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oldhoosier
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 10/10/2008 : 09:54:00
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Hi.
Just thought I'd introduce myself.
I hope I can contribute to the world of skeptics, but I doubt it. 
Oh crap that wasn't a good way to introduce myself, or was it. Hell, I don't know, after all I'm just a retired old guy with nothing better to do for the foreseeable future, if there is one. 
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 09:57:28 [Permalink]
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Welcome.
My girlfriend and her brother are Hoosiers. Very nice folks, quite normal............until Basketball season.  |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 10:01:10 [Permalink]
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Welcome....here are the ground rules:
There are no Gods, Ghosts, or Psychics.
Evolution rules
And we all vote either Democrat or Independent |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
Infinitus est numerus stultorum |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 10:11:25 [Permalink]
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Welcome.
I spent my first 27 years as a hoosier. Most of my family still live in the Anderson-Muncie area, about 33 miles up I-69 from Indianapolis. And I still make 2 visits a year back to Indiana. |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 10:13:54 [Permalink]
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| My paternal grandmother's family is from Hoosieria somewhere. I never learned the language though. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 10:30:10 [Permalink]
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Welcome, oldhoosier!
I have no connection whatsoever to Indiana. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/10/2008 : 11:00:43 [Permalink]
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Great! Excellent! Another treacherous, old codger!
Beware all, our numbers are growing and soon we shall wipe the Earth free of the evil follies of youth & enthusiasm! We shall punish with severity and without mercy all who dare..... Oops, sorry 'bout that. 
Hi Hoo, and welcome! My brother lives in Illinois, which is about as close to Indiana as I can currently get. I have been through it a few times, though, mainly by Harley & Peterbilt.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 11:16:34 [Permalink]
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Well as a Michigander* I think we can both agree, Ohio sucks!
*Not my idea, I'd call us The Awesomes. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 12:13:21 [Permalink]
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Welcome; hope that your stay will be long and enriching!
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 14:23:59 [Permalink]
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Hi and WELCOME to Skeptic Friends Network!
If you have any questions no matter what, just ask. No matter if it regards our existence, or just how to use the forum to its fullest potential... |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
Collateralmurder. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 15:14:44 [Permalink]
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Welcome to the SFN!
We're often a bit rowdy, sometimes obnoxious, but we always love a good argument.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 17:11:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
but we always love a good argument. |
And that's the trick, isn't it? We do love a good argument. However, we really don't like bad arguments. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/10/2008 : 17:37:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Dude
but we always love a good argument. |
And that's the trick, isn't it? We do love a good argument. However, we really don't like bad arguments.
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Speak for yourself; some of us love bad arguments. They are fun to take apart and easy dispose of. And the real beauty of them is that their proponent almost always comes back for more.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2008 : 02:18:36 [Permalink]
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Welcome to SFN, oldhoosier!
I'll also add my specialized welcome to filthy's, as you willy-nilly join the coterie of we retired folks who operate our own caucus here. (One of our caucus rules is that we do not recognize the existence of the so-called Twenty First Century, eight years being insufficient evidence for its alleged existence. We may make up other rules as we go along.)
If you begin as a sharp-minded skeptic, these fora may help you to maintain that functionality, despite your esteemed decrepitude.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/11/2008 02:21:06 |
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