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Some civic questions if you are bored. 1. Do you vote? If so, do you vote in both primary and general elections? Do you cast ballots in local as well as national elections? 2. Are you influenced (positively or negatively) by political ads? 3. What makes you vote for someone from...

Thank you.

1. I'm a secular religious, I guess. I'm a searcher who hasn't found anything. I visit, but I don't stay. I want to believe, but I don't. 2. I cherry pick from everything--Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Humanism, books, movies, paganism. overheard conversations, comedy acts--I...

Just a couple of questions on religion, spirituality and ritual 1. Do you consider yourself religious or spiritual or neither? (I wouldn't have asked whether anyone considered themselves religious a few years ago, because I had never much heard anyone call themselves religious...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/how-the-president-got-to-i-do-on-same-sex-marriage.html?hp&_r=0# Interesting article.

The paintings aren't horrible.

I was curious about your thoughts on forgiveness--both religious and secular. 1. What is your practical definition of forgiveness? 2. Is there a point where there is no more forgiveness to be given? 3. Do you have standing to forgive someone for a hurt they have done to someone else...

I don't expect anyone to speak up against every instance of sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. You would be spending your life doing that. Not all feminists are watching for every slight. I watch the pattern. I do find it somewhat odd that we are often encouraged to speak out on other forms...

^Definite :love: I want Fiona to kill them all off and reign Supreme forever. None of the girls are diva enough to be the Supreme although Myrtle does have the style to be.

Simply the greed of not only having it all but requiring a pedestal on which to enjoy it all. I guess, sometimes, it eases the transient guilt of fucking people over.

I think there are certainly "thought propagandists" who manipulate others with a facade of moral superiority as well as a illusion of unemotional (aka masculine) logic, knowing their followers will not look to the facts if the presentation is appealing enough. Besides, morality's just for the...

Seems that would be a logical error although, I guess. an easy enough mistake to make. However, the GOP's misuse of Christianity does not bestow "sainthood" (so to speak) on the atheist. Atheism does not eliminate (nor cause) character flaws. It's a descriptive that only deserves so much...

I'm pretty sure the only qualification for atheism is not to believe in a god of whatever stripe. It doesn't require any other characteristic. Why would anyone infer one?

Darwin's Dangerous Idea--Dennett The Ancestor's Tale--Dawkins

I finished the book last year, having read 2/3 of the parts (I skimmed over the Quebec separatism portion--just could not do it) I did enjoy the other parts quite a bit. I fall right into the absurd and the accurate observations/truths therein. It did feel like an accomplishment. Now I'm...

Wonder how many of the Duck Dynasty supporters will be defending this guy.

Bought an outdoor cat shelter for the kittens. So far I'm very happy with it. It is sturdy and insulated and came with a pillow. I added thermal pads and the kittens are using it. Opening might be too small for the older cat. Offers more protection than my handmade one did. Thanks for all...

Also, was saying mango for green pepper a regional or family thing. I was an older teenager before I knew that a mango was not a green pepper.

I grew up saying crick. I'll say creek in formal company/work, but I vacillate casually.

Crick/creek?

Of course if there is no why....(why is a coyote here, why is a lightning bug?--they serve their purposes but pose no cosmic question)....if we have no other purpose than procreation or in some other way nurturing the young....if nothing happens after death... Then the big questions just sputter...

I remember going to Washington DC when I was in high school and talking to someone for about 3 or 4 minutes. Afterwards he looked at me and told me I was from a northeast PA coal mining town. As far as I know, he didn't know anything about me. We weren't talking home or geography or anything...

Fun little quiz that places your dialect http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html

^Yeah, I would be too. Not in 2014. Unless maybe the Marcellus shale people want it.