Photos !!.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Even if they wish to hide, and they may have good reasons for that, they can still find an amusing picture surely. I think it is just can't be bothered. Either that, or they want people to know in advance that it is a boring banal post they copied from the web, the two seem to go together.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable!......Mark Twain.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

He also would quote B. Disraeli. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Which is very similar. Obviously he did not like statistics. And the word in those days, was probably used in something closer to its original meaning which was something akin to, "measurements by the state".

Ok, this is supposed to be the serious group and I have made several wisecrack comments.

Fernapple comments on Feb 9, 2019:

I think that some of the groups could do with more support, so more members would help there, and I generally tend to find that there is more interest in the groups than the mainstream postings, where it often seems that you see the same issues being aired in much the same ways time after time. I know that some members have left or become inactive because of that . Maybe the groups could grow into sub-sites with time.

Now that my hard work has put me in office, we're going to have some changes around here.

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I am more than happy to support your claim to dictatorship, which I am sure will bring nothing but the greatest benefit to everyone. (Please leave the envelope with the money under the doorstep.)

Stuck an onion and some dirt in a can last week...

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Something lives !

Primary school pulls Darwin show after Christian parents complain Couldn't believe this was in ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Preach a little hellfire and the snowflakes melt.

Are you a conspiracy theorist?

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I think that there is certainly a lot of truth in this, and it is useful and worthwhile. But, the mischief maker in me wants to point out, that these people may also be indulging in teleological thinking, when they connect conspiracy theory with creationism via teleological thinking, since it may just be that if you are naive enough to believe one you may be naive enough to swallow the other.

This sometimes happens to me.

Fernapple comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Happens to me all the time, even the stamp collectors don't want to talk to you.

Hi.whats up here?

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Hello and welcome, Lots happens here just look through the groups to get a taste of whats on offer.

Cravings -- these are very challenging for me to deal with.

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2019:

I know it is especially hard if you live alone and there is no one else to distract you. Having said that other people trying to treat you can be just as bad.

Are truth and objectivity the same thing?

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Yes I agree with that, especially if it is with pedrobds qualification below.

I'd love to experiment with plastic casing to grow and shape fruit within! Seems like the most ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Some pictures would be nice.

(In response to the closed group thread, same subject) If you're worried that teachers will turn ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2019:

The great mistake is not to realize that capitalism and socialism can 'both' be failed systems neither of which work.

Hello Question: does anyone know what is happening to my Roses?

Fernapple comments on Feb 7, 2019:

I was going to say lack of drainage/ too much water, perhaps, but I see some others have got there before me, but I add another vote for that.

The Decline of Historical Thinking | The New Yorker

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2019:

The only comfort I can offer, is to tell you that it is just as bad here in the UK.

The Island of Shrinking Mammoths - PBS Eons [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 6, 2019:

Size in most animals is said to be controlled by whole groups of genes, and I have heard it is therefore a very easy thing for natural selection to change. Even human breeding can do it very easily as with dogs for example.

I really, really need to play in the dirt.

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Winter lasts while April with us. 20 March may be the official spring but it is still early for some.

Can there be anything sadder that work left unfinished?

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2019:

Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure.

Just to use a second today: "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 5, 2019:

The opportunist thinks; I will build a windmill; the pedant thinks we should measure its speed before we decide if it is wind or breeze.

Just saw this on FB; I know you'll love this! How to create a simple hanging plant with common - but...

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2019:

Very neat and pretty, and not just the string trick !

Went to Harris Beach today it was very chilly.

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2019:

Great photos.

Looking for a little advice.

Fernapple comments on Feb 4, 2019:

Try Photoscape it is like Photoshop but is a free download which you can get of the net, and it should do everything and more that you sound like you want. Plus if you don't like it, since its free you just delete it.

What if there really is a God?

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

Even if there is a god, why would it care what we believe ?

My response when I'm told I can't understand the Bible.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

Great video thanks.

The Mango Pendejo... obviously he thinks we're all idiots. [thehill.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

No sun bed then, that proves it. I was sure it was a paint on job.

