How do you relieve stress?

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2022:

Nah, just go on line, and start an argument with a theist, that's what most of us do.

Atheism is inconsistent with science....

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2022:

It is just the worn out old straw man, that all atheism is "hard atheism", which it is not. Hard atheists who are willing to declare their certainty that there is no god and no supernatural or undiscovered natural realms beyond the known, are rare among atheists. Most atheists are soft atheists, who simply declare that they have found no convincing evidence for god, and prefer not to believe without that, or agnostic atheists who do not think it likely that anyone has found such evidence, and think it a waste of effort even to pursue it. This article is fairly typical of the poor shabby values applied to thinking, which often occurs in those who have come under the thrall of religion, with its destructive effects on the best qualities of the human personality, especially honesty and values. Sadly sometimes found even among scientists. Though of course it is quite possible that the writer is just ignorant of atheism and does not understand it, which is excusable even if not good. The argument is one which I have heard hundreds of times from apologists, who love it, and is typical of the straw man fallacy. Of defining a thing into existence, in such a way that it is perfectly suited to your counter argument, even though that may not reflect reality.

Mandatory voting! My understanding is that in Australia voting in federal elections is mandatory and...

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2022:

I can not tell you anything about Australia, but Just viewing from the UK perspective. In the last USA election, we saw films of long lines of people waiting outside you polling stations, and there was even a debate about whether it was OK to hand out water to them. All I can say is that in the UK, ( which is itself far from being a world beating democracy, ) if the governing authorities did not provide enough polling stations so that everyone could walk more or less directly in on polling day, it would be regarded as a national shame, by all parties and sectors of the population. What is wrong with America ? I once thought that it was a true world leading democracy, but it seems that the boast was always hollow, and it is not getting any better. In the late eighteenth century the USA may have led the world in democracy, but Americans need to get out more and understand just how much a huge lot of the rest of the world has moved on, while you seem to be sliding backwards.

Thanks everyone for your concern.

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2022:

One armed bandits.

Very strange why so many liberals get butt hurt when an intelligent black woman (never mind drop ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2022:

Yes it was very corrupt, and as Putin says, there is a large Nazi group there. But there is corruption everywhere, and Nazis too. And if I was to place bets on which has more of both, Russia or the Ukraine, then I would put my money on Russia any day. While Putin seems to be quite unaware that he is a Nazi, in all but name, and that terms like, "Uniting the Slaves." are fairly racist, even if they are positive racist instead of negative racist.

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2022:

Also a bad choice is better than no choice. The roads are carpeted with flat squirrels who could not make their minds up.

$100 million media campaign depicts human side of Jesus in outreach to skeptics

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2022:

The site raised a, fake site and high risk may contain mall wear flag, on my computer's security system.

Yesterday morning I submitted a post, and when I saw later that people had reacted and commented, I ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2022:

The site works best with a desktop, people who use mobile devices, (I don't know if that includes you. ) often encounter problems. You can also sometimes get problems if you make the things first and then open them with the app, it is best to copy into a text editor, and then copy to here, or type straight into the site.

Freddy Mercury was quite right when he made that statement.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2022:

Was already nearly gone even by his time, he was one of the last few, at least in mainstream popular music. Fortunately, on the other hand, we also live in an eclectic age, and there is easy access to many a sub-genera, where you can hear everything from a sitar to a banjo, and dark age choral to Rap. It is not perhaps that music is dead, simply that there will no longer be any such thing as mainstream popular music any longer.

An early shout out to all my atheist neighbors.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2022:

You mean that we can come out of hiding ?

I'm not saying that the customer service in my bank is bad.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

But did you manage to stay on your feet ?

It appears my lovely minuature rose is dying.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

If it is just one stem, I would not worry too much. Although miniatures can lack health and vigour, especially deepening on how they are grafted/rooted, sometimes potted roses are just groups of cuttings, and are often not fully rooted .

Morning all Thank you all for all the fine Cornbread Wishes Love you all

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

Yum.

But do you think he'll get charged?

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

I think that the site you are linking to, has moved on.

