My Facebook feed is full of friends' and family's posts about how cute their kids are or how much they love God, or occasionally both. Which is lovely, actually, and I'm happy that they're happy. Honest. It's only that as a (gratefully) childless agnostic-leaning-toward-atheist, I feel a little bit... nothing-in-commonish. (Is there a word for that ( Read more... )

Have been reading some of the threads in the "Believe It Or Not" section of the BPAL.org forums. BPAL.org, just due to the nature of the "Alchemy Lab," is very much a bastion of feminism, alternative lifestyles, spirituality, and general offbeatness. For me it's a bit of a balancing influence against the pervasive Midwestern whitebread mundanity ( Read more... )

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