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After a COVID skeptic falls to the disease, people ask an awkward question: Should we care?

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2021:

You have to remember that however good it is, to always find some empathy for those who suffer and die. And it is of course. Yet in the end, every loud and proud anti-vaxer is doing their best to, and is probably successful in, persuading or forcing many others to imitate them. That at least makes them in effect, guilty of manslaughter, probably, in most cases, multiple counts, and if they are not truly convinced anti-vaxers themselves, but are faking it for power or profit, then that becomes effective murder. It would never "stick" as they say, in a court of law, and they are therefore only moral not a legal crimes, but it does, make what sometimes happens, natural justice, so that there is no need to fell any guilt if we do not in fact feel sympathy.

Enjoy.

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2021:

I am old enough to remember the days before double glazing. When you would wake u in the morning to find that your breath in the night had made "frost ferns" on the inside of your window. Something like "dark skies" that todays children hardly ever get to see.

The Myth of Religious Violence .

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2021:

No war was ever started for a single simple reason. You can therefore put any spin on the origins of collective violence you like, from economics, religion, violent instinct, personal ambition, race, the nature of politics, class conflict or the need to redirect it, and many more including, the exclusion of any of the above. It is messy indeed, and perhaps the best case is to treat each conflict as an individual case, and disentangle its strands from that point. People like simple answers because that is easy, and people are lazy, but understanding is hard. And it is very true that a lot of what is seen in the West as Islamic imperialist ambition, is actually just a defensive attempt to reverse the attempts by the West to impose western values at gun point. Which never works.

HONG KONG BILLIONAIRE DOUBLES REWARD FOR ANY MAN WHO CAN MAKE LESBIAN DAUGHTER STRAIGHT | The ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2021:

What planet do you live on , where you have not heard of a.i. and in-vitro ?

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. - Maya Angelou

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2021:

No. Eventually the battery runs out, and you think. Why did I ever think that a torch would make a good suppository anyway, and I don't really need extra light to sit down.

"You are not an individual, when living by or under the terms of someone else.

Fernapple comments on Sep 1, 2021:

No I don't agree with that. We all are part of society, ( Indeed you could say that if we are not, then we do not really exist.) and as part of society we all live by the terms of many other people. A knot in a web is still and individual knot, and contributes to the strength of the whole because of it individuality.

“I’m completely in favour of the separation of Church and State….

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2021:

Not sure. In most of Europe where there is a state church, religion dies fast, and at the very least becomes only a token gesture. In the US where the churches are free they are still a major force. The church thrives by giving people an alternate voice to the state, when it is part of the state, it is tainted by the crimes of the state, strangled by state red tape, can not offer anything alternate, and is seen as a voice for the establishment, pulling it away from the people.

I'm not sure whether or not this is for real, but just going by my own age and condition, I'm buying...

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2021:

They are big generalized groups though.

'OK millennial': Don't blame the boomers for decline of religion in America

Fernapple comments on Aug 31, 2021:

A regular in the Christian press, blame. They will look of course for anywhere to place the blame, as long as it is not within their perfect religion.

A few minutes ago, here at work, a gorgeous blondie arrived, wearing a company hi-viz vest, asking ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 30, 2021:

Why, in the UK the churches have been almost completely behind the vax program. Why should it have anything to do with religion anyway, except that, as major social institutions you would expect the churches to be behind any major social project, for the peoples benefit, including their members. You Americans are really weird.

Maybe Mary and Jesus were sharks?

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

If he was the result of an unfertilized egg, yet male, perhaps he was a honey bee. That is not a LOL joke, more of a drone.

Delta Airlines really doesn’t want to call the delta variant the ‘delta variant’ ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

I feel more sorry for Corrona beer.

Captain Godbotherer Kent Hovid is in the crap again Biblically sanctioned wife beating does not ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Yes but the faithful will say. "He is a Christian. Therefore we must forgive him, and remember a sinner returned to the fold, is our most precious gift. Unlike the evil unbelievers, who think that you should be judged by what you really do, not by your praising of the lord."

How many "maybe's, perhaps's and unknowns" are contained in this article?

