Informal Introduction

mathedrivein · Post by **mathedrivein** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:44 pm

Hello everyone!
I am 20 years old and live in the US. I was raised as a mormon, but over the years have developed an atheistic philosophy. I have taken many classes in religion at a university, and I have intended to major in religious studies. I am also very interested in medicine and, of course along with that, ethics. I love learning more everyday, and I can relate to a lot of different people with different beliefs.
See ya in the forums,
mathedrivein

Post by **otseng** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:20 pm

Welcome to the forum!

sledheavy · Post by **sledheavy** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:31 am

welcome to the forum. Where are you currently enrolled?

mathedrivein · Post by **mathedrivein** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:59 am

sledheavy wrote:welcome to the forum. Where are you currently enrolled?

I'm at ASU. I see you live in AZ, are you at an AZ university too?

sledheavy · Post by **sledheavy** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:56 pm

mathedrivein wrote:
sledheavy wrote:welcome to the forum. Where are you currently enrolled?
I'm at ASU. I see you live in AZ, are you at an AZ university too?

crazy! I'm over here on west campus. You take lee carter's class on logic or world religion yet?

mathedrivein · Post by **mathedrivein** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:16 pm

sledheavy wrote:
mathedrivein wrote:
sledheavy wrote:welcome to the forum. Where are you currently enrolled?
I'm at ASU. I see you live in AZ, are you at an AZ university too?
crazy! I'm over here on west campus. You take lee carter's class on logic or world religion yet?

Nope. I haven't taken anything from him. I took logic from Bolton and world religion from Damrel. Is he a pretty good prof?

sledheavy · Post by **sledheavy** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:22 pm

Oh man he'll blow your mind. I've got 2 copies of his manuscript in fact. The guy's just a crazy old bastard, but he said on my first day of wr at gcc, 'christians feel free to bring your bibles, but most of you regardless will not be here day after tomorrow.'

Scrotum · Post by **Scrotum** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:25 pm

sledheavy wrote:Oh man he'll blow your mind. I've got 2 copies of his manuscript in fact. The guy's just a crazy old bastard, but he said on my first day of wr at gcc, 'christians feel free to bring your bibles, but most of you regardless will not be here day after tomorrow.'

Heck, I want to see this guy. An intelligent american? IS IT POSSIBLE?

How did you guys find this forum?? Does the ADS really work?

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mathedrivein · Post by **mathedrivein** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:48 pm

sledheavy wrote:Oh man he'll blow your mind. I've got 2 copies of his manuscript in fact. The guy's just a crazy old bastard, but he said on my first day of wr at gcc, 'christians feel free to bring your bibles, but most of you regardless will not be here day after tomorrow.'

HAHAHAHAHA. That's my kind of guy. Blunt and to the point. A great, great professor at ASU (and i think he teaches at MCC too) is Keith Crudup. He is SO incredibly knowledgable about tons of different mainstream, historical, and tribal religions it is fascinating. I don't know if he is Christian or what, but he can relate any modern practice or belief to an ancient practice or belief that had the same final goal. Hard to explain his brilliance, but wow. He gives religious behavior a very, very good spin. He even made a fairly strong atheist as myself consider spirituality. Have you read any Mircea Eliade? He was Dr. Crudup's major influence.

mathedrivein · Post by **mathedrivein** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:52 pm

Scrotum wrote:
sledheavy wrote:Oh man he'll blow your mind. I've got 2 copies of his manuscript in fact. The guy's just a crazy old bastard, but he said on my first day of wr at gcc, 'christians feel free to bring your bibles, but most of you regardless will not be here day after tomorrow.'
Heck, I want to see this guy. An intelligent american? IS IT POSSIBLE?

How did you guys find this forum?? Does the ADS really work?

Welcome, Shalom. Salem mali com

Agreed. Intelligent Americans are hard to come by. Hell, intelligent people in general are hard to come by these days. I blame the smart people for not having kids, and the half-retarded hicks for having 12 kids per each of his 5 wives.

I was recommended to this forum when I signed up... so I guess so!

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