@Gwendolyn2018 I think that a lot of good Christian people are gonna think the same way.

@Gwendolyn2018 To much trouble.

All the people who are helping the people who are covid + are satanists. WOW!

Yes , may I help u ?

@Pralina1 Damn, you finally got a picture of me trying to sleep.

@dalefvictor ♥️♥️♥️

@Pralina1 you guys have to get a room!

@Mofo1953 or a cave

@Pralina1 A Hobbit hole.

@Gwendolyn2018 Nearly all my reading was about the pre-Roman Pagan people who I thought to be more peaceful. When the Romans came on the scene, they turned the Pagans into the scapegoats of the Holy Roman church...or so I opined. (I took 3 years of Latin, wherefrom a lot of my notions about the Pagans came.)

@Gwendolyn2018 I met a few Pagans in Washington during the 80's. And had a nice time with them.

@Gwendolyn2018 From my memory (?) the Pagan people I met in the DC area were not religious. Or if they were, they didn't talk about it. Mostly they were just hedonists. And like wine and sex a lot.

@Gwendolyn2018 I guess the most honest thing to say is that I got about half-drunk with them and had sex with a few of their ladies. I don't remember a lot of serious conversation.

@Gwendolyn2018 Okay, good to know. I don't want to get involved (or waste any time) on people who take any religious faith seriously.

@Gwendolyn2018 LOL

They view every belief that's outside their own as atheism. Even liberal Christians, they view as Atheists.

@Gwendolyn2018 Remember, this is an atheist site. No one goes anywhere, we just rot.

@Gwendolyn2018 It seems there increasing ways of disposing of our bodies. In some areas composting as allowed. I've signed up for the 'willed body' program and the local university will use it for research and then cremate it.

@Gwendolyn2018 It hasn't for a long time. I think this is a product of religion and their goofy idea that bodies must be intact to get to heaven. It is also individuals sense of arrogance and a cultural hold over. Went skiing in Zermat Switzerland once (Matterhorn) and noticed that in their small cemetery everyone was buried standing up to make the most of the small space. In some places people have to have concrete boxes for their casket so all the toxic chemicals in their body can't leach into the water table. It seems even when we die we are having a negative effect on the life support system.

@Gwendolyn2018 Sounds like you are a history buff. More people really should learn history. It has soo much to teach us one being there is very little new in the world of humans.

@Gwendolyn2018 No one is an expert on history. I majored in European History a the University of Maryland European Division and this degree was the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Most historians specialize in a specific topic/period. Still, you do seem very knowledgeable in one specific aspect.
There are a lot of things Christians don't know (or even want to know).

@Gwendolyn2018 What is interest? One never really knows if something is truly interesting unless one tries it. Many times I have wanted to pass up an essay (usually in the "Atlantic" ) but then, through previous experience, decided to give it a try. Most of the time it was well worth the effort. It seems the more one opens their mind to different things the more one learns and discovers there are a lot of interesting and important things out there.

@Gwendolyn2018 I prefer to use the term 'stage of life' instead of old. So in this case we can't teach an old dog new tricks. There was a great British crime series about 4 'old' guys who were retired cops to come back to work and work on some cold case files. They were led by a strong blond woman. It was a great series and titled "New Tricks." Speaking of 'Victorian" Youtube has a series of videos on period practices. There was "Edwardian Farms" and "Victorian Farms" and even "Victorian Pharmacies." Once you start the series many others will be recommended. See how you feel about watching even one show. I was hooked and it was amazing what people had to do in those times just to survive.

@Gwendolyn2018 Seems we're on a roll. Grad course - impressive. I'm glad I got to take the undergraduate courses I did as, living in Europe, history was so much more alive when we could go to places it was being made. Our instructor was from Belfast and taught at UCLA (Greek, Latin, History). He spoke German, French, Italian - Latin of course - and Greek. He spent time in Rome and we went there for 2 weeks on a course on the Papacy. He was very unorthodox and an atheist.
I think many feel TV is just for entertainment but Au-contrare. It can be a great source of knowledge. I would think when one is entertained one pays more attention and can actually learn even more. The Edwardian Farms has 3 (2 male archeologists and 1 female historian) who spend a year working an old farm. each episode, 1 hr, covers a specific month. It shows what must be done to manage a farm and sustain one's livelihood. It is truly astounding the different skills one had to know.
Here is a trailer from the series:

The xian kkklaners are all about white purity of THEIR WOMEN eager to murder jews blacks anyone who dares stare at a breast ankle or eye

Smaller doesn't mean worse. Lots of conditional friends are not as good as a small core of nonjudgmental great mates. I've long believed that if a person says they have more than a small handful of friends then they don't know what friendship is.

Ignorant sexism is all about ASSUMING how others love .... it's none of their business how when or who we love....

What ignorance. People in my old religion say people only leave so that they can commit fornication and do drugs. It’s so bothersome to think people probably think that’s why I left, when really I left because I intellectually and morally objected to the religion.

@kdmom I think it is interesting that people you barely know, or who have not kept up with your current thoughts, are the experts on your reasons for doing things. Funny how that works.

@Gwendolyn2018 Yes, and they are always correct. Funny how that works!
I learned a long time ago that there are people who like to spin stories and make up rumors, I would give them something that really did not make sense and wait for it to show up. The response was usually really funny and stopped further rumors. Why wake up if you cannot tell a good story and make someones day miserable. Don't get up unless you can laugh.

@kdmom Yes, if you knew all that what they said was going to happen would happen you would have left a lot sooner.

I have found more acceptance with being gay over the past 20 years I was never expecting to ever marry my partner, especially here in a Texas. To be different does define ones world. We have to be tolerant of the norm but many remain bitter of any change.