| View Poll Results: What is your religion? | |||
| Roman Catholic |    | 11 | 14.67% |
| Protestant |    | 8 | 10.67% |
| Other Christian |    | 4 | 5.33% |
| Sunni Muslim |    | 7 | 9.33% |
| Shiite Muslim |    | 0 | 0% |
| Jewish |    | 2 | 2.67% |
| Hindu | | 2 | 2.67% |
| Other religion | | 9 | 12.00% |
| Agnostic | | 15 | 20.00% |
| Atheist / no religion | | 17 | 22.67% |
| Voters: 75. You may not vote on this poll | |||
Ponderous Intellect
Posts: 4,080 
Location: The Netherlands
Location: The Netherlands
September 30th, 2004, 04:15 PM
Now THAT was a quick reply! Hmmm thinking of it, I can call myself Agnostic too. However, I do feel like I have a certain bond with the Roman Catholic Church (though I'm not religious and never go to church), so ...
Now THAT was a quick reply! Hmmm thinking of it, I can call myself Agnostic too. However, I do feel like I have a certain bond with the Roman Catholic Church (though I'm not religious and never go to church), so ...
Ponderous Intellect
Posts: 4,080
Location: The Netherlands
Location: The Netherlands
September 30th, 2004, 04:38 PM
That always fascinates me from people from immigrant countries like Canada and the US: their ancestors. For what I know, I'm Dutch all through at least the last two centuries (probably longer); while you, and probably a lot of others, have ancestors from all those different countries ...
That always fascinates me from people from immigrant countries like Canada and the US: their ancestors. For what I know, I'm Dutch all through at least the last two centuries (probably longer); while you, and probably a lot of others, have ancestors from all those different countries ...
September 30th, 2004, 04:41 PM
My ancestors are actually pretty boring line to follow, Rick.
On one side, I have my mother who is born to English parents in England who were originally go back to Germany (but have withdrawn allegiance to Germany). My father's background is fully German (except for the fact that he had family in both Germanies, DDR & BRD).. still Germany.
I was born on the other side of the ocean but I've been in Canada for most of my life now.
My ancestors are actually pretty boring line to follow, Rick.
On one side, I have my mother who is born to English parents in England who were originally go back to Germany (but have withdrawn allegiance to Germany). My father's background is fully German (except for the fact that he had family in both Germanies, DDR & BRD).. still Germany.
I was born on the other side of the ocean but I've been in Canada for most of my life now.
Ponderous Intellect
Posts: 4,080
Location: The Netherlands
Location: The Netherlands
September 30th, 2004, 04:43 PM
But I can imagine that you have "tasted" a bit from other cultures, not? Or am I mistaken? Not only is my family 100% Dutch, but both my parents and even my grandparents (except one) were all born in the same city...
But I can imagine that you have "tasted" a bit from other cultures, not? Or am I mistaken? Not only is my family 100% Dutch, but both my parents and even my grandparents (except one) were all born in the same city...
September 30th, 2004, 04:46 PM
I've tasted a bit from different cultures.
To be honest, the whole British and German things are very similar. Where I really got a taste of different culture is when I lived in Montréal and got a taste of what it's like for them.
In this part of the country (Toronto), families stick to a lot of what they originally know.. which is why we're a multicultural country. We don't merge with eachother, but we learn a lot about other cultures.
I've tasted a bit from different cultures.
To be honest, the whole British and German things are very similar. Where I really got a taste of different culture is when I lived in Montréal and got a taste of what it's like for them.
In this part of the country (Toronto), families stick to a lot of what they originally know.. which is why we're a multicultural country. We don't merge with eachother, but we learn a lot about other cultures.
