Opinions please why besides self comfort do you think people believe that praying does anything?

Fernapple comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Why not, if you believe that you have invisible friends in the sky, then believing that they will listen to you is a trivial step. And if they do not listen to you then what use are they.

This is significant! 30 Years of Research Shows Sauna Bathing is Game-Changer for Longevity and ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 30, 2019:

Sounds from what they say that a hot bath would have very much the same effect.

"Sometimes, you're just fucking wrong"

Fernapple comments on Sep 30, 2019:

We should always respect everyone and their right to hold whatever opinion they have, in part because the world is such a complex place that we are all wrong about everything to some degree all of the time. How many beans in a sack, guess ? One person says five hundred, one says five thousand and one says fifty thousand. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong, and given the difficulty, they most probably are all wrong to some degree. But that does NOT mean three things. First, that there is not a correct number, (the fact that we can not have perfect objective truth does not mean that it does not exist). Second, that some are not closer than others. And third, that we can not all of us, with more time thought and effort, get closer to the correct number of beans or any truth for that matter. And that is the big thing, the respect due to any person should not be based on the opinion they hold, but on the effort they are making to improve it, and the effort they made to get there. And if they are making no effort then no respect is really due. Hope you will make the effort with this long reply. LOL

This breaks my heart and makes me wonder about people.

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

If you have no arguments, you can only use insults.

Bishop: Girls Should Skip College So They’re Not Smarter Than Their Husbands | Sarahbeth Caplin |...

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Male here sorry. Thinks bishops don't know they are talking ####, because the uniform is far too overly respected, and therefore nobody ever points out to them that they are talking stupid. So they get away with it their whole lives, and start thinking they are normal.

Irony is not lost

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

The trouble is that if he is impeached, don't you loose the chance to vote him out of office ?

Hello all! New here and looking to make some friends and maybe find someone to date!

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site there is a lot here. especially check out the groups, there is something for everyone. And you never know you may find someone to date here. ( If you are lucky you may even find someone who does not pick their nose with their big toe.)

SHOULD AGNOSTICISM & ATHEISM BECOME RELIGIONS?

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

"No religion." Works well, does not force people into corners and keeps us together.

Who's old enough to remember this?

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Yes I remember. And we had inkwells on the desks made to take dip pens, (though nobody had one, not that old,) and the teachers used chalk on a black board. We had free school meals and a massive outbreak of food poisoning. You were told to bring woolly gloves to school because the heating was not good, and you would not be able to write if your hands were cold. And for some reason the uniform code extended to the colour of your underwear, which they did check.

[seekingalpha.

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Interesting way of saying which are the countries where the most really wealthy people live, in theory at least. Because of course for large numbers of the wealthy, where they 'live' for tax purposes especially, can be quite different from where they dwell. Which does not of course help the trickle down theory, since people tend to spend where they dwell, not where their citizenship dwells.

I cannot get over the circular reasoning of the good book being good because it says it is.

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

Yes it is circular reasoning, and if you push any theist hard and far enough, you will almost invariably come down to two bits of nonsense. Either. The bible is right because the bible says it is. Or. You have to take it on faith and faith is good because the bible says it is good, and I have faith in the bible. Don't however think that you can win by reasoning, remember the old saying. "You can't reason someone out of something they did not use reason to get into."

Well, there are the Quick and the Dead...

Fernapple comments on Sep 29, 2019:

I get the feeling that we are not very tech sharpe here. Hint. Perhaps a lot of people don't remember what 5G is. LOL

In the past I have often hypothesized that religion, with its emphasis on unquestioned belief and ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Yes perhaps, the fact is that you can not choose what you believe. You either do or you don't. But you can perhaps choose to be deliberately gullible. Suppose that a second hand car salesman said to you. "We only deliver the cars after you are dead, you have to wait till then to get your hands on it, but they must be good ones, because no owner ever complained."

The ocean this morning.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

If you drive. Keep pressing your brakes, especially after you leave the water, to keep them dry, otherwise they may let you down when you need them most.

Well, there are the Quick and the Dead...

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Yes but you may not have to use it, just walk past.

Bad things will find you, if you are not looking for good things!

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Very true if you do not go out seeking truth earnestly, with an open and sceptical mind, then religion for example waits lurking round every corner to grab you.

Oh my! Bacteria are likely hiding in your household washing machine [cnn.com]

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

In the UK you can get disinfectant specially for the job, don't know but I would think you can in the US too.

