I still have some that I bought back in 1973, do you still have your old Tupperware?

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

not i! i'll tell you what, though: when i finish up a tub of butter spread, i don't throw away the tub. it's great for leftovers, cut-up fruit, just about anything, frozen, refrigerated or room-temperature (like flour or noodles or lentils). why buy it when you already have something just as good? the writing on it is offensive? tupperware was ugly to start with lol g

When I made the earlier post of Montserrat Caballe singing Vivaldi the sad news of her death had not...

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

oh no, did she just die? she was wonderful. i am so sorry. g

I miss Saturday morning coffee time in bed the most. My singleness is not very fulfilling today.

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

i am in self-imposed loneliness right now because i can't even kiss my guy. he is getting over a nasty cold and he ever so kindly gave it to me, and i have it worse than he ever did! we don't want to pass these germs back and forth. coffee wouldn't do me any good right now... i need him to learn to cook so he can make me breakfast! i've had nothing but a few pretzels (for the salt, for my throat) for the last 24 hours. i wonder if he could manage some fried eggs? anyway sorry you're lonely. but think of all the germs you're escaping! g

Im curious to know how many people believe that after the age of 60-65 or even older that they are ...

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

i didn't meet my special guy until i was 48 and he was almost 52. we're 66 and a half and 70 now and still in love. g

I love these two, although I think Rory could have done better than Amy who was terribly mean to him...

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

even nice people can be grumpy and mean to each other sometimes. and yes, they got as definitive as they're likely to get identifying jack as the face of boe. g

I've often heard the phrase 'I'd rather be lucky than good at something'.

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

i have never heard that, and i sure wouldn't hear it from my own lips. but one makes one's own luck, to an extent. yeah you can be unlucky and be at a concert, for example where suddenly there is a shooter -- you can hardly be expected to be able to predict that and be blamed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but on the other hand, one expression i have heard is "opportunity only knocks once," meaning you have to be AWARE of your luck and take advantage of it, or it's meaningless. that means being good at something, even if what you're good at is recognizing opportunity. g

One of the arguments made by the religious, is that religion/scripture is the source of our ...

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

you haven't seen the arguments against that? i've MADE the arguments against that. one doesn't need a big inconsistent fat book to be moral. morality comes from within. a lawbook isn't a morality book. there may be coinciding principles but that doesn't make them the same thing. g

Having to explain, most of my life, why being bi doesn't mean I cheat and why I post that I am ...

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

indeed! i have a friend who is bi, and he ended up staying with his wife because -- big shock -- he actually LOVES her. they have two kids and have grown old together, though not as old as i, mwahahaha, as i'll always be a couple of years ahead. so he falls in love with the actor instead of the actress in a movie; that's not cheating! if one is straight and attracted to the opposite sex, does that mean one goes about screwing all members of the opposite sex? one makes one's choice, right? why should it be different for anyone who has a wider range of potential targets (so to speak)? people want to define each other in the oddest ways, to make sure there is always "the other." i suppose it's disappointing for some folks to find out that most people are more the same than they are different. g

FACEBOOK CRAPOLA - My FB feed is filled with pro-Xian, pro-Trump, right wing rhetoric.

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

i don't know. where DID you get them? from the looks of your comment, you got yours at least partly the way i got mine. we're both writers and want as many readers as possible; my facebook page is totally public. i also used to play some facebook games (the two games i still play are not facebook games) and we all needed a fat friends list to play properly. some of my game friends turned out to be highly compatible, and others turned out t be racists or superchristians.... feh! we have made adjustments over the years. if i see racist crap on my page, that "friend" gets unfriended. if someone is a republican, that's not reason enough to unfriend all by itself, but i they turn to namecalling, out they go. it works out, for the most part. that doesn't mean my facebook feed is in a liberal bubble -- far from it. it just means i don't have to scroll through much vitriol aimed at me, for example. g

THE HAUNTED MANCHIN - Why doesn't Joe Manchin just take that final step and officially register...

genessa comments on Oct 6, 2018:

he is a horrible necessity. i wish he would get his ass primaried, but the fact is, he was not primaried; he won his primary. so now we most desperately need a blue majority. what's the difference, you might ask, since he's going to vote with the repugs anyway. the difference is in how the senate itself will behave with a blue majority. the difference will be in what there is to vote on, and how much info the senators get about each bill instead of voting blind. a blue senate could and would order a REAL fbi investigation, or a real senate investigation, and write real bills. people like manchin wouldn't be put in charge of committees. he's just be a blue tushie in a seat that needs to be blue. did i mention horrible necessity? maybe the alternative, an actual republican from west virginia, would not make a difference in terms of that one vote, but the blue tushie would make a WORLD of difference. only in a red senate could manchin's bad votes be so devastating. g

To be or not to be!!!!!

