A bit of a rant ahead.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

You say. "until I go to college in the fall." Great; your world is about to enlarge massively, getting a whole lot wider. Keep that movement going, travel and take the chance to widen your horizons as much as you can, Not just physical travel either, though that is important, but travel to other communities, join some clubs, read some books in the college library, which are not part of your courses. Anything and everything that takes you away. And remember, that there are a lot of closet none believers out there, if you are brave enough to show your true nature, you may be surprised by how many come out of their shells.

We Need to Stop Calling Armed Rightwing Groups 'Militias' | Time

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

Silly to ever have started calling them that, a militia by definition, is a government organized body. I suppose that it was started by the media, who did not want to alienate large numbers of would be users, so they went for flattery to grab a few extra dollars.

Moons around uranus. [news.google.com] They need to send a proctologist right away! [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

That is a very old pun, good to know someone is still caring for the old ones and keeping them safe.

The older I get I learn that my opinion appears to only cause division and strife.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

Don't give up on your son, people change all though life.

Hello, I have been on this site for around 2 1/2 years give or take a week.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

Love a good rant.

Maybe Carol Baskin can help

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

They may have thought it a good idea to cook one of them first, but actually raw meat is probably better for kitty.

Sunday hike,Tsing Yi nature trail,Tsing Yi island, Hong Kong

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2020:

Great photos, pleased to see that you can still have fun like a kid.

Tis the season to be careful with your pennies.

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2020:

Sad that you have to publish such a list.

When life gives you lemon, you make lemonade.

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2020:

Enjoy.

Reader Opinion: Let’s Study Science Before Theology: [thehumanist.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2020:

Theology is not a science, but is said to be a branch of history, but a branch which accepts the idea of divine involvement. I have always had a great deal of respect for mainstream history, mainly because it does not accept divine involvement.

here kitty kitty kitty

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2020:

Wise and funny.

Let's share pictures of the beauty of Winter.

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2020:

Here you go. Christmas roses in the snow, our village church, and my garden.

Another population of blue whales found in Indian ocean: [science.slashdot.org]

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Great news, It would be nice to find an estimate of just how many there are world wide. I know that they are said to be recovering but with something as slow to breed as an animal that size, it will be very slow.

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Or the pockets of those who claim to represent them.

Do you believe in mythology?

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2020:

By definition, no one believes in mythology. Mythology is the name that we give to those religions that we reject belief in. As in. My religion, but, your mythology. Personally I try to see all of it as mythology, and to correct myself if I do catch myself believing any of it.

i try to stay distracted.

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Dropped my car keys yesterday, miles out in the country. And I thought, lost the keys, two/three hours to walk home, with no phone water or food because they are all locked in the car, then got to break into the house, (door key on the same ring,) be dark by then, get the spares, two/three hours back, girlfriend will think I have left home and be worried, when I don't phone. So I set off on my route back, had not got two hundred yards, when I saw a set of keys glittering in the long grass. Million to one that I would spot them there. Funny thing is, I don't believe in Karma, and even if I did, I usually only get the bad sort.

Earth is much more diverse than we thought: [science.slashdot.org]

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2020:

It is only in the last few years, that we discover that the Pipistrelle Bat, which lives in the UK. Was in fact two different species, and Britain has to be one of the most documented countries on earth, where bats have been studied for at least two centuries. I have heard of and experiment done in Norway. Where a single spade of earth, from a forest, was taken into the lab and deeply studied, several new species being found. They argued that, when you get down to very small things, the eight million or so species could be a gross underestimate, the species being almost limitless.

Welsh Poppy, so beautiful

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Very pretty, but also an invasive little thug, which sows itself everywhere you don't want it, and is almost impossible to kill. I once knew a lady whose garden was almost swamped by it, and it was one of the reasons she sold the house.

Diogenes John William Waterhouse, 1849-19 In Waterhouse's painting, Diogenes, the ancient ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2020:

Waterhouse liked to do pretty, and, like a lot of his paintings, the theme is just an excuse for that. Which is just fine, nothing wrong with pretty. But he is a little unfair to Diogenes, who was a great deal more than just an grumpy old misery, making important points with his philosophy, being a philanthropist, ( he was quite rich, ) and used his mockery justly against the pompus and shallow.

I used to be a nicer person.

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2020:

Be at peace with your hate, it can be a powerful motivator to get good things done. It is only letting it fester that harms.

Korea achieves 20 seconds of temperature sufficient for fusion. [science.slashdot.org]

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2020:

Getting closer.

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Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Makes more sense than a lot of the poems posted on here, but sorry to say your video does not work.

