All the best to everyone on this Site, & thanks to @Admin, @SiteSupport & everyone else that keeps ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Thank you, Happy new year.

Dear Everyone: May your entire 2019 be even better than you hope!

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Thank you, and best wishes and good health to you.

Over the holidays I was back in Ga, and visited my family, that included the ones on the trump ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Old saying. "The only things that are important are the things you can escape a shipwreck with."

Positively Uplifting I want this group to find happy, kind, uplifting, inspirational events that ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

May help you to make it plain that Positively Uplifting is the group name, as the link just takes people to the groups list.

Putting alkaline water in my ear helps me lose weight...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Pity it is "news" and not advice.

Is the question "is there a god?" important to you?

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

None could be less important. Since if there is a deist god who is hidden, then that god chooses to make no difference to our life here on earth, and can be treated ( assume wishes to be ) the same as none existent. And if god is not hidden, then it does not provide any worth while evidence, therefore it fails again.

Bettany Hughes : YouTube. “The seven wonders of the Buddhist world.”

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

So where is the link?

Atheists party

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

None. Ideology is like god, it gives simple answers to complicated questions for those who are not prepared to make the effort to think.

“There are two types of double stars.

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Astronomy and relationships, and true for both. Very original.

Putting alkaline water in my ear helps me lose weight...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Sleeping with quantum energy in your hair unclogs arteries. Wow!

Favorite historical fiction book?

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

War and Peace,

The Death of Facebook | How Social Media Ripped Apart a Generation - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Facebook was of course set up to be an alternative to the Internet, easy Internet for the lazy and not so bright. People who can and who really have something to add, or say, build or pay for websites etc., but Facebook is there for the can't be bothered. So it is natural that it gets just the boring and shallow that no body could be bothered to make an effort over. I was told to do it for my business, but it is so shallow boring and dull it holds no interest and as soon as I can stop I will.

These were all taken this year in the first two weeks of June. Which one is your favourite?

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Thrift and Cinnamon fern second. Thrift is a native here and I have seen it growing on the cliff tops of Cornwall at Lizard Point , which is nearly as far west as you can get on the mainland.

Hello everyone i have just joined this group.

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Hello and welcome this is the place, check out the members map to see if there is anyone near you.

Question: How do you go about finding new friends to hang out with?

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Volunteer to help with some charity works, and sports clubs etc. you do not have to be great at it, but you will meet people with shared interests, you will learn new social skills, and most of all, even if you do not meet someone special, you will at least have the knowledge that you have done something useful with the time while you were looking.

Slut Shaming Preacher

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Why would anyone get annoyed, he is doing the best promotion for atheism I have ever seen. And as for violence. "Those who know that they can not win the argument, reach for their guns." Not the other way round.

The most cute puppy ever is desperately fighting for his life in freezing water.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Not likely to happen.

Awoke this morning, always a plus for me, and a thought crossed my mind, (a second plus), any way, ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

It is not a matter of wanting. The religious mind set and the skeptical one approach life from completely different ends. The skeptic sees truth as something to be sought at any cost, even if it hurts and means changing your world view in painfully difficult ways; the religious see truth as being any idea which confirms what they want to believe.

We put a "habitat" garden in our yard mostly to attract humming birds and butterflies.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

And we will be left quite alone with only our parasites for company. Every garden can be and should be a nature reserve.

Don't try to explain this to a religious person. They'll develop seizures.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Sadly they wont. They will just give you several hours worth of nonsense that you have heard thousands of times before, and if you try to point out the faults with any of it, they will just stick their fingers in their ears. Then they will tell you that philosophical, historical and scientific methods are the wrong way to look at religion.

Something about Neanderthals - How Neanderthal are you? [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

A lot of the problems stem from hubris. Because we used to think that humans were really special, and because everyone working in anthropology thinks that their discoveries are really important, we end up with dozens of species names and several genera for a few fossils spread over just a few million years. If the great apes of Africa were treated the same as every other group of animals, then we would all be in one genera and there would within that genera be two three species of humans at most.

Architectural brilliance or hubris?

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Art pollution. All architecture tells you two things about humans. 1. We are narcissistic. 2. We can not appreciated our natural environment.

"If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, he will spend it's entire life believing it is...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Hard to argue with Albert, as he himself said, his career as an artists model was second to none. So he would be the best go to on the subject of being multitallented.

