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, January 31, 2009

Atheism And Organ Donation

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Atheism And Organ Donation - Beliefnet Forums : "I am a blood donor, and at every opportunity I tell the story of a bicyclist hit by a ...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Religion and atheism

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Atheism vs Anti-religious : "But for my friends that basically keep their religion inside their church, I have no interest at all in di...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

So that all children can fly

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uuworld.org : watching the evidence change : "In the hours and days after November 4, a saying made its way across the Internet that sp...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Jennifer Lin improvs piano magic | Video on TED.com

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Jennifer Lin improvs piano magic | Video on TED.com An incredible pianist improvises on 5 random notes. Work in progress I am still trying ...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Doonesbury on ringtones.

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Gary Trudeau has been doing a bit on Jimmy Thudpucker riding the wave of pop ringtones. Today's is That Was The Year that was in four p...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - Yahoo! News

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Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - Yahoo! News : For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Pascal’s Wager - fler

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Beliefnet Discussions - Beliefnet.com : "fler0002 1/15/2004 11:15 PM And we also discover that only those who believed in God and gav...

Pascal’s Wager

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Wandering in the Wilderness » A Great Alternative to Pascal’s Wager : "Pascal got it wrong because if you live your life based on the i...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Pharyngula: Chemical replicators

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Pharyngula: Chemical replicators : "We're one step closer to self-sustaining chemical replicators, similar to what would have exist...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

OK, God exists. Now what?

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OK, God exists. Now what? - Beliefnet Forums : Drange emphasizes that any stance on 'Does God exist?' is made with respect to a part...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Atheists in Church.

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Agnostics - Beliefnet Forums : "I have attended churches (other than UU) all my life as an atheist. Usually with a friend who was a mem...

Is atheism a BS?

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Ignosticism - Beliefnet Forums : I say there are no gods, but not all Atheists have the guts to come right out and say it. Not the guts but ...

How Science Works.

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Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly?: Scientific American : "The issue contained a letter from three Czech doctors asking whether t...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Daring Rescue of Humpback Off Farallones, SF Chronicle, 12/14/05 | Coral Reef Alliance

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Daring Rescue of Humpback Off Farallones, SF Chronicle, 12/14/05 | Coral Reef Alliance : "Daring Rescue of Humpback Off Farallones, SF ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The history of religion- Readers Digest version

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet Forums : BUT the question is far deeper, that is how was it that from Gods first creatures, re...Adam and Eve...
Monday, January 5, 2009

Celebration: Charlie, Dad, Athlete, and so much else.

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In celebration of the anniversary of his birth January 5,1901 My Father's Shirt I put on your blue flannel shirt, The old one you loved...

Spirituality vs. God

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Society Without God : "Spirituality is not belief in God. Spirituality is not belief in gods. Spirituality is not belief in the supern...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Are We Gods?

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Are We Gods? : "Yeah, and I must be a god because when I pray I know that I'm talking to myself." The quote of the week from b...

Anselm's Ontological Argument

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Anselm's Ontological Argument : "My problem with Anselm's argument is that it starts with a belief. ... we believe that thou ar...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Jesus vs. Christians

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Is Life Pointless? : "Please note that Jesus was a man. He was made a God by John and Paul whose Jesus Christ kept nothing of the messa...

Mistbows and wonder

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Is there really such a thing...? - Beliefnet Forums : "But even with these loose definitions of God I am an atheist. I get my spiritual...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Is a story a message?

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Is Heinlein the atheist's philosopher? - : "If the message in art or storytelling seems more important than the story or the art th...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Literature or Philosophy?

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Is Heinlein the atheist's philosopher? : "One of the best and most popular courses in my brief stint as a philosophy major was a co...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Sir Alex and his Squire

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Facebook | Videos Posted by Elizabeth Black: Sir Alex and his Squire Grandson Alex with his new toy Thanks to Greg Stone and Jack Van Breen ...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

On Blank Books

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Is Life Pointless? : " I pick up this book of blank pages, and I say 'There's no story here.' I think I will pick up a book...

