How do ya'll decompress after a long period discussing political issues related to Religion?
I feel my bitterness levels rising, getting increasingly difficult to manage. I don't like taking vacations, so I'm curious what anyone else might suggest.
Yoga is helping a bit I guess.
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Though I have no idea why. You're right, fiction should be better for escapism.
And I'll probably need some escapism after I finish the latest tome of bedtime reading - "Bloody Streets - The Soviet Assault on Berlin April 1945."
Huge, intensely detailed book, every bit as apocalyptic as anything in the Buy-bull. Gunfire blasting thru streets filled with panicked fleeing civilians. Hitler sitting in his bunker like a mini-Jehovah, issuing orders that made no sense in the real world outside. German and Russian soldiers fighting each other inside the same buildings, which sometimes collapsed and wiped out both sides simultaneously.
So I have some lighter (than air) reading next in the queue: "The Zeppelin In Combat: A History of the German Naval Aviation Division 1912-1918."
Yeah, I know...
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He likes to get his head and neck rubbed. He's doesn't climb all over me, which is good. I'm allergic to cats, and less allergic to this cat than some others, either because of breed or having fairly short hair.
DH is an atheist too. We have no friends because we are in a town with a church on every corner and the nearest Unitarian Fellowship is over an hour's drive away. We met at a large urban UU church. It's still the only one we'll set foot in, because it's not Christian. And UUs love discussion groups instead of Sunday School indoctrination.
And we both have read Hinduism and Buddhism for a more sensible outlook on dealing with yourself and the rest of the world.
The Buddha was asked about gods and he said gods were irrelevant. He wanted to teach people how to deal with their lives and all the issues that were around 2500 years ago are still part of human nature.
Your morality should give you practical rules on how to treat people, not nonsensical and idiotically criminal ideas like killing your son if he disagrees with you, or killing your neighbor if he works on the Sabbath (Saturday or Sunday?), or if he wears a cotton & polyester blend shirt.
Now what book with that wonderful morality was that in? 
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