How did you, or do you react to these 2 photos, and the stories behind them?

Larimar comments on May 27, 2020:

Those cops should go to jail and the other inmates shouldn't be kept away from them. I believe in a bit of vengeance. Kaep has been held back by the tea party beliefs and it pisses me off.

Life is hard, stress can be overwhelming, there's always more bullshit on the way, it's always going...

Larimar comments on May 24, 2020:

A good walk in woods or just sitting with my bare feet on the ground while quietly reading a good book with music does wonders.

So I decided to dry cloths at the laundromat.

Larimar comments on May 19, 2020:

I work in a place of 200 employees. It's me and about 4 others wearing masks. They've had one outbreak of 25 folks at the very beginning. Now that MO has loosened up restrictions, we're having more after a month of no new cases, four last week 7 this week.

Did you know your warranty is void when you buy it on Amazon?

Larimar comments on May 6, 2020:

Back in the 80's I bought a Singer, mid line model. Two years later it left marks on everything....rubber feed dogs. It would've cost close to what I paid for it to fix the problem. I traded it in on a $1500 Pfaff....I've done all the alterations for a bridal shop and everything else with this machine and rarely needed to have anything done to it. It's my machine for life.

Doing my first shift testing people for covid tomorrow wish me luck .

Larimar comments on Apr 29, 2020:

How's it going, Bob?

Doing my first shift testing people for covid tomorrow wish me luck .

Larimar comments on Apr 23, 2020:

Do what you can to stay safe!!!

What are we missing?

Larimar comments on Apr 19, 2020:

I don't see those as being necessary.

Karen believes she gave me COVID-19 after returning from Japan.

Larimar comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Sounds like a distinct possibility. We have questions about Covid19 and my father''s death in January from Pneumonia and sepsis type symptoms. High fever, the struggle breathing, the works.

The two biggest challenges that I have encountered in dating are women who smoke and women are too ...

Larimar comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I also can't be around smoke. Enough allergies as it is. I don't bother to date anymore. The prevalence of religious fanatics, hard core GOP, the ones only wanting to hop in the sack, and the druggies is not to my preference. I thought that I was being pretty open minded just looking for someone to get to know first, a little intelligence that would work as a team in time. Guess that was to much to ask for.

Searching for a soulmate is futile. Your thoughts?

Larimar comments on Apr 12, 2020:

I'd be happy with someone respectful, willing to work as a team, someone to bounce ideas off of and share thoughts without recrimination. I'm more concerned day to day with myself and doing what makes me happy. I'm totally ok by myself. There's no less in being single than there would be with a partner.

When did you first see who your child is as a person?

Larimar comments on Apr 8, 2020:

Claire sounds like me. My daughter was precocious and has most of my intelligence but lacks my non ability to see that I may not be able to do something. I can always figure it out and get it done no matter what. But she read at age two to the point you could show her the word in any book and she knew what it said. My son, however, has my mechanical ability but he tends to be lazy. He didn't do much with words for a long time because of repeated ear infections and hearing loss due to fluid. They're fun people though to be around! I think you always see them as a person but it takes awhile to figure out who and what that person is.

Highest rates of Unemployment projected since the great depression Are you or somebody close to you ...

Larimar comments on Apr 6, 2020:

My son was furloughed, now part time, but that could change in a heartbeat and he'd be going on unemployment

Is anyone else watching the new TV show "Unorthodox" on Netflix?

Larimar comments on Apr 5, 2020:

Watched the whole thing at once on Netflix. I enjoyed it. But if everyone would just be open enough to new to them ideas and other points of view I think it would help everyone. So many are stuck in religion and I just see them all as restrictive and accusing "others" of what they are themselves are guilty of.

Colorado AG steps in after Hobby Lobby defies COVID-19 stay-at-home order

Larimar comments on Apr 4, 2020:

I vote with my dollars, won't shop here or at Chick Fil A....some others as well.

My mother keep on telling me that I should believe in Christ.

Larimar comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Move on...not worth it

A raging example of why I've had quite enough of all this religious BS.

Larimar comments on Apr 4, 2020:

My mom attempts this BS, I have learned to immediately hang up, return the letter, whatever. This is allowing their abuse and I won't allow that anymore. I did warn my mom ahead of time and remind her each time she attempts it before I follow through. It's just not worth it.

Spring allergies, a cold or COVID-19?

