Good Friday all Allow me to share a personal secret I get more stimulated watching the growth of a...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

Never was a great Marlyn fan myself either. But Josephine Baker now, I would not even notice the bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jNCm6CVV0

Good Friday all Allow me to share a personal secret I get more stimulated watching the growth of a...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

As long as they are mature plants, who have reached the age of consent, I will not be judgmental.

Engineers Turn Water into Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel Using Solar Radiation [goodnewsnetwork.org]

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

Actually until as they say. "The fuel will be even greener if the team can capture carbon dioxide from the air in the not-too-distant future and use it in the fuel." It is really just a technical bit of fun, since the carbon dioxide emitted when they burn the fuel, in flight, will be just as bad, as any other aviation fuel.

“I mean, you could claim that ANYTHING is real, if the only basis for believing in it is that ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

"Poyais" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor A good example of the sad consequences of believing in things that don't exist.

Dear Abby marriage advice Sharia style. Whip your wife "gently" to keep her in line ....

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

What publication is this ?

What are the joys of living alone?

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

My home is a complete mess, ( I am male after all.) nobody ever tidies things away so that I can't find them.

The little structure below is called an outhouse.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2022:

If you do not know it already, you may enjoy looking up an old book called, "The Specialist" by Charles Sale. Great fun, all about a carpenter who specialized in building outhouses, and full of wisdoms like, putting the path to it past the wood pile, so that people going to and fro from the house can fill the wood box at the same time. Quote. "take a timid woman, if she sees any men folks around, she's too bashful to go direct out, so she'll go to the wood pile, pick up the wood, go back to the house and watch her chance. The average timid woman - especially a new hired girl - I've knowed to make as many as ten trips to the wood pile before she goes in, regardless. On a good day you will have your wood box filled by noon, "

Any place online if this place goes down?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2022:

Not found one no.

Adult Anxious Attachment Correlates with Belief in Conspiracies “A study by Douglas, Sutton, ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2022:

Good article. “an embodied belief that the social world is unreliable and unsafe. Unlike secure attachment, insecure attachment correlates with social deficits of one kind or another and to various psychological challenges such as general distrust” And. “we should not be surprised at an increasing number of people believing false stories that reassure them, “ Would that not then be like someone who distrusted their fellow humans so much, that they felt that they could not be governed to morality by reason and objective truth alone, however good the education. And that the only way to gain control was though brain manipulation, based on fairy stories, which would somehow magical provide the only defence against anarchy possible. Now who do I know who thinks like that ?

([theatlantic.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

Well done you though.

Who believe in this

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

Hello and welcome. Yes it is hard to disagree with that.

Another epic god fail.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

How do you know that god did not send the gunmen ? LOL (Just thinking out loud.)

ENTIRE Police Force Resigns In Protest Of Black Female Town Manager - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

"Only in America."

For those of you who lay sleepless last night in worry over my a/c, it is fixed! And cheaply fixed!...

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

Well done. My loft always seems to be very attractive, I have had mice several times, rats three, two bad wasp years in the last twenty or so, with several nests each time, and a swarm of bees, which died and left a heap of their dead behind. In one way however I have been lucky because I have never had bats. In the UK you just have to hope, that you do not get bats, because you are not allowed by law to evict them, or even block their entrance.

This site has shown me that having enough sense to see through the lies of religion, doesn’t ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2022:

Religion is only one issue among many.

Religion has had 1,000's of years to prove god exists...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

The product will only be delivered, after you are dead. And it must be good, because we have not had a single return.

Are you happy in your own skin? I know I am.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

All you need to know. Please add though. How do you make them buy religion, by feeding their narcissism.

Religion has had 1,000's of years to prove god exists...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

That is literal religions argument for everything it stands for.

Another reason why I hate people. Does "topless" in this article refer to not having a brain?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

Yes I would go with your assessment.

FYI about balancing on one leg: "People who are middle-aged or older and can’t balance on one ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

At sixty five, I managed thirty seconds and then got bored. But then I had a bright idea. Why not stand on one leg, and read Agnostic. com at the same time !

[pbs.org] The Egyptian bow

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

Interesting, and I like the look of that site, thank you.

Is it wrong that I once considered moving west and pretending to be a Mormon so I could have a ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

Maybe it is wrong to waste a lot of time and money, just to discover that you could not attract a harem ?

