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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.

Nobody here is into mind games. A discussion started with a loaded guilt-throwing question will be deleted.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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Two years of Egypt's Muslilm Brotherhood rule

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Loren Miller 12 hours ago. 1 Reply 0 Likes

This photo essay shows the remarkable benefits of replacing a secular government with a religious one. The fate of Egypt is quite an endorsement for the superior morality of religious rule.I was a bit surprised by the extent to which the temporary…Continue

Tags: Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian quality of life

'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 16 hours ago. 10 Replies 1 Like

Oh no! Crazy ants!!CNN) -- Beware the "crazy…Continue

What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 16 hours ago. 3 Replies 0 Likes

I just wanted to make a fun discussion and see what all of you are doing on Memorial Day.Anyone attending a parade?Anyone honoring vets?Here is an event in Austin that looks very interesting to me.Austin, TXClose Assault 1944 is living history and…Continue

Brutal 4 Minutes for All of Religion Christopher Hitchens

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner 18 hours ago. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Brutal 4 Minutes for All of Religion Christopher HitchensJust think about this for a minute, “three thousand years ago, at the most, it was decided,…Continue

Girl Recovered After 10 Years Claimed Dead by Psychic

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie yesterday. 9 Replies 0 Likes

Psychics are all BS.Here's an interesting news article.Amanda Berry, a…Continue

Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

Started by Joan Denoo on Thursday. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing and our bodies have all kinds of red flags it sends up to tell us something is wrong. Pay attention to those flags, they can save your health and your life. I talked to a lady yesterday who…Continue

Tags: tools, for, living, denial, delusions

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Comment by Kate Henry on May 19, 2011 at 7:06pm: Have to share the front page of the Boston Phoenix I stumbled upon today:

Comment by deepthought42 on May 19, 2011 at 9:56am: Sail Roz, I live in a drinking town with a sailing problem (lol), so I'm jealous. :P

On the upside, I have a day off today! It's a miracle. ;)

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on May 18, 2011 at 7:03pm: ROFL, Larry9. But next time please put your hilarious links in a discussion, so they will be more accessible, and people's responses will "go with" the links instead of being separate bits on the comment wall (where nothing is really connected).

Comment by Lary9 on May 18, 2011 at 3:15pm: Enjoy...courtesy of The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/im-not-one-of-those-love-thy-neigh...

~and wait...there's more...~

http://www.theonion.com/articles/well-that-sunset-sucked,11433/

Comment by Lary9 on May 18, 2011 at 12:58pm: @El Solo Lobo~
Ironically, I too have pretensions of becoming one of the truly great practitioners of doing nothing. We are fortunate because many unnotable Zen masters have laid the non-extraordinary ground work for our avoidance of self-discipline. I've been trying to merge "sofas, sloth and sarcasm" into a new philosophical paradigm with much success over the long, unproductive years of my adult life. So it is with regret that I report, you are not without competition (though I hesitate to use that term since even the sound of it gives me the willies). Good luck. Let me know what you're not doing. I'll do the same.

Comment by Grace Fitzpatrick on May 18, 2011 at 12:04pm: Sail Roz, if I didn't get so sea sick, you're trip sounds absolutely heavenly.

Comment by Tezcatlipoca on May 18, 2011 at 9:22am: I may not comment on this group often, but it's not for lack of interest. Every 500 years I emerge from beneath the mountains to feast on Earth's latest incarnation of boiled egg masala. Last night was one such staccato interruption of my 8,000 year hibernation, and being that I'm all fat and sassy once again, I'm due to go back under the mountain after this here cup of coffee.

Comment by Vanessa Smith on May 18, 2011 at 9:02am: I'm new to being an active participant of an internet community. So used to holding back commenting in other groups due to the herd mentality. I'm happy to be part of a circle where such hang-ups doesn't exist. Where we're free to just...be.

Comment by Sail R's - Roz and Russ Worrall on May 18, 2011 at 3:48am: Thanks for the invite to join. My husband and I are pretty new to social networking via the computer. We don't always have a good connection so our attendance here may be sporadic. As I write this comment, I'm pretty sure most of you are sound asleep.

We live on our sailboat and are cruising around the world. Right now we are in Fiji. We are meeting all types of wonderful people, many of our cruising friends are non-theists. Here in Fiji, about 86% of the population are Christians, the rest Hindus and Muslims.

It's become quite an art, "feeling our way" to non-theistic friendships. It's so much easier when you know you're on a similar wave length. Thanks for the opportunity.

Comment by El Solo Lobo on May 18, 2011 at 12:54am: Let's see if I can do a (semi-) proper intro. I'm 53, a diasbled truck driver with an implanted defibrillator, on disability. Was first a jehovah's Witness as a child, then mainstream Protestant for several years. Been atheist over 20 years. Am on second wife (not at the moment) but third marriage, no kids except for Tucker the Wonder Dog. I work extremely hard at being lazy and am quite proud of my accomplishments in this field. Loathe all sports, would rather watch paint dry or grass grow. Used to call myself (and be) an evangelical gnostic atheist, but when I realized being a religious believer had nothing to do with intelligence level, or looking at evidence or choice, I gave up the evangelical part...especially since it conflicted with my lazy aspects.