Blood clots.

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2021:

I usually burn the blood cloths, would not want the police to find them, even if I have disposed of the bodies carefully.

Young Henry kept his promise to me and supplied me a photo of his Mums first car, aka Betty Beetle, ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 19, 2021:

Well done your family.

I love this movie.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Also plagiarist, con artist, failed businessman, and faker of evidence. There is a lot more, but space is short.

I had to put this here…

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Barringer. That just has to be a sloppy attempt at irony.

I love this song!

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Ahh! Italian ballads. I always loved the kinky sex one, about putting salad dressing into someones bum, I assume as a lubricant. You know the one ? How does it go now. "Ass hole of mayo, ass hole with may. Ass hole, Asshole a' may." That's it !!

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is 40 Times Deeper Than The Mariana Trench [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

As a portion of Jupiter's atmosphere though, that would not be all that deep., given it mean radius of 69,911 km.

Steven Pinker answers questions. [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Not much to disagree with there, but not much that's new either.

Question am I Agnostic?

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

You should fit in well here and find a lot of people who agree with most of that.

spiritual development

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Nope, will never give up on trying to help.

“For he that does good, who has the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

And those, ( like religion ) who do evil, though they have the unlimited power to do good, deserves condemnation not only for the evil which it performs, but for the good which it forbears.

Darn near scared me out of 10 years growth she did.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Another photo of her would be nice.

On this day December 18th fifteen years ago, my father passed away after experiencing a sudden heart...

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Sorry for your lose, I too have found that most of the loses in my life occurred at around this time of year. Fate dose not respect religious holidays either.

Deep-Sea Fish with Transparent Head Caught on Camera: [sci-news.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

So natural selection invented the visor too, amazing the range and scope of natures inventiveness.

Our fiction addiction: Why humans need stories… [bbc.com] .

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Good read. Makes well the point, that narratives do not have to come from religion, and don't need to be religious to enhance social awareness.

No explanation needed for those "in the know."

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2021:

Always wondered if you could have a surrealist song ?

No explanation needed for those "in the know."

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2021:

Did not get it until I read bobwjr's comment.

”We have indeed secreted a human age out of ourselves as spiders secrete their webs: an immense, ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 17, 2021:

The world most people live in today, is that of human culture, and that divorced itself from any obligation to be truthful long ago.

Poland's border wall will cut Europe's oldest forest in half

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2021:

And sadly, this is mainly because Belarus has deliberately created the migrant route in order to cause problems.

The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2021:

Interesting video. The longer I spend on this site, the more I wonder how anyone even survives in North America.

What caused you to leave Christianity?

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2021:

I was never in it, being raised in a mainly secular home.

Hi from San Angelo, TX.

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. - William James

Fernapple comments on Dec 16, 2021:

Planted a lot of trees.

This suggest that somewhere is a chewy and spicy baby.... I'd go for that one. 😂

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

When I was a child I always hated the religious song which starts. "There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall. " I did not understand the archaic use of the word "without" for outside, and I always thought that it sounded like a terrible tautology. Since hills with city walls are rarely green, you put city walls around houses and buildings. I also did not as a child get the metaphorical use of green, for full of promise, and thought that any fool should know that the hills of the Holy Land are bare and barren. I know better now. But actually I still hate that dreadful song.

Like this post or comment if you are looking for a new friend or text buddy.

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site, and you will be safe.

I couldn't agree more. People should stop mocking birds

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

Redbreast, Magpie, ( = Margaret) Blue Tit, Great Tit, and especially Great Crested Tit.

Prompted by the disbelief of one of our members that atheists would ever visit a theist site, I ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

I have visited theist sites, but did not stay long, because I am not interested in starting conflicts, and I found the content so utterly banal, I soon got bored with it. Maybe that shows a lack of tolerance, because of course some of the content here can be dull, but I put up with it until I find the gems, where dull content would probably turn me off a theist site within seconds. As to a site similar to this one. If I knew where there were some, I would probably visit out of curiosity, but I really don't know of any other sites like this, even for atheists/agnostics, it really is a wonderful, and as far as I know unique, creation. Even the Facebook site I was invited to visit by a member here was uninteresting, but then I find Facebook itself hard to like. I am sometimes offered theist videos on Youtube , but again since I find the arguments just banal rather than challenging, I don't watch long.