Larimar comments on Apr 2, 2020:

The first of those two vaccines is brutal. I had it two years ago. I don't feel pain like most people (I've had a hole in my colon before and didn't feel it) but that vaccine site hurt...badly! It felt like the flu for about 3 days after. You have my sympathies. That's more than likely what you've dealt with. I came home today with low grade temperature. It's affected by Tylenol so I think it's only allergies. Bit of scratchy throat.. I'm doing Vitamin C and zinc and keeping an eye on per doc's instructions. Can't return to work until temperature free for 24 hrs.

[ladbible.com] Starry night spider

Larimar comments on Apr 1, 2020:

They're the size of a grain of rice????? I'd have trouble seeing any pattern

Today I set in and sewed the notched collar and lapels. Nerve-wracking.

Larimar comments on Mar 30, 2020:

You've done a great job!

Totally pointless random whine: Clarification Edit: below you shall find a jokey hyperbolic ...

Larimar comments on Mar 29, 2020:

Seems to go much slower after level 6

They are attached! I can tell a difference, not sure how many others can.

Larimar comments on Mar 29, 2020:

two more pics showing it in place. How evident is the difference? :(

Another try at online dating another reminder why I fucking gave this up.

Larimar comments on Mar 28, 2020:

I'm actually great alone. I value it to the point that it really doesn't take much evidence of someone showing abusive behaviors of any kind for me to just cut the cord. I'll point it out once and second time...buh bye!

[archaeology.org] Colonial era shipwreck known about but being published

Larimar comments on Mar 27, 2020:

I just cannot imagine seeing it there and not bothering finding out the entire story of it

And guys! Consider skills above beauty!!! Ladies! Update those Agnostic profiles!! 😎🍷🍷

Larimar comments on Mar 27, 2020:

I have many skills but I think I'm just fine doing them for myself though.

Like most of you (I am sure there are some exceptions), I am stuck in my house during these days of ...

Larimar comments on Mar 27, 2020:

Highly recommend reading the Federalist papers if you haven't already. They had influence in getting the Constitution ratified in the form that it is. To understand something, you've got to have background information and see the thought processes behind it. The anti federalist papers are their own animal. Comparing and contrasting the two is somewhat similar to what we are experiencing now. https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers

While everything is taken place in the world right now, how many of you have starting talking to ...

Larimar comments on Mar 21, 2020:

Yeah, no

I hope we can be so civilized

Larimar comments on Mar 21, 2020:

read this recently myself!

What projects are you working on while shut-in?

Larimar comments on Mar 20, 2020:

I've got like four crochet projects going, a counted cross stitch project, innumerable books on kindle and overdrive media, and a stash of cotton that the hospital is asking folks to make masks out of for them. May as well donate it for a good cause.

Hi, I'm a new member.

Larimar comments on Mar 16, 2020:

Welcome!

[theconversation-com.cdn.ampproject.org] Needle free vaccines soon

Larimar comments on Mar 8, 2020:

needles don't bother me, I give myself a B-12 injection weekly to stave off Pernicious Anemia. But I know some don't like them.

Some Atheists can be just as self righteous and judgmental as Christians/religious people.

Larimar comments on Mar 4, 2020:

No need, I tend to agree

I discover more and more that in any group of people, there's a tendency for it to fragment.

Larimar comments on Feb 15, 2020:

I love this thread. But the ability to be tolerant and accepting of others that are different does appear to be "sped up" of late. It's the hatred of the "other" that's being pushed.

Happy valentine's everyone. Homemade Danish for my office. Cherry, strawberry, and lemon curd

Larimar comments on Feb 14, 2020:

I think I blew the mind of a co worker. They asked the flavor in the Danish. Equal parts lemon extract and almond extract. "You can mix them???? " Seriously, people?

Guess what came in today's mail??!!

Larimar comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Lol, that's perfect

Anyone else find that there are very few agnostics where you live?

Larimar comments on Feb 9, 2020:

I'm in a heavy bible area....and I don't really care. I'm good by myself.

As an Aussie living in a mainly secular country I'm amazed and disheartened by the stories from ...

Larimar comments on Feb 1, 2020:

Many of us are disheartened daily, for ourselves and for your country's devastation. Hugs!

What are everyone’s thoughts on the ACA?

Larimar comments on Feb 1, 2020:

I have a few friends that this is the only way that they have insurance at all. One's son will die without it and they won't be able to be covered because it will be a pre-existing condition. Those that only see their own impact and not consider others...not my type of people. We need to get rid of the making a profit from healthcare. More industrial nations have healthcare than we do....because we let corporations make our government decisions.

