What would you say to a friend that was a flat earthist?

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2020:

"Take me to the edge." "Why, you don't have to see the edge with your own eyes to know the earth is flat ?" "No but you do to push someone off it."

Why are all these believers in god allowed to harass us on this site?

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2020:

I rarely see any. You could try changing your settings, I believe that they tend to target those who list dating, if you switch to, 'for the community' it may help.

@admin.

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2020:

Thanks for the, eyes up, I wondered where the pictures went.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,...

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2020:

Yet all too willing to learn the B.S. of others.

Suggestion for today: Post a favorite family/dad quote here! My dad had many! Of an ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2020:

My grandmother. "Shocking Mrs Bocking." Aways said in response to unlikely gossip.

I Went to a Nude Beach, and It Wasn't Weird | POPSUGAR Love & Sex

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

I love it when people look down on me, especially for my complete lack of taste in fashion.

Heard a new word today, well, new to me anyway, it is ECLECTIC, does any one know anything about it?

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Its an eclectic age all right, you are not stuck with facebook, you can come on here.

I am sorry to say that the 'Like' menu seems to have stopped working.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Seems to be fixed now.

This morning every time I click on "reply" even if the comment is aimed at me, I can't leave a ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Don't worry it is happening to everybody, Admin is aware.

[zerohedge.com] FUNNY...

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

But how do they know that it was organized subversion, and not just an honest result to the poll. LOL

I am sorry to say that the 'Like' menu seems to have stopped working.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Can't reply now, but have messaged Admin.

Dirty doings by British in Malaga, Spain. [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Would give you a like, (sad face), but the like menu appears not to be working.

Why Is It Difficult to Get Christians to Care About the Earth? | Sojourners

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

It is no accident that the Abrahamic religions all began in a region of the Middle East, where nature was at its most bleak and hostile, and therefore only human culture was seen as benign. Making human culture, which in those days and places meant, paternal authoritarian culture, all powerful. The other reason why religious people do not care about the environment, is simply because, they don't care, full stop. Religion is essentially a selfish pursuit, 'my' relationship with god, 'my' church, 'my' salvation, 'my' immortality and 'my' spiritual life, it therefore only attracts selfish and shallow people, there may be exceptions but not generally.

Welcome to the snowpocalypse 2020. Ok so maybe it was a light dusting.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Don't count your chickens, there's plenty of time for a big blizzard yet.

This weekend, my pretties! Should make a nice little grouping, don't you think?

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Time for seeds certainly.

Rainy, muddy day in AL.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2020:

AL ?

This is from a front yard down the road from me.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Some one with an eye for design certainly , have doubts about the taste though.

Should we be wary? @Allamanda please start the ball rolling. 🤔 [answers.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Pretty but dangerous and supple. That's about right. LOL She is not the only one who chose a botanical as a pen name.

Is Time Travel Impossible? [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2020:

We are all traveling through time , if time exists, it is just that we are only traveling in one direction. Traveling faster and slower is easy, you just change the speed at which you travel through space. Traveling backwards however may be very hard.

hi everyone, I’ve stepped down as Originator and handed the group over to @JackPedigo .

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Sad to see you backing down, but good luck.

This is what I'm talkin' about! Mid February, and the plants were all budding out like April, yet ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2020:

Sounds just like the UK.

Has a fellow member on this site been an encouragement to you lately?

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Always liked your posts and comments, any support that can be given would be a small price to pay.

historically I have been a rather active member on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Best of luck.

Have you ever thought of religion and communism as not being that different?

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Political ideologies and religions may share many things in common, but that does not make them the same things. A car has an engine and wheels, so does a plane, but that does not make a car a plane, because to be a plane it also needs wings. A political ideology is not a religion, because to be a religion you also need to have a belief in supernatural authority behind the ideas.

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his...

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I do hope he was right.

