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Stephen Colbert 'Late Show' team detained at U.S. Capitol, charged with unlawful entry while filming

Fernapple comments on Jun 18, 2022:

So the Late Show team, will probably get a small slap on the wrist for not doing as they were told, while your legal services, get on with the important job, of making sure those who attempted a coup get put out of action for a long time. Am I right or will it be the other way round ? We shall have to see, but the outcome will tell you a lot.

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Fernapple comments on Jun 18, 2022:

Great story.

Tipping, what are your thoughts on this?

Fernapple comments on Jun 18, 2022:

Yes I always leave something for the hotel staff, that way you know it goes to them and not the owners. You can leave other stuff besides money, that you may not want to pack, such as books and local maps, just put a note on it saying. " Thank you, for you." So that they know it is not to be handed in, and always leave some money as well, since it looks mean, just to dump your junk on them.

Carlisle, Vervaeke, Spinoza, and voluntary necessities. [youtu.be] .

Fernapple comments on Jun 18, 2022:

Sorry I thought this could be interesting, having done a little with Spinoza before. But the first ten mins was totally taken up by a narcissist talking endlessly about himself, with no mention of the subject matter, and not even a word from the interviewed. Then I had the 'ad hominem' thought. Well if this is the sort of horrible person that Spinoza's philosophy interests and promotes, then the world would be better of without it, whatever the benefits.

Should "fuck" be a restricted word on this website?

Fernapple comments on Jun 18, 2022:

No. Since it is not a religious word at all anyway. But I do not think it a good idea to change user names, there is a lot to be said for continuity. I myself have only changed the photo once, and do not think I will do it again.

The Anthropology of Religion [youtu.be] .

Fernapple comments on Jun 17, 2022:

1. This has nothing to do with Anthropology. 2. Everyone is free to define words like religion as they please, as long as they honestly explain their meaning if it differs from the usually. But there is no good reason to privilege this mans meaning above any others. 3. It is historically inaccurate, the difference between faith and sceptical thinking existed in the classical world, long before the seventeenth century. 4. The modern meaning of the word "religion" may be an invented, so is the modern meaning of the word "evolution" but that does not mean that evolution does not exist. Nor is religion a synonym for meaning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgN4nOp-WvE

“There seemed no question in Dawkins’s mind that atheism as he understood it fell into the same ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 17, 2022:

I am amazed that you should so often publish anti-Dawkins post, when you share exactly the same views, especially that only fundamentalist literal religion is harmful, and the metaphorical traditions are good.

One of the fundamental misconceptions many atheists have is that they consider religion to be ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 16, 2022:

Yes perhaps but. One, is much better done by science, philosophy, popular culture, and good education. (Plus. It may not be needful for explanations to be literally true, but is generally better if they are. If only because of the law of unforeseen consequences, if they are not, and the unfortunate, extra, existential crisis which happen to those who place faith in them when they prove false.) (Plus, the word "explanation" here contradicts its use in your main premise.) Two, is much better done by science, philosophy, education and popular culture. Three, only gets in the way of personal growth, and the natural maturing towards nihilism that we all need. Four, it fails completely and achieves exactly the opposite. Five, is the job better done, if at all, by properly accountable states and law, not by random groups of self appointed dictators. Who are dishonest enough in the first place, to grab and use fake authority (religion ) which alone should prove them unsuited to the role.

“There seemed no question in Dawkins’s mind that atheism as he understood it fell into the same ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 16, 2022:

