@pofkaf

Get your ass in the gym!

Alright fat fuck, have a seat. Actually - keep standing, it could do you some good.

Here's a fun fact. According to research from the CDC, roughly 75% of American adults don't get the recommended amount of exercise. Think about that. 3 out of 4 people sit at a computer all day, then go home and sit in front of a television all evening, again and again and again.

So if you finally get your ass to the gym regularly, you'll have a pyshical edge on almost everybody you know.

That stat doesn't even show how many adults exercise by running, but have never lifted a weight in their lives. Which means that if you bench, curl, and deadlift a respectable weight, you have another edge on tons of people.

And guess what? Thoise edges matter. They matter in the sexual marketplace. They matter in workplaces. They matter in everyday interactions. And they matter in the longevity of your life.

The reason is simple: before civilization, only the strongest humans could survive. They had to hunt. They had to build. They had to protect their resources. So naturally, the stronger men lived longer, and thus had a higher probability to breed. Evolutionarily, we are meant to be as strong and atheltic as we can be. However, as civilization has advanced, it has become progressively easier for fat fucks like you to stay alive longer too and affect the gene pool.

All of that is to say - get your ass to the gym. You'll become a better man because of it.

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@MentORPHEUS

I don't find "fallen or disillusioned believers grudge-fucking the concept of God out of resentment " all that common,

You must not get out much.

Or browse the internet much!

and those who do exist stand ideologically and theologically far, far apart from those who comfortably identify as a-theist.

I mean, duh. That's what I was saying when I differentiated between the two in the first place.

identify as

Tangent:

I've really started to hate that phrase over the past decade or so.

At least in this particular instance of your use, the ones "identifying as" something are actually that thing, and by its proper definition.

Then as yet another entirely different concept, stands the absurd caricature of what an atheist must think and act like, that believers conjure up in their minds...

...shocked to find out I was atheist.

Yeah, there's a lot of that in every direction. A lot of non-Christians get wacky ideas in their heads too, and are surprised to find out I am one (not a very good one, I'll admit).

@Stigma I think one can defend the church on its works throughout history which stand in the balance considerably more on the side of good than evil. But its ethics run from what was self evident to all but the most depraved of the ancients to things that are only desired and achieved by the less than sane.

Take Pope Alexander the 6th -very successful pope, great patron of the arts, good father who pushed his kids forward in the world but not too hot on the old Christian ethics. St Francis -total fruit loop who failed his family, pussied out of serving his people in war but great on the Christian ethics.

I seek neither to attack nor defend the church. I am just tired of people defining themselves and their ethical and spiritual positions against Christianity. Its a wider world out there and Christians are a very "broad church".