How good is your government's environmental protection laws and the agencies that enforce the ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2020:

But surely if you want to be saved, then why would you think that it is a good way to gain Gods favour, to treat Gods creation with contempt ? That seems like a basically illogical idea to me. Ah, but then, they don't have anything to do with logic do they.

Anyone know how to get spell check to work on this site. I am such a terrable speller.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

It only works on computers running Windows, will not work on mobile devices. And even then it only works on main posts and replies. The best thing is to do as 1of5 says below.

For all you ladies that meet that guy that can't control his eyes too well.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Hey, there is nothing wrong with him. I could fancy him, and I'm a heterosexual male. (Boy just those feet!)

The only thing worse then men who use money to flirt are the women who go for men who use money to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Hay I tried the flirting with money thing, but it never worked for me! Can anyone tell me please, do you have to invest more than £5 ( 6 dollars ) ?

I have been a member on this site now for nearly two years and I have come to an interesting ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Move on, some people are not worth wasting good emotion on. They are usually the same people who want to argue forever about the definition of words, as though word were fixed things with meanings that contain truths in themselves, instead of flexible things with usages which morph all the time, and are only misleading lables used in vague and poor attempts to express aproximations to truth. Some of the self identified agnostics are in any case, borderline religious appologists, attempting to hide their true colours.

[youtube.com] IF YOU ONLY HAD A DOG - Parody

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Cat.

I've been thinking about the higher age group of this site and I think I got it figured out a bit.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

That is I am sure quite true, but it could also be that it is only us old ####s who have time to waste, while young people are looking for faster shallower things.

Just want to let you know that we're tweaking the design of several pages but may be returning ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Agree with everything everyone says about the negative emolis. But also the colour difference between the read and unread items on the alerts list is just too slight now, I always like to go to the bottom of the unread alerts and work upwards, but it is now really hard to see where they start.

ADMIN! I am liking a lot of the changes made, but we need and angry emoji & an eye-rolling one too!...

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

The emoji icons for entering in the text, from the FAQ page seem to have gone too, the codes are still there but not the pictures.

ADMIN! I am liking a lot of the changes made, but we need and angry emoji & an eye-rolling one too!...

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Yep must have the angry back, if someone posts a news story about someone else doing something really evil and nasty, how are you supposed to 'Like' it. I have always said we need a 'thank you' as well, but am not too bothered about that compared with loosing angry.

I think you guys have the wrong idea about what you call "Hinduism"

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

That is certainly true, but the fact that a thing is much more beside, does not prevent it also being a religion. Else when I asked my friend if he had a religion, why did he reply Hindu ?

Loving the new look. 😃💕🇨🇦

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

The colour is better, but we have lost some icons off the like menu, and the notification bell does not give numbers anymore.

@admin How come the new home page does not tell me how many notifications I have?

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Yes that is a real loss.

I think you guys have the wrong idea about what you call "Hinduism"

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Useful and informative.

Homepage just changed; must learn it again.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

There seem to be less icons on the like menu, again.

Mark Zuckerberg again calls for Big Tech to be regulated, even if it’s bad for business ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Yes but what government or governments working together, are powerful enough or quick enough of response to regulate big tech. Does he not know this and therefore think that he can say anything he likes, because it will never happen anyway, but it makes him look good.

In making this post, I am not being highly critical, but merely making an observation.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Yes, I usually advise people who are new to the site to check out the groups, for that reason. But sadly, even I, often end up browsing the main forum, simply because, the site is not quite big enough ( hopefully yet ) to support a lot of the specialist groups at a good and highly active level. So, off I go again trawling the main forum, through the same old religious and political posts in, often vain, search of something different this time. BUT having said that.. A lot of the people who come newly to this site are looking for help, or to vent, and have just started on their journey into the secular world. It is wrong not to offer a helping hand, to those behind you when asked. And secondly, religion does a lot of harm in the world, it is therefore a moral duty, like it or not, for those who have escaped it and believe in a humanist morality, it to at least lend some support and effort to opposing it.

