Medieval church and wild primroses from a very low angle.

Fernapple comments on Mar 30, 2019:

Great depth of field, did you use a tripod or something like a beanbag ?

Posts beginning with "As an agnostic, do you...?

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2019:

Do you as humans. Do you as animals. Do you as creatures. Do you as part of the thin coating of slime on planet Earth. Do you as part of the universe. Its inclusive, I'm good with all of it.

I am too old to worry about who likes me and who dislikes me.

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2019:

If you think that you will go down well on this site. They don't throw things at mature people, who like to make fools of themselves. Well lets put it this way, they have not thrown anything at me yet. Love the photo.

"Mercier and Sperber (in their book Enigma of Reason) proposed a novel theory of human ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2019:

True, in popular myth, and it may be a myth with a content of truth this time, modern thinking in the west begins in the classical world of Greece; at just the time when the populations of Greek cities were just beginning to grow beyond the small town where everyone knew everyone.

Conservative Bible Project aims to rewrite scripture to counter perceived liberal bias - New York ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2019:

It has been rewritten and edited plenty of times that we know of, and we don't know how many times before the earliest copies we have. Yet the real dishonesty, is then to claim that opinions based on it have more authority than other peoples, because they come directly from god. So you see you can have your cake and eat it.

I'm in temporary rental housing but there are a few blooms around.

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2019:

Interesting you seem to have about the same seasonal timing we do in the UK those are in flower with us now too.

Does the fact that you are agnostic with regard to religion make its way into effecting your ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Think it pays to always look for scientific evidence first, try it if you can, (do your own experiment), try to use logic if they are not available, instinct if logic does not get you there, and faith as a last resort. Fortunately after more than sixty years on this planet, I have never needed to go all the way to the end of the list yet.

1st is the Smithsonian. The rest are Sacramento and Haight in San Francisco.

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

I love the quote about travel over the door, and it feels like I have traveled a little looking at them , well done.

Does the fact that you are agnostic with regard to religion make its way into effecting your ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Someone once said that we all do science whenever we are careful enough to use the scientific method, or do not make assumptions. If someone thinks of two ways to arrange a shop window, and they say. "Lets try it one way for one week and then the other for the next, and see which gets the most attention." Then that is science at its most basic and pure.

What will cause the apocalypse?

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

It may happen, it may not happen, if it does it will most likely be all of the above working together, plus some others like resource exhaustion, grid breakdown etc. Few things in history occur for single simple reasons, historians have found forty plus reasons why the Roman Empire ended, most of which could never have been foreseen and all of which contributed. But if you want to know the future then you can try a fortune teller, or a futurologist, neither work but they are your best shot. When at college forty years ago we went to a lecture given by a government advisor, very senior, who job was to predict future trends for the government, we were told that it was very special that he agreed to talk to us. Over the years I remember how many of the things he said came true; exactly none. History is chaotic and all attempts are doomed to fail.

I'm wondering about something which is going to cause me to post this same question twice, once from...

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Where do posts from people on this site appear on Humanist.com I can't find them ? Or is there more than one Humanist site ?

What DoYou Think? Believer Or Non Believer

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Where did you get a photo of my mother ? LOL

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. - John Muir

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

Best way you can make a positive contribution.

Ever wonder how posts get to the main page? Here's how it's done: https:/faq?show=posts

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2019:

You must work very hard. But content a bit heavy on US politics for an international site, sometimes. Maybe that's what members like but it just a thought.

Is there such thing as Atheist tattoos?

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Don't have it on your bucket list, it will really hurt there.

This is to inform as many members of Agnostic that if points are mysteriously removed from your ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Don't care about points that much anyway. Nice to get a pat on the back, but it does not have to last forever. And the rules do say that points can be adjusted.

What’s the world’s worst religion?

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

I would like to add another one to your list if I may, though it is not usually thought of as a religion which is perhaps why it is not on Wiki as such. And that is Art especially with a capital "A", because it is the enabler in manipulating human minds which spans all of the religions. It has a so called spiritual worth for which there is no evidence. And that spiritual worth leads to the idea of "artistic truth" which is not connected to any objective truth but carries great prestige and can be used to validate any lies that any other religion wishes to sell. I know this this will not be popular with some even here who worship it though, tough.

What is worth believing in?

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Can't disagree with any of that, but then can't find much that is new in it either. I think that you will find that on this site you are preaching to the long converted.

