I am not a Conservative (at least not in the American meaning of this word), but I have to ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 24, 2022:

That is a very dark (and in certain instances, accurate) view of idealism and values. Before I say more I would make a tiny modification to the thesis "values and ideals are tools to gain and to maintain power." In place of the word "tools," I would use the term "stepping stones." I make this modification because those who use ideals and values only to propel themselves upward into positions of power tread upon those values, sully them with their muddy feet, bastardize them, and pervert them. Power corrupts not only the powerful, but also everyone and everything it touches. I'm sure that George Washington appreciated this when he voluntarily relinquished power even though many of his admirers wished he would not. And in so doing, our first president vested power back in the ideals and values that birthed a nation. Washington led by example, and made it possible for a vast, interesting, and worthy experiment to be carried out, with no fixed end date. All we have to do to end the experiment is allow shallow, venal, self-interested, misanthropic, and mediocre people to distract us with fear and loathing of our fellows while they seize power for themselves. Or we can keep the experiment going by using the power of our values and ideals, and the institutions we have created to preserve them, to fight rot and corruption, and hold criminals accountable. It only takes a little faith. Well, maybe a lot. But it's not like we haven't been here before.

[lexfridman.com] Big picture of Russia and Oliver Stone.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 24, 2022:

I didn't hear every word of it because I fell asleep near the end. But I heard enough to know that Oliver Stone is ready to give Vlad the Invader a pass for his genocidal project in Ukraine because....why? He interviewed the vampire and found him to be "balanced." I found most of what Stone said rather thin and unconvincing; a lot like his shitty movie on JFK.

Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled sexual abuse allegations, report says - CNN

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 23, 2022:

I wonder how Q Anon managed to get Christian churches confused with the federal government. It's pretty obvious where the pedophiles are.

As absurd as the whole concept of the "Trinity" appears, I thought one way to maybe make it somewhat...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 23, 2022:

I'm sure that Tyson and Nye are honored to be in company with Sagan, but I doubt that any of them would approve of their deification, even in jest.

Now they say science and religion are the same

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 23, 2022:

Who says science and religion are the same?

Small Step for Man, Giant Step for the Mankind

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 23, 2022:

We are moving in that direction (away from religion and toward free thinking), but our progress is agonizingly slow.

[ancient-origins.net] The killer rabbit from the holy grail movie had historical connections

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

Wow, I never knew! Cool 😎

Just learned of the death of an iconic American retailer.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

I can't think of any cucumber jokes, even though my mind is running like a pickle seeder.

Well I'm sure this completely ruined her day Nancy Pelosi denied Holy Communion by San Francisco ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

If I know Nancy she will stick to her guns.

I appreciate the responses to my latest blog concerning my promotion of my blog site at agnosic.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

You're alright with me buddy. Congratulations on your liberation, btw.

Wow.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

Is this a put-on? What are you, five? 😂

Who remembers "The George Carlin Show?" [youtu.be]

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

I didn't know there was one. Damn! What did I miss? Around the time that show aired my family lived waaaay out in the boondocks. Our telephone was on a party line (one line shared by multiple parties, each with their own ring; any of the other parties could listen in on your calls), and our TV only got one channel (6). The bus ride to school was 15 miles up a winding mountain road, and took over an hour each way because of all the stops.

Some are predisposed to believing in superstitions, blind faith and ignorance

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

That sounds about right. The term of art is "confirmation bias."

