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Just Gonna Drop This Here...
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Rainbow 
Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Heya,

Relatively new to the whole Atheism thing, but a little about me is appropriate for an introduction post isn't it?

Though raised by an Agnostic mother and a moderately Christian father (plus the rest of his family) I was given a fairly secular upbringing. I remained pretty much on the fence about a lot of religious based things. I gave Christianity a try for like...two weeks, but guilt and shame really weren't my thing, so I tossed that aside rather quickly. After that I gave Wicca a try, and had that going for about two years or so, and that was pretty okay. Still I lost interest in it, never really had the heart for zeal or steadfast belief. Plus, those rituals? Expensive and rather boring

After that I claimed myself as an agnostic who kept an ear to the ground for different religious things. Never really had a fondness for organized religion or god for that matter as I aged and learned more. Ironically enough it was my almost having died last year that brought about the change. Even an event which my faith following grandmother (love her to death) attributes to god and what not, wasn't enough to convince me of something I'd been slowly coming to realization with. I really had been an atheist for quite sometime, just one that hadn't realized it yet and was clinging to old superstitions and hokey things for the sake of comfort.

Which I currently find amusing as this whole Atheism thing has made me happier than I ever was before. Nice to focus on the real world I've learned these past few months.

Anyways, I've gone on, just wanted to introduce myself before I go prowling around on the forum.

~Braioch~
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#2
RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Let me be the first to welcome you. Hi! Big Grin
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Fuck religion and embrace Science.

It's much more intellectually rewarding.

P.s Hi

Badger
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Welcome aboard.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
If you keep capitalising 'atheist' people might begin to think it's a religion, heh. Welcome Smile
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Nice to have you.
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Welcome sir.
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Hey thanks everyone =)

And Tempus, Atheism in my mind is a group of people whom share certain key beliefs as do other groups whom are not religious. Masons still get capitalized, each of the armed forces, groups get their names capitalized and honestly I think it's only fair that Atheists get it too.
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
Welcome
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RE: Just Gonna Drop This Here...
We have a rating system now?? WTF? Confusedhock:

By the by Welcome from sunny Perth Western Australia...where it is currently doing it's winter thingy and raining. Undecided
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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