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Maybe consider checking this out: https://www.amazon.com/Years-Watchtower-Slave-Confessions-Co...
And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise
Uh, I am not sure how the two are related.
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Re: I was tricked on Facebook into downloading an obfuscated script
#72I treat any attempt to download like an attempt to call my phone, or ring my doorbell when I'm not expecting someone. Instant suspicion which is, 99% of the time, unfounded. Still, I've never had to deal with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I engage Jehovah's Witnesses, but not in the dick way that capital A Atheists might (I'm a small a atheist). I try to learn what they're about. They're generally nice people.
If you're going to make a distinction, make it between individuals, not groups. Grouping people is harmful and breeds stereotypes.
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Or, invite them in, and (politely) try to pitch a conversion to atheism. I usually get sooo close, then you see that programming snap back into place (you'll see their expression change to one of terror), and they suddenly have to leave really fast. Mormons are more fun for this, but Jehovah's Witnesses are a laugh riot.
I haven't seen enough of the universe to feel confident that I'm correct in my atheism, and I haven't felt the hand of Nothing touch my heart and send me out to evangelize It.
> I haven't seen enough of the universe to feel confident that I'm correct in my atheism
That's what atheism means: Lack of dogmatism. You're an atheist.
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Or, invite them in, and (politely) try to pitch a conversion to atheism. I usually get sooo close, then you see that programming snap back into place (you'll see their expression change to one of terror), and they suddenly have to leave really fast. Mormons are more fun for this, but Jehovah's Witnesses are a laugh riot.
I haven't seen enough of the universe to feel confident that I'm correct in my atheism, and I haven't felt the hand of Nothing touch my heart and send me out to evangelize It.
This is how atheists define atheism.