What are your top 3 current favorite TV shows?

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

I turned the cable off during the Iowa primaries. I live close to the Nebraska/Iowa border, so we got all the commercials twice. Anyway, I glanced up one night and saw Ted Cruz's face in my living room. I got a Roku and cut the cable. So I have no clue what is on. I used to watch The Big Bang Theory...

Carin replies on Jun 7, 2018:

I forgot about Scorpion--that was a fun show. I haven't seem it in a long time either....

What are your top 3 current favorite TV shows?

Carin comments on Jun 6, 2018:

I like Humans, Dark Matter, & Last Week Tonight. Tosh.0 can be fun too.

Carin replies on Jun 7, 2018:

@David1955 Noooo.....

Anti-vaccine is a religion

Humanist5 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

I thought this was a place for skepticism and research? I am always astounded when I see intelligent people being absolutist. (The vaxxers way more than the antivaxxers)! There are intelligent reasonable knowledgeable people who do impeccable research into vaccines and have found problems. There ...

Carin replies on Jun 7, 2018:

Yeah, maybe I should have voted "other." Most of the anti-vaxxers probably wear tinfoil hats but there have been problems with vaccines too. The thing is, the diseases themselves would kill or harm many more people than the vaccines to prevent the diseases do. Of course that's no consolation if it's your child that suffers permanent damage.

I think I just proved Darwin wrong.

Carin comments on Jun 7, 2018:

It's actually true--the less education a person has, the more kids they have. Numerous studies have shown this. Maybe Mother Nature is saying we're too smart for our own good?

Carin replies on Jun 7, 2018:

@TheGreatShadow There have been so many articles...try searching female literacy & birth rates. Or check out my facebook page Help Girls in Africa. I may have posted some articles there in the past...

Long term marriages

Deb57 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

The excuse that my husband of 17 years used for cheating for a year and deciding to leave me for the other woman (but only after getting caught) was, "It's so f_cking hard to be married to a wife with a chronic illness!"

Carin replies on Jun 6, 2018:

What a cad!

Unclean animals?

Rufus_Maximus comments on Jun 3, 2018:

Nobody really knows. The distinction starts with Noah taking larger numbers of some animals than others, but there's no justification for *why* some are distinctly "cleaner" than others. Bag loads of Rabbinical writing has been done on the subject, none of that manages to make sense of the ...

Carin replies on Jun 4, 2018:

@Rufus_Maximus Interesting! I have NO knowledge of the Torah.

It's a bugs life.

Carin comments on Jun 3, 2018:

I read somewhere that it often happened because they were observing captive mantids who were hungry &/or stressed. Apparently in the wild it doesn't always end that way. Same with black widows.

Carin replies on Jun 4, 2018:

@Qualia Wow, that is super interesting!

It's a bugs life.

azzow2 comments on Jun 3, 2018:

Here is the honey-do list would work too.

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

He should keep offering to do more chores. Kind of like Sheherazade.

It's a bugs life.

Carin comments on Jun 3, 2018:

I read somewhere that it often happened because they were observing captive mantids who were hungry &/or stressed. Apparently in the wild it doesn't always end that way. Same with black widows.

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

@Surfpirate I know!! It's so depressing. It turns out to be a similar situation with Betta fish--the male is accused of killing the after she's spawned & he's "done with her." Creepy, right? As it turns out, the father fish is a fierce guardian of his egg nest & just doesn't want ANYONE around it. But in a small tank the poor mother can't flee far enough away to avoid being seen as a threat to the eggs, so he kills her as he would any other fish who would not leave his nursery area.

How do you make life meaningful without the help of religion?

Rabid_Canadian comments on Apr 8, 2018:

By living by one simple truth, every decision I make has the potetial to make the world a little better or a little worse for myself and the people around me, and I always strive for the better.

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

Very nice!

I was just told by my neighbor that her 4 yr old son has cancer.

Deb57 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

As someone who spent months practically living at Ronald McDonald houses and pediatric oncology wards when my youngest son was 10, I don't know how anybody can spend any time in such places and still believe in any loving deity.

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

I'm so sorry that happened to you & your son!

