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| Topic Started: Jun 27 2009, 05:03 AM (154 Views) | |
| Post #1 Jun 27 2009, 05:03 AM | Prometheus |
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Hello everyone, I'm a 23 year old guy from Finland...I have been following DC for a while, but now that it's possible to participate in the discussion without a blog-account I join. I was a christian for about 10 years, but last autumn I couldn't believe anymore. I love discussions about religion and science, but most of my friends don't really care about it...so that's why I joined here. Over and out. |
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... - Terry Pratchett | |
 
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| Post #2 Jun 27 2009, 05:53 AM | Bonzolee |
Prometheus, I'm an American around the same age as you. Welcome to the site, man.
Same here, pretty much; add history and politics onto that list into the number "1" and "2" slots and that's me. Some of my friends like to talk about that stuff, but most don't; a fair share of those that do don't really have much to offer when it comes to those topics, either. Besides, the amount of information, viewpoints, and ideas online is just mind blowing. Without it, I wouldn't know what I would have done years ago when I got interested in this stuff. Edited by Bonzolee, Jun 27 2009, 05:54 AM.
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"The fact that audiences would rather go to Wonderland than face Iraq speaks volumes." – Random Youtube Poster | |
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| Post #3 Jun 27 2009, 10:18 AM | Huxley |
| Welcome. With the internet, it's a pretty good time to be an atheist. Enjoy your stay here. |
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| Post #4 Jun 27 2009, 06:43 PM | Joe E. Holman |
| welcome! |
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| Post #5 Jun 27 2009, 07:56 PM | Perry |
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I guess it's a an oxy-moron observation really, but it amazes me how the bulk of the earth's population are pre-occupied with trivia. Things like what's on TV, who's shacked with who in Hollywood, ad nauseum. Great to see you here, Prometheus. Pull up an e-chair and tell us how you came to see the light, after a decade of torpidity. |
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| Post #6 Jun 28 2009, 01:11 AM | Prometheus |
I've written my story in Swedish, so any Swedes here can get a longer story  For a shorter one, I was raised by believing parents, went to Sunday-school and so on. My dear parents and especially my father are quite interested in science, though, so I've read a popular science magazine since I was about 5. I guess that saved me from the more freaky parts of christianity. Most of my childhood friends were children of christians too (and now later christians themselves) so it was mostly that which got me deeper. When I was about 13 my friend persuaded me to come with him to the youth meetings in the town's pentecostal church. I went there regularly until I moved away from home at the age of 18. In the new town I found another small evangelical church I joined and after a while I was in their worship team and a member of their board (is that how you say it correctly?). I also fell for ID after reading Behe's Darwin's Black Box... About 3 years ago the fact that God was completely silent really started bothering me. The problem of suffering added to this, since I study medicine and saw my fair share of ill people in the hospital. It was also during this time that I started listening seriously to music that wasn't christian. All of this + a range of other things got me closer and closer to the edges of my little box of thinking and I went from being a sincere christian to just being a theist to a deist. The final blow to my faith was after two summers working in a mental hospital seeing what people's brains do against them. During the second summer I listened to the God Delusion-audio book, first by myself and then in the car with my (believing) wife. When we went for longer drives we listened, paused and talked about it. She had know about my struggles all the time and when I told her that I couldn't believe anymore though I wanted to she told me to be honest with myself and let it go. That was almost a year ago. A while back when we went to visit my parents and my mom went out for a while, my dad and I had a serious conversation and to my big surprise he told me that he could no longer believe either. Now it feels like the time we might have together is so much more important than before. I still miss the social part of my religion and the comfort it gave, but being able to think honestly and being honest with myself is wonderful. |
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... - Terry Pratchett | |
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| Post #7 Jun 28 2009, 02:36 AM | Huxley |
Don't worry about it Prom. The dark side has Barbecues and beer Fests too! 
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| Post #8 Jun 28 2009, 02:48 AM | Perry |
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So how do you and your lady balance the act of belief and unbelief? I'm not just being nosey, here . . . To save you searching, I'm in the same boat, but didn't embark by the same gangplank as you did. Other damning info (that other Ionians know already): she had a lower leg am- putated, in 2007. As if I needed it, the pointlessness and powerlessness of prayer and gawd constructs was un- deniable, then. Has that shaken her belief? No. Delusion is sooooo the correct word. Pass the peanut butter, Hux. The sugar-free one, please. |
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| Post #9 Jun 28 2009, 03:10 AM | Prometheus |
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Good question...and to be honest I don't really know :P I guess one couldn't call her a christian anymore either, more of something between a theist and a deist. @ Huxley, yeah, I just have to find them
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... - Terry Pratchett | |
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| Post #10 Jun 28 2009, 11:30 PM | Perry |
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Maybe, like any in so-called star-crossed 'arrangements,' it's a topic best left for later? I.e. Much, much later. That much said, children do tend to cloud the issue. |
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