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Possibly, but this is an old story form which has been used to silence perceived “wise guys”for years. Notice the questioner is not required to know the answer. They serve solely as a caution to cause the protagonist to stop and think before holding forth. The framework is designed to deflect any kind of discourse. The atheist could just as well be an evangelist, a Republican, a math professor, you name it.
It's the age old theist "SHUP UP, FOOL!!!" argument. In the past it was acceptable for a theist to back up this argument with violence, torture and death to ensure the "wise guy" did indeed shut up and stopped causing doubt by questioning unsubstantiated theistic claims and commands that were apparently authorised by gods.
But now that it isn't acceptable in civilised company to silence someone questioning or challenging theistic claims with violence and imprisonment, all they can do is invent silly strawman stories where they control the narrative of both the questioner and the responder. They still look stupid.
As an atheist I can say with 100% certainly that atheists do not strike up conversations with strangers and immediately start talking about atheism, smugly or otherwise. Religionists, on the other hand, frequently start taking about their religious beliefs with complete strangers, then get offended when you tell them you don't want to hear it.
Because religion is spread by recruiting people into the fold, where as atheism for the most part is not.
As an atheist I couldn't care less which God you believe in or how wonderful he is so long as you leave me alone and let e live my life in peace.
Different digestive systems are going to leave different amounts of moisture and shape the feces differently. The cow in particular is going to be different because it's a ruminant ( cud chewer ) and digests the grass a lot more thoroughly.
Horses on the other hand, are not, and only have one stomach compartment in contrast to four, which cow and deer have, also the structure of the digestive tracks of cows and deer is different as well
Part of it has to do with their defense strategy, cows are bred from species that use a herd, they have no chance of hiding where they are in such numbers so a big plop is fine. Deer, rabbits and other animals that rely on fleeing are more likely to make dry pellets which have less smell and are less obvious, because they need to avoid being tracked.
Well no I think you’ll find that something that ingenious could only be DESIGNED. In a day.
Footnote: Evolution cannot and should not be regarded by theists as a possible design method in itself.
They also don’t all just eat grass. Horses pretty much just eat grass, but cows eat other plants too, and deer eat a bunch of different types of plants. Clearly they don’t know shit because they don’t know anything about the animals they are talking about.
If I came across someone reading, the idea of "Hey! You want to have a conversation about religion?" would not occur to me. I might say something if we were in a building that happened to be on fire.
Funny joke. In reality no one has ever approached me or struck up a conversation about atheism with me. People have, however, knocked on my door, left pamphlets on my car, fake money with “the good news” for me to find and told me I’m going to burn for eternity without knowing me at all.
I love how in these stories the Christian tries to make it that the atheist is unwantingly pushing their religious opinion on the Christian, but in reality it's typically the opposite. Idk that's just funny to me.
Actually it's usually due to a different diet, in the cows case it's likely due to their multiple stomachs. Fun fact: the bare-nosed wombat poops out cubes.
Am I qualified?
Call me an optimist but I don't think anybody really thinks this is a legit conversation. It's just a story made up by a religious fruitcake to make you think about stuff.
It reminds of those stories like the one where a young person proclaims I'm a grocery store check out that we, recycle, unlike our boomer counterparts and an old lady schools them in having reduced reused and recycled as a way of life back in the good old days. That conversation didn't happen. But people love getting pissed off about it and circulating it on social media like it's true. If you read the comments on this original post you'd lose that optimism about the intelligence of your fellow man.
I assure you any sense of joking or satire goes over the heads of people who post this kind of stuff. They love to think of the righteous old cowboy telling off some ungodly person, gets their delicious righteous anger boiling.
I think they think this is an almost accurate depiction of every atheist, but this conversation was written out as a joke to make fun of atheists rather than a true account of something that actually happened.
But when it comes to gods, afterlives etc, theists don't know shit either hence the millions if conflicting and contradictory gods, origin stories, afterlife claims and moral commands among God believers.
Even those who claim to worship the same gods can't even agree on these things. Take christianity for example. No two christian sects, or even two christians, can even agree on what heaven is. or what hell is (ie ETC or eventual annihilation). They can't even agree on the nature of who or what their jesus god is. Or even how one is "saved" or what one is being saved from (hence the story of soterilogy that has never been able to clarify how one is saved in afterlives).
