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New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Hi there!
I'm not exactly new, I joined quite a while back, but just never really moved over here.
By moved over, I mean form another site. So yea, I'm another refugee from another atheist site. I think you have a lot of refugees from there in the last 4 or 6 months.
That place has gotten frighteningly negative, and so I'm looking to find a more positive home, though one that is still realistic. 
So...I'm an atheist, a philosophical taoist, mother to a 5 year old precious little girl, and wife to a surly but lovable Irishman. My mother is a Catholic, My mother in law believes in ancient aliens, but the rest of my immediate family are all atheists/skeptics.
I really just want a place to have fun and also intellectual conversations with like-minded people. Without flame wars or too much drama.....that'd be good. 
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RE: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Hello and welcome back! ^_^
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: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Welcome...
Dare I ask what other site you hail from?
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RE: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:37 pm
(October 10, 2012 at 7:29 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Dare I ask what other site you hail from?
AF.com, were I to make a guess 
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: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2012 at 7:43 pm by Darkstar.)
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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RE: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Hello Aroura.
I don't spend much time at AF.com myself anymore.
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RE: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Welcome!
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: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Welcome! : D
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RE: New for the second time
October 10, 2012 at 8:13 pm
I have found this is a nice place to sit back and look at the sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBWPCvdv8Bk
welcome Aurora
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RE: New for the second time
October 11, 2012 at 12:10 am
(October 10, 2012 at 8:13 pm)jonb Wrote: I have found this is a nice place to sit back and look at the sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBWPCvdv8Bk
welcome Aurora Lovely! My name is intentionally misspelled, as "Aurora" is usually taken, so I just default to the misspelling now when setting up accounts.
I was born in Aurora, Oregon, and as a kid, my favorite animated character was (embarassingly enough), Princess Aurora-Sleeping Beauty. Still is, honestly. So that's the origin of the name. 
Also, yes I came from Af.com. Where else? lol
Flaming is not allowed there, according to the rules. But the rules are not much enforced. One member at least repeatedly flames, and his punishment is just being told to stop or else. He stops...in that thread, then starts in another. Been going on quite a while. I'm sure some of the crossover members know who I mean.
I would prefer a place that is a bit better moderated, yet also more tolerant of different outlooks, not so full of the jaded and ANGRY ATHEIST!!!!
Anyway, thank you all for the welcome! I'll be posting here fairly often, I hope.
Peace
Aroura
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