1972 study predicted world collapse by 2040 - New research shows we're right on track.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Nothing can sustain a non-stop growth cycle forever. That is such an obvious bit of basic mathematical truth in a finite universe, that you just have to goggle at the fact that, our so called political elite, have used it as the standard economic ideal for more than a century. Cognitive dissonance rules the world or what.

Another term from my Gatland novel Paedo Pronounced 'Pedo', Paedo is a slang word for ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Paedophile of course originally meant, someone who really loves and cares for children. The correct word for someone who sexually preys on children, is a paedorast or paederast, but when the inter-net was new and some of them started to form porn and exploitation groups, they of course did not like that name, so they called themselves paedophiles. So that when the alarm first went up it was about self styled paedophiles, and the name stuck, so that the modern use of paedophile is a slang term as well. This is not very important as a part of modern history, though the abuse of a perfectly good word is not a good thing. But it is worth remembering if you encounter the word in older books, that to writers before the late twentieth century it had exactly the opposite meaning to what it commonly does today.

A godbotherer in touch with reality!

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

I think that people who predict the future, based on simply projecting forwards present trends, are on a hiding to nowhere. History is way more complex than that, and there is far too much unpredictable noise in the longer term especially. My first contact with the great pseudoscience of futurology came when I was at college, and we were told that we were especially lucky, to have as a guest speaker, the top government advisor, on futurology. A man so highly esteemed that he would not normally speak outside of government closed rooms. I remember it well, and fifty years later I can with hindsight tell you exactly how many of his predictions came true. It is a very small figure, exactly zero, he was very consistent and got exactly everything wrong. Having said that, C. H. may be on to a few things of value here. But of course the one thing that he leaves out, is what happens to the religions which once propped up the worlds lost empires, and provided them with the means to scare and pacify the people into doing the empires work, and justify their imperial belief in their racial and cultural supremacy. Let me see now, the Gods of the Roman pantheon are not much of a force in the world today, nor those of the Greeks, Horus and Anubis are not much seen in North Africa these days, and the Church of England, is only a shadow show, acting out its role as an imperial church to empty pews, and making excuses about it all being metaphorical. I wonder what will happen to American evangelical Christianity ?

The world is changed by your example not by your opinion. - Paul Coelho

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Now that is perhaps the greatest truism of all, and is probably the main thing that will cause the decline of religion, and the increase of sceptical thinking, if that happens.

I just spent a great day and a half with our friend Strarving Artist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

It would be lovely to meet other members in person. We are so wide spread, I must get round to doing the zoom at least.

Just making a point.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

They made their slaves Christians, because they thought that allowing them to keep their own cultures would make it harder to crush them, and could even encourage them to rebel. Its as simple crude and brutal as that.

Today’s poppy has two layers of petals — an inner pink layer and an outer red layer.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

And how will it fade, I wonder ?

has this ever happened to you?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

No . And besides, I never try to behave.

The personal is political and the political has become very personal now.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

Whatever it takes to help you stay alive, but I must say I can think of better and happier reasons, which don't overate a person who will probably turn out to be a very trivial historical footnote in the end.

Whats everybody doing?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

Sorry being bored and alone is no fun. The best thing I think, is just get out , even if it is only to the next town for a coffee and a long walk, help you think things through as well, and gives you something fresh to write your friend about. For me, the big picture is that, I am playing out the last couple of months of my working life before retirement, and trying to plan a new adventure or two when freedom comes. While right now today, am just finishing breakfast and getting ready to take an elderly friend, who can no longer drive, shopping.

Watch the 1/6 hearings.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

No, don't give them chance to make martyrs. The best way by far, is as will happen, the long slow tedious drip, drip, drip, of the legal system. To be half forgotten and lost, their one day of delusional excitement, fading into ancient history, while they are mired in the bureaucratic tangles, seated behind growing piles of paper, for years piled on years, with a jail sentence at the end seeming like a relief, and growing old an escape. Since most of them were on a thoughtless, childish and impatient thrill ride, that is by far the best ending.

LOSERS: Traitors-Tools

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

I think that I am safe to assume that the last question was rhetorical ?

Science and Religion compatible? [scientificamerican.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

No, because religion is by nature imperial, and is therefore not compatible with any other discipline, not merely science.