What kind of philosophy do you side with?

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

I tend to pick whatever philosopher, best answers my present needs regardless of where they come from.

Only Eight There are only eight extant species of hominids left on Earth, including three species...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

You do the most harm to those who are nearest sadly. And I do think that the idea of rights, although questionable at its philosophic base, works well in practice, and should be extended to the other apes.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"history that illuminates why 80% of their species participates in religious activities." You do not need to go as far as science, to address that statement, mere philosophy alone will do. It has been given a number of names over the years, mainly the, "ad populum fallacy" , though it is also addressed quite well in the now nearly traditional Plato's Cave story.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"This perspective makes no room for the actual spirit and purpose of scientific inquiry when it comes to studying the intuitively inscrutable behaviors of our own species, " This is very true also, of using limited cherry picked science to justify specific cultural phenomena, especially when the science does not address it directly, science real science not pseudo-science has not yet by any means reached the point where it can being to address specific cultural phenomena.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"Atheism is not a religion. But the atheistic hatred of religion is based 100% on the same superstitious impulses upon which religious fundamentalism depends for its equally absurd and unfounded certainty." Yes hatred is often superstitious but that does not mean it is always without grounding, the two are not mutually exclusive. If a doctor tells me, that they hate cancer, then I accept that hate is an irrational emotion, but do not see it as unjustified. Atheists do indeed often share a lot in common with fundamentalists, one of the main things being honesty. As in, 'honest belief' and 'honest disbelief'. And I have often found good honest friends among believers, and taken part in workings of religiously inspired charitable groups, with great joy and fulfillment. That is why I usually reserve my contempt and emotional hatred only for non believing apologists. Since the true hatred and contempt for the rest of the species to which they belong, which is inherent in the idea of. "One set of values for me, and a few like me, but the rest of the human species can only benefit from being duped into compliance, with a second rate set of values." Shows true superstitious contempt for the other members of the species "of which they seem to forget they are a member".

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"that no scientific discipline of any description comes to that superstitious conclusion," Is itself a superstition which is really insulting to science. Since any science, of human nature or history, which did not admit to the role that " power, greed, malevolence, mental incompetence and immorality," played in every aspect of human life and the building every cultural institution, is clearly pseudo-science of the worst sort. See my below.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"To explain that they parrot the popular superstitions that blame it on the pursuit of power, greed, malevolence, mental incompetence, or anything that slanders the moral character of the species of which they seem to forget they are a member." Are you saying that, power, greed, malevolence, mental incompetence and immorality, never played any part in building religion ? I for one, (I can not speak for everyone. ) accept that those things are all a part of the species to which I am a member, and still find it possible to love them and think well of them. And do not even regard that as a slander, because I know that, in the complex world in which we live, those very failings can often be drives which produce good results, and even sometimes drive people to try to be good.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far enough to relieve them of the societal pressure to participate in organized religion, but otherwise no further than that of the typical theist." And there is no reason why they should not take a limited interest in science, an interest in science is not compulsory, nor, though it is very useful, is it essential to a good life.

This showed up on my facebook page.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2022:

A little Christian girl and boy, who were great friends decided to take their clothes off and go for a swim in the river. When they got undressed they looked at one another in great amazement. "Wow" Said the little boy. "I never knew that Catholics and Protestants were that different !"

When I moved up to Alaska over 30 years ago I always carried this 35mm film camera everywhere.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2022:

The big advantage of digital, is that you can take hundreds of photos, for the same cost in money, time and effort that you only took two or three back then. And among those hundreds there are bound to be some good ones, you just have to learn the art of deleting.

Question: Are any of you geneologists?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2022:

No, was quite happy with the family I met, and genetics tell me that real biological heritage has just about disappears after about six generations, so why worry.

I'm new here , anybody there?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2022:

Hello and welcome. Yes there area few here, especially us aliens.

