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.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Jefferson Bible

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Dawkins Scale - Beliefnet Forums : "I find the Jefferson Bible useful in focusing on just what it was that induced Jesus' cult (the...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A life worth dying for.

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Hell - Beliefnet Forums : "I suspect that I am much closer to death both in age and in the experience of the death of loved ones than y...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Golden Weekend.

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Tuesday night I hopped on the Jet Blue red eye to New York to re-experience Bob DeCormier conducting the Verdi Requiem. I knew it would be ...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Jesus and progressive Christianity.

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Dawkins Scale - Beliefnet Forums : "I also think that this message of respect for all people flew in the face of most religions before ...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Bible Study.

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What if you are wrong? - Beliefnet Forums : "I can look up on my active bookshelf and see 8 Bibles all of which I have read with intell...

Incitement to kill?

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The liberal poliical bias in the UUA - Beliefnet Forums : "I do not consider hate speech the only culpable incitement for sociopatholog...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Evolutionary success

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Pet ownership an affront to Islam - Beliefnet Forums : "Numbers don't necessarily count for evolutionary success, see the buffalo, ...
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Copies of Copies

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What if you are wrong? - Beliefnet Forums : "Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried and goes downst...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Purpose in Life.

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Looking for an Atheist - Beliefnet Forums : Is it simply for the biological purpose of continuing the species? This is a major misunderstand...
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Believing in God.

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Fundie Atheists? - Beliefnet Forums : "I do not believe in God. There is no God or god that I will accept as having any influence on me...
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Friday, August 8, 2008

Fundie Atheists

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Fundie Atheists? - Beliefnet Forums : "You will note that I have been run out of the fundie atheist club for having the temerity to con...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Britten War Requiem

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Just a quick explanation for my inattention over the last week. The San Francisco Choral Society which I sing with just performed the Britte...

Christian Heroes

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What if you are wrong? - Beliefnet Forums : "Originally Posted by CaliberCadillac Not when one remembers that this very precious treas...

On prayer

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In my email: A friend sent me an email this morning that was a chain letter about prayer. The idea is that you say a prayer to bless the per...
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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Live and Let Die

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Is there a bridge? - Beliefnet Forums : "I was born and bred atheist. I had many friends who were religious and had no problems talking...
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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Indoctrinating our children.

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Scripture-quoting tots - Beliefnet Forums : "We all brainwash and indoctrinate our children. It is how we prepare them to live in the s...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Jesuism

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Jesuism - Beliefnet Forums : "I suspect most atheists have not bothered to separate the teachings of Jesus the man, from the crap graft...
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Theistic Jesuism

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Jesuism - Beliefnet Forums : "Jesuism is really designed for Christians who, having lost faith in Paul's Christ have moved back to ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Raising Atheists.

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To atheists who had Christian parents - Beliefnet Forums : "One of the things my parents did to make it impossible to accept Christiani...

Jesuism

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Jesuism - Beliefnet Forums : "Jesuism in the West is an atheistic worldview based on the teachings of Jesus as documented in the Gospel...

The Sound of Rain

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Defend Yourself - Page 2 - Beliefnet Forums : "The sound of rain needs no translation. - Roshi Morimoto" Chiyo is an ex-Christia...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Changing Christianity

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what do you think about being homosexual and being a christian? - Beliefnet Forums : "I think the movement we see here among some Catho...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Legacy continued

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How do you think about death? - Beliefnet Forums : "I learned long ago that you cannot pray your way to immortality, and you can't ...

Bible based religions dying out?

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What if you are wrong? - Beliefnet Forums : "The God as depicted in the Bible has a few useful attributes, dealing with tribal loyaltie...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Morality without God

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What if you are wrong? - Beliefnet Forums : "The problem with this whole line of thinking is that with God whether it is the Old Testam...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Fundie Atheists

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What if you are wrong? - Beliefnet Forums : "What is it with the term fundie, anyway? Everybody seems to be offended as if it is a terr...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Atheism is

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A Cool Utterance - Beliefnet Forums : "Being alive in a society that includes other people, involves interacting with them, finding a r...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Living in the space between birth and death.

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How do you think about death? - Beliefnet Forums : "From a different part of Legacy, from John Dobbs : Quote: REMINDER The world began...
Sunday, July 6, 2008

Creating Gods

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Darwinists for Jesus - Beliefnet Forums : "humans have been creating gods since the beginning of being sapient. Some of the earliest pr...
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Friday, July 4, 2008

The source of meaning.

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How do you think about death? - Beliefnet Forums : "My meaning comes from a single, observable universe that I occupy temporarily, and ...
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Referent for stimulated God response.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "The brain does not exist in a vacuum. The brain operates by ele...

Referent for stimulated God response.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "The brain does not exist in a vacuum. The brain operates by ele...

Soruce of stimulated God responses.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "The brain does not exist in a vacuum. The brain operates by ele...

An atheist finds God quite naturally.

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God Helmets OBEs Illusions and a Cosmic Presence. - Beliefnet Forums : "Because of my fascination with the Mass, I have frequently join...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Looking at Yesterday's Genes for Tomorrow's Cures: Scientific American

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Looking at Yesterday's Genes for Tomorrow's Cures: Scientific American : "And Ivics, who in 1997 reanimated another ancient tra...
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

How do you think about death?

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Death - Beliefnet Forums : To paraphrase Forrest Church, who by the way, is a theist, death is the reason many of us try to live a life that...
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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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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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