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  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     OP - March 27, 2013, 08:49 PM
    Thoruddin Hammerkhan here, Ive lurked the cemb forum off and on for a while, eventually I decided to come say hi to you nice folks. A little about me: I had never been a 'fervent' believer. I would stay away from pork and stuff but would find excuses to get out of praying ever since I was young. I am lucky enough to have parents who are intelligent and liberal, so they never coerced me or pressured me against learning, which lead me to read as much as I could about as wide a variety of topics as I could fathom eventually leading to my apostasy. I am however 'in the closet' as far as my family goes. This is for a number of reasons, but primarily the undue heartbreak I would cause them. I prefer to leave it to the status quo for now.

     I was always somewhat on the fence, I believe that would be considered agnostic, until a few years ago. A good friend of mine -who I used to debate on a daily basis about a variety of topics- one day said to me : 'How can you be such an intelligent open-minded individual and still believe in an invisible sky wizard?' That statement stuck with me for a while, leading to me questioning things that in my mind I had labelled 'off limits'. Sadly, one of the things that really pushed me into straight up, no-nonsense disbelief was when I had a family member pass away and had to endure the endless tirade of religious crap. The straw that broke the proverbial camel's back was the idea that a mother could not visit the grave of her child, as per Islamic rules(I've heard arguments for and against this before, but rest assured she was not allowed specifically because it was considered 'halal/makrooh').
    I'm a fairly regular user over at reddit/r/exmuslim, and I believe some of the users here and there overlap, which is cool. I have found the exmuslim community to be amazingly warm, open-minded, and filled with bright individuals. I'm looking forward to getting to know you, my fellow apostates as well. : grin12
  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #1 - March 27, 2013, 09:08 PM
    Welcome!  grin12
    Quote from: ZooBear 

    • Surah Al-Fil: In an epic game of Angry Birds, Allah uses birds (that drop pebbles) to destroy an army riding elephants whose intentions were to destroy the Kaaba. No one has beaten the high score.

  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #2 - March 27, 2013, 10:47 PM
    Welcome, good to see peeps from /r/exmuslim joining and vice versa.  grin12
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  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #3 - March 27, 2013, 11:58 PM
    Welcome brother/sister, comrade, fellow apostate.  Smiley
  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #4 - March 28, 2013, 03:26 AM
    Welcome Smiley
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #5 - March 28, 2013, 12:22 PM
    Welcome bro/sis Smiley
  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #6 - March 28, 2013, 12:45 PM
    Hello mate  Afro
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #7 - March 28, 2013, 03:27 PM
     parrot

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    The straw that broke the proverbial camel's back was the idea that a mother could not visit the grave of her child, as per Islamic rules(I've heard arguments for and against this before, but rest assured she was not allowed specifically because it was considered 'halal/makrooh').


    Sorry?  Is that true?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #8 - March 30, 2013, 07:45 AM
    Yep. Also enforced by law in a certain muslim country that shall remain nameless but likes tall buildings.
  • N00b exmuslim secular humanist here. Hi!
     Reply #9 - March 30, 2013, 01:55 PM
    Welcome to the forum

     signwelcome
    In my opinion a life without curiosity is not a life worth living
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