Atheist Zone | Diane | Activity https://atheistzone.com/members/gliese581d/activity/ Activity feed for Diane. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:37:40 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6e2727ef755cf8f9c2f1d27862eecb9f Diane replied to the topic Enabling in the forum Advice https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/enabling/#post-6142 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:26:32 +0000 I just wrote a damn novella about my daughters’ half-brother, of whom I am not the mother. He’s a heroin addict. He’s got the whole sorry mess going on – homelessness, infections in injection sites, a baby, girlfriend on methodone, multiple arrests, etc., etc.

I don’t have an answer, really. I just lost my compassion when it negatively affected…[Read more]

]]> 7a59010e6f37083896f21afcb337197e Diane replied to the topic Me Three in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/me-three/page/2/#post-6122 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:53:58 +0000 Seeing and reading about all the sexual assault in the news got me going too. Not in a huge way, but it was on my mind more. I usually don’t think much about it but it’s hard to avoid these days.

For what it’s worth, I agree with Tom. Chemistry can happen with the wrong people. Sometimes the attraction is strong because the other person is e…[Read more]

]]> 97a45878220e016aac66629b39ecf62d Diane replied to the topic Me Three in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/me-three/#post-6112 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:08:04 +0000 My response to having been abused and assaulted as a teenager and young adult went through several phases. The main one was denial.  As time passes I gain a clearer understanding of what happened. Strangely, I have some gifts from having been wronged so egregiously. I think the following attitude may have balanced on the edge of sanity and…[Read more]

]]> 8deeb15407e2695d98a28f2ec2ef3af2 Diane replied to the topic Isolated Again in the forum Advice https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/isolated-again/#post-5765 Sat, 07 Oct 2017 13:01:27 +0000 Belle, I know from my own experience some of what you are going through. The local school district could not handle my son from first grade on, really, despite trying everything they had. He ended up going to a school for behaviorally challenged boys – run by an order of Italian monks, no less! I was not happy about this development, obviously. He…[Read more]

]]> 9cabe1d9187865082ec935b545aadccd Diane replied to the topic Suppose It’s All True? in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/suppose-its-all-true/page/2/#post-5488 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:33:13 +0000 I was chased by a rogue Fronkey once – it was quite amusing. I wouldn’t have cared much but with that giant sticky tongue and long legs it almost got me.  Or do they have froggy legs and donkey ears? Wait… are Fronkeys frogs and monkeys? If they are I have no idea what was chasing me. It’s a good thing I don’t do drugs any more.

]]> 39f664b4fd3f8bb47f9d97bf2fec1514 Diane replied to the topic Sunday School September 17th 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-september-17th-2017/#post-5178 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:41:03 +0000

Did you see the latest?

I am comforted by knowing in time an asteroid will collide catastrophically with the Earth, or the supervolcano below Yellowstone will explode and kill most of us slowly – and then, eventually, Sol will go all supernova on our dim-witted descendants.

All traces of either humanity or pre-intergalactic-travel homo sapiens…[Read more]

]]> 84e6b8abb19db340fbbcd83cf1e8ee65 Diane replied to the topic I believe there's no rhinoceros in my coat closet in the forum Theism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/i-believe-theres-no-rhinoceros-in-my-coat-closet/page/11/#post-4995 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:20:28 +0000

Belle Rose wrote:

So no matter how you slice it – if you “believe” in God or you don’t, we are all deciding that based on our subjective opinions. Atheists just want to look like they have some sort of elite knowledge of the subject but really – NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE. So therefore all we ALL have is our subjective evidence based on OUR personal…[Read more]

]]> 666fb2ca8ec9fc85e6cb5bdf64f72315 Diane replied to the topic Sunday School August 27th 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-august-27th-2017/page/8/#post-4628 Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:51:28 +0000 Oh boy. You’ve gone and done it now, Davis.

]]> 30362e4df25cd4a864c3a82c146fcd06 Diane posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/7111/#acomment-7119 Sun, 03 Sep 2017 22:40:37 +0000 Thanks, Reg. I hope you are right.

In reply to - Diane posted an update It’s been a little over a year since Arch passed. I meant to write something but couldn’t. He said I was the last woman he would ever love. I think I (completely unintentionally) broke his […] ]]> ff73280c57688e300414eb09a6a10232 Diane posted an update: It's been a little over a year since Arch passed. I meant to […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/7111/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 21:46:50 +0000 It’s been a little over a year since Arch passed. I meant to write something but couldn’t. He said I was the last woman he would ever love. I think I (completely unintentionally) broke his heart.

]]> 2 d19b1eeb557bb348a918da06450e89fd Diane posted an update in the group Sunday School: This is the exact same conversation that was happening about […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/7110/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 21:42:29 +0000 This is the exact same conversation that was happening about a year ago when my inadvertent hiatus began. It’s not the cause of my absence – this is simply an observation.

