tomwright
Just Arrived
Joined: Sep 14, 2008
Posts: 5
Location: east ot the IDL
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Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:24 am |
 
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Hello:
New here, not to Atheism though.
Been an "infidel" since about 10 years old, or so. I was not raised in a particularly religious home, but with all the reading I did from a very young age, I realized the difference between fiction and non-fiction very early. It is wonderful what Asimov, Herbert, Heinlein, Tolkien and countless other authors can teach you just by osmosis.
Interests, (which change almost hourly): reading, bicycles, tropical fish, politics, (I am what I call a rational libertarian), surfing the inter-tubes to find rational discussion that is not mean-spirited, (I just canceled my Fark account after getting tired of the nastiness that is arising there, especially in the bicycle threads). And of course, freedom from religion.
I spent about an hour and a half as some sort of assistant-deputy-sub-regional-director for American Atheists here in NJ a few years back, but organizing and motivation are not among my skill sets, so they and I quickly realized I was not suited to that role. Especially since I accomplished precisely zero.
I am more the show up and support a protest kind of activist, if I hear about it. I did show up for a protest of the Boy Scouts in Philly a few years back, and once to protest Shrub when he visited Parsippany, NJ. My first experience of a "free speech zone", surrounded by barricades, armed minions of the state and unable to petition our fearless leader directly. Though I have not done any protests lately, I have not heard of any and fell off the AA mailing list. Not necessarily a bad thing, as I find AA too authoritarian for my tastes.
Hoping to find some non-nasty discussion here about whatever comes up. To paraphrase a line from John le Carré: I have a surfeit of opinions. |
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