Good Luck is right!

Fernapple comments on Mar 30, 2021:

There is one in Selby UK, which says. "North, South, East , West and all other directions."

I once had a coworker come up to me and say.

Fernapple comments on Mar 30, 2021:

A wise teacher once said. "You should make a habit of looking up at the sky for ten mins every day, it is good to keep grounded in what is really happening." But I don't think that, 'wise teachers' are found in bible class.

That never stopped anybody.

Fernapple comments on Mar 30, 2021:

Look at two thousand years old he can watch what he wants, and good luck to him if he still wants to watch porno at his age.

2nd dose of the vaccine yesterday.

Fernapple comments on Mar 30, 2021:

Good if your system responds strongly. I got the fever too, but mine was very strong for about four hours, did not get any other symptoms though.

Study: Religious children are less able to distinguish fantasy from reality

Fernapple comments on Mar 30, 2021:

If you don't teach them critical thinking skills, it follows. And how can cults teach critical thinking skills ?

Good thing Glob saw which houses were marked with blood.

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2021:

Although he could not bring himself to do it in person, he employed a satan, to do it for him. Which is odd because christian theology has him falling out with the one and only Satan ( capital 'S') over the garden of Eden mess up quite a bit earlier. So it seems like he had to forgive the satan, cause you just can not get good help..

Conservative Christians are driving more Americans away from religion altogether A new book ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2021:

Sorry, the link does not seem to lead to the said article.

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2021:

No that is just the definition of someone who is young, billy is showing his age.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 29, 2021:

All 'isms' contain that feature, it is just that conservatism is that and nothing more.

Hello! I haven't been on here in a long time it seems. How's everyone doing?

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Welcome back, we are pretty much the same.

Wait, what? This could lead to an interesting shopping experience.

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Bit more humour on the same lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnM-8ICiKk

I've discovered I am still in overachiever.

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Managed to keep the same weight. But I would not worry too much, it will come off when the lock-down ends, and besides as Socrates said. "You can't have too much of a good thing."

The joke that runs on and on...or doesn't.

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

I have a tricycle, exercise, transport, fresh air, and fun. Ten thousand years since the invention of the wheel, and some people still have not caught up. In joggers cases literally. LOL

There should be a category just for Hitch. Hitch

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Start one if you want.

Don’t ask, “Is it an option to be happy?

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Only two things. Freedom from that which makes you unhappy, and then the power of appreciation. The first is actually a lot harder than it seems and quite rare, the second is easiest found through education, so that is very rare.

Grunge Here's What It Was Really Like To Pioneer On The Oregon Trail [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 28, 2021:

How long did it generally take ?

Don't you love some fruity salad?!

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Does a blueberry muffin count as one of my five a day ?

What IS your problem?!

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

The secret of life and happiness is appreciation. The truly happy are those who can value the things they have seen before.

Good morning and happy Caturday :D

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Yep, cats probably have more sense, they just sit comfy and sooner or later, all life come to them.

Now the news makes more sense.

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Where's Gandalf when you need him.

Does religion work without magical beings at its center?

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

I forgot the big one, but a new member reminded me today. The one big religion without a deity, is 'Art. Especially, high art, the belief that use of certain crafts and media can put you into contact with higher wisdom and truth. And like all religions it has a priesthood, ( critics etc. ) it collects power, respect and money from the gullible, and it is used to give authority and respectability, to often inhuman ideologies, which would struggle to earn respect without it.

Magic candle

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Nothing. thought it may be one of those colour eye sight tricks but no nothing.

Think of a number.

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Already done it on your last post.

Hair of the dog tail.

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

OK, so I think, from the maths alone, that the letter which he addressed to himself was " i ", but am at a loss as to the name of the dog, unless it was "me" or Holmes, since " instruction to rotate ninety degrees ", would be a strange name for a dog.

"People don't want to hear the truth, because they don't want to see their illusions destroyed.

Fernapple comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Almost a tautology.

True fact

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2021:

" A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle." Old feminist saying.

"Yeah, I'm having one of those days..."

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Lean out of your car window, and yell at a complete stranger. "Hey, long time no see, can't catch up now but i'll be seeing you at the weekend anyway." Then drive off. If you bump into a small child being pushed in its pushchair by its mother, give it a big cheesy grin and say. "I bet you are having a great day out with grandma, arn't you. "

There are pro's and con's here, but as Monsanto et al do not oppose it, I suspect not a good ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Sorry the link did not work , and got a warning about contaminated link from my search engine.