Nowadays it is fashionable to constantly pillory white people and to put Western culture in the ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 22, 2022:

Yes, there is criticism of white people. And it is well deserved. The indigenous people of North America were the only people who lived sustainably on this continent. And while slavery and genocide have been practiced by many cultures, Europeans did these things on a larger scale, and through colonization, exported their culture to the four corners of the globe. You obviously feel the criticism of white culture acutely. I think you should not worry about it too much. Self criticism is, as you pointed out, an important part of the culture. The culture can survive it. In fact, I suspect that it (self criticism) is a key to the continued flourishing of the human civilization that white culture has helped to build. Right now we stand at a crossroads. This wonderful civilization that we have built with energy from fossil fuels is in grave danger of collapse. Not today or next week, but within only a few generations we could see this planet become largely uninhabitable. A mass extinction of animal species is already underway Burning fossil fuels is rapidly heating up the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. And the oceans are becoming more acidic. We are rapidly approaching natural tipping points in the climate system which, if crossed, will accelerate the warming beyond any possibility of reversing it. If we fail to change course in time, if civilization collapses, if we drive ourselves to extinction, it will be on the heads of the white men who own and operate the fossil fuel industry, the mostly white men who the fossil fuel industry hires to lobby Congress for lax regulation of their industry, the mostly white congresspeople and presidents who have failed to enact stricter laws regulating fossil fuels and failed to fund the technological transition necessary to avert climate catastrophe, and the mostly white American electorate that has failed to see through the lies and obfuscations of the fossil fuel industry as represented by the think tanks (disinformation mills) they fund. We are hurtling towards a cliff with our foot on the accelerater. If we go over, it will be on the people most responsible for inventing, building out, using the fossil fuel infrastructure, i.e. white people. I say now is not the time to suspend criticism. Let's see civilization saved first. Then we can celebrate our accomplishments.

Poll Reveals American Church Membership Is At An All-Time Low

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 21, 2022:

This is good goddamn news! 😂

17 Sex Tricks Men Learn From Porn That Women Wish We Could Wipe From Your Brain

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 21, 2022:

Points well taken. Especially relevant in the age of the "smart" phone.

Vadim Shishimarin's commanding officer needs to be captured, tried, convicted and punished, which ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 21, 2022:

Shishimarin is just a kid. What a waste.

Now what?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 21, 2022:

It's been almost 16 months since the J6 insurrection, and it still feels raw, like it was yesterday. Trump continues to claim that he won the election. In a few days the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection will begin to hold public hearings. Adam Schiff and others on the Committee have asserted that there is ample evidence that Trump is guilty of attempting to defraud the United States. And we have recently learned that the Justice Department has empaneled a grand jury and has been quietly investigating Trump and his minions. Tension is rising as expectations of bombshell revelations rise. Meanwhile, a white supremacist with an AR15 just murdered ten black people in Buffalo. The mid-terms are still 5 months away and I'm already exhausted.

What do you expect to happen in the upcoming election in terms of being conducted fairly?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 21, 2022:

With all the voter suppression laws that have recently been passed around the country, I don't see how any national election can be fair.

Democrat waited for bicyclist. Republican aggressively cut me off.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 20, 2022:

Par for the course, unfortunately.

But we are now civilized

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 19, 2022:

Funny that he lumps two legitimate natural sciences and a natural biological function together with supernatural nonsense. What a gibbering idiot. Sigh.

Is it ok to affirm someone's untrue beliefs?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 19, 2022:

Q: What if you were talking with an acquaintance and they started telling you that the Earth is 6000 years old? Would you politely tell them that their belief is wrong - possibly bringing up evidence such as fossils and DNA? A: Yes Q: What if they insisted that you affirm that their belief in a young Earth was true? A: They would go away frustrated Q: What would you do if they were your employer? What if they made such affirmation a requirement of you being employed there? A: If it was a government employer, I would get the ACLU to file 1st Amendment law suit on my behalf. If it was a private employer, I might quit, but maybe not. If they harassed me at work I would file a hostile workplace lawsuit. Q: Have you ever felt that you had to affirm something you didn't believe in yourself? What was it? What did you do? A: Not that I recall

WV school district finally settles case involving Bible indoctrination classes

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 19, 2022:

West Virginia: the state that gave us that fossil-fuel magnate, the Republican Senator who calls himself a Democrat, Mr. Joe Manchin!

Judge halts Christian-only prayer at Parkersburg (WV) City Council meetings

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 19, 2022:

It's about time! Hooray for FFRF!

