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.
Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Jim DePaulo 1 hour ago. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Oh no! Crazy ants!!CNN) -- Beware the "crazy…Continue
Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Randall Smith yesterday. 7 Replies 0 Likes
This was a fun article to read.When…Continue
Started by Steph S.. Last reply by Steph S. yesterday. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Psychics are all BS.Here's an interesting news article.Amanda Berry, a…Continue
Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Joan Denoo yesterday. 2 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
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by booklover on Tuesday. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Aldrich Lloyd Talonding is going to take the world by storm. What do you think? He's singing Dance With My Father Again. Continue
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
Comment
Comment by sk8eycat on July 28, 2012 at 12:26am Tony...I wanted to scream, "What the hell YEAR is this, anyway?" But you already made my point.
To those of us who were already adults in the 1960s, this is shocking and appalling. You'd think that after 50 years these bigots would either have died out, or gotten over themselves, but they must have passed the disease on to their children.
And you're right about the "pastor." He is supposed to lead his sheep in the right direction, not let them intimidate him.
I feel sorry for the couple, and ALL xians should be ashamed.
That is the fantastic´christian love´ - but I cannot get why the couple would WANT to marry in such a loving church...
Here it's the same: the most backward rightwing churches want to go on discriminating even if the law says they shouldn't. One of those churches and the connected (all male) political party lost the right to keep women out of their authority structure this month - but they'll go on being stupid. And I wonder what woman would WANT to be in their party?
Comment by Patricia on July 28, 2012 at 12:17am The self righteous arrogance just keeps climbing, & it's still shocking to me that some americans are still wanting to live in the dark ages!!!!! Some of you guys scare the crap out of me!!!! We have some issues here in Canada, but for some reason I've not seen that severity anywhere here in this day and age.
Good one Sk8ey....my city is full of different native people so we've heard plenty about the residential schools the bloody catholics forced them into. It's all just so damn sick!!!!!
I have to get my barf bucket now before the rage hits!!!!!!!!
Comment by booklover on July 27, 2012 at 11:20pm I TOTALLY agree with you Tony!!! I am speechless as well. The fact that people actually let horrible, horrible, there isn't a bad enough word for them, 'people' lead them wherever they want is scary as hell! It's sick, and scary, and SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED ANYWHERE EVER.
I just watched the opening of the Olympics, and it was so nice, so much solidarity, and then to hear of something like this sickens me. I was feeling so hopeful about mankind. Now I just feel sick.
Comment by Tony Carroll on July 27, 2012 at 11:12pm Okay, calming down now. How these steaming mounds of odiferous, malodorous, reeking, excreted fecal material can call themselves christian, much less human, is beyond my capacity. I mean WTF? In 2012? Really?
And the leader of this flock of shit, acquiesces to save his job? Where is your morality, or is lip service all you are willing to give to racism? All it takes for racism, homophobia, intolerance, prejuidice to flourish is for you to do NOTHING! Obviously, that is what he is good at. There are times when doing the right thing is going to cost. And cost big. This is one of those times. STAND UP!!!
Comment by booklover on July 27, 2012 at 11:09pm Tony, I don't know what 'christians' think 'christian' means. These are obviously just racist assholes.
Comment by Tony Carroll on July 27, 2012 at 10:27pm church-bans-black-couple-wedding.wlbt
I don't Know what to say. Speechless. And these are suppose to be Christians.
Comment by sk8eycat on July 27, 2012 at 9:27pm Ooooh1 I love the cats and the dyslexic (I are wun).
This has been around before, but I think it deserves another viewing in a nasty political year:

Comment by booklover on July 27, 2012 at 1:06pm
Dr. Allan H. Clark replied to Dr. Allan H. Clark's discussion Unforessen consequence of Obamacare
Tom Sarbeck replied to Anthony Jordan's discussion Poll Shows 29% of Americans Believe Armed Revolution May Become Necessary
Dr. Allan H. Clark replied to Anthony Jordan's discussion Poll Shows 29% of Americans Believe Armed Revolution May Become Necessary
Tom Sarbeck replied to Dr. Allan H. Clark's discussion Unforessen consequence of Obamacare
Jim DePaulo replied to Steph S.'s discussion 'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S. in the group Hang With Friends
Dr. Allan H. Clark replied to Dr. Allan H. Clark's discussion Unforessen consequence of Obamacare
Debra Stevenson replied to Debra Stevenson's discussion Humanistic Mormon Bishop's response to Elder's homophobic remark at GC
GOD'aye commented on GOD'aye's blog post THE THAW, CHRISTIAN DRONGO KID CULTURE, ENTER THE WORLDS DUMBEST YOUTH
J. Morr replied to Joan Denoo's discussion Cox, Brian + In Search of Giants (in 15 parts) by Joan Denoo in the group ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN
J. Morr liked Joan Denoo's discussion Cox, Brian + In Search of Giants (in 15 parts) by Joan Denoo
Loren Miller replied to Debra Stevenson's discussion Humanistic Mormon Bishop's response to Elder's homophobic remark at GC© 2013 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: Brother Richard.
You need to be a member of Hang With Friends to add comments!