Yet another new poster

[aawelj]

Hello everyone.

I'm yet another long-time reader signing on and I'm hoping to actually start posting useful contributions. At the moment I'm still trying to find a topic where I can contribute meaningfully and not look a complete fool at the first opportunity.

My username is the first username I was ever given, back at university almost 20 years ago. It still seems to be unusual enough that I can use it as my first-choice username at most websites. It is a mixture of some of the letters from my first and surnames.

Although I am British, I work as a project manager for a telecoms company in Germany. I have previously worked in the UK, Singapore, Switzerland, Australia and (sort-of) the USA. Hopefully this has knocked some experience into me along the way.

I have a young family and consequently often find myself awake at odd times in the night, so hopefully this board will give me something to do when I can't get back to sleep.

See you all about!

[Purple]

Let me be the first to welcome you aboard. Let's see if that ends up being prophetic.

[Thanas]

Welcome.

[Iroscato]

Welcome aww...awal...new guy.
Don't worry about jumping into threads, you should see some of my early posts Hope you enjoy your stay in ol' faithful SDN.

[salm]

Hi and welcome.

[madd0ct0r]

Welcome

[Prannon]

Pleased to welcome you.

[General Zod]

STRIP THE FLESH AND SALT THE WOUND!

[Flagg]

STRIP THE FLESH AND SALT THE WOUND!

If we don't flay, he don't stay.
Welcome. We are dead and this hell.

[Iroscato]

Don't worry about Flagg - he's not the devil...he's practise

[Flagg]

Don't worry about Flagg - he's not the devil...he's practise

The Devil? Please. The single most boring character in all of Abrahamite fiction. Why is the Devil bad? Because he's bad, the end. Frankly, if you read the Christian version of Abrahamism you'll notice that God is the evil one and Lucifer was looking out for humanity, apparently seeing that we could be much more than the advanced, intelligent, but "innocent" mostly fur-less apes (God's lapdogs, basically. We do whatever It says because since It said it we must or must not do it because... It said!). Then "The Serpent" (assumed to be Lucifer, in disguise and unseen by the all powerful, all knowing, and completely Omnipotent "God" (so It allowed Lucifer to bring us fire err, eat fruit from the tree of knowledge giving a big old to the evil that is innocence aka ignorance, or that shit about being all powerful, all knowing, and completely Omnipotent is bullshit. Well, I mean it is all bullshit...)
Then Lucifer actually believed in Job more than God if you actually read a bit more into that horrid tale, as it seems like God doesn't really think Job is a total moron who will take it in the ass from It until bloody, while Lucifer is showing humanity that It is an evil prick who will literally do as much evil as possible to try and prove that Job wasn't truly devout because if you take into account the whole flood, golden calf, and the Binding of Isaac, it seems like It is a very insecure all powerful, all knowing, and completely Omnipotent being, since if It were those 3 things it would already know and there would be no need for testing. God I love how dumb Abrahamism is. They make the bad being aka God (I prefer "It" so no one presumes it's male or female, plus it pisses off fundies ) who does horrible shit through almost the entire Christian version of the bible, while Lucifer, who I would argue led a revolution against It to stop It from constantly inflicting Its horrors upon the Human race and Earth in general, and for Lucifer's troubles he and his followers are cast out of heaven and since whatever It says goes, is this horribly evil being who eats souls.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

[aawelj]

Thanks for all the kind words. And thanks everyone for not pointing out that I buggered up first time out by starting a new thread rather than simply posting in the existing thread for newbies.... ho hum, back to the testing thread....

[dragon]

wellcome