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, July 31, 2009

Lottery

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Miscellaneous metaphysics : "As my friend and ontological poet Mary-Ella Holst wrote Two hundred mill...
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Purpose in Life?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Purpose in Life? : When looking at life in general, many things can be attributed to giving an individual ...
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Philosophy, Science and Religion

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Epistomology issues. : Philosophy is no more incompatible with science than it is with religion. J'C...

Gender Issues

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Origins Community Room : "For most of my life I have been philosophically against gender identificati...
Monday, July 27, 2009

15 books

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Facebook | Home : 15 BooksShare Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will alway...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Magic showmanship

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - where is the apeman?? : After all, they [bible scribes] believed the creation was a series of magical eve...

The Bears win again.

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Bears in the Adirondacks Defeat BearVault Food-Protection Container - NYTimes.com : "In most BearVault break-ins, Yellow-Yellow’s radio...

Free Will

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Why does anyone believe in G-d? : Only you can decide what you do with your free will that God has giv...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Pizza delivery database

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Gmail - Fwd: Is this just comedy or a prediction? : http://aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf Anybody that thinks all that isn't available...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

For High Line Visitors, Park Is a Railway Out of Manhattan - NYTimes.com

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For High Line Visitors, Park Is a Railway Out of Manhattan - NYTimes.com : "A little more than a month since its first stretch opened, ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Managing Change Management issues strategy tactics best practices

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Managing Change Management issues strategy tactics best practices : There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets ...

The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals: Scientific American

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The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals: Scientific American : "Research led by Rachel Caspari of Central Michigan University has sh...

The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals: Scientific American

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The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals: Scientific American : "Stringer, for his part, theorizes that the moderns’ somewhat wider r...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Beliefnet Community > Thread - Why does anyone believe in G-d?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Why does anyone believe in G-d? : Some people worry too much about ontological questions - to the poin...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Ring speciation in humans?

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Evolution: Objective Science or Sociological Science? : If evolutionism is real then the human split has a...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Walk with a child.

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - When does Atheism become a religion? : "'When you walk, you might like to take the hand of a chil...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Discovering Meaning and Purpose

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Beliefnet Community > Thread : As people learned that they could think for themselves and perhaps influenced by the 18th century metaphys...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Robert Shaw Legacy

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I guess it is time to post on my Tong wall my appreciation for the legacy that Robert Shaw and the Atlanta symphony left for choral music. ...

Pachelbel Canon Rant

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For all who know and love Pachelbel's Greatest Hit, that means all who read this blog of course.
Friday, July 10, 2009

Causality

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Beliefnet Community > Thread : ...we perceive the world causally because it is in our nature (material make up and our experience of ...

Contingent things, Causes and Gods.

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - : Reason and rationality dictate that any contingent thing must (by necessity) have a cause for its b...

ESP, Magic Thinking, and brain waves.

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Magic Thinking : Not just ... but ESP, are included in the 'wishes come true' category. Blü If...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Do Parents Matter?

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Do Parents Matter?: Scientific American :Interview with Judith Rich Harris: "It’s no longer enough to show, for example, that parents w...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Can Boomers find a community on the net?

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uuworld.org : the promised land is under your feet : "Novelist Wallace Stegner was a close observer of American culture. He once observ...
Monday, July 6, 2009

Secular Ethics

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - Why does anyone believe in G-d? : Primates have evolved in social groups where unethical behavior will nor...
Saturday, July 4, 2009

Validating emperical observations

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - How do creationists explain black people. : Can you please explain to me how it is possible to validate a...

A ia A

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Beliefnet Community > Thread - How do creationists explain black people. : A is A, and A is not non-A. Can you please explain to me h...
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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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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