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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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11 "unanswerable" questions for atheists - answered (Aron Ra)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Jun 6. 1 Reply 3 Likes

If you spend any time around YouTube and have any history of looking at atheist material (or even theist material!), you will inevitably run into: "XX Questions Atheists Can't Answer." These are occasionally followed by: "XX Questions Atheists…Continue

Tags: apologist, answer, questions, unanswerable, Aron Ra

worshipping narcissists (qualiasoup & theramintrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Idaho Spud Jun 3. 1 Reply 4 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

Secular and Reclaimed Winter Holiday Songs

Started by Grinning Cat. Last reply by Grinning Cat May 2. 42 Replies 3 Likes

This is an appropriate day of the year for this subject...What are some of your favorite winter holiday songs?It would be especially good to share powerful new secular lyrics to tunes that have become associated with Christmas.…Continue

Tags: singing, lyrics, reclaimed, reclaiming, HumanLight

appropriating morality (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Joan Denoo May 1. 7 Replies 3 Likes

We've all heard the claim: "Human morality comes from god." And we've all seen for ourselves what Yahweh's "morality" looks like, from condemnations of homosexuality and the treatment of women as chattel to inexplicable sanctions against the eating…Continue

Tags: morality, appropriating, TheraminTrees

Bible Belt Atheist (New York Times)

Started by Loren Miller Apr 19. 0 Replies 2 Likes

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

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Comment by kathy: ky on August 6, 2014 at 8:52pm: Booklover that's a keeper.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 6, 2014 at 5:23pm: Here's a little something to help everyone get over that Wednesday hump. My parents have this album.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 6, 2014 at 4:58pm: Love that meme, Patricia. **I'm stealing it.**

Comment by Grinning Cat on August 6, 2014 at 12:53pm: Thanks, Bertold, for sharing "Why Won't God Heal Amputees". After establishing that the Christian idea of a god who answers substantial prayers is a delusion, it discusses the true, secular basis of goodness and morality.

“The notion that "we are all in this together" is the beginning of everything good about human beings.”

I've been recommending to friends the site's conclusion, a bold humanist call for us people to create a "Heaven on Earth".

Comment by Bertold Brautigan on August 6, 2014 at 9:22am: I like your post, booklover. It reminded me of another nice site:

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

Comment by Randall Smith on August 6, 2014 at 8:10am: It's true tht black dogs abound in a shelter. The people there said so. That's one reason I chose Dot. Another statement of antiestablishmentarianism! Glad you all approve of my choice.

Comment by Loren Miller on August 6, 2014 at 5:41am: Toledo's water problems are pretty much local to that city, but if they can't deal with the fertilizer run-off issue, that problem could become others' as well. For what I hear, they currently have the algae bloom under control, but the issue remains ongoing.

Thanks for your concern, Carl.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 6, 2014 at 2:08am: I hope Napoleon is all right as well. I like him because he's a rebel and a lightning rod for tender emotions. lol

Comment by Plinius on August 6, 2014 at 2:03am: Good you're back Ian, and I like the poem!

Napoleon has disappeared from AN. I hope he's all right.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on August 5, 2014 at 11:52pm: Loren, I hope you aren't in danger of having water problems like they are having in Toledo. They were even testing the water here in Chicago from Lake Michigan as a result.

Hello, Ian. I noticed you've been absent, but you have redeemed yourself with a thought-provoking poem. I hope all is well with you.

Seems we haven't heard from Steph or Napoleon in quite some time. Perhaps they have been active in other groups on Atheist/Nexus, but I haven't seen their names popping up elsewhere.