The Bible is useless

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Smart young lady, she only makes one big mistake. Which is that she assumes that, useful, always has to mean useful to good well intended people. Some things can be very useful to bad, ill intended, people.

What Nobody Told You About Cain And Abel - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Well if you put a lot of twaddle in you get a lot of twaddle out. Fun.

The Evolution of the God Gene by Nicholas Wade “This and other research is pointing to...

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2021:

I do not see why atheists (or agnostics ) should feel it is not a "welcome thought". Since most atheists do not generally feel the need for the existence of any theistic style free will. And therefore do not generally have a problem with the idea of genetic determinism, and that all things in human life follow from that. That is just silly. At least though, this is the first of these in which the point that it is the culture which "supplies the content" is plainly accepted and made, and there is not the foolish attempt at the logically impossible leap made from genetic determinism, programing natural values such as social compliance and a tendency to favour false positives over false negatives. To the idea that genetics render, plainly culturally designed artifacts, not found across all cultures anyway, such as the subset of belief known as theistic religions, inevitable. This fits with my point of view perfectly. I do wish you would be more careful in who you choose to quote.

And that is why I will never grow up.

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2021:

Growing up is learning to care more, and get more out of your relationship with all your favourites. Starting to care less is not growing up, it is just starting to die.

By Paolo Marini Noam Chomsky, one of the most important intellectuals in life today, has drawn ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2021:

And all of course pioneered by the worlds religions.

The human is an evolutionary perversion. Adapting to its own destruction. Carry on.

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2021:

We are not the first. Evolution by natural selection can by its very nature have no foresight, it only addresses the short term and fits creatures for the existing situation.

Here's one of my favorite places to get away from the noise and hassle of my little "home town" of ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

I love the chirp of sparrows, it was the background soundtrack to summer in my childhood. But sadly their population has taken a nose dive here in the UK and they are now quite rare.

HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA or "How I learned a new definition for 'urgent care'".

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Holidays can be a real pain, I never forget that the original meaning of the word is Holy-Days, days for religious ritual. I keep thinking that, in the UK, now we are practically a post christian country, we should scrap the lot, and instead just make it a law that all companies have to give all employees ten extra days payed leave each year, to be taken when it suits them. That would make for more free and happier employees, get rid of the lost days when everything closes, allow people to travel when it was cheap, and cut out the high pressure peaks on the roads and in the travel industry. Hope you are soon on the way to recovery.

Does this sound like a scammer?

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Probably sells cheap pirated medications among other things.

The white ideological right states that if race is a false human concept and not a reality, then ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

The reason for believing that there are no races, is it has to be admitted a partially subjective value based one, but it is a very powerful subjective judgment based on a very remarkable scientific truth. Which is that the human population passed though a genetic bottle neck a hundred thousand years approx ago. Which mean that the human species as a whole is less genetically diverse that the average family of chimps, or litter of puppies, and we do not award race status to divisions of chimps or dogs.

I want to know, how any person gets from being a drooling babbling infant to a wise sage with ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Like everything else it takes hard work. But wonderful things do happen. After all, you got from being a set of coded messages in a lipid bubble too small to be visible, to a fully formed human, made of ten trillion lipid bubbles at least, in just nine months.

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Great quote. I love the halves of the world bit.

Just had a state social worker check on me.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

If she works for the state she should be made to respect the principle of church state separation.

And then there's the politics of dancing.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

Who this ?

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2021:

And almost impossible.

I have decided that I am a fairly happy nihilist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Good. You can join the gloomy optimists, angry pacifists, vague rationalists and dull humourists who seem to dominate this site.

Saw this gem on a fb athiest group.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

My favorite nasty Buybabble story, is the one about the woman slave who is pimped out by her owner, but dies after being gang raped. So her master, and pimp, who is a godly priest, gives her body a kick to see if she is faking it.

I wish it were I who took this shot.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Perfect.

Everyday I get more concerned about our economy.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Hyper-inflation perhaps ?

Is "dummerenfuckinghell" a word?

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Ps. Did you have anyone in particular in mind ?

Is "dummerenfuckinghell" a word?

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

It will do.

7 scientists who helped change the world | Live Science

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Why does Patricia Bath appear twice for the same thing ?

Trump allegedly praised hitler as doing "a lot of good things" new book claims abc13

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2021:

Everybody does a lot of good things, even really evil people, you do things and some of them are bound to be good, even if you try really hard to be bad. That is just the law of unintended consequences. What is ironic though, is that he may have done more good things than Trump, simply because Trump hardly did anything at all.

