" I have never heard a rational argument to defeat the smell of frying bacon".

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2019:

I remember once hearing a veteran of the Spanish civil war saying that, broadcasting propaganda persuaded a few of the enemy to desert, but we got ten times as many coming over if we told them we had sausages.

How many people have found themselves driving at night in the snow, and seen this annoying trend: ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2019:

We are very troubled in the UK by people who drive with fog lights on, they are very powerful and are only intended for heavy fog or mist. Yet the fools who have spent a lot of money on them as extras, want to show off of course, and in so doing nearly blind everyone else.

I prefer this kind of work out

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2019:

You can go to a garden center and spend a fortune on labour saving gadgets. Then ironically when you read their notice board they are telling you that you can join gym classes. For another good fee of course.

What is Faith?

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2019:

You have it sorted, I do not think there are many on this site who would disagree, with most of that. Though you can look at it another way, top down rather than bottom up, and say that faith is the excuse people give when they believe something without any evidence. It is also of course taught as a virtue in the theist religions, and given the second definition, it is not hard to see why.

Sunny and 60° Friday, cold and 35° Saturday. Texas

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2019:

Snow is nice, we have not had any yet this year in my part of the UK. but just like you the weather this year has been changeable, very mild two days ago, but frost the last two nights.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.....Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Fernapple comments on Jan 19, 2019:

It reminds me of education. Where, whenever you went to a new class or had a new teacher, you could always tell the ones on the extreme religious right and the far Marxist left who were going to preach at you. Because they always started with a phrase like. "I do not want to tell you what to think, but only to get you to think for yourselves."

Contrary to what people may say, there is no upper limit to stupidity......Stephen Colbert.

Fernapple comments on Jan 18, 2019:

I think that someone posted a while back that. You can never make anything fool-proof, because if you do someone just comes up with a better grade of fool.

Is scientology a religion or a dangerous cult?

Fernapple comments on Jan 18, 2019:

You should have a "both" option.

Knowledge and ignorance

Fernapple comments on Jan 18, 2019:

I always though that this was at the heart of what is questionable about the Plato/Socrates philosophy. Plato especially puts two doubtful ideas into Socrates mouth, one of which is the idea, which follows from this, that you only need to understand why a thing is good or bad to avoid the bad and do good, which ignores the fact that a person may well understand that a thing is evil and yet still choose to do it. And the other is his often used argument that it is always better to have more of a good thing, which ignores the fact that quantity can change a things quality; what is good in small amounts, (like food) may become an evil in large amounts.

Any words of wisdom for a newcomer to this site?

Fernapple comments on Jan 18, 2019:

Check out the groups there is something for everyone and not all of the life here is on the front page.

Dawn of Agriculture: Worst Mistake EVER?

Fernapple comments on Jan 18, 2019:

One thing that has to be taken in to account, is that the change to agriculture may have been more of a drift than a revolution. It may well have started in small ways such as putting water on the ground in dry semi desert areas, to make grass grow and thereby attract game which could be hunted more easily. In a way which hardly changed the hunter gatherer lifestyle at all to begin with. Each new innovation may have brought some small and real gains to begin with, and to the people living though the changes it may have been so slow that they were not aware their lives were being significantly changed.

Sunset at home two days ago (Hamilton, New Zealand), because we love positive posts.

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Great sky for what must be high summer with you.

I have just seen an item on the news saying that we should all eat less meat, dairy, etc to prevent ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Perhaps, but that is not a good way to do it, maybe there is a hope that as we become a post Christian society, we can have the benefit of euthanasia available from our health services when we become too unhealthy to enjoy life. But making yourself unhealthy to start with is a very counter productive way to go about it.

Seems odd [agnostic.com] Please check out

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Very odd.

I have decided that I am over this working for a living malarky.

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

I sometimes feel the same, I love my work but hate the pressure that sometimes comes with it and the daily sameness sometimes. Yet one thing you have to understand is that sometimes you can end up earning more money by taking it easy and not trying too hard, than you do when pedaling like mad, in part because you do a better job of what remains.

I have only 170 points to get to reach level 7 - so now is the time for a poll.