Ponderous Intellect
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Location: The Netherlands
Location: The Netherlands
September 30th, 2004, 04:50 PM
And the last thing is what I feel I've missed (doesn't sound that melodramatic ...). Anyway, I'm very interested in other cultures, other people, and it's almost "frustrating" for me to live in an environment were people are well, all share the same heritage (the far majority of people who live here are indigenous Dutch)
And the last thing is what I feel I've missed (doesn't sound that melodramatic ...). Anyway, I'm very interested in other cultures, other people, and it's almost "frustrating" for me to live in an environment were people are well, all share the same heritage (the far majority of people who live here are indigenous Dutch)
Walks on Forum Water
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September 30th, 2004, 04:54 PM
I'm not religious, and am most emphatically not Christian, but I was raised and confirmed an Anglican.
I'm not religious, and am most emphatically not Christian, but I was raised and confirmed an Anglican.
Bright Spark
Posts: 417
Location: Montréal, Canada
Location: Montréal, Canada
September 30th, 2004, 05:23 PM
I was raised as a Catholic but I'm an atheist since a long time. I do not believe in any supreme god who got tired of our stupidity and decided to let us kill each other until the next apocalypse so he can restart it all over for the third time(or was it fourth? can't remember)!!
I was raised as a Catholic but I'm an atheist since a long time. I do not believe in any supreme god who got tired of our stupidity and decided to let us kill each other until the next apocalypse so he can restart it all over for the third time(or was it fourth? can't remember)!!
Knows No Bounds
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Location: 50° 30' N, 104° 38' W
October 1st, 2004, 10:08 AM
According to the geologists, there have been six apocalypses, sort of, if you call major extinction events apocalypses. And I do.
1. 500 million years ago a series of mass extinctions at the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary (the Cambrian-Ordovician extinction events) eliminated many brachiopods and conodonts and severely reduced the number of trilobite species.
2. 440 million years ago at the Ordovician-Silurian transition two Ordovician-Silurian extinction events occurred, probably as the result of a period of glaciation. Marine habitats changed drastically as sea levels decreased, causing the first die-off, then another occurred between 500 thousand and a million years later when sea levels rose rapidly.
3. 365 million years ago in the transition from the Devonian period to the Carboniferous period about 70% of all species were eliminated. This was not a sudden event; evidence suggests that the extinctions took place over a period of some three million years.
4. 252 million years ago, in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, about 95% of all marine species went extinct. This catastrophe was Earth's worst mass extinction, killing 53% of marine families, 84% of marine genera, and an estimated 70% of land species (including plants, insects, and vertebrate animals.)
5. 195 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event eliminated about 20% of all marine families as well as most non-dinosaurian archosaurs, most therapsids, and the last of the large amphibians.
6. 65 million years ago, the one almost everyone's heard about, the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event killed about 50% of all species, including the dinosaurs.
Looks to me like God, if he exists at all (which I strongly doubt) got it badly wrong at least six times, and had to start over.
According to the geologists, there have been six apocalypses, sort of, if you call major extinction events apocalypses. And I do.
1. 500 million years ago a series of mass extinctions at the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary (the Cambrian-Ordovician extinction events) eliminated many brachiopods and conodonts and severely reduced the number of trilobite species.
2. 440 million years ago at the Ordovician-Silurian transition two Ordovician-Silurian extinction events occurred, probably as the result of a period of glaciation. Marine habitats changed drastically as sea levels decreased, causing the first die-off, then another occurred between 500 thousand and a million years later when sea levels rose rapidly.
3. 365 million years ago in the transition from the Devonian period to the Carboniferous period about 70% of all species were eliminated. This was not a sudden event; evidence suggests that the extinctions took place over a period of some three million years.
4. 252 million years ago, in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, about 95% of all marine species went extinct. This catastrophe was Earth's worst mass extinction, killing 53% of marine families, 84% of marine genera, and an estimated 70% of land species (including plants, insects, and vertebrate animals.)
5. 195 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event eliminated about 20% of all marine families as well as most non-dinosaurian archosaurs, most therapsids, and the last of the large amphibians.
6. 65 million years ago, the one almost everyone's heard about, the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event killed about 50% of all species, including the dinosaurs.
Looks to me like God, if he exists at all (which I strongly doubt) got it badly wrong at least six times, and had to start over.