Some people are just born a sinner!

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

Yep, even the word "sinister", which means left handed, has come in modern usage to mean, prone to, or appearing evil.

2021 in Review: The Year in Cancellations | The Daily Show [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

Video not available in Europe. Sorry.

Is teeny tiny a scientific term?

Fernapple comments on Dec 15, 2021:

Great post.

Vet Angry At So Many People Believing These Pet Breeds Are “Cute” Explains How They Are Not ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

PS. To my last. And of course, at the bottom of it, bad taste and a total lack of empathy for other creatures, is just a product of ignorance. Because our education systems would rather not teach, understanding, empathy and good taste, in case they were "difficult" in the workplace.

Vet Angry At So Many People Believing These Pet Breeds Are “Cute” Explains How They Are Not ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

So many of our dog breeds, are known to have serious health problems, as a result of deliberate breeding and inbreeding, in order to produce, nothing more than a fancy appearance. Which is invariably in extreme bad taste anyway, since any taste which does not value health and natural norms is by definition, bad taste. Yet, if I took a length of scaffold pipe, and beat a dog with it, until it was so badly injured that it could not walk or breath properly for the rest of its life. I would be taken to court and the legal book would be thrown at me. Yet the dog breeders get away with it year after year, and even get away with calling themselves dog lovers.

Who believes in the Big bang scientific creation myth?

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

Atheism should really have no connection with physics, whatever the theories. Since atheism is concerned with the issue of whether there is a supernatural or not, which is faith based, and science is only concerned with the natural. If all the scientific theories about everything were proved to be wrong, ( And certainly I am informed by people who have more knowledge of it than me, that the big bang is a lot more doubtful than many. ) that would not prove god, only that a new scientific theory was needed. While if apologists found a conclusive proof of the existence of a creator god, that would not disprove any scientific theories, but would only ask what method the god used for creation. Science may disprove, ( To a reasonable level, if you do not embrace extremes such as total solipsism. ) the truth of certain ideas about the nature of god, such as the idea that god is accurately described in certain books like the bible. But that can also be disproved by history, philosophy, mathematics, textural study, logic and a dozen other disciplines anyway.

14th December 1812…🇫🇷 The French invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, officially ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

I remember reading an account by one of the survivors. Where he described having managed to steal a potato, just one. But being mad with hunger and cold he did not want to share it with his fellows, who had a fire and could have cooked it. He then wrote that. "I was punished for this, because the potato froze solid, and I could not chew at it, because the frost bite had shattered all my teeth." Sounds like fun.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. -- Donny Miller

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

Yes, but not a very good one. And information does not dispel ignorance, you can have a lot of information about nothing worth knowing about , and still be in real terms ignorant.

The Steel Man Technique: How To Argue Better And Be More Persuasive

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

In some ways it is very like the Socratic method, not a perfect fit but similar. Since you could say that in the Socratic method you get the other party to Steelman themselves, by inviting them to put forward ever more of their arguments until the basic structure fails.

14th December 1812…🇫🇷 The French invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, officially ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

Nine tenths of those he set out with.

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have”…………….

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

Also said, that his proudest day was the day when the NHS came into being.

Forget uninformed, or uneducated. There are some genuinely stupid people here.

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

I try my best to be genuine.

Has anyone ever seen a clamshell that big?

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

I visited the site where she is said to have emerged from the sea in Cyprus, a couple of years ago. There are a pair of rocks, ( Sorry only one in my photo. ) which look very like testicles.

OMG! A “seminal event?

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

The winters in Iceland are long cold and dark, a little tedium goes a long way. lol

Has anyone ever seen a clamshell that big?

Fernapple comments on Dec 14, 2021:

Its is even smaller than that, since it is not a clam but a Queen Scallop she sits in, which never get as big as the larger clams, which can reach three feet or more. You can perhaps see why, Aphrodite, born from the foam that resulted when the testicles of the castrated Cronus were thrown into the sea, comes ashore on a scallop shell. Because if you hold the shell with the outside facing you, and the hinge part to the bottom, you can see what looks very like a mount of Venus at the bottom. Fun if you like that sort of thing. In Christian tradition it was the symbol of St James, though they turn it the other way up. In case anyone gets the wrong idea perhaps.

[bristolaquarium.

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

Nice read , thank you.

