Recent Bronze Statues Unearthed In Tuscany

Fernapple comments on Nov 14, 2022:

Where , when, why, how, by who ?

Hello dear agnostic friends.

Fernapple comments on Nov 14, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. And yes there are quite a few like you here.

November light......

Fernapple comments on Nov 14, 2022:

In weeds lie salvation. The weeds outlive the weeder.

Why do atheists hate God?

Fernapple comments on Nov 14, 2022:

God is a synonym for the, "argument from authority fallacy."

“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life.

Fernapple comments on Nov 13, 2022:

Expect little, and life will always exceed your expectations.

Holden Caufield always expects the world to be better than it is.

Fernapple comments on Nov 10, 2022:

To honor god by despising his creation. Not really logical don't you think,. But then they tell you that logic is no way to reach god, and you have to leave logic behind when you enter the temple. But then if there is a creator, then surely the rules of logic, maths and the laws of physics are the central part of its creation ? But there I go, being logical again, just can't help it, must be possessed by some evil spirit or something.

Perfect camouflage! 🦋

Fernapple comments on Nov 10, 2022:

Found it yes. Moth.

[weather.com] Since we can't fix stupid we should stop building on the coast

Fernapple comments on Nov 10, 2022:

Building at all, is part of the problem, we should try to use our existing housing stock better.

My daughter told me earlier this evening that she’s pregnant with her second child.

Fernapple comments on Nov 9, 2022:

No you are not alone.

Some sad news for Agnostics Members….

Fernapple comments on Nov 8, 2022:

She should certainly receive my condolences, I thought I had not seen much of her good contributions for a while.

The Word ‘Homosexual’ Is in the Bible by Mistake: The Explosive Documentary That Is Under Attack

Fernapple comments on Nov 8, 2022:

Quoting directly from my King James, printed nineteen thirty, first published sixteen eleven. Leviticus 20:13 " If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death." Guess what. Homosexual, as a word, is a modern one, and they probably did not have a word for it at many periods in the past, that is why they had to describe it. Even if one passage in the bible is a modern mistranslation, it is very unlikely that all of them are. Clear proof of just how dishonest you have to be to support religion.

Had to share this with my Agnostic friends. Source; [prri.org]

Fernapple comments on Nov 8, 2022:

Not a hard guess actually.

Lottery is a sucker's game

Fernapple comments on Nov 8, 2022:

I do not know if it is the same as the UK national lottery, but there is an argument which says that the best bet is only to place bets on none rollovers, since the extra bets placed on rollovers divide the winnings up so much, that it is probable you will actually win less on a rollover.

We hope..they have been winning for awhile.

Fernapple comments on Nov 8, 2022:

I would still have an escape plan ready. I here Iceland is quite nice.

Do you agree?

Fernapple comments on Nov 7, 2022:

I hope not.

Mystery of genetics or adoption?

Fernapple comments on Nov 5, 2022:

Quite close to a Mendelian ratio though. Give kitty the benefit of the doubt.

You are the sum of your parts…

Fernapple comments on Nov 5, 2022:

Yes but I would think that the value goes down with age. Makes me worth about three dollars fifty.

A grad student just told me that Julius Caesar brought Christianity to England in 55 BCE; she wanted...

Fernapple comments on Nov 4, 2022:

Actually if she quoted the date 55 BCE and did not know why it was changed from BC, and what BC meant in he own Christian tradition. You have a second reason to lay your head on the desk.

Is there a way to see the results of polls? If so, how? Thanks

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2022:

Usually they just appear automatically if you open the post.

I had to jargogle you with this twattle…

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2022:

It may be different in the US, but at least three of those, Bedward, Hugger Mugger, and Schoolman, are not quite dead in the UK though very rare an old fashioned, in that you are most likely only to encounter them in books now.

Breeding dogs and cats with high probabilities of known diseases is unfair and cruel.

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2022:

I have said this before but. If I took a length of steel pipe, and beat a dog so hard that it could not breath or walk properly for the rest of its life. Then I would be charged with animal cruelty in most advanced nations. So why is i different if I do it by breading ?

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2022:

How do you infect with interest is the problem.

I received a rather disheartening email today from HAAM (Humanists, Agnostics & Atheists of ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2022:

All such traditional style organizations have that problem. I earn a large part of my income as a public speaker, and everywhere that I go, clubs and none public institutions are closing down. Few of the young people who work, have the time for them, young people who do not work do not have the resources, and the older generations fade away. While there are more distractions from a wider range of media, and that same media promotes worries and stress to sell its products, so that people do not feel that it is justified to take time and money away from basic survival and hedonism to devote to good works. Or it maybe that our social world is just becoming digital, and that old style clubs and institutions are just out of date and are now replaced by public media platforms.

