Cat meets shrew (2nd kill of the week).

Fernapple comments on Sep 7, 2020:

Great face shot, getting a cat to look into the lens well done.

During the geography class on the Eastern Mediterranean, the teacher asked Little Johnny, "What are ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Venetian. The Phoenicians were noted for inventing phones.

Is America really the richest country in the world? Yes and no! [swedishnomad.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Even if you take out the city states, and the oil states. America is still behind Ireland, Switzerland.

Religion observations

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Amazingly it was once considered very important, the church flip flopped for many years over the issue of Adam and Eves belly buttons, and in the middle ages artists who portrayed them the wrong way, according to the then fashion, could be charged as criminals. Many used sprays of foliage and the like, painted over the areas to avoid the problem.

That's disturbing.

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Big flowery hats, like they wear to church, that's way beyond passive aggressive.

I'm kind of curious about why women do strange things to their bodies: waxes, tummy tucks, face make...

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Good smart appearance is not just for what you get out of it, but also like not displaying your dustbins on the street, a kindness to everyone else. But of course it can go too far, and many people fall for the, more is better trap, as sold by consumerist industry and advertising, the simple truth that just because someone is selling it, it does not mean it is good, has not dawned on many. (Especially the starkly grotesque cosmetic surgery victims you see everywhere.) Just as not leaving your bin out is good taste, so is not decorating your front garden with a large pimped truck, and a pink plastic hot tub. And there is no reason to think that taste, sense and the ability to resist indoctrination, are likely to be more common in the realm of personal appearance, than housing. With regard to men of course, men are just a push over, we are so hard wired by nature to like women, that we are dead easy to manipulate. It is about status and hoping, almost certainly in vain, that you can get a 'better' mate by so doing. Though from a womans point of view, you only have to give it a seconds thought to realize that it is actually far more likely to get you a far worse mate, if he is shallow enough to be fooled, well, you can work it out. But of course appearance is not about attracting the opposite sex, that is easy. Most birds sing and have bright feathers, not to attract, but mainly to daunt their own sex, it is about passive aggression not attraction. And happily for you if you are not an aggressive woman, then perhaps it is to your credit that you can not see the point of it.

Happened this afternoon (06th of September) at North Point, in the North Eastern part of Hong Kong ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

If beautiful women can still be so beautiful even wearing a mask, what is all the fuss about. ?

Why isn't there a better word for "miracle" that doesn't have religious connotations?

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Yes I do not think that there is a neat single word. I always have to resort to phrases like. "Wonderful good fortune." Which is not very satisfactory. I think that AmytheBruce below comes up with the closest, 'serendipity' though that is not perfect since its has slightly trivial associations. Why not invent one yourself, and persuade this site to begin promoting it ? How about something like an, "incredibility".

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world.

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Stupid, and sometimes just the effect of unforeseen consequences, when even the most intelligent could not be expected to understand what they truly did.

Default to Atheism - The Catholic Thing

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

If atheism succeeds, I do not think that will be "the end of civilization as we know it". If civilizations does end it will most likely be mainly brought about by forces beyond our control, aided by religious science and reason denial. But all of that is beside the point, it would not make any difference if the whole world could be saved, climate change reversed and every form of crime abolished forever, by just one more person believing in god, that still would not magic god into existence. I do not think that the article though is a particularly stark example of class condescension in religion, speaking as a life long member of the lower orders, I have encountered far worse than that. Indeed one of the main reasons for leaving religion was the arrogant snobbery of the religious system. Where working class boys, ( probably the same for girls I don't know directly,) could be stood against the wall and be used as punch bags by religious teachers, (for their own good ) but children with high earning parents were immune from such treatment.

Saturday I picked beans...

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Great harvest, lovely colours.

So, if we placed a satellite six hundred billion miles out in space (tenth of a light year)focused ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

If It focused its camera on the microwave background radiation, nearly to the big bang. If it focused it on earth, one tenth of a year for light to reach it, and one tenth of a year for the message to come back to us therefore about seventy days. But since it would have to journey to its position at lower than light speed, that would still be a time after the launch day. Now, have I done enough to earn the laugh, when you tell me the silly reason why I am wrong.

The first rule of fight club is no damned fight club. Who's with me?

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

The first rule of life is. If you have time to watch trashy Holywood productions, you haven't got a life.