As if UK TV programmes ain't shit enough, they've brought back a particularly annoying advert.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

I think that the adds for gambling sites are the worst. We do not allow tobacco products to be advertised, nor are traditional bookmakers allowed, yet these adds are pushing something which can be even more harmful, and what is more, they are portraying it as something that makes people happy. Car adds are next, since if you are selling a food-mixer say, for 16 pounds you give all of the technological details and costs etc. yet if you are selling a car for 16,000 pounds ten you are supposed to be impressed by badly lite shots of kids posing.

Just had to.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Why do men and women button their coats on the other sides ? Why do you spell, where and wear, two and too etc., differently when they sound the same, and no one gets confused when you talk to them ?

Just had to.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Life really ends not when your heart stops beating, but when you ask your last question.

May be because Im a bit of an emotional dude, but I keep coming back to the topic of Theodicy.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

It is an argument that some people like, but it is not the strongest. However I think that in the modern world most people are ready to accept the idea of the weight of evidence, and it certainly adds a little to that.

New here! Hope to find like minded people!

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Check out the groups to find out how rich the diversity is.

I'm not sure what category to put this post into.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

He was in danger too, and smoke could be a lot more hurtful to a cats eyes/nose than ours. So although he was being smart in fetching you, maybe it was not being all that unselfish.

I have had trouble finding work.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Sadly some old advice on success was. People who are successful take just one thing that they are good at, and hammer away at it until it goes way beyond boring. It is great to have a wide and lively mind, but success goes to the narrow minded specialists who are willing to push themselves in one direction until they leave everyone else behind.

It appears that to thrive on this site one must hate our President....

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Presidents come and go, good websites last a lifetime.

The wisest have the most authority. Plato

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

Wish.

Beliefs inform actions. Actions have consequences [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

I am sure that the theistic world will try to distance itself from this young woman, by saying that they hold her actions to be extreme, misguided, and not part of mainstream theology. Just as the many theists try to distance themselves from religious terrorists etc.. Yet they created a world in which such thinking and ideas were normalized, and in which people are not encouraged to ask questions of the sort which could perhaps sometimes make them think. "Perhaps I need help, of the medical, social type." Therefore every theist has to carry some of the guilt, for every act of terrorism and insanity not stopped by mainstream society because of the buffer between that society and the extremist that the churches and temples provide.

"It takes a lot of effort to make it look effortless!" The first person I hear say (or suggest ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

May go all the way back to Capability Brown. But it is one of the great truths of gardening.

Japanese Herb Garden - I enjoy cooking Asian style foods, so I grow a lot of basil (several ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

Don't forget Lemon Grass, you may have to protect it if you are in a cold climate. (Sorry my US geography is not up to knowing how cold Charlottesville is.) But it is very easy even from shop bought stalks.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

The idea of Cupid and Psyche dates of course from classical times. As do a lot of the ideas you find in Shakespeare, some people have therefore have seen him as histories greatest plagiarist, but that is a misunderstanding, (so was Chaucer) of the way people thought in those days. In the late middle ages real creativity was seen as taking the existing stream of stories and giving them new life, rather than inventing new ones. To take an old idea and move it forward was seen as the highest artistic attainment, since that showed both that you could be creative, and yet still work within the traditional framework. It was thought that the stream of wisdom (Rosicrusianism) would guide your hand if you were reverent enough; and was this same spirit that drove the many rewriters of the bible, especially the King James, who saw no problem with giving the work a new spin, since they believed that God guided the holy.

If ever there was a reason for a person to think that an angry old man in the sky created mankind in...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

Wonderful, the great human gift is not that we are at the centre of the universe, but that we conscious and are able to stand in awe of the universe.

Peggy Maskrey, 97, who made helping the poorest her life's mission awarded MBE in special day at ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Best way to get a life, give up some of yours.

I've been thinking about some of the people I have met along the way in my journeys here and there ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;- Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on a desert air. T Gray

New to this, testing to see if anyone sees my post

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

Yes well done, got it even here in the UK. Isn't the net wonderful. Enjoy the site and check out the groups, there is something for everyone.

Hercules versus Jesus.

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

You can also fit Osiris into the myth, as well as Mithra, and half a dozen other demigods, many of whom like Osiris predate both Jesus and Hercules by centuries. The fact of the matter is, that the basic myth had been around for ages before the new testament. In fact if you think about it even Moses fits it a bit. The fact that the Jesus myth fits the old stories so well, is a clear proof that people were deliberately trying to fit the frame, and not relating an original news report.

If you are an Atheist or an Agnostic do you celebrate Christmas?

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

End of the winter solstice, heading for spring now, what could be a better reason to celebrate. Cheers !!!

I want to wish all of the members a very Happy, Merry whatever you celebrate & give wishes for a ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

Best wishes to you too. I really like this group it seems full of life, thank you.