Though yes Dawkins does take an almost religious view of his own position, so what ? In the first place, John Gray is factually incorrect in his statement that literalism did not exist before the Reformation, admittedly a common fallacy apologists love to promote with religious zeal, so he is not to be blamed too much if he picked it up. One of the proofs of that, is his own quoted source, St Augustine himself, whose main, perhaps only, reason for stating his belief in a metaphorical interpretation of scripture, at all, was to explain his conversion to that view from literalism. In which he was certainly not alone, if as he claims, he had spent at least half his life in theology before he encountered non literal explanations. That John Gray fails to spot that obvious, elephant in the room, glaring error in his particular argument, is a prime example of the mental damage that religious thought, and its requirement for constant cognitive dissonance causes. In the second place, why should Dawkins or anyone, not concern themselves with purely with literal religion, ( Since apart from the few sad individuals, like J. G. who literally, and in a religious sense delude themselves, that the great Metaphor, is itself literally a god who solves all problems. ) fundamentalist religion is the only sort which is of any real significance or threat to anyone. John Gray is also factually wrong in believing Dawkins includes the metaphorical interpretation in his anti religious stance, Dawkins himself has, ( being a snob, ) been fulsome in his praise, of what he calls "sophisticated" theologians with non literal interpretations. Because if taken as non literal and truly interpreted metaphorically, then why should anyone care about the biblical scriptures ? Since they are then of no more significance than any other work of literature which may be so interpreted, from Homers Iliad to Winne The Pooh. It is only when it is given extra fake authority, that any book, or random collection of writings, becomes dangerous or potentially harmful. Whether that fake authority comes from a supposed supernatural origin, from the false faith in the wisdom of tradition, especially interpreted metaphorically so that it can be made to say anything, or from limited understanding promoted by narrow reading, it does not matter.

Politicians To be a politician you must honourable be.

Fernapple comments on Jun 15, 2022:

If only it were no worse than that. Never keep a single pledge, And all your statements made, Be sure to carefully hedge, You must also flout, all the very laws, You made and wrote with mucky paws.

I saw some great photos of a tree "embracing" a full moon.

Fernapple comments on Jun 15, 2022:

Photoshopped yes, but clever imaginative work. I especially like the way the twigs on the first one are formed in the shape of the continents, as though the earth as well was embracing the moon.

Christians believe in the miracle of the virgin birth : The Holy Spirit inseminated Mary and she ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 14, 2022:

Really Matias , I think you must be getting very desperate for something to post. That is a very silly strawman view of the common secular view of history. Do you really think that most, "atheists and secular humanists", imagine that the enlightenment suddenly appeared, as a bolt of lightening out of the blue in the Renaissance, and have no knowledge at all of the contributions made by, medieval Jewish and Islamic scholars or of the effects of Indian Mathematics on the medieval world, of the partial survival of classical philosophy through the middle ages, the effects of the printing press and the fact that technical advances even small ones, can bring rapid increases in knowledge , which bring more knowledge in a feedback loop. Plus the mind widening benefits of increasing trade and travel. Or even that it is possible that atheists believe in miracles, and would not look for secular causes, and assume they could be found, even if they lacked personal knowledge of the historical details. This is very silly , but all credit to you for not caring about looking clownish, in the name of being contentious. Every group needs one.

OMG!! Sarah Palin beat out Santa Claus in a special election in Alaska.

Fernapple comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Look this is a agnostic/ atheist web site, so do you really think that anyone here actually believes that Sarah Palin really exists ?

14 Black inventors who the world owes gratitude.

Fernapple comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Great article, I did not know most of those. But it is a pity the link did not work, I had to use MsKathleen's below.

So I'm staying in a place where I have no knife or scissors.

Fernapple comments on Jun 13, 2022:

A friend gave me a tiny folding pen knife in the form of a keyring. The blade is only about an inch long, but it is amazing how useful it is, especially for opening packaging, when your fingernails are just not quite up to the job, and being on my keys it is with me all the time. The other side is a bottle opener and screw driver, so you can not do without one.

Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers | Berkeley News

Fernapple comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Good post. I have seen a number of such surveys on this, but this is one of the most plain. I suspect that one of the main temptations for becoming religious in the first place, or remaining in one, is that, it gives you a clearly marked off zone to set limits to where you need to show empathy, and enables you to limit the obligations of conscience only to those most like you in the same congregation.

Look at this! True size right in front of this single-story house I pass several times weekly, with ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 13, 2022:

I think that it is Gunnera, also known as Giant Rhubarb Though it is not edible.

It is one thing to originate an idea, and it is another thing to live according to this idea.

Fernapple comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Yep. And one of the great strengths of truth is that it can aways be rediscovered, while every lie is a new invention, and when it dies it goes forever. So that good ideas like the golden rule can easily be passed on to new belief systems, or be rediscovered by them, ( It has already been invented separately, in at least a dozen cultures. ) and will probably long outlast even the historic memory of the cultures that invented it.

