The Babble is the word of God

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2022:

Have you got her phone number ?

The sound of Africa The beautiful grumbling sound of a lion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2022:

Great sound. Though I can't help thinking that the lioness they show at the end, is thinking. "Yes but you should hear him snore. "

Atheists are nicer to Christians compared to the other way around if their religious identity is ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2022:

Well we don't have a lecture every Sunday on how important the congregation is, and how superior they are to everyone else, for one.

Surgery today. Send thoughts and prayers. Or beer.

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2022:

Though, hopes and best wishes, no prayers.. For beer I will need your bank card details.

I pose a broad question. What is a god?

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2022:

God is a word for the personification of things that don't exist or that we can't prove exist, it is therefore meaningless, and may be used for anything you wish, as long as you think of it as personified. Spiritual, is a word for any emotion which we can not fully, or can not yet, rationalize. Neither word leads anywhere, or moves any thought forwards.

Another observation.

Fernapple comments on Aug 22, 2022:

Jelly beans.

Oh bloody hell,,, just another excuse to to visit bloody England I suppose.

Fernapple comments on Aug 22, 2022:

Well I learn something here every day, even about my own country. Fun.

Texas has been under a drought, no news there.

Fernapple comments on Aug 22, 2022:

Yes that happened here in the UK too, the drought ended with a near flood. It is said that with global warming the weather may get more extreme and violent.

How do you spot a fake account on Agnostic? Easy, they’re the ones that start following you!?🤠

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2022:

We are all fakes, you are he only real one, and now that we have gathered the information we need for the mega church enforcement department, to initiate proceedings, we will start watching your home with regard to working out a final solution and a clear up method with the hit squad. You have been warned, amend your ways, bullets cost money that we would rather went to the committee for the respecting of Jesus. But we will act if we are forced.

This is not about music or religion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2022:

As long as you don't mind the dusting, you can fill the house if you wish. Its your house.

I wish cake wasn't fatening

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2022:

Really good ones today.

Evolutionary mismatch [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2022:

1. There is nothing new in this. The statement made about conventional evolutionary theory, that it states that evolution leads to correct truthful sense perceptions in all things, is a wild straw man. Conventional evolutionary theory has alway held that any species, will only have, perhaps a just little more than, the sensory equipment needed for survival in its own environment, and its perceptions will be limited to that. We ourselves are, to use perhaps one of the the most conventional and dated of sources. "A medium sized ape, whose senses are designed for a medium sized ape, living on the plains of Africa." R. Dawkins, some forty years ago. Dawkins then goes on to describe why, that does not permit us to understand many higher scientific concepts naturally, but in that he was not an original, but only stating something that was understood, and had been understood by most naturalists for a long time. 2. There is a built in contradiction in his conclusion , when he states that "evolution gives you tricks and hack to help you reproduce." Since if tricks and hacks did not lead to an element of truth, ( That truth which helps you to reproduce. ) then they would not be "tricks and hacks". The beetle in his own example, fails in evolutionary terms, when its senses fail to identify the difference between females and broken bottles truthfully. Mating with bottles in error, does not enhance survival. 3. Application of Occam’s razor, if you are basing your conclusions on a computer model and not real life observation, and you get contradictory results, (Which he does not anyway, except in his own mind.) assume first, that you have made a bad model. His own statements about the real world example of the beetle clearly make that case. QED 4. It is also quite conventional, in so far as it supports the theory that humans moving from the natural environment of the African plains to the cultural environment, ( The first great mismatch. ) would not have the sensory perceptions and mental tools to deal with it. So that they would be prone to misconceptions and brain infections such as religion, which is very similar to Dawkins meme theory, but it is not the strongest of supports for that.

Why does this site keep changing the single letter "k" to "think"? What does it "think" it is doing?

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2022:

k Works for me, on Windows 10.

In case you run out of insults, the Bard has you covered.

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2022:

Oh man! thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power – Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit! By nature vile, ennoble but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Lord Byron

I don’t think it’s a disorder but alrighty then…

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2022:

There is another way ?

