Lakumi

I don't see why someone would go to a church if they don't believe in it. Church isn't the only place people make friends. I made mine because of dolls, none of them go to church and have friends. And unlike church, I don't have to listen to dogma I don't believe in. While I don't make it to the LDS church as much as I would like, I don't see an extreme potential for friendship there (the age gap and the well I call it city-country culture shock) but that's my issues

Yeah immature toys like that were around when I was a kid too. There are far worse (and dangerous) toys that have existed, and toys like that usually force a kid to play with others not sit on a phone or xbox

only works if you're a believer though.

they're not, its just the stuff I have on this computer all the Christmas music are in a folder on my desktop I am on my laptop, which has few things

I don't have them handy on my laptop, just got Fist of the North Star and Hindu Mantras

you know your jingle bells, Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer, Santa's Coming to Town those sorts or did you mean the songs I listen to that I like?

I usually listen to Christmas music from other countries since having worked in retail hearing the same songs all day just made me despise them!

I'd never go to something like that, I mean sure if I wanted my ego stroked or to scare people with dolls, that might be fun but seriously, I'd never attend any sort of singles get together's, just sounds awful to my ears. Though in reality, I am usually shunned at those sort of functions so I don't have to worry anyways.

Reading the comment section is always painful. Maybe since I am not conservative, or the fact that its American and people don't get that mad over politics here (not that I have ever seen) I think some people want to be alone, myself as an example- it is my goal in life to get a place, a not terrible apartment I won't have to share with anyone. I have my places of social interaction, back home I had friends. Throwing church into things has made it more complicated for me and I often experience a sort of fear of it simply because it's completely out of the norm for me. I refuse to bring upon the world flawed and mentally broken children. But hey I am not a typical case for statistics.

In Canada it isn't every person's right to have a gun, infact you have to get a licence and fallow all sorts of rules for them. I have never seen a gun in my life, you know.

Some believe that God, call it what you want, is beyond our weak understanding. If there is truly a divine creator out there, I don't believe I could ever understand it in this life, understand an avatar or incarnation yes because that is what such things are made for. Least I think so. So many religions, throughout human history, have put human looks to their Gods, or to put a Godly idea onto themselves.

There was no scripture reading when I was a child, I don't live in a religious home. And while I was baptized catholic it was more because it was something my grandparents wanted and I went along with it because I was promised money. It meant nothing to me or my parents. Point being, I suppose by time I started reading it, I was old enough to understand the things it was saying. I remember we had a bible growing up but it was always kept on the shelf and was not allowed to be touched, since it was old and he had got it as a gift or some such thing, so I bought my own later which was lost in a move. I liked that one too.

edit what, the bible? I mean as a kid the bible was just a book to me, like any religious book, and my interest in religion has never went away-got a whole shelf dedicated to these books

Unicorns, Incest, mass murder of humanity, as a child the old testament was some of my favourite reading

don't forget y2k, the next ice age and skynet people have been talking about the end times (taking forms of rival kingdoms invading, plague, famine, religious endtimes-most religions have one of those) I refuse to live my life in fear of anything like that

yeah religion and children don't equal happiness, my city proves that

what did the Lamenites and Nephites speak back then?

Well Krishna is blue Some say aliens, but this is getting all out of hand, soon this will turn into a conversation about why Krishna is blue, and why Shiva had many arms

While the novel I just wrote has some religion in it, it's not at all a religious book (and what little religion it draws upon is more from Hinduism then anything else) and it has violence and adult situations, I don't think anyone here would read it

I reply to those who believe in these creatures with a "show me some proof" this is science here, you can't just say a unicorn exists and not show me some sort of proof. Science doesn't run on faith.

yeah creationism, an idea I consider to be well to be kind, "insane" I am not against the idea of something we don't understand starting life, but I refuse to believe things like the earth being 6000, us living with dinosaurs, a global flood actually happening, that evolution isn't real, all that sort of stuff. creationism doesn't have anything going for it, no proof, just belief science has proof, and while it may not be perfect, its more then what creationism has. I believe the Bible and the Book of Mormon are stories that are meant to teach to us things, things that can live on in the ages, like loving your neighbour, don't let money become your God, don't be greedy, that sort of stuff. I don't believe them to be historical and I don't believe them to be scientific.

And I will be the Buzzkillington with this and say Buddhist monks are vegetarian

I always give to the homeless, as I told my mother "it is not my place to judge them" I don't have disgust for those people, they're human, and their lives are worse then anything I can imagine. It's none of my business what they spend the money I give them.

The Book of Mormon mentions a cockatrice, which is, in simple terms a chicken dragon in Greek Mythology, and I was told it was to mean a poisonous snake... Odd choice of word for a poisonous snake, I was actually hoping for it to be a literal cockatrice, I mean the bible mentions Unicorns

I don't see my family often, mostly geography reasons. I am thankful I don't have a mother in law. Last year was the first Christmas dinner I spent with my extended family, it was strange. My family aren't religious folks, not at all. Debate, political and religious are a commonplace- as it is in my home, something my family encourages and something I enjoy as well. Guess it differs for me since "I don't have kids, I'm still somebody's kid" as I heard someone say in a story once and liked the saying.