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Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

I always loved slime molds ever since I found a bright pink one in the woods years ago. There are I am told many different slime molds, not all of which are related to one another. Some can live as separate parts, which can then come together to form one organism when they want to reproduce and make spores.

Deepfakes: For now women, not democracy, are the main victims [zdnet.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

It was bound to happen in the end. The other thing that could suffer is the internet itself, and all its users.

Anyone else not getting new posts to load in General Forum?

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

No problem here, steady stream. May pay to tweek your preferences.

Hello. I like science man

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

Hello and welcome. Who is 'science man', should that not have capitals ?

I hate to say it, but in the last few months this whole site has become inundated with a lot of very...

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

Discussion, debate, talk and conversation, are all great things, but are of no use if different people do not bring different things to the table. An echo chamber is just an empty box. We all hopefully learn from different opinions, and that learning helps to raise the standard of debate. While in my experience there are not hoards of believers trying to troll the site, one or two perhaps now and again, and those of them that do and that have truly closed minds, usually give up and go quite quickly.

“We are told about the world before we see it.

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

"You have to be carefully taught." Rogers and Hammerstien.

"The analogy of opposites is the relationship of light to shadow, fullness to void, peak to abyss.

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2019:

Interesting , but perhaps not as good or as clever as it sounds at first reading, basically a little banal. That allegory is making a fiction out of truth, or a truth out of a fiction, is only really a definition of the word itself, such as you would read in a dictionary.

Hello Free Thinkers Any Fellow Australians on Here ?

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

There are quite a few, this site gets around. It is perhaps still US centric, but the world wide numbers grow.

My sister says unicorns existed.

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

I always though that the unicorn story in the bible was a wonderful example, of what is sometimes called the 'telephone game'. When you read the original, especially in Job, it seems obvious, to me at least, that the bible is talking about a rhino. At what time I wonder, did the misunderstanding of that become a quite different mythical creature. Or perhaps my judgment about it being a rhino is just stupid, and there really are one horned horses waiting in the woods to ravish human maidens.

Who’s in PSL

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

Welcome to the site, get involved and earn a few points then you can message the people you find on the map page under members. Also check out the groups there is something for everyone.

Cecilia Bartoli singing the aria Ombra Mai Fu .

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

More familiar with the mans voice, and seems more lyrical, but her voice is so rich, it is hard to say whether it is the sex that is important, or if it is just her voice especially that makes it sound so good and different.

Three old men were out walking. The first man says, “Windy, isn’t it?

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

The old ones are the best ones, both men and jokes.

For anyone on the east coast of Florida, near Ft.

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

You are still having garden events at this time of year ! ENVY.

Christmas stuff already!?

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

Same here in the UK, there is just no escaping it. And what horrid tat, masses of it, mostly plastic and wood pulp, and mostly one use only. Why not just go out and burn down a forest for fun. I have heard that what the US alone spends on christmas in one year, would provide enough funds to cure world hunger forever.

The anger over Extinction Rebellion protests is more about the cause than the commotion, writes Jeff...

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2019:

While I support the views of the rebellion, it is hard to see how he makes the jump from the first part to the second. Could he not do a bit of research and find a real political response from the present. Quoting some old clip and paste piece for years ago about an almost totally unrelated issue as an intro., that I think is not just a straw-man argument but a very lazy argument as well.

Has anyone else here been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder?

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

I always think that it is good to break large tasks requiring long sustained attention, into small bits, taking them one at a time and not worry about the end goal. Not only does it make it easier, but it removes one of the things that makes A.D.D. worse, which is pressure and the fear of failing. Take away that strain and you only have the problem of the A.D.D. to deal with. Also go for walks and think problems though while relaxed and employed, so that the outer mind is busy and can not distract the inner. Walking has been proved to help concentration. Make a game of trying to remember things by finding or inventing logical or historical narratives. If for example you are having difficulty with spelling and you can not spell, psychological. Look up and learn the Greek legend of the demi-goddess Psyche, and then add a story you make up yourself about an Irish philosopher called O'Logical and you have it. Those sort of ways of working are used by people who do memory stunts, but they work just as well with A.D. D. as well. And remember that mnemonics that you research and make up for yourself, work better than the ones that other people give you.

How would you respond to "You can't have true love without God"?

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

Ask them back if they love or are loving, they have to say, yes. Then you say. And are you truly loving ? They say yes. And than you say. That proves then that you can love without god, since you love and I am sure that your god does not exist, and I can observe the actions of love but not god. It is near to a circular and presuppositional argument, but it is not quite, and since theists are fond of those sort of arguments, it is fun to throw one back and watch them puzzling. (Make it plain that the god you are talking about is just their theist god, which can be disproved, and not any vague deist god, which you can't.)

