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.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Miniver Cheevy: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

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Miniver Cheevy: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Follow the link. Read it. We can never be reminded too often.
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Religion, Misogyny, and Fecundity.

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Perspectivism II - Beliefnet In general, religions particularly Abrahamic religions and their bastard offspring are fundamentally based on...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

A Naive Musical Experience

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet I was, just this morning, a naive listener to the Allegri. I had never heard of it prior to S...

Mozart of God, take your pick

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet I will take Mozart thanks. I can be enchanted any time I wish (and have time) just by mentall...

Spirituality and music

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet [Becoming one with the music of Mozart] is called human spirituality. It is available to all....
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Natural Spirituality in a Christian context.

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Atheists at end of life. - Beliefnet [It was not the best Christian theology] Nor was it the best of natural spirituality I have been pres...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

What is an atheist like?

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet I doubt you will find what you are looking for on beliefnet or in atheist blog-space either. ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Democracy.

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Facebook : "Thank NoGod that somebody is running things. The governments both federal and state are totally dysfunctional. We are livin...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Brain/Mind Separation

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The Neuroscience of Tone Deafness: Scientific American : "This conclusion is strongly supported by the results of functional and struct...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Tribal Issues

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At Davies Symphony Hall last night sitting in the cheap seats next to a family obviously out of place in the setting. Chit-chat quickly rev...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

This is America

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Facebook (1) : "Meg Barnhouse From Chip Roush: This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Intelligent, Rational Tribalism

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Our potential - Beliefnet But ive changed that attitude by seeing myself as a tribalist and I think our church would be better as seeing o...

Self Realization and Religion

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Your Zodiac sign - Beliefnet The essence of religion is the belief that life cannot be managed by oneself. Indoctrination begins at birth...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Teach Your Children Well

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Harris Determinism - Beliefnet Far better than giving a child a cheeseburger or teaching them a skill is to teach the child rational and c...

Biology of Belief

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Philosopher of Religion...Calls it Quits - Beliefnet Andrew Newberg, M.D., et al., Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biolog...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Morality and Relition

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Antitheism? - Beliefnet I might agree that religions can cause moral behavior if you are referring to the religious context as a social fr...

Conspiracy Laws for Religious Hate

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Antitheism? - Beliefnety The simple expedient of applying the conspiracy laws to religions would do the trick. They can conspire about hate...

Society and Religion

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Antitheism? - Beliefnet Society is doing a pretty good job of sorting out the religious claims as useful only to believers and useless for...

Why Believe?

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Case for God a "Fraud" - Beliefnet Personally I would change the statement [of a willingness to believe] to a indication of a le...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Is Web 2.0 the New Democracy?

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Obama's limited use of Web 2.0 to fund his Chicago Politics, may point the way to a new internet democracy, where people actively back t...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

16 yo world female chess champion

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China Rises, and Checkmates - NYTimes.com You see, Ms. Hou gamely agreed to play me after I interviewed her. She had just flown into Beiji...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Academic Achievement and Parenting

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Why does religion ... moral? - Beliefnet What got me thinking about ring speciation was a comment by several women medical students that t...

UU Elevator Speech

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Dashboard - DISQUS UU is a personal religion which brings the wisdom of all religions to each member. I was a RE teacher, and found that...
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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...
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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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