As if infecting other humans isn't enough for anti-vaxxers: [yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

The anti-vax crowd, will probably say that it is a complete lie, because Snow Leopards don't exist. Since they never saw one last time they were out in the snow. The Bigfoot, yes, but not Snow Leopards. Just another fake story. LOL

I believe that Jesus as a historical figure. Am I wrong about this?

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

You are welcome to believe whatever you wish. But if you claim that you have proof, then that is a whole different matter. Jesus may have been a historical figure whose real contributions may have been somewhat overstated, second he may be a combination of several historical figures brought together under one name, typical of myth making, third he may be a just fictional creation, only existing on paper as a deception, fourth or he may be a fictional creation intended as a metaphor, five he may be just a name attached to some older legends, and finally he may, most probably, be a combination of several of those things working together. What however is certain, is that the existing evidence is so doubtful, and often contradictory, that anyone who says that they can prove any of the above, is just blowing hot air.

Crows are smarter than anti-vaxxers and those who still support Trump: [yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

I just love crows.

Happy Birthday IKEA!

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

Apparently Ikea claim one out of every 10 Europeans were conceived on an Ikea bed. Which is really strange when you consider how well lit those Ikea stores are.

“The doctrine that future happiness depends on belief is monstrous.

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

Must get round to reading Ingersoll in full, it is often good to read early seminal works, if only to see how much has changed and how much has not. Very often they come over as fresh and new, because they were at the time, even though the ideas are very familiar.

No-one joins a cult! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

True if a little banal, I think that almost all people are aware of that. But like a lot of seemingly obvious things, it is a good point that can get lost behind the clutter, so it is well to restate it clearly now and again. There are perhaps though, two kinds of cults, those which were started with good intentions, and later turned toxic, and those that were intended to be toxic from the start, but put up a falsely benign front to attract people in.

on another post i asked what folks thought about the lesser dieties and spirits etc.

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

I carefully train myself to avoid them if I can, and I love to deliberately flaunt my contempt for some of them, such as doing my laundry and hanging it out on Sunday. But in youth I did used to salute magpies, ( Ornithomancy. ) and I still do, not because I think it will alter my luck, but just because it is a fun thing to do, magpies are cute.

I've practiced Spanish at least five minutes a day for 188 days, per my Duolingo app.

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2021:

Ran a business for thirty years. The only downside to which, as an achievement, is that of course a business, especially your own can be reinvented and change over time, so you do not have to be that consistent, only persistent. But since it is a plant nursery, that means being on hand to tend the plants every single day seven months of the year, for thirty years, ( can skip off in winter for up to a week ). Ready for a change now though.

This will brilliantly allow them to paint themselves into a corner.

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2021:

That is a funny and outside the box example of inverted logic. I do not think that it would ever work to persuade anyone, they would just say. "Don't argue with atheists/agnostics, they always win by cheating, using things like logic." But funny all the same, sorry it did not get a better response.

I am speechless right now. Maybe I will comment later . [salon.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2021:

You could make a case that, only the childless should be allowed to vote. Since there is a good case for not allowing criminals a vote, the childless have at least shown enough responsibility not to add to the population problem. Therefore they are clearly the only non-criminals. LOL

post of the day! "Christians inside their car pray during a drive-in worship service amid measures ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2021:

Not stupid those Koreans, not even the Christians. Funny old world.

People who rationalize historical personages or actions in history as understandable because its ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2021:

Yes I have heard the argument used that some tortures used, were. "No worse than the dentistry in those days." I then have to think carefully to myself. Do I really need to add, for the sake of the stupid ? That assumes that people then had no greater fear of dentistry then than they do now.

Facebook’s Next Target: The Religious Experience The company is intensifying formal ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2021:

May not turn out too bad. You put too many wild animals in too small a cage, and they fight to the death, wreck the cage and then starve.

Oh those days of your

Fernapple comments on Jul 26, 2021:

She fell in love with a train driver, and got shunted. She fell in love with a policeman, and found it arresting. She fell in love with a veterinarian and.......(Well lets not go there.)

How do i level two?

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2021:

Hello and welcome. Just keep posting commenting and engaging with others on the site. The first three or four levels come quick and easy without hardly any effort.

