OK, I do sincerely hope people don't overreact to this and bail out.

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2020:

We have long known that the site creator had issues, this explains a lot. But having said that, you get and take from the site what you are prepared to put in, I have largely stayed away from the politically active parts of the site anyway, in part because they are largely US based , and therefore I do not see it as my business to lecture Americans on what they should be doing in their own country. In consequence I have largely found just such a site as. "a harmonious group of Secular Humanists; a bastion for civil discourse and a support system for non-believers." I think that the founder has perhaps been looking at the site through a microscope, which like all microscopes shows up some details very large, but leave the bigger part of the picture out of view. He cites Trump pinata, as an example of the sites preferences, in fact with 1047 members, it is not even one of the larger groups, sexual deviants for one far exceeds that, (Wonder why, must join to find out ?) as does Just for Laughs, while even the gardeners number at least half that. But if the founder now feels that the site has become a political movement, then he only has to hand it on to someone else, I am sure it would not be hard to find someone. There comes a time when the baby has grown up, and you have to let it go its own way.

A little rain makes everything blossom

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Rain, we need some here. I sometimes just like to stand out in it for fun.

While watching TV this morning, I saw a commercial for Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water"!! I ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Hey. I know some places where they give you grape juice, which is only pretending to be wine, and they will tell you it is in fact blood, and that it will make you live forever if you drink it. Surely that has to be against the trade descriptions laws, fake goods or what.

Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The most basic story in the old testament, is of semi-nomadic people from the Sinai desert moving into the bottom end of the fertile crescent and trying to take, and hold on to, land there. That probably happened continually for hundreds if not thousands of years, sometimes in small ways and sometimes with large acts of organized violence, the rich lands of the farmers would always be a temptation to the nomad from the desert. It is not surprising therefore that there would be a folk memory passed down among the later generations, of life in the desert, and opposed attempts at migrations into the farmlands. At the same time there was probably an almost continual trickle of fleeing slaves, criminals and peasants out of Egypt, into the desert to the east, who would be forced to join the nomads. It is therefore almost certain that stories of origins in Egypt circulated among the desert nomads, even those who had never been there. When you put those two things together and remember the tendency of folk memories to simplify, and personalize things, around a few half remembered, or mythical, hero figures. It would not really be surprising that a story like the old testament one, of the flight from Egypt and the conquest of Israel grew up, even though there would be not a trace of truth in it, it would be inevitable, because that is the way folklore remembers history, especially long drawn out history, the sound bite is not a new invention.

Do all Christian denominations believe only they will go to heaven?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

If they are literal fundamentalist believers yes, though they may be a minority even in the churches. Though amusingly there have been some sects, which limited their total numbers to five thousand members, because some interpretations of the bible say that only five thousand will be saved on judgement day, and they are obviously the five thousand. LOL

Im confused is blm part of the far left now because of protest?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

BLM is not part of the far left, that is a myth making attempt by the racists and fascists who are opposed to it. You have to remember that when people are opposed something, and they don't have any arguments worth a fig, one of their first resorts, is to try and associate the thing they don't like, with something else which they think is hateful to the wider community. And if they make a lot of noise, then the media will give them more attention than their numbers deserve, and the idea becomes mainstream if they are lucky. Or that is what they think anyway, but the people may be more savvy than they think.

Rituals of Waiting - or one more 'how I'm surviving the pandemic' piece.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

For what it is worth, you are far from being alone in feeling like that.

I feel welcome and happy to be on this site.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

It is only a small and distant community, but it is here if you need it, though I do hope that you can one day find a community in the flesh that supports you. Hang on to your true self until you do.

I absolutely abhor statements like, "I heard from (preacher, uncle, hick on Youtube) that ____" when...

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Nice rant, if it makes you feel better feel free to rant here whenever you like, it is a very sympathetic and easy going site, as long as you are not preaching. And you are not.

Most mornings I am greeted by the sun streaming thru the trees.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Beautiful place, you are very lucky. (Or very clever.)

I cannot sing but love to sing.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2020:

Yep one reason I am glad I don't go to church anymore, I love the sound that music makes, but I could not tell a bad note from a good one, let alone hit one. You are certainly not alone.

10 most Incredible births in the world, Some are dreadful☺ [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

The great diversity of life always leaves me amazed.

