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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Hello Pearl the closet atheist! Welcome to our wonderful community, full of blasphemy and heresy!
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Welcome, Pearl. I went to SLC last year for a conference at Primary Children's Hospital. Not sure if that's your neck of Mormonia, but I found it rather pretty. Subtlely unusual, but pretty.
From San Diego, myself, which does have a very pretty, if creepy, LDS temple.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 5:19 pm
Welcome to the forums, Pearl.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 6:22 pm
Hark! Didst someone sayeth Blasphemy and Heresy?
Sign me up.
Hello.
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 6:25 pm
Welcome. Watch your step, there's bullshit everywhere.
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 6:25 pm
Make sure you delete your browser history often!
Welcome to the club, home skillet.
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 6:28 pm
Ah.... a pearl.. for the swines? or for the programmers?
Welcome!
Have some cookies!
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RE: Newbie here!
February 14, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Welcome Pearl.
We've had some mormons hanging about our town recently. Fortunately my family members thought they were after money so stopped answering the door to them. XD
