As an atheist: Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here?
(Damn Vorlons are never around when you need one!)
I want to live an enjoyable life
basically I'm here to survive and procreate, on a more advanced level
I'm here to make an important contribution to this society... although
I'm not so sure I wanna do that... (-=+tetrahydrocannabinol+=-)
I yam what I yam. Feel free to call me Popeye if you want to. Popeye the atheist, yeah, that's me.
>What do you want?
Spinach.
>Why are you here?
I'm looking for Spinach. Anyone got any? I have some
carrots and broccoli to trade. Any takers? (Elroy Willis)
p.s. What's a Vorlon? (Fred Stone #1369)
I am I. What am I supposed to answer to that sort of a question anyways?
2) What do I want?
That when I'm dead people will tell funny anecdotes about my superior intellectual capabilities.
3) Why am I here?
If you mean why am I in the physical universe I can only answer: no particular reason. (Aatu Koskensilta #1377)
> What do you want?
I want to understand how everything works.
> Why are you here?
To increase the probability that the genes of my host will propagate.
> (Damn Vorlons are never around when you need one!)
Um, wasn't it Lorien who asked these questions? (Carl Funk #1229)
What to I want? Well I'd sell my soul for a tuna melt :) No wait a minute
I already did that back in '76.
What am I doing here? Do you mean on usenet or on the planet? I write to alt.atheism because I am an atheist and because I see religion being used to twist peoples minds and because it is fun and I learn a lot.
What am I doing on the planet? Duh.. um ... Well everyone has to be somewhere! (Paul Roberts #49)
PS now you tell me what a Vorlon is.
Organic Machinery...Who the hell are you? ;)
>What do you want?
A lifetime of maximum happiness and minimum amounts of suffering.
>Why are you here?
"Here" being alt.atheism? Because, I'm an atheist, and this "place"
is fun, fun, fun.
If "here" means "existence," then, there is NO "why." (Organic Machinery #284)
*thumps side of head*
Sorry about that. Ahem. I am me. I want a toy rocket ship for winter yule. I'm here to waste my time on the usenet.
> (Damn Vorlons are never around when you need one!)
Who needs one of those tin-plated pixies? We have the xians to
walk around and blather nonsense at us. (Frank Wustner #119)
Or, in other words:
Nicolas Patrick Demers, 27, Master's Student in Computing Science, came
out as agnostic in the summer of '96, as atheist in the spring of '97, poet, writer, queer, occasional troublemaker and hellraiser, nearsighted, French-Canadian, Caucasian, male, ex-Ontarian, happy Vancouverite.
> What do you want?
A boyfriend, a life, fame, money, adoration, world peace. Right now, I'd
be happy if I made it through this semester in one piece.
> Why are you here?
To learn to teach. To procrastinate.
> (Damn Vorlons are never around when you need one!)
Nah, who needs Vorlons when you've got G'Kar? "Truth is a river. God is
the mouth of the river"
A proud atheist.
>>What do you want?
locally or globally? Locally I want a CDR, them things are cool.
Globally I want all of religion to vanish off this earth and the world to live in peace. I know.. keep dreaming.
>>Why are you here?
Here in this NG? or here on this planet?
I'm in this NG because it's a place I can meet and think with like
minds. This planet? I'm here to conquer it of course. I'm the anti-christ!
>>(Damn Vorlons are never around when you need one!)
What the hell's a Vorlon??? (Dread #1299)
Ah, so that's why you gave strictly serious answers to these particular questions. Vorlons are highly evolved aliens from the science fiction tv show "Babylon 5". All three questions were asked by different people in
the course of the series.
Plus, they are just good questions.
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