Introductions

[feelin_blue]

Hi Farmer

Looks like you might be the techy geeky one here then!

Oh I see how you did that now! ( I think!!)

[horsethorn]

living in East Yorkshire.

Hi GM

Didn't realise you were in my neigbourhood! (I'm currently living in the far left of EY)

It would be interesting to find out where in the country (or out of it) other posters are?

ht

[feelin_blue]

Portsmouth (Pompey!)

[trentvoyager]

living in East Yorkshire.

Hi GM

Didn't realise you were in my neigbourhood! (I'm currently living in the far left of EY)

It would be interesting to find out where in the country (or out of it) other posters are?

ht

Nottingham

[ekim]

Hi jakswan
Another ex BBC poster, although not so well established as most others.  I have been retired for many years (or should that be re-tyred).  Have had practical experience with a number of belief systems but do not identify myself with any.  I am inclined towards ignosticism i.e. find it difficult, or not worthwhile, to discuss a 'god' unless it is described first.  Although my childhood was influenced by C of E, I have a preference for some Indian schools of thought and Taoist ideas.

[BashfulAnthony]

Hi everyone (most of whom I'm already familiar with from the BBC CT).

Not sure how much I'll be contributing yet - have to see how I'm fixed once the BBC boards have closed. Feels a bit more user-friendly than NGL at the moment though

I'm a recently married 42 year old web designer/developer/graphic artist/illustrator living in East Yorkshire. I describe myself as an agnostic atheist, which I often find myself explaining to people (usually believers). I don't consider myself to be an anti-theist, but I am a liberal secularist as I believe that to be the best way for believer and non-believer to live together without one group encroaching unfairly on another. I have a particular problem with the non-inclusive and divisive dogma promoted by some religious groups from both the Christian and Islamic quarters.

Cheers - GM 

Gonny, my friend.  I hope you are well.  I closed my account with the BBC  -  I got so frustrated, with the Mods, and certain posters (not Shaky!)  I've been on the NGL Forum for a while, but had a hissy fit there too  -  what it is to be old and grumpy, eh?  Hope to stick around here; it seems very promising, and it's open all hours.  I have to say, I think it's a good thing the BBC Forum is closing.  It was becoming very incestuous and often unpleasant.  We can put the world to rights here!!

[BashfulAnthony]

OOPS!  Sorry GM, I was responding to Gonny and pressed all the wrong things  -  a bit out of practice.

[NicholasMarks]

Hi all....the beeb is all but gone, yet, I have so much left to say. I believe, implicitly, in the...wait for it...'accurate' teaching of Jesus Christ...as he taught it and lived it rather than the ritual methods in use today...which...in my opinion, is more iniquity than truth...never mind...hopefully you will learn much more about this as we go.

[P-E-A-R-L]

Hi everyone, good to see familiar names.

Sporadic poster here from BBC board under different guises.

I'm an agnostic atheist and have been since I was able to think for myself. I'm only a baby compared to the majority of you, at the tender age of 26, so be gentle to my foolhardy mind!

Hopefully I can contribute more to this forum since it's open after working hours!

Cheers.

[Alien]

Are y'oroight, tergather?

Hello everyone. I'm Alan as I was on the Christian Topic Message Board ("what was that?", asks someone on 28th June 2011). I think I had been posting there about 4 years. I am an evangelical Christian from Norfolk, having become a Christian (= got saved) at university. Am happily married with 3 grown up kids. I'm currently (as of June 2011) a third of my way through training to become a Reader in the Church of England.

Thank you so much, Jakswan, for setting up this message board. I had intended to try and get away from posting any more, but I'm still hooked. I'm pleased to "see" so many old faces from the CTMB.

[Grantus Maximus]

Hi Alan

I had intended to try and get away from posting any more, but I'm still hooked.

Welcome to my world... 

GM

[Oak King]

What Ho chaps and chapesses.

Oaky here, your friendly neighbourhood token Wiccan suspecting that he might experience withdrawal symptoms when Aunty Beeb slams the door on the old boards. 