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

do be do be do -- frank sinatra g

Tell me about a time you got stitches or had a broken bone.

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

http://sh1.webring.com/people/wg/genessa/bless.htm somehow the page is all squooshed and i am not sure why but i am really sick right now and not inclined to fix it. sorry. it's still legible i think. g

Smarter children,?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

all my kids are furbabies and they are WAY smarter than we humans are. g

I had got to thinking about Thanksgiving and what it means and the story we were told as kids was ...

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

we already have that kind of day for native americans on october 12, which used to be columbus day, at least here in minnesota. thanksgiving can be translated into a general awareness that some of us have it good and others of us don't; we don't have to celebrate the story (i never did). g

All former theists in this group, now that you have slipped the surly bonds of religion, what is ...

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

sorry, i believed in personal god until i was 15 but was not surrounded by particularly religious people, least of all my family, secular jews. i still got pennies thrown at me for being jewish; no one knew or cared that i was an atheist; no one asked. i didn't announce one way or another when job-seeking, later, but was denied some jobs for being jewish. only one job was affected by my being an atheist, and the boss really shouldn't have asked. i answered honestly. so... no trauma, really. i'd already gotten beaten up and called names and chased around for being jewish BEFORE i realized there were no gods, and i wasn't religious then; all i had to do was have a jewish name and i got dissed for that. being an atheist? online is where i take shit for it, but only from strangers, and who cares about that? g

I'm not sure the best of humanity wants to be in power.

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i have always said that you have to be a little nuts to allow yourself to do the things it is necessary to do to become president. so our choice is: do we want start wwiii nuts, or do we want can't keep it in his pants nuts? i am not talking about rape with the latter, just the usual, per fdr, eisenhower, jfk and bill clinton. do they do their jobs and have an annoying quirk that's really between them and their families and their extramaritals, or do they destroy the social safety net, destroy democracy, destroy our standing in the world and ultimately destroy the planet? tough choice, huh? g

What happened to the internet?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

you think it's the fault of the medium? it's the people. g

Will time one day end ?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

you mean space/time? it may change in nature. we have no reason to think it will end and stay finished. g

My sisters read these when young

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

when i was eight i read my dad's college psych texts. mom got kind of worried so she got me a nancy drew book, the secret of larkspur lane. from this book i learned: 1. amber is both a substance and a color, 2. some people believe in reincarnation, 3. larkspur is a blue flower, 4. ned nickerson is a ridiculous name and a useless character and 5. it is annoying when an author constantly picks on one of nancy's friends for being fat. that was the only nancy drew book i ever read. g

Atheist political party

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

in canada? no clue. in the united states? at the moment, we still have seven states that wouldn't let an atheist run for office. g

This Kavanaugh confirmation has shed some light on these FBI investigative background checks for me.

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

the skeletons are the least of kavanaugh's problems. he's unfit on every possible level, from temperament to extreme beliefs to disregard for the rule of law or the concept of justice to being a misogynistic pig (my apologies to pigs). g

Scammers! Just a PSA that a common scam I've encountered on POF recently happened here.

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i've only been approached by one scammer here, not military-claiming and didn't get far enough to ask for money. he asked me to tell him all about myself. i found that odd and annoying, especially since my profile clearly says i am here for the community, when asked what i was up to i said i was cooking dinner for my guy, and that i mentioned after he persisted that i was in a relationship. but the big thing wasn't his ignoring those things. it was the whole idea that someone on social media, where i am active in posting and not shy about what i think and feel, should want me to make a little list for them of what i think and feel. instant friendship, eh? that just doesn't happen. so i told him in no uncertain terms how weird that was, and reiterated that i have a guy -- so he responded by saying he wanted to be my very close friend. that's when let him have it. same scam, different details. the military version is one of many. and yes, his english was broken. he CLAIMED to be from, or at least in, tennessee, which last time i looked was in the united states lol g

Why do we identify with a political party because both are strange

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

neither of your answers suits me, and your question is a bit on the loaded side. anyway we only have one major political party. we also have a criminal organization, currently in power. my assessment has nothing to do with tribalism, nothing to do with who is "correct" and nothing to do with strangeness. it has to do with what each party, on the whole, and most of its representatives, believes in and works for. those who think both parties are the same have not been paying attention... or have been paying attention to propaganda. g

Have you all seen the movie "RBG" about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Notorious RBG! IT is so ...

