#Agnostics

[mapsontheweb]

Percentage of population across the world that identifies as Atheist or Agnostic

[thepersonalwords]

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

[politicalantibody]

Atheists and agnostics are more likely to be civically engaged, whereas the unaffiliated religious people are less likely to vote.

"We know politically for example," Smith says, "that religious Nones are very distinctive. They are among the most strongly and consistently liberal and Democratic constituencies in the United States."

AND we finally outnumber the evangelicals and the Catholics!

Read the article, it contains a number of interesting nuggets.

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GCP-019

Gender Class: Agnostimedicina

Gender Containment Procedures: Identification with the in-universe medication of the SCP Foundation known as "agnostics".

Description: Agnostimedicina is part of the scpmedicina umbrella, which represents the various medications used by the SCP Foundation. Agnostics are used to make those who take them doubt themselves and the world, and if administered properly, can completely change one's frame of mind. They are primarily used by the Department of Surrealistics.

[dmvbible]

[scottguy]

And they tell you what it means. That doesn't make it true.

You are able to think for yourself.

[jesusinstilettos]

I’m about to save you thousands of dollars in therapy by teaching you what I learned paying thousands of dollars for therapy:

It may sound woo woo but it’s an important skill capitalism and hyper individualism have robbed us of as human beings.

Learn to process your emotions. It will improve your mental health and quality of life. Emotions serve a biological purpose, they aren’t just things that happen for no reason.

1. Pause and notice you’re having a big feeling or reaching for a distraction to maybe avoid a feeling. Notice what triggered the feeling or need for a distraction without judgement. Just note that it’s there. Don’t label it as good or bad.

2. Find it in your body. Where do you feel it? Your chest? Your head? Your stomach? Does it feel like a weight everywhere? Does it feel like you’re vibrating? Does it feel like you’re numb all over?

3. Name the feeling. Look up an emotion chart if you need to. Find the feeling that resonates the most with what you’re feeling. Is it disappointment? Heartbreak? Anxiety? Anger? Humiliation?

4. Validate the feeling. Sometimes feelings misfire or are disproportionately big, but they’re still valid. You don’t have to justify what you’re feeling, it’s just valid. Tell yourself “yeah it makes sense that you feel that right now.” Or something as simple as “I hear you.” For example: If I get really big feelings of humiliation when I lose at a game of chess, the feeling may not be necessary, but it is valid and makes sense if I grew up with parents who berated me every time I did something wrong. So I could say “Yeah I understand why we are feeling that way given how we were treated growing up. That’s valid.”

5. Do something with your body that’s not a mental distraction from the feeling. Something where you can still think. Go on a walk. Do something with your hands like art or crochet or baking. Journal. Clean a room. Figure out what works best for you.

6. Repeat, it takes practice but is a skill you can learn :)

[laughingblue12]

Monkey Mathematics

(colored pencil, pen, & ink – entitled “Math Monkey” – by Leah Cim Reyeb (my name backwards)) It has been said that if you have an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters, and unlimited time, they will reproduce all the works of William Shakespeare.  Not only that, they will produce every other work of literature in every language on Earth that has ever been written… and…

[oleandro-drag]

saint sebastian tended by saint irene but they're both drag artists

felt like this might be something this site would enjoy

on stage: oleandro & delfi oraakel, photographer: peroksiid (on ig as oleandro_drag, delfi_oraakel and peroksiid)

[vaguely-concerned]

can't believe garak went from 'hope you have fun following my little breadcrumb trail of maybe-truths doctor it builds character ;)' at the beginning of the show to '*sigh* fuck it here's the whole loaf. the entire fucked up bakery of my soul. if you somehow still wanna have sex with me after this you know where I am, yours in infinite longing etc.' in a stitch in time. has anyone ever been so pathetically horrifically enduringly down bad as garak is for julian (laudatory)

[thepersonalwords]

My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

[emperornorton47]

As an agnostic, I've seen a tendency for atheists to generalize about Christians. The results of this study do not surprise me.

[macguffinandco]

MURDER AT MIST TREE MANOR 🔎

Our latest microsetting features an idyllic trip to a remote country house that’s definitely, for certain, going to contain absolutely no murders oh god oh no is that a body on the floor

quick please help us solve this fiasco by running to the patreon

[scottguy]

You don't even have to be AT ALL religious to follow Jesus' example and be kind.

That is all he wanted. He really was *just* a historically nice guy.

But, instead of focusing on that, "religious" people worry about whether he was the "Son of God" or not. So many religious people entirely miss Jesus' point that it's absurd.

All the rest of everything in the Bible is just 2000-year-old nonsense.

Far too many "religious" people arein it just because they believe they will have eternal life. It's simply about saving their own asses. It's really quite selfish.

Preachers and now politicians have found the pliability of religious people irresistible. Why? Because those people do not think. They simply do what they're told because they're promised that will give them "eternal life". 🙄

[sinful-skeptic]

Another fine case of “practice what you preach.” It’s not the woman’s fault that you lack self control.

[jesusinstilettos]

Sometimes people demand you justify being an atheist with a 200 page well-sourced thesis on biblical scholarship but one of the reasons I am not a Christian anymore is so fucking simple. It made my life worse. It made me unhealthy mentally. I’ve grown one thousand times more as a person without it. If it were really the one true wisdom from an all knowing infinite god, it would make my life better. And that’s enough proof for me. And it’s a valid reason.