Walk this way ....??? [agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Nearly equaled by the second most dangerous phrase. "I think I can improve on this."

"Love the sinner. Hate the sin." How do you feel about this saying?

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

If really intended, then like the, anti-religious. "Hate the idea, not the believer." There could be some value in it. But it also, if not genuine, and it rarely is, it can be just a license for the hypocrite and the bully to indulge in hate crimes. Better to leave hate in the locker, there are other motivations like compassion, pride in achievement, even justified fear, to propel you into action if you need a drive to get going. Sin, is anyway, in many ways a meaningless word, since the only difference between it and the word crime, is that unlike crime, sin, is supposed to put a stain on your soul that is visible supernaturally, and marks you as an offender. If you don't believe in supernatural souls, then there is no such thing.

Borrowed from fbuk - An Aussie play on words

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Groan.

"Civilization is just something that sounded like a good idea when god was drunk."

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

God had nothing to do with it, in fact it sometimes seems like he/she/it did its best to put its boot in it.

Who else is a TIME TEAM - BBC series fan? You can watch all 19 seasons on YouTube. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Video says, not available in my country, sadly.

TL;DR - if you were going to use the Socratic method in some street epistemology to talk to a person...

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

I would say that if you have never been involved in such talks with theists, then you have been lucky. And that a better way to spread the idea of sceptical thinking, is to set a good example of being a good human being, while being open about your lack of faith in the supernatural. However should you get involved, there are I think two mistakes to avoid when debating with theists. Firstly. Do not get in debates about the existence or none existence of god, in the abstract, you may think that the fact that they can not 'prove' objectively, the existence of god is a weakness of theirs. But they think that the fact that you can not, disprove it either, is your greatest weakness. The fact is, nobody can objectively prove or disprove anything, at all, even existence, about something which is invisible by definition. ( As Bertrand Russel put it. There is a china teapot orbiting in space, half way between the Earth and the Sun. Prove there is not? ) But if you allow them to debate on that issue, then they will, in their own minds, having got no disproof of god out of you, claim the debate by default, and assume that no disproof is the same as proof, and that an abstract god is equivalent to their own particular brand of theist god in their holy book. Its one of their greatest delusions, to assume that the word god, by default means their own god. You have to remember that they are not really trying to prove the existence of god, they are trying to prove, the existence of 'their' god. Therefore keep the debate on the evidence they are using for that gods nature, in other words as found in their holy book. Secondly. Do not be afraid of saying. "I don't know." as often as you can, and that you are happy to accept not knowing. It annoys the s##t out of them, and kills nearly all their arguments. Because remember, it is they who are making false claims of knowledge, based on pseudo-authority: They know god exists, they know how the universe began, they have the final word on morality, they know what happens to them after death, etc. , and all with only the evidence in some old badly rewritten, edited and translated book. If for example they ask you say, (assuming creationists ) how did the universe started, you can say, the big bang or whatever, then they will start asking you about your evidence about before the big bang, and then you are going round in circles. Instead say I don't think anyone knows, and then ask them for their proof which you can attack, because they are the ones making dishonest claims of knowledge and plain simple honesty is something they have no answer for.

If I asked you "Who are you"? Would you know what to say?

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

I am a guy, who posts and comments on Agnostic.com, no one need know more. But I retire soon and then will be a free agent, free to tell you everything. Watch out its going to get very boring around here very soon.

In such a noisy world with so many fights for justice, such a fast news cycle, and such powerful ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

What you do to raise the profile of Humanism, skeptics, and nones generally, is to just go on setting good examples of being good human beings, and over time people will notice. Slow and steady wins the race. (In this case anyway.)

Today was a disaster for me.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

You are not finished until the judge says you are. Until then keep fighting your corner.

Meanwhile our public schools struggle to find enough funds to open our schools safely.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

How can you claim that in the US there is a separation of church and state, if the state effectively funds religious education ?

I still cling to hope, and I believe in Love, and thats faith enough for me. -Peart

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

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

New to this group, thanks for having me :) Thought I would share something that has had my poor wee...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

I am sorry to say that free speech always involves allowing people to say things which are unacceptable, even harmful and stupid. But if you are to have it at all, then it has to be a absolute, within reason such as promoting violence can be banned, one of the few real ones. Because if you give someone the power to decide who should and who should not speak, then you create the prefect environment for a criminal to exploit. Also you force some forms of speech underground where they can become far more dangerous. Since they are no longer monitered by main stream society, no longer held up to ridicule, and able to attract support from a far wider base, since the one successful underground movement soon becomes the leader of them all, and soon becomes an alternative society.

