To the caller (and everybody else) with family problems... It sucks , but sometimes you have to disown family. I haven't seen or talked to my dad in years. He's a racist, homophobic, abusive bigot. All in the name of Jesus of course. He's a horrible human being and I don't need or want him in my life. And that's ok.
I get really irritated when I’m in a comment section of an atheist content creator and people post stuff like “why can’t you atheist just shut up?, “Why do atheists always have to be complaining?. I’ve never had an atheist ring my doorbell and tell me the good news, I’ve never had an atheist call me up and ask for money, I’ve never had an atheist want me to sign up for weekly atheist lessons, thrice weekly church sermons. I’d most likely never watch any atheist content if people kept their religions out of legislation and the government.
A Christian once told me to my face, "Can you stop talking about your beliefs?" I replied, "You first." If Christians kept it in their pants and had a live-and-let-live policy, then I'd not have crap to say about any of it.
@@DrumWild exactly! It’s so infuriating. I no wouldn’t say a damn thing about anyone’s religious beliefs if they weren’t trying to make me follow their beliefs. “If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.” ~Flemming Rose
@@trishayamada807 But it's not just their trying to convert me. It's the efforts, all too often successful, to legislate on the basis of their beliefs. Laws against abortion, LGBTQ rights and such affect real people (including me). That's why I want to call them out.
@@jayfredrickson8632 exactly. If they didn’t legislate their beliefs would you need to call them out? I wouldn’t. If they kept their beliefs in their places of worship or their homes, I wouldn’t need to defend myself from their attacks on my liberty as they wouldn’t be attacking me.
Seth, I've been listening for years now and your ability to keep things fresh while also keeping anything new topic-adjacent and relevant is admirable. So many content creators who find a niche never expand and eventually become stale. I appreciate all your hard work.
Getting irritated doesn't get better with age...it gets worse. The beauty is that the older you get, the less you give a chit. You are right about fighting back...many before us fought so we follow their lead and continue the battles. There are many things that are so much worse than death - losing freedoms is a major one.
Thank you for your comment. As i listen to this i know i should be more patient. But i am so pissed off about the control of religion all over the world let alone my own country filled with lies and hypocrasy. I am glad that there are others like me who have a rational mind based on evidence based on reason.
1: What do they bring into my life that's worth having? 2: Is there respect given? 3: Are they observing boundaries? If they are not, you should give yourself permission to protect yourself. I had to write this down because those were the three best questions I've heard in awhile that a few people should ask themselves. I walked away from both sides of my family so I can concur that no one should ever feel beholden to their family for any reason. They couldn't accept that I'm a transwoman so why hang around? 🤷♀
After 20yrs in the services being called a baby killer happened a lot , my comeback was always " I don't kill them , I prefer skinning them and rolling them in salt just for giggles". Always shut their stupid mouths .
I fought and almost gave my life for the US. After mostly recovering and leaving the military, I started thinking about immigrating to another country. That urge has only intensified in the rise and wake of Trumpism. It seems that the powers to be only harbors distain for my family and self.
36:14 I mean it's already happening. If you look at how much every state contributes to federal funding vs. how much they receive, the biggest contributors are mostly progressive-leaning states while the biggest aid consumers are almost exclusively conservative-leaning ones.
To the Gent with the toxic family, yes it is perfectly fine to cut toxic people out of your life, reguardless of accidents of blood. None of us chose our blood relations. We choose our friends, I have nothing in common with my family save chromasones (sp?) And that is no fault of mine, nor does it create obglation. Ones spouse (chosen) and what minor children you make (responciblity) are the only famillal obglations. Your mental and physical health come first. (sorry for the spelling. Typing on a tablet)
Totally agree with you. There is no obligation to pander to toxic adults relatives or not Look shoupd after your children, but you don't even have an obligation to pander to them once they are grown, if they are throwing adult tantrums and being badly behaved..
Karens: They come in all shapes and sizes, just so happens here in USA they tend to also be “Christian”. In Iran, they are Muslim. In Sweden, they have Greta Thunberg. It’s nice to hear someone acknowledge that all groups have the same issue. We should be careful when we pick fights… are we fighting the Karens or the cause they are hiding behind.
Uh, Greta helped put a known and openly professed crime lord in jail. I have never heard of a Karen doing anything even remotely as beneificial to others, let alone of all civilization, as that.