Please provide your definition of the phrase "common sense".

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

It can mean a lot of things depending on the person using the phrase and the subject. Usually it is most used by people who have it the least. Sometimes it is just another cheap anti-intellectual shot, like "geek", "nerd" and "bluestockings", but if there is any thing called common sense which has value. Then I would say that it is the ability to make good value judgments about issues, where there is not time, freedom or resources for testing and fact checking, it is therefore a good last resort when we have nothing else.

It seems as though there is so much talk about how expensive drugs are and how evil big pharma is ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

You have also to remember that one of the biggest medical costs, but one which is hidden inside all the others, is public liability insurance. And a lot of that is caused by people and their lawyers who push spurious claims, and also the vast cost of testing drugs and procedures for safety to allay that. Which often has to be repeated over and over for every single country where they are to be sold, because different countries do not accept each others findings, (No profits for their lawyers and government agencies if they did.) so that legal costs often make up the biggest part of a drug/ procedures price.

I just wanted to say, "I love this app! " you thinkers are awesome! Sometimes its just what I ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

Yep. long cold wet day here. The only thing that gives me a break from doing my bookkeeping is this site.

Answer to trumps claim that kurds didnt help during WWII

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

Of course, those with no interest in history are not only bound to repeat its mistakes, but are also bound to expose their lack of interest in humanity at every turn.

Maybe I'm twisting words, but doesn't that seem opportunistic comparing people to money, as if ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

No that is how caring human beings think. The deist god make not pay any attention, and the theist god thinks. " If the addict is not in church groveling, then I will burn them in great pain forever."

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2019:

And the need to do what everyone wants as well.

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Sadly all too true, some people do indeed go beyond parody. Someone once said that the greatest strength is given to all institutions by people with no sense of humour.

Adam Ruins Everything - Christopher Columbus Was a Murderous Moron [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Apart from, arguably, the Caribbean, the one thing he really did discover which was very important for many centuries, was the trade winds. The idea that you could use go east by first sailing south, and then go back west by first sailing north, and have the wind with you most of the way. Though even that was an accident.

A pastor at a church I went to w/my grandmother when I was a teen said that "reading Revelations is ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Numbers 22 : 28. all about the talking donkey.

"The Spoon Theory" -- For anyone who doesn't understand why anyone without a visible illness or ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

My best friend has a bowel problem. It does not affect her much, nor would you notice anything by looking at her, except that she has to wear what is effectively a nappy, and sometimes she needs to change it quickly very quickly. The powers that be, are so unsympathetic to invisible illness, that they took away her Blue Disability badge, which helped her to park her car near to public toilets. Because they said she could walk fine and the badges are only for people with walking difficulties.

I made an exploratory trip to the Albuquerque Biopark zoo yesterday, using the free ABQ senior ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

A small adventure perhaps, but maybe the first of many, when the treatment is over the wold is still out there.

In the city where you live, how an atheist person is looked upon or considered in general?

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

None of the above, just everyday, or at most. "Why are these people still bothering about religion when most of us have forgotten it."

What activity has most consistently given you a feeling of inner peace?

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Walking alone, and meeting friends.

I was happy to meet a fellow member tonight.

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Good for you. Don't think I will ever meet another member, I live right out in the rural backwoods, at least by UK standards.

Should trump's mouth be washed out with soap?

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

It would be nice if the news media, simply refused to quote him, and just gave a summary instead. Especially if they did so with a disclaimer such as. "We can not play the recording of the presidents speech, because of the offensive nature of the words used."

Why do they worship?

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Praise is not for the god/s, but indirectly for those who claim to represent the god/s. Remember the in Christianity, for example, the god thing and the church are said to be one of the same.

So earlier at work I met a guy who works for the NASA branch in Maryland.

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

No one with any wisdom, ever judged anyone for not knowing something, after all it is just an chance to share, and knowledge costs the giver nothing but brings great joy to both. Stupid is not knowing, and thinking that, not knowing, makes you smart. You are a wise man.

I remember this , it shows how utterly stupid anti vaxxers really are , was a huge fear for parents ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Many years ago Smallpox killed and maimed huge numbers, as many as one in four people could expect to get it. Those who survived were left disfigured, and it caused great shame because the wounds look a lot like Syphilis. ( Hence 'Small-Pox' ) It was the first disease ever to be completely eradicated, thanks to vaccinations, perhaps medicines greatest achievement, given the vast numbers of victims who had suffered. Polio was almost about to go the same way and be gone forever, until the religious fundamentalists stopped the work, in part by putting out stories in the developing world, that vac's was a western conspiracy to cause sterility in Moslem men.

