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.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Properties of Thought

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Spirituality and humanity - Beliefnet : "The one thing I can be sure of is that bio-chemical reactions exist in the body and brain th...
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Death Myths

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Spirituality and humanity - Beliefnet : "It is correct that facing death after it happens is a myth, one that must be comforting to s...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Christian Baggage

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The Bright Line - Beliefnet : it is 'you' that the instrument [the cross] is meant for, it is 'you' who are damaged beyond...

Spiritual but Not Religious

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Spirituality and humanity - Beliefnet : "Jul 23, 2010 -- 3:01AM, wrote: Spirituality has to do with seeking improvements to one'...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Spirituality

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Spirituality and humanity - Beliefnet : Spirituality is 'just' an evolved reward mechanism, in the same way that breathing is ...

Legacy and Reminder

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substance - Beliefnet : **Stands and shuffles some papers behind the pulpit.** Ahem. I have been asked for a self supporting defense o...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

For my Atheist friends - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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For my Atheist friends - Beliefnet : Yeah, perhaps, but you are missing out on the woo-woo's and all that 'fun stuff' that t...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Honor among thieves (and drug dealers)

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When my children were young there was a park near our home that was divided by community tolerance into the drug dealer's half, and the ...

Supporting Science

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This ought to be fun - Beliefnet : "The industrial 'johns' and increasingly university 'johns' support science becaus...

Science and technology

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This ought to be fun- Beliefnet : "Your son's masters may be in [computer] technology, but there is real science behind the technol...

On Rainbows

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This ought to be fun - Beliefnet : "A rainbow does not exist at all without both an photosensitive device and an interpreter of the i...

Behind the Wheel - 2011 BMW 535i and 550i

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Behind the Wheel - 2011 BMW 535i and 550i - Review - NYTimes.com : "Even the mildly uncommunicative helm didn’t prevent the 5 from tu...
Friday, July 16, 2010

A Secular Society Example

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moral training....stealing-right or wrong? - Beliefnet : "An example of a non-religious society might be a modern high level research...
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Ethical Education

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Svengali ME! - Beliefnet : "Unless you were sent to a Catholic boarding school for reasons other than religious indoctrination, I can...

Creator???

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Theists Welcome?Beliefnet : "I don't know how the universe wasn't created, nor do I claim to know how it was. I just find it...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Moral Training.

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moral training - Beliefnet : "The law is a first approximation of what the larger society considers to be proper. It has nothing at ...

Moral Compass

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moral training....stealing-right or wrong?Beliefnet : "Rule 1 of any decent moral compass religious or otherwise, is, or should be ...

Sirronrex on Homosexuality

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Homosexuality - Beliefnet : "Jul 2, 2010 -- 5:27PM, If you believe in the bible, homosexuality is a sin. The bible is nothing more t...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Moral Training

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moral training....stealing-right or wrong? - Beliefnet : "I suspect children learn morality the same way they learn language. The do...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Rejecting God?

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Reasoned Ignorance? - Beliefnet : "As long as you admit that the premise that we are all children of God is a belief system and not a f...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Divine Art?

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We Thirst - Beliefnet : From an otherwise forgettable thread. "I would say the Pieta is an incredibly beautiful and emotionally powe...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Contributions of Christianity?

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The Biblical Self-Destruct Clause - Beliefnet : El Cid wrote in an otherwise worthless thread: "Almost everything good about western...
Friday, July 2, 2010

The Existence of God

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What is an atheist? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community "At the risk of being thrown out of the atheist club by some theists I do...

Maturity in Theists and Atheists

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What is an athiest? - Beliefnet I realized why I think of a certain type of atheists this way, it is because they do remind me so much of ...
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Absolute good

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Valid Criticism or Projection? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community The absolute standard for "good" is that which facilitate...

Existence

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Valid Criticism or Projection? - Beliefnet I have no problem at all with existence. It needs no modifier, it needs no definition, it is o...

On God

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Valid Criticism or Projection? - Beliefnet Whether it is the idea of Deity, Deity itself, The Whichness of the Why, The Woo-Woo Wishiness,...

Abiogenesis

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Valid Criticism or Projection? - Beliefnet Almost: Life, consciousness and intelligence are well explained properties resulting from ordi...

Valid Criticism?

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Valid Criticism or Projection? - Beliefnet "OK. Phrase by phrase deconstruction of a common Christian argument: Atheists say: This...

Seeking God

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Standards of evidence - Beliefnet Finding God has nothing to do with choosing to seek or reject God. It has to do with first and foremost ...

Life in a Christian Country.

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Poor Christian or Bad Atheist? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community While it might fry your brain, think about the fact that by one stu...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

On Proselytizing

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UGH! - Beliefnet From a decent thread on the subject. I, and I suspect most atheists, have no interest in converting anyone. I have n...

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

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"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" - Beliefnet This is why I think people like the one I quoted like proselytizing, but remem...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

More Changes

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Fox has sold beliefnet to ????. It can't be much worse. The Fox life support in community has been excruciating. Maybe it can be cure...

Is is is?

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Valid Criticism or Projection? - Beliefnet I have no problem at all with existence. It needs no modifier, it needs no definition, it is o...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Truth in Fiction

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A comment on this post from Rationally Speaking J'C: "Humans are story telling creatures. We learn about living in our society ...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Coming Population Crash

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The Reproductive Revolution: How Women Are Changing the Planet's Future: Scientific American But more than 60 countries—containing appro...
Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Source of Morality.

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MORAL LAW... - Beliefnet Humans are social animals and the behavioral imperatives or moral structures ultimately come from the local societ...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Modern teen sexuality

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How do atheists deal with sexual morality - Beliefnet Abstinence education has been a total failure even among the most fervent believers n...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Sexual morality for Churches.

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How do atheists deal with sexual moral(s) - Beliefnet "I think the message from all churches should change from no sex until marriage...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Transcendence and the Mind

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Beliefnet "Transcendence differs from ordinary conscious states for me by simply focusing all of the mind's resources on whatever...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Reality in sexual morality

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How do atheists deal with sexual moral dilemmas? - Beliefnet A few important reality checks having to do with sexuality. 1. Modern medic...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Santa Claus, God and other Myths

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Santa Clause & Childhood - Beliefnet Mature wisdom if you can count a six year old as mature assigns both Santa and God to the large ca...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Permission slip.

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"Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have a sword fight." Aussie humor. Absolutely hilarious. Permission to attend an Easter Pageant...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Global warming: not a fraud

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Global warming: not a fraud The most disturbing thing to me about the recent climate change and evolution debates is how ignorance has been ...

Mind research

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The error of mind-body dualism - Beliefnet If you have a better excellent summary [of mind research] to hand, grateful if you lay it on us...
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BP oil spill: And a child shall lead them.

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BP oil spill: And a child shall lead them - Carl Hiaasen - MiamiHerald.com In his winning essay, McNamara proposed several possible options...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Abstinance until marriage, cont

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Theist responsible - Beliefnet THEN I surely OUGHT to be RESPONSIBLE enough ALSO to Practice "Abstinence" and/or "Monoga...

Abstinance until marriage

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Theist responsible - Beliefnet Such a dis-Connect is EXACTLY a LARGE Part of The Problem, isn't it ... ??? teilhard It is EXACTLY the...

Sexuality Education in Schools, cont

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Theist responsible - Beliefnet I don't really believe that a "Papal Bull" would suddenly Solve-the-Problem-of-Irresponsibl...
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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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