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At least 10 tornadoes confirmed in Louisiana and Kentucky

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FreddieAlfie 3 8 comments Mar 10

What are some things

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TonyAndrews 4 6 comments Mar 10

Does the concept of human dignity need to be justified?

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Matias 7 28 comments Mar 10

Be kind. Be relevant.

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Marcel3405 6 13 comments Mar 10

Read 'em and weep, folks. Read 'em and weep. [factsmaps.com]

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evidentialist 8 14 comments Mar 10

Ebola treatment centers under attack in Congo. [msn.com] The pandemic takes one step closer.

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Elganned 7 7 comments Mar 10

What do you think of the photography in this video about birds? Facebook

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ToolGuy 7 6 comments Mar 9

The oldest verified person ever -- Jeanne Louise Calment of France -- died in 1997 at the age of 122, according to Guinness.

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Charliesey 6 14 comments Mar 9

What do you think of this post? The author was a professor at the University of Toronto for 40 years and identified the problem of the Army of Marketeers. [media-studies.ca]

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ToolGuy 7 6 comments Mar 9

The art institute of Pittsburgh, a school I'd worked at for 12+ years, just shut down today. While it was always a possibility, it came as a surprise to find a termination notice in my mail today... oh yeah, and I'm in the middle of classes so I ...

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TheMiddleWay 8 12 comments Mar 9

Read a good book yesterday and wanted to pass it along. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite by William Deresiewicz A former Yale professor, Bill Deresiewicz presents a look at how the top Ivy League colleges in America are ...

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linxminx 7 20 comments Mar 9

I've been hiking two hours a day early in the morning in the desert valley below my hilltop housing development, near Albuquerque, NM, then climbing the almost sheer water culvert back up to my cul-de-sac. Yesterday I walked down the mountain to ...

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birdingnut 8 12 comments Mar 9

Don't forget!

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tnorman1236 8 10 comments Mar 8

Just wanted to let you know about two bug fixes that are now live. First, you'll probably see that you have a few more points than before due to a calculation error. Second, if you are using our apps (and you should!), you'll now be getting alerts ...

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Admin 8 29 comments Mar 8

any merit to this? [sciencealert.com]

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hankster 8 22 comments Mar 7

I had a trully upsetting and shocking experience today. I just feel so angry about it. I have two students of afro-carribean descent. I'll call them Julie and Tommy. Julie is from a rather well to do family from London. She speaks in very pronounced ...

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Amisja 8 52 comments Mar 7

Guilty while being black in America (again) 🤬 [theroot.com]

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Science-guy 8 16 comments Mar 7

NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER said today that: "The Milky Way weighs in at about 1.5 trillion solar masses (one solar mass is the mass of our Sun), according to the latest measurements. Only a few percent of this is contributed by the ...

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cava 7 5 comments Mar 7

How do you answer someone who says I'll pray for you like they are judging you?

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sillyangel 3 19 comments Mar 7

Wow! Deep. People fined and jailed for dissing their gov't? What should be done if the gov't disrespects it's citizens? [msn.com]

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IAJO163 7 10 comments Mar 7

How many of us are there in NC?

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Grady302 3 22 comments Mar 7

Has "God" helped some atheist/agnostics?

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Antifred 7 29 comments Mar 6

I am about to lose my most dear niece to the evils of Ewings Sarcoma. I'm close to broken. She is 12 and deserves NONE of this. I'm angry. I'm sad. I'm hurt.

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Ken 5 53 comments Mar 6

LINK There’s probably another planet in our solar system - MIT Technology Review

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david75090 7 6 comments Mar 6

The Do No Harm Act (H.R. 1450, S. 593) is a bill that would limit the negative impact of religious exemptions in federal law in areas such as civil rights and health care coverage. We need your help to build support for this important legislation....

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AtheistNews 5 11 comments Mar 6

This seems so common sense, but so many people refuse to see it. The radical moral implications of luck in human life [vox.com]

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Benthoven 8 14 comments Mar 6

I got into a fb discussion with someone and this is his argument. The "existence" of a god is wholly dependent on the definition that we ascribe to the word "god." Humans have traditionally assigned that which is unknown to a god (wind, fire, ...

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ToolGuy 7 19 comments Mar 6

LINK Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet - Quillette

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zblaze 7 10 comments Mar 6

LINK Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

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resserts 8 15 comments Mar 6

The two lies

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48thRonin 8 12 comments Mar 5

This is an amazing site. You can get anything you want. I would have a relationship with the right person, and I have met some people here with whom I am agnostic friends. Makes a person feel they are not alone in the world.

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Backslidden 4 22 comments Mar 5

I deserve what I get. Them others are lazy good for nothings. Ugh.

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dokala 7 12 comments Mar 5

@admin Thanks for the shirt. The pen is even better! :)

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Annaleda 8 19 comments Mar 4

The first annual International Atheist Day is coming up on March 23rd! I'm the chairman of a small town freethinker group and I'm looking for ideas on things for our group to do to celebrate this new holiday.

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Preston 4 21 comments Mar 4

It's not our differences that are th problem, it's our inability to accept and celebrate them. Audre Lorde.

