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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.

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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

worshipping narcissists (qualiasoup & theramintrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Idaho Spud Jun 3. 1 Reply 4 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

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

Bible Belt Atheist (New York Times)

Started by Loren Miller Apr 19. 0 Replies 2 Likes

The following showed up in my YouTube feed this morning, and I decided to have a look. Turns out, the New York Times has given us a reasonably even-handed look at a good friend of ours, being one Jerry DeWitt, former bible-thumper and now a pretty…Continue

Tags: Bible Belt, atheist, Jerry DeWitt

How would you respond?

Started by Christina Scribner. Last reply by Christina Scribner Apr 10. 5 Replies 3 Likes

So, this morning, I was at my local coffee shop as I am most weekdays between bus runs. I do the editing on my husband's books so I had my laptop with me. My wallpaper is a picture I found online sometime back of a double helix with the word atheist…Continue

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Comment by Loren Miller on November 3, 2016 at 7:01pm: Long as we're posting pretty sunsets:

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 3, 2016 at 6:52pm: Bertold, a stunning view! Fog-in-the-valley time of years. I think it is almost my favorite.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on November 3, 2016 at 1:39pm: Beautiful photo, Bertold. Nice view to have.

Comment by Ian Mason on November 3, 2016 at 1:25pm: Lovely, Bertold. That must be a delight to wake up to.

Comment by Idaho Spud on November 3, 2016 at 11:25am: Beautiful picture Bertold.

Comment by Bertold Brautigan on November 3, 2016 at 10:34am: Yes Chris - from my front deck.

Comment by Plinius on November 3, 2016 at 10:23am: Is that where you live, Bertold? Looks great!

Comment by Bertold Brautigan on November 3, 2016 at 9:48am: Magical morning

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on November 2, 2016 at 10:32pm: A deer-proof cage. Good idea.

Joan, I've been aware of the excess Arctic and Antarctic heat. Thanks for posting about Arctic Un-Winter. The Arctic refreeze pauses are kind of alarming, as if a tipping point has been passed and feedbacks such as releasing latent heat are making noticeable disturbances. I wonder if this is a symptom of a new regime emerging. Just read a paper that models of ramp up to a Blue Ocean Event all showed a negative Arctic Oscillation, which caused meriodional (north-south) winds that bring more heat to the Arctic. We are seeing the planet change.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 2, 2016 at 10:06pm: Oh, if I were a rabbit, I would eat the beans, too. Poor beans! well, at least you do grow them and they look so pretty and delicious in your harvest basket.