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, October 30, 2010

Lust, Commitment, and Morality

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Question about Actions and Consequence - Beliefnet : "The difficulty here is that unfortunately bullying is one of the social contrac...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Morals without God?

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Morals without God? - Beliefnet : "How could [morality not follow current fashion.} Morality is the genetic propensity of an intelli...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "Atheists arguing about the existence of Jesus or the 'truth' in the Gospels among themselve...
Friday, October 15, 2010

The Intellectual Poverty of Rationalism

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Antitheism? - Beliefnet : "If a rationalist is unable to suspend disbelief as claimed to enjoy a learning experience or even a rollic...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Conundrums

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There Is No God - Beliefnet : "There is no materialist conundrum. WE are not the ones having a problem with a god - we simply don...

Theodicy

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There Is No God - Beliefnet : Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Morality as Face Group

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Please Critique My Idea Of God - Beliefnet : "Managing my life for the good of my chosen society is more basic than a call by God on ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

The Christian's Problem

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Richard Dawkins Thread v2.0 - Beliefnet : "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burk...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Paul's sins

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Sex and spirituality. - Beliefnet : "I do blame Paul. He needed a bunch of sins that people could adopt to consider themselves sinne...

Gender Definitions.

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Sex and spirituality. - Beliefnet : "In defining what constitutes gender I suspect I am an apostate to the traditional males, althoug...

Common Religious Morality

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet Community : "There is no common religious conclusion on morality. Each ignorant man, noting the benef...

World-Views

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Why do they believe? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community : "What is a world-view if not the way we operate in and react to realit...

Abstinance

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Protest the Pope - Beliefnet : So ... you think that The Bishop of Rome is WRONG about 'Abstinence' ... teilhard "Complete...

Paradise

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Life after death? - Beliefnet : "Then you had better build Paradise here and now while you are alive to enjoy it. Select your friend...

Using the Bible

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Romans 1:27 - Beliefnet : "I use the Bible to try to understand the context of my friends' thinking. I don't really care abo...

Midwest Cuisine cooking

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The Tea House - Beliefnet : "I grew up in Toledo OH along with Gael Greene food columnist for the New Yorker. She summed up Toledo a...

Asparagus

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The Tea House - Beliefnet : "One of the veggies I hated most as a small child was asparagus. My dad grew it, we would lovingly harve...

On Wicked Hearts

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Romans 1:27 - Beliefnet : "Thank you for asking. I not only deny that the human heart is deceitfully wicked, but I hold anyone teach...

The Ice Cream Diet

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The Tea House - Beliefnet : "At one point in my life I was packing on some 'swivel chair spread' keeping up with my teen age ...

Tough Times and Atheism

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Separating truth from superstition - Beliefnet : "As for the tough times, even smart, tough, atheists run into them. It is called li...

Learning from Religions

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Separating truth from superstition - Beliefnet : "Picking and choosing among religious beliefs is not only tolerable it is the only w...

Atheist Belief Systems?

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How many flavors are there? - Beliefnet : "In a lifetime of living as an atheist, and primarily with atheists, I have yet to find any...
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 ...
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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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