Reincarnation has always been a very interesting concept to me.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Many things are possible. It is possible that time goes round in a loop, and you live the same life over and over, it is possible that we don't really exist, because the universe and ourselves are just an illusion made by a program running on someones computer. Many things are possible, that is why ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 21, 2020:

@PondartIncbendog No.

Coronavirus: Is it an act of God? - The Jerusalem Post

Sticks48 comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Of course it is, along with hemorrhoids, athletes foot, dishpan hands, crabs (not the good kind), STDs, brussel sprouts, herpes, boy bands, bathtub ring, roaches (again not the good kind), dandruff, that embarrassing itch, rectal thermometers, those silly looking helmets bicyclists wear, fanny ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 21, 2020:

You forgot baldness. https://agnostic.com/discussion/517225/just-how-gullible-do-some-companies-think-people-are-my-e-mails-were-full-of-ads-this-morning-re LOL

[youtube.com] I hope you younger people listen to this.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Why younger people, surely the old are just as suggestible ?

Fernapple replies on Jul 20, 2020:

@TheoryNumber3 Oh, but sadly I do think young people are exposed to a lot of that sort of thing. I guess that you could sum the post up, by using a variation on the old saying. "Don't go looking for a guru, you might just find one."

Destroying trust in the media, science, and government has left America vulnerable to disaster

barjoe comments on Jul 19, 2020:

I just can't figure out why if they distrust everything they trust Trump. I don't get it.

Fernapple replies on Jul 20, 2020:

Because Trump says he distrusts everything too.

A really good book that most of you would enjoy reading.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

So very true it is almost painfully so. And they often put in far more effort and talent into making their undervalued contributions, than the rich do into their overvalued ones.

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@Fred_Snerd Yes I know I started with a job in a factory working shifts, and I don't think that anyone who has not done it, has any idea of the thought time and effort that went into keeping fifty machines running round the clock, just to produce plastic parts. Fortunately I managed to earn a lump sum enough, just, to start a business, and I never looked back. But I would not want to put those years in again, yet some men did a whole lifetime there.

On the front of my chest there placidly sits a pair of quite unremarkable tits - too small to be ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Big mistake to think that the signs of age are unlovely. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, or even the snuggle up and hold-her.

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@FearlessFly That help a lot, but unlike great powers of appreciation, does not last until morning. LOL

A really good book that most of you would enjoy reading.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

So very true it is almost painfully so. And they often put in far more effort and talent into making their undervalued contributions, than the rich do into their overvalued ones.

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@TomMcGiverin And then like an orange person, lost a lot of it, through lazy incompetence.

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Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Someone on here posted a remark about attitudes to precautions, and especially the so called freedom movement, but it is worth repeating as often as possible, if only because it seems simple enough for even the most stupid to understand. (Maybe not.) "How would it have been in 1941 if all the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@LovinLarge Yes it is not exactly mindless, that is perhaps a bad choice of words, but I could not think of a better. It is only mindless in the sense that the rules can sometimes be arbitary, and you have to respect them regardless of that. Mindless respect for authority is never generally good. But that is where the blackout point comes in. If just one person, opened their shutters, there is only one light, which is not going to guide the bombers to the city, because one light does not make a city, it could after all be just a farmer in a field with a lamp looking for sheep. But if five or six people break the rules, thinking I am only one person, without even known one another or planning it, , then everyone is in danger, everyone in society sometimes depend on everyone pulling together as a whole.

A really good book that most of you would enjoy reading.

Petter comments on Jul 19, 2020:

What's the book titled?

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

I think it is Nickle and Dimed, at the bottom.

[youtube.com] I hope you younger people listen to this.

Petter comments on Jul 19, 2020:

A good lesson on the creation of "sheeple". The speaker sounded like Peter Sellers.

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@Petter Certainly if he's responsible for PondartIncbendog.

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Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Someone on here posted a remark about attitudes to precautions, and especially the so called freedom movement, but it is worth repeating as often as possible, if only because it seems simple enough for even the most stupid to understand. (Maybe not.) "How would it have been in 1941 if all the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@LovinLarge It refers to the writen bit not the video, but the point is, that sometimes it is in everyones best interest including their own, for the leadership to give a clear direction, and for everyone to follow it even if that means acting mindlessly. Its sometimes called the wisdom of Solon, (you will have to look that up). But what it means is that in America everyone drives their cars on the right hand side of the road, while in England we all drive on the left. Both work equally well, and generally everyone gets where they are going quickly and safely. But foolish people, could because of that, say that it does not matter which side people drive on, if both work equally well. But if everyone did decide that they would just drive on whatever side they liked, there would be chaos, lots of accidents and it would take everyone, including those who thought they could gain a small advantage by going on the wrong side, ten times longer to get where they were going. Some people may think that they gain an advantage, especially an economic one, by not wearing a mask, but if everyone puts a mask on all the time, however mindlessly. Then the outbreak may be over sooner, which brings everyone an economic gain in the long term, far larger than the short term gains. These people need to learn that sometimes obeying rules, for the good of society may hurt in the short term but you gain in the long run yourself because we are all part of that society.

[youtube.com] I hope you younger people listen to this.

Petter comments on Jul 19, 2020:

A good lesson on the creation of "sheeple". The speaker sounded like Peter Sellers.

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

Funny, you just quoted Shakespear to me on another thread, and by chance the same day, I made a similar reference to him, to PondartIncbendog, see below.

