Virulent Birthday Cult: it's the downfall of Intelligent Society as we know it

[BillyTheMountain]

@uni57

No, Billy, I don’t make such a big deal about it. I didn’t “think about it all day.” YOU were the one who started a thread about birthdays.

Can’t an atheist have one harmless ritual? Besides, it’s nice when other people celebrate… me. (Actually, I don’t like birthdays – I don’t like that kind of attention.)

My birthday comes right on the heels of the new year. So, in lieu of a New Year’s Resolution, I make a birthday wish. It’s not for material things. I define the objectives and goals for the year. I don’t expect them to come true just for wishing. But maybe the wishing, combined with the candles and the ritual, will give me the little boost that I need. (There. Now you don’t have to misquote me to have some fun.)

Yeah, yeah. You seem to be saying you’re faith is weak, my child. We all go through times like these.

This thread doubles as a prayer list, and your request that the candles and the ritual will give you the little boost that you so desparately need, well, we’re all getting behind that prayer request for you.

@uni57

No, it’s called Irrational Internal Contradictionism.

Thanks for backchanneling me about the connection to the SUN GOD. The darkness and the candles in SUN’s honor, the cake sacrificed in the hopes of another safe trip around the Sun (since that is what Birthdays celebrate).

No contradictions allowed within the Birthday Cult, huh? Thou shalt have only one cult membership (The First Commandment). To each his/her own.

And what does your Birthday Cult say will happen to those who don’t get in lockstep?

Billy

[BillyTheMountain]

@uni57

Can’t an atheist have one harmless ritual?

It may be nice for you, but do you really want to mislead the kids that way?

By the way, I’ve got a source in the Atheist Scientist Front who says you’re also being investigating for teaching kids “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might have. this wish I wish tonight.”

My advice to you, my lad, is to hire an attorney. Or start praying.

[uni57]

I also knock on wood. What do you think about that?

[hobo_chuck]

@wobbling bear

(for sure Harry Potter’s things are pure fantasies with no relation whatsoever with the real thing : the shamans’ syndicate should sue!).

When dementors are near, it’s like the arc-tic zone!
so I Hufflepuff the chronic til’ the sorcerer’s stoned!

[hobo_chuck]

@hobo_chuck

When dementors are near, it’s like the arc-tic zone!
so I Hufflepuff the chronic til’ the sorcerer’s stoned!

that’s nothin’:

I drink polyjuice potion when I’m in the hood carousin’,
doin’ drive-by magic on my Nimbus 2000!

erm…Nimbus x…

[Rantz]

@uni57

I also knock on wood. What do you think about that?

Dang - now I know why my head hurts.

And there I was, thinking it was the red wine I had for my birthday.

[BillyTheMountain]

@BillyTheMountain

It may be nice for you, but do you really want to mislead the kids that way?

By the way, I’ve got a source in the Atheist Scientist Front who says you’re also being investigating for teaching kids “Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might have. this wish I wish tonight.”

My advice to you, my lad, is to hire an attorney. Or start praying.

@uni57

I also knock on wood. What do you think about that?

Dave,

You should know I have no problem with this. But your public admissions are only getting you in deeper with the Atheist Scientist Front.

You’ve seen how doggedly those Atheists Fascists have hunted down the Unfaithful here on this forum. They don’t persecute God Believers like Mao did, but really, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Billy