Kingship USA So Americans think they can get rid of Kings and call themselves a republic?

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Perhaps the one and only great benefit of the monarchy, silly out dated institution that it is. Is that it sets a limit to fools and their ambitions, neither Boris, nor that truly evil towrag, Blair, will ever get to call themselves president.

I dream of living in a post-religious society.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Nothing that can't be replicated in other ways, no.

I know that this time means nothing to many of you but I'm leaving my Season's Greetings anyway.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Nothing wrong with the season. A happy new year and a merry Yule to you.

I love ME TV but over half the stuff it has I would no longer watch or even cross the street to see.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Just tell me where to find a program this week, without the word Christmas in the title, and I can die happy.

TV scripts 'Atheist finds God'.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

There is no dividing line between popular culture and religion, in fact religion is very much just a marketable product like every other one. And just as the fact that, when one socially hopeless young man, discovers that the product he was sold, does not make him devastatingly attractive to the opposite sex, like the advert says. Will not stop the marketing people using that ploy, again and again, because they know that there are plenty more socially hopeless and naive young men out there. So the growth of sceptical culture, will not stop them marketing religion for every dollar they can get out of its victims.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

A happy Yule to you, and a much better new year.

What have been some of the best ways you’ve put your newly found truth to productive use?

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

I hope that I am productive, and I know that many of the members here certainly are. But why assume that anyone has to have a new found truth, my new truths are many, and most of the truths that are important in my life are old. Not every sceptic is a new born one, I was never really part of any religion.

I’m an atheist who finds the study of religion fascinating.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Yes they are great stories, and you can learn much about human nature from them in an entertaining way. And sometimes they can bring you to a meaningful connection with people in the past.

My first poem, age 7. What was your first writing?

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

I find it hard to believe that you kept it. Wow, how did it survive the teenage years ?

So my kid asked for Wicca candles 🕯️, herbs and book for Xmas.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

For many people the journey to sceptical thinking, starts with abandoning highly organized, dogmatic religion, for less formal religions, deism, then vague spiritual practices, then no practice, and finally soft agnostic, then hard agnostic, before some of them go on to become atheist. While some just make one big leap, but they are often the ones who have been deeply hurt by religion, and I would not wish that on your daughter. Best to hope she enjoys her journey and not worry about the destination.

Got my vaccine today!!!!! Cannot describe the relief.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Don't forget it will take ten days at least for the first real benefits, and not until after the second one for the full effect. Don't want to rain on your party, but would not like to think you would do something dangerous, either.

Are Religion and Philosophy Same?

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Good philosophy should not and can not follow religion. Because like its child, science, which was once known as Natural Philosophy, it is about the attempt to find truth. Where religion is about the expression of given truth. Moreover, in practice, good philosophy always defers to science and logic, which is not required of religion.

Anyone here that was inslaved in christianity for 20 years or less

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Lots of them. This is the first refuge of escapees, if you want support from fellows, you will certainly find plenty here. Welcome and enjoy the site.

Getting my COVID vaccine today.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Yes, I suspect it is just an example of sloppy lazy writing. What they mean when they say 'prevent' Covid-19 is. 'After a week or two, you are less likely to develop the full range of symptoms usually associated with Covid-19.' Using the diseases name as shorthand to stand for the range of associated symptoms, it is a lazy practice but often done. In fact I would say that disease's names are more often use that way than not, in popular medical lit. My friend who is 88 just had the vaccination in the UK, and after reading the leaflet, went off happily shopping. I pointed out that she would not get any immunity for ten days or so. "Oh I thought it was instant, she said." Well informed. There is an almost exactly the same problem in biology. Where people will use the shorthand and say things 'evolved' when of course creatures do not evolve. When what they actually mean is something like. 'Changes in heritable traits that are passed from one generation to the next, and selected for by natural selection, causing alterations in the populations of genes, etc etc.' But they keep on using the shorthand saying things evolved, despite the fact that everyone knows that creationists will, often deliberately, misunderstand it.

Question: I´m not a member of the group "Classy sexy Pics", but its pictures keep appearing in my...

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Yes it started a month or so ago. Never used to happen to me, and I never understood why some people said it happened to them, I always thought that it was a members only group and that kept it closed, then suddenly a month or so ago, there they were.

The concept of the Christian god is so asinine that truly believing that this god exists must take ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Don't disagree with the conclusion, but I have heard better arguments better put. Bit of an also ran.