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Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Someone on here posted a remark about attitudes to precautions, and especially the so called freedom movement, but it is worth repeating as often as possible, if only because it seems simple enough for even the most stupid to understand. (Maybe not.) "How would it have been in 1941 if all the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@LovinLarge No, sorry, I did not mean on this thread, I meant on this site, it was about two days ago.

The irony of human life.

skado comments on Jul 18, 2020:

For example?

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

1 Corinthians 14:34-35

[youtube.com] I hope you younger people listen to this.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Why younger people, surely the old are just as suggestible ?

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@PondartIncbendog Only like the Shakespearian fool, the wisest person in the kingdom.

[youtube.com] I hope you younger people listen to this.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Why younger people, surely the old are just as suggestible ?

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@PondartIncbendog There are no fools like an old fools, for being taken in a second time.

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance...

skado comments on Jul 19, 2020:

“ Since power over human beings is shown in making them do what they would rather not do, the man who is actuated by love of power is more apt to inflict pain than to permit pleasure.” Well that explains a lot.

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

I wrote this above but thought it may interest you. There is another factor at work on those who gain power, especially political power, and that is fear. Since it is hard for those who gain power not to abuse it, even by accident. And they then find themselves in the position of riding the tiger; they can not get off, for fear of having to answer for what they have done, or having it undone by a reaction. While increasing irrational fear of falling or being thrown off, drives them to abuse the tiger even more, which in turn makes them more fearful, and so on.

Responsibility... What happened?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Western society used to be based on a common consensus of rights and responsibilities, actions and consequences. Then came the 1980s and YUPPIE (Young upwardly-mobile Professional Person) mentality. Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US both preaching that greed was good, material things = success....

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@dermot235 No I do not think that you can, or would benefit from, banning advertising. But I do think that it would be very useful to promote awareness of its use and methods, especially in education. And also to promote a degree of healthy cynisim. One of the worst wrong turns that education took, when it was reinvented at the time of the pay for it revolution, by T. Blair etc. and for some time before. Was to promote only education to serve the skills needed by the capital economy, at the expence of life skills, which in the developed world, where we can so easily supply all we want, though at horrible expense to the planet and uor physical and mental health, are much more needed. Fortunately I think there are some good grass roots signs, and I will repeat. I would never call any generation, I long ago took on board the wisdom of Leo Tolstoy. But I do think that this generation may be the first one cynical enough to be immune, to some degree.

Responsibility... What happened?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Western society used to be based on a common consensus of rights and responsibilities, actions and consequences. Then came the 1980s and YUPPIE (Young upwardly-mobile Professional Person) mentality. Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US both preaching that greed was good, material things = success....

Fernapple replies on Jul 19, 2020:

@dermot235 I was not taking about authoritarian dictators, only Fascism. Few governments did or have used the media as effectively as the facsist states, especially Germany, in the nineteen thirties. They made huge use of all the media, and especially of media experts, and capitalist media producers. While even the names themselves, were directly inspired by marketing ploys, being a vast act of rebranding, taking some old ideas like, empire, racism, and ultra -nationalism and giving them exciting new names, Facsism and National Socialism, to sell the products using the then cutting edge marketing ploys.

Responsibility... What happened?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Western society used to be based on a common consensus of rights and responsibilities, actions and consequences. Then came the 1980s and YUPPIE (Young upwardly-mobile Professional Person) mentality. Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US both preaching that greed was good, material things = success....

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@dermot235 Yes I know that Whale bone products, leaded petrol, and DDT are now bannned,, but you asked me for proof that these things date back to the nineteenth century. As to the others, I think that every one of them has everything to do with advertising, since many of them such as deforestation occur to provide mass consumer products which are only desired because of promotion. Fascism was an almost purely media promoted product. And of course I do not think that it was easier to go to university in the nineteenth century, but it was in the sixties/seventies etc. and the new state was promoted, as education to serve capitalist enterprise. And PS. I have also edited my last post to include, brexit, mass consumption of refined white sugar, and plastics polution.

Responsibility... What happened?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Western society used to be based on a common consensus of rights and responsibilities, actions and consequences. Then came the 1980s and YUPPIE (Young upwardly-mobile Professional Person) mentality. Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US both preaching that greed was good, material things = success....

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@dermot235 Why do you think that I am refering to technical products. Of course they have, improved. But while we are making lists what about leaded petrol, DDT, whale bone products, deforestation, facism, the rising tide of race hate, American gun culture, palm oil, trash culture, tabliod newspapers, internet disinformation, brexit, mass consumption of refined white sugar, and plastics polution. Oh and lets not forget, governments charging, "young people in the UK that have to pay exorbitant fees and take on Debt to go to college." PS. I would never call any generation, I long ago took on board the wisdom of Leo Tolstoy. But I do think that this generation may be the first one cynical enough to be immune.

Responsibility... What happened?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Western society used to be based on a common consensus of rights and responsibilities, actions and consequences. Then came the 1980s and YUPPIE (Young upwardly-mobile Professional Person) mentality. Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US both preaching that greed was good, material things = success....

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@dermot235 No products sold thirty or forty years ago were crap too, that was well into the period I am talking about. The media advertising problem started in the nineteenth century. Many physical products have improved vastly over the last forty years, no one who road a bus or tried to drive a car in the seventies would disagree with that. But cultural products are an entirely different matter.