Photos of pollution before we regulated it, our future if we don't act

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

I am told that a lot of China looks like that today.

I turned 56 a couple of days ago.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Check out the comments on this post if you have not already, you may find them fun. https://agnostic.com/post/407326/ive-just-begun-my-59th-year-woohoo-does-life-get-better-as-you-get-older-wisdom-comes-with-exper?aid=2013684

Old Irish saying, "You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind"

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Good saying. And a nice photo, do you know where it was taken it looks like somewhere where they have invasive eucaliptus trees ?

If you have 12 minutes and 42 seconds to spare, don't go dizzy easily, this might be worth watching:...

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Lovely, it is a long time since I saw graphics based on the Mandelbrot set, reminds me of younger days. Great music too.

I asked my sister how her Philosophy class in college is going when she visited today.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

P. S. How can a believer teach a philosophy class ? Either you adopt philosophy or theology, nothing in between. Yes I know that historically the christian church especially, tried to make a compromise with certain schools of philosophy, to broaden its reach, but the end result of that, was only to discredit those schools and create science as an alternative philosophy untainted by that unhappy marriage.

"The church is like a swimming pool.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Good one. Though I think that is probably a wider rule which applies to many things. Most of the silence is at the deep end also applies.

I turned 56 a couple of days ago.

Fernapple comments on Sep 28, 2019:

Looking good.

My thoughts and beliefs regarding our planet is to cause as little disruption as I can.

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Actually forgive my last flip comment I just could not resist. I respect deeply your effort to tread lightly on the planet. I do the same and find that it is hard, there being just a few things that I can not live without, this computer for one. But I do try to keep it until it is old, and all of those things. Yet since I live alone without family, (At least I did not do the worst possible thing and have children. ) it is a choice between a computer and a little travel, or death, which is perhaps the best thing for the planet, but I am not quite ready for that yet, getting there though.

My thoughts and beliefs regarding our planet is to cause as little disruption as I can.

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Bidet.

I asked my sister how her Philosophy class in college is going when she visited today.

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Very short paper. "No good evidence." End paper.

499 countdown.... teeshirt time! I want one in black... as dark as my cold cold heart. :D

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

I went for the purple, so that I can still wear it if (when) they make me emperor.

I've just begun my 59th year! Woohoo! Does life get better as you get older?

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Depends where you start from, if your childhood was truly evil then life can't do anything but get better. Happy Birthday.

IF GOD EXISTS, DO YOU THINK HE, SHE, IT GIVES A FLYING FIG WHAT YOU THINK?

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

I don't give a flying fig myself. Come on Remiforce most of your posts are interesting, but wait till the barrel fills up a bit before you dip in, don't scrape the bottom.

Can never get enough of these delicate little beauties...

Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2019:

Good choice of background, the white on white works really well.

What's Your Biggest Regret?

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Nothing the pain makes you.

Assuming you'll have a "normal" lifespan, what's the one event or development (real or imagined) ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Don't know if yours is even possible, so I would go for something more modest. I would like to know if there is another living ecosystem, in the solar system. Yet now I think that space exploration will not prove that one way or another in the next twenty year or so that I may have if I am lucky.

Sad but true

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

For a second I thought that this was a news story.

My daughter and I after an 18 mile bike ride.

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

You both still look very fresh.

I had a hard time choosing the last word because there are so many that would fit ie, brain, heart, ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Waistline, real hair. Yes I know its about personal physical traits, but he started us down that line.

Back in Yuma, after a long day of travel. Got Miss Lisa (@Sassygirl3869) here, too.

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Nice to know that some people on this site do manage to get together in person, that must be fun.

How do you get over the anger you feel at religion when you’re a new atheist?

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Take a holiday somewhere secular. UK is nice.

Very interesting

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

May help in the short term, but in the end the plastics will still degrade and end up as micro pollutants, I would have thought.

What happened?

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

Several people on here mentioned it, that's what makes this a good community, not much about Easter etc. but alway a reminder about the equinox.

This village sucks! Just found out that the grocery store will be closing.

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

That tends to be village life. None of the advantages of life in the town, none of the advantages of life in the country, but most of the downsides of both. You remember Aesop wrote the "Town mouse and the Country Mouse" all those years ago, back in the days of the Roman Empire, but he never bothered to include the village mouse.

I love all of you

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

I agree we all see the same world just through different filters, but "we're all the same singular consciousness" is a bit too woo for me. However since you are not pedaling religious dogma, I will love you back. Best wishes.

