Extra Gratitude Rambling/Encouragment

[thesummerqueen]

[Doubting Thomas]

I'm glad things are working out for you better now. I would love to join a local atheist group, but alas there are none in this ultra-conservative part of this red state I live in. I think the closest one might be a 2 hour drive away.

[thesummerqueen]

I'm glad things are working out for you better now. I would love to join a local atheist group, but alas there are none in this ultra-conservative part of this red state I live in. I think the closest one might be a 2 hour drive away.

Some of our members do live that far away, and there are now splinter groups which are forming into their own strongholds depending on what area they're in north, west, south, and east of us. It'd be interesting to know if there were other atheists closer to you, if you could suss that out.

Some people do it just so they can hang out with other parents and not have to do it through a church group, or have drinking buddies who won't frown at them.

[Kitan Etos]

Unfortunately, I am too anti-social to join a group. Online interaction is easier to manage, since I do not have to be in the physical presence of the people with whom I interact.

[thesummerqueen]

Unfortunately, I am too anti-social to join a group. Online interaction is easier to manage, since I do not have to be in the physical presence of the people with whom I interact.

We have a lot of members who range from being very introverted to having real social anxiety problems who only come out once in a blue moon. They keep in touch over the forum and Facebook. We're still there for them nonetheless.

[Doubting Thomas]

I would love to find other atheists nearby, and I suspect there are some, but without having the letter A tattooed on our foreheads it's kind of hard to find them. It's not something you really want to advertise in such a religious area.

[thesummerqueen]

Not at all, of course. Would you like me to ask the longest running members how they 'found' each other?

[Doubting Thomas]

Sure.

[Bows n Arrows]

I'm glad things are working out for you better now. I would love to join a local atheist group, but alas there are none in this ultra-conservative part of this red state I live in. I think the closest one might be a 2 hour drive away.

I thought the same thing an hour ago when I first read this post, then I checked a profile, sent a pm asking if she knew any groups in my area, and who would have known that I live in the same city that this thread talks about, and now I'm linked to their facebook page.

[Faith No More]