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Fernapple comments on Oct 3, 2018:
I hate the way that cafes/restaurants pass soup though their blenders, and especially then put cream on top which adds nothing to the dish, today. I blame the trendy chefs who should all be made to stay in their kitchens and of the TV etc. anyway. In my day, (Grumpy old man phrase.) soup had lumps in it and texture, it was an interesting dish, and not just a boring way to get your customers to eat the leftovers.
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Fernapple comments on Oct 3, 2018:
Not just the USA, largely secular tollerant western Europe is a very small enclave in a very big and bigoted world. Do not forget just how small we are.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it......Voltaire.
Fernapple comments on Oct 1, 2018:
So true. If one person looses freedom of speach we all do, because we are then in the hands of whoever decides to appoint themselves to the post of choosing who shall speak and who not, and those who do not get to speak are usually the oppressed who need their voice most.
What are your favorite proofs against the Bible?
Fernapple comments on Sep 30, 2018:
The fact that Jesus called gentiles 'dogs' not worthy of feeding, yet saint Paul makes them his ministry. (Sorry I see that's in there, posted first and read second, but it is still vital.)
Tell me what grammar mistakes get under your skin.
Fernapple comments on Sep 30, 2018:
I could not care less I only care about what you are trying to say. (And it should be 'grammatical',) Sorry only kidding.
At what age did you stop believing in traditional love as perpetuated in music / movies / mainstream...
Fernapple comments on Sep 30, 2018:
I do not think there ever was just one kind of love, even in music films, etc., the secret of making it work is not to expect too much before hand, and to understand that not everyone is going to get a great big romance every time. But that is true of everything in life, and it is also true that the media as a whole falsely raise our expectations of everything in life, if we measure any part of our lives against the fairy-tales used by those who are trying to sell us something then we will always be disappointed
There is no agnostic vs. atheist! The peeve I have...
Fernapple comments on Sep 27, 2018:
The big division which really counts, is between holding groundless belief or not, the niceties within scepticism are tiny and unimportant compared with that. Some may think that they are on a higher rung of the ladder than others, and that may be true, but the really important thing is to have looked up and started the climb out of the cesspit of ignorance and prejudice which is blind unquestioning , looking at the light and not swimming nose down among the sludge where the users want to keep you. Therefore it is cruel and unfair to despise those who can not climb quite as fast, or use a different ladder, and for that reason I always call myself a 'Broard Church Sceptic.'
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care is whether he is a wise man or a fool.
Fernapple comments on Sep 26, 2018:
Most people are I my experience at least good by nature. Therefore it follows that most of the aviodable harm in the world is caused by folly or laziness and not ill intent.
The value of life is not the end of it, but the use we make of it....Moliere.
Fernapple comments on Sep 25, 2018:
Very true, and the contribution we did our best to make to the world is the best comfort we have when facing mortality.
“Never trust a man who reads only one book.
Fernapple comments on Sep 22, 2018:
If they can only read one book, why do they always have to choose the worst ones? And if you were going to recommend a second book which would it be? Mine would be H. G. Wells, 'The Outline Of History', It has its faults but at least t encourages thinking, looks at the big issues without blushing and its fun to read.
Has anyone else had a religious friend ask where your sense of morality comes from?
Fernapple comments on Sep 20, 2018:
I would tell them, from evolved human nature, supplemented by reason, knowledge of history and cultural inheritance; in other words from the same place as yours. Only mine is modest, tries to move on, adapt and keep up with the times, it does not pretend to be perfect, to have finally answered every question or to do so by claiming a false divine authority which keeps it ill adapted and only suited to a distant primitive past. Religious morality is only secular morality trying to big itself up with extra authority, which in the end only makes it harshly inhuman an inflexible. I would then like to point out that the fact that as there are so many different religious moralities, often deeply at odds with one another, they surely follow exactly the pattern I would expect from early pre-global communications cultures, if they were in fact secular moralities, and that if they were inspired by god they would all be the same, or at least as similar as the modern consensus seem to be. Therefore religious morality is a very strong proof that there is no god!
Are we all basically selfish apes?
Fernapple comments on Sep 18, 2018:
It is very complicated, evolution and the nature of life provides that humans may be motivated in many ways. We may be selfish, family/group altruistic, wish to appear altruistic even when we are not for selfish or group gain, be truly altruistic which may be an error, or seek simple mutual benefit, while a lot of our actions may just be neutral, motivated by unthinking habit for example, and all of these motives are not exclusive but usually overlap and reinforce each other. Moreover while what is selfish may appear altruistic, it is also true that what is altruistic may often seem selfish in the eyes of others; and you must not forget the great power of self delusion, that we are capable of believing we are acting for one reason when our real motivations are quite else, it is not just others who may mistake our motives. This is why ideologies such as Christianity and Marxism, which claim to be totally altruistic, always come in the end to produce the greatest social injustices where the religious and political establishments enrich themselves at the expense of the poor while still claiming, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, to act for the greatest good of all; since of course they do not allow for any of this. Such are the things which make human politics so difficult or interesting however you choose to see it.
Do you think that living in a foreign country for a long period of time changes people?
Fernapple comments on Sep 18, 2018:
If you have an open mind to start with it can not open more, if you have a closed mind it can not be forced open, but the people in the middle gain a lot. P. S. Old saying. "It was traveling away from it which taught me the most about my own country."
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...
Fernapple comments on Sep 16, 2018:
What a shame that most of Epicurus is lost, he seems like the perfect thinker for today. Does anyone know any more good quotes from him?
(English) Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Fernapple comments on Sep 12, 2018:
I do not think that the churches and the schools in many countries including the uk are really two different things anyway. Many public schools in the past (and still) were run by churchs, and many state schools to this day are still in the church system. It is only now a few years since T. Blair tried to push schools even deeper into the church and mosque by enabling the 'Faith Schools' and a more retrograde step was I think never taken by anyone in modern times. What else would you do this for except to undermine all attempts at true education?
"Science doesn't know Everything.
Fernapple comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Science admits what it does not know because science is basically just honesty organized. Religion does not have any more evidence than science, but does not have any shame about dishonest claims either.
When to switch primarily identifying as an Agnostic to Atheist?
Fernapple comments on Sep 9, 2018:
I sometimes call myself a 'broard church' skeptic, because I think that the biggest split do not forget is between belief and none belief, compared with leaving groundless faith behind the other divisions are tiny, and the most important thing have left behind with that faith is dogma.

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