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

I have no difficulty stating that with a straight face. Its called probabilities. It is a branch of math. Really Powder, I fully respect anyones right to refuse any medical treatment, and don't think anyone should be forced to take anything if they don't want. But supporting your choice and trying to justify it repeatedly, with misunderstood, deliberately misunderstood, misquoted or badly mangled maths and science, factoids, often not even relevant to the issues. Is just silly, boring and makes you look silly and boring as well, while doing nothing to improve the case. Quite the contrary, it just makes the argument you wish to support look silly, by association. If you really struggle with things like basic maths, there are remedial adult education courses available in most countries.

We're losing our religion...but where do we go from here? - The Big Smoke

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

I agree with you, and would add that, the article also ignores the almost certain direction of religion in the future. As and intellectual method for understanding the world, religion was superseded twenty five centuries or so ago. When people first noticed it had failed to provide a true description of the world, and they therefore created, first philosophy and then natural philosophy ( a.k.a. science) to address the failings of unregulated culture ( a.k.a. religion). At that point religion should have died, but it did not, it survived by offering something else, by becoming an alternate voice to the state and the mainstream, especially for those excluded by the state and other secular institutions like medicine and property. As for example, in the Roman world, Christianity prospered by opposing capitalism and fascism, as the dominant world and state views. Then in the Dark Ages by offering an alternative set of humane and altruistic ideals, to oppose violent brutality as the main human cultural norm of the state. But where does religion go then in the twenty first century, an age when most developed states have embraced humanitarian views and human rights as their flagship ideals. It can only do what it always has, and become the voice of the excluded, which now means, and increasingly means, becoming the institution of the fascist, the racist, the sexist, the violent bully, the fraudulent and the anti-socially. Watch this space, if you think religion is bad now, it will get a lot worse.

We are a collection of atheists, agnostics and free thinkers many of us are humanitarian and pursue ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

I do limit my meat intake in many ways. But if you are concerned about animal suffering, then the best way to prevent that would be to create and increase a demand for meat produced to high animal welfare standards. A lot of farmed meat is produced with great cruelty, but demanding high quality animal care in the meat you eat, would be a far better way to reform that, than total veganism. Most wild animals also live short lives of great suffering, so that turning over the land and other resources used to farm meat back to nature, would hardly be a reduction in suffering either. Perhaps the most happy and suffering free creatures, are those who are regularly hunted, since ( some ) human hunters, are the only predators who actually take care to kill quickly without suffering, and regular culling cuts down on the population pressures which cause the famine, disease, high infant mortality and other things which are the main source of misery in wild creatures. There is a good case therefore to be made for a, wild game and roadkill only, diet.

I saw you laughing...

Fernapple comments on Aug 29, 2021:

I will be commenting telepathically today. So if you get a pain in the bum, that was me.

An open question to my Christian friends. Did Jesus have a penis?

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2021:

If he was not interested in sex, why did he keep a harem of thirteen, and tell them to abandon their families and love only him. Obvious controlling narcissist sexual addict.

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.

Fernapple comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Now that is having a dream.

My daughter has a booth selling her soaps at a local craft fair, and wanted me to whip up a bunch of...

Fernapple comments on Aug 27, 2021:

I often like to mix an organic oil such as linseed, or teak, etc. with varnish say 60% to 40%. it soaks in well and does not give a high gloss finish but is very waterproof after a couple of coats. Takes a day or two to dry.

Outside my bedroom window I have put up a bird feeder.

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2021:

Photo would be nice ?

‘World’s Worst Invasive Weed’ Sold at Many U.

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2021:

Does not happen so much in the UK. Though in the past we introduced Himalayan Balsam and Japanes Knot Weed, which are still big problems, and now illegal. While the Romans left us Ground Elder which is a perfect pain, and I do occasionally get asked if I stock the quite illegal, though native, Bracken. Do you have problems with these in the States ?

Saturday night 🌙 shots

Fernapple comments on Aug 26, 2021:

Very good, the moon is a very hard subject to get right.

Socrates.

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2021:

The Mafia. "Sometimes we have to do nasty things which we don't like to people, because they don't show us d' respect." "We don't like it, do we Ronald ? But we have to be doing it to you, because ." We do be doing what we do do be doing Ron.

OK people, this really illustrates my problem re definitions.

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2021:

Sadly the fallacy of the "argument from ignorance", does not work even in the twenty first century and on the web, the world may be moving in that direction, but we are not there yet. And if you do not know about the definition of the "argument from ignorance" look it up.

