"Write quickly and you will never write well; write well and you will soon write quickly.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2020:

si thuts mi bug mistook. Git ot new.

Why is it called the "mouth" of a river? Surely it ought to be the "anus"?

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2020:

Not if you are sail into it from the sea. Especially not if you are sailing 'up' it from the sea.

Chinese being fumigated like roaches! This is not the normal flu! Something bigger than the media ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2020:

It could just be a propaganda stunt. The government counting on the fact that most of their people will not know that fumigation is of no use, yet it makes them look responsive. Especially, it could just be an ignorant local government department in a state of panic, or fumigation which is not related to the virus.

Stupidest Spellcheck thing that has made you look idiotic recently.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2020:

'The slush/sushi tasted like rotten fish.'

Why energy drinks are worse for you than coffee of soda pop

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2020:

If they contain ginseng that is bad enough, I can't take that even in its natural form, nor more than a couple of coffees a week, ginger or chocolate. Caffeine is not an ongoing stimulant, after the first few doses, the effects wear of, and all it does then, after it has created a dependency is to return you to the state of a none caffeine drinker. Better never to take it at all, or stick to a very weak form like tea.

How to win friends and gain influence US style. [npr.org]?

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2020:

Link has nasty pop-ups, sorry.

The Case Against Civilization

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2020:

Would that was the worst of it. That is yet to come.

How much difference has this site made in your life?

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2020:

Yep. What you said, plus it gives me something to do in the long dark winter.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a creationist to obtain a PhD ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2020:

Not if they go to a creationist uni. then they get a grade 'A'. A lot of anti-education out there posing as the real thing.

Scientists discover 'why stress turns hair white' [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 24, 2020:

I will take a look up my nose, and see if I can work out what color my hair is these days.

This is a fable that my father told us once when I was around 11 .

Fernapple comments on Jan 23, 2020:

Good story, and it is so rich with possible interpretations, you could go on for pages. No the old man I think was not wrong to do with his wealth whatever he wished, but he maybe wrong to expect to please everyone perfectly, no mater what he did. there is never perfection. But that would depend on his expectation. Or perhaps he was wrong if giving his money away, to give it to the wrong people, maybe he should have made a gift to the young couple instead, or made a gift to charity in their name, instead of wasting it on those who were not in need. Who knows ? It is, as I say, rich with themes. The guest who found the rotten walnut reminds me of the term. "Ugly tourist." Used sometimes for travelers. Meaning the type of traveler who is not prepared to make, even the slightest accommodation, to the place they find themselves in. The sort who, having had a wonderful meal in a foreign land, goes to the wash room, and then emerges to complain loudly that the plug on his razor will not fit the wall socket. When of course the main fault is with himself for not doing his research and buying the appropriate adapter. But then some people do make the loudest compliant when it is mainly their own fault.

Iceland Declares All Religions Are Mental Disorders | Andrew Hall

Fernapple comments on Jan 23, 2020:

Icelandic should not be hard for an English speaker to learn, they do come from the same language family after all. However since, as the article makes clear, it is difficult to define 'mental disorder' in English, alone. It would perhaps be unwise to place too much certainty, on what it means when used as a translation from a foreign language in the first place. Just one question. Why is anyone supposed to care, what president 'T' says about it anyway ?

When did a kind stranger touch your heart?

Fernapple comments on Jan 22, 2020:

Last time I was caught out in the rain while hiking. A farmer stopped his truck without a request from me, and gave me a lift despite the fact that I must have soaked the inside of his truck. Then he took me out of his way to drop me outside a cafe where I could get a warm drink.

Why is it so easy to so many to accept The resurrection of Jesus with so little evidence to support ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 22, 2020:

Very true, but there is little chance that any official records any court would have survived. We have very few records of any Roman court cases or matters of military affairs. Even 99.999 percent of the Roman worlds high literature has gone, thanks in part, to Christians who burned and destroyed vast amounts of it, except for a few famous books which got passed down, in the main part thanks to the Islamic world, which unlike many Christians, did at least value literature. Which is one of the things which make the gospels so doubtful. That not one, but four, strange books should suddenly appear, many decades later than the events they claim to describe, and all claiming to be first hand accounts, though they hardly agree on anything, is suspicious in the extreme.

