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Stephanie liked Cheryl Kerkin's discussion The other side-women and sexual freedom.
Lenore Racey left a comment for Cheryl Kerkin
"Hi Cheryl, sorry to take so long getting back to you. Thanks for accepting my friendship.
Lenore"
Cheryl Kerkin replied to Becoming Other's discussion writing to a friend in the group Atheist Revolution
"How funny you posted a link to 'Gimme Shelter' by the Stones. It's one of my all time favourite songs and I can play it endlessly without getting numb to it!! Thanks, hadn't heard that version.
But I presume it was the message…"
Becoming Other left a comment for Cheryl Kerkin
"Thank you for leaving me a comment. I was having a problem on this forum with trolls. I had to shut down two threads. I wrote to moderators and as them to delete the troll posts but they didn't do it. So this influences…"
Cheryl Kerkin replied to Becoming Other's discussion writing to a friend in the group Atheist Revolution
"BO,
I commend your efforts with individuals who seem almost beyond help.
I say almost because I think other people and conversation can have a powerful effect, for bad, but also for good. I'm not someone who thinks a conversation with a staunch…"
Cheryl Kerkin replied to Apeman Jim's discussion Spill your crush in the group Atheist Singles
"Humans are a visual species, same way others go by smell (although we could cover that another time..). Initially we pick up clues about a person from visual information and it has been said we fall in love with someone's 'style', not…"
Cheryl Kerkin replied to Apeman Jim's discussion Spill your crush in the group Atheist Singles
"Apeman, can I respectfully suggest you put a real photo of yourself on here! The unfortunate implication of your name and avatar is that you're a big hairy neanderthal!
Now, I have reached the age where I've done pretty boys and they…"
Becoming Other replied to Cheryl Kerkin's discussion The other side-women and sexual freedom. in the group Secular Sexuality
"Cheryl,
Yes you do understand what I was getting at about Nature being used as the alternate argument. And yes I see that you also have seen the problems with this.
Yes, if we all hear the arguments that men want more…"
Cheryl Kerkin replied to Cheryl Kerkin's discussion The other side-women and sexual freedom. in the group Secular Sexuality
"Hi B.O. (unfortunate acronym!),
Meant to respond here.
I think you make a very good point. It's true that 'nature' shouldn't be used as an alternative rulebook provider from religion. I have a friend who likes to harp on about…"
Becoming Other replied to Cheryl Kerkin's discussion The other side-women and sexual freedom. in the group Secular Sexuality
"Hello Cheryl,
I'm still fairly new to Atheist Nexus, but I did find your post and it does deal with a subject which is of interest to me. I also don't put much stock in the ways that differences between men and women are…"
Cheryl Kerkin commented on Darren Taggart's blog post When the philosophy undergraduates discover god...
"I'll just add that the juddering thump down to earth does enable a great sense of humour. I find. Among all of us."
Cheryl Kerkin commented on Darren Taggart's blog post When the philosophy undergraduates discover god...
"Sure.
Europe is secular out of cultural habit right now. Perhaps not least because in Britain (and some other European countries) our period of 'empire' is over but still within objective view. We are painfully learning our place in the…"
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- Creative, lefty liberal bohemian type who is also staggeringly individual! Of course! Doesn't like being told what to do but in most other contexts is well mannered and can feign obedience. My favourite aphrodisiac is intelligence. Well it's nice to put in something from left field.
Began my turn from religion at 8. By 12 I was struggling to find a way to rebel against Bible class. Which was when I knew where I stood. I haven't moved since. Also something of a childhood feminist, throwing my hymn book down onto the floor at Sunday school (again about 8), saying in a loud voice "All these songs are about men!". I was reprimanded in front of everyone for abusing my hymn book.
So to sum up, I can see very clearly that fundamentalist religions are about dividing men from women and asserting one gender as transcendent and superior to the other which is symbolically tied to the earth and nature by biology. Religion sees the body, the earthly and the material as unclean, in need of control, and our wonderful senses as doorways to 'sin'. The only people who can then possibly transcend the realm of dirt and death therefore have to be men.
The moment you drop belief in transcendence all of the above becomes foul and dangerous nonsense which deforms us all. This is my position. Take me on at your peril!! (I'm really quite sweet underneath!)
Oh, big fan of blasphemy. Definitely want to go there with my artwork. The trouble is Islam though isn't it? I will insist on being an equal opportunities blasphemer...I mean, it's only fair.
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An expedition to Mount Sinai. For research purposes.
I climbed Mount Sinai at New Year 2011 and was very disappointed I didn't receive my own set of tablets. An even more disappointed Nigerian who climbed before me held out his arms at the top and announced his presence to the Lord. Because of course you're a lot closer to Him at the tops of mountains. He doesn't have to stretch as far I suppose
But there's not a lot to do in the desert except become psychotic. This unimpressed Bedouin let me take his picture while the sun rose at the top on Jan.1st 2011. About 6am. Maybe that's god's graffitti next to him. Yeah, that'll be it.
But there's not a lot to do in the desert except become psychotic. This unimpressed Bedouin let me take his picture while the sun rose at the top on Jan.1st 2011. About 6am. Maybe that's god's graffitti next to him. Yeah, that'll be it. Cheryl Kerkin's Photos
Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 12:11pm on September 13, 2011,
Lenore Racey said… Hi Cheryl, sorry to take so long getting back to you. Thanks for accepting my friendship.
Lenore
- At 2:01pm on September 7, 2011,
Becoming Other said… Thank you for leaving me a comment. I was having a problem on this forum with trolls. I had to shut down two threads. I wrote to moderators and as them to delete the troll posts but they didn't do it. So this influences what I am willing to post.
In the broader sense I am fighting most serious battles on the ground. I am fighting for my life. That I might finally prevail, I must keep details concealed.
BO
- At 5:49pm on July 23, 2011,
Glen Rosenberg said… Ok Cheryl,
We are not completely similar. I would not post a photo of myself for any reason imaginable. But that probably shows your good mental health and my bad.
Sleep of reason quote and Shakespeare quote also among my favorites along with Hitch and Ali. She is my heroine also. And I am not big on heros.
- At 11:08pm on July 12, 2011, Glen Rosenberg said…
Reading your posts?
Reading your mind is more like it. Not a sports fan are you? I used a cliche and a sports analogy. Really trite stuff. But is was as foreign to you as an arse is to me.
If a donkey is an ass, a mule is a half-ass!
- At 5:21pm on July 12, 2011, Glen Rosenberg said…
I am incapable of answering.
Cuz I dunno wut yur arsking.
- At 5:17pm on July 11, 2011, Glen Rosenberg said…
- I choose not to run with that even though you lobbed it over the plate.
- At 3:43pm on July 11, 2011, Glen Rosenberg said…
- You had better rethink that arse.
- At 2:14pm on July 11, 2011, Glen Rosenberg said…
Cheryl,
I was talking about the Hitchens post. You have written other things that resonated with me too. And like all dummy asses I think you are smart when your ideation and my ideation coincide.
- At 10:50am on July 11, 2011, Glen Rosenberg said…
Cheryl,
I read your comments in Alices' latest blog. I agree with your thinking.
- At 11:44am on June 25, 2011,
Bwambale Robert said… Cheryl, Thanks for the compliments.
Well, you can support the school project even with a little $ via the Online Paypal account link on the Atheist alliance Website. the link to follow is :
http://www.atheistsinternational.com/activities/38-aai-foundation/274-kuha-school
Yours in free thought,
Bwambale
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