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mfern345

June 21, 2012, 03:18:02 AM
Im Marti, I was a closet atheist from childhood, raised in a christian spiritualist family, but now a proud nonbeliever. So..yeah. Hi  :)

xSilverPhinx

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June 21, 2012, 03:23:44 AM
Welcome!

What's fern stand for? I'm curious because the first four letters of my name are fern. ;D
I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey

Recusant

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June 21, 2012, 03:46:13 AM
Hello and welcome to HAF, Marti. Christian Spiritualism looks like a fascinating faith. Does your family actually believe in things like the Zodiac Messages? I'd be interested in learning more, once you have your introductory 10 posts under your belt.

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The Magic Pudding

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June 21, 2012, 04:46:13 AM
Quote from: mfern345 on June 21, 2012, 03:18:02 AM
Im Marti, I was a closet atheist from childhood, raised in a christian spiritualist family, but now a proud nonbeliever. So..yeah. Hi  :)

Closets, closets, closets, so many people thinking in closets while others share the fantasy in imposing buildings.  Big buildings built to constrain minds, closets that give freedom to think...

Hello Marti

Amicale

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June 21, 2012, 05:30:03 AM
Hi Marti, welcome to HAF! Very glad to meet you. I hope you enjoy the forum. I'm looking forward to seeing your posts. :)


"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. By every crime and act of kindness we birth our future." - Cloud Atlas

"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die." -Carl Sagan

xSilverPhinx

#5
June 21, 2012, 06:02:54 AM
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on June 21, 2012, 04:46:13 AM
Quote from: mfern345 on June 21, 2012, 03:18:02 AM
Im Marti, I was a closet atheist from childhood, raised in a christian spiritualist family, but now a proud nonbeliever. So..yeah. Hi  :)

Closets, closets, closets, so many people thinking in closets while others share the fantasy in imposing buildings.  Big buildings built to constrain minds, closets that give freedom to think...

Hello Marti

That's deep ;D

I like big buildings, religious churches included, but I never thought about it that way. Never really associated it with the buildings per se.
I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey

markmcdaniel

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June 21, 2012, 06:21:02 AM
Welcome. I was a Closeted atheist for quite some time myself.
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science - Charles Darwin

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the object of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a god, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. - Albert Einstein

Religion is a by product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity. - Arther C. Clarke

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tank

#7
June 21, 2012, 11:56:48 AM
Hi Marti

Good to see another young mind escape the comfort blanket of Institutionalised Superstitions (aka religion)

Welcome to HAF  ;D

Regards
Chris
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism

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June 21, 2012, 09:39:14 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 21, 2012, 03:23:44 AM
Welcome!

What's fern stand for? I'm curious because the first four letters of my name are fern. ;D
Hello and welcome! Really silver.  A girl named fernando?? How unusual  :P
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out". Richard Dawkins

xSilverPhinx

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June 22, 2012, 12:41:11 AM
Quote from: Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism on June 21, 2012, 09:39:14 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 21, 2012, 03:23:44 AM
Welcome!

What's fern stand for? I'm curious because the first four letters of my name are fern. ;D
Hello and welcome! Really silver.  A girl named fernando?? How unusual  :P

Close ::) It's Fernanda ;D
I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey

The Magic Pudding

#10
June 22, 2012, 04:47:10 AM
Didn't Nietzsche have a sister called Fern?

xSilverPhinx

#11
June 22, 2012, 05:07:52 AM
I don't know, but it would seem odd to be called Fern in a German speaking country, seems to missing the 'das'.

I am what survives if it's slain - Zack Hemsey

Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism

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June 22, 2012, 05:29:35 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 22, 2012, 05:07:52 AM
I don't know, but it would seem odd to be called Fern in a German speaking country, seems to missing the 'das'.


Das ist Fernanda!!
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out". Richard Dawkins

Ali

#13
June 22, 2012, 06:18:01 PM
I like the name "Fern".  Reminds me of the girl in Charlotte's Web.

What?

Oh yes!  Welcome Marti-Fern!  I hope you enjoy your time here!

OldGit

#14
June 22, 2012, 08:13:22 PM
Greetings, Marti-Fern!  I have to say the username is intriguing; please tell us more.  ;)

BTW the German word fern simply means 'far'.
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