Hardest part of not believing in God is living in the south.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

You would be surprised how many of them are faking it for various different reasons.

Age & Belief I am curious to know if belief in a god changes as we age and get closer to death.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Mine too, then older I get then more I think it is all nonsense.

We read a lot of commentary about how hard it is to be an atheist in the Bible Belt but being a ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Neither is being a Muslim in Australia, UK, US or any other western world.

Start investing agnostics!!! "What should we do with all those abandoned churches?

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

In Australia many churches have been sold to the public and they convert them into lovely homes. In the UK I saw a large church having been converted into apartments.

My first career was as a Licensed Embalmer for well over a thousand individuals.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

What did you do next?

Snowshoeing above my comfort level

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Wow, you must be so fit and thank you for those beautiful pictures.'

So, the neighborhood kids were playing in the backyard with mine.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Yes that is what it should be all about but then comes little Johnny from down the road who's parents have a different opinion and have indoctrinated little Johnny, and one of the kids scores a goal which little Johnny doesn't agree with so now things are no longer what they were. Anger, hate and violence will start.

Being agnostic or any other ideology is alright.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Religion is a form of drug to some people, and if they stopped it they would need another drug to take its place.

What’s the world’s worst religion?

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

They are all bad in some form or other.

I came across a post that invoked that nostalgic feeling.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

I always loved to sing too but everybody around me just left the room.

Any addicts/alcoholics in recovery here.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

I am addicted to eating far too much. I wish there was some kind of program that I could go to. Those places that weigh you are no good.

Cataracts are the third biggest cause of blindness. Religion and politics remain the first two.

Jolanta comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Don't forget infatuation.

So, we nonbelievers are now tied for top spot in reported religious affiliation.

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

I am sure there are many.

I agree.

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Yes, time to start demanding it.

Do you have the courage to let go of what you can't change?

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Of course I have, after all I did get divorced twice.

I woke up this morning to author Arthur Brooks on C-SPAN speaking about loving your enemies at the ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

I don't know what to say about this, I get so sad and angry that people can do this with a straight face and consider themselves to believe in God.

So my dad just passed away, I buried him this last Saturday.

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

There is a lot of men like that around, they are the products of their own upbringing. One has to feel sorry for them but even more sorry for the women the marry and the children they bring into this world. Take good care of yourself and remember you are nothing like your father.

Usernames.... How did you choose your username for agnostic and what's the story behind it.... ?

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

I am sorry to hear about this happening to you when you were ten. I hope you are not alone in this world, that you have someone that cares about you event hough you are 29. Take good care of yourself.

This morning I was in a car accident.

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

She will never forget it. That is amazing what you did most would get out and start screaming and ranting. I would just be speechless.

Britain 2019..how it looks from the U.S

Jolanta comments on Mar 25, 2019:

And from Australia too. I actually feel sorry for her, not that I agree with Britain leaving the EU.

Too funny--I had to post it.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Time to change the locks or at least remember to lock your doors.

Brexit is getting genuinely scary.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Yes, it must be. For us on the outside it is like a soap opera.

Americans used to eat pigeon all the time—and it could be making a comeback.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Pigeon pie, yum, yum.

We live in barely controlled anarchy.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Time to move.

I feel pretty strongly that if something is illegal, unethical, or immoral for individuals, then it ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

No you are not in a minority, however people are often like sheep. We just had an state election in the next state where I live. The conservative party won for the third time but with a very diminished vote. One of my friends posted to face book that wasn't it wonderful. I said to her that the very same people who won has also done damage to our water ways so the river is no longer flowing, She answered that it didn't matter as the votes was that was important. So you are happy with the fact that people no longer have water to drink and that drought is killing the land then. She did not answer anymore. I do hope she is thinking about it though.

[motherjones.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Yes of course it is to blame. Time to stop having so many babies.

How do we know that the vacuum of space has structure and is more than empty nothingness?

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

We don't and in the whole is it in any kind of way going to affect me, and what i am going to have for breakfast?

Orlando gun range allows customers to shoot at each - Sun Sentinel

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Only in America.

Well Yesterday was my 40th Birthday.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Hey, it was my birthday yesterday too. So happy birthday to us both. I had a good day, my friends treat me well and I am truly lucky. You need to be aware that you are not in any kind of way responsible for anybody else. He needs professional help and you are not the one to give it to him. Why are you putting up with that, all that misery, stop having anything to do with him, you are not helping him in any kind of way, just enabling him to be a jerk. It's up to you, you want to be trodden on than keep him as your friend, if not. Don't tell him just text him that you will have nothing to do with him if he keeps it up and stick to it. Don't answer the texts if they are rude or defamatory. It's not easy but it is doable. Perhaps you are doing him a favor by ending the friendship.

Flooding damage in Nebraska - this is the BNSF Railroad track near Cedar Creek, NE along the Platte ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Wow, such devastation. Will there be any money to fix all that infrastructure?

