One cannot be considered a moral person when he or she chooses to believe thinks that are not true, ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2021:

You do not choose a religion usually, and when you do, you do not choose to believe in it. What you do when you choose a religion, is choose a system of thoughts which matches your wants and justifies them. Then, whether you believe it or not, is not relevant, because your choice forces you to pretend belief (literal or metaphorical ), which is the same thing as belief to the rest of the world.

Beautiful weeds.

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2021:

OK, happy to help.

I’m no expert on art, but it sure seems like they got their money’s worth!?

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2021:

Well done that young man.

Disgusting PowerPoint Shows How Little Has Changed - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I sometime wonder if there is any hope for the US.

To use the bible as a Christian's worst enemy.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2021:

While his heart may be in the right place, it is still just another example of, you can use scripture to prove/justify anything you want.

When you read this, it becomes very obvious why Oklahoma is a red state.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2021:

Road safety obviously another thing you Americans don't do. Are things getting really weird over there, or is it just an impression this site gives ?

The only bishops that really count are in chess.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2021:

That is true, if you can do maths you can usually get a good job, so you would not want to be in the church. ( OH wait, that is, unless you were a totally dishonest scoundrel, who wanted to find a easy way to exploit people. )

"My" thought du jour: "Inaction to me, is equal to everyday stirring your food, but not eating it.

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2021:

Not just you how about Darwin. Enjoy. https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/how-think-about-exercise/201501/charles-darwins-daily-walks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmHrq6oUeoQ

Is John Lennon's "Imagine" an atheistic anthem? [salon.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Maybe it was, maybe it was not, but we can use it as such. And why should the churches have all the best songs ?

This came up in private discussion with a member: I wonder how many people on this site would ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

How else would you find the time to spend on here.

Is it just me, or are you also frustrated and/or annoyed at the carelessness with which other people...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Yes, but I can forgive you.

say something original and wise.

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

If one person says it, its called a lie, if a million people say it, its called culture.

say something original and wise.

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Every bit of dogma, was once an original thought.

A year and a half...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Yes but I have a lot of happy spiders.

I started pulling out my ugliest flowers from the pots on the deck this afternoon and replacing them...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Pop some spring bulbs in the same pots. They get on well together as long as you don't use really big bulbs.

This is definitely my point of view.

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Best keep it to yourself.

Evangelical pastor claims that the reason Jesus hasn’t returned is because people aren’t ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2021:

So basically Jesus takes bribes. Or could it be that his supposed mouth pieces, just keep the bribes.

Hello, How are y'all?

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2021:

OK so far. What are you going to do which may upset me, or fill me with joy ?

This app

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Is as good a way to waste time as any other, and as a bonus you get to meet lots of other people with time to waste from all over the world, without having to trawl though the horrors of mainstream Facebook.

Deep

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Theists. Because the more I saw of them, the less I wanted to be like them.

Communication

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Not possible, too hard. Trying to yes.

Real

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2021:

Never really did, in the UK atheist/agnostic is pretty much the default.

Is Facebook "what's wrong with America" ?

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2021:

Once to get a platform and influence public opinion, you had to prove yourself to trained editors and fellow journalists. Now you only have to impress a robot, which has been programed to get as many people as it can.

I notice this image being thrown around on social media.

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2021:

And who could forget, Vietnam, booming capitalist economy for a small county with a ( post ? ) communist government.

Having a very hard time with antivaxxers and anti maskers and trying to find some serenity.

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2021:

Depends, if you regard lettuce DNA as part of the lettuce, or not.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2021:

The people who made the Clovis points did not just spend time chipping rocks, they were people like us, they made poetry, played politics, raised families, had passionate loves and almost by default while they were doing that they built cities and nations as well. Lost is not the same as never was.

An inspirational post for shoppers.

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2021:

And all that time you spend dusting and cleaning it, could be time spent in the woods listening to the birds sing, on the beach with the grandchildren, or just cuddling a loved one over a shared glass of wine.

Went to see a psychic who was in a bad mood.