“I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think.

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

That will do well enough. Hello and welcome to the site. Do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

I constantly watch/listen to this at least once a week.

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

She needs the sceptic community badly. Its a pity we can't send her a message about sites like this.

"Orgasm on a plate." Laughing at the Farmer's Market.

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

I just love markets, even if I don't buy anything. Just meeting people who made or grew what they are selling, and watching people just wandering around enjoying the fresh air and the social interactions, instead of trying to fill their trolley faster than everyone else.

Are you conditioned? If so in what ways? Please share. [quotes.justdharma.]

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2020:

Why would I not wish to be controlled by circumstances ? I am here to live, and to interact with the world in which I live.

Is there anything that can be done about people who post things multiple times in the same group?

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

I don't know, when once I did it by accident, I got a warning message, saying. You have posted this already. Or something like that.

Having moved away from the Co-operative bank as i lived too far away, I’m thinking about moving ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Really good information thank you. I am thinking of putting money into a credit union so that sub-page about those is really useful. PS. I did not realize that we are quite near neighbours, at least in global terms.

The Lie and The Truth

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

There is a lovely old painting too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well

Multiple times now I have written private messages only to have them disappear when I hit send.

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

No, but the site does seem to be geared for a PC rather than a mobile device, nearly all the problem reports do come from people using mobile devices.

Going to kinda free write this, and none of this will qualify as "required reading" so if anybody ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site, and if you have time do check the groups, there is something for everyone. But posting on one page is generally enough, it will still show on the front page.

Hello Heathens, Just joined a few hours ago.

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

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

Do new members get free Coffee? TeeHee

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Good members get a T shirt, but for free coffee you need to go somewhere where they take money off you for other things, like a church for example. Enjoy the site, and if you have time do check the groups, there is something for everyone.

Hello I’m new.

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

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

[livescience.com] some vikings believed in a mirror world

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2020:

I have heard that the legend of El Dorado, and the city of gold that the Spanish spent such effort chasing in South America, back in the sixteenth century. May well have arisen out of a simple misunderstanding. Because in many native cultures it was believed, that the spirit world was what you saw when you looked at reflections, and most mirrors were made of gold. Therefore the man and city of gold, were just the native name for heaven or at least the equivalent of the Christian 'Pearly Gates', which could be viewed quite literally in mirrors, or on the bright surface of the sun.

I have access to 4 or more browsers on my computers.

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Try updating Firefox, the latest one shows your most visited sites on the home page with icons, by default.

Do you care?

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Knowledge is power and understanding, that's why good governments try to spread it, and bad ones suppress it.

Which are you? ;)

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Complexity and truth are two different qualities, which do not relate to one another. That's why the modern common misunderstanding of Occam's razor is false, though the original was useful. Quality of evidence needs to be considered as well as quantity. But at the same time it is generally better to hold something to be true, if it is supported by multiple sources of evidence, rather than one, if the evidence is all of the same quality.

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Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Secular charities are far bigger overall in Europe than the Christian ones, (I suspect that may be true even in the US.) and they are by default none religious. To paraphrase the old saw. Agnostics and Atheists are not organizations or movements, in the same way that not playing golf is a sport.

Comparative evaluations are accurate .. [agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Scientist. "I think we should measure the level carefully before we make statements." Pedant. "It all depends on the size of the glass, and are we measuring in litres or pints." Realist "It does not mater, a part full glass, even of piss, is more useful than an empty one." Socialist. "Its better everyone has half a glass, than one person has two glasses full and another has none." Capitalist. "Its my glass therefore I own the piss, whoever made it." Feminist. "I bet a man did that." Opportunist. "Great its nearly time for another round."

When should you decide to engage in civil discourse?

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2020:

Don't start to debate, just state your position in a positive way, in other words don't say. "No I do not agree with that." Instead say. "I am finding that the freedom, and positive personal growth that I gain from not engaging with astrology right now are too valuable to loose." Then leave it to them to start the debate if they want to, which they probably won't, but by the time they have heard you say something like that several times, they may just start to question for themselves with out you having to do anything. Example wins more converts than debate.

Can an atheist be a proud Secular Christian?