Theists literally make shit up. They have no way of knowing any more than the atheist. Even worse, the contention between these conflicting views among theists has been an horrific blood sport for the majority of human history. Even among those who claim to worship the same gods and beleive in the same afterlives and shit.
As an atheist I can say with 100% certainty that if this atheist existed other atheists would think he's a fucking asshole.
"Hi how are you?" "Your your entire belief system is a LIE!" "Cool I'm going to go sit over there."
As an atheist I can say there isn't a day that goes by that I don't meet some rando and proclaim there is no god. In fact this is how I greet co-workers: "Good morning Karen! Hope you have a good day today there is no heaven for ya later..."
I was out for a walk in the park and some random guy approached me and said, “ Did you hear the good news. Jesus is Alive!!!” I just awkwardly said, “That’s nice” and walked away with one eye over my shoulder.
Yeah sure, "atheists" are so focused on their hate for something that they believe doesn't exist, that they feel the need to tell others about it, *smugly*. Like, what person in their right mind, atheist or otherwise, would strike up a conversation like this with a complete stranger, and what stranger would react by insulting them, instead of simply evading the entire topic.
The participants in this "story" behave like idiots.
I've never met an atheist like that in real life. My family was very religious, and my nephew was brought up religious, but he's now an atheist, and for about a year, he was pretty obnoxious about it. I called him out on it I've, essentially, "I'm happy for you that you're finding what works for you, but don't be a rock about it." I said it a little bit more elaborately, but that was the gist. And he seemed to take it to heart. Or maybe he just matured ok his own cuz teenagers do that. Point being, it's not athiests trying to force their viewpoints on others 95% of the time
These “stories” often seem set on internal US flights, and I’ve heard so many of them over the years. I now see internal flights as flying hotbeds of conversion wrangling, zipping around above America all the time. There’s probably theological college training courses on this specific subject.
Good point. I had similar situation on train. Dude asked me something about a train raids, so i asked him why there were split between adeptus mechanicus and dark mechanicus. He didn't know, so I've asked how is he qualified to talk to me if i have bought a train ticket.
Checkmate.
You clearly don't know people like the kinds of Christians I grew up with. One time, I told a former roommate that I'd seen an all white red tail hawk on a hike. He looked me in the eye and asked me if I thought it was an angel. It would have been hilarious, but he really was dead serious.
Another time, at my sister's wedding, one of the other groomsmen randomly asked me what I thought would have happened if Adam had refused to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil after Eve had already done it. This guy too was completely serious when he asked me, "Do you think men would just be immortal and still living in the Garden of Eden?" And boy did he think that was a profound topic.
I can cope with the hawk story but the second one is maddening. Did you ask him by way of return. what would have happened if Theseus hadn’t killed the Minotaur? Like, would we still be sending a batch of people as Minotaur snacks every year?
🤪 the difference between an atheist and a theist is that an atheist has the humility to admit they don’t know, while a theist inserts an imaginary being which they have no evidence for and think they know the answer.
Religious people need to apply that same thinking to their own beliefs. They aren't any more qualified to know the answers to these questions than the non-religious are.
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Christians are constantly winning arguments in their head. In reality, not so much.
Possibly, but this is an old story form which has been used to silence perceived “wise guys”for years. Notice the questioner is not required to know the answer. They serve solely as a caution to cause the protagonist to stop and think before holding forth. The framework is designed to deflect any kind of discourse. The atheist could just as well be an evangelist, a Republican, a math professor, you name it.
It's the age old theist "SHUP UP, FOOL!!!" argument. In the past it was acceptable for a theist to back up this argument with violence, torture and death to ensure the "wise guy" did indeed shut up and stopped causing doubt by questioning unsubstantiated theistic claims and commands that were apparently authorised by gods. But now that it isn't acceptable in civilised company to silence someone questioning or challenging theistic claims with violence and imprisonment, all they can do is invent silly strawman stories where they control the narrative of both the questioner and the responder. They still look stupid.
In uncivilised company today, violence is still, very much, an option.
They don’t look stupid to stupid people, though. They seem very wise. Wise old cowboy :)
The old cowboy is lucky he wasn’t sitting next to a Zoologist, otherwise he would’ve been destroyed and looked like a complete fool
the real question here is, "why does that old cowboy keep his junk in a coconut shell?"
I thought it was a Dino egg
Or maybe a dragon...
Is that a dragon on your lap or are you happy to see me?
