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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.
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bending truth, or "We Can All Be Manipulated" (TheraminTrees)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Compelledunbeliever on Tuesday. 37 Replies 6 Likes
The following is one of TheraminTrees' most thorough-going pieces, wherein he looks at the process and techniques whereby a "religious" organization (which will sound VERY familiar to most of us, once introductions are made!) takes a person who…Continue
Tags: indoctrination, truth, manipulation, TheraminTrees
punishing doubt (TheraminTrees)
Started by Loren Miller Sep 6. 0 Replies 2 Likes
If you are associated with religion and especially a fundamentalist religion, doubt is intolerable. Certainty, however it may be achieved or imposed, becomes a necessary element, especially considering the utter dearth of any form of evidence or…Continue
Tags: religion, TheraminTrees, punish, doubt
Morally Bankrupt Christian Sex Hang-Ups Turned Zika into a Brain Damage Crisis
Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Chris G Sep 5. 11 Replies 0 Likes
Morally Bankrupt Christian Sex Hang-Ups Turned Zika into a Brain Damage CrisisGod may have created the…Continue
We Don't Want Your (Atheist) Money! (The Thinking Atheist)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Idaho Spud Sep 2. 17 Replies 5 Likes
I suppose I've heard stories like this before:Conscientious atheist donates money to worthy cause.Worthy cause initially accepts money.Worthy cause discovers source of donation.Worthy cause rejects donation.Swell, eh? Well Matt Willbourne of…Continue
Tags: American Baptist Churches Association, Murrow Indian Children's Home, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews
The Whole Bible in 30 Seconds (Betty Bowers)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Randy Hatly Sep 2. 3 Replies 3 Likes
Ever decide that you wanted to read the whole bible, cover to cover, only to realize half-way through Deuteronomy that the darn thing is industrial-strength BORING?!? Well, never fear! America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers, has done the Cliff's…Continue
Are You a Patriot? (Betty Bowers)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Chris G Aug 29. 22 Replies 1 Like
You might think that Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, would be stepping outside of her comfort zone in tackling the concept of patriotism. As it turns out, not only does she have a proper handle on the term and its implications, she also…Continue
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Comment by sk8eycat on July 9, 2012 at 10:58am -
@booklover: I would rewrite that joke. Have the woman be a pushy fundie, proselytizing the little "wise little girl," and have the punchline be "How do you know there's a god if you don't know shit?"
Most atheists don't claim to know for certain that there are no gods; we've just never seen or heard of any verifiable evidence that any exist. And it's up to the person making the claim to provide the proof.
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on July 9, 2012 at 10:50am -
Patricia, the smoke drifting to BC Canada is more likely to be from fires in Wyoming and Montana. See the US Wildfire map.
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on July 9, 2012 at 10:24am
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Comment by Steph S. on July 8, 2012 at 6:22pm -
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Comment by sk8eycat on July 8, 2012 at 3:25pm
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Nor does weather.
That's one thing that p*sses me off about The Weather Channel, and many newspaper weather maps; they show the US as an island. And the Weather Channel ignores everything west of the Mississippi River about 75% of the time. (Their headquarters are in Atlanta, I think.)
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Comment by sk8eycat on July 8, 2012 at 3:00pm
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Ew, Patricia. That's appalling; it means the fires are even worse than I understood.
As for The Beautiful Downtown Burbank Pool Picnic...I checked the weather forecast, and it looks like things are going to heat up here in the next week. I think I'm going to have to seal up the house and turn on the A/C pretty soon.
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Comment by Idaho Spud on July 8, 2012 at 12:31pm -
Wish I could come. It would be my first time trying tea since the escape from the Morg. I tried coffee several times and don't care for it unless it's got lots of sugar, cream, and fruit flavor.
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on July 8, 2012 at 10:12am
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Sounds great, Patricia! I'll have my iced tea without sugar, thanks.
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Comment by Steph S. on July 8, 2012 at 2:40am
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That party sounds like fun! I will bring the coffee!
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Comment by sk8eycat on July 8, 2012 at 12:34am
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I wish I could invite everyone to my place...SoCal has also been having unusual weather for this time of year...we haven't needed to turn the A/C on since we had an odd heat wave in February. Overnight temps in the 60s. And we have an old see-ment pond in the back yard. (no diving board, though.) Automatic ice-maker in the fridge, and plenty of tea...in every flavor imaginable.
I'd like to be able to fill the place up with friends, and par-TAY! I need to do something happy-making.
If someone could bring a portable gas grill, a tent, and sleeping bags, y'all are welcome. The Schwan's man will be here Tuesday (I hope!).
Oh. Coffee fans need to bring their own; I never developed a taste for it, so there's not a bean in the house. So sorry. (There IS a StarBox around the corner, but they are hideously expensive. IMO.)
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