[trentvoyager]

What Ho chaps and chapesses.

Oaky here, your friendly neighbourhood token Wiccan suspecting that he might experience withdrawal symptoms when Aunty Beeb slams the door on the old boards. 

Welcome Oak king - good to see you here.

[Sebastian Toe]

Hi
It's a change to be on a board with all of these fancy bits and bobs!
The hours here are better as well.

I'm over 21, Scottish and a realist.
Which leaves me lots of room for manoeuver!

[Samuel]

at the tender age of 26, so be gentle to my foolhardy mind!

And there I was happy in my assumtion that I was the youngest at 28... oh dear, I forgot that when we assume we make an ass out of u an me.

[Gordon]

Hi
It's a change to be on a board with all of these fancy bits and bobs!
The hours here are better as well.

I'm over 21, Scottish and a realist.
Which leaves me lots of room for manoeuver!

Sebastian

I think there are quite a few of us Scots here now.

Gordon

[King Oberon]

Greetings, i seen this on the BBC boards and decided to join to bring a little magic. 


Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom.  It is as true as sunbeams. Douglas Jerrold

[Diakonos]

Hi all. Just joined from the BBC boards. Only just joined there, mind, so you might not recognise me.

I am an evangelical Christian, and I am an ex-teacher and an ex-civil servant. I'm also, I suppose, ex-middle aged. I studied Theology at university (when not playing rugby and cricket) and have been studying it ever since. Some of you might label me a fundie, though I don't consider myself to be one. I can live with that. My Christian background is Welsh Calvinistic Methodist. I live in Wales, within a mile of where I was born, and in the area where I have lived all but three years of my life.

I hope to be able to follow discussions here and to join in when able but I'll confess ahead of time that I won't be able to be a regular contributor.

Thanks to whoever for setting this up.

D

[Anchorman]

Thanks for this, Jackswan,
I'd better make this official.
I'm another ex-CTMBer, though I've  only been posting a few months.
I take my Christian Faith seriously, but I try not to take the Church - or life - too seriously.
Interests: Sci-fi/Fantasy, Archaeology, Egyptology, History, Folk music, and general fiction.
 ;DJJ

[Fluffy_Pink_Dragon]

Ello all,

FPD straight from the BBC.  Pagan, a lady of a certain age (Old enough to have been in love with Donny Osmond as a girl), and from Surrey.

I maybe able to post a little during the day, but will keep a check after work especially, which was something the Beeb didn't allow.

Looking forward to this fresh start on here.

BB
FPD

[BBC Moderator]

Isn't life grand or not as maybe the question I am what it says BBC MODERATOR 
I have to admit I wind people up with my comments sometimes. Not intentional _ but I am the short fuse on a large stick of dynamite. So let me start with an apology. If I annoy you then I have aplogised before hand. Please refer to these terms and conditions in future disputes.

I am Sorry.

[Sue DeNimh]

Hi everyone. 

I have been a long time reader of the BBC boards but never posted on the religion ones. (Used to on the TV etc).   When I become more comfortable I have a tendency to babble so the strict keep on topic or be deleted and banned attitude of the Beeb made me decide to stop posting on there.  I did enjoy reading my favourite section, The Pagan board, and learned a great deal from the posters there.

So, with that in mind, I hope nobody minds me joining in 

[Sriram]

Hi Everyone,

These boards are good.

My only worry would be that it could stagnate after the initial spurt. I mean to say, after some time, the number of new members coming in could be very less if any at all.... unlike the BBC boards where the general public could always take a peek at any time, lurk around and then join in.

I am not sure how to get around this problem however.

Cheers.

Sriram

 

[Enki]

Hi All,
I am also a refugee from the BBC message boards. Basic details are: I'm an atheist, a birder and too old in body for my own mind!
Regards,
Antithesis

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Hi  Jakswan

I am 51 years old, and I was an RC until I converted to Orthodoxy. I was posting for just under four years on the BBC boards. My favourite board was R&E, although I did post on the others from time to time.

I will have to find myself an avatar!