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 Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:43 pm
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alteregoivy Dathu alteregoivy Hajimemashite! I'm Ivy, and aspiring translator (for Japanese). I'm 24 and live in the US. I was Christian through my teens until I turned 15 and I fell in love... with another girl. Yeah, Southern Baptists aren't too keen on homosexuality. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the Church always said "if every word of the Bible isn't verbatim truth, none of it is." I couldn't figure out why God would condemn any kind of love, and that was sort of the crack in the armor. From that point I started thinking a little more logically, and although I've tried on a lot of different religious hats, I've always stuck with a "secular humanist" attitude. I took a staunch position of agnosticism... until I read The God Delusion. Now I consider myself an Atheist in the "absence of belief" sense. Not that I'm 100% sure there is not a higher power, but I think it's pretty darn unlikely and live my life on that assumption. いいえ、もう卒業しましたよ。自分で日本語能力試験のために勉強しています。合格したら、大学院に行くつもりです。 ところで、私のギルドに見に来ませんか？ xd
xd And this is where I switch back to English: I was in that guild for a while (a few years back), but I left because at the time, I was still in my Japanese classes, and it felt like doing work when I wanted to play.
For some one who studied on their own, you seem pretty comfortable with the language. I have four years under my belt, and it still took me several reads and a little kantango to full translate your sentences (kanji >_<).
Since my full time job has nothing to do with my major (hurray for the economy) I'm horribly out of practice.
Who knows, if I get back into it, I may stop by, and if you want, feel free to start a Jap-Chat thread. I'll try to post every once in a while, or when I feel I can accurately understand what's been posted. sweatdrop |
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:17 pm
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Dathu alteregoivy Dathu alteregoivy Hajimemashite! I'm Ivy, and aspiring translator (for Japanese). I'm 24 and live in the US. I was Christian through my teens until I turned 15 and I fell in love... with another girl. Yeah, Southern Baptists aren't too keen on homosexuality. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the Church always said "if every word of the Bible isn't verbatim truth, none of it is." I couldn't figure out why God would condemn any kind of love, and that was sort of the crack in the armor. From that point I started thinking a little more logically, and although I've tried on a lot of different religious hats, I've always stuck with a "secular humanist" attitude. I took a staunch position of agnosticism... until I read The God Delusion. Now I consider myself an Atheist in the "absence of belief" sense. Not that I'm 100% sure there is not a higher power, but I think it's pretty darn unlikely and live my life on that assumption. いいえ、もう卒業しましたよ。自分で日本語能力試験のために勉強しています。合格したら、大学院に行くつもりです。 ところで、私のギルドに見に来ませんか？ xd
xd And this is where I switch back to English: I was in that guild for a while (a few years back), but I left because at the time, I was still in my Japanese classes, and it felt like doing work when I wanted to play.
For some one who studied on their own, you seem pretty comfortable with the language. I have four years under my belt, and it still took me several reads and a little kantango to full translate your sentences (kanji >_<).
Since my full time job has nothing to do with my major (hurray for the economy) I'm horribly out of practice.
Who knows, if I get back into it, I may stop by, and if you want, feel free to start a Jap-Chat thread. I'll try to post every once in a while, or when I feel I can accurately understand what's been posted. sweatdrop
Haha, I doubt you were in my guild a few years back; I just created it! rofl In our guild, I will nearly always put the English translation of what I'm saying.
I think I may have misled you; I haven't been studying by myself all along. I started out studying in college, but now I'm out of college, I'm trying to continue studying, because I really didn't get the language skills to back up my degree. I need to be truly fluent to get into the Masters program I want to, and I'm not *quite* there yet.
Anyway, hope to see you around. ^_^ |
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:03 am
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:25 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:08 pm
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Hello all! It's great to be here.
You can call me Ness (like the lake monster) or, if you want, you can just say Heaven.
I became an atheist about a year ago - that is, that's when I started thinking that religion didn't make a huge amount of sense. Being a logical person and liking to know why I should believe in things, I thought of reasons why a god would exist, and I really couldn't come up with anything he would do that would affect the world and cause it to behave differently, so...
I talked it over with one of my Catholic friends and she was very concerned. She thought it was an issue of trust or lack of love, and she spent most of the year trying to change my mind. But I kept writing, and I realized there really wasn't a god.
I don't suppose any kind of "evidence" could convince me now of the presence of a deity. For a character based on faith... of which I have none, it would be difficult.
So I'm a solid atheist.
Unfortunately, I haven't told my family because my dad is a fanatic Catholic and my mom converted when she married my dad. Everyone else is also religious, except for my brother who got the strength to tell my father he was atheist.
I hope I haven't been too long-winded.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:05 pm
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tearingXheavenXdown Hello all! It's great to be here. You can call me Ness (like the lake monster) or, if you want, you can just say Heaven. I became an atheist about a year ago - that is, that's when I started thinking that religion didn't make a huge amount of sense. Being a logical person and liking to know why I should believe in things, I thought of reasons why a god would exist, and I really couldn't come up with anything he would do that would affect the world and cause it to behave differently, so... I talked it over with one of my Catholic friends and she was very concerned. She thought it was an issue of trust or lack of love, and she spent most of the year trying to change my mind. But I kept writing, and I realized there really wasn't a god. I don't suppose any kind of "evidence" could convince me now of the presence of a deity. For a character based on faith... of which I have none, it would be difficult. So I'm a solid atheist. Unfortunately, I haven't told my family because my dad is a fanatic Catholic and my mom converted when she married my dad. Everyone else is also religious, except for my brother who got the strength to tell my father he was atheist. I hope I haven't been too long-winded.
welcome! I like your siggy. And why would you like to be called Ness if you don't mind my asking. Anyway I hope you enjoy your time here ^.^
and maybe we can help you tell your dad eventually. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:08 pm
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EATSMEATS tearingXheavenXdown Hello all! It's great to be here. You can call me Ness (like the lake monster) or, if you want, you can just say Heaven. I became an atheist about a year ago - that is, that's when I started thinking that religion didn't make a huge amount of sense. Being a logical person and liking to know why I should believe in things, I thought of reasons why a god would exist, and I really couldn't come up with anything he would do that would affect the world and cause it to behave differently, so... I talked it over with one of my Catholic friends and she was very concerned. She thought it was an issue of trust or lack of love, and she spent most of the year trying to change my mind. But I kept writing, and I realized there really wasn't a god. I don't suppose any kind of "evidence" could convince me now of the presence of a deity. For a character based on faith... of which I have none, it would be difficult. So I'm a solid atheist. Unfortunately, I haven't told my family because my dad is a fanatic Catholic and my mom converted when she married my dad. Everyone else is also religious, except for my brother who got the strength to tell my father he was atheist. I hope I haven't been too long-winded. welcome! I like your siggy. And why would you like to be called Ness if you don't mind my asking. Anyway I hope you enjoy your time here ^.^ and maybe we can help you tell your dad eventually.
smile Thanks.
Ness is actually part of my name, but I'm not supposed to give out too much personal information online, just in case one of you gets all scary and starts stalking me. (Dunno why that would happen, but... Whatever ^.^) So you just get my nickname.
I like these forums, and I wish people would post more. I love debating pirate
I hope someday I can tell him - right now it would be kinda awkward, since he's super-religious and he practically shunned my brother for saying he was atheist. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:40 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:37 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:41 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:08 pm
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