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#1
Hello there
I am just another atheist new to this forum. I chose "prayforme" for a username because Christians usually insist on it anyways. I figure what the hell, if they want to waste their time I'll go ahead and give them the encouragement (like they need it right?).

So I'm here primarily to seek out like minded-individuals to socialize with. You know, BS and that kind of thing. I might even decide to take a trip to a convention of sorts for the first time if there are any in my area. I don't intend to spend too much time debating theists because well I've done my share in the past - mostly trying to correct mis-perceptions about atheism (perhaps the most trying of all efforts). And by theists I mean Christians of course, the flavor of recent history.

My family is your average mainstream Christian bunch, if not a bit on the less religious side of the spectrum. Still quite difficult to discuss things like atheism with them. Sick and tired of having to explain and reexplain atheism to them - all I get back is appeal to emotion, atheism=religion, and "one day you'll find God". What's worse is that I deal with fun things like depression and anxiety which they attempt to associate with atheism. Sick.. and ... tired.

OK, rant over. Hope to make some new friends and maybe even meet a few in person at some point. See ya in the forums.
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#2
RE: Hello there
Welcome to the forum, prayforme. So tell me exactly what do you need to be prayed for?
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#3
RE: Hello there
I could use a winning lottery ticket so you could start with that. Tongue
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#4
RE: Hello there
Welcome prayforme, enjoy the forums.
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#5
RE: Hello there
Too sleepy to read, but i think you introduced yourself...

So welcome Levitate
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#6
RE: Hello there
Hi....

Badger
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If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.
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#7
RE: Hello there
Welcome to the forums. Where are you from?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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#8
RE: Hello there
(May 9, 2011 at 4:12 am)prayforme Wrote: I could use a winning lottery ticket so you could start with that. Tongue

Confusednork: God hates most Xtians or they'd all be rich, I think.
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#9
RE: Hello there
Hey dude, welcome to the forums.

I'm up for the bullshit Wink
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#10
RE: Hello there
"I chose "prayforme" for a username because Christians usually insist on it anyways."

More appropriate would be "prey on me". Supporting the parasites (oops, the priests and preachers) makes them prey in my book.
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