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

You do know that when you reach level seven they charge you five hundred dollars, and pass on your address to fifty Christian junk mailing groups.

Not sure what to say about this apart from I found this on Facebook

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Yes but you can "finger tip" and that can be a source of great joy, so why worry.

Can Science be the answer to everything?

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

Maybe, maybe not, but it is possible that one day it may answer all the questions that "can" be answered, and since most of the questions which can't be answered, like can we disprove god, are trivial and irrelevant, then why worry ?

Something is broken.

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2019:

If posts go up instantly, why do mine, here in the UK at least, come in batches of forty or so two three times a day ?

10 year selfie challenge.... haven't aged much ????

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

Its true, after a certain age ten years more or less don't make much difference.

Me at the gym. ???

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

Don't wear dark glasses on a nudist beach though.

Any suggestions on a humane way of keeping cats out of flower beds?

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

In the UK you can get an animal spray one brand name of which is "Scoot", it does not have a smell to humans but I have found it works well not only for cats but rabbits too. I should think that you can get something like it in the US too.

Sunday, January the 20th, is both Penguin Awareness Day & Cheese Lovers Day! So go watch some ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

Sounds like the almost perfect day.

What I love about the Agnostic community.

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

Yes if you are a critical freethinker you tend to respect other critical freethinkers and accept the differences. It is not for nothing that the word dogma is usually included in the same sentence with the word religion. The less evidence based the view point the more you get into shouting loud to make it ?

One potato, two potato and go!

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

Indiana Jones and the lost Potato.

The truth is that nobody knows for certain just what happens after we die.

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

If a second hand car dealership told you that they only sell cars to people who are moving abroad, and that they will only deliver to you after you have moved abroad, what would you think? And what would you think when they told you they had never had any complaints ? That would be a good scam. But not as good as promising anything in the way of rewards and punishments, but only after you die. Now that's what you call a good trick.

Creationist Megan Fox's visit to the Evolution exhibit.

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2019:

I would love to see her video of the resurrection, and Moses parting the Red Sea, and of course, most of all, Noah putting the animals on the ark.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.....Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock)

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2019:

That I think was wishful thinking on the part of Pope, who had little observable charm it was said, though the Rape of the Lock is satire , and out of context it is hard to know the phases intended meaning. It would be nice to think that it was so, but without charm to advertise the goods who would know anything about the hidden merits.

Hey any moderates out there? Can one be so in this environment?

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2019:

If you do not agree with the extreme left or the extreme right most of the time, it is called being moderate. If you do not agree with the left, right or center most of the time, it is called having a conscience.

Would someone be considered religious if they don’t necessarily worship any gods/goddess, but only...

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2019:

If you reject theistic religion then of course nature has to fill some of the roles that religious people get from organized religion anyway. For example, science, which was once called "natural philosophy" usually becomes the way we explain a lot of the worlds workings, including creation and the origins of life. While it would be natural for an atheist/agnostic to see nature as the main source of beauty, pleasure and morality, whereas a theist would say that those came from god. Yet I do not think that nature would have any interest in being worshiped or prayed to; and in some ways therefore, I would say that the cool indifference of nature is much to be preferred to the active cruelty of gods and many of the humans who use gods to try to give their deviant, and usually selfish morals, extra authority. Beware only that some people on the theist side will then say that you too have a faith which needs just as much justification as theirs, and will use this to belittle your views, but if you can cope with that then go ahead.

Debate: Hovind vs Ra - Why Hovind Failed - AronRa [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2019:

I found the bits about Hovind's pettiness in the middle a little dull, thought that is obviously not Ra's fault, but I love the ringing climax where nearly every phrase could be taken out and used as a meme. If you watch it try to stay while the end.

Earliest known lead exposure... [sciencedaily.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 15, 2019:

I am told that lead has a very sweet flavour and could be used as an artificial sweetener, people from the earliest times could have added some lead ores to their food, especially as they are easy to find and some are soft to extract, they could have used them just as we add salt. That could perhaps never be proved, but accidental contamination and the making of lead containers are not perhaps the only possibilities.

A book of lies, written by men, lying about women.... Thoughts?

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

Yes that's about it, and some people really think that the book of Ruth was written by a woman.