For a religious person, the universe is alive, with created things, with the presence of God.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

Life is only relevant if it interacts with you anyway, since the living universe, which I am sure does not exist anyway, has not spoken to me, it has less relevance than a bacterium in the mud at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Sundays are such poo, laundry, work prep and shopping.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

Never mind it will soon be Monday.

As I scroll through endless dating profiles I see a trend; 1.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

If they are Christians and they are on this site they must be desperate, enough said.

Sundays are such poo, laundry, work prep and shopping.

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

Try Morrisons.

Was this some sort of candle holder, gambling dice, astronomical device or maybe just an ancient ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

The glove theory seem nice but like a lot of the ideas listed, it seems to be a difficult way to do something easy, which still leaves a really strange mystery.

I'm happy to have found this site.. my new Facebook replacement:)

Fernapple comments on Feb 3, 2019:

Enjoy its much better here and they do not have any world domination plans (so far). And please ensure that you wash twice in several changes of water and burn all the clothing you wore while on the FB site.

I have no facebook, twitter nor any other social media account.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

Welcome, and check out the groups there will be something for you.

At what age did you learn about evolution?

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

I the UK there was/is a long standing system of education , in which biology was taught with evolution being one of the last things taught, so that many, except those who took the advanced options, never reached it. Yet as R. Dawkins often points out, evolution by natural selection is very easy to understand, child's play in fact, since it is logical and children do not find logic hard. Yet they are given the hard details of biology to rote learn first, which is off putting for many, especially without the underlying system which explains it. There is no doubt that the church which is very powerful in our education system originated much of this.

“We live life by looking forward. We understand life by looking backward.” Soren Kierkegaard

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

So many seem not to understand that, so many try to live life by looking backwards; and so many blunder blindly forwards making the same old mistakes without any attempt to learn from history.

Pembrokeshire chariot burial finds ruled as treasure [bbc.co.uk]

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

Lovely find. You wonder if the inlaid red glass was meant to be seen against the green verdigris, or if they intended to polish the bronze to brassy yellow, either way it would be beautiful.

It has been too long since I have seen these.

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

Wow, not just the trees but a great photograph, well taken.

This Painting Proves God (Allah) Exists - Debunked - Rationality Rules [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

We have heard all the arguments and most of the counters before, but his careful systematic style is so refreshing it is great to watch.

Has anyone grown a THUJA GREEN GIANT tree?

Fernapple comments on Feb 2, 2019:

Grows quick and the foliage is scented a bit like oranges, but not everyone likes the smell so sniff one before you buy.

Haven't made many posts lately.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

Frozen hard and snow here, very envious.

Just a thought.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

How is it west of the watershed we are still free here in Lincolnshire ? I think the worst is in the south.

I just read that the two largest components of climate change is meat consumption and air ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

Huge amounts of the food grown is fed to animals for eating; so we could also revert vast areas of farmland to forest and wilderness, and still produce more food to feed the hungry in the third world. And you don't even need to go vegan just reduce meat eating by nine tenths, which would also make us all a lot healthier. The extra trees would soak up carbon. And well you can just go on listing......

We are about to have a tsunami of "Fake News" comments from Americans.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

The ones who took the free courses, would be the ones who did not need them, and the ones who did need them would not go. Spend the money on cold fusion research and at least it may stop them setting fire to the planet.

Science Saved My Soul. - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

Very good, I know that some here will not go for it because it is lyrical, but I liked it a lot. And I am sorry to say that if you do not recognize the power of the romantic then you are not a realist.

Happiness

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

Feeling that I am making a contribution. Not because I am an especially good person but just because you get too old for personal wants to mater much anymore.

All creationist scientists from the four corners of the globe agree the Earth is SQUARE.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

"By their fruits shall you know them." Springs to mind.

I'm sad to hear of the passing away of comedian Jeremy Hardy.

Fernapple comments on Feb 1, 2019:

The one I like is. "A useful life well lived."

New to this, anyone wanna show me around this interesting new world?

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Welcome and enjoy, Don't just stay on the front page check out the groups there really is something for everyone there.

