The importance of knowing when to stop on a project.

Fernapple comments on Nov 6, 2020:

Not a trick I ever learned I am afraid to say, I always keep coming back to things and fussing. But I have learned to use it to my advantage to a degree, since with time I learned that, the reverse of the coin, is that big jobs can be broken down into small parts, making them less daunting. While my main interest is gardening, which suits that mindset well, since gardens are never finished and always in need of reworking and renewal.

I updated my profile with some background info... thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Nov 6, 2020:

That seems a very good bio. Thank you for starting this site. Although from the UK, I find the fact that it is USA centric wonderfully entertaining, as it gives a very enlightening insight into another culture. While a number of members from all across the globe, have become more or less, what used to be called pen-pals in the days before the net, many more than I could ever have hoped to find without this site, and without the costs and pressures of writing paper letters. Well done.

253 blue 214 red !

Fernapple comments on Nov 5, 2020:

To any US people reading. Its still not over, you can't come out from behind the sofa and watch TV again yet. LOL

Often, I'll write a post, and find later that some numbers have been removed, and I have to edit ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 5, 2020:

Yes I have had that happen, though not for a long time now, I don't know if I am doing anything different or not. Best to check your posts and then use the edit, as a matter of custom, I think.

How many in the community senate were re-elected yesterday?

Fernapple comments on Nov 5, 2020:

Will write Twitter reports about how unfair the voting is.

Apologies for link being facebook.

Fernapple comments on Nov 4, 2020:

Could not listen to that twaddle sorry. But there was a neat (though easy to see though ) magic trick with a girls bra, on the same page, worth watching. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=932282717274465

How many alien civilizations are out there ?

Fernapple comments on Nov 4, 2020:

The big one to enter into the Drake Equation is. How long do technological civilizations last ? If its only a century or two, before they always self destruct. Then we could be very alone, but sadly, not for much longer. There only needs to be one doomsday technology out there waiting to be discovered. You push the start button, without realizing the consequences, and you are gone. Personally I think we have already done it, though it is a rather slow burn killer to start with, but it will soon catch us, and it is called agriculture. But I could be wrong, and there could be several others waiting for us to invent.

It’s a relationship?!? Not a religion?

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2020:

Hello and welcome to the site. I do not really have an answer to the question of, what you could do differently. But it is worth noting that people often become most defensive and outwardly committed to their beliefs, at just the time when they are beginning to have inner doubts. Therefore don't push that will make things worse, but do set a good example of being a good person as an atheist, and your sister may one day surprise you. I don't think that you have a better strategy, than that, available sorry to say.

Top 10 Controversial Quran Verses - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2020:

Video says blocked in my country, by Channel 4. Interesting, what's behind that I wonder ?

Art Saves! [bbc.com] .

Fernapple comments on Nov 3, 2020:

Some thing positive and light hearted. Just what we need now.

How many of you curse like a sailor?

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2020:

You could say 'fart', since that is a synonym for 'Trump' in England, or the other way round. But maybe that is a bit strong in the US right now.

Why do you interact with other humans?

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2020:

Why not. I love dogs, but they never answer letters or emails, and their book writing skills are not great, even if they are good at listening.

Lindsey Graham Says Young Women Can 'Go Anywhere' If They're Pro-Life and Embrace Religion, Points ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2020:

Nice to know that totalitarian restrictions on travel, both social and geographical, are not in place in the USA. ( Sorry I wrote that sentence wrong, I meant to add 'YET' on the end.)

[sciencenews.org] Sea butterflies is not something you hear a lot of.

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2020:

New to me, thank you.

Hello senators! Hypothetically speaking, are cartoons of Prophet Muhammad acceptable to be shared ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 2, 2020:

I do hope that the answer is. "Naturally you may, no need to ask." Because if it is not, then I am leaving.

Some words or phrases are nearly universal across a language, but some are used only by certain ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Lots in and around North East England and Yorkshire. I especially like nesh, meaning, over sensitive to the cold. Sometimes used judgmentally, and sometimes not, as in. "I was feeling nesh this morning, so I put on an extra coat." Often also used to describe a symptom of illness. And 'clarty' meaning half way between sticky and sloppy.