What just happened to me?

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2021:

It could be that the add is only there as bait to milk people for their telephone numbers by scam artists, and it has to be taken down periodically to stop it being found and blocked by the site.

I'm starting to believe this may be the case.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Yes I would not disagree with a word of that, all institutions use fear of to promote their sales pitch, and usually they create fake fear because there is not enough of the real stuff to go round. But the virus is not invisible, I have seen the graves, and the filled wards. Sometimes the threat is real, and wisdom is not knowing that there are real and fake threats alone, but also being able to tell the two apart.

Who is paying?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Yep vaccinations are dirt cheap in real terms.

Covid: Where and why is the US vaccine rollout slowing down? [bbc.]

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

It is bound to slow down as most of the keen pro-vacs people get done, and only the population with a high level of anti-vacs remains.

In 1860, William Henry Burr produced a list of 4 self-contradictions in the Bible.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

That is the trick to its popularity, if you cherry pick, you can find a bit which agrees with you whatever you wish. Then you can say. "See I must be right, it says so in the Bible."

Wise Words

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Yes but which one ?

Remember when you are feeling low or very happy, you can always get on here and vent.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

As long as you are not boring. (Thats my job.)

Watching a bit of the Olympic ceremonies.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Oh the world does not hate you, not most of it anyway. How could you hate such a great source of laughs.

“breaking news: in a complete reversal of previously understood science, it turns out clever dank ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

PS. Are dank memes wet when they come of the press, or do you have to soak them ?

“breaking news: in a complete reversal of previously understood science, it turns out clever dank ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Well, the virus did cure all his other problems.

Having a debate, would love for you to weigh in: If a singer/artist/actor you used to love turns ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

Would depend if I can access the art free, in which case I am not providing any money which could be used to support things I do not approve of.

What are your goals for 2021?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

To play out the end game of my working life and reach retirement, while at least breaking even in this last season despite the effects the virus is having on my trade. Then plan for a new adventure with the freedom I gain.

Chaos and beauty.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2021:

The two usually come together yes.

So here we are again, more rainy, gray days.

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2021:

In the UK, the government placed us all under virtual house arrest because of the virus. I have got cabin fever, if I could get out I would just run and run rain or not.

And the lime juice will prevent scurvy.

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2021:

The cocktail 'Pink Gin' really was promoted as a way to prevent malaria, and was popular with British colonial and naval officers because of that.

“Our society, in which reigns an eager desire for riches and luxury, does not understand the value...

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Not changed much since then.

Not All Dogs Are Athletic

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2021:

Lovely. Bet it is a good couch warmer though.

Love Calvin and Hobbes. Greatest comic strip ever!

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

I loved the one where they are in bed at night, and Calvin asks. "What is the purpose of life ? I mean why do humans even exist ?" And Hobbs replies. "Tiger food." Then switches the light out.

To the X Christians in the group I still don't get the god-fearing part.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

The God fearing part of Christian theology, was first introduced at the time when Christianity was at conflict with the classical schools of philosophy. Where the followers of Epicurus especially, and some of the Stoics held that there could never be any need to fear god, since if god was all good, how could it do unjust harm, and therefore it could not do evil or ask you to do evil. Christian theology however held that it was possible that god could ask you to do something that would at least seem to be evil, and it was still your duty to obey. This was held to be a key difference between believers and the followers of philosophy.

Dating site gives "final warning" to man who criticized me for being atheist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Everyone has some beliefs which they hold to be true even though they are not supported by evidence. And I don't believe he has a B.S in anything, especially not Biology.

