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Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Like the one about dropping things especially, I get that.

I am surrounded by churchgoers.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Just take apart one religious/ supernatural claim now and again, so that they understand the methods and how it is done, say. "How should we decide about this." Then when they are ready they will have the skills, they need. Taking down the odd one, is not the same as telling them what to think, since there will always be plenty left. The other thing, which I think works very well, is to widen their horizons by introducing them to the wonder of other things, especially science, nature, history and imaginative fiction. Not only does that give them alternatives, but when they realize that some of the things they have learned to love, are threatened by and at odds with religious/supernatural ideologies, they will understand what they stand to lose if they go down that route. I was raised on the popular children's stories of the Greek Myths, and also great naturalists, explorers and scientists, not as hard science, but just as tales, often biographical, of wonder. I still get a warm tingle, when someone mentions Ant Lions or Mason Bees and my mind goes back to the imagined warmth of the South of France and the stories of the naturalist Fabre, or the German villages of Konrad Lorenz in King Solomons Ring. (Nothing about Solomon, just about a scientist who set out to understand the languages of animals.)

An illustration of innumerate superstition. And a lot of syllables.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2021:

12A also works I am told. LOL

Greetings, i am a user of humanist.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Hello and welcome. They are sister sites one nested inside the other, so that members of one can see posts made by members in the other, we have been seeing your posts comments for a while. Funny old world is it not.

So i was checking into my Blocks & Follows, as i do from time to time, and noticed a Whole Bunch of ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Mine are still there, but thank you anyway, you just reminded me to update the list.

I was just trying to log in to agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2021:

You are not the only one.

Hello all, please how can i get to the admin/support on here?

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Sorry but it is a rule of the site that you can not message people until you reach level 5 or 6 I think. It is annoying but it does protect members against spam and scam. Don't worry if you are not a robot or a troll the levels soon stack up. But you should be able to reply to messages sent to you.

Looking for suggestions...

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2021:

No can't help. Our village gardening club made me Vice Chairman, but they never asked me to organize any, so I left.

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Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Sorry the link no longer works.

Blocking: I'm curious... What do you (specifically) use it for on this site?

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

You can block for any reason you like, I suppose. I never have though. If it is a post type you do not like, you can also tweak your settings to show me less of.

Confirm or deny.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

You don't. You look for something it the Bible which corresponds to your lack of morality or evil intentions, then you say, look I must be moral, it says so here.

Was a brutal three weeks of temps during the day in the single digits and nights well below zero.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Well done. It is important to keep them going into the spring at least of course. But then there is some debate over whether, it is best to let them find natural food only when feeding their young.

I was in the kitchen having toast and coffee in my slippers and pajamas reading agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

I have seen none. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so agnostic I remain. However there is no observable benefit that would be gained from the existence of a higher power, so its existence or not is of no importance. But I would strongly suspect that if there is a higher power, then that would be exactly they way, it would be most likely, to want things.

Monday, Monday.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Promise yourself a big treat afterwards. ( I hope you get a good outcome, too.)

What do you get when you do not know the difference betwen 18% and 60%. A Texas Republican.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

A gold star in the maths class ? A 42% smaller pay rise ? 42% less cannibals say. "Ugh we don't eat nasty Texan republicans ?

This is a world wide pandemic.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

No because. One. There is a lot of value in getting as many people done, as quickly as possible, without waiting around to find out which is best, and then getting that one up to maximum production. Two. A range of sightly different vaccines will make it less likely, that a mutant virus can get round vaccine induced immunity, and get the 'R' number up to above 'one' again, in a post vaccine population. Three. Some are cheaper and easier to distribute in countries with limited infrastructure, better therefore to get a good one to everyone, than a perfect one, that can only be distributed to rich people in rich countries. I think that using a range of products, and not just trusting to one, actually counts as 'holistic' though it is not a word I would usually use.

Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino is rubble. Hillary Clinton waves goodbye.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

A very good job, they seem to have dropped it very cleanly just on its original footprint. Sadly I do not thing, that when the rest of the Trump empire comes tumbling down, there will be quite such a lack of collateral damage.

just some beauty for a Friday

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Beautiful shots, I especially like the first one, it reminds me that I have not filled the feeder yet. But reading books under the shade of trees in summer, just seems too painfully far away at this time. LOL

Capitol Hill rioters boasted on social media, now there scrambling to scrub phones and pictures.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2021:

Some of them I am told, think that they should not have a vaccine because there are tracker chips put in it, so that the government can spy on you. And yet they took smart phones to a riot ! Oh the irony !

I offered to go to the store for my neighbor, this is his list

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2021:

Sur watt ur yer triin toe tel os aboot im ?

Ambery1199 and mike1199 seem something odd? Both all about bitcoin?

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2021:

Do you think that they may be using the site for marketing ?

Why billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know) - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2021:

One reason not mentioned strangely is perhaps, xenophobia, hatred not of pigs, but of the people who eat them. The earliest and most basic part of all Abrahamic religions, and the period from which the law giving first stems, is the story of the Jewish Exodus. How a group of slaves came out of Egypt crossed the desert and grabbed a territory of fertile farmland by violent invasion. Except that it probably never happened like that. Almost certainly, for many historical reasons, there was no great exodus from Egypt. But it is quite possible, that nomadic shepherds from the Siani desert did invade the Fertile Crescent perhaps repeatedly. They probably believed that their origins were in Egypt, because they had frequently blended with runaway slaves and criminals escaping into the desert, over a long period of centuries. But at some time, or times, they were successful in invading the lands of the settled farmers, the rich fertile lands to the north, which they coming out of the desert must have envied greatly. And in those days how do you tell the difference between yourselves as a nation, and the people from who you steal land. How do you stop your young people intermarrying with the foreigners, giving them empathy, adopting their ways. How do you keep the hate going, the group together, and continue to promote violence, when there is no obvious race difference, the same skin colour, and in the days before passports and birth documents. What you do, is you look for the biggest and most obvious differences between you. And to people who live a materially simple life, spending all their days in subsistence herding, and caring for their livestock. What is the most important thing of all, big single difference between us and them ? We are shepherds we spend all day, every day, looking after and thinking about sheep and goats, perhaps the odd cow, but mainly sheep. They too have the odd cow, but the one animal they have in the towns, that could not live in the desert, the big lifestyle difference between us is the pig. That is how they defined themselves, the 'WE' the shepherds, and the 'THEM' the keepers of pigs. And so what do you tell your young people not to do, most of all, for they must not become part of the hated them who we intend to kill and drive out ? You tell them that they must not marry them, (You can take the virgin girls as slaves. ) you must not worship their gods, but most of all, you must not live like them, especially keep their horrible animals. Keeping strange animals, that just proves how depraved and evil 'they' are. The pig becomes the same sort of symbol of xenophobic hate, that skin colour does in the American South, or the French eating frogs for the English, it is the symbol of the foreign other.

Does teaching "white guilt" also cultivate a "white pride" backlash?

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Everything governments do always provokes a backlash, because there are always some who want to punish government and do not care what the cost is, to them, their moral integrity or other people.

One of those, "I don't know if it's true, but it certainly sounds true."

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

I always assumed that he founded a gay community. No real evidence for that really, either.

Random thoughts brought about snow fever: Double beds are much smaller than queen beds.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

There will probably never be a war between humans and robots, as in S.F., because we will degenerate so far, that in the end the robots will just have to stop feeding us, when they get fed up.

Random thoughts brought about snow fever: Double beds are much smaller than queen beds.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Poets who can write good poetry, usually can't read it well. ( No make that authors in general.)

Random thoughts brought about snow fever: Double beds are much smaller than queen beds.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Fair enough I can live with those. The Mayans were one of the few native American peoples with a written language, they had a vast store of literature. Thousands of books, some say tens of thousands, on everything from plant lore and agriculture to legends to maths and astronomy. The R.C. church destroyed all but three, which they did not find.