I mean, on the one hand, it's debatable as to whether the Bible was ever meant to be taken ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2022:

The literal or none literal view is most of the time not relevant or significant anyway, it can still be very nasty and wrong even if taken metaphorically. "Dash the brains of your enemies children out against the rocks." is nasty, if they are literal children. But it is also nasty even if "children" are taken to mean the art, literature, law and culture of your enemies. While at the same time the metaphorical view is the ultimate tool of the manipulator, enabling any view to be interpreted into the text, whatever the manipulator and narcissist wants, but then, still enabling them to claim the false authority that many believe the "holy" book has.

I don't hate the human species.

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2022:

Oh. I love to watch an attractive member of the opposite sex, breath in and out. But maybe I am just funny that way, do you think I should see a therapist ?

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in a large group. " George Carlin

Fernapple comments on Aug 19, 2022:

Or even one alone.

Why don't old, liberal atheist men corner me a Walmart instead of old, conspiracy theorist Christian...

Fernapple comments on Aug 19, 2022:

Because old liberal atheists men, are wise enough to know, that cornering people is rude and counter productive ?

Is 54 too old to consider a career change?

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2022:

Getting older may one day force a career change on to you. Therefore why not make it now and your own choice. I started a major new hobby at sixty four, and am now looking for my next new career adventure at sixty six.

I'll be on time babe.

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2022:

Can't be the one then, very large white scarf.

Texas district pulls the Bible, Anne Frank adaptation as schools face more book backlash

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2022:

Sorry, it sound interesting but the link does not work in Europe.

Now that we are approaching the possible demise of Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2022:

And thank you back. Your posts/comments have been a joy, and a joy to come I hope.

The FBI is asshoe

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2022:

Asshole: A pit dug by a donkey to trap an elephant ?

My daughter-in-law just asked me to have a discussion with my nine year old grandson about religion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2022:

That is the best "things kids say" story, I heard in a long time.

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2022:

And the best argument for it, is five a five minute conversation with the average politician.

Are you an empath?

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2022:

It would be wise to remember that this is made by a person who has stuff to sell, it is therefore very unlikely that there is anyone who will not get a high score in the test. And if you read it cynically, a lot of the questions are such that you have to ask yourself, would anybody give the negative answer to that ? Maybe I count as a cynical old goat, so forget what I just said. But at least it seems I am an empath.

Why religion without belief can still make perfect sense | Psyche Ideas

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2022:

From a negative view, it changes nothing. All of the evils of religion always stemmed from the exaggerated respect given to its cultural traditions, holy writings, hierarchical structures and rituals. If you take the literal belief in the non existent god, out of the equation, you take away a zero, nothing, but you still leave all of those things intact. So that all you do, in effect, is to change the name of god from the say singular Zeus or Odin, to the words tradition, holy book, priest and ritual. It still remains by nature the worship of the ultra-traditional as a fake authority, and is only therefore useful to the ultra -conservative, and anti-progressive. Moreover it opens the door even more to the metaphorical interpretation of myth, which is a gift to the criminally intended. Since the main use of religion by the criminally intended is as a source of fake authority, which they can interpret as they wish. That being, naturally, something which people with something dubious and selfish to promote, want more than anything. And the authority of religion, with an added almost total freedom of interpretation, is just such a wonderful gift. (Most, well intended people will usually despise fake authority, since they will tend to believe that good intentions can be supported by reason, and at least good sources of authority, and most well intended people have an attachment to honesty at an instinctive level anyway. )

Heathen n.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2022:

Originally meant, rural peasant, much the same as Hindu, which was a word used by the Islamic rulers in India for their poorer subjects.

Here's a current joke for you.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2022:

Non-binary.

Have a big cup of music

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2022:

I have a serious drinking problem. I like malt whiskey and I can only afford blended.

“Myth is metaphor.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2022:

So I have a question. Is there a pill available which stops these people feeling the need to cringe, because I am sure that if I could get hold of some, there is fame and fortune to be made without effort, doing this sort of stuff, if you can avoid feeling ashamed.