Textures...

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2021:

Fulfills the brief well.

Who do you love the most in this world?

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2021:

My best friend S#####.

Change my mind.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2021:

Change my mind.

Change my mind.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2021:

Things are more complicated than that. End of story. Wisdom is about nuance, always beware people who are trying to sell an oversimplified view, they are never trying to point out the truth.

More history you were never taught in school.

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2021:

You may find this interesting, the whole thing is a interesting comment on how times change as well as how they don't. Though if you want the most relevant bit skip to 25 mins in . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltVtnCzg9xw

A French Teenager’s Anti-Islam Rant Unleashed Death Threats. Now 13 Are on Trial

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2021:

Paywall

Because it can be so hard to tell.

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2021:

Are they sure ?

When it comes to God I'm not an atheist. I'm currently an Empirical (Weak) Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site, and do check out the groups if you have time.

Most Impactful National Leaders of the 20th Century - Good or Bad Do you agree with the list?

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2021:

I fail to see the point of ranking by mere magnitude, especially if both good and bad, long and short term, are included in the same list. If I go to a quarry to buy some stone, I ask which pile has the best stones for wall building, which for making concrete or which pile is best for surfacing a road. I do not ask which is the biggest pile, and then say. I will have some of that.

Meaning of life

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2021:

The first main meaning I give to mine, is to overcome the human centric arrogance which makes me think that life should have meaning. The second and lesser purpose, is to make the world a happier place if I can, and to at least enjoy my chance of happiness if I can't.

Evolution and Creationism

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2021:

The best evidence, is not any one piece of evidence, from one science or philosophy, but simply the huge volume of millions of pieces of evidence, supporting tens of thousands of observable facts, across multiple fields. Including at least, natural history, (We have observed it happening.) genetics, anatomy, ecology, geographic ecology, bio-chemistry, paleontology, geology, behaviorism, social science, neurology and even atmospherics.

Beer -or- Jesus?

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2021:

The last one is not quite true, because if you have devoted your life to Jesus, there ARE groups to help you stop as well.

Do you enjoy listening to Handel's Messiah simply for the musical quality or do you get ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 5, 2021:

Music is just an abstract sound scape, there is no need at all to pay any mind to the words, to get enjoyment from it. That does not apply however to the visual arts, although the church in the past was one of the richest institutions in the world, and it commissioned some of the worlds greatest artists, the results are still almost always banal and silly.

We are still kind to each other. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2021:

Yes a year or two ago, I did not have the change at the check out, only a big note. The teller said she would have to give me all coins because she did not have enough notes, and the person behind me dropped the change needed on the counter, and refused all offers of repayment.

These days, we see multiple examples of people who are “true believers” of questionable ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2021:

There is of course the problem that the popular usage of the word 'theory' is different from the scientific usage. In popular usage, 'theory' has more or less the the same meaning as 'hypothesis', but in science it is a technical term, meaning a former hypothesis, which has been raised to a higher level because it is now supported by experimental and /or other empirical evidence. In part it is just the sort of confusion people get into when they think of words having meanings, when words do not have meanings only usages, which vary according to context. The problem is that some people of course welcome and will even try to promote misunderstanding.

I don't know that I've ever seen consecutive posts so unrelated, yet so connected.

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2021:

Odd things happen on this site. It is the Bermuda Triangle of the internet.

LIFE HACK: BE EXTREMELY RICH AND HAVE AN ARMY OF LAWYERS.

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2021:

If you have an army of lawyer, you will not be extremely rich for very long.

U.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Yes but we are still using a lot of gas.

Today I learned about the Gish Gallop Description: Overwhelming an interlocutor with as many ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Yes, it is based on the fact that it generally takes a lot longer to refute an argument, than it does to make it. I can say. "The moon is made of green cheese." But to show why it is not, you can not just say. "No it is made of rock." You have to add explanation and supporting evidence, or you just have an equal claim. It is especially pernicious when used by Gish and his followers, who regularly edit recording of debates to show their believers.

Is religious belief natural or man made?

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

As Richard Dawkins pointed out. "Children are naturally credulous. Of course they are , what would you expect ? They arrive in the world knowing nothing, surrounded by adults who know by comparison, everything. Learning by trial and error is often a bad idea, because errors are too costly. If your mother tells you never to paddle in the lake because of the crocodiles, it is no good coming over all sceptical and adult. It is easy to see why natural selection might penalize an experimental and sceptical turn of mind and favour simple credulity in children. But this has an unfortunate by-product which can't be helped. If your parents tell you something which is not true, you must believe that too. Credulity as a survival device, comes as a package." But that is where belief differs from religion, because it is possible to believe in, and be taught, things which are true, even empirically true. There are crocodiles in the lake, but not, goblins in the hills. Belief even a genetic tendency to belief is not the same thing, at all, as religion.

