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We should make a goal of planting a tree for every person in our family.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 14, 2019:

I have planted a few on our land, but every year I collect acorns from our oak trees and scatter them beside roads, in hedgerows and among quick growing trees - hope those around in 200 years see them thriving

How many of you feel as if your lack of any sort of religious or spiritual belief system has ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 14, 2019:

Over the years my lack of faith has allowed for some leeway in my choice of relationships - have made love with women of Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and Christian faith and quite a few atheists - but I was much younger and somewhat less concerned about consequences like an angry Sikh father

Crap. It's 4:30 am, I've been awake for 90 minutes. No sign that \I will get to sleep anytime soon.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 14, 2019:

thats a little after the usual start of my day

Do you think it is dysfunctional when 50 YO kids and their parent(s) spend nearly all their free ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 14, 2019:

In England, up to the sixties, it was very common for an extended family of grandparents to great grandchildren to live in the same village, within easy walking distance and often only a few houses apart. Then, such close family relationships were very common and many family members would meet in a local pub (bar). It is only with better education, greater freedom of travel through car ownership and young adults traveling / moving to other areas for university education and higher paid or more interesting work that has broken down the closer family bonds. We now have many elderly people alone in their homes and having few, if any, visitors, and so many young people with mental health issues now; back then there was a family networkm an inbuilt support system always someone to help the elderly,always someone to listen and talk issues through - . I am not saying things were better then, simply that things have changed, with some benefits, but much has been lost.

Read your bible people!

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 14, 2019:

'she is to remain quiet' damn near enough to make me turn christian - but maybe divorce is better

Anyone else feel that it isn’t necessary to get married?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 14, 2019:

Living together in a committed relationship - more than friends with benefits less committment than a marriage ... either side can walk away with few issues

What is the most absurd thing that you have ingeated?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

snake, monkey, all sorts of bush meat, lizards, beetles, bugs, maggots . all sorts of shit and drunk all sorts of disgusting tasting fermented stuff

Did you have a pair of these?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

yes - a summer when I was 7 or 8 and I hated them ... scrubbed my feet along the floor to wear out the soles so they only lasted a few weeks

When everyone could have what they wanted for dinner!

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

Now I know where the idea for crappy meals on aircraft came from

ETTA JAMES & B.B. KING. THERE'S SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND. [youtube.com]

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

great song - great arwork too

[yahoo.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

know nothing of USA rules, but here in England privately run schools often employ 'teachers' who have specialist knowledge of a subject, but no formal teaching qualification. About 25 years ago I was approached by a headhunter to teach at a private college, but teaching was definitely not my career direction

This could keep a lot of marriages intact. [goodshomedesign.com]

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

that is similar to some HuffHaus designs (German company) - have always liked the concept

Ever since the last Windows 10 update, my PC has been crashing a lot. Anybody else?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

mine went into really slow mode - did a virus scan and defrag and then cleaned cache - seems ok now

The fire that burned the neighborhood and surrounding area I grew up in resulted in a lot of ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

Nothing quite like the adrenaline rush of a near death episode to leave you desperate for sex - need for life resetting and stabilising

The Beauty of the English language.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

you need to hear the spoken words to understand what is happening

How to cool things down in hot weather

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

nice update on 'drain the swamp'

What would you say if you got this survey in your E mail from your church?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 13, 2019:

why would anyone want a representative of the morons interviewing any child

Basic Income?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

You first have to decide what is 'better distribution of wealth' If it is to take money from some and give it to others - how do you justify it and how do you do it? You can not place a high tax burden on the wealthy, because the wealthy can move abroad and many will, reducing tax revenue overall Does someone who does not work have a right to be financially supported by his neighbour who is struggling with 2 jobs? Education should give everyone the skills to enable them to make a path in life - after that you choos which path and find your way through it The question steps into a quagmire of moral and philosophical issues

If a flower doesn't bloom, do you fix the flower or do you fix the environment?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

You put them in a place they like, give them what they need to thrive and hope the world doesn;t send something abnormal to hurt or kill them. The flower is made better by the environment it is in.

