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.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality, a theist is a man who changes ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Or tries to delude others that he can.

Atheists are viewed as less desirable romantic partners, study finds

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Yes but it does make you more attractive to a much better quality of romantic partner. Which can't be too bad. A good way to sort the wheat from the chaff perhaps ? Maybe not that much wheat in there, but would you be happy with chaff ?

Me too 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉

Fernapple comments on Dec 5, 2021:

Maybe he is just enjoying himself. ( Done that myself, and the girls were having fun too. )

We know the danger

Fernapple comments on Dec 4, 2021:

Has also been known to cause premature death, may be associated with early pregnancy, damage to some bodily organs and contracting avoidable infections.

A lady married her husband's brother after she became a widow.

Fernapple comments on Dec 3, 2021:

I think that it is illegal under Christian law. It seems that the creator god was so confused about genetics, he thought that it counted as incest. How can you design DNA and then get something like that wrong ?

Orgasms and bacon

Fernapple comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Those were some of your best yet. But question, if alcohol, bacon and orgasms all do that, how come Islam has not banned orgasms yet ?

Top 10 Terrifying Things The Church Doesn't Want You To Know - Part 2 - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 3, 2021:

One very sick and very secret institution.

Our relationship with conspiracy theories is as old and complicated as time.

Fernapple comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Link would be nice ?

A voice from Atheist Ireland.

Fernapple comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Well that was a short video. LOL

New Data Suggests 1 In 44 Children In USA Affected By Autism

Fernapple comments on Dec 3, 2021:

Site not available in Europe , sorry.

Who would have thought cells are sooo complicated.

Fernapple comments on Dec 2, 2021:

False colours of course, but does it say what part of the body the cell came from ?

More than a third of world’s population have never used internet, says UN Nearly 3bn people, or...

Fernapple comments on Dec 2, 2021:

Yep I have a friend who has not, mind you she is nearly ninety, but then I see ninety year olds giving out advice on playing video games on line, so its just a personal choice in the west. But then in the third world there are many who do not have electricity or piped water, yet some of those manage a wireless internet connection.

I’m thinking about writing some music for the Christian market.

Fernapple comments on Dec 2, 2021:

I think your gift is for writing memes for atheists, I would stick to that.

We're losing a whole generation of young men to video games.

Fernapple comments on Dec 2, 2021:

Sometimes the world wins one back though. Enjoy. https://agnostic.com/group/HorticulturePermaculture/discussion/636784/just-a-look-round-a-young-mans-garden-and-what-gardening-can-do-for-you-it-also-a-warm-tropical-st

Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bonds: [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 2, 2021:

So do bees. Then we harvest their collective vomit and spread it on slices of bread for breakfast.

We're losing a whole generation of young men to video games.

Fernapple comments on Dec 2, 2021:

It is not that new though really, all human culture divorces people from reality, that is its main purpose, in many ways video games are just taking the place of the churches, temples and football stadiums of yesterday. To really contact reality requires effort, and it has always been profitable to sell laziness. In many ways the sports stadiums especially, which always existed, were totally ironical in doing so. Because a small handful actually did the sport full time, and worked towards a health damaging level of fitness, to better impress observers, only so that profit could be made from the thousands idling in the stands eating overpriced junk food.

Just got my booster.

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Me too. Two A.Z. one Pfizer, and one winter flu. I have been stabbed four times by young women in the last eighteen months, and I swear I did not even know their mothers !?!?!?

Another one bites the dust or when will they ever learn Marcus Lamb, a co-founder and the CEO of the...

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Not very interested in the story, but love the music video.

The Sierra Madre Tattler!: The Jim Bakker Show: End Times preacher claims ancient reptile imitated ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

She was lucky, can you see any normal human male wanting to have sex with her ? OK a Christian male may want to, but I did say "normal".

Just for fun.

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Oh, it took me a second or two to get it. She is peeing on the wall.

EU draft pulled after Vatican complains Christmas 'canceled' [euronews.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Let us hope that some bright pagan, claims that it must be called the Yule holiday, or the EU are canceling Yule.

Up yours, Texas!!

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Ouch.

Beau of the Fifth Column - Let's talk about coats and hats.... [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Wonderful wisdom. And funny.