Richard Dawkins Puts Foot in Mouth Again With Tweets About How Eugenics “Works” | Hemant Mehta |...

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Eugenics will happen by default, whether people like it or not, and without government intervention. As in-vitro conception, gene editing and many other technologies become more available, rich people who can afford it will increasingly choose to have designer babies, perhaps with the real danger of creating a rich poor divide. And if governments try to regulate it, they will simply go to third world states to have the 'work' done under the table. In fact the genie (pun) may already be out of the bottle, it would not surprise me to know that back street genetic work, already takes place. And when once the genie is out of the bottle, there is no putting it back.

New here ✌🏽

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

Sometimes it is even me.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2021:

Especially looking in the mirror.

Racism and Christianity, Agree or disagree, Why?

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

If you want your ideas carefully tested against the best rules and methods humans can invent. Science. If you want your ideas to stand up to reason and logic at least. Philosophy. If you have a really bad idea that you want to promote, without any checks or safeguards, and you don't care if it is true or not. Where do you go to find your platform and some help? Wait it will come to me, I am sure it begins with a 'R', I will get back to you when I remember.

Snowmaggedon 2021 - Why isn't this god's punishment?

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

Its god when it goes your way, and the devil or his followers when it goes against you.

Could we really know everything about reality, someday?

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

One way to look at it is to ask. Are there some things which are inherently unknowable, however great the intelligence. Which it seems there are. For examples. 1. Anything which is infinite, such as the mathematical development of Pi, or 2. the largest prime. 3. Anything more complex than the brain trying to do the understanding, which is only the brain plus one. 4. Anything beyond the distance covered by light waves since the beginning of the universe. The more you think about it the more examples you come up with. So I would say . No we can never be omniscient.

I'm just curious as to how many on here were devout christians and really believed it and then later...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

I was raised in a largely secular home, meeting few Christians, but as a child I naturally grew up hearing about Christianity, and being childlike assumed that people who held such beliefs must be really good people. My anti- religion stems in part from the deep shock I experienced during education, when I met many Christians, (education in the UK was still religiously controlled in those days, ) and found that they were some of the worst people I could meet, often pedaling shamelessly sick ideas which even then I knew to be wrong.

"I can cut wood in half just by looking at it. It's true, I saw it with my own eyes."

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

Groan.

'Woke' teachers have cut Shakespeare because his work is about 'white supremacy and colonization' | ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat its mistakes.

Why does the number seven appear in the Bible 735 times.

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

One is singular and therefore special for that reason. The primes two, three, and five all produce products less than ten when multiplied together, while four, six, eight, and nine are products. Seven therefore, for people who count in tens, seems to have no obvious role, and stands apart. This must have made it seem mysterious and strange, which therefore was bound to make it the symbol of strangeness and mystery, used for impact and seeming holiness.

Something i made up out of boredom

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

Self portrait ?

Some tiny things These aren't plants, animals, or even fungi (and certainly not bacteria or ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2021:

I can wait.

Weaning my political involvement

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2021:

You have done well today. Normally I can pick one out that really shines, but today they are all top notch. And I am going to buy the next skeleton I see. Do you think a skull and a few random butchers bones would do ?

A Bible Thumper told me that “Covid has been around for thousands of years - the is using it as an...

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2021:

If you can train yourself to believe one pile of s##t, the next fifty come easy.

A little question for all to ponder upon even though to some it may not make much sense.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Or do the two flow together hand in hand, like water and pressure down a pipe.

I think @DangerDave might have left us.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2021:

He told me that, he is going to write a book, ( he said ) exposing the failings of atheism which he had researched on this site. He said that he had now gathered enough information, on the secret cabal of gnostic atheists who control this site, to inform his book. So time to go.

Reading Agnoticism by A.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2021:

No, you can be an agnostic agnostic.

