'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The popular vote has tightened, but that's because HRC got a big bump after the DNC and Trump got negative numbers after the RNC. So it's trending back to the mean as expected.
However, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania are pretty well locked in for the Dems and Trump would have to sweep all three to have enough electoral votes. And he's not going to get them.
It won't be a landslide victory for Hillary though. Probably similar to Obama's last election.
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Maybe a joke referencing Bill's testimony back in the day? Not engaging is probably a good call regardless.
I have been slacking on my beloved Jars of Salad this summer, but I finally got off my ass and made four quarts tonight. And then ate one for dinner, but first I sealed it into a jar because I could not think far enough ahead to just make one on a plate. Whatever, it was delish, a fitting setting for the smoked brisket I got the last day in the mountains, and pretty much sold me on this using BBQ sauce for salad dressing idea that the proprietress who sold me the brisket (and, for that matter, the sauce) suggested. It's a vinegar-y sauce, for the record. I don't know what region likes that and what thinks it's heinous and I don't really care, makes a fine salad.
Sounds like a mighty fine salad. -t
A woman walks down the street with that salad in a jar, you know she isn't afraid of anything.
I have a meeting in 10 minutes and more work stuff that will probably require working late and the realtor is coming over at 1 and I don't WANNA.
I saw two Jill Stein for President bumper stickers this morning. In Kansas. Okay, Lawrence, KS so not actually that strange.
I was sort of pondering something this morning. I'm an atheist, by which I mean I don't believe in G*d or at least any concept of G*d that can be comprehended. But it often seems hard to even tell someone who is religious that I'm atheist without offending them. The reason for the offense is that they assume I must think they are dumb or foolish since I don't believe in this thing that's so important to them. I don't really. I just think they have a different worldview which I can't believe in.
There's another misunderstanding where some Christians (this seems to be mostly a Christian thing anyhow) don't believe in atheists. They assume that atheists believe in G*d but deny him/her/it because they want to sin freely or are angry at G*d for some reason.
I also don't really understand Pascal's Wager. How do you choose to believe something? It seems like it's possible to immerse yourself in information to support a certain belief over another and maybe you can change your belief that way, but mostly I can't make myself believe something.
I'm drifting here. Back to the original pondering. Is it possible to be an atheist without coming across as arrogant or offensive?
In the last 9 years, the only vacation I've had where I didn't have to work anyway was when I was out of the country and literally couldn't access my work email. It isn't right.Yeah, I understand occasionally working while on vacation but I don't get this. Why not say you won't be available, set up your OOO message, and just not look at your work email?
Maybe work up to it gradually. Set aside some time every day that you will read email or answer the phone and when you get used to the idea make it longer.
Is it possible to be an atheist without coming across as arrogant or offensive?
Atheists who bring it up first or are quick to bring up their status as an atheist are generally looking for a reaction. If you're merely debating from a point of disbelief in deities without waving an identity banner, I wouldn't feel challenged. Your Deist May Vary.
For some religious folk, running into someone who doesn't believe in a god is like Neil deGrasse Tyson running into someone who thinks the earth is flat. For them, the presence of a god in their lives is as real and factual as gravity.
Yeah, I understand occasionally working while on vacation but I don't get this. Why not say you won't be available, set up your OOO message, and just not look at your work email?
Agreed! (And I say this as someone who did work on my last vacation. Oh, not my last out-of-town vacation, though! Anyway, I knew I had a thing to finish, set aside two hours that day, and then stopped checking email after that.)