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Hello from the Mormon capital, Utah.

Hello everyone. I am the only true atheist I know in real life, and I'm stuck here in Utah where if you aren't Mormon, you aren't anyone. I'm rather tired of being afraid to let people know what I think, so I have been using the internet as a place to release my inner atheist.

I have a blog, http://godlessons.com and I've been writing on it for several months now. I first found it fun, but now I find it necessary since it seems that even in the atheist community there are some ideas that just aren't popular, and I happen to hold several of them. I guess the idea is to get in touch with other people that don't necessarily share the same ideas as I do, but at least like to hear other points of view and discuss them.

Anyway, I hope to meet people that are of similar mind as I am, which I assume this site is all about.

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Permalink Reply by Jezzy on May 2, 2010 at 9:44pm

Heeey Timm! I'm an Atheist in Mormon Capital! I'm in Utah County though. I'll be where you are this fall though for college. :) So I guess you'll know that there is another one out there. In your very own backyard! ...Stalking you... passing by your bedroom window... the shadow on the wall.... the voice in your head... urging you to kill.

I'm kidding. :D
I thought everyone was Mormon but I've found some other vigilante Atheists at my school. They're not incredibly well-versed but they're off to a good start. It happened slowly. Not everyone opens up about it.

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Permalink Reply by Timm Simpkins on May 2, 2010 at 10:59pm

You going to DSC? I did way more partying than studying when I went there. Brings back memories. Even after I stopped going to school, I was constantly over there hiding out in the girl's dorms after curfew. It was surprisingly easy to not get caught, even when they did come search. It's no virgin vault, that's for sure.

Anyway, if you have trouble finding out what's fun for heathens to do here, let me know. I've lived here for 22 years.

As for the rest, besides the fact that stalking your own stalker would be rather interesting, I don't think there's enough room for another voice in my head. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Jezzy on May 3, 2010 at 9:33am

lol. I'm not interested in partying or being violated by men hiding in my dorm, although I won't be in one, thankfully. My parents have a place down there. I'm going because it's cheap. And then I want to transfer.

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Permalink Reply by Timm Simpkins on May 3, 2010 at 11:59am

Wow, you got the totally wrong idea about what I was saying there. lol

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Permalink Reply by Jezzy on May 3, 2010 at 12:30pm

I'm good at that. :D

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Permalink Reply by Timm Simpkins on May 3, 2010 at 2:22pm

No worries. If I found molesting the coeds the thing to do still, I would still be doing it. People going to college this year were just born when I graduated high school. It rather seems like child molestation to me.

Anyway, that's the problem with writing. Often some of the message gets lost when you can't hear inflection or see facial expression.

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Permalink Reply by Lindsey S. on May 2, 2010 at 10:16pm

I'm also an atheist in Momo-land. But I live in Salt Lake, so its a little more bearable than the rest of the state at least :)
I don't think anyone here will flame you for your political opinions as long as your reasoning is better than "because God says so!!"

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Permalink Reply by Jezzy on May 2, 2010 at 10:24pm

"I don't think anyone here will flame you for your political opinions as long as your reasoning is better than 'because God says so!!'"

Meanwhile, I'M in trouble. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Timm Simpkins on May 2, 2010 at 11:04pm

Yeah, the more of a group of people there are in an area, the less people are likely to care. Bigger cities are more diverse as a rule, so they don't tend to get all worried about things as much. Here though, it's like you're a freak show if you let on you don't believe.

There are some that are cool about it, but more aren't than are, so I just mostly keep quiet.