[youtu.be] I thought this sounded like a good way to spend a bit of time.

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Eer. Maybe after another year of lockdown perhaps.

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@Donna_I No nothing to do with you, I will quite happily hug humans. LOL

Responsibility... What happened?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Western society used to be based on a common consensus of rights and responsibilities, actions and consequences. Then came the 1980s and YUPPIE (Young upwardly-mobile Professional Person) mentality. Thatcher in the UK, Reagan in the US both preaching that greed was good, material things = success....

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

Nice rant. Should be pinned to the school room wall, everywhere. I think though, that another factor was the growth of media, especially the high capitalist advertising media, where every product is going to do everything for you, if you only buy, it, and it does not matter if the product is crap, because it is the hype that counts, and the winner is whoever can sell the worst product for the highest price. Maybe the commercial world is catching up with the churches, who charge what they can, promise everything, and have no product at all.

Catholic Church Lobbied for Taxpayer Funds, Got $1.

LucyLoohoo comments on Jul 17, 2020:

OF COURSE NOT! They'd have had to sell some of their GOLD and illegally purloined artifacts!

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@LucyLoohoo Yes better to hope for something much more realistic. Say Donald Trump takes a degree course in science history. LOL

Catholic Church Lobbied for Taxpayer Funds, Got $1.

LucyLoohoo comments on Jul 17, 2020:

OF COURSE NOT! They'd have had to sell some of their GOLD and illegally purloined artifacts!

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

@LucyLoohoo That's very logical, but also very wishful thinking, it would be nice to think you will get your way one day, but I am not holding my breath.

I really wish some people on here and in real life would stop telling others "GO TAKE YOUR MEDS!" ...

TheMiddleWay comments on Jul 17, 2020:

The internet gives people permission to be uncivil and say things to the screen they would NEVER dare say to your face. Fake bravery; true cowardness. That's how I view anyone that resorts to these type sof tactic. Kinda like the small minority on this board that consider teaching religion child ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 18, 2020:

No teaching religion is a form of child abuse, real and genuine, which can lead to life long trauma. Some other forms of child abuse maybe worse and some less so, while some forms of religious indoctrination are also worse than others, while very frequently the two are linked. I speak as one who has suffered both.

Potatoes make a beautiful flowers but doesn't help with their production.

RussRAB comments on Jul 17, 2020:

I'm reminded by viewing these flowers how many standard crop plants come from the nightshade family of plants. Nightshade plants also include a number of poisonous varieties.

Fernapple replies on Jul 17, 2020:

Eventually they make berries, that look exactly like small tomatoes or nightshade berries, both potatoes and toms do product the poisons though at quite a low level, don't eat the berries though.

To the people who either didn't understand, or were confused about my previous post.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Sorry to say that modern consumer capitalist culture promotes narcissism, especially among people who are shallow enough to be taken in by it, and of course the West's failed education systems, do nothing to address shallowness. So sadly finding someone who is not a narcissist, is going to be harder...

Fernapple replies on Jul 17, 2020:

@Healthydoc70 I can not see a question or any explanation, certinly not a long one. Your six words. "I repeat, read Dawkin's Selfish Gene." Just came out of the blue, and seem to refer to no previous comment.

Dear lifelong atheists, how do you see yourself within the universe?

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Almost too small to be seen at all, except in a very very close mirror.

Fernapple replies on Jul 16, 2020:

@Fred_Snerd Yep that too.

If you think that religion is not a good thing now, then what about the future.

Allamanda comments on Jul 9, 2020:

There are times in history when whatever maintains the status quo, and it's often the retrograde forces of religion/tradition, actually can be reckoned to save a lot of lives. Whether there are any we can prove, or any that don't result in most lives lived in more miserable conditions than the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 16, 2020:

@Allamanda Perhaps, hopefully.

If you think that religion is not a good thing now, then what about the future.

Allamanda comments on Jul 9, 2020:

There are times in history when whatever maintains the status quo, and it's often the retrograde forces of religion/tradition, actually can be reckoned to save a lot of lives. Whether there are any we can prove, or any that don't result in most lives lived in more miserable conditions than the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 16, 2020:

@Allamanda The problem is that mainstream society and thinking tend to be progressive, and looking for improvement, which leaves religion no where else to go except the dark, as I say I am not looking at now but into the long term future. And mainstream society and culture have to be progressive now, because in democratic states at least, the only selling point that politics and even capitalist institutions have is thatt they will bring improvement, even when they are selling their product to the moderate right wing. Religion can only find its roll in the market place by offering an alternative, so that in the dark ages, when political life meant, organized theft, rape, and blood vendetta, then religion offered a peaceful, moral alternative,, but the rolls have been reversing now for five centuries or more., and because secular democracy must compete by offering improvement, then it forces religion to become increasingly the champion of crime.

There's a virus in the world [youtube.]

FearlessFly comments on Jul 15, 2020:

NOT too subtle, eh ? :)

Fernapple replies on Jul 16, 2020:

Don't think the people they are talking to do subtle.

A very old mystery, and perhaps we have to accept that some mysteries will never be solved, but at ...

Triphid comments on Jul 15, 2020:

It's an odds on bet some twerp will come along with the totally ridiculous idea that the remains were buried there out of some religious ritual or rite. Some twerp always has to add the religiousness to how our most ancient ancestors would have lived but I sincerely doubt that ancient Hominids ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 16, 2020:

Yes the ritual think always seems to be a default possition for some archeologists, sometimes to a laughable degree.

