Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    Funny story...my 9 year old granddaughter told me yesterday that she didn't believe the stories about that Jesus guy doing magic. She then went on, "I believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny, but the stories about that Jesus guy are just too much." Resisting my impulse to dissolve in laughter I merely remarked that people have all different beliefs about that, and it was good that she was thinking for herself.

    Edited to add: Lisa I'm glad you found your way back here.

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  • brigadoonbenson
    brigadoonbenson Member Posts: 412
    edited March 2013

    SunflowersMA - I had what I thought was the flu and then a cough that lasted FOREVER.  Turned out to be whooping cough.  Just keep an eye on it.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    wow bridadoon...that is something...are you OK now?

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    Flannel, we were over to watch the tennis in Indian Wells...near Palm Springs..it was fun

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
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  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 984
    edited March 2013

    Lisa - love the Indain wells photo - I think I would very much like to live in or near mountains, also in a desert, as NO humidity? The most beautiful weather I was ever in was near Guadalajara, at a funny little spa. Failry high altitude (for me) The stars were so vivid at night, and the air was so sweet and dry - loved it.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    When we were in the desert I discovered Google Sky for my tablet. The Ap shows the night sky where you are a changes direction as you change position. It shows the constellations, etc. It was so much fun..saw the moon and Saturn close by in the night sky and the tablrt told me whst was where

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  • maryah930
    maryah930 Member Posts: 322
    edited March 2013

    How did I not see this before?

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  • Fearlessfoot
    Fearlessfoot Member Posts: 165
    edited March 2013

    Helloooo!  Glad to find this thread.  I call myself a humanistic spiritual atheist.  (with spiritual defined like notself coined it a couple pages ago: "wondering at and appreciating the mystery of existence.")  I have few answers, but lots of questions about what life and consciousness is all about.  And I am a devoted UU because I like asking these questions in community with others.  I enjoy Richard Dawkins, Forrest Church, Peter Morales, Alain de Botton, Karen Armstrong, Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhism) among others.    

    I am setting this topic as a favorite!      

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  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 984
    edited March 2013

    Hi Fearless foot & Maryah - you didn't see this because we often go to sleep for months & months then a little peep & usually die down again....but I think we all have it marked as a fave as a few people chime in...what is a UU?

    I like the term humanist spiritual atheist! I guess that's me.......and leaning very much towards buddhsim, personally, for sure. although others not interested in the spiritual at all - many shades of atheist (but did you know there's a buddhist thread?)

    glad to hear some names to get interloan books from library, I don't read newspapers much or watch TV so am in a bit of a vacuum except for this thread and the links people post.

    SoCal isn't it just the greatest when a planet and the moon are very near each other? I am lucky to live in a spot where there is very little night time illumination, so get to see the night sky easily - even from my bedroom window. Miss your flower pics - did see daffs in bloom and pansies planted in the Carolinas, and azaleas.......

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    flannel, some of the roses have also bloomed here...

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2013

    brigadoon - whooping cough????  yikes - thats the one where you can't stop coughing!  wow, thought we'd immunized enough people to have done away with that one.  Think this is just the Plain Ole Cough eveyone is telling me finishes this version of the Flu.  Chomping "musinex" every four hours, with water, so cough's are, ah, TMI coming, "productive" but I'd rather have that than pneumonia, which was what I was afraid of....

    gotta go check out susan weed, thanks flannel.

    and, I guess whooping cough, never would have even imagine that.  Hope you're all better brigadoon...

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    to brighten the day...

    Photo

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  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 984
    edited March 2013

    Lisa thanks for those - you must have a great camera? I have never seen a white poppy - too gorgeous...

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    I think they are called Islandic poppies. I have this plant in my backyard

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    Brigadoon, I missed that you had whooping cough. That is very serious I hope you are well now. I got a booster vaccination against that (a TDAP I think they called it) last October. I read that adults should do that, especiallly those around children and those with health problems.

