(June 11, 2014 at 4:56 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: Damn, dude! You're 42 and have never met another atheist? I'd wager that you probably met a closet'd atheist :p
Anyway, you're sure to find some like-minded brahs around here.
Welcome aboard!
MANY, MANY closeted atheists. I am not ashamed to say that I am a recovering alchoholic/psycho-med popper who went through rehab last year. I know, I know, AA simply spells BS in my book but I had to pay lip service to my family (sorry to anyone who has had success with AA, I just needed to clear my system and I knew the right course of action). After introducing myself and identifying myself as a Biology Teacher I was STUNNED by the number of people that pulled me aside and whispered their true beliefs in my ear. It is really pathetic that people are so scared to let people know what they believe. And I am being 100 percent honest when I tell you that in all of my 42 years I have never known that being an Atheist was so widely seen as taboo. Either I have been waaaayyyy too fucked up since the age of 14 (though I have never taught kids drunk, maybe pretty hungover) or I have just surrounded myself with everything academia for so long that I have been insulated. I have a shitton of research left to do on brain physiology as it pertains to addicts but I truly think that I spent all of those years in a stupor because I simply couldn't make sense of the world around me (or the people, all of whom were christians). It just made zero sense to me and still does.
