"Confronting the question most commonly asked of the growing number of Americans who support ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 10, 2019:

As a none American I can not really comment on these issues about which I have only a limited fringe knowledge. But from the outsiders view. Is it not also true, that if you make a huge profit making industry out of medicine, with only a finite number of customers. Will they not then try to sell you far more medicine than you need, even to the point where it is worse for you than your illness ?

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2019:

People once worshiped a mother goddess because they had not worked out how you got pregnant; then the great father when they had. That was back in the late Stone Age early Bronze Age, and the gaps have been getting smaller ever since, perhaps shrinking is the deities best trick.

On the way to the barn dance.

Fernapple comments on Jun 9, 2019:

Beautiful country. I love those little corners of ordinary lonely roads, where among the brush you may find a small bird or wildflower which no eyes but yours may ever see, and no other mind appreciate had you not come by.

This is chilling.

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2019:

And no one ever got rich or powerful by telling people. You are doing fine and don't need anything now.

And be kind while you're at it.

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2019:

OK quote of the month.

It pains me to block ladies. Women need to support each other.

Fernapple comments on Jun 8, 2019:

If I was you I certainly would not loose any sleep over it. If I guess correctly who it is, she does that to everyone. As to editing, I always edit, edit and edit again, it does not make me a good writer, but it is just the way of writing which seems to come naturally to me, never thought of doing it any other way.

Here is my lovely hometown... bergamo arttown

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2019:

Beautiful. what more can be said.

The oleanders are a bit thin because of the lack of water this winter and spring.

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2019:

They still look very good to me, I wish we could grow them here, they always remind me of the Med.

Soloists, choir, orchestra of the Volksoper Wien offered a special performance to passengers and ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2019:

Not like the buskers round here, sad.

Really useful on soil restoration - [ecofarmingdaily.com]

Fernapple comments on Jun 7, 2019:

Another factor of course could be that we have bred increasingly "high yield" crops, which are just bred to put on as much weight as possible with no regard to nutrient content, or flavour for that mater.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 6, 2019:

And it can be fun.

I'm not sure if this question should be directed to @sitesupport or @admin.

Fernapple comments on Jun 6, 2019:

I always make my photos 1200 square pics max. Since few people if any will be viewing them on screens which will show bigger photos to any effect, and fewer will be magnifying parts of them, most people indeed will be looking at them on phones and therefore even that will be more than is useful. You could adjust your phones time out settings but there is no point, your cameras extra resolution is only useful if making large prints, most screens will not benefit from it anyway.

If an extra terrestrial civilisation came to visit which world leader would we want to meet with ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2019:

If they are highly intelligent, enough to master stellar flight, and if they are not more interested in talking to ants or dolphins, then they have probably scanned all our media and chosen someone you have never heard of for themselves. Or even. "Take your leaders away, your new president is Fred Johnston of 2 Lime Tree Avenue." LOL

Here is a doctor with some interesting and valuable information for both men and women.

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2019:

I don't agree quite with the basic. "In Western Medicine, drugs are created to treat symptoms as opposed to treating the root cause of the condition." It is certainly true to a large extent but not without many exceptions. Also we have to be grateful here in the UK, that the drugs companies do at least have to find round about ways to get doctors to sell their products for them, (though they are very good at bribery). It must be terrible to live in countries where medicine is an industry directly marketing its products at the population, and maximum sales, rather than health, are seen as the end product.

The word “happy” would lose it’s meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.......Carl Jung.

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2019:

A good quote though Plato said much the same thing many centuries before, when he said that pleasure and sadness had their tails tied together.

Politics has slain its thousands,but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

Fernapple comments on Jun 5, 2019:

And not just slain in the violent sense, but how many millions died because religion encouraged poor hygiene, bad medical practices, dangerous rituals and and slowed technical progress ?

Yes we do...

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2019:

We all pick and choose our morals, but some do it openly, try to use rational thought to get there and are open to criticism, while others check to find their prejudices are confirmed in books so garbled they could mean anything, and then claim that they have been given them by authority.

In their time, these had to have been some of the most beautiful homes in the world .

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2019:

Ironic that death and destruction alone has preserved them when those that continued in use crumbled away.

