G'day :)

[Pudd]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm 26 years old and I'm here to learn. Literally.

 

I used to be a christian fundamentalist extremist. I lost my faith five months ago, and I am now an atheist... Who doesn't know the first thing about science.

 

I believed that the earth was 6000 years old. I believed in the flood. Hell, I even believed that men had one less rib than women. I believed that god had made the earth rotate backwards, I believed in the resurrection... I believed all of it.

 

As a consequence, I went through school and paid no attention in science and geography. Tectonic plate shift? Pfft. Didn't they know about the Tower of Babel? Evolution? Puh-lease. Science was wrong, the bible was right. Big-bang Theory? Ha!

 

...Sigh.

 

I've spent the last couple of months trying to get my head around evolution. I have watched Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker, almost finished his book, The God Delusion, and I found the Nova documentary on the Dover trial, Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial to be particularly helpful. But it's hard. I jave to start completely from scratch, and I need a hand to understand a lot of stuff.

 

Since yesterday I've been trying to get my head around the concept of falsifiability in reference to a scientific theory. I'm also trying to work out stuff beyond our atmosphere. Basically, I need a hand. I'm probably going to ask some really dumb questions. I hope you all don't mind too much. I'm probably going to sound dense at times and say some stupid things. I hope that you all can tolerate my ignorance. Basically, most primary school children know more about science than I do. Pretty embarrassing.

 

To wrap up this long-winded post, I'll tell you a bit about myself. I'm female, and I live on the coast in Australia with my fiancee and two black cats (Wednesday and Bruce). I'm currently on a break from a degree in Community Development as I'm booked in for an operation at the end of May. I dig heavy metal, and long-term I'd like to work as a mental health advocate.

 

So that's my g'day :)

[pamela]

well thats quite an intro

Welcome to Hypography Pudd :)

[belovelife]

welcome, i dig heavy metal also,

 

( i am spiritual, not religious)

and i too am here to learn, what a coincidence

 

[Pudd]

well thats quite an intro

Welcome to Hypography Pudd :)

 

lol yeah, I should have added that I also like to talk :P Spent six hours yesterday with a friend having coffee. We only left because the coffee shop was shutting lol!

[Pudd]

welcome, i dig heavy metal also,

 

( i am spiritual, not religious)

and i too am here to learn, what a coincidence

 

 

G'day belovelife!

 

Yeah I just had some Metallica cranking while I did some housework. Someone once tried to tell me that I listen to heavy metal because I'm depressed. I laughed. Heavy metal has always made me feel happy :)

[CraigD]

Yeah I just had some Metallica cranking while I did some housework. Someone once tried to tell me that I listen to heavy metal because I'm depressed. I laughed. Heavy metal has always made me feel happy :)

I respect metal, but get a bit irritated by it - I think because, despite working at it, I've never been able to do a decent metal voice. :( It's hard, and you can hurt yourself trying!

 

Oh, yeah, welcome to hypography, Pudd! :)

[belovelife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfSym5Pb5s&feature=fvst

 

 

 

modern phylosiphers

 

 

( i always mispell stuff )