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Since there are so many different forms of Christianity, it is a virtually meaningless term and can therefore be anything you want it to be. So that if someone, like everyone else, wanted to cherry pick out the bits they like and then call that Christianity, then they are no different from anyone else, and are perfectly entitled to call themselves a Christian if they wish. Personally if they believed in "love your enemies", "turn the other cheek", and "take care of others outside your tribe (good Samaritan) " I would probably call them simply a, good person instead, because I think that they are better than that religion. Or even better than Jesus who if we take the New Testament as half true, also said some really horrible things.

Trumpers vs isis

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

One lot are going left to right, and the other lot are going right to left ?

Marcionism and Mormonism Gnosis reinvented by the Latter Day Patriarchs By Len Hazell

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

I love the way the, perfect holy word of god, emerges from a horse traders market of dealing and double dealing.

Never again ever

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Who is Chuck Norris ?

In his book "Quantum Reality", Jim Baggott writes: "When we look closely we find that it’s not ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Yep that's basically true. We all have to accept certain things as givens before we start. As in mathematics where they are called axioms. The most important of which, beyond pure maths, is that we all have to accept the idea that the only input we receive, that from our senses, is not a total illusion, for if we don't accept that then nothing is true and we are going nowhere, except into empty aimless solipsism. The idea reflects however on the big mistake however that many religious apologists then make, which is to confuse the acceptance of practical axioms with faith. But they are quite different in that axioms, though without any basis in evidence, are things that you accept because you have too, especially where you have no choice, so that they could be called necessary faith or axioms. Whereas religious faith is used when there are choices, elective faith. And that difference is not just a practical mater of how we work things out, but actually changes the whole nature and meaning of the acceptance. So much so that the two things should probably have different names and it is an unfortunate accident of history that in English the word faith has been applied to both. The language needs revising.

Why do we like distant train whistles?

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Good question. Right now anything that reminds me of travel makes me sad.

Never thought of using Japanese anemones as cut flowers before.

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

They are lovely. I always wonder if they are the last of the summers bounty, or the first glory of autumn.

I thought this concept was brilliant.

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Religion is taught like that in schools in a lot of Europe, including the UK. And has been fading fast for a long time as an important part of life.

A good dose of the Philosophy pf Religion is enough to make anyone an atheist.

Fernapple comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Very good. But you left out, twenty centuries of milking every ounce of wealth possible out of the poorest and most innocent communities.

Good morning

Fernapple comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Yep but shall soon be going to bed, different time zone. And sorry but your cat appears to be from the southern hemisphere.

How to slam dunk creationists when it comes to the theory of evolution

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Yes the only problem with that is that some creationists are quite happy to question any science, even gravity. (Although you could, perhaps, make the case that the theory of gravity is built on less solid evidence than evolution.)

Will spend my birthday helping a dear friend.

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Well done. I am sure it will be a happy birthday.

Life in Lockdown

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Yep can't argue with that, though you did miss out beer.

"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Very clear and succinct statements.

Landscapes — 1: On the Moralana Scenic Route, South Australia, 1987.

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Do you know by any chance what the blue flowers are in one, please ?

Sure you really want total freedom?

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Good Peter, You rhyme so well. You from a poet, I could not tell. Lunch I buy ! Its very nice for me, To come on here, And get a poem for free.

Trump declines to condemn teen who killed two in Kenosha

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Actually he did not refuse to condemn, he actively supported. He said . "Self defence." Which is pre-judging the court case in public, which I am sure he should not be doing. He is simply playing to his core supporters prejudices to gain their handclaps. The trouble with that is, that he will alienate the middle ground if he becomes too extreme, and he may then find that come the election, his core supporters are a much smaller minority than he thought. You should never underestimate just how many basically good sane people there are in the world, however loud the extremists may be.

I'm glad to have found this community! It is good to have access to like minded individuals.

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone. I don't know about 'like minded' though, some of the people here are pretty freaky, I love them to bits. Be especially wary of the pedants, we have some gilt edged beauties.

Can an atheist and an Evangelical be friends?

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Yes of course, Christians are the victims of the religion for the most part, you should not hate the victim, only the thing which misleads them, in fact you have to try the harder to help them.

Another thought on Kenosha: the kid's mother armed him, drove him there, dropped him off.

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

I was amazed that she was not charged, in Britain the guardians of a minor are responsible for the minors crimes.

An aged (wo)man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clasp its hands...

