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Quantum theory hopes to find a single proof that will unify the 4 forces and provide a simple ...

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

Sounds good to me, not sure I have the sort of intelligence to even try to encompass what that would mean; but as I have D.I.D and manage that without believing it and other people cant even imagine it -maybe I am on a track to somewhere

Stapelia grandiflora in bud Unknown Stapelia in bud

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

I like it but its very different to what I usually see

Best Tattoos of July 2018 [youtube.com]

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

blimey! that must have taken forever - ouch!

If you have depression, did atheism contribute to it?

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

No I have always been an atheist never been a theist - depression is something that hits everyone at some point. I think I had to sort of 'get ' the world and how it works - Yes people let you down they die they dont keep their promises etc.etc. and we learn how to cope in such a world as this is all there is. I think truly getting a life is when you achieve some measure of self confidence and build on that get stronger 9not harder ) just stronger enough to take the knocks because it is all so random. One day you have a dog the next day not - you learn to grieve and so it goes ... you learn all the time how to deal with living.

So I've been here on this site for about a week now.

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

I like it here - stay a bit longer and see what people are really talking about also people do have different sense of humours as we are from all different countries here and it i s quite good fun too trying to 'get ' the difference.

Good morning fellow gardeners! I've a question for the experts here.

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

My parents made on e a long time ago by digging out the shape you use a rope and decide where the slopes will be then take out the rocks and save the big ones for the fish to cool themselves under put in sand and make that smooth, then a thick concrete mix on top when its dry you need it to cure in the sun for quite some time tehn again with water in it my parents made a little wooden bridge across theirs again to give the fish more shade and also to be able to get nearer to them

Make your anger an ally by learning what makes you angry, then by realizing why you get angry.

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

I love my anger dont get it very often as I am pretty placid but whoosh when it comes its brilliant!

Their are things that can be proven to be unprovable.

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

there is no 'we' constituency that fears what we dont know some of us do some of us dont - I fond it very difficult to un include myself from people 'we'-ing. Life is enough

If you could change anything about this world to better it, what would it be?

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

get rid of money work together

Monday morning is here! So, iced Latte in honor of the heat, or a hot latte because it tastes ...

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

hot black coffee please no sugar large.

scary smart Samantha Bee clip on Trump and the improbability of impeachment. :( [youtube.com]

jacpod comments on Jul 30, 2018:

yes please!

Does anybody else cringe at the sound of someone’s saying,” Thank you Jesus for dying on the ...

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

I am cringing constantly around such people - don't get many of them here .

I'm posing nude for an art class tonight.

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

I did do this once - It was quite an experience I was at art college and the usual model couldnt make it so I stepped up to the plate it takes an incredible amount of energy to maintain poses for even just five minutes I had enormous respect for here when she came back the next week adn she was pregnant too.

Snipped off Twitter and so true.

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

Totally onside with you on this! I hates my govt.

I hate platitudes, how about you?

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

sometimes they seem to be conforting enough to live with as you know that the person giving you one is really probably doing their best to help and thats ok in itself -and some problems are pretty much unfixable so a platitude might just work - It doesnt really bother me recieving them as Iknow the person is trying their best and not fobbing me off they usually just dont know what to say.

So what is your favorite Sunday morning routine with your coffee?

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

My friend and I meet up every morning to do the pub quiz in the newspaper, we have coffee and biscuits together and just have a riotous time laughing ,we both live in the same sheltered accomodation scheme so the routine is about 8-30 a.m each day - Its usually Ok but sometimes th cleaners want to get in on our fun - time and they usually turn the convo into some version of 'isnt it awful!' so we have to find ways to get rid of them

I think it's so brave of people in the last years of their lives to remain atheistic.

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

I wasnt afraid of living so i reckon that dying is going to be a lot easier also I never ever was religious in any shape or form - doesnt seem to make the fear of dying any easier for us either way its going to happen - I will be extremely gobsmacked if I do find myself sitting on a cloud wrapped in a white long nightie.

Being religious is the most useless lifestyle in the world today.

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

totally agree with you !

When did you tell your parents?

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

Didnt have to, my whole extended family were atheists mainly because of the war. My grandmother and grandfather lived in the East End on the docks the worst bombed place in the whole of england - It would be hard to believe in anything after 6 years of that plus rationing.

We athiests and agnostics need a flag, any thoughts on what it should look like?

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

The International sign of co-operation is a rainbow flag, because it contains all the colours of all the flags of all nations - I have one outside my door - (not on a flagpole). It started in Rochdale because the workers were given flour adulterated with talc so they formed the Rochdale Pioneers and set up their own shop in Toad lane to supply good healthy food and demand better wages.Also no one with money can order a rainbow they are for us all and cone and go with weather changes nothing to do with us. But its a real pleasure to see a double rainbow!

Are their any other sober/recovering alcoholics in this group ( I consider my alcoholism just to be ...

