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.

Friday, December 31, 2010

Atheist Spitituality

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The Arena Culture - NYTimes.com David Brooks Op-Ed: Hubert Dreyfus of Berkeley and Sean Dorrance Kelly of Harvard have just done this wit...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Experiencing God.

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Antitheism? - Beliefnet I am close enough friends with several Catholics (RCC) to have been invited to participate in services with suspen...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Observer Bias

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Perspectivism - Beliefnet Observer bias is not neutralized, simply accounted for by the interpreter. Nietzsche was biased against a God...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Ring Speciation

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The "Dawkins" Petition - Beliefnet Since Homo Sapiens moved out of the caves they realized that educating and socializing childr...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

On Land and Soul Grabs

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The "Imperial Brits" are dead - Beliefnet No one argues that the land grab was not basically secular. Even though a cogent argum...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Voyager.

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Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American : "Voyager 1 Arrives at the Cusp of Interstellar Space NASA--Thirty-thre...

Ngram viewer

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Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American : "New Tool Tracks Culture from 1500s via Books Google Books Ngram Viewe...

Unusual Sexuality

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BDSM? - Beliefnet As long as the principle of dignity and respect is part of the game I would agree with Dot. No harm, no foul is as appl...

Critiquing religion

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Critiquing religion - Christopher Hitchens - Beliefnet The major problem with Hitchins is that like many polemicists it is too easy for th...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Governing without Religion

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Religion and morality - Beliefnet I haven't read Proud Tower , but from your description it is a polemical view of the reality of deal...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas Bigotry

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Christmas Wars - Beliefnet I see Happy Holidays as anti-Jewish. Christmas is a celebration of an especially capable Jew. You know he was...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Critiquing religion - Where are the Theists?

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Critiquing religion - Christopher Hitchens - Beliefnet You have identified the major issue here and one that keeps Hitchens in business. ...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Government in the USA

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The Federal Government, indeed government in general, has been irrelevant to the management of the USA since Reagan was elected. It is simp...

Merry Christmas

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Christmas Wars - Beliefnet Thank you for the greeting. I intend to have a Merry Christmas in my fashion which includes celebrating the j...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Phenomenology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Phenomenology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) : # Ontology is the study of beings or their being — what is. # Epistemology is the s...

Fiction, Imagination and Reality.

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Phenomenology - Beliefnet : A child at about 6 or 7 begins to sort out the imaginary and fiction from the real quite naturally. Herm imag...

Those that can, Teach

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Those that can, teach, and change the world. Those that can't teach do. They fool around with things and/or ideas. Useful to be sur...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

God is Love?

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Quantum Theory - Beliefnet : 'God' Is 'LOVE' teilhard It would be useful if you could find any support for this statemen...

The Science of Meaning.

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The Rosetta Stone, information is material, meaning is not - Beliefnet : I will admit that in the limited world of the study of consciousn...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Christmyth

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Christmas Wars & Conspiracies - Beliefnet : And a happy Christmyth to you too. farragut
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Selfish Gene?

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Original sin and the human genome - Origins of Life - Beliefnet Community : "In some species the individual is the selection unit. F...

Changing the World

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"Is what you’re doing going to change the world?” asked Larry Page, Google’s co-founder. “If not, maybe you should do something else.” ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

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Why religious patriarchy is so oppressive - Beliefnet : "God is losing the Kinder, Küche, Kirche battle, and female believers as well...
Monday, November 29, 2010

On Wolves and Poodles.

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'not all speciation was caused by mutations'- Beliefnet : 6. How did these 'losses' become fixed in a population? (Rememb...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Ontological Emergence

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Emergent Properties (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) : "Whether there are any instances of ontological emergence is highly controv...
Friday, November 26, 2010

U.S. divorce rates: for various faith groups, age groups and geographical areas

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U.S. divorce rates: for various faith groups, age groups and geographical areas : "Barna report: Variation in divorce rates among Chris...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Religious Myth as Wisdom?

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Joy and Wisdom? - Beliefnet : "[Materialists and rationalists are] a small subset of atheists here, albeit a noisy one. I suspect th...

The Value of Religion in a Scientific Age.

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In a Scientific Age is Religion a Hereditary Delusion? - Beliefnet : "The spiritual, actually religious component, of human history ...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Joy and Wisdom, and Purpose.

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Joy and Wisdom? - Beliefnet : "As I never had the problem of living with God myths and life after death worries, I discovered both jo...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Spiritual Exercises

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Spiritual Exercises | A Sermon by Forrest Church : "3. Pray for someone you hate. Hatred stokes the mind’s satanic mills, but it is n...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

On Fairies, Pots of Gold and Astrology

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "If you could explain what I should reject for all of the above I might be able to answer your quest...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Religious history.

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How Religion conquered Science - Beliefnet : I wouldn't hesitate in agreeing that human beings throughout history have been driven by ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sexual Maturity

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Christian Preschool and Daphne: - Beliefnet : "Perhaps the confusion is the focus on sexuality. That is the focus of any relationshi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "The sin of Sodom that got it destroyed by God was inhospitality. In a desert community refusing ho...

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus -- Beliefnet : "Since the God Jesus was referring to was a personal God not subject to anyone else's approval ...

Men are Dumb.

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The Fruit of the Teaching "Males are Superior" - Beliefnet : Men are dumb. Very dumb. Dar "Probably one of the major caus...

The rough patches in life.

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Pulling at the threads - Beliefnet : "Most of my University educated friends don't reach for history books or religious works to ...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "You need to strip the God from Jesus the man, and the stage magic that was his stock in trade, the...

God's All-loving Nature. Not

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God - Tales of Mere Existence - Beliefnet : "As someone who has put serious effort into understanding God I have come to a quite diff...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Atheists and Jesus - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "It is perhaps useful to understand the background and biases of the creator of the entity, but you...

Atheists and Jesus - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "Kermit the Frog, Jubal Hartshaw, Jesus, and God are well defined, consistently portrayed (at least ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

US Politics and the Third World

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As you know I was active in the Obama and health care campaigns. It turned out he was just another Chicago politician. He had the votes fo...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Blag Hag: Ripping MS -ogyny

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Blag Hag: Does the media really care where the atheist women are? : The main article is an incredibly good response to a MS(ogyny) article...

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "I think it is important to recognize in any discussion of Jesus by atheists that we are dealing wit...

Fighting Two Fronts - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Fighting Two Fronts - Beliefnet From a generally useless thread: "For those for whom God is the awe-ful, controlling big daddy (alw...
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...
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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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