Hair of the dog tail.

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2021:

The name of the dog was god, because that is dog backwards and the whole leads backwards, and the letter said nothing.

Oh dear, how sad, too bad, never mind 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😝 "Religious disaffiliation ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2021:

The more the moderates leave, the more it is left with only the mad loony fringe in charge, which in turn drives more moderates away, and so on, in a self renewing and growing cycle.

Just out of curiosity ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Every other thing that I can think of, is just a sub-set of gullibility. The trouble is that we have a huge range of technologies, language, media and arts, which are able to generate falsehoods far beyond the natural levels of deception that any animal would encounter in nature, so we have no evolved defenses, against the effects of culture as a whole not just religion.

Anyone who’s read “The Handmaid’s Tale” will find this article singularly disturbing.

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Good. Nobody needs more humans.

Okay and just for the sheer hell of it.

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Are you saying, that god is going to turn us into turtles ?

Speak for yourself! I like my babies bar-b-qued & marinated in green vomit!

Fernapple comments on Mar 25, 2021:

Yes, but that is not compulsory is it ? I mean I can still spin my head if I want to, can't I ?

"It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

To think that we are better than animals, is firstly to make the assumption that there is something you can be, which is better than being an animal.

I just got banned from FB because this info that I posted, below, is allegedly false/fake.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Don't need to fact check it, it sounds near enough to how I remember it, for a working hypothesis, and having known you a while now, I am happy to take yours word on this. ( But that does not mean you can sell me that second hand car yet. ) lol

It's all about how lucky you get I used to work with a guy whose father was a preacher.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

And as proof of his gods goodwill towards him, he can always offer his great success. If anybody doubts him.

Yesterday, i came across a beautiful piece of analysis that described well, very well actually the ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Yes, it is funny how prophets always seem to have their visions, after going with out food and spending time at high altitude.

Can you spell Cognitive Dissonance, boys & girls?

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

I am borderline autistic, so I can't spell it, which is kind of sad. But at least I can't do it either, which is a great blessing, so I think I am happier on the whole.

“The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

I always liked the. " To be perfectly happy, a man needs both a wife and a mistress. That way when the wife thinks you are with the mistress, and the mistress thinks you are with the wife, you can finally get time for your hobby."

“You’ll never decide what you want until you’ve decided who you are”.

Fernapple comments on Mar 24, 2021:

That's even harder than, what you want.

Adorable Photo of a Hare Wins Nature Photography Contest

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Some great images. I also like the red fox in the city lights.

Lost and found in the UK.

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2021:

I am claiming the tree. Does anyone want to marry me for a half share ?

Cretaceous Plankton-Eating Shark Had Long, Wing-Like Fins: [sci-news.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2021:

On its way to becoming a ray perhaps. But I wonder if we will ever know for certain.

Male bees have the wildest mating ritual. [vm.tiktok.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Yes, it perhaps does not say that for honey bees, all this takes place while flying a top speed, (Only the fastest drones get the queen, who flies away at top speed to test them.) fifty feet of the ground, and that the reason the drone dies, is mainly because his penis rips his entrails out when he leaves it behind. But at least it is one of the few rituals where the losers get to live, and the winners die a horrible death.

Happy Atheist Day.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

And wishing you a happy day too.

Atheist Day is celebrated on March 23rd.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Happy 'A' day to you too.

After the whelming support for my previous contribution on religion I felt it only fitting that I ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Like the song, and your version is clever, took some work that. But I would not plan a career in lyric writing just yet, if you rate financial security.

“All truth passes through three stages.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

And I think that someone then added. " And fourthly the wrong person is credited with its discovery."

In alphabetic order, there is a religious method and a scientific method to acquire knowledge.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

There are not overlapping magisteria, partly because there is much in the middle, morality for example, but mainly because religion by its nature is imperial, with claims to all knowledge, so that it does not recognize boundaries. Gould, famously tried to promote the idea of non-overlapping magisteria, but he made the mistake of seeing things only from his point of view within science, which very readily recognizes boundaries, and failed to see that, it takes two to respect a border.

