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It international nurses day.

jacpod comments on May 12, 2018:

I had my second baby at a military hospital in Woolwich London I was scared because I thought that it was all going to be horribly regimented - It turned out to be great and so relaxed, the nurse who was looking after me in Labour - woke me up - as I had napped for a bit and said "Come on! I want this baby born before the end of my shift!" she was really lovely and my son was born and she was really pleased - In contrast the Hospital I had my daughter in, was supposedly the best teaching hospital in England and it was awful, really regimented . And a 15 year old cadet nurse delivered my baby as everybody else had left us to it.

I get claustrophobic in elevators. But I'm taking steps to avoid it.

jacpod comments on May 12, 2018:

nice one !

The beaver has been busy by the hot springs. I am lucky to see him at twilight periodically

jacpod comments on May 13, 2018:

wow !

Do you care if you are remembered when you die?

jacpod comments on May 13, 2018:

No!

I am the only person in my large latino family who does not believe in god.

jacpod comments on May 13, 2018:

I have Dissociative Identity Disorder so its easy for me to tune out - I dont really have a sense of how it happens it just seems to happen when I want it to - I have 9 alters so someone else is in control of my sensory perceptions - Its pretty handy but I dont reccomend it - It takes a lot of insanity to get this sort of disorder. I think if you practise tuning out or catch yourself when you are capacitous of doing it you might be able to replicate it when you need it. Also singing a silly song to yourself in your head - I think there might be many ways to tune out - I have D.I.D because I was adept at tuning out my mentally disturbed family- I called it 'going away' but its good to be in control of ot yourself rather than going as far as I did and getting alters.

How would you replace religion?

jacpod comments on May 13, 2018:

I wouldnt I have no need of religion, but others do and I am not anyones keeper - people can believe the moon is made of blue cheese if they want its their mind to do with as they want .

As an Atheist, I would like to know if others who also do not believe in a god get tired of arguing ...

jacpod comments on May 13, 2018:

I don't argue with anyone about it - I have no qualms in saying "it doesnt interest me a jot so either talk about something else or I'm off." I don't suffer fools gladly.

Did the latest I.S. stabbings in Paris make the news in your country?

jacpod comments on May 14, 2018:

yes in the U.K. did ours get to you?

Reading through these posts makes me wonder what I have to complain about.

jacpod comments on May 14, 2018:

I feel in a similar-ish place I am so fed up with everything thats happening I think the germans have the word weltsmerz - hurting for the world = I too have always been helpful and don't want to change that but my society is getting so bad i don't really feel connected any more - i think thats why I come here - things are are more work-Outable or able to be tolerated . And I hurt for what was once my world.

What are some POSITIVE benefits of consuming cannabis?

jacpod comments on May 14, 2018:

Pain relief -

Is it wrong to be an introvert

jacpod comments on May 14, 2018:

No; we are how we come. I have no trouble in moving away from people who make comments about me in any way , shape or form - Its a pretty ignorant thing to do - I'd not answer someoen that rude.

As an atheist what do you want done with your remains when you die?

jacpod comments on May 15, 2018:

I thought i wanted to donate them to medical science and sent off for the forms then found out that they might now want my dead body and it would have to be disposed of some other way so probably cremation...

If there existed a completely secular country, completely free of all religion, whos values and ...

jacpod comments on May 16, 2018:

Yes especially if it was warm !

The US blocked a vote in the UN about the hundreds of Gaza residents that the Israelis shot ...

jacpod comments on May 16, 2018:

I have been shaky and horrified all day and don't quite know how to import this lack of humanity into my psyche. It feels like the end of my world , I know that sounds dramatic but I can't quite find the way to incorporate it inot my psyche without dirtying myself in some way - I don't know how else to put it - This is so outrageous I can't cope!

