My Favorite Internet sites:
http://www.evolutionvscreationism.info/EvolutionvsCreationism/TheScientists.html
http://www.hhmi.org/
and for fun:
http://www.jackstargazer.com/JHSG_DNLD.html
Andrew The Atheist's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Body type:
Average
Ethnicity:
Asian
Religion:
Atheist
Zodiac Sign:
Leo
Smoke / Drink:
Yes / No
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
Andrew The Atheist's Schools
Ivy Tech Community College
Terre Haute,IN
Graduated: 2004
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Computer Networking
2002 to 2004
Roncalli High School
Indianapolis,IN
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Band, Band, and more Band
1989 to 1993
Andrew The Atheist Thank you!! Posted at 4:17 PM Nov 27 view more
I made this page so that I could try to network and meet other rational-minded people. I'm an atheist. After years of trying to find a religion that suited me, I found no religion suits me perfectly. It's kinda like trying on a whole slew of stright-jackets trying to find one that's comfortable, only to finally realize the sweet beauty of streaking. If you have also performed a Houdini on the shackles of conformity, drop a line.
Some history about me:
I attended 12 years of private Catholic schools. From 1st grade through high school. If you have never attended a private Catholic school, allow me to paint a picture. At least once a month, during school hours, we would go to Mass. If it was Christmas or Easter, it would be more frequently, up to once a week. Of course, my family would still attend Mass on Sunday mornings. Every year at least one class was dedicated to religion. I had multiple courses on the Old and New Testamants, as well as Catholic dogma.
Around my senior year in high school, I found myself with questions about my religion. I really expected my teachers/priests/parents to have answers for these questions at their fingertips. I figured all the adults around me had had similar questions as teens, and I had somehow missed them in all my religious classes. Indeed, I thought the worst that could happen was a slight chastisement for not paying attention in class. I was wrong.
Instead I was told my questions came from the devil. Satan was attacking my mind and I needed to pray to rid myself of his influence. Evil planted these questions in my mind, and Jesus was the answer. I was shocked no one even had something that looked like a logical answer.
My questions were as follows: Doesn't God need Satan to be his arch-nemisis? If there is only good, doesn't good lose its potency? We all agree certain aspects of the Bible don't conform to modern ideas of right and wrong, so why are they still in the Bible? Can't we just edit the book? Hasn't it been edited before? What's stopping us from allowing God's message to be updated? How come our flawed justice system has multiple levels of punishment, and God only has one? We try people by a jury of peers, why doesn't God? How is it that a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu and a Christian can all be good people, and only one gets to go to Heaven? And what if we don't want eternal life but simply peace when we die?
From age 17 to 31 I struggled with these and other questions. I looked to all sorts of religions to find one that suited my tastes. None did. Christianity, Buddism, Hinduism, Satanism, Wicca, New Age, Islam, Judeaism, Humanism, and others all failed. I even tried to make a religion of my own, combining those aspects of each that I liked and discarding the remainder. I had the hardest time keeping my dogma straight. It was exhausting.
Recently, I found that no religion is the best religion. Now, I want to find more about non-belief. With little investigation I have found this is where I should have been all along. Now I feel compeled to do more. Because God isn't here, we are.
You are The Devil
Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession
The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.
These guys rule. I'm not one of them myself, although I play one online. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will bring us into the future.
Holy swollen nut sacks! You're friends with a nun now. Don't touch your tator! Halloween is just around the corner. Stay away from Jesus or you'll get the pokie.
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