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I came up with this idea a few weeks ago but wanted to save it till today seems its my accounts 2nd birthday. The plan is that people can re-introduce themselves seems a lot can change in the years people are on here. Plus it gives newer members a chance to know about members who joined a long time ago without having to go tracking down their intro thread.
So starting with me:
I'm Mark a 21 year old from the south of England. I live in a town right in the middle of the south downsnational park. Its great in the summer but pretty miserable in the winter. In the winter I spend most of my time inside lurking around the internet trying to find anything interesting to do. In the summer I try to be outside as much as I can manage. Though I hate the heat and usually stay in the shade..
As a kid I spent a lot of time with my friends usually doing something ridiculous. Nothing too bad but usually somewhat dangerous. We mostly stopped after a friend almost died after falling off a rope swing we set up in the middle of the woods. I had a big falling out with another group of friends I had when I was like 15-16 and fell out of contact with most of the others. Now I spend most of my time in my own company. Reading that back it sound depressing, its not. I've never been a fan of talking I prefer sitting back and observing.
Seem this is atheist forums I should probably add something about religion. Growing up it really wasn't something I ever thought about. I thought nobody really believed other than the old, weird and the stupid. I figured everyone played along just for the sake of them. It wasn't until I was older when I actually found out a lot of people genuinely believed.. I took religious studies at school and then college because I found the whole thing bizarre. Then I was completely taken back by how horrific the 5-6 really religious people in the class were. Things like if there was no god they would just kill, steal and whatever else because it wouldn't matter.
Thats where I repeatedly got reminded by them they thought I was going to go to hell. It honestly hurt my feelings at first. Obviously not because I thought hell was a thing. Just because I knew they believed it and said it happily, they were glad that I would be tormented for eternity? For nothing other than not believing. I'd known assholes before but never met nice people that were so twisted inside. It completely changed the way I saw humanity. I've never liked bullies and I saw these type of people as another group of bullies and made it my goal to be able to put them in their place when I needed to.
If this thread does well I might remake them every 6 months to a year. Could be interesting
