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 ?

Name a tv show or movie that was not about religion, but the plot and concepts seem like something ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Nearly all of them really. But to pick one, The Lord Of the Rings. because it believes in destiny.

Hope you are all okay and not too badly affected by the storms over there

Fernapple comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Nothing here but a few trees down. But bad flooding in west Yorkshire northwards about eighty miles away.

An interesting development in computer programming? [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Brilliant post, it had me convinced for quite a while.

What if the money that is spent on religion throughout the world was instead spent on science?

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

A trillion dollars could also be spent on giving everyone on the planet clean water and food. Someone once said, and it may be true, that, if what the US spends on christmas presents alone, was given for just one year, it could create enough infrastructure to solve world hunger forever.

Punctuation is a thing! Just sayin'.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

What the ?!:*#!;

Belief is back: why the world is putting its faith in religion

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

People turn to religion when they are alienated from mainstream society, that has always been the case. And many people feel alienated now, but there are also now increasingly other alternatives. Though of course, the immoral and criminal elements of society will rush to fill the pews, whenever mainstream society advances and improves its moral understanding.

[inverse.com] Voyager 2 is back online!

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Amazing.

From last August.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Not a bad idea to post the before and after Photoshop pictures, so that people can see what you did.

The law is agnostic about truth. Alan Dershowitz

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2020:

We are all agnostic about truth, if we are reasonable, because we all know that final truth is an impossible dream, a perfection unobtainable in messy human life. While those who do believe in absolute truth are tyrants at heart. But that does not absolve us of the duty, which I think the law of most civil lands recognizes, of trying our best to find the best approximation we can to truth.

More ideas on the solstice, the sun, and human needs - [aeon.co]

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2020:

Lovely article. I work outside a lot, and a bit of winter sun is everything. The only thing that worries me is, that life is short and is it really a good thing to be wishing the summer back.

‘When one door closes another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2020:

Someone said the other day. My uncle always used to say that. "When one door closes another opens." And when I was young I used to think that he was very wise. Then I grew up, and found out he was just a very bad cabinet maker.

“To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example?

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2020:

That's just silly, of course dogs are loyal to one another. Any one who has ever had dogs and observed the grief when one dies will know that.

I don't know how many members look for computer software, but for those who do here's a link to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Thank you useful.

The view out my dining room and guest room windows today.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Wow. she is a beauty.

If you could magically lift Trump out of office, who would you put in his place?

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

You of course.

Incredible Moment An Orangutan Extends A Helping Hand To Man In River An incredible photo has ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Not all humans are bad, but an ape has to be careful which one she picks as a friend.

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people”.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Newton had a lot of trouble with people. And certainly was not free of a little madness himself, perhaps in part due to his many experiments with heavy toxic metals when he studied alchemy.

You Can’t Have It Both Ways .

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

No religion is not the source of morality, everything is natural and does come from nature via us. BUT. The important point about religion is that it unbalances any debate over morality or anything else. Because it enables those who accept it to claim an extra, supernatural, authority for their individual views. So that, to use your example. When some men wish to dominate women they can add extra force and power to themselves, by claiming the backing of the supernatural, (a boogeyman called god especially,) who THEY often claim invented or inspired their morally. Though of course they invented it themselves just like everyone else. That is why religion is, and increasingly is, only a source of bad ideas, especially in areas such morality, ( evil ideas if you like, though I do not believe in the idea of evil as such, but it will serve as short hand here ). Because when once people realized, perhaps five or six thousand years ago, that they could do secular philosophy, and debate things like morality publicly and rationally, ( It did not have to wait for science, even though that is wrongly seen as the only natural opponent of religion, it happened long before that.) then we lived in a world where good ideas could be propagated, debated and presented freely to anyone. Which left religion with only the role of promoting bad (evil) ideas, since that was the only trade left in the market place. It did of course inherit and get infected with a few good ideas, which it kept, as long as they were those that could be made to live with the evil ones without conflict, so that it could present them at the front of the shop as a smiling face to sell the product. But the trouble gets worse today, because as science, secular philosophy, and secular democratic government grow, and become more competent at their jobs, then increasingly religion turns to evil. Becoming more and more the place where evil ideas go to fester, escape public scrutiny and propagate themselves among the weak and immoral. It has to do that because that is the only game left in town for religion to turn to.

Franklin Graham dropped by every UK tour venue after anger over homophobic and Islamophobic comments...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

We had a tele-evangelist channel, mostly US, which appeared on our free to view TV listings a couple of years ago. It seems to have disappeared now, I think because it met with a wave of disinterest and indifference. Great. Long live apathy, it has its uses.