Nighttime photography, Chihuly glass sculpture, Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens.

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2019:

Wow that looks alive, taking it at night really makes it seem something special that i think it would not in daylight.

Why do you use agnostic.com?

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2019:

Yes sometimes the stories are almost too hard to read, they certainly make my small troubles seem easy to endure. Grounded yes.

I've posted this before but every time I do I get berated for doing so.

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2019:

No words have meanings, only usages. They are just tags which we attach to ideas which we can move and change, and do move and change, at will. If we are lucky those tags attach to approximately, ( never exactly ) the same ideas in the minds of others and that helps us to communicate. However because words form a major part of human culture, ( and having first fallen for the error of thinking that culture is a source of truth ) it is very easy to fall into the error of thinking that words contain inherent truths, which they do not. They are just arbitrary cultural and historical accidents, even less likely to contain truth than the human cultures which create them. It is because words are quite arbitrary and totally without inherent truth, and form such a major part of culture, that humans are enabled so easily to create cultures quite divorced from truth or reality.

In 1633, Galileo was ordered by the church to stand trial on suspicion of heresy, because he said ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 4, 2019:

At the time, his "crime" in the churches eyes, of claiming to have seen moons around the planet Jupiter was regarded as almost more serious. He then went on to do work in secret with air, using a vacuum which would have got him into even more trouble because that was another thing the church said could not happen.

Please someone come and get your stupid president and take him back?

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Go on be generous, let the US have a few days off.

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.” Sam Harris

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2019:

We are a storm which is doing horrible damage across the face of the planet.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Or you can just stand. Which is sometimes enough.

I see Donald Trump is doing his best to undermine Boris Johnson in his bid to lead the Tory party ...

Fernapple comments on Jun 1, 2019:

Yep that should do it.

Death is impatient and thoughtless.

Fernapple comments on Jun 1, 2019:

You can be ready for your own, but never for that of those around you.

The Great Agnostic "Col. Robert G. Ingersoll" (1833-1899)

Fernapple comments on Jun 1, 2019:

Listened to a bit, sounds wonderful. Thanks for the link.

Swedish Rhapsody.

Fernapple comments on May 30, 2019:

Like the mood change half way through.

“ We ignore public understanding of science at our peril. ” Eugenie Scott. Do you agree?

Fernapple comments on May 27, 2019:

Since science is the main tool we use to understand the world today, allowing people to opt out of any attempt to understand it, is the same as allowing them to opt out of attempting to understand the world. Which is why people who find the world threatening, because fear is a marketable product for the increasingly powerful pop media despite the fact that in many ways the world has never been safer, want to a opt out of science. And those who want to use them increasingly pander to that. Science has been naive in thinking that the more truth it discovered the more it would be loved, thinking that everyone valued truth just as the scientific community does, and failed to see that the more successful you are at finding truth the more you will be opposed by those interests lie in squashing it. It is naive to think that the value of truth will sell itself, or that success will not breed enemies.

Have you ever been annoyed by just the sight or voice of a person?

Fernapple comments on May 27, 2019:

Yes I think that the fashion for wearing a collar back to front is really annoying.

Puppet Muhammad loves equality too. 🙄🙄🙄😑😑🤣🤣🤣

Fernapple comments on May 27, 2019:

Funny how god always gives you what you want. Could not be a better fit if you dreamed him up for yourself.

Why is it people that say "I hate mean people, stuck-up people, people who can't take a joke, and ...

Fernapple comments on May 27, 2019:

You see the world though the lens of your own eyes.

Does this group do anything consrtuctive that benefits society?

Fernapple comments on May 27, 2019:

It provides a social support group for many who are doing a lot of good out there, and especially the lonely and isolated. It gives a platform for people to explore their moral understanding, which makes them better at engaging with the larger society. It educates, (see the many groups). And most of all it helps to promote healthy skeptical thinking, out into the wider world by encouraging skeptics.

SUBJECT... I WANT TO GET RICH, SHOULD I OPEN A CHURCH? Go to "Alan McPherson " Facebook.

Fernapple comments on May 27, 2019:

A church is a profit making business just like any other. But it does not have to manufacture any product, does not have to deliver until after the customer is dead, so no returns. And the other customers (congregation) do most of the marketing, and P.R. plus raise nearly all of the finances, without expecting any return on their shares. Wow, that is some business plan !

