karin

I'm not sure what you mean. This isn't a political ideology conference tho. Spencer Lukas doesn't know the political views of his speakers.The speakers are as follows: Catharine Dunphy: Thinking your way out of faith Scott Clifton: God Science & the problem of nature Ali A Rizvi: Athiest Muslim Raheel Raza: Muslim Beliefs by the Numbers Neda Topaloski: Atheism & sextremeism Christopher DiCarlo Evolution of Critical Thinking Majid Nawaz: A message from a Muslim reformer Armin Navabi: Islam: Reform or Abandon Round table discussion: ISlam, Where do we go from here?

Hi everyone! I don't know if this is appropriate, so you can delete it if it's not. Just letting you know that the Non-Con, a Non-believer's conference is taking place tomorrow, Sat. Aug. 13 at the Americana Hotel in Niagara Falls ON. ' Join us for a full day of thought provoking talks and lively discussion with internationally renowned activists and free-thinkers.' Tickets are $159 CAD and include a catered lunch and dinner. and are available at the door. It was a fantastic conference last year, and looks to be excellent this year also. Conference opens for registration at 8:00 am and first speaker Catherine Dunphy's talk 'Thinking your Way out of Faith.' begins at 9:15 am.Other speakers include: Maajid Nawaz ' A Message from A Muslim Reformer' and Christopher Dicarlo ' The Evolution of Critical Thinking'. Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/NonConference/photos/a.688010947935767.1073741828.681738915229637/1058051950931663/?type=3&theater or www.thenon-conference.com Hope to see you there! karin

Alfie Kohn's book: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from rewards and punishments to love and reason. This one gives the research about different parenting practises. My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/363506958?book_show_action=false Dr. Laura Markham:Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids. How to stop yelling and start connecting. Just finished this one. It's excellent and does what Kohn's book neglects: to give practical examples of how to implement the principles. Aha Parenting blog here: http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools Mary Sheedy Kurcinka: Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic. This book helped me years ago when i had my first child. While she talks about children who are more intense, difficult, moody etc. than normal children, the suggestions she has (like prempting tantrums by leaving an event before the child is overwhelmed, like telling your child he will have to change activities before the last minute so he has time to adjust) also work with 'normal' children. Lawrence Cohen: Playful Parenting Cohen tells parents that children need connection and time to play with a parent to keep their needs 'cup' filled. Play leads to connection to our child and to conversations. Play is also a way for children to work thru some issues they struggle with. He tells parents how to use play time to help the child work thru issues they have noticed including: sibliing rivalry, social skills and insecurities. Kabat-Zinn Myla & Jon Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting. My review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/453126204 If you want to start off different than most here's one about infant elimination- Ingrid Bauer: Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene. Interesting to read, and i had some positive experiences with this. If you are patient and not stressed out it can save a lot of potty problems later on, as kids never lose their elimination control centre. I didn't start right away, and it helps if you have a toilet/ potty on the same floor as you usually are so you don't have to keep running up and down the stairs. At a year old my daughter told me in no uncertain terms that she'd rather go pee in her diaper than have to stop playing every hour or so.( By having a warm wet diaper just as we got upstairs, but i still took her to go poop and she was ok with that. When we finally did underwear under the diaper she was very quick. Rarely had a wet bed after she was potty trained. She also can hold her pee for a very long time. It didn't work perfectly well as we weren't the ones who went without a diaper by a year but it did connect us and saved a lot of exploding diapers! David Elkind: The Hurried Child, Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk, etc. NB. Don't go buy all these books right off. Check your library and if it doesn't have them ask for an interlibrary loan. The library will then get the book for you -usu. for free-. Happy reading!

I wasn't sure how to frame the question very well. it's just thots that I've had. I came from a fundamental religion (mormonism) to realizing that was all shit, to realizing christianity is also a bunch of bunk (which was always in the back of my mind but i thot that one day god would just explain it all to me in a way that it made sense.) So i've believed in an afterlife my whole life. And maybe the reason why i'm curious about it is that i have OCD, and had it really badly esp. after my daughter's birth. I've spent the last 7 years battling, conquering it mostly and learning to live with it in my life. So it would be nice to have a perfect life to look forward to . Maybe i'm just curious about what a 'perfect' person is like, knowing we humans aren't perfect. Maybe i'm just having a harder time letting go of my childhood beliefs. I'm not asking anyone to 'prove' anything. I just notice that people who believe in a god believe in an afterlife- that hinges on how good you were in this life,for how 'good' the afterlife is. And if those who don't believe in a god, also say 'no' to afterlife. I don't see how the 2 are 100% related, unless you believe god creates souls. Thus if you don't believe in god, you don't believe in souls anymore , thus no afterlife for a soul to go to. My premise is why does the one have to relate to the other? Life is here. We are more than our brains or thoughts ( see mindfulness- the concept of listening to but not responding to every thought). So is there a possibility (or probability) that there is a place that 'you' go when your body dies? Can i be an atheist and still believe that consciousness is not snuffed out at death of the body. I realize i can believe whatever i want, but is there any arguement already around that makes sense?

i belonged to a religion where you didn't drink. So i didn't drink til after 40, which was convenient in that i didn't have to worry whether i could be pregnant each time i drank. I also don't have a need to overdrink be drunk and throw up. I had enough throwing up during my pregnancies to not need that ever again. I also got thru that teen age/ university age where drinking is showing off to your buddies. But i have drinking advice from my older brother who left the church long before i did and has more drinking experience than i do. So i didn't experiment on my own without any advice. I've given my daughter (8) a little taste of alcohol mix- or maybe it was just the maple sweetener. But i don't want her to have to hide her drinking. A sip - usu. a tongue taste and spit out, if it's strong- is all that kids want anyway. What kid likes alcohol? As an adult i had to get used to the taste. I still don't care for beer. Kids see parents drive. That's an adult activity. Kids can see adults partaking of a glass wine, or a few shots for fun without getting upset. It's an adult drink. Which you do responsibly. For fun. Not to drown out feelings. (unless you've got OCD and spent the day getting rid of mouse evidence which on a scale of 1-100 is about 100 and you really need to calm down and you never expect this to happen again because the exterminators have come and they guarantee their work. ) Not continuously. If they ask, i tell them it's an adult drink and just like they get to drive, have babies, go to work etc. at different ages, because that's when your brain can handle it, when you get to be an adult you get to drink if you want. But that's just my opinion.

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids. by Dr. Laura Markham Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn Parenting by Proxy: Don't have them if you wont raise them & In Praise of Stay At Home Moms by Dr. Laura Schlessinger These are kind of 'stick it to you' books, so may not be received well. Born Reading- Jason Boog (This one tells how to interactively read with your baby and toddler) Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by j. Kabat-Zinn My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/453126204 What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot This one i haven't read, but the title sounds like what you are looking for. goodreads reviews here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145102.What_s_Going_on_in_There_ This may be more for your own use. Many people aren't that thrilled about being told not to go back to work. You may get the book tossed back in your face. But good luck!

I think that if evolution created this life, it could also create something for afterwards, even if it's only re-incarnation. If you don't need god for this life, why is he/she/it necessary to create an afterlife to go to? Or so it seems to me.

Hi! I'm an ex-mormon too! Did the temple marriage thing and after 30-some years as a mormon (parents converted) discovered the falsity of the book of mormon and that was the end. I'd been taught the church was true, and when i found out it wasn't quit.