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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.

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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

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Comment by Tony Carroll on May 1, 2013 at 5:47pm: And this is him with his first band, Dare. On the far right. No video, couldn't find one. But a good pic.

Comment by Tony Carroll on May 1, 2013 at 5:26pm: Joan. Here is Brian Cox and D:REAM on TOTP 9Top of the Pops).

Band is so-so, but Brian is rockin' the long hair!

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 1, 2013 at 5:23pm: Sidney M. Gonzalez, I agree wholeheartedly with your statement,

"I do not believe that science alone can give purpose and direction for human life."

There is no quarrel there at all. People find a sense of meaning, purpose and direction many ways. If someone believes some power gives them direction, that is perfectly OK with me. Just don't impose it on me, or judge me by those lights. I am pretty good at rejecting such impositions.

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 1, 2013 at 5:20pm: Melinda, Isn't it fun to be with people you don't have to self-monitor in order to have a good conversation. Good for you.
Please define "hump-day". I have not heard it before.

Comment by Sidney M. Gonzalez on May 1, 2013 at 5:15pm: Thanks Joan for your reply.

I still believe there are things in human life which cannot be weighed and measured by the methods of science, which cannot in fact be wholly grasped or expressed by human reason, though they are not contrary to it.

I do not believe that science alone can give purpose and direction for human life.

I believe that full reality, in relation to which alone direction for human life can be clearly seen, is outside and beyond what our senses can grasp.

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 1, 2013 at 5:11pm: Melinda, Can you imagine, a grown up adult has many options.

1. Follow the teaching of a Bronze Age, desert goat herder;

2. Look at the evidence: 7,113,921,600+ humans alive on the planet and quickly running out of food growing capacity;

3. Consider getting tubes tied and a vasectomy.

Our response to them:

I think it would be perfectly appropriate to hold them accountable for overpopulating the Earth. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Comment by booklover on May 1, 2013 at 5:00pm: The family with 10 young kids, that I was referring to in my earlier post, are born-again xtians.

Comment by booklover on May 1, 2013 at 4:57pm: Cute LOL Cat Steph :) That's so cool you make them!

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 1, 2013 at 3:38pm: Patricia, that is the best video I have seen in a very long time. If lower animals can do it, so can Homo sapiens.

Comment by Joan Denoo on May 1, 2013 at 3:35pm: "Patricia, Brian Cox on his days as a rocker...... http://youtu.be/buL6ATRHFqk?

Thanks Patricia. Oh this is hilarious, "Rock-star physicist" Brian Cox works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, looking for the Higgs Boson, and he can't find a red car in a parking lot at Disney Land. I suppose that story trails him wherever he goes.

Now, can you find any of his music?

I like the idea of music and science being very closely related.