triplew00t

So wait a second. Emotional IS heathen dawn? Why the name switch all of a sudden?

Nero

Hopeful Monsters

read his postings -


Here (as emotional)

and -

There (as Heathen Dawn)

Jamie_L

Emotional has ceased to exist. It seems his fears were warranted.

Just kidding. I joke only because I sympathize 100% with his fears.

Jamie

Heathen Dawn

Because I decided to be back to rational instead of emotional.

And I like the name Heathen Dawn. It has a wild, poetic air to it. I like the word "heathen" because it's common to both atheists and pagans, and I like "dawn" because I think it's the most beautiful part of the day.

TomboyMom

As one who has tangled with emotional:
So now you're rational, and atheist, as opposed to non-rational and theist? What happened?

Rene

Aquila ka Hecate

Heathen Dawn originally (at least originally for as long as I've been around) posted under that name-he only took the tag 'emotional' when he decided that his death fears were getting the better of him.
Personally, I too like Heathen Dawn better than his forced-theist-alter-ego.

I like his rewriting of the pagan quarter calls, and have actually used them myself.

Perhaps this whole episode allowed him to get it out of his system, so to speak...anyway, as emotional I have rarely seen a more consistent attitude ("Don't ask me-I'm not a rational person")

Welcome back, Heathen Dawn, and all the best in your rediscovery of the joys of self-honesty!

Peter Kirby

There's nothing like a little religion to make you a confirmed atheist. It's like getting your inoculation against irrationality.

best,
Peter Kirby

Rational BAC

I wish emotional well in his travails. If atheism works for him---fine with me. The real problem is his very strange fear of death however.

No rational theist can understand such an irrational fear of death-------so it is very hard to commiserate with such emotions.

I mean -------think about it----for an atheist an endless sleep?

For a theist an endless paradise? ----------all the good nookie, all the good booze, the best food and entertainment imaginable for eternity------such a deal. And a never ending changing. Whatever you want for eternity (give or take a few of God's scruples)----that is what you get. Forever and ever.

Can't really lose either way.

(of course I guess you all realize by now that I personally do not believe in a fire and brimstone hell.)----------so that is not an option.

Heathen Dawn

Pressure accumulated. Dishonesty mounted up. Make-believe became apparent. And finally, as the last straw, I read this:

Good and Bad Reasons for Believing by Richard Dawkins

So I decided I wanted to return to the club again. I mean the club of the evidential, scientific worldview. If I am to be an outsider, let me be an outsider on Christianforums or Theologyweb, not here. Here is my true home of like-minded people.

(added) I read Dawkins' article really thoroughly. I so liked it on my first reading of it, that I decided to translate it into Hebrew for the Jewish Secularism website I work with. That way the article sank in and had its effect.

lunachick

I can't wait for Devnet to return.

Welcome back, HD!