I'm just gonna leave this here. : UFOs

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Maybe they are just redefining terms. UFO, Unidentified Flying Object, is a term which should really never have had anything to do with aliens, and should have remained just a technical term in aviation, saying just what it says on the tin. Then you don't have to do a double think if someone asks you if you believe in UFO's.

preheat cheat

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

For some frozen things, I just put some butter, oil or fat on top, to stop them drying out, then pop them in and leave for a bit longer. It works well, they can thaw during the heating time, and leaving longer makes sure they cook through, the only problem would be drying out/burning on the outside, but the fat/oil stops that.

I'll say good night, all you sweet people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

Good Morning. I hope you slept well.

Recent pics.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

I especially like two, it is almost like a landscape.

‘Stay away.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

I am sorry to say that it is an idea found in a lot of places outside Canada too.

"For mankind is ever the same and nothing is lost out of nature, though everything is altered" - ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

For pre-Darwin that was a very insightful statement.

I don't usually reccomend books, but this one will save a lot of wasted effort.

Fernapple comments on Jul 25, 2020:

If its genuine, it is much needed, there is more fake news and false science about gardening than anything else.

Just out of curiosity , as this is an agnostic group , why do we waste so much time discussing ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

1. Its the one uniting thing we have in common. 2. A lot of people have been hurt by religion, and this site offers the hope of heeling. (New members especially deserve patience.) 3. A lot of us don't actually, look off the front page into the groups. 4. Some people need reassurance they are on the right path. 5. Some people like to hone their debating skills. 6. If you are a points hog, it gets you lots.

My desire to be well informed....

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

I love it, but cats always stay sane in this mad world anyway, they are perhaps the only ones who do.

Just a question. Can you get a 'double point', first reply bonus by replying to your OWN post?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Never understood why you get extra points for being first anyway. What difference does the order of the comments make, unless they are worried that a lot of posts would not get any comments, but I do not think that would happen now the site has grown. While it does encourage short shallow unfunny joke comments.

Doesn't it feel good to shut a religious zealot up when you use the " Good Book" against them let's ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Never had the chance but I am working on it. ( Good bible knowledge and it would be a shame to waste it.)

Religion does three things quite effectively: divides people, controls people, deludes people.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Should though perhaps be the other way round, deludes, controls and divides, do you not think ?

Just a question. Can you get a 'double point', first reply bonus by replying to your OWN post?

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Sadly yes, though I think that a lot of the people who do it, are just thoughtless rather than ill mannered and point hogging.

THE NAKED TRUTH According to a legend from the 19th century, the Truth and the Lie met one day.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Sadly, the photo is a bit fuzzy, which is kind of sad because it is a good example of nineteenth century narrative art.

Well I had a hike today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

Sounds like a good way to spend an hour or two, great thing about dogs they do get you out. But if Kohle is elderly and drinking that much, perhaps you should get his blood sugar levels checked, he could be starting type 2.

I'm 2400 to level 8.

Fernapple comments on Jul 24, 2020:

There you go, an few points for you. We have got to get a few intelligent people up in the eights, but I guess you will do instead.

Trevor Noah Explains Why It's Scary That Donald Trump Shifted On Coronavirus | HuffPost

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

Sadly it says, not available in your country.

How do you get over the death of a love one?

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

What Pondartincbendog said. Plus grief will always be with you, but it can not stop you loving, if loving is in your nature, if you let yourself go, you will love others or the whole world whether you want to or not. Pain is a learning experience and our learning is our greatest treasure. Foolish people will tell you that time will heal, perhaps but don't be in a rush to heal, it comes when it comes, and don't let others pressure you into haste.

“Closet” Agnostic/Atheist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

You are under no moral obligation to share your unbelief with anyone. It need be no more than your own private mater, and there is no need to feel you are being dishonest in any way by not telling people about it. Most of the people in most of the churches, probably do not believe, but they are not in many cases being honest with the one person who they do have an obligation to tell, which is themselves, you are over that. If religion is not true, then there is no personal harm in going through the motions, a none existent god is not going to look into your heart and punish you for your lack of faith, only a real one could do that, and no one else has that right to play god by asking you what is in your heart.