One of the blooms on my Amaryllis belladonna was a double ! so I captured it for the horticultural ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Teeny tiny snail, but what big eyes.

"There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

No, I think that observed experimental results trump it, but it runs a good second.

From Center for Inquiry: Here's an example of what's great about skepticism and the ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

A true hero.

Humanity

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Almost impossible to say, we have a good capacity for surviving, it is hard to imagine a disaster so bad that some few humans would not crawl out of a cave somewhere in a mountain valley, and start over, without that disaster being so bad that it destroyed almost all multicellular life. On the other hand, that which we call advanced civilization could be very fragile. So that perhaps a better, pair, of questions would be. Can civilization survive into the future? And. Can the biosphere as a whole, excepting perhaps bacterial life, survive into the future? ( One irony is of course, that one of the things which could really save us and civilization, may well be a major disaster, say a disease like the current virus, but much more damaging, which would relieve the world of say 99% of our population. Given that we have used up so many of the worlds resources, recovery would be slow, perhaps slow and measured enough to save us from making the same mistakes again. But that I think is a dream, not likely to happen. )

Governors Bay New Zealand worth getting up early to take the photo...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Wonderful photos, publishable quality, they would wow if printed in a coffee table book.

What happend to phxbillcee aka Bill?

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Sad yes, I liked talking with him, we still have some half finished lines.

🥃😎 bottoms up.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I will drink to that.

I am somewhat melancholy.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Take care of yourself. Thats the best thing you do for people like your son who care about you.

HELP the Post Office! Just go on down to your local PO and buy some stamps! If everybody spent $20...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

You are so lucky to have a post office, which I presume is a national institution. In the UK the Thatcher person sold ours off, so that her capitalist mates could asset strip it. So that we are now just about the only nation in the world without a national postal service, which serves the nations interests alone.

David Garrett with the Filarmonica de La Scala, Milano conductor Riccardo Chailly.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Oldy but a goldy. Best played with a little irreverence.

The Age of self Obsession.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Or maybe there will be a reaction, and a new age dominate by the idea that good taste is an objective reality, is about to dawn.

Why would a lifelong atheist suddenly decide to become baptized into Mormonism and be going on a ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Could be a lady, and it could also be that if he does not smoke, drink, or do coffee, he is attracted to a lifestyle where he gets easy approval for what he does anyway, though he may find the approval fades when he joins and he is no longer a newby. However a lady will probably be almost certainly involved in some way, most men, and I speak as one, are dragged through life by the testicles.

New word! CONSPIRITUALITY - conspiracy-theory-style 'spirituality'! Just the word I needed.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Did you invent it. Well done if you did. Sorry don't worry Pondartincbendog just answered below.

Who & What - U R - Not - U R - Not - just a - sentient - Individual - mammal - U R - Not - ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

I am a person who only uses hyphens now and again, mainly when I am pedaling pseudo-truth. Take care its a bad world out here.

Just a random thought.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Yep, it used to be called the Old Testament. But then there is a myth that a guy, who may have been called Jesus, came along and tried to rip some of the rules up, but, they soon got rid of him. Then some other guys call St Paul, Constantine, Mohamed and legions of others came along and just kept printing and pasting more.

More than 70 killed, 3,000 wounded in Beirut explosions.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

It was an explosion of a warehouse, which may have been caused by a fire. Which 'may' in turn have been caused by a welding accident. All of which may yet be proved false. It is typical of a person like the Trump to start spouting before he has any sound information.

Trump, Covid-19, Beirut Explosion, Consciousness, etc. What a time to be alive. [united-cats.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

"May you live in interesting times." Old curse.

Adversity and chaos seem to be building and multiplying every day.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

True, but then the last fifty years have been especially peaceful and progressive, at least for the western world. Perhaps we are just getting back to normal.

hi everyone! its been 2 years since i posted something here.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Hello, nearly a founder member.

