3sigmaanomaly Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Hi all! I'm new. A few people in chat were asking about my de-conversion story, and I have it on this other blog. So rather than copy/paste it here, I figured I'd just link you to the livejournal post. I broke it into 5 shorter parts to make it easier to digest. I'll link them all individually here, but you can just go to the first one and follow the internal links there as well Part 1: Got no testimony - http://3sigmaanomaly.livejournal.com/2985.html Part 2: Jesus is no my boyfriend - http://3sigmaanomaly.livejournal.com/3089.html Part 3: Firefly - http://3sigmaanomaly.livejournal.com/3383.html Part 4: Depressed by heaven - http://3sigmaanomaly.livejournal.com/3631.html Part 5: Breaking free - http://3sigmaanomaly.livejournal.com/4072.html I look forward to chatting with you all. Cheers 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeThinkerNZ Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Welcome, 3! It's great to have you here. Hearing that you are an astrophysicist reminded me of this: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/lego-launches-female-scientist-set-months-after-7yearold-requested-they-make-more-lego-girl-people-and-let-them-go-on-adventures-9650341.html Women in science... bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator TheRedneckProfessor Posted September 30, 2014 Super Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2014 Welcome 3σ. We have another astrophysicist here by the name of Bhim. I’m sure he’ll be glad to have some company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbit Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Welcome 3! I look forward to your posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellinas Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
★ Citsonga ★ Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Greetings, and congratulations on breaking free! I personally identified a lot with these quotes: I studied apologetics so that I’d have all the answers, but I had never had the questions, so every response was canned Suddenly, all those apologetics questions came back, but now they were my questions. I wanted real answers, and since I knew the “church” answers already, I knew they were not good enough. I spent years studying the Bible (through the lens of indoctrination) and reading apologetics arguments. Most of the apologetics arguments seemed iron-clad at the time, because I also was reading answers to questions I didn't have yet. The canned answers fit well with my brainwashing, and the few that didn't were only representative of different doctrinal viewpoints. I was simply trying to learn in order to have answers for others, not because I needed answers myself. So, once I finally did start having questions several years later, I then started to see how flimsy and empty the vast majority of apologetics arguments are. It now blows my mind that I couldn't see through the nonsense sooner, but I was extremely heavily indoctrinated. Enough about me, though. Thanks for sharing your story. Good luck with everything, and enjoy the journey ahead of you.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhim Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Welcome 3σ. We have another astrophysicist here by the name of Bhim. I’m sure he’ll be glad to have some company. Indeed, BAA and I could surely use more company. Good to meet you 3 sigma. Your user name reminds me of several near detections I've made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornagainathiest Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 BAA is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, not an astrophysicist! But he welcomes you in the name of the LHC, the CMB, and Comet 76P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♦ ficino ♦ Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Hi, 3sig, welcome from me, too. I appreciated your extimony. Related to a lot of it! I'm glad that you managed to avoid having Jesus as your boyfriend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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