Luke Burgis on René Girard [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2022:

Here you go. https://www.popsci.com/diy/spot-fake-science/?amp

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Belief that personal gain is made by ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2022:

And hardly anybody listened to him then, and they still don't now.

Here is an interesting question (probably asked by an American person) and a few Brits responded.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2022:

That's about it.

Many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2022:

The arts, is the traditional name we give to our attempts to manipulate culture and achieve mass mind control. Religion is perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all the arts.

For some reason, I have just been blocked from the conservative atheist group lol.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2022:

If he has done nothing wrong, why would it matter that the FBI looks through his safe ?

Christian calls atheists "toxic and "fearful." Your thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2022:

Point out that the word "atheist" does not mean, believe in nothing, just none belief in a sky fairy. In fact most of the atheists I know believe in a lot of things, perhaps more than theists, believing just in one thing alone, and most theists do, is really the rejecting of wider belief. I for one believe that: The material world is all we get, and it is wonderful. Humans are basically good, and worth loving as a whole. Human rights are good, and should be respected even if they are not objectively provable. That loving and appreciating the material world and nature is our highest calling, and that would still apply even if there was a god. That science is the best method to find objective truth. That you can not be dead, since no such state exists, you can only be, not alive. And a whole lot more...

Some changes are coming

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2022:

Did not know she had underwear ! Is that what they call a "liberty" bra ?

I was thinking of getting a couple tattoos.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2022:

"If you don't believe, gods die. R.I.P."

This Photographer Took Pictures Of Animals That Could Soon Be Extinct And This Might Be Your Last ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2022:

Brilliant photos. Tended though to pick only obviously photogenic animals, which is OK to make the point, but the ugly boring endangered critters are more numerous and need our concern even more.

Pretty much nails the self-styled "Christian" right:

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2022:

Your mom is both wise and imaginatively articulate.

I am trying to figure out something I can make and sell, has to be made of wood, could be a special ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2022:

The big problem with any form of craft work today, is that, any good idea that anyone comes up with, is immediately copied and mass produced in China at a quarter the price. It devalues craft work as a whole and makes it hard to even cover the cost of materials. It is a good idea therefore to research your market well first, and try to find out where you can sell your products at a premium, using the "art" or "local traditional" forms of branding. Things which wear out, and need to be replaced can sell best, such as things made of fabric. Tools are also good sellers, a few years ago I made a really strong garden trowel with a long handle, I forged the blade out of an old truck spring, I often thought of making more, because most of the garden trowels on sale are weak and bendy with tiny handles. I also thought of strong shoulder bags suitable for tools and casual walking, and good strong thick mens hankies, should be simple to make, and most of those on offer today are flimsy. It is also worth thinking about restoring and especially adding value, if you can get old or cheap mass produced wooden objects, and dress them up with better fittings and design work like poker work, then you can add value quickly and cheaply.

Here is a list of 50 misheard lyrics in songs.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2022:

Not misheard but misunderstood. When I was a child, I used to hate the hymn. "There is a green hill far away. " Because the next line went. "Without a city wall." Which I thought was just stupid, (A tautology, though I did not know that word then either.) because I did not understand the old outdated usage of "without" to mean 'outside of' or 'near to', I only knew the modern usage meaning 'lacking'. And I would think. "Well that is stupid, if it was a green hill it would not have a city wall would it, hills with city walls have houses on them." Now I know though, that Blake, who wrote it, lived in an age when it was well known that the hill of the crucifixion, just like all the hills around Jerusalem, was barren and stony. And that the "green hill", was just a pompous pretentious metaphor, trying to associate Christ's death with spring, growth and rebirth etc. Yuck Christians ! So I still hate that hymn, even more than the rest.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2022:

I have heard that he was very into, painting pictures and bricklaying, what the third one was, unless it was gardening, I have no idea.

Arizona’s GOP speaker says he’ll ‘never’ vote for Trump again

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2022:

An honest man is often a lonely one.

Imagine a world in which scientists divided themselves according to whether they were sincere in the...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2022:

It exists already.

