Black female atheists...do you exist?

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Napoleon said:
This WONDERFUL talk, does not mean that EVERYTHING has a cause.

This does......

P1. Everything that begins to exist, has a cause.
P2. The Universe (everything) began to exist.
C: The Universe (everything) has a cause.

I mean EVERYTHING.
 
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Well thats cool that you're not a douche atheist. It takes me a lot of self control, so I'm sure its the same for you as well. I'll ask you the same question as innocent, how'd you tell your parents? And why? I'm sure you knew that they wouldn't understand.

Also do you think you get judged for saying you're a buddhist as well?

It wasn't a big deal for me to tell my parents. I just told them when it came up. My daddy said he'd support me and he understood that I have to find my own path, but over the years he's become more and more abrasive about it, like I'm rejecting a part of him by choosing to not be Christian. He should be used to it though, since he's from Caliornia, and his part of the fam didn't always mess with Christ. His own mother became a Buddhist later in life, so maybe it's in my blood. My mom cried and said she failed as a parent. They rarely brew on it. They know not to rouse me up on Sundays and try to drag me to church; I'm a grown woman. When I go to that church though, the same church I grew up attending, it hasn't changed a bit. They always ask where I've been and that they miss me. So I like to visit now and then, I don't have a grudge against Christianity. I never take communion when going because I feel it would disrespect their beliefs. They think I'm agnostic. :trollbron: I haven't confirmed/denied, but they're always so damn curious why I and other young adults don't attend anymore.

As for Buddhism, it's more of a recent thing, but it works for me. I don't really advertise that I'm Buddhist. I do not even have Buddhist labeled on my Facebook religion section. I don't know anyone who has judged me for being a Buddhist when asked, though.

And yes, it's a struggle, but compassion is always a struggle. That's why you should practice, so it becomes like any other skill.
 

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It wasn't a big deal for me to tell my parents. I just told them when it came up. My daddy said he'd support me and he understood that I have to find my own path, but over the years he's become more and more abrasive about it, like I'm rejecting a part of him by choosing to not be Christian. He should be used to it though, since he's from Caliornia, and his part of the fam didn't always mess with Christ. His own mother became a Buddhist later in life, so maybe it's in my blood. My mom cried and said she failed as a parent. They rarely brew on it. They know not to rouse me up on Sundays and try to drag me to church; I'm a grown woman. When I go to that church though, the same church I grew up attending, it hasn't changed a bit. They always ask where I've been and that they miss me. So I like to visit now and then, I don't have a grudge against Christianity. I never take communion when going because I feel it would disrespect their beliefs. They think I'm agnostic. :trollbron: I haven't confirmed/denied, but they're always so damn curious why I and other young adults don't attend anymore.

As for Buddhism, it's more of a recent thing, but it works for me. I don't really advertise that I'm Buddhist. I do not even have Buddhist labeled on my Facebook religion section. I don't know anyone who has judged me for being a Buddhist when asked, though.

And yes, it's a struggle, but compassion is always a struggle. That's why you should practice, so it becomes like any other skill.
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So yeah how'd you break the news to your parents?

And did those friends drop you on fb because of a post you made? Or were they doing the "I'm trying to get closer to God" thing?

We were talking about religion one day randomly and I mentioned I was an atheist...in my household we were never pressured to go to church, pray, or read the Bible... which is why naturally me, my sister, and brother don't believe in a God...wasn't a sense of shock either it was just like me saying I have a boyfriend lol

As far as getting unfriended on Facebook it was a combination of my posts and me responding to posts directed to atheist
 

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We were talking about religion one day randomly and I mentioned I was an atheist...in my household we were never pressured to go to church, pray, or read the Bible... which is why naturally me, my sister, and brother don't believe in a God...wasn't a sense of shock either it was just like me saying I have a boyfriend lol

As far as getting unfriended on Facebook it was a combination of my posts and me responding to posts directed to atheist
They need to clone you. Where can i find a black, natural, gaming, rational thinking woman? :sadcam:
 

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This image is pretty bad at the outset.

1. Mahayana is the largest school in Buddhism. Zen is a part of Mahayana and it's the largest of the Mahayana sects. Zen (each country has its own take: Ch'an in China, Seon in Korea, Zen in Japan;etc) is also the most popular form of Buddhism in the west. Mahayana is large in East Asia, not, as the image says, South Asia. A lot of zen teachers outright contest the supernatural and metaphysical elements of Buddhism, instead, focusing on the self.

2. Theravada is practiced mostly in Southeast Asia in countries like Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia.

3. Not all forms of Buddhism have the same interpretations of samsara, or even enlightenment. Zen, for example, literally means Meditation Buddhism. This should tell you all you need to know. Many Zen interpreters do not believe in a literal enlightenment, or a literal samsara. More than that, if you do go to a Buddhist Temple and don't believe these things, the people are not going to accost you. The point of that image is only to divide.

4. You have basically posted an image, towards something you don't know anything about, to try to look smart. Instead, you look foolish.

5. Buddhism has no commandments and The Buddha himself to not believe anything without questioning it first, most of all him and his ideas, and to never listen to anything that betrays your own common sense. No one in Buddhism enforces these things, and if you had done proper research, you would know that Buddhism adapts itself to each and every country it finds itself in. Currently, due to the west's more secular nature, western Buddhism is highly secular and without a lot of the stuff featured in this image as a focus. You can not accept anything supernatural and still be a Buddhist.

Perhaps you should properly research subjects instead of pasting images from reddit. What, exactly, did that image say exactly? Are these Buddhists hurting anyone? What was the point? Seems pretty childish to me.

They need to clone you. Where can i find a black, natural, gaming, rational thinking woman? :sadcam:

We're not that hard to find if you know where to look.
 
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Napoleon said:
I'm not suggesting, inferring, referring, or asserting anything.

If you say all things had a cause, you must prove that.

Ahh, that's why you think you can escape. I didn't state all things had a cause......

Dafunkdoc_Unlimited said:
P1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause.

Astrophysics has proven that the Universe (everything) began to exist, therefore, it had a cause.

Reading is Fundamental.

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Not believing in the bible =/= not believing in the existence of God


Those shouldn't be your only 2 options; Christian or Atheist
 
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