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These Atheist Activists Are Picking the Wrong Battles - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Atheism is just not believing in one thing, I am sorry to say that does not always mean that you have great social and political skills if you fall in that group. Like every social group Atheists and Agnostics have to accept that there will be people who sometimes shoot themselves and the movement in the foot, that is why it is so important to keep talking, educating and setting good examples even to those close to us.

I want to do a tour of the UK. Ideas?

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

London is great, but do not spend all your time there. There is a lot more to the UK, and if you have never been to Europe before and you really want to widen your experiences, then of course you need to get out of the cities with their international culture to find genuine and different cultures. Scotland and Ireland are great, but do not forget Wales, Cornwall/Devon, East Anglia (very close to London.) or the North of England, all of which are not as far from London and very different.

Hey Dominos TV commercial just had the teacher run out of her math lecture for a Dominos pizza ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Anti education, but of course they know that anyone with half an education, or even the power to think for themselves is not looking at or paying any attention to TV adds. Therefore all TV commercials are targeted at the most vulnerable people in society. Just like religion it is all about exploiting the weak, and if you are happy to do that, then why would you baulk at feeding their prejudices.

Hey Dominos TV commercial just had the teacher run out of her math lecture for a Dominos pizza ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Anti education, but of course they know that anyone with half an education, or even the power to think for themselves is not looking at or paying any attention to TV adds. Therefore all TV commercials are targeted at the most vulnerable people in society. Just like religion it is all about exploiting the weak, and if you are happy to do that, then why would you baulk at feeding their prejudices.

Longtime no hear from me to you.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Nerd heaven.

Is the image moving? Don't hurt your eyes now.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No sorry.

Admiral Nelson's flagship, undergoing restoration.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Is there a link or a photo ?

So, as I've said before, I'd love to have a filter for selected topics.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No you would end by making everyones view narrower, diversity is what makes this site not only exciting but useful as well, and if some posts are boring and shallow, well you just have to move on, that's life.

These were taken in 2017. Do you like the trellis for the honeysuckle?

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Really like the spider day lily. Do you know its name ?

New to the site and stoked to find that it's legit.

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Take the time to check out the groups, (there are a lot) because there is something for everyone. And enjoy.

Apparently we are getting a lunar eclipse later this month - 20 January.

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Just for interests sake some of the names given to the years full moons, mainly here in the UK, are: January: Wolf Moon February: Snow Moon March: Worm Moon April: Grass Moon May: Flower Moon June: Rose Moon July: Hay Moon August: Grain Moon September: Harvest Moon October: Hunter's Moon November: Frost Moon December: Cold Moon And when there is an extra moon in a month it is known as a Blue Moon. It is of no practical value today, though once it may have been vital, but it is quite cute.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Irina Pomeranseva

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

It makes you question your faith in the bell curve.

The Psychology Of Materialism, And Why It's Making You Unhappy | HuffPost Life

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

There is of course one irony here, which is that the big spenders tend to make things cheaper to buy, and that helps those who are happy on low incomes afford the few things they do need more easily.

Almost all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Very true, and I am sorry to say that most people fail that test badly. Including of course all people want power in the first place, which is why there are few in politics who are not basically sociopaths.

Summer has come 04 January 2019.

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Very funny. Now tell us how you manage to hang upside down without falling of the planet ?

'Ultima Thule': Nickname for New Horizons' Target Celebrates Exploration, Not Nazis, Scientist Says...

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Make a positive use of the name and win it back from the Nazis. In any case I for one have been long familiar with the name , had no idea of its use by the Nazis. If you do enough research you will after all find that there is hardly any name they did not use at some time. OK not many people are called Adolphus these days, but lets leave it at that.

Two shots from Olbrich Botanical Gardens Conservancy, featuring a blooming Alocasia and an Amaryllis...

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Were those taken recently ? I looked up the Olbrich Gardens they look wonderful, you are very lucky to be near such a beautiful garden.

Propaganda is to a democracy, what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state....Noam Chomsky.

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Nor are the two mutually exclusive.

Virginia Satir

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Very true, though I think that we all fail to cope for the most part, and that it is our failing that makes the biggest difference. Or maybe I'm just a glass half empty sort of person.

This one may generate some discussion... Apolitical Atheism - BionicDance [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

One of the great failings of representative democracy as it exists in most of the world, is that voters are only offered a choice between joining and voting for two great tribal lumps, called the left and the right. Which means that any voter who thinks, is forced into voting, if at all, for a whole range of things they will not agree with. Why add another item to the list. And remember when mixing politics with religion; in most of Northern Europe where there are state churches, there is a largely secular population, while in the former soviet union where the state tried for many years to enforce secularism, the churches could hardly be stronger.

