Hi Julie
Welcome to this world of rationality and peace, where pure common sense is enough to lead to the open freethinking wisdom common to non-believers like you and us.
We invite you to join the busy group "ORIGINS: Universe, Astronomy, Life, Earth, Humans, Religion, Gods, Atheism, Evolution, Darwin..." with 720 discussion topics and 3700 members.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/originsuniverselifehumankindanddarwin
Terry

Thanks Julie. =)  Same to you!!!

Happy Holidays and welcome aboard! =)  Hope all is well with you today...

Welcome, Julie.  Sorry to hear you are estranged from your family.  I know it is difficult especially here at the holliday season when families are getting together.  Unfortunately, fantasy is more important to some people than the reality of tangible relationships in this finite world.

Welcome, Julie! Glad you could join us. :D

Please consider joining a group to meet people and talk about anything that's on your mind, Hang With Friends. You might also like Former Christians, Women Atheists, Female Atheists, and possibly Feminist Atheists.

I also recommend Eco-Logical and Climate Concerns, since the climate is changing so drastically.

After you've searched for topics of interest in "Groups" above and in the "Forums", don't forget to look at recent activity which hides along the right margin of the page all the way at the bottom.

On a personal note, I've developed an animated gif technique, sort of “pull quote marries slideshow”. Samples are scattered across various groups, but you can find them easily by going to my twitter account. Each tweet has a link (after the description and before the hashtags) to a visually rich example here at Atheist Nexus. If you like them, please follow me

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