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Welcome to this friendly place with freethinkers who like you recognise that fictional gods and devious religions continue to deceive and control vulnerable people including defenceless children;
----and how tragic and inexcusable it also is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and longer.
Same temperatures here in Portland OR area. Been to STL many times. Love the botanical gardens and art museum.
For what it's worth (not much but I like to tell people), turkeys were domesticated by the Aztecs and transported to Spain by the conquistadores, where they were exported around N. Africal and Europe including Turkey; Turkish farmers raised them then Turkish merchants transported them to England where the English named them for the Turks, then to New England where the Puritains preferred them to the local cousins of the turkey, which they named "wild turkeys" and which, like the native people, were later wiped out by the christian colonists. Happy thanksgiving!
"wondering what the New Year will bring... " Me too. 2010 was a very mixed bag - Dec was pretty good, but from Jan to Nov it mostly sucked. I hope you have a great New Year!
There is a video of the Pope's 'exorcism' caught on film. The man isn't demon possessed, there are likely no 'real' demons. He's just delusional and doesn't want to accept personal responsiblity for his own behavior for his own dysfunctional life.
There is an ad that reads ' Do you support 'traditional' marriage? Vote Now"! .
No, I don't support 'traditional' marriage because there is no such thing. I support heterosexual and same-sex couples marry each other legally , yes. 'Traditional' marriage promoters largely do not believe that heterosexual women are co-equal to their husbands. Their only purpose in 'traditional' marriage is to sexually satisfy their husbands if they can and raise children and do all…
i've got no problem with everyone saying "merry christmas" on christmas day. however, they've turned it into an entire holiday season where it lasts a month or more. in those situations it should be perfectly acceptable to say "happy holidays" or call it a…
I posted the bulk of this on another thread, but wanted to add some context separately.
I finally confronted my faith and embraced the fact of my atheism late last August, 2012. Days after I revealed my "epiphany" to a few friends who knew me from another message board, my sister died from Lou Gehrig's Disease (which pissed her off because she hated catching a disease from someone she never f---ed).
THAT was my sister, understand? She was a beautiful, life-loving, potty-mouthed…
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Welcome to this friendly place with freethinkers who like you recognise that fictional gods and devious religions continue to deceive and control vulnerable people including defenceless children;
----and how tragic and inexcusable it also is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and longer.
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For what it's worth (not much but I like to tell people), turkeys were domesticated by the Aztecs and transported to Spain by the conquistadores, where they were exported around N. Africal and Europe including Turkey; Turkish farmers raised them then Turkish merchants transported them to England where the English named them for the Turks, then to New England where the Puritains preferred them to the local cousins of the turkey, which they named "wild turkeys" and which, like the native people, were later wiped out by the christian colonists. Happy thanksgiving!
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Pope's 'exorcism' caught on film video
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There is a video of the Pope's 'exorcism' caught on film. The man isn't demon possessed, there are likely no 'real' demons. He's just delusional and doesn't want to accept personal responsiblity for his own behavior for his own dysfunctional life.
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Do you support 'traditional' marriage, vot now ad
Posted by Debra Stevenson on May 21, 2013 at 2:28pm 2 Comments 1 Like
There is an ad that reads ' Do you support 'traditional' marriage? Vote Now"! .
No, I don't support 'traditional' marriage because there is no such thing. I support heterosexual and same-sex couples marry each other legally , yes. 'Traditional' marriage promoters largely do not believe that heterosexual women are co-equal to their husbands. Their only purpose in 'traditional' marriage is to sexually satisfy their husbands if they can and raise children and do all…
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/texas-merry-christmas-bill_n_3312786.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
i've got no problem with everyone saying "merry christmas" on christmas day. however, they've turned it into an entire holiday season where it lasts a month or more. in those situations it should be perfectly acceptable to say "happy holidays" or call it a…
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I posted the bulk of this on another thread, but wanted to add some context separately.
I finally confronted my faith and embraced the fact of my atheism late last August, 2012. Days after I revealed my "epiphany" to a few friends who knew me from another message board, my sister died from Lou Gehrig's Disease (which pissed her off because she hated catching a disease from someone she never f---ed).
THAT was my sister, understand? She was a beautiful, life-loving, potty-mouthed…
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