Two signs you really need to get in shape 1) your booty jiggle in the mirror catches you off ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 22, 2020:

Look. If my belly was smaller, I would have nowhere to rest my arm while holding my beer.

“All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.

Fernapple comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Born 1759 died 1797. Yet a quote still relevant today.

Hi , I came to London new and I live around ealling Broadway , I don't have friend, I want to make ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Hello and welcome to the site.

Vesuvius scrolls? Awesome! [bigthink.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Bad pop ups made it unreadable, sorry, sounded interesting.

Scenes of the FutureWorld......Levitated Pathway leads off into the sunset......

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Clever. But it is the same trick as last time. LOL

Julia Roberts Just Made One Of The Most Powerful Videos Ever.

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Can't argue with that. Great voice.

What do you think of this: [facebook.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Depends what you mean by spiritual. If you research on this site alone you will find about fifty answers to that question and hardly two alike. The definition listed does not seem too bad, but the word is so vague that even the same spiritualist will not give you the same answer two days running.

Unusual sculpture, just standing out in a field......

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Clever.

Is anyone antinatalist here?

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Yes and Yes.

Well this was humiliating! QUIZ: 99% Of Adults Fail This Elementary School Test, Will You?

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

35 out of forty. The American history questions were a bit tough for a European, and I do think that an eagle must be faster, especially in a dive, which the question did not rule out.

There's just one life, enjoy it while it lasts, peace and love to you all

Fernapple comments on Jan 20, 2020:

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

A really fascinating piece about languages, their 'voids' - and how they can be filled. [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2020:

Interesting but a little loose. For example Dinosaur is refered to as English several times, in fact of course, it is Latin/Greek, and I can not see that alternative 'Ancient Animal' is any better or more accurate than 'Terrible Lizard' While DNA is short for 'deoxyribonucleic acid' not 'nucleotide' as stated, etc etc.

Are we all really Free thinkers?

Fernapple comments on Jan 18, 2020:

Not at all, you either think or you don't, and if any one is less than free, it is those who try to impose discipline on themselves by asking for evidence and an attempt to remain within the rules of logic. Which tends to be those who reject faith.

Every crack religion, mosque, synagogue, church & chapel should have one. [vox.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2020:

Bless you. ( Copied and pasted that. )

Hey friends, may I get some help with my geology homework

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Yes you will find that there are a lot of people here with many areas of expertise, who are happy and willing to help with many things.

Sorry or not?

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2020:

I always try to apologize when I am wrong, but apologizing is difficult, people and lives move on, and the people we need to apologize to, and things we need to apologize about, are often far away before we get the chance. Hence guilt. Yet it is wrong to burden ourselves with guilt, because then we don't give of our best now., which is something else we have to apologize for. The church gives a sky fairy who we can do all our apologizing to, without that we can only use the the guilt as incentive to do better, which is perhaps a better way.

Virginia Passes Equal Rights Amendment. Hooray!

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2020:

You mean that you are still voting on that in the US ! Wow!

Which is it?

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2020:

Religion is not any one thing, but thousands of different things which often disagree with one another, though all do certainly contain some good and some bad. So that it is impossible to generalize about religion in any way. Save only in two things, the first of which is that all religion claims some contact with the supernatural. (Some don't but they don't fall within most peoples definition of religion, nor do most 'nones' have a problem with them.) The second is, that since it is impossible to make any provable or disprovable statement about the supernatural, by definition, since if it is provable/not provable it is natural. Therefore all religions must hang on faith. And since secular philosophy ( including science,) exists, then to claim that supernatural authority is needed for philosophy is inherently dishonest. Which means that, at least since the age of Aristotle, all religion has been a form of dishonesty, and is all therefore tainted, remaining only the resort of the criminally corrupt alone. This is why, while perhaps useful in the past, it serves today, only to poison and corrupt everything it touches.

Which is it?

