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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "Knowing is so much sweeter than wanting and believing." - cgordon |
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New Blood
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: UK
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Thank you.
I shall crawl before I can walk. |
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New Blood
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 4
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Hey. I'm Paul. I've been going to TAM for the last two years, and it never really occurred to me to get on the forums before now. O_o
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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "Knowing is so much sweeter than wanting and believing." - cgordon |
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Scholar
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Where you look at a thigh, and blacken an eye...
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Hi all.I am Bill. I am not so new to the JREF, I have lurked here and there, primarily 9/11 stuff, and recently decided to join. I am out of work social studies teacher. I majored in history/ed. and minored in philosophy. I am currently getting my MSEd. My primary interests here are conspiracy theories. I became a rationalist a few years ago when I slowly began to realize logic and science had more to offer than my religious beliefs.
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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
Posts: 2,572
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "Knowing is so much sweeter than wanting and believing." - cgordon |
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: The Netherlands
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Well, this is wonderful, so many new arrivals!
![]() Please make your good selves at home, take off your southwestern/fur hat/sombrero/sun screen/<insert appropriate headwear>, hang up your raincoat/umbrella/parasol/hawaii shirt/<insert appropriate outdoor garment>, pull up a thread of your liking and start enjoying our little island of rationality here. Where are my manners? Have a minty, some cookies, and a glass of fresh goats milk, and if you see the goat, give it a friendly pat on the head and send it to Colonel. And now off to Forum community and start upping those post counts! |
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You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates the same people you do. -Annie Lamott |
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New Blood
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 3
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Howdy
Been lurking for some time. A lot of great reads in the Forums.
Was a kid who believed in everything and anything. Age and experience made me a pretty solid atheist and skeptic. Though I would be *thrilled* if indisputable proof of Ghosts, Bigfoots, UFO's, Black Helicopters .... were ever produced! Until then I shall debunk and critically think out the Boogie Men. Anyhow, Hello. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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''Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'' - Carl Sagan- |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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''Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'' - Carl Sagan- |
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New Blood
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Minnesota, USA
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Hi all - I've been lurking here for a long time, and thought it was high time I finally introduced myself. I grew up Catholic, but never really believed any of it; I remember feeling a vague embarrassment every time I went to church with my parents. When I finally figured out where the embarrassment was coming from, I realized I had been an atheist all along.
I tried really hard to believe in ESP and paranormal phenomena when I was a teenager, but, alas, my skeptical nature won out there as well. |
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Sniper of the Galactic Universe
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: the many voids of the universe
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Welcome afrer reading this resume I think you will fit right in . Now go have a glass of goats milk ,a cookie and a MINTIE and wait by the green door . seeing as you are a friend of Pure Arget I will have him show you to your room . be nice and pat the goat on the head if you meet up with it.
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I do what the little voices in my head tell me to do . They tell me to stay home and play with my guns. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TO MANY GUNS . |
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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
Posts: 2,572
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "Knowing is so much sweeter than wanting and believing." - cgordon |
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Scholar
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 97
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PA, you called me many, MANY names last night. "Archenemy" was not among them
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"Arkyrion really is a great people person...when he's not trying to set them on fire." -- Kurse |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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There, there children. Lets kiss and make up!
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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "Knowing is so much sweeter than wanting and believing." - cgordon |
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Scholar
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 97
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"Broken bottle?" Is that what you're calling it now?
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"Arkyrion really is a great people person...when he's not trying to set them on fire." -- Kurse |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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Hey! This is a welcoming thread for new members, not a slanging match thread.
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''Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'' - Carl Sagan- |
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What was the question?
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central Vale of Humility
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Sig relocated by express permission of the Collegium of Title. See above...and to the left. |
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Sniper of the Galactic Universe
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: the many voids of the universe
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Well I guess we will have to keep them locked in their rooms until they learn to play nice together or kill one another
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I do what the little voices in my head tell me to do . They tell me to stay home and play with my guns. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TO MANY GUNS . |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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If it's a duel they want. Be here tomorrow at dawn, and please choose your weapons before arriving. You shall be back to back, walk 20 paces, turn and fire. May the best man win a packet of Minties.
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Scholar
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 97
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Is a Rocket Launcher an acceptable dueling weapon? I forget.
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"Arkyrion really is a great people person...when he's not trying to set them on fire." -- Kurse |
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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
Posts: 2,572
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I know what I want.