Probably just me but the hearts on the love emoji seem too connected to romantic love.

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

I would like a, thank you emoji, for when someone answer a question etc.

Neolithic jade workshop found in China, dating back 4,500 to 4,800 years ago. [xinhuanet.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

Interesting but very frustrating there are no pictures, this is one post where a few photos would be everything.

Beginner here.

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2019:

You make me feel lucky. But fast growing annuals can be fun especially if started under cover. And many vegetables like climbing beans can be fun just to look at without the fruit.

Can you read this from a FB post and not be gob smacked?

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Funny, and I thought some people were just shy and liked to slip away after a good deed to avoid a fuss, and the embarrassment of gratitude. Just shows how wrong you can be, people aren't that good after all, you have to rely on angels.

Cop out: "Spiritual But Not Religious" [google.com] Agree or disagree?

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Its the only fence you can sit on, and everybody else gets a pain in the butt.

I’m noticing a recent influx of followers of Jesus (Harold?

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

I am having a great time with an apologist right now, don't know how long before he gets fed up, but for my mind they just don't stick around long enough. However if they are male and you are female, it maybe that they are stupid enough and/or indoctrinated with the male centric BS churches pedal, to think you are an easy target. If you can therefore, pass them on to one of our eight plus female members, you can easily work out which ones I mean, and they will soon be squashed flat.

The Paradox of the Stone is the Paradox of Religion: “Can God create a stone that cannot be ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Modern theologians do a little tap-dance round this now, by saying that. "Gods power is the maximum logically possible." Which makes you wonder just how sad a human can get.

Is there anybody here, like me, who was never religious?

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Yep, never got caught by it, despite the fact that religious education was forced on to children in UK schools in my day.

Fear of Death

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

Dying but not death. It is one of the sad acts of religion that the mercy of planned death that we can give to suffering animals, is not available to humans. Who, thanks to dogma are forced to endure sometimes nearly endless suffering in the name of so called sacred life.

This is interesting! Pentagon Says All of Google’s Work on Drones Is Exempt From the Freedom of ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

You always wonder as well if there is something else stuffed in the same file.

Landscapes — 1: Another view from Mount Sugarloaf, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, taken in ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2019:

You seem to be very well traveled, I like the first one it is almost a pattern.

Christian: If there's no god, then what's your purpose in life?

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Nothing like having a really ambitious plan, but I should make a few small ones as well , it is hard to loose all the time.

Welcome to Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Silver, gray and blue in perfect harmony. Its wonderful but make me shiver.

I got this in an email....anyone ever try any of these?

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2019:

I can not comment on the science or not. But the tone of it sounds like classic snake oil, woo, to me.

Usernames.... How did you choose your username for agnostic and what's the story behind it.... ?

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Needed one because for personal reasons can not use my real name, so since ferns don't flower, they can never have fruit, So fern-apple something unreal. First thing that popped into my head really.

> Take a look at this video about a person who is raising mushrooms which will be able to decompose ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2019:

Why can't the natural mushrooms found in the soil do it, they have been doing it for animals for millions of years, if you are buried in healthy soil without the formaldehyde and other toxins it should work fine. In fact soil is rich in such spores and they are active already.

Why I Love Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

What were they thinking of, this site would be a lot duller if it was not for the female input.

Spring in the Desert

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Beautiful bird shot. Are the blue flowers Blue Bonnet ?

How bad is it when a bible basher is on a street corner shouting religious drool.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Most of them here seem to be fairly old and passive, so I just ignore them, In any case if I did tackle them, they would probably just zoom off at high speed on their mobility scooters.

Just found this photo from the last time I was abducted by Aliens (Oct.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Can understand why they brought you back.

Isn’t it interesting how someone can believe in god without any evidence while multiple sightings ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Although I have no wish to address this subject, I really have to point out that where you allude to it, your biology does seems to be fifty years out of date.

When you work at a garden center and spend your days trying to remember all the cultivars and one ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Yes I know that feeling, sadly, plants sometimes go out of your world for years and then come back again.

"Live in each season as it passes: Breathe the air, Drink the drink, Taste the fruit and ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Love that and love the seasons, you only get fifty chances perhaps in an adult life to watch that magical cycle, you have to make the most of them all.

Damn! Had a long post typed, hit submit and it all disappeared so this one will be short but cover ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2019:

Are you sure that your tree is not grafted on to another rootstock of a different type. It can be in some cases a quite different but related species.

