The World’s Largest Coalition of Nontheists and Nontheist Communities!

Hang With Friends

Information

Location: Earth
Members: 807
Latest Activity: 7 minutes ago

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

Tags: Aldrich Lloyd Talonding, child singing sensation

Carved shell jewelry

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on Tuesday. 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

View All

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of Hang With Friends to add comments!

Comment by The Flying Atheist on February 24, 2013 at 12:37am

Comment by The Flying Atheist on February 24, 2013 at 12:26am: Joan, that's a really great story. Music is always capable of bringing joy into people's lives. Even if you "had no music talent," as you put it, it sounds like you certainly can appreciate all that music can offer. Thanks for sharing a wonderful family story. I'm sure you treasure your father's instruments.

Comment by sk8eycat on February 24, 2013 at 12:25am: PS: to Grinning Cat, I love the Spy Cat. Neither of mine are agile enough to climb that high anymore (one is 14 and the other is 15), but they still try. They're both sacked out right now. I think I'll follow their example.

G'NITE-ALL! ;>)

Comment by sk8eycat on February 24, 2013 at 12:20am: Oh, wow! I've been meaning to get those books, and I get sidetracked. (I just received a first edition of the original ELOISE by Kay Thompson; it's somewhat battered, but for $0.75 plus S&H, I can't complain.)

Comment by Ian Mason on February 23, 2013 at 11:31pm: Just finished Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Wow! I can thoroughly recommend it to all from age 13 and up.

Onward to the republic of heaven!

Comment by Grinning Cat on February 23, 2013 at 10:34pm: For booklover:

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 23, 2013 at 8:32pm: The Flying Atheist, I bet your niece is eager. The time will come when you and she can have a nice jam session together.
My Dad's name was Jules and when he was in the second grade his class read a book called "Jules the Drake", about a duck who ate everything he could find and the king's men captured him and jailed him. He coughed up a bee that stung the jailer, a ladder that he used to climb over the wall, and several other items I long ago forgot. In any event, his little class mates started calling him Drake, and the name stayed with him even to his tombstone. As a child, they had only radio and chores so the whole family took up music ... Dad played sax and clarinet, an uncle play banjo, an aunt sang, and one played the piano. When he was a young man he started a dance band called "Drake and his Ducklings" and they played all over the inland NW at granges and places like that. Whenever our families got together, there was always a jam session and we little kids joined in as we showed interest. My cousin became a classical pianist; sadly, I had no music talent. When I saw you with your sax I remembered the pre-and post-WWII music they played and it brought sweet memories. I still have Dad's instruments.

Comment by Steph S. on February 23, 2013 at 8:04pm: Of pictures - typing on my iPhone - sorry about the typo

Comment by Steph S. on February 23, 2013 at 8:03pm: Had a fun day viewing the Whooping Cranes - I have a lot if pictures. Driving back tomorrow and then hope to post some pics.