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Who or what would I be when I disassociate from my mind, intellect, brain, and body?
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
The pictured statement is utter nonsense.
Existence brings natural questions of origin.
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
I prefer "reality" to either.
A cattle rancher died and at the reading of his will he left the ranch to his three sons under one ...
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
Groan. Pretty good.
After dropping out of high school and going in the Marines on my seventeenth birthday, I later ...
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
Science is too often poorly taught. If taught well, it is an adventure!
Who else out thar, is so tired of all the Trump Bashing ?
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
Not me. Trump is a totally reprehensible excuse for a human being. He deserves every bit of the ill will he generates.
Do different colors affect your mood?
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
Orange, by itself, seems frenetic. Blue is cool and soothing. Green is cool, yet vibrant. Red shows energfy.
To or not to make friends with the new neighbors?
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
I always reach to new neighbors. If they respond well, then that contributes to the quality of life of both of us. If not -- at least I tried.
I'm a bookseller, so this is probably the best way for me to get involved in the community.
wordywalt comments on May 6, 2018:
For fiction -- STEPPENWOLF by Hermann Hesse.
Trump's move last week to establish a new faith-based initiative within the White House is ...
wordywalt comments on May 5, 2018:
It just shows what depths the evangelicals have sunk to in their lust for political power. They and Trump are threats to us all.
Competition, good/bad for productivity and morale.
wordywalt comments on May 5, 2018:
The answewr is that it can be both.
When did confront become offense?
wordywalt comments on May 5, 2018:
Dialogue is possible only when both sides agree to remain in the rational and empirical realm and when both sides to remain civil and to allow their ideas to be tested. Those are conditions that the right winG seldom allows or meets. Your statement about the left is a load of crap.
Love and hate
wordywalt comments on May 5, 2018:
The answer is no to both questions.
I'm so glad there was no internet or social media when I was growing up. I mean, REALLY glad.
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
I agree. We did not need it then. 95% of the time, we do not need it today.
How did many of you first realize that a life free from religion was right for you?
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
Your story parallels mine. My break was over 60 years ago.
Would you be willing to move out of the city and into a healthier farming lifestyle?
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
Though not a farmer, I have lived in rural areas for much of my life. The only big problem with the rural area is that it is often intellectually sterile, religion=ridden, and culturally limited.
Truer today than ever.
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
That is exactly why organized opposition to Trump and his ilk is so critical!
May 4, 1970, a date that remembers the deaths of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio ...
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
I remember that day 00 it was a moment of horror and anger that was seared into the minds of people in the university setting of that time. I was in graduate school at the University of Florida at the time.
This site is a lovely thing to know about, but I fear I am not suited for it.
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
You can always use the messaging feature on this site. It is always only one-to-one. I have used it a number of times, with no ill results.
Over 1,100 leading economists sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging the president to ...
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
Wisdom is not Trump's strong suit.
Do u think Christianity is bad ? What's your opinion on it
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
All religion is limiting and harmful to the human species. Some Christian sects and denominations and sects are more destructive and dangerous than others -- particularly the evangelical protestant ones
Some advice to recently divorced people, especially if you were married for over a decade.
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
I had no problem being alone following my divorce. My first marriage was so aggressively bad in the last 15 years of that marriage that I preferred to be alone, rather in he company of my wife.
I was just thinking about some good movies that might make Christians cringe.
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
Elmer Gantry was a great movie. Lancaster was brilliant in the title role.
Just friends?
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
That depends on the intent of both.
As a human, are you an outside observer of the universe, or are you a piece of the universe ...
wordywalt comments on May 4, 2018:
We obviously do not exist outside of the universe. Seems like an artificial question.
Why do you (or do you not) think it is always right to do the right thing?
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
Who says that saving that particular life from suicide is the right thing?
Is it long overdue for the disciplines of philosophy and natural sciences to divorce due to ...
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
The pursuit of science is, in itelf a philosophical perspective. That perspective has long been divorced from many of the arcane questions in classical philosophy. Philosophy today needs to enrich itsdelf by finding cachment areas with athe sciences that it can explore.
I'm a curious person, interested in my fellow humans - I think of childhood and how it affects us as...
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
My childhood in the rural bible belt South gave me a love for the out of doors, taught me to treat others well and to try to be a good person. Unfortunately, I had to later cleanse myself of much of the other aspects culture which influenced me in my early years. My real definition of myself occurred more in my 20s and 30s in different locations and cultures.
