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, November 25, 2011

Absolute Moral Authority.

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beliefnet The Bible has indeed been RECEIVED ais "Authoritative" ... This is so not least because an entire Community has receiv...

Dogs and people.

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Afghans generally consider dogs filthy animals and will use them to guard their homes, but they don't treat them the way Americans treat...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Absolute Moral Authority.

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There is an absolute moral authority it comes from the evolutionary need for intelligent social animals to live, breed and compete under a m...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Religion, Music and Art

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beliefnet I have explored the entire realm of seeking called religion and found absolutely nothing useful for living except the music and ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Defining Right and Wrong vs Morality

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beliefnet we're confusing DEFINING right/wrong... from KNOWING right/wrong. Aka me, all Not we, you and religions. Most of us social...

Dot's Spirituality

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beliefnet All humans feel awe and wonder resulting from certain things--a beautiful sunrise or sunset, rainbow after a bad thunderstorm, t...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Atheist Morality

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beliefnet Morality for atheists comes from the same place that morality for theists comes from: The society of the peers we respect and i...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Emotional Wounds.

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Time and brain chemistry heal all wounds even emotional ones. I know I’m not physically hurt. Though it feels like I’ve been kicked in the ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Faith as Morton's Demon

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beliefnet What think ye? Can you consider that you (A or T) can't really be objective, that your neural structure will not let you b...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Atheism vs Skepticism

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There is some confusion in the minds of many including religious skeptics as to the relationship of skepticism to atheism. I think it is fa...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Atheism and Being Human

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beliefnet Actually even in cases [failed theists] such as you describe, they are "observing the world" and finding that atheism ...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Is Life Enough?

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beliefnet When is one's current (often rather inadequate and inaccurate) understanding of reality enough? Shouldn't one desire m...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Atheists on the will to live.

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All my life I have been positive but lately I have been thinking why? I do not see the reason to live. I mean it all ends in death anyway. ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Life 101

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“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss Thanks for finding this Jamel Oeser-Sweat
Friday, September 30, 2011

Elizabeth Warren on Success

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moveon.org Perhaps the lesson for the wealthy that trashing the social support is trashing self will soon be apparant. The writing is on ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Jesus' Sources

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beliefnet There is nothing original about Jesus' "understanding." Virtually everything he said can be found in Cynic phil...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Source of Wisdom

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beliefnet In a modern working society there is no single source of wisdom. All profound thinkers have been examined by peers and then the...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

More cool Rob Paterson Work

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Rob Patterson: Mallethands . On the wonder and challenges of new music composing, promoting, and performing. Note use of the viola as a so...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Abiogenesis for Dummies

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beliefnet With primitive organisms reproducing in hours if conditions are right, how long will it be before that low probability of a favo...

Are Believers Happier

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beliefnet The division between believers and non-believers seems to be on the question of who takes responsibility for the lives of the in...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Origins of Morality

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Beliefnet - --We *are* hard-wired for morality... while we can accurately describe the biology of how this occurs, in my mind it doesn'...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

SODOM AND GOMORRA

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From notes for a talk about the Bible and Homosexuality posted on Facebook by Meg Barnhouse. If you are not familiar with Meg you should ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Remembering HUAC

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It seems that it is time to once again remind people why "Under God" replaced "indivisible" in the Pledge of Allegiance....
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Moral Responsibility

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beliefnet Again ... "Religions" don't kill ... PEOPLE kill ... teilhard ... often in the name of god. You are correct, rel...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Atheist Pride

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Other Supernatural Things I'm proud to be atheist. To me, it's just another IQ test I've scored well on. Bob_the_Lunatic
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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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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