So, a question for both our gardeners group and our food-glorious-food group: GARLIC! WE use the ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

My father used to grow garlic, and did not find it hard. The great thing about it is that if you have enough of your own grown, and therefore cheap, you can use it as a spay to keep insects and other pests of the other vegetables. It save the cost of shop bought sprays, and of course is good if you are organic.

Pretty relevant one, nowadays

Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2019:

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” Alexander Pope.

I am part of a team working on developing a program to reclaim, reuse and recycle Lithium Ion ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Not involved myself, but the greatest honour to anyone involved in recycling, keep it up, and I hope it proves profitable.

[atheistrepublic.

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Yes skeptic is not a faith, but it can be a community.

Some theist clowns on Facebook were posting their usual religious bull shit, so I created this .

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Cute hog. Be glad to use it, could you mail about 3 pounds to me, preferably smoked and salted.

All hypocrites they are.

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Sorry but small mistake, the Bible actually encourages drinking. I only mention it however because it reminds me of a funny example of how, when you start using faith rather than reason as your main source you can end up believing anything. I once heard someone ask a christian tea totaler, who gave her faith as the reason for not drinking. "But did not Jesus drink and turn water into wine for a marriage feast." The reply. "No he did not, that was not wine, it was just grape juice."

My new mantra - chuck it in the fuck it bucket

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

Interesting, years ago we had in this country (UK) a very similar phrase. "Bucket and chuck it." Which we used for the most basic form of toilet system.

It has been raining here IN AZ today pretty much constantly since a thunderstorm began at 4 AM.

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

We don't get a lot in this part of the UK, but the small ones we call midges, have been bad this year.

Hello! I need some help, pretty please! My new house closes escrow this Friday, and I am eager to ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2019:

The combination of spring bulbs and ferns works well in woodland. They will together give you nearly year round interest, since the ferns will follow the bulbs, and there are many of both that you can collect. The ferns at least are not the favourite with deer, though they will eat a lot of bulbs, but the chemical scent deer away sprays work well. Think also about a near invisible electric fence, though you need to move it about now and again for the best effect, otherwise they get used to it and learn to jump it sometimes. Azaleas also go well.

What is your opinion?

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

If it is intelligent then it is as good as a god, if not intelligent then no. But you have also to answer this question. Since more complex things generally come from less complex things, then how did a complex thing like an intelligent god come about with nothing to evolve from or to design it.

There are few shameless hypocrisies as when certain religions (I'll pick on christians here as I ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

I think it was R Dawkins who said. "We are all atheists about 99.9999 % of all the gods that were ever believed in. Atheist just go one god more."

There are so many religions out there.

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

Already there. And there are more like us every day.

DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD TURN TO THE COMFORT OF THE CONCEPT OF GOD WHEN YOU'RE DYING?

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

What is even worse is that the final comfort we give to many animals, is often denied to humans because of the historical legacy of theism.

I'm glad I'm not one of those stupid people...

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

I'm glad I'm not one of those stupid people...

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

Most people have more than the average number of legs. (Think about it.)

I threw an end of summer Tiki Bar party at my house last night.

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

Great Idea.

Since "God" is a product of the imagination, the slogan, "In God We Trust", says, "We Trust Our ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

Sadly perhaps not, god is the product of the imaginations of mainly criminal people who wish to use others, so in god we trust, could mean, "In criminals we trust."

Old saying, "When you assume, you make an ASS of U and ME"

Fernapple comments on Sep 24, 2019:

A consequence of urban life and the breakdown of real community, is that we all have to meet more and more people who we know nothing of, that of course means that lazy people make more and more assumptions to save effort. a lot of modern moral thinking is about trying to find ways to persuade people not to make assumptions.

Wow.

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

Welcome and enjoy.

So many people today label themselves as Atheists.

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

It does not matter what you call yourself , as long as you are clear when asked about your position. I usually call myself an agnostic atheist, as I think would most people here, at least those who are well informed. But I am happy to regard anyone in the skeptical spectrum as a fellow, be they, agnostic atheist, atheist, agnostic, gnostic atheist, agnostic, skeptic, humanist and even deist. Because wherever you stand on that issue, remember, that gods only affect lives if you believe that you have messages from them. The big difference is not between skeptics but with those who think that a god/gods gives the directions, a silent god is harmless, and pointless just as much as a none existent god. Therefore I am also happy to be called a 'board church skeptic'. P.S. Beware a little trick that theists sometimes play, where they define god in terms so vague that no one could deny, disprove or object to it. And then when they have got you to agree that that definition is acceptable, even to you, they suddenly start talking about their own personal sky daddy, with no mention of the massive leap they just made.

