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October 8, 2010 at 4:30 am
Hello all :D
Everyone can call me Eiskalt, I am 23, married for 3 years to a wonderful husband and am Atheist or Invisible Pink Unicorn 8D. I grew up in Mississippi and grew up in a Christian home. (Southern Baptist >.>)
Never really fully believed in a deity and had trouble with it through-out my childhood/teenage years. After my husband and I moved up to Washington state, I came out and finally told my family I was an Atheist. Didn't go to well at first, but thankfully my parents accepted it and all is good. :D
So I am excited to get to know everyone! :D
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." -Richard Jeni
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RE: New :D
October 8, 2010 at 4:46 am
(October 8, 2010 at 4:30 am)Eiskalt Wrote: So I am excited to get to know everyone! 
Hello and welcome. Good to know there's a fellow addict here as well (my poison is Mountain Dew).
And you grew up in Mississippi of all places! I suppose that explains why you waited until you moved to the other side of the country to come out. I'm from northern indiana and I was surprised to learn that I must live in one of the most tolerant areas in the United States because telling everyone that I'm an atheist barely illicits more than a few questions and then everyone goes on with their lives. My family is this way too.
I wish this was a little more contagious.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: New :D
October 8, 2010 at 4:50 am
(October 8, 2010 at 4:46 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: Hello and welcome. Good to know there's a fellow addict here as well (my poison is Mountain Dew).
And you grew up in Mississippi of all places! I suppose that explains why you waited until you moved to the other side of the country to come out. I'm from northern indiana and I was surprised to learn that I must live in one of the most tolerant areas in the United States because telling everyone that I'm an atheist barely illicits more than a few questions and then everyone goes on with their lives. My family is this way too.
I wish this was a little more contagious.
Ahh yes, the Great Mt. Dew is an addiction of mine as well! xD
Oh yeah, and I hated every moment of my life there. Oh boy do I have plenty of stories to share while I am here! I did say I was "Agnostic" a few times while in Mississippi which got me some negative attention, especially from co-workers and a few bosses in the past. :/
Oh I agree. I wish everyone could just be, "Oh that is cool. So how are you liking this weather?
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RE: New :D
October 8, 2010 at 10:52 am
Even after being on this forum since the first day and reading many introduction posts I still find it so strange and even alien that by simply announcing that you are an atheist you can suddenly be treated with such hostility. This is something that is totally outside my sphere of personal experience and can only assume that it is an American thing.
If I were to take a job here and the fact that I was an atheist 'got out' to all my colleagues and bosses it would be such a non event and of absolutely no significance that I can't even imagine anyone bothering to remember it. However, if it 'got out' that I was a deeply religious born again Christian who thought evolution was a trick from the Devil I think that I would be viewed with great suspicion and mistrust, not to mention mockery by the majority of my co-workers.
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RE: New :D
October 8, 2010 at 11:32 am
Yay! A fellow coffee-addict! Welcome welcome welcome!
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