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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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What are your Memorial Day plans?

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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

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Psychics are all BS.Here's an interesting news article.Amanda Berry, a…Continue

Life offers many opportunities for health and flourishing

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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

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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

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Comment by booklover on July 28, 2012 at 1:17pm: LOL!

Comment by booklover on July 28, 2012 at 8:10am: Joan, if they added coffee to that pic it would be my perfect scenario! :)

Comment by Joan Denoo on July 28, 2012 at 2:51am: sk8eycat, photo of Edward Gorey "Books, Cats, Life is Good" didn't come through. Is this the one?

Comment by sk8eycat on July 28, 2012 at 2:24am: The story said the couple had been attending that church fo some time, but were not official members. Still, I'm sure they put their money in the plate every Sunday....

I hope they at least find another church, but even better I would like them to think things through and join FFRF.

As for Chris' comment about "what woman would WANT to be in their parrty?" I have wondered for decades, ever since I realized how anti-female ALL the Abrahamic religions have been for millennia, about women who want to be rabbis, priests, ministers of any kind. If they want to help people, there are all kinds of other public service organizations, plus medicine, etc. that feed, house, clothe, find jobs, and educate the needy...without trying to "save" their non-existant souls.

I wish someone would poll women cleric about why they went into The World's Oldest Profession. (Shaman, Priests, etc., have been around a lot longer than prostitutes. Who do you think decided women's sexual freedom was "wrong"?)

Comment by Steph S. on July 28, 2012 at 12:55am: Tony I saw that article on CNN and was just appalled by that. It saddens me that there are people like that out there.

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.

Comment by Chris Breman on July 28, 2012 at 12:19am: 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!!!