How much do you agree with this assertion?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 19, 2022:

The proposition is quite an oversimplification.

Anyone else lost your sense of taste or smell from COVID-19?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 19, 2022:

Not so far. Don't think I have been infected.

In the middle of a severe baby formula shortage, many have suggested mothers should simply switch to...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 18, 2022:

All the things that could help us avoid undue reliance on a manufacturing supply chain, such as paid parental leave, free lactation consultants and breastfeeding education, pumping rooms and the right to breastfeed in public to encourage more mothers to breastfeed, these things have all been proposed by Democrats and shot down by Republicans. Just sayin.

Abortion is an Atheist issue.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 18, 2022:

Actually, I think to the extent abortion is an issue, it's a religious issue. It's believers in a mythical sky daddy, with their crazy notions of "ensoulment" who are sticking their noses into what is essentially a private matter.

You can get out': Lyft driver stands up against passengers' racist comments.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 18, 2022:

What the woman said was indeed inappropriate, but I could see most people shrugging it off and just going on with business as usual. What is remarkable is the driver's sensitivity to that ugliness and his willingness to call it out. And then, sealing the deal, you can hear the guy off camera call the driver a "n****r lover." I think the last time I heard anyone utter that phrase I was in junior high, nearly 50 years ago. Thanks to assholes like the Done Cheato, what was once on the fringe has now become mainstream. On his cable TV show, Fox News' Tucker Carlson has spoken of the mythical "great replacement" of white people by people of color over 400 times. You can draw a straight line from Trump and Fox News to the recent massacre of black folks in Buffalo. Trump, Carlson, and his boss, Rupert Murdoch, all have blood on their hands.

Mrs Betty Bowers on abortion, God & Jesus.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

A 40% miscarriage rate may be a low estimate.

I guess to a conspiracy theorist, you'd have to be "intelligent" to know how doors work.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

The idea that Mars is a viable option for colonization is utter rubbish.

You understood wrong all along

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

Silent about what? About abortion, yes.

Lying smart is a skill, and humans failed

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

I agree with the proposition. The probability that it was the other way around is vanishingly small.

A school board member justified bigotry with Jesus. This mom wasn't having it.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

To the student and parent who spoke up, I say right on!

A couple of years ago I totaled out a company truck.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

The fact is, what happened (a near miss) was a pretty common occurrence, and requires no supernatural explanation. Glad you made it through unscathed!

If the Church of Scientology were to start preaching Science it would be worth listening to what ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 17, 2022:

That's a conversation I would actually welcome (unlike the wacko, superstitious nonsense the proselytizers usually spout).

I’ve pretty much been single since my ex wife wandered off in 2009.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 16, 2022:

Yup, I'm the same way. I won't even date anyone who identifies as Christian.

A shared delusion led to an 'exorcism' that killed a 3-year-old girl

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 16, 2022:

I remember a story I heard out of Mexico back in the 70s. There was a drought and this farmer's corn crop was failing, so he took his young son out to the field and sacrificed him to some Aztec god.

The Future

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 16, 2022:

Ever seen the movie GATTACA?

Which of these do you believe the Earth to be?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 16, 2022:

The Earth will be alright. It's ourselves we have to worry about.

There is a serious possibility that the US will have to face this question if not now, sometime in ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 16, 2022:

First, "risk" does not mean certainty. Second, what is meant by "nuclear war?" Full scale Armageddon? Or limited use of tactical weapons? I don't think it's worth destroying all complex life on Earth to stop Putin, but I seriously doubt that it will come to that. I do think that we should never give in to a crooked little thug.

Putin's murderous rabble was let loose on Bucha.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 16, 2022:

Having been found guilty of war crimes by the ICC in The Haige, poison him with polonium 210, as he has done to so many others.

