The blue roads of thinking

Random thoughts on the blue highways.
You never know what you will find on the blue highways. Particularly when the choice at an intersection is controlled by the roll of a die. About the only rule is that highway onramps don't count as an intersection. You don't even have to roll the die. If one road looks interesting, go for it.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

love and death - Forrest Church

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uuworld.org : love and death : "Yet without love, nothing matters. Break your life into a million pieces and ask yourself what of any r...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Anthropocene

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Daily Science Trivia from Scientific American : "* we should call the most recent era (starting about A.D. 1700) the 'Anthropocene,...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Religious v. Rational worldviews

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Religious v. Rational - Beliefnet Forums : "High intelligence and the ability to use it effectively is quite compatible with the religi...

On the death of a friend.

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A D Community Room - Beliefnet Forums : "So I too share in her legacy and will carry forward that memory. I was on the way to a visit t...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Robber Barons or Socialist Princes?

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Our Economic Systems - Beliefnet Forums : "Say what you will of the excessive wealth of the Robber Barons both modern and historical bu...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Religious v. Rational worldviews

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Religious v. Rational - Beliefnet Forums : "But unlike Catholics I understand much more about what the Mass is teaching because I don...

Forrest Church on being alive and having to die.

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In a Richard French Live Profile in Courage Forrest discusses the recent recurrence of the cancer which is almost certainly terminal within...

Religious v. Rational worldviews

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Religious v. Rational - Beliefnet Forums : "The rational worldview has no understanding of faith, or belief. When I say no understandin...
Saturday, May 24, 2008

Is a rational prejudice a good prejudice?

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Prejudice v Evidence - Beliefnet Forums : "Rational thought is not necessarily benevolent thought."

On stealing

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Prejudice v Evidence - Beliefnet Forums : "I will still think about nuanced applications, fair use of copyrighted material, as an examp...

China Sacks Plastic Bags: Scientific American

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China has it together. US considered it and the plastic guys said no. Guess who won. China Sacks Plastic Bags: Scientific American : ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Abner1 Questioning prejudices

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Prejudice v Evidence - Beliefnet Forums : "You don't seem to realize that you need to be able to question to figure out which thing...

Harvard

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Intuitive vs. Rational thinking - Beliefnet Forums : "Harvard? Isn't that some place back East, where they think that because they ...

Religion induced atrophy of rationality

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Prejudice v Evidence - Beliefnet Forums : "Native intelligence of any level needs exercise if it is not to atrophy. If people are syste...

Judging the Harvard Monkey Lab Moral Sense Test

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Intuitive vs. Rational thinking - Beliefnet Forums : "I spent the better part of a day reviewing their protocols, the rationale for the...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Economic Success and Community Service

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Intuitive vs. Rational thinking - Beliefnet Forums : "Just because the brilliant doctor is paid well for using his intelligence to cure...

"Reason" to be Proud.

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Intuitive vs. Rational thinking - Beliefnet Forums : "It is our ability to reason that is our major evolutionary advantage over animals...

Reason and Moral Dilemmas.

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Intuitive vs. Rational thinking - Beliefnet Forums : "To take Hauser's example, the decision to sacrifice the one on the siding to ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Intuitive vs. Rational moral responses

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Intuitive vs. Rational thinking - Beliefnet Forums : "The intuitive response to any moral situation is the integration of all we have l...

Moral growth ends at puberty.

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anyone who has survived the adolescence of their own children needs no studies to prove that any moral growth after puberty has a negative s...

Moral fervor in Christians and atheists.

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Atheists are born without sin so moral growth comes naturally as they mature from infancy to puberty when moral growth stops. Prejudice v Ev...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Why should an atheist be moral

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Unlike theists an atheist cannot appeal to a God to override these prevailing moral standards, and therefore must be, if anything, more care...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Faux News coverage of Kennedy Illness.

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Normally Faux News is on my ignore list, but the lunchroom TV was covering Kennedy's "seizures." Out of the clear blue sky the...

Reason and Cultural Heratage

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Most strike a good balance between rationality and intuition, distributed along the continuum, if these are indeed a continuum, in the norma...