I completely understand your feelings about the USA. I also was born here, so it’s my native home. And I truly feel that the USA has the potential to be a great nation. If we could just get our sh💩t together and wise up! Unfortunately, we seem to be on a downward spiral leading us to the horrors of Brave New World, 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale! Our own version of the Dark Ages. It’s frustrating that most people can’t see the greatness of our constitution. Although it was written at a time when the concepts contained in it were not reality, it was a blueprint for what we had the potential to become. We’ve totally lost the path. The idea of getting yours and screw everybody else doesn’t work. We all have to live here together. And it will be better for everyone if everyone is better off! ☮️❤️🥳
I left facebook in 2016 due to extremist views on part of family, and the contentious atmosphere. Also got tired of, when expressing my opinions, people you dont even know jump all over you. I don't post back because as others are entitled to their opinion as I am entitled to mine. I am willing to listen to them and would like the same. I am atheist, proud of it. I am not missing a thing!!!
@@stephanieguile9072 Facebook was my cold, sobering moment that most of my friends and acquaintances are morons. I miss being able to assume that most people are as smart as/smarter than me. Those post feeds broke me.
When I first heard about Dominionists in the 90s, while I was still a Christian, they seemed harmless to me. They didn't expect to have to force or deceive their way into power. They thought it would be the natural consequence of the spread of (their version of) the Gospel. How things have changed.
@@kellywalker1664 Or maybe they don't like how little power they yet have and are getting more forceful. Either way, they are a concern in our current political climate.
I stopped watching Maher a while ago. All he does is bitch about "woke" people and trans people all the time. I never thought he was funny, in fact, i thought he was a pretty shitty comedian, but his constant bitching and shitty attitude turned me off. I watch John Oliver now. He's actually funny and is more informative about the subjects.
Couldn't agree more with your comments about patriotism around 40:00. Instead of constantly asserting we're the best country in the world, it's high time we actually demonstrate it. Maybe start by ironing out our beyond-broken, increasingly kleptocratic political system, or even just helping out the middle/lower class working people. I think this whole thing is best summarized in the facile slogan, "Proud to be American". I never liked it and always thought it should read, "Fortunate to be American". But in order to even utter the latter, we had better start making a case for average Americans being fortunate to live and work here.
Went through that thought process. I grew up with the stereotypical faux patriotism and spouted that for a while myself. Then, by the time I became a George Carlin fan, I was listening to his It's Bad for Ya album, and I got to his "Proud to be an American" bit. That did cause a crack in my faux patriotism, and thus for a while, I was going with his suggestion, "Happy to be an American." Then I graduated from college, went to work, and just got abused in the workplace - just your typical toxic work environments. I held on to that "Happy to be" bit, but it became quite dented and beaten. It looked like it was being fixed when I got my dream job...until the Republican state government slashed the health department's budget, and I got laid off because of it...after having the job for just a few months. You can say that at the very least, I was never going to be happy with Republicans, but the last vestiges of the American part were still holding. Then came a year of unemployment, of hundreds of applications and only three interviews, two of which were for the same job position that was reposted. Those last vestiges lost the little grip they had left, and thus I started saying, "F^^^ being an American." With that, I looked overseas, found something, got it, and left. When my parents tried to convince me not to leave, I asked them what exactly America had to offer me, a natural-born citizen, if I stayed. When they said education, I asked, "And how much did that already cost us? Do you really want to add more to that, and to a system that is regularly being dismantled by _your_ political party and therefore might be destroyed before I am finished with it?" When my father said job opportunities, I looked him in the eye and said, "Who the f^^^ do you think got rid of my jobs, especially my job with the Texas government?" When they said that it was my home that I was leaving, I said, "Would you ask your parents that in regards to when they left Mexico (my father) or Chile (my mother)? How about your grandparents when they left Argentina (father's side) or Germany (mother's side - and they had ended up Germany as refugees from Serbia)?" Surprisingly, they did not bring family - I guess my answer to their home invocation gave them just enough awareness to know that it would not have been a good idea to do it.
Adding to the discussion about a peaceful "divorce" in this country and people from the part that is non-secular, and therefor the red parts, moving to the secular part. The best part of this idea is that the country that would be made up of the blue and secular areas would be able to help those in the new red and religious new country relocate using tax money that had previously been sent to the red states as federal aid. I also think that it would be important for the new, blue, and secular country not provide any foreign aid to what would quickly become the newest undeveloped third world country. I also think it would be sweet irony to enclose this new country in a wall, or better yet, a dome, to keep all those horrible people out of our secular paradise.
I've frequently fantasized about forming a secular, humanist, and science & reason based nation but separate from the continental United States, or any other existing nation, perhaps in the Marshall Islands when the radiation from the 1950s atom bomb tests has dissipated enough. But withing the continental US reminds me of antebellum America in the early to mid 19th century when the north had embraced the industrial revolution while the south maintained traditional (of the time) agrarian practices. Two distinct cultures formed within one nation and it led (amongst other causes; particularly one key one over the immorality of slavery) to civil war. I think war would be a consequence out of no greater purpose than jealousy.