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2020:

Certainly, tea. Coffee is just brown sludge in a cup.

Better smarten up boys. You don't want an intelligent woman. [patheos.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2020:

So he says effectively that you can not serve god if intelligent and educated. Is that not the same thing as saying that god, and or belief in god requires, stupidity and a lack of education. I know that some hard line Atheist/ Agnostics think that, but I never thought to hear a cleric say it. LOL

“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action”............Dr. Henry Link.

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2020:

No. If we are too active we risk not seeing what is going on around us. Is the other side to that coin.

Mobile phones cause tumours, Italian court rules, in defiance of evidence Judges find prolonged...

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2020:

Case not proven I think. But it is true that there is no level of exposure to any form of radiation which is not dangerous. Not even visible sunlight, and we have had four billion year to adapt to that.

During a construction project, a grave of "Amazon warrior women' was discovered.

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2020:

So the people who own all the antiques, usually have blood on their hands. Nothing changes much.

Hey, could be, still looking for the evidence though.

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Heck, there is not much life here.

I've had something happen a couple of times and I think I know what is happening, but I'd like some ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

A lot of people visit this site only once or twice and then give up and go away, perhaps they just get bored. I am also told however, that this is especially a problem for women on the site, since many of the short term visitors are theist males, from fundamentalist congregations. Who have been repeatedly told by their church and preachers, that none religious people are all immoral and sexually depraved. They therefore sign up for this site in order to make contact with secular females, in order to fulfill curiosity or seek casual sex. When they find that what they were told is not true, they either, get bored and leave, or get kicked out after they misbehave. Personally I have not seen many such, but that could be because I am male. The best thing to do is to contact some of the senior female members for advice if this becomes troublesome.

Check this out. I'll be Level 8 shortly, and Level 9 in 2026, if I keep up my current pace :-)

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Level nine before you reach forty ! Well done.

Pope Francis assures atheists: You don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven | The Independent

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Already as near as I will ever get. (And a lot nearer than him.)

This is what makes me wonder - how can anyone who is gay, actually consider Xtianity to be a "good" ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Its called cherry picking, or in other words. "Not my version." The problem with that though, is that it leads to a basic dishonesty, in that while you can invent your own religion, just as everyone can invent their own morality. You can not then claim that your religion/morality has more authority than the secular morality of honestly secular people, because it is given you by a higher power. But of course they do. And when once you let that much cognitive dissonance into you life, then all honesty flies out the other door.

The Proof: That God Exists There is a hierarchy in Animalia, not only as quantified by the DNA ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

If we are so superior, why is it that some of us have difficulty basic with grammar ?

Why are people so afraid of using their real name? Why do so many hide behind nom-de-plumes?

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

I am in business and a lot of my customers and suppliers are theist, but I retire soon, and had thought of using my real name, But the trouble with that is, I would then have to start all over again. You also have to remember that unlike the UK and BC not every part of the world is as tolerant of sceptics, in some places being out as one could get you real abuse. I know of some who have had their windows smashed and dog shit in the letter box.

Something the evangelicals should realize

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Prophesy.

This one made me literally laugh out loud. Hope it does the same for you.

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2020:

Rare honesty.

If it weren't such an indictment of the intelligence of so many Americans, I'd call this one of the ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2020:

I though that Trump got his spiritual advice from Putin ?

"The first casualty when war comes is truth" Hiram Johnson

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2020:

The bullets always fly in the wake of the lies.

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”...............George Carlin.

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2020:

I don't think anyone ever did it for real. People fight to win and profit, peace is just sometimes, only sometimes, an accidental side effect that happens when everyone is too fed up to fight any longer.

Religion was not created to control anyone or groups of people.

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2020:

Very true and I agree with you completely about the origins of religion. But I think that you are constructing a strawman argument about the people who use the 'control' argument. Most of them do well understand the other roles of religion, especially at its origin and in early times, they are just using the word 'religion' shorthand to refer to modern organized religion alone.

Who is solving the biggest problems in the world? Are you part of that? If not... why?