Landscapes: some more oldies (which is pretty much all I have these days) — 1: Cradle ...

Fernapple comments on May 26, 2019:

Wonder how many of those views are still the same.

Selfishness as a virtue?

Fernapple comments on May 25, 2019:

I do not agree, but it is true that misplaced or ill thought out altruism perhaps does more harm in the world overall than bad intent.

Does anyone feel Buddhism (or some sects of it or some parts of it) is more of a philosophy or way ...

Fernapple comments on May 24, 2019:

Most religions contain an element of philosophy, that does not mean they are not also religions, just as most farmers have a garden, but that does not mean they are gardeners not farmers.

According to the latest OECD report based on seriously outdated (2014) numbers one in four ...

Fernapple comments on May 23, 2019:

It is often proposed in many countries, that politicians should have a pay/pension rates based on national statistics, as an incentive to improve wealth imbalance. But that ignores the fact that most politicians, in most countries, make the greater of their income from expenses, (some honestly some not ) and doing so would only encourage greater misuse, and therefore less honesty and clarity.

Took these today(late afternoon) a park near my place.

Fernapple comments on May 23, 2019:

Good park, the parks near me are good enough but do not offer anything like that.

So...um, it’s almost June but no one told Colorado.

Fernapple comments on May 22, 2019:

Ouch !

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

Fernapple comments on May 21, 2019:

Or how old they are. Which in some ways is the same thing since they acquire real estate over time.

Do atheists value life more than theists considering that they don't believe in a afterlife

Fernapple comments on May 19, 2019:

In a philosophical sense yes, and I think we value this world more because it is the only one we have. But in a day to day sense, no. Many years ago I was in hospital and was told that I would die, it turned out in the end that there was not much wrong with me and that could be fixed, which was a nice surprise. (Though it would have been even nicer if they had not scared me in the first place.) Yet I swore on leaving hospital that from then on I would live every day as if it was to be my last, but of course you don't, you soon put it behind you and slip into a regular day to day, just like everybody else.

A bit haunting. Love it!

Fernapple comments on May 19, 2019:

Maybe they have been reading D. Adams "Hitchhykers guide to the galaxy."

I have been thinking about getting married again after so many years of being a widower.

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

It is not about wisdom, it is just something you either have to do or not.

Should schools continue teaching Arabic numerals?

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

Ask the protestants if they want a catholic calender brought in by a pope and based on the ancient Roman model taught to their children in schools as well, and then count how many say. "No we want the old one we always had."

"Selection for Tuskless Elephants Working in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, Dr.

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

I have also heard that sea fish are getting smaller and becoming sexually mature at smaller sizes. Because of course we fish for them with nets, and smaller fish pass through the mesh.

"Selection for Tuskless Elephants Working in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, Dr.

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

It could change the whole ecology, since elephants have a big effect on the flora and if tuskless elephants dig and bark strip less, then that could lead to all sorts of changes.

The Future Energy - Top 10 Energy Sources --- 10.

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

A good overview, but the producer does not seem to have a deep understanding. Hydrogen is not an alternative form of energy production, but merely a way of using energy made by other means, since it takes energy to extract hydrogen from the molecules which contain it. Also he confuses tidal and wave power, which are quite different, even I spotted those errors and I am no expert, so how accurate it is in detail is hard to say.

Luciano Pavarotti. - Giuseppe Verdi, La Donna e’Mobile (Rigoletto) [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

Wonderful rendering.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful ...

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

Yep, just been blocked by one of them.

Some beautiies to start your weekend.

Fernapple comments on May 18, 2019:

Lovely you seem to be ahead of us in the UK, still a few weeks to the first roses.

The World's Ugliest Iris's.

Fernapple comments on May 17, 2019:

Certainly not ugly, I wish I had some that colour.

Some time back a question came up in Quora that I found slightly interesting.

Fernapple comments on May 17, 2019:

Not a valid question atheism is the default, the question should be. Why are you religious ?

2 weeks count down to move.

Fernapple comments on May 17, 2019:

Sounds like a lovely project. Some water features today can be made with pumps that will run on solar, so no need for an electrical point, or using power.