I'd like for them to cut off or restrict Federal aid money until they straighten up and act like adults. It's already done with other things. For example, the Federal speed limit is one that states can dismiss, but if they do so then they lose Federal funding for building and repairing streets. So if they want their welfare money from California, then they can start by bringing an end to the things they say about California. Specifically, they can deal with the violent and dehumanizing rhetoric. They behave like children, and it has gotten dangerous. It won't get better until there are clear consequences they actually feel and experience. They're currenting biting the hand that feeds, so this would be a clear way to get them to straighten up and put the "United" back into "United States." Because the "peaceful divorce" idea is anti-Constitutional.
Concentration of ticket paying punters up North though right. I’m more than happy to volunteer to take him on a tour of Hawkes Bay, Martinborough, Marlborough, North Canterbury and Central Otago after the main centres 👍🤣
I feel that way with my family as well, while ive been to more countries than my parents and they think they knew more when they have hardly been outside of the US
Here in The Netherlands there are several restaurants that deliver, and there’s Thuisbezorgd (home delivery) that delivers for multiple restaurants. They existed well before COVID. Quite often they use (e)bikes or the 45 km/h scooters that are so common over here, because we’re a densely populated country.
Been an nonbeliever for quite some time now. its easy if one reads a news headline or three. I don't know maybe if I could see a miracle, like Biden falling down instead of up the stairs or the parting of the detroit river, I would even settle for my uncle Jerome picking up a check 😄
Re our founding fathers - Interestingly, I have a copy of Thomas Jefferson's bible. He apparently didn't subscribe to all the miraculous stuff, so he cut and pasted a shorter bible, focusing on the moral teachings. It's 131 pages as opposed to 1100 pages.
As to "the best country in the world"... The U.S. has many detractions. Social aid (medical, job security, etc.) is lacking, Many of the more well off do not want their taxes to be used to pay for those. But on the flip side, they also complain about all the poor & homeless persons in their own community. I'd rather live in a country that has free medical coverage and higher taxes than here in the U.S. The U.S. has become the corporate welfare state of the world! Companies more often pay little or even no real tax for all the business that they do, and yet pay their workers little in comparison. As to having to say the "pledge of alliegence to the flag," Even when it was required, I never did so. For the simple reason that it proves no loyalty to anything, let alone the country. Just look at all the politicians who claim their loyalty... To their party! (but not their country/Constitution).
You and Natalie would be more than welcome in Canada. And we even have paved roads and things like Door Dash. Victoria BC is a pleasant, smaller city with lots of "nones". And I was born in the States, but I always say that it was because my mother's uterus happened to be there at the time - I'm definitely NOT American
Only thing that makes us better is recognizing and tryimg to correct our mistakes. Anything else is hypocritical. And I'm probably wrong saying that. And that baby-kill-sis did cut all the strings with one swing. Caller owes her nothing (outside legally agreed loans or return of borrowed items). I've cut people out for far less, but I'm unforgiving bastard. This case is totally on her. (As far as the situation is represented fairly.) And yes, Seth, you have the right to say that. It's a reaction to far worse and self protection.
When if that split happens it'll be just like when the south secession the north became more industrialized and the south was not they were still too much h reliant on slavery and it shows even now they still aren't much industrialized
Well, I kinda resent being called a lefty. I'm neither right nor left in my politics, but more in the middle - as I believe most people are. I think it may be time to get rid of destructive and limiting labels.
Yes we have Doordash in Australia... Also .. your broadcast has advertisements..I get it..that's how you monetize your show...but Ironically they are nearly all religious commercials...just sayin...not sure if you are able to filter your preferred advertisers..
I don't try to enlighten people to the way I think that's what the Christian do , I try not to be like that I don't force my views on anyone and atheist that do are no better than the Christan they fight against , we must be smarter than that , we must be calm , you can't save someone that doesn't want to be saved you can't change the mind of someone that doesn't want to listen and if they are happy and cause no trouble and don't get in my face telling me how to live what to believe I will do the same let them live there fantasy
“…if they are happy and cause no trouble…” There is no Christian sect in the world not actively causing harm. There is no religion in the world that does not do harm. Your argument is just an excuse not to care about other people.
I remember saying 'The Pledge of Allegiance' in school. A few kids who were in the JW church would stand but not say anything. I have always thought it was odd that no sports game in a stadium whether professional of in a small town can ever start without the National Anthem being sung or played. Theater plays or rock concerts don't start with this being done. Why sports? Do other countries do this?