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i had no chance to see it and i really wanted to, too! i don't get out much. g

How do you satisfy your creative itch?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i am a writer. in addition, i paint a little, craft jewelry a lot but only in spurts, draw badly on napkins and cook. g

We fund people with pets and having difficulty taking care of them due to financial problem.

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

can you be specific about what you mean by caring for the animals? do you mean as in taking animals away from poor or sick people or helping poor or sick people take care of their animals? g

Should prostitution be legal?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

yes of course it should. the fact that it reflects the objectification of women (and men, in the case of male prostitution) is not a reason to keep it criminalized. some iterations of marriage do that; all advertising does that. they're not illegal. keeping prostitution criminalized means keeping its control in the hands of criminals, and keeping it more objectifying than it has to be. at least let women be in control of what they do with their own bodies, and meanwhile we can work on education that might change people's attitudes about who is what. there will be less sexually transmitted disease, less human trafficking, less interest on the part of criminals, less blackmail. everything we (or a number of us) don't approve of, for a variety of reasons, doesn't have to be a crime. g

Are christmas decorations out in your local shops or is it only an Australian curse?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i don't get out much but i did actually get taken into a couple of retail outlets three days ago, and there was hallowe'en everywhere, no christmas in sight. g

Gratitude?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i agree, especially since i've never been christian. g

How do u react are what do u do ?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

the only time that ever happened to me i said "i agree with mark twain, who said (i approximate here) 'i am glad god does not exist, for if he exists, surely he is a malign thug.'" it didn't go over well. i was young. i should have said "it is against the law to ask me that" because this was my boss asking. i don't know if it is or was against the law for a coworker to ask in casual conversation, so maybe "that is personal" would be the best answer if you don't feel like sharing. g

What would your pet name you?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

mama. even my grandkittens. i had one cat who actually called me mama. he figured it out all by himself, too! g

I find it to be interesting, from a psychological standpoint, that the people who get the most upset...

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

sometimes being polite is inappropriate behavior. g

When you hear people praying on the radio or TV, do you turn the sound off or change the channel?

genessa comments on Oct 5, 2018:

i don't usually hear much of that, maybe a little in passing, too brief to worry about. g

Alright you heathens, what's your favorite movie with a religious storyline or narrative?

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

there is some good religion parody in little big man. does that count? g

How many of you attend services, but are agnostic?

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i do not regularly attend services; i like certain ones, especially the high holy days (as they are called). but i am not an agnostic. i am an atheist. g

Party Affiliation

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

note please that this will be a small sample, even from within this smallish site, and not mean much. still could be interesting of course. g

Pets you have or had

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i can't vote for just one; i'm old and have had, and still have, a lot of pets. i've had dogs and cats, a white mouse, a newt, some goldfish, some parakeets, a finch and, briefly, a preying mantis. he wasn't really a pet; he just decided to hang out in my mailbox. g

One of my favorite Einstein quotes..

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

yeah, i love that one. i loved when he tweeted it. g

Seems my antagonizer deleted his comments. good.... wasnt in the mood

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i had one block me and it seemed therefore to me that he had deleted his comments. others told me they saw them, so i guess not! i guess it doesn't matter that much which it is, as long as the issue is over, eh? g

It's been a while since I posted on here.

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i don't understand what christian values are. are people who have never been christian devoid of morals or ethics? why do they even have to be called christian values? are they not human values? i have never been christian a day in my life, and i have ethics and morals. why do these have to be identified as christian? g

How do you feel about this ?

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

why were you looking at fox news? you like propaganda? g

I wonder how many grapes have to lose their manhood to make a box of Grape Nuts...

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i have wondered the same thing about matzaballs. g

Friends I find myself confuzzled.

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i guess so! look, i met a guy who believed that everything in the universe is a conspiracy, primary among them on his list the moon landing. he had a nice home with a nice wife and kids, and he was kindly, if rather quiet, and as far as i am concerned totally insane, on that one little basis. i don't think his wife, who was my friend at the time, believed what he did. she laughed it off. i am not sure i could laugh such things off and your experience strikes me as par for the course, but par for the course is "people are strange." g

What is law? Is it " to uphold the moral values of society" or is it "to prevent harm to others?"