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

That's easy, you just put your hand in your pocket, pull out some money, and they happy up instantly.

Words of Wisdom 2nd....

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Sadly we are most of us born in the circus.

I make no statements about innocent veggies being yanked out of the ground, silently screaming as ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

I should reply. If I was hungry enough and they were already dead, I have no problem eating a person. And I would also add, that if it was legal, then when I die they can give my body to the local dinner, though I would prefer to be dog and cat food.

Words of Wisdom 1st....

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Very good. Though it is true that quite a lot of modern slaves are literally in chains still.

Countries That Have Produced The Most Serial Killers - WorldAtlas

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Probably basically true, but you do have to be wary of a possible bias, because some countries may under-report deaths and crimes, or not even have the term serial killer as part of their culture. Especially in countries with large unrecorded populations, who are often the main victims of violent crime.

Militant Atheists?

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Fortunately, after long contact with the atheist community it seems that such people are rare, and I have had few contacts with them. I always describe myself as a "broad church sceptic", meaning that I am happy with anyone who has rejected the dogma of religion, and happy to support any views outside of that, be they atheist, agnostic or even deist, since it is dogma which does the harm, the none existent, none communicating or inactive god never harmed anybody, only the dogma of his followers did that. So that it is all important not to start pushing dogma of our own.

Extremely well written!

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2021:

Men are basically polygamous, and women are basically monotonous.

Do you have a glossy green front lawn? What is this, the 1950s?

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Nope gave up the lawn addiction years ago. Grass is the most time, money and carbon wasting form of garden there is, and also the most dull and boring. But that I think is the secret of its popularity, it is dull, so you don't have to think, and if you don't have to think, you can't be caught getting something wrong, it is gardening for cowards who are even afraid of public opinion. Bet all lawn owners go to church too.

I just received a text wanting to know if I would participate in a survey about immigration and ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

I just got, a sorry not you, notice, but that is not surprising given I am on the other side of the Atlantic.

I recommend watching this guy's video on TikTok here.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

I think that tiktok has moved on. Which is a shame because I am very interested in the possible harmful effects of coffee, and was convinced a few weeks ago to try giving it up, (I still drink tea. ) and I must say that within a few days I started to feel twenty years younger.

“The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Learning to tell the difference between, "I want" and "its true", is the first stage of growing up. Most people seem to manage it at about the age of five or six, or they never get there at all, and spend the rest of their lives as the victims of who ever manipulates their culture.

Christian Apologist: Black People Weren’t Raised With an “Emphasis on Education” | Hemant ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

Nor are Christians, of any colour.

Flipping heck, it sure is a bit on the windy side out there today.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

You could do like they did in the Cinderella story and go round to see who the fit. Offer a prize for the winner, say a years supply of diet videos.

Heh, heh, Caught the little Sod red-handed.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2021:

In the UK we very few people have mail boxes, for the greater part mail is dropped into your house through a postal flap, ( like a cat flap ) in your front door. It makes it very hard to steal mail, though we did have a criminal fashion for putting nasty things like dog dirt, and even worse petrol, though the flap, but that fashion seems to have died now. In part because someone designed an inner fireproof box with drains to the outside, so that any liquid poured in just splashes onto the criminals feet, and if they intended arson, when the strike the match, they can go up in flames, but the house is safe.

Meanwhile, in South West England, this serious debate continues. 😆 Cream first, or jam first?

Fernapple comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Neither. I like to put a fresh knife dab of both on the scone's edge each time I take a mouthful. It seems more fun and it does not squish all over when you bite it.

BAT SUPERPOWERS, ON PBS, NOVA.

Fernapple comments on Sep 20, 2021:

It says. "Video not available." Sorry.

Anyone looking for me? [facebook.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

No.

Gianni Crow "I was very young when someone first called me "Sinner".

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Wise words.

It is difficult to accept that FGM remains an issue in the U.S. [dailymail.co.uk]

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Wherever there is religion, there is a place to hide and promote nasty things, of all kinds.

