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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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Afrodisiacs – African Aphrodisiacs

Started by Joan Denoo 2 hours ago. 0 Replies 0 Likes

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 2 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

Proud Dad is REALLY Proud Now!

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Todd Williams Apr 12. 16 Replies 6 Likes

As some of you may or may not know, my daughter is a television news producer, currently working in Nashville, Tennessee. Her assignment is the morning news, which means she blasts herself up at umpti-ump in the morning to organize and prepare a…Continue

Tags: Emmy, news, television, daughter, dad

attacking ideas (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 4. 1 Reply 4 Likes

Attacking ideas is a considerable portion of what we as atheists do. Why attack ideas? Ideas earn attack when they don't serve people, not just us but those who adopt said ideas, mistakenly thinking that they have value when they don't. Our…Continue

Tags: ideas, Islam, TheraminTrees

bending truth, or "We Can All Be Manipulated" (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 4. 40 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

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Comment by Ian Mason on July 4, 2015 at 10:06am: I remember that song, Felaine. Pleasant and relaxing, just like the title.

Comment by Ian Mason on July 4, 2015 at 10:04am: Something topical for American buddies.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 4, 2015 at 9:40am: My neighborhood has been flooded with bangs and booms for the past week already. People can't even wait until the actual holiday to light their fireworks. And....by the way......fireworks are illegal in Chicago. But it's so prevalent, you would never know it. One only needs to drive across the state border into the state of Indiana to legally buy fireworks. My upstairs neighbors were out in the alley this past Thursday setting off fireworks at 11:00 pm.

Comment by Bertold Brautigan on July 4, 2015 at 9:06am: I agree, Randy. This is my least favorite holiday because the poor dogs get terrified at all the noise. I had to get them sedatives from my vet.

Comment by Randall Smith on July 4, 2015 at 7:11am: 4th of July, Independence Day, although one doesn't hear the latter much. That means fireworks. I'm rather over watching displays-- same ol', same ol'. Guess I'm getting old. And I certainly don't like the noise. Oh well, it's only once a year. And did anybody watch the PBS special on the National Mall (Wash. D.C.)? Very educational.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 3, 2015 at 1:13am: A really good country/rock tune by The Eagles

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=lyrics+take+it+easy+eagles&am...

Enjoy!

Comment by Ian Mason on July 2, 2015 at 11:11pm: That's a stunner, Felaine. What is it celebrating/refering to?

Comment by Bertold Brautigan on July 2, 2015 at 6:00pm: @Sk8ey - No truer words: We may lose or we may win, but we will never be here again.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 2, 2015 at 5:54pm: Oh, is THAT what happened? I thought it was my antique (almost) Dell, or that I owed AT&T U-verse (which I never signed up for....they just decided not to make their less expensive system available in this ares anymore. Like the effing cable companies that charge $75 or more per month for garbage. I'm shopping for an indoor antenna....)

One of my favorite statues (most of my cousins and their grown children live in northern Arizona...as did Aunt Phyllis who I loved as much as my own mother. The details on the wall of the building are ALL trompe l'oeil including the windows and The Eagles

Comment by Loren Miller on July 2, 2015 at 1:59pm: It WAS offline, Chris, issues with the domain license, I suspect. I for one am VERY glad it's back!!!