Most of us aren't poets but many have a favourite verse that they carry with them.

jacpod comments on May 16, 2018:

First poem I ever learned hamelin town is in Brunswick , in famous Hanover City the River weser deep and wide Washes its walls on the southern side but when begins my ditty almost three hundred years ago, to hear the townsfolk suffer so, from vermin twas a pity. Rats! I won't carry on its really really long!

Today! On the scene! It still won't matter to Israeli apologists... [youtube.com]

jacpod comments on May 16, 2018:

My word I never thought that these people were that bloodthirsty.

Have you all had a nice day?

jacpod comments on May 16, 2018:

I spent most of my day in the garden planting stuff, weeding ,watering, etc. I live in sheltered accommodation and I collect for charity by doing laundry for other people (we have a laundry room) this morning I did four washes and got £10.00. I also go to the shops for people and collect newspapers. I like being busy don't know what to do with myself if i have nothing on the go. I run a group on wednesdays where we are colouring in from books and then collaging a table - if I get my head round the technical side of it I'll post a picture of our efforts when its done. .

A long time ago I read that the well read patient has a much higher chance of success than the ...

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

I don't read much about D.I.D because I have lived with it all my life nd have read a lot there isnt much to know and these days now i am 70. y.o I have ways of coping that mean I can by-pass a lot . I live an extremely simple life. after all my reading I went into coping mode to see what helped for me. Its interesting in a way as I never was very good at meeting other people -'going out for an evening ' etc. I find some people very difficult and it doesn't cost me a jot to slide past them.

Listen to the lyrics ://youtu.be/UhmtefhPkAc

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

Nice one !

This post is NOT meant to be argumentative or demeaning in ANYWAY.

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

I call myself Atheist only if anyone asks my status and I care to answer - Certainly, not silly ,as something I don't have can hardly get the label 'silly ' I don't think anyone is silly for being devoutly religious either, because its their life to do with what they want. I suggest you go to the boards where most of the people are talking about terms like atheist/agnostic; because I find it seriously unimportant to me and uninteresting .

When in your life have you been humbled?

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

My Mother and Father kept talking about divorcing I was about 8 years old and I told my father when we were walking to the Library that I didnt want to be with my Mother (she was manic) and he hit me for the first time ever round my face- I felt both humbled and indignant.

It’s Not a Liberal Fantasy to Ask if Trump Committed Treason

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

I am not really qualified to talk about him at all but he does seem to be 'a sandwich short of a picnic'

Are atheists too passive?

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

I don't ever do 'should's and ought's' I just live my life and I don't think stripping anyone of their ideals is helpful; so what would you do to help them next? Pay for their therapy? I wasn't baptised, I wasn't married in a church' and I won't be buried with a church service . I don't really see why you are so angry - We have our autonomy others have their needs met - Do you advocate civil war in order to force everyone to be atheist - It sort of hasn't happened very well in the communist bloc.

Why do intelligent people suddenly turn to a god in there darkest hours

jacpod comments on May 17, 2018:

I wish I knew I am very sorry for your situation - would it help if you did some things together like seeing a film that oyu both enjoy so that she has other outlets

Took a walk down to the river this morning (will be making multiple posts from it because too much ...

jacpod comments on May 18, 2018:

When we get storms here we get lots of driftwood on the beach. It probably doesnt last as long as tree wood as its been in the sea adn got salted but I have made geodesic domes for flowers to grow round and also a long arch pretty much using cable ties because the clematis covers all that up.

I accidentally swallowed a bunch of Scrabble tiles. Eventually this could spell disaster.

jacpod comments on May 18, 2018:

Could spell OUCH!

Love music- I’ve played bass guitar, piano and violin- all to various degrees of terrorizing my ...

jacpod comments on May 18, 2018:

I love music too, my partner is a musician. I can only play a school recorder, when I feel like it not really for the music though more for the movement and the cracking the code of the sheet music. Heard today that learning a new language can help stave off the effects of alzheimers so might give that a go too.

Telling children Santa Claus is real? Are you against it or for it?