In alphabetic order, there is a religious method and a scientific method to acquire knowledge.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

I have always thought that there is a scale of knowledge. First is science, which is first hand personally obtained evidence, filtered by the experimental method and the review of others. Next is personal first hand experience, keeping close to the experimental method, but without the filters. Thirdly, for some things you can not have experimental research, and for those things you should try at least to apply the rules of reason and logic, which is philosophy. Which, if it is good philosophy, will defer to and respect science as a starting point, where that is available. If it conflicts with the first two it is just bad philosophy. Fourthly, the advice of accepted authorities. Fifth where none of that can work, you can use the advice of others, taking as big a sample as possible, ( democracy ) but that is quite weak, and sometime called the 'ad populum' fallacy. And sixth when all else fails, you must use faith. Often called blind faith, or religion. But it is best to keep this to a minimum. Personally I have never found any problem in understanding , which required me to go as far as six, beyond the most basic, "I think therefore I am. " level. The problem with religion though, is that it tries to promote six to the top of the list, with its own limited versions of four and five. ( Perhaps because there are some who want to be authorities, and control the 'ad populum', without putting the work in.)

Can anyone help me escape religious groups.

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

There may be a help with understanding here. https://agnostic.com/discussion/583799/mormon-church-indoctrination-https-youtu-be-zmhfr8damfg

Mormon church indoctrinatIon [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Like someone said, an evil cult hiding in plain sight.

Death.

Fernapple comments on Mar 21, 2021:

It is perhaps best that we only leave memories and stories behind, too much of a legacy, could be a burden to future generations. My big passion is my garden, and I spent years making it, yet I hope that when I die, it will be dug over, and someone will make a new one. Like the sign outside the nature reserve says. " Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints."

(That's) How the believing (person) sees you when you say you're an atheist.

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2021:

Nobody would believe that, I never looked that good.

Turkey regresses on another social issue. [reuters.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I traveled widely in Turkey some years ago, it was a beautiful country, with wonderful friendly warm people, and a largely secular outlook, which was leading it away from the troubled culture of the Middle East. The new theocracy, is leading them back into the darkness. And its power has been built, by using tax payers money to bribe the right wing reactionary parts of the population with carefully targeted spending which benefits only them.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month.

Fernapple comments on Mar 20, 2021:

Yep. Gave up on that project years ago.

Just a silly, fun play on words...

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Is that a literary take on it, or a piece of literature ?

[youtube.com] Scotty, the donkey,

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2021:

We met this wild one in the nature reserve on North Cyprus. My friend had been told they would beg food of tourists, so she took some best quality apples from the hotel breakfast bar, to feed them. This one wanted to get in the car and come home with us.

Every last bit.

Fernapple comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Yep, I will buy that.

Even animals can be

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Sometimes Brown Bears get together with Polar Bears and you get mixed species cubs. ( Not relevant just interesting. )

Funny story but true.

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Sounds like she may need your support one day.

Do you shine your shoes?

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Best shoes yes, working shoes usually wear out first.

How would you change this sign? All I need is black paint. Ideas?

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Change it to goddess, yes, but add a heart symbol between the words.

I attached a picture from a chain of truck stop dinner.

Fernapple comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Wisdom is about nuance.

A New String of State Bills Could Give Religious Organizations Blanket Immunity from Any Wrongdoing

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

So America is going to become divided between the theocratic states, and the ones who want to continue with civilization. Happy country. Take care and lock your doors at night my friends.

Margaret Thatcher

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

That tends to be true in life in general. And yes men do know it, we we are just too brass necked to care.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, heathens. ☘️

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

There are no native snakes in Ireland because it became an island before the last ice age fully ended. The so called miracle, can in this case quite taken quite literally, especially since he is said to have converted the pagans, not driven them out, but it is a nice joke.

Cogito ergo sum. If you feel need to tag on a translation then dont let people learn themselves ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Does not always work the other way round. Sum ergo cogito. Nah.

First vaccine shot done!

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Well done, you just have a couple of hundred million more people to do then. See you in a couple of decades.

Massage Parlor shooter was all about guns and God [news.yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Why does that not seem surprising.

Linking Evangelical Subculture and Phallically Insecure Masculinity Using Google Searches for Male ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Or it could just be, that if you are gullible enough to buy into one stupid idea, then a whole lot more, come easy.

Mass shooting targeting Asians in Atlanta.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Video says. "Not available in your country." I am sorry to say.

[npr.

Fernapple comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Feed me to the animals please.

Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine, along with Italy, France, Spain [wsj.

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2021:

So fear of litigation in government, is going to kill people, but It does not mater if people die, as long as they can't prove its someones fault. "Nothing new to see here, move along."

If this so called god actually exists.

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Never try to use logic on religion, if you can do logic, religion is not for you, so don't go where you are not wanted. LOL

How would the existence of a god confer meaning on our lives?

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2021:

A God does not generate or 'confer' meaning, a god 'imposes' the meaning generated by its creators.