WOLCUM YOLE

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Our holiday started at the solstice with greetings all around for a wonder filled new year for all, and ended with a concert recital at a be...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Was Mary Magdalene "Q"

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Who do people say the Son of Man is? : "As I understand the 'Q document' its very existence as a 'document' is an infer...
Friday, December 19, 2008

WOLCUM YOLE

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Christmas : "As we approach the Solstice (7:04am EST Sunday), and all of the various holidays that have appropriated the end of the dar...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Is Obama different?

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The following is an excerpt from an email to me from the transition team: Dear [J'Carlin] Over the coming weeks, thousands of Americans...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Is tribal morality an evolutionary selection parameter?

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A question on morality : "It is hard to say anything is wrong in an evolutionary sense, since either it will work and the species will...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Christmas time again

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Christmas : What are we celebrating? Winter solstice? A symbolic 're-birth?' I celebrate the one known miracle that happens every d...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

There's no such thing as an atheist.

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There's no such thing : "True atheists are quite common although you are right that they seldom describe themselves as such. Many a...

Played Carnegie Hall one more time!

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. As a registered alumnus of the New York Choral Society, an unbelievable email appeared in my inbox recently. The alumni who sang with Pet...

Always been an atheist?

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Always been an atheist? : " I would like to know if you have, pretty much, always been an atheist. All of my family members who were im...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Are atheists accountable?

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Held accountable? - Beliefnet Forums : Is it fair to say that atheists don't think we will be held accountable for what we have done in ...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Does God Exist?

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A Muslim respectfully asks - What is Atheism? - Beliefnet Forums : "I find the existence of God to be an uninteresting question. Some p...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Tax Churches' entertainment venues.

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Help- "Proof" issues - Beliefnet Forums : Tax breaks for providing services to the community that the government cannot afford to...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Write your congressperson, sign petition, do something

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Stop the Sneak Attack on Greater Yellowstone Wolves - The Petition Site : " Stop the Sneak Attack on Greater Yellowstone Wolves Targ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Survival

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Human Dignity, Good and Evil - Beliefnet Forums : The desire to survive is a sentiment. The genes to compel survival are dominant and activ...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Why a Jesuist?

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Who do people say the Son of Man is? - Beliefnet Forums : "Paul is the reason I am not a Christian. God is the reason I am an atheist. ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Can I join the Circus now?

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Ben Sargent documents the Republicans latest attempt to stay in the public eye. Hey, if you can't govern them, at least you can enterta...

Forrest Church discusses the odds.

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STANFORD Magazine: Forrest Church Book Excerpt : Believe me, there's nothing like a kick toward the flag to get the old blood pumping an...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Why Catholics are irrelevant.

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Priest Calls Vote for Obama a Mortal Sin - On Faith at washingtonpost.com : "'Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausibl...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

To Nambu, Kobayasi, and Maskawa

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Greetings and congratulations from my sister and Poet Laureate To Nambu, Kobayasi, and Maskawa, Physics Nobel Prize Winners, 2008 with a...

Will the Requiem for religion be played on Twitter?

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Humanist Question : " From where I stand [religion] is mind control and if people can learn to break free from that bondage and questio...

GM's future

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According to Tony Auth
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Obama on his faith.

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Obama's Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani - Steven Waldman : "I retain from my childhood and my experiences growing up a ...

Christmas time again

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Pharyngula: Oy, it's War on Christmas time again : It is OK to say 'Merry Christmas'. Even I have been known to say it. Go ahead...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Just Deserts

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Or if you prefer Tom Toles take.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A million small donors

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If the world could vote - Beliefnet Forums : "I think the most important fact of the election was the million or so people who donated ...
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J'Carlin
Silicon Valley, CA, United States
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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