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LostShootingStar
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 Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: New to the forum! life long atheist. |
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Hey everyone,
My names Eric, and i just found this site in doing some research for a school project i was thinking of doing about religion.
I am a Senior at the University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Computer Science). I have a full time job as a software engineer at a top U.S. technology company, and I love Hondas.
I have been an Atheist (in the technical sense of the word) since birth. My mother and father decided that I was not be baptised (even though they were Cathlic) when I was born, but I should instead decide for myself which religion to follow when I was old enough to make an informed decision. Throughout my childhood I was never exposed to religion (i've been to church twice), and I feel that is a "blessing" (heh). I feel like I've been able to see the world without the veil of religion, and feel I have escaped the "brainwashing".
Looking forward to reading through the posts here. I dont get to discuess religion very often because all my friends/family are religious people, and i feel like I am insulting them when I express my atheism. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: New to the forum! life long atheist. |
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Hi.
| LostShootingStar wrote: | | i feel like I am insulting them when I express my atheism. |
Why?
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LostShootingStar
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: New to the forum! life long atheist. |
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| Sal1981 wrote: | Hi.
| LostShootingStar wrote: | | i feel like I am insulting them when I express my atheism. |
Why? |
I'm not sure why, I just feel like im insulting them for believing in something that seems so completely foolish to me. |
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Paranoia21
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: New to the forum! life long atheist. |
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| LostShootingStar wrote: | | Sal1981 wrote: | Hi.
| LostShootingStar wrote: | | i feel like I am insulting them when I express my atheism. |
Why? |
I'm not sure why, I just feel like im insulting them for believing in something that seems so completely foolish to me. |
Well, next time they peach to you(if they do)tell them nicely that you don't believe in the same things they do. They are ignorant for assuming that you believe in God in the first place.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome!
Be sure to ask Nimitz for your official atheist decoder ring (even though I have yet to receive mine....;cough;).
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Welcome aboard LostShootingStar
Don't be like all these other lazy atheists! You have to send in 10 boxtops and bring one fresh baby to the weekly baby BBQ to get a decoder ring!
(atheists are well known baby eaters) That has been a running joke in here for years. Pass it along.
OH and NOBODY SHOWS ANYBODY THE SECRET HANDSHAKE UNTIL AFTER YOU GET THE DECODER RING!
I'm gonna yank the union card of the next athesit who does so! |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Nimitz wrote: |
Don't be like all these other lazy atheists! You have to send in 10 boxtops and bring one fresh baby to the weekly baby BBQ to get a decoder ring!
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Dude! I send you the the 10 box tops 5 days ago! 
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LostShootingStar
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| Nimitz wrote: | Welcome aboard LostShootingStar
Don't be like all these other lazy atheists! You have to send in 10 boxtops and bring one fresh baby to the weekly baby BBQ to get a decoder ring!
(atheists are well known baby eaters) That has been a running joke in here for years. Pass it along.
OH and NOBODY SHOWS ANYBODY THE SECRET HANDSHAKE UNTIL AFTER YOU GET THE DECODER RING!
I'm gonna yank the union card of the next athesit who does so! |
Wow, I had to look twice at your screen name!
My last name is 'Mitz', and my Mothers first Initial is 'N'...making her NMitz. haha.
Thanks for the welcome. |
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I've always wondered what that would be like.
You have to understand most Atheists here are former Christians... I was particularly fundamentalist. It seems difficult for me to imagine what the world would have felt like as a child without the fear, threat, and guilt introduced into my mind by religion.
Anyway, yea man... Welcome aboard.
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| lumpymunk wrote: | | It seems difficult for me to imagine what the world would have felt like as a child without the fear, threat, and guilt introduced into my mind by religion. |
And I can't imagine how a child could still be a normal child with that hanging over his or her head. All I had to worry about was ridin' a bike and chuckin' rocks at stuff... |
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Welcome!
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| Nimitz wrote: | | ... and bring one fresh baby to the weekly baby BBQ... |
Do we have to provide our own baby, or can we use one that God killed earlier? |
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Knifeman
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Hey Guys..
Eric..
I feel Exactly the way you do.
We are Very similar and sounds like we come from the same upbringing...
I believe that pretty much Every War,, Every Death in Every war is the result of Greed and Religion...
BTW..
My given name is also Eric
Peace Brother..
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