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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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Discussion Forum
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
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
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 Loren Miller on February 25, 2015 at 8:26am -
Happy-Happy, Chris! All the very best of the day to you!
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Comment by kathy: ky on February 25, 2015 at 7:30am -
Chris, happy birthday.
Joan. I enjoy Sk8eycats stories very much too. In fact I envy her the life she has led. She struck out on her own when it was a rare thing for a woman to do. That is a very brave thing. I think I would have liked that life very much.
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Comment by Bertold Brautigan on February 25, 2015 at 6:59am -
Happy birthday, Chris!
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Comment by Plinius on February 25, 2015 at 2:22am
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Sixty-one turns around the sun today, and I still get better at flying now that I am more familiar with the route to follow. Are you ready for another turn?
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Comment by Joan Denoo on February 25, 2015 at 1:19am -
Thanks, Grinning Cat:
“The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?”
― Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist"
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Comment by Joan Denoo on February 24, 2015 at 11:55pm
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Spud, I'm glad the images didn't make you feel insignificant. I know you have seen this video before, but I just want to share it again.
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Comment by Joan Denoo on February 24, 2015 at 11:14pm
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Kathy, I think Felaine knows we all treasure her good sense of humor and ironic viewpoint. I am known as the humorless one in the group and if anyone can make me laugh it is Felaine.
Have you seen any of Felaine's professional skating videos or pictures? She was a remarkably talented professional skater and had many unusual experiences. She doesn't brag, and every once in a while she will tell some incident that boggles my mind, and I think others as well.
One thing I can say about Felaine, she is the most optimistic pessimist I have ever known. She will hate that statement because she hates labels.
Sorry, Felaine. just sayin'.
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Comment by kathy: ky on February 24, 2015 at 10:17pm
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We all perceive things very differently. I took Sk8eycats remark to be a humorous one. Facetious, poking fun at one's self. It's some l do often because I, apparently have, a slightly odd sense of humor.
It causes no end of grief between me and my daughter. She always reads something into my remarks that baffles me.
Perfect example, I was going to give her a key chain l found very funny. It said 'Put your big girl panties on and deal with it'. With an engraving of a large pair of panties. She hated it and gave it back. I didn't know until five years later she thought I was implying she was fat. The thought never crossed my mind. I just thought it was very funny. We do not seem to 'get' each other. Never have. But we're very close and love each other dearly. Speak on a daily basis.
Sorry to have ran on so long.
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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on February 24, 2015 at 9:56pm -
sk8eycat, nobody's worthless. Especially Hang With Friends folk! I don't see that idea as liberating. What about all of the great stuff you've shared with us for so long? That counts.
Anyway, you don't have to "fish" for validation. You're presumed to be worthwhile here.
While I acknowledge that human beings are small in the physical context of the entire universe, that doesn't mean we're insignificant. I take a quantum fluctuation view. Remember experimenter effect. One person viewing a physics experiment makes the difference between a photon taking one path or both paths at once. We make the universe real, by our perceptions and actions, instead of it being in quantum flux.
Anyway, you insult my intelligence by claiming to be boring, since you never bored me.
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Comment by sk8eycat on February 24, 2015 at 9:47pm -
Whoops! I forgot to exit this group.
Joan, My life has been worthless, useless, boring. I am nobody, and I like it that way.
I have nothing else too say.
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