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

laws are theoretically to ensure civil peace and safety, but bad lawmakers will persist in making bad laws for their own purposes, g

Unequally Yoked?

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

is there any possibility you can be completely frank with her and sit down and talk about your prospects? g

I just don't understand how people can stand being alone.

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

i love being alone, though not all the time. i like being with people too, and i like being with my guy... love being with him, but you know what? i still need my alone time too. now it IS different having him. most of my life i was alone whether i wanted to be alone or not. i had boyfriends sometimes, but lived alone, never was in love, nor was anyone in love with me. the past 18 years (and i am 66 and a half now) have been quite different. it was an adjustment, when we finally began to live together. even spending so much time together was an adjustment. i do love my alone time! only for someone i love would i give that up... and i still tell him when i want to be alone. g

Have you stopped watching a TV show, or listening to a musician due to their political beliefs?

genessa comments on Oct 4, 2018:

oddly no. for the most part, those who not only hold different views from mine but hold them vehemently, do not attract me to start with, whether i know those views or not. the exception would be bill cosby. i never cared about his sitcom; i don't like sitcoms. but i loved i spy, and i used his english language teaching materials when i taught english as a second language. his betrayal of humanity surprised me (though much earlier than the general public, i must say -- i found out in 1996) and saddened me. i think i can still watch i spy, though. it isn't usually on, so it's a moot point at the moment. g

That's an invasion of privacy! Did I give you my f king number?.... Trump =ass

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

i guess i am lucky my phone is broken. g

I wonder if the presidential alert caused any car accidents.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

i don't text. i don't read texts. i don't have an alert set for texts. the president can text me every minute of every day and i won't know it. g

The existing/non existing Universe

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

yeah. none of that is precisely what scientists are currently thinking. no one talks about the expanding wave of existence being time passing. they're talking about space-time, and some are thinking the big bang wasn't the beginning, that something happened before it. and there is no such thing as the present. as soon as you've noticed it, it's the past. exception: the dentist's office. that's one big long present. g

Who all likes this drink? I remember my mother drink it back in the day.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

ewww not me! i don't drink pop anyway but when i did, it sure wasn't tab. i favored ginger beer. but i have not drunk pop for years and the last time i did, it was for medicinal purposes and turned out badly. i was always nauseated so i asked my guy to bring me some ginger ale (ginger beer is hard to get). he did. it relieved the nausea, but then it would come back full force, so i'd drink more ginger ale. i wasn't used to drinking pop but i hated the nausea. when i finally got to see my doc and get a blood test, she turned to me and said "you have diabetes, my dear!" that was the last time i had ANY pop. it had been years and years before that anyway. as i say, i only drank it that one short period of time to relieve the nausea, and it didn't cause the diabetes. it sure exacerbated it! g

Made chopped liver yesterday-came out great 1 container chicken livers 4 hard boiled eggs 1 ...

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

alternative recipe that i use: put chicken livers in blender with one apple and one onion, seasoned to taste (i use my own seasoned salt made of 1/3 kosher or sea salt and the rest paprika, garlic powder, bay and celery seed). heat a pan whose bottom is just covered with canola oil. when it's nice and hot, pour in the contents of the blender and cover. when it looks like a big pancake, turn it out. fluff it with a fork; it's chopped! cool, add mayo, serve. g

Well, about two hours ago my guy got hauled off to the e.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

further update: he is coming home, and i am glad but disgruntled, since all they will say is "he had a nosebleed." no explanation of whatever is congesting him as if he has a cold or flu, no explanation of why he was dehydrated enough to need an i.v. drip, just "he had a nosebleed." g

What makes you feel most alive?

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

breathing. no, i'm not joking; i have asthma. g

Well, about two hours ago my guy got hauled off to the e.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

update: he's sleeping, which i should also be, and dehydrated, which neither of us should be (i'm not), and has an i.v. in with fluids. second time dehydrated and in hospital in three weeks. no tests have come back yet so i am going to try to crash. i expect there will be a message awaiting me when i wake up. g

Michelle O.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

she's wonderful but she has made it VERY clear she wants nothing to do with running for office. meanwhile if we don't have a big blue wave next month, there won't be anything approaching an honest election in 2020 and it won't matter who's running. g

Do you love where you live?

