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 30, 2010

What is the Calling of a Minister?

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Active Christian Ministers who are also Atheists - Beliefnet In respect to the ministers, they are teaching to have faith in God. They preac...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Atheist Christian Ministers.

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Active Christian Ministers who are also Atheists - Beliefnet I think a brief way to understand this view is that in order to live a full and...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Connections

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My puzzle over "something larger than ourselves" - Beliefnet To me, you're connected to society just by being born into it and...

Transcendence

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My puzzle over "something larger than ourselves"- Beliefnet : J'C: "As a minister once said 'Sometimes I just need t...

Where is the hope?

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Where is the hope for the non-believer? - Beliefnet But, I only believe in an undefined higher power some of the time, and I'm not reall...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Aesthetics and God.

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Science and Beauty - Beliefnet Science cannot verify this relationship nor can it explain the reason for the emotional response to beauty co...

Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

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Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion - America's Finest News Source : "Members of the earth's earlie...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Chosing One's Society

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My puzzle over "something larger than ourselves" - Beliefnet To me, you're connected to society just by being born into it and...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Dinnertime rituals?

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What's your dinnertime ritual?- Beliefnet I personally have a desire to teach my daughter gratitude, but am not interested in typical Go...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

The Value of Nonbelief.

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What Does Atheism Have To Offer To You? - Beliefnet Yes, I do doubt there's a benefit. Is there a benefit to a Jew who doubts Jesus? I...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Mass and reality.

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Outward and Inward Man - Beliefnet I can't speak for others, but religion is not about reciting the mass and feeling all warm and fuzzy ...

Art and Reality

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Outward and Inward Man - Beliefnet Community I suppose you think Mozart and Picasso should have been dragged 'back to the lab.' Chri...

A disciplined imagination.

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Outward and Inward Man - Religion and the Human Mind - Beliefnet Community A 'disciplined' imagination just doesn't seem very im...

Imagination and reality.

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Outward and Inward Man - Beliefnet It doesn't mean that everything imagined will take you some place. A great deal of imagination is me...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Can Injustice and violence be condoned?

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Dawkins' Trashy Tract - Beliefnet How long should injustice be tolerated? Should we condone or accept violence done to any human for any...
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Dawkins - Literary prize winner or bigot or both.

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Dawkins' Trashy Tract - Beliefnet You've done a mostly decent job of trashing the man's book, but what of the author, himself? e...
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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Transcendence = Mama's Smile.

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Science vs. Faith - Beliefnet How does one know when they have 'experienced' the transcendent? Ithinkfree J'C: "Supernatur...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Defining Atheism and Transcendence

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Identifying The One True Religion Beliefnet How do you define Atheist? Marcion The definition of atheist I use is 'Without God.' Th...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Religion as a Bridge to Hell

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Nick A: This is it in a nutshell. The essence of religion which leads to man becoming Man is diminished, secularized, and becomes a tool of ...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Intelligent Responses to Stimuli

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Nick A: The question then becomes if Man is capable of more than just blind reaction and its expressions of associative thought? Simone and...
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Compassion and atrocity

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Nick A: We create programming. It explains why we can be simultaneously capable of compassion and atrocity. J'C: Humans as social anim...
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Friday, January 1, 2010

The Wolf in the Parlor

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Facebook | Home : "I just finished The Wolf in the Parlor by Jon Franklin. Ostensibly about people and dogs. He does that well with a ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Science as a Bridge to God

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The blue roads of thinking: The Human Condition : To restore to science as a whole, for mathematics as well as psychology and sociology, the...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

The Purpose of Life

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The blue roads of thinking: Is atheism compatible with God? : Comments: December 28, 2009 5:17 PM J'C; ...Plus 5 for Fulghum, and 5...

The Human Condition

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The blue roads of thinking: Is atheism compatible with God? : The human condition is such that we are incapable without the help of grace of...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Each religion is alone true.

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The blue roads of thinking: Materialism and God : Each religion is alone true, that is to say, that at the moment we are thinking of it we m...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

What is Science?

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If science is based on process and obscured with unfamiliar words, it nonetheless grew out of a fundamentally human, childlike curiosity. W...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Is atheism compatible with God?

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The blue roads of thinking: Materialism and God : Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in t...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Timshel

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Is atheism a belief system? - Beliefnet I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning. Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love, Robert A...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Materialism and God

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God and Consciousness - Beliefnet Reality is anchored by a principle known as The Primacy of Existence; “Something that has objective existe...
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The Creation of Eve

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The birth of Eve - Beliefnet: "Agnostic wrote: You're absolutely right. Clearly Eve was a divine creation, separate from Adam...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Procreative vs recreational sex

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Gender roles, family, God and Atheism - Beliefnet Do you think there might be a biological advantage to having two parents that actually ...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Believe in yourself.

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The Value of a God Belief - Beliefnet Believe in yourself, then you die. Lavengro J'C: "I am OK with that. But it makes it all the...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Are all trustworthy?

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The Value of a God Belief - Beliefnet We teach our children to know better than 'believe Humans are trustworthy,' so I don't thi...
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Gay humor.

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A bit of gay humor, not intended to offend any more than any other limerick, but I use the last line frequently and people have asked for t...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Is there value in God beliefs?

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Is there any value in belief in God? - Beliefnet ExploringInside: " What is the value of a belief in God? The most obvious values conc...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

God, Humans and Nothing

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Inferring gods' character from nature - Beliefnet : Regardless of whether you believe a personal being is responsible for it or if natur...
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Art and Nature

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Inferring gods' character from nature - Beliefnet : A beautiful painting is worth just as much if it was painted from existing materials...
Friday, December 4, 2009

To know where I stand, please go here.

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To know where I stand, please go here. Beliefnet Community : "Here is where I stand. I live and love, that requires breathing,eating ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Religion in Current Events.

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Intelligence=atheism? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community It is BECAUSE of religion that the teaching of science and in general the qual...
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Determinism, Randomness, and the Mind

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Determinism, Randomness, and Free Will It seems to me that if brain-function is random, then its product, reason, cannot be relied upon at ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Brain: Fact or Faith - Same old same old

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The Brain Processes Facts and Beliefs the Same Way | Newsweek BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller | Newsweek.com : " Harris, Kaplan, et al. put 3...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Blind, Pitiless Indifferent Universe.

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The Gradual Illumination of the Mind: Scientific American : "In one of the most existentially penetrating statements ever made by a sci...
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Too Big for a Fork?

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As honored guests at a Chinese wedding, we were seated at the Bride's Mother's table along with the few other Caucasian friends of t...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Life after death?

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Life after death? - Beliefnet Community Through his ignorance, man fears death; but the death he shrinks from is imaginary and absolutely u...
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Existential Despair

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Existential Despair - Discuss Atheism : I've often wondered if this an outgrowth of the feelings of triviality and hopelessness that the...
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Suicidal Religious Rejection

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Existential Despair - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community I've often wondered if this an outgrowth of the feelings of triviality and h...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Human Spirit

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Life after death? - Religion and the Human Mind - Beliefnet Community Exploringinside: "Humans have spirit and don’t have a soul. I be...
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What is a Soul

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Life after death? - Religion and the Human Mind What is your concept of the soul? Seefan J'C: The soul is a myth created to sell religio...
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Life after death?

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Life after death? - Religion and the Human Mind - Beliefnet Community The life of the body is a power, a force. Where does it come from and...
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J'Carlin
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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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