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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 12:02 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 11:02 am)whateverist Wrote: Whatever ..
I mean welcome. Sounds like you've had a rocky time. Are you getting any sort of treatment/therapy for the social anxiety or have you just accepted it as a parameter in your life? Certainly your call.
I just accept the social phobia I guess. I have talked on a social phobia forum, and my case is not all that bad. I have jury duty in a week and I dread sitting in a room full of people for the orientation. I sweat and feel tense, but I've done it before and I will survive. 
I am trying to get myself psyched-up to get psychotherapy again. It takes a lot of time, but it usually helps me learn things.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 12:09 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 10:53 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: Ugh.... describing yourself as an 'intellectual' makes you sound like a jerk
What's wrong with "intellectuals?" Without them we end up with bible thumping jerkoffs.
Hello, Watch. Welcome aboard.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 12:12 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 10:36 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: So I'm not a rational, intellectual atheist. My path has been more like crawling in the dark. Am I the only one who read the "not" in that sentence?
"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: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 12:43 pm
Welcome to the forum watchamadoodle! Love the new name. Please enjoy some welcome cookies.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 1:01 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 10:36 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: So I'm not a rational, intellectual atheist. My path has been more like crawling in the dark.
One of the best descriptions of being alive that I've ever read.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 1:31 pm
You sound like someone who can offer perspective. I think you will be great here.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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December 1, 2014 at 1:53 pm
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(December 1, 2014 at 12:12 pm)Tonus Wrote: (December 1, 2014 at 10:36 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: So I'm not a rational, intellectual atheist. My path has been more like crawling in the dark. Am I the only one who read the "not" in that sentence?
Thanks for highlighting the "no", Tonus.
I should have said "I ain't no rational, intellectual atheist". Then there would have been less chance for confusion.
I said that to explain that I'm not the sort of person that can read an atheist book and process the arguments to become an atheist. I admire people who are that rational, but I'm not. I also admire people who are intellectuals, scholars, witty, brilliant, etc. I wish I was one of those people, but I'm not.
Oops, I forgot to mention scientists in my list. I am extremely envious of scientists. I wish I understood science better.
(December 1, 2014 at 12:43 pm)Losty Wrote: Welcome to the forum watchamadoodle! Love the new name. Please enjoy some welcome cookies.
Mmmm mmmm.
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Welcome watch
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RE: need to vent
December 1, 2014 at 2:01 pm
(December 1, 2014 at 11:53 am)Losty Wrote: (December 1, 2014 at 10:53 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: Ugh.... describing yourself as an 'intellectual' makes you sound like a jerk
Really? You can't just say hello and welcome?
I'm always skeptical about the intentions of new members
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
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December 1, 2014 at 2:02 pm
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(December 1, 2014 at 2:01 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: (December 1, 2014 at 11:53 am)Losty Wrote: Really? You can't just say hello and welcome?
I'm always skeptical about the intentions of new members
Erm...he literally said the exact opposite of that... he said he's not a rational, intellectual atheist. Nice to see that kind of honesty from a new dude/dudette.
Also welcome!
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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