Aussie Trooper "Where's The Bloody Beer?"

10-10-2007, 10:33 AM

Just wandered in cause I thought it was a free BBQ with no security and an open keg. Lemme help you tap that bastard mate. Yep!! I am an Aussie trooper too.

But... actualy I found this place by googling for "moral philosophy sexism racism" and after browsing numerous blogs I found a link to A Raving Athiest forum that featured a Q'n'A session with PZ. Myers. So first up!! Thanks for an hour or so of blissfull reading. I like the cut of that fellers jib.

I became an athiest shortly after learning to walk, distinguish between more than the three primary colours, and learning to spell my first name. The idea of a hyper-complex being creating and controlling everything we know to be reality seemed supurfluous right from the beginning for me.

I do remember the self-concious flirtation with the deistsic creator in my early teenage years, and to me, It remains an artifact of social acceptance. Perhaps even more, wanting to belive in the "Gentle Jesus" saviour figure and the life herafter, but I am pleased to say that I never realy swollowed the whole pill. I actualy gagged on it and spit it up.

In my later teens and early 20's I became a hedonist, who couldn't give a rats bum, about such worldly things as why we are here and how the universe began. Eventualy I became co-dependant on the 'geek within' who made me read books about cosmology and natural history.

I walked many years with the writtings of Stephen Jay Gould, and read the cosmologies of Paul Davis too. (I once went to the Adelaide University with an amaturish, crackpot theory about quantum mechanics, and shook his hand.) I have read James Gliek's Chaos and by the same author Genius - Richard Feynman And Modern Physics, In Seach Of The Double Helix (John Gribbin) and many many mode. Some how against the greatest odds, as an uneducated suburban 'yobbo' I have I have turned a love of nature and a respect and admiration for science into a lifes passion.

I still sometimes struggle for an outlet for that passion. As yet I have no academic qualifications, but yet I dream of contributing to a deeper understanding of life and the universe as we might yet come to know it. I consider it a far greater legasy than increasing the population.

For the best part of two decades, I have been an avid skeptic and athiest. In recent years I have been active on the brights forum and more recently I spent a couple of months as the principal administrator on the Richard Dawkins Foundation (RDF) when it first started. I went to study for a while and then remained unemployed (and off the internet) untill now.

At the moment I am driving a courier van and looking foward to better days.

That's enough of my life story. Besides, I have run out of beer. It's good to see an alternative site for athiests on the net, so keep up the good work huh? I thought I knew every skeptic and athiest forum that exists, but as they say "the more the merrier". Speak to you soon.

Regards Skepticus.

Kate · 10-10-2007, 10:35 AM

Well, fire up the barbie and throw on some shrimp, mate!

Professor Chaos · 10-10-2007, 10:39 AM

Sweet intro! Welcome to the forums, Skepticus. Hope your stay here is long and enjoyable.

Smellyoldgit · 10-10-2007, 10:46 AM

G'day - I'll blow the froth off one for yer!

(PS. Davis would kill for missing out his "e")

Eva · 10-10-2007, 10:47 AM

welcome, skep!
if your job allows you to buy beer, then it is a fine job indeed.

keep posting!

10-10-2007, 10:49 AM

Welcome,

Sorry about the keg, mate. I kicked it an hour ago (what do YOU have for breakfast?)

Chris · 10-10-2007, 12:25 PM

Hi, welcome and thanks for the email

Sternwallow · 10-10-2007, 12:47 PM

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Skepticus wrote

Just wandered in cause I thought it was a free BBQ with no security and an open keg. Lemme help you tap that bastard mate. Yep!! I am an Aussie trooper too.

That's enough of my life story. Besides, I have run out of beer. It's good to see an alternative site for athiests on the net, so keep up the good work huh? I thought I knew every skeptic and athiest forum that exists, but as they say "the more the merrier". Speak to you soon.

Regards Skepticus.

Welcome, Skep. You sound like our sort. Is Skepticus your first name, in which case I understand why it took you so long to learn to spell it, or your last name, for which I would gladly kill?

Your first post was a model of what we wish from each new member, an outline of theistic (or non-) position and a short biography. It is a little difficult for us to know how best to insult people if we don't know at least a smattering about them.

Kamikaze189 · 10-10-2007, 03:45 PM

Welcome to the forums, Skepticus.

...but allow me to be the first person here to bug you about it: atheist.

Call me a spelling nazi, but I only say it to be helpful.

10-10-2007, 06:49 PM

Thank you all.

All typos are beer powered. If you want to see more significant ones youll have to send me something stronger.

Waddlie · 10-10-2007, 06:58 PM

Hi and welcome, Skepticus. On behalf of the English contingent, I'd like to say the folloing:

12-10

Nuh nuh nuh-nuh nuh.

10-12-2007, 09:22 PM

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Waddlie wrote

Hi and welcome, Skepticus. On behalf of the English contingent, I'd like to say the folloing:

12-10

Nuh nuh nuh-nuh nuh.

Welcome, Skepticus!

And, oh, Wadders, care to put that nuh-stuff in westponder's english?

10-12-2007, 09:41 PM

Yay! Beer!

10-13-2007, 10:52 AM

Hey ELGS, I remember you from RDF or was is the brights forum? Well done with not smoking by the way. I one gave up drinking, smoking and wild women. It was the most horrible ten minutes of my whole life.

Waddlie · 10-13-2007, 11:19 AM

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Rat Bastard wrote

Welcome, Skepticus!

And, oh, Wadders, care to put that nuh-stuff in westponder's english?

The Rugby World Cup is currently taking place in France and a couple of neighbouring countries. It is played every 4 years. In 2003, it was held in Australia. The tournament final was England vs Australia, which England won with a final minute drop goal by a guy called Jonny Wilkinson, who Aussies don't like so much.

Fast forward 4 years to this year's quarter-finals. England have played horrendously (we even struggled against the Yanks for fuck's sake.) The Aussies were on form and it was generally recognised that we were in for a spanking.

Unfortunately the Aussies choked and England won the game 12-10 - all points scored by the mighty Jonny Wilkinson.

Kick ass.