Putin's evolution: weird kid -> spook -> kleptocrat -> war criminal ->

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

CE 5000. Fossil found in arctic permafrost, appears to have been intentionally buried, but without any coffin or grave goods.

Plus I quite like Gingerbread

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

And the villains in "James Bond" films, would you not really like, to be the first to succeed in feeding the overgrown boyscout into a giant shredder.

Ah, that feels SO much better, have permanently BLOCKED @Twill now, peace and quiet shall once again...

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

Interesting, it is funny how this site distributes the postings, I hardly know or have ever seen him, yet he is level seven.

Putin’s top advisers have vanished.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

But did they jump, or were they pushed ?

Playing in the dirt makes me happy!

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2022:

I also love the smell of a freshly watered greenhouse.

Religion is definitely a business.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

And you don't get to take final delivery until after you are dead. So no returns.

Do you pray? Do you yearn for spirit-based community?

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

Hello and welcome. No, I do not yearn for any of those things, I have a good community, its called a village. I share ideas with other conservationists and humanists, though I am not strictly really one of the later. I believe the world is beautiful and that improving my appreciation of the world, is the nearest thing to praying you can get, and that belief in spirits and karma block that route to self improvement.

Minimally CounterIntuitive Concepts Counter to popular folklore, the evidence, so far, does not ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

Actually the article you are citing, states exactly the opposite of your claim. "Counter to popular folklore, the evidence, so far, does not support the claim that the persistence of religion is due to the indoctrination of children. Rather, it is purely biological. That is to say, it is a product or byproduct of the combined forces of evolution." It actually explains why children are biologically easy to indoctrinate, especially with information which is counterintuitive. The claim, "due to the indoctrination of children", and the articles main quoted experimental findings, are not opposites, but mutually supporting.

"Going to church does not make you a good person, says Pope Francis" [christiantoday.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

The church supports and fosters narcissism, My god, My prayers, My spirituality, My church, My congregation, My demons, My faith, and even My charity, it all starts with the big MY. Because narcissists are needy and will buy any fix to keep the delusion of their specialness alive, and the more they become narcissistic, the more help they need to support the delusion, it is even better than hooking them on drugs.

Hi everyone nice to meet y'all

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

Hello and welcome enjoy the site, and do fill in your bio please.

What the world needs is a million unarmed person march on Unraine by volunteers from around the ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

Many are already doing that. And Putin is already firing on them.

“The measure of a man is what he does with power”…………..Plato.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2022:

And why he wants it in the first place.

Call me a saddo! I'm watching Wayne's World - again! 😆 Don't know about your countries, but in ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2022:

Everything comes on English TV again, and again, and again, and again.........

Canine beats vulpine.

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2022:

A human gets more factual information from smelling a dogs ass. lol

Is a Great Resignation brewing for pastors?

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2022:

So it seems to say, that ministers are not big on serving their fellow humans and communities, especially not in difficult times. Is this really news, or have I just arrived in a parallel universe ?

Misdirection Misinformation

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2022:

Here in the UK gas prices are about twice what you pay, even now. It is highly taxed because that is seen as a good way to encourage he cutting of carbon emissions.

New Insight Into Possible Origins of Life: For the First Time Researchers Create an RNA Molecule ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2022:

The RNA world theory of abiogenesis, has been growing in importance compared to other theories now for a long time. It looks like it is getting near to becoming the standard model.

I'm feeling beyond frustrated and feel a strong need to vent.

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2022:

The bottom line is, happy people are content, so they don't buy anything. The whole point of sales is make them believe they are unhappy, so that then you can sell them the solution. Which is why religion, which is pure sales, without even a product, at least not one you get to collect until after you are dead, (No returns so far.) is in the business of promoting unhappiness more than anything else. The secret of happiness is simple, first you must be free of the things that make you unhappy, pain, hunger, cold, fear etc., which is not too hard for most westerners. And then you must learn to value the gifts that you have, which is called appreciation, and which is best acquired through learning. And guess what, there are a lot of institutions, I need not name them, who are opposed to things like social responsibility, unless they control it, which promotes the freedom from cold, hunger, pain etc. for everyone, and they also oppose education, (only read one book).

