Hi, I'm Jae.
"Hello Jae."
...and I am an atheist....and I am powerless against the omnipotence of REASON.
I am planning to attend the meeting at the end of January. Not a great deal of detail in the profiles on here, so I suppose I will just have to find out about everyone at the meeting. I look forward to (finally) having some like-minded individuals to socialize with. My work and regrettable lifestyle seems to have kept me pretty isolated for far too long.
I am fairly opinionated. There isn't much anymore that surprises me. Primarily, I know how I feel about nearly everything, and if I don't, I'll say so, and then find out about it. I am in the finishing stages of my current book "Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology" and excited about getting this project out there. It's the result of my recent struggle with my beliefs and the conclusions I reached and why. Ironically, it only took reading the Bible again to gain clarity. That's enough to make anyone an atheist. I probably always have been an atheist-in-waiting, but never allowed my knowledge to gel in that way. Now I have, and I'm anxious to share the experience with others. I will be pitching to the usual publishers of this type of material, but the book will be available through me as a review copies, until it hopefully-gets-published-traditionally. I hope to get some feedback from some of you eventually.
I look forward to the meeting at the end of the month.
Best,
Jae
I am aware of that caveat, yes. However, the flaw for me has always been that one can't very well reside in a fictional place--unless you're a novelist, like me...and those places are ones I create, and they most assuredly aren't any more uncomfortable than I wish them to be.