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, August 22, 2011

Experiencing Transcendence

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An experience that is intensely moving is a natural reward system in the brain to impose certain patterns indelibly in the memory. Lets def...

Is Politics Relevant to Anything?

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Libertarian, Liberal, Trogloright - I have decided that politics at least in developed countries is irrelevant for the people who make the c...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Why Atheists Study Religion

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Since I was a small child many of my good friends have spent significant portions of their life in the worship of and dependence on God. I...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Infinite Monkeys, Typewriters, and Shakespeare.

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However it is a fact that a finite number of primates breeding with no target in mind, did produce the entire works of Shakespeare. Not wit...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Afterlife Considerations

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So What? - beliefnet The probability of an afterlife is so low as to be a useless consideration in living. The chances of God mediating ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Jesus as theistic humanist.

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Jesus as teacher. - beliefnet Jesus was using the prevailing paradigm of God to teach, but the focus was on being a better human being to...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The Entire New Testament in 41 words

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The existence of gods - beliefnet Aug 16, 2011 -- 6:43PM, amcolph wrote: Jesus preached a radical moral philosophy which scare...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

University Communities

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SSGS - beliefnet As an atheist I of course think the university communities are a viable alternative to the religious SSGs. The fact tha...

Experiencing God

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Experiences - beliefnet In my studies of the religion of my friends and neighbors I never made any secret of the fact that I was an athei...

Experiencing God

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No Gods - beliefnet The difference is quite simple when I experience anything of the Earth even something spiritual in the atheist sense ...

Psalm 14:1

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Atheist Inspiration - beliefnet You have repeatedly throughout this thread stated there is no god. If you believe David speaks the truth...

My Creator

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Define God -beliefnet I have no problem understanding my creators. Countless generations of organisms survived to reproduce culminating ...

Ancient Religions in a Modern Society.

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Knock on God's Door - beliefnet. I don't see how a patriarchal, high maternal and infant mortality rate society can have any stor...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Atheist Spirituality

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No Gods not a Presupposition - beliefnet The difference is quite simple when I experience anything of the Earth even something spiritual ...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Modern Mythology

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Knock on God's Door Probably because we have much more relevant modern mythologies that relate to the modern technological and rationa...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

A World without Borders

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Is Theism Simply Fear Of Facing Reality? - beliefnet I like to imagine a world without borders, without local goverments or political p...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

On Atheism

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Comment on Philosophy Talk Atheism is not a definition of anybody's life. Atheism is simply an answer to "Do you believe?" or...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Existential Issues in Belief

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Beliefnet - Religion and Mind It is the belief not the existence of the referent that causes all the problems. A person believing in the ...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

ERSSG Houskeeping

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(I was just visiting my daughter, son in law, grandson and brand new grandson. My daughter and son in law are pigs. They never met a close...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Meaning

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If you treat meaning as a quest you will never discover it. The meaning of life is apparent to anyone who lives intentionally and rationall...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Biology of Ethics

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The Biology of Ethics - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education : "Churchland, professor emerita of philosophy at the ...

Facing Death

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Is Theism Simply ... The Fear of Facing Reality? - Beliefnet I suspect you will find that for those of us who accept the permanence of death...
Friday, June 10, 2011

No Afterlife?

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Is Theism Simply ... The Fear of Facing Reality? - Beliefnet No afterlife at all. When I die, nothing remains but a few ashes. If I have...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Atheist Values

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Differences in outlook - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community Most non-believers I know are interested in social values and the direction...
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Atheist Lfe Stages.

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Is Theism Simply Born And Persist Due To The Fear of Facing Reality? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community I also think that after the a...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

On a Life Worth Dying For.

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Is Theism Simply Born And Persist Due To The Fear of Facing Reality? - Beliefnet Accepting the reality and finality of death, does not lea...
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Monday, June 6, 2011

the unfulfilled dream

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uuworld.org : the unfulfilled dream Note the linked article is necessary background. As long as UU does not define a belief statement it...
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Saturday, June 4, 2011

The Education Common Privatized.

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Blogger: Free and Responsible Search - Post a Comment : The common that is being stolen today is the right of every child to the education...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Random Thoughts from The Believing Brain.

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I have just started The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer. This post is a collection of quotes and reactions not to be taken too seriously...
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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...
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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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