Hello all. I am yet another person who has ended up here courtesy of the planned changes and subsequent shutdown of the richarddawkins.net forums.
Just a little about myself, I am an ex-Mormon who began to disbelieve in my early teens but stuck with it both to appease my almost entirely Mormon family and whilst I explored apologetic arguments for the numerous criticisms of the Mormon religion. It wasn't that long before I was pretty certain the church wasn't true, though the transition to atheism took a little longer. I still attend church as I am living at home and do not wish to cause family friction, but I have made it clear to the ward bishop that I have ceased believing in the church and have intention to leave in the near future. I have yet to decide whether I will pull my name from the records or leave them intact and simply walk away (again from a perspective of family appeasement).
At the moment I am on a gap year having decided to switch from Medicine to Cell and Molecular Biology in what many people have told me is a bizarre move, but I am pretty sure it is the right one for me. Ironically, I hope to end up in medical research of some sort.
I look forward to exploring and eventually making my own contributions.
Another lifeboat-jumper
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misanthropic_clown
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Re: Another lifeboat-jumper
Welcome misan ... misan ... just don't expect me to type out that username all the time. 
Love the avatar.
Love the avatar.
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It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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Welcome!!
We have a SERIOUS STUFF as well as a FUN STUFF parts to the forum, all contributions are welcomed.!
We have a SERIOUS STUFF as well as a FUN STUFF parts to the forum, all contributions are welcomed.!
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Howdy! I'm the token redneck. Welcome! 
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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