I recently met with an old friend of the last 59 years.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

I have a friend and former colleague who is an evangelical Christian. We were both science teachers when he revealed to me that he did not believe Darwin's theory of evolution was A) a valid explanation of the origin of species, B) supported by a vast and growing mass of evidence, and C) almost universally accepted by scientists the world over. He admitted that his religious belief was guiding his thinking on this matter of science. I told him he had better take another look at it, and that until he did he would be doing his students a disservice. We did not communicate much or at all for some time after that (we taught in different schools, so this was natural). When we finally did meet up again (for a long hike in the back country) he told me that his thinking on Darwin had shifted 180 degrees. I was very gratified to know that I had had a role in making a better teacher and very proud of my friend for showing mental flexibility and the ability to grow.

I recently met with an old friend of the last 59 years.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

We'll all miss you here when you're gone, Walt. Your old buddy? Not so much.

Julian Assange said this

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

Assange was reckless and put people's lives in jeopardy. And he succeeded in doing nothing more than furthering the aims of Vladimir Putin. We can see how that worked out.

The happiest nations on Earth are strongly secular

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

Why wouldn't people be happier after stepping out from under the oppression of an invented, imaginary, morally twisted, vengeful, angry god and his earthly army of sycophants?

Why was the popular vote so close in the US presidential election?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

The popular vote in the 2020 election was not close. Biden won by over 7 million votes (about a 10% margin of victory).

How do you feel about Parler being removed from the Internet?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

Facebook and other platforms have not done nearly enough to tamp down the proliferation of disinformation. And it's clear that Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) made a conscious decision to prioritize profits over the good of the country.

What did Trump do, if anything, to incite violence?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

Trump stirred up anger with false claims of election fraud, implemented a plan to interfere with the certification of electoral college votes, told people to "fight like hell" before sending them marching to the Capitol, advocated beating up protesters at his rallys (and said he would pay the legal fees), and brought white nationalism into the mainstream with comment like "very fine people" applied to white nationalists who chanted "Jews will not replace us," beat up counter-protesters, and drove a car at high speed into a crowd, killing one person and injuring many others. Trump definitely incited violence. Which is typical of cowards like him; he would NEVER put his own body on the line.

Putin "Very Ill With Blood Cancer" Russian Oligarch Recorded Saying | The Independent

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 15, 2022:

Boy, that would be swell if it's true.

Margaret Atwood Once Thought 'Handmaid's Tale' Was 'Too Far-Fetched.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

Having grown up with the feminist movement churning all around me, it is somewhat surprising to see so many women embracing the current patriarchal project. However, I probably should not be too surprised. Women played a big role in killing the Equal Rights Amendment.

Buffalo shooting: Police on the scene of "active multiple shooting" at supermarket - CNN

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

Apparently there was a good guy with a gun, and he was not able to stop the bad guy with a gun. So much for well-dressed Wayne's wacko theory.

Green Groups Push DeJoy to Hand Over Secret Documents From Polluting Truck Deal

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

Finally tying a can to old Louis? That is good news!

Louisiana Court drops charges against pastor who ignored COVID restrictions

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

Of course they let him off! There is no political gain in enforcing laws protecting public health in an environment where whatever happens is God's will.

If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

The problem is that all the formula is made by only a few big manufacturers. If one goes down, boom! You have a shortage. Those same big US players lobbied Congress to get laws passed that protect their market shares from foreign competition. So now it's hard to augment the supply from abroad. This is the American way: the rich and powerful making sure they stay rich and powerful. The same dynamic is at work with big pharma and drug prices. So much for all their blather about free markets, and Adam Smith's invisible hand.

A Christian school had kids write letters persuading a friend to stop being gay

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

They (Christians) will never give up thinking that being gay is an aberration, and not just another expression of the natural diversity within the human population. The scary thing is that they (Christians), with their benighted "morality" and atavistic impulses, want to run the effing country.