How do you console a young boy who's father has just committed suicide?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

At a time like that there is nothing you can say that will make anything better ... but make it clear that if there is anything you can do to help, he should ask you and you will try ... and when he is ready to talk, listen, and not judge

Over reactive people.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

I think people using a phone app often expect everyone else to respond in seconds.... which some may do. I use an old laptop, and usually check in when having coffee, or a snack - but may be hours, or occasionally a few days between seeing posts and messages. If people can't handle that - cest la vie. Getting blocked for a slow response time seems childish ........ if you want instant feedback pick up a phone.

ICELAND -ANYONE BEEN?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

get out of the tourist areas and into residential areas - you can eat well at a reasonable price

pornhub.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

That must be something dreamed up by a chemically induced visionary marketing guy (or gal)

I wish I never sold my ________(if a vehicle, make and model).

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

Daimler Sovereign - six years old when I bought it, but the most comfortable mile eater I ever had - and I got 65p/mile for business travel (about $1/mile back then) and I drove 40,000 miles a year. Sadly I wore it out and repairs were costing too much

I must be insane, but I'm crazy about dogs, even if they are just stuffies.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

cute - very cute

I love all colors, but orange and green have a very special place in my heart! Embers, trees, ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

that is a spectacular bloom

MEN, HERE IS YOUR ROLE MODEL US politician from Mississippi insists on chaperone for interview ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

He should have asked her to bring along a female colleague - --- could have led to an amazingly intimate 'interview'

My ex keeps telling me I'm shallow because I will only date women who are small.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

If you happen to meet a bigger woman who you like then date her (assuming she reciprocates)- and the same for small women

UK citizens arrested in China

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

If they were carrying drugs in a place where banned they were stupid (all teachers and students too) ... lucky they were not in some other countries where the death penalty is enforced for drug violations. I guess some bleeding hearts will demand 'leniency' - but as far as I am concerned, you make your choices and have to live with the consequences EDIT @JasonTomer has posted that the death penalty may well be available as a punishment

Sometimes I think that it is a good idea to make a splash in your garden by putting all your eggs in...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

Will have to photo my lavendar - will post soon

A goof-proof salmon dish! I don't like canned salmon.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

I do the same, but use fresh dill and butter - works with fresh salmon steaks - just as good method with a whole fish

Looks like i will be freezing Broccoli when I get off work later today...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

looks lovely and fresh - bet it tastes good too

1969 vs 2019 I was born in '74, but I have often wished I was alive for the Moon Landing.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

I remember being bored as I was forced to watch the moon landing - didn't find it interesting and even then was asking why we spent so much to get to an inhospitable rock when so many on the planet were starving. I think the mid sixties to 68 were a time of high expectation - the world was going to become a better place, love and peace would reign, - look how that turned out. I think the Sharon Tate murders were the beginning of the end

Hollywood has the technology to make computer simulated people.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

they could do it now if they wished - and be easy to put in any persons image, doing anything they wanted

Who else is Sapiosexual besides me? Please stand up. [elitedaily.com]

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

It is good to meet and talk with intelligent people and I could not contemplate sharing life with someone of moderately low intellect ..... if intellect actually improves sex? I think not - I have known some really dumb, women who were great sex partners

Here's a cop that puts criminals to shame! Ex-deputy accused of planting drugs on Florida drivers ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 12, 2019:

The article says nothing about why he did this - be interesting to know.

This Ten Years After live 30 minute set starts out with Count Basie "I May Be Wrong" followed by 2 ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

great band of musicians - still have the old Watt tape in the box, and probably could find the jeans stored somewhere in the loft

Is sexual incompatibility a deal breaker for you?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I think he meant 'I dont care about a womans pleasure---- '

I just read a news article about "climate despair" which discussed anxiety regarding unstoppable ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Climate change is not unstoppable, but mankind will never stop it. The world will one day run out of resources for humans to take - then humanity will decline, more trees will grow and absorb the carbon dioxide and the earth wil rebalance ---- its a time thing, and the planet has plenty of that