I am truly sick of rudeness, misogyny, and crappy behavior.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2022:

Well he was a good advert for his companies competence and professionalism, at least you now know where not to go when you want work done.

“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2022:

And religion is a sub-set of advertising, pure advertising with no product to sell except the advert itself, plus you can buy a few branded own label goods that will only be delivered after you are dead.

[bsa.

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

Yes but we do have a state church, and religious studies in school. I don't know why, when they obviously have no democratic mandate, but at least it bleeds all the strength out of religion.

I very thoughtful of one person's journey toward atheism.

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

Sorry but, I think that perhaps there is a link missing ?

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

In the UK we have an old saying. "They hung the man who stole a goose from off the common, (Free range perhaps in America.) but they lauded the man who stole the common from under the goose."

'A new kind of atheism' already exists in America (if you look closely)

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

In Europe as religion faded, community has actually in real terms grown. Humans naturally form communities, we can not help ourselves, and as the fake communities of labels faded so real community has grown. I have observed this happening over a long time. So perhaps America should not worry so much.

OH PLEASE!!! I need new material!!! Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Dropping Hints At Becoming Trump's...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

How would you tell the two apart, they look the same to me. Could cause a lot of confusion.

I had an interesting conversation recently with a ultra pacifistic liberal.

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

And of course, obeying daddy, meant that you did not have to take personal responsibility for things, or address issues by thinking about them, daddy took away the need to do all those difficult things from you. It was not hard, since he probably did not bother himself. But it did mean that you could be as lazy as you wished, as long as your arms legs and mouth moved in the ways that pleased him, the brain did not need to work at all. And he taught you to despise school and learning, because it would try to make you do those difficult things. And when have no longer got daddy, then he taught you that, you can go to church, for the same things.

The mysterious inner life of the Octopus... [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2022:

Great read. Thank you.

[bbc.com] What were Scotland's brochs used for, project building one from scratch

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2022:

Took a little while to work out how and where to play the video, but worth it when you got there.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. Sorry but. She says, she sell seas shells on the sea shore, seeking sea shells and selling sea shells leaves no time to chuck wood.

Fire at Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo Michigan.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2022:

Sorry to say, the link does not work, it leads to a "forbiden" page.

I wanted to share my joy with you all.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2022:

Great photo. Someone once said. "If I had known that grandchildren (Great-grandchildren.) were this much fun, I would have had them first."

Well done, lasses! The Lionesses make history, you've done us proud. 🏆🏆

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2022:

great game too.

You know your god is man-made ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2022:

But of course true believers, think that their hate comes from god. ( As a form of love of course. )

I myself like all critters. However, I admire Cats for their independence. [link.medium.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2022:

Mohamed was a cat lover though.

'Walking sharks' caught on video, astound scientists [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2022:

Lack of the actual video was a little disappointing.

I have no idea who this Smith fellow is but I have long held his logical argument to be true in my ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2022:

And, the reverse Pascal's wager. Even if there was a god who supported just one particular religion, and chose to save only its members, how would you know which to pick ? Which is a variant on four.

It's been a great day I made it back to Royal Street to see Doreen! I missed her yesterday because ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2022:

I love some jazz.

Morning all

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2022:

Thank you. I am glad that you think well of us.

A school of thought states that everything is determined, preordained, and measurable.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2022:

One. Emergent properties that are are more than the whole, are not proof that the whole is not determinant, or that the emergent properties are not determined. The two simply do not contradict each other, determined things may well produce emergent things greater than themselves, but the emergent things are quite likely equally determined. Two. Because you can not measure it, understand it or predict it, it does not mean that it does not exist. And that includes determinism. The fact that we can not measure it, is the reason why we can not make predictions from it. Not because it is not predetermined. Three. There are at least three possible states. One. Things are predictable. Two. Things are not predictable because they are random. Three Things are not predictable because, although determined, we do not have the capacity to make predictions, or even take measurements, from which to make predictions. I go with the last. From a human view the second two may in practice be the same, and it can never be otherwise, but they are not the same in reality. There are many states of things which although different in reality, are in effect the same. That we appear to have freewill is the same from our point of view, as having freewill, even if freewill does not exist, because we have no way of moving out of the state of, "we appear to have," we live and are forever trapped in the world of, "as things they appear to us," and we can never escape from that. Therefore all the laws under which we live, and all the laws that we can find, are about, and made from the evidence of the world as it appears to us, and we can never know if that is the true state of the universe, or how far it is from the true state, if it is not.