Anyone else find the concept of Christianity deeply offensive? : atheism

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

I find the concept of religion deeply offensive, in some ways, but not Christianity especially. Since at the bottom, I do not think there is any such thing as Christianity. There is rather a whole range of religious, political and social movements that hardly have much in common at all, which generally fit within a vague nominal grouping, based on a historical and often slight connection to a usually misunderstood ancient set of texts. "Stephen Jay Gould, who spent his life studying fish, discovered that all sea-dwelling creatures are not of the same genus, nor are they in any way related to one other, and that there is no common evolutionary ancestor for all species of fish. He concluded that there is no such thing as a Fish."

study-milky-way-may-be-full-of-dead-alien-civilizations

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Interesting article up to a point, but a bit short on detail.

Don’t talk politics, religion, or sexuality.

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Same thing applies I often think to science, where some of your rules are. Accept reasonable doubt, test evidence, and qualify your statements. And you will always lose the arguments with those who don't.

Clearing land to feed 2050’s human population threatens biodiversity | Science News

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Should not really be news to anyone. But then it seems that the idea that the earth is a globe, is to some.

I’ve seen quite a few posts on here where something is deemed to be “unknowable”.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Good point. If it is unknown, then you can not know it properties, including if it is unknowable. For if you know it is unknowable then you know something about it. Wonderfully silly.

And people in this country boo-hoo that we’re asked to wear a mask.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

So if she wanted to avoid fourteen days in her hotel room, twenty eight in a prison cell would seem about right.

Damn You Autocorrect!

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

I would enlarge on that, by saying, 'bigger'.

Christmas time in the North of Germany

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Same here, but with added wind.

Wolf puppy from tens of thousands of years ago found frozen near Klondike: [arstechnica.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Wonderful find, and a very readable article. Great.

Bowl of baby otters , today's cuteness

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Barrow load of baby orangutans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOzI-D4LxR4

New Meat-Eating Dinosaur Species Found in Brazil: [sci-news.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Love the picture, very creative, and lifelike.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.

Fernapple comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Bit grim but true. Even today, the odd person still wakes up in the morgue, but in the past it was often very difficult to come up with good tests. I am told, that there is a well known account of how, the life-sign test for one crucifixion victim, was a jab in the dark with a spear point, to see if he grunts. Don't think that was likely to be very accurate. LOL

I might have posted this last year, but it isn't as if anyone would remember! Happy Solstice: ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2020:

A happy Yule to you too.

Happy Solstice to all. May your good fortune grow with the lengthening of the days ahead.

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Happy Solstice, and have a good and healthy new year.

Happy Solstice Everyone!

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Yule, enjoy yourself a lot more without the Christian nonsense.

One of my all time favorite Biblical contradictions.

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Yep, a good reminder.

This Online Community Is Sharing Pics Of Absolute Units, And It's Hard To Believe Things Can Get ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Great photos. Amazing what you can do with a wide angle lens though. LOL

Just thought members may like see a few pictures of Australian fossil remains.

Fernapple comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Interesting. Do you know what number three is ?

What Kinda Funeral Do Atheist Have?

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2020:

One of my friends had one a couple of weeks ago, pretty much like any other except no god mentioned. Some readings of poems and a short biography, and he picked a couple of fun songs. Personally I do not care what sort of service, if any, they give me. Though, if I had a choice, I would like to die alone and lost in the woods, so that the animals can eat.

“Once you label me you negate me”.............Soren Kierkegaard.

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2020:

You also make my skin sticky, and my hairs come out when I try to peal it off.

On A Happy Note ,just made Level 9 ,was my goal to do before Christmas ,

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2020:

A worthy winner.

So much for moral absolutes.

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2020:

I do not know your US politics well obviously. But I would not say Republican, more extreme. How about 'Fascist' . Look at it this way Fascism has got a bad name, and while a few really extreme Fascists may still accept the name, even they would admit that it is not going to help win them any popularity contests. So to really sell it, Fascism need a new name, (rebranding). Look around, is there a spare one available ? How about 'Christian', nobody really believes in that any longer, at least not in the plain teachings of it founder, and none of its groups believe in the same things, so its going spare, meaningless anyone can use it for anything. That will do nicely.