It's ironic that we see so many who claim strong religious convictions in the modern world while ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2022:

Religion is only able to exist, mainly, because it provides an alternate voice to mainstream culture, and government. And as mainstream culture and most nation states increasingly embrace the ideas of social justice and welfare as normal, ( USA may be exceptional.) who is it that need an alternate voice ? And the fortunate thing from their point of view, is that the Christian source material, the bible, is so mixed up and confusing, due to its multiple authorship, that it can be made to say almost anything you want. Which is what has kept it popular for centuries. But then you can still claim biblical authority to support the argument you invented. The rich irony being that the bibles authority comes mainly from two supposed sources: divine inspiration or authorship perhaps, but also from the fact that is said to be part of tradition, believed in by many millions for centuries, therefore it is thought it must contain wisdom to be so popular. What is called a populist argument. Yet in fact, its popularity comes to a large extent because it is meaningless and will support any position, therefore it suits everyone. So that those who use it are in effect using the popularity of meaningless, to support their meaning !!!

Do theocratic nations allow non believers to have government jobs?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2022:

I would suppose that it depends on your definition of theocracy and government, and upon the individual theocracy. There must be some limitation on non believers or it would not be a theocracy, and you would suppose that to be defined as theocracy, then at least the major cabinet places would have to be exclusive to agents of religion, but not perhaps all government jobs. On the other hand you could have a government which is open to all at the top, but tolerates local theocracy. You will also have some governments which are in name democratic, but in effect theocratic, because it is unlikely that non believers will ever be elected. Complicated.

I certainly prefer animals over people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2022:

And sometimes well..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTBHgBl8-8

“Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2022:

My favourite saying. " The two are not mutually exclusive. " Like literalism and metaphor.

“Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2022:

There are two factors at least at work, both fear and laziness. Laziness because it is easier to think in dichotomies rather than bell curves, and fear because we distrust the unknown and what we don't understand, which in turn fuels tribalism. Both are justified to a degree, it is wise to fear the unknown, the old floor boards, may be weak and rotten, and laziness is an evolved trait which saves us energy. The real problem comes, when the two work together powerfully and produce a discontinuous mindset.

I certainly prefer animals over people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2022:

Here you go, though I think that most of these are just innocent fun really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMel6h2jywk

I certainly prefer animals over people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2022:

Animals can be everything humans can.

A Christian hate-preacher condemned me... for quoting him accurately

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2022:

Well done, to be denounced for the pulpit, is a first class badge of honour.

I NEVER KNEW THE COLOR OF MY WIFE'S EYES BECAUSE THEY...

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2022:

We saw that this whole post was in CAPITALS, and we knew how she felt. LOL

Is scientific progress a 'good' thing?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2022:

But finally you have to ask in the end, is it even possible to put the cat back in the bag. If you truly want a world where reason and logic are paramount. Then it is inevitable that if people want to use reason and logic, and set high standards, then they will want to use the best form of those tools where they can, so that they will when they can, reach for the scientific method, since it is by far the best and most refined form of research we have yet developed. To do anything else would be to accept poor standards.

Are you single by choice?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2022:

I have no plans to remarry and enjoy my freedom as a single person. I am lucky that I have a female friend who I can share life's adventures with, and a wide circle of other friends, which is good enough.

How are all you Europeans doing with the heat?

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2022:

I like it, but my garden does not. OH well !

Is God happy or what?

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2022:

If there is a god, ( even a metaphorical one, or one which is a synonym for the universe as religious naturalists have it, ) then I would think that it is very happy and sees a lot of beauty in its creation. Which is why I have always found the Christian idea of an unhappy god, who hates his creation, very strange.

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2022:

There are no absolutes of good and evil, it is a continuous spectrum, and often hard to see which is which. The Christian idea that there is such a division is a toxic misunderstanding which has rendered Christian morality primitive and unworkable from its beginning.

Richard Rohr

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2022:

