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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...

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...

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...

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

Just a break. Answer if you'd like..... 1. Where do you go to discuss things besides fym? 2. What part of the newspaper do you read first? What part do you never read? 3. Describe a moment when you had an epiphany. 4. Describe a moment when you stopped believing in something. 5. What is...

RIP Edith Bunker http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/arts/television/behind-jean-stapletons-ditzy-edith-a-giant-of-theatrical-skills.html?hpw&pagewanted=print

I never decided ahead of time to watch Jonathan Winters, but when I walked by and he was on the television, I never walked away until he was done.

Just a few questions to play with 1. Do you have a personal ritual you practice if you need calming or comforting or grounding? 2. When do you lie? 3. Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you celebrate or do you despair? 4. In what significant to you way have you made...

I thought perhaps we could have an RIP thread since there are usually only a few responses (or some times many contentious responses) for an individual thread. If Moderators would rather or if community thinks individual RIP threads are more appropriate, perhaps the moderator could change the...

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We've done this periodically, but people's views change, people's experiences change. Believers become nonbelievers; nonbelievers become believers; searching continues or stops or becomes indifferent. Spirituality vs. religion, agnostic vs. atheist, believer vs. believer. Over the years here...

RIP, Arlen Specter He had his moments of ugliness, but he was for the last several terms in office a voice of moderation in the Senate and a fighter. He was a politician I actually liked and crossed party lines to vote for.

My friend's Dialup stopped working last week. Thought modem might have gone and installed external modem. Apparently problem was with the phone line and not the modem. Still an issue. She has Vista. Anyway question is Remote Access Auto Connection Manager box keeps popping up. She has...

For the FYM Community: To those who celebrate these holidays, Happy Passover, Happy Easter. To the rest, Happy Spring.

Printer driver disappeared. So I downloaded new driver--via Windows, then via Epson site, then via Device Doctor. Windows 7 wouldn't let me install any of them. Sigh. Any advice?

That's a loss. Too young. Too quick.

Happy Labor Day. From today's Washington Post

Merry Christmas to FYM (and a late Winter Solstice):D

Happy Hannukah to all here who celebrate it!

I recently got the following popup: I have Trend and I have Spysweeper. I'm sure the update is legit. I just don't know whether I need to install it or not to protect myself. I've occasionally noticed when I have installed an aol security update, there is a conflict with my security system...

Happy Channukah.

I know we've had threads in which this would be an appropriate addition, but I haven't been able to find them. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/science/12gene.html?_r=1&hp

Age is Different: Supreme Court Raises Bar for Age Discrimination Claims, Will Congress Strike Back? - Employment Law - Law and Daily Life Here's hoping Congress acts as quickly here as it did in Ledbetter.

I was reading a book by George Sands (Indiana) and a paragraph jumped out at me. It set me to thinking about a common theme I wonder about--what we do to maintain our good opinion of ourselves, while pretty much allowing ourselves to behave in manners we would criticize in other people, the...

Can anybody give me a quick idiot's guide seminar on malware? 1. What is it exactly? Is it a virus and how damaging is it? 2. If you get a message that you have malware and your security system can't clean it....is it dangerous or just annoying, how do you clean it, are you more...