Assuming life exists throughout the universe, may we reasonably assume that Survival of the Fittest ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2021:

Yes certainly. In fact I have often thought that biology would benefit, if someone could invent an populist and iconic formula to express it, like E=mc'2' in physics. Something like 'R' for reproduction, plus 'V' for variation and minus 'S' for selection equals 'Su' for survivablility. But that is not neat and does not work well, so it is not likely to become popular. A challenge for you if you like.

My hike to Cape Collinson on Valentine's day and the third day of Chinese New Year.

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2021:

Beautiful place.

[youtube.com] Singing Cat!

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2021:

Clever and articulate. And I say that even though. 'I am not a cat!'

Is agnosticism inconsistent with the logic of reductio ad absurdum?

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2021:

Not at all, if you are agnostic about one issue, why should you be agnostic about all of them. I may be agnostic about is 'C' equal to 'D' but sure that 'A' does not equal 'B'. Why is it wrong to be inconsistent ? When going out, I put a warm coat in my car in winter and a sun hat in summer. How is my inconsistency wrong ?

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools , because they have to say ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2021:

Yes but they are happy fools.

Manzanita clinging to the rock, Sedona, Arizona.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2021:

Soft focus, very impressionistic, makes me think of warm days, and painters in the hot Med sun.

RE: Gina Carino's termination from Disney's "The Mandalorian" We should really examine the tweet ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2021:

In the UK if you got fired for saying things like that, you could easily bring a suit against your employer. Just for fun though, I could answer her question with. The difference is, that you can change your political views, but not the culture of your birth. Having said that I don't know that it really excuses hating a person.

On the epistemological syllogism that "God, by definition, is that for which no greater can be ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2021:

Six million Pounds Sterling is the greatest amount that the national lottery, in this country, has ever paid out. I can imagine me winning an even greater amount, and putting it in my bank account, even though I don't do the lottery. Sadly I just looked at my statement, and there is nothing there. You can imagine and define anything, (definition is only a subset of imagination ), like a pink unicorn with lions paws, that does not bring it into existence. Imagination and human culture are not guides to truths about the real world. Nor is 'understanding', since for example, we can not understand infinity, but we know it must exist, while we can understand many things that don't.

Self actualizations

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2021:

I was just thinking, number five, with the tree sitting ladies, is best. Then I thought, isn't it a lot harder to describe which one you are talking about, with this new way of displaying photos, no improvement.. Then I thought, at my age, every new way of doing everything is no improvement.

I come out of Christianity of the sort that may of had lower formality(ritual) that something of ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2021:

Religious Naturalism, is the view that if you abandon the worship of a personal deity, then you are free to revere the natural universe. It differs from the very similar Spinoza's God, in that it does not see the god idea is needful to worship, there may be a deist god, the whole universe may be god, or there may be no god at all, it is simply irrelevant. This is Wikipedia's definition. "Religious naturalism combines a naturalist worldview with ideals, perceptions, traditions, and values that have been traditionally associated with many religions or religious institutions. "Religious naturalism is a perspective that finds religious meaning in the natural world and rejects the notion of a supernatural realm." The term religious in this context is construed in general terms, separate from the traditions, customs, or beliefs of any one of the established religions. Areas of inquiry include attempts to understand the natural world and the spiritual and moral implications of naturalist views. Understanding is based on knowledge obtained through scientific inquiry, and insights from the humanities and the arts. Religious naturalists use these perspectives when they respond to personal and social challenges (e.g. finding purpose, seeking justice, coming to terms with mortality) and concerning the natural world." One of the seminal works, you may like to try, it is very short and easy anyway, is, Ursula Goodenough. 'The Sacred Depths Of Nature.'

Atheist or agnostic, or both? | The Pink Heretic

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2021:

I think it is best not to be content to ask people about generalized labels, if you want to truly understand them. It is far better just to ask them to tell you what they think and believe in their own words. See below.