Today's hike. A cathedral of tall trees.

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2021:

Interesting, but there do not seem to be any photos ?

Now that I’ve reached level 10 do I resign and hand back my membership?

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2021:

Well done. There should be some recognition of a major contribution, if its only ten after your name.

Kids should not have to worry about that issue.

Fernapple comments on Aug 25, 2021:

Smart kid.

Research Shows a Rise in the Public Acceptance of Evolution Over the Last Decade | Hemant Mehta | ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

Look its simple. Humans evolved from simpler more basic life forms, and creationists did not. Simple, can't see the problem.

Well folks it's been pretty well confirmed that I will be dying of cancer is spread now from my ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

You too will be sadly missed. Do try to make the most of the time that remains. Many of us here I am sure will be thinking of you.

According to Urban Dictionary: Religionist An arrogant, prideful, egoistic, religious person ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

Like you, I come from the UK, and they tend not to be visible on the streets here, ( like they are in some counties I hear, ) it is true. But I came through the English education system, which was very C. of E. in those days, still may be so, and I met a couple of truly evil ones there. I have also, had the misfortune to have been in a business which often deals with public institutions, including the church, and have met several that way.

Did you ever wonder where the imagination came from for the Alice in Wonderland book?

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

A lot of it, is a satyr on mathematics. The rev. Dodgson ( L. Carrol ) was a prof. of maths, but a conservative who did not like the so called "new" maths of his day.

“The city Is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo”………………Desmond Morris.

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

No. Most zoos are well regulated. LOL

Didn't know this

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

In other words all of them.

How about you, do you wear a mask? Why or why not?

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

In the UK, the government published figures, which are very doubtful and a very rough approximation, saying that. If when you meet someone, one of you wears a mask it reduces the chances of infection by 40% and if both of you are wearing a mask by 70%. The figures are very rough and questionable , far too exact to be literally true. But most people opted to wear a mask, for the simple reason that in the UK we do not trust our government, when we have reason to suspect they have a hidden agenda, but we tend to trust them when there is no reason not to, and no reason to believe they could profit by what they say. Simple. Why do you American seem to struggle with such simple stuff ?

It is foul out there this morning, but never the less I shall still be wandering out there in my ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

Well done. Enjoy the wild weather, nature has many expressions, it is best if you enjoy them all. Personally I like rain a lot, sometimes I just like to get an umbrella and stand outside just to watch it. Sunshine is great, but just as a friends tears are as precious as their smiles, so is the storm in its wild fury just as precious as the warm sun. Only the stubbornest will, The greatest love can give. The very darkest night, The starlight sharply bright. Give all your lazy summers, The making of the hay. For the pure and cut-glass light, Of one bright, winters day.

"Why are we in this world?

Fernapple comments on Aug 24, 2021:

"Why questions have no meaning." Richard Feynman.

We need to believe in ourselves ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

More valuable.

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

Something else that she was sadly wrong about, there are numerous examples of wild animals with healed leg fractures. And also examples of social animals especially dogs, elephants, monkeys and apes, where injured animals survived because other group members cared for and fed them. That comes long before civilization. The actual Greek meaning of the word, was originally just, city living.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where?

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is NOT king.

You know.

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

I agree with you totally about the vax argument, but I think you miss the point if you think that this site is especially to blame. The site just reflects the attitudes of the larger society as a whole, and indeed I would say that if anything, the debate on this site is more civil than the wider debate beyond. It is true that there are perhaps some on here who would do well to hear your words, but I think that for the most part you are preaching to the converted, try not to judge the site by its lowest but loudest ten percent, however annoying they are.

I’m all for ending the war, but sure as fuck had to be a better way to go about it.....👀

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

A war has to end with a ( long ) consolidate and rebuild stage, pulling out early is not even a war, it is just doing a lot of killing and maiming to no point, making everyone a lot angrier and leaving behind a raging state of chaos.

Funny moment of confusion

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. ( 64M, I think, though I don't remember that good these days. )

WTF are purple carrots and where did they come from?

Fernapple comments on Aug 23, 2021:

I am told that wild carrots are poisonous, and that some brave person long ago, must have found a rare genetic mutation, which was not, and had the foresight and courage to eat and grow it.

