Hey all,
I've been lurking in this forum for a bit and would like to join the conversation. I'm a business major from the US and A living in the Portland Metro area. I work for Intel and after I set my machines a measurin' I surf the internets looking for entertainment. They don't allow porn at work so I cruise forums. I am currently a member of a swingdance forum, a kiteboard forum, a WOW forum (although not much activity from me because I quit playing), and now this forum.
I came here to see what kind of struggles face the atheist and hopefully find answers to questions I never thought to ask, like, for example, how well correlated the population of homosexuals are with the atheist population. I'm certainly going to post on the money thread because I've learned a bit about it, being a business major, and there are some concepts missing in the thread.
I've vacillated between Christian (Nazarene) and agnostic many times and was finally able to wriggle from my theist cacoon through http://www.godisimaginary.com. Ok, maybe not the best source of information and mostly a mish mash of repeated truths but it did help crack the hypnotic effects of my studies of God and gods.
So, poof, Atheist, YAY! wait how do I decide right from wrong? Meaningless concepts! No valuable concepts when viewed subjectivley. Critical thiniking 101 - Utilitarianism yay John Stuart Mill.
These forums have a weird effect on me and make me sensitive to the theism around me. I have always been a proponent of vigilance though so I am going to call it a good thing.
Rhizo
I've been lurking in this forum for a bit and would like to join the conversation. I'm a business major from the US and A living in the Portland Metro area. I work for Intel and after I set my machines a measurin' I surf the internets looking for entertainment. They don't allow porn at work so I cruise forums. I am currently a member of a swingdance forum, a kiteboard forum, a WOW forum (although not much activity from me because I quit playing), and now this forum.
I came here to see what kind of struggles face the atheist and hopefully find answers to questions I never thought to ask, like, for example, how well correlated the population of homosexuals are with the atheist population. I'm certainly going to post on the money thread because I've learned a bit about it, being a business major, and there are some concepts missing in the thread.
I've vacillated between Christian (Nazarene) and agnostic many times and was finally able to wriggle from my theist cacoon through http://www.godisimaginary.com. Ok, maybe not the best source of information and mostly a mish mash of repeated truths but it did help crack the hypnotic effects of my studies of God and gods.
So, poof, Atheist, YAY! wait how do I decide right from wrong? Meaningless concepts! No valuable concepts when viewed subjectivley. Critical thiniking 101 - Utilitarianism yay John Stuart Mill.
These forums have a weird effect on me and make me sensitive to the theism around me. I have always been a proponent of vigilance though so I am going to call it a good thing.
Rhizo