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Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Basically I agree with you, and certainly modern life is on the whole a vastly greater threat to human health overall than the virus. Though it could be said that the virus is a creation of modern lifestyles as well. Since it is clearly only a problem because, we have massive over population, over crowded cities, and far too fast a transport systems, especially air travel. Though it could be said figures in that sense are a little misleading, since the cancer deaths of twenty five percent, are spread over a whole lifetime, say an average of fifty years, ( its more than that, but lets err on the short side,) as opposed to five months. You would therefore have to multiply by at least 120, to get a true comparison. Point five times one hundred and twenty equals sixty percent, which would make the virus two and a half times more deadly than cancer, if it continued at its present rate. Though that does not take into account herd immunity, bringing with it the possibility that survivors would have milder symptoms and be less likely to die if reinfected. Assuming that there is long term immunity, which we don't know yet. However the cancer levels, if quoted in this way, are based on the assumption that all cancers are caused by modern lifestyle, which is almost certainly not true, since cancer was a major killer even in the deep past, and a lot of the increase in cancer today is probably due to the fact that we live longer and survive many other diseases which would have formerly killed us, so it would be correct to only take a percentage of the overall cancer figures. Its probably a lot more complicated than that, but that is just a quick way to look at the problems of making the comparison.

If I can’t steelman my opponent’s view to their satisfaction it means I think I’m opposed to ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Or that they have only the delusion that they have a intelligible view. They may not understand their own arguments, because they are not fully or well worked out.

France 24 reports in Beirut explosions [france24.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Its moved on a bit now, we now know that it was just one explosion, ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse.

These photographs catch some of the memorable sunrises and sunsets I experienced whilst camping out ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2020:

Well done.

I'm The Least Anti-Yosemite Person You'll Ever Meet In Your Life

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I am sure when some people said. " Would it not be good to get a business man or two in politics." They did not say 'failed' business man. But the one thing that a boss of a big company, however failed, who has spent all his life listening to people say yes, does not know anything about, is just how stupid he is and what he needs to do to look stupider.

If You Believe This Lying Bastard You're a Complete and Total Imbecile

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

That's another thing we need, a face palm emoji.

Daisugi, The Ancient Bonsai Technique That Can Prevent Deforestation

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Pollarding, the harvesting takes place above the level at which animals can browse.

Landscapes — 1: The Grand Union Canal, Watford, England, 2012.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

I like the lighting and cloud scape in the last one especially.

Well I made it.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

Congrates, you will I am sure find worthwhile new adventure in retirement, no mater what.

“Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

That one needs some thought. Good post.

“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2020:

And explaining to most of them, that most of human culture is illusion, is just about impossible as well.

Why, oh why, did I purchase and wear this mask of my own face?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Great idea, but I want one with. Not viral, just ugly. Written on it.

Why do right wingers call people sheep all the time as an insult?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

It is easier to declare that your opponents are following blind dogma and then walk away, than it is to address their arguments, especially when you think that you will loose the argument.

Question on Social Darwinism

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Not many, I don't usually bother with such silliness. PS. There is no such thing as Dawinism, social or otherwise. C. Darwin was a man who wrote about a thing called the, 'theory of evolution by natural selection', that is all. He was never a founder of any political or religious movement. When people are trying to sell rubbish, one of the ways they try to do it, is by borrowing fake authority from respected figures, usually dead ones who can not therefore argue, when you see that happening, it is one of the ways you spot s##t.

More work on the different religiosities of N.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

People need culture and community, and if you live in a land where the churches have a near monopoly on both of those, then, 'meh' no surprise.

Religion bans a lot of things that apparently offend the Almighty One but why?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

Or, just perhaps the laws were made up by his prophets ? They did not like to delete any, and each new prophet kept on adding a another ban. So that the list just grew and grew, until it gets endless. After all a lot of them in modern times have tried to ban alcohol ! Just imagine trying to do that, when your gods best trick was turning water into wine, and he told his mates that he liked their nights out having a drink together so much, that even death would not keep him away !

The Prosperity Gospel VS The Actual Gospels Everybody knows the gospels of the bible are Matthew,...

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

The criminal classes, ( sorry religious leaders ) will sell anything their victims will buy, end of story.

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

No. Understanding.

Some of my photographs of Riverscapes in the grounds of Irwin Zoo Brisbane Australia.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

To get the photos to load, just get a photo editor, any good one will resize photos, your device may offer you the chance to resize when saving the photo anyway. There is no point in loading big photos to this site as most people will be viewing them with a mobile device or at best a lap top, so the extra quality of a large photo is wasted anyway.