Been in hiatus for weeks🙂 and here are some snapshots😉 ( first page😉😊😋)

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2019:

Hiatus looks lovely, are there any hotels there ?

What emotional satisfaction do you get from being an agnostic or atheist?

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2019:

What a weird question, why would you expect to get advantages from being yourself.

What emotional satisfaction do you get from being an agnostic or atheist?

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2019:

Never was a believer, and you can't force yourself to believe however much you may gain by doing so. And if there are any advantages, then not having to do cognitive dissonance all the time is perhaps the best.

Hi all, just want to check in; didn't realise such a group existed and look forward to good times ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2019:

Welcome and enjoy, the points come quickly if you don't worry about them and chill.

About Dawkins new book "Outgrowing God"

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2019:

His books go on getting more banal as time goes by, he should have stopped a the god delusion, sadly pedaling rubbish to keep in print will impact on his legacy. Yet his earlier works were well worth while, and I have to ask, how can the God Delusion and the Selfish Gene, be the same, when one is about religion and the other evolutionary theory ?

A couple I didn't get last post .

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2019:

Like old faded head-scarves found in an antique shop.

China’s Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall [eff.org]

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

Very worrying, but it still seems that people in china are the biggest losers. Sad that dictators never seem to understand that their main legacy will simply be to have held back progress and wasted the worlds time, and in the end history will only record them as losers, however great their illusions of grandeur may be while they live.

This has been asked a thousand times and will be asked again by an other.

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

You could define evil as just the doing of malicious harm. Or, that which is neither good nor neutral. Or, you could define it as theists would, as a power which opposes good. But the three are not mutually exclusive, so it may carry many and several meanings, it all depends on context.

Three points to go for level eight and this post should do it. :-)

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

Congratulations. But don't forget to order the teeshirt in super extra large. LOL

Is it too late? Has climate activism failed? Are we into damage control? [grist.org]

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

That the climate will change, that we will cause it and that it will not be good, is as much as anyone can say. There are too many difficult variables, anyone who thinks that they can make accurate predictions is deluding themselves.

hello to all

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

Hello and welcome, this site for one thing helps get me up in the morning, enjoy, and do check out the groups there is something for everyone and a lot of the life is there.

Long, long, looooonnnngg posts! Those of you who think you can entice me to read 5000+ word ideas, ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

Yep! But, short posts made by points hounds are annoying too.

Q:202821 So why was it deleted? EDIT: I found an old post where I used it – here it is:

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

Yep, the emoji list was longer once, but not unmanageable, I keep asking for a 'thank you' as well, but so far no good.

I've gotten into hibiscuses in the past two years , they just keep on blooming .

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

They are beautiful. Sadly for me I am just on the very edge of the hardiness zone, some people a few miles nearer the coast and with very sheltered warm enclosures can grow them, but not in my garden.

Just brought to my attention by an American correspondent is this 2 year old Deutsche Welle posting ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 11, 2019:

Yep, tradition is everything, forget the fact that all traditions fade, die or change in the end, and when they are gone it will prove how meaningless they were. Without tradition you would have to make decisions for yourself, you may even have to take responsibility for your own actions. Best just keep going to the church /mosque and do as you are told. And if in my case I seem to come to no harm, then a sample of one is always big enough to prove the case. isn't it.

There is not such thing as reality

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

Does not make any difference if there is or is not. Because if our lives are an illusion and we can see nothing else, then that illusion is 'our' reality. While it in turn must exist because you can not have an illusion that does not exist.

So beautiful 🤩

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

And never to give up hope that one day, I may live up to half of that if I am lucky.

I have anxiety issues about going out now due to previous grief.

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

Grief is not quickly cured, nor does it ever completely leave you and it has many symptoms. The best thing however is just that, getting out there and living so this phobia is not helping you. Therefore you need to take this phobia seriously and get help, don't think that it is something to put off and it will come right, talk to your doctor about it asap and make it plain that this is affecting you badly. Sorry to sound tough, but sometimes that is the only way I know to help.

I'm making this post just to get the points.

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

Points, like boiling kettles, come fastest when you are not looking. Don't worry just chill and enjoy.

Trump complains Kurdish allies didn't help US in World War II

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

Has trump any idea about history, does he even know how long ago world war two was, how many wars have been fought since, or how the age demographic works in the none western world, and how few Kurds will remember that far back ?

My Agnostic shirt finally arrived! (Bonus view with smile included!) EDIT: for those who want to ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

Well done.