OK @Admin, lets talk about how pictures are loading.

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

It only seems to be a problem when using the app. does not seem to happen with a PC.

Researchers found that the gender wage gap is 29 percentage points greater in the most religious ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Actually though, prayer may not be free for men. I have read that there is a lot of research which says that, raising the status and earnings of women, raises the economy better than any other single thing that you can do. So keeping the pay gap actually makes everyone poorer. (As does a high rich poor divide as well.) A lot of discontent in religious communities stems from the idea that. 'If we have the best religion, and are the favourites of god. Why are we poor, while many of the secular are rich.' And the natural conclusion is of course that everyone else is cheating, or even in league with the devil, therefore lets buy some guns and start shooting people. Because of course the one thing never to be considered, is that it may be your stupid religion that is one of the main, (perhaps not only) factors keeping you poor.

Researchers found that the gender wage gap is 29 percentage points greater in the most religious ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Who would have guessed it.

WHAT’S ONE THING PEOPLE WOULD NEVER KNOW ABOUT YOU JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU?

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

I am pleased to say that there is nothing of significance. I am a pure. "What you see, is what you get." Though I have been mistaken for a Christian now and again. Mainly by people who think that if you are an old, ugly, bald, red neck, who lives in a village you must be a Christian as well. But they don't know that I can read books, and even understand some of it. So that could be my dark secret. LOL

For those of you who went from being religious to atheist, have you noticed that philosophy has ...

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Yes perhaps. But you also have to put it against the law of diminishing returns. That each new advance in technology changes life slightly less for us, than the one before, until you reach a point where you can have massive technical advances, which have no practical value at all.

If you aren't an atheist would you be kind enough to explain your reasons?

Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2020:

Good question, but I am sorry to say that I would rather not ask it. Because I think that most of the answers would be, very boringly silly.

I've found that they even love Donald Trump in France.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Better looking than the real one.

Gorgeous flowering tree. I don’t know what iris?

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Is it Cersis, the Judas Tree, perhaps ?

I really want to tell people I’m atheist, but living in the Bible Belt I feel like I’ll lose ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. Remember, that you are under no obligation to tell anyone about your atheism. It is your own private inner state, which is no one else's business, unless you care to make it so. You can even go to church and sing along if you wish, as an atheist you must know that it is meaningless. If you do choose to tell people, then you will discover, perhaps, that you may lose a few friends, but they were not good friends anyway. It will be the best which stay. And remember there is an ever growing atheist community, where it is not hard to find honest friends.

Happy Halloween 2020 style. This is in my neighborhood.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

"Be careful what you wish for." 2021 could be even worse.

I relate religion to Grimms Fairy Tales.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Don't be so hard on yourself. Your little bit of personal hate however strong, will not waste one thousand part of the time that religion would. And hate is not always bad, sometimes it motivates people to do great good, control it use it but do not try to suppress it. That way only leads to a build up of pressure, followed by explosions.

These drones will plant 40,000 trees in a month.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Probably works very well and a good idea. But I do think that using the term 'plant', when what they are doing is 'sowing', is really very bad hype.

The people most terrified of Satan are Christians; they see the Devil behind every rock and ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

In most of the old testament Satan or a satan, is simply the servant and friend of God. The persona we know, only appears in the last and most doubtful parts of the Bible, as a crude theological invention. Needed because the tribal God of the children of Abraham, and the local area, was changing into a global god of goodness, and if god was all good, then an explanation for evil was needed. However they were probably in such a rush, and so disorganized, that they did not think it through, and probably did not care. Because being arrogant, the authors/editors assumed that most of their inferior believers would not be capable of asking intelligent questions.

Madame Tussauds, Berlin shoved their Donald Trump wax figure into a dumpster.

Fernapple comments on Oct 31, 2020:

Its a very flattering figure, he is a lot uglier than that.

So who is going to create the next great steak sauce?

