Darwin on the Palouse: Julia Sweeney - Introduction and Q n A "Letting Go of God" 

You are so nice...most Dachshunds I know are mean.

lessevdoolbretsim I am a long haired Dachshund. We are much more laid back than the smooth coated variety.

AreZee Isme I didn't know there were hippie-Dachshunds either...you live and learn. I really like Julie too...she has a very sweet, kind of naivete to her, as well as an intelligent, and introspective quality.

lessevdoolbretsim hippie-dachshunds....I love that!

lessevdoolbretsim I wonder if I can change my Google name to hippie dachshund? Hmmmmm.....

Thank you . That really did help😁😁

@kim burley ? listen .. there could be a "God" but surely not the Roman Empire one. Life must be lived free of illusions. Besides, one cannot be "happy"... which is an emotion. .. we can at times only have a bit of happiness... which like a passing cloud is soon enough replaced by some other emotion... like a bit of sadness..pensiveness, curiosity, or whatever...but never the fear of death. Peace!

@kim burley ! belief often has no bearing on the truth . science points to string theory... mebbe the essential life force will upon death float up to a separate dimension as undulating strings , to join the universal intelligence of which we are mere fragments and to which all sentient beings return after life's journey . . . i dunno... have forgiven these priests/nuns/popes for all their transgressions ... life's too short ...great day in nyc... i feel a corona will be good for lunch... with my rib eye

@kim burley *** y'know , we gotta give the guy credit, ain't easy goin against the grain. No critical thinking at all i religion, just belief and surrender. Of course, after this bag of bones is shed off i believe that the spirit, or life force ( some say Consciousness ), goes off ( in string or wave form)and returns to another dimension ( supposedly a dozen or so out there) re-joining "God", the Supreme Being or Universal Intelligence which is probably pure energy... cos that's what we are essentially, Energy... and the said spirit hangs around as a "Being". Incidentally, that malignant virus is also energy, probably travelling the earth in wave form... and i imagine it has the basic elements... graviton, electro-magnetic forces, strong and weak nuclear forces like your ordinary one celled amoeba and/or heavenly bodies. It is most probably weather related as was the bubonic plague ( sometime 6th century consequent to Krakatoa ). Since we are nearing the end according to GuyMcPherson.. well, we can at least be totally present and enjoy Life... with maximum tolerance and Love towards all. Cheers!!!

She already DID wake up, hope you do someday.

@@showmebear 🖖

No she is just free. Its a feeling tht is unimaginable. Lmao imagine (for me) all yrs your christian(15 left at 23) you question 24/7. Lol smile and always say, if i never a christine id choose to believe in nothing anymore. 🤣 my mom n them would get so annoyed but like at sum point i was deep in it. When u turn off ur brain stop questioning and just say its real. Then change your mind to see it as us vs them, god is right he is talkin to u, u can talk to him. Anything negative or telling u different is devil. It was so sad time for me, like i got tired of fakin everything. I was like already not claiming myself as a christian at like 21 but finally stopped a while before i turned 23. Then i was like shoot just stop it all together and im happily athiest again. I got the hell speach and dealt with trauma from it which is what i feared. I had to be perfect from young n the "pure" one. Now im like im gonna be me finally its my life, no forgiving abusers or anything. So she just see it lol