From our graceful ageing department:

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Got out of bed too quickly. ( Speaking from experience. )

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2022:

Very good, though I think that the basic saying, of which I have heard several versions, long predates Cicero.

A-HA! ……how the Norwegian pop group helped to pioneer the electric car revolution in the ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2022:

It is also interesting to learn that Norway, is investing much of its oil revenue in a "pension fund" for the whole country, for when the oil runs out or is switched off.

TESTING LOGIC ON the basis that it is possible to test logical thinking and WITHOUT ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2022:

I agree that the expectant mother should always have the veto. But given that, I fail to see the point of involving the others at all, since their involvement would affect nothing. Indeed, there are only weak reasons for even informing them, and lots of good reasons for allowing the mother to keep her expectancy secret, if she wishes. The only time that the mothers wishes should perhaps be in any way made secondary to anyone else's, is perhaps in the case of mothers, with health, and mental health issues, who are to some degree dependent on others for care. But the issues in those cases would be many and extremely complex, and I don't see such complex issues ever being debated well and intelligently, in primitive countries and cultures, who can not even debate issues of fetus life at all, in an intelligent way, or even without invoking the opinions of preliterate and prescience tribes, who have been lost for thousands of years, if they ever existed.

Soooo, since humanoids tamed fire, they have slept near one, whether in jungles or tundra, as we see...

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Nice post, something original. I did hear that an important part the theory is that, the red light of fire does not matter so much, it is the blue daylight end of the spectrum which stops you sleeping well. Candles, oil lamps, red filtered bulbs and firelight are fine. Personally I find that moonlight is quite a pain, and I like to have thick curtains when the moon is full.

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2022:

"Get out and smell the flowers."

You were right. The message was an old scam.

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2022:

Reasonably good customer service and quick.

“Success is not a random act.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

Everything is random.

Musk is walking talking proof, that you don’t have to be too bright to be a successful ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

A disconnect from reality could well be a help in some spheres. Such as when trying to raise funds, from other people who also want to unplug.

Boardom......

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

God must be an ostrich, after all Jesus only manages to get his face on pieces of toast, inside a plank of wood has to be a lot more difficult.

When someone's mind is said to be corrupted or indoctrinated with bad information: why is it called...

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

I think that it came from an early cold war myth, that there was a method in use, which did indeed involve emptying the brain of memories first, and then putting new ones back. We now know that is not possible of course, ( Because you die, among other things. ) but we are talking about a myth from the nineteen forties and fifties, and given the state of progress, that in medical terms, was only just out of the Stone Age compared to today.

Astro Pro - How Many Planets There ACTUALLY Are [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

Lets hope he does do more.

"It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every time.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

They say of course. "Only the winners get to write the history books." But sometime neutrals may write them too, so it could be true, that the bad guys, do more often lose, perhaps because they find it hard to win support, and easy to get opposition. Its possibly very complex.

By the way, I got a Covid booster last Thursday.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2022:

I have had two of each, both the AZ and the F. and I found in both cases that there was almost no reaction to the first shot at all, but the second shot made me quite ill for a couple of days. I don't know if that is because the second time your immune system is ready primed, so that it reacts more violently. It is just my hypothesis and could be quite wrong.

There are advantages in being terse.

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2022:

Terse = good.

Interesting how a post about belief can trigger some folks. Isn't this agnostic.com?

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2022:

We all have beliefs, and as long as they do not harm anyone I would not want to change any. But it would be a very dull site if it was just an echo chamber, indeed there would be no point in coming here. So I relish the open expression of alternate opinions and friendly respectful debate.

Even nuns watch porn, Pope says, warning of risks: [bbc.com] What a load of Papal Bullshit!

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2022:

Nun's confession. "It was not really about sex. It was research. It was just that sister Cathrine said, that you could always tell a real breast from one that had implants in it, just by the appearance. So we started watching to see if she could prove her case, and soon after sister Mary said that you could tell also tell a surgically enhanced penis as well, because they did not look natural. So we started looking a lot just to gather evidence and prove them wrong, and that is how we ran up all those hundreds of hours on the bishops account. Though he did say that he did not mind, because he was interested in medical matters too."

Even nuns watch porn, Pope says, warning of risks: [bbc.com] What a load of Papal Bullshit!

