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  • I like this forum
     OP - July 05, 2012, 06:39 AM
    Hi there all of you brave people. I'd like to say that I am impressed with this forum and especially by the ex-muslims for who it must be sometimes very hard to come out for their unbelief.

    Me, I was raised catholic and when I was around 13 I started to feel it was all rubbish and that believers were hypocrites for saying Love thy neighbour as thyself, but then rejecting anyone who was different. I had a bit of a struggle to convince my mum that I didn't want to go to church anymore, and I never told my grandmother I didn't believe anymore, because that would've hurt her. Reading this forum and the stories of apostates brought it all back, but my struggle was never so tough as what some of you had to go through. My mum could in de end be allright with me denying god, although she always told me I needed god.

    I hope all your dear ones will be able to love you just the way you are, even if you don't believe what they believe.
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #1 - July 05, 2012, 07:05 AM
    Welcome to the forum, Senga parrot
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #2 - July 05, 2012, 07:09 AM
    Thanks Cato, also for that colourful parrot  Smiley
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #3 - July 05, 2012, 12:30 PM
    Welcome and have a parrot  parrot
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #4 - July 05, 2012, 12:35 PM
    thanks, Artemis and sturmgewehr Smiley Keep sending parrots and I can have my own aviary  Wink
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #5 - July 05, 2012, 01:07 PM
    a bunch of parrots and a dancing banana.. what more can anyone ask for..  banana dance

    hi and welcome..
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #6 - July 05, 2012, 01:11 PM
     dance ooh, I think the rabbit likes to dance with your banana, nessrriinn  bunny
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #7 - July 05, 2012, 09:15 PM
    Hi Senga. Reading about how you left Catholicism reminds me of my own leaving of Islam. My Mom and Dad still bug me sometimes about going to mosque and whatnot, but I think gradually they have become more accepting of my lack of faith.  Smiley

    Anyway, welcome to the forum, I hope you have a great time here! I see that you already have a rabbit, but anyway here's another for your burgeoning zoo.  bunny
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #8 - July 06, 2012, 06:22 AM
    two parrot, one banana, two bunnies ...

    where's teh kitteh, people here stopped giving kitteh, I feel sad

     parrot bunny piggy

    have a kitteh Senga and welcome to Cemb



    schnarf.. schnarf ..
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #9 - July 06, 2012, 03:50 PM
    aii you people are so nice!  It's a zoo now thnkyu

    Ah, asbie.. I have just been surfing this forum again and I've read a horrible story of someone leaving islam and I now am a bit ashamed because my story is just nothing, a breeze compared to what I have been reading from people here. Also it is 20 years ago and my mum knows she shouldn't bother anyway. She would be surprised if she knew I am not a hardcore atheist since a year or so  Wink
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #10 - July 06, 2012, 05:21 PM
    Hi welcome :>
    ***~Church is where bad people go to hide~***
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #11 - July 07, 2012, 07:52 AM
     Greetings
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #12 - July 07, 2012, 04:37 PM
    Quote from: Senga on July 06, 2012, 03:50 PM
    aii you people are so nice!  It's a zoo now thnkyu

    Ah, asbie.. I have just been surfing this forum again and I've read a horrible story of someone leaving islam and I now am a bit ashamed because my story is just nothing, a breeze compared to what I have been reading from people here. Also it is 20 years ago and my mum knows she shouldn't bother anyway. She would be surprised if she knew I am not a hardcore atheist since a year or so  Wink


    Oh, don't worry about the relative ease or difficulty of your deconversion, it's certainly not a contest and we take all sorts here.  far away hug
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #13 - July 07, 2012, 05:31 PM
    Hi Senga

    I like your avatar.  I'll give you a few welcome  parrot parrot parrot parrot parrot since you're starting an aviary. Be careful of that kitten Paranoid gave you it is so cute (I want one) but it looks hungry. I hope you enjoy it here.
    If at first you succeed...try something harder.