"You must be a member of this group before commenting." What group?

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Always seems to be the "fun" groups that carry that resriction. Strange.

Aside from the obvious similarities between organized crime and organized religion, and the churches...

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Richard Dawkins on memes worth a study on that point. (religions as mental infections which evolve to become more infectious. )

Article about the Milky Way galaxy and its connection with giant gamma-ray bubbles ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

I wonder if other galaxies have them ?

This is why I don't drink strong liquor. ?? I'm laughing so haaaard!??? [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Very patient tolerant horse. Since he's in a girl suit perhaps its a girl in a horse suit.

Ever rub your eyes so hard...😅😂😅

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

There has been at least one religious cult, who practiced pressing the eyes so that you could see the "inner light". Now if that level of gullibility does not make you laugh, nothing will.

So I guess no one uses the chat rooms here? Can't say I blame you.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

So easy to comment exchange view on posts anyway.

So weird indeed...

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

And offering to pimp his two daughters.

Plant these for the bees.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Good wide list. I am happy to say that i have most of them but with a list like that there are still a few to add.

Hello all. Just joined.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Welcome you will find that people are very friendly here in this group. They are also helpful. And I can tell you right away that you need a plumber, your drains are blocked. LOL. I really love cute cat photos, and don't mind saying so.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be....Abraham Lincoln.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2019:

Only a very few of the privileged, in a very few societies and a very few ages ever enjoyed that opportunity, and that will be coming to an end soon.

Here's one issue i never could understand about god when i was a church attending christian.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

You are trying to use logic. That's not how religion works, logic is reserved for expert theologians, who make a good living, inventing ever more elaborate ways to explain the ever greater number of holes and faults, that you get in your world view, when you try to make the world fit the half remembered hallucinations of goat herders who had been eating the wrong mushrooms.

The Logic of Indecision: If you say you are agnostic, you are saying that you do not know, but ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

I have heard of Atheist, Hard Atheist, Soft Atheist, Agnostic Atheist, Gnostic Atheist, Agnostic, Hard Agnostic, Soft Agnostic, Sceptic, Agnostic Sceptic, Humanist, etc.. Many meant different things when used by different people, and many meant the same things when used by different people. Word soup,. Use what you like, but always explain carefully where you stand before you start to talk about something more important than the usages/meanings of the accidents of cultural history we call words.

"In Homer, magic has been abolished.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Read your long exchange with Gwendolyn2 below. (Long hard read.) But absolutes do not exist or matter either way, there is, it is true, little superstition in Homer, but the ancient Greeks certainly had some, even Plato wrote about the oracle. What really matters about that culture, is that on a few occasions, a few people like Aristotle living on Lesbos, went down to the sea shore and though it worthwhile, to try cataloging the many glittering sea creatures he found. Sowing as he did so, the seed of an idea that the natural world could be something worthy of study, in a purely natural way; and was not just the inexplicable gift of equally inexplicable supernatural beings. Like you I too think that there is both high romance and great reality in that, and would love if it were possible to go back and walk down to that beach one golden morning , just to see the wonder of reason being born as a new route to truth.

Summer solstice 2018, come on 2019!

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Nice photo but lets not wish the spring away yet, the winters here in UK are long and gray.

What do you do when religious people knock?

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Ask them to put money in the tin.

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

And was there ever any other way.

Fun facts about the human body.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Re. 14 Some people do take pollen as a health food, and there is a little in honey too. Which means that if you eat honey you are eating bee vomit with plant sperm and a little bee saliva for good measure; plus there is bound to be a little bees wax in there which is basically like a cheese which forms in the wrinkles on the bees abdomen. How cool is that ?

2500 year old ship found, 70% complete! [atlasobscura.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Really interesting but a bit short, left me wanting more. Quoted dating seems a bit off, fith century BCE would only be two and a half thousand years old.

Spent the first full day of spring searching for wild palms in this vast desert. Found some!

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

Wow great photos. Those palms are wonderful I really, like the thick trunk thatch, which I think must be the old fronds kept on to insulate the stem against the heat and cold.

I went out on the Apache Trail this afternoon looking for flowers.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2019:

That's lovely. Do you know what number two is, it looks a lot like the plant we have in the UK called Ladies Smock ?

I wish I was a better person.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Try joining or helping with a charity or two, helping others is often the best way to boost your own self worth. Many of them offer a real community, and you may well meet some real friends.