Some folks out there keep searching that elusive fountain of youth.

Fernapple comments on Aug 22, 2021:

Youth is wasted on the young, who can not understand its worth, and lost to the wise, who do know.

Apparently the Mayan people gave themselves and others alchohol enemas, sometimes laced with drugs ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 22, 2021:

Saturday night on my local high street.

From a FB post by my sister: "I’ve been fighting stage 4 breast cancer for 8 years plus I’ve ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2021:

In the UK, where we are a little further down the line with vaccine, they just released a stat that 90% of the people now in intensive care with covid, are now vaccine avoiders.

cheetah and cubs

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2021:

Wow, that is a big litter, she will really struggle to raise that many.

So here's a part of the big bang idea that just never worked for me.

Fernapple comments on Aug 21, 2021:

No it is a lot more weird than that. A lot of cosmologists think that there is no center, and every observer creates their own center. That if you go in a straight line for long enough you will in the end returning to where you started, because space is curved. (Therefore what we think is straight is a curve. ) That there was no time before the big bang, because the big bang made time as well as space, and that in fact time and space may be the same thing. On the other hand there are cosmologists who have different ideas.

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2021:

Being uneducated often results in poor health and safety choices, which means that it is, for a lot of people, especially later in life, the exact same thing as being dead.

Looking at pictures of Afghanistan in the 60's is very disheartening.

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2021:

Marx dreamed of a world where the workers in western capitalist economies, would start a revolution and turn to communism, but that never happened. Nearly all of the revolutions which issued and ended in communism, started in feudal or near feudal societies, mostly based on rural peasant economics, such as Tsarist Russia and Eastern Asia. And the step is clearly only a small one, changing the hierarchical structure of feudalism, for the hierarchical structure of a one party state and a command economy, not too big a leap for a society in one go. If you turn to socialism in a reasonably democratic way, from an even half way successful economy, you usually turn to a moderate, tolerant, and culturally diverse form of democratic socialism. Hard one track communism only results from hard won, bitter and violent revolution, and to start that sort of revolution, you require, that people should be nearly starving. People will only face the fire power of the state, in violent uprising, if the choice is a truly stark one, between death for you by bullet, and death for both you and your children by starvation. The western semi-democratic capitalist states long ago, realized that the trick to managing social injustice and maintaining the divide, between the rich exploiters and the useful poor, was to give the poor just enough to keep them just above actual starvation. So that working harder for the rich and powerful to win a slightly larger share of the hand outs, would aways seem a better way to escape poverty, than charging into the throats of machine guns. And thus a fairly large degree of social injustice, in which those who work to produce the wealth, receive far less than their earned share of it, can be maintained forever, because the cost of change in the short term is too great whatever the long term benefits. The only way to change that, is to raise aspirations by the slow drip, drip, drip, of education and the constant democratic pressure which results, pushing society ever towards more social justice by democratic means. Which is why there is such a strong anti-education movement, pressed forward on behalf of the right wing rich elite, by those who are fooled into thinking that education is main feature of the rich exploiters, and that therefore rejecting education is equal to rejecting the rich exploiters. This is a very good trick to fool people, if you can get away with it, and it certainly does seem to work.

Superb dancing.

Fernapple comments on Aug 20, 2021:

Yes but you have to be really fit for that, have you got anything for us old folk ? LOL

And if the Taliban is not your cup of tea I am sure they will find someone to your liking soon.

Fernapple comments on Aug 19, 2021:

Or Russia or the UK, or the EU or Pakistan, or Saudi, the Taliban have pretty much played everyone for fools.

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger…they are driven by ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 19, 2021:

I always though that Tacitus, at least in this sense, was a historian, and that he was supposedly quoting Carraticus, the British king, about the Romans ?

It's all your fault...

Fernapple comments on Aug 19, 2021:

"Ill met by moonlight." Time for bed.

"Never collect inanimate objects.

Fernapple comments on Aug 19, 2021:

"Oh my precious." Gollum.

Single use plastics

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Telling it like it is.