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2022:

I know, it is very hard these days, when a priest hears a nun's confession, to know if it is real, or if she is faking it. LOL

I'm going to discuss being dead for a moment.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2022:

I am sorry to disagree, but I do not think that there is any such thing as death, or any such state as being dead. There is merely life, and when that life ends there is no life, that is all. Human culture invents many words for things that do not exist, ( Not just dragons and gods. ) in part because of misunderstanding the limited and fudged information our senses send us. Such as dark for example. There is no such thing as dark, only a absence of light, but our senses show us blackness to indicate the absence of light, so our cultures imagine that light must have an opposite, and we name it dark. Likewise cold is not the opposite of heat, but merely its absence, though our senses have evolved to make us avoid places where there is little heat. Because that makes our heat dissipate too fast and that is dangerous to us. So our cultures label our senses instruction with the name "cold", even though heat does not have an opposite. So it is that life does not have an opposite, merely an absence. We label the absence of life "death" as in part also as a convenient short cut, since it it shorter than saying. "Absence of life and the dissipation of our information content by entropy." But we should not confuse terminology with truth.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. - Leo Tolstoy

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2022:

No. I don't agree with that one, there are several meanings to life, and they are complimentary for the most part. That is a very literal post Christian interpretation, Leo said many wise things, but this time he fell short.

Not for the faint hearted, maybe good for lunatics.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2022:

You Americans just don't understand cheese.

Why Are Rich Countries So Unhappy? - Freakonomics

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2022:

It is true that rich countries are full of people trying to sell you stuff. Not just consumer goods, but things like politics, lifestyle and religion as well. And the first rule of sales is, persuade the victim that they will be unhappy without your product. And the second rule of sales is, persuade the victim that they will be in danger without your product. And the third rule of sales is, persuade the victim that they will be disrespected without your product.

She seems nice!?! 👀 [yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I do hope that you stay away from dating sites, there are some very strange people out there, and I would hate it if something nasty happened to you.

How do you respond to the question "Do you believe in God?

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2022:

I come from the UK, so I would probably say. "Wow fun, you are the first one ever." Then. "No of course not, do I look weird ?"

Summer is almost over!

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2022:

Just time to fill the last few cells with honey, and seal them down with wax. Five or six kilos needed at least for a long winter.

We MUST ALWAYS TAKE SIDES: Neutrality helps the oppressor.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2022:

Yes but when there are two oppressors, you have to be careful to take the third side.

I actually prefer it!

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2022:

The two are not mutually exclusive. LOL

How is one supposed to deal with the irony of life? Examine it, or just laugh?

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2022:

Live ironically. Feel the force of the irony moving through you, and become the bald monkey you were meant to be.

“History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2022:

In hard times people look for simple solutions.

Ring, ring.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2022:

No, he would not have minded that, don't forget, that he gets fifty or sixty people every day, who are far ruder than you were. Other amusing methods include. Pretend to be a robot answering machine. Pretend that you do not speak English yourself. Start telling him about your complex and invented mental problems. Start making sexual remarks of an extreme form. Tell him you only work here and the owner is out, and you are not really allowed to answer the phone. But do remember that. He is probably very poor, may well live in some third world hell hole, and that he is only doing the dismal phone work to feed his family, or buy very expensive medications for his sick relatives from the same people who, overcharge him for the one room, that six or eight of his family (four generations ) live in, who also make large deductions from the tiny wages they also pay him, for a twelve hour day, even before he then pays the same people the rent.

“The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do”………… Thomas...

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2022:

"Double you, double you, double you." Or. "World wide web. Why say nine syllables, when three, maybe four, will do ?

We Need a General Election Now 47,320 have signed David Marley’s petition.

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Its a bit like the Ship of Theseus paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus When there is less than half the cabinet you voted for, ( or not ) is it still the same government that was voted for ?

Fundamentalism: Menace II Society Here's the latest episode of a podcast I enjoy.

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Sorry to say the podcast does not work in my country.

Rural Atheists

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2022:

Fairly, not that rural by US standards, but very rural for the UK.

Why are they called "C" clamps when, in reality, they are "D" clamps?

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2022:

In the UK, they are called "G" clamps.

Clever people are often successful, they are great opportunists who barely miss chances.

Fernapple comments on Oct 20, 2022:

Clever people are not interested in success, only achievement.

Trump Just Blew Up His Rape Lawsuit Defense

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2022:

Oh! He is so good at clever tactical moves, you should make him president. LOL

What was a turning point in your life?

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2022:

I feel that life was more of a continuing curve of growth in many ways. But yes, there were several important books, deciding to give up payed work and go into business for myself, getting married, her death, finding a lasting friendship, and going aboard to a country with an entirely different culture for the first time ( Islamic. ), were all important turning points.

Here's a few tips to dress up your people skills.

