Reading Time: 2 minutes You have to love a funny and secular meme. OK, maybe love is too strong a word, but maybe crush on it a bit. I don’t know how you deal with anxiety or depression or how expensive a gallon of gas is. Life can seem like its intent on raining on parades and doing that […]
Memes
Memes from a secular, nonreligious perspective.
Cat ponders the United States of America
Reading Time: 2 minutes Helen of Troy was supposedly such a beauty that her face launched 1,000 ships. Sometimes a meme strikes a chord that launches a gaggle of retweets and comments. (Note: the chances of a meme going viral is directly related to whether or not it features a cat and references Nazis). For your entertainment, here is […]
Lounge11: One of the first internet viruses
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is the story of “Lounge11.au,” an audio file that is a long-forgotten example of one of the first internet viruses. Remember when this was what we meant by “viral”? The music in this video is a loop of a track called “lounge11.au” Lounge11.au used to play in a continuous loop on the Hormell Food’s […]
My Body’s Dungeons & Dragons Alignments
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many people know what Dungeons and Dragons is. The Dungeons and Dragons site explains the game as “players are characters in an ongoing fantasy story” and “The core of D&D is storytelling. You and your friends tell a story together, guiding your heroes through quests for treasure, battles with deadly foes…” Your character must have a […]
5 Times Jesus Quoted The New Atheists
Reading Time: 2 minutes If Jesus was God — and we know that is a fact — then he must have known about the New Atheists. In times of need the Son of God reached through space and time to pick out some choice quotes. While there is some tarnish on the Big Bad Four Horsemen, their words […]
3 Ways To Throat Punch Tuesday
Reading Time: < 1 minute I find pointing out the obvious shortcomings of plans, schemes, and stratagems becoming a compulsion. It maybe from the deterioration of my frontal lobes. It could be I’ve always been poor at pushing down criticism and it’s just dawning on me now. Perhaps living through Reagan, Bush the Younger, the Great Recession and now […]
3 XXL Of Funny
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s Sunday. I wrote a haiku about my day. Here it is. Empty rum bottles I bought a new winter coat Torn condom wrappers It has a certain elegance to it. The next panel is raunchy. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you shouldn’t watch it. On the other hand, if you […]
Atheist Father’s Day Gifts
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s Father’s Day I have jokes. I have memes. Enjoy. Stay in touch! Like Laughing in Disbelief on Facebook: Laughing in Disbelief
100 reasons why I’m an antitheist
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was banging out this list the other day and decided to ask some of my fellow bloggers to contribute. Their names are in parenthesis after their clever contributions. Maybe you’ll click the link in their names and check out their material? It’s not a bad idea. Because I’m Black and if he exists, he’s […]
How To Parent A Teenage Son
Reading Time: < 1 minute I had a jokey/epiphany the other day. I had been thinking about all the gross behavior my dad did when I was a kid. For example, when the family went to the beach my father had this habit of changing from his swim suit to his regular clothes. He’d open the front and back […]