What evolutionary advantages might there be, if any, of the currently observable level of stupidity ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Since agriculture came along and gave us abundant free food without having to hunt for it. The most stupid have taken the opportunity to breed as fast as they could, and the human brain which had been growing up until then has been shrinking ever since, the last five/ten thousand year or so, because thinking tends to bring reserve with it, making planned families the norm with thinkers, and brains are expensive organs requiring high grade hunter gatherer type food. The evolutionary 'effect', since I do not know if it is an advantage, is to shrink the brain. The problem with evolution by natural selection is, that it has no foresight, and only reacts to the current economic and environmental situation. That one day there may come a crisis which we may need our once large brains to survive, is quite beyond it. There is a story, which may not be fully objective science. That every few tens of thousands of years for the last few millions, nature produces a generation of saber toothed predators. ( There have been, cats, wolves, bears, and even sheep at least.) And nature gives them ever longer and bigger teeth to feed on ever larger animals. The problem though is that every so often the really large prey species, receive a population check, Ice Age, drought whatever, and there is then a crisis for predators, when there is a need for predators to feed efficiently on small prey for a while. The saber tooths never come though it. But then the crisis is over the big animals come back, and evolution says, here is a great food source that animals with very long stabbing teeth could exploit. And the whole thing starts over.

Should there be a word for people who have rejected Covid-19 vaccination and later regretted it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Mule may be good. Based on the old saying. " First hit your mule sharply on its nose with a heavy stick, to get its attention." ( I think the line came from an old US army manual on pack mules.)

Should there be a word for people who have rejected Covid-19 vaccination and later regretted it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Having read the article, at least he seems to have a brain.

Should there be a word for people who have rejected Covid-19 vaccination and later regretted it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

There is a word for all of them whether they regret it later or not. Unfortunately I don't want to be deleted.

oh my fucking god!

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

And that 'we' do what glorifies our God, is the best excuse ever invented, to look down on and despise everyone else. Which is what they wanted to be 'doing what makes them happy', full circle.

One of my very good friends is very angry with me because I do not believe that covid is just a hoax...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Someone who wants you to change to suit their needs, is not your friend to start with. Sorry, you may be fond of this person, but that is the truth, she does not love you the person, but only the thing she wants you to be in her life.

This is a link to my Facebook post of a video I took Sunday night at a little local deli.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2021:

We used to have great nights like that here too, until the government put us all under house arrest, because of the virus. Folk, jazz, light classical, show music, choir, it all happen in the back room of the pub or the room above the whatever. The last thing I went to, was a fado concert, nearly two years ago now, and it seems like another world. In the room above the local library you could have a free concert every week, as long as you bought a £2 ( about two and a half dollars) bread and cheese lunch, and some of the performers were very good being retired folks of renown, or up and coming young talent. Well maybe it will all come back just like nothing every happened.

Anyone need help sleeping?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2021:

Very beautiful and imaginative old song. But SHE certainly would not help me sleep, quite the opposite, she could keep me awake all night.

Some thoughts I have after chatting with a friend about some exploitative patterns in relationships.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2021:

I think that if you have reached the point, where you are starting to think about making rules and plans for a relationship, then it is probably not going anywhere anyway.

In this age of instant information, it’s easy to fall down the google rabbit hole.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2021:

It is an issue which a lot of people have spent a lot of time on. But consider for a second that. Firstly Einstein may not have been all that familiar with Spinoza himself. And secondly that he may just have made it up as an easy dismissive answer, to what he thought of as a boring and pointless question. In other words, that even if you are a world renowned genius, it does not mean that everything single thing you say, is of great cosmic importance, and the result of deep long thinking. Especially as having a reputation for being a world renowned genius, gets you repeatedly pestered with what, you yourself, regard as trivial vexing questions, so that having an easy dismissive answer for fools, so that you can then move on, is handy.

There is a rumor going around that the universe is nearly 14 billion years old and they figure this ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2021:

The real answer is that nobody knows, there are several versions of the Big Bang theory also of the Local Bubble Theory and the Constant State Theory, nothing is really decided finally yet.

A Tourist Attraction for Texas Acid spraying critters are on the hunt for "food and love" at a ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2021:

Sorry the link does not seem to work.

Your atheism

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Never was in the faith thing. But if you want to know what made me not merely an agnostic atheist, but a hard working anti-religion agnostic atheist. Then that is because in the UK, many schools are still religion based, and at school I came close enough to religion to see at first hand the corruption, dishonesty , cruelty and bullying that it leads to. And since I had been raised secular that came as quite a shock.

So it appears mandatory vaccine passports are becoming a thing in France.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

People have a right to choose, but if that comes with a cost to them, I have a perfect right to withhold help and say, pay the cost. In most countries you can not drive a car without you, first take a test and get a license, that is a restriction of freedom, but it is there to protect others, from real dangers to their freedoms, since nothing takes away your freedoms like being killed. So we accept it even though it is an much more important restriction than the freedom to be anti-vacs, because unlike that, it comes with genuine economic, educational and health-care downsides, which really does help to create sub-class.