Even that less than virtuous creator of Protestantism understood the issues of plagues:

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

I would like to bet though, that more than half of the worlds protestants today, have never even heard of him.

It's been wholesome the past few weeks, happy I'm recovering and finding the right people.

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

Hello and welcome, plenty of people of all sorts here.

Aaaaaannnnnnd as if on cue, Captain Pinhead comes by to prove my previous point.

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

If we knew what your previous point was, we could probably guess who you were being rude to.

Question

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

Gravity. And your next question is ?

Does Objective Evidence for God Exist?

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

Unfortunately that would also give great fuel to the anti-environmentalism crowd. Who hold that it is impossible to harm nature, because nature is gods creation or imbued with gods spirit, and therefore, like god, it is not possible to violate nature, indeed it is not even possible to cause ecological harm, or if you do it was preordained by god as a precursor to the end times. These are very real beliefs held by some very dangerous people, and the sort of thing that indulging in silly word games, runs the risk of becoming enmeshed with.

They say excuses are the mother of failures and they also say failures are how you learn so if you ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

Errr ?

I went to dinner with my husband, a male friend of ours, Jim, and his new girlfriend, Dorothy.

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

If you see her again, tell her that Trump is really the Joker in disguise. ( Well it even more believable. )

1923: Hitler’s failed coup.

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

And American democracy could end up as history ? Perhaps, but I think that you are stronger than that.

If your religion is the only thing that prevents you from doing horrible things then you definitely ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

An oldie but a goldie.

Refusing to date Trump voters isn't intolerance. It's good taste.

Fernapple comments on Dec 13, 2021:

Nice rant. I do have some hope though, because I do think, that in the long term we are on the verge of a new age, where the belief in the idea of good taste, as and objective truth, will soon become the norm. In the past, because it cost money to publish and broadcast, the media was generally controlled by able and educated people. Digital tech and the internet however, unleashed a tsunami of output from those of no ability, (Yes like me.) and no training in taste. As the consequences of that become ever more obvious, even to many of those taking part in it, people will begin to ask questions, see where it is leading them, and start looking for ways forward. At which point a reaction will probably set in, the old excessively relativist view. Which has been the dominant view for a long time now. Of no objective truth or objective standards of good taste, will increasingly come under question, and the idea that objective truth and standards of good taste are things worth having, worth working for and worth rewarding will grow. In part because the consequences of not doing so will become obvious, and in part because, it will be increasingly understood that, telling people who are displaying their lack of taste and contempt for truth, that it is fine and beautiful to do so, is not doing them any favours any more than it is anybody else.

Does Objective Evidence for God Exist?

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

The trouble with that, is that Spinoza's God is an exact synonym for nature. I strongly suspect that both Spinoza and even more A. Einstein, were simply trying to brush off theists who were asking questions too boring and shallow to be of any real interest, and did not take those arguments seriously. Einstein and Spinoza also lived in a more innocent age, so it is perhaps both understandable and forgivable of them, I doubt that they would say the same thing were they reborn today. The word god has always implied something with a thinking mind, an intelligent agent, ever since the days of animism, when natural actions were assumed to be the works of thinking beings, simply because people did not have enough knowledge to understand the idea of natural laws. To rename nature with the name god, usually reserved as the name given to that failing of human understanding, is therefore to do a disservice to nature, which deserves more respect than that. And when you have a perfectly good word like nature which describes an thing exactly, there is no need to muddy the water. What is worth taking from this, is a reminder that arguments like this, based on little more than redefining words are commonplace and even respected among theists and apologists, more than anywhere else. ( Perhaps they do not have any good arguments.) So much so that they become almost the accepted norm, in such circles. Which should be enough to warn anyone about the corrosive effect, that theism and apologetics have on the human character, and how destructive to the higher human qualities such as honesty, empathy, and self respect, that even slight contact with religion and apologetics have.

When Galileo rejected the Vatican’s astronomical dogma, he wasn’t rejecting only their ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

In big historical terms yes. But in Galileo's own personal terms perhaps not, there is a lot of evidence that he was a very devout catholic, it is more probable therefore, that he himself only saw it as rescuing the church from a few misguided men of the time.

My father died at Christmas at age 51.

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

That sounds like a wonderful father daughter relationship. You were very lucky. A good relationship like that at the outset, lights up a whole life.