    Failing isn't falling down. Failing is not getting back up again.
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #14 - July 08, 2012, 04:18 AM
    ^


    cool photos
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #15 - July 08, 2012, 04:30 AM
    SO COOL PIC.
    I love it. Download to my phone. Maybe use for wall paper for awhile,
    thanks. far away hug
    If at first you succeed...try something harder.

    Failing isn't falling down. Failing is not getting back up again.
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #16 - July 09, 2012, 04:37 PM
    sweet people here  yes

    to all:  far away hug
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #17 - July 09, 2012, 08:00 PM
    Hi Senga your story is mine too. parrot
    Isn't it funny how cats can understand people without ever reading a single psychology book?
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #18 - July 12, 2012, 10:39 PM
    Welcome, Senga!

    Christopher Hitchens had once said: "'Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way".... and I'm glad to see you have. If you're still climbing on some parts, let me tell you that the view from the top looks absolutely spectacular. Your journey there is what you make it, so embrace it when you get there and feel the wind between your toes as you step on the on the crisped leaves of your past religion and its overconfident ideologies, for that crunch could not sound any more delicious.

    Now, on a totally unrelated note, care to dance? dance
    Lover of all things whimsy.
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #19 - July 14, 2012, 07:48 AM
    Quote from: mindboom on July 12, 2012, 10:39 PM
    Welcome, Senga!

    Christopher Hitchens had once said: "'Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way".... and I'm glad to see you have. If you're still climbing on some parts, let me tell you that the view from the top looks absolutely spectacular. Your journey there is what you make it, so embrace it when you get there and feel the wind between your toes as you step on the on the crisped leaves of your past religion and its overconfident ideologies, for that crunch could not sound any more delicious.

    Now, on a totally unrelated note, care to dance? dance


    well.. that sounds beautiful, but it's not very recognizable to me. It's been ages since I left my faith, which had me asking questions since I could read the children's bible. Its not that I was so brainwashed that breaking away from it made me a whole different person. I wish I could say I am on the top, but I am not and in my view this has nothing to do with believing or not believing.

    But err.. yeah, I love dancing Smiley

    Quote from: Merry_Squirell on July 09, 2012, 08:00 PM
    Hi Senga your story is mine too. parrot


    Hi Merry_Squirell, so, how have you experienced breaking away from your faith? Do you recognize what mindboom wrote above?
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #20 - July 15, 2012, 03:41 PM
    Senga yes i was raised in a catholic family, but never in my life i felt connection to the God as described in Bible ...i never felt that spark of faith, there were too many rules to follow, to many illogical concepts in Bible...

    so i was reserching, reading Talmud, some parts of Qoran...and again there was no spark...i just realized those are the texts written by Semitic goat-herders whose morality is not compatible with our times, or any other times (especially regarding role of women).
    Isn't it funny how cats can understand people without ever reading a single psychology book?
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #21 - July 16, 2012, 10:44 PM
    Welcome Senga,
    from one former Catholic to another.
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #22 - July 18, 2012, 04:37 PM
    Quote from: Doubting Tomas on July 16, 2012, 10:44 PM
    Welcome Senga,
    from one former Catholic to another.

    Hi there, still doubting, are you?  Wink



    Quote from: Merry_Squirell on July 15, 2012, 03:41 PM
    Senga yes i was raised in a catholic family, but never in my life i felt connection to the God as described in Bible ...i never felt that spark of faith, there were too many rules to follow, to many illogical concepts in Bible...

    so i was reserching, reading Talmud, some parts of Qoran...and again there was no spark...i just realized those are the texts written by Semitic goat-herders whose morality is not compatible with our times, or any other times (especially regarding role of women).

    But why look there? You wanted to believe or you wanted to get convinced it was ALL a load of bollocks?  Smiley
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #23 - July 18, 2012, 05:48 PM
    Welcome to the forum.   have a welcome parrot  parrot
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
  • Re: I like this forum
     Reply #24 - July 18, 2012, 05:50 PM
    Thanks DarkRebel.. the parrots live in the tree behind my house  Smiley
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