Did Jesus, the man, exist?

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2020:

I do not think that there is good evidence either way, and that any guess about his existence is just a guess and no more. It is also highly likely that there were several of him, since that is the way most myths tend to grow. Because people remember the stories better than they remember names, so that when they forget the name they tend to associate the story with the first name which comes into their head , which is usually the most talked about at the time. So that you may well have had twelve stories being told in ancient Greece, about twelve people, but you end up with the twelve labours of Hercules when eleven names have been forgotten.

Wow, apparently Jesus was a holy terror growing up! How many time-outs did Mary and Joseph give him?

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

There is a charming old legend. Charming that is if you are English. That during the missing years he went traveling with his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, and that they voyaged to England, the south west especially. Given that no one really has any idea if either of them really existed, but that there is some anecdotal evidence that Joseph came to the UK later, was a tin trader, (south west England being the main ancient source of tin ) and that many young boys in that culture were apprenticed to their uncles. And given that the young adult Jesus, does act a lot like a returning traveler, who has gained some sophistication from travel that the stay at homes lack. Its as good a story as any. You can have all sorts of fun with it, just to see how much gullible Christians can take.

Is Aljazeera popular in the united states?

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

We get it in the UK and it is often very good. It is important if you can to view as many news media as possible, always especially take the time to view the ones you don't agree with is my attitude. So I do RT, Aljazeera, BBC , ITV, Sky, and just now and then the US ones.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence Darrow

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Or not to even question.

Spacecraft Made from Ultra Thin Foam Could Reach Proxima Centauri in Just 185 Years ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Too slow, there will be nobody left back here for it to send messages to by then.

Hello again, I am 101 points from level 8!!!!!!

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Points, Points Points. Best wishes, hows the other rotten business going/ Don't wear the T-shirt to court.

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Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Always makes every thing seem great.

Orchid Rock Rose! A couple months ago, @MarkWD responded to a photo of a Rock Rose (a Texas native) ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

You may like this. Photographed growing wild in the Algarve region of Portugal back in March.

Have any atheists or anti-theists here (that I haven't blocked) ever designed a website or ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

Yes I have done three websites. Since I started early in the digital era I tend to write my own htm code, which I still think is the best way, even if it is a little slow though there are lots of ways to make it quicker.

[twitter.com] who will like an idiot like you 🤣😂😅

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2020:

He likes himself more than enough to compensate.

The weather is pretty "muggy" today, but thanks to lots of cloud cover the temperature is a quite ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Gosh, you think 33 is bearable, that's about as hot as it ever gets here, and its almost too much for us Brits. Strange bright light also seen in the sky, is it ? Do you call it? The san, nus soun, or something like that?

Last nights sunset on the hottest day so far this year.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Made it to 34 in Lincolnshire, but fortunately we are near enough to the coast to get a sea breeze. No rain though despite a thunder and lightening display last night.

Please change the absolutely useless flat mouth emoji to one of sadness.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Yes, lots of people have asked for that, for a long time.

Lyme disease vaccine found to be safe and effective in clinical trial | New Scientist

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2020:

Lyme disease is actually on the increase here in the UK, so that is good news indeed. I could not access the whole article, is it usable on animals as well, since it seems that deer are the main carriers, and the increase may be down to an increase in domestic deer ?

We all have a book in us... they say.

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Big book multi volume, should fill a few shelves.

What's a favorite repair you did?

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

A friend gave my parents an old CD stand, but it was falling to bits. So I turned a top and bottom plus a centre shaft and fitted it together. Actually its more of a rebuild, since the metal holders are the only original bits.

Yes I want this back

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Used to look across the Atlantic and think, the US has its problems, but they are basically good people, and since we have a common language, we do sometimes have some fun together. Now think, if I believed in crystal balls I could perhaps say what going to happen over there, but sadly I don't.

Walk this way ....??? [agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

Nearly equaled by the second most dangerous phrase. "I think I can improve on this."

"Love the sinner. Hate the sin." How do you feel about this saying?

