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Getting To Know You => Introductions => Topic started by: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 06:13:06 PM

Title: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 06:13:06 PM
 :)  HI,

Ghosts are out to night, but will you believe in them, if they come up to you and say Trick-or Treat?

People need love and many of my friends (that do not align with my beliefs) know that I love them.

So, if I post something you don't like please know you are loved and my intentions are to be enlightening and  to get feedback about my logic or arguments only.


Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Dark Lightning on October 31, 2020, 06:25:04 PM
Hello!
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 06:35:18 PM
Greetings to you
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: No one on October 31, 2020, 07:04:13 PM
Did you bring the tacos?
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Magdalena on October 31, 2020, 07:14:52 PM
Quote from: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 06:13:06 PM
:)  HI,
...
People need love and many of my friends (that do not align with my beliefs) know that I love them.
...

Hi, Y Be.

Welcome. :computerwave:

Are you an atheist?
Just curious, what beliefs do not align with your friends?
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 07:45:10 PM
Thanks for your greetings.
-----------------------------------
M: "Are you an atheist?
Y Be:  G is. 

M: What beliefs do not align with your friends?"

Y Be: Many different beliefs... 
Love
Y Be   

   
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Magdalena on October 31, 2020, 08:34:50 PM
Quote from: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 07:45:10 PM
Thanks for your greetings.
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QuoteM: "Are you an atheist?
Quote from: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 07:45:10 PM
Y Be:  G is. 

"G?"
:notsure:
Hmmm...The only "G" I know is my homie, Jesús, El vato loco from East Los Angeles.

...But if you don't want to answer with simple, yes or no, that's OK.


QuoteM: What beliefs do not align with your friends?"

Quote from: Y Be on October 31, 2020, 07:45:10 PM
Y Be: Many different beliefs... 
Love
Y Be   


OK.
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Icarus on October 31, 2020, 08:51:19 PM
Welcome Y Be.  Please tell us a bit about yourself. Leave out the puzzle replies please.  We can play games later, in another thread.
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Tank on October 31, 2020, 10:12:06 PM
Welcome Y Be
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: billy rubin on October 31, 2020, 10:59:38 PM
sup bud
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Asmodean on November 01, 2020, 12:09:17 AM
Asmo. The Asmo. Pleasure. I do grumpiose metaphors. Verbosely.

Let's jump right into the feedback and logic thing, shall we?

I would no more believe in ghosts if some kid in a kitchen drape shroud begged me for treats than I would believe in Santa if I were molested as a child by a bearded fat hobo in a red suit.

Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: hermes2015 on November 01, 2020, 03:01:49 AM
Hello Y Be. Please tell us what makes you tick.
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on November 01, 2020, 03:50:34 AM
Average > Do Books >  Calif. > Like to simplify > go to work >  care for what is entrusted to me > have the same desires as others >

   
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Bad Penny II on November 01, 2020, 08:17:28 AM
Y Be
Um,,, because Snickers.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Snickers-broken.png/360px-Snickers-broken.png)

I'm glad no ghosts or ghouls came to take them, snickers have peanuts in them, snickers have good in them, life has snickers in it, life has good in it.  Anyway Y Be will soon enough be X Be, enjoy it while you can, or not.
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on November 01, 2020, 03:59:14 PM
2Bad P
Hi,
No Ghosts > snickers with peanuts > mmm... good > Life
Love
Y Be
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Magdalena on November 01, 2020, 09:40:45 PM
You > Simplify > love > enlightening > logic > arguments.

OK > I > got it >

(https://www.awesomegifs.com/wp-content/uploads/clint-eastwood-staring.gif)
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on November 01, 2020, 10:51:33 PM
U are  funny :)
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Magdalena on November 01, 2020, 11:53:56 PM
Quote from: Y Be on November 01, 2020, 10:51:33 PM
U are  funny :)
Wait...wait...wait....
I got this... :notsure:

Simplify > feedback about my joke > or a statement only > a compliment > breaking the ice >

Yes > ?

Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Icarus on November 02, 2020, 02:13:48 AM
Hmmm....mystery guest! Could be a fun, perhaps meritirous member if loosened up a bit.

Holy shit! Hope he/she is not a sneaky Trumpian.

C'mon Y Be, relax. We are the most friendly people that you are likely to find.  Nah! We do not hammer on religionists.  Examine the thread content to see that Atheism dogma  is far from our main thrust.

Jump in with a bit more substance.
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: LifeisSweet on November 02, 2020, 09:19:55 PM
This is a discussion forum, soooo, discuss.  ;D
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on November 03, 2020, 04:39:01 AM
Y Be  Tanks, posted in philosophy.   
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on November 04, 2020, 01:14:47 AM
Wow, I thought this was a :) place.
1.   CIVILITY:  To maintain a happy and productive forum atmosphere, members are to remember the importance of civility by striving to comply with the forums conduct guidelines.

Started  a   :grouphug: thread .  But apparently this place is more   :lynch:   than  :)



Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Y Be on November 04, 2020, 01:21:05 AM
Quote from: LifeisSweet on November 02, 2020, 09:19:55 PM
This is a discussion forum, soooo, discuss.  ;D

I started a thread in philosophy, but discussion was way to hard

Hope you find it easier to discuss than I did... :spock:   
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Randy on November 04, 2020, 01:56:46 AM
Welcome, Y Be. The group here is very friendly. You mentioned books. What books do you like?
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Recusant on November 04, 2020, 03:44:33 AM
Quote from: Y Be on November 04, 2020, 01:14:47 AM
Wow, I thought this was a :) place.
1.   CIVILITY:  To maintain a happy and productive forum atmosphere, members are to remember the importance of civility by striving to comply with the forums conduct guidelines.

Started  a   :grouphug: thread .  But apparently this place is more   :lynch:   than  :)

Your evaluation is noted.
Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: LifeisSweet on December 01, 2020, 04:19:11 PM
Hello Y Be.  Hope you are still here.

Your "Y Be" name reminds me of my thinking back in 1968 as a freshman in college, shortly after I realized I was an atheist.  I found myself often asking "Why live?" as I was searching for some meaning to life other than being placed here by a supreme being for some divine purpose.  I had a sign on my dormitory wall that read "Life is nothing more than an animal's brief and frightened flight between nothingness and oblivion".

One day I replied to my own question with "Why not!"  That reversal helped me realize that I owned my life and its purpose was what I assigned it.  I did not have to follow the path that others laid out for me: college>post grad>military>9-5 job>marriage>2.4 kids>retirement>death.  The world was my oyster and I can go anywhere and be anything I chose.  I chose maximum happiness (within the constraints of legal and social limitations, similar to Epicureanism).

I wrote the following poem, posted it on my dormitory wall, and promptly quit college after just one semester.  I am now 70 and feel that I have succeeded in my goal.  I managed my life ever conscience of my whole life perspective and I couldn't be happier!

The Easy Life (1968)

There once was a road from beginning to end,
an endless dirt path with never a bend.
It stretched through the forest which lay at its edge,
and along either side grew a tall dark hedge.

Small creatures there were along this path cluttered,
and like jabbering birds straight ahead fluttered.
This must be the road each one would say,
and man followed man till the end of his day.

The forest is so full,
who knows what's beyond.
But don't leave that road,
you may never get back on.




Title: Re: Just a hello.
Post by: Icarus on December 01, 2020, 11:42:43 PM
Interesting poem ^.    :studious: