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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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Surreal, I haz it

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Joan Denoo on Sunday. 95 Replies 11 Likes

Surreal, not just found in art.Continue

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A Powerful Message from an old wise teacher :

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Plinius Sep 28. 8 Replies 1 Like

I received a gift this morning from a virtual friend, Pamela Smith:A Powerful Message from an old wise teacher :" One day an old wise teacher was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. "You have…Continue

Speak English? YOU FIRST! (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Donald R Barbera Sep 27. 5 Replies 4 Likes

Honestly, the title to this piece is badly under-representative of the content. To be far more accurate, what we have here is Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, going on a rant. Before you say it ... Say WHAAAA? Betty Bowers ranting? …Continue

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10 Things About Patriotism (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Plinius Sep 26. 2 Replies 2 Likes

It seems as though lately, Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, is evolving into America's Best Patriot. She has recently been taking some fairly well-aimed shots at a certain Orange Nightmare and his sycophantic hangers-on, regarding the…Continue

Tags: patriotism, Donald Trump, America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers

A Prayer for Our Nation (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Sep 21. 2 Replies 3 Likes

I'm going to keep this one short and sweet. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, has seen what is going on with the current occupant of the Oval Office, and my impression is that she is not at all happy with it. True to her citizenship,…Continue

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Any Babymetal Fans Here?

Started by Bruce Carroll. Last reply by Idaho Spud Sep 12. 5 Replies 0 Likes

Any Babymetal fans here besides me? I have to ask because 1) I really like Babymetal and 2) Babymetal unknowingly played a role in my journey out of religion.For those who are unfamiliar with Babymetal, here is a link to one of their most popular…Continue

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Comment by Ian Mason on January 3, 2015 at 9:49am: Thanks, dear friends. Dep and me are old adversaries and I know that I'll come up again. Your support and kind words help a lot.

Comment by Randall Smith on January 3, 2015 at 7:50am: Usually, there's not much good on the telly, but last night PBS spent an hour honoring Billy Joel with the prestigious Gershwin Award. I love Billy's music! In fact, coincidentally, I just finished a biography on him. Great tribute and quite entertaining (the show).

Comment by Plinius on January 3, 2015 at 1:46am: Take care of yourself, Ian!

I haven't taken care of my back, so I'm back into back excercises; it hurts and I have trouble moving. My own fault, I should have kept up the excercise. And I'm also very glad the holidays are over!

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 3, 2015 at 12:38am: k.h. ky, I am feeling much better, thanks. I have a new appreciation for those who have depressions and the struggle to get back to living again.

My thoughts go with Ian as he fights off the dark.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 3, 2015 at 12:34am: Mindy, I was able to see your cartoons and laughed, twice!

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 3, 2015 at 12:33am: Ian, by all means, do what you feel is right for you. If taking time off from work helps reduce stress, then by all means, do it. Please keep us up-to-date on how you feel. Having a strong sense of belonging to a community, even if it is a virtual one, may help.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 3, 2015 at 12:14am: Tom, perhaps you and I learned the same or similar strategies, be tougher that those who would try to silence us. They eventually get tired and stop their nonsense. If they successfully intimidate us, they win. I have no intention of lettering them do such a thing.

Comment by Ian Mason on January 2, 2015 at 11:15pm: Holiday reading: by coincidence, two books with similar themes but also very different. "Rumpole and the reign of terror" by John Mortimer and "Arthur and George" by Julian Barnes.

Both written about 8 years ago, the "Rumpole" is a protest against British anti-terror laws which make it legal to imprison people without telling them or their legal counsel what they're charged with. Rumpole defends a Pakistani doctor who's been accused by anonymous letter.

The Barne's book is true account of Conan Doyle's efforts to clear the name of an Indian solicitor convicted of maiming animals on the basis of anonymous letters. The real case, in 1904, led to the founding of the Appeal Court.

Both can really be called Kafkaesque as the atmosphere of both does resemble "The Trial".

Comment by Ian Mason on January 2, 2015 at 11:02pm: Well done, Tom.

It does sound like people are feeling on top of things now. That's good to hear.

The weather in Denmark has switched from many minus degrees back to wind and rain. Personally, I don't mind at all after some of the recent winters with frost from November to March.

I've decided to take some time off work sick. I've been close to a depressive episode for some time now and all the usual strategies for warding it off haven't worked so I need to remove the most stressing element from my life. It usually goes against my moral sense to stay home from work but this time it seems like the right thing to do.

Comment by tom sarbeck on January 2, 2015 at 10:14pm: Thanks for the creationism cartoon, booklover.

In this retirement home for veterans, I'm way out of the closet. I might have bullied the xians who know me into keeping quiet; they don't give me any lines I can answer with zingers like that.

Life can be so hard; ho, ho, ho.