The one thing that religion offers that secularism fails to equal is the transcendence of self, the ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

The feeling that some people get of transcendence gained from so called spirituality, is an entirely inner feeling, it can not be passed on to any other person and is therefore an entirely ego centric delusion, and is therefore just the opposite of selfless. The only thing that religion offers which secularism does not is a body of work in the arts stretching back forty centuries or more, and we will catch up with that in time.

The Truth About Christmas - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2018:

Sad but probably true.

Finished framing up the north wall today.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2018:

Good strong structure, Should even take snow.

People asked Agnostics.com "Is there a God?" and the site said "There is now"......

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

That is a very very old joke. It was it is so old, it is even used as evidence against young earth creationism.

Peeing on plants: whaddya think?

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

Like most fertilizers it will work best when used on plants who are short of food (in this case nitrogen ). One reason why plants can end up short of nitrogen is because high carbon mulches etc. eat it up. So he could perhaps have got just the same result just by leaving the wood-chip off. (Having said that there is some use in wood-chip.) You can do a better job with urine by putting it in a can and adding five to ten parts water, it will then cover more ground, and is less likely to burn plants. Having said that perhaps the best use of it is to "activate", as they say a compost heap. Just water it in the center and it will make your heap go faster. Having said all of which, it must also be said that, nitrogen is about the cheapest of the big three fertilizers to buy.

Keep being asked what I'm doing over Xmas.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

That's a lot more than 99% of people, who will just sit and be force fed.

The christian says "We don't need the logical proof, we have faith! So .

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

My personal advice to you is. Don't ever get married.

210 years ago today there was a concert in Vienna... [en.wikipedia.org] [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

I never really get the anniversary idea. But thank you very much for the music, it is a damp dull day here, just what i needed.

The Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

There was once a rich man and a poor man. The state decides to help the poor man, so to get funds it raises a tax. The rich man's tax adviser tells him where to move his money, when and how to move his money, so he pays very little of the tax, the poor man has no tax adviser and so pays a lot of it. The state then employs a civil servant to spend to money on the poor man, but first of course the civil servant takes a share to cover the expenses, (with a bit extra of course), the civil servant then feels better off, and so the civil servant buys an even bigger house, from the rich man's company, who also got richer. And so everyone is happy, the state has done something about poverty, the civil servant is better off and the rich man is even richer. Did I forget somebody ?

I always want to be kind to everyone, and I try so hard to be open minded and not judge others, but ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

You can learn to hate the ideas without hating the people who hold them. The important thing is to remember to feel pity, not hate. And if you doubt yourself, ask yourself this. If I saw them trapped in a pit, would I lend them my ladder ? If the answer to that is yes, then you know that it is the ideas that you hate. And remember you can only be hating the ideas because of what they do to people.

Oh crap my 95 year old grandma just got a facebook account! Now I gotta be good and nice! ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

You are still on Facebook !

Any good books to read that are simple on atheism ?

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

Anything by Dawkins of course, but everyone will say "The God Delusion", for something different, fun, and not so long, try "Unweaving the Rainbow". For something very easy, especially if you want to help say a teenager who will like a soft gentle slightly woo route out of theism, try, Usuala Goodenough, "The Sacred Depths Of Nature". And despite the title Andre Comte-Sponville, "The Book Of Atheist Spirituality" does not contain any woo, but does cover all the bases in a short easy read.

Any one watch Richard Dawkins on YouTube?

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

Yes I am a fan. And I like the quote.

😂😂🎅🏻🎅🏻😂😂🌲🌲😂😂❄️❄️😂😂

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

Jokes based on puns like that, usually are just a pain. But I will admit you got me with that one, it is so bad it is almost good.

Questions

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

Set a good example of being a human being, is the best, if hardest thing you can do, then maybe one day they will ask the questions themselves.

So, had a row with a sibling today about politics where he was essentially reciting Faux Nooz, and ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2018:

Over reaction is often a response of people who know that they are in the wrong, and can not hope to endure a reasonable conversation. People who are unable to grow or change often retreat into self delusion. They know that they are in a weak position and dare not risk a conversation which may expose the truth, on any matter however trivial; since that would require an act of strength from them. You can therefore do nothing for them until they are ready to move on, it is not your fault, and it is better to spend your energies on family and friends who will benefit from and enjoy what you do.

Many a law, many a commandment I have broken, my word never.....Sir Walter Scott.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

I doubt that there ever lived any human being who never broke their word, even (especially) to themselves. The whole of human civilization was built on the human ability to tell needful lies to themselves. The person who never realized that they had been misleading themselves and others, never learned anything.

