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arewethereyet Offline
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RE: New Here!
June 28, 2025 at 2:29 pm
It ebbs and flows. Especially since we are scattered all over the globe. Weekends can be slow.

Welcome.

Wondering about the origin of you name. I read it as in "He is Risen"
I'm your huckleberry.
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RE: New Here!
June 28, 2025 at 5:29 pm
Welcome.

I'm The Valkyrie.

My job is to make sure worthy warriors get into Valhalla.

Fight well.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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Rizen Offline
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RE: New Here!
June 28, 2025 at 6:19 pm
(June 28, 2025 at 2:29 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: It ebbs and flows.  Especially since we are scattered all over the globe.  Weekends can be slow.  

Welcome.

Wondering about the origin of you name.  I read it as in "He is Risen"

No, it's just a name no one was using that fits well on gamer tags, lol.
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#14
RE: New Here!
June 29, 2025 at 8:15 am
Welcome from Middle Earth!  Welcome
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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#15
RE: New Here!
July 1, 2025 at 6:30 am
Well, hello, new one.

Rizen Wrote:I was texting with a woman who said she's spiritual but nonreligious and was having trouble being around religious people so I replied ...and she ghosted me.

Hmm, maybe she didn't ghost you because you are an atheist but because you came on too strong and serious. From what I understand of human flirting, when you just meet someone like that, you should just make some short, funny replies instead of holding a (self-righteous) speech because you end up looking like Travis Bickle. You leave that for later when you know each other a little bit.

So, if she said that she was having trouble being around religious people, you should have just said something compassionate, like "Yeah, I know how you feel." or "Which religious people? Is it Scientologists?" "What religion is the worst to be around?" Keep asking questions because that way you seem interested in her. And when you hold speeches like that, you seem to be imposing yourself onto her.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: New Here!
July 1, 2025 at 6:04 pm
(July 1, 2025 at 6:30 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Well, hello, new one.

Rizen Wrote:I was texting with a woman who said she's spiritual but nonreligious and was having trouble being around religious people so I replied  ...and she ghosted me.

Hmm, maybe she didn't ghost you because you are an atheist but because you came on too strong and serious. From what I understand of human flirting, when you just meet someone like that, you should just make some short, funny replies instead of holding a (self-righteous) speech because you end up looking like Travis Bickle. You leave that for later when you know each other a little bit.

So, if she said that she was having trouble being around religious people, you should have just said something compassionate, like "Yeah, I know how you feel." or "Which religious people? Is it Scientologists?" "What religion is the worst to be around?" Keep asking questions because that way you seem interested in her. And when you hold speeches like that, you seem to be imposing yourself onto her.

You don't know the whole story. I'd been texting with her for three weeks and I'm not really looking for advice.
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