This is why I freak out much more often than I used to, right here.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Move out and leave them to wallow in their shit - and pay the bills for the clean up

Hooray! First hike after broken toe.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

A nice hillside wander for a peg legged lady, but it seems a long first hike after the break - hope you have been walking around town and building up to this and dont suffer by doing too much too soon... time is on your side .....lovely pics, see why you like it there

Husband and I went to a festival and tried these.... Taste like chicken smell like lake

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

long time since i had them - prefer the chicken

A guy goes to the same sandwich bar every day and orders the same thing, this time the lady sees him...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

thats an unexpected ending - funny

Now that is some romantic gardening!

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

that is very beautiful - to watch that grow throughout a marriage must be wonderful

What's wrong with society...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Lot to be said for the Conan theory - warriors should kill their enemies and hear the lamentation of their women - not very pc now, but all the rage when the israelites were carving up their little part of the world - see old testament

What do people think of the theory that the universe is a living thing?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Never considered it - But I do like the Gaia theory, that the earth reacts to stimuli to maintain balance - on the long time scale

This time (10am) tomorrow I shall be embarking on my annual jaunt from Southern Spain, driving up ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Sounds like a great trip - if you want to share a coffee as you pass by Doncaster send me a message - be a pleasure to share time

I've been wondering for a while if most of us on Agnostic are mostly estranged from our families of ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I see my family a few times each year, tomorrow is one of those days. My brothers birthday, an excruciating day going over memories about people I have forgotten, places I dont remember visiting and trivial family stories I never needed to know. Nothing ever said about my father hitting and kicking my mother, my mother beating us with a cane, or father beating us with a belt - which for years I knew as normal family life. My oldest sister will, eventually, prattle on about how bad they all felt on the night I nearly died, despite having been told I don't want to hear it and knowing it will cause me a painful few days of memories that normally stay partially buried. I have little in common with my siblings, even less with their offspring and no reason to see them other than a shared mother ... and every time I ask myself 'why bother?'

Tomorrow is my debut as a standarised patient.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

the catheter does go in through the tip - as Billy Connolly said 'FUCK THAT' Had a friend die very slowly with MS; watched his 10 year decline from a vibrant intelligent man to an empty hollow husk of a human, bitter at what life had dealt and unable to end his life when he wished.

Single? Have a pool party! This looks more fun, to me, lol.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

looks brilliant

Post your favorite Monty Python sketch. [youtu.be]

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Philosophers song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtgKkifJ0Pw

Post your favorite Monty Python sketch. [youtu.be]

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 11, 2019:

The lord god made them all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPriOQkKd6k

I need suggestions for a low growing ground cover.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

Various varieties of thyme -3 - 4 inch high will spread, but easy to clear out if you want to - smells nice and can use in the kitchen

Queen Annie's Lace, Dusty Fleabaine, Thistles! Oh my!!! This is what happens to our habitat garden...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

It looks lovely - a weed is just a plant growing where you do not want it. I leave half my front garden to grow wild and have so much living there - foxes, rbbits, ducks, frogs, mice, shrews, many birds, butterflies, and insects and more that I rarely see and visitors like the kestrel that come to catch some of them

There have always been religious fanatics.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

John Lennon - Imagine - one of the greatest tracks ever - and just imagine the world if it came true

...it's because the music was better back then - watch the guy with the maracas?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

Brilliant stuff

I noticed this cringe worthy meme on some idiot's page today.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

sad, sad old woman

Lily starting hanging out under my desk during the July 4th fireworks.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

Put a blanket there and when working at the desk have your bare feet on it ... Lily will appreciate your familiar smell being with her when you are not ... she looks cute

You knew, thre are a few people on the site whom it seems iam in constant disagreement with.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

Its ok to disagree - be bloody boring if we all agreed about everything

Does anyone else find it difficult to understand why some interest groups and even purchasing deals ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I like 2 for 1 meals - particularly steaks. Here the steak always arrives with fries, onion rings and other stuff I dont want to eat..... on a 2 for 1 I have two juicy steaks, a little salad and leave the rest,

Do you use cast iron skillets or other cast iron cookware?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I bought my skillet from a second hand shop; it was well used when I bought it over 40 years ago, so older than that. - use for all sorts of stuff, meat, fish, asparagus, eggs, pancakes (can not toss them without breaking a wrist) and much more. Also have some Le Creuset casseroles etc, bought new much later. that go from oven to table and keep food hot for ages.