My lil town. ❤️ Main Street.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Here's mine. (Sorry its the church.)

How do you measure intelligence?>

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

First you have to define intelligence, and if you can do that then you are very intelligent indeed.

Hi I'm John, and I live in Dallas.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Welcome you will find good people of all sorts here. Check out the groups there is something for everyone.

My God - The majority of religions talk in terms of My God.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Those who control religion for their own power and profit are bound to make it divisive and tribal. Because they have nothing else to sell. If there was a god and that god was fair to everyone and everyone knew that god fair to everyone, then who would need religion? Unfairness is its only selling point.

Why I choose to live in the rural suburbs:

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Mine is what I think you people from the US, call the boondocks.

My lil town. ❤️ Main Street.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Apart from the few in Australia I do not think it is a good time for gardening pictures, but all gardeners love the seasons. Great picture, it looks really lovely.

I'm pretty happy to have found a forum to let go of some of the stuff I feel building up inside.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

Agreed, and you never know where even the smallest spark unleashed in the quietest corner may one day start a fire. The important thing is to say it to someone or it dies.

If You Look at Context, Evolution is a Religion! - Viced Rhino [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

It is a sad feature of the western worlds education systems failings, that such arguments even have to take place in the twenty first century. Would that the oppositions arguments were not so much less wrong even just less banal would at least be a improvement.

I have the end wall framed up and the door hung plumb!

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2018:

If you are covering it in plastic and it is still as warm with you as you say. It will be best to get the plastic on as soon as possible since it stretches and goes on far better when the weather is warm, and it then tightens as it cools.

Happy Solstice and Cool Yule, Y'all!

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2018:

And may the returning sun warm your world.

Happy Solstice Everyone! [timeanddate.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2018:

Happy solstice.

Experience, the name men give to their mistakes......Oscar Wilde.

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2018:

Learn to treasure your mistakes. Don't know who this quote is from but someone once said. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything."

Got the door for my hoop house built and ready to install.

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Really good doors for hoop houses. Well Done.

I may lack in spirit this year, but I will not be this.

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Try the next one that comes up, Cheap Flights, as well.

What could possibly go wrong?

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

If only they had known ? Wolf bones have been found in caves alongside humans, dated from about forty thousand years ago. It seems that DNA could be extracted and it shows that the wolves were already adapting to a diet containing large amounts of starch, in other words some apes had been sharing food with them for some time. If only it had stopped there.

Question regarding responses, mainly on memes, but really on any post I guess.

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

I find a lot of the memes dull, so if I liked them all that would devalue the likes that I give to the rare ones who really do make me smile. (Or maybe I am just a boring mean old grouch.)

I usually post pics of my abandoned office but this afternoon it's full of revelers, enjoying the ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

It is usually just superficial and shallow, pretending you like it just to score popularity points is dishonest and mind numbing. I never liked parties either, get out as soon as you can and spend the time (you only have one life) doing something you really enjoy. Making you endure party chat to prove you can fit in, is not really the act of friends, anymore than it would be if they told you to go to church.

Admin especially or anyone who can help, a post has appeared on the gardeners page which looks very ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Thank you all, I have done it, not easy to find the report button, so I perhaps far behind a lot of others who will have reported it by now. But now I have done it should be quicker if I see something again.

I want to write a poem today, but I feel kinda empty

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Go for a long walk, there is a neurological connection between the exercise of walking and the creative sections of our brains which are stimulated by it. And when you walk something interesting turns up anyway. Last time I got caught by heavy rain half way through, but a farmer stopped his truck and gave me a lift. He was such an interesting person, I had enough material for a novel by the time he dropped me off.

Food for thought regarding the potentil government shutdown.

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2018:

Since all people like progress and to do better than the earlier generation, and progress comes in two forms, getting more out, and putting less in. Therefore it follows, that for the political establishment the ultimate destiny of all governments is to take everything in taxation and give no services in return. OK that is a joke yes, but it is also true that the only thing which prevents this, is strong active democracy by the people, people get the best they can force government to give.

Which one is better for atheists? Twitter or Facebook? Why?

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Neither, they are both boring, get a life, then if you have any time to spare, come here.

How do these people justify killing non believers if you think your god made humans then will you ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Sadly it goes even far beyond that. Many of the Christian churches teachings have involved the idea that this world is only a poor substitute for the one to come, and that therefore worldliness, including care for the environment and animals was anti-Christian, we should even welcome such things as global warming because they will bring the worlds end quicker. Early Christians often prayed for the worlds end. All of which leads to the obvious response. "How can you honor God by despising his creation." Human or any other. It is one of the central pieces of illogic in the theists thinking, and they can not honestly resolve it.

