Welcome from AFA president

[David Nicholls]

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the AFA forum. The intention is that this will be a place of free expression on any topic. The Forum Administrators have a great deal of experience allowing for just and fair treatment in adjudication on contentious issues. They will in turn be subject to democratic rule between themselves. My position of president will be one of veto when a resolution is not achievable amongst the moderators. I promise not to abuse this and please write to me through the AFA web site with any complaints.

Protium has worked very hard at getting the Forum up and running and the AFA is indebted to him. He is also one of the on-hand moderators.

I wish everyone a great time with the Forum and know it will be a big hit.

Good luck to it and all who sail in it.

David

David Nicholls
President
Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc
Private Mail Bag 6
MAITLAND SA 5573

Ph: (08) 8835 2269
Email: info@atheistfoundation.org.au

[Jonathon Byrd]

Hello David and all,

It’s so great you have this new Forum up and running. It really is necessary to combat the rampant superstitious nonsense in every facet of society today. I’m not one who interacts frequently on any forum except on occasions when someone or something gets on my goat too much. I am, however, an avid observer as are many. The posters may think they are dealing with only the combatants but from my experience, that is not so. Unknown lurkers read your words and those of others and gain comfort or pain from their presence. As it should be.

I certainly hold out very strong hopes this venue will be ultra-successful and I wish you all well. Might even get to know some of you via the crossing of swords in the future. Hope so.

Keep up the good work.

Jonathon

[yahpete]

Hi David, thanks for inviting me to the forum. I look forward to sharing my experiences with others in the forum. I can talk about such claims made by religious people such as ...warehouses in heaven being full of body parts meant for humans yet to be born (new age christians). People who make figures out of pottery as a means of expression leading to a higher state of being(scientology), people who throw egg yolks on pictures of an old indian woman to release her good vibrations(sahaja yoga) and other things like that.

[David Nicholls]

yahpete,

My pleasure and I am glad you finally made it There is a great bunch of people 'hanging around' here and you will enjoy their enlightened company and they, yours.

David

[yahpete]

Thanks David, I hope that I didn't talk too much about my experiences with new age christianity and scientology. I may disappoint some atheists when I mention my experiences with vipassana meditation. It is what you might call weird stuff but I experienced it for myself and believe me, I am as great a skeptic as anyone. It is a pity that the vipassana movement is so beaucratic, robotic , unyielding, anti individual and like an ant nest in how it runs. I refer to the SN Goenka movement.

[66 vegie]

Hi David.

I have spoken to you on the phone a few times...I'm now happy to be on the forum.

Take care.

[David Nicholls]

Hello 66 vegie,

Glad to no 'meat' you here on the forum (I'm half guessing about the vegetarianism - could be wrong) I like vegetarians and even those who are not.

David

[66 vegie]

Hi David.

You guessed it....i'm a vegetarian....have been for 20yrs.

Bye.

[davo]

Originally Posted by 66 vegie

Hi David.

You guessed it....i'm a vegetarian....have been for 20yrs.

Bye.

I was vegan for 17, recently been dabbling tho with just veggo (I have been having milk in my coffee)

And funny thing is I fish, but Dad talked me into that .. I used to fish a lot as a kid, and anyway the christmas before last, he said to me :

"Davo, you know how you hate it that people buy meat off the shelf, plastic wrapped, and couldn't do the killing themselves?"

Yea ... I said ..

"Wanna go fishing for some dog food?"

Bastard.

So now I do go fishing, using lures not bait, practice catch and release with the native fish, and keep the non-natives for my dog.

[Jonathon Byrd]

mmmm I feel like a steak

Didn't even know you were a vampire! Oh...steak...not stake. My mi-stake