If you think that religion is not a good thing now, then what about the future.

Allamanda comments on Jul 9, 2020:

There are times in history when whatever maintains the status quo, and it's often the retrograde forces of religion/tradition, actually can be reckoned to save a lot of lives. Whether there are any we can prove, or any that don't result in most lives lived in more miserable conditions than the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 16, 2020:

That ignors the fact that religion does not always just put the brakes on, but that it sometime, often, pulls backwards.

To the people who either didn't understand, or were confused about my previous post.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Sorry to say that modern consumer capitalist culture promotes narcissism, especially among people who are shallow enough to be taken in by it, and of course the West's failed education systems, do nothing to address shallowness. So sadly finding someone who is not a narcissist, is going to be harder...

Fernapple replies on Jul 15, 2020:

@Healthydoc70 Sorry I do not see the connection ?

Amor Fati [dailystoic.com].

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Nice idea and very true, but take it too far and it is just saying self delusion is all powerful.

Fernapple replies on Jul 15, 2020:

@Mitch07102 Yes it is a good quote and the way I try to live my life, but you always have to qualify to some degree. Just think of all the Christian sects who glorified pointless suffering, instead of trying to stop it, and even opposed medical advances like vacination and pain relief, because pain and suffering was what god wanted for you.

Brain creatures?

Grecio comments on Jul 14, 2020:

If you don't believe in the hereafter, why would you want to live?

Fernapple replies on Jul 15, 2020:

Life is not something you want, it is just something that happens to you. And like everything else, you just try to make the best job of it you can, and yes if you are sensible then like any tool you lay it aside when you are done without a thought. No problem if you are not indoctriated into a culture with an enhanced fear of death, like theist, and post theist cultures.

[msn.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Lets be straight about this. At the beginning of the pandemic, the UK government discovered that it did not have enough PPE for all its hospital staff. So in order to stop the public panic buying PPE and making demands on the manufacturers, it put out the line that masks were of no use, even ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 15, 2020:

@Moravian Yes I saw one, (I assume Tory.) who was about the only objector to masks, standing up in parliment this morning, saying how having to wear a mask would put him off going shopping and how awful it was wearing a mask. Stupid, the jerk was wearing a suit and **tie**. Dishonest, I bet he has never done serious shopping, looked like the sort who leaves that to the servants to me.

Three Generations Of Ancient Warrior Women Found In Russian Tomb

brentan comments on Jul 14, 2020:

I wonder is there some historical connection or etymological connection between the Amazonian women in Scythia and the Amazon River in South America?

Fernapple replies on Jul 15, 2020:

I found this on Wikipedia. "The name Rio Amazonas was given after native warriors attacked a 16th-century expedition by Francisco de Orellana. The warriors were led by women, reminding de Orellana of the Amazon warriors, a tribe of women warriors related to Iranian Scythians and Sarmatians[18][19] mentioned in Greek mythology. "

I guess its now coming to the peak season for cottage gardens with us now, so I went out today and ...

JackPedigo comments on Jul 14, 2020:

These are great but I can't help wondering if and when the times comes and people get back to work will they still have time for the gardens. Funny, but the few times I went to our building supply store the parking lot was packed and many items are sold out including the greenhouse plants. Seems ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 14, 2020:

Yes, These three gardens I know of old, and I think they are retired persons, so they will carry on I would think.

I guess its now coming to the peak season for cottage gardens with us now, so I went out today and ...

MarkWD comments on Jul 14, 2020:

Love the way the plantings look against the brick wall in the first photo, something we don't see a lot of in tumbler prone California. I also like the way the pathway draws our eye into the second photo. Are all of these photo from around your own garden space?

Fernapple replies on Jul 14, 2020:

No they are not my garden, they are photos from the villages round about.

Not my research or authorship, but good details.

AlasBabylon comments on Jul 13, 2020:

This article is a good example of the kinds of pitfalls in thinking that we all are subject to at times, and reminds of us how we need to beware of such pitfalls. Of course, we were told early on that the large majority of cases of COVID-19 were not severe. Looks like that wasn't necessarily ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 13, 2020:

And we will not know the true extent of the long term effects, for perhaps twenty years.

Legit analogy.

Fernapple comments on Jul 13, 2020:

Tiger King ?

Fernapple replies on Jul 13, 2020:

@Apunzelle Thanks, not reached us here.

I posted this in another group but thought you may like.

Zoohome comments on Jul 12, 2020:

Cutie!! They are so much fun. Surprising to see it active during the day. What time was that? We had one as a pet here. Puffy was his name. I gave it to a vet tech that was crazy for all kinds of exotic animals. Not my style to give a pet away, but it was my son's pet and he wasn't giving as ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 13, 2020:

It was about 2pm, sometimes they are about in the day especially if it has been wet and cool, as it was.

I found this little person in the garden yesterday.

Allamanda comments on Jul 12, 2020:

do people still put out saucers of cat-food for them? I remember them well from the early seventies in Bedfordshire, but not sure I ever saw one in Cornwall in the 90's...

Fernapple replies on Jul 12, 2020:

@Allamanda I think that the SW used to be a strong hold.

I found this little person in the garden yesterday.

Allamanda comments on Jul 12, 2020:

do people still put out saucers of cat-food for them? I remember them well from the early seventies in Bedfordshire, but not sure I ever saw one in Cornwall in the 90's...

