sucks that she's wasting her voice, it'd be much better if instead of spending it singing she spent it in lessons OH WAIT your parents can't afford lessons because they've spent all their money sending their prodigal atheist son to college and it looks like the church would be the best place for her to learn how to sing without paying anything and with the least amount of waste really

this is true except she's not really LEARNING at all, just PRACTICING. The only one teaching her anything is my mom and my mother has a good voice but is by no means a professional. She's not part of a CHOIR or anything, she just sings solo at church. I've actually helped my sister with her singing a couple times in terms of music theory when she had trouble hitting notes but that's because I got to take out the old *blows dust off* keyboard and say "this is what you're SUPPOSED to be singing"



edit: also haha. I have no idea what would happen if I straight-face told my parents that I'm a HOMOSEXUAL.... Actually they would probably laugh and say "GOOD JOKE, SON WHERE DID YOU HEAR THAT ONE"

Man I'm getting kind of paranoid.  This strange quarter sized lump appeared on my inner thigh near my crotch practically overnight.  It's kind of painful (not a sharp pain but touching it or walking does trigger a small sensation) and lumpy.  I don't know if it's a tumor, cyst, or a simple bug bite.  I did mention earlier in this topic that I had a pus-filled cyst grow out of my arm when I was 10 that went away as mysteriously as it came and I'm not feeling ill so I don't know what to make of this.

Just did my monthly check, guys.  How about you!

what you gotta do is rage against the momchine

Man I'm getting kind of paranoid.  This strange quarter sized lump appeared on my inner thigh near my crotch practically overnight.  It's kind of painful (not a sharp pain but touching it or walking does trigger a small sensation) and lumpy.  I don't know if it's a tumor, cyst, or a simple bug bite.  I did mention earlier in this topic that I had a pus-filled cyst grow out of my arm when I was 10 that went away as mysteriously as it came and I'm not feeling ill so I don't know what to make of this.

Just did my monthly check, guys.  How about you!

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not.

My parents know that I believe the possibility of a god is next to none and I got a lot of shit for it. One time my dad waved his fist at me and was like WHATS THAT, YOU BETTER NOT BE NO ATHEIST. Okay, but how can I force myself to believe, bitch. If there is a god, how would feigning it do any good. Anyway, not so much now. My mom is ALWAYS trying to convince me that God exists today. Just TODAY she showed me some shitty article with a plant shaped like an elephant that grew in some old man's prayer room. I'm like okay that's a cool plant but how does that prove God. And how come only his plant is an elephant and not anyone else's.

Oh and she once told me she saw Shiva or whatever hovering above her one day.

Didn't panda once try to convince his grandmother God didn't exist

I can't tell if this is a joke post or not.

It's not.  I'm usually not stirred by much but fleshy lumps on my skin usually get my attention especially considering my dad's family has a history with prostate cancer.  I get my ass checked yearly as opposed to every five years or whatever doctors recommend.

Yeah my mom used to try to force it on me when I was younger but I've always been really rebellious about it. Just the other day my dad was talking about gays and how its against gods intention or whatever and I just got flustered and started screaming FUCK GOD! FUCK A GOD THAT WANTS TO OPRESS OTHERS! Or some shit and then he asked me if I believed in god and I said. "no, I didn't and I never did". I'm pretty sure he already knew this though.

My dad's never been a very religious person so I don't really think it bothered him much. But my grandmother is crazy religious and used to send me letters when I was away about me needing salvation and shit and it was really depressing...

I don't know how your relationship with your mom is but why don't you just ask her to sit down and just tell her straight up that you're fine with her praying for you and if you get the free time to do so you'll go with her to whatever religious events she wants FOR MORAL SUPPORT. But you do not believe (explain to her that it is TOTALLY YOU) and you feel that she is being oppressive by forcing her religion on you.

Also tell her that there is a chance that you might possibly die in surgery and that you want to spend what might be the last night you'll ever have with your friends and family without a rigid religious atmosphere. You just want to have fun and whatnot.

Maybe she'll understand? If not buy a bottle of the strongest shit you can and run away like a jaded teenager.

