"how-to-make-friends-build-a-community-and-create-the-life-you-want" On the importance of being ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

A persons worth is equal to the size of the hole they will leave in the lives of others, if they are not there any longer.

Dictators have reemerged as the greatest threat to the liberal democratic world - The Washington ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

They never went away, dictators are bred by complacency, as soon as you think you are safely democratic, that is when the danger starts.

If a writer falls in love with you...❤

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

That's why my friends are my favorite subject.

I was taking a shortcut through a disused shale quarry when I took this detail, I have no idea why I...

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

Think it looks wonderful, I don't have any problem understanding why you took it.

“I can resist everything except temptation!” Happy St Patrick’s Day to all of you.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." O . Wilde.

I was listening to an interview today that Terry Gross conducted on NPR with a lady theologian -- a ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

The system of thought is called Humanism, that is putting the human beings first, ( plus feeling animals to my mind ). As soon as you start to set up other things, like gods, immortal ancestors or spiritual nature, which are seen as having their own motives and intentions, then you are no longer putting human wellbeing first. And since those things do not communicate, because they are not real, their supposed intentions can be manipulated by those of bad intent to serve any evil they wish.

Those fucking dragons . . .

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

Nice one, and you never know if the thought is planted the seed can grow.

Some aerial shots from last season (2018)

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

Beautiful shots. What river is that ?

When the debate is lost, slander is the tool of the loser - Socrates

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2019:

Sometimes they also reach for their guns as well.

Medieval wardrobes and their evolution. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

Really interesting so practical, I want one, in fact both especially for walking in.

Somehow stumbled on this site on the web, it sounds really interesting.

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

Welcome, do check out the groups that's where a lot of the life here is.

One of my last efforts before I gave up on it, so much compensation to bring out the rainbow that I ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

Looks better with a strong dark foreground.

Ever read a book so good, you kind of don't want to pick it up, just so you can keep reading it ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

A good book alway should be read twice, once fast and the second time slowly.

Orangutans face complete extinction within 10 years, animal rescue charity warns | The Independent

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

Here you go you want a sad video watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zzbwM07bw

Orangutans face complete extinction within 10 years, animal rescue charity warns | The Independent

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

Sadly, even if they do live on, it could well be that they will end in the same state as tigers, where it is said there are more in zoos and private collections than there are in the wild. And they are the most wonderful creatures, I do not believe in animal rights on the whole, but I do think that some human rights should be extended to the great apes.

Does beleif in god justify how much should people be allowed to spend on end of life care?

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

The only way that religion can affect this is by its ban on managed death, but that tends to be expensive anyway. If the care centers run by religions overcharge then that is a simple matter of stealing.

Kissing Professional Women Rant.

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2019:

It works both ways though. I don't like kissing strangers and people I don't know well. Yet so often I meet women for the first time, go forward to shake hands and get offered a cheek. Not one of life's big worries but annoying sometimes, since you then feel you have already made a commitment to a level of friendship before you really know them.

Humanist marriages least likely to end in divorce, official statistics reveal » Humanists UK

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2019:

Yes but is it because of Humanists marriages are better marriages, or is it because Humanists are more thoughtful people.

If you say you are 100 percent certain there is no god, doesn’t this saddle you with a burden of ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2019:

99.9999.....% certain, but bear in mind that even with that tiny margin it is only a deist god, in other words maybe the universe has an intelligence hidden in its structure. When it comes to the god/gods of religion 100%, if only because they are self contradictory by nature and therefore can not exist.

As a parental father figure,Old Testament God does not appear to like children very much (or uses ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2019:

"Dash their brains out against the rocks." Not great child care I think.

"Humans are often said to be intensely tribal.

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2019:

Interesting, you may find this a good read too. https://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/245 The only thing that the two do not address, which I think comes into the picture, though I have nothing more than hunch, is the effects that weapon technology has on aggression. Making inter group aggression both more dangerous to the aggressor and more likely to result in the deaths of near relatives with common genes.

Why Do We Go Bald? / What Causes Hair Loss? DEBUNKED - [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2019:

Whats wrong with being bald anyway.

Saw this awesome demo video on the unique properties of water.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Yep the ice insulates the water underneath. Neat video thanks.

Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.....Asian Proverb.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Must get traveling again, before my time runs out..

Do we know if Socrates was a historical character or a literary device used by Plato?

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Several other people of the time like Xenophon also mention him, that's not proof but it does give you confidence.