If the Christian god was proven to be real, would you follow him ??

Carin comments on Jun 3, 2018:

Would Hell be real too then? Would not want to go there.

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

@Katrik God would know if you were faking it anyway, right? So still doomed....

Unclean animals?

Jontom2017 comments on Jun 3, 2018:

and just look at how many christians eat bacon, shrimp and lobster

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

In the New Testament they got permission to eat anything they wanted.

Unclean animals?

Rufus_Maximus comments on Jun 3, 2018:

Nobody really knows. The distinction starts with Noah taking larger numbers of some animals than others, but there's no justification for *why* some are distinctly "cleaner" than others. Bag loads of Rabbinical writing has been done on the subject, none of that manages to make sense of the ...

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

He didn't just take 2 of each? All those pictures of the animals going up the ramp two by two were just another lie?????

Unclean animals?

bleurowz comments on Jun 3, 2018:

From what I understand, kosher laws evolved because at the time there was no other way to keep foods sanitary. But then they got written up in the old testament as some sort of sacred ritual, so of course after that you never questioned it.

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

@Morganfreeman A bit off topic, but Kosher & Halal slaughtering methods forbid stunning the animal first so it's generally considered less humane.

Ladies: I’m curious.

Emerald comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Raised Episcopalian, so no. However, a good friend of mine who is southern Baptist god-squad once asked me in a hushed voice if I had any and could she use one, and did they come with instructions? She had been married for a few years and I was silenced with shock. She was planning a pool party and ...

Carin replies on Jun 3, 2018:

I remember back in the 70s Tampax came in a very discrete unmarked box & included detailed instructions on how to use & even remove them. Sadly, a diagram was included to show you where your vagina was in case you didn't know.

Combined all the tadpoles in one container so we could clean out their coolers and give them fresh ...

Carin comments on Jun 2, 2018:

What kind of frogs or toads are they? Where & when did you get them? How often do you change the water & what do they eat?

Carin replies on Jun 2, 2018:

@Free_2B_Me OK--I'm new here...I will try to look. I'm still figuring out how to do stuff.

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

Kafirah comments on May 25, 2018:

And the fact that we can't heal our teeth's enamel has caused more deaths than car accidents... Granted, not as bad since the advent of modern dentistry, but still. And it's been said that if you live long enough, your guaranteed to get some form of cancer. If we were "intelligently designed" the ...

Carin replies on Jun 2, 2018:

@Kafir But Oh so tasty & addicting.

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

Kafirah comments on May 25, 2018:

And the fact that we can't heal our teeth's enamel has caused more deaths than car accidents... Granted, not as bad since the advent of modern dentistry, but still. And it's been said that if you live long enough, your guaranteed to get some form of cancer. If we were "intelligently designed" the ...

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

Dental decay was not a huge problem till agriculture began. Starches from grains stick to your teeth & also affect the kinds of bacteria that live in your mouth, favoring the decay causing kinds. I attended a talk by a dentist & researcher at a breastfeeding conference. He studied ancient teeth from babies & toddlers who died before & after the beginning of grain agriculture. Evidence showed that decay increased greatly when people began eating a lot of grain. Even unweaned babies (before they began eating solids) began to get decay since humans get our flora from our mothers after we're born.

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

mattersauce comments on May 25, 2018:

Of all the species we know of including those that have died off wouldn't you say we're the most successful where evolution is concerned? Aren't we the shining achievement in evolution's billions of attempts?

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

Dinosaurs lived for hundreds of millions of years-they were actually quite successful. We haven't even made it one million years yet.

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

godlessguy comments on May 25, 2018:

Evolutions worst mistake was the human brains ability to advance to a state in which its greed could be utilized to its full extent derived from the technology it developed ,therefore causing over population and eventually the next great extinction.

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

Really? Elephants?? Sure did not know that! Humans & other mammals with undescended (internal) testicles are at higher risk for cancer.

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

DeepSigh comments on May 25, 2018:

Eyesight goes too quick...starts losing focus in our 40s.

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

We're supposed to be dead by then...

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

jwd45244 comments on May 27, 2018:

Mosquitos

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

Very important food for fish. I still hate them though!