All caps. Ugh

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Even more irritating than no caps at all. 1. The shift key is the one between, Control and Caps Lock. 2. Caps Lock is the key you push, IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE COMPLETELY.

Good morning, disbelievers!?

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Good morning, round here you are free to disbelieve anything you wish. My first choice has always been the idea that staying in hotels is fun, but I do god as well.

Just in time for the season... Virgin Mary... Miracle or Misunderstanding?

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Given the number of times that the texts of the bible were copied, translated and reedited, after having been passed down in some cases by word of mouth for years; it not hard to see how nearly all the supernatural events and other things could be the result of textural errors. For example, perhaps someone once recorded that their hero. "Stood up and walked about while the boat was on the waves." A brave thing to do and worthy of recording, but take out four words and you have. "Stood up and walked about on the waves." Add a couple more bad copings before you come to the gospels that survive and you have the bible story.

I went to a Chinese take-out place to get some dinner for my daughter's family and myself.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2018:

Only dead fish swim down stream.

Here a good video Amy Yankie made on harvesting seeds from the Florida Cranberry/Jamaican Sorrel...

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2018:

This can not be the same plant that we call Red Sorrel in the UK, we use that name for a type of Rumex which looks like a dock and self seeds without any help ?

Pagan celebrations

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2018:

Great photo. Soon the solstice will be here and the long slow return of life begins. Enjoy some good feasting.

Wondering exactly what this site is about.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2018:

Check out the groups, you can find almost anything you want there.

3 of the Strangest Mountains in the Solar System - SciShow Space [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2018:

Rheasylvia may be big which is impressive, but of course higher mountains are in many ways more likely to form and remain on smaller bodies with less gravity. So perhaps that has more to do with the size of the asteroid.

How about creating our own fairy tales for children ?

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2018:

There is a wonderful and growing wealth of fantasy fiction available, much of which is very secular in origin, think of Philip Pullman and others. But it is true that in the arts and heritage generally the secular movements are far behind the churches and temples. However, that is only because they have a multi-thousand year head start so we will catch up in the end. So in the mean time, get writing, painting, compose music, and design buildings to express the glories of reason, skeptic thinking and science, it does not have to be great art, everyones contribution is worth while, if only because it adds to the growing movement, and you may even get lucky, like the humble country flute player who inspired Mozart, to be the trigger for something bigger.

Theological Dot Points.

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2018:

I think that the line. " Not all of the major religions can be true, but all can be false." Is wonderful a perfect nutshell.

The "God of the Gaps" argument- reminds me of that arcade game "Whack-a-Mole" from the eighties, as ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2018:

God just gets smaller and smaller all the time.

Taking one more spin through the parking lot.

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2018:

For both a member of a evangelical church and the political establishment, he seems to show high moral standards.

Dear Believer: Why Do You Believe?

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2018:

Given the amount of proselytizing that religions do, I think that your small act is a long way from even balancing the scales, and you did not (hopefully) use any social pressure to compel him to accept any of this, therefore you are only stating your case, which is not proselytizing. Thank you for posting this it is one of the best short essays I have yet seen, on what i think is the most important argument.

Just a thought...

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2018:

Ironically the church in Europe, especially northern Europe, seems to be nothing like as strong as it is in America. One reason for that could be that as the church here became part of the political establishment it became more exposed to open debate and to being tainted by political wrongs, and that killed a lot of its support. It may well be therefore that the separation is the thing which has kept the churches alive in America. Those theists who want to end the separation should perhaps remember the old saying. Be careful of what you wish for; you may just get it.

Con Artist Monthly..

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2018:

Where can I get copies, so that I can leave them lying about in church halls?

A Visit to the Vet.

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2018:

That is true,. But sadly, it is also true that good intentions often do much more harm than deliberate cruelty. For every person who beats their dog into ill health, there are a hundred who think nothing of feeding their pets inappropriate food until their health is destroyed by obesity and type two diabetes etc. We all know this on this site, because we know that it is the way of the world, that huge harm is done by things like religions, most of whose members are quite sure they are there for the very best of reasons.

My favorite poem - Dharma by Billy Collins

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2018:

Maybe you are not her god. A dog is perhaps the only creature on earth who looks at a human and sees only an ape and nothing but an ape, yet loves you with passion for being just that.

I made many mistakes today.

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2018:

Please explain tiger candy, it looks lovely.