How do you feel about people who attend church for the communal aspect?

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

Pity they must be really desperate. And very sad if it is the only thing in town.

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot". The Catcher in the Rye.

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

That's me.

I'm setting up my gardening boxes on my new sun porch .

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

Rough coarse bark is more natural and will do much the same job, grit is good too and adds weight so it can stop the containers or the compost blowing about in the wind.

ARE THERE ANY atheists on QUEENSLAND S gold coast

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

Fill in your bio, and then check the members map is usually the best way.

World Government is far preferable to the current state of affairs, which is leading straight to ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

True it could be a good thing, but I do not think that any worldwide catastrophe would ever be great enough to persuade the oligarchs to pull together before it became so great that it pushed the world into total anarchy. And secondly any global government would, by dint of human nature, immediately split into the orthodox and reform groups, possibly destroying the UN, and from which conflict even a global conflict on the ground could follow. I think that it is more likely that governments and the UN will be forced into reform by global democratic pressure from below, if things like the internet produce a global consensus among the greater numbers of people, but I do not hold out much hope for that either.

The dude knew his stuff.

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2019:

Perhaps you could say, the Dunning Kruger effect a hundred years earlier, Darwin always seems to have foresight in so many fields beyond what you would expect for the nineteenth century. Though in this case you could even go back to A. Pope and his "drink deep" which perhaps even pushes the idea back to the eighteenth century.

Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam? - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

It also muddies the water, people who buy organic often think that it also means things like high animal welfare, because they have been sold a picture of "natural farming" as wholesome and always good, whereas the two issues are quite different, and I would say that the second at least, does really mater. And in fact nothing could be more removed from the truth, since there have been several cases of farmers failing to give animals proper veterinary care because they were afraid that "medicine" would loose them their organic labels.

Well the blessed independant state of Oswaldtwistle is cold wet and rainy.

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

I always take a holiday by the Med. in mid winter. This year just before Christmas I spent each evening sat by the sea with a coffee, watching a bat flying round a small harbor against a warm sunset. I can never understand why people all rush to take their holidays by the Med. in the summer, where's the gain in that ?

In africa when you say your not a believer they see you as someone possesd by demons ??‍♂️

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

It has in many ways to be the default position of all theists, though many would not put it that way, since by theistic logic everything has to come from the supernatural, and therefore if you are not possessed by god then you must be by demons. It is just that in the west there is a smoke and mirrors attempt to pretend that the theology is somehow more clever and more sophisticated than that.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

True as far as it goes; but fortunately you do not need to be a good writer to be an interesting person, and sometimes a little bit of extra effort in the reading is well rewarded. Otherwise it would be a waste of my time, and a lot of other peoples, being on this site.

I'd like to request an opt out toggle in the settings menu for the Members section of the front page...

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

Always ignore those bits, I sometimes wonder if anyone has ever had a face to face from this site, or if the whole dating, friend finding, thing is just a waste of time for those who are here for the community.

Hypothetically speaking...

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

May also have had feathers. Imagine a big peacocks tail as well.

Remember the comedy musical play "The Producers"?

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

If you sign up for a con-trick you are quite likely to get sucked in to more con-tricks, by the nature of things those who have so little moral compass that they are will to accept and preach religion, are not going to show any more moral quality in the fiscal world..

Finch's Bite Is 320 Times More Powerful Than T. Rex's [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

Interesting, but the essay about early mammals, which I found a link to at the bottom of the page was even more so.

This will make you smile!

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

Socks on a nudist beach will always make me smile. He is really cute, I presume it must be a rescue foundling.

Stockholm Syndrome - I have difficulty understanding how any reasonably thinking person can have the...

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Richard Dawkins is worth looking at on this subject, he makes the point in several books, that, the child's mind is programed to accept and believe all information given it by an authority figure. Because the child has no experience of its own and disobeying an order like. "Do not go near the lake on your own." Could get it drowned or eaten by a crocodile. Therefore there is an evolved advantage in this sort of brain in children. When people attempt brainwashing their first act is to reduce their victim to a child like state, with no power to make choices of there own, yet rewarding any signs of attachment to the kidnapper, then when the victim accepts the kidnapper as a parent, and the only source of rewards, they are ready to be brainwashed.

