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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 Joan Denoo on December 8, 2014 at 5:12am: I am sorry for your loss, Ian. Peace and comfort to your family.

Comment by Grinning Cat on December 7, 2014 at 9:12pm: Catching up... I'm sorry to hear of your family's loss, Ian!

Comment by sk8eycat on December 7, 2014 at 7:33pm: re: the Marshmallow Test....that last little red-headed girl (who ate her single marshmallow right away) looks and act exactly as my sister did when she was that age....and older.

Still does. But every doctor and therapist I've told about her agrees with me; she has Asperger's. (And I still have scars where she bit me when she was 5 or 6 years old.)

Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 7, 2014 at 6:57pm: Some Sunday evening easy-listening sounds from a fantastic singer from days gone by. I hope you enjoy......

Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 7, 2014 at 10:57am: Randall, I've also seen video footage of the Marshmallow experiment. Like Mindy said, it's interesting to watch the kids faces as they ponder what they should do.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 7, 2014 at 10:52am: Sorry to hear of your family's loss, Ian.

Comment by Randall Smith on December 7, 2014 at 7:40am: Sorry, Ian. Evidently it was the grandfather on your daughter's mother's side?

Speaking of books, I just finished The Marshmallow Test, which goes into detail about the evidence that kids postponing the gratification of eating one marshmallow immediately by waiting for two of them later gives an indication of self control later in life, which leads to bigger and better things. It's really a "no duh" socialogy thing, but it's now substantiated. (There's much more to the book than that.)

Comment by Plinius on December 7, 2014 at 1:25am: I'm sorry for your loss, Ian.

Comment by Ian Mason on December 7, 2014 at 1:18am: I got the news yesterday that my daughter's Grandfather had died during the night. It was expected and the family had a chance to be with him at the end. Sad, though. He's been a permanent fixture to a greater or lesser degree throughout my 29 years in Denmark.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 6, 2014 at 3:47pm: No, Patricia, I haven't had anything like that show up in my comments. It's obviously a spammer "phishing" around to acquire your e-mail address so that they can send spam to your home computer.

Can we trust no one these days? I just found out that the Nigerian prince who wanted to share his multimillion-dollar wealth with me is just a fraud!!