I WISH EVERYONE a HAPPY HOLIDAY with THEIR FAMILY this CHRISTMAS at least UNDER A TREE.

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Enjoy your holiday.

Once you accept that people are merely primates with an more extensive vocabulary, everything else ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Yes quite. Now here's a thought. Evolution only responds to the current situation, it has no foresight. Therefore if the environment in which an organism lives changes, especially suddenly, it is bound to be badly adapted to the new environment. And it may take millions of year of struggling before it becomes efficient and well adapted to its new circumstances. Humans probably began to talk and develop language and culture, only in the last million years or two, in a major way only in the last few thousand. And language, the culture which language creates and technology, have caused perhaps the biggest and most rapid change to any animals environment that probably any animal ever survived. We are therefore probably completely ill adapted to the new world in which we now live. Like pandas, which were meat eating bears, who took to eating bamboo quite recently, and now struggle to survive on a diet their gut is ill adapted to digest. So we have a desire for high value food which was rare on the plains of Africa. But now that same desire when sugar and meat are easy to get, probably kills millions every year. But the biggest change which took place when we began using language, was that we gained a vastly greater power to create and spread, lies and fantasies. Our new environment is now awash with vast amounts of fiction and untruth. And of course because it all happened in a twinkling of an eye, as a side effect of an adaption, which was designed originally for things like helping us make better hunting plans. We have no instinctive safeguards against it, no sceptical instincts built in, we are ready made to be deceived used and manipulated. Like this, may post it.

As someone who was born in Kentucky, lived there until I was six (we moved to Ohio), and realized I ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Like you I was also raised secular, though here in the UK that is not so unusual. Sadly though it meant that in my early years I knew little of Christians, so that I grew up believing that people who preached such unselfish ideals must be really good people. I think that the shock when I reached higher education and really met some, and discovered the reality, is a big fuel for my anti-theism. Yet I still live in a rural village, where a higher proportion of my neighbours are nominally Christian than is the norm for the UK. So that I can not wish them, many good people, harm. I even give them a free Christmas tree for the village square each year. (Though I do call it the Yule tree, but don't think they notice.)

A lot of people believe religion is a big form control mechanism, I wonder if they are wrong to ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Humans are a social animal, and everything in human social life, is about attempting to control others. The baby only cries because it wants someone to feed it. But control is not always a bad thing. You may attempt to regulate road traffic for everyones benefit, including yours, or you may invite people to come in out of the rain for theirs alone. Religion is no different, except in that it attempts control by appealing to fake imagined authority, which has no genuine base, whether that be gods, traditions or the magical wisdom of prophets. And generally speaking, the only people who are desperate enough to want to use an extreme measure like that, are people without the best of intentions.

Lovely alpenglow up the Icicle River today.

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

Wonderful picture, worthy of a pro photographer.

The greater part cannot know, therefore they must believe. ......John Locke.

Fernapple comments on Dec 12, 2021:

I would say that in most things, all of us must believe. Because we must all believe in, at least the authority of others, in most things. I do not have the time or means, to personally repeat all the scientific experiments I read of, and when the car mechanic tells me that my brakes are working fine, I have to believe that he is a creditable authority. But I do have a lot of say in which authorities I believe in, and I can consider carefully where their knowledge comes from before I give my trust.

How true is it that religion has done more harm than good in the world ?

Fernapple comments on Dec 11, 2021:

I do not know whether it has caused more harm or more good in the past, and I don't think that it would ever be possible to tell. What is certain is that its claims to be the originator of morality are certainly false. Since being a social animal we certainly had an instinctive morality in the beginning, and the earliest codified moralities, probably started with political institutions like clans, tribes and trade networks, since almost all known early religions are morally neutral, and politics began long before religions saw the profit to be gained in being players in the morality game. They were late on the scene. The problem with religion however is that, there are, both, good and bad morals, and religion alone of all human intellectual institutions makes no distinction between them. It can support anything from, giving all your goods to the poor, to human torture and sacrifice in order to feed the blood lust of the gods. Without any demand for proof or justification. Unlike philosophy which at least demands logic, science which demands that as plus experimental proof as well, and democracy which at least asks for the weak justification of popular support. And given that traditional theist religion, has now been totally eclipsed in the market place of ideas as a provider of good morality, by modern secular institutions, such as human rights, secular law, respect for democratic principles, secular education, moral philosophy, social sciences, and international law etc. etc. The only people who will have a real use for religion in the future, are those who wish to pedal bad morality, and need to find ways to justify that, by using institutions which can command unthinking respect without asking questions. So that to my mind at least the love affair between religion and evil, will only get ever deeper, closer and more totally complete as time goes on.