The joy of watching raptors. What's your raptor story?

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2022:

During my youth in the UK, you hardly ever saw a raptor of any sort, except perhaps, a kestrel. The hunting and shooting lobby had driven them almost to extinction, because it was said they were harmful to game birds, especially pheasants and grouse. But a few decades ago they were all given protection, and now just twenty or thirty years later, buzzards and red kites especially are seen all the time around here. Things that we thought were gone forever. It just shows how fast nature recovers as soon as it is left in peace. And we still have plenty of pheasants.

It seems the war in Ukraine is being seen by many Xian leaders as the sign we are in the last ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2022:

Yes they thought that about the Black Death too, and the Plague of Justinian and the mini ice age caused by the eruption of Tambora, and Halley's Comet ............

Does eating chocolate upset your stomach?

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

It can drive your blood pressure up, and a lot of people have allergic reactions causing headaches, sleep problems, and energy loss if they don't top up. And of course it contains a lot of sugar. But then there is range of benefits too.

Have you noticed something wrong here 🤣

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

levitation.

“Sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than the whisky bottle in the hand of ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

Oh, I think that is Atticuss in To Kill A Mockingbird.

TI Ukraine (@TI_Ukraine_eng) | Twitter

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

Old saying. "Bullets take three lives, the one who gets shot, the one who wastes their life making them, and the one who earns the money to pay for them."

The Russians seem to be having great success- against unarmed civilians, anyway.

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

Actually the numbers are about equal, if not slightly in favour of the Ukrainians. But the Russians may be better equipped, especially in air support, but then again it is said that in modern wars the attacker needs at least a three to one advantage.

Thinking about getting a (my first) tattoo. I'm digging the spaghetti monster thing. Any thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

Nah, Go for a slogan like. "Jesus was gay." "Fairy-tales make Bibles." or "Satan was the good guy."

A New Study Has Identified a Dominant Force Driving Evolution on Earth Today: [sciencealert.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2022:

The really fun thing, (irony) is that the most successful creatures are likely to be our parasites. We could end up living alone with our increasingly numerous and diverse parasites, from the things which nibble at us in bed, to the things which eat our crops and raid our dustbins, and hardly anything neutral as a buffer between us.

“Power is dangerous.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2022:

And power that can be won without effort or proof, well ? (Hint I think they call it religion.)

Meanwhile, the other war: [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2022:

Yep. And our PM has just been to Saudi to ask for more oil. Its all about the oil.

Well, I am going to speak frankly.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2022:

I think that, all you have got, on armed conflict, is all you really need. You got there, and you need to concentrate on your own needs first. Because our first and best commitment even to others, is to look after ourselves well, and not to be any more of a burden to others than we need be. But at the same time remembering that, everybody on the planet is a burden to someone some of the time, we all bump together in this limited space, therefore there is no shame in seeking help, because we are all in this together.

And speaking of quilts, the latest one. It looks better "in person"!

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2022:

Do you ship to the UK ?

How do I help my dog with separation anxiety?

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2022:

That is sad, and there may be little you can do. Dogs, even ones that have not suffered a loss, hate to be left alone. In the dogs mind when you leave it and will not take it with you, there is nothing to reassure it that you will be coming back, for all that the dog knows it has been deserted. Perhaps the only two things that you could do, are perhaps fairly expensive ones. One is to take him to a good trainer or vet with a knowledge of animal psychology, or the other may be to get him a companion, but I would try vet first, and take their advice about the second idea.

Maggie, my five year old granddaughter, sat for awhile watching me quilt today and then said, "When...

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

And the only immortality a wise person would wish for. Most of my life has been spent as a horticulturalist, and gardens are the most ephemeral of arts, just stop weeding and pruning them for a two or five years, and they are half gone. And I find that pleasing, because it means that I will leave no legacy to burden those who follow, gathering dust in some institution.

