POOF: THREE GENERATIONS SICKENED, COVID-19 HITS A FRIEND: [united-cats.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2020:

And there is a lot of evidence that even those who survive, or even have low symptoms, may be affected seriously for years to come.

Today, I learnt about EMERGENCE.

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Yes emergence theory should be taught in all schools, it is one of he fundamental things, like evolution by natural selection, everyone should understand.

Survey: Pastors Say Adultery is a Forgivable Sin When Pastors Do It | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2020:

They are all forgivable sins, you pays your money to the church and they forgive you.

I must admit that I'm rubbish at spotting trolls.

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2020:

A troll is a mythical creature in Scandinavian folklore, who is often used to represent the forces of nature. Often associated with giants, they are usually represented as dirty, untidy, comically ugly and very hairy, judging by the photos there are quite a few on here.

Should we work to remove the capitalization of letters thereby leveling the hierarchy of words?

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2020:

Have you noticed that some numbers are bigger than others, and are permitted to stand for larger amounts. It should go in cycles, so that this week 9 has to do the job of 1 and then next week it moves to two and so on.

Someone on Twitter said something snarky about Dolly Parton's recent admission that she thinks black...

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2020:

You can lead a horse to logic, but you can not make it think.

Hello. Is this how I start a topic?

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site and if you have time do check out the groups, there is something for everyone, and certainly they will reassure you that the site is about a great dell more than politics. That is just a false impression given by the front page.

Is our quest to explore the universe slightly sullied by anthropological propagation chauvinism?

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2020:

Hello and welcome enjoy the site.

Is our quest to explore the universe slightly sullied by anthropological propagation chauvinism?

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2020:

No. life has no purpose, and that means there are no sins to stain anything either.

I'm leaving this site.

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2020:

Sad to see you go, but it seems that the good times are coming to an end anyway in a lot of ways.

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in a storm, a night with no moon, and the ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2020:

Very poetic.

Question: Can you believe or not believe something into existence or non-existence?

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2020:

Evidence. Thousands of kids believe in Micky Mouse, so why arn't the streets swarming with five foot high mice. LOL

So, how exactly does this work?

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

It is perhaps wrong to ask religion how it works, since logic is not what it does. Moreover, most allegorical interpretations are after the event, and usually related to stories that have lost their earlier and original meaning several times over. So that the only deep and meaningful thing to be learned is, what stories push the psychological buttons of humans best and why, for which it may be true the oldest religions, furthest removed from historical fact, are certainly the best. But that in turn also means that all the old stories are equally good at telling the same truths about our likes, so that you may as well study the Greek myths or Robin Hood, if fundamental things are your interest.

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." Gary Snyder, American poet.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

And our best teacher.

A bit of history for you, the meanings behind some old English nursery rhymes: [thevintagenews.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

I like especially. Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met an old man Who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg And threw him down the stair Some people say that the ganders, were Cromwell's soldiers who used to march by goose stepping. An old man who would not say his prayers, was a Catholic priest, who would naturally balk at the test of being forced to say a prayer for the republic and the Church of England. But all of that is mainly speculative. PS. What the soldiers were doing in, "my ladies chamber". Is left entirely to your imagination.

Where America not only went wrong, but never went at all - [eand.co]

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

The young man makes his case well. I think that there is a little more to it than that, especially the legacy of the nineteenth century, but a good case.

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is only to be expected from the...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Cruelty and indifference are shields for the weak, the strong don't need them. ( Neither do really old folks like me, who have nothing to lose any longer.)

You have now been given the ability to travel to any point on the space-time continuum other than ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Hello and welcome enjoy the site. I would go back to the nineteen sixties and seventies, to see if they really were as good as everyone said. I was only a child then and could not understand the big picture. And I would also like to see the countryside again, because I do remember, the abundant wildlife, which at the time I never expected that we would loose.

Watching a movie tonight, and it strikes me, it takes a very brave man to tell what he thinks is the...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Every fiction exists in a fictional world, where the laws of nature are altered to accommodate the fiction. And every fiction comes with the hidden agendas of its creator, which existed within the fictional world within the mind which created it. It is therefore twice removed from reality. The biggest enemy of learning is not lies, trying deliberately to mislead. But the great mass of false education, blocking the way to the truth.

This is the explosive change of perspective that has happened for me, personally, after I became an ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Why sell your reality for someone else's illusions.