The sense of the world must lie outside the world.

Fernapple comments on May 16, 2019:

Another derivative post would it not be better in the quotes group, I though that the main page was for people with original thoughts.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

Fernapple comments on May 16, 2019:

I just posted this as a comment on another meaning of life post, thought it fitted well here too. Two people walked through a desert, the first wished for a garden and cried, the second gazed in wonder at the marvels which are sand dunes. The main reason people love science, reason and the material world, is because they are both beautiful and wonderful. Those who seek after meanings beyond the visible world merely show their limitations and lack of appreciation, it is they whose powers fail of appreciation fail, not that of those who love what they have. And in the end even worse, they show the bad taste of the half grown adolescent, weeping because the childhood illusion their parents indulged them with, that they were the center of and most important thing in the universe, is no more. Before speculating about life it is useful to have one.

Some people think that science has all the answers that matter, and that things that cannot be ...

Fernapple comments on May 16, 2019:

Two people walked through a desert, the first wished for a garden and cried, the second gazed in wonder at the marvels which are sand dunes. The main reason people love science, reason and the material world, is because they are both beautiful and wonderful. Those who seek after meanings beyond the visible world merely show their limitations and lack of appreciation, it is they whose powers fail of appreciation fail, not that of those who love what they have. And in the end even worse, they show the bad taste of the half grown adolescent, weeping because the childhood illusion their parents indulged them with, that they were the center of and most important thing in the universe, is no more. Before speculating about life it is useful to have one.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Fernapple comments on May 14, 2019:

True. Though you can add the butterfly effect to that, and the laws of probability.

Do you think the dump would have the bicycle rims?

Fernapple comments on May 13, 2019:

Really original idea, and bike wheels are often zinc coated so they will last a long time.

“I contend that we are both atheists.

Fernapple comments on May 11, 2019:

Worse, if you spend too long looking for the fairies, you can miss a lot of the flowers. Even woo beliefs have their downside, they can blunt your appreciation and distort your taste.

Wow, I did not know that meth was a thing with the Germans then! [facebook.com]

Fernapple comments on May 10, 2019:

I have also heard that his drug of choice was Valerian, and that his doctor gave him a huge range of prescription drugs, but how much of it is true who knows ? Strange thing the web I see that the very next video is the voices of spring played in party dresses, by the A. Rieu band. Funny place the web ?

How do you de-stress?

Fernapple comments on May 9, 2019:

I go on to Agnostic dot com and start winding somebody up, the more wound up they get, the more relaxed I am.

Street market in Aswan, Egypt (1985)

Fernapple comments on May 9, 2019:

A long time ago now, (nearly my youth) I should think it has changed a lot.

Thought this would be an interesting share, let me know your opinions on the article.

Fernapple comments on May 9, 2019:

It is well worth while looking up the history of Satan as well and how he first appears in the bible long after the supposed garden of Eden, as a loyal servant of god, (and as a lower case noun not a name,) helping god bring the plagues to Egypt for example. Then becomes gods drinking buddy helping with the sadistic teasing of Job, and only finally becomes (possibly ) the devil. And if Satan is a lower case noun, a "satan" rather than the "Satan", then there is a good case to be made that the devil does not appear in the Old Testament at all and indeed is only added later to the New Testament..

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

Fernapple comments on May 9, 2019:

"Love is not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / Within his bending sickle's compass come."

Here is something to have you thinking as to how puny we are . . . Or are we? [curiosity.com]

Fernapple comments on May 9, 2019:

Many of those loops are far bigger than the earth.

One strange food combo that you like to eat.

Fernapple comments on May 8, 2019:

Curry powder, (yes just the cheap supermarket stuff,) mixed with mayo as a salad dressing, a little balsamic vinegar, just to stop it being too sweet.

When is it okay to say "I love you"?

Fernapple comments on May 8, 2019:

My wife and I courted for ten years on and off before we married, less than four months after that she died. Life is short it is better to fill it with a lot of mistakes made in haste, than play safe and make none but the mistake of emptiness.

All mammals poop in 12 seconds and pee in 21 seconds, but how?

