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Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 10:53 am
Well, afternoon, actually, but who cares about the proper time. Now let's see...
- This person
- is
- new to the forum, obviously
- multinational
- a teenager
- geeky
- a fan of
- Doctor Who
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Ears for Elves
- Lindsey Stirling
- Emilie Autumn
- Septimus Heap
- Tolkien
- musicals
and many many many many many other things
- bisexual
- a flautist, stalled somewhere between English grades 3 and 4
- an atheist, as of some point since the beginning of 2013. Losing faith was a fuzzy, slow, and painful process but she is now happy to say that she does not believe in any gods
- an agnostic who accepts the possibility of some gods existing, e.g. the Celtic Pagan ones that some of her friends worship, but finds others implausible
- irreligious, though she would still like to attend church in a social capacity and she sometimes finds herself praying out of sheer habit
- always obsessed with TV Tropes
- currently obsessed with learning about the atheist corner of the blogosphere, which she had no idea existed until recently
- not specifically out to many people as an atheist, but that is now mostly due to a lack of contact with them
- was a Christian, once upon a time, and she is still working on overcoming near 16 years of strongly religious upbringing that she herself perpetuated
- doesn't usually speak in third person
- has
- mild CFS/ME, an illness which means her body does not produce energy properly. This means that she can't walk too far, be in school too long, concentrate too much... All the better for frittering away the day on internet fora, clearly. It also meant that she didn't go to church for months, which contributed to her deconversion
- two older brothers, one irreligious like her and one a Quaker
- fun
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There, that completely does not cover hardly a sliver of stuff at all. :P
Ponders too much; thinks too little.
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 10:55 am
Welcome to the forums, Princess.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 10:58 am
Welcome 
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 10:58 am
Howdy!
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 11:04 am
Welcome.
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 11:15 am
Hello and welcome to AF! ^_^
Please, please say that you are a Hayao Miyazaki fan too! 
But Lindsay Sterling.. That girl is not a good violinist  (Source: My awesome hyper-intelligent friend, who can play any instrument and is a violinist herself.  )
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 11:19 am by thesummerqueen.)
Hey now. Cinjin thinks AC/DC is a crap band (and he plays himself) and they're still my favorite. (we like who we like...)
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 11:21 am
If you're a true Doctor Who fan, and up-to-date, you'll know this reference:
Run you clever boy, and remember...
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 11:29 am
(April 4, 2013 at 11:19 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Hey now. Cinjin thinks AC/DC is a crap band (and he plays himself) and they're still my favorite. (we like who we like...)
I know, don't take me too seriously 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Morning!
April 4, 2013 at 11:48 am
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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