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 mightymjolnir |
Welcome to FreeThought Fort Wayne! |
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Posts: 125 10/23/07 09:52:51 |
We're glad you found us! Please introduce yourself in this forum. This is a new board, so expect several changes over the next few days and weeks as we
perfect its appearance.
Admins are AndysCatHouse, NewsTravels, and mightymjolnir. Please feel free to message us with questions, concerns, or suggestions. Happy posting! m |
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Posts: 39 10/26/07 23:54:55 |
Hey. My name's Justin. I'm 23. I'm an atheist and a critical thinker living in Harlan, just outside of Fort Wayne. I'm poor, fat, and happy.
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Blackwater.fortwayneatheist |
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Posts: 3 10/27/07 08:24:36 |
Hi, My name is John... I am an atheist, I'm 37, I live in Fort Wayne, I'm married with two kids.
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Narly9999 |
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Posts: 36 10/28/07 01:08:43 |
Hi, I'm Anthony. My last intro was pretty short due to lack of time. I work so damn hard! OK so the first thing ya need to know is that I'm a hard
worker. I've always been a free thinker that I remember. There where times I attempted to believe to do my best to see if it was true. Yeah sadly
disappointed I didn't get that new motorcycle and the 27 virgins. LOL JOKING! Which leads to the second part of me ya need to know, I'm a very
serious person that is seriously serious about joking around! Though I do try not to offend people with jokes at their cost! Generally I do that at my own
costs. Which leads me to the thought that, You are your own property so it's ok to joke about you but you are not the property of others so it's wrong
from them to joke about you at your expense. Ahhhh, ok some times i do TMI which bores people so ya know I just like to talk. But I'm about as normal as
rain in April. If a freethinking realistic type personality is even close to what the national norm is. Hmmm, OK, I concede, I'm anything but a typical
normal American sheep brainwashed by the system to bid for the corprate nation of higher educated wolves that take advantage of the lesser educated in their
society to give their political agenda power. Ok, maybe it's not that bad there has to be some decent companies out there that are fair about using their
profits to better the lives of the employees. Hmm, back on topic. I'm from Fort Wayne and have lived around the US in IL, NY, and Parts of Indiana. Done
some moving. Also been to college but ran out of money to finish. Also spent time in the U.S. ARMY National Guard as a Sargent. My Favorite passage in the
Bible is where Moses Kills thousands of innocent pregnant women and babies and rape young women. Numbers [31:00 - 31:30 I think] Just goes to show how much
people don't read the Bible as much as they think they are reading it when they sit in a cult house and have it read to them while they follow along on
selected verses. Suggestions for anyone to read would be: The Da Vinci Code, Hitchens, and Dawkins. Suggested websites to be bookmarked: infidelguy.com,
americanatheist.org, and of course this site as well. That's me in a nutshell!!
It's not what you believe but what you believe to believe in.
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Posts: 35 11/03/07 21:08:01 |
I'm Rose. I'm 30, nearly 31, I'm not fat, I'm no longer married, I have 1 kid and I totally freaking rock.
Guns don't kill people- Chuck Norris kills people.
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Posts: 29 11/07/07 06:41:15 |
hi all! i am deb, 59 years old..thats good because ya get old or ya get dead..no fantasy about a do-over/heavenly reward here ;-) . definate atheist but not
anti-religion, i am frustrated by the religious cultures, not necessarily by the believers..depends on the individual.
narrow minded? your way is the really rite way? pressing your religious agenda into our nations laws? thats ok--gives us much to discuss here! |
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Posts: 11 11/13/07 10:21:49 |
I'm Jim, a fourth-year medical student at Ohio State University. AndysCatHouse is my brother and he invited me to join the board since I'm a fellow
free-thinker. I look forward to some interesting discussions.
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AndysCatHouse |
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Posts: 139 11/13/07 22:11:52 |
Jim,
It is good to have a soon to be resident doctor on the board. Wow, you have no idea of how proud I am of you. However, I might have to pick on you for the Star Trek stuff and still slap you around a bit... (Gene Rodenberry the ultimate freethinker?). I think I should let the board know you tried to save my soul and bring me back to Jesus during our teenage years. I really appreciated you cared but I couldn't get past the inside/outside worldview of all the religions. (Oh, and the lack of modern miracles). -Andy |
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Capn Picard |
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Posts: 11 11/16/07 00:47:49 |
AndysCatHouse wrote:Fair enough. (cracks up laughing) 
That should tell everyone just how "into religion" I was. (But what choice did I have? We were both pastor's kids, and the role of the independent, free-thinking son was already taken!  )
I was quite into Christianity. I was sold, hook-line-and-sinker. I went to church, Sunday school, and even a middle-of-the-week Bible study with friends. I prayed and read the Bible. When I would have doubts, I would pray for more faith, if for nothing else than Pascal's Wager (which I thought impenetrable). My senior year of high school, at a time when I was feeling pressure by my high school English teacher to have supporting evidence for my beliefs, I was introduced to Josh McDowell and Christian apologetics. It looked to me like it was all proven. I was surprised it wasn't in the papers, "Didn't you hear? They proved Christianity." When I hit college, I couldn't wait to join Campus Crusade for Christ. Along the way, I tried to "save people's eternal souls", especially people I cared about, which, yes, included my older brother. If nothing else, my commitment to religion should give hope that such a person can one day walk away from it to something better, like freethought. Various things led me to question my faith. For one, I met a gay Christian and became good friends with him. (At the time I didn't even know that "gay Christians" existed.) Secondly, in trying to convert others, I decided to set the example of looking at the evidence for and against the major worldviews and then making an informed decision. Thirdly, I got tired of having to look down on "lost" non-Christians, such as my brother. Long story short, here I am now. I like to call myself a Unitarian Universalist. What's everybody else's personal experience with religion? How "into it" were you? Andy, what do you mean by "inside/outside worldview" of all the religions? |
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Posts: 88 11/23/07 16:56:42 |
hi! glad to see a CFI group is starting up in the FW area. Reba (of CFI Indy) told me a few months ago that something was going to begin soon. i've been
to some programs sponsored by CFI Indy (Darwin Day, Grand Opening), but that's a long, expensive drive for me. I'm a soon-to-be 50 yr-old
teacher/coach; i call myself an agnostic/freethinker/humanist. i enjoy reading, writing, working out, and discussing ideas. i especially enjoy Darwinism and
related topics, even though i don't teach science. dawkins, t. paine, sagan, zinn, b. russell, vonnegut, and twain are among my favorite authors. when is
the next meeting? i have a busy schedule, but i'd like to meet everyone if i can make it.
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agnohumanist |
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Posts: 88 11/23/07 16:58:18 |
agnohumanist wrote: "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone to believe things upon insufficient evidence." --William James |
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