Mechanically inept. Replaced a lamp on/off switch.

Larimar comments on Jan 19, 2020:

I was raised fixing everything. It would never occur to me that I wouldn't be able to fix it. Some things are made so cheaply today, however, that it's made to throw away.

This past summer I had a medical emergency that put me in a LOT of pain, couldn't even stand up ...

Larimar comments on Jan 19, 2020:

Yeah, but I've told the pastor coming in that he was only doing this for his own sake as I was a no longer believer. He was ok with that and didn't push.

We come into this world naked and alone.

Larimar comments on Jan 10, 2020:

My dad just died yesterday. He went in for sepsis and pneumonia and was there 11 days. The last day we forcibly removed him from the ventilator and allowed him to quietly go on his own. No pain, made comfortable, when problems began, we insisted, made comfortable! He went how he wanted. No machines.....

Does anyone else have a homophobic family member?

Larimar comments on Jan 10, 2020:

Hence why I live three states away from family and rarely visit....

What computerized machinery have you struggled with?

Larimar comments on Jan 5, 2020:

Trying to teach myself networking for a job....I had never done it before but the boss insisted I do it as opposed to paying his son to do it. 😒😒

My new years eve tradition for me is going on [www.

Larimar comments on Jan 2, 2020:

https://www.kiva.org/team/a_atheists_agnostics_skeptics_freethinkers_secular_humanists_and_the_nonreligious This is the atheist and agnostic kiva group. I wasn't sharing a direct link earlier....that was intentional.

2020!!! Never thought I'd live this long! So to start off a decade of great potential, let's all ...

Larimar comments on Jan 2, 2020:

I've been between growth and learning for some time now....

Not a drinker, I made bread on New Year's Eve.

Larimar comments on Jan 1, 2020:

I used to hand make all the bread for a small restaurant I had.....16 loaves worth at a time. The favorites were herb parmesan and tomato basil. It's fun and so much better. I loathe store bought.

Happy New Year, you godless heathens!!!

Larimar comments on Jan 1, 2020:

Back atcha kid!

"I like biting if done in the right way(s)" a man wrote.

Larimar comments on Jan 1, 2020:

In my experience, if they start this way it just increases in weirdness in time. Bullet dodged and sometimes the only response one needs to give is fuck off. I mean you haven't even met yet, and they want to bring up this detailed sort of thing? What about getting know what type of person each other are first??? Trust me, I've got enough stories of my own to make someone's head turn.

I hear from my brother frequently about how concerned he is I'm going to hell.

Larimar comments on Dec 28, 2019:

begin sending weekly printouts from the Satanic Temple....may as well have fun with it

He told me he's a psychopath.

Larimar comments on Dec 28, 2019:

Bullet dodged....stay away and be open to signs such as these and avoid those.

I’ve listened patiently for a few months trying to understand the dichotomy between Agnostics & ...

Larimar comments on Dec 18, 2019:

introverted atheist here....

Kudos to all the parents and caregivers who get the kids up, fed, dressed, teeth and hair brushed, ...

Larimar comments on Dec 16, 2019:

Did it for years....glad they're grown and on their own.

Do you get Seasonal Affective Disorder? What helps?

Larimar comments on Dec 4, 2019:

I make certain to get a walk in at lunch time. My appetite also goes down which is a good thing for me as I do have a weight issue. I try to eat as well as I can. I make a point of vitamins and minerals, take an extra vitamin C, and force myself to keep in touch with those that matter.

Greetings! I am new to associating with people of like minds on the topics of agnosticism and ...

Larimar comments on Dec 4, 2019:

sounds like me here in Missouri....so I'm quiet a lot

Chick-fil-A faces rightwing backlash after cutting ties to Christian groups | Food | The Guardian

Larimar comments on Dec 1, 2019:

doesn't matter, I'll never eat there

How many people have seen the movie Hail Satan! ?

Larimar comments on Nov 24, 2019:

I joined the Satanic Temple..it's a humanist organization.

Do you agnostics decorate for Christmas?

Larimar comments on Nov 24, 2019:

The decorations predate religion's adopting them as their own. I do use some, they don't mean the same to me. Solstice!!!

Are Believers Better Citizens?

Larimar comments on Nov 24, 2019:

actual sources prove otherwise which doesn't surprise most of us.

Hello I just joined today.

Larimar comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Welcome! It's a good place to discuss open opinions. But you do need to weed out some from time to time.