Some days it barely seems worth the effort it takes to chew your way through the leather restraints.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Yes that happens to everyone, you should only worry when it seems like that most days. If it is come and talk to people.

A convoluted argument hard to grasp for agnostics, but if it were to succeed...? [sojo.net]

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

There is an obvious illogic in the end times ideology of most fundamentalists, once expressed as. "How can you claim to honour god , and yet despise his creation." If you follow the Abrahamic religious logic, that the children of Adam and Eve were given the task of caring for and tending god's creation. Then it follows that, it is their god given duty to use, even their last breath, in an attempt to protect the very last creature on the planet, even in the final seconds of judgment day as the wall of fire falls upon them. But of course the religious are not interested in logical theology, because the religious mindset is quite different at its very base from the secular. To the secular mind, truth is something, ideally, to be sought no matter how much it may hurt your desired world view. While to the religious, truth is, that which confirms what I want to believe. It is the very opposite way of thinking, and it is the way of thinking fostered by churches, corporations and governments, who want a vast supply, of permanently immature demanding children who can not wait to buy every new product. Which justifies every form of cherry picking, ignoring of what your holy book logically has to say, and living, with like minded others, in an echo chamber world where the center of the universe is "me", and the "me" can have everything the "me " wants, regardless of all reason.

Secular spirituality

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Depends on what you mean by spiritual. It means different things to nearly all the people who use the word. From. " I often talk to ghosts, and they talk back." To. " I sometimes get an overdose of endorphins when I run for too long, and I am too stupid to understand body chemistry. "

Am I practicing bias conformation if I ask, do all the drug addicts you have known try to make up ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Could be the other way round. Being arrogant could make you believe that you can get away with filling your body with toxic chemicals, and come to no harm, it could also make you a anti- education and a racial supremacist. Even long before the brain damage sets in.

I have an atheist YouTube channel, am active on many other websites etc.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Keep it up. Most thinking people will not make simplistic judgments such as. "If you are American you must be ill educated and a bible waving theist." And the ones who do, are the ill educated, who need informing just as much as theists. You are an ambassador for your country, and a good one, even if only on a small stage, and therefore, sorry to say, you do have a personal have a responsibility to keep going.

for those who live in the cold and snowy regions, here is a little glowing gem to bring the glow of ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2020:

Marrow with a fancy name. LOL

Borrowed from Facebook: By Donald Phagan When I worked in the funeral business as a counselor to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2020:

No fear of death only of dying. Do we not have religion to blame, for the fact that doctors can not give the last kindness to humans, which vets give to their patients every day. Not all death is free from suffering, and just think for a second how much unneeded suffering takes place every day, on a global scale, just because of that.

[newsone.

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2020:

Its democracy, it works because people have short memories. In the first year you are nasty, in the second you line your pockets, and in the third you start being nice to everyone. It only has to work with enough floating voters to tip the balance, and you can get away with anything. People just don't pay attention.

Just looked out back bedroom window to this

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2020:

Me too, some good frosts a last.

My friend and user-interface designer who helped with this site has emerged from his hibernation and...

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2020:

If it ain't broke don't fix it, its a great site . But I still don't get alerts from all the groups I belong to. More members would be nice, it is a pity it is not called 'skeptics' or 'Free from religion.' something better known and more all encompassing, 'Agnostic' is very narrow in definition, and for a lot of international members, your English need to be pretty good to even know the word, but I guess it is too late to alter that.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2020:

I hope people will forget me altogether as soon as possible.

Good morning everybody

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

I presume this is a photo of you in your younger days.

SNOW DAY! Here in Oklahoma the snow is flowing with a mix of large wet flakes and ice pellets.

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

Shivers.

I want your opinions in general about Facebook's " Community Standards " I find it to be a crock of ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

A little fascist called Zuk is trying to build an empire, which he hopes will replace the free and open web for his own power and profit alone, with a slow, ugly, lumbering product which only sells because it promotes hatred and laziness in people who can't learn even the most basic computer skills, like how to email, or the most basic social skills like how to talk to people. There are far better social media sites, and if you are here you don't need to look far.

I fail to understand how the (allegedly) Greatest Nation on Earth (i.

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

Alamanda just posted something that answered this far better than anything. https://agnostic.com/post/456720/so-maybe-preaching-to-the-choir-a-little-here-but-maybe-we-should-all-read-it-anyway-your-life-is Corporations and governments have no interest in education because education teaches you not to want, and without wants, you will not buy goods from the corporations or treats and promises from the governments. And without education democracy is useless.

