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RE: Hello Everyone
April 29, 2011 at 5:45 am
(April 29, 2011 at 4:46 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Hi Maria (of the sea) from downunder (Oz) Welcome to out little house of horrors..as Zen B has suggested.

Can sympathise with the anit-theism though.Undecided

Thank you (and Zen B).
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RE: Hello Everyone
April 29, 2011 at 5:53 am
Welcome to the forums Maria, hope you enjoy your stay.


(April 28, 2011 at 11:24 am)Minimalist Wrote: Hundreds of people have been killed in the bible belt by tornados in the last two days....wonder where their fucking god is?
And hello, Maria.

Come on min really? And you're upset when Christians show that same kind of irreverance towards life?

"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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RE: Hello Everyone
April 29, 2011 at 5:58 am
(April 28, 2011 at 11:36 am)Maria Wrote: Best county in England. I'm biased, of course. Where did you go in Somerset?

I stayed at burnham on sea.
Did the usual touristy things : cheddar gorge, brean fun fair and visited western supermare which now has one of those london eye type things.
The weather was ok but he week after was glorious which is typical for one of my holidays.

Hampshires a nice county too. I live in gosport.
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RE: Hello Everyone
April 29, 2011 at 10:15 am (This post was last modified: April 29, 2011 at 10:28 am by Maria.)
(April 29, 2011 at 5:53 am)tackattack Wrote: Welcome to the forums Maria, hope you enjoy your stay.

Thank you.
(April 29, 2011 at 5:58 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(April 28, 2011 at 11:36 am)Maria Wrote: Best county in England. I'm biased, of course. Where did you go in Somerset?

I stayed at burnham on sea.
Did the usual touristy things : cheddar gorge, brean fun fair and visited western supermare which now has one of those london eye type things.
The weather was ok but he week after was glorious which is typical for one of my holidays.

Hampshires a nice county too. I live in gosport.
Wink Shades
I live in Weston-super-Mare. My house is just 10 minutes walk from the beach, but you know what the tides are like here. When it's low tide we have a long and dangerous extra walk to the surf.

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RE: Hello Everyone
April 29, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Welcome enjoy the forums Smile
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RE: Hello Everyone
April 30, 2011 at 5:04 am
(April 29, 2011 at 10:15 am)Maria Wrote: I live in Weston-super-Mare. My house is just 10 minutes walk from the beach, but you know what the tides are like here. When it's low tide we have a long and dangerous extra walk to the surf.

There were days when I could barely see the water it was out so far.
Your life guards get to play with hovercrafts though which is pretty cool.




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RE: Hello Everyone
April 30, 2011 at 7:01 am
hovercrafts rock ass
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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RE: Hello Everyone
May 8, 2011 at 5:46 am
(April 28, 2011 at 11:14 am)Maria Wrote: Hello
I'm Maria, 23, from Somerset, SW England. I'm a radiographer, I have a 3 year old daughter and, yes, I'm an atheist. I can't give you a heart-rending account of how I lost my religious faith because I never had any in the first place. My parents, like so many people in the UK, are what I call apatheists. I had religious education in school, of course. I enjoyed RE (what child doesn't enjoy fairy tales?) but I can't remember ever taking it seriously.
As I'm getting older I'm becoming more of an anti-theist than an atheist. Religion is increasingly getting on my nerves. For example, 26 unelected bishops sit in our parliament. That kind of anachronistic nonsense has to stop. RE will have to go too. If people really want to indoctrinate their children there are plenty of other options available. Fortunately, thanks to a recent education act, I can withdraw my daughter from RE when she starts school. But it shouldn't be in schools at all. Half our kids leave school barely able to read, write or count. They obviously need more time to learn the basics. Learning about talking snakes and burning bushes isn't needed.
We have quite a few creationist here too pushing for that nonsense to be taught in our schools. Fortunately, they are nowhere near as powerful as their counterparts in the United States, but they're still here, lingering like a bad smell.
Anyway, that's enough ranting from me.

Maria

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RE: Hello Everyone
May 8, 2011 at 12:38 pm
(April 29, 2011 at 4:55 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I once had this thought in my head that I'd really like to stick theists with a knife. I'd get so angry and imagine doing it. I got over it.

ROFLOL

Thanks, I'm awake now Smile
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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