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Jolanta 8 24 comments Mar 4

This is Democratic socialism not capitalism.

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48thRonin 8 17 comments Mar 4

self portrait....ageing is definately not for cissies

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talulah888 5 28 comments Mar 4

How do you manage to deal with theist people talking about God?

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Aurum16 5 24 comments Mar 4

So I have a great tech tip for anyone that might want this. Trying to click all over the place to get to whatever settings you might want, which can be a pain. This will make all of that obsolete. oh, and this will work on everything from win7 ...

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TristanNuvo 8 24 comments Mar 3

Bravery: Richard Dawkins interviews Saudi Arabian atheist author Rana Ahmad

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VictoriaNotes 8 24 comments Mar 3

How much should teachers make?

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ScubaWags 6 55 comments Mar 3

LINK Trump Lays Groundwork To Ban Mandatory Vaccinations Across U.S.

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snytiger6 8 31 comments Mar 3

POLL Which group of people would be more likely to help those in need... theists, agnostics or atheists? Why?

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stillsy 3 45 comments Mar 3

Since it's Sunday:

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bigpawbullets 8 11 comments Mar 3

Kissing the ass of a brutal dictator, we should all be ashamed.

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michaelj 6 22 comments Mar 3

Dial L for Life You exist. You are a biological life form. Therefore, the Universe must be the sort of place that has the sorts of physics that permits the origin and evolution of life forms. That that weren’t the case, you wouldn’t exist. ...

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johnprytz 7 6 comments Mar 3

Adel B. Suleiman : "White phosphorus bombs (banned by the UN) are widely used by both Israel and the USA against civilian population in Gaza, Palestine, Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor in Syria. The photo is of a Palestinian mother and her children who ...

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THHA 7 15 comments Mar 2

Reminder: A difference of opinion is not an attack. We can only have meaningful discussion if we maintain the ability to disagree politely. Take from this what you will.

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Xuande 7 40 comments Mar 2

REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED IDAHO CONGRESS REJECTS BILL TO END CHILD MARRIAGE FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 BY DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON ON 3/1/19 AT 12:48 PM 00:00 How Mozambique schoolkids use theatre to warn against child marriage SHARE U.S. Idaho ...

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Jolanta 8 16 comments Mar 2

Bernie’s launch. Speech was a barn “berner.” Democracy is coming to the USA? Facebook

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ToolGuy 7 10 comments Mar 2

This is why we can't have nice things.

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dokala 7 9 comments Mar 2

LINK Bill Would Lower Failing Grades For Public School Performance To 39 Percent

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snytiger6 8 10 comments Mar 2

Gun Deaths in 2018 Japan: 10 Sweden: 41 Switzerland: 47 UK: 50 Israel: 105 Australia: 207 Total: 460 Population: 246,959,950 Guns: 8,804,000 United States... Deaths: 39,773 Population: 329,093,106 Guns: 393,347,000 When will the...

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Charliesey 6 25 comments Mar 2

I took a drive in the snow yesterday. It was Friday, so I tuned in to NPRs "Science Friday." I don't usually listen to NPR because it has become a propaganda machine for the corporatists of America. One segment I listened to had an author who had ...

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Enchanter 6 10 comments Mar 2

Human irony...

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AwarenessNow 7 5 comments Mar 2

LINK Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals

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HippieChick58 9 30 comments Mar 2

Perhaps their Hail Marys will cancel each other out

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webspider555 7 4 comments Mar 2

Ha ha ha ha. Too punny.

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Marcel3405 6 9 comments Mar 2

How much are you losing in taxes this year?

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celticagent 7 17 comments Mar 2

Just know that

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48thRonin 8 8 comments Mar 2

LINK Debunked: "Socialism Has Never Worked" - YouTube

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skado 8 11 comments Mar 1

LINK Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years

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BSquared 6 4 comments Mar 1

LINK David Gilmour Wish you were here live unplugged - YouTube

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DavidGreen1 5 6 comments Mar 1

LINK Fordham confirms that Trump team threatened the school if his grades became public - MarketWatch

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david75090 7 9 comments Mar 1

LINK Did you know that before 1973 it was illegal in the US to profit off of health care. The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 passed by Nixon changed everything. – Investment Watch

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HippieChick58 9 18 comments Mar 1

American Atheists announced the first wave of speakers, including Jim Obergefell, for its 2019 National Convention in Cincinnati on April 18-21. Jim Obergefell became an “accidental activist” by standing up for equality in the landmark case ...

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AtheistNews 5 10 comments Feb 28

Intuition is a constant. We believe, we heal, we are reborn. You and I are dreamweavers of the totality. We must learn how to lead internal lives in the face of greed. Where there is discontinuity, fulfillment cannot thrive. You must take a ...

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celticagent 7 20 comments Feb 28

The Center for Inquiry's Director of Government Affairs, Jason Lemieux, is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. On the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, he tells what is really behind the Bladensburg Cross case (American Legion et al. v. American ...

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AtheistNews 5 6 comments Feb 27

Eight more sketchbook pages.