Unintentionally Valuable - BionicDance [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Why do they never understand that the bottom line is, no mater what the value, even if our survival and the survival of the whole universe depended on god, that would not magic him into existence.

A few more pictures from my walk in the desert.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Breath taking, what wonderful country to live by.

@Admin - when did we lose the Nauseous emoji?

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Perhaps they are cutting the list so that there is space for some new ones. I won't miss , Shrug, and I hardly ever used Nausea, but on the couple of times I did it was perfect. Who would want to be on this site anyway if you can't troll the odd woo merchant.

I went out in the desert looking for flowers today.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2019:

Beautiful, that is the first time I have seen California Poppy in the wild, we grow them here a a half hardy annual. And is that the Lupine called Blue Bonnet or is it another one ?

People always talk about going into outer space… yet our earth is just a giant space ship, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

I have heard that the earths speed though space is such. that we have not yet made a rocket fast enough to come to a stop.

Ancient people travelled hundreds of miles from all corners of Britain to take part in feasts at or ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

It seems to have been an age of peace and stability, which ended in the iron age.

Don't know if this qualifies for Woo! or not.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Love it very good.

"Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking The Universe" produced by the BBC for the Science Channel.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Yep, and guess what. The world is flat and only six thousand years old, and he sun goes across the sky in a small boat each day and spends the night in a cave. It may well be that the ideas of Einstein and Hawkins will need to be corrected in the future, that is the way both science and human progress work, but it is unlikely now that they will be turned over completely and they will never be valueless. And to answer one of your questions with one piece of evidence. (Only one because I do not have the time to waste on all of them , not because they can't be answered. ) The reason we know that space bends is because. When objects like planets pass behind other large objects with big gravity, the apparent speed of them can be observed to slow down and speed up as they go in and out of transit. If you wish to obtain your own instruments and make the measurements again, you are welcome. Until then it is best to remember that. "I can't understand it." Is not the same as. Its not true.

I have spent my entire life living in the moment.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Went the other way, spent my life chasing goals, now know that was a waste of time and learning to live in the moment.

Which one is the best? I like the black and white.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

BW has more punch, so I go for that, but if the intention is to make the baby look lonely and vunerable, then all the cold blues in the color do that better.

Really wish people would quit using their "cultures" as justification for ANYTHING.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

It is as bad a mistake to believe that culture is a source of truth just as much as with religion, both are just as good at promoting lies. We should all recognize that we are all victims of our cultures, and should do our best to reason our way out of them.

Excuse me, is spring coming soon?

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Bring him in and let him warm them by a radiator.

There's a story behind this, but I'm not sure I want to hear it.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

I suppose they don't want you to wash it in the sink either.

You can always tell when a politician is lying, or doesn't really believe in their defense of the ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Think its called the Gish Dash or something like that. But I love it as well, when theists try to get none believers to concede that they can not disprove the existence of god, by defining god in really vague deistic terms that are practically meaningless. And then suddenly they are talking fast about their own Bible/Koran etc. based god, hoping that no one will spot or else pick up on, the big leap they just made.

Tots and Pears people, tots and pears...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Only usually fatal to near relatives.

The Anniversary Waltz also known as Waves Of The Danube.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Warm and jolly ideal for a cold and very windy day.

More antivaxx logic, for your dining pleasure!

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Very good. And of course that assumes that the dangers of vax are as real as those of food.

“To me - old age is always fifteen years older than I am”.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Many happy returns. Don't worry too much about getting older, based on experience I am happy to be old, and enjoying it, and I am sure you will be when you get there too.

Unpleasant Design - When Bad Design is Used Hide Problems - Extra Credits [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

Its not as bad as targeting the homeless, but many car parks also have maximum hight frames on the entrances, despite the fact that there are no overhangs on the inside. They are of course there to stop trucks and caravans using them, especially overnight. But it also of course means that only car owners, ( no manual workers please ) can use them. Does not matter if the truck driver has an elderly or sick passenger, who needs the rest room, a baby needs changing, if the driver, especially a female, feels safer in a car park than on the road side, or the extra miles and fuel needed for someone with a high vehicle to go shopping, etc.

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can put on shoes.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2019:

The only good thing is that the truth can be refound again and again, but every lie has to be a new invention. Maybe though that is why they sell so well, because with no concentration span we love novelty.

Safety first and other face palm moments - part 2

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

I really do hope that he is wearing goggles under that box but given what you showed in your other posts.......

Did I make a difference?

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Best meme for weeks, that is all you need to know in life that really matters.