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

where i live now is good in some ways, not in others. i am in the twin cities. i loved living in los angeles, and i adored living in new york. i would have liked to live right in town instead of brooklyn but, you know... money! i do not recommend florida unless you like humidity, old people on drugs driving on the sidewalks, and rick scott. g

Kitten escapes cage to play with puppy. [youtu.be]

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

when our now-late sheltie, sarah, was a puppy, our cat, penny, had her second litter, and she was so neurotic about protecting them that we put sarah in a big cage when the kittens were downstairs. they wanted to go in and play with her, and there was much communicating between the thin bars. when they were big enough, sarah had the run of the house again and the kittens were her besties. now the two who loved her best, and she herself, are gone. we have a young dog, ramona, who is much smaller than a sheltie, and somewhat smaller than the father of those kittens, tevye. he's 15 now, and his surviving kids are 14. penny is 16 and a half. the dog will be two this month, and she loves tevye because he puts his arm around her and kisses her. she goes to him and begs for it. she even lets him sleep in her bed -- sometimes with her, sometimes alone, sometimes with his younger daughter, kuma. he has ramona trained! cats and dogs don't have to be enemies :-)) g

With all the craziness that is floating around in the world, what are your thoughts that some ...

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

which scientists, exactly, are saying this? g

The meaning of life.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

i don't understand why we have to redefine god, which already has a range of meanings all having to do with deities. i'm not god, i'm not part of god. god's not broken into pieces. there just aren't any gods. there's nobody to "put" us in anything. this is life, not a vacation. this all sounds very silly to me. g

Please, i don't want your comment if you will be angry

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

i'm not angry but i think your post is total nonsense. g

Everything can change, Yes everything, with a smile .

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

nope, definitely not everything. some things, even many things, but not everything. g

Something I find interesting, members on here trying to encourage conformity without realizing it.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

i have never seen anyone publicly asking others to do that except in one group. i can't speak for what people ask in private messages. now, if you're on the dating side of this site, it's natural to want some info. if not, it's nobody's business how much or little you choose to share. g

"Religion is a crutch for the weak.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

it is easy to see things all black and white, but people have been known to compartmentalize. some people are brilliant in some areas and idiots in others. not all people who believe in a god or gods are idiots. they do this one idiotic thing, but that doesn't mean they are weak all over, or even weak; they may have other reasons. i use frank zappa as an example; i used it once before elsewhere and the response that he was an idiot. the respondent didn't get it at all. this is the thing: frank zappa was brilliant. he really was. but regarding cigarettes he was an idiot. he didn't just say oh i know it causes cancer and heart disease and all that but i can't help it. no. instead, he was convinced that cigarettes were totally harmless, right up to the moment they killed him. stupid! so does that negate all the brilliance? same with religion. now, we know lots of weakminded, idiotic religionists, but that doesn't mean everyone who believes in a god is an idiot. they're just idiots about THAT. g

Trump has a new toy.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

my phone isn't working. i can't turn it off without pulling the battery, and i can't turn it all the way on either. i guess i'm gonna miss the big event. good! but i still wish my phone worked. g

Ask Questions; Don't Declare Atheism Right Away! When asked if I'm atheist, I ask what that means.

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

my job isn't to convince anyone not to be religious (and by the way, not all theists are christian). my job is to be who i am and make sure that my rights are not legislated, executed or adjudicated away by theocrats, nor stomped on locally be ignorant religionists. if they continue to believe whatever they do and it doesn't violate the rights of others, it's not my business. g

I have noticed that, much like other discussion groups that I have joined, the majority seem to be ...

genessa comments on Oct 3, 2018:

i have seen both men and women here. i haven't counted how many of each. g

Relative Reality The same reality can be quite different from the perspective of two different ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

it matters if you're trying to accomplish something either alone while thwarted by those with a different perception of reality, or in concert with others who cannot agree with pertinent perceptions of yours. otherwise, not so much. g

While sleeping when it's warm I like to leave one leg outside the covers in order to moderate body ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i always sleep with my feet uncovered unless it's horribly cold. i thought it was just a quirk of mine but my mother, on her deathbed, doped up on morphine and slipping into a coma, kept kicking the covers off her feet. the nurses kept replacing them until i made them stop. "she wants her feet free," i told them. g

