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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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Two years of Egypt's Muslilm Brotherhood rule

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Loren Miller 7 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 12 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 12 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 14 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 Idaho Spud on December 12, 2012 at 11:23am: Steph, the wrongly assembled cat is funny, and the cat with the knitted had had me laughing much. Thanks.

Comment by Idaho Spud on December 12, 2012 at 11:17am: Sk8eycat, you can run, but you can't hide. God will find you and smack you down for ending a sentence with a proposition :) BTW, may I call you skycat? I have a hard time remembering how to spell sk8eycat.

Comment by Idaho Spud on December 12, 2012 at 11:13am: Steph, the ear boop is cute. Saving it.

Comment by Idaho Spud on December 12, 2012 at 11:11am: I was going to make a comment at 12 noon and 12 minutes and 12 seconds, but I'll probably be at the library at that time. Just thought it would be fun to write 12/12/12 12:12:12

Comment by Idaho Spud on December 12, 2012 at 10:53am: Ian, glad to know I can ignore that rule (I was going to anyway:)

Grinning cat, thanks for the interesting article. I often get technical and nit-picky, but I don't think I'm a pedant (new word for me), as I'm not trying to put anyone down. I just appreciate accuracy and precision. However, I'm far from perfect, so I try not to nit-pick too often and be called a hypocrite :)

That reminds me of a post I responded to on the Peanuts Comic Strip 2 days ago. One guy said he had "winter for a month now", and was corrected by another that said "You’ve had extremely cold weather for a month. You haven’t had ANY Winter yet." It irritated me, so I responded with "Some people may have a need for an official (arbitrary) start of winter, but not me. Winter starts when I say it does. Don’t give a harry rat’s patootie when the arbitrary one starts."

That started me thinking. Is there a practical reason for a set time to start winter?

Comment by Steph S. on December 12, 2012 at 10:30am: Oh noes! It's 12-12-12 the end of the world! And we are still here.

Ha!
They were wrong. No end of the world.

Cool booklover! Love the LOLcat.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Comment by booklover on December 12, 2012 at 9:39am: I forgot to say Happy 12-12-12! This will be the last same number 3-digit date any of us will ever see. The next one will be (30)01-01-01, right? Or am I REALLY bad at math?! lol. If there are any people left on the Earth by then! Only half-joking!!!!

Comment by booklover on December 12, 2012 at 8:01am: Funny LOL Cats Steph! GREAT video Felaine! So beautiful! Glad things are getting taken care of Ian. It should be some relief when all is settled.

Have a good over-the-hump Wednesday.~ Melinda

Comment by Ian Mason on December 12, 2012 at 6:41am: I don't know, Felaine. No-one has ever proposed to me.

Off to England again on Friday. The good news is that the hospital will be transfering my Mum to a care facility for longer-term asessment, giving us (family) time to organise what has to be done in the future: sale of her upstairs flat, power of attorney to my brother etc.