There are a dozen starlings foraging in the grass outside my window. Usually this hidden meadow is only used by crows in 1s and 2s, territorial jays, squirrels, and a poodle. Starlings stick together, maybe that is why they are hardy as hell.
Pre-marriage counseling sounds like it could be fun. You can be like "let's learn how to deal with stuff before it happens!" Get some general role playing skills under the belt
Kdawg you touch on a good point..... today, practically speaking, in the US, when people prattle on about the freedom to practice their religion, it is a veil for social and political issues. I think that when you look at the details, the issues are…
Ha ha I thought I might be committing a faux pas! It was literally the closest non-yahoo! link at the top of the google results. Maybe I should have used Bing?
He he, it's true. Much love to all of you good people. Plus keep the hate alive. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. How's that??? Keep the hope keep the hate keep the faith 2012
I wonder what religion, if any, has the most in-built agnosticism... "We don't know what the f." It doesn't take long for any new religion or cult to build rules to make itself legitimate, either. The big question to me is, how do we accept not-kno…
Limiting ourselves to discussions within objective reality sounds okay. Let me know when you find the boundaries of objective reality. Right?? I'm snarking, but.... one time I told a friend I *wasn't* "an atheist," without making claim to any part…
I mean my god.... we are Americans, arguably the worst people alive. Let's not throw rocks in our glass houses!
If I were a columnist on Oregon Live, my comment section would be full of phrases like "liberal guilt" and "libtard" but amirite
omg too true.... I did an interview with a New Age guy last week that left me feeling stone cold (New Age involves possibly misinterpreted Buddhist ideas about creating your own reality and choosing to suffer, which is an undeniably cruel claim). A…
Okay sorry DrJ, "inhuman" went too far.
Also, I see how it could be dangerous of me to suppress your admission of repression, in line with the notion that it's more productive to admit your ignorance than hide it under the guise of acceptance.
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Except for Mittens.......... but he do have a lot of power, after all. Good to slag the truly powerful. So I admit LDS has increasing economic power and they have absolute power over their people. But we got to work together. Understanding LDS as a…
I just think it is tasteless to slag these people. Pick a policy to disagree with, but it doesn't do anyone any good to go on the record calling people inhuman.
Neil de Grasse Tyson put up a great tweet explaining the relative cost, Yours truly..... he said cutting PBS would be like erasing text files to clear space on your 500gb hard drive. Do you get that? I have read it put at one hundredth of federal …