Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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I had to pop in here for a moment of sanity. My FaceBook is covered with "he has risen" and pictures of Christ that look like Brad Pitt. Makes me want to pull my hair out.
Happy Sunday, is what I say. It's all about college basketball to me.
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me too Anne..
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Me too. There was one cute gardner's blessing...
"May all your bunnies be chocolate."
oh and this http://www.savedbydogs.com/2012/03/easter-bunny-understudy-tryouts.html
but my wonderful sister-in-law and her children? Oh gosh they must have stayed up half the night searching for stuff that's gonna tork me off.
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/28/watch-first-dog-bo-leads-the-hunt-for-white-house-easter-eggs/
Now this is my idea of a Happy Easter....hope all are enjoying a SUNNY day.
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Cloudy and drizzling here but at least I don't have Facebook or any family members trying to tork me off.
Edited to add this link (you have probably all seen this stuff before but I liked it):
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Spring is my favorite time of year...flowers blooming, birds singing, and days getting longer!
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me too, lisa, but the early DST feels strange with so much snow on the ground. A few daffodil green tips above the snow, and I dug the snow away from where my chives are, and YEAH, green shoots...friend has a Quince tree we all take cuttings from to force inside, and love to see the little flowers come out to greet from the bare branches, ah, the power of Love & Water.
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It seems like every tree in the northwest is in bloom - pink and white everywhere! So beautiful (and so much pollen for us allergy sufferers) but I rather have the beauty and sneeze.
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I, too, have been enjoying all the signs of spring unfolding. It's always been my favorite time of year. I love keeping an eye out for and then finding the first snowdrops, the earliest crocus and other tiny spring bulbs, then the earliest daffoldils. Over the years I have planted a wide variety of all of them and am never sure which will show up or even whether it will be a good year for bulbs or not. This is year is definitely a good one. Some of the forsythias have decided to break into bloom, cheering up my roadside. Everything is rushing along, seemingly impatient to get going, one over lapping another instead of waiting its turn. Nature is having a good old time in my area of the northeast near the ocean.
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I ran across some quotes I had copied and kept in the "draft" section of my mail program under "Supersition" and thought some of you might like them. I keep them to occasionally remind myself that my beliefs are not wrong or strange. I also like to have them on hand to show to people who don't know their history and who confidently tell me this country was founded on Christianity and a belief in God. I added Enstein's simply because I liked it.
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. ~Thomas Jefferson
- History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. ~Thomas Jefferson- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ~Thomas Paine
- The word God is nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends. - Albert Einstein0 -
Hortense, things are out of order here too. The daffodils are ahead of the crocus.
I think I should keep your quotes on hand to show to a couple of friends who frequently espouse the, "this is a Christian nation" line.
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you could make a tshirt with the quotes
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Thanks for the quotations!!!
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Lisa - the sun is out, my first snowdrops have bloomed, and I'm going to take a picture (unless they're already closing for the day) then I will pm you and ask ho do you put a photo in here?
strong gusts of wind, clouds travelling fast, a few flurries, and sun off & on. the robins have been here for at least 2 weeks (southern ON)
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Hi all! welcome new people and happy spring to all.
if I were 11 and someone told me a bunny would bring me a basket of candy why I'd tell my mother I believed in the bunny too!
so sorry to hear people have been sick and flu-ish I also had the flu this past January--really horrible flu. Because I was dealing with my mother on the edge of hospice, I called my doctor the first day to request tamiflu and happily it worked.
my husband has passed onto me an interesting book on stoicism---correction--its called "A guide to the good life-the anci9ent art of stoic joy". I am finding it interesting. . . .anyone else read it or heard of it?
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ok flanell
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Went to Oregon to see DS and family. The weather was absolutely gorgeous--sunny and up to 75 on Sun. The ornamental pear trees were in full bloom by Sun. Warm enough to eat outside 2 evenings. Back in Seattle, the cherry trees are blooming along with every bulb you can imagine.
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You west-coasters live in a special land, all the way up & down the coast & into Canada. Vancouver is almost a month ahead of us in spring flowering. I have a friend who just moved to a tiny US island n of Washington state, near the San Juan islands....I was there long ago in hippy days - stayed on some island where they were living in a very large tipi. I think I slept on a mattress under a tree, with a guy I met on the train! There was probably a huge amount of dope-smoking and mushroom-picking, but I don't quite remember. I rode acrss Cananda, in economy, playing my recorder quiety and no doubt irritating the other passengers - what an idiot!Gorgeous there. I'll be sure to visit my friend there (not far from Anacortes). & try to remember the name of the island I visited...wondering if the people acutally stayed on and lived there, or gave up, moved back east, and got careers. lol
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You are right Flannel..the Pacific Northwest is so beautiful
those were at the Buchart Gardens on Vancover Island..I wish I could go back..
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Lisa, your photos never cease to amaze me!
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Thanks Anne..
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Oh, lisa, you make me want to get out my watercolor paints...never KNEW Vancouver was so gorgeous..
THANK YOU...what an artist YOU ARE!
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Breathtaking! What one would imagine the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to have been.
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When I starting taking photography seriously in my youth, there was no digital pix only film. We had a black and white darkroom at home, but still I enjoyed color. With film it was very expensive to get the pix developed and printed and unless you spent alot for cropping, the pictures came out precisely as you shot them. Those pix I took in Bouchart were film pix that I have scanned, but they are as they were shot uncropped. Ehat a change now with digital. All my pix can be cropped and adjusted for contrast abd light or dark in a flash of a click on the mouse. How wonderful.
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I went to the zoo to see the new little panda bear...his mother was sleeping but he was trying to get her attention, to no avail...so cute..
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Oh my, those are great! I love the way you captured the whole story.
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i could have watched them all day
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oh, lisa, the last on eof the little fellow curled up in the "seat" is so precious...loved the whole series, but the LAST one made me cry with joy...
thank you SO SO SO SO SO much for sharing your talent with us....
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glad you like it...
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Hey, everyone! I know I have been MIA for a while...but I saw this story and thought of you all...thought I'd pop in and share. I hope you all are doing very well.--Claire
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/04/07/176516961/atheist-shoemaker-loses-faith-in-u-s-mail
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CLC,
Good to see you again. Great link. I doubt that the shoes would be delivered where I live.
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