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Happy birthday. The sweetest of chestnuts do not ripen till last, and wear the most tattered garments, it is the kernel grown inside that counts.

Many rehabs rely on religion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Many rehabs rely on replacing one addiction with another. It may be that for the individual at least, religion is a less harmful addiction than say drugs. But it is funny that one of the principle objectives of ethics in mental health, is to insure that the therapist does not create a dependency in the patient on the therapist. Though of course the further you get from mainstream health-care and the deeper into alternatives, the more that is waved, until it becomes the normal thing to do. "My receptionist will deal with your bank details. See you next week."

What religions have you been associated with/called just by how you act?

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

I come from the UK, so that, as in most of Northern Europe, everyone assumes you have no religion until you tell them otherwise. Though there are a few of the older generation still living who assume you are a low level christian by default, but even they would never assume that much up front without asking, that would be considered at the very least impolite.

I strongly think that a person is a coward to be science educated on one side and believe in ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

I do not therefore think that they are cowards, merely deluded. Some people, like famously Stephen J. Gould, see religion and science as existing in two separate realms, ( he called them magisteria, ) one in the spiritual or supernatural and the other in the natural. Which is great if there is no overlap and both sides respect the boundary. But of course religion can never do that, because religion is, by its nature, imperial and has to expand its empire into the natural world, since no mater how much power and knowledge you may have within the, possibly none existent, supernatural world, it profits you not one jot until someone puts a real material coin in your collecting tin. So that while science never ventures out of its realm, religion in order to appear to have something to give, and a way of obtaining something, must by its very nature invade the natural world or make statements about it. While since religion is free of the idea of objective truth, pear review, or even the need to be logically consistent, it is free to make any claims it wishes, which means of course that if you have a claim to make, especially an unpopular or criminal one, religion is where you go to make it.

Belief, Love and Politics

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Good article.

Aliens; why should we "listen" for them? Have they ever visited us?

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Good read thanks.

What determines whether a person is a Christian or not?

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2020:

There are also many different sects within Christianity, many of which claim that they are the only true Christians. And you have also to remember that the religion has changed vastly over time. A Nazarean, would not recognize the followers of Paul as Christian, who in turn would not understand the views of post Constantine Christians, while a couple of hundred years later the split between Rome and Greece made it into different churches, the Reformation and post Reformation non conformism, all change it again. And who knows what happened in the muddles of the first two centuries before any original written records. That fact is that you just have to accept that a Christian is anyone who self identifies, with what is basically an almost meaningless term, some don't even believe in a physical Jesus. The only common thread is that each are trying to give their quite different views a little extra (fake) authority, by linking them in name with a tradition. My guess is that the next incarnation of the name, will be as a rebranding of fascism. That is what you get when you set up the god fallacy, and/or, give god like authority to tradition. Anyone can manipulate god and tradition, (who have no voice or opinion of their own), to support whatever views they like, they are therefore, 'gods gift' (sic) to the criminal exploiter, and always fall into the criminals hands in the end.

A nice surprise, my t shirt arrived 😊

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Well done, and it fits too.

7 Things that PROVE God is Real is an article written six years ago by J.

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Link timed out, I am sorry to say.

40 of them?! Wow! I go first. The Ring.

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

The wicker man.

What is something (besides religion) commonly believed to be true that is actually not?

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Art. Not works of art, but high art, the idea that some works of human craft are somehow 'spiritual' (another meaningless word) while others are mere crafts. Organic. The idea that you can use a chemical from a plant, which probably evolved the chemical to kill animals in the first place, with safety. But a chemical devised in a lab and tested though the most stringent safety standards must be dangerous, ( OK, sometimes they are, but prove that all plants etc. are safe.)

Vincenzo Galilei Fantasia Terza from Il Fronimo performed by M.

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Sad Alamanda went, and the site moves on, things change not always for the worse.

Here’s a question.

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

There may already be one. The Humanist sub-group of sceptical thinking, sets out the view that. If you reject god and the supernatural, then your own species becomes the most important thing in life, and therefore fulfilling human needs and promoting human happiness becomes the highest goal, by default . I have a few reservations about it. For one, the lack of direct environmental commitment in that, unless you believe that looking after the environment is a prerequisite for human good, especially long term; which seems sensible. And perhaps it is just a little too anthropocentric a view in general. But those are small concerns.

