I know some of the stories - Ayaan's is epic, for example! Mine was one of 'searching' until I realised there was nothing there to find - of a religious nature anyway?
How about you?
What were you before you became and atheist?
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Audley Strange
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
Jism and eggs.
"What started as a legitimate effort by the townspeople of Salem to identify, capture and kill those who did Satan's bidding quickly deteriorated into a witch hunt" Army Man
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Ronja
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
I know I have posted about this somewhere earlier... will consult my salvaged posts from RDF to begin with (this *will* take a while).
"The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." - Maureen J
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can
. And then when they come back, they can again." - Tigger
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can
. And then when they come back, they can again." - Tigger-
Gawdzilla Sama
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
Audley Strange wrote:Jism and eggs.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
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Bella Fortuna
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I was sort of a rational pagany thing from about 1990-2001, and before that I was nothing and had never really thought about it, even though I went to religious schools for a couple of periods of my childhood.
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I was raised Catholic but never really believed any of it.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life
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maiforpeace
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
A lazy agnostic.
I used to be a more militant atheist, but lately I've been a lazy atheist.
I used to be a more militant atheist, but lately I've been a lazy atheist.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. ~Christopher Hitchens~
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Thinking Aloud
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Re: What were you before you became an atheist?
Roman Catholic.
http://thinking-aloud.co.uk/ Musical Me
Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
My parents tried their best to make me Catholic. Didn't work. 
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Gawdzilla Sama
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
"What were you before you became (what?) and atheist?"
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Eriku
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
Raised in a climate of Protestantism, from my parents to school... Assumed both school and parents were being objective and truthful, rather than heaving assumptions at me, and I swallowed it whole. Was a literalist until I started asking questions that my parents said I was free to pursue, but that they didn't really have any answers to. So around 8-9 I veered towards agnosticism and by 14-15 I was pretty much a full-blown atheist.
I was worried about a disgruntled God when people swore and stuff like that... what are you supposed to do when you're young and naive and everybody around you buys into this nonsense?
I was worried about a disgruntled God when people swore and stuff like that... what are you supposed to do when you're young and naive and everybody around you buys into this nonsense?
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Ronja
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Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
Eriku! Where have you been? Good to see you for a change. 
"The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and feels important. Put up more cat pictures. Make more songs. Show your doodles. Give things away and take things that are free." - Maureen J
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can . And then when they come back, they can again." - Tigger
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can
. And then when they come back, they can again." - Tigger
Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
Zombie Gawdzilla wrote:Audley Strange wrote:Jism and eggs.
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can
Re: What were you before you became and atheist?
Oh. You must've been going to the Uni where I worked in the cafeteria when I was in highschool.Audley Strange wrote:Jism and eggs.
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Eriku
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Busy with work and just generally not in a forumy vein the past few months ;PRonja wrote:Eriku! Where have you been? Good to see you for a change.
Glad someone's noticed that I've been gone
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