Fernapple replies on Jul 12, 2020:

Yes people do. They are often quite unaffraid. Many years ago I remember that one came into the house explored and then took a rest on the hearth rug , before wandering back out again.

Time travel

LucyLoohoo comments on Jul 11, 2020:

I'd love to go back in time and meet Hatshepsut, the first female Pharaoh! (Of course, being fluent in ancient Egyptian would be a necessity.) I want to know how....after two thousand years....she was able to pull off becoming Pharaoh! Whatta' woman!

Fernapple replies on Jul 12, 2020:

Love her temple. Even up against the Taj Mahal or the Parthenon, it has to be a front runner for the worlds most beautiful building. The proportions and the way it sits in the landscape, if she did not design it herself she must have employed a genius architect.

This popped up in my memories on Facebook today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 10, 2020:

Only just out of the pond at that size, probably wandering about because it was off looking for its first home.

Fernapple replies on Jul 11, 2020:

@Kynlei Yes that confirms it, they usually do emerge all at the same time.

The garden is coming to its first full flush now, so I took a little walk round.

AnonySchmoose comments on Jul 10, 2020:

You have a lovely calming garden.

Fernapple replies on Jul 10, 2020:

Thank you that is the effect I aim for. It has taken quite some time because I also aim to just let the plants get on with it, but they get there in the end.

Poor guy can never catch a break.

Dead comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Except I think he is holding up the wrong finger…

Fernapple replies on Jul 10, 2020:

Of course, he would not get that right would he ?

I love being able to have reasonable conversations with like minded people (godless skeptics), but ...

Sgt_Spanky comments on Jul 10, 2020:

I've been in favor of more believers here for the two years I've been posting but any suggestion of trying to bring in some Xians to up the religious diversity of the site is typically met with resistance. For some reason, a lot of people seem to like an echo chamber. Not sure why.

Fernapple replies on Jul 10, 2020:

Bring them on, I love a debate. On the odd times one does get through, they always seem to be deleted before it realy gets going, sad.

Religion is the greatest scam

skado comments on Jul 10, 2020:

religious literalism

Fernapple replies on Jul 10, 2020:

That is what is being addressed, still the main sort.

Before the germ theory of disease became popularly understood, it was common to believe that sick ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

If God and, " the things we don’t know the natural explanations of yet" are synonyms" then you may use either. But the vast advantage of, things we don't know yet, over god is not only that it is more exact, but that it does not come with the vast evil baggage that the God word carries, including ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 10, 2020:

@skado Oh dear I can't believe that you areresorting to the 'ad populum' fallacy. But anyway you are on for the bet, I just hope there are humans left in two thousand years.

For success don't join the march, just go to the pub get drunk and fall on the tracks OK.

Robecology comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Silly argument; "Evolution: That Famous ‘March of Progress’ Image Is Just Wrong" No, it's not. It served a purpose to educate those who believed in a sudden "creationism"... Jordi Paps is just a headline -seeking sensationalist, IMO. - - - - - - It originated as a Time-Life ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@Robecology Yes I hear what you say, and it is true that my interest in the pop science, did stop me thinking about the religious implications, but I was sharing it on a site, which is hopefully not used by the religious much. On a public site, in the sense of used by everybody, I would certainly have not posted it.

For success don't join the march, just go to the pub get drunk and fall on the tracks OK.

Robecology comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Silly argument; "Evolution: That Famous ‘March of Progress’ Image Is Just Wrong" No, it's not. It served a purpose to educate those who believed in a sudden "creationism"... Jordi Paps is just a headline -seeking sensationalist, IMO. - - - - - - It originated as a Time-Life ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

Yes I like the image as well, always been fond of it. But like all such posts from the popular press they are only adding a small qualification, which is not new, but it being the popular press they are overstating their case and making too much of it. However the small qualifications are real and they may not be familiar to everyone, so I thought that the article was worth posting. Don't be put off too much by the style.

U.S. coronavirus cases rise by over 60,000, setting single-day record

AnneWimsey comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Anybody looking up "exponential"? I am talking to you minimizers/deniers here!

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

One of the main features of "exponential" is that it does not matter how low the level is at which you start, the water still gets above your head very quickly. It has been said that only one person in ten really understands exponential. There is an old story, if you put bacteria in a test tube, and they double in numbers every hour, such that they will fill the tube to the top after fifty hours. Question how much of the tube is full after forty eight hours ? You don't need to work it out it is only one quarter. In other words the tube is nearly empty, three quarters clear after forty eight of the fifty hours are gone. It catches up fast at the end.

Before the germ theory of disease became popularly understood, it was common to believe that sick ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

If God and, " the things we don’t know the natural explanations of yet" are synonyms" then you may use either. But the vast advantage of, things we don't know yet, over god is not only that it is more exact, but that it does not come with the vast evil baggage that the God word carries, including ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@skado But religious literalists do gain from even the metaphorical reading of religion, wether you intend it or not, that is my whole point. Because you can not enforce boundaries within religion, and anything which helps even in a peripheral way to render religion as a whole respectable, has to carry some of the responsiblity for its worst excesses. And I did not say, that you had said that rape and murder were good things, now you are strawmaning me, that was a metaphor. To quote. "There is always going to be a place for using more exact descriptions and a place for using metaphorical abbreviations. It's unavoidable. It's how our language works. "

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Jinx5555555 comments on Jul 7, 2020:

How is religion counterbalancing animal instincts when it clearly follows them? The whole us versus them thing defines both religion and social animal groups.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@skado If there are no moral judgements required, why make a post about it ?

