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Share your favorite recipes here. Or tell of your favorite dishes. Or restaurants.... Or ... anything about food at all. Just food. Eats. Grubs.... Also, food memories -- best, worst, indifferent.... Anything, really. Oh, and a question: What are your favorite quick and easy (to make)...

... or, rather, ever-changing word games and puzzles. It goes like this: Someone posts a word game or puzzle along with a description of how the game or puzzle works. Someone solves the puzzle or wins the game. And then a new game or puzzle can be offered up. I guess we'll be needing games...

I'm sorry, but I did not get the memo which explains which very basic words in the English vocabulary are held to have a commonly held ... uh, meaning. Does the word meaning mean anything? Does "anything" mean, uh, anything? Will someone please tell me what planet I am on?:confused...

The world has a problem ... with billionaires. I was reading this fascinating article about Chinese art thefts, which makes some mention of how Chinese billionaires with Chinese government connections are woven into the complex story. And this got me thinking..., wondering about the role of...

A place to post quite surprising bits of news which goes under-reported or which we hear little or nothing. Postings should be fact-checked and/or come from news (or information) sources which are generally held to be reliable. No fake news here!

This thread is for the more philosophically minded. Here, I'd like to explore what the notion of "the sacred" (and of 'reverence') might mean in a post-religious context. By "post-religious" I'm basically referring to a cultural-historical context in which traditional religious authority has...

Several folks in the forum have recently shared that they are lacking friends, or are lacking friendships of a certain kind -- such as friends who they can comfortably talk with about relationship or personal challenges which involve open or poly relationships. I think it may do us all some...

I'm going to post a challenging -- to say the least -- poem. Then you can take a stab at making sense of it -- if you want. Just for fun. And then someone else can post something -- a poem or a riddle -- for us to take a stab at. And on it may go. Got it? Good.

To begin with, I seem to share some (certainly not all!) of the characteristics of the so-called "demisexual". https://www.bustle.com/articles/155277-what-does-demisexual-mean-here-are-6-signs-that-you-may-identify-as-demisexual But I'm definitely not resonating with the part which goes...

I hope this is not an intrusive additional thread. I simply didn't know where I could post a comment about the Polyamory.com which would be sure to reach everyone who would (should?) be interested. In any case, it seemed like we needed a place to talk with one another about these fora...

Need a Date? First, Get a Dog https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/well/family/dog-date-men-women-love-dating-relationships.html Let us hope the sociopaths and narcissists aren't reading the NYT these days.

What is secularism? Why does it matter?

By many accounts, mindfulness isn't necessarily "meditation," per se, even though by an equal number of accounts there is a form of meditation known as "mindfulness meditation," thus my implicit distinction in the thread (topic) title. I suppose the distinction comes down mainly that...

This thread is for discussion of masculinity in general, including the concept of "hypermasculinity,"true masculinity" and other related sub-themes regarding gender, gender roles and expectations... and cultural aspects of gender roles. I almost titled the thread "Gender," but thought another...

A place to share items about history as well as to discuss them.

"Why Polyamory Won't Work For You" https://youtu.be/-wUoRKQhBXw

This thread is for any and all discussion of polyamory in relation to statistics. 'Topic drift' is allowed, and one should not feel they are interrupting if they bring up another sub-topic while a conversation is unfolding on another.

Since we don't have a sub-forum on sex here (which I think we should), I put this in "Fireplace". The concept for this thread is that we can each ask our own questions on any topics around sex and sexuality. "Topic drift" is welcome here. So is staying on topic for a while.

I'm now treating the "somebody more important came up" excuse for not following through on meeting or getting together (with new people) as saying "I've got better things to do than to spend time with you." Who can blame me? I mean, what's it with the "he's the star and writer of some...

Here's a thread in which we may disregard the "taboo" against open discussion of topics like sex, politics and religion. Here we can discuss any damn thing, so long as we're relatively kind, adult and friendly (with a bit of politeness in the mix too).