Is religious belief natural or man made?

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Without an exact definition of what you mean by the word "religious beliefs" and/or religion, the question is hardly a valid one.

More Churches Up in Flames in Canada as Outrage Against Catholic Church Grows

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Sadly I think that it will only add fuel to the Catholic Church's cult of martyrdom. Across the world right now, tens of thousands of priests are probably telling their congregations. "Do you see the rising tide of ungodliness, in Canada the pagans and atheists are even burning churches down, because they say it is wrong to save children's souls. Put more money in the box so that the church can fight this threat."

Well this had to be the most fun this guy ever had making a travel video! [vm.tiktok.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Bet they do a good trade in postcards.

Global warming is here to stay, and it is not going anywhere but everywhere.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

I am sorry to say that a lot of it is part of the American cult of perpetual childhood, and the belief that you can have whatever you want, without any consequences or responsibilities. And that it is perfectly acceptable for grown adults to throw tantrums, as we saw with the Capitol invasion. The problem being, that if you build a culture, both political, religious and commercial entirely on selling, no one is going to try and sell consequences or responsibilities, they don't make money or earn votes. And so people get so used to living without them, and being told there are none, that they really start to believe they there are no consequences or responsibilities with anything. I do not like to be critical of other cultures, especially on a US site, and have to admit that America is not alone in this, we have a lot of it in the rest of the world, it is just that you seem to be the worlds leader in synthetic childishness.

& don't bring up "Cults of Personality" like Stalin's Communism or Mao's Cultural Revolution.

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2021:

I don't think so, atheism has deep roots, going back all the way to the classical world. Even in the middle ages, perhaps the high point of theism, it existed in some forms. This is the first of a really interesting series of lectures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb5mYqnKFlI

Matching philanthropy?

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2021:

I care more about the effectiveness of the charity, and it intentions, that effect how much and if I give, matching would not have any effect either way.

Those abs, though...

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2021:

The secret is, employ a sculptor not a trainer.

30 Hilarious Examples Of British Humor Shared By "No Context Brits" | DeMilked

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2021:

The seagulls work for the shop next door, of course.

The Many Laws of Life Misc Jokes Submitted by Harry Finkelstein Law of Mechanical Repair - ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2021:

The number of extra tools required to complete a task, and not taken in the first place, is a square of the distance from the tool shed.

Yesterday's hike in brutal heatwave.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2021:

Beautiful photos as always.

Bird's Brunch Starts Brush Fire

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2021:

Or maybe it was a specially trained flying fish, on a suicide mission.

Seriously. I know many women put down the seat, yet still leave the lid up. Just close both, please!

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2021:

I always put the seat down especially if I think that a female person will be using it after me. It helps to conceal the edges of the cling film I stretched across.

A common ‘belief’ among atheists is that humans are born atheists, and come to religion only ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2021:

I thought that that was more or less what most atheists did think. Certainly there is nothing new to this one. Stop strawmanning atheists.

“Of course I talk to myself.

Fernapple comments on Jul 1, 2021:

I like an audience that is simple minded enough to be impressed, so......

Desperation is the Mother of Invention.

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

Smart idea.

Psychopaths are always shaking the jar, just to stir up some murder and mayhem for their own ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

The jar is usually shaken by those who want to distract people from there own failings. Wars for example are not usually the results of conflicts between peoples, but are things promoted by governments. Because when governments are corrupt, incompetent or both, and they find themselves unable to resolve the domestic problems to the peoples satisfaction, the easy target on which to redirect the blame is foreigners. The cold war, was a perfect example, in the Soviet Block, Communism had failed to deliver, while at the same time, capitalism had also failed to deliver for many in the west. The two good things about the cold war, however, from the point of view of the governments involved, were that not only did it not involve much shooting, except by proxy in a few third world countries, but also, it was very sustainable long term. Is it any wonder that Putin, whose corrupt government is failing just about every domestic measure, wants to revive it. While I think that the failing of Christianity to deliver, may have a lot to do with its increasing links to sexism and racism etc. Yep if you want to know who shook the jar, look to see who failed on their promises, is a good start.

Psychopaths are always shaking the jar, just to stir up some murder and mayhem for their own ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

It was me, I confess.

