Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

 We each have our crosses to carry! ;) I remember that my mother thought it was very important that I should become confirmed at around age 15 or so. I was against it, but after a lot of poking and prodding and begging in order to please my grand parents who were religious as well, I finally agreed to attend. So basically it was like a discussion club with philosophical themes with a bit of jesus snuck in here and there.

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 Heh ... my mother was a Lutheran. They 'babtised' me
 without my permission before age one.

Same here. Never thought about it really until I got my first job and discovered
that my church membership cost me an additional 0.2% tax, and immediately left
church.

 Somewhere around age 8 I was sitting in a church pew,
 listening to the preacher, and had one of those 'epiphany'
 things .... "Fairy-Tales For Grown-Ups" - all the swirling
 bits parted for a moment and all was clear. Still remember
 exactly where I was sitting .....
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 No, don't hate religious people ... it's a common enough
 delusion. I'm not one of THOSE unbelievers. I think it's
 just best to lead by example - not by the sword.

I like religious people as long as they don't try to push their fantasies on me,
or stop me from living the way I like. I also do not like moslems, because I do
not consider it a religion, just a barbaric mind control tool that has no place
on this planet and should be eradicated. Perhaps the sufis can stay... maybe.

 Oh, the Boy Scouts wouldn't let me in because I was
 an unbeliever ... but I kinda understood that. They
 had their agenda.

What!? Aren't they about nature and stuff? Or are they a religious organization
in the US?