Hello everyone.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

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

[businessinsider.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Fear of mediocrity, that it will just become a repetitive drudge, neither wholly failed nor successful, yet still a binding commitment.

Please post a picture of something that makes you smile. I call this one pure love plus joy.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

This is a photo of my best friend feeding a wild donkey, on the island of Cyprus, it was our first holiday together. The fun thing is, that she knew where we were going, so she deliberately took some expensive first class apples from the hotel breakfast buffet to feed them, carefully placed in her handbag. But then she is over twenty years older than me, (late eighties) so at that age you can get away with things.

BLACK CAT ANALOGY-in case you've never heard it.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

And religion is theology, with the treat to punch anybody who questions your discovery of the cat.

This has to be the future, if the civilisations of Homo Sapiens are to survive.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

It been a dream for such a long time, I shall not hold my breath, but the light at the end of the tunnel gets brighter. ( Mixed metaphors there, hope you appreciate the effort that went into that. )

Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

If you can leave one faith based mindset, you probably have the skills needed to leave others.

Three-Quarters of Recovered Coronavirus Patients Have Heart Damage

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

It may be years before we can truly count or evaluate the final long term cost of this virus, but you may be sure that it will be huge.

Welcome to my high society ...[agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Maybe we could become a sub-branch. Unless of course they require a high quality rather than a large quantity.

"God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Sorry it got boring after the ten or twelve, but I have to wonder if it ever occurred to them, that the W. Churchill which comes second, could apply even more strongly to believers.

Common foods that could secretly contain insect fragments- [rd.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Rodent hairs are also found in most foods, for the same reason. Remember the old rule, peel it or cook it, never eat salad and never eat anything that someone else has prepared. Meh, a bad attack of the runs is a better way to go than most.

I came here to find a friend.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

We are here. Hang in there 2020 will pass.

(sarcasm) Does a pimp lecture the pope about morality ?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

If the pimp does not market children, why not ?

Think I found my new favorite mask. ❤

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

I want one which says. 'Not infectious, just ugly.'

And that is a promise.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

21 could be worse.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

You may like this it is on a similar theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttevamkS6gw&t=75s

Anyone surprised? [businessinsider.com.au]

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Of course, why would an organization which built its wealth by exploiting the weak and vulnerable, creating poverty across half the world in order to enrich itself. Then refuse a hand out from a wealthy nation as well.

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”..............Aristotle.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Crime perhaps, but sadly I think that you need starvation for revolution. Humans, poor dumb brutes that they are, will endure a lot before they stand up for themselves. As long as the farmer puts just enough swill in the trough to stop starvation, they will sit silent in their cage, even while their brothers and sisters are dragged off for slaughter.

What are your feelings about cologne?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Don't really like it. Though it has its uses, they tell me that if you are close enough, and down wind enough, to smell someones cologne, you are close enough to catch covid, so its a good warning sign. And why does clothes wash have to be scented. You go into the store and are offered. "Fresh floral scent", or "Contains Lavender Oil", and the next one on the shelf is Citrus, what is wrong with just wanting my clothes washed and smelling of nothing!!!

Bloody summer in Mojacar.

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

We are all bored and unable to work, its getting to be a club with a lot of members. I don't know why people rush to the Med in summer either, I always go south in winter and early spring to escape the cold to somewhere warm. Why go somewhere roasting hot when its nice where you are and then sit and shiver all winter, I can't understand it either. And if you do go to the Med in late winter early spring, thats the best season for wildlife and plant growth after the winter rains, there are fewer crowds, and the natives are relaxed with more time. Humans stuck unthinking in cultural conventions, perhaps, you take your hols in summer because that's what your great grandparents did.

Do masks help stop the spread of the C19 virus?

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

Just posted this on another line too. That's the idea, a nappy (diaper) for your face. Should have always been a legal requirement when going out in public, even before the virus, given that the mouth always contain more dangerous germs than the anus. Much safer too to kiss someones anus than their mouth, think about that next time someone puckers up.

There are always repercussions ... [agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

That's the idea, a nappy (diaper) for your face. Should have always been a legal requirement when going out in public, even before the virus, given that the mouth always contain more dangerous germs than the anus. Much safer too to kiss someones anus than their mouth, think about that next time someone puckers up.

In my last post i spoke about coming out as an atheist and the ramifications of doing so.

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

Being free, means being free of given meaning as well as restraints. You have therefore now to find your own meaning for life, if you want one. Other people have found it I know, in things like education, work goals, charity, making a contribution, helping others on the same route, artistic expression, etc. the list is well known. The thing is, I think, to decide what is truly important to you and keep that at the front of your life.