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Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

I think a lot better than average since it is not a site where people usually come to sell things, for one thing.

If you hear someone speak with a heavy, southern, country accent, do you instinctively think they ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Only if its a cockney accent.

What makes you happy? Different things make people happy... Let me hear your thoughts....

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Knowing that I have done something useful, as when I see a customer smile. Sorry it may sound cheesy but it really is what make my day.

Bear this in mind, my American friends. [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Does this mean that all my attempts to amuse the US members on this site with little bits of witty banter, have all failed. Oh well " I'm sure its my fault."

Earth with no water

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Pretty and interesting, but I am sorry to say that it is a distortion in which the highs and lows have been exaggerated to a great extent. The difference between the highest mountains and the deepest trenches is only about ten miles. On a globe of just over eight thousand miles diameter most are only 1/1000 of the whole; making the world as smooth proverbially as a pool ball. This is interesting since as the tallest mountains push out through the breathable atmosphere, it makes you realize just how thin are the layers of air and water in which we live. If the world were a soccer ball they would be thiner than a coat of paint.

Considering both the collapse of ancient societies due to resource scarcity and climate change, and ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

It is almost impossible to predict the future, even ten or twenty years ahead let alone eighty plus, while we must assume the worst in order to act in a responsible way if we can, the one certainty is that almost no predictions ever prove correct. The whole thing could be thrown out by a huge range of factors, a global pandemic could, for example, destroy human civilization next year.

Shouldn't we be more eager to get there?

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Religion sets out to make the fear of death worse in quite a purpose full way, with threats of hell and judgement, so that it can control people more easily. Chaining you up so that it can sell you the keys to the lock. I think that this post is intended more in a tongue in cheek way, but I have to wonder why in a post religion sub culture anyone would be so interested in the details of superstition, even those around death, if we were not still living in a culture where religions false values still held deep sway. For example, in a post Christian world, why would the health services not be able to offer euthanasia to those who want it ?

This lady literally can't hear the voice of a man [dailydot.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Mostly I can hear most people fine, but my hearing was damaged many years ago while working for a short time in a factory. So I lost one very narrow range of tones. I now find that the village's self styled witch/faith healer/ alternative medicine seller/ woo pusher, has a voice at exactly that pitch, how good is that.

It seems that being atheist or agnostic is now looked at as a type of religion

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

It is a line of BS pushed by theists, whose next move is usually to try to change the burden of proof from, prove there is a god, to, prove there is no god. They think that if they can force an acceptance of atheism/agnostic as a religion, then you have to prove your faith in your religion just as much as they do.

What do you believe in?

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

"I think (badly) therefore I am." The rest is either evidence or BS. But why ask such a question on a site like this ?

How Aspirin Changed Medicine Forever - SciShow [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

It also gives an answer to the woo often put out by the alternative medicine industry, that natural products are safer, it is not hard to point out that willow bark was actually much more damaging than the modern pills.

And do you think that unto such as you,/ A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,/ God gave the ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

That God can not be all good and yet have favorites, is one of the best arguments there is, for if he does not have favorites, then who needs religion. And it seems to be an old argument too, and better put than I can.

Stores have just received the bulbs for the year, so bought a bunch .

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Bulbs will usually grow regardless of the time you plant them within reason, the flowering season may be a bit out of time, and they may struggle for a year or two. But in real teams your one month difference is trivial for bulb and seed sowing times and should not have much effect at all, variations in weather from one year to another could have a greater effect than that. Don't worry as long as your window boxes do not freeze solid they will be fine.

Violence is bad, mmm'kay? (But quite funny, sometimes) [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Not recommended a a technique to be used in debates by the Oxford Union, (unfortunately).

This is just a test.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2019:

There is, at least to my mind, one important truth contained in the story which I do not think any reasonable person would dispute. The idea that at some stage in human development; it does not much matter when; the biological and evolutionary ground work needed for the development of human language and culture had been completed, and since that day most of our growth and evolution has been of a technological form, language and culture being themselves only technologies in the broadest sense of the word. Nor would I think that many would argue when I say that it is technology which has created almost all that we have gained since then. Yet the truth is, it is not merely religion alone but culture as a whole, to which we have no defenses, both being new developments which genetic evolution could never have foreseen, and because genetic development moves more slowly than technology it will never catch up. Therefore we are left as creatures who are almost totally undefended by our genetics against any attempt to reprogramme us using any technology such as language and text.

