(January 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I was always a bad Jew - I never saw the point of praying or anything like that since the best I could come up with was a deistic notion of god. I think I mentioned on your intro thread that I toyed around with the idea of Wicca but (and the following is no disrespect to other Wiccans - I lived in a bumfuck town) the few outwardly Wiccan kids at my school were all mouth-breathers and not people I wanted to be associated with. I love learning about folklore and mythology and symbolism, but eventually I realized I just didn't give a good goddamn past that. My rosebushes are more interesting. I was bat mitzvahed in a conservative temple, confirmed in a reform temple, spent a few years hiding my discontent and disinterest thanks to an overly Baptist boyfriend, and two years ago I met two fantastic atheists, one of who inadvertently led me to Shell and here, and...suddenly it was like someone took a vice off from around my chest.
Hey, mouth-breathers need love, too!
hock: 
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