Officials in Iran BAN dog walking amid fears keeping 'un-Islamic' pets creates 'fear and anxiety' | ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

The aim is to make life as bleak as possible, so that everyone is grateful to the imam for allowing the tiniest bit of pleasure.

Zeus The Almighty.

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Nice review of history but I do not think that it goes anywhere much. However here is something to think about. Which is that, the monotheist religion arose in the desert areas of the middle east. In those desert areas nature is at its harshest and survival therefore means more than anything, having the support of the group in those areas. That gave much more powers to strong violent males who could bully and control groups. Because in the desert there was nowhere else for dissidents to go, no river to voyage down, no forest to hide in and most of all no food except the social group's flocks of animals, nor any natural diversity to encourage different ways of life such as fishing or forestry. And of course Religion reflects the societies which make it, therefore among desert pastoral nomads intolerant male monotheism is almost certain.

Just off teaching in an amazing new part of the university.

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Welcome back, not much seen the last week or two. You have been working too hard again ! Good luck in the new venture.

Today I would like to submit “Let Me Go”, which is a poem by Christina Rossetti which was read ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Glad to see you back but deeply sorry for your loss. Regards.

Darwin Day Ideas

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Replicate one of his experiments. A good one; because it is ongoing and is not what many people would expect, is the rock on the lawn one. He placed a large rock on his lawn to see how long it would take the worms to bury it in the soil, it is still there but much lower. And it was part of his proof that worms create soil, it is also interesting to archaeology and history enthusiasts.

The picture is not upside down.

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

Beautiful, where taken?

Attacus Atlas. Biggest I have ever seen was a Redwood Moth, at about half this size.

Fernapple comments on Jan 31, 2019:

That's beautiful, was it in the wild or inside ?

I do this

Fernapple comments on Jan 30, 2019:

I love the way you can watch the drama of the elements play out from the warm haven of your car, wind, rain, snow, as long as you are careful you can enjoy them all.

And for today we have...

Fernapple comments on Jan 30, 2019:

Florida looks OK. But I should not smerk my grandmother always used to say. "What the US gets today , the UK will get in two weeks."

The Humans That Lived Before Us - PBS Eons [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 30, 2019:

Interesting video I love the speculative misty edges of history. It could easily be true however, since lot of classification is subjective, that when dealing with our own family we have to be wary of hubris, it is very easy for every new discovery to be given important status just because our ancestors are so important to us, where we would not see much difference if dealing with fossils of other genera.

Flat Earth CRUSHED by Discovery Channel [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

However painful they may be now and again, I just can't take flat earthers seriously. But that was fun anyway.

The Simulation Hypothesis and the Bible.

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

I like it and it is fun and safe to use that sort of hypothesis on this site. But you have to beware beyond these confines, since this is not quite new, it is a regular with religious apologists who like to point the finger at Atheists/ Agnostics and say this is the sort of silly stuff they believe. In order to claim that an A/A world view is even less supported by evidence than theirs. It is very dangerous to use an hypothesis like this without making it plain that you are only proposing it as one of many.

Changying Park Beijing

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

I love the way the well trodden paths make patterns under the trees in the last but one shot.

I would like to live in several locations for one year each. Where would you live for one year?

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

Any where where there are four seasons, just with the leisure to watch the cycle unfold, and appreciate just how much wonder can come just from the fact the the earth wobbles.

"I am the truth, the light, and the way." Jesus, right?

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

A lot of the Horus myth could be in the new testament. Many skeptics like to nominate Mithra as the original source of the Jesus myth, but the myths of many more earlier gods such as Horus, Dionysus etc. could have been plagiarized. The only certainty is, that none of it is original.

The Truth About MSG and Your Health - SciShow [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

Good news for once, great I will celebrate tonight with a fried rice special and ten beers.

Are all things either objective or subjective?

Fernapple comments on Jan 29, 2019:

Yes that all seems reasonable and I would go with it, although, I have to say that my usage has always been Objective, Subjective and Cultural, rather than inter-subjective. Since I can not see anything inter-subjective as you define it, which is not cultural, nor anything cultural which is not in your inter-subjective. It has also been called the great necissary lies, I do not know that we need another word adding.

do you say "twenty-nineteen" or "two-thousand-nineteen" or "two-thousand-and-nineteen"?

