An atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in a deity. It’s that simple. I don’t know why you insist on making something so simple so complex.

You are a horribly intolerant person on this subject. You are disrespectful, judgmental, condescending, and fail to understand what the word atheist actually means.

So what you’re saying is that your life isn’t so hectic that you need to check your email at all times, but only the times you are on call.

If whatever you have going on in your life requires you to check your email constantly, you really don’t have the time for concerts, comedy shows, dinner with friends, movies, etc.

Nonsense. You are telling people what to do, and very wrongly passing judgment. You are also attempting to redefine the meaning of the word atheist, and criticizing anyone who doesn’t accept your entirely incorrect understanding of the word.

maybe if *you* reject the premise, *you* reject the text. It’s certainly not your place to tell anyone else that if they don’t believe in god they aren’t allowed to take anything or see value in religious texts. You’re being an asshole here, so just stop.

sweat doesn’t smell, it’s the sweat + bacteria + oil that smells. So, when I sweat on my forearm, it never smells like when my arm pits sweats.

Also, 40-something-sweaty me smells a lot worse than 20-something-sweaty me.

I used to be like this. Especially when my workout was just weight training. In the last couple of years though, I’ve started to really stink when I sweat, and I no longer do weight training that doesn’t make me sweat — I’ve switched over to doing circuits with weights and working up a good heart rate.

do you use fabric softener? (If so, that might be the problem).

If you don’t think a belief in a deity is distinct from not believing in a deity, you’re really not someone who should be talking about atheism and certainly not someone who should be criticizing others religious choices/beliefs.

Fabric softener apparently reduces the effectiveness of wicking in synthetics. Synthetics dry really quickly, so all my workout gear goes on a drying rack rather than the dryer, so no fabric softener for them. I give my workout clothes two wears at the gym before I put them in the laundry, but I also shower and change…

I do wonder about those house rules too. I mean, even in warm months when many wealthy residents might be off to their summer homes a lot, I don’t think it’s that uncommon for someone in the family to still be in the city working.

No, you really don’t understand atheism. One can reject a religious text - or all religious texts - and still believe in God. That is what is called a theist. It doesn’t really matter if the person who believes in a deity is a die-hard biblical literalist or someone who rejects all religious texts. They are both…

Being an atheist means you don’t believe in a deity, not that you reject certain religious texts.

For four years?

Lay offs are a real bitch. Pretty much everyone left at my last job I was laid off from told me the person who made unilateral decisions about who to layoff without consulting a single other person didn’t even understand what my primary responsibilities were, despite them being included in my damn title. This asshole…

Luck plays a much, much bigger role in individual success than hard work. It might make people who are successful feel good to attribute it to hard work or genius, but that’s kind of delusional. For every Steve Jobs, there’s probably thousands of people with his skills, drive, and insight, who simply lacked his luck…

I knew someone in publishing who said she found the work environment more stressful than when she worked at a shelter for people escaping domestic abuse.

I realized kind of early on that it was never a two way street. My bosses never ever said, “hey, you just put in two 60 work weeks to get that project done, so since next week is slow, how about you just give us 25 hours to make up for those two hellish weeks.”

Juice is making the point that people tend to really, really downplay the role luck has in their success. You could have just as easily worked 10 hours a day, 6 days a week for 2 years, and been laid off. I busted my ass for a job that laid me off because my division head lied about my responsibilities to cover for…