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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.

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Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

Started by Joan Denoo 8 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

Tags: tools, for, living, denial, delusions

Oklahoma Tornado

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. 9 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. 9 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 booklover on January 28, 2013 at 2:23pm

Comment by Loren Miller on January 28, 2013 at 1:48pm: Logical thinking may encourage or discourage you, depending on your own personal bent and capacity for understanding data you're presented with. Theological thinking is MAGICAL THINKING, which can do anything it wants and doesn't answer to fact or reality ... so sure it can be encouraging, as certainly as it can be utterly and absolutely DELUSIONAL.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 28, 2013 at 1:01pm: Tony Carroll, that sign says it all; even if religious people can think, many choose not to. Yes, reasoning requires effort, math takes work, science overwhelms because of the diversity; that is exactly why religion may be necessary to make people feel good, but life involves far more than feelings.

Comment by Idaho Spud on January 28, 2013 at 12:32pm: Tony, that sign, and others like it are incredibly stupid. Almost beyond belief. In fact, I still do have a slight doubt that they are real.

I see quite a few on atheist websites, and they appear to be real, but there is still that lingering thought in the back of my mind that says no one can be that stupid can they?

Comment by booklover on January 28, 2013 at 8:21am: sk8eycat, that is wonderful how you help-out doing what you can!

Tony, that sign does boggle the mind. Do they seriously not know what they are saying? OMS!!!!

Just a dreary Monday here! I do not like January and February!

I hope you all have a great week! ~ Melinda

Comment by Steph S. on January 28, 2013 at 6:38am: Tony that sign does boggle the imagination. That's their problem - religious people cannot and will not think logically.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 28, 2013 at 12:13am: ROFL Thanks Tony Carroll for the bellylaugh. Cute endearing kitty, Steph, but that couch would give me a crick in the back. Who has a couch with wood trim where your butt goes?

Good night, Friends.

Comment by Tony Carroll on January 28, 2013 at 12:03am: No matter how many times I see this, it still boggles the imagination.

Comment by Patricia on January 27, 2013 at 7:46pm: sk8eycat.....this fellow has a lot of train videos on youtube if you want to have a look

Greg Scholl

Comment by sk8eycat on January 27, 2013 at 7:22pm: Steph, thank you forsupporting Alley Cat Allies! I wish I could afford to support ALL the feral cat caretakers and rescue organizations, but I can't. so I do my little monthly bit by typing up the fundraising events calendar for my friend who writes, edits, and publishes The Pet Press.

She started out in 1999 with a print run of 10,000 copies (and 20 pages), and just grew and grew and grew. There is NO other publication in the Los Angeles area like it...it's free (she makes her money from the ads), and it HAS raised people's awareness concerning the need for them to adopt shelter pets instead of buying cute little puppy-mill dogs from pet stores, and the need to have those little sweeties spayed/neutered as soon as possible.

She used to be a writer for "Jeopardy," but she became passionate about the plight of animals in city shelters ...had an idea, and just ran with it.

I'm very proud to be a small part of her mission. (She refers to me as her "Calendar Czarina...)