MRI scans delve into dog-like complexity of squid brains [newatlas.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

Interesting article thanks, though a bit short.

I would like to know how many of you would vote against someone soley due to their open religious ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

No I would have to look at the whole package, and what if the other candidate had an even more extreme religious agenda. You can't just make simple assumptions. One of the great weaknesses of so called representational democracy, if such a thing could exist, is that the voter can only vote for what is offered. And so you often get the choice of. "Do you want to be beaten with a stick, or hit with a stone."

“The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

Yep. Though you would think that no one should need that pointing out. But then.....

If Adam and Eve only had two sons, Where did the son that lived wife come from?

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2020:

A lot of people have asked that question. The sceptic answer is. Its just a very silly story that has been mistranslated many times. I have also heard that some of the more rational theists say that. Adam and Eve were not the first people, but just the first ancestors of Abraham ( i.e. the Jews. ), and/or only the first people to be given souls by god.

My oldest (12) grandson mentioned that my potatoes had little things on them.

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2020:

Lovely story.

There may be some truth in this

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2020:

Someone posted the other day. "There are three types of men. Those who learn from reading, those few who learn from observation, and those who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."

I would like to propose that we view religions in a manner that would make them a lesser source of ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2020:

There is a third use for money, which is to use it charitably for the benefit of others or everyone, a thing which the churches are very bad at, despite their claims to the opposite.

Self portrait

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2020:

Good lighting.

“We Grow in the Dark. Much like a baby in the womb or a seed in the earth” Unknown.

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2020:

" I think I must be a mushroom, they keep me in the dark and feed me bullshit." Anon.

I don't know why but certain people just don't take a good picture.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

One good trick for photos of faces is to use a short to moderately long telephoto lens length, standard lenses are not at all flattering to anyone, you end up with a big nose and tiny ears if nothing else.

"To stop well going, is more trouble then to keep going, yet at least both are more valued then to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

Do you mean ? "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." A. Tennyson.

Some thinking on drawing a line between moral decisions and religious decisions.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

This addresses some interesting topics, I think, but if you don't mind me saying so it could do with a little more work. I had to read it three times before I managed to fully get what it was about. And am not sure even now. Please don't post in haste.

The rosetta nebula do you see what I see

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

Looks like Rosetta has been dieting too hard and had a bad nose job.

To my learned net-savvy friends on this site: I would like to build a simple two-page website with a...

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

I can not really help you in the US, but it is certainly perfectly possible. Here in the UK I run two sites and have done two more in the past, I used a private company for hosting, have had wonderful service, get spam filtering, domain hosting for extra domains, a file management program, vast amounts of data storage and transfer, and a stats page, which tells me all about visitors etc. all for £65 ( maybe 75 to 80 dollars ) per year. So it can be done if you just shop around. Will mail you.

Nuclear science reveals sobering truth about faked Scotch whisky [thebulletin.org]

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

Sad. But it says. "the scientists did not take a single sip from any of them during their formal research." So what did they do with the leftovers afterwards ?

Stephen King quits Facebook over concerns of 'false information' [cnn.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2020:

Well done to him.

Anyone else not watching the Superbowl?

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2020:

No not watching it, along with quite a few others I think. This is after all an international site even though there is a US majority.

Don't get on the site as often as I'd like.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2020:

Dan't bunk in ot, there as qite a foo of us morons on eer. What you will however find, is that posts like this, are almost always greeted with a tsunarmi of fake, and real, but mainly fake, modesty.

This year's biggest scare, the Corona Virus, has some mixed reviews.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2020:

No one knows. The butterfly flaps its wings and a minor illness turns into the great plague, another flap and what looked like a great plague just fades away. The world is ruled by chance, much more than anyone likes to think, because we all like to look for patterns, we are pattern seeking animals that is how our brains are hard wired. But most of our observed patterns are just delusions, every bit as much as religion.

People are generally honest and natural instinct prompt them to speak truth.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2020:

I just posted this, which is relevant https://agnostic.com/group/ScienceHealthHistoryBits/post/455494/about-humans-not-just-the-science-but-a-lot-about-thinking-two-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v?aid=2189643 Especially to why it is good to pick your friends carefully.

I can't say I'm very shocked by these comments, but it does make me wonder how these people could ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2020:

No I think that Sam Harris is just a little out. "Every act of violence is the result of a failed conversation" Every act of violence is the result of a failed argument on one side, only those who know they can not win the debate reach for their guns. It only takes a failing in the conversation on one side, and sadly the more they know that they will loose the argument the more they will stockpile guns.

Jaw drop moment. How can they NOT see the irony.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2020:

How can they not see the complete lack of taste ?