I love AOC! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Nice speech, but like most people of faith, she is basically wrong, in that her holy texts do try to justify just about every horror and injustice known to humans, that is what makes them popular. Because her version of cherry picking and interpretation led her to believe, that the texts promote humane and just morality, it does not mean that another person who finds the texts full of hate, racism and sexism etc. is misreading them.

Eyes on the prize

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

One prize at a time my friend. Those who go after four or more usually fall at the first hurdle.

A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells a Deep Story of the Passage of Time The sequoia tree slab is an ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Good, though a photo of the actual slab, as well as the generic Sequoia would have been nice.

“I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

Wow, he was a glass half empty sort of person.

Our resident numerologist and girl with the crunchiest numbers has inadvertently alerted us to a ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

To the nearest one percent, 100%, or all of them. As the numbers get larger, more and more of them will contain a two, until a point is reached where virtually every one contains a two, certainly more than ninety nine out of a hundred, and given that you are talking about an infinite series the percent of small numbers which do not contain a two becomes insignificant. Yet the irony of that is, that even that insignificant percentage, is also itself infinite. It is the sort of logical paradoxical mind blower which you get into when you start dealing with infinity. Because infinity is an idea really beyond the human brain, and also why the infinity based 'proofs' that religious people and creationists love, are such rubbish.

Well, maybe the cat...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2021:

It can be fun when someone is watching too. (According to a friend.)

Stupid used to be, just plain old stupid.

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2021:

How about "Net Fever" or "Web-Brain".

What do you think is the biggest problem in the world and how would you solve it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2021:

Human population growth. And there is no solution, given that too much of the power in the world is in the hands of those who profit from there being more people, whether as customers , followers, voters, slaves, tax and tithe payers, tenants, supporters or soldiers.

I can’t say I really pay much attention to the stats on my profile page…however a few minutes ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2021:

you missed it obviously. On here it is 666 that really counts.

Suppression of information, even misinformation, is a bad idea.

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Only if the people who welcome misinformation also welcome discussion, which is a big ask. But certainly suppression is a worse idea.

My worldview (like if you agree): 1.

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Hello and welcome to the site. Good to state your position at the outset, although you will probably find that most members here, have had a lot of experience debating with theists and among themselves, so that they are likely to be critical of ideas which are not nuanced. So don't take any critical replies you get too much to heart, but try to make good use of them.

“Life - the way it really is today - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2021:

That is not a happy thought.

Discovery Bay, Hong Kong 🦋 📍 the white " triangle thing" is a church but I don't have any ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Great photos. Thank you for the tilting advice LOL.

Covid: Younger adults still at risk of serious organ damage - study [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

It is not that surprising really, since as it says, they are talking about young adults admitted to hospital. The critical thing being, "admitted to hospital," since if you are, then the virus is clearly affecting you seriously, the age related difference being that, younger people are less likely to be seriously affected and require admission. Best advice is whatever your age, do your best to avoid catching it. And as it is the older population who tend to get the jabs first it is perhaps time to start to worry about the young most.

Humor

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Not having a sense of humour may actually be helpful to the religious, since it prevents them from seeing just how silly it all is.

Was this poster correctly responded to?

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

The one thing that I would add to the debate, is that there are good stats, showing that where governments institute and enforce good minimum wages, those countries always enjoy better than average economic growth. Perhaps because if you give more money to poorer people they are more likely to spend it locally within the country, instead of taking it to tax havens overseas, and by forcing bad ineffective companies, who only get by because they pay minimum amounts, out of the market place, it creates a better larger market for effective efficient companies.

Humor

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

No. You see a frail elderly atheist fall under a bus and get crushed. And just watch the Christians laugh their socks off.

Just hit Level 9.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

You do know that people who reach ten, have their names and details sent to a Christian mailing group don't you ? Just saying.

ALWAYS get at least a second opinion about anything! Last year, Roto Rooter fixed a plumbing ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

Support your local trades people, it keeps money in the community instead of the pockets of the super rich, they are generally better and fairer, and where they are not , at least you can ask around and everybody knows about it.

