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| Posted by: I Broke Free Jan 19 2005, 11:29 AM |
| Someone was asking about this question in the Rants Forum, I thought it might be interesting to find out. I started posting in May of 2003. |
| Posted by: The Acid Washed Messiah Jan 19 2005, 11:34 AM |
| I have no recollection whatsoever. If anyone remembers me as TalkingDonkey, let me know when I started posting. I'm think it was either late 2003 or early 2004, but my memory is for shit, so I really don't know. |
| Posted by: Mo Biggsley Jan 19 2005, 11:40 AM | ||
In late Feb 2004 you posted a pic of a large, bloody potato being pulled out of a presumably human butthole (during most people's lunch hour). That was your first post and you haven't topped it yet. |
| Posted by: sexkitten Jan 19 2005, 11:44 AM |
| I started posting in December of 2003. I don't recall what my first post was, though. And I am SO glad I missed Talking Donkey's first post.  |
| Posted by: The Acid Washed Messiah Jan 19 2005, 11:44 AM | ||
Oh yeah! I remember now! Heh... that was fucking hilarious.
Those were the days... |
| Posted by: Diogenes Jan 19 2005, 11:57 AM |
| November, '04 |
| Posted by: Mo Biggsley Jan 19 2005, 11:58 AM |
| I started posting here in Feb of 2004 as Moreover the Dog, got piled on for trying to run off a 12 year old girl who I felt had no biz being here, started a flamewar, committed board suicide, tried to later come back, couldn't because the account was locked, created a new profile named Muggy Knubber, dedicated myself to not pissing off everyone at me (as much), succeeded only in the sense that I rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and changed my name to Mo Biggsley with the start of the new board. |
| Posted by: TexasFreethinker Jan 19 2005, 12:05 PM |
| July or August 2003 |
| Posted by: DoubleDee Jan 19 2005, 12:14 PM |
| I started visiting this site around March of 2004, became a member on May 11th and my first post was on May 23. |
| Posted by: MalaInSe Jan 19 2005, 12:17 PM |
| Late August 2003, I believe. TF, you were already here when I got here. Ren |
| Posted by: phoenix Jan 19 2005, 01:29 PM |
| i have no idea... |
| Posted by: woodsmoke Jan 19 2005, 02:14 PM |
| 10/3/04 for me. ......................................... Okay, so I cheated and looked at the joined-date in my profile.  |
| Posted by: notblindedbytheblight Jan 19 2005, 02:17 PM | ||
You goof...  |
| Posted by: Lizard Jan 19 2005, 02:18 PM |
| Hmm..fall of '03..I think..since the old board is gone..I dunno.. |
| Posted by: spidermonkey Jan 19 2005, 02:35 PM |
| I remember that I signed up in late 2002. I know it took me a while to make my first post, though. |
| Posted by: Ro-bear Jan 19 2005, 03:05 PM |
| I started posting in the Testimonies section in late '03. Hung out with Jevers and Catholic Girl and Tomkins and Dharmadarwin. Finally posted my own testimony and registered in April '04. |
| Posted by: Fyrefly Jan 19 2005, 08:56 PM |
| If I recall correctly, I joined in November 2003. |
| Posted by: SmallStone Jan 19 2005, 09:03 PM |
| Registered May 23rd, 2004 a little after 11pm eastern. I posted my testimony that night I think. |
| Posted by: SmallStone Jan 19 2005, 09:08 PM | ||||
Totally. That's the join date for this board. I'm pretty sure you were on the old board before I was Woodsmoke. |
| Posted by: Fweethawt Jan 19 2005, 09:11 PM |
| My very first post in the forum was on January 24, 2004. I think it was sometime around 4:00 in the morning. Before that, I used to hang out on the front page of the site adding my two cents to the articles posted there. Eventually, I clicked on the words 'Open Forum' and wouldn't you know it, things just haven't been the same since.  I never even knew what an Internet open forum was until that fateful day.  |
| Posted by: Ian Jan 19 2005, 09:12 PM |
| May-June of 2003 |
| Posted by: Biggles7268 Jan 19 2005, 09:47 PM |
| Feb '04 I think. I think it was in the original forgiveness thread but i'm not sure anymore. |
| Posted by: Khan Noonien Singh Jan 19 2005, 09:49 PM |
| May 1, 2004. I posted the "Official Guidelines of Proof" as a first post, but as a guest. I miss that gem. Where the heck did SteveFDL go? |
| Posted by: LloydDobler Jan 19 2005, 10:20 PM |
| I started reading sometime around the middle of 2003 I think, but I had a bunch of stuff going on and I felt guilty for reading it as I was tryign to salvage what was left of my salvation. I read everything on the front page pretty much, then read some of the forums. I remember everyone bashing on this one christian asshole and when he just called everyone haters about 5 people were like 'if you were a christian like Reach nobody would hate you'. I really wanted to join but I knew I would waste tons and tons of time here if I did so I decided not to. I did officially stop going to church in late 2003, firmly told my wife I didn't believe in the bible anymore and I wouldn't be going to church. She said god was calling her to teach bible studies and such and felt like we were going in two opposite directions. That's when she said she could see evil spirits oppressing me. A few months later she told me it was time for us to give up and accept that our marriage was over, and I agreed. We parted ways in June of 04 and I spent the next few months getting my shit together and then remembered the cool community over here. I read for about 2 weeks in the forums and decided there were just so many funny things I wanted to respond to, that I had to join up. Mostly for the sex forum though. That was early sept '04. Shortly after, the new boards went up. I'm hooked. |
