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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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'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 4 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 4 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 6 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

Two years of Egypt's Muslilm Brotherhood rule

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner 6 hours ago. 0 Replies 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

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 yesterday. 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 Chris Breman on February 27, 2013 at 5:27am: Then you're lucky, Sk8eycat, Dido prefers to lie purring loudly on my keyboard, while grabbing at my sweater and I'm not allowed to stop scratching his ears...

Comment by sk8eycat on February 27, 2013 at 12:47am: Damn. It's difficult trying to type with a cat on my lap. The previous post is full of typos. Sorry.

Pumpkin will only sit with me when I'm at the keyboard...

Comment by sk8eycat on February 27, 2013 at 12:43am: Got this made up as a poster that was captioned, "GRAMMAR. It's important." IMO it should have been, "PUNCTUATION. It's important." But, I' one of those nerds like the woman who wrote, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, a bestseller that's ONLY about correct punctuation. It's also hilarious. anyway...

Comment by sk8eycat on February 27, 2013 at 12:29am: Silver bullets were supposed to be for killing werewolves. I think. The wooden stake for a vampire has a whiff of Druidism. (I used to have a friend who would tell door-to-door undergodders that she was a Druid. Stopped most of them cold.)

Comment by Chris Breman on February 27, 2013 at 12:14am: No silver bullets, or was that for another beastie?

Comment by Steph S. on February 26, 2013 at 10:24pm: Vampire Hunting Kit - I saw that in a movie about Vampires. They really did used to believe in that stuff.

Thanks sk8eycat.

Hi booklover - so lots of snow there?

Comment by booklover on February 26, 2013 at 7:42pm: Steph, love the cat gif and the Hitchens quote! Glad you have sun! It's snowy and blowy here. We should all get those tee-shirts! :)

Comment by sk8eycat on February 26, 2013 at 6:05pm: A friend just forwarded this to me:

Vampire Hunting Kit.

I did a Google Image Search (because the one Jo sent me was lifted from InYourFaceBook), and there are pages and pages of the things!

Travelers in the 19th century would purchase ‘vampire hunting kits’ in preparation for their travels to Eastern Europe. The kits would contain a wooden stake, Bible, crucifix, pistol with lead bullets, gunpowder, garlic and glass vials that held various concoctions to ward off vampires. Interestingly, these kits predated Bram Stoker’s Dracula and other written accounts of vampires, pointing to the strong oral history component of the undead bloodsucker.

Comment by sk8eycat on February 26, 2013 at 5:47pm: Steph, I love "...that's enough." My Pumpkin does the exact opposite; if I stop petting him, he tries to snatch my hand, with claws extended, as if to say, "That's NOT enough!"

Gotta send that gif to all my other cat-fan friends. (I don't know why I can't get any of them to join this group...or even stop by for a visit. 85% of them are atheists.)

Comment by sk8eycat on February 26, 2013 at 5:39pm: To Hitch, wherever you aren't, today people DO have an idea or two about what is going on (cause and effect), and most of them prefer to be in deep denial.