It's been so long since I visited here.

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

Open door.

You are not my shepard, for I am not sheep

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

Don't worry that you have not got many comments on this line. It is simply that on here, this is talking to the converted, and nobody thinks they have anything to add.

' Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice ' - ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 23, 2020:

So every morning I open my eyes and spring out of bed. Then I think, that's two, can get back in now.

I had one long term relationship since my husband died.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Never regret what you have done, only what you did not attempt. (Old saying.) Life is too short to look back with regret, we learn from all our experiences, and our learning is the greatest treasure we have. If you have not caused irrecoverable pain with intent, then you have done nothing wrong.

Its 4:30, i'm still awake, sort of.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

He will do something stupid whether you are watching or not. Get some sleep.

Have you read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? What are your thoughts on it?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Only book for many years that made me laugh out loud. And especially when faced with obstructive government, I always think about the planning notice pinned up in a basement behind a locked door marked, 'beware of the leopard'. PS. Spoiler, it may also make you cry, which is amazing for a light hearted fantasy, but you have that yet to come in the later books.

Good morning everyone! I developed an interest in evolutionary psychology while working through my ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Have always been interested in the subject, but sadly no expert.

My comfort in Absurdism I used to be religious.

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. You will find there are a lot of us Absurd Atheists here, but not mostly through philosophical choice.

Was human consciousness a mistake?

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

When the small worm like creature first acquired a light sensitive patch, attached to a nerve ganglion, and the twitch that resulted saved its life, by taking it out of the burning sun and back into the shade, was that a mistake.

Snoopy on Theology, found my copy at: [craigmotor.files.wordpress.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

I may be wrong, but if so, who is right ?

"When life gives you lemons makes some lemonade" I like this quote☺ My mother was scared ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Bravery to be applauded. Best wishes.

I'll bid you good night with a simple question:

Fernapple comments on Jul 22, 2020:

Saved about four hundred pounds sterling, this last few months.

Asimov states "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Nice ten mins listen.

Been a non-active member since 2017.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Get involved, we really are not that scary.

U.S. Weather Service, Portland, Oregon, updated its cover photo today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Good fortune is not wasted on those who know its value.

So there are a bunch of things I should do today but like every day in recent months, I am more ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

It sounds to me like you need a new adventure, since travel is not on the table at this time, why not look for a new hobby or start a business. If the small challenges of everyday don't enthuse you any longer, then gamble on a big one.

So there are a bunch of things I should do today but like every day in recent months, I am more ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

We are all in that kind of rut all the time, the few people who are not, get called hyperactive, and end up medicated.

I just thought of this last night, and I've never heard this argument before.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

God is an anagram of dog, so you work out which species it belongs to.

Hey everyone! I'm so damn glad to be here! Have a beautiful day! :)

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

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

“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Very wise and within limits very true, but I am not sure it is universally so. For example clinical depression, especially where it is caused by chemical changes in the body, certainly would not be chosen freely by the patient, yet it is about attitude.

I really wonder if "god" always meant what it meant today.

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Yes there are quite complex theological debates about this, especially about the original Hebrew meaning of the word, which had similar origins to the Spanish. If you are interested they are fairly easy to research on the web. But I do not think you learn anything of value from it about religion, only about language and how it evolves and get altered over time. So much of religion may well be caused by mistranslation, bad memories and copying. Imagine that someone once told a story, about how a man and his family survived a flood by building a boat. And how they were wise enough to put a couple each of all their 'domestic' animals in as well. There would not be many, perhaps just a couple of goats and two sheep, not even perhaps in those days chickens. Then what happens if one night a story teller forgets to put in the word domestic ? Perfume, scent, essence and spirit, also have a similar complex and ramified linkage in their origins. Don't forget for example that spirit has at least three meanings, soul, vigour and the intoxicating part of drink. Which was of course the original meaning of biblical 'wine' both the natural, and the sacramental type. While many people think that the Islamic ban on alcohol may be a mistake, and that the ban on 'wine' may only have originally been intended only for Christian sacramental wine. Many saints bodies were said to give off sweet perfume when they died, because your scent was literally once believed to be part of the soul, therefore most dead bodies smell of sin, therefore bad, while saints smell good, and the fact that you smell at all proves there is a soul.

