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This is a support forum for those who have left
or are in the process of leaving fundamentalist Christianity
Current Forum Since June 2001


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(Date Posted:09/09/2003 4:41 PM)

Greetings, Fellow WA Project Committee Members,If you have accessed this forum, then you are indeed a member of this committee.The current members of this committee are as follows:FoxmaidenNologoboy?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comRhianaBrakthepoetpaginity2bhoff1356Blue_FoxChirpyWaynusDokincluding ModsVoiltaire, Drummond, and St. ThomasYou were chosen because of your peculiar abilities and because you were the only ones (thus far) to postproductive information in the WA Project Forum. Ishall update member IDs as they come in.Our first task is to get some semblence of a web page/site up with some decent content.As mentioned before the idea is to create a site that will give support and information to those Walking Away from Fundamentalism. Although most of our members are (and probably will become) non-christians, keep in mind that this is not an anti-chirstian site - as much as most of us lean in that direction. We are a support community and should do our best to concentrate on giving supportive information and advice. We are not so much geared to what a walk awayer may become - but rather how she/he gets successfully out of fundamentalism with a minimum of pain and suffering.We will be using ideas already put forth in the WA Project Forum as well as ideas and alterations posted in this private forum. Foxmaiden is working on a links page. I am putting together the skeleton for an initial draft version of our site which I shall show to your eyes only in a few days. Meantime, please post ideas for areas, images, design, links etc. here. If you wish to be an active member of this committee and help us get a web site off the ground, then please check in here by posting a message saying as much.Please come back here regularly to input and get updated on progress. I look forward to hearing more from all of you. Let the project begin!

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(Date Posted:09/09/2003 7:21 PM)

This is me registering.  With one question, where do we put suggestions?
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(Date Posted:09/09/2003 8:23 PM)

Checking in for duty, sir.
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(Date Posted:09/09/2003 9:53 PM)

rhiana, (and all others)


Please post suggestions, comments, or ideas in this area just like you would post anywhere on the forum.  You have full posting rights.  So, either reply to an existing thread or start your own.  Please feel wild and free and creative.

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(Date Posted:09/10/2003 5:09 AM)

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Every time you lay off an American worker you also lay off an American consumer.

When you export jobs you also export the ability to pay for goods manufactured for the American market.





Let's not vote for Bush again this year.
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(Date Posted:09/10/2003 7:30 AM)

Volunteering to be merely decorativ-, useful! Have some great links on arab freethinkers to contribute.



website stuff. got any ideas?



I tend to be very clean on the design stuff. But here's my real link, tell me what ya want me to do.

pag's professional self

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"Unless we each conform,

Unless we obey orders,

Unless we follow our leaders blindly;

There is no possible way we can remain free."

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"People are like glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

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(Date Posted:09/10/2003 11:56 AM)

  This is what I have so far, not much I'm afraid, I wasn't 100% sure what exactly I was looking for, but hey, onwards and upwards!  Tally-ho!


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STUMPY: Perhaps in the US we wear our religion as badge/symbol of status, perhaps
some unknown/seen superiority thing, stating who we are, what we believe.

I come from home each parent different denomination. Mother argued, that
I be brought up in her religion.(WHAT A MISTAKE!) Did the obedient daughter thing and when left home, left that religion behind.

This has always had its price. Mother could't realize this was her faith,
religion, worked for her, answered her neeeds but not mine. As of yet, haven't found that which stuck. Am not a 1st generation anything.

This also, causes a little conflict as you get lumped into "heathten/oddity" pile.

Never saw faith as pair of shoes-"nice fit!"

Perhaps clear fogginess a little...............?
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COFFEE: About the shoes. Most people do what Cinderella's step-sisters did and try to cut off a piece of their foot to fit the faith. Then they go around lame but have the idea that as Cinderella's step-mother said, "When you're Queen you won't have to walk anymore."
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ALAIN: For a "1st" generation adherent to leave, it is more like having egg on one's face; admitting that one was wrong.

For the 2nd/3rd generation, it is breaking with tradition and striking out on a new path. This can be difficult especially since fundy parents often view their primary role as ensuring their children keep the faith.


 


http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=319472&CategoryID=11636&ThreadID=33862


 


http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=319472&CategoryID=11636&ThreadID=38787


 

A page giving advice about telling friends/family, suggestions for easing the pain.
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(Date Posted:09/10/2003 10:40 PM)

Checking in. I suppose the first 2 things we have to decide about are what web hosting service to use and what development tools to use. It'd be nice to use a revision control system so we could coordinate development activites.

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Zombies, Unicorns, Devils, Sea Monsters, Satyrs, Dragons, Six Winged Angels, Gods, Demons, Witches, Astrologers, A walking & talking snake, Magical fruit, Talking donkeys, human headed six-winged beasts, Ghosts. All that stuff is in the Bible and yet they tell me it"s not mythology?
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(Date Posted:09/10/2003 11:15 PM)

Checking in. I'm happy to be involved.



Not everyone who walks away becomes an atheist, support pages about different Christian approaches and other belief support groups eg Sea of faith might be helpful.

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There is no fire like hatred, no rushing river like craving, and no snare like illusion. Buddha



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(Date Posted:09/11/2003 1:28 AM)

Reply to : Waynus




Not everyone who walks away becomes an atheist, support pages about different Christian approaches and other belief support groups eg Sea of faith might be helpful.





Excellent reminder, Waynus. I have a selection of Gnostic philosophy links along with a few former christian, now pagan types. How about a few of those?

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Fermez ta bouche et mangez tes fritures de liberté.



"Unless we each conform,

Unless we obey orders,

Unless we follow our leaders blindly;

There is no possible way we can remain free."

Major Frank Burns



"People are like glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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(Date Posted:09/11/2003 8:07 AM)

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Excellent reminder, Waynus. I have a selection of Gnostic philosophy links along with a few former christian, now pagan types. How about a few of those?







I agree, sometimes people think not being fundy is to abandon spirituality. Really it just opens up lots of options to express our humanity.

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(Date Posted:09/11/2003 10:48 AM)

Present.


I've been a little overloaded by real life lately.  I'll try to keep up, but I have a heavy trial schedule this fall.


 

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Student to Harvey Pekar: "It"s hard enough trying to convince people that socialism is a good thing without basing your argument on some abstract theory of human nature. Plato tried and failed. Fourier tried and failed. Marx tried and failed. Sartre tried and failed."



Harvey Pekar: "Well maybe I c"n learn from their mistakes."
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