My country has an official and an unofficial national anthem. The unofficial version is a complete piss-take of the official version and I have never met a citizen who did not know the unofficial version. THAT is what we all used to sing. Nationalism is stupid and insane.
And can we please stop bashing Florida? I live here. We didn't close down in fear of covid and still we're here, and everyone wants to come. I don't like all that DeSantis does, but people don't bother to look at what he actually wants. He does not want children to think they are gender confused before puberty simply because they like something that isn't gender asigned. I work on cars, but that doesn't mean I want to be a man. Let children be children and have their innocence while they can. They will figure it out in due time. In the mean time, how about just loving and accepting them as they are?
He is a fascist. Young people are going to be gender curious and confused whether you like it or not. Knowing that they aren't alone helps them to maneuver in this world without so much fear and self loathing. How is removing them from their parents "loving and accepting them as they are"? And what does policing negative reporting about him have to do with gender? What does policing women's rights have to do with it? What does restricting African American studies and AP classes have to do with it?
Desantis is a typical Republican politician. He uses fear and ignorance to gain power, much like Trump. He fear mongers about all of the supposed culture war bullshit issues that people are afraid of and don't understand. He points the finger at the people who are convenient to blame and gains politically from it. Parents supporting their kids and making them feel comfortable to express themselves are being good parents. People like Desantis claim to be conservative and want limited government, but believe they should use government to get in between trans people and their doctors, and to tell parents how to raise their children.
I am a little confused at your abortion stance. Abortion is killing a baby. So to support it is to support killing children. We do have a problem as humans. We like sex but unfortunately the only way to avoid having a baby is either to avoid sex or put a barrier around the private areas. Lets not promote abortion or transsexuals etc. These are all stupid identity traits
@@jesusisdead gotta spell it all out for ya? A “baby” is a fully gestated human being. There are many stages of development after an egg is fertilized. There is no point in any pregnancy where you are guaranteed to end up with a living breathing child. The choice to terminate one’s own pregnancy is in no way killing “children”. Also, there are more than two ways to prevent pregnancy. So again, No to your entire comment.
Hello. Im the only conservative atheist on the planet, apparently. I agree with you. If killing your unborn child is okay, then where the fuk do we draw the line? Shameful, in my opinion. If we condone this, then we're no different than the barbarians in the bible who routinely chopped up children.
I’ve heard the saying… “There is no hate, greater than Christian love.”
Bumper sticker ! 😂
Too true!
This is my new tagline!!
There is no hate greater than atheist law
@@melchior2678 Exactly what law is that?
To the caller (and everybody else) with family problems... It sucks , but sometimes you have to disown family. I haven't seen or talked to my dad in years. He's a racist, homophobic, abusive bigot. All in the name of Jesus of course. He's a horrible human being and I don't need or want him in my life. And that's ok.
I get really irritated when I’m in a comment section of an atheist content creator and people post stuff like “why can’t you atheist just shut up?, “Why do atheists always have to be complaining?. I’ve never had an atheist ring my doorbell and tell me the good news, I’ve never had an atheist call me up and ask for money, I’ve never had an atheist want me to sign up for weekly atheist lessons, thrice weekly church sermons. I’d most likely never watch any atheist content if people kept their religions out of legislation and the government.
A Christian once told me to my face, "Can you stop talking about your beliefs?"
I replied, "You first."
If Christians kept it in their pants and had a live-and-let-live policy, then I'd not have crap to say about any of it.
@@DrumWild exactly! It’s so infuriating. I no wouldn’t say a damn thing about anyone’s religious beliefs if they weren’t trying to make me follow their beliefs.
“If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.”
~Flemming Rose
@@trishayamada807 But it's not just their trying to convert me. It's the efforts, all too often successful, to legislate on the basis of their beliefs. Laws against abortion, LGBTQ rights and such affect real people (including me). That's why I want to call them out.
weekly atheist lessons ... 🤣🤣🤣
howto be atheist:
step 1) do nothing!
step 2) profit?
@@jayfredrickson8632 exactly. If they didn’t legislate their beliefs would you need to call them out? I wouldn’t. If they kept their beliefs in their places of worship or their homes, I wouldn’t need to defend myself from their attacks on my liberty as they wouldn’t be attacking me.
Seth, I've been listening for years now and your ability to keep things fresh while also keeping anything new topic-adjacent and relevant is admirable.
So many content creators who find a niche never expand and eventually become stale. I appreciate all your hard work.
Agreed. I always enjoy listening to Seth on The Thinking Atheist! I listen while I’m cleaning the kitchen!