America will never be destroyed from the outside.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

You may be stronger than you think you are.

The more I learn the sadder I get.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Yes but it is the journey that counts.

Anti-masker in Tucson, AZ throws a tantrum and has to be carried out by his own son ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2020:

The great thing is, that he actually accuses the other man who is wearing the mask, of looking silly. Some people just don't seem to have a grip on irony.

Astrology, nonsense.

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2020:

Snake handling, crystal healing, holy communion, a big long list. A bit like murder, rape, fraud, common theft, manslaughter, child abuse, arson, vandalism, littering, common assault, etc..

Does it make any sense to hide your face on a Social Website?

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2020:

Yes, in the age of facial recognition soft-wear it could actually be quite dangerous. You would only need your image to be somewhere else on the web, with your name and or location, and you could be traced quite easily by a hacker, stalker or worse.

"Beautiful plumage"

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2020:

Perfect pubic hair.

These are the kind of questions/thoughts that got me kicked out of church...😔😁

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2020:

Sadly I think that the theists do have a fairly easy answer to that, they just say that. Jealousy, Deception, Envy and Violence did exist there, until Lucifer left, in fact his leaving helped to create the perfection. But best not to look for logic in religion.

Is it possible that god punishes those that speak out against religion?

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

No. And even if there was a god, why would it not punish the religious more, since all religions are involved in setting up pseudo-gods in its name.

Here's a book review I wrote in 2012 about a friend of mine's book, Golden Rule or Greedy Rule.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Actually I do not think that you could live by the golden rule and obey the ten commandments. But how can 'unwed' fit the list, since if we lived by the golden rule as you say, we would not need marriage laws any more than the ten commandments.

I joined this site a couple years ago.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Congrats, felt sure you would make it. ( Wait till you get the invoice for the T-shirt. LOL )

Narcissists for lunch, anyone?

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Too small, can't read it and it won't enlarge.

The CDC has been around for a long time.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Biggest groan this year so far, thanks.

Okay, so how's about we have a little harmless fun here.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

"Poetry in motion." I could always hear. "Oh a tree in motion." Which until I worked out the correct lyrics, I always thought sounded really stupid.

When time and space cease to exist

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Great photo.

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

I think someone once made a quote. "Educated way beyond his understanding." But I do not know to who that is attributed.

Volcano eruption that nearly ended humanity [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Very good.

If you had your choice between going to see some really famous singer and a great small venue local ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Small local concert every time. In our local town there is a club who meet in a room above the library, they often have really quite good performers, mainly classical, some jazz, folk and other types, you pay for it with a donation, or by buying a coffee/tea with a light cheese salad lunch before it starts, (no eating in the concert.) I am often amazed at the quality of the artists they get on their budget, though they pay nothing for the room. The intimacy of a small room, where you are close enough to see the artists fingers is always magic. I went to a small nightclub fado concert, last time I was in Portugal, wonderful, for exactly the same reason.

Have you heard of THIS problem if you get Coronavirus?

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

People have said that it affects nearly every organ in the body to some degree, add hair follicles to the known list.

When a star exceeds its volume, gravity causes it to implode.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

What Pedrohbds below said. Plus it is wrong to assume that life or the universe has a purpose, let alone that that purpose is to evolve intelligence. An intelligence is only one small tool in the many survival tool kits, that evolution has come up with. The most intelligence of animals can easily be predated by the malaria parasite, which is just about the least intelligent Eukaryot there is.

Don’t get fooled or conned again — 5 tactics to look out for |

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

A very short list, I can think of several more.

Do you believe in what you don't see?

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

I try to place belief first in the things that have the strongest evidence, and things which have the weakest evidence, last. Seeing is just one source of evidence. But you have to be more wary of evidence that has been given to you by other agents. For example, if I see dead animals and cat droppings in my garden, I am reasonably certain that next doors cat has been in the garden. But if an irate neighbour tells me that they are fed up with the cat leaving shit in their garden, I wonder. Does he know the difference between cat droppings and fox?

Predictions for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season just got worse: [sciencenews.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The controversy rages across the US and the world: to wear a mask or not to wear a mask, and: a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2020:

Sadly I do not think that, "the US and the world" is quite the case. Most of the rest of the world is wondering why there is a controversy in the US at all.