| Posted by: aminor7 Jan 20 2005, 02:18 AM |
| Found the site in late 2003 sometime, and started commentine on testimonies in Feb 2004. Didn't register on forums until June 2004. |
| Posted by: Tocis Jan 20 2005, 04:11 AM |
| Found the site via google in Nov 2003, posted my testimony on Nov 6th (IIRC), joined toward the end of '03. |
| Posted by: .:webmaster:. Jan 20 2005, 04:36 AM |
Ummm...  |
| Posted by: Reach Jan 20 2005, 04:55 AM | ||
 Thanks to you, Dave!First post, November 30, 2003... Fond memories, here. I remember that in a 20 day period, Loren, Lokmer, Kitty and I signed on and started posting. My relationships with them and a couple others, specifically, altered my life in major, positive ways and for that, I'm in their debt. Pitchu had been here for about a month. I was a committed Christian at the time, but seeking the truth, whatever the cost. She scared the hell out of me. I knew I'd face her eventually and I did. I survived.  I finally posted a deconversion story on June 1, 2004. I won't name the many others who were already here; most of them are still here. Delightful new members jumped in and breathed fresh air into the community. And so the cycle continues... All I can say is that I fell in love with the people here, and I stayed. Ever grateful, Reach |
| Posted by: Mr. Neil Jan 20 2005, 05:12 AM |
| I remember not when first I began posting. Had to be some time in mid-to-late '03, because I was totally gone for the first half of 2004, and by then I had already established a reputation around here. |
| Posted by: Reach Jan 20 2005, 06:22 AM | ||||||
You signed on and posted as a member on August 4, 2003. I ran into your posts three days later. Your posts kept drawing me back here. Oh, look what I found!
Thought this might ring a bell. I got it from http://exchristian.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=443&hl=when+dr\.+neil+speaks I just couldn't resist. I have to maintain my reputation around here.  |
| Posted by: I Broke Free Jan 20 2005, 07:08 AM | ||
Ouch!! Part of me wants to laugh, and another part of me wants to reach out and reassure you. I am happy you remembered we were here. |
| Posted by: Matthew Jan 20 2005, 10:48 AM | ||
I can't remember when I first began posting here but the funny thing is that I definitely remember when I deconverted. It was precisely a year before Kitty started posting! Matthew |
| Posted by: pitchu Jan 20 2005, 11:59 AM | ||
I hereby officially apologize, Reach. (But I do remember it as a stellar engagement of... er... um... Life Views. )I started out as Satan's Spawn with my first wounded-snarling-beast posts -- beginning on September 19, 2003 -- but from the first I was lucky enough to have, and to count on, TF's unflagging friendship. And dear Sonny-Wood's sunny woodsiness. And IBF's humor and gentleness. And Conster's WTF-do-you-want?! attitude to keep myself in perspective. And Chef's easy/cranky wit. And Zach's intellectual purity. And Doug2's wry genuineness. And words that seemed to be electric visuals from Likeafish. Boy, was I lucky. And still am. Thanks, Dave. |
| Posted by: sexkitten Jan 20 2005, 12:26 PM | ||||
Wow, cool. Happy belated 2nd anniversary of apostasy, Matt. |
| Posted by: Matthew Jan 20 2005, 01:45 PM | ||||||
Thanks Kitty, I realize that I have been an apostate for 2 years going strong. I never thought I would wind up an atheist though. Funny. I once registered as a Deist at the IIDB discussion board and someone predicted that I would become an atheist. Matthew |
| Posted by: Lokmer Jan 20 2005, 01:49 PM |
| My first post here was as an unregistered user on Nov 3 or 4, 2003, entitled "The Central Problem with Atheism," and was a debate thread about eugenics, which I saw as the cheif moral peril of atheism. Likeafish (man, I do miss that guy) promptly walloped me a good one for confusing atheism with a particular flavor of Social Darwinism. I registered on Nov 6, 2003 to post more (because I wanted to be able to search and reference my posts). I still have the registration email. In the month or so after I registered, I met Reach, bumped into Loren (whom I'd later get to know better), played more with Kitty that I was doing at home (in fact, this board gave us the place we needed to end our marriage and start it again on new terms), met and grew very close to Lanakila, and several others....all of whom have made my life incalculably richer and really have filled the vacuum of meaning and connectedness that my apostasy created. My eternal gratitue to you, my dearest friends, and to Dave for his inspired creation and stewardship of this place. -Lokmer |
| Posted by: sexkitten Jan 20 2005, 01:56 PM | ||
I'll drink to that!   |
| Posted by: Yoshi Jan 20 2005, 10:15 PM |
I made my first post here about 2 weeks before Woodsmoke did - I can say that because I showed him the site, and then he became addicted to it  But I've been through at least 4 accounts, kept losing passwords |