There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.

Cordelia ,'Lessons'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DebetEsse - Aug 17, 2012 2:20:23 pm PDT #18485 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I don't see that addressing the issue of Thor.


Amy - Aug 17, 2012 2:21:52 pm PDT #18486 of 30001
Because books.

It could be agnosticism. You don't believe in a god(s) but you don't disbelieve either (and don't worship).


Tom Scola - Aug 17, 2012 2:22:28 pm PDT #18487 of 30001
hwæt

616-ism.


billytea - Aug 17, 2012 2:24:05 pm PDT #18488 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

What's the term to describe someone who believes there is one (or are many) god(s), but doesn't worship?

In Australia, the term would be "Anglican".


Zenkitty - Aug 17, 2012 2:27:29 pm PDT #18489 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Wouldn't "polytheist" do it? It simply acknowledges that there are lots of gods; it doesn't mean you're worshiping or paying homage to any of them.


DebetEsse - Aug 17, 2012 2:28:47 pm PDT #18490 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

apatheistic (I totally just made that up)


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2012 2:35:35 pm PDT #18491 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You don't believe in a god(s) but you don't disbelieve either (and don't worship).

No, you do believe they exist. You just don't prostrate yourself to them. They might have created the world and all that stuff, but you don't supplicate for forgiveness or a better life or anything. Though they could intervene if you did.

The wikipedia definition of both monotheism and polytheism incorporates worship, which is the element I am removing.

It's also a consideration, I've been told, in some sects of Buddhism--some Buddhists think there's a creator, they just don't care to ask for stuff or show especial respect or anything.


Consuela - Aug 17, 2012 2:39:00 pm PDT #18492 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Hello Buffistas!

Guess where I slept last night! Here: [link]

And it was kind of awesome. I hadn't meant to be there, but I was in Santa Barbara for work, and then we had a site visit (check out the photos, so awesome and gorgeous), and it ran ridiculously long, and then it was 6 PM and I'd only gotten as far as Lompoc. So I called ahead (yay for cellphones) and got a room at the Madonna Inn.

And the room was great and so was the steak and the hot tub, although the steak was ridiculously overpriced. But the wine pours are 8oz, so that kind of made up for it.

Some day I'll go back when I don't have to be back on the road at 8AM...


sarameg - Aug 17, 2012 2:40:39 pm PDT #18493 of 30001

Nontheist? Although that probably has another meaning. Oh, I know! Indifferent!


DavidS - Aug 17, 2012 2:41:28 pm PDT #18494 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

apatheistic (I totally just made that up)

Oooh, good coinage!

We should promulgate it and point it out to erinaceous.

Apatheistic: I believe in god(s) but I just don't give a shit.