About Philosophy

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Philosophy is a big broad subject, some of it is hard but a lot is easy. And the good thing is that the easy bits are in many ways the most important bits. One of the best ways to get into it is to follow the route of history, starting at with the earliest philosophers, that gives a narrative structure which is easy to follow if nothing else. I would therefore say that before reading a single philosopher you read a book on the history of philosophy, of which there are many good ones. Then you will know where to go next, if nothing else.

Is it possible that the belief in an afterlife is just an extreme gamble?

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Pascals wager basically. One answer to which is. If there is a god who decides your fate after death, then is it more likely to favor one who places faith in the ten thousand to one shot of picking the right god out of the multitude. Or is it more likely that even god prefers the honesty of an atheist. Silly but there you are.

People are desperate for the Messiah alright! [thevintagenews.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

There is a fun myth, which perhaps has more truth in it than most. That the original model for the classic Christ figure was Cesare Borgia, the bastard son of the pope. Certainly there was no standard model before his life and if the portraits are true he certainly looks like the standard Christ.

Frozen Lake Michigan thaws into otherworldly blue ice shards

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Beautiful, cold and creepy but beautiful.

Atheism is just another religion.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

3. Last time I went to the Atheist church, we had to sit in the pews for hours. Then the cooked baby turned out to be a very dry cracker and some fake wine. There was no orgy, or naked dancing round the bonfire or anything like that, so I did not put the recommended ten pounds in the box.

Howdy Folks, I am new and desperately in need of kindred spirits for discussing mutual beliefs.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Welcome. Viewed coolly you have to accept that the bible is not a book by an author, but a scrap book of Bronze/ Iron Age press cuttings made by many people over a long time. What sort of press it was, can be judged from the stories it tells of sexual predation, rape, murder, genocide, child and animal abuse etc. So it is a bit like quoting the Red Tops as your authority.

Many with religious viewpoints say that religion makes them better as people,so it must be true.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

I just posed this on the main page but it goes here quite well too. I do not think it is true anyway, some of the most truly nasty people I ever met, and fortunately there were not many, espoused extreme altruistic doctrines like Christianity. Such subcultures become easy feeding grounds for hypocrites and criminals because they rarely call people to account for themselves or their motives. There are at least two reasons for that, one being tribalism, nobody wants to look for ill doing, because that would mean questioning their basic beliefs and their faith that they are in the good group, and secondly because everyone fails to some degree to be unselfish, which in turn leads to guilt, and guilt leads to the acceptance of low moral values, which are easy to live up to, and little questioning of others lest you be questioned.

Happiness is the new Rich.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Take out the "new" word, and I agree.

Just recently was pretty much forced out of a relationship.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

If you differ on something as basic as that, then with time you would have found out that you had a lot more differences, because the religious mindset is so completely different at a fundamental level. And by that time, you could have committed to things together that would be painful and expensive to pull back from. It may not seem like it now but when you look back in future years, you will know that you have been lucky.

March 23rd is International Atheist Day. [atheistrepublic.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Strange , I did not know you can only do it on one day, most people here seem to be atheists 365 days of the year . So what are you the other 364 ?

I used to be a passive atheist but now I am a very militant one.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

The most important and lasting way to be a good atheist/agnostic is to set an example of being a good human being, without the need for a gods instructions. That undermines the theist mind set more than anything else you can do. But congrats. on being militant, atheism needs militants and passives both.

Hi, new member, first post.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2019:

Hello and welcome, you should enjoy it here this is one of the most active groups on the site with content from all over the world.

I don't know about you but when I was quite young, I thought I had failed if I were to change an ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Can't argue with that, except to say that in real life when you go down the alternate route, you often find a new alternate appointment which is better than the one you were headed for.

Just For Fun Which Would you Rather?

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2019:

C. since the 15000 alone exceeds what I would spend on the other three, even without the paid vacation.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Best philosophy I ever heard.

My first tulip bloom around my water well!! About a hundred more to go!!

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2019:

How nice to be that early still a month to go here.

10 easy ways you can tell for yourself that the Earth is not flat | Popular Science

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2019:

Really neat to see a near complete list, and a lot of it is interesting even if you don't believe in flat earth.

What is your idea of a good death?

