Title: Bruce - my introduction
Post by: Bruce on September 18, 2006, 03:51:54 PM
Post by: Bruce on September 18, 2006, 03:51:54 PM
Howdy folks. My name is Bruce, I am an ExChristian and an atheist. I am also one of the admins for Ex-Christian.net. While I appreciate ExC, I also want a forum to talk with other atheists, like myself. I have moved to what some have called the post-atheist phase in my life. By that, I mean religion has no interest for me in any personal exploratory aspect. I still wonder about it from a sociological and psychological aspect, like a micro-biologist is interested in bacteria.
Bruce
Bruce
Title: Re: Bruce - my introduction
Post by: joeactor on September 18, 2006, 04:16:02 PM
Post by: joeactor on September 18, 2006, 04:16:02 PM
Quote from: "Bruce"Howdy folks. My name is Bruce, I am an ExChristian and an atheist. I am also one of the admins for Ex-Christian.net. While I appreciate ExC, I also want a forum to talk with other atheists, like myself. I have moved to what some have called the post-atheist phase in my life. By that, I mean religion has no interest for me in any personal exploratory aspect. I still wonder about it from a sociological and psychological aspect, like a micro-biologist is interested in bacteria.
Bruce
Hello Bruce,
Nice to have another Ex-Christian on board (I was Catholic myself).
How long were you in for?
I'll check out your other site as well...
Welcome aboard,
JoeActor
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Post by: MommaSquid on September 18, 2006, 05:14:31 PM
Post by: MommaSquid on September 18, 2006, 05:14:31 PM
Welcome to the forum, Bruce. It's nice to see a new face here.
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Post by: McQ on September 18, 2006, 11:29:13 PM
Post by: McQ on September 18, 2006, 11:29:13 PM
Good to have you here, Bruce. Welcome.
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Post by: Squid on September 19, 2006, 02:44:31 AM
Post by: Squid on September 19, 2006, 02:44:31 AM
Welcome aboard Bruce.
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Post by: Whitney on September 19, 2006, 05:33:28 AM
Post by: Whitney on September 19, 2006, 05:33:28 AM
Hey Bruce, welcome. Ex-Chrisitans is a wonderful site, I especially like many of the letters people send in...did you help to create ExC?
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Post by: Tom62 on September 19, 2006, 08:21:35 AM
Post by: Tom62 on September 19, 2006, 08:21:35 AM
Hi Bruce,
welcome to the club!
welcome to the club!
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Post by: Woody on September 19, 2006, 09:19:11 AM
Post by: Woody on September 19, 2006, 09:19:11 AM
Welcome, Bruce. Good to see you here.
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Post by: Bruce on September 19, 2006, 09:38:41 AM
Post by: Bruce on September 19, 2006, 09:38:41 AM
Woody & All,
I was a Christian until around 32 years of age. I was raised in a non-fundamentalist Southern Baptist tradition and drifted over to the Presbyterian Church when the fundy takeover of the SBC occurred. I finally realized the profound truths of my doubts when I was taking graduate apologetics for a masters degree to be a minister/counselor. It took me a while to let go of the beliefs I had been raised in and I labelled myself a deist for a few years, until I realized that the same foundational reasons that lay behind my inabaility to believe in the Abrahamic god, applied to the deistic version as well.
I am one of the co-founders, is you choose to view it that way, of Ex-Christian.net Forums and am one of the Site Administrators. I am Bruce on Ex-C Forums as well. I was a debator in college and debate is still one of my passions, most of my personal time on ExC is spent debating theists in the Arena or Coloseum areas.
Bruce
I was a Christian until around 32 years of age. I was raised in a non-fundamentalist Southern Baptist tradition and drifted over to the Presbyterian Church when the fundy takeover of the SBC occurred. I finally realized the profound truths of my doubts when I was taking graduate apologetics for a masters degree to be a minister/counselor. It took me a while to let go of the beliefs I had been raised in and I labelled myself a deist for a few years, until I realized that the same foundational reasons that lay behind my inabaility to believe in the Abrahamic god, applied to the deistic version as well.
I am one of the co-founders, is you choose to view it that way, of Ex-Christian.net Forums and am one of the Site Administrators. I am Bruce on Ex-C Forums as well. I was a debator in college and debate is still one of my passions, most of my personal time on ExC is spent debating theists in the Arena or Coloseum areas.
Bruce
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Post by: Tom62 on September 19, 2006, 03:02:58 PM
Post by: Tom62 on September 19, 2006, 03:02:58 PM
Just nitpicking, I love your signature but shouldn't it be "schizophrenic" instead of "schitsophrenic"?
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Post by: Bruce on September 19, 2006, 04:45:13 PM
Post by: Bruce on September 19, 2006, 04:45:13 PM
Schizophrenia (ic) is the proper spelling. It is deliberately misspelled for a reason. It is a play off of a quote from "Fundies Say the Darndest Things"
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Post by: Big Mac on September 19, 2006, 06:04:11 PM
Post by: Big Mac on September 19, 2006, 06:04:11 PM
You are welcome here as long as you answer this question....
What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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Post by: Bruce on September 20, 2006, 08:45:54 AM
Post by: Bruce on September 20, 2006, 08:45:54 AM
42 is the answer for everything
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Post by: McQ on September 20, 2006, 07:37:53 PM
Post by: McQ on September 20, 2006, 07:37:53 PM
Quote from: "Bruce"42 is the answer for everything
Sorry, you are the weakest link. Goodbye!
The coorect answer is the following question: "African or European Swallow?"
But you can stay anyway.
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Post by: Big Mac on September 21, 2006, 04:30:45 PM
Post by: Big Mac on September 21, 2006, 04:30:45 PM
Let's put it to a wombat and penguin vote.......everyone not not not anti against not for him vote Wombat! To do this you do a happy dance and say, "ICKY ICKY ICKY WOMBAT!" three times reallly fast so that it's incomprehensible! THen all those who are for against ambivalent against for anti somewhat against him say, "PEN-PEN-PEN-PENGUINS!!!" and must perform a silly dance as well.
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Post by: Tom62 on September 22, 2006, 08:13:39 AM
Post by: Tom62 on September 22, 2006, 08:13:39 AM
Then, when you have performed your silly dance, you must cut down the
mightiest tree in the forest...
Wiiiiiithh.... A HERRING!
mightiest tree in the forest...
Wiiiiiithh.... A HERRING!