I've mentioned that I'm not prepared to discard "religion" simply because religious fundamentalists ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2020:

There are and have been, many definitions of the term 'religion'. And there is no reason why the same person should not choose to use more than one of them, according to circumstance. As long as they are plain about their usage and why they do so. Some definitions are narrow, and will only admit theist religion as true religion, while others are wide ranging, going beyond even none theist superstition and philosophy, to include even, social clubs, political movements, and personality cults. With that in mind, what would be perhaps the widest definition possible, encompassing the greatest range of usage. I would say that, a good and useful wide definition would perhaps be. 'Religion is the awarding of authority to things, without requiring the use of reason or evidence, to justify that award.' Whether those things be none existent sky fairies, spirits, myth, tradition, art, culture, political movements, old books, or cult leaders; the one thing that they all have in common. Is that they are considered to have authority, and be sources of truth, without attempting to expose themselves, to an unlimited degree, to questions of reason or evidence. Since this is perhaps the one thing that all the common usages of the term religion share, it is doubly useful as a definition. Since it makes plain the deep connection between the anti-social/criminal, and religion, from the playground bully and abusive spouse, to the political dictator. Since the things which every criminal wants more than anything else, are of course power and wealth, but especially power and wealth, which they do not have to expose to the trials of reason and evidence Your friends may be doing good, but they are also while doing so helping to build a house for crime. The fact that the odd blade of grass grows among the loco weed, does not make the loco weed good pasture.

Did i miss some rule disclosure where the use of the word fuck was prohibited?

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2020:

Bugger.

Wasabi farming in Japan. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

Brilliant, just the sort of thing I love the web for.

I haven't been on here in a while. Erm, what's up?

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

Not a lot, we just plod along as always. Welcome back.

What Are the Side Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines? [aarp.org]

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

Several are recorded, as the article says, but my friend, who is 88 and quite frail had it last week, and said that it has just made her arm a bit sore, but that is going now.

Hi. I'm new here. Name's David. 🙂

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site, and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

Baby nursing parasite in fish

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

OK I loved the 'you missed no. five bit.

15 arguments that PROVE Santa exists and DESTROY Santa deniers : atheism

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

Yes that is funny, and so well put together.

By not opposing the ban, should they make that choice, the Jewish community has a serendipitous ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

So if you can not buy meat that fits your religious law, because it does not fit the states law, then you are by default a vegetarian. Who ever said that, eating meat was a fundamental human right ?

Bibly people like to put out the classic: The wages of sin is death.

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

And of course death did not exist until Adam and Eve plucked the apple. So the tardigrades can blame us. We have a lot to answer for. LOL

I am having a hard time understanding why I have to have a certain amount of points to join a group.

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. Some groups feel open to trolling, they set a certain value in points, so that only members who have proved that they are trustworthy can join. That is the main reason for the points system, it gives the site a chance to block and weed out, hackers, trolls, dealers and fakes etc. before they can do real damage. Some groups are more paranoid than others, sometimes with good reason (If they have, say, political content. ), sometimes not. But points come quickly if you take part.

Trump's been watching too many movies.

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2020:

I just don't understand why US presidents don't have to just go, as soon as they are voted out. Apart from France, perhaps, most first minister around the world go very quickly. It invites mischief.

Remember to say "please" and "thank you", wash behind your ears and hold the door for others. peace.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

Nice photo. Do you know the species please ?

Why Do Atheists Have Children?

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

I do not think that having children, on an over populated planet is a good thing, I have not done so. But some people feel that giving life to children is a good and fulfilling thing: some people gamble, I don't: I drink, some people don't: some people do weed, I don't: I eat eggs, some people don't. And I am sorry to say that there will be as many different reasons for doing or not doing somethings as there are people, you will therefore end up with thousands of different answers, or none.

It doesn't get more classic than this. :D

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

That gets the 'Groan Of The Week' award. No contest.

A Problem with Sacred Texts – TRUE? GOOD? BEAUTIFUL?

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

Part of the problem with religious texts is expressed in the. "True, Good, Beautiful ? Part of your heading. The point being that for a text to attract followers, especially when those followers have come through education systems which do not teach the strongest critical thinking, the texts need only be the last, 'beautiful'. Which is why the arts of all sorts are so dangerous. That is of course basically the Dawkins 'memes' theory, of human culture, that ideas are not passed down and spread because they are correct or truthful, (though they may be that), but mainly just because they have the qualities which make them spreadable. Often by appealing to our prejudices, and fears, often because it is those that we are most sensitive and defensive about, or by appealing to our sense of beauty. I am sorry to say, that I can not go wholeheartedly with Keats, that "truth is beauty". Truth is only beauty to the already beautiful and perfect mind, and who has one of those ?

A Problem with Sacred Texts – TRUE? GOOD? BEAUTIFUL?

