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Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 12:17 am
Hello everyone, I've finally decided to post an introduction thread after lurking the forums for several weeks or so.
I've considered myself an atheist for several years now. My father converted to Christianity when I was just about 10 years old. I attended church and bible study with him constantly for several years following until I began having issues with what the bible was saying, and the basic idea of God in general.
There's really not much story to me. I began questioning religion, and here I am. Happy as can be!
The forum seems really nice, I hope I will fit in.
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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 1:00 am
So you're panic? Or was that pain? Hell... either way you serve Mars.
I knew Mars. Fascinating guy. Not doing too well under paris these days. And you can thank his wife for that.
Welcome.
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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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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 1:46 am
Welcome Deimos.
We could use some fresh perspective around here, hopefully you'll be that guy.
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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 5:06 am
(August 14, 2011 at 12:17 am)Deimos Wrote: I hope I will fit in.
Just use your elbows if not 
Welcome!
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: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 6:28 am
Welcome aboard. As I neither own nor moderate this form (nor am I an atheist), I reserve the right to welcome all here, until someone tells me to quit.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2011 at 10:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Deimos and Phobos are fear and terror, respectively, Sae. Charioteers for Ares, sons of Aphrodite. Welcome aboard Deimos
(Deimos is also a face melting HAC in Eve thats needs some love)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 10:59 am
Quit it Anymouse! 
*everyone forms a queue to slap Anymouse*
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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 1:24 pm
(August 14, 2011 at 10:42 am)Rhythm Wrote: Deimos and Phobos are fear and terror, respectively, Sae. Charioteers for Ares, sons of Aphrodite. Welcome aboard Deimos
(Deimos is also a face melting HAC in Eve thats needs some love) Fear and terror are pointless synonyms to have for cronies.
Hon, Ares is Mars.
The disney movie really screws shit up, hard  No wonder Greece banned it
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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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2011 at 1:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Mars is distinctly different from Ares. Mars is not only the god of war, but also agriculture and fertility (necessities of war by the time). Ares is simply war. His sons as charioteers represented the fear of loss, and the machinations of the cosmos that made such loss possible (this is also why Aphrodite is sourced as the mother, to connect the ideas of love and loss). Under roman guidance this particular aspect was removed. One is a god of war and death, the other war and life. One is feared, the other revered.
But wtf do I know about gods, damned atheist. 
By the by, Mars/Ares is actually the only pair of greek to roman transfers that changed meaning significantly. The two civilizations had a very different view of war.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Greetings
August 14, 2011 at 1:41 pm
I'm aware, just stating that they are the same character supplanted to different peoples, who then shaped those characters. While Ares and Mars are the same being, Mars is older and I like to think wiser.
Imagine what this means for the Christian gods
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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