A lot of Trump supporters are treating themselves with an antiworming medicine that has not been ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

The article points out that humans, and horses, are very different and that a medicine that works with one may not work with the other. It however fails to point out, that parasites and viruses, are also very different, and that a medicine that works against one, may not work against the other, either. Is there such a thing as double stupid I wonder ? For Pete's sake you Americans !! What has happened to your education system, even a ten year old in the UK could tell you the difference ?

HELL EXPLAINED The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry mid ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Replacing his imaginary friend god, with his imaginary friend Teresa ? ( But anyway I still prefer Teresa, imaginary or not. )

Perspective

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

To quote waitingforgodo below. "To achieve the stated aim is success." But I think that it is true that there are some aims which are better than others. Therefore having better aims may be regarded itself as a form of success, which raises some successes above others. At one end of the scale. If my aim is, to beat my wife without getting arrested, then if I can stop her phoning the police, I am successful. At the other end, if my aim is to help cure world hunger, and I succeed in finding a new crop that will grow in deserts, then I am successful. Getting enough personal wealth to live a happy healthy life, is perhaps somewhere in the middle. But the big point about that is, that almost all studies made of the subject show that very little wealth is actually required for that. So that getting wealth beyond that, just for it own sake, and because I have not the thought and imagination to think of anything better to do with my limited time on earth, falls much further down the scale.

Serbian hermit discovers there is a pandemic, gets COVID-19 vaccine [newseu.cgtn.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Well done him. Just because you want to join in with some things that society does, because they are sensible and logical, it does not make you an unthinking conformist.

This is a photo my father took 78 years ago of my first two pets.

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Beautiful dogs resting in the sun are a timeless joy. People look for the, so called, secret of happiness in all sorts of, religion, philosophy, mindfulness, etc. but dogs and sunshine do it for me.

Thanks to Google lens I was able to identify the new aquatic weed I found down by the lake.

Fernapple comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Sagittaria ?

Epistemology of Philosophy Nietzsche opines that the society is in constant change.

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Perhaps though it would be better to repost this in a different format, since the text is unreadable as it is. And it does sound interesting. One trick that I find works well for me, is to paste the text into a basic text editor, like Notepad, and if it looks OK there, then paste it to the site.

“What if a regressive trait lurked in “the good man,” likewise a danger, an enticement, a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Yes that is true, though a lot depends on how you define "good man ".

Republicons Never Said One Word, For 4 Years, About Trump Selling Billons In ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Bring on renewable energy, make oil cheap and hard to sell. Just saying.

I don't know if God or gods exist, but I don't believe that God or gods exist either.

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Hello and welcome. You should fit in well here. But remember most members here have seen a lot of Atheist and Agnostic videos, we wont mind more, but to please they need to be of highest quality, it a picky audience.

The wisdom of the Chinese - regarding Atheism - even in ancient times;

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

The last line is sage advice in any age, I think. ( Must get round to it one day.)

"Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Sometimes called the Butterfly Effect.

Sometimes the adverts catch my eye! One for US Veterans but an idea that can work elsewhere & for ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Yes smart idea, the charities could raise their profiles by lending there names to people advertising products. And the companies could do something for charity and get credit for showing their social values, at little cost to anyone.

Carl Sagan denied being an atheist. So what did he believe? - The Washington Post

Fernapple comments on Aug 17, 2021:

He was non religious, that is all that really matters.

One Happy Camper!

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2021:

No you wont, and as soon as they get you home, you are going on the bottle Buster.

Are you a believer in Fred?

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2021:

Yes they do often. But granting a name is not and example of it, names are just labels and tags. While sometimes granting a name is not anthopomorphic enough. For example when we give specific dog's names to dogs, such as Rover, and Gripper, we are drawing a line between humans and other social animals, which allows us to treat them with far less respect than that we give to humans. Although they are highly intelligent, if not quite as intelligent as us, and may be both more social and more sensitive than us, therefore well deserving our respect and care. Though that is not to say that our fellow humans of the same species should not come first with us, they should, only that we should be careful not to put others too far behind..

I was thinking about beginning a new religion that skips the middle man, god, and the minions, and ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2021:

Just do what your own mother told you. That is good enough.

Why I Am An Atheist I don't believe in the existence of God, I don't consider myself to be a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2021:

Hello and welcome enjoy the site, you should fit in well. In answer to your question, I think that laziness may have nearly as much to do with it as fear. It is nice as a believer to be told that you already know everything important, because you are chosen, you don't have to work at it, you are a good person without working at that, and for extra reassurance the priest, vicar, imam will tell you what to think.

