Atheists Island...

Post by **big jimmy** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:13 am

I was just thinking..as all the wars in the world are caused by religion..why can't we find some philanthropist..with way too much money..who can buy an island and all us atheists..can go there...live in a religious free environment.....and just enjoy life.....no suicide bombers...no pro life/ pro choice people.... no religous zealots from all the world's faiths.....just people who respect each other...respect privacy and public property.....and who just want a peaceful existance....I'd sign up tomorrow.......

Post by **bozzman101** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:56 am

good idea

Jimmy who elce could we exclude???

nackers gypos chavs all the crack pots in midd east

anyone with an asbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any intollerent sect

very epiricuian an old greek who though life was for having fun eating and drinking all the time the nicer side of life bit like hua hin??

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:50 am

Can i buy 1 rai please. A world without religion has always been my utopian dream, bloody waste of time anyway, people that need a crutch to get through life..... don't get me started.........

Post by **Farang** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:04 am

'
Sing me up, too. Just make sure there are no Godless commies about.
'

Post by **matthew80** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:41 pm

I'm in. "One nation...under a beer tent"

Post by **DawnHRD** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:02 pm

No, thanks. Think I'll pass. IMHO, Utopian/idealistic communities often end up just as intolerant as those sections of society they are trying to avoid in the first place. Already shades of that on Atheists' Island, with all the exclusions coming in...

Post by **richard** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:30 pm

Read the book, seen the film 'The Beach' ????

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:59 pm

Silly old nostalgic martian me but Hua Hin was Utopia for me 9 years ago but it only lasted 5 years
Utopia doesnt last long the last 4 years has seen a steady decline on the utopia meter im using
But please set up your utopia island and i will let them know and maybe they will follow and i can get another few years of utopia here

what a bummer

Post by **STEVE G** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:22 pm

Big Jimmy, I'm by no manner a religous person but I would like to point out that not all religions are out to wage war.
My mother is a staunch upholder of the faith of the Church of England, and it seems to me that this has become a remarkably benign organisation.
Far from enbarking on a crusade of religous jihad; she has managed to curtail her zeal for the faith by participating in the "guess the weight of the cake" competition at the annual vicarage fete, (weather permitting) and standing in the rain opposite the war memorial on Remembrance Sunday.The only other Church events that command a good turn out, are ones that involve homemade jam, preferably on fresh baked scones.
Perhaps if some other religious organisations used this as a model of how to behave, the world would be a much safer place.

Post by **Parahandy** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:15 pm

Steve G: Agree 100%
I'm neither an atheist nor a bible-basher. People like your mum (and my parents) believe in treating others with respect (and that includes animals). I can't help quoting the Hitchiker's Guide to the galaxy 'And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would to be nice to people for a change...'
Oh, well - just have another beer and watch the BBC news...so depressing.

Post by **big jimmy** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:43 pm

STEVE G wrote:Big Jimmy, I'm by no manner a religous person but I would like to point out that not all religions are out to wage war.
My mother is a staunch upholder of the faith of the Church of England, and it seems to me that this has become a remarkably benign organisation.
Far from enbarking on a crusade of religous jihad; she has managed to curtail her zeal for the faith by participating in the "guess the weight of the cake" competition at the annual vicarage fete, (weather permitting) and standing in the rain opposite the war memorial on Remembrance Sunday.The only other Church events that command a good turn out, are ones that involve homemade jam, preferably on fresh baked scones.
Perhaps if some other religious organisations used this as a model of how to behave, the world would be a much safer place.

Steve.......I understand your Mum is a good woman and a good person. In all religions...be they Hindu, Jew, Muslim or christian, the vast majority are good decent people. But when I am a citizen of the so called ' civilised western world ' and the two leaders of the US and Uk invade another country because "God " told them too then all rational thinking has gone out the window..... When a muslim blows himself up to get to" paradise and 50 virgins" then that has no place in my version of how life should be lived...to go to war, as all religions do, in the name of there particular "God "..seems senseless to me....

Post by **dane48** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:25 am

Utopia is a nice idea big jimmy - but since the day homo sapiens started to multiply, there has been exstremists around - hunting down others that didn't think like them - my guess - this will continue to there only one left, or homo intelligencia takes over the planet - but they will probably also soon start to eliminate each other for various reasons.

Post by **Farang** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:04 am

'
Right now it's payback time for the Muslim world. Europe was the mad dog sending several waves of
religious extremists to fight the Muslims in their territory during two hundred years. At the time Muslim
world was the civilized part of the world carrying the torch of Greek and Roman culture and achievement
that Church and Religion had throttled during the Dark Ages. (hence the "Dark Ages"!)

While one does not condone any sort of terrorism, it still is good to find out about the whys and wherefores.
,

Post by **STEVE G** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:58 am

But when I am a citizen of the so called ' civilised western world ' and the two leaders of the US and Uk invade another country because "God " told them too then all rational thinking has gone out the window.....

Yes Big Jimmy, I think we can agree on that one!

Post by **Parahandy** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:31 pm

Please always remember on your island, that, if God (or whoever else you choose to believe in) didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him...

Are Gods only for people who need crutches? Doesn't everybody need a crutch occasionally?

Would your Eutopian idea really work?

I like the thought, though...

P.S. Would Beer Chang be allowed in your Eutopia?