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, August 28, 2010

Good and Evil

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Epicurus? - Beliefnet : A personal view of good and evil is "Perhaps an Epicurean POV, or a caricature of a theist's view of athe...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Christian for Eternity

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The Bright Line - Beliefnet : "We atheists will die and as a result of our living a righteous and moral life according to our chosen ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Mind?

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Where Is The Mind? - Beliefnet : "Lets be honest here. In Christian myth, human minds created God, in order to create and sustain th...
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Good and Evil

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Epicurus? - Beliefnet : "Human social structures originally tribes and later villages and parishes decided definitively what was good...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Scientific Literacy

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Scientific Illiteracy - Beliefnet : "Your elitism is showing, I know people of average intelligence that paid attention in good schoo...

Cultures Decay

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet : There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is deat...

Christianity or Shinto

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On replacing Christianity with Shinto - Beliefnet : "I find the evolutionary reason behind religion is not spiritual fulfillment, but...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Tell Me of the God You Don't Believe In.

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When You Say "God"... - Beliefnet : "In the general sense, anything that is greater than, and superior to, an individual th...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Vuvuzela Music?

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WHY belief in gods? - Beliefnet : "Ah, the wonder of the internet. You can find out more than you ever want to know about something ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

On Truth

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Hidden Secret? - Beliefnet : "I am using human knowing in an individual absolute sense. For an individual something they know is tru...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Scientific Illiteracy in America

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Scientific Illiteracy in America - Beliefnet : "The good science journalists, are no longer found on the general news channels. They...

Christianity and The Empty Tomb

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Why Was The Tomb Empty? - Beliefnet : I think Paul's brilliance in making everything people do sinful including sex and judgement is w...

America Goes Dark - NYTimes.com

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Op-Ed Columnist - America Goes Dark - NYTimes.com : "The antigovernment campaign has always been phrased in terms of opposition to wast...

Continually Seeking God

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Continually Seeking God : The Talmud reads, 'Never pray in a room without windows.' Never pray without the world in mind, in other ...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Constrained Choice

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Is the world intrinsically knowable? - Beliefnet "The option to free will is constrained choice. Believer or atheist, one can go m...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Carlton Pearson

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uuworld.org : the gospel of inclusion : "Then Pearson got a divine revelation, as he tells it. Watching a news report one night in th...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Legacy and Reminder - John Dobbs

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REMINDER John Dobbs The world began the day that I was born and on the day I die the world will end. Between these dates there will ...
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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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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