daughterofkarl

Love this one:

E. E. Cummings, 1894 – 1962 

Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death

And this one, too:

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the proc…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

I’m unsure what YOUR point is.

My point is that you are putting out a lot of incendiary material without being clear about your purpose for doing so.  I am asking you to clarify your stand.

Where is the bar of how many women need to talk about men not wanting to marry or commit for it to be a worth a Small Talk topic? When most wo…

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This is the third thread you’ve started now around a similar theme.  Maybe you should cut to the chase and just state your hypothesis.  So far your argumentation is unclear, filled with unsubstantiated generalities, completely subjective and emotionally-based assertions, and your sources are unreliable and biased.

I mean, “…a little googling a…[Read more]

Hey, Davis.

Well, that’s good to know.  It still surprises me sometimes how much attitudes have changed over time.  I came out to myself as an atheist about 25 years ago, now.  But, in the part of the country where I lived and worked, one learned very quickly not to speak about one’s atheism openly in most social situations.  It’s only been in…[Read more]

I’m aware that I am something of a rarity among atheists, in that while I hold no belief in a creator deity, and never really have, I am rather agnostic when it comes to the notion of ghosts, or to be more precise, a state of being after death.  I don’t know if there is a state of being after death, but I am not nearly as certain that there is…[Read more]

If I only had 38 minutes to live, I would hope that I would be able to have that time with my son.   But events that result in death within 38 minutes do not generally lend themselves to pre-planning, do they?  If I was unable to see my family once more, I guess I would hope to at least be with other human beings,–co-workers, a store clerk, a s…[Read more]

Hello, PopeBeanie,

I have had a number of “goosebump” moments in my life, but I will share with you the ones that I think perhaps speak most relevantly to your interest in mammalian neuroevolution.  These occurred around my pregnancy and the birth of my child, a time when hormonal and neurochemical factors are particularly strong in their impact…[Read more]