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.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Jesus as humanist.

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Definitions - Beliefnet The problem with Christian theology is that it has nothing at all to do with Jesus. John was closest to Jesus, bu...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

ChooseYour Parents Well

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The origin of self in relation to truth - Beliefnet Why it is so important to pick your culture very carefully: A child will be necessari...
Friday, February 25, 2011

The Internet as SSG.

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Rationally Speaking: Massimo’s Picks : Nice article on the internet , thanks. The revolution that is being missed is the fact that until t...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

What is an Atheist?

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Definitions - Beliefnet Let me make it as simple as I can. If a person believes in at least one God or god that person is a theist. It d...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Clan of the Cave Bear

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Modern DNA analysis, mitochondrial vs whole genome puts a pretty dark slant on the movie Clan of the Cave Bear. No mitochondrial Neanderth...

Tribal Issues

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king of the universe(s) - Beliefnet The basic human social unit has been the tribe or clan. Certainly tribes and clans competed for space...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Social Elites

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Nails in the Religious Coffin: Sex, Drugs, and Contraception - Beliefnet We are the world's sweet chosen few. The rest of you be dam...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Pair bonding.

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Nails in the Religious Coffin: Sex, Drugs, and Contraception - Beliefnet The thing that religions generally do not recognize is that repro...

Replacing the Church for Socialization

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Nails in the Religious Coffin: Sex, Drugs, and Contraception - Beliefnet I would agree that society has gone overboard in the nuclear fami...

Internet as a Social Group

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Nails in the Religious Coffin: Sex, Drugs, and Contraception - Beliefnet Let´s use this day to remind us of the importance of  friendship, ...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Atheists Behaving Badly.

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Blag Hag: When Gender Goes Pear-Shaped Let's continue to flog the messengers here. That will allow us to continue to avoid dealing wit...

Nails in the Religious Coffin: Sex, Drugs, and Contraception

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Nails in the Religious Coffin: Sex, Drugs, and Contraception - Beliefnet Controlling sex and drugs is certainly a huge issue for humanity....

Power to the People

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Matt Davies courtesy Gocomics In today's world information is power. It is essentially free on the internet. 2012 anyone? Mr Bloomb...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Feminist men.

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Blag Hag: When Gender Goes Pear-Shaped If feminist men don't speak out on feminist issues, the only ones left to do so are those rad-f...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

The Little Vuvuzela in the Fancy Dress

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This phrase grew out of a comment by one of my favorite ministers who would talk about standing out on the church steps in a fuchsia dress s...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Solving Existential Nihilism

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Beliefnet Welcome to existential nihilism. You must solve this problem for yourself or you will fall prey to the first religion that prov...

The Value of Religion

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No atheist "denies" the existence of any "God" - Beliefnet Religion has been an avocation for me ever since I found ou...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Ethics

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Perspectivism II - Beliefnet That is your problem. There is no absolute basis of ethics with or without God. Ethics are determined by th...

California

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Facebook (1) Man! I went outside this morning and there is over 30 inches of sunshine on my driveway, I'd go shovel it out of my way, b...

Fire in Dallas

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The Joke Thread - Beliefnet News flash--A tragic fire struck the library of Dallas Theological Seminary last night. In spite of the best ...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

God Helmet Redux. Science at Work.

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Michael Persinger God Helmet Questions... - Beliefnet Electrical brainstorms busted as source of ghosts: Doubt cast on theory that magnet...
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...
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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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