Hey Everyone! I'm a Newbie from Tasmania

[GazzyInTazzy]

Hey

My name's Gazzy... I'm 26, live in Tasmania, work in a call centre. Pretty boring really...

I went to private schools right through to Year 12 and never really understood how my teachers and classmates and friends had this kind of blind faith in this religion stuff. Any questions I asked were quickly... ignored. I was always in trouble for "misbehaving" in class - this was only due to my not buying into their religious dribble.

So, anyway... I left school, came out (yeah, I'm gay), and that was that for awhile. Lately I have this interest in religion (of many types), not to convert, but to try to understand what words in these books are the ones that seem to brainwash people???
I don't understand it and I guess I never will... my religious friends say that I'm closed minded and that I couldn't understand because I'm faithless.

I consider myself an atheist, but, hey, if god or Jesus or Mohammad or any other religious figure head coming knocking on my door to tell me I'm wrong, well come on it, I'll put the kettle on. So I don't think I'm that close minded...

OK... This might be too much to write on my first post here, but as I get older (27 this December) I find myself thinking about life in general and the world we live in and what will be left behind when I leave it all behind. I'm not having children and I find myself needing some sort of meaning in my life.

I thinking religion has damaged, is damaging and will damage the Earth and the 6 billion + of us living on it unless something changes. The world is starting to fall apart... and science and reason and humanity is what is important and that is what I believe will heal the world and allow it to continue.

So I found myself here... I've been reading through these forums for a few hours and the majority of you (Fantasy Island aside) seem like rational, intelligent well educated people and, to be honest, I just wanted to be a part of it all and learn.

Gazzy.

[Mister Pervert]

Fuck off. Nobody likes you.

[two dogs]

Originally Posted by LapsedAtheist

Fuck off. Nobody likes you.

If you're going to greet new members like that (it's not the first time you've done so), then fuck off yourself, and stay off the drugs (or get back on your medication).

[wolty]

Ignore him He forgot his meds today.
Welcome gazzy nice articulate post.


Edit damn too slow

[youngmoigle]

I wonder how GazzyInTazzy will re-act when he reads the first response to his intoductory post?

I wouldn't blame him if he logged-out and never came back.

[Dave]

Welcome GazzyInTazzy, Never mind LapsedAtheist he slapped me in the back of the head when I first posted while he was astro projecting

[Mister Pervert]

Originally Posted by two dogs

If you're going to greet new members like that (it's not the first time you've done so), then fuck off yourself, and stay off the drugs (or get back on your medication).

Heh!

For the record, it's only the second time.

Thank-you for being part of my secret, personal experiment, two-dogs.

What experiment, you arks?

Does "Fuck-off, nobody lilkes you!" still sound funny if I don't include a smiley face?

Obviously not.

[Mister Pervert]

Originally Posted by GazzyInTazzy

So I found myself here... I've been reading through these forums for a few hours and the majority of you (Fantasy Island aside) seem like rational, intelligent well educated people and, to be honest, I just wanted to be a part of it all and learn.

Gazzy.

Just so you know, Gazzy, I'm an unapproachable malcontent. Welcome!

[youngmoigle]

Unfunny joke and not very well back-pedalled either.

[Mister Pervert]

Originally Posted by youngmoigle

Unfunny joke and not very well back-pedalled either.

And then...?