Just because something can be done, does not necessarily mean it should be done.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

There are lots of things humans do because they can ... but probably shouldn't

The word "blessed.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I like praise the lord - we have real life lords over here..... nd a few of them do stuff that is worthy of praise. Blessed with, bless you, etc, I never use, but hear it a lot and tend to ignore it.

STANDING BEHIND YOUR EMPLOYEE My day job as some of you may know is printer repair tech.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

For any business, some customers are not worth keeping. ... better to keep good employees

Why do so many people today want to be unique and special?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

Do what makes you happy, whether that makes you individualistic rather depends on what you do.

Overcoming depression

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

you talk about it and you learn to live through the bad times and be thrilled by the good times. I was helped by reading of some famous and accomplished people who struggled with depression - Churchill, Spike Milligan, etc - depression is a burden, but should not stop you living a great life.

I was watching the other night an episode of the Beverly Hills Housewives with my wife, and I was ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I have no problem with my wife having sex with another man, or woman, and she reciprocates that to me. As the tv housewife says - no love is involved, just a different experience ...

More news from our brilliant POTUS; [snopes.com]

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 9, 2019:

He was getting there in the end - the brain is much more important - particularly in a job like president

Mom outraged after finding penis on toy lion

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 9, 2019:

does she not allow the children to see a dog, bull, horse etc - - - - guess sharing a bath is out of the question

Two Americans gored and hospitalized after bull run. Why do this?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Why sky dive, scuba dive, do iron man enduros, hike among bears and cats, swim with sharks or run with bulls - all for adrenaline and the feeling of being alive, even if only for a few minutes.....l too many people go through life dominated by a fear of injury and death ... others thrive on it

God hears me?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 8, 2019:

'yes, it is a beautiful day in a beautiful place .... which god do you follow? then after they say Well it could be Vishnu, Odin, or a host of others ... why did you choose yours? and most have never even considered the question .. I like trying to make christians think, but it is hard for most of them

U.K.'s top diplomat blasts Trump in leaked memos.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 8, 2019:

this is a main headline in England ... confidential messages have been leaked by someone in the UK foreign office. An investigation may find out who and why, This leak damages relationships between allied countries, so is bad, even though the leaked views expressed are known by many to be true.

Debate: Buried or Cremated and why?

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

Eaten, by wolves, in wood buffalo park, Canada - where I will go to die

Just in case you want to know, my birthday is coming up: I would like A new tailors dummy ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

tell me your addres and I will organise a delivery - possibly a dummy

The Stargazers are blooming......and they smell soooo good.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

they are beautiful and aromatic - but I have lost count of the shirts I have coloured from the flowers

Permethrin spray repels and kills ticks, mosquitoes and 39 other biting insects

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

I use deet and dust my clothing , sleeping bag/blanket and hat with a flea and tick treatment I use for my dogs - not certain what is in it, but it works

Men find it hard to connect with plus-size women in the same way that women don't seem attracted to ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

We all have preferences, and we all have flexibility in our choices.

Rapper Tiny Jag pulls out of Detroit music fest after learning white people pay a higher ticket ...

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

If a rapper can see the logic of 'if you can;t afford the ticket then stay your ass home' - appalling use of language, but I would agree that the concept of social engineering through ticket pricing seems ridiculous.....

The more I date the more I am disappointed.

ShadowAmicus comments on Jul 7, 2019:

WHY? why are you so desperate to share your life with another person relax a little, enjoy the freedom of doing your own thing whenever you choose, and when you are relaxed and happy with your life - someone will turn up and it may be the right one, or the one for right now - go with the flow,

I think we had better music in the 60's and early 70's.