Secular Café Archive

I have far more respect for agnostic Christians as I believe at least they're more honest about the knowledge question.

-Shake, the agnostic atheist

[quote=""crazyfingers""]I hope PhotoBucket goes out of business. Their radical change of terms was outrageous. I think that when I signed up they were changing me $2/month to be able to upload 20-30 photos at a time and link to places like this. When they raised the price to $400...

sweater vest

smooth


(you had to be there)

The problem, at least in the States, is it's probably much harder to do once you've given a cult the status of 'religion'. Scientology is definitely a fraudulent organization, but it's been allowed to grow rather powerful and has the financial means to fight back.

bite me

spirit

[quote=""Worldtraveller""]I wish I had a better lens, but these were taken with my new camera (Nikon D3300 with the standard lens). The planes have been literally flying right over my house, but I haven't been able to catch them with the camera until now. I just got up on the roo...

arms race

Welcome! Good luck with your forum. It seems they aren't what they once were, and atheist ones have been around for some time (I've been on them since early 2001). But we here are actually in the process of merging with an offshoot/successor of one of the oldest and largest, the former IIDB, now kno...

Can't say as I do remember, but I've been here only sporadically over the last several years. Anyway, welcome back!

Karma's a bitch.

How's this for being self-aware? I know I'm primarily a cognitive empath, and having that realization has led me to strive to become more compassionate. However, that's not always easy for us introverts, since that means actively seeking out social situations. Then again, I've come to realize that a...

walk

[quote=""Politesse""] The obvious problem in doing something like this is that you introduce disaffection at least, and a backlash at worst. So if a law will provoke a backlash from those in power, we should not enact it? If the backlash is going to hurt those the original law in...

Just say NOprah!

[quote=""crazyfingers""] And recently they stopped allowing it to be used to host pics for posting elsewhere unless you pay some ridiculous amount. The only purpose I have for something like Photobucket is for posting photos at places like this. At least it looks like they have g...

beans

Welcome to the Café!

It's worrisome that anyone thinks so simplistically. There are plenty of ways in which Congress fails to represent the general population, but I get annoyed when something is presented like this: "oh, if we only had more women in office, then things would be better." Well, not necessarily....

I've generally been a floater most of my life. My parents didn't push me much at all, and I've only had periods of true self-motivation. I definitely need more of this in my life, to gain some direction and purpose. My purpose now seems rather limited to survival and being of service to my offspring...

Today's is about the winter solstice.

OK, so to summarize:

Not this one:


And also not this one:

[quote=""Hermit""]

Photographer: Why did you come to the polls with a jackass?
Moore: It’s a horse, you moron.
Photographer: I was talking to the horse.[/quote]

[quote=""Hermit""] How would the sentence be phrased in German? Same way*. The puzzle exploits grammatical ambiguity which pedants like me regard as sloppiness and have no great difficulties detecting. *"Die haben eine Brücke genau halbwegs zwischen Berlin und Karlsruhe geba...