RE: well, hello
September 20, 2015 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2015 at 3:20 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(September 20, 2015 at 2:56 pm)Mermaid Wrote: You are the person who made me look in this forum, your shoutbox posts made me laugh this morning.
Yeah, that was pretty embarassing. I had never used Google Chrome before, and when I typed in atheistforums (not knowing there was another one), it loaded the .com version. I was too tired from battling with my antivirus software to notice it wasn't just this site displayed in some format that Firefox somehow didn't support. So, yeah, pretty embarassing.
Before I was set up by an ex and wrongfully incarcerated for 9 years (just exonerated and released in April of this year) as a victim of the Drug War, I was an environmental scientist/field biologist (stream system ecology, endangered and threatened species range-tracking and quantification, and pollution monitoring) for a state regulatory agency. My fiancee works in a genetics lab, studying genes that we share with Caenorhabditis elegans related to aging and stem cell differentiation. I mention my incarceration by way of explaining how, in 2015, I could be so inept with new computer technologies! Heh.
Since the science field is now effectively closed to me, despite the exoneration, without going back to college to catch up on a decade of major breakthroughs in biology, I've taken up my old hobby of motorcycle building as a new career (thus my alias/handle on here). But I still love talking about science, particularly evolutionary biology, and AF is a great way to express that.
Addendum: You don't have to worry about sexism and hostility here. Not only do most of our men self-identify as feminists, Beccs and Losty will chew anyone expressing such misogynist sentiments to shreds.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
