Originally Posted by b50m:
Yes, to me-"Atheist" IS a badge of honor. I'm rather proud of the fact that I can think for myself.
Since you are so miserable here in the bibley belt, RP, surely you could find a way to hitch a ride back to New York or where ever. It's only been two years. Since you have a CDL, any body would take you. There are ads every day in the paper. Companies love to have a single driver. Driving a bus seems so beneath you.
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Ah. Therein lies the rub. I'm not a single driver. My wife drives where I work, also.
She's got 24 years in, I've got 25.
The only reason I tend to get miserable here is because the same kinda con artist that takes your money with a collection plate also conned me and my wife into giving up our old lives and moving over 1000 miles only to find out we couldn't make a good enough living doing what weve basically done all our lives. When I first got here I figured southerners had lying, cheating and stealing elevated to an art form-but having lived here for awhile, I see that that's not the case and that there are still good people out there regardless of what I hear on the scanner every night. Many of those good people seem to be right here on this forum as well.
That's a good thing. It goes a long way toward restoring my faith in people.
Other than having gotten royally screwed on the job front-Alabama is a beautiful place. Just like I remembered it from when I was a kid. I just gotta weed through a whole lot more "automatons-for-Jesus" nowadays to get to the good parts.
Why on earth would driving a bus be beneath me? Besides sitting astride a bike doing a goodly clip-sitting up in that cab with that diesel pulling me down the road is one of the times I feel the most alive.
ONO- I never once called you stupid-or anyone else here for that matter....well mebbe fireman...And even then I didn't actually come right out and call him stupid. I believe I merely stated that I thought he needed to be watered twice a week. They ARE out there, ya know.
I wouldnt have even gone that far if he hadn't dammt me to hell out of the blue in the first place.
What baffles me and interests me is that so many people who are obviously educated and capable of using their own heads are so willing to let some slick-talking preacher use their heads for them while he's reaching in their pockets.
Like I keep saying-The GZs pretty much always draw first blood. It's their last resort and they resort to it freququently because it appears that they run outta talent pretty quickly.
'Magic' just doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Discussion of religion rarely if ever came up IRL until I moved here. Now its pretty regular because EVERYBODY'S a GZ and EVERYBODY'S always talking about it/pushing it/competing over it, etc.
If people never tried to get me to come to their dang church or asked me about what church I attended when they were interviewing me for a job-nobody'd ever know I was a heathen and prolly nobody'd even care.
Here, EVERYBODY'S up my nose about religion. All the time, and it's actually probably a good thing that I like to discuss it-or my lack of it and actually have enough communication skills to do so because otherwise there'd be a lotta GZs walking around with knuckle dents in their noggins right before I ended up in jail. I'm not usually that kinda guy...
So see? Talkin' about it ain't necessarily a bad thing-for me anyways. 'Specially here on this forum, which is the only one of it's kind I've ever seen. Only in the bibley belt is there religion forums-everywhere else nobody really gives a s#*!.
I'm gonna go get a shirt made that just says "heathen" on it so mebbe then I won't hafta explain/discuss my atheism with GZs so much.
Day in and day out it wears a body down after awhile and starts to make ma knuckles itch.