Just how gullible do some companies think people are?

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Yes but some companies, will tell you, that if you pay them, you get a brilliant new life after you are dead.

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 it is sensible to ask for evidence, be very critical of evidence, and accept that you have to say. "I don't know." To most things.

“Belief is the death of intelligence.” - Robert Anton Wilson

Fernapple comments on Jul 21, 2020:

Fixed mindless belief perhaps. But no in general I think that is a bit strong.

Christian Apologetics: Hitler can't help you. - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

The theists will of course answer. "But that is old testament, we now have a new covenant with god, brought to us by Jesus, who said turn the other cheek etc.." But of course they the have to explain, how a perfect god changed his mind, why Jesus said that he came to complete what came before and how he could believe in that god, plus why the perfect holy church, infused with the spirit of Jesus chose to keep the old testament for two thousand year. Oh and not to mention the bloodshed in revelations.

We can send a man to the Moon, in fact, we did so over 50 years ago! So, why can't we blow in a bag ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Yes it could be possible. But a breath test would provide a smaller more dispersed sample, which would mean the test would have to be more sensitive and high tech, which would make it more expensive, and then people would make an even bigger fortune out of it.

From childhood & very appropriate for the C19 pandemic.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Roundels, remember those, and so called parlor games. It is years since they were a major part of family entertainment.

Handling constant questions from little kids

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Get them reading and teach them how to research is one of the best ways.

In all fairness I do not believe this trait is sex specific.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Not specific perhaps, but certainly mainly. Though my mother never took an ounce of advice in all her life, especially about sugar and smoking. And yep, she paid in the end.

My bed and breakfast guests had two teenagers this time.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Imagination, great kids, just hope the schools don't knock it out of them.

Peach-Blueberry Crumble is easier than making a pie.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

Reminds me I have not made a crumble for ages. Must get round to it.

I feel tired of memes. Your thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

No I am sorry. Some people may not be able, willing or brave enough, to express themselves in any other way. Yet they may be the very people who need the chance to express themselves most, and are most in need of the communities support, or at least ear. The old style over content argument applies. What people say should not be judged by the quality of the words alone, a love poem by Lord Byron may be beautifully written, but could it ever mater as much, or try to express as much, to you as your mothers last comical birthday card she sent you before she died ?

Roku is now carrying Reuters News on it's Streaming channels.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

More cats please. I especially like the ones with attitude.

so.

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

A lot of people check out profiles, often just to find out what part of the world you come from, because that reflects on how they understand your posts. Sometimes it is just accident, it is easy to hover on the profile button without intending it. And as to seventy year old men, well 'we' (am nearly one) generally are lazy lumps with time to waste, so we dominate everything on a site like this.

"Church and state are, and must remain, separate." - Ronald Reagan

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

And yet was he not the president who used astrology for advice on everything, including presumably how to run the state. Which makes you wonder, did he say that because he thought it was for the states and peoples benefit, or better for the churches that way ?

Has Covid19 increased your loneliness?

Fernapple comments on Jul 20, 2020:

No. Not really I still have as much contact as ever with my one best friend, and all other social contacts remain about the same. But I think that it must have hit a lot of people hard, if they were dependent on clubs and social groups for human contact, then that is gone completely.

In the profile questions, the question "Do you like to celebrate Christmas?

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Winter solstice for me. I think that it has so much more meaning in northern Europe than a legend from the middle east.

Yup, would definitely be great!

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Don't think it would change a thing one way or the other.

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:

My scrotum used to be a tight ball , like a tennis ball, but now my testicles bang on my thighs, just above the knees, when I run.

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.

