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.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Get Your NBA Cheerleader Out of My Kid’s School

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Facebook : "Remington Stone via Susie Rodriguez Get Your NBA Cheerleader Out of My Kid’s School blog.pigtailpals.com Don’t try and t...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Memes in Evolution.

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Is This Life All There Is?. - Beliefnet While for 3.5 billion years, reproduction has been key and is still important in evolution, in the...
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Meaning, Purpose and the Afterlife

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Is This Life All There Is?. - Beliefnet the meaning will vanish. the very moment the person dies. it will be as if they had never been on ...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

What is Meaning?

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Is This Life All There Is?. - Beliefnet I have never been able to figure out what 'Meaning in Life' means to a Christian although ...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

What is an Atheist?

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..Pavlov and der Atheist... - Beliefnet You are talking about at least three separate groups of people here with the term atheist. Some ...
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Tribalism

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Is This Life All There Is?. - Beliefnet As intelligent social animals I would argue that the basic human evolutionary unit is the tribe. ...
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Is This Life all there is?

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I live as if it is. There is not enough evidence for an afterlife to even be agnostic, but in any event even an improbable God as afterlife...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Moral Evil

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....Athiest, never dear... - Beliefnet You went a few words too far. Slavery was abolished because it was a moral evil. Moral evil. Perio...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011

On the Internet

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atheism is NOT a "worldview" - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community One of the glories of the internet is that everybody is fre...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Tribal Moral Law

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atheism is NOT a "worldview" - Beliefnet All moral law is ultimately the mores of the tribe. That which allows the face group o...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Harry Jesus Christ Potter

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The bulk of Jesus Potter Harry Christ is a well researched and readable source for the mythical (literary) underpinnings of the figure of J...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Origin Stories

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Science vs. Religion - Science & Religion - Beliefnet Community There is overwhelming evidence that all gods including God came from t...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Morals of the Tribe.

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The 'existence' of gods - Beliefnet They both are talking about morality. The real issue is where Ken gets his preferences and cp...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Gil Robbins, Vocal Musician

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/arts/music/10robbins.html Gil's love for and dedication to vocal music of all kinds made a profound...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Spiritual But Not Religious

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Dawkins' chapter 8 - Beliefnet For more years than I like to think about I have been trying to find a word or even a short phrase to s...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Natural Spirituality

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Dawkins' chapter 8 - Beliefnet Community For political reasons you don't call it spirituality, but I suspect that there is more to...

Spiritual Truth

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Dawkins' chapter 8 - Beliefnet When you let the material/worldly override truth, it is spiritual suicide. Spirituality is as necessar...

The Tribe as the Human Evolutionary Unit.

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What is the Purpose of Religion? - Beliefnet As the human evolutionary selection unit is the tribe, as long as tribes were small enough an...
Monday, March 28, 2011

A Week of Aurora

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http://vimeo.com/21294655 The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo .
Saturday, March 26, 2011

HUAC History and Religion

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"In God We Trust" nation’s official motto? - Beliefnet The traditional but not official motto was 'E Pluribus Unum' Out ...

"In God We Trust"

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"In God We Trust" nation’s official motto? - Beliefnet Yeah, McCarthyism worked by destroying the cultural diversity that made A...

Evolution in a Knowledge Based Society

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Is Religious Misogyny Viable in a Modern economy - Beliefnet Darwin is no more relevant to modern evolutionary theory than the Bible is to...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Radiation dose chart link

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http://www.xkcd.com/radiation/ Eat one banana 0.1 microSv about the same as living for a year within 50 mi of a nuclear plant 3 times that f...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Misogyny in Living

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Hi there misogynist atheists. - Beliefnet Out of respect for misogynist atheists and other misogynists of all faiths and lack thereof (if...

Misogyny Sexism and Male Chauvinism

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Further Deterioration of Language - Beliefnet Early in the feminist movement it became clear that the language needed a word for the attit...

A World Without Religion

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Is religion is a "mind rotting" disease? - Beliefnet Atheism is not an answer for the mind rot of religion. If there were no th...

Misogyny and Religion

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what pray tell is sexist about stating the fact that many women prefer consensus to dominance. Is this not perhaps a reaction to millennia ...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Navigators USA alternative scouting group

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uuworld.org : alternative scouting group starts to grow As an early atheist scout and scoutmaster with a possibly gay co-scoutmaster (don...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

DNA Argument for a Creator

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Post Evidence Here - Beliefnet From data of molecular biology and from some information theories, we can now argue that an "intellig...

When religion dies.

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Is religion is a "mind rotting" disease? - Beliefnet Atheism is not an answer for the mind rot of religion. If there were no th...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Failed Theists

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The Bright Line - Beliefnet There is a reason that atheists are a small but rapidly growing segment of the population: It is hard intelle...
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...
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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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