Some Trumpazoid today posted a "complaint" that the Colorado Democrats moved Ms.

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

No, you don't hope his butt heals soon.

Historic Hypocrisy

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

So not just a mask, but social distancing too.

Hello everybody, I hav'nt been on this site for awhile.

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Hello and welcome back. No shortage of sceptical people here.

So it appears there was more members of the press there than protestors!! What a bunch of YUGE ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Where ?

It IS worth getting your booster.

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Yes I think that is one of the advantages of the AZ shot, that though it is not quite as effective at the start, the fall off of immunity is slower, making it likely to be more effective long term.

Mother Jones on Twitter: "“There is no credible religious argument against the vaccines," ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

It certainly wont put the argument to rest, since a lot of people don't want to listen to arguments.

Thoughts & Prayers🙃 [nypost.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 19, 2021:

Another heroic warrior dies in the front line, protecting the profits of homeopaths, snake oil sellers and faith healers against the evils of mainstream medicine. I often wonder, when these people start chanting about Covid 19 all being a con by big pharma to make profits, what do they suppose motivates the most of the nut jobs behind promoting the anti-vax movement ? "Let us march shoulder to shoulder and stand up for quackery, until the very last man falls, for the freedom to con your fellow citizen out of their hard earned, must be defended to the last drop of blood."

Access, travel rules influence missionary vaccine policies [abcnews.go.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 18, 2021:

But do they really care about health, or are they just afraid of a law suit ?

The world is full of small joys, but you must learn to see them. Li Tai-Pe

Fernapple comments on Sep 18, 2021:

Appreciation, is the true source of happiness, yes. And it is a skill which can be improved with practice certainly.

Greg Locke Rants That Freemasonry Is ‘An Illuminati, Godless, Wicked Organization’ ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 17, 2021:

But he seems to have missed out the fact that, money given to the Masons can't go to Greg Locke's church. I think that is important, surprise he left it out.

I just saw an anti-mask sign that said "Masking kids IS NOT Trusting Science, It's Psychological ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 17, 2021:

Teaching kids to do anything except giving respect to science, is psychological child abuse.

“Hors D’Oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into 40 pieces”………………..Jack Benny.

Fernapple comments on Sep 17, 2021:

"Coup de grâce" What you do to the lawn at the weekend.

Screw it, I’m not eating French fries, French toast, or French dressing again AS LONG AS I ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 17, 2021:

But do keep using the French Letter. You know it makes sense.

The World’s Largest Cave (and Coolest National Park) Just Got 8 Miles Longer [fatherly.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 17, 2021:

Hundreds of miles is a lot of cave to start with, you would need to take a lot of food alone just to explore part of that.

I’m going to show you a Bible verse that’s used a lot in churches to help explain the ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 16, 2021:

Very close to the "god fearing christian" idea. Which was introduced into the Christian theology, in the first place, to counter the Stoic philosophers who argued that if god was all good and fair in all things, then nobody need fear god, because you will always receive fairness and justice. The christian fathers then introduced god fearing, because they said god may be unreasonable and/or ask you to do evil in order to test you, yet he is still good and perfect. Yep have a few drinks before you try to get your head round that.

A lot of people are saying that after losing the election, Donald Trump was unhinged or crazy.

Fernapple comments on Sep 16, 2021:

Yes, though it hardly needs advanced psychology to understand Trump. The caddies on the golf courses who nicknamed him, "Pele" ( famous footballer ) because he kicks the ball where he wants it, so often, had him perfectly.

“I have not failed.

Fernapple comments on Sep 16, 2021:

Or if all attempts fail, just steal somebody else's results, like he did.

Vsauce - Do Chairs Exist? [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 16, 2021:

Does Philosophy exist ? Because if nothing with properties exists then philosophy is one of those things with properties which does not exist, and therefore questions asked within it do not exist.

I expect most of us here on the site have now been double jabbed, and probably most of our friends ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 16, 2021:

I had the AZ, the first time I got a raging fever that lasted about four hours at its peak, the second time nothing.

