I have it great authority (the best!) that this group is an "echo chamber" -

[mr blur]

so how come I don't always agree with you, and you, and especially you?

Seems that, either we haven't got the hang of this "echo chamber" thing yet (is there somewhere we could go to see how it's done?) or, some people are just full of shit.

[PassingFair]

1. HELLO hello hello hello hello nt

[mr blur]

2. Careful, you could cause an avalanche!

[Arugula Latte]

7. ...

[Ron Obvious]

3. Wie heißt der Bürgermeister von Wesel?

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No, not hearing anything.

[AlbertCat]

4. Perhaps we should start disagreeing on exactly how god does not exist

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Then we could start different sects and fight and maybe even kill each other because we think god isn't there in different ways.

[PassingFair]

8. How Big-endian of you!

[WillParkinson]

5. I agree!

Yup.

[Iggo]

6. Aw, somebody mad we don't hate each other?

Poor babies.

[skepticscott]

9. Hey, they have to have something to talk about

It's not like they have anything meaningful to say about religion or faith or belief or any of the actual reasons they said they needed that room. And it's not like you can make a career talking about National Tree Worship Month or Magic Underwear.

[skepticscott]

10. You know what, though?

It's an echo chamber with a sense of humor. It's sad...pathetic even..to see whole groups of people with none..who can't joke amongst themselves about anything. Who take themselves so seriously for no good reason.

[mountain grammy]

11. Hey, I'm here for the laughs, and there are many here.

Take away the afterlife, and life can really be enjoyable. Everyone should try it.

Echo chamber indeed, deed,deed,deed,deed.

[Goblinmonger]

12. Oh sod off, you British git. And take your unnecessary "u"s with you.

Because some people that are on a DU vacation may try to get a jury hide on this, this is blur and I get along just fine.

Except for the stupid way he spells "liquorice."

[trotsky]

14. And the stupid way he consumes it. n/t

[mr blur]

16. But...but...doesn't everybody smoke it?

[Mr.Bill]

13. Every church

is the very definition of an echo chamber.

[AlbertCat]

19. Every church is the very definition of an echo chamber.

But it makes the music sound so good!

[Warpy]

15. How very odd

It seems someone is criticising the mote in your eye while ignoring the plank in his own (I love using babble quotes on the godly) and refusing to see that the only way he can maintain a belief in a fairy tale is by associating with people who provide consensus.

On the other hand, there's nothing comforting about disbelief. Nobody's going to swoop out of the sky and save our asses. Our sports teams will win or lose on their own merits. God is not on our side in a war, just a bunch of greasy capitalists who want to get greasier.

Far from an echo chamber, this group is a safe spot where we can avoid people who want us to provide consensus for whatever religious pap they believe in. There's no pressure here to pay lip service to their spooks. We can come out of the "I'm not religious" closet here and admit the reason we sleep in on Sunday morning is that we don't believe a word of it.

And that's the only thing we have in common. Otherwise, it's like expecting everybody with curly hair to think exactly alike. Churches, on the other hand, do expect everybody to think alike, it's how they stay afloat in an ocean of scientific data that contradict their Bronze Age belief system.

[mountain grammy]

18. hear, hear!! Well said.

[Curmudgeoness]

17. Well, you finally got it right.

You went round and round, but your final seven words hit the nail on the head.

If we are such an "echo chamber", how come we don't all agree on which Meme of the Week is the best???? That's what I want to know.

[beam me up scottie]

20. Well we don't block people just for not agreeing with us.

Unlike other groups you have to be extremely assholish to get blocked from posting here. And when someone does get the boot our hosts are transparent about it.

So as DU echo chambers go - this ain't one.

[onager]

21. I got the Echo if you got the Chamber...

TRIGGER WARNING: cigarette smoking on camera (you MONSTER!1!); Brits culturally appropriating Native American culture and Levis 501 jeans; ugly prehistoric hipster glasses; trilby with feather.

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[mr blur]

22. Yeah, but Hank's a bloody great guitar player!

Proud owner of the first Stratocaster in the UK!

Did you know that in Neil Young's guitar ode "From Hank To Hendrix" the Hank in question is none other than Mr Marvin himself?

[onager]

23. Did not know that, t(hanks)!

Or about the first Stratocaster.

Long as I'm criminally off-topic...

1. Another great Yank Hank on the guitar was Hank Garland. Mostly known for country, you can hear him on records by Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley & many others. Ran afoul of the Nashville establishment in the 1950s for jamming with Black jazz musicians. The 2008 biopic about him, "Crazy," is definitely worth a watch.

2. Showtime cable channel is currently running "Electric Church," a documentary about Hendrix playing the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival. The film footage of that appearance literally sat in a Georgia barn for over 30 years. Amazing that it survived.

http://www.sho.com/sho/reality-docs/titles/3417436/jimi-hendrix---electric-church#/index

[Yorktown]

24. Let's build anaechoic agnostic temples

where people could worship the inexistence of God each in their unique way.

Let's reject the forced cult of that evil Dawkins.

I have spoken.