Pudd Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 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 :) Michaelangelica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamela Posted April 3, 2012 Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 well thats quite an introWelcome to Hypography Pudd :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belovelife Posted April 3, 2012 Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 welcome, i dig heavy metal also, ( i am spiritual, not religious)and i too am here to learn, what a coincidence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pudd Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 well thats quite an introWelcome 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pudd Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted April 3, 2012 Report Share Posted April 3, 2012 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! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belovelife Posted April 4, 2012 Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfSym5Pb5s&feature=fvst modern phylosiphers ( i always mispell stuff ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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