I have about the usage of double negatives.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2020:

Well done. With that level of unequaled pedantry, you will go down well on here. But there is a lot of strong competition, some of our pedants are truly world class, they will give you a good run for your money. Speaking as an armchair spectator, I relish the game.

This site's business model perplexes me.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2020:

I am told that we have a couple of benefactors who pay the bills. If that is true or not I am not sure.

How Atheists Pray Eric Steinhart [snsociety.org] .

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2020:

Yep, I agree. As said before science is the closest the world gets to that, perhaps meaningless idea spirituality, or prayer if you like. So I am not quite so cynical as some of your other commentators here, since at the very least I would not care to have a life without awe, and it is science that most often brings that close.

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2020:

When you are 6 you think that your parents know everything. When you are 16 you think they are the most stupid people on the planet. 26 you think they are improving a little. 36 you see how you were a little unkind. 46 you see how wise they really were. 56 you think your judgment at sixteen, may have had some value, they were not the brightest after all. 66 you know they were really stupid, and its hereditary.

I'm getting bored here, I no longer see the mission of this site

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2020:

I did not know it needed a mission, if you want one why not bring yours ?

Things Straight Men Avoid Doing Because They're "Gay"

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

I am very straight. But no body tells me what I should and should not do and say, because of how it looks. Everything in life is there to be sampled, the more things the better, it is all part of life's rich tapestry. And I am confident enough not to care about superficial judgments made by shallow people. (Does that sound macho or just old to you ? LOL)

Fauci said wife and daughters received credible threats

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Do you mean 'credible' ?

Cuteness for today

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Fire-hose. And. Don't blame the puppy, you know whose fault it is.

Copied over from Religious Naturalism Group on FB - Greg Simpson "In my mother's library when...

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

One of my favourite writers, I can well recommend his 'Flowering Earth' which I think is his great masterpiece. He says something like that about seawater in there, being as he says, almost the same chemistry as amniotic fluid, and the oceans are the amniotic fluid of all life.

"If parents treated their children as evenhandedly as America treats its citizens, one child would ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

If its an only child, do Americans give it a pony which is suffering from cancer ?

I'm just gonna leave this here. : UFOs

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Maybe they are just redefining terms. UFO, Unidentified Flying Object, is a term which should really never have had anything to do with aliens, and should have remained just a technical term in aviation, saying just what it says on the tin. Then you don't have to do a double think if someone asks you if you believe in UFO's.

preheat cheat

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

For some frozen things, I just put some butter, oil or fat on top, to stop them drying out, then pop them in and leave for a bit longer. It works well, they can thaw during the heating time, and leaving longer makes sure they cook through, the only problem would be drying out/burning on the outside, but the fat/oil stops that.

I'll say good night, all you sweet people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Good Morning. I hope you slept well.

Recent pics.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

I especially like two, it is almost like a landscape.

‘Stay away.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

I am sorry to say that it is an idea found in a lot of places outside Canada too.

"For mankind is ever the same and nothing is lost out of nature, though everything is altered" - ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

For pre-Darwin that was a very insightful statement.

I don't usually reccomend books, but this one will save a lot of wasted effort.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

If its genuine, it is much needed, there is more fake news and false science about gardening than anything else.

Just out of curiosity , as this is an agnostic group , why do we waste so much time discussing ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

1. Its the one uniting thing we have in common. 2. A lot of people have been hurt by religion, and this site offers the hope of heeling. (New members especially deserve patience.) 3. A lot of us don't actually, look off the front page into the groups. 4. Some people need reassurance they are on the right path. 5. Some people like to hone their debating skills. 6. If you are a points hog, it gets you lots.

My desire to be well informed....

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

I love it, but cats always stay sane in this mad world anyway, they are perhaps the only ones who do.

Just a question. Can you get a 'double point', first reply bonus by replying to your OWN post?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Never understood why you get extra points for being first anyway. What difference does the order of the comments make, unless they are worried that a lot of posts would not get any comments, but I do not think that would happen now the site has grown. While it does encourage short shallow unfunny joke comments.

Doesn't it feel good to shut a religious zealot up when you use the " Good Book" against them let's ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Never had the chance but I am working on it. ( Good bible knowledge and it would be a shame to waste it.)

Religion does three things quite effectively: divides people, controls people, deludes people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Should though perhaps be the other way round, deludes, controls and divides, do you not think ?

Just a question. Can you get a 'double point', first reply bonus by replying to your OWN post?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Sadly yes, though I think that a lot of the people who do it, are just thoughtless rather than ill mannered and point hogging.