I am sorry to say that the corruption was inevitable, and built into the religion from the beginning. You can not extract the good parts from the bad, because they are structured together and the whole thing falls apart if you try, the darkness at the core of Christianity was there from the beginning, long before it became an organized religion. Apart from the obvious often commented on fact that the authors of the gospels, put many racist, sexist and violent remarks and actions into their central figure, ( Not a great example. ) there are at least three much deeper darknesses at its core. The first being its demand for absolute rigid obedience to fixed moral law, even to the degree of promoting the idea of thought crime. Which, by being quite impossible to achieve, creates firstly in Christian culture, the logical need for total forgiveness. Of the, "Believe in me and I will wipe away all sins." form. Which makes Christianity a culture which devalues guilt and taking responsibility, and especially creates a divisive, "insiders can do no wrong, outsiders are lost totally," mentality, within congregations. And secondly it creates a culture, where morality is seen as an ideal thing, not part of the general world, therefore devalued to the point of being ignorable. History is full of accounts, ( Even those written by Christian historians. ) of how shocked many people from other ethnic cultures were, by the dishonesty of Christians, especially shortly after their first contact. The idea that, "I don't even have to feel guilty, because I am one of the chosen." is truly toxic. ( And yes, I am aware that too much guilt, can also be toxic. ) Secondly it contains the idea of anti-materialism, and end times mentality. The idea of devaluing this world in favour of another, which is a the base of much anti-environmentalism in our culture, and shallow values in our arts. Even though it makes no logical sense, as many Christians themselves have pointed out, to think that you can, show respect for god by despising his creation. Except that we are shown a god who destroys his own creation once out of spite, and will soon do so again, so engendering a view of failed creation, and anti-materialism, which is surely the opposite of the respect and appreciation for the world and nature, which any true philosophy should teach. Thirdly, by forcing the moral and intellectual leadership to accept and use such tools, with the built in illogic, such as those above, and often plain falsehoods, it creates a situation where they are forced to accept high levels of cognitive dissonance, and low standards of logic , ( Often accompanied by long convoluted theological explanations. ) and train themselves ruthlessly to those methods, which lowers the standards of the ...

Filmmaking 101 Completely without planning or conscious intention, the human mind writes, ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2022:

No but we have to find ways of dealing with the damaging effects of that, which are considerable. The reason being, that no animal can pre-adapt to a new or changed environment, if a creature, from Africa, say, should find itself washed out to sea, and having survived the crossing, lands on the shores of South America, it is unlikely to be well adapted. Few animals however have had such a dramatic and sudden change of environment as humans, when only a few million years ago, we developed language. Which was at the time, no doubt, a useful tool and a great aid. But it brought with it the possibility to create culture, and probably the inevitability of that act. So that we suddenly changed from being an animal living in a natural environment to which we were adapted, to being an animal living in a cultural environment, for which we were almost completely ill fitted. The first great mismatch. Hence the reason why we so prone to being manipulated by parts of our own culture, like religion, nationalism etc. and why agriculture, gives us super abundant foods, which we can not eat and remain healthy, religion, gives us a super abundance of stories that we can not pick the truth out of, and the media gives us a super abundance of human contact which we can not befriend all of, and so we become hostile.

Republicons Hate Women

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2022:

Some people hate anyone who could perhaps stand up to them. And usually that is because, they know inside just how weak and selfish are the ends they would like to propagate.

Looking for friends.

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2022:

This is a good community on the whole, if you don't mind friends at arms length, then you will find that here.

“Atheism will always be a harder sell than religion.” - Pascal Boyer [youtu.be] .

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2022:

Since religion is a "sell" a subsection of the advertising industry, that is a bit of a tautology.

Is scientific progress a 'good' thing?

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2022:

Hello and welcome. You may like to ask if there is a difference between science, and engineering or technology ?

I really like this -

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2022:

And they are worth even less if you need to tell lies to support them.

“Its amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness”…………………Leo ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2022:

The opposite may often be more true, since good things do not need pretty packaging, but if you have something nasty to promote, you had are sure to make the effort to dress it up well.

These 4 Factors Can Explain Why So Many People Are Rejecting Science

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2022:

At the bottom is an even more fundamental problem. That the tellers of truth, have to tell it like it is, or they are not telling the truth any longer, and sometimes it is beautiful, but equally often, it is plain or even just ugly. While liars can use any arts they which to dress their falsehoods and make them pretty, there are no restrictions. The peacock uses his tail to make the females think that he is a strong fit male, he does not use a grand and fine display to warn them that he has an STD. Yet the peacock has only a single tail, while human cultural technology gives the human creature ten thousand or more far greater gifts, to make a splendid fake display, than any animal ever had before.

Here's how my mind works.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2022:

All depends who you pray to. If I pray to myself to find the energy to make more effort, for example, then good enough. If I pray to a sky daddy to make it right, so that I don't have to make the effort, then........

