freethinker "pagan" friend...sorry for me being too long, out of touch...by this is to tell you i am alive still...my personal laptop that i just had got a serious problem...thats the reason why...

apology

nsajigwa

Hey! So Alexa, i just saw your post on hyenas, ive been busy with senior classes...but i just finished my final so i have some time to get you some more information! I actually typed up a good amount but im afraid its a little lengthy for this post box. Is there an email or something i should use? Or just the message option on here?

thenks for adding me!

To Alexa Penzner...

Thanks for your request for friendship...i accept you, (why not?)...and you have the honour of being the "first" atheist friend since i joined this circle recently!!

i once self studied on gaia concept from a book by one Dr /Proff Lovelock...

i still have it (the book )with me. it was about nature being alive, as a biological entity in itself...

it is a "Pantheistic" approach to life is it nt? and i liked it. god is seen in nature quite like how thinker / philosopher Baruch Spinoza came to see and advocated...

He faced inquisition for that!! very bad from the church!!

I have much respect for Baruch Spinoza, i think only second to Socrates the master himself...

he lived an ethical life, almost doing no wrong, yet without believing in, without guidance(unafraid of) "big brother" god watching him!!

I am or rather I supports Pantheism too, though i dont see themselves/ourselves? get organised, say the way Humanists have...

anyway i have come to accept it that in life, someone can be / has to be "multiple"...eclectic that is...

and that is how i came to be...

one last thing, i use public computers/internet cafes. so it is that until i visits same that i can be able to communicate. if i dont give a quick reply, please get to understand that that is the reason why...

we keep in touch, we pantheists atheists

Happy to have you as a friend

Thanks, Nsajigwa in Tanzania east afrika.

Sounds like a really wonderful celebration!  Samhain is wonderful!

I love black cats! They are my favorite. I don't understand the superstition myself.

Hope you are doing well today!

Yes they are! The big cats/house cats/wolves/dogs are a part of the family Carnivora. This group has around 260 species and arose around 86 million years ago. This group eventually around 65-55 million years ago split into two groups, the dog group (caniformia) and the cat group (feliformia). 

The caniformia split into canidae, which are wolves, dogs, and foxes, and then into arctoidea then to ursoidea which are bears, and the pinnipedia which are seals, walruses. Then another split from the arctoidea then leads to racoons and such later on. 

The feliformia first splits into felidae which are big cats, and then another split leads to hyenas, and other splits lead to the mongoose and the fossa.

Let me know if you need more info!

Wikipedia is a great resource for this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliformia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caniformia

Hello Alexa! How was your Samhain? How did they like the poem that you wrote? I'm sure it was wonderful! Just like you are! : )

Have a wonderful weekend!

I liked your exchange on the recent "hang with friends" mess. 

I do watch Dancing With The Stars.  But so does my grandmother, and she is 90.  I love popular culture and fashion.  I'm an odd dyke.  Don't knock DWTS until you've tried it:)

I'm somewhat involved in all those things (GM crops, pesticides and organics), but at a very applied level, not a laboratory. 

My son has been getting read VeggieTales books at school.  When I asked him what he learned at school last day, he couldn't think of anything.  And then later he said he was learning lots about god.  I was less than impressed and may go talk to his teacher.  It wouldn't be the first time I have complained about 'sunday school' type content showing up in the public school.

Hi Alexa.  I like Ursula K. Leguin, she's an atheist too.  Have you heard of Sagewoman magazine?  For the Goddess in every woman.  It's a woman oriented pagan magazine with their publication offices not far from Portland.  Have you heard of Barbara G. Walkers "Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets?  She's an atheist, but she writes Goddess books.  We're not the only pagan oriented atheists.  I satisfies my feminism, my spiritual side and my atheism all at once.

I have no rational reason for it, but I love the Moon.  It was there inspiring love millenia ago when women were honored.  For me, it's a link to a past that has changed me since I learned about it.  It's so good to meet another pagan atheist.