My grandparents being the stereotypical italian catholic old people, it would break their heart if i told them my views on god and my beliefs.

my mum is a dawkins-reading, argumentative atheist. it kinda rules, but is kinda lame.

man you guys have shitty parents.  like, my mom is muslim and my dad is catholic but just the other night they started a discussion about how people at church want to vote for obama but they have to vote for mccain because of "christian values" and my dad just burst out with "fuck christian values, even jesus said separate church from state!!" and my mom butt in with "yeah, if i offered the mosque my lottery winnings they'd turn it down but ask for it as an anonymous check.  organized religion is as much politics as politics is."

my mum is a dawkins-reading, argumentative atheist. it kinda rules, but is kinda lame.

This is actually pretty awesome.

man you guys have shitty parents.  like, my mom is muslim and my dad is catholic but just the other night they started a discussion about how people at church want to vote for obama but they have to vote for mccain because of "christian values" and my dad just burst out with "fuck christian values, even jesus said separate church from state!!" and my mom butt in with "yeah, if i offered the mosque my lottery winnings they'd turn it down but ask for it as an anonymous check.  organized religion is as much politics as politics is."

Th-this is even more awesome, sorry.

Well, what can I say. Both my grandmothers are pretty religious and both my grandfathers are not, one has once entered a church and said "FUCK YOU ALL, YOU HYPOCRITICAL PEDOPHILIC PIECES OF SHIT, IF IT WERE UP TO ME, I'D STRAP MYSELF UP WITH SOME EXPLOSIVES AND BLOW UP YOUR HOLY MOUNTAIN WITH EVERY ONE OF YOU IN IT" and is generally really pissed off whenever a priest talks on tv, he still is somewhat spiritual though, I remember him saying that "if you believe in a higher power, go up a fucking hill and look up at the fucking sky or something". My other granddad has said that "if Jesus really did exist, he was a great man, but under no circumstances is he divine in any way; he was just a normal family man." He also said something about heaven and hell not existing and that our lives can be either heaven or hell.

I was talking with my dad about the beatles one day and I asked him what religion they followed and then sometime i somehow came up and said that one of my friends is an atheist(i was still some sort of christian back then, but I never actually thought about it), and he said that he was an atheist too. Oh and the day before last, a neighbor came to my dad's store and said that she went on a pilgrimage or some other shit and my dad went all like "I am an atheist, I don't believe in this sort of stuff. Feel free to do anything you wish with your spiritual life, I just don't relate to it." My mom is not exactly a Jesus freak, but my godmother is, and she nearly died twice because she abstained from eating for religious purposes; which is one of the reasons I dislike religion, it makes the people I love hurt themselves.

I by no means know what is best but I really think you guys that are closet atheists would be doing yourselves and your parents a favour by just coming clean about your beliefs.

my mom is not like this; I mean she stopped being mad already and as long as I show up to some indian shit occasionally (mostly social gatherings) I doubt she cares too much.

it was just surprising that I can say I BELIEVE THERE'S NO GOD and she'll just say "k" but if you actually tell someone else you are atheist she gets upset. seriously if you are feeling ballsy do this! in the past I've said shit like THERE IS NO GOD in front of friends and they are all "heh that peo" but then I say atheist and they freak out a little EVERYONE NEEDS FAITH MARK...EVERYONE.

not me b*ch ive got my tupac.

i remember having some conversation with my mum about LIFE what am i gonna do with my life and she said "well don't get too worked up. it's just life! what's the point? there is no point! it only means what you make it." and she gets a little too sentimental sometimes but i always like to remember when she said that. i mean my family are generally all atheists, we don't talk about it in the house but we used to make fun of this dick who lived nearby for being a 'bible-basher' all the time and other stuff like that so it's generally just agreed that god? who gives a flip! get on with it kind of thing

which is why i've always gotten really surprised when i hear people say things like have been said in this topic although i'm getting less surprised as i hear them more and more. it's a real stinker if your parents will actually disown you or whatever if you say you don't believe in god, i mean it seems like the whole family bond there must be less important to them than their religion? that's when things get really nuts!

i know quite a few indian parents that would just pretend not to have a child if said child was gays.

not my mom she owns usually.

TIME FOR ONE LAST STOMACH INJECTION!!!

Today's Divali. Happy Divali

so it is! I won't be doing it tho.