Well said!

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2019:

Lacks a coma, I think.

@Admin @SiteSupport and everyone here.

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Agree

When I was a child I asked my dad what a Slut was

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Your dad may not have been perfect, but that is a true pearl of wisdom.

Cricket- What's up with that sport?

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Its very like baseball, except that there are only two bases and you run back and forth between them until you are out, instead of round the diamond in the same way as baseball. There being two batsman on the field all the time so the bases are always loaded. The main other difference is that the batsman has a set of stumps (sticks) behind his base, which are a target for the bowler (pitcher) to aim at, if the batsman can not defend the stumps and the bowler hits them the batsman is out. This means there are not three strikes, the batsman has to hit the ball first time.

A Few Random Thoughts About Cosmic Black Holes Every now and again a thought about this or that ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Black holes it is now thought, do lose a small amount of mass over a long period of time. You really do need to study the physics a lot more deeply before you post on the subject. There is a hypothetical time towards the end of the universe called the time of black holes. There are several good videos on the future of the universe on U-tube which could get you started. But you need to take several in from different view points so I can not point you to one, and I am sorry but you will not get a good answer in the short space of a comment on this site.

Secular humanism?

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Humanism is the idea that human beings are the most important thing in human life. Therefore it is impossible to be a religious humanist, because religion means believing that there is something supernatural above human life.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

He was either very careful and very clever, or he was suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect.

American Psychological Association links 'masculinity ideology' to homophobia, misogyny

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

People being payed large sums of money have to do something to justify it, and when they can't think of anything (a lot of the time ) they can always use, point out the obvious.

Sugar cube...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Grow your own car by photosynthesis, and then think how easy it would be to recycle.

These were very accurate, for me. [huffingtonpost.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Funny thing is, that is exactly the same list that I would say makes a woman attractive.

Money lying in the purse is just coins.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Someone on this site posted a stat. a week or two ago, which seemed like it should be true, which said that if everyone in the US gave up what they spend on Xmas presents it would be enough to feed all the worlds hungry for the year.

Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Flash drive I use for backup and the box with passport and house deeds etc.

I do not know if I believe this is all circumstances, but someone once told me that, "There is no ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Most jokes are about the release of tension. A threat is set up and then knocked down, for example. 1. The observational joke works because we realize that we have faced the threat many times before and survived. 2. The silly joke works because we realize that the threat was illogical, and therefore harmless. 3. The racist sexist etc. joke works because we realize that the threat was directed at someone who we want to suffer or be humiliated. Therefore if you use those jokes, it tells the world a lot about you.

This has probably been discussed before but here goes.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

You do not need to go that far, whether it works or not, if the universe is natural and deterministic then there is no free will, it is just an illusion. Full stop. Free will would only exist if we had supernatural powers and could avoid obeying natural laws.

I did not take this, but I am in love with it!

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Wow, love that. Must be feeding time.

Me as a kid.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

So what comes after, "poisonous to other trees" ?

But everyone knows they flew through the Suez and Panama Canals..... In 1931.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

I really hope that it is a joke. But since I have been on this site and read such a lot about creationists and flat earthers I am not sure any longer. Help!

Can I block myself on this site?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Just delete your account.

Who are some of your favorite contributors on this site?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

There are many on this site who make good contributions, some all of the time and some just now and again. There are also some who make poor efforts all the time, but I still like it that they are here because it all adds to the interest of the site if only because it helps you to understand the rich diversity of human thinking. Sadly however I would not like to risk embarrassment to the ones that I think are especially good by giving out lists of names; especially as I am fallible and may miss off some who should be there.

Today, find what is positive within you! So, please plant a tree.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Some trees grow fast you can never be sure that you will not sit in their shade, I sit often in the shade of those I planted, and I am a young 61 as yet.