Getting irritated doesn't get better with age...it gets worse. The beauty is that the older you get, the less you give a chit. You are right about fighting back...many before us fought so we follow their lead and continue the battles. There are many things that are so much worse than death - losing freedoms is a major one.
Thank you for your comment. As i listen to this i know i should be more patient. But i am so pissed off about the control of religion all over the world let alone my own country filled with lies and hypocrasy. I am glad that there are others like me who have a rational mind based on evidence based on reason.
1: What do they bring into my life that's worth having?
2: Is there respect given?
3: Are they observing boundaries?
If they are not, you should give yourself permission to protect yourself.
I had to write this down because those were the three best questions I've heard in awhile that a few people should ask themselves. I walked away from both sides of my family so I can concur that no one should ever feel beholden to their family for any reason. They couldn't accept that I'm a transwoman so why hang around? 🤷♀
After 20yrs in the services being called a baby killer happened a lot , my comeback was always " I don't kill them , I prefer skinning them and rolling them in salt just for giggles". Always shut their stupid mouths .
Shock value tres' chic. 😂👌
Thats disgusting, but alot of people make disgusting and ignorant comments. Welcome to the club of being a complete ass.
@@rocky5152awwww… did someone hurt your feelings?
😂😂😂
I fought and almost gave my life for the US. After mostly recovering and leaving the military, I started thinking about immigrating to another country. That urge has only intensified in the rise and wake of Trumpism. It seems that the powers to be only harbors distain for my family and self.
I dig it that most of the creationists who tell us the eye is too perfect to have evolved wear glasses...
No one told them about the eyes of our future overlords, the cephalopods.
Everyone has a dark side. It's part of the human nature. A moral person simply know how to keep that dark side small and dormant.
Your videos are always so relatable. Thank you for your honesty and insight!
They HAVE cracked open a book: The Bible. Except they HAVEN"T. They rely on other people to do that and tell them what it means.
Empathy and compassion is becoming rare. It is disgraceful.
They are becoming a lost art
No… the number of atheists globally is growing fast.
The first step to gain empathy and compassion for most people.
@@nickguy8037 you actually think you need some higher authority to have empathy and compassion? Read a book once in a while.
@@Acharmedlife huh?
Did you read my comment?
36:14 I mean it's already happening. If you look at how much every state contributes to federal funding vs. how much they receive, the biggest contributors are mostly progressive-leaning states while the biggest aid consumers are almost exclusively conservative-leaning ones.
To the Gent with the toxic family, yes it is perfectly fine to cut toxic people out of your life, reguardless of accidents of blood. None of us chose our blood relations. We choose our friends, I have nothing in common with my family save chromasones (sp?) And that is no fault of mine, nor does it create obglation. Ones spouse (chosen) and what minor children you make (responciblity) are the only famillal obglations. Your mental and physical health come first. (sorry for the spelling. Typing on a tablet)
Totally agree with you. There is no obligation to pander to toxic adults relatives or not Look shoupd after your children, but you don't even have an obligation to pander to them once they are grown, if they are throwing adult tantrums and being badly behaved..
Karens: They come in all shapes and sizes, just so happens here in USA they tend to also be “Christian”. In Iran, they are Muslim. In Sweden, they have Greta Thunberg.
It’s nice to hear someone acknowledge that all groups have the same issue.
We should be careful when we pick fights… are we fighting the Karens or the cause they are hiding behind.
Uh, Greta helped put a known and openly professed crime lord in jail. I have never heard of a Karen doing anything even remotely as beneificial to others, let alone of all civilization, as that.
Greta is not a Karen.
"Karen" has been diluted to mean "any female anyone finds annoying". Your mention of Greta, for example.
I completely understand your feelings about the USA. I also was born here, so it’s my native home. And I truly feel that the USA has the potential to be a great nation. If we could just get our sh💩t together and wise up!
Unfortunately, we seem to be on a downward spiral leading us to the horrors of Brave New World, 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale! Our own version of the Dark Ages.
It’s frustrating that most people can’t see the greatness of our constitution. Although it was written at a time when the concepts contained in it were not reality, it was a blueprint for what we had the potential to become. We’ve totally lost the path.
The idea of getting yours and screw everybody else doesn’t work. We all have to live here together. And it will be better for everyone if everyone is better off! ☮️❤️🥳
Very well said! Thank you!!!
Thanks for podcast Seth. Very good show with interesting callers today. Cheers. Dan✌️🇨🇦. Btw, we do have Door Dash. 😀
Excited to see the billboard in Tulsa. God knows we need more voices against the evangelical majority in this town 😉
I had to leave Twitter because I was waking up thinking "Who needs their ass kicked today?" I used to be a calm, reasonable person...