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2020:

If really intended, then like the, anti-religious. "Hate the idea, not the believer." There could be some value in it. But it also, if not genuine, and it rarely is, it can be just a license for the hypocrite and the bully to indulge in hate crimes. Better to leave hate in the locker, there are other motivations like compassion, pride in achievement, even justified fear, to propel you into action if you need a drive to get going. Sin, is anyway, in many ways a meaningless word, since the only difference between it and the word crime, is that unlike crime, sin, is supposed to put a stain on your soul that is visible supernaturally, and marks you as an offender. If you don't believe in supernatural souls, then there is no such thing.

Borrowed from fbuk - An Aussie play on words

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Groan.

"Civilization is just something that sounded like a good idea when god was drunk."

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

God had nothing to do with it, in fact it sometimes seems like he/she/it did its best to put its boot in it.

Who else is a TIME TEAM - BBC series fan? You can watch all 19 seasons on YouTube. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

Video says, not available in my country, sadly.

TL;DR - if you were going to use the Socratic method in some street epistemology to talk to a person...

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

I would say that if you have never been involved in such talks with theists, then you have been lucky. And that a better way to spread the idea of sceptical thinking, is to set a good example of being a good human being, while being open about your lack of faith in the supernatural. However should you get involved, there are I think two mistakes to avoid when debating with theists. Firstly. Do not get in debates about the existence or none existence of god, in the abstract, you may think that the fact that they can not 'prove' objectively, the existence of god is a weakness of theirs. But they think that the fact that you can not, disprove it either, is your greatest weakness. The fact is, nobody can objectively prove or disprove anything, at all, even existence, about something which is invisible by definition. ( As Bertrand Russel put it. There is a china teapot orbiting in space, half way between the Earth and the Sun. Prove there is not? ) But if you allow them to debate on that issue, then they will, in their own minds, having got no disproof of god out of you, claim the debate by default, and assume that no disproof is the same as proof, and that an abstract god is equivalent to their own particular brand of theist god in their holy book. Its one of their greatest delusions, to assume that the word god, by default means their own god. You have to remember that they are not really trying to prove the existence of god, they are trying to prove, the existence of 'their' god. Therefore keep the debate on the evidence they are using for that gods nature, in other words as found in their holy book. Secondly. Do not be afraid of saying. "I don't know." as often as you can, and that you are happy to accept not knowing. It annoys the s##t out of them, and kills nearly all their arguments. Because remember, it is they who are making false claims of knowledge, based on pseudo-authority: They know god exists, they know how the universe began, they have the final word on morality, they know what happens to them after death, etc. , and all with only the evidence in some old badly rewritten, edited and translated book. If for example they ask you say, (assuming creationists ) how did the universe started, you can say, the big bang or whatever, then they will start asking you about your evidence about before the big bang, and then you are going round in circles. Instead say I don't think anyone knows, and then ask them for their proof which you can attack, because they are the ones making dishonest claims of knowledge and plain simple honesty is something they have no answer for.

If I asked you "Who are you"? Would you know what to say?

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

I am a guy, who posts and comments on Agnostic.com, no one need know more. But I retire soon and then will be a free agent, free to tell you everything. Watch out its going to get very boring around here very soon.

In such a noisy world with so many fights for justice, such a fast news cycle, and such powerful ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

What you do to raise the profile of Humanism, skeptics, and nones generally, is to just go on setting good examples of being good human beings, and over time people will notice. Slow and steady wins the race. (In this case anyway.)

Today was a disaster for me.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

You are not finished until the judge says you are. Until then keep fighting your corner.

Meanwhile our public schools struggle to find enough funds to open our schools safely.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2020:

How can you claim that in the US there is a separation of church and state, if the state effectively funds religious education ?

I still cling to hope, and I believe in Love, and thats faith enough for me. -Peart

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

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

New to this group, thanks for having me :) Thought I would share something that has had my poor wee...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

I am sorry to say that free speech always involves allowing people to say things which are unacceptable, even harmful and stupid. But if you are to have it at all, then it has to be a absolute, within reason such as promoting violence can be banned, one of the few real ones. Because if you give someone the power to decide who should and who should not speak, then you create the prefect environment for a criminal to exploit. Also you force some forms of speech underground where they can become far more dangerous. Since they are no longer monitered by main stream society, no longer held up to ridicule, and able to attract support from a far wider base, since the one successful underground movement soon becomes the leader of them all, and soon becomes an alternative society.