The $100M "He Gets Us" ad campaign for Jesus ignores an obvious problem

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

It says that. "Its hard to sell the product, without acknowledging the harm that Christianity has done." Actually I think that it is hard to sell any product without acknowledging the harm which hard selling does as well.

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book.

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

That was in many ways an innocent age.

‘All art must go underground:’ Ukraine scrambles to shield its cultural heritage ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

Link broken sorry.

Off with his head?! :-/

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

The slow on the uptake can be lethal, and they don't have to be kings.

Oh, the horror!!! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

That is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. Great find.

I know.

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2022:

I don't know what it is, but it may be specific to that area, because it looks like it is coloured to match the rocks.

Why is it that I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night for no reason and can't go back to ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

LIke someone said. " If I had known grandchildren were this much fun, I would have had them first."

Why is it that I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night for no reason and can't go back to ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

Sound like you are an owl, have difficulty getting to sleep, but then have difficulty waking up. You are not alone.

I don't believe in religion because I believe in humanity

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site.

It's free speech until you piss someone off... then it's hate speech.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

You can be free with your hate.

Religion and violence in public schools.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

If they wont join in with the delusion, and you know you can't win the debate. Then the options get few.

“A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then stand on the stump ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

There is another kind of politician ?

I dont know why I'd be interested in the perspective of experts thoroughly educated and steeped in, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

Many a true word.

At what point does it no longer make sense for national leaders to stop making claims of ownership ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

You have to find political leaders who grew up into adults, who understand that. "Mine is bigger than yours." Is an argument, that should have been left behind in the nursery playground.

The talk about the beginning of the universe seems to imply the creation of something of great ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

The big difference is, that science describes the big bang, as. "Our best current model." And not all scientists accept it or are forced to accept it. Where religion describes creationism as, our only model forever.

Goat humor! [vm.tiktok.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2022:

Just don't try head butting back.

"The worst thing about growing old is that you will likely not live long enough to celebrate the ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

And I thought that I had a negative attitude to life sometimes. That is right up there with. " My enemies enemy, is not my friend. "

Donald Trump Thought US Troops Were in Ukraine in 2017: Book

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

Obviously did his homework well before the meeting. LOL But then he probably thought, that they went there in 1775 to keep control of the airports.

Even the camels are going on the warpath! What's next? The Alpaca's? [msn.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

Five hundred people each year, on average, are killed by donkeys. That compares very well with sharks. So is anybody interested in cloud funding a block buster film, about a little seaside town called Amityville, being terrorized by a killer ass. You know a pair of big ears are to be seen sticking up above the fence, and the music goes, bump bump bump bump bump bah bah BUMP.

Who Remembers?

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

So. "Two wrongs do not make a right." And "The crimes of others do not excuse mine."

LOL. It's funny how some of you take what I write to be serious. Jesus fucking Christ.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

Try being British on a largely USA based site. Sometimes I think that I have stepped into an irony free alternate universe.

A friend lucked out and bought this poster at a garage sale in Oklahoma.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

There are a lot of people who think. "If only it could !!!" Me, it just makes me sleepy.

Hello.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

I think that it is better to not be too aggressive in the usage, since promoting a, them and us, attitude is even more damaging. So I would go with something more sympathetic, if still slightly disparaging, both to not promote division and to sell the usages message to third parties looking on from the side. So I would go with something like. "Echo chamber prisoner." Or " Sub-culture victim."

The joy and threat of seeing mountain goats.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2022:

Great pictures.

Good morning everyone, I am going away for the weekend and where I am going I get no cellphone ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2022:

Enjoy and travel safely.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Christopher Hitchens

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2022:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site.

The cheek of of them all, unbelievable I say, unbelievable.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2022:

Good for you.

Right-wing pastor attributes climate science to Satan and blames environmentalists for Ukraine ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2022:

Just tell him that pet cats cause alien visitations, if you see him, will you.

A little mold education I came across.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2022:

Beautiful patterns.

Beauty is where you find it....or make it. You will never guess what this is a photo of.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2022:

Lichen ?

Beauty is where you find it....or make it. You will never guess what this is a photo of.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2022:

Rust on a metal plate ?