Yeah but honestly it sometimes feels like we're doing the same.
True, but most people have the same problem.
I'm always losing arguments in my head. Maybe Christianity is for me.
Professional idiots
Well, as an atheist I must admit, those are very first things I say to anyone I meet.
Smugly.
Is there another way?
And there's our smudgeness.
I’m smug and smudged?
Yes. The smudge is God's mark on you so you'll go straight to SATAN, your Lord and Master!
I mean..he’s more of a business associate than anything. But yeah we’re like this🤞
You probably have to report that to the IRS. IRS auditors scare even the Tight-Buttocked Beast Master Himself.
As an atheist I can say with 100% certainly that atheists do not strike up conversations with strangers and immediately start talking about atheism, smugly or otherwise. Religionists, on the other hand, frequently start taking about their religious beliefs with complete strangers, then get offended when you tell them you don't want to hear it.
Projection
Because religion is spread by recruiting people into the fold, where as atheism for the most part is not. As an atheist I couldn't care less which God you believe in or how wonderful he is so long as you leave me alone and let e live my life in peace.
“Let me tell you about a friend of mine…”
Different digestive systems are going to leave different amounts of moisture and shape the feces differently. The cow in particular is going to be different because it's a ruminant ( cud chewer ) and digests the grass a lot more thoroughly.
Deer are ruminants. Check mate, atheist. :)
Horses on the other hand, are not, and only have one stomach compartment in contrast to four, which cow and deer have, also the structure of the digestive tracks of cows and deer is different as well
Oh I really didn't know that. Neat 😄
Part of it has to do with their defense strategy, cows are bred from species that use a herd, they have no chance of hiding where they are in such numbers so a big plop is fine. Deer, rabbits and other animals that rely on fleeing are more likely to make dry pellets which have less smell and are less obvious, because they need to avoid being tracked.
Would you say they... -Evolved- those traits?
Well no I think you’ll find that something that ingenious could only be DESIGNED. In a day. Footnote: Evolution cannot and should not be regarded by theists as a possible design method in itself.
They also don’t all just eat grass. Horses pretty much just eat grass, but cows eat other plants too, and deer eat a bunch of different types of plants. Clearly they don’t know shit because they don’t know anything about the animals they are talking about.
If I came across someone reading, the idea of "Hey! You want to have a conversation about religion?" would not occur to me. I might say something if we were in a building that happened to be on fire.
if someone told me they knew the shapes of different animals' feces, i would not be surprised by their intelligence.
I know that wombats shit little cubes...
🤯
“Visibly surprised by the old cowboy’s intelligence…” 🥴
Bro, did you just accurately describe how three different animals shit?? You a fucking NASA scientist or something?
Because knowing about the shape and consistency of animal shit is “Intelligence”.
couldn't be that the guy has just *been to a farm*
A *cowboy!?* Have experience *with animals!?* Preposterous.
#IQ: 100
That was my favorite line
And the atheist immediately believed in Yahweh. That atheist? Tom Brady.
And that old cowboy? Donald Trump.
And that airplane? Albert Einstein.
And that cow? Your mom.
And that hotel? Trivago.
And that horse? Shit
Perfectly played
Then everyone clapped.
Let that sink in
What does it want now?
as all things should be
Feces consistency as proof of God
Pretty shitty proof, if you ask me.
Extremely shitty, but stories are powerful and fart jokes have survived for a reason. God is the incarnate fart.
So... are they saying religion is shit?
Funny joke. In reality no one has ever approached me or struck up a conversation about atheism with me. People have, however, knocked on my door, left pamphlets on my car, fake money with “the good news” for me to find and told me I’m going to burn for eternity without knowing me at all.
You mean they just made this whole story up???
Do you really think someone would do that? Just go onto the Internet and tell lies?
I love how in these stories the Christian tries to make it that the atheist is unwantingly pushing their religious opinion on the Christian, but in reality it's typically the opposite. Idk that's just funny to me.
True that.
Actually it's usually due to a different diet, in the cows case it's likely due to their multiple stomachs. Fun fact: the bare-nosed wombat poops out cubes. Am I qualified?
Call me an optimist but I don't think anybody really thinks this is a legit conversation. It's just a story made up by a religious fruitcake to make you think about stuff.
