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Liberal Redneck - Climate Change the Game (Trae Crowder)

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

Trae Crowder isn't just about atheism. He has a deep and abiding concern about what's going on with this planet's climate and the all-too-probable catastrophe we face from a fundamental change in weather patterns. That said, Trae is thinking about…Continue

Tags: climate change, Al Gore, Trae Crowder

concealing abuse (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Sep 3. 2 Replies 3 Likes

We think of institutionalized child abuse and for many of us, the natural reaction is to think of the Catholic Church. Certainly, their guilt is beyond question, even as the headlines of the Boston Globe early in 2002 and the more recent news…Continue

Tags: Children of God, Jehovah's Witnesses, David Berg, child abuse, TheraminTrees

Men who challenge men to stop violence

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Grinning Cat Aug 27. 20 Replies 4 Likes

Many men join in the effort to reduce violence against women and children and other men. He speaks of the need to place responsibility on men instead of focusing on women to stop violence. He offers a breath of fresh air, as do so many of the men on…Continue

CBS News Treats Uri Geller as Actual ESP Talent?

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Joan Denoo Aug 25. 1 Reply 5 Likes

CBS Sunday Morning is beginning to piss me off. This morning they presented a story on the US governments foray into…Continue

Tags: espionage, fraud, ESP, Uri Geller, Sunday Morning

Is Christianity Persecuted? (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Patricia Aug 10. 7 Replies 3 Likes

Okay, gang ... when is the last time you saw Seth Andrews do an animated video on his YouTube channel? Seems like donkey's years ago, don't it? Well, apparently Jeff Sessions and his "religious liberty task force" got Seth's nelly up enough that…Continue

Tags: religious liberty task force, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Seth Andrews, The Thinking Atheist

worshipping narcissists (qualiasoup & theramintrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Aug 4. 2 Replies 5 Likes

They're all around us: people who perceive the world as revolving around them and will go to considerable lengths to make it so: narcissists. Such beings have been with humanity, I suspect, since humanity emerged from the gene pool. Even worse,…Continue

Tags: narcissist, QualiaSoup, TheraminTrees

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Comment by Patricia on May 17, 2018 at 2:03am: That is great news.....thanks Joan!!!

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 17, 2018 at 2:02am: Carl, The Flying Atheist, answered my note and he has computer problems, will be repairing or replacing it, and his health "is doing rather well except for getting tired and out of breath fairly easily."

He used someone else's computer to read my message and to respond. He said he doesn't have easy access to one just now.

This is such Splendid News!

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 15, 2018 at 5:19am: "the pope gave birth in public, thus revealing her true gender, and she was subsequently dragged behind a horse for half a league and then stoned to death for her deceit.

~Pope Joan: The Female Pope whose Real Gender was Revealed after she...

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 15, 2018 at 5:10am: I enjoyed Rome because of the memories of historical events as I stood on the spot where they occurred. I stood on the spot where a Pope was slaughtered when discovered to be a mother. Just think of it, Pope Joan lived and worked as a POPE! The officials destroyed her images and references and pretended there was never a woman pope.

Have you ever heard of a woman pope?

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on May 14, 2018 at 11:32pm: Great picture! Thanks, Ian. Nice smile, too.

Comment by Ian Mason on May 13, 2018 at 12:53pm: I also devoured Mad in my schooldays and still have a tattered selection of its paperbacks on my shelf, mostly Don Martin.

Comment by Ian Mason on May 13, 2018 at 12:49pm: I'm an alcoholic, Randall so I don't drink.

I didn't mean to sound so negative about Rome. There are a lot of things wrong but that can be said about many of the world's big cities. If you like history and art it's a great place. The people are kind and friendly for the most part too.

Comment by Bertold Brautigan on May 13, 2018 at 11:52am

Great article on Mad mag.

Mad Magazine's Clout May Have Faded -- But Its Ethos Matters More than Ever Before

The magazine taught its readers to never swallow what they’re served.

[Alternet]

Teaching its adolescent readers that governments lie – and only suckers fall for hucksters – Mad implicitly and explicitly subverted the sunny optimism of the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. Its writers and artists poked fun at everyone and everything that claimed a monopoly on truth and virtue.

Comment by Randall Smith on May 13, 2018 at 7:22am: Ian, your food plate looks very "Italian". A glass of water, not wine??

Rome doesn't sound very appealing to visit. Perhaps I'll scratch it from my bucket list. It was near the bottom anyway.

Comment by Ian Mason on May 12, 2018 at 10:56pm: Home again, replete with history, art and good food.

Joan, the Roman Empire and its Caesars were very violent and oppressive. Even the famous philosopher/emperor Marcus Aurelius saw nothing wrong with slavery and waging war on 'barbarians'. Caracalla was probably one of the worse examples and the edict concerning citizenship was probably because of a need for more men eligible for military service.

Modern Rome seems also to be in decline. Last week a bus exploded and burnt out due to a short circuit, the tenth such incident this year! No-one hurt, thankfully. Also, due to climate change and increased rain, sink-holes appear in some areas at the rate of two per week. The city and its infrastructure is basically run down and no-one seems to be able to reform or remove the sluggish and corrupt bureaucracy.

Finally, me and a pollo alla romana, which is something they can do really well.