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Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
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RE: Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
(April 5, 2014 at 5:09 pm)Celi Wrote: Yeah, that's true. I don't understand why it's so difficult, but then, neither do they.
I really want you to meet my friend, Lee. (FtM) He's from gay royalty so his family was actually really cool when he came out as trans. He ran for president of the GSSA recently. He'd probably be really nice to talk to about the things that bug you in your daily trans life.
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#52
RE: Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
Cool! I'd love to. I actually don't know any trans people, haha
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#53
RE: Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
(April 5, 2014 at 5:46 pm)Celi Wrote: Cool! I'd love to. I actually don't know any trans people, haha
Don't worry, sister, I can hook you up. I'll just send you a PM so you know who to look for on Facebook. Big Grin
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#54
RE: Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
Welcome from the UK! I hope you get what you want from this forum. It's almost a certainty that you'll get what you need ;-)
Sum ergo sum
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RE: Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
(April 5, 2014 at 10:31 am)Celi Wrote: I realize that this is an extreme case of necromancy and I apologize. Over a year...wow. But I left this kinda unresolved.

Long story short: my parents kinda freaked out, then calmed down. They've pretty much let it go. My gender they're still not too happy with, but I'll be going off to college in a matter of months, and then they'll be able to do fuck all about it.

If any of you guys are still around, thanks so much for your help.

Bit late but welcome.

Cool Shades

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#56
RE: Alabamian Atheist in Need of Advice
Hello!

My theistic story is very much the same as yours. I never really believed, and I just grinned and bore it until I was in college and knew I was never going to need my parents financially any longer.

My advice: study your ass off. Get out of Alabama for college, or at the very least go to Auburn. Learn, learn learn. Make something good for your life, and then you can be WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE. Intelligence and being a good person breeds confidence, and confidence breeds success.

Use this time that you have to go to church as a study period. Catalogue the ridiculous things taught in church, study them and learn how to refute them. Learn by example what you don't want to be. There are some good things that churches do in the community, even if they do it with bribery. Some don't. Learn what they do and think of ways to do it without religion, or help them out when they are doing good things without the bribery.

Bottom line, do everything you can not to be a person who proves any stereotype.

[/advice from a rando in the interwebs]
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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