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Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

Personal validation comes from paying attention to one another, giving more than you get. Everyone respects you and themselves, despite our amazing range of personal tastes and interests. They'll tell you they don't agree with an idea or behavior without implying you're a bad person or somehow deficient. It's an "I'm OK, You're OK" kind of fellowship, where nobody tries to make himself look better by picking on somebody else.

Nobody here is into mind games. A discussion started with a loaded guilt-throwing question will be deleted.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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CBS News Treats Uri Geller as Actual ESP Talent?

Started by Loren Miller 17 hours ago. 0 Replies 3 Likes

CBS Sunday Morning is beginning to piss me off. This morning they presented a story on the US governments foray into…Continue

Tags: espionage, fraud, ESP, Uri Geller, Sunday Morning

Is Christianity Persecuted? (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Patricia Aug 10. 7 Replies 3 Likes

Okay, gang ... when is the last time you saw Seth Andrews do an animated video on his YouTube channel? Seems like donkey's years ago, don't it? Well, apparently Jeff Sessions and his "religious liberty task force" got Seth's nelly up enough that…Continue

Tags: religious liberty task force, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Seth Andrews, The Thinking Atheist

worshipping narcissists (qualiasoup & theramintrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Aug 4. 2 Replies 5 Likes

They're all around us: people who perceive the world as revolving around them and will go to considerable lengths to make it so: narcissists. Such beings have been with humanity, I suspect, since humanity emerged from the gene pool. Even worse,…Continue

Tags: narcissist, QualiaSoup, TheraminTrees

11 "unanswerable" questions for atheists - answered (Aron Ra)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Jun 6. 1 Reply 3 Likes

If you spend any time around YouTube and have any history of looking at atheist material (or even theist material!), you will inevitably run into: "XX Questions Atheists Can't Answer." These are occasionally followed by: "XX Questions Atheists…Continue

Tags: apologist, answer, questions, unanswerable, Aron Ra

Secular and Reclaimed Winter Holiday Songs

Started by Grinning Cat. Last reply by Grinning Cat May 2. 42 Replies 3 Likes

This is an appropriate day of the year for this subject...What are some of your favorite winter holiday songs?It would be especially good to share powerful new secular lyrics to tunes that have become associated with Christmas.…Continue

Tags: singing, lyrics, reclaimed, reclaiming, HumanLight

appropriating morality (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Joan Denoo May 1. 7 Replies 3 Likes

We've all heard the claim: "Human morality comes from god." And we've all seen for ourselves what Yahweh's "morality" looks like, from condemnations of homosexuality and the treatment of women as chattel to inexplicable sanctions against the eating…Continue

Tags: morality, appropriating, TheraminTrees

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Comment by sk8eycat on July 13, 2012 at 6:32pm: Ian, I have never had a Devon Cream Tea...now I WANNIT! Gad! Looks...uhhh...s'cuse me...Die-VOON! (pun intended)

Comment by sk8eycat on July 13, 2012 at 6:27pm: Congratulations for your courage! I've been a non-believer for almost 50 years, but I didn't say Jack schidt about it for nearly 25 years. Mostly the subject just never came up, and I had stopped going to church about 10 years before I figured out that all religions were preposterous.

GOOD FOR YOU!

(I wouldn't trust Fakebook as far as I could kick it through the ocean.)

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 13, 2012 at 6:06pm: Hi Destiny. I see you are new to Atheist/Nexus. Welcome!! Your announcement on Facebook felt refreshing, I'm sure. It's times like those when you find out who your true friends and supporters are, and that's a good thing. It makes those relationships stronger and more cherished, which in turn makes life better.

You're in a GREAT group here in Hang With Friends. Some of the nicest (and funniest) people to associate with. I wish we could all meet for a big bash of great pot-luck food and drink. I know it would be a blast.

Happy Friday, everybody!

(**Special shout-out to Sk8eycat: you crack me up.)

Comment by Destiny Tripp on July 13, 2012 at 4:08pm: I'm late! Soo late!
I have always liked the name Melinda! Destiny Tripp is my actual name. An atheist named "Destiny Tripp". A bit ironic, huh? My poor brothers name is Chrstian, also an atheist! Anyone is welcome to find me on fb btw

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on July 13, 2012 at 3:59pm: Sorry, Destiny, I left Facebook a long time ago.

Comment by Destiny Tripp on July 13, 2012 at 3:51pm: Thanx for the friend request! And the words of encouragement! I may be young but I feel old! I JUST gained access to the internet and because of groups like this, I would have felt enough support to come out YEARS ago! This point in my life I just feel like those who matter dont mind, and those who mind DON'T MATTER!

Comment by Destiny Tripp on July 13, 2012 at 3:42pm: Also, I have been trying to share a pic from my phone to booklover. I have here with me 3 adorable, fluffy kittens! Try to just picture them, 2 black and ome grey. =^..^=

Comment by Destiny Tripp on July 13, 2012 at 3:26pm: *took

Comment by Destiny Tripp on July 13, 2012 at 3:25pm: Sorry about the " sloppiness" too, it taked several seconds for me to even see what I am typing! Lol!

Comment by Destiny Tripp on July 13, 2012 at 3:22pm: I posted a video on facebook this morning about tolerance. I also made this my coming out video. I have been an atheist for 13 years and the only people who knew before this video were my immediate family. Even though I talked about atheism, I discussed other groups like lgbt, and muslims. My main message was that no one should feel like they need to be kept in the closet, no matter what minority they find themselves in. I talked about all the misconceptions people had about atheists and provided legitimate evidenc against them. I asked people to share my message. I recieved only two responses and they were amazing, but I am disappointed that everyone else ignored to even acknowledge my pos, except by then posting images on their walls about why they beleive. I posted images as well that made statements like "not all muslims are terrorists", "coexist", marriage is a basic civil right." The only respose or "like" I got was one on how portraying man's mind as some sort of sexual deviant IS it DOES hurt men, and does NOT help a cause. my video in no way " evangitical" it was based on tolerance and my need to speak up as an atheist simply because of this and a beliefe for a secular government that we supposedly already have.i only stated this as a reason for me to "come out". I was still avoided like a plague. I feel that ot was entirely appropriate that the videos title was "my social suicide video; let's take adversity away from diversity! I am glad to still have two real friends on fb. They mean more to me than the other 200 or so! And no, they are not atheists, but they at least dont follow organized religion. I feel better knowing who is really a true friend! Sorry to share so much, but coming out today felt great. Im happy no one has harassed me, yet!