Does anyone know the precise source of the following quotation?

Fernapple comments on Jun 12, 2022:

No I do not know the source, I am sorry. But it is amusingly similar to my old school motto. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Which was about the most worthwhile thing I learned there.

One of my pet ideas is that one can hardly overestimate the hidden influences Christian ideas still ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Granted, there was from the beginning a strong altruistic theme in Christianity, and that that helped to influence, and inspire, the western cultures which followed it, to begin developing ideas like social justice, socialism and the idea of a larger "we". But Christianity was not alone in that, you can find the same philosophy in many systems including Buddhism and Stoic philosophy, and those ideals were only realized to any degree in the west, quite recently, following the industrial revolution, which created for a while spare wealth and education, beyond what the ruling classes could use for self indulgence. Who knows if those other cultures, would not have done the same, given the same economic opportunities at the same stage of cultural development. But more than that, a thought system's flagship idea alone is never all there is to it, and even the best intentions can lead to terrible unforeseen consequences, look at Marxism which was intended, as perhaps, an even more altruistic ideal than Christianity, but which as we all know, often had truly horrible consequences. And the peculiar weakness and corruptibility of Christianity was also built into its basic ideals from the beginning too. As you ask. "why should someone from the ranks of those in power buy into it and mentally identify with the weak and the oppressed?" And the answer is, because they saw from the very beginning, Christianities in built proneness to favour and foster corruption. The reason being, that the ideals of altruism claimed to be at the heart of Christianity, are, as everyone instinctively knows, impossible in practice to realize. Which means that everyone is bound to fail, even the saints probably failed in reality, in living to that level of perfection, whatever apocryphal myths about them may say. Which means that the other great theme of Christianity, that of total and cheap forgiveness was a very inherent part of the system from the beginning. It had to be, because without it nobody would have adopted it. Which had two effects. First it excused the rich and powerful anything they may do, however corrupt and harmful. The only real crime, being an unwillingness to pay the price of forgiveness, whether in cash or penance. Creating thereby a culture which held no one responsible for anything, and which honoured corruption, especially among the rich and powerful, who could more easily buy forgiveness, not simply with cash, but also with time, commitment and display, all of which are much more readily available to the rich and powerful than to the poor. Thus the twin crimes against the poor and weak, the catholic oppression of those unable to easily buy forgiveness by those controlling the market in it, and the Calvinist view that weakness and poverty were the ...

So i'm sitting here at home with a mug of Fat Tug my fav IPA + a glass of jameison my fav whiskey at...

Fernapple comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Grown adults pocking their balls down holes with sticks. Now that is strange !!!

“The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit”…………….

Fernapple comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Its a bit like sincerity. If you can fake that, you have got it made.

The Neanderthal - Covid connection [youtu.be] .

Fernapple comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Great talk. Just one small point though. He says that we do not know the sexes of the matings with Neanderthals. But I have heard elsewhere, that other genetic studies have shown, that all of the matings are now believed to be between modern human males and Neanderthal females.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Fernapple comments on Jun 11, 2022:

And how much more even does that apply to religion..

"The history of scientific thought is closely linked to that of religious thought, and with much ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 11, 2022:

In the past many scientists, such as Newton, Boyle and Bacon, were very much inspired by religion, because in those days almost everything was inspired by religion, simply because it was the dominant and leading thought system of the world. But now, they are more likely to be inspired by the dominant and leading thought systems of today, such as environmentalism, welfare and humanism etc. ( Call them modern religions if you wish, though I think that in bad taste.) But theist religion has mainly lost its power of inspiration, except perhaps in a few places like the USA where a little dying theocracy still lingers, though I have not heard that even there, it is inspiring much important science today. While if some parts of theist religion can still be found, which are happy to celebrate an intellectual marriage with science, then of what use are they to anyone ? You may as well just enjoy and celebrate the science, pure and simple. The only people who can, and will, find any use in theist religion today, are those who wish to oppose the leading thought systems of the day such as environmentalism and humanism, since they are the only people who need an alternate platform. Which is why moderate non conflictive religion, fades away and dies, and the only vigour and inspiration to be found is, and will increasingly be found to be, in the fundamentalist extreme, which is happy to promote and accept alternate beliefs and even antisocial hate. What is true however, is that science and the modern thought systems, are not the enemies of moderate religion. It is simply that they are better thought systems, far more able to fill the needs that people once turned to religion for, and far more attractive to the honest and moral among the worlds peoples. The conflict with theism is not from science for the intellect, but from morality for the peoples affection.