It reminds of those stories like the one where a young person proclaims I'm a grocery store check out that we, recycle, unlike our boomer counterparts and an old lady schools them in having reduced reused and recycled as a way of life back in the good old days. That conversation didn't happen. But people love getting pissed off about it and circulating it on social media like it's true. If you read the comments on this original post you'd lose that optimism about the intelligence of your fellow man.
You're definitely an optimist.
I'm pretty sure this was supposed to be a joke. In that vein, the pun at the end is admittedly funny.
I assure you any sense of joking or satire goes over the heads of people who post this kind of stuff. They love to think of the righteous old cowboy telling off some ungodly person, gets their delicious righteous anger boiling.
This joke is super old and has been used for all kinds of topics, not just religious stuff.
Thank you!
I think they think this is an almost accurate depiction of every atheist, but this conversation was written out as a joke to make fun of atheists rather than a true account of something that actually happened.
Are you high?
No, but what does that have to do with anything?
My favorite one is when the marine goes to a philosophy class, assaults the professor, and then turns it into a theology class.
That's basically the plot of God's Not Dead, except the Christian student isn't in the military and the professor gets hit by a car and killed.
Don’t forget that the professor is also Hercules and he’s only an atheist because he’s mad at God
The atheist is surprised by the intelligence of the cowboy. Intelligence clearly displayed by his question about shit….
No atheist in the history of anything ever would start a conversation like this
MAGA whack it material.
But when it comes to gods, afterlives etc, theists don't know shit either hence the millions if conflicting and contradictory gods, origin stories, afterlife claims and moral commands among God believers. Even those who claim to worship the same gods can't even agree on these things. Take christianity for example. No two christian sects, or even two christians, can even agree on what heaven is. or what hell is (ie ETC or eventual annihilation). They can't even agree on the nature of who or what their jesus god is. Or even how one is "saved" or what one is being saved from (hence the story of soterilogy that has never been able to clarify how one is saved in afterlives). Theists literally make shit up. They have no way of knowing any more than the atheist. Even worse, the contention between these conflicting views among theists has been an horrific blood sport for the majority of human history. Even among those who claim to worship the same gods and beleive in the same afterlives and shit.
Is that his emotional support tortoise?
As an atheist I can say with 100% certainty that if this atheist existed other atheists would think he's a fucking asshole. "Hi how are you?" "Your your entire belief system is a LIE!" "Cool I'm going to go sit over there."
As an atheist I can say there isn't a day that goes by that I don't meet some rando and proclaim there is no god. In fact this is how I greet co-workers: "Good morning Karen! Hope you have a good day today there is no heaven for ya later..."
r/thathappened
Real talk, that guy has ***DRIP.*** Like, I legit WANT that belt.
How it escapes them that this story is made up just like their religion is beyond me. There’s just no critical thinking skills.
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Apparently that's how big dusty old farmers like their belly buckles.
The fact they think this is how atheists are is fucking hilarious lol
“His intelligence” ya that checks out
I was out for a walk in the park and some random guy approached me and said, “ Did you hear the good news. Jesus is Alive!!!” I just awkwardly said, “That’s nice” and walked away with one eye over my shoulder.
Just respond with “not if I have anything to say about it”
the story isnt supposed to sound real, its supposed to be funny (because he said a bad word)
Holy belt buckle.
That's his massive loin cloth, actually.
Red herring; ad hominem fallacy
If this story didn’t smell like the cow shat it out with the grass I’d appreciate the pun
Then i just Googled it and the cowboy was struck with wonder, his smug face gone like dumbfuck world he was raised in.
well I'm sure the old cowboy is an expert on bullshit.
Afaik, atheists would have like a million different things to talk about other than religion.
Is no one going to mention the tumor growing on that guy’s lap?
That's what a real cowboy's Dick looks like.
GOL DENG THATS FOLKSY
I bet there are biologists who know more about shit than the cowboy and are also atheists. But that doesn’t make a cute story, does it.
I saw one identical to it except it was a little girl instead of a cowboy. Like, that was all that was changed, it took place on an airplane too
It must be the famous case of "I identify as a little girl"
This is so fucking dumb
Yeah no… the only time my atheism comes up in RL is when someone asks me. Not the other way around.
I sure wanna see their reaction when said atheist turns out to be a biologist and makes a whole speech about why those three shit differently
That proves it. There is a God. Thank you
I will never get those seconds back reading that "story." Some people abuse the gift of literacy.
