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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.

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Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

Started by Joan Denoo 7 hours ago. 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

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Oklahoma Tornado

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. 8 hours ago. 3 Replies 1 Like

An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue

Tags: Oklahoma Tornado 2013

What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S. 8 hours ago. 0 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

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Comment by sk8eycat on September 7, 2012 at 4:57pm: ryan, I think we're all laughing at the pics right now. Great way to start the weekend (I absolutely adore the Atheist Kitten! I wanna cuddle him/her).

As for my own self, I'm re-reading my collection of Anne McCaffrey's godless "Dragonriders" books. I've had it up to here with all the political god-blessing everything in sight. Why can't one person have the backbone to end a speech with something like, "Three Cheers for US!" ????

Srsly.

Comment by ryan leman on September 7, 2012 at 4:34pm: HELLOS EVERYBODY..................... whats happening lol

Comment by Derek Bly on September 7, 2012 at 4:20pm: Patricia, I want one of those to hang from the mirror in my minivan.

Comment by booklover on September 7, 2012 at 4:12pm: Patricia, I love the wait here I have a surprise pic! LOL

Comment by Idaho Spud on September 7, 2012 at 4:03pm: sk8ecat, I like your line about getting the 100 lb bag of buybull manure off your back. I'm going to remember that.

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Comment by booklover on September 7, 2012 at 3:48pm: The kitten is cute, not the praying part. :)

Comment by Derek Bly on September 7, 2012 at 3:28pm: Hi Ruth. I'd say it's been a few years since I became a truly born-again atheist. I clung to a few things, New Thought ideas mostly, and the UUF for awhile. With the New Thought, I followed Religious Science International's Ernest Holmes teachings. Then Unity Church.

Right after the Haiti quake, some folks on a Unity radio show were talking about how negative thoughts brought on by physical hardships of those in Haiti may have caused the quake. I contacted them to talk about plate tectonics. They didn't get. I left. Too much voodoo!

Unitarian Universalism was a welcoming thing. Very open to personal discovery. Rich history. But for sometime I'd been thinking I was using it as a crutch . . . a place to socialize. A few weeks ago the theme for the coming months was determined. The general focus was on what happens after we die.

I'm very confident that I know the answer. Trying to find a comforting spiritual answer just wasn't part of my needs or beliefs. That's when I decided enough was enough.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 7, 2012 at 2:58pm: Thanks, Flying Atheist. Yes, our Hang With community is a great way to be connected no matter where you are.

So, Derek Bly, are you saying that you just became a "born again" atheist this week? I'd be uncomfortable especially with astrology in my social group. Some versions of spirituality completely leave out ghosts, so those wouldn't bother me. Welcome here! We're happy to have you aboard.