If Agnosticism is one of a group of things that we hope will eventually rid us of religion, then ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2021:

I don't think we need to preach or have a methodology, we should leave that to the religious. If more and more people are seen to lead good, happy, secular lives, supportive of their communities, then there will be no reason for anyone to want religion. In other words, set a good example and let the religious do the rest for themselves. Religion anyway, is on a cycle of decline. As the moderates leave or find less time for it, then that leaves it increasingly in the hands of the extremists and zealots. Who are bound to misbehave, upsetting more of the moderates and driving them to lose interest, which in turn leaves it even more in the hands of the immoderate, alienating even more of the reasonable people. And so on. A good interesting website, or TV program, a community project or sports game, anything which tempts the moderate to spend less time in church, does more for the secular cause than any amount of preaching arguing or book writing ever could. If you want a Methodology, let It be I will be a good and moderate, person worth spending time with..

So, the islamic cancer is raging again in afganistan. any thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Aug 16, 2021:

The best way to fuel extremist ideology of any sort, is to make war on people, deprive them of the use of their own country, and set up corrupt Vichy style governments, to progress foreign agendas. Then they turn more than ever to the extremists for help, and the extremists look ever less dangerous and more moderate relatively speaking. Meanwhile the extremists learn their trade better with every passing day.

I Am Not Agnostic Atheist.

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Thank you for explaining your position clearly, that is the important thing. You will find that here on this site, few of the more long term members care much anyway, what people choose to label themselves, atheist, agnostic atheist, humanist, agnostic, sceptic, non-believer etc. etc. even if you miss use the labels, (a few pedants but not many), in part because the exact meaning of the labels has been debated so many times it is now regarded as boring. The main thing is that you have rejected religion and especially its dogma, and that is OK with most of us..

“And that inverted bowl they call the sky, where under crawling coop’d we live and die, lift ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

And Edward Fitzgerald. (Well you did make me cite both. LOL )

What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common - Scientific American

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

The other way of course, most famously promoted by R. Dawkins, is to qualify your, don't know, by putting an estimated and purely hypothetical probability number on unknown things. Such as. Will we find as yet undiscovered species of animal on the seabed. 99.9999 % Will that include large vertebrates. 95% Will there be another major volcanic eruption in my lifetime 70% Will there be another pandemic after Covid in my time. 40% Will there be a major meteor strike in my lifetime 10% Will Trump go back into politics with any success 4% Will we find Bigfoot. 00.0001 % Then things which are so unlikely they can not go on the scale, but which are not impossible, like a higher level intelligence as yet undiscovered behind within the physics of the universe. And lastly things which are truly impossible because they contradict logic, such as the Abrahamic God. The big advantage of which is that though the odds can not possibly accurate, it does place your position on various things in order relative to each other..

Christians Erect Giant Cross Near Mississippi Highway After Raising $240,000 | Hemant Mehta | ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Well that should scare the giants away.

If your ex texted, "I'm dating someone better than you," how would you reply?

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Someone without gonorrhea ?

I just love retirement.

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Just six more weeks to go, then me too.

I see no evidence for the existence of God or Deities, the afterlife, the supernatural, free will or...

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Hello and welcome to the site. You should fit in fine here.

Why Is Pantheism Wrong?

Fernapple comments on Aug 15, 2021:

Yes it is true, that which means everything means nothing. And in that sort of pantheism, why not just call it 'nature'.

I've had a garden forever and believe it or not this is the first time I have ever seen a yellow ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

The big score for me was the couple of times I saw a Humming Bird Hawk Moth in the garden. They may be so common with you that you think nothing of them, but here in the UK they are something special.

Worth a shot.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

Overused.

Six things you might like to know about Sark, a small island in the English Channel.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

And it is only two and one tenth square miles in area.

I considered just going in to the drugstore and getting another covid shot as a booster but I didn't...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

Well done. Though it has to be said that in the UK second doses are organized anyway, you get an appointment for your second shot when you make one for the first. And the plan is, that if it is thought that people need a third, so called booster shot, then they will be messaged. The US is a strange place.

I hope that translates to something.🤣