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Twenty nineteen.

The Onion: Reclusive Deity Hasn’t Written A New Book In 2,000 Years [entertainment.theonion.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Personally I think that he used a lot of Holy Ghost Writers and sub-editors, so much so that you have to ask if the work is really his any longer. I also suspect that he has been secretly publishing under other names, there are one or two books, like the Koran and the Book of Mormon, that have a look of his rambling style, with the same fairy tale elements and the blood and gore lust.

I'm coming up in the first anniversary of my spouse's death and really don't know what to expect.

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

It takes a year at least to grieve properly, sometimes three or more, don't please think there is something wrong with you if you are not "over it" by now. It affects the way you think and behave in many small ways that you hardly notice, but they are still there, so do not be too hasty. And beware of making big changes while you are still grieving, you can regret it later when you are more yourself. It is good that you have a friend, I hope plenty of friends; living for what you can do for others and working at projects, even if they don't seem important now, can help a lot, if only taking away the thinking time, and at least you have something to show for it when you emerge from the tunnel. Wish I could be more help but that is all I have got.

I read a statement today that said "Slut" is attacking women for their right to say yes, and "friend...

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Many people think that women are easy targets and should always be told what and what not to do. Don't dress down, don't dress up. Don't leave children too late. Don't start a family too early. Etc. True it is not just women they also try it to a lesser extent with men. The answer is the same though, stop trying to be a woman or a man and just be you.

Celibacy vs.

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

I do not know why you would think that many on this site would disagree with you, at least that is what I take your first few lines to mean. It is more likely that you are preaching to the converted.

Snow storm, bitter cold, schools closed, no work for me again today.

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Start phoning people, offer to pray for them and ask foe a dollar, each time. You never know little acorns grow, in a couple of years you could be running your own church from the Bahama's . But seriously keep communicating, even mild cabin fever can lead to depression etc. so write to sites like this and check your neighbors are OK.

Dude, you're 65! Do you really want to be in front of a judge for some nonsense? [aol.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

I'm in my sixties and at my age you have little to lose, so why not party.

Why is it that no matter which emoji I click on when I am looking at member photos only the like ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Just posted HaHa as a test on this post, and it seems to work fine. The emoji menu is a bit slow you can sometimes go wrong if you try to make it work too fast, you need to hover a second and then make a very deliberate stab. If that does not work for you, then I have nothing more and perhaps you should contact admin.

What about the possibility of creating a nation of No Religion.

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

In the old Soviet Union it was tried and it not only failed but faith is very strong there today. In protestant North West Europe most counties have state churches and religion is fast heading for extinction here if current trends continue. Correlation is not always causation. But......

Good quote from Christopher Hitchens

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Have faith friend, I can tell you that I have faith that this second hand van, with only twenty miles on the clock, that I am selling, will be the best thing on four wheels that you ever bought in your whole life. It will change the way you see driving forever.

They say when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

Hello and welcome to the site. I think you will find that a lot of people will read your Bio. Some people including me, when I can be bothered, find it a good idea to read a bit of a bio at least, before commenting on a post, because then you know who you are talking to and perhaps why they posted what they did. People also like to read the comments on posts, (they are very into reading yes) so try to do plenty of that , and do check the groups, there is something for everyone and a lot of life there. But don't post when sleepy, rambling posts get shot to pieces.

Do You want to Check My Alcohol level?

Fernapple comments on Jan 28, 2019:

I do not have a problem with trying, the problem is when you can not accept that sometimes you will fail. Life can't be made perfect by just one person.

Fashion faux pas or new trend? What do you think of socks with sandals?

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

The ancient Romans conquered the know world wearing socks with sandals, who am I to argue.

I propose we start a new game on Agnostic.

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

1. Where does morality come from if you are a skeptic ? 2. Are there any right wing people here ? 3. Are all men/women like my ex. ?

I would like to invite everyone to join my Facebook group for our channel“Food Foresters”.

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

Sorry don't really do FB if you have good content why not cut and paste it on to here, you will get a lot more genuine appreciation.