Malls: Never mind the Internet. Here's what's killing malls - The Economic Times

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Yes, and its not just the Malls or in the US, here in the UK the same factors are eating away at the high streets too.

I still love people’s reactions when they find out I’m an atheist.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

I went bald many years ago, so the two little horns are quite visible, which means that I don't have that problem.

“I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, but I can’t say the same thing about ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

I don't think she met a lot of animals, or was she making the common confusion of animal with mammal.

When I was younger I thought Madalyn Murray O Hair was the meanest and most evil person in America ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2020:

A link would be nice.

I found this man who claimed to have a 20 year old McDonald's hamburger still in good condition.

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

There is nothing good about the condition of a McDonald's hamburger, even after twenty seconds.

I watched click recently and sat watching the UK head of You tube defending the poor reproducibility...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Yes I saw that too. You Tube is like everything else you have to use your judgment.

I am curious: How many actually know the difference between: SOCIALISM versus COMMUNISM versus...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

At the most basic level, yes, I think that I do know the difference. However at a deeper level, I am not sure that anyone does, since there are no hard boundaries between them, there are large overlaps, and different people define them differently, often using very subjective judgments and values to reach their definitions. Even in the most extreme cases, there are no hard edges. For example; many would say that, Stalinist Russia was as Communist as you can get, yet they pursued some very racist policies, usually regarded as a feature of Fascism. While many Fascist governments, even Nazi Germany for example, believed in creating full employment by government spending, fairly socialist. While the leader A. H. was a former speaker for the Communist party. Viewed from a distance the extreme political wings often look very different, but when you start looking close they often start to look very alike. Someone once said that the political spectrum is not a line, but a circle. The one defining feature however that all the 'isms' have in common, except perhaps for democratic-socialism, is that they are all, in one way or another anti democratic.

Is there a place where nobody believes in any gods

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Yes lots, a least if you don't bother with tiny marginalized minorities. Most Buddhist and former Buddhist countries, many pre-industrial Animist cultures, China, Japan, the Czech Republic, and large parts of northern Europe where nones are fast becoming majorities.

Too funny.

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

If they get it out of those little tins, they should be.

American Exceptionalism A Double Edged Sword By Seymour Martin Lipset

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Like your post, but the link does not work.

I find the Antikythera Mechanism fascinating, and here is a new talk on the subject. [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Wonderful talk, thank you for posting it. Its a cold wet day here and that was a good hour to start the day.

I've just made a comment in a post to say that jelly-fish stings are alkaline.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2020:

But don't try it on bee stings, they are acid, so you need an alkaline for them. Bicarb is recommended. But the truth is, not much really works for bee stings, in part because they are one of the most complex chemical weapons know, including over fifty different active components. Some of which attack the heart, some the nervous system, some cause local cell death, some are pycho-active agents, while some help spread the others and some have unknown actions.

Evolution is just a Theory? CORRECT.

Fernapple comments on Feb 15, 2020:

I think that you may be preaching to the converted a bit here.

Clean Up On Aisle 6!

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2020:

My first job was working as a weed digger in the Manor House garden, plus helping the shepherd when he was busy. It was about as humble a job as you can get, but in a tiny village there is not much choice. But I loved being out in the gardens, and having my own money in my pocket at the weekend.

Humans are still evolving: 3 examples of recent adaptations

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2020:

This seem to be a very doubtful report. The first example is certainly not an example of evolution, and last is probably not.

French President Macron Defends Young Critic Of Islam: Blasphemy ‘Is No Crime’ | Michael Stone

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2020:

Good, well done him.

Agree or disagree, this makes for a fun read! [bigthink.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2020:

Yes but do smart happy people become none believers, or do none believers become smart happy people ? That is the question.

[msn.com] Huge rise in UK unemployment figures

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2020:

Its moved on. Is now a link to a royal gossip post.

I wonder why there are so many multiple posts? hasn't happened to me in the 100s i've posted.

