Are You Experienced? Ages 40 and Over

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Comment by TNT666 on November 13, 2011 at 2:31am

Nice article on women ageing, colours, fashion, sporting grey hair, gender politics, etc. I found the picture of female USA senators (scroll almost all the way down) particularly telling, all aging, not a single one daring to show their grey.

How fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race, & pop...

Comment by Rick Nunnelley Jr. on June 4, 2011 at 12:29pm

Thanks Judy. I wish you continued success in finding likeminded people. There is something to be desired about the community of worshiping people, not the worshiping but the sense of human social bonding they can get. I think the biggest draw to churches in my area is the social aspect first and the religious aspect second. I think that is why it is so hard for people to grasp the bigger picture of how religion and politics controls, at least in part, how they live and vote. They cannot see past the personal positive feelings taken from peaceful interactions. The sheepish of the world are very conditioned not to question the broader agendas surrounding their worshipping institutions.     

Stephen. I checked out some of your work. You have a very vivid imagination. I hope Polly is simply a fictional character in a book. I think she must be.

Marc. I was involved in a few conversations on Origins and found it to have too many people that enjoy insulting one another. Perhaps you should stay over there.   

 

Michael. Why did you start a discussion you were not willing to participate in ?  

 

I find it curious, no one really answered the questions   "Do worshipers have an advantage in releasing stress because they have the extra voice in their heads to talk to? Or do most atheists secretly talk to something inside their minds but consider that little voice to be something other than a god?    

 

Rick http://peaceofrock.net/

Comment by Judy Freedman on May 30, 2011 at 7:21am

I never had anything like worship envy, though I have at times envied believing in afterlife or a big sky daddy. What I envy is the instant and enduring core of community the religious have. People who relocate attach themselves to a church and meet lots of people they sort of have something in common with. I always founder looking for community. Mostly I want friends I can enjoy talking with and doing things with and who won't keep babbling about their imaginary friend. The internet is a huge boon because sites dedicated to a particular interest often have sub groups for reality based people. I made a lot of friends on iVillage (which sucks otherwise) because there were women atheists, not people you meet every day. Same with Ravelry, a knitting/crochet site where I'm meeting people to knit with and generally hang out with.

Comment by Stephen Goldin on May 29, 2011 at 7:09pm

I simply invented my own voice to talk to. Her name is Polly, and she's a lot of fun. She even has a sense of humor, which most gods lack, and she cares in a detached sort of way. I even wrote a book about her. She's a god that I, as an atheist, wish existed.

Comment by Marc Draco on May 29, 2011 at 6:45pm

Quiet group, 's all. I'm very active in a single group (Origins) simply because I find a lot of intellectual stimulation there - even if my own posts swing way off-topic. (Not all of them do).

 

As for the voices in my head, I find the the anti-psychotics help; religious people seem to accept these as part of the deal.

 

Right, I think I'll go lick a toad.

Comment by Rick Nunnelley Jr. on May 29, 2011 at 6:40pm

Funny thing about atheist discussion sites, most participants aren't very loyal to the cause. I think that is because atheists are made up of many different walks of life and interests and the topic of non belief simply isn't a great enough topic to be a cause. The only discussions that seem to create lasting interest are the ones that cause disagreements or excessive fact sharing. Disagreements come from those people that (for example) love to argue about how much detail they know about what some famous atheist wrote or said or love to brag about how much stuff they know. Atheists don't have a common book (Bible or Koran) to dribble over and use as a tool to control one another. We atheists are just going through life like everyone else. Kinda boring but then being bored by religious worship is a good thing in my opinion. So with all that said, I offer a topic for discussion.

 

Does anyone out there have worship envy? I for one have a difficult time dealing with stress sometimes because I don't have anything else in my mind other than myself to talk to. Do worshipers have an advantage in releasing stress because they have the extra voice in their heads to talk to? Or do most atheists secretly talk to something inside their minds but consider that little voice to be something other than a god? 

 

  

      

Comment by Michael S. Andrews on May 29, 2011 at 5:25pm

Uh....what happened to the people in this group?  NO posts, but one, from 2011?  I'm NOT getting any younger.....

Comment by Rick Nunnelley Jr. on March 1, 2011 at 7:42pm

I am a 48 year old career government worker from Kansas that decided he wasn't too old to follow a musical dream. I dreamt up a conceptual rock album from writing free thinking poems and turned it all into Peace of Rock. See my advertisement on the main page.   http://peaceofrock.net/

Comment by Little Name Atheist on April 15, 2010 at 1:52am

Rock! She did it!

Comment by HotMess on April 14, 2010 at 11:38pm

I'm such a cybertard! I'll try!

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