I'm so tired of hearing people say "I have very intelligent friends who support trump.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2022:

It has often been said that intelligence is is impossible to define, and that therefore it is probably impossible to invent a test for it. Yet I think, that we all know roughly what the word means, or we would not use the word. And it could therefore be, that the confusion happens because there are several forms, according to the choice of attempted definition. One of which is of course to be able to do and pass academic tests, in skills like maths and spelling, though that proves little more than certain sorts of specific brain functions at above certain levels. Yet there is also certainly another definition possible, which could be called "working intelligence", by which I would mean the ability to solve real world issues to a high level, and achieve an accurate picture of the world within which we live. And that would require more than just academic brain skills, but also even more importantly perhaps certain properties of personality or character. Especially: commitment, a willingness to work long and hard at problems, honesty, an unwillingness to accept cognitive dissonance and/or second rate answers, selflessness, an unwillingness to accept things more readily because you like them, and sceptical values, being unwilling to accept anything as given. ( Many of which qualities may be exact opposites of many academic measures of I.Q. ) I would therefore say, that to my mind, honesty and personal integrity, are perhaps more important than brain power alone in creating a working intelligence.

A Eurasian Collared-Dove is nesting right outside my bedroom window.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2022:

Keep us posted. Photos would be good.

Here is a bee on Wisteria that I photographed at the Chicago Botanic Garden a few weeks ago.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. Great Photo.

The single star on the Texas flag is actually a review.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2022:

Why don't you just make the Mexicans take it back ?

The University of Minnesota study finds a virulent strain of individuals that are practically ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2022:

Link would be nice.

How Humans Lost Their Fur - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2022:

Great video.

We should pin all the debt in the world on one guy and then kill him.

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2022:

Except the killing did not take, he reportedly just had a very bad weekend.

Hi everyone, I'm brand new to the group and pretty new to the site.

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2022:

Hello and welcome. Sorry, male heterosexual on the other side of the Atlantic here, but welcome anyway.

It’s not really about whether you consider yourself an atheist or a theist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2022:

Even if god/theism is a metaphor, that does not make it a good metaphor. There are good and bad metaphors as well as many pointless and trivial ones. Humans are not only metaphor forming animals, they are also eating animals. Made by natural evolution to have hungers, (That is also proved by science.) but that does not mean that all diets are good for you. But the good thing is, that, you can choose a healthy diet, and are more likely to do so if you receive good education and are protected against those who wish to gain, ruthlessly and without conscience, by pushing unhealthy foods. (This is called a metaphor by the way.) Fortunately, you can also choose your metaphors. The fake assumption made here is that, if it is natural for humans to create, metaphor and culture, then all metaphors and cultures are either good and of equal value, or even more, that one, the theist metaphor, is proven superior. It is a giant leap (Well several actually.) from, it is natural for humans to make metaphors, to, all metaphors are good, and my favoured one is the best of all. ( Your tribalism is showing rather badly. Especially when you tell atheists what you would like to think they are. It is called strawmaning. They are not all as stupid as your tribalism tells you that you would like to think. )

The cost of one drop. Photo by @jose_luis_rodriguez_fotografo

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2022:

Amazing photo, and your title is rich with multiple meanings.

First try with a castle--just have to figure out the rest of the quilt.

Fernapple comments on Jul 12, 2022:

Forests ?

“All humans make mistakes.

Fernapple comments on Jul 11, 2022:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. Robert J. Hanlon Sometimes called Hanlon's Razor.

Hii dear atheist friends.

Fernapple comments on Jul 11, 2022:

Hello.

If you could, would you

Fernapple comments on Jul 11, 2022:

End wars. The other two are often the creation of war anyway, and are more easily solved in a world at peace.

Forbidden

Fernapple comments on Jul 11, 2022:

Can also be said that we are all poor, and the rich are the poorest of all, because they prize something that can not make them wiser.

I am ready for this summer to be over.

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2022:

Condolences for your loss, the hardest ones can be the ones long expected.

Happy Birthday, Nicola Tesla. [themarginalian.org]

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2022:

Quite some statement of vision.

Finally, they found Jesus.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

If only he had stuck to his day job.

What part of separation of church and state do these cretins not understand??? [yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

Sadly nothing has ever done more for the Christian church, than the separation of church and State in the USA, in counties where there are state churches, the church is almost dead. But in America the church is a free industry, able to do whatever it likes for profit, power and influence, and moreover able to offer an alternate voice to those who do not like the state, perhaps the only true value it has, but also a great source of power to the moral dwarfs.

Grandchildren are a grandparent’s revenge. ……….Unknown.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

I don't know who said this but. "If I had known that grandchildren were this much fun, I would have had them first."