Hello everyone.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

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

[businessinsider.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Fear of mediocrity, that it will just become a repetitive drudge, neither wholly failed nor successful, yet still a binding commitment.

Please post a picture of something that makes you smile. I call this one pure love plus joy.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

This is a photo of my best friend feeding a wild donkey, on the island of Cyprus, it was our first holiday together. The fun thing is, that she knew where we were going, so she deliberately took some expensive first class apples from the hotel breakfast buffet to feed them, carefully placed in her handbag. But then she is over twenty years older than me, (late eighties) so at that age you can get away with things.

BLACK CAT ANALOGY-in case you've never heard it.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

And religion is theology, with the treat to punch anybody who questions your discovery of the cat.

This has to be the future, if the civilisations of Homo Sapiens are to survive.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

It been a dream for such a long time, I shall not hold my breath, but the light at the end of the tunnel gets brighter. ( Mixed metaphors there, hope you appreciate the effort that went into that. )

Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

If you can leave one faith based mindset, you probably have the skills needed to leave others.

Three-Quarters of Recovered Coronavirus Patients Have Heart Damage

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

It may be years before we can truly count or evaluate the final long term cost of this virus, but you may be sure that it will be huge.

Welcome to my high society ...[agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Maybe we could become a sub-branch. Unless of course they require a high quality rather than a large quantity.

"God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2020:

Sorry it got boring after the ten or twelve, but I have to wonder if it ever occurred to them, that the W. Churchill which comes second, could apply even more strongly to believers.

Common foods that could secretly contain insect fragments- [rd.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Rodent hairs are also found in most foods, for the same reason. Remember the old rule, peel it or cook it, never eat salad and never eat anything that someone else has prepared. Meh, a bad attack of the runs is a better way to go than most.

I came here to find a friend.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

We are here. Hang in there 2020 will pass.

(sarcasm) Does a pimp lecture the pope about morality ?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

If the pimp does not market children, why not ?

Think I found my new favorite mask. ❤

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

I want one which says. 'Not infectious, just ugly.'

And that is a promise.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

21 could be worse.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

You may like this it is on a similar theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttevamkS6gw&t=75s

Anyone surprised? [businessinsider.com.au]

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Of course, why would an organization which built its wealth by exploiting the weak and vulnerable, creating poverty across half the world in order to enrich itself. Then refuse a hand out from a wealthy nation as well.

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”..............Aristotle.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Crime perhaps, but sadly I think that you need starvation for revolution. Humans, poor dumb brutes that they are, will endure a lot before they stand up for themselves. As long as the farmer puts just enough swill in the trough to stop starvation, they will sit silent in their cage, even while their brothers and sisters are dragged off for slaughter.

What are your feelings about cologne?

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2020:

Don't really like it. Though it has its uses, they tell me that if you are close enough, and down wind enough, to smell someones cologne, you are close enough to catch covid, so its a good warning sign. And why does clothes wash have to be scented. You go into the store and are offered. "Fresh floral scent", or "Contains Lavender Oil", and the next one on the shelf is Citrus, what is wrong with just wanting my clothes washed and smelling of nothing!!!

Bloody summer in Mojacar.

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

We are all bored and unable to work, its getting to be a club with a lot of members. I don't know why people rush to the Med in summer either, I always go south in winter and early spring to escape the cold to somewhere warm. Why go somewhere roasting hot when its nice where you are and then sit and shiver all winter, I can't understand it either. And if you do go to the Med in late winter early spring, thats the best season for wildlife and plant growth after the winter rains, there are fewer crowds, and the natives are relaxed with more time. Humans stuck unthinking in cultural conventions, perhaps, you take your hols in summer because that's what your great grandparents did.

Do masks help stop the spread of the C19 virus?

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

Just posted this on another line too. That's the idea, a nappy (diaper) for your face. Should have always been a legal requirement when going out in public, even before the virus, given that the mouth always contain more dangerous germs than the anus. Much safer too to kiss someones anus than their mouth, think about that next time someone puckers up.

There are always repercussions ... [agnostic.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 27, 2020:

That's the idea, a nappy (diaper) for your face. Should have always been a legal requirement when going out in public, even before the virus, given that the mouth always contain more dangerous germs than the anus. Much safer too to kiss someones anus than their mouth, think about that next time someone puckers up.