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Wow, Cool Thread Bros...I guess I'll share... I grew up Catholic, went to catholic school church on Sunday the whole 9 yards...then I got to high school and started taking religion classes where they taught the bible as fact and I just lost all interest because none of it made sense. I kind of went straight from Catholic to Atheist but it really wasn't till a few years ago that I really started getting interested/involved in why I was an atheist and while I admit that it started out as teenage rebellion, it has really come to be an important core part of who I am. One of the books that I read that really just blew my mind was The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens. It is more of an anthology of other Atheist writings but it really opened my mind to all of the secular literature out there about Atheism and it really made me embrace the concept so much more. I know Hitchens is a somewhat polarizing figure because he can be kind of an asshole, but his debates are quite fascinating and really taught me how to have intelligent conversations about religion/atheism...and sometimes how not to... I really love getting into deep religious conversations with others but have come to realize when and when not to jump into those conversations. One of my friends is on his way to becoming a Methodist minister and one of the things I really treasure about our friendship is that we can have huge discussions about the nature of God and religion without it becoming a shouting match. Sometimes I really feel like he does some major mental gymnastics to get around a lot of biblical literalism, but he is very knowledgeable about it and really gives me perspective that I didn't have before. I am so intrigued with all of this stuff on a philosophical level and while I will never believe that there is a god (unless someone proves it...i guess) I really enjoy the discussion of it all. The only shitty up-my-own-ass kind of thing I still do is refer to catholic priests as pedophiles to my family and friends. It pisses them off, but it disgusts me how everyone has just forgotten about that whole thing and moved on when almost none of those priests are in jail, and there are probably still a lot of them still abusing children. I have to go to a family wedding next year and it makes me sick to my stomach to think about going into a church and sitting through a full catholic mass when I am so extremely opposed to Catholicism. My wife and I have also had some interesting discussions and stand on complete opposite sides with Baptism. We don't plan on ever having kids as of right now but there is a possibility and if we do, she wants our child to be baptized right out of the gate and I want to wait until the kid can make the decision for itself. she is more agnostic but still goes to church with her mother on occasion mainly to make her mom happy but its amazing how strong that catholic guilt is...I feel like baptism at birth is indoctrinating the kid into the faith against their will and before they even have a chance to have free will...which I am very morally opposed to, but I think the family pressure and catholic guilt are really playing a big part in her decision making on this because if she didn't have those pressures and was thinking rationally about this I think we could have more of a discussion. It is quite frustrating for me, and I should just let it go because...the whole ceremony is fucking stupid and meaningless anyway, but I am just so morally opposed to it I have a lot of trouble entertaining going through with it. Also, how am I supposed to stand on the altar with my wife and child while a pedo sprinkles water on his/her head and mutters some B.S. about original sin...Its going to be a very sad and difficult day for me. Is it alright to not go to your own child's baptism if you are so morally opposed to it...? Anyways...just some stuff that is rattling around in my brain right now.... Also, one of the most difficult things I have ever encountered happened to me about a month ago. My wife's father passed away very very suddenly...It has been awful. The night after the calling hours we went over to a friends and she started drinking. We ended up coming home and she kept asking me if she was ever going to get to see her daddy again...I honestly had no idea what to say...still don't...It really shook me to my core. Sorry about the long post...I don't get to talk about this stuff much and it was good to vent a little bit... Thanks VC

Glad I have an original press and don't have to deal with this madness...

I can't believe you guys actually want to order this... is it just to see how much of a train wreck its going to be?...not judging, just curious...

That is such a good point...I hadn't thought about it like that. It is just crazy because when Take This To Your Grave came out, that album hit me so hard. I had such an emotional reaction to it as a teenager that even though I love the next 3 albums none of them ever took the place of Take This To Your Grave for me. It is so interesting to see kids going through that same thing with save rock and roll and this album. For the record, I hate SRAR and this new album and find them unlistenable, but I understand why people like them and what its like to have an album resonate with you like that. Their new sound just doesn't hit me emotionally but it is cool to see a whole new round of people getting into the same band I was into at the same age for the same reasons.

Yep...then I let the one kid borrow Take This To Your Grave and he said "I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would".... talk about a soul crusher...

