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Sherry, may I suggest some reading material that would help you immensely. "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll the creator of Skepdic.com It's available from Wiley books. wily.com Meanwhile have a seat, enjoy your glass of goats milk while the rabbit in the oven is cooking.
 
new member to the forum but definitely no stranger to JREF and Critical Thinking. I actually met "the man" James Randi about 8years ago. I visited the previous office in Fort Lauderdale just to ask if they had a photo and preferably autographed photo of him that they could give me (I would have paid for it). Instead they sat me while they called him (he was actually in the office - wow) to get him to sign one, and I ended up going into his study with him and spent almost 2hours talking one-on-one with him!!! SO cool, and he was obviously extremely friendly and personable. I am waiting for them to open their new office in Plantation so I can visit again.

I recently started my own site patsrants.com where I will be voicing off on various topics of interest to myself and hopefully others, and I also have a site where I sell Hot Sauces. That in addition to my technical support job for software. I am definitely full of interests :-)

I look forward to interacting here with like-minded free and critical thinking individuals

Patrick
 
Welcome, pglenn/Patrick. I've heard a couple of other folks mention that they just dropped by and even had Randi answer the bell and similarly host them for a walk-through and chat. Yeah, we kinda like the old guy here and especially this time of year when all those guys in red suits are trying to look like him. (".... a wink of his eye and a twist of his head, soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread...")

Oh, .... don't promote your hotsauce site, by the way. There's a silly contretemps over linking to commercial sites, even cool ones, going on right now. I presume mentioning blogs is okay, but anything smacking of commercial gets the PTB shorts in a knot. Can't tell, they may decide to launch Skeptic Hot Sauce dot Com and you could be cutting into the lucrative critical thinking jalapeno market.
 
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thank you foolmewunz. thats why I gave the blog url but not the commercial, most forums dint like evem unintentional promoting. just trying to tell ppl who I am. and yes randi was very cool, we talked everything from movies to tv to internet to geller (I had to talk that with him), and he even surprised me with some slight of hand magic out of the blue. I didnt know a pair of dice could be so intriguing :-)

Patrick
 
Here's a little advice on forum usage. Click on the Help button just beneath the banner a the top. The answers to virtually all of your questions (forum rules, code tags, smilie lists, etc.) are there.

As far as forum culture goes? Well, lurkers will know most of the inside jokes, true newbies are just going to have to dicks their own potatoes.
 
Scruffy said:
Hi All, I'm new.

Planning on going through the forum looking for discussions on religion, evolutionary psychology and trans-humanism.

I'm a Canadian in my late 30s with a science/engineering background. Grew up in a secular environment. Fascinated by the ever widening gap between what we've learned through science, and what we are biologically programmed for.

Merry Xmas!
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And a Merry Xmas to you, too! I have Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain by my bed on the top of my pile of books to read next. I think that discusses the gap you mention - at least I hope it does. :) Welcome! :)

sherry5851 said:
Hello All,
I've come here because I live with a conspiracy theorist and, because of a lawsuit I'm involved with, I'm FB friends with many conspiracy theorists. After the G20 in Toronto in 2010, I came very close to believing in the NWO but started to think logically after a while and doing research. I avoided watching "Zeitgeist" when I was vulnerable and have since read much of the debunking of the movie. I still haven't watched it. From chemtrails to Illuminati to Ameros, I have the whole bunch following me. I've now taken to posting refutations but have trouble arguing points because I don't have the knowledge. I'm hoping to learn more here to bolster my arguments.

I'm also sorta funny when I get to know you...
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:) Welcome, sherry5851! The conspiracy theories forums here will be very helpful to you, I'm sure. And you'll fit right in with the debunkers, who are a witty bunch. You'll have fun!
 
Orphia Nay said:
Welcome, LogicFail! Great name!
What's the BFF? Is it anything like Abovetopsecret? Those sort of nuts are pretty canny... They sussed that I was part of the NWO.
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It was the Bigfoot Forums, well still is... I got banned from there yesterday...lol Finally had heard enough from the lunatic fringe over there and kinda had a blaze of glory meltdown.... Oh well, wine and interwebz don't always mix
 
pglenn said:
new member to the forum but definitely no stranger to JREF and Critical Thinking. I actually met "the man" James Randi about 8years ago. I visited the previous office in Fort Lauderdale just to ask if they had a photo and preferably autographed photo of him that they could give me (I would have paid for it). Instead they sat me while they called him (he was actually in the office - wow) to get him to sign one, and I ended up going into his study with him and spent almost 2hours talking one-on-one with him!!! SO cool, and he was obviously extremely friendly and personable. I am waiting for them to open their new office in Plantation so I can visit again.