Evolution's Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles?

MsDemeanour comments on May 28, 2018:

Well I dunno that i can comment much about testicles but I think the little toe should have gone by now. How often have I accidently kicked it on a table leg or chair?

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

@AncientNight Apparently it's really hard to walk without big toes though!

Why doesn't anyone answer messages here? I hope I'm not that ugly lol

Carin comments on May 29, 2018:

Aw, that's too bad! I'm sure you're not ugly.

Carin replies on Jun 1, 2018:

@SKH78 You are right!

I've been a band mom for 6 years and with 2 kids have gone to a LOT of concerts and I will never ...

WadeWilson comments on May 31, 2018:

Botox.

Carin replies on May 31, 2018:

Immobilized by too much Botox?

Circumcised or Uncircumcised?

Faithless1 comments on May 30, 2018:

It wasn't an automatic procedure for newborn boys when I had mine. I certainly didn't want my little son messed with, and didn't give it a thought. Only when we got him home, my (circumcised) partner was kind of shocked at having a foreskin round the house, so to speak. He'd assumed it would be ...

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

That is one argument for it though--so the baby looks like dad & doesn't get "confused" or something. Well, my husband has a tattoo on his penis & it certainly didn't occur to us to get our newborns inked.

Circumcised or Uncircumcised?

MacStriker comments on May 30, 2018:

Guess god made man so perfect, that after the first draft of human he said, "uhmmm, hey Abraham, since you can hear me n'stuff, can you cut that extra piece of skin off your johnson? Yea, my bad, totally goofed on that one. Thanks! Oh, and remember to kill your son for me..."

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

Too funny!! Thanks!

Circumcised or Uncircumcised?

Wildgreens comments on May 30, 2018:

No need to mutilate little boys.

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

I can't imagine subjecting a baby to that kind of pain & risking complications for no real reason.

Circumcised or Uncircumcised?

Carin comments on May 29, 2018:

I am SO against it. Over a hundred baby boys die in the US every year from complications of a cosmetic surgery that they were unable to consent to.

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

@crazycurlz What would you call it? It's not medically needed in 99.9% of cases. Seems to be done for aesthetic purposes more than religious purposes in the US.

Circumcised or Uncircumcised?

Carin comments on May 29, 2018:

I am SO against it. Over a hundred baby boys die in the US every year from complications of a cosmetic surgery that they were unable to consent to.

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

@Ravenwolfcasey Not to mention those who are seriously mutilated....a very sad book, "As God Made Him" (nothing about god that I noticed in it) was about a baby boy who entirely lost his penis to circumcision & was then the victim of more medical horrors. He ended up killing himself.

Are you happily married?

DarwinistOne comments on May 15, 2018:

Marriage is a 24/7 job. Seriously, you have to give it your all. It's much like a bank account, if you make more withdrawals than deposits, it becomes seriously depleted.

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

Very wise words.

Circumcised or Uncircumcised?

smashedbottle comments on May 29, 2018:

I view it as genital mutilation, but every girl I've ever talked to are creeped out by the uncircumcised ones. Also, while I wished part of my dick hadn't been cut off, it was decades ago and everything is ending so what does it matter?

Carin replies on May 30, 2018:

It's just whatever is the cultural norm...in most countries circumcision is uncommon so obviously normal penises would not creep anyone out. In my state at least, the majority of baby boys are no longer circumcised (my twins certainly are not) so the times they are a changin'. What really turned the tide was when the program that pays for low income people's medical care stopped paying for it.

Hey folks, this is my latest painting.

SkotlandSkye comments on May 29, 2018:

The anatomy of the palm tree is incorrect definitely crop out the easel....it makes the rest too hard to focus on you did it plein air style? it's good for a plein air painting as opposed to a studio piece

Carin replies on May 29, 2018:

That's true about the palm tree--all the fronds are attached close to each other at the top. But I didn't notice that till you said that.

Leaving aside any religious interpretations and speaking from an atheist/agnostic point of view, ...

gsiamne comments on May 28, 2018:

I always think about things that have been stated by Einstein, Tyson and other physicists. Also as Tyson has said, I wan't to give my chemical elements to nature to allow it to do its things before our sun becomes a red giant and it will no longer take place.

