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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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Two years of Egypt's Muslilm Brotherhood rule

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Loren Miller 5 hours ago. 1 Reply 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

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

Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck 9 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 9 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 11 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

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 on Thursday. 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 Joe Meyer on July 2, 2012 at 9:15pm: Sorry to hear about your friend, Judith, sk8eycat.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 2, 2012 at 7:11pm: James, I don't want to scratch a believer. I like to keep my nails clean.

Comment by James M. Martin on July 2, 2012 at 5:54pm: sk8eycat, I just learned from Hitchens's first chapter that his mother was a suicide and that one of my favorite atheist issues, death and dying, and in particular the concept of consciousness, actually was a concern of Lucretius. Atheists say death is not to be feared because one was not conscious before birth, nor will they be conscious afterward. I forget how Lucretius put it, but here is that delightful old Epicurean's devotion to a friend, words I want to be of use to you now: "But still your merit, and as I hope, the joy/ Of our sweet friendship, urge me to any toil." When a friend of mine passes, I also think of Donne, who was both poetically and scientifically right (I am thinking of the implicate order of Bohm) when he likened a clod falling into the ocean as an injury to all one's country. (As you know, it is silly to belabor Donne's Christianity.)

Comment by James M. Martin on July 2, 2012 at 5:41pm: I did not know Ms. Hayes but just went to her website and will be reading her books as soon as I finish Hitch 22.

Comment by James M. Martin on July 2, 2012 at 5:37pm: sk8eycat Scratch a believer and you get an agnostic.

Comment by James M. Martin on July 2, 2012 at 5:35pm: Bassetts stink -- literally -- and tend to have skin tumors in older age. But they are the clowns of the dog species, that is for sure. (Dalmatians are goofy too, but not quite so much.)

Comment by Patricia on July 2, 2012 at 12:59pm: Sad to hear this news sk8eycat.....I enjoyed reading her site very much.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 2, 2012 at 12:46pm: Thanks for Bob Dog, Steph. I needed that! I love Basset hounds...they're so silly.

Does anyone remember this "Bob Dog"?