I left facebook in 2016 due to extremist views on part of family, and the contentious atmosphere. Also got tired of, when expressing my opinions, people you dont even know jump all over you. I don't post back because as others are entitled to their opinion as I am entitled to mine. I am willing to listen to them and would like the same. I am atheist, proud of it. I am not missing a thing!!!
@@stephanieguile9072 Facebook was my cold, sobering moment that most of my friends and acquaintances are morons. I miss being able to assume that most people are as smart as/smarter than me. Those post feeds broke me.
When I first heard about Dominionists in the 90s, while I was still a Christian, they seemed harmless to me. They didn't expect to have to force or deceive their way into power. They thought it would be the natural consequence of the spread of (their version of) the Gospel. How things have changed.
They get more honest when they acquire more power.
@@kellywalker1664 Or maybe they don't like how little power they yet have and are getting more forceful. Either way, they are a concern in our current political climate.
Bill Maher had a great editorial called "The Empathy Gap". Made some of the same points Seth did. Worth a watch.
I stopped watching Maher a while ago. All he does is bitch about "woke" people and trans people all the time. I never thought he was funny, in fact, i thought he was a pretty shitty comedian, but his constant bitching and shitty attitude turned me off. I watch John Oliver now. He's actually funny and is more informative about the subjects.
Bill is a conservative trying to be a liberal. I would listen to nothing he said.
@@mando686 i agree.
Can't...
He's made some good points before his current non stop catterwaul on woke culture.
Couldn't agree more with your comments about patriotism around 40:00. Instead of constantly asserting we're the best country in the world, it's high time we actually demonstrate it. Maybe start by ironing out our beyond-broken, increasingly kleptocratic political system, or even just helping out the middle/lower class working people. I think this whole thing is best summarized in the facile slogan, "Proud to be American". I never liked it and always thought it should read, "Fortunate to be American". But in order to even utter the latter, we had better start making a case for average Americans being fortunate to live and work here.
Went through that thought process. I grew up with the stereotypical faux patriotism and spouted that for a while myself.
Then, by the time I became a George Carlin fan, I was listening to his It's Bad for Ya album, and I got to his "Proud to be an American" bit. That did cause a crack in my faux patriotism, and thus for a while, I was going with his suggestion, "Happy to be an American."
Then I graduated from college, went to work, and just got abused in the workplace - just your typical toxic work environments. I held on to that "Happy to be" bit, but it became quite dented and beaten. It looked like it was being fixed when I got my dream job...until the Republican state government slashed the health department's budget, and I got laid off because of it...after having the job for just a few months. You can say that at the very least, I was never going to be happy with Republicans, but the last vestiges of the American part were still holding.
Then came a year of unemployment, of hundreds of applications and only three interviews, two of which were for the same job position that was reposted. Those last vestiges lost the little grip they had left, and thus I started saying, "F^^^ being an American." With that, I looked overseas, found something, got it, and left.
When my parents tried to convince me not to leave, I asked them what exactly America had to offer me, a natural-born citizen, if I stayed. When they said education, I asked, "And how much did that already cost us? Do you really want to add more to that, and to a system that is regularly being dismantled by _your_ political party and therefore might be destroyed before I am finished with it?" When my father said job opportunities, I looked him in the eye and said, "Who the f^^^ do you think got rid of my jobs, especially my job with the Texas government?" When they said that it was my home that I was leaving, I said, "Would you ask your parents that in regards to when they left Mexico (my father) or Chile (my mother)? How about your grandparents when they left Argentina (father's side) or Germany (mother's side - and they had ended up Germany as refugees from Serbia)?"
Surprisingly, they did not bring family - I guess my answer to their home invocation gave them just enough awareness to know that it would not have been a good idea to do it.
We need Medicare for all if other countries can do it why can’t we? Oh yeah because of greedy people like the irs
“Some days you just have a short fuse”…. Yes, once a month for most of us women. 😣😂
Have you had baby? Sear until lightly caramelized. It's delicious!
What? Sacrilege! Any self respecting atheist knows that babies are best barbecued.
Adding to the discussion about a peaceful "divorce" in this country and people from the part that is non-secular, and therefor the red parts, moving to the secular part. The best part of this idea is that the country that would be made up of the blue and secular areas would be able to help those in the new red and religious new country relocate using tax money that had previously been sent to the red states as federal aid. I also think that it would be important for the new, blue, and secular country not provide any foreign aid to what would quickly become the newest undeveloped third world country. I also think it would be sweet irony to enclose this new country in a wall, or better yet, a dome, to keep all those horrible people out of our secular paradise.