Grammatically true ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Sometimes people ask me. "How's things." I usually reply. "Things are fine, its people I have the problems with."

New to this but excited to be apart of a community that isn't driving the bible down my throat

Fernapple comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site.

I have had heart palpitations off and on for decades; they vary from actual palpitations to a pause...

Fernapple comments on Jun 10, 2022:

You mean you are not a cyborg ?!! How did you get through the filters ? We are all cyborgs on here. ( That's a fact, the village priest told me. )

Will Science Someday Rule Out the Possibility of God? | Live Science

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

No the god of the gaps will always remain, because no matter how well you search, there is always somewhere to hide. It is just that as the gaps in human knowledge get smaller, so must god. Which means that if a god really did exist, then his main property is that he keeps on shrinking, getting smaller and smaller all the time.

The sky according to Islam😁😁😁

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. Actually that is not too different from old christian skies.

This is a wonderful idea and a little late in coming.

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

What a good idea.

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

And the man on the other side of the river, believes that his king/queen is as much to him as his own father or mother. Because the state and church told him so.

Our Home is actually in the Milky Way Galaxy, one in a 100+ Billion Galaxies.

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

Very good. Though its not so much inhabiting a grain of sand, as inhabiting the very tiny layer of gas between the thin crust on a droplet of very hot liquid, and space. And the habitable layer of atmosphere, even the, fly in a plane, layer, is only about five to ten miles thick at most. Which in a planet of eight thousand miles diameter, is thinner than a layer of paint would be on a soccer or basket ball. And we can not without a lot of technical help, even go a single mile down into the ocean, so we don't even manage to inhabit and use, one percent of this planet.

Anyone live in or around Indiana?

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

I am sure there will be some, but sadly this tends to be a fairly international group, so many members are not even in the US . Best of luck. Enjoyed your videos, keep up the good work.

'Reclaim South Africa': Pastor Found Guilty of Planning to Launch an Insurrection to Restore Country...

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

Used his position as a pastor to recruit others. Not only in America sadly. And you do have to wonder how long it will be before the mad fringe, do, find a way to mount a really mass scale terrorist attack, probably in America. I strongly suspect that the US laws on the ownership of things like lab equipment and supplies, are no better thought through than your gun laws.

There is one thing even the members of the two main tribes which are locked in a fierce culture war ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2022:

Now that is a good post. Well done.

Many atheists don't like it at all, to say the least, when science is called the child of religion.

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2022:

Why on earth would anyone want to make an argument in defense of an analogy. An analogy is itself a thing used, and not often well used, to give support to arguments. And not therefore, especially when it is a poor, weak and banal one, a thing which wants, or justifies, a defense of its own. I know that you like to set challenges to people, and to play the game of shaking the echo chamber, which is probably fun and may even do a little good sometimes. But beware that you do not get too hooked on the regular adrenalin fix that provides. (Analogy) Because if you do, you may get into making poor weak arguments just for the sake of keeping the fix regular, end up being viewed as a dimwit. Which would not be good since it would devalue your worthwhile contributions. Do you really imagine that there is anyone here, even the most badly informed, who does not have at least an understanding of the history of human thought, far too detailed, to be remotely interested in any challenge or support to that understanding, which could come from a crude, vague and banal analogy. Stop wasting time.

Religion, Atheism, Science - Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell (1927) [youtube.

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2022:

That voice, could listen to it all night.