Carin replies on May 29, 2018:

That stuff depresses me.

Leaving aside any religious interpretations and speaking from an atheist/agnostic point of view, ...

DrSabre comments on May 29, 2018:

A soul is who you are without the flesh and bone. It is the sum total of your actions and motives. Time is a dimension just as space is. Our actions exist in one position within this time stream. They are infinit and irreprable. In a sense they are immortal. With the possibility of an infinit ...

Carin replies on May 29, 2018:

Sounds appealing though. I like it.

America pulls out of hte Interntional Space Station

btroje comments on May 28, 2018:

maybe all he knows hoe to do is to pull out

Carin replies on May 28, 2018:

His father should have pulled out. But seriously, I could not find any other articles backing up this story, though I'm pretty computer illiterate. I hope it's not true.

Is it ok if married couples keep secrets from one another?

Clauddvon comments on May 27, 2018:

Secrets = An ending marriage. It may take 50 years to end it, but it will be the reason.

Carin replies on May 28, 2018:

Over 30 for mine. Divorce is inevitable.

Ever notice how Christians are always crying persecution, but are the main ones damning people to ...

LEPeff comments on May 23, 2018:

I must admit that Christian heaven sounds pretty hellish to me.

Carin replies on May 27, 2018:

@pryan That actually sounds very pleasant! Wish I could believe something like that.

Parenting advice.

WanderingJay comments on May 22, 2018:

I don’t hit my children, ever. I don’t hit even my dog. What do you accomplish by hitting them?

Carin replies on May 27, 2018:

It's a joke for tired parents.

Parenting advice.

dellik comments on May 22, 2018:

Wow the level of butt hurt and inability to laugh at a joke is impressive high on this post. Also, lmfao.

Carin replies on May 23, 2018:

Yeah I know--I'm new here & seriously beginning to wonder if Athiests are all like this? If so they don't seem like very fun people. I bet every parent I know would have laughed. & none of us spank our kids.

Parenting advice.

Librophile13 comments on May 22, 2018:

Guys... It's a Futurama reference...

Carin replies on May 23, 2018:

I never watched Futurama & I still thought it was funny! I'm a parent!

Ever notice how Christians are always crying persecution, but are the main ones damning people to ...

LEPeff comments on May 23, 2018:

I must admit that Christian heaven sounds pretty hellish to me.

Carin replies on May 23, 2018:

I've never figured out what christians really envision when they think of heaven. Now Mormons, they have it laid out in detail & boy is it crazy!

Do religious curse words perpetuate religion?

DaveMania comments on May 21, 2018:

Hmmm... I'd say not really. It's more cultural than religious, surely? And yeah, that's a hard distinction to make in this context, I'll admit — but we're fortunate in the English language to grow up with a delicious array of hilarious and raucous cuss-words. The Christian-inspired and blasphemous...

Carin replies on May 23, 2018:

I don't think blessings are limited to the religious sort, & I always say bless you. But some people say "Gezuntheit" which I'm sure I've spelled wrong. It means health in German. Really that's a bit more meaningful, isn't it--hoping the person isn't coming down with something. Incidentally, I read that they used to think your heart stopped when you sneezed & that's they blessed you--in case you died or maybe to make sure your heart started again, I don't know.

Do religious curse words perpetuate religion?

Davidthinks comments on May 21, 2018:

When you stub your toe or someone cuts you off in traffic “Jesus Christ” has become a secular vex word. French Canadians favorite vex word is “tabanac”. Growing up I have witnessed French Canadian cohorts get an ass whooping from their parents for using that word as a cuss word. ...

Carin replies on May 23, 2018:

What is the English translation of tabanac?

Do religious curse words perpetuate religion?

Kbdank71 comments on May 21, 2018:

Nah. Believers who hear me say "Christ on a pogo stick" aren't going to get more religious, and I seriously doubt non-believers will say "this Jesus fellow sounds fun. your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"

Carin replies on May 23, 2018:

Love the way you think!