Well shit.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Oh dear can be hard , nothing like insomnia to spoil your whole week. The best cure really is to find a routine which works, (How much and what you eat and drink and when, how warm you have the house, and what you do before going to bed, etc.) and then stick to it rigidly. Its not easy but it does work.

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.

As an atheist, I'm probably more likely to listen to someone trying to prove they are God than a ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

They all make god in their own image. Its very comforting to have a friend who agrees with you on everything, so much easier that having to rise to the challenge of loving real human friends despite their many faults.

Do you think majority Christians have

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

NO. God is a very boring writer, should have employed a good editor.

As copied from Facebook, author unackowledged.

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 people in London, living during the bombing raids, had said. I am going to make my own mind up if I put up blackouts on my house at night, or if my lights shine. Its my freedom."

As copied from Facebook, author unackowledged.

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

Good video. The only point I would question is the fact that she ended with. "Until we get a vaccine." Where does the "until" come from, I think 'if' is still more appropriate.

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

Fernapple comments on Jul 19, 2020:

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.

[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 ?

[sciencenews.org] measuring earth's wobbles

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Sounds like a very speculative and brave project, if they never get to be as good as telescope measurements, they will crash out by the sounds of it.

Good morning to everyone. Happy Saturday!

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Hello and welcome. Enjoy your Saturday, and /or waste some time on this site.

[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.

Yes, please.

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Sadly, I have to tell you that , House like Jesus, despite his personal charm, was a work of fiction, and that praying to him for miracles is not likely to be, any more effective. Sad I know but its a tough old world. Hug.

Why do my photos turn up sideways even though I take them the right way?

Fernapple comments on Jul 18, 2020:

Try loading it on to a computer first, line it up there and then post it, may be the best way.

Selective Islamic feminists

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2020:

Islamic apologists will tell you that Aisha was twelve or thirteen, not six, when she was promised, not married, to Muhammad. That may not be exactly true, and like a lot of religion it depends on the translation and interpretation of old texts, nor are arranged marriages a good thing. But it is probably closer to the truth than this meme, which has not been researched at all.

unfilteredlife olympicpeninsula pugetsound lifecanbebeautifulevenatthedarkesthours

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2020:

Nice photo, but there is something wrong with your word processor.

Does anyone here believe in 'Bigfoot"?

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2020:

My girlfriend keeps telling me I am always putting it in my mouth, so yes. But it is strange because she uses the singular, but they both look about the same size to me.

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

Fernapple comments on Jul 17, 2020:

A lot of edible plants were first grown, at least in Europe, as flowers, such as French Climbing Beans for example. While potatoes were first introduced as a cure for the plague, (did not work).

How about.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2020:

There are some reasonable but not great ones on Youtube, like Atheist Experience and Talking Heathen, but nothing great. Having said that, you could also say that it is hard to motivate people to sell a none idea, than a positive one. You may be able to sell snow in Antarctica, but lets shovel up all the snow and get rid of it ?

The Mystery at the Bottom of Physics - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2020:

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

I saw a good sign recently.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2020:

Happens to me all the time, but thanks, now I know where I am going wrong.

Apparently there are people claiming that wearing a mask will lower one's oxygen to a dangerous ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2020:

If you are a healthy person and you are short of oxygen, you just naturally breath harder. End of story.

Three photos at the Conrad Miami Hotel: Inside and outside the Bar (2019)

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2020:

Ah, a bar. Long time since I saw the inside of on of those, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Coriolis effect: The reeling, gyroscopic effect of the Earth's spin.

Fernapple comments on Jul 16, 2020:

Yes the Coriolis effect, strangely named after Gustave G. Coriolis, who almost certainly did not discover it. Read that in, An Ocean Of Air by Gabrielle Walker, a wonderful book all about the science of gases and the atmosphere, written as a series of biographical stories and a beautiful easy read. Reading The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart, now, a bit slow and lumbering.

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.

Christian Activist: Women’s Right To Vote ‘Product Of Soviet Bolshevik Revolution’ | Michael ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Nearly everything everyone has done for the last five hundred years, runs contrary to a truly Biblical world view. "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat its mistakes." And a lot of people prefer to live in the past, rather than try to understand it.