One Way We Can Know That God Exists

Fernapple comments on Dec 1, 2021:

Actually the supposed dispute with science is just, in many ways, a smoke screen. When they are talking about a creator god, who existed before or outside the universe, they are talking about something beyond science, since science does not claim, (Science being basically, just honesty organized.) to know anything about the, possibly, none existent, realms beyond the universe, or have anything to do with them. The trick therefore, that they are using, is the old magicians ploy of misdirection. By pretending that science has something to say about that realm beyond the universe, and pretending to disagree with it. They redirect the gaze of the gullible, away from the completely unsupported assumptions they are making about things beyond the known universe, into the phony dispute with science, about big bangs etc. Thereby getting all their wild, evidence free assumptions overlooked.

You may have read and heard of idiotic Biblical verses but we Hindus will not be left behind

Fernapple comments on Nov 30, 2021:

Yep. The usual play list.

This is quite an odd thing I think.

Fernapple comments on Nov 30, 2021:

I am pleased to say that I can not remember when I last prayed.

over the past two decades has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 30, 2021:

One of the benefits we enjoy here in the UK from the National Health Service, whatever its failings, is that at least it stands between the people and forced prescription of drugs for profit. People here are often amazed by just how many drugs wealthier Americans take.

“Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it”…………… Willard ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 30, 2021:

Just common sense, organized.

End Times Preacher: A Reptile Alien Imitating My Husband Tried to Sleep with Me | Hemant Mehta | ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 30, 2021:

She should get so lucky !

Mother explains why she says virginity doesn't exist - Upworthy

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

A very balanced attitude. Her children are lucky to have such good sense available to them. Sadly we still live in a world where in some places, even being suspected of not being a virgin can get people killed.

This universe is something that I've created with my mind to deal with reality, it's sad that it ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

Every creature sees a different world, even the death of the humblest ant, sees a unique vision lost.

What's in a Number?

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

Points come quickest, if you don't think about them.

The Deadly Myth That Human Error Causes Most Car Crashes Every year thousands of Americans die on...

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

Sorry paywall.

Manny people say they believe in a god. But What is the best proof of God’s existence?

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

Which God ? If you mean the Christian God, Then the best proof usually offered, is the authority of the bible and the institutions based on it. But the bible is a book written over perhaps six centuries or more, by forty or more different authors, with several different agendas who do not always agree, We know that most of the names given to the supposed authors are fake, we do not have any original manuscripts, we know that it was reedited and mistranslated many times, we do not know who the editors/translators were for the most part, and we do know that a lot of content was edited out, we do not know who first marketed a lot of the books, we do not have any exact dates or locations for most of the writings and editings, and we do know that it gets both the history and physical geography of the lands in which it is set wrong several times. In short. It would be hard to deliberately, make/design a book, which was worse evidence for anything, or more doubtful. And that is claimed as the 'best' evidence.

What would you order for your last meal?

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

I have heard that some people have ordered a lavish last meal, and then asked that it be given to homeless people on the street outside. It think that fish and chips would be most suitable and nourishing for eating on the street.

What were you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

Fernapple comments on Nov 29, 2021:

Happy you are safe and well after your drive. But you should go more slowly in the wet, especially as you get more mature. Some people, like my father, never get that, and the older he got, the faster he went, it was terrifying. Your reactions and skills do go down with age even if you do not notice it, that is why I am never impatient with older drivers who go slowly. For myself I am really grateful, that I live in a country where we do New Year and Burn's Night, rather than Thanksgiving, because you are more ready for the holiday and feast later in the winter when you need a cheer.

Christians, in absolute contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions, not only established a ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 28, 2021:

It is no accident that the monotheistic religions, all come from the desert areas on the borders of Europe and Asia, where nature is at its most hostile, but close to regions where it is at its most friendly, just to make the contrast stark and fuel envy

Yep, all of them...

Fernapple comments on Nov 28, 2021:

Oh come on, that is really hard on chimpanzees. For all we know they could probably make a far better job of it, if we just got out of the way.

& consider genitalia (of both types) are major put downs...should be celebrated!

Fernapple comments on Nov 28, 2021:

Logical. Unless of course logic is just a male construct to oppress women, as I have been told on numerous occasions. Usually when I know i'm right.