I had some one put it to me very interesting about what a ghost and such could be.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

There is a stat that people are more likely to see ghosts when they are very relaxed. So when you are half sleeping you are half dreaming perhaps ?

I do, however, have a "No Solicitation" sign...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Someone posted the other day that they had a charge per min listening fee posted on the door, with, "you must pay up front before we start".

Safety first - part 1

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

You find some good ones.

Safety first and ?‍♀️ moments - part 3

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Gardening too, Madeira.

I'm just having a rant because I can! I've just agreed to do a difficult 12 and a half hour shift...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Rants are OK.

Saved this a few years ago from the Internet, as a gardener it raises a big chuckle ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Great joke but not for everyone. Only a gardener would know that it is best to let your plants be a little dryer in the winter.

Sorted a big box of old pictures. Scanned a few...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Sounds like a wonderful youth.

This Octopus's Dreams (Maybe) Were Written All Over Its Body [livescience.]

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

So let me see. An octopus can never be alone because it has several brains in one body, and it sees both in black and white with its eyes and in color with its skin at the same time. And they say it is hard to see the world through the other humans eyes !

High School Pic Challenge! For some of us it's been many many years so this might be fun to post ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Use mine as my icon. Went bald at eighteen, certainly don't look like that now. Actually I am glad I don't look like that now, he looks too much like D. Trump, at least I grew out of it.

Can someone put Gareth to bed?

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Look, just comfort yourself with the thought that you have some nice weather over Manchester way sometimes and it certainly does not rain hard every day. Last time I went to Manchester it was a beautiful calm sunny day, I could not have enjoyed the row over from the mainland more.

Creation stories the world over often have features common in other creation stories.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

If you create nine vague categories everything will fit one or more of them. I will now go make myself a cup of tea, fits 8. Sorry I see my girlfriend put the kettle on for me, fits 7.

Heard on our classic music station, "Wise men sometimes make mistakes, but fools can, at times, get ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Most of the time, who would know the difference anyway.

Red-crowned cranes in Japan by Fuji Tang

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

That's a wonderful photo. If it is not photo-shopped, then it took a lot of care and time to get that just so. Looks like a ritual dance to the sun.

The post about using tires for making raised beds reminds me of my raised beds.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Good friend.

Stag horn ferns.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Great post, he has some lovely designs on his page, gardening which is plant led the best sort , and especially epiphytes, of which we have few in the UK. A dream is to visit the tropics to see them one day.

Make Yourself a Solution, Not a Problem - IIT Delhi Students with Sadhguru, 2017 - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

No I do not think this is woo. Some of it may be idealogical, some may be banal, but it is not woo.

NASA Weighed the Wind Billowing Out of the Cigar Galaxy, and It's Unbelievably Massive [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Yet why do some galaxies behave like that when many like ours don't ? Is it just age, or the lack of a central black hole, or a bigger black hole ? Like all the good things in science it leaves me asking more questions.

"I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

I think you may be preaching to the converted. But its a nice quote.

anyone up for using skype?

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Not with a face like the one I got landed with.

True. So true.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Would it were only blindness and not madness, heart break, loneliness and cruelty.

Say WHAT?!

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

I am not neutral, I fizz and react when in contact with people lower down the scale.

For me... assassination of JFK.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

The Death of Winston Churchill.

Woo alert! Another example of the species, although you almost have to expect Woo! in the Philosophy...

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Wow, has anyone ever tried one of those sentence generation programs, which make gramatical sentences out of random words ?

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.....Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Wow! That is a great post, but even so it is hard to believe it is Newton since from what little I know of him, it is said that he was certainly one of histories least tactful people, and he made enemies hand over fist.

Beautiful after a rain

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Wonderful photo. What plant is that ?

Did you know this? I didn't know this! How to eat a pineapple. [facebook.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Neat way to do it.

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Can't argue with that.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.....Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011).

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

"Do what you love, and you will never need to do a days work in your life. " Not sure who said that.

Read a good book yesterday and wanted to pass it along.

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Well things may have moved on a little, in my day in the UK, (long time ago) if you had an original thought, the teachers would slap you.

Well. it might have, could have, maybe just would have.

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2019:

For a sperm, it is a multi-trillion to one shot, not much of a life.

"Western people don't care about life or death.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Sanctions are usually aimed at governments, often supposedly for their performance on the human rights of their people. And who suffers from the effects of sanctions, would that be the governments or the people ? Don't think too long.

PLEASE don't blow up this post with idiotic comments and joke replies.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Wood pellet fuel.