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2020:

All those dead cows, killed by the shelling ?

Republican senator grills Jack Dorsey over satirical post about him strangling a dog [dailydot]

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2020:

Link broken, sorry.

Getting an extra hour this weekend ...woopee!

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2020:

Enjoy every second of it, you can't be sure that 2021 won't be worse.

Interest in Englewood Atheist Community

Fernapple comments on Oct 30, 2020:

Hello and welcome. It sound like an interesting project, but this is an international site, so most members live at vast distances.

Who wants to have a good conversation? This weeks been rough and could use a friend 🧡

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2020:

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

I want to share this part of my life with you.

Fernapple comments on Oct 29, 2020:

Well done.

"Our government should be entirely and purely secular.

Fernapple comments on Oct 28, 2020:

Considering the times in which he wrote, he may one day be thought off as one of the great thinkers.

The Southern octopus 🐙 lives off the Patagonian coast in small caves and crevices.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Beautiful photo.

Members, please argue with me.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2020:

There is no such thing a beer, in the USA. Prove me wrong, to earn points.

I was raised in the restorationist church of christ from a baby and I took it all in deeply, ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2020:

No. I never really was in any group, or a belonging to groups type of person. I think that things like this site are the nearest I ever got to it.

Today's Hike: Golden Week and clueless Mormons.

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Great photos.

Remember this November 3rd

Fernapple comments on Oct 27, 2020:

Sadly it has to be so. It would not be so in a better world, but in the world we live in, yes.

Here is a question for us Atheists.

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Some say that there was no before the big bang, since there was no time then, some think that time on the others side ran backwards, some that the universe formed as a bubble in another universe. But the truth is, that is all speculation. That's a bit like asking what is on the other side of the hill, without going to look, you can fill it with anything you like, and people do, but believing in inventions is not knowledge. The big difference between a religious mind set and a rational one, is that the rational is about recognizing. "I don't know." As the primary and best answer to most things, while religion is pretending knowledge which does not exist, to bluff others or avoid facing the unknown and your fear of it. Which brings it full circle back to speculation again, because speculation can be fun, rewarding, informative and good practice for thinking. But you lose all of that value, if you ever lose sight of the fact that it is speculation.

_The last minute of the day are usually the most beautiful ones_ _seaside, New Territory, Hong ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Great photo thanks.

I think he was right...

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2020:

I think the thinking is. " I am superior to all others by far, because I have the best religion and morality, and my best of all gods, told me I was superior in every way. Therefore how dare anyone be happier than me."

Anyone ever do goat yoga?

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2020:

You did not give up. You just found a much better use for a goat.

Why are words running out of text area?

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2020:

I don't know, it has happened to me a few times on this sit, especially when doing copy and paste. You could try copy and paste into a text editor like first, as a intermediate stage. Worked for me.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 26, 2020:

Believe that it fizzes with DNA, activating trillions of buzzing ribosomes, to express itself as solar collectors, stretching to catch the sun. So that not one molecule of CO2 can escape being zapped by a photon, in order that a thousand or more plants, can display their genitalia shamelessly with wildly extravagant decoration, to attract their flying inseminaters, and gain a new generation of continuation, though thousands more springs than any human can even imagine seeing. That do ?

Landscapes — 1: Port Phillip Bay from Arthur's Seat, Victoria, Australia, 2015.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Number three looks like someone is steaming the mountains to make them soft.

Well, the fevers have begun....tylenol is working. Son's test came back positive this morning.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2020:

It seems that older men are more likely to suffer badly, and women are more likely to have long term complications. As, I take it, your son is neither of those, it should all be well in a few days. Try to sleep and keep strong yourself.

Lost n ' Found.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2020:

He gets lost easily, I am sorry to say. ( I think it may be something to do with the amount of wine in his bloodstream. )

A recent visit for a haircut at my favorite local Snipit place had me discovering that it is under ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Does she know that the O.T. bans tattoos ?

[youtube.com] Help, I'm being chased by a ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,never mind......

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Only in America.

