Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

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  • LaurenInPHX
    LaurenInPHX Member Posts: 165
    edited January 2020

    14/15.  I missed the one about salvation through faith alone. I said Catholic but it was Protestant. I could really use the room that this useless knowledge takes up in my brain, haha. 

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  • trinigirl50
    trinigirl50 Member Posts: 343
    edited January 2020

    Talking about useless knowledge, I also know the names of Beyonce's and Kim Khardasian's children - without ever having seen "Keeping up with the Khardasians" or listening to Beyonce's music. How do I accumulate all this useless (and totally uninteresting to me) knowledge? That's why I said Osmosis.

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  • trinigirl50
    trinigirl50 Member Posts: 343
    edited January 2020

    Which is not to say the study of Religion is useless (it should not appear in the same sentence as celebrity babies), clearly I need to get off my computer.

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited January 2020

    I'm in the emergency room 😩
    Today is not turning into a very good day. I decided to return to horseback riding to re-live childhood memories. It was a stellar thought.... I got on the horse and started out everything was fine, like riding a bike..., but then we went a little faster; before I knew it, we were in a dead run. At this point, something spooked the horse and he made a sudden jerk and reared up, and I couldn't hold on. I fell off, but my foot got caught in the stirrup. The horse kept bucking and running, and was dragging me and wouldn't stop. Thank goodness the manager of the grocery store came out and unplugged the machine! But then he had the nerve to take the rest of my quarters so I wouldn't try the other games. If you actually read what I wrote, copy and paste for someone else to smile for a second.

    ❤️❤️ #gotcha lol😙

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited January 2020

    😁

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited January 2020

    Ananda - I was aghast as I read. Oh my, you had me going. Thanks for the laugh.

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  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited January 2020

    Ha ha! (But true story - when I was 16 this happened to me on a real horse. It got spooked by a long horn steer that decided to charge us. My foot got caught in the stirrup and I nearly got my head crushed by the horse's hooves before I was able to pull free!)

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited January 2020

    Thoughts and giggles coming at ya!!!!

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  • LaurenInPHX
    LaurenInPHX Member Posts: 165
    edited January 2020

    LOL! I was like oh shit how is she even writing this haha. Scary wander!

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  • DogMomRunner
    DogMomRunner Member Posts: 616
    edited January 2020

    ananda

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited January 2020

    wanderweg, How really scary. I hope I didn't cause you any discomfort with my silly joke. 😯

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited January 2020

    Ananda...I sure needed that LOL moment

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited January 2020

    I was reading Ananda8's post closely because I also had an ornery horse incident, when I was in my early 20s. Damn rent-a-horse headed straight for a tree with a low branch, and although I laid back (I was raised watching westerns!), I still got knocked off and dragged a bit before I got loose from the stirrup. I was MAD! The horse made it back to the barn, the owner was trying to apologize, and I just kept walking to where that horse was. I hauled off and punched it in the nose (I didn't say I had watched GOOD westerns!). The owner was so scared of me that he was holding out everybody's horse rental fees, but I was nice and just took mine. 🏇🐎

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited January 2020

    The first time on a horse was when I was on a camping trip with my husband some friends. We were going to camp in the Sierra Mountains of California and had to pack in by horse. The trail began at 7,500ft and went to 10,000ft in under 5mi. One section of trail ran across huge granite boulders. This one had a tree growing near it with a dead branch sticking out over the trail. The horse either was concerned for his footing or just wanted to brush me off so he went so close to the branch that it struck my thigh. I had a bruise so bad it covered most of my thigh. I should have punched the horse, but he probably would have stomped me into the ground. It was still a great trip.

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited January 2020

    Thanks to all your horse stories, I now recall my youth and mostly uneventful rides just outside of town and those horses always wanted back in the barn. Then many years later, took up riding again and had the great pleasure of riding a Tennessee Walker. A one time experience I loved and an easy comfortable ride after my misadventure with being thrown. [Fortunately this was a horse that was not trained in cruel competition methods]

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  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited January 2020

    Not at all, ananda - I thought it was funny. And since I wasn’t seriously hurt, my ow story seems comical from the distance of so many years. You also reminded me of the horse on our farm as a kid. Casper would tolerate us riding him, but only for so long. We rode bareback and when she was fed up, she’d just scrape us off under a tree branch.

