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Can Atheists drink beer?

  • 24-06-2008 4:30pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭


    Now that the misleading thread title is out of the way are any of the A&A posters planning on attending the upcoming Boards Beers on the 28th?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭CerebralCortex


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Now that the misleading thread title is out of the way are any of the A&A posters planning on attending the upcoming Boards Beers on the 28th?

    I don't drink beer or any alcohol but I'd still go if it was in Limerick which means I won't go because its on in Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Same here, if it was in Cork I'd definitely go, but Dublin is awkward for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭limerick_woody


    move it to Limerick and i would go...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    No, it's against our religion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    Dave! wrote: »
    No, it's against our religion

    Indeed. Cardinal Dawkins has decreed that atheists may only attend boards beers held in Dublin. The holy one speaketh.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,799 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    aidan24326 wrote: »
    Indeed. Cardinal Dawkins has decreed that atheists may only attend boards beers held in Dublin. The holy one speaketh.
    Cardinal? that's blasphemy. Address him by his proper title, Mega-Pope.

    (btw, I'm in Ennis which is very far away from Dublin (at least two weeks by donkey, or a month by CIE)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    I wasn't aware there were so many countryside atheists! I thought it was a Dublin thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭kmick


    For many atheists beer can be substituted for God.

    10. No one will kill you for not drinking beer.
    9. Beer doesn’t tell you how to have sex.
    8. Beer has never caused a major war.
    7. They don’t force beer on minors who can’t think for themselves.
    6. When you have beer you don’t knock on people’s doors trying to give it away.
    5. Nobody’s ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured to death over his brand of beer.
    4. You don’t have to wait 2,000 years for a second beer.
    3. There are laws saying that beer labels can’t lie to you.
    2. You can prove you have a beer.
    1. If you have devoted your life to beer, there are groups to help you stop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    pH wrote: »
    I wasn't aware there were so many countryside atheists! I thought it was a Dublin thing.

    Nope, Sligonian here. Still, will try to head along. (Moving to Maynooth on Friday.)

    Where're they on?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Fear not fellow atheists.
    I shall hold the side up by attending the festivities.
    I shall not be drinking beer.
    I will however be drinking wine and later in the evening a vodka or two...

    Mad Hatter,
    if you are moving to Maynooth on friday then you have no excuse.
    Hop on the 67a and wander in.
    Details are in the Events Forum under the System menu.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,023 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    Fear not fellow atheists.
    I shall hold the side up by attending the festivities.
    I shall not be drinking beer.
    I will however be drinking wine and later in the evening a vodka or two...

    Mad Hatter,
    if you are moving to Maynooth on friday then you have no excuse.
    Hop on the 67a and wander in.
    Details are in the Events Forum under the System menu.

    No. I've recked too many heads here. Would be afraid to see them with a few beers.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    No. I've recked too many heads here. Would be afraid to see them with a few beers.

    Don't be silly. That's left at the door and not brought into RL.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    kmick wrote: »
    For many atheists beer can be substituted for God.

    10. No one will kill you for not drinking beer.
    9. Beer doesn’t tell you how to have sex.
    8. Beer has never caused a major war.
    7. They don’t force beer on minors who can’t think for themselves.
    6. When you have beer you don’t knock on people’s doors trying to give it away.
    5. Nobody’s ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured to death over his brand of beer.
    4. You don’t have to wait 2,000 years for a second beer.
    3. There are laws saying that beer labels can’t lie to you.
    2. You can prove you have a beer.
    1. If you have devoted your life to beer, there are groups to help you stop.

    *Cracks knuckles* Time to Wicknight this post!

    5. Nobody’s ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured to death over his brand of beer.

    No, but you might deserve to if you drink Bud.

    4. You don’t have to wait 2,000 years for a second beer.

    You clearly have not tried to order a beer in a Dublin night club at around 12 o clock. Whole new laws of time had to be invented to describe how long it takes to get served!

    :)

    Sadly I can't go, I'm moving house this weekend, was going to be my first beers but sure I'll hang on in there for the next one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    I don't think they let Galwegians past the border of the Pale, so I shan't be in attendance. I hear they're great fun though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    I will however be drinking wine and later in the evening a vodka or two...

    Don't we drink blood...?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    No beers for me. :(

    (For multiple reasons other than my beliefs!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Dave! wrote: »
    Don't we drink blood...?

    That'd be catholics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    We're allowed bloody marys though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Dave! wrote: »
    No, it's against our religion

    Hi Dave

    Atheism is not a Religion. It is the choice of a person(s) to abstain from World Religions. It was the case then the same rule would apply to Alcohol and Drugs. People choose to take them or not, that is their choice. Just thought I would make that point. Do you consider Atheism a Religion?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Are you messing? :confused:

    I was being ironicalisticated, DenMan

    No I don't consider it a religion


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    kmick wrote: »
    For many atheists beer can be substituted for God.

    10. No one will kill you for not drinking beer.

    Have you ever tried abstaining with friends around?
    9. Beer doesn’t tell you how to have sex.

    No, but how not to...
    8. Beer has never caused a major war.

    No, but it's finished one or two...

    7. They don’t force beer on minors who can’t think for themselves.

    Who?
    6. When you have beer you don’t knock on people’s doors trying to give it away.

    No! It's mine!

    5. Nobody’s ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured to death over his brand of beer.

    <see SDooM's response>
    4. You don’t have to wait 2,000 years for a second beer.

    ibid
    3. There are laws saying that beer labels can’t lie to you.

    If only the same could be said for their advertising...'King of Beers'? 'Probably the best lager in the world'?
    2. You can prove you have a beer.

    I can prove I had a beer...
    1. If you have devoted your life to beer, there are groups to help you stop.

    Er...SDooM, I'll let you take this one.

    Anyhow, I'll do my best to make it along, assuming I haven't alienated you all now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭legspin


    Having been to the BGRH beers last w/e I would risking divorce if I went. However, the prospect of meeting Beruthiel may well be worth it......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    I can't stand the stuff.

    I'm a cider man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Dave! wrote: »
    Don't we drink blood...?

    Debating whether we drink wine or blood? Are you the Martin Luther of the atheist community?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    :p Well, I did recently chastise Dades for selling atheist-indulgences......


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Just wait till I get my charitable status!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    B'oh!

    I forgot about this...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Now that the misleading thread title is out of the way are any of the A&A posters planning on attending the upcoming Boards Beers on the 28th?

    I thought the thread title was serious. I was hoping the OP was going to be to the A&A Board what Moosejam is to the Christianity Board. Ah well. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Can Atheists drink beer?

    I think my two day binge has shown this to be the case... Now sleep.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    PDN wrote: »
    I thought the thread title was serious. I was hoping the OP was going to be to the A&A Board what Moosejam is to the Christianity Board. Ah well. :(

    Posts made predominantly to annoy the locals? Me? What do you mean?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    Dave! wrote: »
    :p Well, I did recently chastise Dades for selling atheist-indulgences......

    I thought you wrote "atheist self-indulgences".

    I'm trying to get more judgemental but you godless lot are difficult to pin down.:)


    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Posts made predominantly to annoy the locals? Me? What do you mean?

    No, just incredibly stupid questions. :)

    Alas, the thread title was misleading.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Beers

    Any southern based regulars here going to the Cork Boards Beers in the Franciscan Well on the 8th or the 9th of August? I will go assuming I am around that weekend, I haven't gone to any Boards events before and now is my chance. Anyone else?


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