Fernapple comments on May 8, 2019:

Wow, that means I am very slow, I wonder if I should be worried ? Are you sure that is not mins.?

This is so true...

Fernapple comments on May 8, 2019:

How do you know the difference until its too late ?

My first post in this group, a self portrait. Taken in Rhyolite, NV.

Fernapple comments on May 8, 2019:

I do admire a lady who is stylish enough to show her maturity.

Some small friends popping up around the house. Lousy camera

Fernapple comments on May 7, 2019:

That's interesting Pittsburgh, your plants especially the Lily Of The Valley seem to be at almost exactly the same stage they are here in the UK. Are you in the city or the country ?

People Who Always Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Study Finds

Fernapple comments on May 7, 2019:

If you put style before meaning, then you never get to understanding.

"Individualism, with its belief in the absolute value and autonomy of the person, is therefore the ...

Fernapple comments on May 7, 2019:

Sums it up fairly well.

Most of the front is done! My new little darling shrub (closest to camera) is Pearly Twirly ...

Fernapple comments on May 7, 2019:

That is a really pretty arrangement, and plenty of space for growth.

This Could Be The Most Progressive Country On Earth | HuffPost

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

Please send free airline ticket to New Zealand and I will go and see. (Three weeks this winter would be nice.)

@Admin, I'm only receiving alerts for a fraction of the posts.

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

Yes I just looked through the "My Groups" and found lots of posts that I had not seen, and most had hardly any comments or likes, so I can't be the only one.

Religious beliefs are nothing but lies agreed to; and lies make you weak, causing you to use 'Force'...

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

Old saying. " People reach for their guns when they know they can't win the arguments."

"If neo-Darwinism is true and reproductive success a measure of evolutionary fitness, then every ...

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

"Even if religion X or ideology Y is very successful, that does not imply that I should embrace it and subscribe to its tenets." Quite; or give any credit to its beliefs. And if J Sacks is really gullible enough to believe in the literal idea of decent from Abraham, how much credit should be given to any of his views.

It's been a long time since I had some holy rollers come to my house .

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

There may be less of them about, because the churches who did send them out, are running scared from the legal and insurance problems that could occur if they are hurt in any way. The JW have certainly stopped door to door in the UK for that reason. Perhaps they are not sure that their god will protect them ?

Perhaps atheists need religion to exist to justify their position.

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

It is like the old position expressed by the doctor who specialized in treating infectious diseases, who said that. "There is nothing I would like better than to be out of work."

Should we respect other people's beliefs?

Fernapple comments on May 6, 2019:

You should respect all people and try to find good will and kindness towards them, respecting their beliefs therefore is not possible if they hold beliefs which are harmful to them and others. It is therefore impossible to respect people and their beliefs at the same time if those belief are irrational. That does not however mean that you should disregard the distress you may cause by directly challenging those beliefs, rather that it is better to persuade by example.

Sam Harris’s argument is that the real villains are the religious moderates.

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

I am not fond of the moderates, though I would never call on any point of view to be suppressed if that is truly what S. H. claims. The moderates however are not without responsibility for the doings of even the most extreme fundamentalists, since by normalizing religion and the idea that faith based belief is healthy, plus creating isolated communities which become defensively tribal and detached from public scrutiny, in an attempt to protect their unique moral values, which are the only thing they have to market. They create the seas though which the fundamentalist shark swims a hunts in safety, even though they may themselves genuinely claim to oppose everything the fundamentalist stands for. Worst are the religious none believers who claim not to believe a word of it, except as allegory, but do not care enough for the rest of the human race to stop supporting often evil institutions, in order that they may continue enjoying their childish pleasures, rituals and in the worst cases deluding the more vulnerable into putting money and power into their collecting boxes. And the fundamentalists are at least sincere.

These ferns grow wild all over this property and I've had good luck transplanting a number of them ...

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

Looks a lot like Matteuccia struthiopteris the Shuttlecock Fern, its a lovely thing and likes a damp spot but is not fussy.

Teaching faith...

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

Yes but since parents who were themselves indoctrinated can not see that it is abuse, there is no way of breaking the cycle.

Should The World Go Cashless?