Coastal species are forming colonies on plastic trash in the ocean, study finds

Fernapple comments on Dec 11, 2021:

Yuk. But it was bound to happen. We are still far too attached to this byproduct of the petrochemical industry, marketed hard by the supper rich corporations, in order to provide the wealth needed to prop up some of the worlds worst, most oppressive and undemocratic governments; whose evil tyrannies would fall apart without that money. The government/supermarkets encouraged and forced us all to stop using plastic carriers for our shopping. Yet, when I go into a supermarket with my reusable cloth bag, nearly every single item on offer for sale, is wrapped in plastic. Was this a sham, performance or what ?

As of today, the Northern hemisphere sun will begin to set later each day.

Fernapple comments on Dec 10, 2021:

It is a good idea to celebrate Yule, not only because it is a festival far older than any existing religions or their holidays, that any original supernatural elements are largely forgotten, nor that it celebrates something real, the motions of the earth, nor that it fills the real need for cheer in the season of S. A. D. when many people need comfort and community because of the low light levels, but mainly because it really p###es the Christians off. Like this may post it.

This is a Grinch post. [drboli.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 10, 2021:

The second half of this sentence is true, but the first half of this sentence is false.

Wow, it's 19,710 restaurants, then! 😮

Fernapple comments on Dec 10, 2021:

If you survive the monthly bouts of food poisoning that long.

For real though.

Fernapple comments on Dec 10, 2021:

Sorry. Not that interested in conflicts between characters in books of fiction. Some people will tell you that they are metaphors for aspects of human nature. Well if they think that they can understand human nature better, by taking selected bits out of the whole, converting them into metaphors and then playing games with the metaphors in a fictional universe, then they are truly lost to reality.

I have lots of cousins and uncles that are postal workers in fact three made it to postmaster in ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 10, 2021:

Although the internet, email and digital services in general, may not be much of a threat to postal services. Since the use of digital services actually increases the demand for post, in that people order things on line for delivery and many on-line activities generate paper work, so that use of the net has been found to generate more mail.

ho ho ho ho ho ho

Fernapple comments on Dec 9, 2021:

And a happy new year too.

I guess at the age 56 I accepted the fact I’ll be alone, that’s ok, this is not an invite BTW.

Fernapple comments on Dec 9, 2021:

Don't give up, just being a giving person will find you love, even if not the Romantic kind. And believe you me, and I speak from experience, at fifty six you are are child, with loads of time if you don't waste it, I found another soul mate long after that.

Even fat disgraceful manatees like Trump?

Fernapple comments on Dec 9, 2021:

Don't be rude to manatees, they are lovely animals with no Trump like characteristics, except for producing a lot of shit. Which in their case is a sign of a healthy digestion, not an unhealthy lack of ethics.

How to atheists return to religion? I don't understand

Fernapple comments on Dec 9, 2021:

Often because they were always theists, they just labeled a period of doubting "atheism" without really understanding what real disbelief is like. And that is especially so because, doing that, wins a lot of prestige among believers as a returning/reformed atheist. Lots of pats on the back. And no doubt in extreme cases, some of them never even really left the faith, but just faked atheism to gain that.

I just called and left a pleasant message reminding Santa that I’ve been waiting on him to deliver...

Fernapple comments on Dec 9, 2021:

The big mistake you are making, is that you need to order three at a time. Like Santa said, Ho, Ho, Ho.

The internet has proved this to be true

Fernapple comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Called in Latin, the "ad populum" fallacy. But does anyone know if that phrase came into use after M. Aurelius or before ? Did he invent the idea, or was it already well established ?

Did Art and Religion co-evolve? [youtu.be] .

Fernapple comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Of course they are the same thing anyway.

SOME MORE NEWS - Simple, Obvious Solutions To Glaring Problems [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Sadly the British post office which has long had a bank, is now trying to move out of banking services, because with current low interest rates there is little profit in it. This is thanks to M. Thatcher who, "privatized" ( sold it to capitalists) our post office, leaving us as just about the only country in the world without a state post office.