We all have that one fantasy celebrity cheat. Who is yours? Mine is Rachel Maddow.
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
I listen to Rachel every time I can.
Equal Justice
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
I would say that in most legal matters, one's religious or non-religious beliefs never come up.
I've been stuck on level three for a long time. Need your help
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
Post some good questions and/or observations. Respond to all the posts that might interest you.
Live for the moment because tomorrow isnt promised.
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
I learnd many years ago that it is not an either-or situation. One can live in the moment while still trying to build for the future. Ignore either one at your peril.
When you think something that benefits you. Do you even think how does such thing benefit everyone?
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
Acting only when something benefits you is the behavior of a sociopath.
Insanity of these fascist republicans the big bad bogey man is out to get you, your family, your ...
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
A true statement of Republican strategy!
How do you want to be buried?
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
Cremation, no funeral, no burial.
Theodore Roosevelt, was he a good president? Do you think he can win today if he was alive?
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
Roosevelt , overall, was one of the great presidents. He was one of the few Republican progressives -- a man who showed concern for the people, nature, and democracy. He di nave a huge ego, and more of an imperialist than I would have liked. Still, he was one of the greats.
How do people within this group define "liberal"?
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
To me, being "liberal" means (1)supporting democracy and civil rights, (2) treating ALL people with full dignity and respect, (3) not controlled by dogma or ideology, but by reason and evidence. (4) wanting to get needed things done politically that benefit our people.
What's An 'Incel'? The Online Community Behind The Toronto Van Attack : NPR
wordywalt comments on May 3, 2018:
Such men are repulsive misfits whose behavior is so odd and repulsive that women find them realistically repulsive. Yet, they cannot admit who they have become and blame the women. They are damned sick.
Does marketing influence our sense of security?
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
All advertising is made to make us feel that we urgently need or want someone. In some cases, it uses fear as the motivation for need or desire. Of course, it is designed to make inroads into our senses of security.
Just learned that some GOP folks nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize, just like everything else ...
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
If Trump deserves the Nobel Prize, then so did Mussolini. Mussolinis own people shot him and hung his corpse in public for demonstrating the same kind of "leadership" that Trump shows.
Where are the liberal blind spots?
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
What facts are you purporting that we are blind to? Be very specific, or it is immediately obvious that you are just belching into the wind. When you attempt to get specific, we will be able to show that your "facts" to be simply more horse manure and misrepresentations. Either way, you have set yourself up to get creamed.
Those of you who are 100% certain there is no god...
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
Because that is NO real evidence supporting the myth.
Intolerant Liberals?
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
Liberals do tend to be intolerant of ignorance, irrationality, distortion, half-truths, and outright lies and propaganda -- as all educated people should be! Those are the enemies of democracy, tolerance, and widsom.
This question is irrational but I'm curious
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
No.
23and Me DNA test results just came in and I was surprised to find that there is no Native blood in ...
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
Yes, I think my results are accureate. My DNA shows slight traces of Actez or Pima ancestry and I also have traces of African (Bantu) ancestry. The rest is European.
Women in Afghanistan, Africa, Pakistan, and other countries have been victims of female genital ...
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
Not until that culture totally de=links those blrutal practice from their religion, and is willing tho show how vicious such abuse is.
How do I stop a colleague from imposing her religious views without offending her?
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
I would simply tell her that she has a right to her views, but that religion is not a topic in which you are interested.
Knitting Linked To Reducing Depression, Anxiety And Chronic Pain, Report Reveals
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
I am not surprised. It involves the person in systematic activity, requires focus, and produces something.
:) :) :) :) :)
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
Yeah/ It ain't good no more.
Unfortunately, this will not change the mind of trumposoids: "Illegal Immigration Does Not Increase...
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
It won't phase them: Trump and his supporters do not live in the world of facts and truth anyway. We just have to make sure that they do not spread their poison any further.!
Does anyone have advice for a person that's been an atheist less than 3 months?
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
Live your beliefs, but don't wear hem on your sleeve.
I find secularism can be very misunderstood sometimes.
wordywalt comments on May 2, 2018:
It is so misunderstood because religious "true believers" are afraid of anything which does not uphold their attachment to their dogma.
Don't know much about fresh water fish.