Healthy mind, healthy body

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

Both are important to one another. But it is sometimes hard to sort them out. For example if I go for a long walk I often have great thoughts, (well great by my standard anyway, ) and I come home feeling happy and well. But is it because I have solved a problem or two, or is it just the endorphins released by the exercise. But I lost a lot of weight a few years ago and have felt better ever since, the only problem is that if I put on weight my sex drive goes up, and loosing weight kills it.

Planning the garden Last season, I missed out on ordering red currants and gooseberry bushes.

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

I love them both too. One of the best things about them is that they come quickly and easily from hardwood cuttings then mature fast, and so if you can only get one or two you can soon increase your stock. While it is always a good idea to strike a few cuttings now and again to refresh your stock as time goes by.

Who’s your favorite fairy tale character and why?

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

Eeyore from Winney the Pooh, because he accepted the worst but still kept his humanity and managed to care.

One of the things going around that drive me nuts is this "empath" thing.

Fernapple comments on Jan 27, 2019:

It is the Dunning Kruger (spelling doubtful) effect, all over again, if you think you have great empathy you are probably totally self obsessed and insensitive, most woo merchants are. Remind you of your own post in this group of Jan 18. "Never seen it done better."

Lol. My thought exactly. I love me some Tiramisu, but ....

Fernapple comments on Jan 26, 2019:

Its an age thing, at my age all food is better than sex.

hey everyone first time poster here, how are we suppose to believe in adam and eve if we have ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 26, 2019:

Welcome. Unlike creationism evolutionary theory, although simple at first sight, can be quite complex, and you will not access it without some effort I am sorry to say. You can get a lot of information about it from the net such as Utube but it will be disorganized. It is really needful to read deeply some books, Richard Dawkins is good , especially for a first read The Blind Watchmaker, and River Out Of Eden. For some really easy reads which cover the basics in fun ways, Ursula Goodenough The Sacred Depths Of Nature, is a starter and even Bill Brysons , Short History of Nearly Everything is not a bad taster with a few other bits thrown in.

Really? Gosh, I had it all wrong!

Fernapple comments on Jan 26, 2019:

Ah! Of course teachers, my worst nightmare, trying to tell me that if I don't believe in the sky daddy I'm going to burn forever and that little boys who ask questions will get even worse.

"People no longer understand how hold a rational conversation.

Fernapple comments on Jan 26, 2019:

Yes there is perhaps some truth in it. But you have to remember that, in the not very distant past, the opportunity to write comment and share opinion was held only by a few professional journalists and politicians, who naturally tended to be people at the top of their game, with the highest skills. Now the inter-net means that many more people are able to join in debates and conversations. It is almost certain that their skills and standards will not be as high, it may not therefore represent a true trend in the direction of lower quality debate, but only a shift of the measured average down the spectrum. And secondly as more debate and conversation takes place, then there is a strong possibility that the skills of many lower down the spectrum will improve, even if only a little, with experience. Indeed it could hardly be otherwise, since they have never been exposed to the possible good effects of any experience before. And you can not blame those who have never had a voice before, for shouting loud the first time they get to use it. In time they may learn to moderate their tone, or more likely they will just get bored and give up. For which reason it is quite possible that we are, maybe sadly, on the brink of a new age in which people will return to the idea of objective good taste, as a think which is important in defining a persons worth, after many years when relativism has been dominant. That sort of idea of "class" defined by taste was the main social ideology in the days before the popular press, when most people had an almost equal lack of voice, due to the spoken word and a few expensive books being the only very limited media. People therefore saw themselves as belonging to social groups defined by what was called taste. Then the press and broadcast media grew and became the voice of the professionals who were read by everyone, forcing a single unifying standard of taste, that of the middle and to a less degree some of the upper classes who wrote and broadcast. (Everyone else being readers listeners only.) Now in many ways we are reverting to the earlier state where everyones voice is equal, and that may lead, in a world where everyone can have, and say, whatever they want and as much as they want, to the return to a world where people define themselves by their choices, or tastes (class) once more. All these things do not of course, in the short term, stop the raised tone of the debate having bad effects in the wider world. But they may prove to be very important in the long term. And in the interests of improving debate, please read my very first sentence again before replying.