Never ask a person how their garden is doing, if it's bad, no need to embarrass them, if it's good, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2022:

And never, never ask them about their compost heap, you will be there all day.

The caption of a low-life odyssey, Charles Bukowski, died on this day in 1994: “There's nothing ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2022:

I spent most of my life doing sex, drugs, junk food, drink and farting, but I will admit, that I did waste a little bit of it sleeping.

Breaking News...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2022:

In Britain we have a different strategy. We will send a lot of aid, and weapons, but we will just wait until the war is over before we send it. Then when it gets to the French border, with the wrong papers of course, we will just let it sit there for ten months, and then say. "Well its not needed now anyway".

This logical contradiction has been around a long time but nobody wants to put their imaginary god ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2022:

Satan in the bible, up to and beyond the Gospels, hardly gets a mention, and the whole idea of hell is a later theological invention. Since, theologians have a problem, because when your house of cards begins to wobble, then, you need to adjust or take away some of the cards, as most people do. But if you have already declared your cards sacred, and your construction perfect, in order to big yourself up, and gain the maximum amount of fake authority, you can't do that. So your only answer is to prop the whole thing up by adding yet more cards, which in turn create more wobbles of their own, and so you go on adding yet more and more, until the least puff of logical wind, the tiniest hiccup, will bring the whole thing crashing down. So you have to say. "Keep your logic away from my cards will you, you nasty, burping atheist, you should not have eaten those chili beans, that is the fires of hell you are breathing out.".

The animals may be adapting quicker to global climate change than we expected ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2022:

One of the biggest problems is that faced by land animals and plants. Who in the past when climate changed, as it sometimes did, could simply shift their range to another area, where the weather suited them better. But now they live in an environment, which is carved up into many islands, by urban developments, farmland, roads and dams etc. And many are already struggling, due to having their populations carved up into small inbred pockets, or just because of lack of enough environmental space in simple terms. For many it will be just one blow too many.

Unbelievers. Are there any moral flaws in Jesus?

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2022:

The question does not seem to be very clearly put, since you list at least five Jesus persons: the biblical, the Roman, the Gnostic, the one who is identical to Yahweh and the possible original one behind the myth. Does the question in the first line refer to all of them, or only one ? As to the biblical Jesus of the textual account, which is the one which interests me the most, I would say yes, quite a few moral flaws: the promotion of racism, (It is better to give food to dogs, etc.) the promotion of belief in inherited original sin, the promotion of the idea of making no investment because of the immediate world ending, the idea of thought crime (Thinking of adultery is committing it.) the promotion of violence ( Cleansing the temple.) and several others. Do I think that on balance the Jesus of the text was more morally good than bad, especially in the effects of his legacy on the following ages ? Yes, in the later Roman empire, the dark ages an the middle ages, perhaps, after that, into modern times, perhaps not, and into the future almost certainly not.

“Nature is a mixture of opposites… it is beautiful and dangerous, constant and inconstant, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2022:

But it does not judge you. There are often many ways in which the cold indifference of nature, is much to be preferred, and is much more worthy of love, than the deliberate cruelty of human inventions, like gods.

Outside my window on Sunday morning ...and I shot this with my cell phone?

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2022:

Beautiful, you are so lucky.

7 Humane Cat traps arrived from the R.

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2022:

For your biggest pest, a simple pitfall trap works best. You know a big deep hole in the ground covered in leaves or something like that. You need to make it quite big, big enough say to catch a donkey, which is why its generally called the ass hole.

I have finally decided to block frayed bear.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2022:

Its your account, you engage with whom you wish. But for my part I think he has just got too silly to be worth the bother.

Attack of the sex toy!! 😂😂 [deadstate.org]

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2022:

So he insulted the members of his own church, by accusing them of what in their culture is regarded as a moral crime. Probably without any real evidence but just hypothetically as a shock jockey tactic, to stir up mindless ire. And now he is surprised that he is getting come back. Is he the stupidest evangelical of the lot, or do you know of a more brain dead one.