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

I got off alcohol without AA - my partner went to it though and did all the twelve steps, recently he has been going back and its always the goddy stuff that stops him in the end - He has been sober longer than i have but just likes to swing into meetings at times but seems like that is waning now because of his realisation of the goddiness- It is written down I think that you dont have to believe in god as the high er power but it always seems to end up that way in the actual running of the meeting

Checking out my sunflowers today, and wanted to share.

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

wowser!

How do I ask a doctor for antidepressants?

jacpod comments on Jul 29, 2018:

Some anti depressants need to build up in your body before they start to work effectively. Maybe keep an open mind or go to another doctor to test if they give you the same meds . If so them thats all they have in their armoury to help you.

We athiests and agnostics need a flag, any thoughts on what it should look like?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

Interesting thoughts but think I prefer to be incognito that way no one can snigger- I dont actually like the idea of 'pride' I understnad it from a gay persons point of view but given that I have never had a god ever it doesnt appeal to me to 'out 'myself in any way - I fell like just any old regular person .A bit like groucho Marx saying he wouldnt belong to any club that would have him. Sorry .

Social media - how do you use it?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I go to facebook for friends and only have a small circle _ I do like to vent a bit about our current government so its a good place to get my system cleansed sometimes have a good belly laugh . I do like reading anything there by Noam Chomsky and I love all the pictures of Theresa May looking silly apart from all that I am not sure it makes me a better person - I feel more of a piece on here. More real .

The Truth! Impeach, imprison and execute the Orange moron trump!

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

yes I would love it if the above was attempted.

I’m in a pretty bad depression swing.

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I find that saying the above sort of comment gently - 'you have attempted suicide unsuccessfully twice this year why are you now taking your disappointments in life out on me? I think your gentleness is the key because it undoes people, and she surely is in trouble and need of some gentleness because of the harshness she is giving out to others nad herself.

I'm due back at work on the seventh and am already suffering anxiety and sadness.

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

Breathing helps - when anxious breathing all but stops - nice steady breaths even steeadier when panic threatens calm voice even if you dont feel it fake it till you make it? All my sympathy I have been here too, it sucks but there is an end to it .

I have noticed an uptick in religious based shows on tv lately.

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

we watch mainly films on netflix and documentaries- Quite like detective series and also funny quiz shows like "Have I got News for You" and "Room 101."

What moral code do you follow now that you are non-religious?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I have always been non religious and I follow my own codes which change at my whim according to what is goign down - there was a book called the water babies (not a great read - religious connotations all teh way through ) There was a character called 'Mrs Do as you would be done by!' and I rather liked that .Basically I live and let live and if I am totally peed off by anybody I let them know ; and if they are insufferable I blank them - If I have friends they are people I can have a really good laugh with.

What is your response when people threaten you with religious punishments? (i.e. Hell/Jahannam)

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

Laughter & " Come on then - bring it on!" I'll see you there!

This is very similar to a question I posed several weeks ago, but it's such an interesting topic, ...

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

Thankfully , being a lifelong atheist i havent met anyone like this at all. I have had people say I will pray for you and in my mind I think 'yes - if prayer worked we might have had world peace by now - like thats going to solve everything! Strangely I can see the point in something like prayer /meditation/anything mind calming

Does aggressive antitheism beget anti-atheism?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I don't know I am slightly conflicted by this as i feel all views are valid and that saying some are worse than others is limiting our capacity to make our own judgements - i seriously only care about my own thoughts; and so what if there are backlashes! this is what discussion and self-will is for - we are doing it here, right now & just because i dont agreee with you doesn't mean that I will not defend your right to say it

How many of you live in the moment as much as possible?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I don't wan to sound weird but I don't think I have the capacity not to do that - Its possibly because I have D.I.D - I don't know but I just seem to live seamlessly without thought - I get immersed in what I am doing and that is all there is, like just picking out weeds or watering and my head doesn't seem to run around needing entertainment - I have friends who are the opposite so I understand and not sure which of us is luckier

It has been discussed, and I wonder if people understand what love is, even from other species.

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I have always held that love is the absence of fear - fear is a big 'stopper' love seems a big 'go-for- it! there was a set of short stories by some philosopher whose name I cannot remember one of them was a man was going to jump off tower bridge and a policeman saw it and knew if he tried to save him he too might perish but in the moment of weighing up he realised that this would endanger his whole sense of himself and his humanity - -they both survived.

What does spiritual mean to those of you who list that as part of your identity?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

The numinous -Whatever is to you, mysterious or awe inspiring.Although I havent found anything yet that would really fit that description - Maybe hte nearest i ever got to something like this was the big ride at alton towers.

Sorry guys, its your turn

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

I think its all about choice and depends upon which man and which woman and probably throw in life experiences and if there has been historical abuse in any part of the family - I think it would take forever to write the pros and cons. better maybe just to give it a go and then if you need it ,a no.!

What is the difference between faith and belief?

jacpod comments on Jul 28, 2018:

one probably works whilst the other is a bit of a lottery

How do you tell religious people that you're an atheist?