I've frequently fantasized about forming a secular, humanist, and science & reason based nation but separate from the continental United States, or any other existing nation, perhaps in the Marshall Islands when the radiation from the 1950s atom bomb tests has dissipated enough. But withing the continental US reminds me of antebellum America in the early to mid 19th century when the north had embraced the industrial revolution while the south maintained traditional (of the time) agrarian practices. Two distinct cultures formed within one nation and it led (amongst other causes; particularly one key one over the immorality of slavery) to civil war. I think war would be a consequence out of no greater purpose than jealousy.
I'd like for them to cut off or restrict Federal aid money until they straighten up and act like adults. It's already done with other things. For example, the Federal speed limit is one that states can dismiss, but if they do so then they lose Federal funding for building and repairing streets.
So if they want their welfare money from California, then they can start by bringing an end to the things they say about California. Specifically, they can deal with the violent and dehumanizing rhetoric.
They behave like children, and it has gotten dangerous. It won't get better until there are clear consequences they actually feel and experience.
They're currenting biting the hand that feeds, so this would be a clear way to get them to straighten up and put the "United" back into "United States." Because the "peaceful divorce" idea is anti-Constitutional.
I love the wondrium recommendation, I've added it to my watch list. Looks interesting 😊
I saw your Billboard off of I-44 this morning for True Stories. Where are the other ones?
To the caller at around min. 45: Jen Peeples (former AXP host) said it best: "You are family when you at like family".
Act?
@@lexprontera8325 Right.🥴
I also would like to find a community in my area (Missouri). This would be a good topic for a show.
I'd swear that I heard this one on Stitcher a few weeks ago.
You can podcast from anywhere Seth, yeah come hang out with us over here in Auckland!!!
Seriously? If we are going to invite him here, couldn’t we take him somewhere nice?
Marlborough?
Good wine country.
Concentration of ticket paying punters up North though right. I’m more than happy to volunteer to take him on a tour of Hawkes Bay, Martinborough, Marlborough, North Canterbury and Central Otago after the main centres 👍🤣
@@allistergirvan5182 too true
I feel that way with my family as well, while ive been to more countries than my parents and they think they knew more when they have hardly been outside of the US
Here in Kenya there's Glovo, Jumia eats, bolt eats etc
Here in The Netherlands there are several restaurants that deliver, and there’s Thuisbezorgd (home delivery) that delivers for multiple restaurants. They existed well before COVID. Quite often they use (e)bikes or the 45 km/h scooters that are so common over here, because we’re a densely populated country.
Been an nonbeliever for quite some time now. its easy if one reads a news headline or three. I don't know maybe if I could see a miracle, like Biden falling down instead of up the stairs or the parting of the detroit river, I would even settle for my uncle Jerome picking up a check 😄
Re our founding fathers - Interestingly, I have a copy of Thomas Jefferson's bible. He apparently didn't subscribe to all the miraculous stuff, so he cut and pasted a shorter bible, focusing on the moral teachings. It's 131 pages as opposed to 1100 pages.
I mean, if you stop somebody's heart...
As to "the best country in the world"... The U.S. has many detractions. Social aid (medical, job security, etc.) is lacking, Many of the more well off do not want their taxes to be used to pay for those. But on the flip side, they also complain about all the poor & homeless persons in their own community.
I'd rather live in a country that has free medical coverage and higher taxes than here in the U.S.
The U.S. has become the corporate welfare state of the world! Companies more often pay little or even no real tax for all the business that they do, and yet pay their workers little in comparison.
As to having to say the "pledge of alliegence to the flag," Even when it was required, I never did so. For the simple reason that it proves no loyalty to anything, let alone the country. Just look at all the politicians who claim their loyalty... To their party! (but not their country/Constitution).
You and Natalie would be more than welcome in Canada. And we even have paved roads and things like Door Dash. Victoria BC is a pleasant, smaller city with lots of "nones". And I was born in the States, but I always say that it was because my mother's uterus happened to be there at the time - I'm definitely NOT American
The 2nd Reich was even worse in what they did in what is now Namibia, that led to everything of what the 3rd Reich did, and it's always overlooked
How else are we supposed to eat them?
Only thing that makes us better is recognizing and tryimg to correct our mistakes. Anything else is hypocritical. And I'm probably wrong saying that.
And that baby-kill-sis did cut all the strings with one swing. Caller owes her nothing (outside legally agreed loans or return of borrowed items). I've cut people out for far less, but I'm unforgiving bastard. This case is totally on her.
(As far as the situation is represented fairly.)
And yes, Seth, you have the right to say that. It's a reaction to far worse and self protection.