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

Electronic payments are controlled by super rich corporations, the costs are tiny but their percentages a huge, every time you pay with a card you effectively pay a tax to the super rich capitalists fat cats. It is one of the biggest contributions to the growing rich poor divide there is.

Against cheerfulness: Practising the Greek virtues of wisdom and courage is one thing.

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

Your founding fathers once wrote. "The pursuit of happiness. " It always seems from this side of the pond, that that was wise, but that sadly it turned into a poison chalice. Because it is so often misread as the right and obligation of happiness. Not pursuit as something to chase, but as something like a job to engage in all the time. (Please forgive this little whimsy, it is not of course my place to comment on another culture, but it just seemed good to point out something that seems so strange to a foreigner.)

"All religions bear the traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the...

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

In Nietzsches time, it was common for people to regard themselves as living in an intellectually mature culture, and western Europe as almost perfected, perhaps we have good reason to be less sure now. But anyway do all cultures mature at the same speed, humans don't, nor do we always remain mature.

I'm a middle school Science teacher.

Fernapple comments on May 5, 2019:

A time is coming when for many Agnostic/Atheist is the default position. It certainly is for many in Europe. Some people take a hard road to where they are going, some start out from there. The pioneers have long hard treks, but their children are simply born on land which is ploughed and planted. Do not envy them, you should regard it as a great achievement of your generation, that many children are born into a world where it is possible to be free from religion, without having to fight the whole community, or feel they will be vilified for it and need to arm themselves with knowledge to defend themselves. The ultimate hoped for destiny of Atheism/Agnostic is to become forgotten and irrelevant, as the theism to which they are a reaction becomes forgotten history itself.

How are you all doing today?

Fernapple comments on May 4, 2019:

Good I am glad you may be getting your home back. My well being is good, still got health and home, coming on the summer which in my business is fun the time, only wish the weather was better, but this is the UK so you got to get used to it.

Religious fundamentalists and many of today’s atheists share the same approach to texts.

Fernapple comments on May 4, 2019:

Since the only people able to impart meaning truly to a text are the people who wrote it, and for the most part you can be fairly certain that they meant it literally. After that it is only the cherry picking and interpretation of the reader, who is usually then trying to claim that it therefore has more authority than secular ideas. Since although interpretation is really only the thoughts of the individual, it is sanctified by art/religion which are supposed to have privileged access to truth. Although both are actually vague ways of expressing things and therefore unlikely to be accurate. You may as well take Winny the Pooh and interpret that, at least you start with a good book to being with.

I was lucky enough to be born in a the bible belt in a family that didn't participate in a religion.

Fernapple comments on May 4, 2019:

That is why I find the religious, " Morality can only come from religion. " so annoying. Since most none believers showed far more moral strength than the faithful ever did, when they chose to leave; and even those who never believed, but only choose not to join in, usually do so mainly for moral reasons.

I'm glad the general forum was restored but it seems only a shadow of its former self.

Fernapple comments on May 3, 2019:

Summer time and the garden calls. Bot no it does not seem as good, especially for new users. Will try MissKathleens advice though.

What to say when hijacked by two born agains in public

Fernapple comments on May 3, 2019:

I think you did very well anyway and should be proud of your self restraint, especially as your relationship with the third party is clearly one which matters deeply to both you and your children. You can not make people climb out of the cesspit, you can only tell them where to find the ladder if they wish to listen, it is not your fault if they choose to stay.

Spending a Day on Earth 4 Billion Years Ago [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on May 2, 2019:

Nice video lovely graphics, only one small error those distances to the moon should be in hundreds of thousands of kilometres not just thousands.

There are a lot of purists on this site.

Fernapple comments on May 1, 2019:

Detroit ?

How many on here either have decided to abandon major social media platforms (FaceBook, Twitter, ...

Fernapple comments on May 1, 2019:

Was told to do Facebook to promote my business, never got so bored in my whole life.

What specifically happened that made you turn into an atheist/ nonbeliever?

Fernapple comments on May 1, 2019:

Never really did believe, never was in a religion. Slowly over a long period I lost all interest in the thought that I could be missing something, decided I must be agnostic but became more hardline over time.

Really liked how the sun was coming through the petals

Fernapple comments on May 1, 2019:

Great photo, very hard to get that without too much or too little contrast loosing detail.