Abridged explanation: Change “shorts” in the URL to “v“.

I don’t know if it works every time, but it has worked in all of my tests. Also, since my instructions came from AI and not Youtube, I imagine this method could be deprecated by Youtube at any time. Please let me know if/when…[Read more]

right-click “Copy embed code”:
<iframe width=”151″ height=”268″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/bj7TATbpZsI” title=”LOVE TO BE LOVED 6.02.26 ❤️‍🔥The Warning x Carín León” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; e…[Read more]

Link to a song on Soundcloud:

An embed to a song on Soundcloud:
kronosquartet · Yevge…[Read more]

rhonjon wrote:
We won’t find out. We can’t even remember the early days of this life. Being slapped by a doctor while we hung upside down. Letting go of the coffee table and taking out first step. Once we cross the river Stix in another existence the most we’ll have is the same choice between unfalsifiable spiritual hopes and cold reaso…

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rhonjon wrote:
General anesthesia is a perfect analogy. The brain is part of the physical body and once it’s dead, it’s dead. Because I cannot undo my experiences, I can’t know if my feelings of something beyond my physical body may just be a result of decades of Christian indoctrination. If I’d grown up in a Buddhist society, I might interpr…

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rhonjon wrote:
I often wonder what it will be like when I die. I can’t shake the feeling that it’s going to “be like” something.

The problem with wondering what something is like is that you need something else to compare it to. “Langostinos taste a lot like lobsters,” for example.

At the heart of trying to comprehend death is to accept the fac…[Read more]

Do you ever get goosebumps from music? Sometimes I do, and it proves to me that something deep within me is stirred. Although I’ve rarely ever…[Read more]

It will feel the same to you as the year before you were born does now.

How many songs have you heard that never had the sensation of being  coincidental to what you were currently doing? I think we overestimate the amount of times something like that happens to us.

An atheist is a person who doesn’t believe in God. Anything else a person may or may not believe in is ancillary to the term atheist.  So, yes, an atheist can still be spiritual. We have unanswered questions but are not satisfied with religions unquestioned answers.

I have had experiences in my life that I cannot honestly dismiss as co…[Read more]

For as long as I can remember I always felt that spirituality refers to…[Read more]

DUBLIN

MAINE

SAN FRANCISCO

UKRAINE

SPAIN

Clock HTML source, if you know how to edit a web page:
https://www.timeanddate.com/clocks/free.html

blah blah blah [work in progress… this may take me some time to write].

Quick summary: Click the post #ID number and create a new tab for it; Highlight the desired…[Read more]

The following tip will be too much trouble for some… maybe I’m the only poster here who needs to use it consistently… like practically every time I write any post! Here’s my new…[Read more]

I’ll leave up an example of my own scratch zone, including “PopeBeanie” in its title.…[Read more]

TLDR: The first thing to notice when you click a link that takes you to a group page is: Are you now on the group’s Home page, or the group’s Forum page? Home is for updates, Forum is for posts in topics.

I’ll illustrate each page.

1) The Group’s Home page only shows updates, which you can add to. …[Read more]

The countdown should be resetting itself each time activity is detected – i.e. after a post is…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
I think you raise a good point: this “Great Spirit” is amoral…

And as such, is unworthy of much respect or regard.

I’m not meaning to imply that at all…but I think you know that. I’m standing by my word…perhaps I’ll just avoid bringing it up around a group of atheists next time unless I’m ready to defend. 😆😎

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space…[Read more]

The first part – Our vibrating mass of molecules that we call our bodies….that’s spiritual…

If you were to say that when you came to u…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
I’ve learned (thanks to @JodyLee‘s discussion) that what spirituality means to people is very personal; or rather, the way it is expressed is very personal.  This reflects the fact that everyone lives their lives in their own way.

I agree, and endeavor to keep learning the depth of this very uniquely-human evol…[Read more]

Ivy wrote:
I do think that we ALL know deep down that we are connected to “God”/”The Great Sprit” whatever you want to call “it/him/her.” (insert gender pronoun here lol)….but….I think people who call themselves atheists do not like to admit this because they cannot see/touch/feel/put under a microscope…it.

Pardon me if you haven’t retracted…[Read more]

Jody Lee wrote:
I’m not the majority and over time maybe you guys will get used to the way I use it. 😁😁

I’m perfectly fine with that, and also tend not to be in the majority. Sometimes I’m thinking ok, fine, so what if this tennis ball hits a hornet’s nest!

My usage does not refer to an ethereal party or link to dualism. Thar feeling of connectedness IS what I seek. An addiction? Perhaps. But not to point where I have irrational or unfounded concepts of reality.

I’m not the majority and over time maybe you guys will get used to the way I use it. 😁😁

Jody Lee wrote:
Are you really THIS hung up about a word?

Here’s my opinion on why this word is a big deal, and then I’ll explain what I wish it to mean if/when I use the word.

The most obvious reason why it’s important, at least in a forum of atheists, is because the majority of people (at least in USA) mean it to refer to an ethereal third…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
how do you explain … mass extinctions due to meteor strikes

Simon Paynton wrote:
even in the midst of unfavourable physical circumstances, it leads in the direction of making things better for living things.

I think you raise a good point: this “Great Spirit” is amoral, except in the case of human beings, where it generates two…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
In this case, then 1) cars / earthquakes / fires etc. are not a part of the living world, they are alien and external to it because they are not alive, and living things only possess limited control over physical phenomena and circumstances; 2) good and evil, or at least, pro- and anti-social behaviour, are themselves…

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Same Harris may be the type of person that needs to be reminded to live in the now, but I know a lot of people whose lives would likely benefit if they did at least some planning for the future.

Exactly. Now I am all for the idea that we shouldn’t worry ourselves to death about things that haven’t happened yet….But at the exact same tim…[Read more]

I think they’re all linked up by…the essence of living

Sigh. I give up.

But, the present is 1) where we actually live, so it’s important to be in it; 2) where we prepare for the future.  Our actions now make our future.