My wife is going on a cruise, I drove her to Chicago airport.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

You have to make the most of every second of not hurting you get with everyone you meet, even those you only half like let alone the ones you love. They all get hurt or leave one day.

He's coming home.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Great, I hope the new year goes on getting better and better for you.

Awesome Homemade Inventions 2018 - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Wonderful, though it is hard to see the point of one or two of them.

I highly recommend this book.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Thanks, it is good to get a book recommended, especially since having seen some of your posts I now have an idea of your tastes. It may be that you have to forgive the lack of mentioning the facts on paternally inheritable mitochondrial DNA as this is fairly new science and it can take five or more years to get a book to print. Who is the publisher ?

I seen this on a friend's Facebook post.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

A bit contrived but still funny, and I have never seen that picture before but I certainly have no problem with the naked truth.

I would like to get in touch with agnostic people because it changes the view on the world and ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Welcome, if you like photos there are lots of interesting photography on the groups pages.

Someone in Cheltenham, United Kingdon, has more money than sense.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Reminds me of the cans of darkness that were once sold at the time of a solar eclipse. Though those were intended as a joke.

On This Day in Space! Jan. 1, 1801: Giuseppe Piazzi Discovers Ceres [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

That is just under twenty years after William Herschel discovered Uranus, in March 1781, so people at the time were probably expecting to find new things in the solar system. It was also a time when telescope technology was moving forward fast; thanks in part to Herschel himself, who not only did astronomy but also made his own telescopes and lenses with the help of his sister, which he sold to other people to help support their work.

3.6 million years ago, two (early) people went for a walk... [humanorigins.si.edu]

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Interesting and I liked the art work, but it is a pity there are no photos of the footprints, or did I miss them.

Happy New Year! peace freedom solidarity terraprotectivityispriority respectterralife ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Happy new year. Nice links.

I don't mind being called "unattractive" or "ugly" but please don't assume I or anyone else is ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Real working and worldly intelligence, has little to do with problem solving ability. It is much more to do with personalty; especially, honesty about the limits of your knowledge, caring enough to work at things and not being happy with second best and most of all, having the strength to change when you find you are wrong.

Fascinating and horrifying

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Make the most of it, it will soon be the Forties and you will be engaged in a world war again.

One of the things I've always noticed about the bible belt is they have a grudge against "book ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If you only read one book, bad enough. If you only have one book selectively read to you for half an hour every Sunday ? But if there is an intellectual elite in charge of the state in the US, why do they allow people to finish school without a suitable education anyway ?

Most plausible theory on the Princes in the Tower?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

High infant mortality in those days. Especially when locked in cold dark towers and not fed much, the connection between food and staying alive was not well understood then.

Spiritual but not religious?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

It is an attempt to make Woo sound respectable by giving it a vague but fancy name.

Happy New Year Y'all..

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Thanks, nice picture, happy new year.

To achieve greatness you must listen to the smallest voice.

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

I am very bad at looking its true, I should pay a lot more attention and look a lot more carefully.

Is my brain weird?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If your brain is not weird you should not be on this site. Thanks for the images they are now lodged in my brain too.

Happy New Years from our family and yours! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Happy new year.

The Wooest thing I've ever found by accident.

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Could not watch all of this, she lost me at "guardian angel" it is really yuk. And I have the terrible thought, I REALLY hate the fact that she probably earns more than me for doing this. If only I had no taste or conscience.

Inspired by a recent post, I made this - which I thought might be fun to add to some of the more ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Boy that would be brave. Having said that there was a post just today, on this very site, about how alien genetics could account for hybrid animals in mythology. A woo hooter would be really useful, if it does not get you banned.

Happy new year everyone.

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Happy new year, to the only man on this site who admits to being older than me. Best wishes.

All the best to everyone on this Site, & thanks to @Admin, @SiteSupport & everyone else that keeps ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Thank you, Happy new year.

Dear Everyone: May your entire 2019 be even better than you hope!

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Thank you, and best wishes and good health to you.

Over the holidays I was back in Ga, and visited my family, that included the ones on the trump ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Old saying. "The only things that are important are the things you can escape a shipwreck with."

Positively Uplifting I want this group to find happy, kind, uplifting, inspirational events that ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

May help you to make it plain that Positively Uplifting is the group name, as the link just takes people to the groups list.

Putting alkaline water in my ear helps me lose weight...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Pity it is "news" and not advice.

Is the question "is there a god?" important to you?

