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Newbie !! My reason for joining
Gnosis Offline
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Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 7:53 pm
Hi Guys !

I am an engineering student who is still living at home with the rents in Dublin. I love music, mountain biking and pretty much anything outdoorsy. My little brother is seven and he just made his Communion. I had to watch my family brainwash my little buddy for the past few weeks, turning his brain to mush. And i have no one at home or around that is of the same frame of mind as me. I am VERY new to forums but i need to chat to other level headed, intelligent, free thinking individuals or i will go nuts!

Glad to be on board and posting ! (first post woohoo).
Any tips on how to be more forum savvy would be much appreciated !
Cheers folks ![/quote][/font]
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Welcome, and enjoy your stay!
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Don't worry lad...when some jesus freak shows up sprinkling jesus dust around you'll know what to do.
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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 8:17 pm (This post was last modified: May 12, 2013 at 8:19 pm by Mystical.)
Stick around, get to know intimately why you don't believe what they do, and have fun being free! My condolences to your little brotherWink At least he has you
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 8:23 pm
Hello and welcome to AF! ^_^
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: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 8:54 pm (This post was last modified: May 12, 2013 at 8:55 pm by Darkstar.)
Welcome

I was new to forums when I first joined here too.

You can find some useful information here: Link (and, uh..don't post in any of the threads on that page. I'm actually not sure why they aren't all locked...)

The rest comes with experience.
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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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 9:17 pm
(May 12, 2013 at 7:53 pm)Gnosis Wrote: ...free thinking individuals
Welcome....but free thinking may be a bit of a stretch. In a deterministic physical universe, 'free' doesn't really apply. If you're into that sorta thing.
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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 12, 2013 at 9:37 pm
Psst: Chad is one of those jesus freaks I warned you about!
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Re: RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 13, 2013 at 5:07 am
(May 12, 2013 at 7:53 pm)Gnosis Wrote: (first post woohoo).

Ahem.. 2nd post! :)

Welcome aboard!
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RE: Newbie !! My reason for joining
May 13, 2013 at 5:31 am
Welcome

I joined to make new friends myself. I am deployed overseas, which sucks!
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
Professional Watcher of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report!
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