This morning, we had an agency-wide managers’ meeting, offsite.

Larimar comments on Nov 23, 2019:

Your private life is just that, it isn't any business of your company nor is it required of you to state. No need to say a word.

This super christian guy at my job asked once if I was Christian.

Larimar comments on Nov 22, 2019:

Happened to me before....this is their idiotic typical argument.

Am I one of the only ones who really loves Thanksgiving?

Larimar comments on Nov 20, 2019:

bought my supplies in part. $8.12 for a 17+ lb bird! SCORE!!!!! 47 cents a pound!

Feel alone?

Larimar comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Knowing me, I'd inform them that my IQ tests as 160+ and I'm atheist....then walk away. I'd never talk to them again.

I got a 106 points to level 6, I'm tired, it's dark, and I'm not wearing sunglasses!

Larimar comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Rocketing faster than I am!

Scary eye surgery yesterday.

Larimar comments on Nov 12, 2019:

Congrats and continued wishes for speedy healing. I had lasik on both mine after being legally blind without glasses for decades. Couldn't do contacts, the time I tried was hard lenses and cut the inside of my eyelids because of the severity of nearsightedness and astigmatism. Best thing I ever did. They also clamped my eyes and head for surgery. Fifteen years later, I'm almost 60 and still don't need readers. Science is wonderful!

How would you respond to "You can't have true love without God"?

Larimar comments on Nov 2, 2019:

The same way I did to the guy that asked me how one can be law abiding and caring of others without a deity. That it's my choice to not want to hurt other people It would be your choice to love....

Back due to popular demand, but please stick to subject of dating photos.

Larimar comments on Nov 2, 2019:

I'm no longer on any and haven't been for some time. Too many reasons to avoid them to list them all. I just go do what makes me happy. No need for looking. If someone worthwhile comes along...fine! If not, I'll go on vacation, walk, go out to eat, etc, and do things that I truly want to do.

I've plateaued on leveling. I must not be Atheisting hard enough.

Larimar comments on Nov 2, 2019:

Yeah, once you get to level 5 if slows wayyyyy the fuck down. I'm there with ya!

What was your worst Halloween costume fail?

Larimar comments on Oct 26, 2019:

WTAF? I'd have been saying loudly for them to not knock on my knockers......perverts!

Well, I think I've just ended another friendship over 45. Oh well.

Larimar comments on Oct 9, 2019:

I just did, too, and it has nothing to do with 45.

Dating on line can be a rough time with the religious folks who don't mention in their profile about...

Larimar comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Those are short conversations for me. I hang up quickly.

This is an encouraging story on CRITICAL THINKING vs dumbing down of America! I hope parents don't ...

Larimar comments on Sep 29, 2019:

good article!

I joined Agnostic.

Larimar comments on Sep 23, 2019:

There's plenty of us gals....but most don't use it specifically as a dating site.

Oh FFS!!! That asshole is so desperate that he's pandering to the delusional, again.

Larimar comments on Sep 20, 2019:

Orange shitgibbon.....

Finished the jacket I made.

Larimar comments on Sep 16, 2019:

I'm making a Bonnie Prince Charlie jacket for a friend for Ren Faire in the next couple weeks here. Good job on yours!

He thinks his desire is a powerful magnet. On what planet?

Larimar comments on Sep 14, 2019:

That's my usual luck. So I don't look anymore

I think it's well past time to overhaul the FDA.

Larimar comments on Sep 13, 2019:

I use a thyroid med that's been around over 100 years. But docs will attempt to tell me that it's unstable, unreliable, and impossible to regulate. They're wrong. Big pharma can't patent it because it's a natural product. (pig thyroid glands) They convince many that synthetics are better. But natural product will keep my bones full of calcium. They'll try to scare folks away from it and I have to fight to remain on the only thyroid med that worked for me. They used to dose folks by cessation of symptoms...now they rely on a subjective blood test using a pituitary hormone as a basis despite the fact that they don't bother to see if there is proper conversion by the body or if there is damage to the pituitary. Because if the pituitary isn't working right or the body doesn't convert correctly....synthetics don't work for shit and that blood test is unreliable.

At the risk of sounding unpatriotic,.

Larimar comments on Sep 12, 2019:

I like the post at stonekettle.com it's how I feel

One of the most confusing thing I deal with as an atheist is Christians asking me in public ( work ...

Larimar comments on Sep 4, 2019:

Nope. It's never come up one time. I would just answer, No, I don't need it.