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

None could be less important. Since if there is a deist god who is hidden, then that god chooses to make no difference to our life here on earth, and can be treated ( assume wishes to be ) the same as none existent. And if god is not hidden, then it does not provide any worth while evidence, therefore it fails again.

Bettany Hughes : YouTube. “The seven wonders of the Buddhist world.”

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

So where is the link?

Atheists party

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

None. Ideology is like god, it gives simple answers to complicated questions for those who are not prepared to make the effort to think.

“There are two types of double stars.

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Astronomy and relationships, and true for both. Very original.

Putting alkaline water in my ear helps me lose weight...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Sleeping with quantum energy in your hair unclogs arteries. Wow!

Favorite historical fiction book?

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

War and Peace,

The Death of Facebook | How Social Media Ripped Apart a Generation - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Facebook was of course set up to be an alternative to the Internet, easy Internet for the lazy and not so bright. People who can and who really have something to add, or say, build or pay for websites etc., but Facebook is there for the can't be bothered. So it is natural that it gets just the boring and shallow that no body could be bothered to make an effort over. I was told to do it for my business, but it is so shallow boring and dull it holds no interest and as soon as I can stop I will.

These were all taken this year in the first two weeks of June. Which one is your favourite?

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Thrift and Cinnamon fern second. Thrift is a native here and I have seen it growing on the cliff tops of Cornwall at Lizard Point , which is nearly as far west as you can get on the mainland.

Hello everyone i have just joined this group.

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Hello and welcome this is the place, check out the members map to see if there is anyone near you.

Question: How do you go about finding new friends to hang out with?

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Volunteer to help with some charity works, and sports clubs etc. you do not have to be great at it, but you will meet people with shared interests, you will learn new social skills, and most of all, even if you do not meet someone special, you will at least have the knowledge that you have done something useful with the time while you were looking.

Slut Shaming Preacher

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2018:

Why would anyone get annoyed, he is doing the best promotion for atheism I have ever seen. And as for violence. "Those who know that they can not win the argument, reach for their guns." Not the other way round.

The most cute puppy ever is desperately fighting for his life in freezing water.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Not likely to happen.

Awoke this morning, always a plus for me, and a thought crossed my mind, (a second plus), any way, ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

It is not a matter of wanting. The religious mind set and the skeptical one approach life from completely different ends. The skeptic sees truth as something to be sought at any cost, even if it hurts and means changing your world view in painfully difficult ways; the religious see truth as being any idea which confirms what they want to believe.

We put a "habitat" garden in our yard mostly to attract humming birds and butterflies.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

And we will be left quite alone with only our parasites for company. Every garden can be and should be a nature reserve.

Don't try to explain this to a religious person. They'll develop seizures.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Sadly they wont. They will just give you several hours worth of nonsense that you have heard thousands of times before, and if you try to point out the faults with any of it, they will just stick their fingers in their ears. Then they will tell you that philosophical, historical and scientific methods are the wrong way to look at religion.

Something about Neanderthals - How Neanderthal are you? [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

A lot of the problems stem from hubris. Because we used to think that humans were really special, and because everyone working in anthropology thinks that their discoveries are really important, we end up with dozens of species names and several genera for a few fossils spread over just a few million years. If the great apes of Africa were treated the same as every other group of animals, then we would all be in one genera and there would within that genera be two three species of humans at most.

Architectural brilliance or hubris?

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Art pollution. All architecture tells you two things about humans. 1. We are narcissistic. 2. We can not appreciated our natural environment.

"If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, he will spend it's entire life believing it is...

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Hard to argue with Albert, as he himself said, his career as an artists model was second to none. So he would be the best go to on the subject of being multitallented.

As if UK TV programmes ain't shit enough, they've brought back a particularly annoying advert.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

I think that the adds for gambling sites are the worst. We do not allow tobacco products to be advertised, nor are traditional bookmakers allowed, yet these adds are pushing something which can be even more harmful, and what is more, they are portraying it as something that makes people happy. Car adds are next, since if you are selling a food-mixer say, for 16 pounds you give all of the technological details and costs etc. yet if you are selling a car for 16,000 pounds ten you are supposed to be impressed by badly lite shots of kids posing.

Just had to.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Why do men and women button their coats on the other sides ? Why do you spell, where and wear, two and too etc., differently when they sound the same, and no one gets confused when you talk to them ?

Just had to.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Life really ends not when your heart stops beating, but when you ask your last question.

May be because Im a bit of an emotional dude, but I keep coming back to the topic of Theodicy.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

It is an argument that some people like, but it is not the strongest. However I think that in the modern world most people are ready to accept the idea of the weight of evidence, and it certainly adds a little to that.