Back on July 23rd I posted pictures of my Alcantarea imperilais' emerging bloom stock.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

The background shots of the garden are, even more interesting.

Moral? Don't be a group of monkeys. Question things you did not dream questionable.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Nice metaphor, and I would love to think that that was a real experiment, but sadly I think it is just a made up meme. If anyone does have real history please share.

Reminds me of the time my ex and I conspired to give my son a “naughty” Latin phrase to put in ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

So what is the Maori for feather ?

I don't understand why I can't get any notification from this group ☺ but btw my cat just wanted ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Yes, I have never been able to understand why I get notifications from some groups, and not others. Its just one of the strange things that happen here. Cute cat.

Hii.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

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

God's True Purpose The way I see it, God's only real use is as an escape from death.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Yes but how much of that fear of death is artificial anyway, a fear stoked up by religion, with stories of hell etc. . It was I suspect a small fear once, but they managed to align it with the even bigger fear, fear of the unknown so that it was yet another unknown they could pose as answering. Since god does not exist, his true purpose is anything that the criminals need an accomplice for.

a – Spirit – being – a – Person – an – animal – species – a – bipedal – life...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

A - doughnut - a- bun. Essence - of - calories. Sweetness- of - refined - white - sugar. Body - of - sweet. And - hole - of, air, Greed - personified. Joy - of - gluten. Germ - of - flour. Baking - made - perfect. Come - into - my - mouth. And - grant - my - weight gain. U R & I AM – as – fat - IS Perfect - flabby. Be Obese.

Which came first?

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

I think, jokingly, that like the chicken and the egg they co evolved. But having said that, religion is a cultural creation and once it was the same things as culture, in that it was the only cultural understanding of the world people had, so that it involved everyone. I think therefore that it was intelligence and understanding which led some people out of it, rather than stupidity which led people into it.

Eugenics

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Your link only leads to a generic definition of the term, generally I think that people would expect more than that from a post. Some original history or an opinion would be nice.

I was a Christian.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Well done, hello and welcome.

Yeah yoga!

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

I'm nearly sixty four and still able to climb trees, and remember where I put the spare key.

I get the idea that people usually call themselves Agnostic out of fear that using the name Atheist ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

Happy with either, usually call myself an atheist, but in theory I accept that you can never know anything with absolute certainty, so in principle will also accept agnostic for the sake of accurate definition. But I also call myself a "broad Church sceptic" because I am prepared to respect anyones views, even deist, as long as they do not hold to any religious dogma. Since it is the dogma and the claim to knowledge of the God/gods views, which makes all the difference, since a god without any opinions, values or laws affects nothing.

I shared a collection of these with the gardeners but I know many of you aren't in that group so I ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

They look especially good because of the way you used the back-light. Great shots.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. Lao Tzu

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2020:

And it is worth remembering that people with something to sell, have more incentive to compose beautiful words. Beautiful words should therefore be a warning sign, which makes you ask, what is this persons agenda. The most popular translation of the bible, with fundamentalists, is probably the King James, in part because of its poetry, it is also probably the most distorted.

Genomic Study Reveals New Zealand's Tuatara Is Like No Other Animal on The Planet

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

When I was young the common sound bite about the tuatara was that it could be the last surviving dinosaur, but now it seems that it goes back even further than that. Fascinating.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. - Diogenes

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Not proven.

A little rain makes everything blossom

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Rain, we need some here. I sometimes just like to stand out in it for fun.

While watching TV this morning, I saw a commercial for Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water"!! I ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Hey. I know some places where they give you grape juice, which is only pretending to be wine, and they will tell you it is in fact blood, and that it will make you live forever if you drink it. Surely that has to be against the trade descriptions laws, fake goods or what.

Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The most basic story in the old testament, is of semi-nomadic people from the Sinai desert moving into the bottom end of the fertile crescent and trying to take, and hold on to, land there. That probably happened continually for hundreds if not thousands of years, sometimes in small ways and sometimes with large acts of organized violence, the rich lands of the farmers would always be a temptation to the nomad from the desert. It is not surprising therefore that there would be a folk memory passed down among the later generations, of life in the desert, and opposed attempts at migrations into the farmlands. At the same time there was probably an almost continual trickle of fleeing slaves, criminals and peasants out of Egypt, into the desert to the east, who would be forced to join the nomads. It is therefore almost certain that stories of origins in Egypt circulated among the desert nomads, even those who had never been there. When you put those two things together and remember the tendency of folk memories to simplify, and personalize things, around a few half remembered, or mythical, hero figures. It would not really be surprising that a story like the old testament one, of the flight from Egypt and the conquest of Israel grew up, even though there would be not a trace of truth in it, it would be inevitable, because that is the way folklore remembers history, especially long drawn out history, the sound bite is not a new invention.