An idealized view of science is that theories are accepted or rejected based solely on empirical ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Money talks when it comes to science, big time.

This is dedicated to everyone who looks different, feels different and acts differently.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Yes it is people around the world who are the eccentrics who make it more interesting and enjoyable.

Just made it to level 9! Woot woot! But couldn't have done it without my good friend and point whore...

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Sounds like a conspiracy to me there, you two scheming, he, he.

Divine Right: Born to the Lurk & Perk.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Every dog has its day.

Brunei set to pass law that will punish homosexuality with death by stoning

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

They want to punish homosexuality by stoning but are perfectly ok with men having several wives.

Why I Love Agnostic.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Gosh, that is hard to imagine but maybe not after all domestic violence is rife all over the world too.

[haaretz.

Jolanta comments on Mar 24, 2019:

It has taken so long because they do not want to pay it in any kind of way. They are waiting for the people to die so they do not have to do it. Just like all others peoples in the world who are waiting for restitution. Look at the Chagos Island, the people were forced off the island by the Brits because they wanted it, and they still cannot go back even though the court has granted them to do so.

More Children Were Shot Dead in 2017 Than On-Duty Police Officers and Active Duty Military, Study ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Yes and they will still say, guns don't kill people, people do.

French Priest Claims Child Rape Is Not Violence But ‘Tenderness’ | Michael Stone

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

No wonder it is ongoing if that is what some of them think it is.

My dog was hit by a car on Monday night but I didn´t know that he was dead untilThursday.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Of course there is a point to your post. You feel sad, hurt and somehow abounded. I still am grieving for my cat that I had to put down after 25 years. She was very ill and there was nothing else to be done. I was not going to let her suffer. I feel guilty though, I feel like i was a bad pet owner, like I did not love her enough and even now writing this my eyes well up. Henry was loved by you and is still loved by you but it is hard, always hard. You will always remember him, they way he was, his little ways and how you loved him, how much joy he brought you and sometimes how annoyed he made you too.

[diversityinc.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Good on them.

‪Time for rational people to come out of the oppressive closet of religious mythologies and be ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Luckily I live in Australia and we don't have as many of these religious nutters as there seem to be in some other parts of the world, although they still do exist.

‪Time for rational people to come out of the oppressive closet of religious mythologies and be ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Luckily I live in Australia and we don't have as many of these religious nutters as there seem to be in some other parts of the world, although they still do exist.

We atheists and atheist allies hereby declare that from now on, March 23rd is Atheist Day.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Amen to that.

U.S.’s Biggest Christian Charity Reportedly Channeled $56.1 Million to Purported Hate Groups

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Christian in name only.

I have come to the realization that I have no need to discuss issues, current musings and venomous ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Unfortunately he has a lot of mentally ill friends.

14 again!!!!

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Me too, but I want to have the knowledge and wisdom that I have now. Well at least the little bit of it I have acquired over the years.

A survey was recently conducted to study the effects of alcohol on walking.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

There is a reason why I sit down when drunk.

[alternet.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Save them from what exactly?

just some color at the end of a flight last winter

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Gorgeous.

Down 17 lbs. In 2 and a half months. 3 more lbs. To go.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

How did you do it?

i just wanna be clear.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Your ass will every so clean now after all those evangelical people have done your bidding.

It’s over his head....

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

I do so feel sorry for him.

Why am I always hungry?

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Don't worry just eat and drink as much as you like, after all when one gets to a certain age, that is one of the greatest pleasures in life.

'Nones’ now as big as evangelicals, Catholics in the US - Religion News Service

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Unfortunately they don't "advertise" it like the believers do.

How a "Normal" Person Tells a Story vs How I Tell a Story.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Just take a deep breath and start again.

So I had to counsel an employee this week who I had recently hired.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Sack him.

Calling Women "the Office Bunny"

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

I never heard of the office bunny. I though it had something to do with easter.

Life... a happy life requires balance. That's something I have only learned in the last few years.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

And stop comparing yourself to the Kardashians.

There are things I really miss about having a partner.

Jolanta comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Expectations from them towards us and us towards them.

A little something for the Brits..

Jolanta comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Priceless, just priceless.

This is, allegedly, a letter written by Uri Geller to British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Jolanta comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Uri Geller is a fraud.

another perspective on farm fresh eggs

Jolanta comments on Mar 22, 2019:

I am sure that those two in the middle must be duck eggs or it is the mother of all chickens who has laid them.

The regressive left is just as bad as the religious right.

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Just because you personally would not murder anyone because they criticized you doesn't mean that others would not, or we would not have all the problems with people wanting to fight someone for their beliefs.

Just read a piece on a scientist that had been awarded a big award, that said atheism could not ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Sounds like good money wasted to me.

Awesome moment at work.

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Humor wins the day always.