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

It does not really take a lot. Someone once calculated, and I suspect it may be true, that you could cure world hunger forever, if Americans just gave up what they spend on Christmas for one year.

Do we need a replacement to get back to the Four Horsemen?

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

Don't know who first attached the name the four horsemen, it may have begun with the video of that name and they may have decided to use it themselves, or it could have been already given to them perhaps by an apologist. But anyway I would vote that Hitch must be the rider on the pale horse.

As a former journalist, a few (hopefully) helpful hints to fellow posters: 1.

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

1. OK. 2. Agree. 3. Got it.

"SOS" message in snow helped save man stranded over 20 days in Alaska

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

If he came to his senses, why in he moving to Salt Lake City ?

I enjoy the interchanges of thoughts and feelings with many others on this site.

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

The four horsewomen of the Apocalypse ?

I finally switched from Chrome to Mozilla Firefox — and you should too [digitaltrends.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

Always have used Firefox, the fact that it does not try to push stuff at you, and you can still have google search, as well as others. And it does not store half so much stuff on your hard drive.

How cool is this?!! World's largest blooming flower: [r.search.yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2020:

Link gone. Sorry.

Understanding Climate Change and Ocean Acidification before and using the End Cretaceous Extinction ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Of course scientists like to fight their corners for their own hypothesis, but there is no reason at all why several factors working together could not cause a thing as complex and widespread as a global mass extinction. In fact two or more things at the same time are more likely to cause greater extinction levels.

Just published on fbuk by Collective Evolution :

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2020:

A man once fell off the top floor of a hundred floor building. As he fell though the air, the people on each floor heard him repeating . "So far so good, so far so good."

“Patience is power.

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2020:

"Everything comes to those that wait." But don't wait too long.

Tell us... WHY did you join this ragtag bunch of disassociated vagabonds?

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2020:

Because I could not find another 'ragtag bunch of disassociated vagabonds' who came any cheaper.

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2020:

And I think Herodotus himself was quoting an even earlier source.

Hello everyone.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2020:

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

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2020:

You have to make the most of every person you meet while you have got them, they wont last forever.

Curious as to what opinions are more popular here.

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Given that, you should fit in well here. There are a few who fight like cats and dogs, but only over trivia never anything important.

With Everything that is going on right now, from Earth Shaking in Puerto Rico to Possible Made Up ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

A lot of us in the UK could not give a **** either.

I really really like this quote- "If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Can't argue with that.

Thanks to Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Well done. You don't look especially goofy, or have I been on this site too long ?

[independent.

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

What sort of an education system do you have ?

Apparently we are told to prepare for a cyber attack.

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Just like the millenium bug then.

Misinformation distorts the facts and affects decision making, Yet all social media seem to ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2020:

Yes . First I thought but who believes anything on the internet without questioning it these days. It is after all often discredited and nearly everything posted gets a counter post. But then I thought, yet there are still lots of people who believe in the sky fairy, and I wonder which are the more gullible. Then I thought I bet they are often the same people.

The test of a false god.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

True theists are an endangered species in the UK so I rarely meet one. But that is a really good tactic.

Greetings I'm new to the site, look forward to some fun, educational discussions.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

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

Excellent point

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Especially not if he has already shot himself in the foot once.

How is everyone doing?

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

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

Whats the difference between a religion and a cult? in a religion the guy is dead

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Religions are recognized by governments, but other than that there is no difference.

Been experimenting with dropping the background to black or near black.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Wonderful. Especially the last two. More please.

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart or in thy ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Not sure if that is a good thing or not.

I like the way posts are set up on this site, including the method of preventing lots of to-ing and ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Those who want to I think will do so, but it is a lot of work for the poster, and you never really know when the last comment will be added, I have had comments added to posts after a year.

I believe these are correct but I could be wrong.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Lovely pictures for this time of year in the N.H. first one I think is a Primula but not 'the' Primrose. REst seem ok.

Sometimes it's just trees and clouds

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2020:

Yes that is good enough.

The Church Attended by Britain’s “Most Prolific Rapist” Said He’s a Good Guy | Hemant Mehta ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

Funny they always do that.

