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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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Bible Belt Atheist (New York Times)

Started by Loren Miller on Thursday. 0 Replies 1 Like

The following showed up in my YouTube feed this morning, and I decided to have a look. Turns out, the New York Times has given us a reasonably even-handed look at a good friend of ours, being one Jerry DeWitt, former bible-thumper and now a pretty…Continue

Tags: Bible Belt, atheist, Jerry DeWitt

How would you respond?

Started by Christina Scribner. Last reply by Christina Scribner Apr 10. 5 Replies 3 Likes

So, this morning, I was at my local coffee shop as I am most weekdays between bus runs. I do the editing on my husband's books so I had my laptop with me. My wallpaper is a picture I found online sometime back of a double helix with the word atheist…Continue

The Fake Christian Busybody Show (Andrew Bradley)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Plinius Apr 9. 1 Reply 3 Likes

It seems as though there was a Gay Pride parade in some town somewhere and a Christian commentator, herein known as The Activist Mommy, apparently got her panties so in a bunch about it that she had to fire up her video camera and record a…Continue

Tags: gay, pride, The Activist Mommy, Andrew Bradley, America's Best Christian

America Held Hostage: Day 436 (MisterDeity)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 9. 1 Reply 3 Likes

Now that Sinclair Broadcasting has stated their position regarding fake news and its threat to our democracy, Mister Deity's Brian Dalton has decided to throw his $0.02 worth in as well ... though I don't quite think his presentation was really what…Continue

Tags: fake news, Deity, Mister, Broadcasting, Sinclair

Guns: Both Sides Now (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Christina Scribner Apr 3. 3 Replies 4 Likes

Oh, NO! The gun debate has gotten so heated that it has Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, TALKING TO HERSELF! Apparently, one of her has had a stroke or a serious breakdown in cognitive skills, as she does little more than parrot the NRA's…Continue

Tags: NRA, guns, America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers

how dogma pollutes discourse (qualiasoup & theramintrees)

Started by Loren Miller Apr 3. 0 Replies 2 Likes

"The Lord is our God; the Lord is One." "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but by Me." "There is no god but Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet." Assertions, taught as fact, but without any form of corroborative…Continue

Tags: dogma, QualiaSoup, TheraminTrees

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Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 17, 2014 at 2:35am: Hi, Chris. Get Smart was a very popular comedy show from the mid-1960's. Max Smart was a bumbling and totally inept U.S. spy who worked for CONTROL (a take off on the FBI.) Each episode featured Smart who was trying to intercept the nefarious plans of KAOS (a take off on the KGB.) Of course, this show aired during the height of the Cold War with Russia. The opening of the show with all the doors and the theme music has become a fairly iconic part of U.S. television history.

Comment by Plinius on August 17, 2014 at 2:07am: ;-s you can imagine where my name came from. It's all right. And you guessed right with the movie; stairs, doors, lift.

Was Get Smart a spy/detective/mission impossible series?

We enjoyed our first day off in months! Wonderful!

Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 16, 2014 at 1:48pm: I just realized I wrote "Christ" instead of "Chris" when posting the Get Smart video. Sorry about that, Chris.

Comment by Idaho Spud on August 16, 2014 at 1:39pm: Felaine and Plinius, you guys have beautiful neighborhoods.

Carl, I used to love Get Smart.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 16, 2014 at 10:17am: Christ, it sounds like getting to your apartment is a bit like this:

Comment by Plinius on August 16, 2014 at 8:12am: No tag or chip, Randall?

Comment by Randall Smith on August 16, 2014 at 7:42am: I live in the flat land part of Indiana, but S. Ind. is hilly.

Felaine, you mentioned Florida insects--don't forget "no see-ums". They bite and cause one to scratch like crazy.

Mindy, Dot ran off while I was working on my 4 acres of prairie grass on the family farm. I was frantic in trying to find her. After 2 hours, I gave up. Checked my phone messages as soon as I got home, and voila, the "dog pound" had her!! Someone called and they came and got her. Whew. I guess after only 2 weeks, she wasn't as attached to me as I thought. But, she stays home, outdoors all day and night here at home. No fence necessary--yet, actually, never.

Comment by Idaho Spud on August 16, 2014 at 7:13am: I like my privacy also. That's why I'm trying to find a place in the country that I can afford (and that's warm).