Is there a way to add friends that live near u

Fernapple comments on Jan 26, 2019:

Under search members there is a map available, where you can see the location (aprox.) of everyone, and you can zoom in on your area as you like.

My love for all here, happy to be among you

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Welcome. People here like it if you are active in commenting on post, and you will find a lot of life and something for everyone in the groups, so when you have some time to spare check them out.

I think I have figured out the big conflict with christianity

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Unfortunately his message, (if he existed ) was not just love and acceptance. That's just the religious cherry picking.

How many on here find it difficult to share your views in your communities?

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

I am in business, so yes I do keep one foot in the closet for now, but I will retire soon, and then.

I am feeling happier today than I have felt in a little more than two years.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Its OK today, but just knowing someone else is really happy is cheering.

If you could snap your fingers and get any project instantly done in your garden, food forest or ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Hedge and grass cutting, I have just too much of it.

It just occurred to me this morning that some names in the Book of Mormon may be coded.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Neat it could be. He was a complete fraud, who must have known that it was silly to write a nineteenth century book in sixteenth century English. What God can not understand modern languages ?

Topic for Discussion

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

In one way I do not think that the quote is factually accurate, since I do not think there was ever a time when societies worshiped the Goddess alone. Before monotheism people worshiped many things not merely the Goddess but male gods, animal gods, spirits and even material objects. However there is a theory, which should be taken with a pinch of salt perhaps, that in early times people did not understand the male role in fertility, and therefore the mother Goddess was worshiped because womens ability to produce babies from nowhere was seen as magical. And when the truth was discovered misogyny meant that many male religious leaders tried to assert the male as foremost. Of course this did not happen at the same time everywhere, and so there were some societies who accepted the new order and some who did not, and of course humans being what they are, that meant both conflict and evil propaganda. Then in the end since the monotheist male religions won, and the winners write history, it was their propaganda which survived. I think however that there may be another factor as well, which is that the monotheist religion arose in the desert areas of the middle east. In those desert areas nature is at its harshest and survival therefore means more than anything, having the support of the group in those areas. That gave much more powers to strong violent males who could bully and control groups. Because in the desert there was nowhere else for dissidents to go, no river to voyage down, no forest to hide in and most of all no food except the social group's flocks of animals, nor any natural diversity to encourage different ways of life. And of course Religion reflects the societies which make it.

5 Reasons Going To Mars is a TERRIBLE Idea | Answers With Joe - Joe Scott [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

A very good video, I am sorry to say that a lot of people seem to think naively that space travel is a lot easier than the reality. They should be made to watch a video like this about the difficulties of just getting to the next planet, let alone escaping the solar system, before they are allowed to speculate about visiting aliens on other star systems or them visiting us.

The USA experience from a UK perspective.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

It is the sad old truth that, those who know they will loose all the arguments are the first to reach for their guns. Many people are brought up in the religious world where "faith" or belief without evidence, is praised as a virtue. And with that comes the idea that truth is not an objective thing, to be sought at any cost, but is always that which confirms what you wish to be true. When you have two such different approaches to understanding as that, then there can never be a meeting of minds, if you have spent your whole life being taught that if you like it to be true, then that is truth, the idea that truth could demand effort and personal pain to find and involve having to go through revision of your world view, which is the rationalist approach, is completely alien.

Hello Everybody.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Welcome, sounds like you will fit in well here, if you don't like woo there are a few woo merchants on the site, but you can just ignore them, or they may block you which just means you don't see them any more, great. Check out the groups there is something for everyone and a lot of the site's life is there. Enjoy.

I was just asked to approve a comment from a new member, as you sometimes are, so I did.

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

Thanks for all the replies Everone.

Going with relatively modern anthropology spanning recent centuries in America, I am hoping for ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 25, 2019:

It sometimes seems that the twentieth century especially before the seventies, is a different world in a different age. I hope that is true though you can never be sure, but even if all that happens is that such things are driven underground, that at least limits there magnitude and scope to some degree. And that will be a small victory for the modern media.