THE NAKED TRUTH According to a legend from the 19th century, the Truth and the Lie met one day.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Sadly, the photo is a bit fuzzy, which is kind of sad because it is a good example of nineteenth century narrative art.

Well I had a hike today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Sounds like a good way to spend an hour or two, great thing about dogs they do get you out. But if Kohle is elderly and drinking that much, perhaps you should get his blood sugar levels checked, he could be starting type 2.

I'm 2400 to level 8.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

There you go, an few points for you. We have got to get a few intelligent people up in the eights, but I guess you will do instead.

Trevor Noah Explains Why It's Scary That Donald Trump Shifted On Coronavirus | HuffPost

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

Sadly it says, not available in your country.

How do you get over the death of a love one?

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

What Pondartincbendog said. Plus grief will always be with you, but it can not stop you loving, if loving is in your nature, if you let yourself go, you will love others or the whole world whether you want to or not. Pain is a learning experience and our learning is our greatest treasure. Foolish people will tell you that time will heal, perhaps but don't be in a rush to heal, it comes when it comes, and don't let others pressure you into haste.

“Closet” Agnostic/Atheist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

You are under no moral obligation to share your unbelief with anyone. It need be no more than your own private mater, and there is no need to feel you are being dishonest in any way by not telling people about it. Most of the people in most of the churches, probably do not believe, but they are not in many cases being honest with the one person who they do have an obligation to tell, which is themselves, you are over that. If religion is not true, then there is no personal harm in going through the motions, a none existent god is not going to look into your heart and punish you for your lack of faith, only a real one could do that, and no one else has that right to play god by asking you what is in your heart.

It's been so long since I visited here.

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

Open door.

You are not my shepard, for I am not sheep

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

Don't worry that you have not got many comments on this line. It is simply that on here, this is talking to the converted, and nobody thinks they have anything to add.

' Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice ' - ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

So every morning I open my eyes and spring out of bed. Then I think, that's two, can get back in now.

I had one long term relationship since my husband died.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Never regret what you have done, only what you did not attempt. (Old saying.) Life is too short to look back with regret, we learn from all our experiences, and our learning is the greatest treasure we have. If you have not caused irrecoverable pain with intent, then you have done nothing wrong.

Its 4:30, i'm still awake, sort of.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

He will do something stupid whether you are watching or not. Get some sleep.

Have you read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? What are your thoughts on it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Only book for many years that made me laugh out loud. And especially when faced with obstructive government, I always think about the planning notice pinned up in a basement behind a locked door marked, 'beware of the leopard'. PS. Spoiler, it may also make you cry, which is amazing for a light hearted fantasy, but you have that yet to come in the later books.

Good morning everyone! I developed an interest in evolutionary psychology while working through my ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Have always been interested in the subject, but sadly no expert.

My comfort in Absurdism I used to be religious.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. You will find there are a lot of us Absurd Atheists here, but not mostly through philosophical choice.

Was human consciousness a mistake?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

When the small worm like creature first acquired a light sensitive patch, attached to a nerve ganglion, and the twitch that resulted saved its life, by taking it out of the burning sun and back into the shade, was that a mistake.

Snoopy on Theology, found my copy at: [craigmotor.files.wordpress.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

I may be wrong, but if so, who is right ?

"When life gives you lemons makes some lemonade" I like this quote☺ My mother was scared ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Bravery to be applauded. Best wishes.

I'll bid you good night with a simple question:

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Saved about four hundred pounds sterling, this last few months.

Asimov states "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Nice ten mins listen.

Been a non-active member since 2017.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Get involved, we really are not that scary.

U.S. Weather Service, Portland, Oregon, updated its cover photo today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Good fortune is not wasted on those who know its value.

So there are a bunch of things I should do today but like every day in recent months, I am more ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

It sounds to me like you need a new adventure, since travel is not on the table at this time, why not look for a new hobby or start a business. If the small challenges of everyday don't enthuse you any longer, then gamble on a big one.

So there are a bunch of things I should do today but like every day in recent months, I am more ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

We are all in that kind of rut all the time, the few people who are not, get called hyperactive, and end up medicated.

I just thought of this last night, and I've never heard this argument before.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

God is an anagram of dog, so you work out which species it belongs to.

Hey everyone! I'm so damn glad to be here! Have a beautiful day! :)

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

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

“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Very wise and within limits very true, but I am not sure it is universally so. For example clinical depression, especially where it is caused by chemical changes in the body, certainly would not be chosen freely by the patient, yet it is about attitude.