Do all Christian denominations believe only they will go to heaven?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

If they are literal fundamentalist believers yes, though they may be a minority even in the churches. Though amusingly there have been some sects, which limited their total numbers to five thousand members, because some interpretations of the bible say that only five thousand will be saved on judgement day, and they are obviously the five thousand. LOL

Im confused is blm part of the far left now because of protest?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

BLM is not part of the far left, that is a myth making attempt by the racists and fascists who are opposed to it. You have to remember that when people are opposed something, and they don't have any arguments worth a fig, one of their first resorts, is to try and associate the thing they don't like, with something else which they think is hateful to the wider community. And if they make a lot of noise, then the media will give them more attention than their numbers deserve, and the idea becomes mainstream if they are lucky. Or that is what they think anyway, but the people may be more savvy than they think.

Rituals of Waiting - or one more 'how I'm surviving the pandemic' piece.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

For what it is worth, you are far from being alone in feeling like that.

I feel welcome and happy to be on this site.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

It is only a small and distant community, but it is here if you need it, though I do hope that you can one day find a community in the flesh that supports you. Hang on to your true self until you do.

I absolutely abhor statements like, "I heard from (preacher, uncle, hick on Youtube) that ____" when...

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Nice rant, if it makes you feel better feel free to rant here whenever you like, it is a very sympathetic and easy going site, as long as you are not preaching. And you are not.

Most mornings I am greeted by the sun streaming thru the trees.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Beautiful place, you are very lucky. (Or very clever.)

I cannot sing but love to sing.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Yep one reason I am glad I don't go to church anymore, I love the sound that music makes, but I could not tell a bad note from a good one, let alone hit one. You are certainly not alone.

10 most Incredible births in the world, Some are dreadful☺ [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

The great diversity of life always leaves me amazed.

One of the blooms on my Amaryllis belladonna was a double ! so I captured it for the horticultural ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Teeny tiny snail, but what big eyes.

"There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

No, I think that observed experimental results trump it, but it runs a good second.

From Center for Inquiry: Here's an example of what's great about skepticism and the ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

A true hero.

Humanity

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Almost impossible to say, we have a good capacity for surviving, it is hard to imagine a disaster so bad that some few humans would not crawl out of a cave somewhere in a mountain valley, and start over, without that disaster being so bad that it destroyed almost all multicellular life. On the other hand, that which we call advanced civilization could be very fragile. So that perhaps a better, pair, of questions would be. Can civilization survive into the future? And. Can the biosphere as a whole, excepting perhaps bacterial life, survive into the future? ( One irony is of course, that one of the things which could really save us and civilization, may well be a major disaster, say a disease like the current virus, but much more damaging, which would relieve the world of say 99% of our population. Given that we have used up so many of the worlds resources, recovery would be slow, perhaps slow and measured enough to save us from making the same mistakes again. But that I think is a dream, not likely to happen. )

Governors Bay New Zealand worth getting up early to take the photo...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Wonderful photos, publishable quality, they would wow if printed in a coffee table book.

What happend to phxbillcee aka Bill?

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Sad yes, I liked talking with him, we still have some half finished lines.

🥃😎 bottoms up.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I will drink to that.

I am somewhat melancholy.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Take care of yourself. Thats the best thing you do for people like your son who care about you.

HELP the Post Office! Just go on down to your local PO and buy some stamps! If everybody spent $20...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

You are so lucky to have a post office, which I presume is a national institution. In the UK the Thatcher person sold ours off, so that her capitalist mates could asset strip it. So that we are now just about the only nation in the world without a national postal service, which serves the nations interests alone.

David Garrett with the Filarmonica de La Scala, Milano conductor Riccardo Chailly.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Oldy but a goldy. Best played with a little irreverence.

The Age of self Obsession.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Or maybe there will be a reaction, and a new age dominate by the idea that good taste is an objective reality, is about to dawn.