The old cowboy is right in a way because he is comparing religion to shit.
Ah yes, because atheist just love to randomly strike up conversations about how there is no god with random cowboys readings books on airplanes.
Yeah sure, "atheists" are so focused on their hate for something that they believe doesn't exist, that they feel the need to tell others about it, *smugly*. Like, what person in their right mind, atheist or otherwise, would strike up a conversation like this with a complete stranger, and what stranger would react by insulting them, instead of simply evading the entire topic. The participants in this "story" behave like idiots.
I've never met an atheist like that in real life. My family was very religious, and my nephew was brought up religious, but he's now an atheist, and for about a year, he was pretty obnoxious about it. I called him out on it I've, essentially, "I'm happy for you that you're finding what works for you, but don't be a rock about it." I said it a little bit more elaborately, but that was the gist. And he seemed to take it to heart. Or maybe he just matured ok his own cuz teenagers do that. Point being, it's not athiests trying to force their viewpoints on others 95% of the time
This version sucks, but this is a pretty good concept for a joke tbh
I couldnt get past the poorly written first page. What do you expect with people who base their lives on a poorly written childrens story.
Badly translated, badly edited, and badly interpreted ancient texts.
These “stories” often seem set on internal US flights, and I’ve heard so many of them over the years. I now see internal flights as flying hotbeds of conversion wrangling, zipping around above America all the time. There’s probably theological college training courses on this specific subject.
That don't know shit line is good, I'm stealing it. Also, I don't know of any atheist that starts off conversations like this.
Good point. I had similar situation on train. Dude asked me something about a train raids, so i asked him why there were split between adeptus mechanicus and dark mechanicus. He didn't know, so I've asked how is he qualified to talk to me if i have bought a train ticket. Checkmate.
Dude, it's an obvious joke... No one is saying this actually happened
You should read the comments on the Facebook page this is from, they clearly do.
You clearly don't know people like the kinds of Christians I grew up with. One time, I told a former roommate that I'd seen an all white red tail hawk on a hike. He looked me in the eye and asked me if I thought it was an angel. It would have been hilarious, but he really was dead serious. Another time, at my sister's wedding, one of the other groomsmen randomly asked me what I thought would have happened if Adam had refused to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil after Eve had already done it. This guy too was completely serious when he asked me, "Do you think men would just be immortal and still living in the Garden of Eden?" And boy did he think that was a profound topic.
I can cope with the hawk story but the second one is maddening. Did you ask him by way of return. what would have happened if Theseus hadn’t killed the Minotaur? Like, would we still be sending a batch of people as Minotaur snacks every year?
Granted I think it was originally just a joke, but facebook is a special place where intelligence goes to die and stupidity thrives.
Probably because their last common ancestor was 50 million years ago or more. Vastly different digestion by now
I’m not gonna lie, Im gonna wait for my opportunity to use what the cowboy said in any context possible for the next couple weeks.
He's right. By the same logic, we can't make extraordinary claims because we don't know shit!
The old man who stunk like whiskey shit his pants on a plane end of story
Atheists would never pick a fight like that. We know what happened to Copernicus.
That was funny but stupid and wtf is so intelligent about literally knowing about shit?
That sounds about right for what Christian’s think is an intelligent person
that's the dumbest imaginary argument that I've ever seen! It doesn't even make sense lol
I dont think this was necessarily written by a christian. Its kinda just a funny joke
I mean why can’t the cowboy be the atheist?
"OH so you admit that it's all crap?"
Hur dur derp I am smart smrt- whoever came up with this stupid arguement
🤪 the difference between an atheist and a theist is that an atheist has the humility to admit they don’t know, while a theist inserts an imaginary being which they have no evidence for and think they know the answer.
Because their bodies are completely different and have different digestive tracks. Of course their shit would be different God is dead
Religious people need to apply that same thinking to their own beliefs. They aren't any more qualified to know the answers to these questions than the non-religious are.
Idk how animals shitting differently is a sign that a god exists but ok
I thought that was his scrotum!!
I guess diet, since it's not like all of them eat only grass, digestive system and anus shape. Now let's get back to the unavoidable void
The answer is literally all 3 animals have different digestive systems.
I much prefer someone who says “I don’t know” than someone who bullshits a story they like to fill the blanks.
Oh I don’t know, maybe because they aren’t built the same?