Just a Little Something to Keep Me in Hot Water for the Day _____________________________ ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2022:

Atheism may well be the rejection of theism, defined by what it is negative to. Hygiene is the rejection of dirt and infection, it would not exist without dirt and infection and if I embrace hygiene, it is because I accept the hygienists definition of dirt and infection. And hygiene is a completely negative idea defined by what it is opposed to. So yes to a limited degree, in that sense, hygiene is also a child of dirt and infection. And guess what ? I am not going to embrace dirt and infection and welcome them into my life either, no matter how many Skados they may say they like rolling in the muck, that rolling in the muck is traditional, people have always done it, and that even the goatherders thousands of years ago did it.

Just a Little Something to Keep Me in Hot Water for the Day _____________________________ ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2022:

Science is not the child of religion. Science is the child of philosophy, even once called "natural philosophy". And philosophy was created to address the failings of received unfiltered and unquestioned cultural heritage, or in other words, religion. Sand, lime, wood and clay, make up the greater part of what we mean by a house, but sand, lime, wood and clay, are not a house, they only become a house when they are selected processed and organized, without that they are just big piles, of matter. So, "abstract thought and symbolism makes up the greatest part of what makes humans human" but abstract thought and symbolism are limitless in their disorganization and can mean anything, meaning only has value if selected and organized. Also I can imagine that there is a fairy at the bottom of my garden, but that does not mean that I have access to its pot of gold. And it would be very dangerous for you to lend me money, on the basis that I told you that the fairy would act as a guarantor. Imagination is real, but we do not allow imagination alone to be a source of authority, for things we do, at least not if we are wise. Not because imagination can not be good, but because imagination has no limits, and does not alone admit of qualifications, near total entropy . I have long had a personal definition of religion which serves me well, though it is not the only one possible, and some may prefer others. It is that. The word "religion" is a synonym for the fallacy of, "proof by authority". Whether that authority comes from supernatural revelation, tradition, institutions or artistic metaphor, it does not matter. All world views have to include some axioms, but honesty and wisdom requires that we should try to keep those axioms to a minimum, and openly admit that they are axioms unsupported by empirical evidence. The dishonesty of religion, is to pretend that they can support many of their axioms by appeal to the false evidence, of authority, and that therefore they are not axioms.

Ukraine is getting with the program and banning art & books now based on.

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2022:

The first victim of war is truth, alway, and always on both sides, sadly. And of course Putin invaded Ukraine, giving the excuse that he was starting a crusade against fascism. Which is not very clever, since if there is anything in the world which promotes fascism, on both sides again, it is starting a war, especially a long war based on intolerance.

Did anyone else get a complaint warning message?

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2022:

No I have not had one of those yet. ( Must try harder. )

"To dismiss religion without being aware of the evidence is to do the same thing so many religious ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2022:

Skado claims that his position is, that he does not believe a word of the supernatural claims, but that he thinks the goatherders wrote, really great books filled with wisdom. Which is why I am happy to contest with him. Because to my mind believing there was once a golden age of wisdom and truth, or that popular culture preserves only the wisdom and truth from the past. Just makes an irrational god out of tradition, and your own personal interpretation of what could be seen as metaphor, a fake source of authority, no better than believing old texts have authority because the sky fairy wrote every word of them. But then I suppose that for some snobs and pompus narcissists who looks down on the rest of the human race, and think that they are in need of their own wisdom as gurus, and are doomed to chaos without it, and the superior wisdom of people like them, then they may want a fake source of authority, to lend them gravitas. (Not that that is remotely like our Skado of course, that is just hypothetical.)

"To dismiss religion without being aware of the evidence is to do the same thing so many religious ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2022:

In the end. All religion is the belief that some special chosen people are given final truth as a special gift, and science is the belief that you can never have final truth, but that anyone can get closer to it with work and effort. The two may sometimes be compatible, but they approach life from opposite directions. But when you approach truth from the opposite end to religion, then you have to ask. What sort of person would want or need given final truth or the pretense of such? And then you have to answer. Only those who think there may be a need to suppress some if not all attempts at truth. Because the faking of final given truth, is a tool which could only be used for that purpose.

a real important question when browsing the universe or life. Is that really for sure what you want?

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2022:

"Be careful about what you want, you may just get it. "

I know Facebook is not very popular to most of the people on this site.

