Coenie777

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Hi all, great to be part of the local family.

I am a male working in Johannesburg who turned sceptic around eight years ago. I have ammassed a lot of book in this time and also studied religion and its origins for some time. Just enough to not allow you to make a classical Dawkins argument for the crap you hear at times.

I will try and contribute here as often as possible and will definitely post a few questions of my own.

Cheers

Coenie

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Welcome, hope you will have fun :wink:
Could you please expand a little on this statement?

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Hi Coenie777 and welcome!

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This is for bluegrey’s questions. I have read some 120 books in the past five years on everything from the Historical Jesus to Holographic universes etc etc. What I was trying to say is that I have a nice general idea of what we content with as skeptics and since it is all book knowledge I unfortunately have any specific degree (yet).

I guess the Dawkins bit was that I would have liked to be an expert in one of these fields to the extend that I can defend it the way Richard defends Darwinism. I can talk a bit around these things but cannot offer clear scientific facts at the rate they can.

Hope this make more sense now.

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Thanks. I think most of us here have a lot of ‘book knowledge’ :wink:

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Welcome. As a Joburger, you may be interested in our monthly Sceptics in the Pub meeting, if you are then join the facebook group to get notified of meetings - the next one is on the 2ND of March at Ogilvy’s in Midrand. If anyone wants details of the meeting without using facebook, I will post the details to the Skeptics in the Pub thread also. We are always eager to spend face time with fellow sceptics.

James

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Welcome Coenie, always good to have new blood (though we don’t really have any blood rituals here that I know of, but that is because they wipe your memory after taking it… skeptical? ;D)

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So that is what those flash backs were all about. And my regressive hypnosis sessions will finally start to pay off ;D

Will check out that Facebook link James, sounds like there might be some blood letting happening there…

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Hi Coenie777 and welcome!