And NOW, by polite request:

[Whateverist]

Hello everyone!

By polite request, I've come to introduce myself as a newbie. Quite frankly, I don't even know if I am a newbie as I can't seem to find my previous account for this board, but perhaps I am merely mistaken as it has been a while since I have experienced this site.

I am a life-long, non-religious atheist from Portland, Oregon USA with a habit of traveling the world and living a rather unconventional and unapologetically  rather happy life of my own design and creation. I am a friendly and reasonably sociable introvert (often mistaken for an extrovert) with many interests and hobbies, but I imagine many would find me boring or annoying while some would find me interesting and enjoyable and that is the acceptable nature of the human reality of personal preferences and differences in personality and lifestyle.

I look forward to the discussions here and to getting to know the minds of many of you.


*I hope my avatar will suffice to satisfy your curiosity as I don't see how to post a photo other than from the web.

Now that is what I call an intro: informative, interesting and with a picture no less.  Welcome.  Portland seems to be a hot bed of atheist action, leastwise we have at least three others in the area that I know of.  

I'm in Berkeley, California and atheists may be well be in the majority here.  From a quick search it looks as though 34.5% here are religious, while 38.6 are across the bay in San Francisco and the state as whole is just slightly under 50% religious.  There are quite a few of us at AF.org in California too, though more are in the southern end of the state.

If you'd like to post pictures flickr will store a terabyte of info for free.  

Hope you like it here.  Have fun.