Evolutionary analysis of Romeo and Juliet

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Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion pp 221-222 brilliantly uses the entire play as an extended metaphor for the "misapplication...
Friday, May 16, 2008

China Quake

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150000 military and civilian rescue workers on the scene. Survivors Pulled From Rubble of China Quake - New York Times
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Paul's sexual immorality rants.

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If it is better to marry than to burn, it would seem that committed homosexuals are better off than fornicating heteros. what do you think a...

On Prejudice

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Prejudice is an excuse for irresponsible thoughtless behavior. Thoughtful, moral people examine their prejudices in order to determine funct...

Olbermann: Mr. President, the war isn't about you - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com

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A nation of killers for political purposes Olbermann: Mr. President, the war isn't about you - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com

Moral judgments vs morality

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A moral action is a snapshot of the moral state of the actor at the time. It is unreasoned. The underlying morality of the actor is mallea...

Circular Double Rainbow

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Past the bridge on the Mist Trail as Vernal Falls gets near, the gorge fills with mist. The AM sun is normally ahead and to the right. If yo...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Midwest Unitarian Upbringing

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I grew up in an urban Midwest Unitarian Church. American Unitarian Conference - Beliefnet Forums

Self-transcendence or self-reliance.

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Cosmopolitanism depends on the acceptance of morality and meaning as an inherent faculty of humans not derived from any supernatural source....
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Chinese response to earthquake

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50,000 troops and police in the mountains in 72 hours. Compare and contrast the third world response to Nargis and Katrina.
Sunday, May 11, 2008

A broken irony meter.

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You just broke my last irony meter. Origins Community Room - Beliefnet Forums

The God gene. How long to extinction.

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The God gene causes behavior like basing education including science education on bronze age mythology and keeping the female half of the po...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

What caused the first cause?

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BillThinksForHimself has the answer. What caused the first cause? - Beliefnet Forums
Monday, May 5, 2008

Prejudice in modern society.

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Prejudice is a normal and powerful coping mechanism for humans dealing with people who are not in their village or parish. Prejudice v Evide...
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Innate language and moral faculties.

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Introduction. The atheist belief system constitute a new religion - Beliefnet Forums

Bad people and atheism

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How should atheists try to explain bad people. Motivation for Religious actions. - Beliefnet Forums

Perform for free?

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I was offered a chance yesterday to do my show for free at work. The person offering suggested that since I was so good at it the store wou...
Friday, May 2, 2008

Lang Lang and Beethoven.

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An evening with Lang Lang and Beethoven the excuse was a little girl that can make a grown man cry playing Rachmaninoff no less. Fantastic....

Is Yawhew reasonable?

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Is Yawhew a reasonable rendering of the Hebrew? Group behavior is observable and measurable. - Beliefnet Forums

Bigotry and Prejudice

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A discussion of bigotry and prejudice. A Christian troll defends both. Group behavior is observable and measurable. - Beliefnet Forums : ...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Kurt Vonnegut is a reincarnation of God

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http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/13373459/Build_A_Religion?post_num=15#258651059 Build A Religion - Beliefnet Forums
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Morality is a village.

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The atheist belief system constitute a new religion - Beliefnet Forums I am a member of a society with well defined moral and ethical stan...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Faith of Our Fathers - Timothy Egan - Op-Extra Columnist - Opinion - New York Times Blog

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Faith of Our Fathers - Timothy Egan - Op-Extra Columnist - Opinion - New York Times Blog When God is dysfunctional, Hesh gets no pass from ...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Is God immoral.

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When God trangresses our moral standards, we can and must object. The atheist belief system constitute a new religion - Beliefnet Forums

1.8% of historians think Shrub is a success!

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In a poll of 109 historians only 2 said history will be kind to GWB. 2008 April - The Board - Editorials - Opinion - New York Times Blog
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I love rally

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Incoming email: I totally want to quit my day job and drive rally cars I hope it is a brief illness and passes quickly especially as I have ...
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Don't look for me much on the big news sites, I skim through them, but rarely find much that is worth commenting on. As a young son once said "We don't watch TV news, dad won't let us watch violence programs." I still don't. Interests are religion, marketing theory (that is not an oxymoron,) Advertizing, digital photography, APOD, and historically, rocket science. e-mail: jcarlinbl@gmail.com The literary version is found at Thinking On the Blue Roads The raw data for which can be found on The Blue Roads of Thinking.
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