So recently, a while after losing my faith, i finally realized i didn’t know anything about the ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

Yep, there is always someone here, it just takes a while for your post to come up. Look at the map under the members button you will see that you are not alone.

How many hobbies is too many?

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

No travel in mind as well as space, the butterfly may not achieve so much as the ant or own a fine high nest, but it sees a thousand times more, and does no harm.

Thiest think that religion is above being mocked, it’s definitely not.

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

No, its very strange that, you can mock someones politics, taste in music or films, but you must not touch their fairy-tales.

Made this for my son.

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

And. Travel in space and thought.

So it’s been maybe over a year since I was on this site. I hope everyone has been doing well.

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

Fine thanks, there must be a lot of new members like me who joined since you left, so lots of new people to meet. Explore and enjoy.

If you could quit your job and do whatever you wanted, what would you do?

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

I am already doing it, but I would travel more, travel a lot more. Travel writer perhaps.

Research Has Found That People Who Talk To Pets Are Smarter Than Those Who Don’t

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

If you like talking to dogs especially, you will love this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omaHv5sxiFI

Research Has Found That People Who Talk To Pets Are Smarter Than Those Who Don’t

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

Depends how you measure intelligence, there are many skills and traits of personality which go to make up real working intelligence that is useful in the day to day world, not just problem solving, and verbal skills, but things like honesty and demanding high standards.

To all you who do NOT buy in to the Flat earth thing...but are aware of what an "equinox" is...

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

Two equinox each year, two solstice, thirteen full moons the migration of dozens of animals. You would think that there were enough things to build secular festivals around, that we would not need the church for holidays and parties.

Woke up to find that my 2 daughter had tagged me when she shared this on FB.

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

I guess she is a very lucky girl.

Nothing wrong with being a badass!

Fernapple comments on Sep 23, 2019:

Soon be at level 63 since it is not long until my level upgrade day, just need to earn a few more day survival points. And when you reach sixty six in the UK you get a financial prize that pays for extra beer.

why-no-contact-with-aliens

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

Maybe they know what we are really like, and they are not stupid.

Yep. It's pretty easy.

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

Yep, never had a orange one either.

Survival of the Friendliest - Nautilus

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

The slight difference between this and the old, generalists are in less danger than the highly specialized, hardly counts as new.

The Funniest Tweets from Parents This Week

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

"There is truth in wine and children." Plato quoting Socrates.

What is your main method of research that leads you to change beliefs on a topic?

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

All of the above, but especially go for a walk and think about it.

evil spiders

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

Yes, and watch the fun when they scratch like fury.

one more week until we are in the new house.

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

They say that moving house is very stressful, the main thing, is to look after your health while doing it, in other words however frantic things get, make sure you take the time out to eat an d sleep properly, then you should be OK.

Interesting Things That Don't Exist Physically - Language is imaginary.

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

No don't agree, love can not be none existent , because as you say, " produced by the cumulative effects of physical, chemical, and psychological responses in our bodies." And the cumulative effects of physical, chemical, and psychological responses in our bodies, are real, therefore love is real, what you mean is that our mistaken 'idea' of love is not real, but that is quite a different thing. And that does mater because there are quite a lot of things we commonly use which really do not exist except as ideas in that sense, for example, heritage, culture, art, society, religion of course, nation states, family, pain, pleasure, money, value, inches, pints, memberships, etc. yet they all represent something that is real.

Would you be too hot or too cold?

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

Cooler is better for the waistline, warmer for relaxing. But people change, when young I hated it hot, but now as everything slows down with age, I like to toast myself.

Louie, my charge for the weekend.

Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2019:

I hope he takes you somewhere nice and gives you lots of healthy exercise.

Wheelin' it in the MC - Part 1 - Street Photography 9 is in the suburb of Royal Oak

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Love the second one, that is a very cool lady.

We know less than we think we know.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Interesting but a bit short. Still if not much known what can you say.

Need a little help.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Verbascum AKA Mullin and also known as Arons Rod, for the religious, nice plant but usually dies after flowering.

I must get something off my chest: when I post and express a closely held opinion here on ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Look, just see offensive evil creeps like me as a challenge, turn it round on them lead them by the nose to the flaws in their logic. And if they block you for being really nice, count it as scoring a point. But unless they are threatening never block them, don't give the the satisfaction, but even better treat them as a chance to learn about human nature in all its forms, then you will be ready even if you meet one of us jerks out in the big world.

