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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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Researcher finds new evidence of western forest decline

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Donald R Barbera yesterday. 1 Reply 1 Like

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Tags: change, tags, soils, rainfall, decline

Ignorance is Bliss: Why Religious People Seem Happier Than the 'Nones'”.

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by kathy: ky Aug 9. 4 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

If you could rid the world of one thing, what would it be?

Started by Idaho Spud. Last reply by Jonathan Simeone Aug 5. 29 Replies 2 Likes

Today, I heard Seth Andrews talk about the question, "If you could rid the world of one thing, what would it be?" My first thought was religion, but after a few seconds I decided it would be irrational or anti-scientific thinking. That would take…Continue

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The Bourne Again Identity (Mr. Deity)

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

There's a young man, unconscious, found tangled with the bushes which describe the edge of your property, late one evening. Who is he? Where did he come from? These are the questions which confound Ward and Pam as they attempt to deal with a most…Continue

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Where The Buffalo Roam AGAIN - Allan Savory Institute

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Daniel W Jul 31. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Where The Buffalo Roam AGAIN - Allan Savory InstituteI have followed the Justin Rhodes family for many months and each videa is unique. this one is about their adventures in Colorado, and…Continue

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Yasmine Mohammed - Confessions of an Ex-Muslim (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Idaho Spud Jul 7. 6 Replies 3 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

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Comment by sk8eycat on November 24, 2014 at 1:29am: Purrrr-purrrrr-purrrrrr......the sweetest, most relaxing sounds on Earth....cats and the surf. (I spent the first 5 years of my life living next to the ocean in Hermosa Beach. I still have some tapes of the ocean...and seagulls... that I listen to when I need to relax.)

Comment by sk8eycat on November 24, 2014 at 1:22am: Do the guest rooms come with a cat to sleep with? ; > )

Comment by sk8eycat on November 24, 2014 at 1:05am: What a FABulous layout! I always wanted a real model train, NOT one of those 3-rail toy Lionel sets.

Can I come visit, and learn how to run the trains? Please?

PS: Does he have any passenger cars? I used to have a brass engine and tender, plus a custom passenger car with the Holiday On Ice logo painted on the sides. It was a gift from a platonic lover at MAD Magazine....and I had the whole thing on the credenza behind my desk at work. When the new owners fired all of us, they wouldn't let me take the train with me....claimed it was company property. I couldn't afford to sue them...

Broke what was left of my heart (my favorite co-worker was dying of AIDS...that was hard enough to handle.)

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on November 23, 2014 at 2:52pm: Happy Thankshallowistmas to you too, Idaho Spud!

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Comment by Idaho Spud on November 23, 2014 at 2:31pm

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 23, 2014 at 1:32am: Hay Loren, I accidentally ran across a site with snippets of The Newsroom while looking for something else. These are great scenes. Now I am going to have to go find the longer versions; these just tease. Is The Newsroom on this season?

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 22, 2014 at 2:14pm: Patricia, great find! I like the shorter version and it says what the whole book says. Good summary.

Now, let's throw the book out and build a life not based on superstitions. Seems like a great burden lifts from my shoulders. Life is short, it can be hard, there are things that can make it more meaningful and fun.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 22, 2014 at 2:08pm: Scalia reminds me of a short, fat, obnoxious sophomore boy in my highschool who wanted to be noticed. The methods he used were so dreadful, no one wanted him anywhere near them. He would join a table in the cafeteria and others would leave him all by himself. He had a way of intruding where he clearly was not wanted.

Scalia, the misfit, is the nicest thing I can say about that scoundrel.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 22, 2014 at 1:03pm

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 22, 2014 at 12:55pm: Ya, atheists come in all styles and so many of the really bright minds look like some leftover from an earlier degenerate era. The atheist men that dress like Sunday-go-to-meet'n church-men turn me off, too, until I read or listen to what they have to say.

So much for pre-judgement.