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited January 2020

    Okay, sometimes a religious group gets it right. But UCC is usually one of the decent denominations.

    http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/church-groups-deaconess-foundation-work-together-to-eliminate-medical-debt/article_547c940a-3a0b-11ea-983b-eb3aecc7e645.html?fbclid=IwAR0aAvX051BH4-pESJumoc7z2hVfvH7QCfJIET66QBmAgGzyminwBWPPLSo

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  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited January 2020

    Clearing out some notes on my phone, I came across one that I jotted down while watching a local New Year's Eve special. The reporters were downtown interviewing revelers about their New Year's resolutions. One young boy said, "Ah do wanna be a praycher." He said it in such an East Tennessee drawl that they actually had to use subtitles to tell you he was saying, "I do want to be a preacher." I truly didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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  • Miriandra
    Miriandra Member Posts: 1,327
    edited January 2020

    John Oliver did a fantastic “Last Week Tonight” episode on medical debt collection. They also bought a block of debt for pennies on the dollar and sent blanket debt forgiveness letters. https://youtu.be/hxUAntt1z2c

    If hospitals (often church-affiliated) can accept pennies on the dollar from debt sharks, why can’t they offer those rates to their debtors in the first place?

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited January 2020

    I don't know if I came up with this or vaguely remember hearing it elsewhere, but I think there's a phrase to describe the actions of aggressively prayerful types: Assault with a godly weapon.

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited February 2020

    And that weaponized religion is currently being considered by our government to insure that religions have the right to discriminate against American citizens they believe their god does not approve.

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited January 2020

    It's going to take a LONG time for this country to heal.

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited January 2020

    It started out divided. Our very Constitution was a compromise between people who thought in terms of equality and those who thought in terms of property. Read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville written in 1835. We have been in a cold war since the Civil War was ended. We have been and always will be divided. We must take to the polls and win not only the Presidency and the Senate and the House but also to win State and local elections. Democrats not voting in 2012 gave us a Republican Senate and Republican control of our States. Democrats sitting home in 2016 gave us Trump. When we don't sit home, we win just like we won the House in 2018.

    Check your registration. Voter suppression is real and happening in every red and purple State. Make certain your friends are registered. The deadline for registration for the primaries are is just 30 days away in most states. Every primary election ballot also includes other offices and ballot initiatives. Every vote from here on out is critical for our Democracy.

    Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.

    Part 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.ht...

    Part 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/816/816-h/816-h.ht...


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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited February 2020

    Time to call your Senator and tell them Americans want to hear witnesses and have documents produced.

    Call 202-224-3121.

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited February 2020

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  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited February 2020

    Ananda - I distinctly remember learning in kindergarten that the universe was infinite. I tried as hard as I could to imagine that - but couldn't wrap my mind around how something could go on forever without stopping, but also if it did stop - what would be beyond that? The concept of that kind of vastness brought me to tears.

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited February 2020

    Carl Sagan once described us "We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Ever since I heard that I have considered myself as of the Universe rather than in the Universe. The vastness makes me feel calm.



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  • wanderweg
    wanderweg Member Posts: 549
    edited February 2020

    You know that expression about feeling small when you stand beside the ocean? All my life I have felt vast when I stood by the ocean. Like I was part of it and I WAS it.

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  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited February 2020

    On days when the pain and painful reality of living with the consequences of cancer treatment feel overwhelming, I stand outside at night and feel myself an integral part of an infinitesimal dot on what Carl Segan referred to at the Pale Blue Dot (earth). That profound sense of awareness of my place in this multiuniverse calms me tremendously. Fortunately, I live in a dark skies area where it is rare that the night sky is not bejeweled with stars.

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited February 2020

    It is difficult to understand the distances between stars. Here is a video that tries to explain the distances between the planets of our solar system.

    " Space is really, really big, and there's been a couple of great videos out there that show off the relative size of objects. This video puts the scale of the solar system into real perspective by showing how it takes you pass through the solar system at the speed of light. Light travels 299,792,458 m/s, and it takes just over 45 minutes from the surface of the sun to reach Jupiter. This video takes you past the planets at lightspeed, and it shows off just how long it takes to get around the solar system. "

    https://io9.gizmodo.com/fly-through-the-solar-syst...


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