Atheism is less popular than Pine Needle Basketry

My friends, I was just perusing the list of Interests which also shows the number of members in each "Community." The Pine Needle Basketry Community is larger than ours. I am disturbed by this.

Contrary Thought (aka Independant Thinking) has never been a mainstream pursuit. Tek

I am sure there a great many who do not know about this board as it was the only new one not listed in the "new boards" section the last time I looked.

I was just really amused to see there is a board for something that sounded as arcane as "Pine Needle Basketry"!! It reminded me of when I accidentally discovered that there are people who collect cat whiskers. There is a publication called "Cat Whisker Digest." Who knew?

Okay, I gotta ask, What the fu** is Pine Needle Basetry?? WEIRD! Jessica

You have to also recognize that the number of members is a count of those that have put it as an 'interest'. While Athiesm/Agnosticism is interesting to me, it is not something I put a heck of a lot of time or energy into... contrary to all evidence to the contrary I may have to look into Pine Needle Basketry though, it seems fascinating. Tek

"Fascinating" is right Tek! You just hold on to your hat sir! One need not scour the forest looking for basket weaving supplies. The finest of pine needles--the "giants" from Florida and even exotic specimens from England---can be purchased online, dyed even! The Mother of Pine Needle Basketry is Mrs. M J McAfee who did her pioneering work in the field in the early twentieth century.

Oh, Dona You know WAAAY too much about basket weaving... Jessica

Atheism is scary. It took me a long time to say "There is no God and it doesn't matter how good, bad, smart, dumb lucky, you're going to die". As for those pine needles, is this something of an art form, like creating fishing lures?

Hello Barb! I just happened to be flipping through the "Communities" lists and "Pine Needle Basketry" struck me as funny. Especially when I saw that they had ten members and we had seven. Well, now we have eight! I've noticed sometimes people will describe atheism as "scary" or a big leap to take in their lives and I'd be interested to learn why. Personally I find it much scarier to believe that there is some great unknown after you are dead and that you will be judged by every little thing you might have done in your life. And the whole idea of "God is in control" or maybe not or maybe he's going to hear your prayer but maybe he won't grant your wish just yet...No I feel much more comfortable knowing that I call the shots in my own life and if something bad happens to me, it isn't "punishment" or a test or something that I will have to wait to be rewarded for struggling with. Please share your thoughts and let's discuss! Start a new thread if you'd like since this one's about you know, pine needle basketry....