I really wonder if "god" always meant what it meant today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Yes there are quite complex theological debates about this, especially about the original Hebrew meaning of the word, which had similar origins to the Spanish. If you are interested they are fairly easy to research on the web. But I do not think you learn anything of value from it about religion, only about language and how it evolves and get altered over time. So much of religion may well be caused by mistranslation, bad memories and copying. Imagine that someone once told a story, about how a man and his family survived a flood by building a boat. And how they were wise enough to put a couple each of all their 'domestic' animals in as well. There would not be many, perhaps just a couple of goats and two sheep, not even perhaps in those days chickens. Then what happens if one night a story teller forgets to put in the word domestic ? Perfume, scent, essence and spirit, also have a similar complex and ramified linkage in their origins. Don't forget for example that spirit has at least three meanings, soul, vigour and the intoxicating part of drink. Which was of course the original meaning of biblical 'wine' both the natural, and the sacramental type. While many people think that the Islamic ban on alcohol may be a mistake, and that the ban on 'wine' may only have originally been intended only for Christian sacramental wine. Many saints bodies were said to give off sweet perfume when they died, because your scent was literally once believed to be part of the soul, therefore most dead bodies smell of sin, therefore bad, while saints smell good, and the fact that you smell at all proves there is a soul.

Just how gullible do some companies think people are?

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Yes but some companies, will tell you, that if you pay them, you get a brilliant new life after you are dead.

Reincarnation has always been a very interesting concept to me.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Many things are possible. It is possible that time goes round in a loop, and you live the same life over and over, it is possible that we don't really exist, because the universe and ourselves are just an illusion made by a program running on someones computer. Many things are possible, that is why it is sensible to ask for evidence, be very critical of evidence, and accept that you have to say. "I don't know." To most things.

“Belief is the death of intelligence.” - Robert Anton Wilson

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Fixed mindless belief perhaps. But no in general I think that is a bit strong.

Christian Apologetics: Hitler can't help you. - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

The theists will of course answer. "But that is old testament, we now have a new covenant with god, brought to us by Jesus, who said turn the other cheek etc.." But of course they the have to explain, how a perfect god changed his mind, why Jesus said that he came to complete what came before and how he could believe in that god, plus why the perfect holy church, infused with the spirit of Jesus chose to keep the old testament for two thousand year. Oh and not to mention the bloodshed in revelations.

We can send a man to the Moon, in fact, we did so over 50 years ago! So, why can't we blow in a bag ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Yes it could be possible. But a breath test would provide a smaller more dispersed sample, which would mean the test would have to be more sensitive and high tech, which would make it more expensive, and then people would make an even bigger fortune out of it.

From childhood & very appropriate for the C19 pandemic.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Roundels, remember those, and so called parlor games. It is years since they were a major part of family entertainment.

Handling constant questions from little kids

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Get them reading and teach them how to research is one of the best ways.

In all fairness I do not believe this trait is sex specific.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Not specific perhaps, but certainly mainly. Though my mother never took an ounce of advice in all her life, especially about sugar and smoking. And yep, she paid in the end.

My bed and breakfast guests had two teenagers this time.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Imagination, great kids, just hope the schools don't knock it out of them.

Peach-Blueberry Crumble is easier than making a pie.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Reminds me I have not made a crumble for ages. Must get round to it.

I feel tired of memes. Your thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

No I am sorry. Some people may not be able, willing or brave enough, to express themselves in any other way. Yet they may be the very people who need the chance to express themselves most, and are most in need of the communities support, or at least ear. The old style over content argument applies. What people say should not be judged by the quality of the words alone, a love poem by Lord Byron may be beautifully written, but could it ever mater as much, or try to express as much, to you as your mothers last comical birthday card she sent you before she died ?

Roku is now carrying Reuters News on it's Streaming channels.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

More cats please. I especially like the ones with attitude.

so.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

A lot of people check out profiles, often just to find out what part of the world you come from, because that reflects on how they understand your posts. Sometimes it is just accident, it is easy to hover on the profile button without intending it. And as to seventy year old men, well 'we' (am nearly one) generally are lazy lumps with time to waste, so we dominate everything on a site like this.

"Church and state are, and must remain, separate." - Ronald Reagan

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

And yet was he not the president who used astrology for advice on everything, including presumably how to run the state. Which makes you wonder, did he say that because he thought it was for the states and peoples benefit, or better for the churches that way ?

Has Covid19 increased your loneliness?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

No. Not really I still have as much contact as ever with my one best friend, and all other social contacts remain about the same. But I think that it must have hit a lot of people hard, if they were dependent on clubs and social groups for human contact, then that is gone completely.

In the profile questions, the question "Do you like to celebrate Christmas?

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Winter solstice for me. I think that it has so much more meaning in northern Europe than a legend from the middle east.