As I contemplate this development, I wonder, if/when we were to find intelligent life on an ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

It is quite possible that life is only just reaching the technological stage everywhere, since it has taken quite a long time on this planet, and we know that life can probably only form around second generation stars like ours, so it probably did not form in the early universe, so that all life therefore started everywhere only in the last few billion years. It is also possible that there is a yet to be discovered, (by us) doomsday technology, which can not ever be foreseen by it discoverers, but which always destroys the species which discovers it, and therefore technological species are just short lived anomalies. And lastly the difficulties of traveling across the vast distances of space are so great that it seems likely that we will never do it, unless we discover as yet to be even imagined new and probably impossible technologies, and therefore given that intelligent life is almost certainly very rare, it is most likely that no two life forms from different star systems will ever meet before their stars die, anywhere ever, even though across the univers there may be millions of them..

The Latin word for right is dexter and for left, sinister.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

It is certainly mainly prejudice, two theories are, that it is just a prejudice against left handed people simply because they were seen as different, in an age of little travel and closed minds when people thought that just being different meant that you were cursed or a devil associate. The other comes from misogamy because it was the custom to put the female half on the left hand side on coats of arms and family trees.

Hello, I am new to this site.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

You sound just about the most perfect fit for a member there could be. To find the real life on this site don't just go to the main page, check out the groups, it will take a while there are a lot but also there is something for everyone. And fill in your bio as soon as you can other members really like that.

Has Evangelical Christianity Become Sociopathic?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Old saying. " Those who know that they are bound to lose the arguments reach for their guns."

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

That certainly covers most of it.

Bookworms, how do you organize your library?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Total chaos, it sometimes takes ages to find one when I want it but I always tell myself that I enjoy the challenge.

These people scare me. I see them everywhere. Does anyone know their names?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

I know them. They are the ones who write all those silly, distasteful, badly spelled, and inarticulate posts on this site.

Things that make NO sense: I am sure you have all heard that your bedroom should be totally dark, ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Fire light is both much less blue than daylight and a lot weaker, our eyes and brains compensate for the low light so much that we do not notice how dim it really is. You do not really need to cut out all light only full spectrum light with a high blue content, which is how your brain tells daylight from firelight. Interestingly there has been some research done which shows that we are just the opposite when very young, and that babies sleep better with some light and noise, perhaps because that means that adults are near and therefore they are safe.

Why is Christianity called a monotheistic religion, when in church every one chants they believe in ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Don't expect logic or reason, the whole point is to make it difficult, so that those in control of the religion have a baffle screen to hide behind when they want to, and so that they can claim to be special because they claim to understand it, which helps to keep the sheep in the pen.

I just finished reading this insightful book by David Frye ' Walls: A History of Civilization in ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Thank you for that, I will look at it.

MITHRA.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Thinking more about it, what sort of a failed broken education system do we have which lets people leave school with such a complete lack of historical knowledge anyway ?

After hearing horror tales from my daughters, friends, and women on here, I feel compelled to put ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Part of the human tragedy is that people, men and women both, are not attracted to people they like. People are attracted to damaged people because they seem either exciting and dangerous or needy, and strong self reliant people without issues seem boring and dull. Only when the first excitement wears off do they then find out that they do not actually like the damaged goods.

MITHRA.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Don't hold your breath. Theists who join such groups are not usually wanting to learn, only to have their prejudices confirmed.

All women become like their mothers.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

I do however get more like my father every day, especially the nasal hair and the balding head.

Today has been a men and women have different roles day.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

We were made to live in small social groups where everyone was known to all as an individual, in the modern world that does not work any longer, so people try to cope either the hard way by treating everyone fairly until they get to know them, or if we are lazy we try to fit them into groups as a short cut. That is encouraged by religious and political institutions, because lazy is a weakness that stops us asking questions and therefore makes it easy to exploit people.

I won the rat race! FuckingFlea (my petite tortie female cat) brought it into the house AND LET IT ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Rat vary in character a lot. I use a live cage type trap to catch the ones that sometimes come into my loft, then let them go several miles away. I have noticed that when I pick the cage up some of them cower in a corner, curling up to make themselves small, while others attack the bars of the cage and do their best to bite me.