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 28, 2009

Altruism

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Question about atheism : I think I read it first in Heinlein but the definition “Love is the condition in ...

Of Good

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Question about atheism : In a discussion of good and evil the question of personal pleasure came up as r...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Morality, God and Assholes

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - The Bright Line... : moral anemia comes from anything else than righteousness "Actually moral anemia ...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Amazon.com: The Space Child's Mother Goose: Frederick Winsor, Marian Parry (illustrator): Books

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Amazon.com: The Space Child's Mother Goose: Frederick Winsor, Marian Parry (illustrator): Books This is the Turn of a Plausible Phrase T...

Are Dog Breeds Actually Different Species?: Scientific American

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Are Dog Breeds Actually Different Species?: Scientific American : "Amazingly, right now Chihuahuas are still considered C. lupus famili...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Is the Internet the Global Village?

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For those whose local village or parish does not work for them for whatever reason my tentative answer is yes. I think of those in my gradu...

Do Facebook Friends Work?

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The Human Condition : Friends With Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide the Same Support as Those In Real Life? : "Numerous studies ha...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Does it make a difference?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Question about atheism : If both Hitler and Mother Teresa cease to exist at death, and all the people t...

Why do Good?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Question about atheism : What is an atheist's motivation for doing good, indeed how do you define good...

What do atheists think?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Question about atheism : "I suppose I will start by echoing the obvious. There's not much of an ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Penis-shaped mushroom named after frog expert: Scientific American Blog

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Penis-shaped mushroom named after frog expert: Scientific American Blog : "Herpetologist Robert Drewes will forever be remembered for h...

The Sound of Passion: Scientific American

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The Sound of Passion: Scientific American : "The new work is part of an emerging portrait of the broader connections between music, emo...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Chalice lighting ceremony circa 1989 for a Lay Service at Davis UU Church. Sermon Topic: The Natural History of God. Sacred Flames Leader: ...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Tsujii 2nd Rock

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Apparantly you can't upload from the website, or at least I can't. Go to http://www.cliburn.tv/# go to June 6 on the bottom of the...

Health issues

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You were warned. Eminently boring old fart tedium. I passed out at the computer Wed about noon for no good reason at all, scared the crap ...
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...
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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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