Breathtakingly beautiful.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2021:

They can be warning colours of course. But they can also be camouflage, since they may prey on specific creatures, and some of those may have colour vision which is quite different from the spectrum we see. Also I think that some of the photos may have had a little Photo-shop help.

Americans may be woefully unprepared for the dawn of the new space age STANFORD, CA—A new study ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2021:

Maybe you can save money by only paying for the children to go one way. Bet you would get a lot more takers for that. LOL

Saw this on fb, and I thought ideal to post in the philosophy section in these current times of ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2021:

Link missing I think.

Origin Of Everything - Why Do Women Shave Their Legs? [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2021:

Because they want to look as little like men as possible, because men are horrible OK.

Is This the End of Forests As We've Known Them?

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2021:

All things such as this are made worse by other human intervention in the environment. When climate changes occurred in the past, animals and plant, even ecosystems could migrate, moving along the changing climate zones, as, for example, when many ecosystems moved south during the last ice age. But today the climate change is not only very fast, but the ecosystems and the creatures within, exist within a fragmented world divide up by agricultural, industrial and urban developments, so that there are no longer the corridors permitting movement that there always were before.

[bbc.co.uk] Just right for a four year old to see on a table

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Still missing the puke emoji.

As some of you may have read, I had a bad experience with a state assigned health worker.

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Well done. You know what they say. Sometimes only being willing to stand up and be counted is enough.

For science, you know.

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Its easy, its just down to where you get the water from. You just have to make sure that you obtain your water, by squeezing it out of grapes. Problem solved. Seriously though, I once heard a tea-total Christian claim that Jesus did not drink, and that the wine in question was just grape juice. Assuming presumably, that two thousand years before L. Pastuer, they knew how to stop grape juice fermenting, as it will almost instantly, let alone that they wanted to. Just goes to prove that if you can swallow religion, then you can believe anything.

Is it me, or have the posts on "Recent Posts" been grinding to a halt recently?

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

You have to hold the 'submit ' button down for long enough.

"Lack of belief in God is still too often taken to mean the absence of any other meaningful moral ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

You need someone who is an easy and obvious target for blame, because without that you have to look for where things are really going wrong, which is hard, and sometimes when you find it, you even have to address your own failings.

Reading is fundamental

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Yes I think they know that. The witchcraft bit is just a ploy.

"I'm an atheist, and that's it.

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Yes very wise. It also reminds me of the question religious apologists always seem to think should stump non-believers. "Without a belief in god, why would you do good ?" And apart from all the other many good answers to that question, I always felt that the simple. "What makes you think that being good is not the default position ? " Was as good as any.

Anthropologists of Jesus Christ and Devils, and Satans, and Atheists

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Yep. Fundamentalist fence sitting leaves you with a green line across your bum, which prolongs the flight paths of migrating owls driving sales of credit card interest up.

i was just asking @julie808 about what the "tropical" flavor included.

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

I like Mediterranean with a touch or Boreal Forest added, perfectly accompanied by a side dish of alpine.

Great song from 1956 movie The Girl Can’t Help It….

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2021:

Did not know that film or version, but remember it well from when it was used as the almost perfect title sequence for the TV series "Taggart".

The thPeople on the far political right, about 30 percent of our population, are constant throwing ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 12, 2021:

Witches never existed either, in any real or meaningful sense, certainly not as worshipers of a non existent devil, or creators of black magic. But it was nice to have someone you could torture, hang, burn, and above all blame for all the problems, so that you did not have to make the effort to face up to the fact that your own failings had a share in creating and perpetuating most of them. Witch ! Witch ! Witch !

Ten Thought Patterns That Trip Up Former Bible Believers

Fernapple comments on Jul 12, 2021:

A good summing up. Even in some parts of post Christian Europe, it is still possible to see to a very large extent, the toxic legacy at work.

'Pre' means before.

Fernapple comments on Jul 12, 2021:

It may be facetious to say so, but facetious contains all five vowels in alphabetical order.

maybe those anti-vax folks are right and all the people who have died from this bug are just faking ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 12, 2021:

The Bible recommends giving them a kick to make sure. That should do it.