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
Walleye is one of the best. Pike or pickerel is also good if one knows how to get rid of the y-bones.
How did you celebrate your 21st birthday?
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
By drinking beer at a Tallahassee pub. Back in those days 21 was the legal drinking age.
I took my Little Girl (cat) In for her shots today and discovered she had been chipped.
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
I have dearly loved my cat friends It would be hard giving up such loved little friends. They all have added quality to my life.
Young People Are Lonelier Than Their Elders : NPR
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
I believe it. Too many of them have forsaken true human contact and interaction for their electronic devices.
The shocking confessions of a naturopathic doctor
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
I am skeptical of all alternative medicine practitioners. including chiropractors. After 14 years of back pain, I once went to a chiropractor. He did his bogus bsack manipulations. The very next day, I had to go in for back surgery.
When making a political decision do you elect someone who supports your biases or for the good they ...
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
I have alays voted for the person and the party most likely to strengthen our democracy and act on the true behalfof us, the people. I have voted for individual Republicans, but seldom.
What’s your source for morality?
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
The concept of minimum violation of human dignity and well=being. Most of our value decisions are not between absolute right and wrong, but between values -- comparative goods and evils. The choice3 should always be one which violates human dignity and well-being the least..
How would you respond to this?
wordywalt comments on May 1, 2018:
Absurd reasoning.
Let's play the "What if.
wordywalt comments on Apr 30, 2018:
You will never persuade such nuts. They are operating in a world of irrational thought and will continue to do so. There is nothing that you can do or say to dissuade such irrational fools.
Politness and Courtesy
wordywalt comments on Apr 30, 2018:
My real exception is when someone is unkind or rude to me or someone else. I don't hesitate to say something like, "Civliity is not your strong suit, is it?"
Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist leader, pushes back about saying abused women should pray, not ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 30, 2018:
What a vicious, cruel demagogue. He should be tarred and feathered!!
Easy to say, hard to do sometimes. Is this easier for women more so than men? Is so, why is that...
wordywalt comments on Apr 30, 2018:
No, I would not say so. I know more than a few women who are hard and filled with bitterness and anger -- to the point that it defines their personalities.
God and the State
wordywalt comments on Apr 30, 2018:
No. I do not accept the premise of your question.
What It's Really About.
wordywalt comments on Apr 30, 2018:
Corrupt, and open about it!
Do you believe the self is an illusion and how have you experienced the dissolution of the self?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Our "self" is simply the whole of our cognitive structures which help us define who who and what we are and what we believe. I have no idea what you mean by "desolvement." I have never heard the term.
Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich "What to tell a Sick Friend who asks " Is there a ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
If I felt the friend would be able to take it, I would say, "No. What there is simply peaceful oblivion. We are simply no longer in existence." If tI didn't thin the friend could take it, I would say, "I don't think so, but no one knows for sure.
How many of you also dislike the term “intellectual dishonesty?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
When a person is deliberately misstating facts, principles or ideas, intellectual dishonesty is a more than appropriate term.
I worked for him for many years - built Trump Tower - exec.
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Is Trump really as morally bankrupt and sociopathic as he seems?
If you were to choose, would you be happier married or single?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Married, or at least in a permanent relationship with a loving and compatible significant other.
Anybody else here into regular walking/jogging/running workouts?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
For nearly 30 years I walked 3 to 5 miles a day at a brisk pace.At the age of 77 I had to give it up due to non-cardiac chest pain. To stay fit, I switched entirely to working out regularly with heavy weights, which i started at the age of 69.
How About a Library?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Good idea.
Everyone is so quick to pick at their own faults so, What trait do you like the most about yourself?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
My knowledge of and acceptance of myself, bolstered by my ability to think and by my concern for human dignity.
Just wondering
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
HELL NO on both counts!
Ever wonder why some people are overly critical and bitter?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
It is usually a means which such a person seeks to establish dominance and control. Control is the driving motive in such a person's life.Such behavior is one of the symptoms of a borderline personality disorder. If it is a case of borderline personality disorder, GET AWAY from that person and stay away from them, or they will damage -- if not ruin -- your life.
Music speaks to us in different ways at different times of our lives depending on what we are ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
A lot of songs, but a few singers -- Simon and Garfunkel, Edith Piaf, Bette Midler, Nina Simone, and a few others.
For realz yo
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Love it!