A Mathematician Wrote a 'Hipster Equation' to Figure Out Why All Hipsters Look Alike ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

This is great fun, but at the risk of being too serious. It could be that people who adopt an alternative subculture early in life, assume they have been and are original already, so they stop questioning things. A sort of Dunning Kruger effect of ideology. And given some of the ones I know.....

I had a trully upsetting and shocking experience today.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Very sorry to hear that, and more than sorry to hear that you are upset by it , as you naturally will be. But you must keep the stiff upper lip both for the sake of your students, and because if you allow it to ruin even a small part of your life, then you are letting the racist bullies win a small victory, since they no doubt would like to hurt you for your crime in their eyes of not being racist, nearly as much as they would like to hurt your students.

Thought I might show you something from my stone pickings in my fields, I know what it is, do you?

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

I know what I think you want us to guess, but my vote would go to flint.

And I don't like bugs at all, sigh.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

I have managed a very large garden and a plant nursery now for over twenty years using only organic methods. Sometimes there is the odd white patch on a leaf, but that is it, and nobody but me ever seemed to notice.

How many of yall believe in a historical Jesus? And why?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Neither he grew from several stories told about several people. Most myological figures start that way, because people find it easy to remember stories but harder to remember names, so one name gradually gets attached to several stories.

The more we try not to conform, the more we conform to the others not conforming .

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Always did. True none conformity is invisible to all but history.

What is your favorite word or phrase quirk?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

I do not have any personal ones, but I love some of our local dialect words. Such as "clarty", which means half way between firm and softly sticky, like cake mix. And also "nesh" which means over sensitive to the cold, as in. "My illness has left me feeling a bit nesh."

After graduating from university with a rather good degree, my eldest son has struggled to find ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

He will find something, the one thing about Aspergers is that you can not do nothing. But why limit him to a job have you talked to him about starting a business, Anyone can do it, and not all businesses need high social skills or a large investment.

This seems so common sense, but so many people refuse to see it.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

The bottom line on fairness/justice is that it can of course never be achieved. BUT having said that, you are either working towards it or you are not, and if you are not, then what else could you possibly be doing with your life that is worth the effort.

This seems so common sense, but so many people refuse to see it.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

I was always a devotee of chaos theory anyway, not only is everything due to luck, but luck is too complex to ever be understood as well.

I really don't know why we keep celebrating Christopher Columbus when he was clearly a Johnny come ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

His real discovery was the Atlantic wind patterns, the trades and the westerlies. Many of the people who came before, including perhaps fishermen from northern Europe, who possibly were already using the Grand Banks and therefore almost certainly knew of Newfoundland, would of course have kept their discoveries secret.

OMG IT'S ME.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Story of my life. If the green romance grabs you.

Everything is blooming, budding & turning green! Are you as excited as I am?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Lovely photos.

How to prevent falls on steep descents

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

The first three work well for going up hill too.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

From a man who slowly degenerated into an alcoholic wreck as life went on. Sad.

Works like a charm every time.

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

A lot like. Totally failed as the government of a nation state, blame "the" foreigners.

Why do many of us see beauty in nature?

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

We are evolved animals, who evolved to live in nature and therefore to understand which bits are good for us and which bits are not.

Hello!!! I am Jamie from Oklahoma.

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Welcome, and I hope you will make it back to the UK again one day. Though sadly this does not seem to be a very active group, but sometimes it can be interesting.

It's not admitting defeat, it's admitting that it was an impulsive childish and stupid idea from the...

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I have loads of impulsive, childish and stupid ideas, in fact most of mine are. But I never voted for Trump.

Build someone up.

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I love it very true, and good way to make a contribution to the world, and that's the only good and real way to raise your own self esteem.

Democratic Socialist. BythePeopleForthePeople NotMeUs Bernie2020 FeeltheBern

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Socialism says, “place more faith in the state”. The only trouble with that is that, in many nations placing faith in the state means placing your faith in an institution far more cruel, ruthless and exploitive than the worst of capitalist corporations.. Socialism only works well in states which are well educated and highly democratic, where people have real control over the state in which they invest their hopes and wealth. Which is why socialism works well in countries like Switzerland and Denmark. The more education and democracy you have the more socialism you can enjoy, but the democracy has to be maintained. Especially since there is another form of economics, in which the political and economic establishments are one and the same, and it is called feudalism, into which socialism automatic degenerates in counties which have weak democracies. Which is why socialism works badly in countries like Venezuela.