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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

Great presentation, sir. I have spent my life in absolute amazement at the confounding crap and nonsense people are willing and/or want to believe.

I don't have a fancy education. My dad was a machine designer. Mom a nurse. Just normal go to work folks.

I announced at age 13 that I was leaving the church because all I saw was parishioners who were nice on Sundays and assholes Monday through Saturday. My folks were silent..then they just said "OK". About a year later they stopped attending. We never mentioned religion again. They never made a reference to "God". They rarely criticised others. They had lots of friends of differing "faiths". We talked at the dinner table each night about all manner of other subjects. Critical thinking and finding something interesting or nice to say about a coworker or neighbor was normal.

Wasn't I a lucky kid!

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MATX's avatar

Now I am going to read Fantasyland.

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