![]() ...or the trusty Bio Rifle, a.k.a. Goop Gun. Either works.
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "Knowing is so much sweeter than wanting and believing." - cgordon |
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 3
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"New blood" here if that is the preferred title for new members.
EclecticSkeptic here. You may already know my DH, CriticalThanking. I'm a former physics/math high school teacher. I currently tutor and craft.
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Liver Donor Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North of Reality
Posts: 24,706
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Welcome ES! What sort of craft?
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"But then, I'm not a big one for signatures anyway. I can't think of many things that are so clever that they bear repeating in every single post I make." -- Tricky |
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
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I do a bit of a lot of things. If it's interesting to me, I may try it. Currently I have been making some home decor from a sycamore tree that turned up its toes in our recent drought, I do some photographic art and I design a wide range of jewelry from a variety of materials. Since I'm brand new, I can't give you a link, but if you want to see some of my items, you can visit, www dot craftgawker dot com/post/archive/eclecticdesignchoices/ .
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Scholar
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 97
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Welcome aboard, ESkeptic. (We already have a fellow who goes by Skeptic, and I'm too lazy to type out "Eclectic" every time I address you)
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"Arkyrion really is a great people person...when he's not trying to set them on fire." -- Kurse |
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
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That's fine, ES works too.
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Designated Hitter
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Next to the Higgs Boson
Posts: 1,215
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Yes, it is true. I am the Designated Hitter.
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Eclectic pigasi-related items! I can haz jewelry! More cool stuff.! "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'." - XKCD |
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
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Long time lurker here. Met Phil and some others at DragonCon and finally convinced myself to register. Glad to have access.
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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A very warm welcome skeet.
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
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Hello ,ive been lurking in this forum for some time now,so Im guessing its time to make an account and introduce myself..
I expecially valued the constant debunking of the so called 9/11 truth movement"..that people can be so stupid in this day and age are beyond me.. Furthermore im a US/norwegian double citizen..and an ISAF veteran..thank you that is all for now.. |
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Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 153
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Hi,
I'm Charlie, a mom to 3 (almost 4 kids) and a skeptic that still holds onto a modern version of Christianity (don't worry, I'm okay with evolution and probably like creationists less than most atheists do...if that's possible). That said, I got kicked out of my last church for not being mean-spirited or superstitious enough (thought picketing homosexuals and/or abortion clinics was wrong--go figure). Fan of Carl Sagan, The Skeptic, and even a bit of Penn & Teller (can't go for *some* for the Bible-bashing or the Libertarian schtick, but generally like them). I studied psychology as an undergrad and will try to start grad school sometime next year in informatics. Hopefully. I live in the US and....not sure what else to say other than I'm a bit of an oddball. It's not so much by choice as by happenstance. |
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Scholar
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 97
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A warm welcome to my fellow Oddball. And also to Northern. Glad to have you aboard the Logic train.
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"Arkyrion really is a great people person...when he's not trying to set them on fire." -- Kurse |
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Left my heart in Texas, in Florida now
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Hi all, new here. Took me forever to get amy account activated here, but am here now! Nice to meet yall.
Live in Florida, used to live in Texas. |
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Liver Donor Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: North of Reality
Posts: 24,706
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Welcome.
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"But then, I'm not a big one for signatures anyway. I can't think of many things that are so clever that they bear repeating in every single post I make." -- Tricky |
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Scourge, of the supernatural
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Posts: 3,500
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"Not a seat but a springboard” (1942 Winston Churchill) "As he who, seeking asses, found a kingdom" (1671 Milton "Paradise Regained") "for it seem'd A void was made in nature, all her bonds Crack'd; and I saw the flaring atom-streams And torrents of her myriad universe, Ruining along the illimitable inane, Fly on to clash together again, and make Another and another frame of things For ever." (1868 Tennyson "Lucretius") |
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Sniper of the Galactic Universe
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: the many voids of the universe
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I do what the little voices in my head tell me to do . They tell me to stay home and play with my guns. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TO MANY GUNS . |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 8,108
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So true. The gates are guarded by ferocious man eating goats.
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New Blood
Join Date: Nov 2009
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Hi to all skeptics & critical thinkers. Finally got my account validated after 4 or 5 tries. Lurking here for a while like 2 - 3 months. Nice to be here and meet you all.
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