Today's hike: Mighty Mouse fights Devil's Club. Lanham Lake, WA

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Do you have a scientific name for Queen's Cup please ?

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@LiterateHiker Thank you, I will look it up, see if they will grow here.

Knaresborough in Yorkshire UK.

Lincoln55 comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Shame, shame. Got any more?

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

Watch this space, I posted these because my friend and I had our first day out yesterday as lockdown is eased, but I have lots on file.

Knaresborough in Yorkshire UK.

Lorajay comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Thank you, These are wonderful to look at. They also sadly remind this American ithat she can't go anywhere right now.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

The planes will fly again, not long.

Your Thoughts on Philosophy

PondartIncbendog comments on Jul 9, 2020:

You want my Philosophy on Philosophy? Hmm.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

Yes please, you know I like your thoughts on everything.

“Science seeks the truth, and it doesn’t discriminate.

Fernapple comments on Jul 9, 2020:

Or, you get nearer to truth the harder you work at it, and the more you are prepared to give up for it.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@Marionville Nor me. Though I am told that it depends very much on the science you follow and the insitution which called you a scientist. Good morning both.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Jinx5555555 comments on Jul 7, 2020:

How is religion counterbalancing animal instincts when it clearly follows them? The whole us versus them thing defines both religion and social animal groups.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@skado So. "counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating civilization." is not a moral act then ? Nice to know that you favour our animal instincts over the teaching of religion as the basis of civilization. I knew you would come round one day. Or how does. "counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating civilization." Differ from the usual religious pseudo morality ?

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Jinx5555555 comments on Jul 7, 2020:

How is religion counterbalancing animal instincts when it clearly follows them? The whole us versus them thing defines both religion and social animal groups.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@skado Sorry but. "Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating civilization." Posting that and then commenting. "Just for the record, I have not claimed that religion is the origin of moral behavior. " Sounds very like back pedaling. And. If it is not the origin, of morality, then it just serves the natural moral impetus, as every other human intstitution does. In which case it is either pointless, or its practises and rituals can be replicated without its favouring of the ultra conservative and criminal elements of the human condition.

Just curious what subject is more favorable.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Maths, because it is not possible to understand any other subject, especially philosophy and psychology, without a deep knowledge of maths, it is the key to understanding. PS. I am no good at it.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@FearlessFly Ok here's a controversial one. The biggest enemy of wisdom and understanding after apathy, is not stupidity but pseudo-education. Or to use some old maths, the set of those who have Majors, and the set of those who never learned anything useful, have a large overlap.

So what happened to the 'R' number then, which was so important just a couple of weeks ago, has ...

Mcflewster comments on Jul 8, 2020:

It was not local enough. I have no idea how they actually reach those numbers though. It should be as local as your local pub. Science is now investigating transmission through the air( as other viruses are) as opposed to droplet transmission ( transmission by droplets is where the coughs and...

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

It almost seems like our government is trying to engineer the second wave. If they really want people to come out and start spending money to kick start the economy, why don't they come out with strong firm regulations on masks and social distancing, so that people do so safely. Instead of, "Oh well if you feel like it." advice. Or are they still trying to hide possible damage to their image, caused when they ignored the advice of and the information coming from the W.H.O., to cover the fact that they were unable to organize the supply of enough masks. In other words, their image comes before public safety. I like this may make it a post.

I had to go to our Botanical Gardens today to pick up 2 fruit tree seedlings - so took some snaps of...

cs10 comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Fixed.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

@Allamanda Don't bank on it.

I had to go to our Botanical Gardens today to pick up 2 fruit tree seedlings - so took some snaps of...

cs10 comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Fixed.

Fernapple replies on Jul 9, 2020:

Well done.

Just curious what subject is more favorable.

Fernapple comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Maths, because it is not possible to understand any other subject, especially philosophy and psychology, without a deep knowledge of maths, it is the key to understanding. PS. I am no good at it.

Fernapple replies on Jul 8, 2020:

@AmyTheBruce That's exactly how I feel.

Some time i wonder if all the Christians are going to snap someday and gather all the nonbelievers ...

desertastronomer comments on Jul 8, 2020:

Get a grip, Tim. You can't really believe that we would repeat the Inquisition, would you?

Fernapple replies on Jul 8, 2020:

Yes.

I had to go to our Botanical Gardens today to pick up 2 fruit tree seedlings - so took some snaps of...

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Lovely gardens. And I really like the way they get the plants to grow out sideways like that, never seen that landscape gimmick before.

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@Allamanda Teasing, but yes, that is cheap of me, because the buttress roots are truly wonderful.

When someone starts brow beating you with their religion what do you do ?

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Sadly I usually do nothing but leave. I really should engage with them, but then you have to be very careful to be extra polite and charming. Because you have to remember that they have probably been sent out by their cult to be annoying, so that people will threaten and insult them and their ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@AmyTheBruce I believe the send them out to fail method of indoctrination is a well recognized thing, which has been written up in some fairly mainstream medical/psychology papers. Another member gave a link to one of them some time ago, if I can still find it, it was a long time ago I will pass you the link. Yes the asking questions, is the thing, charming and polite was just an coment on the way to do it best of course.

“Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay”............Daniel Defoe.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Let the good times roll.

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@Marionville I have known people who had one, and then being careful went for decades without another.

“Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay”............Daniel Defoe.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Let the good times roll.

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@Marionville Sorry to hear that, take care and live for now.

I have always feel that I was denied a life.

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

I can tell with further search that: You have enough education to type a post. You have a internet link. Enough health to sit at a computer. You have connection to a global site where you can encounter many other people. Those are really big gains, which put you ahead of ninety nine percent, of all ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@Leslie00 I am sorry about your pain. My mother had long term constant pain for over ten years, and although we never really got on, it was hard not to have sympathy when she had to go through so much.

“Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay”............Daniel Defoe.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Let the good times roll.

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@Marionville Not according to D.D. until the decay sets in. And in my case, ( OK its sad about the teeth. ) but everything else is just fine so far. In fact I am fitter, in the sense of can run longer, jump higher etc., than I was at twenty five.

Wedding guests stripped Gro's garden without permission.

Fernapple comments on Jul 7, 2020:

Some people just don't see taking growing things as stealing, even though they may have involved more direct effort from the owner than things which are just bought. A couple of year ago my friend and I visited a public garden in the next county. While we and several other people sat on some ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

@Jolanta I was with my friend, who was frail and elderly, so I contented myself with pointing it out to one of the keepers later. Which was a bit of a feeble thing to do, I admit I should have made a fuss at the time. But you have to remember I am British, so I don't think it normal to talk to people without being introduced, let alone tell them what I think.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Jinx5555555 comments on Jul 7, 2020:

How is religion counterbalancing animal instincts when it clearly follows them? The whole us versus them thing defines both religion and social animal groups.

Fernapple replies on Jul 7, 2020:

I agree. Accepting the belief that religion is the origin of moral behaviour, is swallowing religions worst and most blatant piece of deception. Morality entered religion late, long after it was established as a part of human life. And that morality can only have come from two places, either god or humans, since it did not come from god, (or at least not if we do not believe in god, ) then it had to come from humans, and if humans could easily imbue one of their institutions with it, then there is no good reason to suppose that they can not do it for any institution. And the obvious fact that many political and charitable institutions now provide a moral leadership to the world, with a morality which far excels that of religion, is good evidence for that.

Some time ago the electrical company dug up my driveway entrance to bury a cable.

Allamanda comments on Jul 6, 2020:

I always had heard opium poppies were blue! Had a look on google and many are mauve, so that may be translation from a language that does colours differently?

Fernapple replies on Jul 6, 2020:

Pink, white , red and mixed colours are available, though I think that the purple is the wild form.

This morning's views....

Fernapple comments on Jul 6, 2020:

I wish I could grow Monarda, it just does not seem to like my soil.

Fernapple replies on Jul 6, 2020:

@Lavergne Do you know Bridal Veil does fine for me.

A small bonus from the virus.

Allamanda comments on Jul 6, 2020:

I think we're way too far down the road for this to actually matter, it's a useful stopgap/awareness measure, but the real problem is habitat encroachment by humans. Until we demarcate and enforce the wilds as wild, literally not even for hikers etc. this is the unstoppable march to extinction... ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 6, 2020:

Yes it is a hard thing to say, but a lot of the money, time and matterials poured into wildlife rescue is completely wasted, and would be far better spent on habitat protection. The one exception though being things like the pangolin, which are not short of habitat but are being over harvested.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 6, 2020:

@skado But that gap is far better filled, and is slowly being filled by secular movements. Ritual, community and well being are growing into the gap from many quarters. From secular charities, citizen science, envirionmental groups and health care etc. In the UK where we are much further down the line than the US, it is impossible that the church, where in our village a small group of elderly facsists, ( They get four or five on a good Sunday. ) gather each week to try and convince themselves, wrongly, that they are not selfish and bigotted has any real 'spiritual' (whatever that mean,) worth left, nor since it has not put forward a new good idea for a hundred years, that it has any interest in filling the gap.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 5, 2020:

@skado Yes but ritual is something that you can have and develop without religion, and as I said part of the reason why secularism is often not addressing all needs, is because of the lazy assumption that these things are religions job. Which leaves a gap as religions fade and move towards the darkness.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

@skado If it is not literal it is not religion, since if you take it metaphorically, then there is no need to be loyal to any one religion, they can all be plumbed for whatever good bits they contain metphorically, what you have if you take it metaphorically is only academic study. And in any case that does not hold water, since the secular wold onf thought has already taken on board all the good ideas found in religion, The only parts remaining to religion which are found in it and not in secular thought, are the bad bits.

Relativism the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2020:

There are lots of other good arguments against it as well. For example that it is anti-progressive, since if there is no absolute truth, then there is no point in looking for one. So that relativism which seems at first to be ultra liberal, because it is inclusive, in fact proves to be ultra ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

@Word Quite that's my point.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

dahermit comments on Jul 3, 2020:

Only in regard to the first sentence (I am not going to read the rest), it is not true. Religion does not need to exist in order for civilization to be orderly. It only needs a few pragmatic laws. Aside from that, "animal instincts" do not mean disorder. If one observes a troop of primates one ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

@dahermit I saw a programme on orangutans a while ago, and the keeper said. "Everyone thinks that they are placid, slow and easy going. And they are until they get going, and then they are Sumo wrestlers with teeth."