Then there is this....

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Groan.

COMMUNITY GUIDELINE DISCUSSION: WHAT ARE OUR "RULES"?

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Community guidelines are the third section down on the basic instructions page, I do not think that there is a lot of benefit from making them really, 'in your face'. But I agree that they should perhaps be move to the top of the page, at least, especially as they are currently below the rather woolly and debatable 'agreed principles' which I do not see the purpose of really.

I've never posted before.

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Hello and welcome.

Trump is ignoring right-wing extremists who 'want to start a race war,' former DHS official says

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2020:

Dictators always start by ignoring the crimes of their followers. Then if their followers fail they can distance themselves and come in with the winners at the last second, and if they a successful they can jump in to take the credit. That is what sitting on your hands is for. Hitler did it, so did Stalin and so did the white government in old South Africa.

For all the knockers of RT?

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2020:

Sorry but I often watch RT and have done for some time, and sadly, I have watched it become increasingly a Putin mouthpiece, and propaganda machine over the past ten years. It may not be directly under Putin's control, though I would not rule that out. But that is the clever modern way, to franchise out your propaganda. Because that both, gives it more credibility and enables you to distance yourself from it more easily if you change your mind. While at the same time controlling it indirectly, by managing its funds, keeping the threat of direct control open but unused, (The threat over time, achieves more than the threat carried out.) and above all insuring that it is placed in such a way, with such a working ethos, that it only attracts employees favouable to you. Who can therefore be trusted to work for your interests gradually and in a low key way, (and slow gentle propaganda works far better than overt), even if you openly order them to be neutral or favour you opponents. This is the way that many news media are managed today, from the political right in the US controlling Fox, to the British state establishment managing the BBC, and the Kremlin the RT. You can not trust any news media, to get an approximation to the truth, and only an approximation you have to study them all, and then attempt your own personal meta analysis. Hard work and unlikely to succeed, but the only way. And for proof of this to anyone who may be interested, I only care to offer the fact that the article you linked this post to, is written by a British journalist who works for Russia Today.

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2020:

Great photo. Even if it is a fake made in Photoshop, it is still clever. And if it is not, I hope they got the cat out safely.

I came across the following post: White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2020:

That usage of black and white predates modern racism, and goes back at least to the middle ages. One other interesting question to ask therefore is. Why the deliberate polarity ? I have never seen a white person, sort of beige/pink/grey at best, nor have I ever seen a black person, very dark charcoal grey with a hint of brown, being the closest, and that is very rare. Therefore if there are objectively no black or white people, is not choosing the most polar colours, as symbolic of race, a deliberate overstatement of difference using false facts.

The time here is 5pm.

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Amazed that the computer does not overheat. Well done for keeping going.

Millennials are losing their religion—and social media might explain why

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2020:

They say it is because social media give them identity, rather than getting it from their religion. But another factor could be that social media broadens their horizons, rather like travel. One of the great props of religion especially in the US, I always thought, was that Americans were statistically the least traveled nation in the developed world. It is much easier to think that people from other cultures are going to hell, when you don't know any people beyond your own county boundary.

Alleged Kenosha Killer Loved Cops, Guns, Trump, and 'Triggering the Libs,' Former Classmates Say

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2020:

If he is not an adult, why is his mother not also on a charge ? Surely at the very least allowing a child to possess a gun, is a crime, if the possession is not legal and you are its guardian.

‎Friday, ‎August ‎28, ‎2020 Souls of LOVE - Personifying - Ones Self - Spirits of ENERGY...

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Funny this seems to be becoming quite repetitive, I am sure I saw posts exactly like this one the last three or four weeks. Are you a bot. I always wanted to meet a bot.?

Some call it a weed but I love Honeysuckle! What a delicious smell.

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Is that a honeysuckle ?

' Nothing in this world can torment you as much as your own thoughts ' - A. Moe

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Only things that can. ( Mind you that B######y mole who keeps on digging tunnels though my garden is having a d### good go.)

This is one of my favorite quotes.

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Oldy but a goldy. Hello and welcome to the site, enjoy the posts and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

The crooked owners of Hobby Lobby continue to fight returning STOLEN artifacts to Iraq.