Fernapple comments on Feb 14, 2020:

I don't know, it seems to happen to some people a lot, but it hardly ever happen to me except once or twice, and unfortunately I was not quick enough to work out what I had done differently. Perhaps you just hold down the submit button longer than you should. If people do come up with any ideas that seem possible, about why it happens, why not go to the community forum and try them out with test posts.

"America is a land of unmatched vitality and vulgarity, a people who care not at all about values ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Some would say that nothing much has changed then. But of course I know now, ( having been on this site if nothing else for a while, ) that you are all well educated and tolerant of every form of diversity now.

The worst scam profile I've seen in a while. Check it out, and have some giggles! @Gina666

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Says not available. Yep 'it ' messaged me, but that has gone now too.

The 1st step on the stairway to heaven every morning.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

If this is dried preacher dung, I don't want anything to do with it.

Im looking for a character I can inhabit

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

If you are looking for a really evil villain, you can borrow mine for a while.

Speech to text technology will change the way people talk.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

It may only be a short term glitch, Al will get better.

🎉🎆🎉🎆Happy Darwin Day!!!🎆🎉🎆🎉 If you would like to, please share your ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

It may be obvious but of course. “ Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

We die. Why do all religions give an out?

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

No they do not all pretend to give an out, most religions never really bothered, and a few like some Buddhist sects actually promote accepting true death. In fact, the giving of personal immortality, is mainly just a recent development of the Abrahamic religions, who are of course the ones who do their best to talk up a fear of death in the first place.

Watched an interview with anchor Carlson(fox news) and BILL NYE ; and my stomach lurched at the ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Sorry I can not understand the post. I think that it needs more work.

I have no idea what happens when i die.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

If the planet is unlucky, your relatives get their hands on you and waste a lot of fossil fuel burning you. If things work out really well, you die alone in the woods, and lots of good creatures get a feast.

Hi,, is this site, working for anybody?

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Trying to get it to work, is where the fun is found.

FSM New here. Hello fellow non-believers

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

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

Religion has always been used as a tool to control the population.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Because it saves the effort of having to think things though for yourself. Laziness is the second greatest force in human life and history after boredom.

BRAVO! This Black History Month display is going viral for all the right reasons.

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Because it is interesting.

Being intelligent , unfortunately , does not mean a person is moral .

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

No being intelligent does not make you moral. But it does make it easier to be moral, because it makes it easier to understand what is moral and what is not. It also makes you more self reliant, which makes it harder for those who promote the opposite, immorality, to sell you their product.

I worry sometimes about Yellowstone [youtu.be] [youtu.be] [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Feb 13, 2020:

The first video at least contains several factual inaccuracies. It is confusing individuals with species, when it quotes 85% killed.

The Veterans Administration has put in place a program to provide us vets with service dog ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2020:

Great post thank you that made me laugh. I love honey badgers, just their attitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3WjnLn9p3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36UNSoJenI

"The Bathroom Door"

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2020:

Felix domesticus ?

[independent.co.uk] That's me in the corner,losing my religion, and getting wealthier

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2020:

I suspect that there may be a little extra complexity, in that some religions may be more damaging to economic progress than others, and of course the two may go hand in hand in a feedback loop as well, the study does not preclude that.

Shakespeare was being sexist. It should have been "Juliet and Romeo"! ;)

Fernapple comments on Feb 12, 2020:

If you think that is sexist, try Taming Of The Shrew. LOL

“But the secret of intellectual excellence is the spirit of criticism; it is intellectual ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Sometimes called, the banality of dictatorship, I have heard.

Is TV getting preachy again.

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Totally off all tv drama these days.

Blocking Atheists from Giving Invocations Will Cost Brevard County (FL) $490,000 | Hemant Mehta | ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Interesting post. But why does it appear five times on the front page of Agnostic.com ?

I am almost to Level 7. Should I break out the champagne and cupcakes?

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Here have a few points. And welcome to the sad persons who spend too much time on line club.

