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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on June 9, 2011 at 7:42pm

I looked at a few sites and settled on this one because the first discussion was satirical and intelligent.  See also this utube. From 1:36 is enough.

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Permalink Reply by oneinfinity on June 9, 2011 at 7:42pm

Last month, a friend of mine posted a link to a blog article here on Think Atheist, Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun, which I came to read (and be disgusted by the silly behavior of christians once again, i admit). But on the 1st page of comments someone noted that the article was 3 years old (and this blog post was from 2009). Which led me to finding this: Reporter of Bill Nye, Moonbat story speaks, which concludes with this most appropriate quote:

 

For Skeptics, it's not just an example of this kind of conditioning that allows people to close themselves off from any contrary evidence to their views, no matter how obvious and common sensical, but how, in the Internet age, stories take on a life of their own and are more likely to catch fire because they are cast in their most sensationalistic light.

 

Then, being an atheist and now curious about what Think Atheist was all about, I started poking around and saw that people were talking about all kinds of fascinating things here, and actually discussing things instead of the usual "cri moar noob" kind of crap. So I joined up and I'm really happy to have found this site because, as an atheist/vegetarian/liberal, I feel pretty isolated here in Texas. Plus I'm an introvert anyway, so it's hard to meet new people even if they were more like me. It's just really cool to hear the "voices" of so many other rational people. And just regular people, not celebrities like Harris and Dawkins et al, but just people from all over trying to stay reasonable in a crazy world.

 

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on June 9, 2011 at 7:48pm

I have favorite members whom I will watch closely for new posts/replies, but I really enjoy the little rhetorical gems that seem to pop up at random from much less conspicuous members from time to time.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on June 9, 2011 at 7:43pm

I found think atheist to be refreshing with a pleasant minty aftertaste.

 

I used to frequently post on rockclimbing.com.  One of the forums on the site is just for politics, so religion was mentioned frequently (generally in a negative way).  Along comes a Christian with no connection to rock climbing whatsoever, wanting to jump in to enlighten us about his religion.  I googled his username to see if he just wandered the weblands looking for atheists to chat up, which quickly led me here.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on June 9, 2011 at 7:49pm

Was that Kevin Harris by any chance?

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on June 9, 2011 at 8:11pm

I had to look it up.  It was Roger Pearse.  He had a very short stint here before losing interest.

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Permalink Reply by IEatDinosaurMeat on June 9, 2011 at 9:39pm

Sweet, you're a climber?

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on June 9, 2011 at 11:54pm

Kinda.  I used to be somewhat strong, but now I'm a bit fatter and a whole lot lazier.  Don't get out near as much as I used to.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on June 10, 2011 at 12:06am

I used to be a climber until I broke my left hand - sorta fucks that activity big time, never did get back into it.

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Permalink Reply by IEatDinosaurMeat on June 10, 2011 at 10:54am

I'm an avid addict.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on June 10, 2011 at 6:39pm

I switched to skydiving - going with gravity is much easier, :D

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Gibson on June 9, 2011 at 7:44pm

I StumbledUpon it.

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