These are the 4 types of atheism - Big Think

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2022:

It comes from a religious apologist source, and reflects their thinking.

I'm only posting this because I'm very immature.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

Because we are very immature, we like it.

For the avoidance of doubt, I delight in mocking all those who are intolerant of diversity, and I ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

Took me half a hour, but I think I agree with that. LOL

Good Friday all Allow me to share a personal secret I get more stimulated watching the growth of a...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

Never was a great Marlyn fan myself either. But Josephine Baker now, I would not even notice the bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9jNCm6CVV0

Good Friday all Allow me to share a personal secret I get more stimulated watching the growth of a...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

As long as they are mature plants, who have reached the age of consent, I will not be judgmental.

Engineers Turn Water into Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel Using Solar Radiation [goodnewsnetwork.org]

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

Actually until as they say. "The fuel will be even greener if the team can capture carbon dioxide from the air in the not-too-distant future and use it in the fuel." It is really just a technical bit of fun, since the carbon dioxide emitted when they burn the fuel, in flight, will be just as bad, as any other aviation fuel.

“I mean, you could claim that ANYTHING is real, if the only basis for believing in it is that ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

"Poyais" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor A good example of the sad consequences of believing in things that don't exist.

Dear Abby marriage advice Sharia style. Whip your wife "gently" to keep her in line ....

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

What publication is this ?

What are the joys of living alone?

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2022:

My home is a complete mess, ( I am male after all.) nobody ever tidies things away so that I can't find them.

The little structure below is called an outhouse.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2022:

If you do not know it already, you may enjoy looking up an old book called, "The Specialist" by Charles Sale. Great fun, all about a carpenter who specialized in building outhouses, and full of wisdoms like, putting the path to it past the wood pile, so that people going to and fro from the house can fill the wood box at the same time. Quote. "take a timid woman, if she sees any men folks around, she's too bashful to go direct out, so she'll go to the wood pile, pick up the wood, go back to the house and watch her chance. The average timid woman - especially a new hired girl - I've knowed to make as many as ten trips to the wood pile before she goes in, regardless. On a good day you will have your wood box filled by noon, "

Any place online if this place goes down?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2022:

Not found one no.

Adult Anxious Attachment Correlates with Belief in Conspiracies “A study by Douglas, Sutton, ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2022:

Good article. “an embodied belief that the social world is unreliable and unsafe. Unlike secure attachment, insecure attachment correlates with social deficits of one kind or another and to various psychological challenges such as general distrust” And. “we should not be surprised at an increasing number of people believing false stories that reassure them, “ Would that not then be like someone who distrusted their fellow humans so much, that they felt that they could not be governed to morality by reason and objective truth alone, however good the education. And that the only way to gain control was though brain manipulation, based on fairy stories, which would somehow magical provide the only defence against anarchy possible. Now who do I know who thinks like that ?

([theatlantic.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

Well done you though.

Who believe in this

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

Hello and welcome. Yes it is hard to disagree with that.

Another epic god fail.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

How do you know that god did not send the gunmen ? LOL (Just thinking out loud.)

ENTIRE Police Force Resigns In Protest Of Black Female Town Manager - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

"Only in America."

For those of you who lay sleepless last night in worry over my a/c, it is fixed! And cheaply fixed!...

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2022:

Well done. My loft always seems to be very attractive, I have had mice several times, rats three, two bad wasp years in the last twenty or so, with several nests each time, and a swarm of bees, which died and left a heap of their dead behind. In one way however I have been lucky because I have never had bats. In the UK you just have to hope, that you do not get bats, because you are not allowed by law to evict them, or even block their entrance.