Actress Olivia Munn on Instagram Mother’s Day 2022, her first Mother’s Day “Thank you to ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 14, 2022:

Simple pleasures are often the best. 🙂

Do you agree that religious morality "comes down from savage ages" like Bertrand Russell said in ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 13, 2022:

I think Russel correctly identified the origin of so-called religious morality. If he could see what is going on today in Ukraine and Yemen and in the halls of the US Congress, I think he might agree that we are still living in savage ages.

I have a question that no Christian I have ever asked can answer.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 13, 2022:

Are you sure they're not just tattoos artfully designed to look like belly buttons? 😂

Words of Wisdom from Carl Everett: "God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 13, 2022:

If the Creation story is to be believed, dinosaurs and humans existed on Earth at the same time. There are "creation museums" around the country that depict humans sharing time and space with dinosaurs. Question: how was it that Noah could be so diligent and so thorough as to get the smallest critters like beetles and skinks aboard the ark, and yet forget the dinosaurs. How do you miss a dinosaur?

God, Dark Matter and Falling Cats: A Conversation with 2022 Templeton Prize Winner Frank Wilczek - ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 13, 2022:

Fritjof Capra wrote an excellent book about the similarities between modern physics and Taoism. The title is "The Tao of Physics." I highly recommend it.

Piece Of Shit Republican Dr Oz Claims To Be A Vegetarian.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 13, 2022:

Maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll shoot himself in the foot (rhetorically, with his base).

The naked truth.....

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 12, 2022:

I'll just point out that the academic achievements of students in many Asian (and European) countries are putting many American students in the shade.

If a fertilized egg is a person, then why don't we celebrate conception days instead of birthdays?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 11, 2022:

Maybe it's because if we celebrated conceptions it would remind us of all the ones that God (the world's most active abortionist) killed off before they were ever born.

While the opposite is true in the US, Non-Christian Europe: ‘Christianity as default is gone’...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 11, 2022:

Europeans look at the US with its Bible-thumping Evangelical Christians and just shake their heads.

A rural Kansas town voted to remove "In God We Trust" from police cars

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 10, 2022:

The mayor apparently is having second thoughts. I wonder how much of that is just him playing politics. To my mind, including the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, repeted daily in public schools, should also be disallowed. When that happens, then I will know that progress is being made.

A rural Kansas town voted to remove "In God We Trust" from police cars

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 10, 2022:

That's progress! 😂

A scientific study that verifies many of the things many atheists already think about how religious ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 10, 2022:

So the twin that was brought up ina strict religious household scored 16 IQ points lower than her sister who was brought up in a more free-thinking household. That is interesting. Not proof of anything, but still interesting. It could be that religious indoctrination negatively affects cognitive ability by training the person to not think critically. If one develops the mental habit of accepting dogmas without question, that may tamp down curiosity across the board. If you can always fall back on the easy answer that God did it, or that it was God's will, and God is by definition inscrutable, then why bother thinking deeply about why things are the way they are or happen the way they happen? More study is required!

UK Scientist Says Dobbs Lawyers Misinterpreted His Work in SCOTUS Case

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 9, 2022:

Misrepresenting science is not an anomaly, it's not a one-off, it's not an accident or a mistake. No. It's a tried and true modus operandi of the GOP for extending the profits of big tobacco, big oil, and furthering the theocratic agenda of Evangelical Christians.

Abortion Ruling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 9, 2022:

.Hear him! "...I can't defend the [electoral] system, but it's the one we've got." VOTE!

Heather Cox Richardson I told this story here two years ago, but I want to repeat it tonight, as ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 9, 2022:

Happy Mothers' Day 🙂

Indiana Republican Wins Primary Despite Being Jailed on Murder Charges - Rolling Stone

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 8, 2022:

Love the happy cat! 🐯

The business of religion

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 8, 2022:

The suffering of innocents is one of the strong arguments against the existence of God.

With all of the disgusting actions of believers in our government and elsewhere, I think it is time ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 8, 2022:

I wholeheartedly agree! I was just saying that we should elect a young, dynamic, lefty comedian to the presidency.