Ain't No Rabbits in the Burgess Shale MP3 Song Download by The Galapagos Mountain Boys (Darwin, Darn...

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2022:

Great song, and every word clearly heard.

Where's your god now?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

In the next cubical you hope. LOL

Here is an old piece I wrote a couple of years ago.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

Yes I agree with that. ( See my comment on your last post. ) Though it should be pointed out that he was a largely failed and unsuccessful salesman and entrepreneur, who turned to politics to give himself a second chance.

A little knowledge: " When would you estimate the "dumbing down” of America began?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

No. I think that that may contribute to the Dunning-Kruger effect, and may make ignorance more bold and visible, but it does not add to the sum total of it. I think that it really begins when those who control power and wealth, began to lose faith in education, as a generator of more power and wealth for themselves. In the nineteenth century, many with power and wealth thought that education was an unalloyed good, which would make for a more effective workforce, eager to buy more goods, which education would lead them to want. But over the years it was realized that education in fact makes people self reliant, and teaches them discernment. So that those who had the wealth and power, began to doubt that earlier view, and especially they began to think that well educated people would have little interest in buying the goods and services they could easily produce. It would be harder to produce the goods demanded by those with discernment, and the fewer goods would reduce profits. The discerning and self reliant would not want to pay for shallow sermons on Sundays, junk food on weekdays, or canned entertainment on Saturdays. So that education (True education not just schooling.) became a low priority, for industry, church and government, since they thought that they could see, that too much of it was not in their best interests.

Know what pisses me off?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

If you care you suffer, that is life, sadly. But at the same time, even if we make mistakes, the chances are that if we truly care, then we will still end our lives in the credit side of the balance sheet. And to die hurts no creature, it is the living who suffer, so i think that the religious moral judgment,which says that we can not kill, even in mercy, is as mindless as all other religious judgments, but the legacy of it still lingers in our culture and makes us feel guilty even when we are kind. But kindness is never wrong.

“It’s not enough to win a war; it is more important to organise the ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

You have not won the war, until you have organized the peace, anyway.

There Is No Way Back {Part 1)

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

Would we now be having a war in the Ukraine, if the West and the world as a whole, had stood up to Putin in Syria ? And if not Syria or the Ukraine then where next ? But of course the place where winning the war really matters, is in Russia. The Russians have a long tradition for the of disposal on longer useful leaders. It does not involve voting them out of office, its a lot more brutal than that, but it does happen, and no doubt a lot of powerful people are getting very unhappy with Putin now. Who knows what the future may bring ?

STFU.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2022:

True. But still I wonder, if the wholesale price of gas only equals about one percent of my total monthly gas bill. Why is it that when the wholesale price of gas goes up by half, my bill goes up by nearer to fifty percent, than by half of one percent ? Actually I also wonder why I am paying one hundred times the wholesale price of the product in the first place. Yes I know they have to maintain the pipes, and there is a cost in posting my bill each month, but even so, that is one hell of a big mark up. But no, I would happily see my gas bill doubled, if it meant that some journalist, would not have to take just one more photo of a cold frightened parent, carrying a baby round piles of debris, while the grandparents try to drag spare clothes and baby food behind, with no certainty of where they were going.

I notice that Pepsi-co and McDonalds are still operating in Russia.

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2022:

The food industry, is not worried who rules the Ukraine, or who runs Russia or even America for that matter, because it knows that it rules the whole world, and even the superpowers are just pathetic little bit part players by comparison.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young. - A.C. Grayling

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2022:

That is quite true. Although I think that they also survive, because they tell people including the young, that they need not bother thinking things through, be critical, or look for anything more. Nice to be lazy, great if you don't even have to bother trying.

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2022:

Practice helps a lot, many who hold to beliefs which require high levels of cognitive dissonance, get to be very good at fooling themselves. Which eventually becomes a problem that extends far beyond the initial, acceptance of the doctrine around religious belief uncritically, which is why religion often has such a corrosive effect on the personality, when once you have trained yourself to accept one big idea uncritically then all others become easy. And when once religion then racism, class, toxic nationalism etc. etc. all fall into line easily.