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2022:

My wife used to snore like a horse, for the first half hour every night. I loved it, it was like a loud lullaby. ( Mind you it was only the first half hour, may have been different if it went on all night. )

Philosophy has no end in view, save truth.

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2022:

The purpose of religion is to kill the search for truth, so that it may pose as the final answer.

Come for the books, stay for the food!

Fernapple comments on Oct 16, 2022:

The winter nights in Iceland are long and dark, who would not need a good book.

Why are things best not dropped made slick as a greased fish?

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Its a test for older people. If you start dropping things often they break, then people can count the breakages, and they know when you are ready for a discretely slipped in overdose of your medication, just to help move nature's course along.

Why are pseudosciences so appealing? [onlysky.media]

Fernapple comments on Oct 15, 2022:

They, along with religions and folkloreism etc., also have specially appeal to the narcissist and their vanity. Because if you go with the mainstream thought and evidence based science, then you are no different from anyone else. Unless you really are smart enough to be a leader at the cutting edge. But for the fragile ego of the narcissist which can not endure the thought that they may be ordinary, let alone have the strength to lose, then they have to take a long odds bet against the evidence. Which is fine for the narcissist, but not so great of those who maybe deluded into following them. Sometimes, perhaps once in a million, evidence based thinking may get it wrong, and it may be true that putting feathers up your nose really can cure toe nail fungus. But when it comes to advising people about cures for their cancer, environmental breakdown and social problems like crime, then the narcissist's vanity project becomes a real danger.

I think prostitution is a soft form of rape.

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2022:

Sexual colonialism, as it is sometimes called, is certainly a form of rape. Though I am not sure that it applies to all prostitution, the one thing that you can always say about the human condition is that it is very diverse, and that almost every imaginable state of life you can imagine, almost certainly exists. There are certainly many female prostitutes who regard themselves as exploiters of men, that fact has been well documented by good anthropological studies. Though it is true, that it is probable that it is more common for the buyers to be the exploiters, taking advantage of economic differences. And at the same time though it is not a mutually exclusive thing, in that it is perfectly possible that both sides in a single transaction can both regard themselves as the exploiters. What however is certain is that, both the men and the few females, who buy the services of prostitutes are deluding themselves, by imagining that the act has anything to do with sex in a meaningful social sense. Any interaction between a client and a prostitute is in effect just a form of mastrubation, ( And a dangerous and expensive form. ) which does not involve any form of enhancement of the relationship, or equal mutual wishes to give pleasure, as most sex would, and usually has nothing to do with reproduction. Though were it does that last, it is certainly rape. Perhaps you can find some comfort in remembering that most of the women who your father boasted about exploiting, probably regarded him as a complete fool, behind his back at least.

How do they know this?

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2022:

I have no idea how they know that, I always assumed that life was too short for putting laundry away anyway. "Get that fresh aired feel and smell." Don't buy some silly product just put it on direct off the line. (Writing as a single male by the way.)

OK, the group COVID CULT continues to post mostly nonsense by only one man and you are unable to ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2022:

Don't worry. There are some people you can not talk out of anything, some you can not talk to about something, and some you just plain can not have a talk with.

My son came up to me and said, "Dad, I just watched someone do fifty pushups.

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2022:

I once watched the running section of a triathlon nearly half way through. Would not want do it again, but after that, a hundred pushups should be easy.

Is there any one who understands the full gallery of e-mojis that that could find an e-moji that ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 14, 2022:

Could be that the people who create emoji sites and lists, don't want to be vilified and threatened by the religious for including an atheist symbol.

I’ve just been thinking about all the known religions I can think of and have come to the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2022:

It could well be, especially since most religions are generally ultra conservative as well, and the modern fashion for men to dress down and women to dress up, is quite a recent one, on the whole, so it could be a hang on from old fashions. Although if you are having another sleepless night, you may like to think about the why some dictators especially, like Hitler, Napoleon , Putin etc. often dress down and then surround themselves with brightly uniformed troops, could it be clever fake modesty, with a deliberate ironic twist "I alone don't need to dress up." or did they just get lazy ? Sleep well.

I joined the Banned Book Club at the library.

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2022:

Well done your library.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2022:

Orthodoxy and intolerance are among the main destroyers of civilizations, yet strangely they are always promoted as the salvation of the struggling cultures.

“O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”…………….

Fernapple comments on Oct 13, 2022:

"No man has a good enough memory, to be a successful liar." Abraham Lincoln.

“It seems most people don’t really want the truth.

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Comfort food for the mind.

What is your favorite domestic animal or pet?

