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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on January 4, 2011 at 3:22am

Kris, thanks for the post, I always enjoy hearing what you have to say, but mostly, I enjoy the way you say it... hahaha, stay cool, and stay rational, sir.

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Permalink Reply by Taylor on December 31, 2010 at 6:48pm

I don't know one atheist in my life. So this website gives me the feeling that i'm not alone in the world and the great people on this website hold the same views that I do, or at least similar views.

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on December 31, 2010 at 7:19pm

Originally, I came here because someone I was following on Twitter mentioned the site. I stayed at first due to the chat room (I miss that) and later started getting more into the forums. I enjoy discussing things, and most of the topics we cover here are ones that the people I know offline are not interested in.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on January 4, 2011 at 3:23am

I miss the chatroom, too!

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Permalink Reply by Anne O on January 1, 2011 at 10:42am

I joined this site just a few weeks ago and I think I was led here by the blog "laughing in purgatory".  I've enjoyed some of the discussions here so far.  I invited my husband to join and he did.

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Permalink Reply by Jason D. Johnson on January 1, 2011 at 12:52pm

I come here because there are few (if any) other places I can go and talk to people who are in, on or at least about the same place mentally as I am.  People who still believe in God claim to me that they understand Atheism, but then they say something that completely exposes that claim as a lie.  Only an Atheist understands what it means to be an Atheist.  Other people like to think they understand. 

 

Most often I get "I get it, atheists don't believe in God... but why do you have to go public with it?"....LOL....If they stopped at God then I might have bought that they understood me.  But in my mind...

 

To truly understand Atheism is to become an Atheist.  You can't understand it if you aren't one.  Because to develop an understanding of Atheism, but still deny it's facets, is to lie to oneself about the existence of the supernatural and deny the explanations presented to us by scientific evidence, reason and logic. 

 

You can be an Atheism and understand theism, but you can't be a theist and truly understand Atheism.  That's just my opinion of course.  And here, there are people who genuinely understand me.  So that is why I continue to return.  I need to collaborate with like-minds.  The rest of the world doesn't understand, despite the persistent claim that they do.

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on January 1, 2011 at 12:57pm

Most often I get "I get it, atheists don't believe in God... but why do you have to go public with it?".

 

Maybe respond with "I get it, theists believe in God... but why do you have to go public with it?" and see how they respond. :)

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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on January 5, 2011 at 2:12am

Isn't it amazing that there is so much loneliness among us when we're 60 million strong?

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Permalink Reply by Christopher McGuire on January 4, 2011 at 3:27am

Wow, it seems like the majority of you are here out of loneliness... I think our lil revolution has a long way to go...

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on January 5, 2011 at 12:28pm

We are fighting against a lot of human history.  It will take some time to reach the sort of critical mass where we can actually find each other in real life.

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Permalink Reply by Janelle Campbell on January 5, 2011 at 9:30am

This is all so new, interesting, and inspiring to me. It also has given me a place to vent and express my feelings. I lived most of my life as a Christian, I had and have friends and family that still are.  I was hardcore Christian, and I had MANY misconceptions about nonbelievers.  I'm the only atheist in my family, my daughter now considers herself a Buddhist and even my husband who was a Christian is still a very spiritual person.  Actually it's been interesting to see the path he's taken since leaving Christianity, he's become a follower of the hermetic Golden Dawn, here's the site about it if you aren't familiar, I certainly wasn't: http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/ 

Given my husband's religion (although I don't think he'd call it a religion) and disdain for my cynicism and in my words feeling duped by religion, I am happy to have found this forum!  I've been on youtube and nexus, they've both been great as well,I like this forum though because it's so active and because it is not a criteria to be atheist to join.  My husband's cousin, an atheist who was a former Christian and Mormom has led me to a lot of great discussions and TED talks. 

Basically my ideas and opinions are still changing, I enjoy reading the threads and thinking about the topics.  I get excited when I read a topic about something I've been wondering or concerned about as well. I'm sure glad to be here :)

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