New here! Hope to find like minded people!

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Check out the groups to find out how rich the diversity is.

I'm not sure what category to put this post into.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

He was in danger too, and smoke could be a lot more hurtful to a cats eyes/nose than ours. So although he was being smart in fetching you, maybe it was not being all that unselfish.

I have had trouble finding work.

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Sadly some old advice on success was. People who are successful take just one thing that they are good at, and hammer away at it until it goes way beyond boring. It is great to have a wide and lively mind, but success goes to the narrow minded specialists who are willing to push themselves in one direction until they leave everyone else behind.

It appears that to thrive on this site one must hate our President....

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Presidents come and go, good websites last a lifetime.

The wisest have the most authority. Plato

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

Wish.

Beliefs inform actions. Actions have consequences [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

I am sure that the theistic world will try to distance itself from this young woman, by saying that they hold her actions to be extreme, misguided, and not part of mainstream theology. Just as the many theists try to distance themselves from religious terrorists etc.. Yet they created a world in which such thinking and ideas were normalized, and in which people are not encouraged to ask questions of the sort which could perhaps sometimes make them think. "Perhaps I need help, of the medical, social type." Therefore every theist has to carry some of the guilt, for every act of terrorism and insanity not stopped by mainstream society because of the buffer between that society and the extremist that the churches and temples provide.

"It takes a lot of effort to make it look effortless!" The first person I hear say (or suggest ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

May go all the way back to Capability Brown. But it is one of the great truths of gardening.

Japanese Herb Garden - I enjoy cooking Asian style foods, so I grow a lot of basil (several ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

Don't forget Lemon Grass, you may have to protect it if you are in a cold climate. (Sorry my US geography is not up to knowing how cold Charlottesville is.) But it is very easy even from shop bought stalks.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

The idea of Cupid and Psyche dates of course from classical times. As do a lot of the ideas you find in Shakespeare, some people have therefore have seen him as histories greatest plagiarist, but that is a misunderstanding, (so was Chaucer) of the way people thought in those days. In the late middle ages real creativity was seen as taking the existing stream of stories and giving them new life, rather than inventing new ones. To take an old idea and move it forward was seen as the highest artistic attainment, since that showed both that you could be creative, and yet still work within the traditional framework. It was thought that the stream of wisdom (Rosicrusianism) would guide your hand if you were reverent enough; and was this same spirit that drove the many rewriters of the bible, especially the King James, who saw no problem with giving the work a new spin, since they believed that God guided the holy.

If ever there was a reason for a person to think that an angry old man in the sky created mankind in...

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2018:

Wonderful, the great human gift is not that we are at the centre of the universe, but that we conscious and are able to stand in awe of the universe.

Peggy Maskrey, 97, who made helping the poorest her life's mission awarded MBE in special day at ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Best way to get a life, give up some of yours.

I've been thinking about some of the people I have met along the way in my journeys here and there ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;- Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on a desert air. T Gray

New to this, testing to see if anyone sees my post

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

Yes well done, got it even here in the UK. Isn't the net wonderful. Enjoy the site and check out the groups, there is something for everyone.

Hercules versus Jesus.

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

You can also fit Osiris into the myth, as well as Mithra, and half a dozen other demigods, many of whom like Osiris predate both Jesus and Hercules by centuries. The fact of the matter is, that the basic myth had been around for ages before the new testament. In fact if you think about it even Moses fits it a bit. The fact that the Jesus myth fits the old stories so well, is a clear proof that people were deliberately trying to fit the frame, and not relating an original news report.

If you are an Atheist or an Agnostic do you celebrate Christmas?

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

End of the winter solstice, heading for spring now, what could be a better reason to celebrate. Cheers !!!

I want to wish all of the members a very Happy, Merry whatever you celebrate & give wishes for a ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

Best wishes to you too. I really like this group it seems full of life, thank you.

The one thing that religion offers that secularism fails to equal is the transcendence of self, the ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2018:

The feeling that some people get of transcendence gained from so called spirituality, is an entirely inner feeling, it can not be passed on to any other person and is therefore an entirely ego centric delusion, and is therefore just the opposite of selfless. The only thing that religion offers which secularism does not is a body of work in the arts stretching back forty centuries or more, and we will catch up with that in time.

The Truth About Christmas - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2018:

Sad but probably true.

Finished framing up the north wall today.

Fernapple comments on Dec 24, 2018:

Good strong structure, Should even take snow.

People asked Agnostics.com "Is there a God?" and the site said "There is now"......