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.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Shortchanging the Living

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Available evidence shows that after we die there is no way to do anything at all for those who remain alive. All that they have is whatever...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Eternal Reflections

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Email in response to an ex Christian's questions about death. "The issue of mortality is a very difficult one for former Christia...

The Human Mind Trumps everything

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Belief Corner: Religious and Political Debate - Educated out of God? : "Yep. and the human mind trumps everything. How? When the human ...

Genetic determinism?

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Belief Corner: Religious and Political Debate - Educated out of God? : "What those genes have given humans is an extremely flexible mas...

The Post-Rapture Postman - Postal Service for the Saved? There's a sucker born again every minute II

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - The Post-Rapture Postman - : "Just dug up this article from Orlando, Florida and thought it was too f...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

What makes a social animal.

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Brain Cells for Socializing | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine : "Allman likes to show a clip from a documentary about a gro...

Determining moral actions

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Belief Corner: Deciding Whether Something is Moral : "In a moral crisis situation there is no time for analysis. The moral sense of th...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Rob Paterson's "Eternal Reflections"

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Compose Mail - Yahoo! Mail : " Re. Rob Paterson's Eternal Reflections If this is not in your [Volti] 30 year recording project, it ...
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Yosemite Springs BB

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Yosemite Springs BB - conventionally Reviews, Cheap Rates, Deals conventionally - Coulterville | coffee shopcoffeemaker : "Yosemite Spr...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Is forcing people to live ethical?

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Growing Old with Autism: The Silent Struggle - TIME : "Noah, my younger brother, does not talk. Nor can he dress himself, prepare a mea...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Abiogenesis

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Chemist Shows How RNA Can Be the Starting Point for Life - NYTimes.com : "An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA wo...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Abiogenesis

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The blue roads of thinking: Thinking about Death. : "Have you ever thought about How Life on earth ever began?" I am a chemist by ...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Thinking about Death.

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - My Story: Atheist by Necessity, not by Choice! : "Personally I find that the probability of an afterl...
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Atheist divorce

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The Bright Line... : Still, I think there's more to it [Why there is less divorce among atheists.] More than the lack of religion to not...

Lenore Skenazy -- Quit Treating Parents Like Babies - washingtonpost.com

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Lenore Skenazy -- Quit Treating Parents Like Babies - washingtonpost.com : "And here's my favorite recommendation from a book of ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The purpose of Death.

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Evolution makes no sense. : "Death is Nature's way of telling you you flunked out."
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Would Jesus refute theTelevangelists?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Human Dignity, Good and Evil : Yes, it does matter [when Paul lived], because people that knew Jesus w...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Why do I ask so many Why's?

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Thread - Is there a moral position without God? : "The three year olds I know would never accept the cop out of Goddidit. They want to ...

Moral Standards

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Is there a moral position without God? : "Morals are not beliefs they are behavior patterns bred into us over millions of years of bein...
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Atheism for Theists

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Thread - Can there be a moral position without God? : "Many have a hard time with atheism as they try to map it into a belief system. ...
Monday, April 20, 2009

What Makes Us Human?: Scientific American

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What Makes Us Human?: Scientific American : "It turns out that until humans came along, HAR1 evolved extremely slowly. In chickens and ...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Spirit continuation after death.

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Belief Corner: Religious and Political Debate - agnostic atheist and agnostic theist? : "UPGs are not particularly reliable in dealing ...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Moral Standard

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moral position without God? : "Lavengro wrote: Could someone tell me what this [moral] standard is, whence it derives? I don't...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Arguing with a belief.

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beliefnet : "To argue with a belief is to tilt at a windmill. The sails keep going round and round, with any damage to the sails ignor...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Is Evolution a Science?

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Thread - Is Evolution a Science? : "Evolution is alive and well for humans, it just doesn't involve physical survival to breed anym...
Monday, March 30, 2009

God beliefs

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Bread and Circuses : "Mar 27, 2009 - 06:20AM, artboyz wrote: There is only one reason to be an atheist, and we all agree: There is...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Unitarians v Universalists v atheists

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Unitarians v Universalists : "Mar 29, 2009 - 04:53AM, RevDorris wrote: The children are in a state of rebellion against those who would...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The problem of evil ..

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Thread - The Bright Line... : "Mar 25, 2009 - 05:22PM, Leight wrote: ....addressing the problem of evil..... first of all you/I/e...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Mediocrity

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Beware of the lollipop of mediocrity...one lick and you suck forever... From Elizabeth's friend Andy via facebook.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Musicians' brains keep time--With one another: Scientific American Blog

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Musicians' brains keep time--With one another: Scientific American Blog : "Ever wonder how musicians manage to play in unison? Cred...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

YEC vs Homo Sapiens.

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Thread - where is the apeman?? From Ken : "Young Earth Creationists don't belong to the species Homo sapiens. They believe they wer...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

ID in Science Class?

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Belief Corner: THE Atheist Bible! : "Re: THE Atheist Bible! « Reply #42 on: Today at 02:05:14 PM » Quote from: jcarlinsv on Today ...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Placebo Effect:: Believe in your Doctor

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Placebo Effect: A Cure in the Mind: Scientific American : "The latest research has shown that the placebo effect does not always arise ...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Why we make music

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Welcome Address, by Karl Paulnack : "From these two experiences, I have come to understand that music is not part of “arts and entertai...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The Purpose Prize | Encore: Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life

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The Purpose Prize | Encore: Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life : "The Purpose Prize Pursue Your Passion, Win $100,000 The Pur...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Poker Insight and investing

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Poker Insight : "You can find a step-by-step tutorial on all this, free of charge, at www.wealtheffect.com/invest1.htm — start at the b...

In Defense of the Recession Blame Game - TIME

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In Defense of the Recession Blame Game - TIME : "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, except that right now everyone wants a little piece...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Am I SAVED?

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Is there a god...? - Beliefnet Forums :. When asked about God I don't worry about existence issues, "I will worry about worthines...

Executive dole pay plan

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Tom Toles sure has his finger on this one. Don't miss the tag in the lower right. During the transition period The Obama Team posted a ...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Skepticblog » Sympathy for the Devil

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Skepticblog » Sympathy for the Devil : "The problem he would have in admitting that his religion was wrong on homosexuality is that his...

Skepticblog » Sympathy for the Devil

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Skepticblog » Sympathy for the Devil : "In the film [Pelosi's Trials of Ted Haggard] you can hear the guilt in Ted Haggard’s voice ...
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...
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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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