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

It is helpful in such cases, to start perhaps, by defining religion, and there are, as you all well know, perhaps as many definitions of religion as there are religious people and sceptics put together. Especially when some people claim that, a religion has to have a deity and some claim not, while some say that even backing a football club can be religious. Here's a definition though, which always seemed to work for me, is very all embracing, and perhaps makes an important point about the main problem with religion. It is. “ Religion is the awarding of authority, to things which can not justify the authority by reason or evidence.” Whether those things are, sky fairies, old books, grand metaphores, political movements or people in office, etc. even sometimes science. ( I once saw a TV presenter ask a scientist to pronounce on a historical question, even though the scientist, said he had no knowledge of history, for example. ) In other words by this definition, religion is in many ways just the practical expression of the, proof from authority, fallacy.

Why do religious leaders complain about humane treatment of animals because it clashes with their ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

Because they believe in the thin end of the wedge. If they allow even the smallest interpretation of their holy books, even if it is requires the most extreme interpretation in the other direction, to make it seem conflicting, then it raises for them the possibility that people may try to ask more questions, or even ask who gets to do the interpreting, and why. "And God forbid that."

Living near so many beautiful trees, I am trying to capture the huge variation in textures.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

You are getting there.

I have just seen "the bug" remove two successive posts remove the word c-h-i-l-d .

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2020:

The exact opposite happened to me yesterday, something duplicated several words in a comment I made.

My profile photo is a radio show about religion where I made a statement that "religion cheapens ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2020:

I agree wholly with that. Indeed even the desire for religion means a failing to appreciate life and nature.

My profile photo is a radio show about religion where I made a statement that "religion cheapens ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2020:

You mean that Jesus was not gay !?!?

Hello! Good to be here

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site and if you have time do check out the groups, there is something for everyone.

So where was everyone before they started "living in the moment?" 🙃

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2020:

A lot of people are still living in Dreamland.

Vitamin D and Covid 19 - Excellent information. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2020:

A number of people have been linking low vitamin D to bad C19 effects, for some time. It may not be the cure all some claim, but it certainly could help.

Can America Leave this Abusive Relationship?

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2020:

Why does it take so long for an American president to go ? In the UK as soon as the vote is counted, our Prime Ministers, get notice to pack their bags and go in days, and I think that applies to most of the rest of the world, as well.

"All of this massive cosmological churning and destruction (which is paralleled, by the way, on our ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Yes it could be the plan of a creator god, at least one which is not all caring and has no interest in suffering. But it is hard to see it as the plan of an all caring, Abrahamic god of human morality.

"All of this massive cosmological churning and destruction (which is paralleled, by the way, on our ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Amen.

Probably get the COVID vaccine this week or the next.

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

My friend got it today. Says it is making her arm very sore and weak feeling. But she is in her late eighties and rather frail. In the UK people of my age ( 63 ) have still got to wait several months for their turn to come round. There is a bit of a debate going on here about whether, they should treat the elderly and in danger first, or go for the young most active spreaders to try for herd immunity.

What Box Do I Fit In?

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

I would imagine that it is possible to fit in several of them at the same time. Why don't you tell us more about yourself ?

This one is excellent! Where do you fit in?

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Crude list really, and why probabilities not possibilities. But for what it is worth I will go 6.

16th December 1773.

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

(Fun fact).Turkey went the other way. Being very vexed by the Arab domination of the coffee trade, when the Ottomans fell out with the Arab world. They took to growing their own tea, and now take a lot of national pride in their tea drinking culture. ( And it is lovely tea too.)

Thought to share it here

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

I get the point, but really joking about mental illness.

I was raised feeling that my existence is a burden to others.

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Yes my mother was just such a parent, and my father being weak and absent a lot, did little to make up for it. Thankful to my grandparents. But one thing I found about gaining self worth, which you may like to try, is giving something to other people, be it charity work or socially active commitments. It adds a lot to your self worth to know that you have made a contribution, and especially so because you will know that it brings the kind of joy and rewards that abusers can never know. Because when you see what you have achieved lighting the faces of others, you will truly know that you have outgrown their intentions and understanding.

Quarantine central during this pandemic.

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Beautiful home, but you still need to be careful, even if you live way out.

So, now & then some of you have found me a tad harsh.

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2020:

Good luck. If guts alone can win you sure have those.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2020:

Bit obvious, or am I missing something ?

Is this you?

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2020:

You posted this several hour ago.

Try to ignore the obvious oxymoron in the title of the article if you can 🤣🤣🤣 THE FLAT ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2020:

One line. "for Davidson, a born again Christian, " Says it all.

Sitting here enjoying my ciggie and cup of coffee when I hear through the window a little voice ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2020:

Yes but just think about how smooth and warm that paving is, after the sun has been on it. My wife liked outdoors, quite takes me back.