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MusicMnstr99 6 15 comments Feb 27

Kent State students and the Gen Z/Millennial generations overall are showing that the most prominent religion is not having a religion at all. In the 2014 Religious Landscape Study of over 35,000 Americans from The Pew Research Center, the ...

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AtheistNews 5 13 comments Feb 27

once upon a time Youtube

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magicwatch 7 5 comments Feb 27

POLL Violation of the 8th Amendment? People doing life for nonviolent crime..[democracynow.org]

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thinkwithme 6 27 comments Feb 26

Congressman Gaetz (R -FL) is an example of just how smarmy Trump Republicans have become.

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t1nick 7 22 comments Feb 26

The U.S. Supreme Court has an easy call to make over the constitutionality of a 40-foot concrete cross on governmental land in Bladensburg, Md. Oral arguments are being heard on Wednesday, Feb. 27, over this fraught challenge. One would expect to ...

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AtheistNews 5 18 comments Feb 26

I find it interesting how some small, rural, hard-scrabble southern towns like the one I grew up in seem to last forever. Lee, Florida has lasted from the 1800s to today as a town of about 200 - 250 people surrounded by subsistence farms and poor, ...

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wordywalt 8 17 comments Feb 26

LINK What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people? | Books | The Guardian

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skado 8 30 comments Feb 26

those colors are from the prism on a window in our kitchen. it is encouraging to see that the colors are gradually moving to my right as the days get longer. actually hit some golf balls at our range yesterday as the temp got up to 8C. but down to -5...

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callmedubious 7 8 comments Feb 26

LINK Company Gives Nonsmokers Extra Vacation Days

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snytiger6 8 18 comments Feb 26

Elon on point.

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Marcel3405 6 8 comments Feb 26

There are some amazing youth out there. Youtube

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jlynn37 8 6 comments Feb 26

I just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed Agnostic and all those whom I've had conversations with. Everyone for the most part seems to be mature and able to discuss constructively even when we disagree. The difference between this and ...

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SkepticPower31 6 28 comments Feb 25

A nice windy day in Virginia. Changed my car battery and made a nice Turkey sandwich. I didnt have to thank a God for any of it.

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NathanHale85 3 10 comments Feb 25

Not sure where I stand on this because of the age of this cross monument and how it speaks to a different era. I am interested how the Supreme Court rules. Also interesed in hearing how other folks form an opinion about it. [npr.org]

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mojo5501 6 25 comments Feb 25

Yes, I KNOW I said we'd be together until the end of time. But time was going a lot faster when we liked each other.

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Benthoven 8 14 comments Feb 25

LINK Lions Eat Three Rhino Poachers Alive In South African Game Reserve - Healthy Food House

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snytiger6 8 26 comments Feb 25

So it would appear that all or almost all of the people in this country who are against abortion are also pro death penalty....yet they call themselves Pro-Life. How does that work? Obvisouly when you compartmentalize ideas in your brain competeing ...

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ABD 4 31 comments Feb 25

Better step up your game fellow atheists or risk the scorn of your peers. So-Called ‘Atheist’ Doesn’t Even Barge Into Churches Screaming ‘You’re All Brainwashed Fools’ [local.theonion.com]

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BrentMBA2004 4 8 comments Feb 25

So-Called ‘Atheist’ Doesn’t Even Barge Into Churches Screaming ‘You’re All Brainwashed Fools’ [local.theonion.com]

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ldheinz 7 8 comments Feb 25

LINK The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds - Motherboard

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MsAl 7 25 comments Feb 24

LINK Ilhan Omar Owes No Apologies, Apologies Are Owed Her

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Krish55 7 9 comments Feb 24

The Dems have real trouble going into 2020. Nobody appears to have one of the critical ingredients for success - charisma. Beto O'Roarke has charisma and is gaining name recognition, but has not entered the race. The others are not personality ...

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t1nick 7 32 comments Feb 24

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must ...

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KenChang 7 16 comments Feb 24

Darwin Day 2019 Youtube

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ToolGuy 7 5 comments Feb 24

Major wind warnings in effect for southern Ontario and adjacent states. Winds up to 130 kph expected to push eastern waters of Lakes Ontario and Erie to 10 metre waves. Inland winds are forecast to be in the plus 60 to 80 kph area with higher gusts....

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Science-guy 8 18 comments Feb 24

LINK The brain’s wiring as you've never seen it before | Cosmos

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zblaze 7 5 comments Feb 24

Sitting around the campfire roasting marshmallows and hotdogs.

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AstralSmoke 8 10 comments Feb 24

LINK Megachurch Youth Pastor Will Only Serve 8 Months For Sexually Abusing Teen | Michael Stone

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snytiger6 8 10 comments Feb 24

Going more places.... Youtube

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evidentialist 8 4 comments Feb 24

Religion fills a social void, how do you get social belonging? Outside of this site of course

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Canndue 4 36 comments Feb 24

In the biography - Einstein - His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson, the author says that Einstein never failed in mathematics in school - it is a common misconception. Einstein himself said "I never failed in mathematics. Before I was ...

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THHA 7 10 comments Feb 24

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