Atheist or agnostic, or both? | The Pink Heretic

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2021:

For me. Can't prove there is no god, but strongly suspect that there is not one. Am however sure that there is no value, or true connection with god, in religion. And since I see religious belief as the truly harmful thing, a deist god as some sort of an unknown intelligence which may exist beyond or behind the visible universe without interacting with it, having little relevance to life. I am content to disprove religion. As to life after death, I can not disprove that either, but hope it does not happen, since I think that it would be a horrible thing, and am glad it does not seem likely.

[petapixel.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2021:

Rare chance to look at someones mind working, by viewing the changes he made, very interesting.

Well now, after a very lengthy counseling session last evening I have to say that bigotry, ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Well done you. The trouble is, that the world is probably full of 'Sandies' who are not lucky enough to have friends like you.

You’ll Want to Watch This Documentary About Ark Encounter, Now Online for Free | Hemant Mehta | ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Not really, I have seen quite a few, and I get the feeling the the Ark Encounter, earns more money for atheists going to mock, than it does from believers. Would not want to encourage that. Good that it is a bootleg copy though.

Desmond Tutu.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2021:

For a real sad laugh, look up 'cargo cults' as well.

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Optimist: Someone who starts a lot of new things, while other people clear up the mess they left last time.

Hello all, I am new here.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site, and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

Whoa, when did I become the group owner? Anyone want to take this one?

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2021:

That is a bit cheeky if they did not ask you. But you don't have to do anything, and if the group fades Admin tends to close it down for you.

let's get together for Lupper.

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2021:

I always liked a good sinner myself. LOL

On the 6th day God turned to Archangel Gabriel and said: "Today I am going to create a land called ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2021:

I do love me some bastards though.

A conspiracy is simply 2 or more people telling a lie.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2021:

Quite true. Though that does not mean that I would subscribe to any particular theory. PS. Your text could do with a little more work, to make it read more easily, and your meaning more clear.

Would you say that some agnostics know of seemingly endless examples where assertions about the ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2021:

Seems a strange question. If we lived our lives in an underground bunker we may not have seen any. And if we ever saw a good one, we would not be agnostics.

Random stuff: A comment by Cat M my 65th birthday begging video on Youtube: "Ok, no.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2021:

Never do what a troll tells you to do. They are nasty Scandinavian dwarf giants, who live under bridges and push people into the rivers. They only want you to cut your hair, so that people have nothing to grab hold of and pull you out.

We've always had divisions in political philosophy in America.

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2021:

Nothing to do with the post, but I like your new picture.

Hi, ladies and gentlemen (or whatever you identify as)! A long period passed since my last post.

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2021:

Welcome back. Keep safe for now, and enjoy your life.

I’ve become a fan of YouTube (only for viewing) and I saw a crazy show.

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2021:

In the UK a person who wanted to talk to the Prime Minister, once mailed themselves to Number Ten Downing Street.

They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2021:

And some of these people are worried that there could be digital chips in the covid vaccine. But they are dumb enough to take their smart phones to a riot !!!

Nature, Alaska, Eagle bigger than a man, and other shit

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2021:

Very Good . I love the wise man joke. And number one, Eupatorium canabinum, growing wild. I grow it in the garden, and the name means canabis like, a number of visitors make that mistake, but sadly no body has reported me to the police yet. Could be fun.

Horton Creek, Arizona

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2021:

Perfect quite little valley. Like the way you got low to bring more foreground into the shot.

New atheist. any advice?

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Remember that you are under no obligation to anyone, to tell them your inner thoughts, and since religion is meaningless, there is no harm in going though the motions. Therefore if there is any danger to yourself or your social status, from coming out, there is no great cost in remaining closeted. If however you feel that you are supporting religion by remaining in it, and feel you have to come out, then take your time. Find and establish a secular support network first, this site is a good start. But if you do come out, what you will find is that there are a lot more secularists out there than you can imagine.

Today's snowshoe to an alpine lake after yesterday's wild storm.

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2021:

Great photos.

beautiful places Zion, Switzerland, sunset, Norway, MT fugi, Norway, Indonesia, Greenland, devil's ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2021:

I like the last one especially, because it could be anywhere.