Bill Gates orders £500m hydrogen-powered superyacht [theguardian.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

So, according to the shipbuilder, it was not ordered by Gates, it has diesel 'backup' and of course if you wanted to cut back carbon, then you have to question how much is emitted in building it. Did not think Bill was that dumb. And since it has a vast area of deck, why are those not solar panels to make hydrogen from sea water ?

Is anyone else having trouble seeing the "likes" on posts right now?

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Nice cat. Thank you.

You and I sitting together, I pick up a book and look inside.

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Good. Don't shoot people who are not like you, but do wear a bullet proof vest, because that may not stop them shooting you.

According to the Gospel, Jesus Christ once said: "Love your enemies like you would love yourself" or...

Fernapple comments on Feb 11, 2020:

It can be seen as a metaphor for, put hate behind you, because hate, especially frustrated hate, will do more harm to you than it does to your enemies. However it could also be an invention by later authors, who wanted to put deliberately enigmatic words in their hero's mouth, because that is a common trick used in fiction to make people seem wiser, if they say things that are impossible for others to understand, because of course they are impossible.

Skeptic that I am I can't help but wonder who the heck runs and funds this site and why?

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

It would be nice if those who fund and operate this site were openly available. But you have to remember that, we live in a world where, reveling openly that you are the funding or inspiration behind a site like this, would make you a target for half the nut-jobs on the planet.

Catholic Priest Says 'Pedophilia Doesn't Kill Anyone' After Barring Pro-Abortion Lawmakers From ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

"Well, pedophilia doesn't kill anyone, and this does." Well what planet is he living on. Has he never heard of hemorrhage caused by under age sex, hemorrhage caused by under age pregnancy, sexual murders, STD's or post traumatic suicide. It is all about the biggest of all problems again, pseudo-education getting in the way of the real type. If you send all your life in the study of theology, the you will end with no time for real education, of the sort which leads to the understanding of the world or the fellow creatures you share it with.

Dating scammers on Agnostic.com?

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Yep, if you are not even good for the price of the bus fare, they know they are wasting time on you. LOL

It seems to me we may be invaded by shills and trolls paid by Trump supporters to steer voters.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Half of me says. Bring em on. I think it is good if the site is diverse, if I like your opinions you will get lots of likes, and if I don't, then I will enjoy the debate. But the other half of me thinks that it is sad, that an international site, which supposed to be a meeting place for sceptics, where they can get together and explore the widest range of interests, with like minded people, is so often dominated by the one subject of US politics. Though I have little problem with that as long as there is plenty of other stuff as well.

You can go back in time to grab any person and nominate them for president.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Henry David Thoreau, the best qualification for any job is having a proper sense of its worth.

When I post something it never comes up on my own profile page.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Also make sure that the settings under posts is set to newest, not anything else. Its a little arrow with several tapering bars next to it just above the list.

When I post something it never comes up on my own profile page.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Are you looking under comments not posts ?

We should all do this just to mess with everybody... 😂[curious.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

I think its 9876543211. because the moves cancel one another out.

Not having been on a real date in a very long time, I was thinking of inviting someone.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

The best thing that can happen is that you get twelve pairs of gloves. Propose to half a dozen men and get a lifetimes supply, and if they say yes, you can always use the womans privilege and change your mind.

Christian pricks in Gloucestershire.

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

In some ways sad, yet they are lucky they don't live in parts of Africa, where persecution still means killings.

Can I tell you a short story?

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Ah! plainly the Viennese Waltz. I had a book on ballroom dancing once, but could never get the hang of it either.

Has the world become even more insane of late or is it that we just hear more of the insane people ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

There always have been a lot of them about, but we do hear more about them because of social media. The real question is perhaps. As social media grows in power and influence, will it tend to spread mainstream culture outwards to make a homogeneous culture, with hopefully a reasonable centralist view as almost universally accepted ? (Some sad lose of diversity perhaps, but a better life for many who were in minorities.) Or will it drive people to increasingly retreat into their own corners and echo chambers, where the insane will get less help and more reinforcement of their insanity ?