what people call 'the greater bay area' keeps growing, so i hope sacramento is not too far away. plus i was born in berkeley, and lived around there for almost half my life.
just joined this website, really interesting.
can't say i'm an atheist; the trouble with being an atheist is defining the god you don't believe in.
i can say i hold belief lightly, i was raised methodist and a dash of xian science. nowadays i'm pagan & quaker.
Belated welcome. Where were you when you lived in Berkeley? I've lived here since 1982 but was born in Oakland. As a navy brat it sometimes feels like I have lived everywhere else in between on my way to traveling those twenty miles that separate where I was born from where I'll likely die.
Oh and I live in the flats, in the zip code with the highest rate of COVID-19 infection in the city. I swear, my wife and I are the only ones who wear a mask when we take the dogs for an afternoon walk.
If you can paddle there from the Bay without entering the ocean then I think you're in.
I have no problem defining the god I don't believe in - any and all of them. I do reserve the possibility that we are living in a computer simulation though. But that wouldn't make the creator of the simulation a god in my book. Just a mere mortal with a control fetish, penchant for sadism, and a fantastic computer.