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2022:

It is of course mainly a problem with Mercator's projection, which is not the only map projection available, but is so useful that it becomes almost the standard. Any map is bound to cause some sort of distortion since it is not possible to unwrap a spherical surface and flatten it out without stretching it in some way. It only needs a seconds thought to see that, since Mercator keeps the lines of latitude parallel, it is bound to distort the width of things towards the poles, since the poles are only single points, yet in Mercator they stretch all the way along both the top and bottom of the map, making a single point as wide as the planet. While on curious things, did you also know that there are several north and south poles, not just one at each end ? At least two magnetic poles at each end, a geographic, which is the end of the earths axis, a traditional geographic, where the lines of longitude meet, an astronomic, which is where the geographic points at the sky, and which moves as the earths tilt changes, and a pole of inaccessibility which at the South is the furthest point from the coast, at least.

Have you seen the Blue Grotto sea cave in Italy?

Fernapple comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Bucket list.

We first sent men to the moon over fifty years ago.

Fernapple comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Seemed a waste of money, because they just kept coming back.

You Tube channel I just noticed.

Fernapple comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Video does not work sorry.

Right now, I cannot express how much I loathe string trimmers and how I resent my dependence on ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Here you go. I don't know if he works for hire, but worth a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfIHiBB6xE

A very savvy and cunning plan

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2022:

It has to be said perhaps that it was really the church under Constantine's rule, rather than Constantine himself, who came up with the idea. Constantine may even have remained nominally pagan until his deathbed, and even then there are doubts about the historical accuracy of his conversion. Not trying to be a pedant, just thought it was interesting. ( Well OK I don't have to try, it just comes naturally. )

Every day 321 people in the USA are shot.

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Here in the UK it takes about three years to reach your daily number. Just saying.

So.... god isn't all powerful?

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Those who employ bullies to do their work, usually end up being employed by the bullies. Not that a non existent god, ever actually put anyone on the payroll, but the bullies can still produce terms of employment it seems. Wonder who wrote those ? LOL

Chris Hedges

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Every age invents the Jesus they want.

What’s the difference between a politician and a flying pig? The letter 'F'.

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Oh, I love spelling jokes. Did you ever here the advice against making shallow judgments. "Assume, makes an ass of you and me both."

I just created a portmanteau for people averse to religious indoctrination...

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Not being in favour of not liking being unknowing ? Or something like that.

Hi all im new to this, just left my church to become an unbeliever not a nice experience but hey ho ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site, and do fill out your bio to let us know who you are.

Wife: Are you having another sleepless night?

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2022:

That sadly can be the cycle of insomnia. Being sleep deprived means you can not cope with small problems so easily, and that you get annoyed more easily by small failings, then you are wound up and that means can't sleep, and so on. Been there bought the tee-shirt.

Some prize idiot is trying to convince me that the existence of God is a fact that is self-evidently...

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2022:

Oh. You can string them along forever. There is a guy on here, who is quite convinced he understands the motives of every single biblical author, and you can get unlimited fun out of him.

My fav breakfast

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2022:

So if nothing goes into your butt accidentally, where do you insert the blueberries ?

I read somewhere that it takes a village to raise a child.

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2022:

The main powers in the world do not want you to raise children anymore. Keeping people perpetually immature, as needy children who always want more stuff, is much more profitable. So sorry, the worlds institutions killed the village, because it was teaching people to be self reliant, supportive of each other, and to value real things, like the place where they live. ( For those of you who never benefited from a village upbringing. This is called dark irony, and should not be taken too literally. )

Mom planned to name her baby after an STD [newsweek.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2022:

Perhaps she thought all babies are an STD.

Had had had had HAD HAD

Fernapple comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Good ones.

Well 2 things have come to light since yesterday.

Fernapple comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Whats to bet, he comes knocking on your door wanting to borrow stuff ?

Hard to imagine how people in Flint, MI suffered

Fernapple comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Maybe some of them affect the brain. Could explain a lot.

Sperm donor partitions court for custody of baby boy [wfla.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Yes the big difference though is that a medical sperm donor does not have a relationship with the mother. ( I often wonder if science will soon find a way to fuse the DNA from two egg cells, so that lesbians can have babies of their own. )

.. and things are still shrinking. (especially on my body!) 😂