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

Hang With Friends

Information

Location: Earth
Members: 807
Latest Activity: 10 hours 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 Ian Mason on March 8, 2013 at 10:49pm: Joan, it's nice to hear that your motor is still running.

I can just about remember having chickens, Mum boiling the washing in the "copper", the zinc bath hanging in the shed outside, lighting fires in the morning. I also thought that vaccinations, with a needle the size if an eight-inch nail, were torture but I'm alive to tell the tale.

I remember that our first TV was a big event (one of the places my Mum cleaned were getting a new one and gave us their old one). Telephone meant walking to a phone box, dialling and putting in coins. And there were two Germanies where people were killed for trying to move from one to the other.

I agree, not the "good old days". I raise my morning-coffe-cup in a toast to progress.

Comment by Ian Mason on March 8, 2013 at 10:27pm: Have a great time, Melinda.

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 8, 2013 at 10:03pm: sk8eycat, I have been having trouble with the top row not showing "Link, Photo, Movies, "T", paperclip, Bold .... I surely do miss them when they are not there. Sometimes, I just don't send something interesting because I don't have those handy tools.

Do I hear myself complaining? YES! Loudly and with a few "sheist kopf" thrown in. I just now realized that in my old days, I had to find a piece of paper, an envelope, stamp, write the thing using a dictionary, put it on the mail box hoping the mailperson would stop that day or go to the post office 4 or 5 blocks away and put it in the slot. Joan, just remember!

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 8, 2013 at 9:55pm: Grinning cat, great list of things from long ago. The young don't understand, but they sure have some interesting changes ahead of them as science marches on with all new kinds of technology.

I'll have to write my own list for my kids so they will learn about one-hole outside toilets, using a pump in the kitchen to get cold water, of taking baths once a week, heating water in a kettle on the stove so the whole family could bathe using the same water, chipping ice from the ice chest, cooking with wood, starting a fire winter mornings, slippers frozen to the floor, chickens raised in the back yard, killing a chicken or two every Sunday and pulling feathers and singeing the skin with newspaper fire, making pillows out of chicken down, using lard for shortening and to butter our toast, listening to Amos 'n' Andy on the radio, going to the movies for a quarter, watching horses pull harvest machines, huge family dinners every single Sunday, growing our own vegetables and fruits, and meats, wailing and pleading on our knees to god with tears running down our cheeks, babies dying from whopping cough, teenagers dying from scarlet fever, the "Poor Farm".

Those were not the good old days. I am so grateful to be alive and see all the wonderful talents in medicine and engineering, and technology. These are the good old days.

I just completed my yearly check up for all my body parts. I have four more years on my pacemaker, my lump on my breast turned out to be nothing, the breast exam didn't hurt one little bit, my teeth all are in my head in the right places, my seeing problems can be solved with corrective lenses and cataract surgery isn't yet indicted.

Now, how could I ask for anything more.

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 8, 2013 at 9:35pm: Melinda, I just got off the phone with my daughter and I described your trip with your family and how much I enjoy learning about all of you and having such fun and interesting things going on together. I hope your trip is full of wonderful events, that you just soak up all the special time building memories for the days when you rock in a chair with your memories, your hair turns white, you teeth turns brown with flat edges , and a few wrinkles cover your face. Laughter, built from good time together, makes growing older so much better.

My daughter and one of my granddaughters joins me on Sunday for "girls day"!

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 8, 2013 at 9:28pm: A few of my favorite physicists on this just released video. Hope you enjoy!

Symphony of Science - Secret of the Stars

Comment by Grinning Cat on March 8, 2013 at 7:50pm: Melinda, I hope you'll have had a wonderful time!!

A bit of humor: 25 things you'll have to explain to your kids one day

including "How sometimes when you called your friends, you'd have to talk to their parents first", and "what this was":

Comment by Patricia on March 8, 2013 at 6:28pm: Good trip Melinda!

Comment by Idaho Spud on March 8, 2013 at 6:09pm: Have fun Melinda.

Comment by booklover on March 8, 2013 at 5:45pm: Bye Everyone! Going on our vacation and I am determined to stay off the Internet during the whole thing. I want to just pay all the attention I can to my family, and soak-up beautiful nature! I will try and get some bird pics for your forum Steph! Everyone have a safe and happy week! Hugs to you all~ Melinda <3