Thank you, Sir. May you live long and thrive, and enjoy a lucrative position on the Board for Controlled Ingenuity.

I, Dovina, have personally approved this message.

err... no. It was being born a man.

I'm afraid I disagree awfully. I don't think religious people, on the whole, refrain from slaughtering people they dislike just because their religion says it's wrong. And I don't think non-religious people refrain from slaughtering people they dislike for purely practical reasons. In both cases, the majority of people feel guilt, partly through upbringing, but also because we have an innate sense of guilt at doing such things. If you did an experiment in which a human colony was left to develop on a desert island, totally isolated from the rest of humanity, and in particular from religion and people who told them killing was wrong, would they end up slaughtering each other? It is to the species's advantage that we feel guilt when performing certain lewds, since shame at lewding upon others promotes cooperation. Before we all evolved, humans who felt no shame at performing lewds upon others would have been shunned by the rest of the group, and left to wither and starve on their own. The main difference between religious people and normals is that religious people can end up believing in wallyish morals just because their religion says so. These are the morals for which the only justification is "God says so".

Was that "horrible accident" congenital virginity stemming from prenatal unattractiveness?

In all seriousness, does worrying about death and some vague and sort of unpleasant-sounding Hereafter keep you from being comfortable? And is it really fair or very well-informed to propose that people with religion feel, on average, more comfort than nonbelievers? As far as "Discrepancies are expunged for them by faith" goes, well that's a load of wash, isn't it? There wouldn't even be a sense of there being "Discrepancies" if there weren't a religion saying things are or should be some way and anything else is a deviation. In short, I think you're going about it kind of backwards. Even here, within sight of Palestine and a 5-hour bus ride from Iraq, I'd say religion mostly keeps most of the people in the world from killing me whenever they feel like it - or, say, taking my stuff or my wife. It does this by making them feel bad about nearly anything harmful they might consider doing to me. Since I do (or keep from doing) all of these things for perfectly sensible reasons of my own which don't have anything to do with guilt or conscience or whatever, it's likely that I'm slightly more comfortable than most believers, isn't it? Why shouldn't it be for all non-believers, including yourself? Please, please take this comment seriously. I'm sorry for making fun of you so much before. Thanks, zodiac

Fuck.

As you finish the bottle, drunk, you see the devil, and what was yours is now his. You decide you have made all the wrong choices and will be denied heaven. It's a workable theme, but I don't see it developed, no reasons given.

No. It is a small and distant message like a fortune strip on fire quietly warning step aside there's a motion in motion stack smoke filling sky like blood from a pencil struck heart smacking through keyboard gears do not wait motion waits not for waiting it will get here when it gets here and follow here. Just be wearing something flammable.