Mnemonics I tried posting about a science-related mnemonic in this group and the "Uncommon Words"...

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2021:

The planets. Is I think is your answer, the first letters match. Try this one which I invented myself. They work best if you invent your own is a good tip. It is about a company from Cambridge responding to reports of a new supper efficient engine, being sold by a simple minded inheritor, at an eco conference in a palace on Crete, and the need for trials. "Cambridge orders silly devils car, permanently trialled during Cretan palace negotiations." Clue, first two/three letters except for one pun.

Not too sure about this one?

Fernapple comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Fair reflection of British attitudes, to a degree.

Religious people tend to begin with their conclusions, then work backwards looking for arguments ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 15, 2021:

Of all the spheres of human thought, religion is the only one which does not require any justification of ideas, evidence, logic, or even majority opinion. So it is the only one, which will support anything however silly. I think that is why it is so popular.

“What drivel it all is!.

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Now that is almost cynical enough to earn my respect.

I like this sign

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Far too cheap.

Is science undermining religion ?

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Truth undermines religion, wherever it comes from. The BBC's need to be inclusive undermines it remit to be balanced, but it tries its best.

[youtu.be] Plandemic indoctornation I dare you

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Thanks that was so funny, it is amazing what some people will swallow.

I can only comment on what I know

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Welcome, but you will be in a very small minority. Go on push the boat out and speculate wildly, everybody else does, and you know you want to.

I'm trying to cure myself of a terrible affliction I've been diagnosed with since birth, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Welcome, you will fit in well here, there are a lot of us with that condition.

I'm trying to cure myself of a terrible affliction I've been diagnosed with since birth, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

If you had it since birth, then it will be terminal, like all the things you are born with, sorry but life is a death sentence.

Sri Lanka to ban burka and other face coverings [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Sadly that may have more to do with Buddhist prejudice than the stated national security cause.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of The Dunblane massacre which took place at Dunblane Primary ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2021:

In the UK you may still own a gun if you really need one though, it is just that you have to go though the sort of procedures, that you would if you wanted to own any other dangerous machine, such as a car for example. So most people don't bother because they don't really need one, but farmers and foresters who need to manage wild animals, plus genuine target sports people, do not find the requirements restrictive at all, a little burdensome perhaps but not restrictive.

I keep pasting the link. I guess I'm doing it wrong.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Yep nothing here, sorry.

Is the local pub still there???

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Don't know. Here in the UK they are shutting down in huge numbers fast. There will certainly be a lot less when the pandemic ends.

The Necessity of Metaphor The obvious risk in expressing deep metaphysical truths in metaphor is ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2021:

That is a perfect example of the, "no true Scotsman" fallacy. If only because 'religious metaphor' is not synonym for 'metaphor' pure and simple. Socrates, and Einstein, used metaphor, yet no one would say that was religious, and I don't think Gandhi did either. I am sorry, but the fact that religious texts are metaphorical is (in part) to blame. Because yes, even if you grant. "They do the same thing with modern scientific information. Anti-vaxers, flat-earthers, and so on." Which I do not think they do because as even Anti-vaxers and Flat-eathers, will tell you, they are all about rejecting science. But even granting that, the big difference is, that with science there is a bottom line of scientific information, which you can always turn back to, and resort to as a base. With 'religious metaphor' you turn back and you have nothing, except the same metaphor, with the same inherent misinterpretations built into it you started with, which is why it is so beloved of societies criminals.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

Fernapple comments on Mar 13, 2021:

You can not destroy matter only transform it. Is actually a basic law of physics. Emergent properties like human mind may vanish when the structures which support them fall apart, but the basic substance of the universe is immortal, and can be reused by life again and again. I always liked that, since it means that a part of failed second rate me, may one day be used to create something sublime.

In line for my sticky sticky - I am ready for life to get, somewhat, back to normal!

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Remember, you have to wait ten days, before you can really start the party.

My religion is Potterism.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Sadly I have heard some Christians taking that literally.

An America Without God

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Case perhaps of you can prove anything with states. It makes one huge unsupported assumption. Which is that. It is the same people who left religious institutions, who are worshiping political institutions, while it could easily be fueled by reaction on the part of those still in religion.

Results From the City That Just Gave Away Cash [npr.org]

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Works well I am told, in Scandinavian countries.

Saying your "religion" is the only true religion is like saying your language is the only true ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone.

And you know what that means!

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2021:

No ?

Photography is an emotional fellings.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2021:

Beautiful city.