Trump argues the US has 'created cases' through virus testing

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Look don't you come near me with that test kit. I am a sixty plus year old male, slightly overweight and soon due a pension, so I can't afford to get pregnant now.

Wow! A post I commented on got deleted. Surely not for content. Maybe they dropped their account?

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

It happens sometimes, you even sometimes get notices that someone has replied to one of your comments, and when you go to look the whole post has gone. So that unless you message them you never get to find out what they said. It has happened to me a number of times , I think sometimes the posters take down their own posts, but it can be very annoying.

Trump Claims Biden Could Never Have a Pandemic As Big As His | The New Yorker

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Worked in a lot of his little phrases, so it sound just like him, quite clever in a short piece.

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.

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

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

My wife and I were as poor a church mice too, when we married, and sadly she did not live to see the moderate success I later made in my business life. So speaking as one who enjoyed a very happy marriage in relative poverty, and financial security alone, I can tell you wealth as a source of happiness is vastly overrated.

What kind of reaction do you have when you hear the word, "patriot"?

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Depend on what you mean by patriot. If you mean a lover of a countries sham symbolic representation, then no. If you mean loving your local environment, culture and people, then yes.

Brain creatures?

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Some people say that elephants also seem to understand mortality.

had to have a few laughs

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Great selection. Love 1. 3. and 8.

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 for both women and men as time goes by. At least in a world where it is no longer hidden behind manners, as it once was, it is easier to spot the signs. Keep going, you are young yet, and speaking as a (moderately) old person, you will be surprised by how much life and the world changes, over even short periods of time.

[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 dangerous, because it did not trust the public, and therefore it chose to lie rather than tell the truth. (Funny how they work in hospitals but not in shops.) And in order to justify that, they carefully cherry picked their pseudo-science, and willfully chose to ignore information coming out of responsible organizations like the W.H.O.. (They may have found a scientist who had spent the last six years in Antarctica studying penguins, and they asked him if he had found any evidence that face masks lessen the risk of viral transmission. To which he said. "No.") Some GPs may have gone along with this or been taken in, or brow beaten into pulling the government line. The government then, when the PPE crisis was over, then went into a face saving mode, by trying to downplay the value of them. Which act of petty ego, has no doubt cost lives and done huge economic damage by prolonging and deepening the problem , and is truly shameful. You do not have to be super intelligent, (though for all I know Caprise may be highly intelligent,) to see that physical barriers are going to reduce the transmission of particles by air, that has nothing to do with medicine, it just basic Newtonian physics.

I was pretty bummed out Sunday.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Hope you soon get better, still plenty of summer left. I love the angels fishing rod hanging by the seat, clever planting that.

US Has an Anti-Science Bias Problem: [sciencealert.com]

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

Religion has to take some of he blame, and the US has a lot of religion. A lot of people think that the conflict between religion and science, is due to factual issues like evolution ver. creationism, but in fact it is more fundamental than that. Religion competes with politics , philosophy, science, and every other thought and social system for peoples attention and its share of the dollars in their pockets. It therefore does not want people turning to other places for solutions to their problems, answers to questions etc., especially places like science which unlike politics it can not 'so easily' corrupt and control.

4 photos of Schnebly Redland’s Winery south of Miami.

Fernapple comments on Jul 15, 2020:

I love the lush plantings, but I think that the clear water in the pond may be the result of a lot of hard work and artifice, and therefore not quite natural.

Have you lost a friend over wearing a mask?

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2020:

Keep speaking up, and setting a good example. People tend to change when they find they are in a tiny minority.

Community Garden Several years ago a couple of us built a large High Tunnel Hoop House ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2020:

Wonderful project. I let part of my plot off for village vegetable growing, and am rewarded with lots of free veg.

racism Trump

Fernapple comments on Jul 14, 2020:

Sadly, and after the rest of you had spent so much time and effort, getting to the point where at least it was not respectable to be seen doing it above ground.