"Living forever is not what it's cracked up to be. I'm not sad, but I do get tired more often. Imagine how sad and tired you would be after a few hundred years of singing praises and hosannas with God. Maybe it wouldn't even take that…"
 |
The World's Largest Coalition of Nontheists and Nontheist Communities!
Hang With Friends
Information
Come on in, pull up a chair!
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.
A comment is a shout-out, which will get lost in a few days, because the comment wall is just a random stack.
Please start a discussion to share stories, photos, and videos. Replies will pop up in your "latest activity" and a conversation can develop from the feelings and thoughts you contributed. Groups are built on discussions.
Discussion Forum
'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.
Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie on Sunday. 8 Replies 1 Like
Oh no! Crazy ants!!CNN) -- Beware the "crazy…Continue
10 Things You Can't Do and Become President
Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Randall Smith on Saturday. 7 Replies 0 Likes
This was a fun article to read.When…Continue
Girl Recovered After 10 Years Claimed Dead by Psychic
Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Steph S. on Saturday. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Psychics are all BS.Here's an interesting news article.Amanda Berry, a…Continue
Brutal 4 Minutes for All of Religion Christopher Hitchens
Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Joan Denoo on Friday. 2 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
Talented young singer
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by booklover May 14. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Aldrich Lloyd Talonding is going to take the world by storm. What do you think? He's singing Dance With My Father Again. Continue
Carved shell jewelry
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner May 13. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Browsing carved shell jewelry by Shinji Nakaba, I came upon this ring.LOL, "Kiss the ring" has a new meaning. They show how it's made.…Continue
Tags: carved shell rings
Comment Wall
Comment
-
Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 4:49pm -
That's true Lillie!
@sk8eycat, that is a scary situation to be in. We are in tornado country here, but there is also a fault-line, but I don't think it would do too much damage in my city.
-
Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 4:29pm -
@booklover and Lille: I live in Southern California...I think most of my (English-speaking) neighbors would get the joke. We know from experience that you can't "stop" it, but wish we could. We're ALL sort of quietly biting our nails knowing "The Big One" is 25 - 50 years overdue. 1994 was bad enough.
-
Comment by Lillie on October 2, 2012 at 3:49pm -
Or they wouldn't know you couldn't stop it. (plate tectonics, that is)
-
Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 1:31pm
-
Love your thought for the day sk8eycat. I'll bet if you put that on a shirt, 3/4 of the people you ran into wouldn't even know what it meant.
-
Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 1:21pm
-
Thought for the day.... (I recently bought a book about Anne McCaffrey, one of my favorite wriers, and there was one photograph of her wearing a sweatshirt with the following)
STOP
PLATE
TECTONICS
-
Comment by Chris Dodds on October 2, 2012 at 9:35am -
From the Victoria's Secret Halloween Collection
-
Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 8:10am
-
Great quotes Tony and Loren. :) Good morning everyone!
-
Comment by Loren Miller on October 2, 2012 at 6:25am -
And in congruence with your quote, Tony:
It is impossible to debate a person who will not handicap himself with a knowledge of the facts.
-- Anon.
-
Comment by Tony Carroll on October 2, 2012 at 6:07am -
-
Comment by Tony Carroll on October 1, 2012 at 8:33pm
-
Fall. My favorite season.
CONNECT WITH ATHEIST NEXUS
Latest Activity
- Top News
- Everything
Dennis Michael Pennington commented on blue pashmina's blog post Not believing in an afterlife does not mean i am a "sad' person."awesome finds Mel! keep em coming!"
Dennis Michael Pennington commented on Wyatt's blog post Theists, Cargo Cults, and Logic"I agree with Two Cult Survivor. The theist already knows that he is correct, and he has the evidence, the Holy Bible - the "word of God." The theist puts it on YOU to show evidence that God is non-existent and he walks around talking to…"
Steph S. commented on Ruth Anthony-Gardner's group Hang With Friends"Summer school starts next week for me."
Pat commented on Randall Smith's blog post The Rednecks are coming, the Rednecks are coming"@blue pashima. The woman being interviewed by Blitzer has a TON of class!
@Randall. I tend to agree about rednecks. Personal bias on my part, but the sound of Country and Western music is, to me, the equivalent of a knife scraping against a…"
© 2013 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: Richard Haynes.
You need to be a member of Hang With Friends to add comments!