Part 1 Enjoyed a drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway up to Grayson Highlands State Park.

Fernapple comments on Oct 25, 2020:

Wonderful photos, and what a beautiful place to live.

I check this site every day, and the trend recently is very scary.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2020:

It is indeed, keep yourself safe, get a hobby to keep sane, and remember you have friends here if needed.

I was just reading that 2 percent of the world believes the WORLD IS FLAT.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2020:

No wish I had, I would love to ask one to go with me to the edge. I would pay the travel costs, if they can show it to me.

One of the most entertaining pulpit sermons of all filmdom... [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2020:

I like the Orson Wells one in Moby Dick too.

"A human being is the only creature that realizes his death." - Oswald Spengler

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2020:

No not strictly true, there could be several, including famously, like Cutiebeauty said below, elephants.

"Tool of choice" for Linda when it comes to cleaning one of our edgers.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2020:

Tell her to unplug it or take the lead of the spark plug first.

I just found out why I have never known of an atheist eating dijon mustard.

Fernapple comments on Oct 24, 2020:

I get a big trill out of Nun's Farts. Get your head round that. The nuns don't seem to mind, and its not illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun%27s_puffs

Let's brainstorm snarky replies to the lame first message, "How is it going?"

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2020:

One recently put. "Hey." So I told him. " A product made of dried grass and herbs, usually used for animal feed, and written with an 'A'. Strangely I did not get a reply, or like, and I was putting real effort into being helpful ?

Religious zealots on this site.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2020:

Bring them on, I love to watch and sometimes take part in the debate. Sadly they usually give up far too easily.

Should this man be supported or educated?

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2020:

Nice little song, whats wrong with that, why would he need education ? Why would he need support?

Couldn't take it anymore.

Fernapple comments on Oct 23, 2020:

Yes but you can still hear that horrible voice. Unless you hit the mute button.

Credit is a financial tool used by people who don't know how to manage or budget their money.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Cheap credit can be a useful tool in business. But the old rule, that you should never borrow more than you have easily transferable assets to pay back is a good one. In other words if you want to put up a market, and you borrow money to buy the land to put it on, that's fine. Because if it all goes wrong, the lender gets the land, so they loose nothing, and you are not in debt without income to pay for it. Everybody happy. But if you borrow money in private life to buy goods, like white goods for example, which loose value quickly, then you are a gambler, and like all gamblers you will probably crash someday.

Question on ancient Roman history

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2020:

People have identified over fifty different things which may have helped cause the empire to decline. From hyper-inflation, caused by massive imports but low exports, to lead poisoning, the failing of democratic accoutability, to plagues. And maybe that it simply grew itself to death, the bigger and more diverse it became the more it became filled with people who cared nothing for it, but far more for their local leaders and it failed to propagandize itself, well enough to make its thousands of new members care about it. That last is an interesting one, because of course Rome was the first major republican empire. Not an empire made by one wave of conquest led by a single king, but one which grew by stages, adopting the ruling classes of other nations as citizens, as often as not. Thereby making conquest easier, (many people even asked to be absorbed ), but becoming ever more culturally diverse and also, ever more divided against itself. That may seem to be an anti-liberal, anti-multicultural, message, but it is only so because the Romans also failed in their education/propaganda needed to explain the empire to its diverse subjects, and it also failed to reward people by preventing a deepening rich poor divide. (Yes that may sound familiar.) Three centuries ago, Gibbon was famously fond of the theory that Christianity was the cause, but while Christianity may have contributed a little, most people would agree today that gIbbons view was far too simplistic.

Anyone else getting the new Homo sapiens: a graphic history?

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2020:

No, do share a link please.

Human

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Yes perhaps. But the clever inventors of gods, create imaginary gods without substance and claim to be their representatives. That way, there is no blame when things go wrong, but its reps. can take the second hand credit when things go right.

Just a thought So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2020:

I really hope so, the virus closed a lot of our libraries, or at least shut down a lot of their activities.

My latest creation: a bargello quilt.

Fernapple comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Wonderful work.