This site has shown me that having enough sense to see through the lies of religion, doesn’t ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2022:

Religion is only one issue among many.

Religion has had 1,000's of years to prove god exists...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

The product will only be delivered, after you are dead. And it must be good, because we have not had a single return.

Are you happy in your own skin? I know I am.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

All you need to know. Please add though. How do you make them buy religion, by feeding their narcissism.

Religion has had 1,000's of years to prove god exists...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

That is literal religions argument for everything it stands for.

Another reason why I hate people. Does "topless" in this article refer to not having a brain?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

Yes I would go with your assessment.

FYI about balancing on one leg: "People who are middle-aged or older and can’t balance on one ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

At sixty five, I managed thirty seconds and then got bored. But then I had a bright idea. Why not stand on one leg, and read Agnostic. com at the same time !

[pbs.org] The Egyptian bow

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2022:

Interesting, and I like the look of that site, thank you.

Is it wrong that I once considered moving west and pretending to be a Mormon so I could have a ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

Maybe it is wrong to waste a lot of time and money, just to discover that you could not attract a harem ?

What kind of philosophy do you side with?

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

I tend to pick whatever philosopher, best answers my present needs regardless of where they come from.

Only Eight There are only eight extant species of hominids left on Earth, including three species...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

You do the most harm to those who are nearest sadly. And I do think that the idea of rights, although questionable at its philosophic base, works well in practice, and should be extended to the other apes.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"history that illuminates why 80% of their species participates in religious activities." You do not need to go as far as science, to address that statement, mere philosophy alone will do. It has been given a number of names over the years, mainly the, "ad populum fallacy" , though it is also addressed quite well in the now nearly traditional Plato's Cave story.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"This perspective makes no room for the actual spirit and purpose of scientific inquiry when it comes to studying the intuitively inscrutable behaviors of our own species, " This is very true also, of using limited cherry picked science to justify specific cultural phenomena, especially when the science does not address it directly, science real science not pseudo-science has not yet by any means reached the point where it can being to address specific cultural phenomena.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"Atheism is not a religion. But the atheistic hatred of religion is based 100% on the same superstitious impulses upon which religious fundamentalism depends for its equally absurd and unfounded certainty." Yes hatred is often superstitious but that does not mean it is always without grounding, the two are not mutually exclusive. If a doctor tells me, that they hate cancer, then I accept that hate is an irrational emotion, but do not see it as unjustified. Atheists do indeed often share a lot in common with fundamentalists, one of the main things being honesty. As in, 'honest belief' and 'honest disbelief'. And I have often found good honest friends among believers, and taken part in workings of religiously inspired charitable groups, with great joy and fulfillment. That is why I usually reserve my contempt and emotional hatred only for non believing apologists. Since the true hatred and contempt for the rest of the species to which they belong, which is inherent in the idea of. "One set of values for me, and a few like me, but the rest of the human species can only benefit from being duped into compliance, with a second rate set of values." Shows true superstitious contempt for the other members of the species "of which they seem to forget they are a member".

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"that no scientific discipline of any description comes to that superstitious conclusion," Is itself a superstition which is really insulting to science. Since any science, of human nature or history, which did not admit to the role that " power, greed, malevolence, mental incompetence and immorality," played in every aspect of human life and the building every cultural institution, is clearly pseudo-science of the worst sort. See my below.

The Dance Many atheists’ interest in science and critical thinking appears to extend only far ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2022:

"To explain that they parrot the popular superstitions that blame it on the pursuit of power, greed, malevolence, mental incompetence, or anything that slanders the moral character of the species of which they seem to forget they are a member." Are you saying that, power, greed, malevolence, mental incompetence and immorality, never played any part in building religion ? I for one, (I can not speak for everyone. ) accept that those things are all a part of the species to which I am a member, and still find it possible to love them and think well of them. And do not even regard that as a slander, because I know that, in the complex world in which we live, those very failings can often be drives which produce good results, and even sometimes drive people to try to be good.