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Quickly and painlessly of course, but also alone, because I do not want to be a cause of grief. I would also like to have given away or spent every last penny I have on the day before. And to die either in the wilderness so that the animals can have a good feed, or at a table outside a cafe beside the sea in the warm sun with and empty glass on the table.

Is the "afterlife" possible without a god or gods?

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

I don't think that either exist. But many early religions had an idea of afterlife even when they did not have gods, some also believe in reincarnation and gods and some in it without gods, so the two never were co-dependent.

Looks like Spring has arrived here at the Clear Creek:

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

The perfect bunch of Crocus, what could be more lovely.

What's your favorite atheist show/podcast?

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Atheist Experience for me too as well as Aron Ra. I like A.E. because of the range of topics and presenters but I do not watch every one just cherry pick.

Which of the following persons really existed?

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

I could not agree more a figures existence or none existence is unimportant compared to their effects on the ongoing culture, which stand on their own merits. Excepting one small point with some figures and some belief systems, like Jesus, a literal belief in their reality has to be assumed before a literal belief in some things like miracles can be assumed. Sometimes therefore it is not the figure whose credibility is the main issue when asking questions about existence are made, but the credibility of the accounts, which are questioned indirectly. Though I suspect that a lot of the speculation which people do into the reality of figures from the past is done, simply because it is fun, and as long as they are up front and honest about that, there is no harm in it.

I’m choosing something lively to get me going this morning.

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

That's a good wake up first thing in the morning.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Yep. all of religion and nine tenths of politics, personal relations and philosophy.

I need some help.

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2019:

Most of what has been said covers it, the one thing I would add is , use a moderately long telephoto lens or take the photo from a distance and crop/enlarge the center section later. Photos taken close up are not flattering. You will need a friend/tripod of course, selfy stick wont do.

Hi all! I tried to share this in the "Gun Control" group".

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

Nothing showing here either.

Does the Phrase "Sunday best" (usually applied to clothing and widely used in the UK at least by ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

Shiny shoes event suit.

"God is in control" was said to me this week-end.

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

Not sorry to hear your rant, we all need one now and again and they are better if heard by people who understand where you are coming from. None existent god gave my wife, who was a far better person than me, and early and horrible death, but has so far spared me. End of story, enough said.

Wedding vows. Are atheists vows stronger than religious vows?

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

None believers are both free and more thoughtful, and therefore less likely to make or be forced into an inappropriate marriage in the first place.

Arrived in Budapest on the 16th of March.

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

Not likely to be in that area sorry to say. Filled with envy. LOL

Ok, time to talk about hipocrisy, but this time in our own site.

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

Admin. does the work, and those who do the work have a right to say what they want to work with. Plus it would serve no useful purpose that I can see, while if it drove away just one member who I like to read and correspond with, (even if they are a prude ) then I should be sorry.

Beads Found in 3,400-year-old Nordic Graves Were Made by King Tut's Glassmaker [haaretz.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

The one shown is such a beautiful bead, and how amazing to think that it can be placed to a single workshop. Real solid evidence of trade routes, though by definition the Bronze Age had to have widespread trade networks, since it was vital to bring the two parts of bronze, copper and tin, together, as they are rarely found together naturally. Some people think that it was the breakdown of the trade networks which kick-started the iron age.

What do you say to the law of conservation of energy argument?

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

Maybe, maybe not, but even if creationists etc. overturn every scientific theory ever made, that does not provide any proof of god, it only says that we need a new theory of which god will only be one of thousands.

A different type of Border Security from the Scientific Community [purdue.edu]

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

What about a wildlife corridor too. The old iron curtain in Eastern Europe is now a famous nature reserve which connects half of Europe with one wildlife friendly zone.

Just a reminder with spring approaching. Plant bee friendly ???????⚘❤

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2019:

I always liked wild gardens with plenty of diversity and flowers, including insect plants and if insects eat some I am happy to let them in a mixed garden it is never too bad ad something always replaces the. Lawns are not only low on diversity but also high on labour and have a huge carbon and resource consumption footprints. Yet I believe that lawns as front gardens are enforced by bylaws in some places, how mad is that ?

Let go of what's gone. Be grateful for what remains. Look forward to what's coming.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

At my age not much. LOL

A good summary of bad science that has driven death and ill health.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

I am still sceptical about the benefits of fats in the diet, but it is often said, and I have no reason to doubt it, that a lot of the research into the effects of fat in the human diet, was, and continues to be funded by the sugar industry.