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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.

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.

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What are your Memorial Day plans?

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 11 hours ago. 1 Reply 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

Girl Recovered After 10 Years Claimed Dead by Psychic

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Lillie 12 hours ago. 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

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Oklahoma Tornado

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Steph S. yesterday. 3 Replies 1 Like

An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue

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'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 May 18. 7 Replies 0 Likes

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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 3, 2013 at 8:43pm: Interesting, Patricia, thanks. This tourist gets an experience for no work, which naturalists have to spend months to get. apparently this particular group of gorillas has learned to trust the tourist camp and its inhabitants.

Comment by booklover on March 3, 2013 at 4:50pm: I think this is hysterical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by sk8eycat on March 3, 2013 at 1:26pm: Joan, I have not thought things through as well as you have, but I do find it difficult to remain silent when I disagree with someone...I want them to understand my point of view on whatever subject we're discussing. It would be nice if I could get them to agree with me, but I just want them to understand how and why I arrived at a particular conclusion.

I get tired of hearing the old saws like"Someone in the church must have hurt you badly," or, "You are angry at god...blah-blah-blah." How can I possibly be angry at something that doesn't exist? I do get angry with people who insist that a Bronze Age book of myths and legends is the perfect guide to life, and want to change our country's laws to coincide with the cruelties in that book.

And as much as I love "Hair," I lose patience with people who believe that the position of the planets and constellations (as seen from Earth) at the time of one's birth have anything to do with reality.

And sometimes, I just like to rant. I'm snorting and growling right now over some "junk science" that's been in the news lately ... blaming feral cats for the decline of the bird population in the US. NObody has actually gone out and counted the number of kills by cats and compared them to climate change, habitat destruction, and other predators.

And there I go again. Sorry. = 8 0

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 3, 2013 at 11:12am: For me, it depends. Is my goal to maintain the friendship or speak my truth. If a response is interest in knowing more, I can engage in a discussion that incudes listening and asserting; if it is aggression, I can aggress; if the other changes the subject, I can change the subject as well.

Now I have choices to make because there are always consequences to an option chosen. If I want to save a relationship, the issue remains in the background and will come up again. If I remain silent, that implies agreement and my point of view remains unsaid ... do I have to remain silent in order to have the friendship? If so, my obligation to speak is more important than the individual. My goal is not convert another human being to my way of thinking. I have absolutely no interest in what a person thinks unless it impacts my life; I am interested in how they think through their issues.

In my 77 years of living, I have not found it beneficial to me or to my values to remain silent. When I think, reason, compare and contrast evidence and draw conclusion, I develop a value. If that value has validity, I stand on that foundation and speak.

Comment by Idaho Spud on March 3, 2013 at 11:10am: Tim Conway was always my favorite. Sometime he got people laughing uncontrollably.

Comment by Idaho Spud on March 3, 2013 at 11:08am: No idea where he's going, but he's makin' good time.

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Comment by booklover on March 3, 2013 at 8:15am

Comment by booklover on March 3, 2013 at 8:14am: GREAT nauture videos! In 1970 I was 3. My Mom was pregnant and asked me what we should name the baby if it was a girl. I said "Carol Burnett!" lol We named her Lisa instead. :)