This Police-Pastor Alliance Is America's Most Tyrannical - YouTube

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 8, 2022:

This pastor demonstrates the rank hypocrisy of so many Christians, and the bias often apparent in government agencies. I hope the protester wins his case in court.

Did I mention that I'd fail miserably at trying to leave agnostic.com for a week?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 8, 2022:

Hey, you could do worse than to hang out here. But I admire your struggle with addiction. Hang in there homie. 😎

😁👋 Just thought I'd wander in here and leave an op-ed I read earlier.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 8, 2022:

And the author lives in Canada! Imagine jow the rest of us must feel! 😂 Much of what he says is true. But there is also a bit of dramatic hyperbole. For instance, the idea that Trump's Big Lie, or white supremacism, or Q Anon, or any of the other loony brain farts associated with trumpism is now mainstream is only partly true. Wacko conspiracy theories have joined the mainstream, are now part of the mainstream, but are definitely not THE mainstream. A majority of Americans are still reasonable people who maintain a healthy skepticism about all things Trump. We still believe in democracy, rule of law, honesty, fair play, and the potential for this country to be great. We also remember that this country's progress toward a more perfect union has always been halting, spasmodic, and aggravatingly slow. Yet progress has been made, and will continue to be made. We are going through a rough patch right now, but not the roughest one. We will get through this. Things will get better. They always do.

New Rule: The Misinformation Age | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 7, 2022:

A lie can go round the world while the truth is lacing up its boots. So wait 24 hours before making up your mind about the latest "news."

My wife asked if she could have a little peace and quiet while she cooked dinner.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 7, 2022:

😂😂😂

Satanic Temple follows ‘Judeo-Christian’ group’s SCOTUS win with flag request The Satanic ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 7, 2022:

I'm betting that Boston will fly the flag...for as brief a time as they can get away with. 😂

Vladimir Putin is an atheist, but he's not above using churches and religion to persuade and control...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 6, 2022:

The titular head of a Christian Church gives the stamp of approval to genocide. Another shining example of religious hypocrisy!

But God Didn’t Say That: Religious Community Members Talk God and Abortion - YouTube

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 6, 2022:

People tend to hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see. I'm so glad to hear even the Catholic admit that no mention of abortion is made in the Bible, and that the Church's stance was developed by a bunch of "celibate" men, a patriarchy with no personal experience in matters of reproduction. If the polls are correct, a sizeable majority of Americans think that abortion should be legal. So sending the decision back to the states will kick off spirited debates all over the country. Republicans stand to lose a lot of state legislatures and governorships. This could be a game changer.

Nearly 15M deaths associated with COVID-19, World Health Organization says

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 6, 2022:

SarsCoV2 was not even the worst possible virus. There are hundreds of other pathogens out there that are worse, just waiting for an opportunity. If people think they can skip the vaccine for the next bug, we could easily see a much greater loss of life.

I found this article through Google News and I thought many would find this interesting, especially ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 6, 2022:

I am not at all surprised to learn that abortion has been practiced throughout the ages. Women have always been up against difficulties in bearing and rearing children. An unplanned pregnancy at the wrong time might actually limit a family's chances of success or even survival. And knowledge of certain herbs was not uncommon.

Mrs. Betty Bowers the best Christian. [youtu.be]

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 5, 2022:

Funny! I especially appreciated the part about miscarriages... God is "America's most industrious abortionist." 🤣🤣🤣

Have you returned to exercising in a gym during the pandemic?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 5, 2022:

No, I never had a gym membership. I prefer to be outdoors, hiking or riding my bike or sailing my sailboat. I do have an old set of dumbbell weights. I use them to stretch out my pants. I have gained a little weight, and my pants are a little tight. So I clamp one end of my jeans waistband to a hook in the ceiling and 20 pounds to the other end. I spray a little water on the waistband to relax the cotton fibers a little. I usually leave the pants hanging for at least 24 hours. 😂

THE LONG, LUCRATIVE, AND BLOODY ROAD TO WORLD WAR III for American citizens & their NATO sycophants?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 5, 2022:

😂😂😂 Nice try Igor, but it won't fly. Mad Bad Vlad is not going to get away with genocide in Europe. We will not be deterred by your idle threats. We will see this through to the end. Russia will leave Ukraine and pay reparations for the damage it has caused. PS: I would take Kieth over Vlad any day.