    Edited to add: SoCalLisa, I've missed your pictures. Thanks.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    this is a photo I took of one the roses my DH gave me for our 46th anniversary a week ago..

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  • maryah930
    maryah930 Member Posts: 322
    edited March 2013

    SoCal ~ this so reminds me of a Georgia O'Keefe painting.  Beautiful.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    Thanks..I can't draw at all so taking pictures is the next best thing for me!

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  • flannelette
    flannelette Member Posts: 984
    edited March 2013

    socalisa - I look out and all I see is shades of grey, brown and white (but did just see some geese low  overhead) and a smidge of pink on the horizon - and then look at your rose and WOW sensational colour - luscious - thank you, yes Georgia O'Keefe

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2013

    socalLisa - thank you for bringing SPRING to the snowy fields of western, MA.  A few daffodil leaves have stuck up a bit of green, but wisely STOPPED a week or so ago, before the last snowstorm...

    seems only asian ladybugs are AWAKE and coming literally out of the southern facing walls of my cabin, clustering on the windows, where I "collect" them in a HUGE plastic jar, and send them outside again.  Many friends use a little vaccuum to get the, but I can't face that, even tho I don't think they like being out in the snow.

    They cluster around lights at night - & for someone who reads in bed, it means waking up with them squooshed on the sheets and they smell AWFUL and stain yellow...alas, they are still ladybugs...

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  • chumfry
    chumfry Member Posts: 642
    edited March 2013

    Yes, I've heard that whooping cough is making a comeback. A few years ago, I needed another tetanus booster and they gave me the one that also protects against whooping cough (pertussis). But now they're not sure how long even the kid vaccines for pertussis are lasting. I think I read somewhere that the effectiveness starts wearing off by the time the kids are 9 or 10 years old.

    And many, many thanks to Lisa for bringing spring to my computer. :D I've still got nearly a foot of snow on the ground in southern Minnesota. Sigh.

    --CindyMN

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    The snow has melted here but it will be awhile before I can look out my window and see anything as stunning as that rose. Beautiful!

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  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Member Posts: 7,305
    edited March 2013

    Lisa - you are indeed an artist with your camera!!

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  • maryah930
    maryah930 Member Posts: 322
    edited March 2013

    Travelled to Omaha.  A bald head, no hat and 20 degrees just doesn't cut it...

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited March 2013

    Maryah930, Ouch! I hope you get a hat quickly.

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  • Fearlessfoot
    Fearlessfoot Member Posts: 165
    edited March 2013

    flannette -  thanks for your response!  Sorry to use the abbreviation UU without defining.  UU stands for Unitarian Universalism which is a non-creedal religion which opens its arms to atheists, agnostics, pagans, as well as to those with traditional religious backgrounds but who have an open mind.  See www.uua.org.  UU is epitomized in this joke:  "I'm a UU; the bedrock of my faith is the unshakeable conviction that your guess is as good as mine!" 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2013

    CindyMN - interesting.  I had a tetanus shot a few years ago, don't know if it was a "booster" or not, as I hadn't had one in years & years.  Wonder if it also had the whooping cough ( pertussis) as a part of it.  Thinking of calling doc's office, but don't think they'd know.

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  • Cindyl
    Cindyl Member Posts: 1,194
    edited March 2013

    Most likely it did include pertussis.

    "Diptheria Vaccination

    Diptheria vaccination is almost always given along with tetanus vaccination. As these two are combined in one shot, the injection has come to be known as “Td”, “DT,” “DTaP” or Tdap”. The p refers to pertussis, or whooping cough. The inclusion of pertussis antigens distinguishes it from the DT vaccines.

    Children up to seven years old can get DTaP or DT vaccines. Kids 7 to 8 years old can receive Td vaccine, assuming their DT/DTaP series were not completed. Older kids and adults can get Td vaccine. Individuals 10 to 64 years old get the Tdap vaccine.

    http://www.tetanusshot.net/"

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited March 2013

    I just recently had the whopping cough booster.

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