARIAN: Ancient Hindu word for "lousy hunter"
If man was formed from dirt, why is there still dirt?
Me thinkith thou hath a stick up thine ass.
Nothing to see here, just being silly.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Your right I love you're quote
and I appreciate your're abssesion with correct spelling and grammar no matter who it may concern.
That was as painful to type as it is to read, but I go for the smiles as a rule of thumb.
"Don't seek these laws to understand. Only the mad can comprehend..." -- George Cosbuc
Thy tongues are press't to Tilty's cheek.
Now that is a mental image I could have skipped.
It's worse than speedos.
-- I feel so much better since I stopped trying to believe.
"We are entitled to our own opinions. We're not entitled to our own facts"- Al Franken
"If death isn't sweet oblivion, I will be severely disappointed" - Ruth M.
In Queensland they are called Banana Hammocks. Elsewhere in Oz they are Budgie Smugglers. Do you folks have nicknames for close fitting lycra swimwear?
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
"Thy" is second person genitive singular.
Thy tongue is press't to Tilty's cheek...
Not anything so evocative. And I think that is a good thing.
-- I feel so much better since I stopped trying to believe.
"We are entitled to our own opinions. We're not entitled to our own facts"- Al Franken
"If death isn't sweet oblivion, I will be severely disappointed" - Ruth M.
For the bathing suit? Not that I have heard. However, the shorts that bicyclists wear are sometimes referred to as "so tight you can tell what religion he is".
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