"The real offense of racism in the end, is to judge individuals by a supposed stereotype of their ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

Yes all stereotypes are bad, for exactly that reason. "Assume makes an ass of you and me." ( Spelling joke.) Because we should never prejudge people, but find time to explore each person we meet fully and on their own terms. BUT therein lies the basic problem, because in a connected world with billions of inhabitants, we can not form a personal relationship with every single person we have to interact with, as we could in the days when we evolved our social instincts in groups of hunter gatherers, when we would meet perhaps a hundred people in our entire lives. Therefore we need stereotypes, and since many people do fit their stereotypes they would not seem to be too inaccurate a model of the human world. The best working answer would therefore seem to be, use just one stereotype, that of a stereotypical human and base that model on yourself. In other words the old, "Do as you would be done by." Until such time as the other person tells you that they have other requirements. I always therefore, as said before on here, assume that everyone is honest in private life, until proved otherwise, because I figure that I am strong enough to take one hit from anyone. And assume that everyone is dishonest in public and business life, because public and business life are impersonal anyway.

Purpose

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

My first, greater purpose, is to lose the arrogance which makes me think that I should have a greater purpose. My second, lesser purpose, is to make the world a happier place, if I can, and at least enjoy my happiness if I can't.

PETA wants us to stop using animal 'slurs' like pig and chicken.

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

Never do, if I want to insult, I use words like, "Christian !" "Moslem !" "Hindhu !"

ok im baked and wanna pose a thought have human beings stopped evolving?

Fernapple comments on Jun 30, 2021:

Evolution acts fast when there is a change in the environment, and human culture and technology have made one of the most rapid changes in the environment ever seen by any creature. Being able to insulate yourself from certain environmental pressures, does not bring a stop to evolution, it only means that the pressures remaining become more important. That includes, especially, internal factors, such as sexual selection. One of the big effects of which, (Just for example, it is far from the only one.) will be the drive towards sexual dimorphism, which is normally blocked by environmental pressures. But when those pressures are removed, then there is nothing to stop males growing much bigger and more aggressive, and females growing smaller and more passive, because they are the types who breed most successfully. The ultimate feminist nightmare perhaps. Generally we may also grow more aggressive and loose emotions of social empathy, because society and breeding rewards aggression, while medical science, removes many of the consequences of aggression. For example a human who suffers a broken bone as a result of fighting will today survive, where in the past they would most likely die. If humans do survive the current global problems, such as global warming, then the effects of evolution will probably, be very evil to all those qualities we today regard as our higher functions, certainly leading to less social cohesion. ( There is some evidence, our brains have been shrinking rapidly since the agricultural revolution, as farmers no longer need the large brains of hunter gathers to survive, and the poorer diet puts a premium on not having large hungry organs like brains. ) Until eventually some crisis, perhaps quite a small one, such as the machines which feed us break down and we can not mend them anymore, comes along, which with small brains and poor social skills, we are unable to deal with, and we go extinct.

A bit about Shakespre.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2021:

But he could not spell his own name. At least not the same way twice.

The cake is a myth; the cake is a lie.

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2021:

My favourite is, "Nun's Fart".

I'm done for the day I have to go pray all night and say one thousand Hail Marys and hit myself in ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2021:

Then you will be sleepy and tired at work. And your boss will think you are doing drugs every night.

Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918) "The Green Fence" 1907

Fernapple comments on Jun 29, 2021:

Superb, so very great an appreciation of the small scene.

This Alberta woman spent 26 years in a religious community. She now considers it a cult [cbc.ca]

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2021:

They are all cults, just some religions are more cultish than others.

I found this question on an online dating site: "Would you consider dating someone whose religion...

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2021:

Good post.

“Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2021:

And unfortunately without matching advances in birth control, contributed to the population problem.

are non-believers allowed to golf? I've been golfing some.

Fernapple comments on Jun 28, 2021:

Poking your balls down a hole with a stick, is pointless activity which can cause you to develop a number of unpleasant medical complaints.

This resonated with me.

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2021:

You do not find yourself, you find the world, and then the world finds you. (Sometimes it finds you wanting.)

Weeding and thinning some onions and bush beans today.

Fernapple comments on Jun 27, 2021:

Are the woods unfenced, do you have deer/ rodent problems ?

Funny granny. You need Facebook to see it. [facebook.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2021:

Whatever bangs your lids.

What benefits might there be in describing the activity of mathematics in the following terms?

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2021:

I thought that that was the standard way.

UFO report: US 'has no explanation' for sightings [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2021:

Yes that is what the "U" part of UFO stands for.

