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.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Atheists, agnostics know more about religion than believers

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Atheists, agnostics know more about religion than believers, finds US survey : "A new survey, which measured Americans' knowledge...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Inherent Morality

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet : it is 'The Point' consider this: before you or I or anyone ( indigenous tribes included), can ...

Becoming Atheist

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet : "There are no atheists who believe they are Godlike. That means that no person indoctrinated in the...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Selfish or Social

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Life after death? - Beliefnet : There's no such thing as a selfless act. When people do good to others they only do this to benefit th...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Spiritual but Not Religious

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Common ground? Maybe we can all get along after all. - Beliefnet : "Spirituality is a natural human response to awe and wonder at unu...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Fallacy of the Cipher.

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Life after death? - Beliefnet : "Timothy, 2 + 2 = 4. But 2 + 2 + 0 = 4, too. What you are arguing is what I like to call the fallac...

B flat.

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet : "My answer to lack of faith is to enjoy the symphony of life without the vuvuzela in th...

Who Cares?

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet : "'Who cares?' or its many street language equivalents is a 't'riffic...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Gospel of Wealth

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Op-Ed Columnist - The Gospel of Wealth - NYTimes.com : "The United States once had a Gospel of Wealth: a code of restraint shaped by ...

God or Mammon - Take your pick

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Op-Ed Columnist - The Gospel of Wealth - NYTimes.com : "The tension between good and plenty, God and mammon, became the central tens...

Religion and Evolution

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Keeping state out of church? - Beliefnet : "Religion is one of the ways societies evolve. It is where social paradigms are tested an...
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...
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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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