Some of the most truly nasty people I ever met, and fortunately there were not many, espoused ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Funny how that works isn't it. The very "holy, religious" ones are the very immoral perpetrators.

Howdy Folks, I am new and desperately in need of kindred spirits for discussing mutual beliefs.

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

You found us finally. Now you can sit back and relax. Welcome to you from all of us.

The Latest: Mississippi 'heartbeat' abortion law signed

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Children will be born who will starve and women will die.

Will they ever get tired of "atheism is just another religion" argument?

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Hell will freeze over before that happens.

People are desperate for the Messiah alright! [thevintagenews.com]

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Dolts they are.

I resent the fact that I feel the need to proclaim that I am not a Zionist.

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Often we all feel the need to proclaim something or other unfortunately.

Here's what Republicans mean when they talk about freedom.

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

It's freedom for them to do what they want and slavery for every one else.

Hillside in autumn

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Gorgeous. Soon those colors will be in abundance here in Canberra, Australia.

my bouganvilla

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Lovely, we cannot grow bouganvillas, so thank you for posting this one.

Every damn night ? ? ?

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

No, No, No. My pussy was always a very well behaved pussycat.

Pat Robertson: Your neighbor’s Buddha statue ‘will bring curses upon you’ – DeadState

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

For a long time now I have been suspecting that Pat Robertson has an early onset mental disorder and he is somehow making his disciples sick too.

Especially after the Great Depression just saying that every time that we’re not actively fighting...

Jolanta comments on Mar 21, 2019:

It's only profitable for the rich, not the poor.

And so it is..

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

The are just fodder for the rich to get richer.

[yahoo.

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

I doubt it that any changes will happen, even if Murdoch sons doesn't like Donald. So far he has done his fathers bidding.

Bartonella Infection and Sudden Onset Adolescent Schizophrenia: Case Study – Neuroscience News

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Wow, is it curable?

We had a false alarm late last year, but now I'm happy to confirm that I am now officially going to ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Oh, a little "monster" is on its way.

I don't know about you but when I was quite young, I thought I had failed if I were to change an ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

I am a stubborn person and needs to be shown another way to do things.

Finally spring is here???

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Oh, no don't mention it. We are slowly going the other way and I am not looking forward to winter.

An interesting question..

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

I really would like you to answer this.

Does anyone ever feel like they will never find that one person who just gets them?

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

I have met people who "get me" a few times over the years. I just have not been attracted to them.

"I'm not one of these winners who is going to say this win won't change me," he said.

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

I already have a plan for it. I am going to increase my donations to some charities I already donate to and to some new ones. I have some friends that are not as lucky as me that I will make their lives a bit better. I shall buy a house for my children. I will redo my will and leave most of the money to charities of my choosing. I shall get some private salsa dancing lessons once a week. I will be able to have a massage more often than now. I will put in a watering system in my garden and perhaps I may do some travel.

The world outside of us can be chaotic, unpredictable and confusing.

Jolanta comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Beautifully put, but sometimes, just sometimes I fall into a hole of despair and misery and it is so difficult to get out of that hole. I cannot see the light because that hole is so deep and if I am lucky someone comes along and gives me a big push and shove and suddenly I am no longer in that hole, ........... until next time.

Jesus arrives for the second coming. What entrance music does he use and why?

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

He will be singing...Always look at the bright side of life............................

Does science reject atheism?

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Surely not.

What is your idea of a good death?

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

I am in bed and on top of me is George Clueny (that is after him and Amal has parted). I have a heart attack just after the very moment I had an orgasm. And that friends is my happy way of dieing.

I first heard this Harvard Math Professor when, in the late 50s, I was in grade 7 or 8.

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Love it, love it.

West Virginia sues Catholic diocese, charging that it knowingly employed pedophiles. [msn.com]

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

I love them to win, but am very skeptic.

Is the "afterlife" possible without a god or gods?

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

I don't give a fig about the after life. After I am dead there is nothing, just nothing, unless of course the prince will come and kiss me while I lie there in my crystal casket.

As a parent of a special needs child with ADD i get frustrated in search of ways to make my child ...

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Consequences my friend, consequences. Set them into motion and do stick to them. Hard at first but it works if you have the stamina.

151 - Will We Destroy the Future?

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

I think we are doing a wonderful job of destroying the earth as it is and no discussion about anything else will make any difference.

10 easy ways you can tell for yourself that the Earth is not flat | Popular Science

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Flat earthers are beyond reason, science or commons sense. I would not bother just warn them not to stray too far away or they may fall off.

Any reason the Apple app has decided to open to the Groups page instead of the home page now?

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Maybe, but I have no clue.

A question for strong supporters of the state of Israel.

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Give it back to the Palestinians if you cannot live in peace with the people who have been there for yonks.

Some bizarre parallel universe.

Jolanta comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Great I hope other countries will follow if their ambassador is a natzi too.