I know a lot of you just about hate to add more accounts and apps to your machines, but some of ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2021:

Someone came up with a very simple but clever idea, lovely.

Stolen "What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2021:

The second half of this sentence is true, but the first half of this sentence is a lie.

This is a follow up to a previous post.

Fernapple comments on Jun 26, 2021:

Every joke, whatever its subject, is a serious comment on the nature of logic.

What would it take for you to believe that god is real and exists?

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2021:

Which god ?

What is our relationship with nature ?

Fernapple comments on Jun 25, 2021:

No I can see the same problem. One part of it of course is the inherited cultural dogma, that there are only two sexes, which is not true even of nature, where all manner of hermaphrodites have always and always did exist. And that everyone has to have just one of those two sexes, why not three or four ? Say a birth sex, the one entered on your birth certificate, a genetic sex determined by your genetics (of which there should be about five natural ones ), which could be used for sports, and a self defined sex, the one you choose for yourself which goes no your passport say.

We had a request for more meaningful discussions.

Fernapple comments on Jun 24, 2021:

The problem with that is that, when governments fail to deliver on that promise, (which is not a new one ), though corruption and/or incompetence. They always look for someone to take the blame away from themselves, and the easy target is foreigners. War and conflict have never been about threats from abroad, at least never on both sides, but always about failings at home, and the need to divert attention from those. It always has been and always will be.

I hate hotel bath towels. They’re so thick I can’t close my suitcase.

Fernapple comments on Jun 23, 2021:

I know, the pillows are even worse.

Inquiring minds want to know...

Fernapple comments on Jun 23, 2021:

Maybe. But we certainly import a lot of Cookies from the US. And they are very bad for us.

But, but, but .

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Hmm. Let me think. If you are the kind of low grade man, who wants to target women for casual sex and little without commitment, especially if you like to target women when they are vulnerable, what would be the best profession to pick ? That's a hard one, will have to give that some thought.

Why should the word "atheist" even exist?

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

It is a very badly used word in many cases, since most, so called, atheists, are actually what you could call asupernaturalists or anti-suprernaturalists, since they do not believe in any thing supernatural, nor any, none theist religions, like Buddhism, Spiritualism or Animism either. So that it could well be that we a conceding to theist imperialism, since they are trying to pretend that only theist religion, (god belief ) matters.

Why should the word "atheist" even exist?

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

It is a very badly used word in many cases, since most, so called, atheists, are actually what you could call asupernaturalists or anti-suprernaturalists, since they do not believe in any thing supernatural, nor any, none theist religions, like Buddhism, Spiritualism or Animism either. So that it could well be that we a conceding to theist imperialism, since they are trying to pretend that only theist religion, (god belief ) matters.

The violence and altruism of the human species [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Very good enjoyed that.

Working definition.

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Even worse is the prayer of thanks. Thanking your imaginary friend for something that your fellow humans, animals or nature, deserve a lot more credit for, than you probably have time to give anyway.

The song "100 bottles of beer on the wall" doesn't last as long when sung in binary.

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

There are 10 sorts of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. (Old joke, not mine.)

Quick question, if someone told you something was "melon colored", what color of the rainbow do you ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Yellow. I like the Honeydew type best.

2020 Lessons [photos.app.goo.gl]

Fernapple comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Some people always refuse to learn though.

Which Plant Milk Is Best for the Planet?

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

There was also a health warning put out about Oatley, it seems that the processing results in it having a very high sugar content.

Wolves are mostly misunderstood.

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Great pictures, lovely.

Wolves are mostly misunderstood.

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

So are apes. Sorry you will have to forgive me while I go and kill some little animal, so that I can eat tonight.

Quantum physics.

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

How very silly. Our perceived world is a model constructed by our brains, based on information they receive from our senses, why would there ever have been any reason to suppose that that it was ever anything but a model ? The model may be an accurate representation, of certain things, especially things having qualities, such as a certain size and temperature ranges, which makes them liable to affect the survival of an African ape. But no one would ever have reason to suppose that the model was ever anything but a representation and one of limited scope, or conversely that a representation is not itself a part of reality. Which is actually all rather wonderful.

I am seriously considering leaving Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Try approaching the site from another direction, for example change your preferences, a lot of the crazies post in politics and things like that. You can change your preferences, under your settings, to show me less of this, or show more of this. And you can also block certain groups of course.

Happy Summer Solstice.

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

Boy ! I bet you are a hoot at parties.

Well that nearly stuffed up my Sunday lunch yesterday.

Fernapple comments on Jun 21, 2021:

You mean he did not want to become a martyr. Well that was an opportunity missed.