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, February 28, 2010

Christianity and the Arts

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If Man is the Measure- Beliefnet F1fan: and to my mind it IS the arts that has allowed religion to flourish and hold some significance to ma...
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Self is brain function

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If Man is the Measure- Beliefnet Here's the deal. Do you believe in freedom, or not? Is self merely an epiphenomenon? Is self merely a r...

Human Cognition

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Human Cognition: Can Materialism explain it?- Beliefnet That is exactly what we see; therefore, until this changes, materialism has been vin...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Why a Legacy?

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Why answer these questions - Beliefnet Why do you find a need to build some sort of legacy? I certainly do not. Passionatereason "Fine....
Friday, February 26, 2010

Cold and Dark?

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Life after death: a thought experiment - Beliefnet And that 10,000 Million Year-old Light continues to propagate and effect even AFTER its O...

Life after death.

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Life after death: - Beliefnet huh ... So ... the Light from that Star 10,000 Million Light Years distant is from a Star STILL THERE ... ???...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Life after death?

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Problem with Pascal's wager - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community We RESENT The Facts of Mortality, Contingency, Suffering, and Death ...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Mary Daly changed my life

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uuworld.org : mary daly changed my life Leaning against the opening to the living room, I called out, teasing, to the guy holding the remote...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Cosmopolitan Communities.

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The Basis of Human Morality - Beliefnet We live and move and have our being not only as individuals but in community. [edited for readabili...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Misogyny or Mammalian - Cont.

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Misogyny - Beliefnet So please revise your view that misogyny wasn't relevant until 110 years ago. Women died because of its relevance t...
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Misogyny or Mammalian

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Misogyny - Beliefnet : "The other consideration is that until the beginning of the 20th century infant and maternal mortality made it n...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Are you saved or accountable?

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“There’s probably no God.- Beliefnet People have not realized that when it appears as if they are getting away with atrocities because they ...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Worship or Beauty - Take your pick

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The harmful aspects of religion - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community You do not believe in god. Fine. What do you replace that 'wor...

Carbon as God.

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Circumstantial evidence for God - Beliefnet I don't believe that the order, complexity and information content of even a single-celled b...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Ridge Runner - The Game.

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At one point I had a very nice car that handled like a dream and for its day was very fast. I would occasionally drive from Charlotte NC to...

Living as Driving

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A Horse of a Different Color - Beliefnet Try to think of your life as if you are driving a car....any glances in the rear view mirror should...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Accountable to Everything

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Individual or Collective Accountability - Beliefnet The notion is this, or at least this is my interpretation of it. Consider your dependenc...

Jamel Oeser-Sweat

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Jamel Oeser-Sweat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "As a youth, Oeser-Sweat’s family was homeless. After spending two years fightin...

Belonging to Life

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Please tell me what 'belonging to life' means to you as it means nothing to me, so far. “Love is not everything but we are less than...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Overpopulation Solution

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The harmful aspects of religion - Beliefnet And what do you propose we do about all those overpopulated areas of the earth? Haiti is a perf...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Facts Truths and Half-truths

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The Unification of Science and Religion - Beliefnet What! No blocks to creativity?? That means you doubt the relevance of facts. Extraordi...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Pre Existing Condition

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Thanks Tony Auth

Secret of Life: Death

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Quality of Life - Beliefnet "The Greatest Secret in life is the sure, certainty of death...it causes us to strive to leave our mark upo...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What is a Human?

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The Human Condition, - Beliefnet Can you make a reasoned argument as to what is Man? No. 2bme J'C: "It is obvious you are speaking...

Problem with Pascal's wager

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Problem with Pascal's wager - Beliefnet J'C: "If Pascal had a delete button he would have used it for this brain fart. As I n...
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Wingnuts: Carpe Diem

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Optimism - Beliefnet Your implied strategy seems to be hope for the best and suddenly die, though a little more information would have saved...

Optimism - The world is predictable, therefore I am.

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Optimism - Beliefnet The dissonance arises in that you cannot really answer, 'Why is the world predictable?' The world is predictab...
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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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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