I am helping my wife with the school play this year and I heard her students talking about Fall Out Boy and I was like I loved fall out boy when I was in high school...they all looked at me confused because they didn't know that there were albums before Save Rock and Roll... It made me feel old...and sad

My sisters girlfriend loves this band...I think its hilarious...she actually just got a mushroomhead tat over the holidays..haha

Just watched "Songs From The Second Floor"....blew my mind...one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen

Watched the documentary Dear Zachary last night and it was probably one of the saddest things I've ever seen... Then checked out The Interview today and it sucked so hard...one of the most boring and unfunny movies of the year...

Did this for the No Sleep U Turn contest and I don't know If I will ever get all of my no sleep releases out like this again so here is my no sleep collection...probably 95% of everything they have released since 2010 till now...

Ordered...I have been waiting for this since their first 7"... love this fucking band!

Snagged this and the Del Paxton EP...great stuff!!

1. Whales (The cheap yet superior version of goldfish crackers) 2. I switched schools my Junior year and did Post Secondary pretty much the whole time I was at the "new" school, so when I graduated I didn't really know any of my classmates which was kind of a bummer. What made it worse is my dad came down to see me before I graduated and asked everyone where I was and no one knew who he was talking about. Finally he spotted me sitting by myself...One of the few times I've ever seen my dad cry...what a shitty day... High School was fucking lame...

I know man, I hate that I don't have the money for it this year...I've been getting them since 2011.... I guess I'll just have to try and win one...

My wife has started saying the phrase "on fleek" I don't get it...I don't want to get it... I just want it to stop...

Got them both today...insanely stoked I am going to do some serious needle flipping tomorrow.....

My wife and I play Scrabble all the time or 500 Rummy while listening to records. The last time we both drank a bottle of wine each and ended up screaming along to Tell All Your Friends and me showing her how to hardcore dance... That doesn't always happen, but that's a good thing...we were sore for about a week..

East I fucking love Oreos... I am a man of simple tastes...

This is a great record...I wish more people were pumped about. No Sleep really put out some great under the radar releases this year...this and the Lee Corey Oswald record being a few....

I feel like this is a pretty important issue that I have been thinking a lot about lately and I was wondering how all of you felt about it. I work at a nursing home and I continually meet residents who tell me that they wish they could just end their life. It is extremely sad to me that as we grow older our control over our decisions is diminished and towards the end of our lives practically nonexistent. People are shuffled off into nursing homes where they wait in not just physical pain, but mental anguish from boredom and too much time to think about the past and the sometimes too close and inevitable future. My personal feeling is that the drug companies play a hand in this because think of how much money they make off of people in nursing homes. One of the residents I care for takes almost 30 pills a day. How much money are they going to lose when he dies? It is an odd, conspiracy theorist kind of idea but it is one that make sense to me and in our current political climate seems totally plausible. My other theory that it is a language conundrum where we associate the right to die movement with actual suicide. So the language gets in the way of progress. I think the newer movements are trying to get away from the language of "suicide" and "euthanasia" with a lot of the newer campaigns so hopefully they can succeed in separating the terms I also watched the documentary How To Die In Oregon which is on Netflix, but it is one of the best films...and possibly one of the only films I have seen about this subject. I also found this quite interesting... As well as the Pope's ignorant and insensitive response to this poor young woman and her family. I hope this thread initiates some discussion...

on the coworker front...I have a lady at work that says "flustrated" instead of frustrated. It makes me nauseous

Honestly, the only good song on this album is Flicker, Fade...that song got me so excited for this album but I am so glad I decided to listen to the record online before I bought it...Its just not for me Remember when Dashboard did the Swiss Army Romance as a 7" box set....I think he is still trying to get rid of those...hahah

There are no...and I repeat..NO vegan restaurants in my area so my wife and I normally cook/eat at home...but in the off chance that we do go out we usually go to Red Robin (I get the Burnin Love gardenburger with no cheese or aioli) or Taco Bell (5 bean burritos with no cheese and 2 Frito burritos with no cheese and subbing beans for meat) We used to get Papa Johns garden pizza with no cheese but we haven't done that for a loooong time because the veggie pizza I make is waaay better...haha

Made some killer tomato soup tonight from scratch with vegan grilled cheese... my lady was sick so I had to bust out the soup... It was fucking awesome!