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.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Paul's Contribution to Christian theology

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Dust - Beliefnet Forums : "The good news is that in order to support Paul the council had to preserve the Gospels to give Paul the char...

Evolution and the God Gene

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The Atheist Test - Beliefnet Forums : "The elimination of the God Gene is clear evidence of modern evolution. Prior to the 18th century...

On sin and hatred.

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The Atheist Test - Beliefnet Forums : "We are all sinners. Everyone of us." Speak for your self, Christian, the rest of us are bas...

On the Bible, the Liturgy and Paul

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The Atheist Test - Beliefnet Forums : "Please understand that I can live without God for my entire life. I find the Bible to be a poor ...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Thoughts on Dies Irae

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Hell - Beliefnet Forums : "Some should fear the discordant Brass in the Berlioz Requiem. It is summoning them to infamy. The human choi...

Dies Irae- Judging the deceased.

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Hell - Beliefnet Forums : "Although I am not a believer in an afterlife of the body or soul, I do find that a semblance of immortality ...

In Celebration: George Carlin 1937-2008 - Beliefnet Forums

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In Celebration: George Carlin 1937-2008 - Beliefnet Forums : "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth,” read a messag...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

God is?

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "The sensation in the minds of religious believers that there is...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

The responsibility of the living.

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How to get through the tough times - Beliefnet Forums : "Yet we who must live have a responsibility to continue the legacy, yes, freque...
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How I got here.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "Until I was about 20 I was a hard scientist, chemist mainly but...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Charles Fiterman

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Needs a post of his own on this blog. His influence is pervasive. He has been a part of my valuable and useful space since I first encoun...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

God is neither natural nor imaginary.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "The God that my believer friends pray to and depend on for mean...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

On heros and Gods

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Questions for Atheists 2 - Beliefnet Forums : "Humans tend to make their heroes larger than life. Why should Gods be exempt?"
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Monday, June 16, 2008

A Friend's tribute to his late wife

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An atheist friend of mine lost his wife of 33 years recently. The following tribute is his beautiful response: When someone has sweetened y...
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Morality of Consumption

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The Religion of the Market - Beliefnet Forums : "As one trained in Economics, it is not clear that consumption is particularly immoral....
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Emotional Resonance

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "There is credible evidence for me of some sort of emotional res...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Teach your children well

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Teach your children well - Beliefnet Forums : "An atheist does not live in a vacuum, and would have no more trouble than the priest, or...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Mozart's music.

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A D Music Hall - Beliefnet Forums : "Mozart turned the formulistic music of his devout predecessors on its ear, and introduced passion ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Are atheists really this stupid?

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God exist proved scientificly - Beliefnet Forums : "Quote: "My point is that we, humanity, will not progress, will not mature, wil...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Love-and-Death - Forrest Church Sermon on Mortality

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Love-and-Death.pdf (application/pdf Object) somewhere they and we share at least one common ancestor who, with twenty-twenty hindsight, wo...

What caused the first cause? -

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What caused the first cause? - Beliefnet Forums : "The God that caused God. It is turtles all the way down."

To Bob on the death of his father.

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Bob, In times like this my thoughts turn to two sources for the bittersweet comfort of being alive after the death of a loved one. The f...

Love-and-Death.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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Love-and-Death.pdf (application/pdf Object) After enjoying a year of fine health, this past Thursday I learned that my cancer had recurred, ...

Plum Village - Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

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Plum Village - Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh : "Becoming a Buddha is not difficult because 'Buddha' means someone who is enlighte...

God Is Also a Flower

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Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes | www.qsangha.org : "'God is Black. But God is not only Black. God is also White, God is also a Flower. ...

Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes | www.qsangha.org

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Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes | www.qsangha.org : "Aware of the suffering brought about when we impose our views on others, we are committed n...

OBEs and the community consciousness.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "the mind stays right where it is in the brain of the stressed i...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Don't Stereotype Atheists - Beliefnet Forums

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Don't Stereotype Atheists - Beliefnet Forums : "Until science can show how those worshipers feed off of each other using understood...

Staycation

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I like the "Middle of Nowhere in the middle of everything" The Sawyer Camp trail in San Mateo. Pick a hotel in San Mateo, Half ...

Response to "Hi" from internet friend.

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Hi Shannon- Thanks for asking, I have things working just as I hoped they would for this stage of my life, good job, good health, good sin...
Monday, June 9, 2008

God and dualism.

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Don't Stereotype Atheists - Beliefnet Forums : "Until your modern scientific theory of consciousness can explain the presence of Go...
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Collective consciousness defined.

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Don't Stereotype Atheists - Beliefnet Forums : "I do find credible evidence for a 'collective consciousness' which is separ...
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Science, theology and OBEs

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Don't Stereotype Atheists - Beliefnet Forums : "It may well be that at the current stage of scientific understanding of mental phen...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

On Bible study.

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what do you think about being homosexual and being a christian? - Beliefnet Forums : "Worshiping the Bible is dangerous because it caus...
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John Galt economics.

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Our Economic Systems - Beliefnet Forums : "Randism is the best example of a secular relgion out there with the exception of Scientology...
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Teach your children well

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Teach your children well - Beliefnet Forums : "atheist children have to deal with fairly advanced moral concepts at an early age. Typic...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Mist Trail and Ahwahnee at Yosemite

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Kodakgallery.com Slideshow I finally got the round tuit to add the top of Nevada Falls and another night at the Ahwahnee to my life to do li...
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Physical manifestations of faith

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Is God a chordal resonance? - Beliefnet Forums : "This resonance is reinforced strongly each time the community joins to worship. As ea...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Is God a chordal resonance?

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Is God a chordal resonance? - Beliefnet Forums : "As humans tend to individualize groups. John's team, Mary's hospital, God...
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A skeptic's illusions of the gaps theory.

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Don't Stereotype Atheists - Beliefnet Forums : "You are explaining OBE's, the God helmet presence, and NDE's as illusions, ...
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Teach your children well

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Teach your children well - Beliefnet Forums : "Responsible parenting is teaching your children your dreams, your fears, and yes, your G...
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Perfection in human terms

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Atheism vs Religion - Another Perspective - Beliefnet Forums : "Perfection in human terms is rising above the common existence of peopl...
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Abbado's Mozart c Mass

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102.1 KDFC - Casual. Comfortable. Classical. - THE SACRED CONCERT : "MOZART: Mass in C minor, K. 427 Bonney, sop; Auger, sop Blockwitz,...
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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...
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J'Carlin
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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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