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 4, 2020:

They demand freedom for the media to provide them with confirmation of what they would like to think, if they were not too lazy to do their own thinking.

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

@thinkwithme Sadly most can not be bothered with that.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

dahermit comments on Jul 3, 2020:

Only in regard to the first sentence (I am not going to read the rest), it is not true. Religion does not need to exist in order for civilization to be orderly. It only needs a few pragmatic laws. Aside from that, "animal instincts" do not mean disorder. If one observes a troop of primates one ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

Agree with all of that, except that I would amend it by saying that the social structure of most of our fellow primates are not quite as crude as that. Most dominant males in most social primates, hold their possitions due to complex political connections, usually including friendships with other powerful males, and the support of the female collective. I understand however that your statement was main a simple one designed to refute the post, and that by saying that I am just pedantically nit picking, sorry.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Secular_Squirrel comments on Jul 3, 2020:

The belief that civilization has been achieved is a delusion under specific contexts. Civilization: The stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced. The consideration that we are at such a state in social and cultural development is the ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

Beautiful.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

@skado No it does not meet most peoples needs, but it is a complete delution to believe that religion provides an alternative. Indeed the main reason that the secular world, especially its education system fails to meet those needs in most people, is because of the tradition of thinking that it was the job of religion to fulfil those needs. Therefore there has for a long time been an assumption, that the secular powers that be need not bother to address those needs in an organised way, despite thse fact that religion's complete failure to do so leaves a gapping hole in western thinking, and that its failure has now become obvious to everyone.

Relativism the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 3, 2020:

There are lots of other good arguments against it as well. For example that it is anti-progressive, since if there is no absolute truth, then there is no point in looking for one. So that relativism which seems at first to be ultra liberal, because it is inclusive, in fact proves to be ultra ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 4, 2020:

@Word No but that is not true. True and false are not alway complete or unmixed, there are few absolutes in the real world of humans . I have a bucket with two pints of milk in it. Statements: He has a container with between one and three pints in it. He has a container with between one and a half, and two and a half pints in it. He has a container with liquid in it. He has a bucket with white liquid in it. He has a bucket with a liquid which is not water in it. He has a bucket with a liquid which is both water and fats in it. He does not have a cardboard box. He has a rounded container which is not cardboard. He has something that a calf would like. He has something that a hungry calf would like to drink. And so on. None of the statements are untrue, but none of them tell you the exact truth about what I have, but in each pair the second statement is more accurate, and this is just a simple thing like a bucket of milk.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 3, 2020:

@skado Well at least different time zones takes the pressure of replies. That'l do hope.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 3, 2020:

@skado Yes my village cafe, which generates well being and a feeling of community, all of which is quite real.

A couple of people on here have suggested that masks are not necessary if you maintain "6' apart".

Fernapple comments on Jul 2, 2020:

The bottom line is simple. The more you do, the more you stay alone, the further apart you stand, and the more barriers to droplets you stay behind (screens masks), the safer you and everyone else is. And the more people there are who do more, even mindlessly when the risk is tiny, the sooner it ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 2, 2020:

@girlwithsmiles With the distance thing of course you are into inverse square law at the very least. Which says that on a sphere, or any shape for that matter, doubling the distance mutiplies the surface area by four. Which means that, at the very least, doubling the distance reduces the concentration of droplets, to a quarter, in fact it is better than that because more droplets drop to the ground under gravity over distance as well.

All enmity is created by its owner's ignorance.

hankster comments on Jun 29, 2020:

so....if i am witness and opposed to someone beating a 🐕 and tell them to stop, its a result of my ignorance?

Fernapple replies on Jul 2, 2020:

@skado The habit of disparaging emotion is a culturally inherited one, which it is good to be wary of , since it has been deeply inbedded in our culture so long that it distorts even the post religious world view nearly completely. Because it is at the core, if not the core, of the Abrahamic and theist deception. The trick being to make people feel guity about their animal nature, that animal nature being made to take the blame for all that is wrong, ( which is easy because nature has no champions, ) and create the sham that there was another and better alternative, which of course there is not, which they held the keys to.

"Religion is a practice that counterbalances our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 1, 2020:

Let me work on that for a minute: "*Civilization* is a set of practices that counterbalance our animal instincts for the purpose of accommodating *our fellow human beings*." I prefer this version, since religion in general (and especially in its earliest forms) merely codifies tribal taboos ...

Fernapple replies on Jul 2, 2020:

@skado "Culturally driven behaviors generally require only outward compliance with established standards. They don’t, and can’t, outside of authentic religious practice, address, guide, fortify, or enrich inward concerns related to meaning, mood, attitude, and relative emotional buoyancy. " Of course they can, and perhaps far better than religion which is burdened with its history.

All enmity is created by its owner's ignorance.

hankster comments on Jun 29, 2020:

so....if i am witness and opposed to someone beating a 🐕 and tell them to stop, its a result of my ignorance?

Fernapple replies on Jul 2, 2020:

@skado My point is that it is not the emotion that you should blame, but the false reasoning which triggered it in the first place. If you wish to remove the cause then you have to address the misunderstandings or false cultural assumptions behind it.

Has anyone read and suggested The Teachings of Don Juan? What do you think of Castaneda?

Word comments on Jul 2, 2020:

never read Don Juan, but if he had a sequel would it be called Don Two?

Fernapple replies on Jul 2, 2020:

Groan.