Why would a lifelong atheist suddenly decide to become baptized into Mormonism and be going on a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Could be a lady, and it could also be that if he does not smoke, drink, or do coffee, he is attracted to a lifestyle where he gets easy approval for what he does anyway, though he may find the approval fades when he joins and he is no longer a newby. However a lady will probably be almost certainly involved in some way, most men, and I speak as one, are dragged through life by the testicles.

New word! CONSPIRITUALITY - conspiracy-theory-style 'spirituality'! Just the word I needed.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Did you invent it. Well done if you did. Sorry don't worry Pondartincbendog just answered below.

Who & What - U R - Not - U R - Not - just a - sentient - Individual - mammal - U R - Not - ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I am a person who only uses hyphens now and again, mainly when I am pedaling pseudo-truth. Take care its a bad world out here.

Just a random thought.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Yep, it used to be called the Old Testament. But then there is a myth that a guy, who may have been called Jesus, came along and tried to rip some of the rules up, but, they soon got rid of him. Then some other guys call St Paul, Constantine, Mohamed and legions of others came along and just kept printing and pasting more.

More than 70 killed, 3,000 wounded in Beirut explosions.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

It was an explosion of a warehouse, which may have been caused by a fire. Which 'may' in turn have been caused by a welding accident. All of which may yet be proved false. It is typical of a person like the Trump to start spouting before he has any sound information.

Trump, Covid-19, Beirut Explosion, Consciousness, etc. What a time to be alive. [united-cats.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

"May you live in interesting times." Old curse.

Adversity and chaos seem to be building and multiplying every day.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

True, but then the last fifty years have been especially peaceful and progressive, at least for the western world. Perhaps we are just getting back to normal.

hi everyone! its been 2 years since i posted something here.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Hello, nearly a founder member.

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Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Basically I agree with you, and certainly modern life is on the whole a vastly greater threat to human health overall than the virus. Though it could be said that the virus is a creation of modern lifestyles as well. Since it is clearly only a problem because, we have massive over population, over crowded cities, and far too fast a transport systems, especially air travel. Though it could be said figures in that sense are a little misleading, since the cancer deaths of twenty five percent, are spread over a whole lifetime, say an average of fifty years, ( its more than that, but lets err on the short side,) as opposed to five months. You would therefore have to multiply by at least 120, to get a true comparison. Point five times one hundred and twenty equals sixty percent, which would make the virus two and a half times more deadly than cancer, if it continued at its present rate. Though that does not take into account herd immunity, bringing with it the possibility that survivors would have milder symptoms and be less likely to die if reinfected. Assuming that there is long term immunity, which we don't know yet. However the cancer levels, if quoted in this way, are based on the assumption that all cancers are caused by modern lifestyle, which is almost certainly not true, since cancer was a major killer even in the deep past, and a lot of the increase in cancer today is probably due to the fact that we live longer and survive many other diseases which would have formerly killed us, so it would be correct to only take a percentage of the overall cancer figures. Its probably a lot more complicated than that, but that is just a quick way to look at the problems of making the comparison.

If I can’t steelman my opponent’s view to their satisfaction it means I think I’m opposed to ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Or that they have only the delusion that they have a intelligible view. They may not understand their own arguments, because they are not fully or well worked out.

France 24 reports in Beirut explosions [france24.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Its moved on a bit now, we now know that it was just one explosion, ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse.

These photographs catch some of the memorable sunrises and sunsets I experienced whilst camping out ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Well done.

I'm The Least Anti-Yosemite Person You'll Ever Meet In Your Life

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I am sure when some people said. " Would it not be good to get a business man or two in politics." They did not say 'failed' business man. But the one thing that a boss of a big company, however failed, who has spent all his life listening to people say yes, does not know anything about, is just how stupid he is and what he needs to do to look stupider.

If You Believe This Lying Bastard You're a Complete and Total Imbecile

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

That's another thing we need, a face palm emoji.

Daisugi, The Ancient Bonsai Technique That Can Prevent Deforestation

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Pollarding, the harvesting takes place above the level at which animals can browse.

Landscapes — 1: The Grand Union Canal, Watford, England, 2012.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I like the lighting and cloud scape in the last one especially.

Well I made it.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Congrates, you will I am sure find worthwhile new adventure in retirement, no mater what.

“Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

That one needs some thought. Good post.

“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

And explaining to most of them, that most of human culture is illusion, is just about impossible as well.