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

The peasant who steals a goose from off the village green, is a criminal. The lord who steals the green from under the geese, is a great public servant. The people with the money get to write the rules.

New Research Shows the Four Conditions That Lead to a Less Religious Society | Hemant Mehta | ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Of course you will have to move quick, the religious are aware of those things too, and a moving fast to squash them, before they become universal. They have already succeeded in crushing them in a lot of Islamic countries, and are moving fast in the US and Russia. There is nothing brings defeat as quickly, as thinking that you can smell victory.

The Christian Creed for dummies 1.

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Of course before you sign up you had better see what the , Mohammedans, Hindus, Buddhists, Odinists, Animists, etc. have to offer. After all they may have a nastier hell, if not a better heaven.

I recently watched Alex O'Connor's debate with two Muslims and as expected they used the usual ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

You just say. "No, god prefers atheists/agnostic, and sends them to heaven while religious people go to hell. Because atheist/agnostics show good critical judgment not insulting him by thinking he will value blind faith, don't tell him what to do, and don't set up fake gods in his place. Now prove me wrong !"

Is access to this site purposely being reduced?

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

No problems here in the UK.

Scaling The Border: The Not-So-Great Wall of America | Full Frontal on TBS - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Just go with the eight year old.

What they don't want you to know about masks. : Unexpected

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Someone will clip the first few seconds off that and repost it. LOL Sorry I know its sad and dangerous, but a can't help it.

“Success is not the key to happiness.

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Yes but that is one hell of a big challenge.

when I was out doing some yard work today I received a voicemail.

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I get regular ones about my Amazon account. I know they are fake, because I have never had an Amazon account. I am perhaps in the front line, because I run a business, (tiny business) the, "We can upgrade your website and get you more traffic." ones are perhaps the most annoying. The ones that pretend to be from the gas/water/electricity companies the most dangerous. Though I had to laugh a the crude fishing attempt by one I used to get often, who described himself as being from. "Your service provider."

Got a call from, Apple Support," yesterday saying that their cloud storage had been hacked, and that...

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I get regular ones about my Amazon account. I know they are fake, because I have never had an Amazon account.

The Pressure Cooker that is Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Great post. Personal growth always hurts a bit, but well done. I think though that you would probably have grown though without our help, since you come over as a growing sort. Although there are some clever people here, we are I think a good mixture, it is just some people love the debate.

This Is A True Story: My girlfriend was raised Catholic in the Philippines.

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Know thyself.

If you are elected as the leader of your country, what is the very first thing you would do for your...

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2020:

In the UK. Bottom line from which everything else stems, create a more accountable democratic government system, starting by replacing of the house of lords with a proper second chamber.

Regret to inform you there will be no ZOOM CHAT or ZOOM TRIVIA this week.

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2020:

I do hope you find her better. I have not done the zoom yet but hope to when I can, its great that people are helping the site move forward.

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Sounds like there are not any good choices then.

Just a curiosity thing.

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Could be that you posted in some groups which have been closed.

Holy Hate: The Far Right’s Radicalization of Religion

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Religion especially theist religion, provides respectability and authority which is based on god. But god does not exist. So god therefore, has no agendas of its own, will never have any quarms about what it is asked to do, or ask for a bigger share of the loot, the rape victims or the honours. He is therefore the perfect criminals hench man. God provides, support without questioning, and authority without cost or responsibility, and can be manipulated or cherry picked to say anything you wish. In other words, god is exactly what every criminal and anti-social psychopath wants, to frighten, and overawe their victims, in exactly the way the criminal wants. So that god and religion become like magnets for the criminal minded sucking them in joyfully. And now that theist religion's role in formulating and promoting morality, has been taken on by by the modern secular religion, which we call human rights, supported by secular authorities like nation states and international bodies, religion has no where else to go, if it is to continue, except into and ever deeper pairing and mutual symbiosis with organized crime of every sort. Though that is perhaps no more than revealing its true face, that it had all along.

Chilling huh?

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2020:

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

Chilling huh?

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Chilling ho! Good.

Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone' [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Yep, just two countries left now where it still lingers. And I don't suppose it has anything whatever to do with those two countries being extreme theocracies with strong anti-progressive agendas. (That's sarcasm by the way.)

Ever just feel like Fannie Lou Hamer said, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Don't stay away too long, we are short of mature males.