I haven't been on SF in years but it's nice to see the community still kicking. I recognize quite a few still-active members like Tiassa and JamesR from back in the day.
I'm not yet sure what turn the culture has taken nowadays but SF was quite a fun and instructive place back in the day (minus the intermittent blackouts..) and I learned a lot of formative lessons during my time here.
I started out as a pretty prolific poster on the Religion sub-forums. You might have called me a defender of the Christian faith; always quick to quote scripture and challenge unbelief. Little by little, as the story goes, I began to study the ideas of skeptics - chiefly because I wanted to expose holes in their logic - but this eventually led to my realizing that there were certain things (such as inerrancy of the Bible) which were simply irreconcilable.
At some point I guess there was a straw that broke the camel's back and I realize that I had lost belief. There was a fairly large thread on my "coming out" which I'm sure someone can dig up (along with who knows what other cringeworthy stuff I might have been posting then).
A lot has changed in the last 7 or so years but I'd like to give SF some credit for my (sharper) critical thinking skills. It's not every day that someone changes a core tenet of their life on an internet forum after debate so I'll always have place in my heart for SF.
Anyway.. nice to meet you all!
I'm not yet sure what turn the culture has taken nowadays but SF was quite a fun and instructive place back in the day (minus the intermittent blackouts..) and I learned a lot of formative lessons during my time here.
I started out as a pretty prolific poster on the Religion sub-forums. You might have called me a defender of the Christian faith; always quick to quote scripture and challenge unbelief. Little by little, as the story goes, I began to study the ideas of skeptics - chiefly because I wanted to expose holes in their logic - but this eventually led to my realizing that there were certain things (such as inerrancy of the Bible) which were simply irreconcilable.
At some point I guess there was a straw that broke the camel's back and I realize that I had lost belief. There was a fairly large thread on my "coming out" which I'm sure someone can dig up (along with who knows what other cringeworthy stuff I might have been posting then).
A lot has changed in the last 7 or so years but I'd like to give SF some credit for my (sharper) critical thinking skills. It's not every day that someone changes a core tenet of their life on an internet forum after debate so I'll always have place in my heart for SF.
Anyway.. nice to meet you all!
