Still a Christian - ask me questions/tell me about yourselves

[Losty]

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Questions: 

1.  Can you clarify for me the difference between 'ideograph' and 'pictograph'?

2.  This thing on my neck - should I have it lanced or try the topical treatments first?

3.  Is the current anti-gluten craze going to abate any time soon?

4.  If they were pitted against each other, and assuming the topic was 'Inventing Mad Cool Stuff', who would win at 'Mastermind' - Archimedes or Thomas Edison ?

5.  Dafuq is wrong with the Danes?  Snotty bastards.

A Little About Myself:

I was raised on a penguin ranch is Serbia, the fifth of three children.  Apart from the penguins, Father was a mime/postal clerk and Mother ran the local donkey show.  Upon graduating from school - where I took first place honours in Mouse Launching - I became a soldier of fortune, seeing action in the Finland-Mongolia border skirmishes and the War Of Jenkin's Fanny Pack.  I was wounded in the latter encounter when I trod on a land mind and couldn't think straight.  When I was released from hospital, I immediately stole a car.  Unfortunately, it was an Italian model with only three wheels and no reverse gear.  Making good my getaway, I eventually found myself in London where I was hired by Thames Television as a body double for Benny Hill.  This position, naturally enough, led to two years as Prime Minister, during which I supported legislation to require the support of legislation.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Boru

And that, kids, is how one replies to a troll.

[Losty]

Hey all,

I'm a Christian, actually, still - well, I wasn't always. I'm a former atheist, and having now been on both sides, I can say I like this one a whole lot more. So, mine is more of a re-conversion story, in a sense, as a former Christian Scientist (blech) who became atheist and is now Christian. Go ahead, ask me questions and tell me about yourselves!

Welcome. I don't have any questions.

[Joods]

I don't have any questions either. Most theists that wander in here try to get all preachy and stuff. I tend to ignore that.

[downbeatplumb]

4.  If they were pitted against each other, and assuming the topic was 'Inventing Mad Cool Stuff', who would win at 'Mastermind' - Archimedes or Thomas Edison ?



And that, kids, is how one replies to a troll.

Thomas Edison was very good at stealing other peoples ideas, so Archimedes for the win.

[brewer]

Hello.

A still christian? That's a good one.

[chimp3]

Welcome! No questions. Christian conversion stories are really boring.

[speedyj1992]

So you were smart and then got stupid?

Sorry, troll.  Not buying it.

Hahaha I've not gotten this one yet, that genuinely made me laugh. For clarification sake, what part are you not buying? You not buying that I was an atheist? That I am a Christian? Do you think I'm trolling you?

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What denomination of Christian are you?

Why did you become atheist?

Why did you go back to being Christian?

The churches that I'm most connected to (at home and near school) aren't really denominational, but they're basically somewhere in the Presbyterian-Mission denomination. I don't know nearly enough about denominations to give a strong answer as to where they fall under because some denominations cover a wide variety of churches, and I don't fully understand that because it's not a big priority in my mind.

I was having angst issues growing up and didn't understand a lot when it came to God, so when I asked my mom, she wasn't able to give me a satisfactory answer, and neither was anyone at the excuse for a church I went to. So I left, and it caused a big stir.

A few years went by, and I realized atheism didn't make sense to me - it didn't make sense that we came from nothing, or that the universe formed itself. There has to be a higher power involved in all this beauty, and as I started to seek God, I found the answers to the questions I had, just not in the church I had been in when I was younger.

[ignoramus]

Welcome matey...
Everyone's welcome here.

If you're genuinely not a troll you have nothing to worry about.

[speedyj1992]

Welcome matey...
Everyone's welcome here.

If you're genuinely not a troll you have nothing to worry about.

Thank you - tell me about you, though, where are you from and what's your background with all of this stuff?

Also, I think I figured it out - for those who are interested in the problem of evil's existence in the world with a holy God,

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