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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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Yasmine Mohammed - Confessions of an Ex-Muslim (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Idaho Spud Jul 7. 6 Replies 2 Likes

Yasmine Mohammed is not your average ex-Muslim. Not only did she get shut of Islam, she also managed to escape what was at one time the most notorious of radical Islamist organizations: Al Qaeda. She has since documented the story of her apostasy…Continue

Tags: Islam, Al Qaeda, Yasmine Mohammed, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews

Ignorance is Bliss: Why Religious People Seem Happier Than the 'Nones'”.

Started by Joan Denoo Jul 6. 0 Replies 1 Like

“Highly Religious Volunteer More, Lie Less, and Claim to Be Happier”~ Houston Chronicle; “Strongly Religious People are Happier than Non-Religious” ~ Christian Daily."The study determined that 40 percent of highly religious adults—defined as those…Continue

Tags: Nones, happiness, non-religiosity, religiosity, bliss

SEE: Most accurate map of the Great American Eclipse's path of totality to date

Started by Joan Denoo Jul 2. 0 Replies 0 Likes

SEE: Most accurate map of the Great American Eclipse's path of totality to date"The Great…Continue

Tags: of, totality, path, Eclipse's, American

Afrodisiacs – African Aphrodisiacs

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Joan Denoo Jun 26. 4 Replies 1 Like

Am I so old and not know the definition of aphrodisiac, and its historical definition being based on Aphrodite, that her name came from the African drugs that Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used for sexual enhancement? Dhu! Aphrodite, ancient Greek…Continue

Tags: Africa, Lady, Victorian

Degrees of Doubt: The Claims and Credentials of Ravi Zacharias (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Chris May 17. 1 Reply 3 Likes

Anyone here ever run onto an apologist by the name of Ravi Zacharias? I've seen his name dropped multiple times on YouTube as supposedly being THE ONE APOLOGIST that no atheist wants to cross swords with, because of his facility with christian…Continue

Tags: Ravi Zacharias, Steve Baughman, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews

The Most Hated Woman in America (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Gary S Apr 19. 7 Replies 3 Likes

Before Aron Ra and Matt Dillahunty, before Dawkins or Dennett or Harris or even Hitchens, there was Madalyn Murray O'Hair. In the midst of an America where Christianity was being flaunted as a defense against the godless communists of the Soviet…Continue

Tags: Frank Zindler, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews, Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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Comment by Plinius on July 13, 2015 at 10:08am: I thought I'd visit your page and find your blog there - not. I still don't feel very smart today...

Comment by Plinius on July 13, 2015 at 10:03am: I'm glad I'm not alone, Loren!

Comment by Loren Miller on July 13, 2015 at 9:17am: [big grin!] Chris, you couldn't be any odder than I am!

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 13, 2015 at 9:14am: Loren, the link to your blog works fine for me, but it doesn't show up on the A|N main page under "Blog Posts." That's strange.

Comment by Plinius on July 13, 2015 at 9:11am: Perhaps I'm odd, Loren.

Comment by Loren Miller on July 13, 2015 at 9:07am: @ Plinius Hmmm, that's odd. When I click on it, I get my latest blog post, Athletes (and Atheists!) in Action. Why it wouldn't work for you, I have no idea. [grumble - stinking software...!]

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 13, 2015 at 9:06am: BTW, I was wondering what an antique ovary looked like until my sleepy morning eyes re-read your post.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 13, 2015 at 9:03am: Wow, sk8eycat, what a star line-up!

Comment by sk8eycat on July 13, 2015 at 3:37am: orreries,

I've always wanted to see one of these (an antique)..."up close and personal."

And this song always makes me think of an orrery for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGKPHFrHVVY

Comment by Plinius on July 13, 2015 at 12:51am: Loren, the link goes to 11.000 blog posts, and I'm not sure which one you mean...

Joan, my husband works in the national Museum of Education. http://onderwijsmuseum.nl/ It was economised out of Rotterdam some years ago, but they were offered a renovated building in another town, where the museum was reopened last week. Displays are about history of education, starting in the Enlightenment, different sorts of teaching, all the varieties of education, etc. Husband made a big display of unica - artwork made for education, orreries, and other things - there was even a model guillotine for history lessons...