Do you believe that a cure for cancer exists, but it's not available to the public because medical ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i cannot vote because neither choice is precisely true. it IS about the money, that much is true, but no, the cure does not exist, not only because the money wasn't spent properly for research but because there are many kinds of cancer and one cure wouldn't fit all. there is no cure sitting around being suppressed, unless you count marijuana, which is limited in its scope but shown to shrink cancer cells. g

Yes, I can burn the quran the same way I can wipe my ass with the torah and let a dog piss on the ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

the people who are burning the quran are not doing those other things. they're burning it because it's muslim. they would be outraged at your doing anything to the christian bible, and torah resembles the christian old testament somewhat so they might object to that too. they're selective in their disrespect. meanwhile, i have feelings for books, and fantasy is an interesting genre. i'd rather piss on the people when they're bigots than on the books. g

This is very beautiful family, accept all my respect .

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

marriage happens for many reasons, some better than others, and by "better" i mean better for the individuals involved. some marry to give their children a name and legal legitimacy. some marry because they've been raised to think that this is the "happily ever after" they've been taught their whole lives to seek. others marry because they belong to a religion that says this is how to live. but some people marry because without being married it is more difficult to have legal standing with regard to the other person, because hospital staff sometimes won't give you any information about the other person without looking up to see if your name is on a permission list, or make decisions about that person if necessary, because if the other person dies social security and the military and a whole host of other entities won't honor spouse benefits... lots of legal, financial stuff. and some people get married because they like the pretty wedding ceremony and want the nice prezzies. g

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

says alan dundes. it is easy enough, and a good idea, to attribute your quotations. g

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

it is best to give credit where it's due when quoting. george bernard shaw is the author of that statement. g

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

nope. not all. not by any means all. but yes, religious belief, or at least its appearance, was enforced in the dark ages. i think we're veering into another dark age. g

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

don't touch them! they've got religion on them! ewww! g

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i laugh at people who tell me that i cannot be a good, ethical, moral person without religion. those people are ignorant. g

ELIZABETH WARREN FOR PREZ?

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i cannot begin to predict. we may have a primary full of candidates or only two or three, and warren may or may not be among them. surely someone we haven't yet met will be, too. whoever wins the democratic primary has my vote, but right now i'm concentrating on 2018. g

I did big giant rant on Facebook on how the Good Old Days never existed, and is only acceptable to ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i don't hear much longing for the good ol' days from anyone who isn't also deluded in other, even more important ways (like being bigots, thinking trump is a real president and thinking democrats eat christian babies for lunch, which is ridiculous; they're obviously only dinner entrées).

Just a thought. Donald Trump and the Bible are similar in so many ways. Agree or Disagree?

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

nope. the bible is a work of fiction. the fact that people lie about it or take it for true isn't the bible's fault. people did the best they could at the time. (i am referring to the jewish bible. i cannot speak about the christian bible as i am not so familiar with it, never having been christian or interested enough to explore it.) trump, on the other hand, is a liar, himself, and an ill-tempered, ignorant, illiterate one at that. trump couldn't even get THROUGH a bible, or even a better book. g

Question, Was there one deciding event/factor that occurred in your life that made you become a non ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

it was silly. i was raised in a secular jewish household. we didn't really talk about religion, though sometimes we talked about jewishness, as in ethnic identity (a phrase that didn't exist yet). my folks didn't like rock n roll and decided that long-haired boys were dirty and rebellious. i discovered that this wasn't necessarily so and decided that if i'd been wrong to accept that without question, there might be other beliefs/opinions i held that weren't true either. i examined everything i held as true and god went right out the window. easy peasy. no trauma, though a bit of a surprise. i was 15. g

How annoyed do you get when a religious person give all credit to god, despite it was you that may ...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

mazel tov on the weight loss, and i am totally jealous of your energy and determination. yes, yours, not that of some fictional character! but even if there was a god of some sort, it still would be your agency, not its, that did the deed. some people are just so brainwashed. g

If I created an exact duplicate of you, including memories, personality, and appearance, would it be...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

possible for whom? i'd know! the clone might know. others? geez, people misread me even when there's only one of me. for many, maybe most, it would be impossible. all? not sure. g

Hello newbie what's up? New phone what's dis?

