[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 6:34 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:05 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> No. People will (eventually) actively bring it up and harass you into
>> talking about it.
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>> SR Ballard
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> I am sorry that that has been your experience.  It has not been mine.
> bill w
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You are safe until suddenly you are not.  That is how this goes.  If you
avoid carrying in the bad areas, though, you may avoid those who press the
issue.  That doesn't mean they aren't there, just that you never have to
deal with them.


>> On Apr 24, 2020, at 3:02 PM, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 05:54, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:52 AM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>>> Is there anywhere in the US where an atheist who simply ignored
>>>> anything to do with religion (which describes most atheists) would be
>>>> noticed and frowned upon?
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>>> Yes, mostly in the South.  I stay away from those places.
>>> (Theoretically I might visit for work, but if so I would keep my
>>> interactions strictly to the work-related area - which would likely be
>>> protected by police biased toward those there to do the work.)
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>>> Even in California, I have received death threats after I explained to
>>> an evangelist, who was trying to get me personally to convert, that I was
>>> an atheist, though this was some decades ago and atypical for the region.
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>> I imagine you would attract attention if you announced that you were an
>> atheist, but if you lived and worked in the South and just never mentioned
>> religion, or politely smiled and moved to the next topic when someone else
>> did, would you be OK?
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>> Stathis Papaioannou
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