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Of domestic animals, dogs of course. Though I do like cats as well. While if that seems boring, I am sorry, but the fact that both are commonplace creatures proves just how well they fit within human society, and fill human needs. And I long ago, came to think that the lust for novelty, was childish, with real importance, happiness and value being best found in appreciation of the commonplace. Birds, as the most attractive of the wild creatures I see in my own country every day. Though squirrels come a close second. And orangutans, as my bucket list creatures, who I would love to see one day. Because they are the underdogs of the great apes. Often in the shadow of the African apes, who get prominence just because those are more closely related to us. While in fact orangutans may be the most wise and intelligent of them all. It does not follow that being like humans means better.

Secularism and Nonreligion Journal Secularism and Nonreligion is the world's first journal ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 12, 2022:

Does not seem to have a lot of content yet, but that is only to be expected in a start up, I will try to remember to have another look in a few months.

...and the sun still comes up every morning

Fernapple comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Sun = Happy. Or at least it does if you are British. (That is why we are such a miserable lot.)

I just passed Level 8 and for some reason this seems like an occasion to celebrate.

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2022:

WELL DONE. But you do know that when you hit eight, that is when you get the invoice for your usage ?

“The crisis we face about ‘truth’ and reliable facts is predicted less on the ability to get ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 9, 2022:

Skepticism is one of the things you need to be most skeptical about.

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Effort = Truth. Always did, always will, there never were any free answers, anymore than there are free lunches. And if someone offers you a free lunch, well.............

The secret of happiness is t... Please continue the sentence. 😆

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2022:

to stop believing people who tell you it is a secret.

New poll finds 4 in 10 non-Catholic Latinos were once Catholic and left [religionnews.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Kind of a given perhaps.

My kind of circle of friends..

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2022:

And those who wear glasses.

Yay or nay?

Fernapple comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Would make a cool fish tank.

Russian conscripted soldiers demand payment before mobilisation to fight in Ukraine ! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Best of luck with that.

Types of philosophy

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Most of those philosophies have something to offer, and I have learned something from all of them. Though I don't see Marxism as a philosophy, and sadly you left out Epicurus who is perhaps my favourite.

Ancient pre-Viking arrow among trove of artifacts left behind by melting ice in Norway: ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 6, 2022:

I like the ski even more and the horse shoe. It seems to be made of wood and rope, which would not be very practical on hard ground, I wonder if it was in fact a horse snow shoe.

I missed this on my first watching of Star Wars, the bar scene.

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Some people do say that Boston is a different planet.

Dashunds are very smart.

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Only if they want to hunt Badgers.

“When fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does sometime after the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Was always my favourite. Being in horticulture all my life , summer was hot, dirty, full of stress and bedeviled with every form of evil bug you could imagine, Autumn seemed like the short time you had to enjoy the achievements of the year. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." J. Keats. But are the mists what they were in Keats day ? We don't seem to get them now, that the clean air act, the lack of coal fires has removed so many particles from the air, and the winds increased by global warming perhaps seem longer and stronger. Perhaps it is different in Ireland ? Maybe Keats was talking of a different Britain, one which will never return.

“When fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does sometime after the ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2022:

Then when you go to get him a drink, you come back to find, he has slipped away and left the door open to let winter in.

I think I would like to see this. [visitfalkirk.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 5, 2022:

They are located close by the Falkirk Wheel, which is another wonder of the canals, and the only rotating boat lift. https://www.livebreathescotland.com/falkirk-wheel/

Development is a lifelong potential. George Vaillant [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2022:

Very true. Wonderful story.

"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2022:

Eight. Morality without humanity.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2022:

Very true, though I do still think that the fools are still the more dangerous, since they are the traitors tools, and are still able to do much harm even without his prompting.

I might be half deaf for the rest of my life.

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2022:

I have partial hearing loss due to working in heavy industry when I was young, that was in the days long before health and safety, it would probably surprise many younger people just how new those ideas are. But it is also rue that there is a lot that can be done for it now, and partial recovery is not impossible.

Drink coffee… 3 + cups each day.

Fernapple comments on Oct 4, 2022:

Wow, you mean I am allowed to do something I like !!!!

Why Are Boys Underperforming So Badly In Education? - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Oct 3, 2022:

In the UK back in the nineteen sixties and seventies, boys used to outperform girls at school. Then it was decided that it needed to be balanced, and someone noticed that boys performed better in competitive environments and tests. So the methods of measuring success at school were changed from highly competitive tests, to a more general overall method of assessment, and it worked. Girls soon passed boys, so much so that they now do far better here too. So much of the ways in which schools are run and work assessed is completely artificial, that you can adjust the system to produce any results you want. If you want boys to do better just employ more male teachers as role models, and create a competitive environment, if you want girls to do better do the opposite.