Just a quick hello. Trying to get my feet wet (figuratively, not literally)!

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy the site and do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone. ( I don't know about wet feet, the site does not seem to do towels, though you can get a teeshirt. )

If you were raised religious as a child, what is your worst religious memory?

Fernapple comments on Oct 21, 2020:

In the UK the law used to say that every school should have a daily religious service. My school was a very bad one, and had a lot of bullying as well. ( We all did it, I claim no exemption, because the one thing that bullying teaches you is how to bully yourself.) One of the boys however was disabled. So of course he got bullied more than most. One morning it was so bad that he could hardly walk or stand, because he was shaking so much with fear and pain, after being bullied very badly, in a vicious cruel way which surprised even those of us used to bullying. Afterward however, several of us helped to hold him up, and half carried him into the daily service, where we continued to help him stand, because missing service was considered a serious thing, and our distrust of our teachers was such that we did not expect any understanding. The tragic irony of what then happen however will never leave me, and was my most memorable school lesson. Because when the formal part of the service was over, the headmaster gave his daily speech/sermon, and the subject that day was: "How lucky we were to belong to a 'happy' school which did not have a culture of bullying." What made it even more striking was that everyone had said how lucky we were to have such a good headmaster, who was turning a bad school round. Which was probably true, it certainly got better under him. But what it did do was to make me lose all faith in authority, including and especially religious authority. Because since I am, and was, realistic enough to know that since some authority is needed in life, it is I now know, essential to ensure that authority is founded on solid bedrocks, such as, science, reason, good education and democratic checks. And not on old books, sky fairies, tradition, myth, cultural metaphor, superstition etc., which are only the resort of the bully and the tyrant, because they can not base their authority in reason.

Where is the weirdest place you have seen religious propaganda?

Fernapple comments on Oct 20, 2020:

So we have to add. Don't eat the cheese puffs. To Don't drink the Kool Aid.

Not quite as good

Fernapple comments on Oct 20, 2020:

For number two, Richard come to mind, because a short Dick is the same thing.

It's tiresome so many making a laughingstock of Biblical content.

Fernapple comments on Oct 20, 2020:

There are I will admit some long term members who are biblical bores, and that is annoying. But a lot of the biblical stuff is posted by new members, trying to sound out the mood of the site, or seeking help for their issues with religion while using humour as wound dressing. It is best to cut them some slack, ignore the front page and engage with the groups if possible.

If you don't celebrate Christmas then you should not celebrate Hallowe'en either.

Fernapple comments on Oct 20, 2020:

I celebrate Yule at the shortest day, and the autumn equinox, in to a degree the traditional ways.

Trump: Biden will 'listen to the scientists' if elected

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Trump listens only to sycophants.

Biden and Trump Say They're Fighting for America's 'Soul.' What Does That Mean?

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

It means that two dumb ass politicians can't think of anything smart to say, so they are pulling out old crowd pleasing cliches.

To be the messiah, Jesus had to have descended from israel, right?

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

I think that he also had to be of the house of David, as well. But since the two lists do not agree, it certainly is not the perfect word of a perfect god.

What If the Government Ran a Social Network ?

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Why would they have to fund it. Let it carry adds and turn a profit.

About democracy anywhere, they call Texas a non-voting state because Democrats do not come out and ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Not sure about that one. It is possible to deceive people, and someone has to vote for them. I do not therefore think that apathy alone is enough.

“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.“ - Unknown

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Boy that is cruel.

So WORD has indeed inspired me.

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

He has been knocked off several times, but he just comes back with a new name. I still call him Fred, because one of his former names was 'antifred'. Most of the time he does no harm, and most members regard him as a pet troll rather than a harmful one. However he does lose it sometimes, and that is what gets him kicked off. I do not think that anyone on here is likely to be taken in by his disinformation, and he usually gets corrected pretty quick, and most members views are robust enough to take the challenge. Personally my life would be a little duller if I did not get called 'Illogical Atheist' now and again.

“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most.

