Title: What's up!?
Post by: Belos on September 03, 2008, 01:30:17 PM
Post by: Belos on September 03, 2008, 01:30:17 PM
Hello everyone! I'm new here, although that pretty much goes without saying. As a brief intro, I'm 22 and currently working as a stuructural mechanic for fighter jets in the Navy, though with hopes of getting out and heading to college within the next year to study environmental science and biology.
I guess I was lucky in that my parents, while Christian, were not into church or the bible much, so I thankfully grew up as more of a free thinker, though I did try various religions particularly through one good friend and her family. I really haven't thought much about religion since nor really put any importance on it until this last spring when I met up with my friend's mother again (she alone in the that family believes it's her swore duty to "save" each and every soul on the planet) and got into a quite extensive debate about it. Because I really didn't have much knowledge about Christianity, she pretty much "won" the agrument (I guess I always thought that there were so many more important things to spend time thinking about rather than waste what time I had on something so meaningless, to me anyway) and then asked me to make more of an effort to read the Bible "for the sake of my soul." I did take her up on that, though not so much for my soul, and now am throughly confused, frustrated, fasinated and somewhat obessed about not so much the religion, but instead what in the human psyche drives people to distort their entire lives for the sake of the fantasy and denial of the realities of life.
Either way, I've become much more "perseptive" to matters about religion and when even the horse training boards that I post on were being overrun with loud and quite rude fundamentalists, I thought I'd seek a safe haven where logic and reason still rule the day, so thank you all for allowing me on!
I guess I was lucky in that my parents, while Christian, were not into church or the bible much, so I thankfully grew up as more of a free thinker, though I did try various religions particularly through one good friend and her family. I really haven't thought much about religion since nor really put any importance on it until this last spring when I met up with my friend's mother again (she alone in the that family believes it's her swore duty to "save" each and every soul on the planet) and got into a quite extensive debate about it. Because I really didn't have much knowledge about Christianity, she pretty much "won" the agrument (I guess I always thought that there were so many more important things to spend time thinking about rather than waste what time I had on something so meaningless, to me anyway) and then asked me to make more of an effort to read the Bible "for the sake of my soul." I did take her up on that, though not so much for my soul, and now am throughly confused, frustrated, fasinated and somewhat obessed about not so much the religion, but instead what in the human psyche drives people to distort their entire lives for the sake of the fantasy and denial of the realities of life.
Either way, I've become much more "perseptive" to matters about religion and when even the horse training boards that I post on were being overrun with loud and quite rude fundamentalists, I thought I'd seek a safe haven where logic and reason still rule the day, so thank you all for allowing me on!
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: Jolly Sapper on September 03, 2008, 05:49:12 PM
Post by: Jolly Sapper on September 03, 2008, 05:49:12 PM
Hello there Navy, how's the weather?
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: MommaSquid on September 03, 2008, 06:48:39 PM
Post by: MommaSquid on September 03, 2008, 06:48:39 PM
Quote from: "belos"...and then asked me to make more of an effort to read the Bible "for the sake of my soul." I did take her up on that, though not so much for my soul, and now am throughly confused, frustrated, fasinated and somewhat obessed about not so much the religion, but instead what in the human psyche drives people to distort their entire lives for the sake of the fantasy and denial of the realities of life.
The bible is an atheists best weapon. Well, that and a logical mind. Try this bible...
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com (http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com)
Welcome to the forum, belos.
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: McQ on September 03, 2008, 11:47:17 PM
Post by: McQ on September 03, 2008, 11:47:17 PM
Welcome to the forum, and thanks for the introduction. You'll get plenty of information here, as well as find some people in similar situations.
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: Whitney on September 04, 2008, 12:49:00 AM
Post by: Whitney on September 04, 2008, 12:49:00 AM
Hi Belos, welcome to the forum.
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: curiosityandthecat on September 05, 2008, 12:17:37 AM
Post by: curiosityandthecat on September 05, 2008, 12:17:37 AM
Yes, logic and reason rule... VIT UND IRON FIST!
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...ahem, welcome.
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...ahem, welcome.
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: rlrose328 on September 08, 2008, 05:42:27 PM
Post by: rlrose328 on September 08, 2008, 05:42:27 PM
Welcome! 
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: Squid on September 08, 2008, 07:34:17 PM
Post by: Squid on September 08, 2008, 07:34:17 PM
Welcome shipmate. 
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: quizlixx on September 16, 2008, 03:35:18 AM
Post by: quizlixx on September 16, 2008, 03:35:18 AM
hey
Title: Re: What's up!?
Post by: SteveS on September 16, 2008, 03:26:17 PM
Post by: SteveS on September 16, 2008, 03:26:17 PM
Wow, from
Quote from: "Belos"currently working as a stuructural mechanic for fighter jets in the Navyto
Quote from: "Belos"environmental science and biologyseems like a heck of a gear-shift! Sounds fun. Best of luck, and welcome to the board!