North West Arkansas is the best possible place, other than Little Rock, to find a secular community. Lots of young people there.
I am in NWA also. I have been looking for a secular community. But the ones I have found are in Little Rock
When if that split happens it'll be just like when the south secession the north became more industrialized and the south was not they were still too much h reliant on slavery and it shows even now they still aren't much industrialized
But don't you have to ask yourself if you won was it because of all the work you put in or was it divine intervention??🤷
Well, I kinda resent being called a lefty. I'm neither right nor left in my politics, but more in the middle - as I believe most people are. I think it may be time to get rid of destructive and limiting labels.
Yes we have Doordash in Australia...
Also .. your broadcast has advertisements..I get it..that's how you monetize your show...but Ironically they are nearly all religious commercials...just sayin...not sure if you are able to filter your preferred advertisers..
I don't try to enlighten people to the way I think that's what the Christian do , I try not to be like that I don't force my views on anyone and atheist that do are no better than the Christan they fight against , we must be smarter than that , we must be calm , you can't save someone that doesn't want to be saved you can't change the mind of someone that doesn't want to listen and if they are happy and cause no trouble and don't get in my face telling me how to live what to believe I will do the same let them live there fantasy
So how much harm is necessary before they are hurting people?
“…if they are happy and cause no trouble…”
There is no Christian sect in the world not actively causing harm.
There is no religion in the world that does not do harm.
Your argument is just an excuse not to care about other people.
I remember saying 'The Pledge of Allegiance' in school. A few kids who were in the JW church would stand but not say anything. I have always thought it was odd that no sports game in a stadium whether professional of in a small town can ever start without the National Anthem being sung or played. Theater plays or rock concerts don't start with this being done. Why sports? Do other countries do this?
No, they do not. Anthems are played at international matches, and the Olympics. That's it.
My country has an official and an unofficial national anthem.
The unofficial version is a complete piss-take of the official version and I have never met a citizen who did not know the unofficial version.
THAT is what we all used to sing.
Nationalism is stupid and insane.
And can we please stop bashing Florida? I live here. We didn't close down in fear of covid and still we're here, and everyone wants to come. I don't like all that DeSantis does, but people don't bother to look at what he actually wants. He does not want children to think they are gender confused before puberty simply because they like something that isn't gender asigned. I work on cars, but that doesn't mean I want to be a man. Let children be children and have their innocence while they can. They will figure it out in due time. In the mean time, how about just loving and accepting them as they are?
How many people would want to go to Florida if it had no beaches and snowed?
I wouldn't miss Florida if it were gone
He is a fascist. Young people are going to be gender curious and confused whether you like it or not. Knowing that they aren't alone helps them to maneuver in this world without so much fear and self loathing. How is removing them from their parents "loving and accepting them as they are"? And what does policing negative reporting about him have to do with gender? What does policing women's rights have to do with it? What does restricting African American studies and AP classes have to do with it?
I guess I missed the big movement to demand everybody who works on cars to not identify as a woman. Or to do something to children.
Desantis is a typical Republican politician. He uses fear and ignorance to gain power, much like Trump. He fear mongers about all of the supposed culture war bullshit issues that people are afraid of and don't understand. He points the finger at the people who are convenient to blame and gains politically from it.
Parents supporting their kids and making them feel comfortable to express themselves are being good parents. People like Desantis claim to be conservative and want limited government, but believe they should use government to get in between trans people and their doctors, and to tell parents how to raise their children.
I am a little confused at your abortion stance. Abortion is killing a baby. So to support it is to support killing children. We do have a problem as humans. We like sex but unfortunately the only way to avoid having a baby is either to avoid sex or put a barrier around the private areas. Lets not promote abortion or transsexuals etc. These are all stupid identity traits
No. Regarding your whole statement.
@justsayin3647 that's not a viable comment. Just saying no to a whole comment is completely stupid. Don't waste UA-cam space. I say Yes.
@@jesusisdead gotta spell it all out for ya? A “baby” is a fully gestated human being. There are many stages of development after an egg is fertilized. There is no point in any pregnancy where you are guaranteed to end up with a living breathing child. The choice to terminate one’s own pregnancy is in no way killing “children”. Also, there are more than two ways to prevent pregnancy. So again, No to your entire comment.
Hello. Im the only conservative atheist on the planet, apparently.
I agree with you. If killing your unborn child is okay, then where the fuk do we draw the line?
Shameful, in my opinion.
If we condone this, then we're no different than the barbarians in the bible who routinely chopped up children.
You are disgusting.
Abortion is not killing a baby.
Your ignorant feelings are your excuse to do harm. It is sad that your mother carried you to term.