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

And sometimes will learn the strength to live without answers. But the religion comes along and offers to give you all the answers, without any work. Just put your money in the box on your way out. LOL

“A Little Bit of Logic” Who is Donald Trump?

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

"Donald Trump is a salesman, and an entrepreneur." I think may be true to a degree, but I think that it would be a more accurate statement if you included the word 'failed'. When Trump first came to office I remember, some business annalists examined his records, and concluded that, he had earned less than bank interest, on his inheritance over his lifetime, and that he would have been bankrupted twice, if not saved by political bailouts. Politics was perhaps the only way out to avoid the humiliation of his failed business career. There was a lady in our village who, single handedly, ran a wool and sewing shop for fifty years. She payed herself a living, and filled her pension pot, after starting from next to nothing. She was a vastly better business and sales person than trump, by those measurements, even though she was not rich. Being a spoiled rich boy who is handed a business empire, which you then wreck, does not make you a businessman.

Hey people

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

Hello. Word of three letters, meaning dried grass and herbs used mainly for animal feed, usually the middle letter is an 'A'.

Last night I had a nightmare that I think will haunt me for a long time.

Fernapple comments on Oct 19, 2020:

It sounds very like a condition called Sleep Paralysis. It is frightening but harmless to a large extent. You will find more on the web. Here is a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

An Ode to the Mute Button

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Thanks be to Agnostic.com.

An Ode to the Mute Button

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

The sound quality of TV is deliberately made bad, so that people will spend extra money on speakers, I was told by the sales in our local electrical goods store. And if they admit it.

Today's hike to ''Suicide cliff''.

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Wonderful views, even the towers look small from up there.

A family member told me about seeing a bumper sticker that said, "Lower expectations mean a happier ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

When you also take in to account the fact that. There are so many people and institutions, political, commercial, religious, who profit from raising your expectations to unreasonably high levels, and then posing as having the ability to fulfill them. You have to realize that, firstly, your expectations may not be completely your own invention, and that if you do lower them, then you maybe escaping every one of the worlds great con-tricks.

I needed some fun and beauty

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Perhaps nine answers seven.

Beautiful and funny

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Very good. But three wonderful.

Do you think we will ever reach a time when we can be proud to be human and of our stewardship of ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

There was and are many cultures who were and are proud of our stewardship of the planet. And all of them caused horrible damage.

Who believes in the Scientific Big Bang myth?

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Belief is not a word relevant to a science., especially to a scientific hypothesis or even theory. You either choose to accept it, as a practical basis for assumptions to base further research on, which may or may not support it, or you reject it in favour of another tentative assumption, there are no final answers in science.

Once I said to a dear Christian friend: “Suppose there really is no God, and suppose I had it ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

If you did have such proof, then you would perhaps have a duty to make it public knowledge, and thereby allow everyone who wants it to benefit. But there is a difference between, putting your spare flower seeds on a table at your gate, for the passers by to help them selves, and going out at night sowing them secretly in peoples gardens. However, if you knew that she was actively suffering because of her belief in god, then perhaps offering to sow vegetables in the gardens of the starving, maybe.

Along with the birds and squirrels I see out my back sliding door, I usually get a large spider that...

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Maybe you will get another one, if the vacant site is a good one, it may still be attractive to the same or like species. I love to see them in the winter with dew or ice on them.

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 18, 2020:

To a degree true, but there are quite a lot of examples of religious persecution in pre-legal societies. I think that this may just be a view from T. P's. time and culture.

“It makes no sense to go up to a painting in a museum and ask, “Can you prove this painting is ...

Fernapple comments on Oct 17, 2020:

That is not the point of the article. And is the silliest statement I ever heard. Of course you should go to the museum and ask of the art. "Can you prove this is true." That is the whole point of art. And yes of course religion is an art form, so is every part of human culture, the word art is a synonym of culture, in so far as it has any meaning at all. Here is some art and a religion for you, and I would certainly bother to ask if it can be proved true. Woe betide me if I did not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Nazi_Germany

Can you dig it?

Fernapple comments on Oct 16, 2020:

Groan.