Please allow me to introduce myself

[sue]

Hi all,

Thank you to otseng for providing this forum and thank you all for being a part of civil discussions about religion. My name is sue, how do you do?

I was raised Roman Catholic and my father required me to attend church as long as I was a part of his household. When I moved out at the age of 19 I stopped going to chuch, and I let go of whatever tenuous religious beliefs I had at that point.

Joined the US Air Force at the age of 22.

Married at 23.

Divorced at 25.

Have been reading about buddhism for the last 4 years in an attempt to erase some of the mental fallout from my conflict-oriented family and the military.

Now at the age of 34 I'm involved in a software project and there have been a series of strange coincidences that have got me thinking a lot about deistic religions.

This seems like a good place to learn more.

-sue

[McCulloch]

welcome

[otseng]

Welcome to the forum sue.

What kind of software project are you doing? I'm a programmer myself.

What are the strange coincidences that got you thinking more about other religions?

[sue]

What kind of software project are you doing? I'm a programmer myself.

We're converting our core software (fundraising office). I'll be supporting the software and writing reports in Crystal.

What are the strange coincidences that got you thinking more about other religions?

Well, it's a long story. My position is a fairly new one. The project itself has been very difficult because my supervisor doesn't seem to understand how IS is supposed to work, hasn't been leading, and she hasn't been heeding the advice of the project manager.

As for the coincidences, mostly it involves the correct texts falling into my hands at the right times, me saying "God bless you" with reverence to someone who tried to help me (something I normally would NOT say except in the casual post-sneeze sense), and a nearly spiritual relationship with the project manager (who I recently found out was going to be a priest).

I don't know how much of my current interest in religion is simply a subconscious attempt to please the PM, who early on said something about the project being a "matter of faith".

But I have been reading the bible, in any case.

[HughDP]

Hi Sue,

Welcome.

Wow, another Buddhist! Well done for getting the usergroup created; I was too lazy to ask for it myself, but now that it's there I've joined.

Bizarrely I'm a software geek by trade too, although it's been a few years since I've actually coded anything (more management these days). I think I can remember what colour code is though!

Best regards,
Hugh.

[McCulloch]

I'm involved in a software project and there have been a series of strange coincidences that have got me thinking a lot about deistic religions.

Bizarrely I'm a software geek by trade too, although it's been a few years since I've actually coded anything (more management these days). I think I can remember what colour code is though!

I'm a programmer myself.

I'm a programmer too; c#, asp.net, sql and in a previous life Lotus Notes.

Do we need to create a geek usergroup?

[HughDP]

I'm involved in a software project and there have been a series of strange coincidences that have got me thinking a lot about deistic religions.

Bizarrely I'm a software geek by trade too, although it's been a few years since I've actually coded anything (more management these days). I think I can remember what colour code is though!

I'm a programmer myself.

I'm a programmer too; c#, asp.net, sql and in a previous life Lotus Notes.

Do we need to create a geek usergroup?

That's a frightening thought: Buddhist, Agnostic, Geek.

For my own part it was mainly assembler/COBOL/PL1 (mainframe) in the early days, C/C++ in the middle days and PHP/ASP in the latter days.

[McCulloch]

That's a frightening thought: Buddhist, Agnostic, Geek.

Where there is neither Theist nor Atheist, Christian nor non-Christian, Buddhist, Agnostic, believer nor skeptic: but Geek is all, and in all.

[HughDP]

That's a frightening thought: Buddhist, Agnostic, Geek.

Where there is neither Theist nor Atheist, Christian nor non-Christian, Buddhist, Agnostic, believer nor skeptic: but Geek is all, and in all.

In the beginning was the curly bracket.

[sue]

Resistance is futile, but capacitance has potential.