(April 4, 2015 at 6:23 pm)Alex K Wrote: Hi, welcome here!

You, play whomever's advocate you feel like playing, I'm looking forward to your contributions either way

Thanks Alex  It's nice to meet you. I certainly don't feel like playing Devil's Advocate to Christianity at the moment. Your signature says it all (if I'm understanding it correctly): if religious people were willing to follow that bit of text there'd be no need for sites like this... I've never met a Christian willing to hear the whole of any argument before commencing their mockery of it or its author.

It's in the eye of the beholder whether my sig asks you to shut up and listen, or whether it is self deprecating

Just saying goodbye (as soon as I can figure out how to close my account). It's been an interesting few days but I don't think this site is for me and I don't think I will get much out of it. It's more aggressive and angry than I feel comfortable being or reading. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that it's not right for me. Many thanks to all the people who have engaged with me and shown me kindness - I wish you all the best

Hi emjay,

Sorry you're leaving and this isn't for you. However, to save you some time, you can't close your account.

Good luck in your internets travels.

May you find one you like better

Cheers

Oh dear I'm sorry to see you go. I wish you well in your travels, and it was nice to meet you

(April 10, 2015 at 4:02 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: Hi emjay,

Sorry you're leaving and this isn't for you. However, to save you some time, you can't close your account.

Good luck in your internets travels.

Hi Pandamonium,

Thanks for that and if that's the case I feel a bit silly for having burned my bridges so to speak by leaving a farewell message. Can I take that back ?


You'll have to forgive me, I just got freaked out by the site going down the other day and thought it might've been an attempted hack by religious nuts angry at something someone had said (which wouldn't have surprised me based on how 'vocal' the discussions are here ) - and therefore wanted to distance myself from it.

I still don't feel comfortable with how vocal the discussions are here but please don't take that to mean I am an apologist for religion. I am not. Religion has caused me nothing but grief in my life. I'm gay you see and that was what made me question my religion in the first place and what ultimately continues to drive a pointless wedge between me and my family that no matter what I do, no matter what rational arguments I put forward, I can't dislodge. So believe me I am angry with religion and immensely frustrated but I just don't know how to combat something which has as its first instinct the desire to shut out anything which threatens it.

So since I can't close my account I may well just throw caution to the wind and say exactly how I feel which is what I've just done ) Am I still welcome? 

No worries mate! These is a time of renewal for the forums so things are bound to be a bit confusing for newbs. And yes, discussions tend to get pretty heated, but that's what happens when there's controversial topics at hand. I don't want to sound douchey, but you should thicken your skin and deal with it. It helps a lot IRL, so why shouldn't that do the trick here too?

(April 10, 2015 at 6:10 pm)Lucanus Wrote: No worries mate! These is a time of renewal for the forums so things are bound to be a bit confusing for newbs. And yes, discussions tend to get pretty heated, but that's what happens when there's controversial topics at hand. I don't want to sound douchey, but you should thicken your skin and deal with it. It helps a lot IRL, so why shouldn't that do the trick here too?

I used to have much thicker skin but as the years have gone by I've got less and less activist just for the sake of a quiet life. Just the same with gay rights, I used to be very vocal about it and coming out left, right, and centre but nowadays I hardly mention it at all.

Bridges are overrated anyways...