]]> 0 eb6e6a92fd5d21d19c102f823cefd77a Diane joined the group Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/7109/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 21:39:42 +0000 0 877b9f1db1c68664ed50b3f6552916d4 Diane replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/failed-conversion/page/10/#post-4327 Sat, 26 Aug 2017 15:18:48 +0000 @ Simon – Wanting is different than expecting. I have been told many times I’m being proud, resistant, rebellious, etc., for declining to devote my life to examining this evidence (more than I’ve already examined it, which is more than it deserves IMHO). I have heard some version of this thought – If you don’t believe, it’s because you have not…[Read more]

]]> c0f9713888e26a3a1bfa37a5ef5886d9 Diane replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/failed-conversion/page/10/#post-4322 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:39:02 +0000 What I want to know is why do some Christians expect atheists to examine the Christians’ purported evidence? Then, when we don’t go out of our way to study said evidence, we are accused of choosing to not believe in God! I didn’t believe in God before, and I still don’t. I guess there’s a choice in there somewhere, but it wasn’t to NOT believe. My…[Read more]

]]> 37e46d976e26f2c1dd119e3ca7cdde33 Diane replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/4/#post-4133 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:19:27 +0000 I feel the need to clarify a point. When I hear “Nobody is doing anything” I cringe because millions of people are indeed doing whatever they legally can to stop this madness. It is the Republican Party which is allowing this to continue. They can stop Trump TODAY, yet they will let Trump continue until their prospects for re-election dwindle…[Read more]

]]> f018e6d000d0b831b40e78c1b821b945 Diane replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/4/#post-4126 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:08:08 +0000 Thanks Belle. I and many others didn’t vote for him. I accept no blame for him and the asshats in Congress who are supporting him. I marched in Boston for the Women’s March, and in Concord NH during the March for Science. I have sat with members of my community to send post cards to our congressional delegation about specific issues. I have called…[Read more]

]]> 2429dd8605a748824d3acce36b25c44d Diane replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/4/#post-4124 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 23:40:45 +0000 Thanks, Strega!

]]> f9916dd70cad3fdcd6984d63945dd1b9 Diane replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/4/#post-4121 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 22:58:10 +0000 My question, and that of others on this thread and all around the world, is What now? What do I do right now? Do I call my representatives and tell them I’d like to not have a nuclear war? Do I gather my offspring and some MREs in the basement, light candles and await our doom? Do I give water to my livestock, or my family?  Should I stay or s…[Read more]

]]> 966457873841d590c940348bde22d038 Diane posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6534/#acomment-6539 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:33:03 +0000 That’s awesome! I know one of the characters in Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah quotes Snoopy the dog. I have to look it up.

In reply to - Diane posted an update Today I told a Christian every time he mentions the Bible, I’m going to tell him about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Him: Revelations reveals blah, blah, blah…” Me: “The Guide recommends […] ]]> 33632c44bc6e4e21ff00ff6f68c05358 Diane posted an update: Today I told a Christian every time he mentions the Bible, […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6534/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:28:35 +0000 Today I told a Christian every time he mentions the Bible, I’m going to tell him about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Him: Revelations reveals blah, blah, blah…” Me: “The Guide recommends a) owning a towel, and b) knowing where it is all times.” I believe my work is done for the day.

]]> 2 e31fe87c2827920120a309b4f4d92582 Diane posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6526/#acomment-6532 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:08:29 +0000 Oh yeah – the red-lipped batfish. It’s quite a creation, huh?

In reply to - PopeBeanie posted an update @gliese581d I had to google image-search your awesome avatar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-lipped_batfish I didn’t know there were non-tetrapods like that! ]]> 8c3f3bf1beecb0107324669b410aee50 Diane and jakelafort are now friends https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6505/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:44:24 +0000 0 2fd28c1082ba22765844823c524c427f Diane replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/failed-conversion/page/4/#post-4040 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 21:56:03 +0000 @ Simon – I should have clarified the dream was one I had a long time ago. This person is interpreting it now, according to his beliefs. When I had the dream I didn’t give it any particular meaning. I was a little amused by the babies growing on sticks and a little disturbed by the ladies in French maid outfits. I have apparently watched too many…[Read more]

]]> 037e8ed6e7119b1d85e365b92afc9bb4 Diane and Strega are now friends https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6483/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:34:20 +0000 0 690cc6935d5b4c5f91a3f427406cb269 Diane replied to the topic Failed Conversion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/failed-conversion/page/4/#post-4020 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:49:54 +0000 Part of the “Life has been very weird” saga to which I referred when I returned to the site yesterday has to do with this very phenomenon. It all started when I made a comment about a You Tube video about Sodom and Gomorrah. One comment led to another until a certain Christian fellow decided a) God is talking to me, and b) God is telling HIM that…[Read more]

]]> 019362cfb638231534020d6f8c09f6df Diane posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6442/#acomment-6448 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:16:20 +0000 You don’t know the half of it! 🙂

In reply to - Diane posted an update I haven’t been here in forever. It’s good to come back. Life has been very weird! ]]> c9723b24c84492096585d2b437115abc Diane posted an update: I haven't been here in forever. It's good to come back. […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6442/ Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:03:19 +0000 I haven’t been here in forever. It’s good to come back. Life has been very weird!

]]> 3 f6b5390aa99c7cb6e1366f9feb22b310 Diane became a registered member https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6440/ Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:59:10 +0000 0