The Hunt for Julius Caesar’s Assassins Marked the Last Days of the Roman Republic ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 8, 2021:

Sounds like a good book, well worth the read, I shall look out for it.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - ...And We'll Do it Again [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

There are no absolutes, and no statement which can not be improved by more nuances.

Mayhem Everywhere.

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Always has been. No reason why it should change now.

Can you spot both bobcats photographed in Wisconsin forest?

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

No. Though I did think that I could see one, so there may be three.

Seems to me that in the opinion of many on this board, women have Bodily Autonomy when it comes to ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Thats very easy, first of all that is a strawman statement about the people on here. Because lambasting someone for making a choice, is not the same thing as saying that they should not have a choice. I for one would defend anyones right to refuse any medical procedure, even at the cost of my, admittedly not very worthwhile life. But I also reserve the right to tell them so if I think that their choice is a stupid one. A secondly because the two are not the same. In that a pregnancy is not going to affect anyone else, much (maybe a little) except the child, the mother and their close circle. Or in other words it is not very likely that I would catch a bad case of babies, from close contact with a pregnant woman. Really Middleway you can do so much better than this. This is just sad.

Just in case anyone gets worried why I’m not going to be posting my usual posts this evening and ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Enjoy, and keep safe.

Lego, who doesn’t love it.

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

I don't love it, it hurts when you put your bare feet on it in the dark.

“Your destiny is not determined by an outside force, it’s determined by YOU, and you ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Nah.

They say the most solemn occasion is coming. So let's think about the holy place.

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

And the Vatican has most of its support, including a lot of income, from the poorest and least educated regions of the world. So they helped to create that poverty and ignorance in the first place.

The world is full of stupid, and I think half of them are on social media with stupid comments on ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

I think that you may be, largely, trying to preach to the converted here.

I was talking with two Mormon missionaries this weekend.

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Reduces to one question. Dear believer. Have you ever thought of asking questions ?

THREE-HEADED Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer...

Fernapple comments on Dec 7, 2021:

Almost symmetrical, like a heraldic design.

Doesn't think there wasnt?

Fernapple comments on Dec 6, 2021:

The two are certainly not exclusive.

New house, I am in you.

Fernapple comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Good for you.

In Norse tradition, the god Odin would wander the earth during Yuletide and visit people’s homes.

Fernapple comments on Dec 6, 2021:

Some people say that the traditional Father Christmas figure is based on a Sámi shaman. The costume of course is certainly close. https://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2013/05/overview-of-saami-costume.html

WARNING: GROANER AHEAD; What did the peanut butter say to the blackberry at the Christmas party?

Fernapple comments on Dec 6, 2021:

No, this must stop. Just pause to consider for a moment. Whatever would your grandmother think, if she knew what you have been doing on line ?

What does a pot sobriety test look like? (SATIRE) - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 6, 2021:

You may enjoy this one as well. ( Note. "Wales" is a small country within the UK. ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXYnisZP9c

Do males or females enjoy sex more?

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

If you break your finger, it hurts whatever part of your body you touch. Could never work that one out ?

Soo how many days to Christmas and does anyone care?

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Yes I do care. Christmas is a boring, time wasting little fart of a pointless holiday, when everything is dead including the transport, there is nowhere you can go to escape all the bad taste anyway, and people try to make you overeat until you feel ill, and the complain at you if you don't. I want to know how many days of freedom I still have left.

[cnn.com] The true meaning of Xmas for this republican and his family.

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

May as well spend it on ammunition, all the money in the world can't buy you taste.

Religion does not kill people?

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

And since gods don't exist, they wont complain if you use them as an excuse for killing, or any other crime you can think of.

I found this and thought some of us might see it as useful during international conversations .

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

What !??! He says. "It’s awkward to mentally multiply 9/5 It’s awkward to mentally add 32" That is just, divide by five, multiply by nine, and add thirty and two. All single stages, and nothing but each result in turn to remember. Come on, what sort of a non functioning brain do you have to have to find that hard.

It surprises me, the number of New Age goofballs on this platform.

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

They will label you a dogmatic, narrow minded, short sighted, bigot, no better than a redneck theist dogmatist. And as another one, with no time for new age drivel, I will say welcome.

The traits that make you very British.

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Being stupid enough to live on the horrible damp, dark, dirty, squalid little island.