Name something absurd about religion that you can't believe people actually believe it.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

The talking donkey who could see invisible angels.

What are your most interesting travel stories?

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

We had read that the village of Santana on the north coast of Madeira was one of the best places to see the traditional small thatched cottages which were once a major part of the local life. We were quite pleased by the handful of these picturesque structures that are exhibited in the main square for the benefit of the tourists, but I did wonder if any still remained which were as yet in use as they were first intended. So when my friend wandered off into the back streets, I happily followed. Most of the privately owned cottages however seemed to be in a dilapidated state and in use mainly as garden sheds and store rooms, eventually however we came to one which seemed more cared for than most with a neat garden and a sharp painted finish. We had paused only for a second to take a photograph, when a elderly woman came hobbling a speed down the road towards us. When she caught up to us, which she did quite easily after moving very rapidly for someone so mature. We tried to apologize for making the photographic intrusion without permission, but the lady would hear none of it, and insisted that we take more if we wished. Then she beckoned us into the garden with an invitation to please admire her potted plants. We had hardly glanced over the bright flowers in their deep pots, before she immediately asked us inside to show us around her cottage. We entered shyly but were delighted to see such a neat perfectly furnished, if small, two room building, we were then told to sit on the bed even though it was perfectly made with neatly folded sheets which matched the air of careful pride the whole cottage showed. Her family photographs were offered for admiration, then she asked us if we had ever been into a cottage of that sort before, and seizing my camera she immortalized the moment for us by taking our photograph, indeed she seemed very proficient with a camera needing none of the usual brief instructions most people ask for when using someone else's gadget. Finally she told us the long and tragic story of the illnesses which age had visited upon her, and then she held out her hand. I had rather a lot of coins in my pocket, so I dropped about half into her palm, whereupon she twitched her fingers, so I dropped the rest of my coins in just keeping back enough for a parking space if needed. The fingers however twitched again, so I parted with that too. Then satisfied she had all she could get with many smiles and thanks she showed us out of her house. However, we could not help however noticing as we left that the small cottage in fact stood in the garden of a large shiny modern bungalow. And then also there was I remember quite distinctly, the smell; that slight musty smell that you only get in houses when no one has lived there for very a ...

I do not always make the most interesting posts but I have to say this is a great community.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Thanks for the flattery, but we only work for hard cash. So what do you want ?

Saw this on a guy’s shirt at my gym: “Pain is weakness leaving your body”.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Pain could also be your body telling you that you are overdoing the exercise, and starting to cause damage. Remember when the 'burn' was made fashionable by a film star guru of the gym, until the medical establishment shot the idea to blazes.

My BFF’s husband made this garden gathering basket for me.

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

BFF ? 'Brown Fox Friendly.' 'Better if Force Fed.' ?

Environmental Factor - September 2019: Lavender oil linked to early breast growth in girls

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

At the heart of the organic movement is a strange idea, that something produced in a lab and subjected to the most stringent safety tests the law and good practice require, is less likely to be safe. (Nothing can ever be perfectly safe.) Than something produced in nature by a plant, which probably evolved over millions of years of refinement, to kill, maim, harm, hurt and deter animals like us, because we may want to eat the plant otherwise. The 'organic' religion and the whole idea of a 'caring' nature is as stupid as any theist's doctrine.

So-called experts tell us some artists, musicians and other well-known personalities are/were ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

The arts as a whole are just another religion, and like all religions an empty fraud. In some religions you are asked to believe that there is an invisible man in the sky, in the arts you are asked to believe that there is an invisible line which makes one human product an art and another just a craft.

Best Remedy?

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Avoid dairy products, and tomatoes.

Ah-h yes .

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Don't forget the early middle ages, when bits like the story of the woman taken in adultery were added.

Ah-h yes .

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Perhaps the most beloved of all versions, because of course being riddled with contradictions, you can make it say anything you want. And then still claim you have the word of god on your side.

The tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one ...

Fernapple comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Every dollar, every hour sat on a pew, every piece of land with a church built on it......

I have a new grand-niece!! Baby Nora was born yesterday.

Fernapple comments on Sep 20, 2019:

Best wises, grab a kiss while shes all fresh and wrinkly.

How many famous people dead or alive can you name?

Fernapple comments on Sep 20, 2019:

3247 And number 2345 owned a cat with one eye.