Money root of all evil? True or false?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
No. Only one of several.
Environmental Action
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Two things would make the greatest difference: (1: drastic reduction in rthe use of fossil fuels, and (2) a great reduction in the use of plastics.
The Great Crime Decline | The New Yorker
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Somehow Trump and the Republicans don't get this message.
Hi, I am a 51 year old single woman from middle Tennessee.
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Welcome.
On being a nerd
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Depends on what you call a nerd. I an not a techie, but intellectual and scientific matters always interest me. I do not keep up with pop culture at all.
I'm just wondering what other people (around my vintage)think about the lack of civil disobedience ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
The 60s and 70s were a special time. I genuinely thought that the spirit of that time would produce more change. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Let's hope that the young people's anti-gun movement will merge with the "me too", and the thrusts of people like Elizabeth Warren, and with the revulsion against the Trump kleptocracy and against war on truth and morality. If that happens, it could be an interesting time again.
I did not know where to post this, they don't have a category for something like this.
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
Early death is always a loss, a tragedy. To say that one "is in a better place" is, in effect, saying that life is not worth living.
What's your opinion of assisted suicide?
wordywalt comments on Apr 29, 2018:
I approve of it.
"n a sermon delivered at the Islamic Center of South Florida (ICOSF) in Pompano Beach on March 23, ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Most religious leaders, regardless of the faith, are intolerant of non-believers. This is not surprise.
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wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Of courese evolution keeps going -- every day. The problem is that it may take decades, even centuries before the changes are evident and widespread.
Sometimes I find an American post that I cannot understand because we have different words; or ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Each country, even regions within a country, has its own idiomatic expressions. In Berlin, Germany, Berliners use expressions unique to that city and not readily understood by other Germans.
Has anyone ever belonged...
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
No.
IF you found out a CEO was very open about being religious, but explicitly said that they wouldn't ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
It would not matter to me unless the person brought his or her relifion into the operation of the business and public pronouncements about it.
Does anyone here deal with fatigue?
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Are you engaging in any systematic physical exercise. If not, you should start working out at least 3 days a week -- and stay with it.
Back to school after 50?
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Go for it!
Which news site you trust most?
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
NPR and PBS.
What have you always wanted? Did you ever get it?
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Fishing trips to Alaska and the Great Barrier Reef. Not yet.
Good morning everyone, rise and shine, another beautiful day to enjoy x
wordywalt comments on Apr 28, 2018:
Good morning, dear lady. Hope you have a great day!
A research project: What caused your shift away from religion?
wordywalt comments on Apr 27, 2018:
I was raised in a family of devout Methodists. We went to Sunday School and two services on Sunday, and "prayer meetings on Wednesday. By the time I was 15, I had read the Bible from cover to cover 3 times. At the age of 17 I was elected as president of our Methodist Youth Fellowship subdistrict covering 2 counties. My movement away from religion began in my early to mid teens. I did not like the way that normal human thoughts and urges made me feel sinful -- a bad person. Each time I read the Bible, I noted more and more implausible stories and inconsistencies. By the time I had read Revelations the 3rd time, I was convinced that it was written by a raving lunatic. When I went away for college, I stopped going to church and ceased all religious activities. I was an agnostic for a long time, taking the position that I did not know and simply did not care -- that religion was simply irrelevant. That remained my stance until my forties, when I shifted to a totally atheistic stance and have become stronger and stonger in that stance over the past 35 + years.
Which Religious Apologist do you dislike the most (William Lane Craig, Ray Comfort, Eric or Kent ...
wordywalt comments on Apr 27, 2018:
The religious figures on my really dislike list are those who are mixing politics and religion and trying to cram it down our throats. All of the others, to me, are simply irrelevant.
Despite So Much Winning, The Right Feels Like It's Losing : NPR
wordywalt comments on Apr 27, 2018:
They are beginning to sense they they are about to swept out of power at all levels.
Why do most Dr. offices have Fox news on?
wordywalt comments on Apr 27, 2018:
Not one of the doctors I go to has FoX News on, but all of my doctors but one is a member of the University of South Florida Medical Group..
A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism - What do you know about this?
wordywalt comments on Apr 27, 2018:
It is the kind of duplicity I would expect from extreme religious "true believers and from the political right. They seem to think that their dogma is so important that it entitles them to exercise dishonesty.