change of air
I’ve moved from the southern to the northern hemisphere; from sunny warmth to cloudy, wet and windy chill; from hummingbirds and parakeets to seagulls and pigeons; and from peaceful contemplation (verging on boredom) to activity overload. I can’t imagine the change of air will do my blogging habit any good but I’ll give it go. I have three important questions to help future posts:
1. Do you feel normal?
2. How often do best blogging buddies disappear in Blogland?
3. Should I go to humanist society meetings or is it just like church without the deities and worship?
1. Do you feel normal?
Today, not so much… I have to go to Sao Paulo and I loathe that city.
2. How often do best blogging buddies disappear in Blogland?
No idea… only been at it since late last year. I miss Ark 😦
3. Should I go to humanist society meetings or is it just like church without the deities and worship?
Sure… Secular groups need to get their shit together to effect change.
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Thanks for the answers! I thought you’d been around a lot longer – you’re such a polished pro with a massive following! I feel worse for you about Ark than I do for me – I’ll probably miss lurking around your funny chats and campaigns with him more than anything. Hope you’ve found another buddy to go correcting errors with – Chris seems to have gone quiet, but at least not disappeared.
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Well, the good news is 3,000 year old demigods never actually go away… they just go walkabout from time to time.
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Hey, hope you are getting to enjoy the weather.
1. Do i feel normal?
Well yes.
2.How often do best blogging buddies disappear in Blogland
I need to look at this more keenly though I think those who have been commenting on my blog from when I started are almost all still doing it. One of them being JZ.
3 Yes, by all means. It is sometimes fun to spend time with like minded people and it ain’t a reserve for sheeples only!
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Thanks for answers, all useful to know!
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I thought you’d been at it for much longer! So we started around about the same time, huh? I knew it was love even though the lights were dim 🙂
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maybe a month or two difference! You have always made me smile either with your comments are your posts that are sarcasm laden!
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Sarcasm, me? Never! 🙂
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Violet,
I was wondering if you would be moving some place where you could still take “purty” pictures of flowers and butterflies (and the occasional cow). I guess seagulls and pigeons have their own je ne sais quois.
I never feel normal. I don’t have blogging buddies to speak of. We are all human. You seem to be much more interesting than being limited to your beliefs (or non belief) about god.
Cindy
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Thanks for the answers Cindy. Thankfully I have a stockpile of patio photos to keep me going for a while, so I don’t need to try and get any arty pictures of seagulls just yet …
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No, I don’t feel normal, but that’s a good thing, mostly. I don’t know enough about questions 2 and 3 to answer.
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Thanks for the answers!
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So glad to see you are settled and back in blogworld. 🙂 Chris and ark are still mia I believe. (which would be a partial answer to number 2)
1. I dont really feel… Normal….
And3.
I dont think its the same as church at all …unless they have a person appointed as . “authority” over you …and take your money
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Thanks Holly! Is Chris missing as well? I thought he’d come back. I guess people obviously come and go for different reasons, but I thought they’d both been around for ages (although I guess I assumed everyone had, and I was wrong). That’s an interesting point about no-one having authority over others in a humanist group. I’m going to try and give it a go if I’m free on a relevant night, might be interesting.
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1. Do you feel normal? No. I never have, though I’ve always wanted to.
2. How often do best blogging buddies disappear in Blogland? Not often, in my experience.
3. Should I go to humanist society meetings or is it just like church without the deities and worship? Why not? If it’s just like church you can always not go back. Either way, it may be an experience.
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Thanks David! I’ve done my normal post now but your comment is interesting, and is an aspect I couldn’t find a suitable space for in what I wrote. There’s something about humans being torn between wanting to be normal and wanting to be different/special at the same time. Also interesting to hear you don’t know many people who have disappeared – I wondered if it was a blogging thing.
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Point 3: It rarely hurts to socialise—you come away either having learnt something or feeling a bit superior … seriously though, you may just find that folks are (a) lonely or (b) foaming-at-the-mouth non-realists.
A long time ago I attended a few meetings at the NZ Rationalist & Humanist Society’s HQ in Auckland and met the great James O Hanlon himself. To me they were just a bunch of dedicated anti-religious folks with nothing new to say and nothing to justify the effort of going there. Think church meetings format (but anti).
Definitely worth popping over to your local Humanist meets if only for a couple of times; you never know, it may just ring your bell loud and clear.
Or not. But unless you go you’ll never find out, will you~?
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