Trump properties could become targets for Iran - AOL Finance

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

He has no doubt doubled his insurance, and is rubbing his greedy little hands together with glee at the news.

Do you find Youtube videos more helpful than instruction manuals?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

Yes you get to see the whole thing unedited, whereas in an instruction manual you only get what the author remembers to tell you. Which is especially bad when they forget which bits were difficult for beginers. I remember years ago overhearing a man talking in the pub about his first computer. " How are you supposed to know that you press start to switch off, and that you have to empty the recycle bin. "

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

With hindsight of course we have to say that if the Curies had been a little more fearful, they may have lived a lot longer. Striving to understand can be costly.

Can you describe a situation in which you felt very alone?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

Yes, out on a hike last year, it should have been an easy soft hike on a well used path, so no real danger going alone, and of course I did not bother to tell anyone where I was going, which was really stupid. But three quarters the way along the gorge I was walking though, I found it was blocked by a land slide, mainly huge very loose boulders about ten feet across. I decided, despite the dangers of injury, to climb over it. Then found that it went on for nearly a quarter mile. It soon became obvious when I got to the other side that the path was not being used any more because of the blockage and was nearly overgrown, with no signs of traffic. But I pressed on to finish, and took another route back, only to find a similar problem on that route, but I had to keep going as night was now coming on, it was hot and my water was used, turning back was not an option. The thought occurred that if I was injured, there was no way I could crawl out, and it could be days before anyone found me.

Amazing video of life saving heroes

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

Link says not available.

Man , either my older dog is loosing his mind , either I am the most fearful human I know , perhaps ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

Maybe he saw a ghost.

God is that "thing" that, to the best of your knowledge, is at the top of your hierarchy of values.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

You see you are writing this on the wrong site, most people on this site do not use the word god just because they don't believe in one, but mainly because they are also too honest to believe in one. God is a word used by dishonest people, (religious) in exactly the way you describe, to give added authority, to things which do not deserve to have any authority. Most people on this site have already seen that problem and moved on past it.

The jump from level 7 to level 8 is daunting. 8 to 9 smacks of far too much time on this site

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2020:

Its a place to waste time, for those who don't want to put up with all the drama and banalities of proper social media.

"There is no sound so discouraging as that of a mind slamming closed." Me

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Very good.

The Sun sets on the last day of the decade.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Great selfy love your hair -do.

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Well known quote, but always worth repeating.

A close friend of mine goes back and forth between extreme antithiesm and Pascal's Wager.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Consider hell for a second, what sort of "author of morality", gives out infinite punishment for finite crimes. PS. the bible interpreted though theology, also says that watching the sufferings of those in hell, and enjoying it, is one of the things expected of those in heaven.

Had no idea about this use for computers. Very interesting. [curious.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Link is very interesting but, does not match your post.

When someone says "There is no god" they're idiots! At that point it's up to then to prove that ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Logically of course, since you can not disprove by logic anything that was not built by logic. So I usually say that I am 100% agnostic and 99.9999 % Atheist. But having said that I can 100% disprove all the religious gods, only leaving a vague deist god. And that is good enough, since that kind of god affects nothing and sells no dogma, which is the main problem with god generally.

God is that "thing" that, to the best of your knowledge, is at the top of your hierarchy of values.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

This contradicts your last post. The notion of heathen culture is etymologically oxymoronic. [agnostic.com] You can not have etymology as important in one post, and then mess with it to the most extreme degree in the next.

What computerized machinery have you struggled with?

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

My sowing machine is made of cast iron on a wooden base. You power it yourself, by turning a handle, and it does not do button holes, in fact it does stitches in lines and that's it, if you want button holes or anything else you have to get a needle out. It used to belong to my grandmother who considered it old when she was a girl, but It still does stitches in straight lines fine.

“Difference is the essence of humanity.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2020:

Yet the conflict between those who do respect diversity, and those whose whole belief system, is about suppressing diversity, still remains.

the longer you look

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2020:

How did you get a photo of my workshop ? And who said you could tidy up ?