G'day from Australia

**#21** · **#21** by **Durro** » Dec 30, 2011 11:42 pm

G'day from Brisbane, Kris and welcome into the lifeboat ! This is my greeting for all new members and contains some useful stuff for you.

If you haven't seen it already, you may want to take a look at our New Members' Welcome Pack which will give you some helpful resources such as how to use the forum software and also contains our forum rules, which we ask that you abide by at all times.

As a house warming present for you, here's a few laughs for your entertainment.

:beer:

Durro

P.S. Come on over and say G'day to the other Aussies.

**#22** · **#22** by **Krisime Stokhastes** » Dec 31, 2011 12:34 am

Thanks everyone for your welcomes! Thanks for the funny stuff, Durro.

**#23** · **#23** by **Krisime Stokhastes** » Dec 31, 2011 12:42 am

DodgyScouser wrote:I'd go to people in the church to get their explanation and I'd just get a load of high-sounding waffle that they were clearly just making up as they went along. That was when the alarm bells started going big time.

Hi DodgyScouser. I tried getting answers at apologetics sites but found that quite a few were doing the same thing, especially when it came to explaining the meaning in the original languages. I spent years teaching myself Hebrew and Greek and I was really disappointed that there were Christian sites spreading falsehoods about translation to other Christians. That was a real faith buster.

**#24** · **#24** by **DanDare** » Dec 31, 2011 12:56 am

Krisime Stokhastes wrote:
Crocodile Gandhi wrote:G'day Kris! Whereabouts in Australia are you?

Beautiful Queensland, Crocodile Gandhi.

I just noticed the avatars and poster info are on the right hand side of the screen and see you are an Aussie as well. I should have known straight off by you screen name!

Me too Krisime, Brisbane (ex Sunshine Coast, Ex Sydney). Thanks for the interesting tale. I never had religion in the first place and discovered critical and lateral thinking in my teens. I didn't much care about religion until it started intruding into my life via my daughters school, and then I got the shits and became a "gnu atheist".

**#25** · **#25** by **AlohaChris** » Dec 31, 2011 1:02 am

Krisime Stokhastes wrote:
AlohaChris wrote:Aloha, Kris and welcome to the forum!

G'day Chris and thanks for the welcome.

Krisime Stokhastes wrote:Hi everyone. I’m Krisime Stokhastes, a mid-forties husband, father and ex-Christian, now atheist, from Australia.

BTW, I'm a forties husband, father and ex-Catholic, now atheist, from the USA

**#26** · **#26** by **amok** » Dec 31, 2011 1:32 pm

Welcome from Nova Scotia! :wave:

**#27** · **#27** by **Made of Stars** » Dec 31, 2011 1:57 pm

G'day Krisime. :cheers:

**#28** · **#28** by **Macdoc** » Dec 31, 2011 6:35 pm

Hey 'nother Queenslander....

I'm leaving for Cairns for 3 months in 2 weeks and moving there permanently in a couple of years.

Hey country with an atheist woman as a PM has my heart already.....tad warmer than Canada too.

Tip

Enjoy the "freedom from religion" for a while as an atheist before you get into the anti-theist mode.

I came from a fundie background and it's hard to shake the eternal "growl" once you work free of the crap.

**#29** · **#29** by **Made of Stars** » Dec 31, 2011 8:28 pm

Macdoc wrote:Enjoy the "freedom from religion" for a while as an atheist before you get into the anti-theist mode.

**#30** · **#30** by **Macdoc** » Dec 31, 2011 8:45 pm

Thanks - oddly the anti-theist notion for me came from the girl who is my SigO and will be living with in Cairns and long term.
Liked the concept.
We met on a science singles forum.

http://sciconnect.com/

Could not be much further apart in physical location but parallel mind sets for certain.
And Aus is gorgeous in that area - 100 million year old rain forest - never glaciated....and the Great Barrier reef a few k off shore.

**#31** · **#31** by **starr** » Dec 31, 2011 11:53 pm

Welcome Krisime!

I am an aussie ex-christian turned atheist too. :cheers:

**#32** · **#32** by **gleniedee** » Jan 01, 2012 4:19 am

G'day mate,from sunny Adelaide,where under my pergola it is currently 40C in the shade..

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