“This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

You can look all of your nine decades, and still look full of life. My Bestie.

The only thing better than going on vacation is coming home.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

Just travel, it does not matter where, homeward or outwards, and then travel again, only the dead don't move.

My rant for today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

I run the risk of boring everyone, by repeating my personal definition of religion again. Religion is a synonym for the common fallacy called. "The proof from authority." Whether that authority comes from and old book, a supernatural being, a gurus supposed wisdom, or tradition, etc. it does not matter.

I am a little confused by this website. What is it supposed to be?

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

No one uses the chat feature much, because the main site functions as a chat feature.

How to use and respond to emojis and where are they?

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2022:

Hello and welcome, I do hope you enjoy the site. I believe that you can only use emojis with a desktop, there is a limited amount of info under FAQ at the bottom of the page.

The thinking error at the root of science denial - [theconversation.com] .

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2022:

The three most important things to understand. There are few absolutes, there will almost always be some evidence for and against everything, and most things exist on a spectrum often with the biggest concentration in the middle. ( Its even called the standard distribution. ) Yet it is hard to blame the population in general, for failing to understand those things. Because of course absolutes are a favourite tool of those wanting to deceive, abolish nuance and push hidden agendas. So that the worlds of media and conversation, even schools, are so filled with them, that they are accepted as the normal. Which not only pushes the chosen agendas, but also indirectly, that common practice actually trains people to think in absolutes, even more than they naturally would.

Evolution Explains Why Politics Is So Tribal [scientificamerican.com] .

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2022:

Probably very true, but it is hard to see why this is called "science" and published in a science journal, since it is little more than a rather trite statement of political opinion, and biological theory. It also seems to get a few details wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwPQsI-3Xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3j1yCWHdU

BREAKING NEWS: U.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2022:

Well Yippee, the most obnoxious P.M. since Blair is going, but of course there is always a danger that his replacement will turn out to be electable.

Are there any left?

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2022:

Sadly that is the only down side to the blocking feature, because it means that the apologist bullies can block the people who are willing and able to stand up to them. They are then free to bully new members, the weak and innocent without any checks. I strongly suspect that a lot of new members join, encounter a apologist bully, who does not care about giving new members chance to find their feet, on their first visit, and they then never come back again. Which is doubly sad because it is probably the weak, damaged and most vulnerable, who are seeking and need community most, who are most likely to be driven away.

Isn't it rather peculiar that while the Christian right passionately talk against tyranny, they ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2022:

"I you want it, its tyranny. If I want it, its freedom." It is hard to find a definition for words like tyranny, but I am pretty sure that is not the right one.

Some women want to find a man who won't lie to them.

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2022:

I am sure that garden hoses would not kink, if they were made and designed by women.

On June 22, I got the results from my pet scan telling me there is no more cancer in my body.

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2022:

Good, now go for life big.

Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2022:

Now sadly in decline.

I've always found sanctuary and a sense of peace in Libraries but never in religious buildings.

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2022:

That's how I found it.

“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2022:

Wow, that is some statement.

Shooting at a mall in Denmark.

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2022:

Your friends should not forget the simple stat, that even today with everyone being armed, far more people shoot and kill themselves by accident, than are shot by someone else.

"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2022:

I sometimes wonder if there was ever a day when Feynman did not say something funny and wise.

I am a bit angry, frustrated and fed up with the members of this site.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2022:

Best wishes with your quest, the world certainly does need more active sceptics, to stand up for human rights. And there maybe places in your country like this one https://humanists.uk/ which does a lot of active work. I think that there are places and sites for that, it is just that this site is not one of them, and there is room in the world, for both the politically active and the social friendship community. Like me many members here are not from the USA for one, so for us it is more of a pen-pal site than a political institution.

How to know what your man is thinking: Men only have two states of mind.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2022:

That will mean more and more sandwiches as he gets older, and the obese get erectile disfunction, could become a feedback loop. LOL

A big shout out to the men that have women's backs.

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2022:

It is a lot of big issues, it takes a lot of effort to change the minds of even a few. We all have to work together.

The time and place which changed by life: In August.

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Sadly apart from the military, the USA seems to do everything it can to discourage travel and contact with other cultures.

A wise man once said If you choose to play chess with a Bantam Cock, be prepared for him to not ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2022:

Yes, but you and the cock still had fun.