There seem to be a fair number of atheists on agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

No evidence for god therefore god unknown, no evidence for the question as a Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle therefore HUP unknown.

Sage words for the depressed.

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2019:

Beer.

It's sad that some ppl bully others, even on this site who you have to block.

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Trolls are everywhere, and if they are a pain then that is what the block feature is for. As to the critics who told you off for revealing a confidence, they may well be good well meaning people, but you will find that no mater how carefully you type a post, some people will still misunderstand what you said, or even what you were talking about. Try to be as careful as you can, when you type up a post, it does help, but when you are still misunderstood, just shrug and move on. If you stick to it you will build a relationships over time, and people will understand you better.

Citizens throughout the world need to stop with the hero-worship, either in the form of gods or in ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

May happen one day, but I won't hold my breath. In the mean time sites like this one help, and we just have to keep beavering away.

Religion is a product of the imagination and has no basis in reality.

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Hello, enjoy.

We humans just can't seem to avoid creating and dredging up ideas which promise eternal existence of...

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

No not really. In early cultures religion was often devoted to more everyday things and fears, like illness, lions, and hunger. Fear of death perhaps always existed to a degree, but a lot of exaggerated fear of death was created by religion. Since as they are always using the god of the gaps, anywhere they can find mystery they can create fear and pretend to have answers. So since they are selling fake gap filler, it pays to exaggerate the size and importance of the gaps. A huge amount of religious propaganda has being devoted over the years to promoting a fear of death, and building that exaggerated fear into our cultures.

I wonder which company is responsible for this outrage - [effa.org.au]

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Does it matter which, are there any that would not ?

"because the erotic frisson is such that the kiss that you only imagine giving, can be as powerful ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Always choose a real person, because I need a good kick in the imagination now and again.

Let's talk about Trump's next move if he's smart.... [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

So even the faithful are starting to leap the fence. Was bound to happen.

In solving problems 'In general' how useful is the phrase.

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Not at all. It is far too vague and banal to be of any use in complex real world situations, and why prioritize humans anyway.

Australian Green's Party ridiculed

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Very silly.

Funny how after I post something about the war-for-profit loving criminals in government and other ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

I do lots of profile visits, 99% of them because the profiles menu is right where I rest the mouse, and I click accidentally, then someones rubbish that I don't want pops up and gets in the way.

Do people just know know about this site?

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Lot of fossil accounts I think. Yet because it is small you really get to know people.

Not to brag, but I made it onto another blocked list...

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Join the club, I think that you will find that we have a more exclusive membership, and have a lot of fun, even though we can't get round the block anymore.

I was thinking about going into the bakery business.

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

What area ? LOL

A Comic Book approach but nevertheless: [yesmagazine.org]

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2019:

Its not just the US, I wish that we could get more of that here in the UK.

JESUS DIED FOR YOUR SINS! Don't you just love it when Christians spout, "Jesus died for your ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2019:

God created the world and all the animals, yet a few hundred years later, he could not just recreate them, he had to get Noah to help.

AND THE WINNER FOR THE MOST OUTLANDISH DOCTRINE IS .

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2019:

That a young girl got pregnant magically, by a god without intercourse. At least the Greek gods carried of their victims and had sex with them, seems just a bit more plausible, don't you think.

Question: who here has ever used mycorrhizal fungi concentrate in your garden?

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2019:

I once took part in a lab test on them which proved to be ineffective, but that was only one small test. I think though that they could be a bit like the yogurts, which are sold with active bacteria, they may help if your gut flora is damaged or lacking those species, but otherwise they are just a waste of money, and as it is unlikely your gut is deficient, they are nearly always a waste of money.

new ideas on sea-level rise - [theconversation.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2019:

Of course the melting of ice sheets are not the only, and possibly not the biggest contributers to sea level rise, the expansion of water due to the higher temperatures of the seas also adds perhaps more.

If you like piña colada ..........

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

If you kind'a like to rhyme, It surely ain't no crime, But for your fat, ugly pres, With his white house address, I carn't give a dime.

Just wondering to myself.

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

Yep, funny is it not. And some people say, and I am sure its true, that we know more about religion than they do.

I'm so tired of seeing stories about hunters grinning like imbeciles over their kill.

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

I will take the story with a pinch of salt perhaps. But you also have to remember that the poachers are often very poor, desperate people, who are pushed into it by wealthy dealers and smuggling gangs, Who target people who are in debt, need to fund health care or are even hungry, paying them tiny amounts and pressuring them with threats. And it is the wealthy and powerful gangs who really make money , hardly ever get caught, and don't ever walk long distances in the hot sun carrying heavy weights, or live in fear of animals, or the guns of wardens.