I recently started my own site patsrants.com where I will be voicing off on various topics of interest to myself and hopefully others, and I also have a site where I sell Hot Sauces. That in addition to my technical support job for software. I am definitely full of interests :-)

I look forward to interacting here with like-minded free and critical thinking individuals

Patrick
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Welcme to the site PGLENN have a free glass of fresh goats milk, but that will be $269.50 (euro) for advertising your sites and hot sauces here
 
well for $269.50 do I at least get to give the names of the sites? LOL I linked to here from my own sites, no charge for that and hoping visitors will bleed over to here, the more intelligent and informed people we have in the world the better off the world will be. time now to start prowling around the topics here, see what I can find. thanks for the milk will go well with my turkey burgers and brussel sprouts. and my cats WONT be going to the BBQ :-)

Patrick
 
Thank you Colonel. I'm sorry I'm so late in replying but the holiday season has kept me fairly busy. I hope to be more active in the future.
 
amb said:
Sherry, may I suggest some reading material that would help you immensely. "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll the creator of Skepdic.com It's available from Wiley books. wily.com Meanwhile have a seat, enjoy your glass of goats milk while the rabbit in the oven is cooking.
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Thank you amb...I will look up that book - I think half my friends will stop being my "friends" but good riddance if they can't take criticism. Hmmm, where did *that* rant come from???
 
Orphia Nay said:
And a Merry Xmas to you, too! I have Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain by my bed on the top of my pile of books to read next. I think that discusses the gap you mention - at least I hope it does. :) Welcome! :)



:) Welcome, sherry5851! The conspiracy theories forums here will be very helpful to you, I'm sure. And you'll fit right in with the debunkers, who are a witty bunch. You'll have fun!
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Looking forward to learning Orphia Nay and being among people who are...what's the word...SANE, that's it!!
 
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Hi All, i just joined so thought i would introduce myself..

My name is Amanda, i live in sunny Australia and a big fan of critical thinking and a good debate. I work in international law enforcement field, so in my job i see a LOT of stupid. I also study criminal justice and forensic psychology, so the reasons why some people are so stupid is fascinating:)

So yeah..thats it for now.

- Amanda
 
A very warm and depending which part of Australia you are from, very hot weather wise. It's 38C here today as I'm typing. Colonel will be along shortly with today's menu. :D
 
hi guys. just getting my first post out of the way so for now i'll just say "great to be here!" :)
 
Ozmanda said:
Hi All, i just joined so thought i would introduce myself..

My name is Amanda, i live in sunny Australia and a big fan of critical thinking and a good debate. I work in international law enforcement field, so in my job i see a LOT of stupid. I also study criminal justice and forensic psychology, so the reasons why some people are so stupid is fascinating:)

So yeah..thats it for now.

- Amanda
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Welcome Amanda Have a glass of Goats milk and here is something to think about , As the comedian Ron White has said many times you can't fix stupid
 
There's no shortage of people who try, though, right here in this godforsaken saclike cavity or tube open only at one end.
 
Here's a belated Merry Xmas and a little bit more about me, what with this being the place for introductions. I know you're skeptics, but this is a true Christmas story about me:

I grew up in a secular household and never received any kind of religious information from my parents growing up. Not a word, and I never asked. Then one Christmas season in grade 3 during painting my teacher told us all to paint something related to Christmas. I must have panicked. I knew about Santa and Christmas trees and presents and all that, and I should have stuck to what I knew but I was also dimly aware that Christmas had something to do with God or Jesus or something and was probably afraid of being exposed as a Christmas wanna-be, so I decided to do a religious Christmas painting.

As you may recall, I knew nothing about religion or Christianity -nothing- but I did have some vague notions. God had a son, Jesus who was killed on a cross. Jesus was kind of like an angel or something. So, clearly, there is some good in killing angels. This was also about the time that I was developing an interest in anatomy in general. When Fred Flinstone ate his dinner there was always that giant severed leg with the round white bone in the middle.

I will never forget the look on my grade 3 teachers face when I explained to her that my painting represented Christmas because it was an angel getting its head cut off. It was done quite well as I remember it: the hand, the knife, the round fleshy severed neck with the white bone right in the middle. They say disgust is the last facial expression children learn to recognize and I think I know the exact day that I learned to recognize it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
 
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