I do not think many here really care what happens to their remains after they die.

Larimar comments on Sep 2, 2019:

My kids know the drill. Cremate me and take me to Cedar Point, on the tallest coaster and let it fly at the top. When I checked last they will allow this before they open.

Struck by a nun! As a child of seven or thereabouts, I was slapped soundly on my thigh as I sat ...

Larimar comments on Aug 30, 2019:

I grew up Lutheran....that was bad enough

I am so glad to see John Oliver address this issue.

Larimar comments on Aug 26, 2019:

I've had to become my own advocate and read extensively and force certain testing to prove my point many times. Thyroid is more prevalent in women but we're told it's all in our heads, or we're older, or we're mothers, etc. They'd rather write a script for antidepressants. I am fortunate in that it takes high levels of pain for me to feel it but that also causes other problems. Any man telling me there isn't bias is full of S&%$!

After the orgy and why I love going to the dentist.

Larimar comments on Aug 25, 2019:

I'm more the type to refuse pain killers of any kind. I've had two crowns put on without anything. And I never have a problem in the bedroom.

So there is a condolence card in the break room for one of my coworkers who’s dad just died.

Larimar comments on Aug 24, 2019:

Nothing wrong with a personal one of your own. Even if it's an email or single card. I've put about that I like doing my own thing.

Starved For Practicing Emotional Intimacy (SFPEI) 1: PRACTICING EMOTIONAL CONNECTABILITY ...

Larimar comments on Aug 21, 2019:

You and I have arrived at the same state....best wishes for you!

Hi! Im new here.

Larimar comments on Aug 17, 2019:

I found a meetup group to hang in....they're my age and liberal. I keep my head down at work....but as an introvert, they have no clue.

Single.

Larimar comments on Aug 16, 2019:

when I was on dating sites, I passed on any religion.....I can't either.

66-year-old Husqvarna sewing machine buttonhole setting died.

Larimar comments on Aug 14, 2019:

My East Germany made Pfaff has gone through years of altering wedding dresses for a business, to kids costumes, to suits, to upholstery . I'll never trade it in and it's over thirty years old. It was one of the first programmable machines. I get it.

Well, here I am single again....

Larimar comments on Aug 10, 2019:

Paul, it sounds like you dodged a bullet. Be thankful and move on, my man. I drop this drama quick anymore. Being single is not all bad. It'll be more than ok!

Happy to have this account. I'm a newly opened atheist.

Larimar comments on Aug 9, 2019:

Welcome!

Pit Bulls are such babies! Bob Barker isn't feeling well, today.

Larimar comments on Aug 8, 2019:

People forget that pits used to be used as Nanny dogs...like the little rascals. They're not the big bad meanies they're made out to be.

Hi! I'm curious about something.

Larimar comments on Aug 6, 2019:

Missouri sucks but it's not much better in Ohio where I grew up. Pretty religious in both

Always loved Carlin....so right on. [youtube.com]

Larimar comments on Jul 31, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9n955lMisc&t=17s

How did you deal with the empty nest syndrome?

Larimar comments on Jul 28, 2019:

I was ready and have enjoyed the hell out of it!

[sciencenews.

Larimar comments on Jul 23, 2019:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080225072624.htm climatechampions.ucop.edu/2017/04/06/whendee-silver-compost-to-restore-carbon-to-soil/

Man tries to guilt me into meeting him 2,000 miles away.

Larimar comments on Jul 21, 2019:

I won't give these control freaks a chance...it's an instant block with me.

A number of times, now, I have posted or commented on the movement to make the US a Christian ...

Larimar comments on Jul 21, 2019:

I see it as a credible fear that I share with you....

Two things before the vid.

Larimar comments on Jul 20, 2019:

Barracuda was my daughter's lullaby. I used to sing in bands...Heart was one I covered often.

The following is a piece I recently wrote to an old friend turned right-wing and religious: Jim, ...

Larimar comments on Jul 19, 2019:

very good analysis

I'm actually kind of surprised today; I thought the generation before mine in my family at least ...

Larimar comments on Jul 19, 2019:

Your mom is doing that in hopes of convincing you to revert perhaps like my mom does. My family is pretty much how you've described yours. You have my empathy.

1. How many are on this site looking for a companion?

Larimar comments on Jul 18, 2019:

I moved for love before....then he allowed his real self to appear and I chose not to stay with abuse. I'm still in the area but it's a pretty red state and few that think as I do. Moving isn't always a great idea.