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Hello from Ct shoreline
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Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 5:13 pm
My name is Bernard Curtin and I am a 56 y.o. lay-about that reads way too much. I grew up in Boston so by way of genetics and demographics I was to become Catholic (alter boy). After an education of comparative religion and philosophy my bull shit detector was in full alarm mode. I remember early on, in physics or cosmology, learning about the "big bang" happening 13.8b years ago, yet Christian dogma dates creation at about 7,000 years ago. That was the start of my journey.

Although I would describe myself more a secular Humanist universally, I am also atheist with maybe a bit of rationalist in me.
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Hello and welcome to AF! ^_^
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: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 5:51 pm
Welcome to this fine corner of the web!
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 10:39 pm
Welcome
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 10:44 pm
(December 3, 2013 at 5:13 pm)zenblaster Wrote: reads way too much.
What foolishness you speak. There is NO SUCH THING as reading too much. There is only reading too much crap. I recently went on an absolute bender of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, and that is too much Jack Reacher that could have easily been attenuated by any other sort of reading.

Unless you are as gluttonous for crap novels as I am, you don't read too much. Oh- and welcome!
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 10:44 pm
We already have a Z-B. I'm going to have to come up with a new nickname.

Meanwhile, welcome.
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 10:55 pm (This post was last modified: December 3, 2013 at 10:56 pm by Owlix.)
(December 3, 2013 at 10:44 pm)Zazzy Wrote:
(December 3, 2013 at 5:13 pm)zenblaster Wrote: reads way too much.
What foolishness you speak. There is NO SUCH THING as reading too much. There is only reading too much crap. I recently went on an absolute bender of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, and that is too much Jack Reacher that could have easily been attenuated by any other sort of reading.

Unless you are as gluttonous for crap novels as I am, you don't read too much. Oh- and welcome!


Zazzy, I fucking love Reacher. Far as I'm concerned they're not crap novels. There is learning to be found in Reacher novels.
As a side note, the clock in my head is (not spot on, maybe) usually pretty damn accurate.

And welcome, Zen.... your post says CT... right? I was born in Groton.
Min, how about z-blast
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 3, 2013 at 11:05 pm
(December 3, 2013 at 10:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We already have a Z-B. I'm going to have to come up with a new nickname.

Yeah, I was thinking if they ever meet they'll probably annihilate each other in a massive burst of energy.

Hi to the new ZB (or maybe we could go all Star Wars and say ZB-2?)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 4, 2013 at 8:53 am
(December 3, 2013 at 10:55 pm)Owlix Wrote: Zazzy, I fucking love Reacher. Far as I'm concerned they're not crap novels. There is learning to be found in Reacher novels.
Reading 6 Reacher books in one week perhaps blew a fuse in my brain, but as great as Reacher the character is, Lee Child often cannot write an ending worth shit.

And I'm STILL not over Tom Cruise playing him.

@OP- the CT coast is one of my favorite areas in the country- in the summer. I just can't imagine how cold it must be in the winter.
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RE: Hello from Ct shoreline
December 4, 2013 at 8:56 am
Welcome Enjoy the forums.
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