The Satanic Temple requests that Boston fly its flag after Supreme Court ruling - CNNPolitics

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 5, 2022:

🤣🤣🤣 I ❤️ it!

A teacher tore down a non-Christian verse on her classroom "prayer wall"

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 5, 2022:

What's the matter? Can't stand the competition?

Recovering from COVID-19.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

Keep up the good work!

Sam Harris - Taking the Redpill on Freewill | Joe Rogan - YouTube

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

Free will: now there's an old, old debate topic. There is something to what he says. What we think, say, and do is obviously shaped by our culture, environment, experience, and neural wiring. Any yet I cannot help but think that I have choices, that I make executive decisions that may cut across all those other factors. Is my sense of freedom, limited though it may be, just an illusion? I don't think so.

Listening to The God delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

It's a good book. I should probably read it again 😂

Who the hell is your dealer?

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

That was before inflation spiked 🤣

Seth Andrews of "The Thinking Atheist Podcast" interviewed Dr.

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

I ride my Schwinn Cruiser to Sprouts, the Post Office, or the bank....or go for a longer ride on my mountain bike, or hike to the top of a local mountain, or walk around a lake, or walk along the embarcadero, or take my sailboat out on the bay (did that one yesterday; today is looking like a Sprouts run) 😊

I'm a member of The Satanic Temple and got outed at work — Ask a Manager

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

So much for constitutionally-protected rights. They only protect you from the government (on a good day), not from private citizens.

I'm a member of The Satanic Temple and got outed at work — Ask a Manager

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

So much for constitutionally-protected rights. They only protect you from the government, not from private citizens.

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Flyingsaucesir comments on May 4, 2022:

See ya later,.......constitutional rights! Bet you thought I was going to say something that rhymes with later. Well that's just not where my head's at right now. Go figure. 🐊

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Flyingsaucesir comments on May 3, 2022:

These guys are complete idiots. And, in typical imbecile fashion, they have taken a few of Darwin's words completely out of context, twisting them in a direction opposite to his intent. Here is the full text from which the morons drew the quote in their video clip: "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound. In looking for the gradations by which an organ in any species has been perfected, we ought to look exclusively to its lineal ancestors; but this is scarcely ever possible, and we are forced in each case to look to species of the same group, that is to the collateral descendants from the same original parent-form, in order to see what gradations are possible, and for the chance of some gradations having been transmitted from the earlier stages of descent, in an unaltered or little altered condition. Amongst existing Vertebrata, we find but a small amount of gradation in the structure of the eye, and from fossil species we can learn nothing on this head. In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected. In the Articulata we can commence a series with an optic nerve merely coated with pigment, and without any other mechanism; and from this low stage, numerous gradations of structure, branching off in two fundamentally different lines, can be shown to exist, until we reach a moderately high stage of perfection. In certain crustaceans, for instance, there is a double cornea, the inner one divided into facets, within each of which there is a lens-shaped swelling. In other crustaceans the ...

Supreme Court Has Voted To Overturn Abortion Rights, Draft Opinion Shows - POLITICO

Flyingsaucesir comments on May 3, 2022:

Well this is the realization of the religious right's dreams. And they have Moscow Mitch and Don Cheato to thank for it. Welcome to the American theocracy. Let's hope it doesn't progress to theocratic autocracy. 😐

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Flyingsaucesir comments on May 2, 2022:

I really do not give a shit if Facebook and Twitter disappear down down a Florida sinkhole. In fact, if they suck Mar-a-Lago in after them that would be a definite plus. 🤣