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

lol did you mean this to be a private message to someone? g

I was ghosted by a potential date when I revealed I didn’t believe in astrology.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

silly, eh? "what's your sign" is a common pickup line; it's odd when it turns out to be a dealbreaker. but what's ghosted? (i'm not in the dating scene, so if it's a term relating to that, i am ignorant!) g

Heya .

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

patience is a mixed bag. waiting for something one has done to come to fruition is one thing; waiting for the world to fall at one's feet is another, right? the right combination is effort and patience. g

WEll either im a total failure here or nobody uses this service,,, nicemeetin ya'll bye i'll prolly...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i just checked your profile. nice enough profile except that you really can't expect people to look you up in the phone book and call you for no reason -- post, make yourself known so people want to get to know you! in addition, it's fine that you're religious. everyone is welcome here. however, realistically, you can't really expect a whole lot of women to fall at your feet (for a variety of reasons but chiefly for this one) from a site that is pointedly for the irreligious. g

WEll either im a total failure here or nobody uses this service,,, nicemeetin ya'll bye i'll prolly...

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

care to elaborate? i can't tell, from this post, what the problem is. plenty of people use the site, and i'm not willing to call you a failure, especially when i don't know at WHAT. you might try using tags for your post.... g

Be care you can't get away from them!

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

i couldn't get away from them even in japan! that's a bit like finding them on the moon. g

Cowboys and Aliens ... myth legend & conspiracy.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

so... was there something you wanted to SAY about this? g

Plagiarism, anyone?

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

misattributing a quotation isn't plagiarism. it's stupid and can so easily be checked, but it's not plagiarism -- unless you're misattributing it to yourself of course! plagiarism is in fact a serious problem but that's not what this poll is about, right? i've written about this before and the gist of what i think is that 1. you can and should check it before you post it; it IS important, and 2. even if the quotation isn't being attributed to the pictured party, it should at least jibe with the known ideas/feelings/position of the pictured party. it should also be clear WHETHER the words are being attributed or just reflective of this ideas/feelings/positions (for example, the gene wilder as willie wonke memes and the most interesting man in the world memes -- no one thinks those guys are really saying those things, but if the memes say something that don't FIT with those images, it's not just weird, it's dishonest). g

So I told my mom this past weekend that I am Agnostic.

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

when i realized, at age 15, there were no gods, it didn't even occur to me to mention it to my parents. i didn't think they'd be interested. i wasn't afraid or nervous; it just never crossed my mind. decades later, someone asked me what my parents believed and i realized that i had no idea! so i called them long distance and asked them. they were surprised, a little annoyed that i was spending the money to ask them such a silly question, and unsure of their own answers. they hadn't given it much thought. g

Homosexuality?

genessa comments on Oct 2, 2018:

it is none of those things. it is likely mostly genetic. it is not something that should have a judgment attached to it; it just is what it is. humans are not alone in being sexually diverse. it's nobody's business who loves whom, and it's even kind of silly to try to find out where it comes from, as if it's a disease. it's not. furthermore, it doesn't really matter how we see it. it is what it is regardless of how someone sees it. it's like asking what you think of people's being tall, or short-waisted, or born in canada. it's a nonissue! g

Horoscopes....does yours fit you? ?

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

that's not actually a description of my sign, pisces. now, we all know astrology is total bunk, right? i know it. you know it. for some reason, though, i am a totally typical pisces. go figure. it doesn't change my mind about astrology but it is pretty spooky. g

Sunday JazzMusic Post: Turiya and Ramakrishna by Alice Coltrane [youtube.

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

good stuff, that! g

Does anyone think the X-Files is annoying, because it's so full of religious talk, or is it cool ...

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

i have always found it annoying on MANY levels. g

I have noticed a few fake profiles creeping in.

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

i was approached yesterday. i have the approacher a chance to prove my instincts wrong. he proved them right. ugh. g

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

no. it really is not possible. why would you ask that on a site mostly populated by agnostics and atheists? i think you can anticipate the answers! g

What's worse?

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

case by case; no way to generalize. physical abuse can culminate in murder, making the other two kinds moot. emotional abuse can culminate in suicide, making the other two kinds moot. verbal abuse IS emotional abuse. g

I've studies and prepared for the past 6 weeks, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to pass an exam.

genessa comments on Oct 1, 2018:

i have a suggestion how to respond to such a thing: "thank you for your kind thoughts. it pleases me that you were proud of the hard work i did to pass this exam. i appreciate your faith in my abilities." g