trekbette

Mz Neko dragged me here kicking and screaming (me not her).

Secular Pinoy

I was an apatheist and didn't really care much for religion. I had been reading an article on religion in a certain website that linked to Robert Ingersoll's page in the Secweb Library. I got excited reading his works, and I stayed up all night and finished several of them. I never knew that nontheism would be so cool, and I've been an avid reader of the SecWeb Lib ever since. The boards were on Delphi back then, and I never liked the look of it so I never joined, I just lurked. I also lurked when the forum changed to UBB, but I eventually joined, though I can't remember my first post.

jig

I was first a regular at the Christian vs Atheist yahoo club and I'm not entirely sure but I think they had a link to the logic section on Secular Web, and that's most likely how I found this place. I don't post much here because I'd already done much of the debating thing at other places on the internet and did entirely too much of the off topic posting on the official forums for a game called Alpha Centauri. In fact, I think it was a discussion on the AC forums about the difference between agnostics and atheists that made me scour the net for more stimulus, leading to discovering the aforementioned CvsA yahoo club, and also to Bertrand Russell and from there to philosophy as a whole.

Shake

I started reading that thread at work, but had to leave it until I got home, because of a similar problem.

Co-workers, "Are you OK?"
Me, *snicker snort* "Yeah, fine!" ROFLMAO!

Jobar

I was a member (along with DMB, Copernicus, Jack the Bodiless, Malpensante, and a few others) of the original freethinkers' forum when I heard of II, back in 1999 or thereabouts. Like DMB I found it too large for my tastes then; ftf membership never got over six or seven hundred, IIRC. There were only a few dozen regulars, and it was possible to read every post in every forum (it was structured very much like II.)

Before that, I was a semi-regular on alt.atheism (ScourgeJB) and before that I was an occasional poster on a conversation board sponsored by Commodore, on a C-64! So I've been talking about religion via the net for ten years or more.

Stiletto One

I actually found it because I was putting in random words for URLs, and I tried "infidels.org".

Trecker

I found II a couple of years ago after having been given a recommendation to come here by another atheist who was posting on a religious discussion board at TalkCity before it imploded. While I do not post very frequently on II, I find II a wonderful place to get information and consider a greater varriety of thought (without having to go through the basics for every single discussion).

I believe everyone should occassionally question everything in which they believe. It is just that the fundi types that are out there trying to discuss with (convert) you have to deny so very much of just simple logic that they cannot really listen to what you are saying and keep the biblical watermellons juggling in the air. It is all so repetitive. Anyway, I am very happy that IIDB and everyone here are available to me.

sakrilege

I think I heard about these lists on alt.atheism. My earliest email is from February 1996.

stretch

I first found Internet Infidels years ago while surfing the web. 199?, not sure which year. It was a place where I could go and see that being an atheist (which I was at the time) wasn't all that weird after all. Heck, it's darn normal.

A big chunk of my library comes from books that were recommended on this site.

EspressoSnail

A friend of mine had a link to the "If you've set yourself on fire" topic in her blog.
I looked around after recovering from that thread and wished I had found this place sooner. I like it here... even if I don't add much.