Stop the insanity now.

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

Some one once said, that bombs take away four lives, not just those of the people who are killed, but also those of the people who spend their lives training to deliver them, and those of the people who waste time making them and finding the tax to pay for them.

Dawkin's letter to the Times

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

Report what you intended to, and ignore what was done and said. First rule of journalism.

Stop the insanity now.

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

And think global, just how much waste of money, time, land and materials, goes on something which benefits no one, and does nothing to tackle any of our serious problems while contributing to a lot of them.

Feeding the 5000

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

He should also wash his hands when going from fish to bread. LOL

Four things that never return: the spoken word, the speeding arrow, the wasted life, and the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

Very old quote though, I think that in one form or another it predates D. K. by centuries.

What one book would you keep?

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2019:

I would not really want to part with any of them. When I downsized my collection in the past, even getting rid of books I had no interest in and had not looked at for years, usually about twelve months later, I think, I must read up about that, and its always one of those I parted with that I want. If I had to have one book with me in prison or on a desert island perhaps, then, H.G. Wells, The Outline of World History. Such an easy read, and I learn something every time I dip in.

Who wears it best.

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2019:

Have you not seen my icon ? Mind you I was twelve when that was done, so I figure that's a bit of an excuse.

[msn.

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2019:

The whole diplomatic immunity business is, and always has been, open to abuse, it is simply a get out of jail free card for members of the political establishment. It was brought in in the days when there was an assumption that members of the political establishment could do no wrong. Indeed the justification for it, that it protects diplomats against being persecuted on political grounds, is if you think about it for even a second very questionable. Since it is obvious that the only states likely to so treat diplomats, are those who will not respect international law anyway. Would diplomatic immunity have protect US diplomats in Tehran, if they had not got out in time, or Vietnam from that matter ? No, but it protects people who cause car crashes while driving stupidly, (this is far from the only case ), and it stops people like J . Assange from having to answer rape charges. (Note 'answer' not be convicted of, his guilt or otherwise is another matter.)

Why older women will rule the world: The future is female, MIT expert says

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2019:

Older women always ruled the world.

What are the best places for people like us to live?

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2019:

Nones, have almost nothing in common save that one fact, that we have no religion, and therefore there is no one set of needs that fits all. There are a few places perhaps, such as countries who will persecute atheists, where it would not be good to be, but beyond that, given the choice, no two of us would pick the same fruit from the bowl.

From an atheist perspective (and I am an atheist), is there a difference between religion and a ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2019:

No. The only difference is that religions have political power as well as the religious sort, and so earn political respect.

I am always annoyed when people describe "Atheism" as a belief when it's anything but.

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2019:

The 'ism' is not really attached to the end of atheism, it is not athe-ism but a-theism. In other words not-theism, the 'ism' being part of the theism which it is not.

Of all the arguments for the existence of a god or gods, what is the best one you have ever heard?

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2019:

"It brings me comfort." I can not think of a rational argument which is worth a pinch of salt, but that religion can sometimes bring a little comfort and the comfort of ready made communities to some people, when life can be very hard; is about the only time I would nod approvingly and bite my lip. Whilst not forgetting for even a moment that for every bit of comfort it brings to a person, it brings untold pain to many more.

Took my trowel and claw to my planter boxes and pots in the back garden today.

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2019:

Do post some photos of the growing stages.

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my rose and that it hadn't grown any.

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2019:

It will get hot in the pot, which won't help. But against the wall will also add to the stress, especially for a new plant that has to establish, moving it away from the wall should help.

Very appropriate

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2019:

Since I come from the UK, I don't often comment on the US politics on this site. Its not my business and I don't know that much. BUT I have to say that, I feel, just a little, that the US, however great its faults, is bigger and better than that. Good for not believing on god, now do the other half and start believing in yourselves.

Hello everyone i’m new here☺️

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2019:

Run.

Is any body my age here? I am 23.

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2019:

In my own deluded mind yes, but my birth documents say 62.

Agnostics Qs

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2019:

When bullies are not big enough and strong enough to get their own way themselves, they threaten people with their big brothers, and when that does not work, they invent even bigger brothers.

God works in mysterious ways...

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2019:

Another one to add to the appendix and the embryonic gill slits.

My father was excommunicated from the catholic church for having a vasectomy in defiance of the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2019:

"For me the greatest deficit of organized religion is their compulsion toward exclusivity." Sadly they have to go that way, since it is the only thing they have to offer. If you believed in an all loving, fair and none exclusive god, then what would you need organized religion for ?