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Ask An Atheist Day Round Two
Hello everybody. Today is national Ask an Atheist Day. After last years successful turn out, I've decided to create the "Ask an Atheist" challenge. This is a chance to get to know us atheists and have an understanding from one another. Anyone is free to ask questions regarding faith and our lack of faith. Fellow atheists here on Prose are free to help answer questions and enter if they choose to. As a reminder, this is a friendly challenge, so let's be respectful to one another. Let's get started. I'm an atheist. Ask me anything.
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Question :)

Hey! i think this is so helpful! im a christian btw :)

ive always wondered how athiests reoncil history and fact in regards to the bible with their beliefs? for instance, in the Bible, there is this one book that prohecys that this king, cyrus the great will conquer and rule perisa as well as conquer babalyon., and restore the jewish temple. then, a hundred years later according to the bible, belshazzar, then the king of babalyon is sitting during a festival, and this hand appears and writes that he is about to lose his city. and in that moment, cryues the great takes over. now according to the bible, this hand is God, and the story according to the bible, which is above, is exactly the same as the scrolls found that tell the SAME story just they dont know the hand is God, and archeology has proven they are real. so how would an athiest take on a story like this? Thanks!

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Why do you write?
Answer the question in any sort of format you want.
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helenaritenour
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why.

I write because i'm human

I write because i feel.

I write because because action comes from fear, but words come from the heart.

I write because writing is the key to the heart and the musing of the soul.

I write because words are the unfiltered thoughts of the mortal.

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Types of Pain
What is the worst type? Is emotional pain worse, or physical? Try to make an argument for your case.
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helenaritenour
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“Just friends”

You see him, yet he never see’s you.

you talk about him, yet he never talks about you.

You love him, he loves another, better.

Your heart aches on, his fills with love.

Your almost there, yet you can never quite grasp onto him, he is always just out of your reach.

unreachable.

The loved and the unlovable.

knowlege and hope,

reality and truth,

fantasy and imagination.

What is the worst kind of pain they ask?

longing for a day that will never come.

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What would an average day be like if the world was perfect?
interpret 'perfect' however you want/whatever perfect means to you. this could mean that society itself is perfect, people are perfect, the world is non judgemental, etc. please make it clear what perfect means to you. tag me in the comments for me to read it.
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helenaritenour
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The world...

No war...Just peace

Love....not hate..

Happiness not heartbreak...

Families together...not broken...

Loving mothers...patient Fathers...

You still here....not gone.

I Love you....not I hate you...

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Dreams
Write a poem, short story, prose, whatever, in any narration or genre, but it has to be about Dreams.
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Dreams of you

I dream of you at night,

I dream of you during day,

During school, choir and work.

Always on my mind, never off it.

And the more I dream, the more I realize....

This dream wont't come true.

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Write about a time when someone saying "yes" meant all the difference in the world...
Prose or poetry, fiction or nonfiction. Please tag me in the comments so that I can read your work!
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helenaritenour
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Precious

He said yes, so I did. And he regretted it from that moment forward. For he lost what cannot be regained. He gave me something, and I took in return. He said yes, and from that moment on he realized that he gave something away more precious than gold or silver. He gave his innocence.

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Praise...prays...preys?
Oh, dear, it seems I have mixed up my homophones again! Write something that incorporates at least two of the above words. You may mention the words explicitly, or incorporate them in a more implicit, thematic way. As always, be unexpected!
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helenaritenour
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The zebras and the lions.

The prey, the praise,

they Praise for days,

For days to amaze,

At the wide open haze,

That shows them their ways,

And where they can graze,

With summers bright rays.

And long scary stays,

In the predators maze,

With their cold hearted gaze,

and the prey, they bay,

For they did not praise,

for the predators gaze,

That now will cause lays,

from they prey that praise.

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Such Wisdom?
Say something apparently wise (even if it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.) I have left an example.
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helenaritenour
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ME

Find yourself.

Its there.

Just dig deep.

It will take time.

But you will find it in the end.

Buried deep within your soul,

There lies your true self.

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Mention 1 line or a word to whomever you love
It could be as many as you want(parents,friends,siblings,wife/husband,pets). You can show your love through that line or your respect or justa casual attitude. Could be in a form of poem or prose.
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helenaritenour
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YOURS

I just want to wake up and see your face and know your there cause I want you to be with you always and I don't want you to ever leave. I Love you.

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First Love
Be it poetry, prose, stream of consciousness, whatever, tell me about your first love. It can be 15 words or 1000, I don't care. Tell me if you are together now, or didn't survive. How old were you? Did you lose your virginity to them? Make it beautiful or make it dangerous. I want to know.
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helenaritenour
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Mine

He was perfect. there is no other way to describe it. But just beacuse he was perfect, doesnt mean it was meant to be. In fact, it was the opposite. we were just two teenagers in desperately in love. clinging to each other for everything. He was nerdy, inexperianced, and he was older. I was the young, experianced girl, who was absolutely taken with him. I could'nt think of anyone else, could'nt dream of anyone else, could'nt hope for anyone else. he wanted to lose his virginity. He was so afraid of turning 18 and being a virgin. It scared him. I tried so many times to explain. explain he did'nt have to do it, that it was his choice and nobody else’s. But he would'nt listen. And then one summer night it happened. We lost it, in the heat of the moment, and the thing he had wanted to lose, was lost forever. He left me that fall. He was gone, to somewhere else, somewhere where he would be happier, away from my “toxic” influence. But there were always two things he gave me. he gave me innocence, and he gave me his love. And those are two things he will never get back.

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