DISGUSTING Brandy Melville Culture Exposed - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Sexual predators and anti-social deviants, will always creep off into dark corners where they are under the radar. Then they will start to find ways to assert themselves and acquire victims, until a point is reached where they are finally spotted. In doing that they will always find the inexperience of the young, who can not distinguish danger when they see, it a great help. The real failing is with the education systems of the world, which fail in their duty to instill mature understanding early enough.

Living alone has its perks.

Fernapple comments on Sep 15, 2021:

You don't have to live alone to go without clothes. A former partner and I used to go naked regularly, especially in the summer. The only downside was that she found that she had a very easy way of getting my attention when wanted, by grabbing me by the spare part and giving a sharp pull, and she had eye wateringly rough hands. But she thought it was hugely funny.

Greta Thunberg simplifies abortion in this brilliant chart.

Fernapple comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Pretty much all the same reason.

Psychologists Are Learning What Religion Has Known for Years .

Fernapple comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Yes, there are no useful parts of religion which can not now be explained, understood and replicated, by science and other institutions, it is truly obsolete except as a propaganda tool for the immoral and antisocial.

“We keep being told that religion, whatever it’s imperfections, at least instills morality.

Fernapple comments on Sep 15, 2021:

Should that not be, 'imperfections'.

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 14, 2021:

Your values may seem criminal to me, but I have to respect you if you are true to them, I don't if you are not.

Just making an obvious point.

Fernapple comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Its worse than that, the book also says, that it was God who hardened Pharaoh's heart. So Pharaoh would not do what God wanted, because God persuaded him not to ?!?!?!

God is not eternal, he's internal, like an ego that thinks it's your Dad but it's still you.

Fernapple comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Two year olds find it hard to know the difference between, "I want." and "Its true.". God is the name that people who can't grow up use for the same compound idea.

Is it just me, or are these pedos always from the so called “conservative” crowd.

Fernapple comments on Sep 10, 2021:

I do not know, but they are I suspect, always for the more literal fundamental churches, where they can play at being god. After all if you have no conscience, you may as well play god, and you will have no problem with fake claims.

The further I move away from god, the more free I am of satan. Irony

Fernapple comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Not irony, just perfectly logical, they are the same person, the dark side and the even darker side of the same fictional villain.

We all have choices.

Fernapple comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Well he sure did not do, plain text.

Christian “Prophet”: If You Curse Me, God “Will Let Me Hear Your Conversation” | Hemant ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Well gods a snitch then.

Anti abortion is anti equality.

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Yes obviously, no disagreement for this man. But then I don't live in Texas or suffer from Texan culture.

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Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Yes but just think about what "annoying, overly privileged assholes" those who wrote the work of fiction we call the Bible, must have been, if they thought that inventing him was putting a good spin on it.

Want to be happier, lower your expectations apparently.

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Or plant a garden, its the only thing which always exceeds expectations.

Sir Rodney Biden

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Funny but perhaps not original. The film A Bridge Too Far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILlitb8Acc

Saw this beauty today when picking up my son from school (near Charlotte, North Carolina).

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Masks, social distancing, and hand cleaner before entering buildings, should always have been the normal anyway, not just a response to the C. virus, there are lots of other nasty things out there, like winter flu, we just had such an exceptional run of good luck for the last fifty years, it could not last.

Oh fucking awesome.. [futurism.]

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Was bound to happen. We got away with no masks, on hand cleaning, no social distancing for a long time. We were lucky, they should have been the normal, not just a special response to the C. virus.

by Mana Neyestani

Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Sometimes you just have to be smug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q

Yeah, how do you do it? I'm sure there are different ways to get to the same result.

Fernapple comments on Sep 8, 2021:

Sixty plus fifteen.

Here's a question...

Fernapple comments on Sep 8, 2021:

Wow that is so rude, and I thought you were a nice lady, you can get arrested in some countries for asking questions like that. And no, not at least with latex.

