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.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Atheism Ridicule - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Atheism Ridicule - Beliefnet I guess the question is what qualifies Abner to judge kodiacman? If we are equal then our authority is equal an...

Atheism Ridicule - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Atheism Ridicule - Beliefnet By calling Godman 'evil' you are presuming a supreme moral authority...either yourself, society, or God...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Common Elements.

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Atheism Ridicule - Beliefnet : "“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” ~Harlan Ellison" Noted...

Palin Doll Tea Party

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Doonesbury Comic Strip on GoComics.com : "Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau * April 27, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Celebrating the Miracle of Birth

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The Biblical Self-Destruct Clause - Beliefnet So by the power of myth, what Truth is conveyed by Matthew I & II??? BillWitt I have alway...

Mythology and Fiction

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The Biblical Self-Destruct Clause - Beliefnet And where did you get all this information about Jesus which you consider true? By any chance...

Owning Your Own Shadow - Science & Religion - Beliefnet Community

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet As I was reading the posts, I began equating the 'shadow' with the human spirit / our human natur...

Owning Your Own Shadow - Science & Religion - Beliefnet Community

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet You posted that you are well acquainted with The Bible and Theology, because of your study of The Bible a...

Motivations.

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet It seems from your posts, that you have been very meticulous in maintaining your achieved righteousne...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Goldman Sachs or Boobies?

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BusinessWorld Online: : "AMSTERDAM/BOSTON -- Did you hear that Goldman Sachs made the Iceland volcano erupt? It did pretty well shortin...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Perfection

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet You are perfect. Wendyness I don't agree. But I frequently thank those, mostly dead now, that brought...

Are You Wrong?

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet Are you ever wrong? Wendyness "You will have to define wrong: Morally, socially, intellectually? Sin...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

What is Free Will?

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Belief of No Free Will... - Beliefnet the question of whether free will exists -- and, in particular, whether people believe it exists -- h...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Spiritual Bullying.

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Bully Believers - Beliefnet Intellectual capacity and sophisticated concepts have little to do with spiritual discernment. One may be able t...
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Understand the Universe.

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Critique of Christian morality - Beliefnet Unless a person can somehow break out of his/her limited frame of reference they cannot know what...

Synoptic Problem?

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Expelled! - Beliefnet According to this theory, different Gospel authors relied on different lists to weave their stories--Mark used Peter...
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Saturday, April 17, 2010

The Trouble with the Catholic Church

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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. - Beliefnet Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers ASquidley "Is there any more that can be said?

And After the Ashes?

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet What is the 'real' earth? Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, this is what becomes of us, our bodies r...
Friday, April 16, 2010

The Significance of Humans

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Atheism is life-affirming - Beliefnet If with respect to the human race, then the importance and value of what I do in my life are insignifi...

Infinite Ripples

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Atheism is life-affirming - Beliefnet If with respect to me, and my death is extinction, then the importance and value vanish with my death....

Funerals

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The Bright Line - Beliefnet hopefully I will never, ever attend a atheist funeral... and there hear someone speak words to those who mourn w...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Theist vs Atheist

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Can a cohesive community become our higher self? - Beliefnet You speak as if God existed He would have to be contained within religion ... ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Sexual Morality.

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Science can answer moral questions - Beliefnet It seems there is a fairly clear, bright line here. Lieing to your wife and adultury are wro...

Morals from society

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Science can answer moral questions - Beliefnet "The problem that is being ignored by all is that morals are neither personal nor univer...

God's morality?

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Can a cohesive community become our higher self? - Beliefnet That's not to say Atheist haven't found a degree of peace and contentme...

Community or God?

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Can a cohesive community become our higher self? - Beliefnet Can a cohesive community and a sense of belonging become our higher self? And ...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Seeking God

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Near Death Experiences - Beliefnet Seeking God with all my might might have meant something different to me than to you. Stephen I was not ...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Human Rights stop at the Church Door?

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Secular public, religious private - Beliefnet I'd be delighted to see the EU Court order the Vatican to end its discrimination and ordai...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

God as Tinkerer

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QWERTY - Beliefnet Maybe God isn't so much of a Designer as He is a Hobbyist Tinkerer. Instead of buying a new computer, He just uses s...

Human Design extreme makeovers

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QWERTY - Beliefnet I'm not sold on the idea it's proof there is no Designer. I AM sold on the idea that it's apparently not wor...

QWERTY, living and religion

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QWERTY - Beliefnet "I suspect the Dvorak is more common than one might expect in that all computers give a choice of keboards. But the...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Spirituality

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Spirituality - Beliefnet I work in the most beautiful place in the world [Yosemite]. I feel a connection whenever I'm there, which is da...

Owning Your Own Shadow - Science & Religion - Beliefnet Community

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet genetics and neuroscience are compellingly identifying that we have a dark side that cannot always be bl...

Good and Evil

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet Why is there evil in the world? Why is there good in the world? These mysteries are impossible to separ...

God, Lust and the Mating Dance

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First Muslim Sex Shop Opens For Business - Beliefnet As I've often said, if covering women's bodies is to protect them from men'...

Surprisingly, Family Time Has Grown - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

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Surprisingly, Family Time Has Grown - Well Blog - NYTimes.com : "That may reflect a rise in what Dr. Stevenson calls the “hedonic marri...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Constraints

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Creedalness - Beliefnet You chose not to believe and that constrains your life. Godman "Quite the contrary. I am one of the people her...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Modern sexuality

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Sex got you all tensed up? - Beliefnet In your opinion what changes in the 'social vein' would you start with? Wendyness "It ha...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Question Authority.

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Creedalness - Beliefnet Do you think it is a problem that people are just inclined to simplify and form these creeds? OR is it something we...

Religion, Philosophy and Science

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What Do Atheist Believe In? - Beliefnet Religions are not an expression of the principle [of rational investigation.] While religion, scien...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Get rich quick: take a joy ride.

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Turning Bumpy Roads into an Electrifying Product: Scientific American : "One carefree summer day in California, a few college students ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

On Jealousy

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet Jealousy is is not a learned behavior, it comes with the package of being human. See below link. Babies s...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Winter Migrations

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YosemiteBlog.com - The Insiders Guide to Yosemite National Park : "The Annual Migration (and a video) If you’ve never been to Yosemite ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Stoic Cosmopolitanism

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Redefining Love - Beliefnet A distinctive feature of Stoicism is its cosmopolitanism. All people are manifestations of the one universal spi...

Live a Good Life

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The Story of God - Beliefnet Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but wi...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Conscious Control of "Cultural Self"

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet From birth to the age of about six the events of one's life get sorted into the conscious mind and th...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Imposing Sin and Shadow

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet But your acceptance [of shadow], or lack of it, neither proves nor disproves the proposition. Christianli...

Shadows of Science?

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet Examples of the 'dark' (shadow) side of science:...Not so 'difficult' to 'find' i...

Genetic Shadows?

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet Each time we become impulsive, display exaggerated feelings about others, feel humiliated, find excessive...

Bly's Shadow

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Owning Your Own Shadow - Beliefnet You ask what causes the shadow? As Robert Bly puts it in, 'The Long Bag we Drag Behind Us' in MEE...
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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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