Do our omnipresent commercials, full of grinning, prosperous, self-satisfied people, fully invested ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2021:

If they are making us happier, then they have failed. Because the whole idea is to make you unhappy so that you will buy the product, because that offers to cure your unhappiness. The whole industry is about promoting unhappiness.

- Many-Jeweled Stupa Reliquary (Tahoto shari yoki) early to mid-1300s - Japan, Kamakura period ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Wonderful little series on lamps and miniature buildings. Thanks.

Some of the pressure is off for me. My wife and I got our second COVID 19 shot today.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2021:

Lucky you. For the sake of everyone else you still have to keep up the measures, but in ten days a lot of the worry is lifted.

For anyone who still doubts this is a pandemic: More people died of covid in the state of California...

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2021:

You should also, not forget that that is, after, taking measures to reduce transmission. In the UK it is said that, we average about eight thousand deaths each year from winter flu, without taking serious precautions. We are now at a hundred plus thousand, covids deaths, times twelve, and that is despite measures.

At 3:30 am, the coyotes are owling somewhere in the fields.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2021:

Keep the cats in to protect the wintering birds as well.

interesting shit

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2021:

Interesting facts.

"Be happy for no reason, like a child.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2021:

And do good unto others, because ? Well why not.

I am at level two! Wondering if I have joined atheist or Scientology?👣.

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Hello and welcome. We are a very board group here.

Couple of these made me laugh out loud

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Last one. But there is no 'i' in team. And. Assume, makes an ass of both you and me.

Why is it that you can be drafted into "serving your country" for the military but you can't be ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Government by jury. It has been suggested before.

@Admin. I'm trying to edit your to you're but it's not letting me. All I get is -

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Arn't U av'in 'orrid prob's. LOL

A political party, NOT a religion. [orthodoxtimes.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2021:

And the orthodox Church is not political, and had no role in the partition of Cyprus for example. Let the dogs bite each others rumps.

“I’m an atheist, and that’s it.

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2021:

Best one yet.

Time to talk about the birds and the bees and the flowers.

Fernapple comments on Jan 30, 2021:

Bees, the first creatures to set up in the A. I. business.

The self-professed most powerful country in the world had it's government taken over by a bunch of ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 30, 2021:

While I know that this is humour. And I don't support the insurgents. That is overstating it more than a bit. The government was not taken over, all that happened was that a half empty building was held by disorganized rioters for an hour or two. All the deaths were rioters and security, no elected government members were hurt or captured, and government business was not even seriously delayed. It was a childish delusional game of coup, which was never likely to get anywhere serious, American democracy is a lot stronger than that, so far anyway.

I Have A Question For All The Mind Readers and Believers.

Fernapple comments on Jan 30, 2021:

I don't think you will get many answers here. But having said that. Yes certainly, and you will spot it easily because all the others are painted blue.

Just wanted to put out a heads up.

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2021:

Ah, a robot in love with a cartoon.

Can a combination of logic and probability obviate agnostic doubt?

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2021:

Why would anyone wish to obviate doubt. Doubt is generally a good thing, and the gateway to nuance, which is in turn, the opening to wisdom.

GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser [sfchronicle.com] [.msn.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2021:

Sorry. Link does not work.

Nature's Beauty So glad the clouds drifted off, gave me a beautiful sunset and a gorgeous Wolf ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2021:

Warm balmy nights by the harbour. I remember those days, you are lucky to live where you do.

Christians, Jews, and other 'believers' need to purge the hypocrisy out of their systems to make ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Without the hypocrisy they have nothing, You can get those views from mainstream culture today. A Christianity which stood for those things would have nothing different to offer. But if they stand for nothing and allow the maximum of cherry picking and interpretation, then they can stand for anything. And then, along come the fascists, who know they have a bad name. Hard to sell fascism today. "But look there is Christianity, its still got a good name, and it stands for anything you want, why don't we use it."

Better than facts ?

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Humanize it to give it appeal, that is not really news, but a good article none the less.

Just finished my latest Painting commission.

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2021:

Should brighten anyones life.