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MrHighwind	\| Move to Bottom Author
Rank:none Score: 0 Posts: 250 From: Registered: 09/17/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:06/29/2007 3:03 AM) It's strange to be back at this forum after such a long absence away. It's especially strange to find that so little has changed. Strange, but comfortable at the same time.I haven't been up to much since I last logged in. My boyfriend and I are still going strong, I'm still a proud atheist (albeit one that has been wracked with thanatophobically-induced anxiety attacks sometimes), and I'm planning several trips around the world. In fact, on August 25th, I leave to visit Ethiopia for three weeks to celebrate the turn of their millennium. I'm incredibly excited, but scared at the same time. I have never been off the continent before (other than Hawaii, which doesn't count), so this will be a HUGE shock for me, I'm sure. But I know that it will be an experience I treasure for the rest of my life.So am I back for good? Who the hell knows. I'm not any sort of reliable when it comes to message board posting, but even though I haven't logged on in quite a while, I haven't stopped thinking about this place from time to time. It's in my bookmarks again, so we'll see how things go.How has everyone been doing the past year? -------------------------------------------------------------- God heard you talking in your sleep. God knows all the secrets that you keep. Are you free?

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Rank:none Score:0 Posts:3462 From: Registered: 11/02/2004 Time spent: 1846 hours	(Date Posted:06/29/2007 4:11 AM) Hello MrHigh... I don't really know you - the orginal member thing......................except for reading a few of your old posts. ...from those I get the idea that you're a cool guy...so okay... good to have some company..some new ideas...input...playing around etc....wahteva..............but don't pick on my spelling/gramma or I'll get huffy..sooky I didn't think anyone needs to be committed to a chatroom.....? Online is online....It ironic in such a free space..people just 'have to' make rules in their little plots of it.? Off topic..but there you go..I'm liable to do that? shrugs.....come as you are..go as you please..! What ups with me....in context with this chatroom...thanks to waff.....I've become more intolerant of christianity....christians. Ekkk..! .............am I 'allowed' to say that...? Of course I am!! Real life...in the last year..I'm settling in more to being here....we moved interstate a few years ago..so its more or less good to be on my feet in that regard. I still miss my home base/ state thou'.hence the online habit.....but hell! the money here is so much better! II also love to travel...I'm very envious of you - planned trip to such an exotic destination. My partner has lived in Africa for a few years..but I've not been myself. I was born in Europe thou'....speak Polish etc...so living in Australia has been an experience in itself...especially adding that crap with SDAist on top. Yep...ditto..I'm also in a stable relationship...but I don't let that stop me being myself or growing... Yep..I'm suitably cynical...so don't pay any mind to my forth rightfulness or disrespect for most institutions....I'm an Australian...an immigrate with heaps of hutzpa...(I've worked in feminists organisations so that explains it..)....? -------------------------------------------------------------- In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation. -- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

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From: Registered: 01/16/2004 Time spent: 1773 hours	(Date Posted:07/06/2007 4:59 AM) Not much happening lately...as if I can say, I haven't been around much myself. Many of the original board members still post occasionally, and new ones continue to stumble our way. Your trip sounds exciting! The Ethiopian millenium? Is that the "real" one that Jesus is supposed to return on and crash our computers, instead of the fake 2000 millenium? -------------------------------------------------------------- A big revelation in my professional training was that humans can learn skills for living and relating. We don"t have to be desperate for a miracle of God to make us decent.--Marlene Winell

MrHighwind	\| Move to Top 3#
Rank:none Score:0 Posts:250 From: Registered: 09/17/2001 Time spent: 0 hours	(Date Posted:10/12/2007 4:54 AM) Well, to be fair, they don't have many computers to crash, but they all seemed to be working once the millennium passed. Although they did go RIDICULOUSLY slow towards the end of my trip. Hmmm..... -------------------------------------------------------------- God heard you talking in your sleep. God knows all the secrets that you keep. Are you free?
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