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RE: Ages of Athiests
September 26, 2013 at 7:09 pm
(September 26, 2013 at 5:07 pm)Gilgamesh Wrote: I've noticed the exact opposite. It's all geizers here. There's only one other person who I think has that - what I will call - 'internet-age' mentality, and that's Violet. Darkstar was young but he didn't have that mentality, and he's also not with us anymore. Hey now I'm 22 and spent 6 sixs months in i.t school and use nothing but Linux. Then again I'm a little new lol
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RE: Ages of Athiests
September 26, 2013 at 7:21 pm
I think it may be easier for a younger person to deconvert than an older person. I don't know, we have a saying where I'm from that when you're around 50 you've fossilized. Meaning it's very hard for you to change your ideas (not that you become as boring as a rock). Young people haven't formed a lot of strong ideas about a lot of issues and if we have we've only invested like a couple of years in them, so we're more fluid in a sense.
Doesn't mean there're more young atheists though. Atheism was around long before it's well known, I was an atheist 2 years before I heard of Richard Dawkins.
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RE: Ages of Athiests
September 26, 2013 at 7:47 pm
Holy age minority, Batman!
I kind of assumed there were a lot of 40+ members here because of the maturity (and random spurts of horny asides  ) being displayed daily.
I'd infinitely rather stay here with all the people who can actually teach me a thing or two about life than wade into the cesspool that is Reddit's Atheism section. No offense if you like it there of course.
24 going on 25 this March btw. I guess I'm part of "that" crowd.
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RE: Ages of Athiests
September 27, 2013 at 11:29 am
I'm 28.
Wait.... 
[2013 - 1984 = 29 years, adjust for December birthday....]
Yeah, 28, and an atheist since I was 16 or 17.
It actually didn't occur to me until very recently that there were internet forums out there for atheists, nor did I have the inclination to join one, otherwise I might have fit the stereotype being posited in the OP.
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RE: Ages of Athiests
October 1, 2013 at 7:08 am
Age 72. I deconverted from being an extremely pious Christian about 30 years ago.
Plenty of us old geezers know our way around the internet. I did website design for a while. I will confess that I don't know why anyone would want to spend hours each day staring at that tiny screen on a phone.
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RE: Ages of Athiests
October 1, 2013 at 9:48 am
On a computer, yes. On a phone, no. Even an iphone where you can enlarge parts of the screen is annoying to me.
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RE: Ages of Athiests
October 1, 2013 at 10:25 am
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I hope you lot appreciate just how much work's involved in this job!
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RE: Ages of Athiests
October 1, 2013 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2013 at 10:40 am by c172.)
Old conversation already (I seem to always be slow on the good ones) but I am 37. Not young anymore, but not old. But really, what is old? I love the idea of, say, a 65 year old, being at ease conversationally with a college "kid" over topics as important as Atheism. I hope even at 80, I'd be that way.
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RE: Ages of Athiests
October 3, 2013 at 10:47 am
See my question was to sample for my own knowledge to know that I am not just in a 'Rebellion' I don't believe in God and I am a soft atheist at the moment however I have my doubts and one of them was 'What if all older more matured generations 50+ believed in God would that pre-suppose that we will probably end up believing when we get older due to some 'Understanding''
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RE: Ages of Athiests
October 3, 2013 at 10:48 am
(September 26, 2013 at 6:32 am)themonkeyman Wrote: See It just makes me think that perhaps my athiesm is because I havent the knowledge to believe - Where as as a I grow older I will understand I dont need this knowledge?
I'm just wondering why theres a a gap between 18-30 and then not alot of people on these fourms over and above that.
I'm over 50 and became an atheist in my thirties, for what it's worth.
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