I was just contacted by someone who said that they were from Amazon and that someone had used my ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 7, 2021:

I get three or four calls a week about problems with my Amazon account. Which is very odd, because I don't have an Amazon account. Being in business, I also get about three invoices a month, from companies I have never heard of and certainly never traded with.

Question: why are health care workers even showing anti-vaxxers compassion?

Fernapple comments on Sep 7, 2021:

If it only goes to the deserving, then it is not compassion.

Does anyone do charity or community service with a group not affiliated with religious ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 7, 2021:

Yes, but I live in the UK where most of the charities are not religiously affiliated. It may be a lot tougher in the US to find such a thing, you have my sympathy, not being able to make the contribution you would like because you are excluded on the grounds of faith, must be hard. Have you considered starting your own ? Especially if you could find two or three other people in your area who are in the same place, at the very least you could open a small charity shop/stall and raise some funds, which you could spend locally or pass on to a larger national/international charity.

13. Not enough! 😆

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2021:

I try to avoid cities, but I have done four.

Look carefully!

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Give it the finger my son !

God always wants and even encourages wars- Christian wars,Muslim wars, Jewish wars, Hindu wars, even...

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2021:

People want wars, but they can rarely find good reasons, based on logic, reason, evidence etc. to support them. So they turn for support to the one source of authority and backing where logic, evidence and good arguments are not needed.

Religion adapts to the needs and desires of its adherents.

Fernapple comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Religion survives by providing an alternate voice to that of the state and other institutions. Where ideas are concerned its a market place, where every product has to find a place. And when the state, international culture, and most human institutions embrace human rights, where does religion go to continue to find an audience who need an alternative ?

It's quite easy and enjoyable to become an atheist in US,EU, or elsewhere but it's too much painful ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2021:

If people have no way to prove what they want you to think, they have to resort to repetition, so that even thinking about questioning becomes too much of a task to face. If you encounter heavy repetition therefore, it is reasonable to guess that you are being sold a lie.

A right-angled isosceles triangle is squared on the hypotenuse and on each of the other two sides.

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2021:

Since an isosceles triangle can only have a right angle at the angle opposite the hypotenuse, as all triangles, therefore all isosceles with a right angle must be of the 90, 45, 45, form, which means that all those having a 90 degree are the same triangle, therefore the relationships between the areas will always be the same. And since the 90, 45, 45, triangle gives areas of 1 squared plus 1 squared yielding an area on the hypotenuse of two. ( Hypotenuse equals square root of two. ) And since the area of the triangle itself equals one half of a rectangle with sides equal to 1 and is therefore = one half, and the areas on the sides equal 1+1+2=4 that means that the ratio is four to half, or eight to one. My only reason for voting one is that you did not define "larger" clearly. Sorry for writing it out in longhand without math notation, but my keyboard does not do it very well.

Innocents and happiness!

Fernapple comments on Sep 5, 2021:

"Been at the cat nip again have we, you naughty girl."

Certainly troubling, hope they are able to find some.

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2021:

The link could be improved perhaps.

"If we are a civilized society, founded on thoughtful intelligence, killing should almost never be a...

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2021:

No I don't agree, at least one sub group of killing, assisted dying is well worth supporting.

Get up early, no sleeping in….

Fernapple comments on Sep 4, 2021:

The hours of the day are just random labels applied to time periods, they have no biological meaning, and your internal clock is perfectly adjustable. What I suspect that the study, if valid, really found was that there is an effect on health caused by the lifestyle choices that typically go with late rising, such as taking little exercise and excessive drinking.

Regarding abortion: This is my secret story.

Fernapple comments on Sep 3, 2021:

It is brave of you to share your personal pain so openly. It was not a fun read, but I did commit to reading it all though. Sadly though I think that any of the people who really need to read it, and who would benefit from reading it, simply won't be reading it. There is a wide communication gap, I am sorry to say. People in some cultures, are, and especially, were, trained to believe that being unkind was the best response to many situations. My own wife found herself in a very similar situation as a young woman, many years before we met, when she was deserted while pregnant, and sadly it was her own mother who beat her very severely.