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, July 29, 2013

On Vacation

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For those who noticed my inattention for the past week, I was traveling with a good childhood friend of my son to Joseph, Oregon to see son...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

On Monogamy.

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Ebon wrote on beliefnet: It's especially a pointless question for humans because, unlike any other species, we have learned to de...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Atheists vs Religion, not God

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beliefnet I see the big issue not as atheism vs. God, but atheism vs. religion.  Atheists are in a unique position to separate the two an...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

The Purse-Seine

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beliefnet May 12, 2013 -- 12:50AM This is how I see it: Like music is the result of the various interactions of the instruments of a...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Wishing for God

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Beliefnet Do you ever wish there was a jesus, a god, a day when all that is wrong will be made right? Do you wish there was a place whe...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Two Degrees of ERSSG.

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In Jonathan's Salon the other night we were discussing the apparent fact that in the ERSSG in New York, SF Bay Area, Austin and LA there...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Prof Liberty

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Pat Oliphant on Immigration
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Is Science Math?

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beliefnet I think you're conflating theory with support/evidence FOR the theory. The Theory of Plate Techtonics, for example, merely ...

How to Get Laid in a Society of Empowered Women

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You don't. There is no dearth of sex in the society, they like sex as much as the next woman.  But due to a very busy schedule time ef...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Keys to Heaven

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beliefnet Do you ever wish there was a jesus, a god, a day when all that is wrong will be made right? Do you wish there was a place wh...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Enlightenment and Cosmopolitanism v Religion

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From a Jonathan Korman Facebook thread on The Death of the New Age   The problem with all religions, traditional, New Age, Pagan and for th...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Empowerment of Women and the Rape Culture

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not-so-good-men-project  They're clearly trying to reach Regular Guys and the universe of gender politics In response to this excell...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

On Blood Donations

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Banshee Arts Blood and kinship. In some contexts, the two are synonymous. We say that we share blood with someone if we are familially r...
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Peer Pressure Morality

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SciAm  This is an astute observation because research on the motivation of soldiers during combat—well summarized by Lt. Col. Dave Gross...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

An ex-UU none on the blue road.

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UUWorld/Morales/comment As an ex-UU none who studied religion and spirituality at the university an...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

Wish List

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Instead of Books I won't read, toasters that burn religious symbols in toast, DVDs I won't watch, and other nicknacks that I ...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Atheist Sexual Morality

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beliefnet One of the reasons to side with the atheists in matters of sexual morality is that the atheist community is far superior to at ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Why men are losing

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The war on men By Suzanne Venker Worth skimming to "Feminism serves men well: they can have sex ... with no responsibilities whatsoe...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Sports and Drugs. In re Lance Armstrong trashing.

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  When the option is to drug or drop out of the sport you love and are good at at the top level, Which was most sports in the 80s and 90s....
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Bigotry and Retards

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An Open Letter to Ann Coulter Posted on October 23, 2012 by Tim Shriver John Franklin Stephens The following is a gu...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Atheist Living

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Beliefnet It is almost impossible to not be moral and compassionate if you are an atheist as there is no alternative.  You have no choice...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Gish Gallop

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beliefnet As I demonstrated earlier in this thread, all the founders of the major branches of science were Christians, modern hospitals...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Retroactive Culture Change - Fail.

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September 30, 2012 The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture” 96 Comments Most of us are familiar with...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Free Will and Religion

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beliefnet Why am I misunderstanding freewill? Let's cut to the chase. People make choices. These choices have various levels of ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/from-bible-belt-pastor-to-atheist-leader.html?hpw After a few quick searches with the terms “pa...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

An Atheist on Woo-woo

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This atheist is immune to woo-woo as I have no need for a focus at all, within or without. My focus is to get from one day to the next in c...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Natural Spirituality

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Atheists know better, and recognize this sense of wonder and profound truth as a natural reaction of the mind/brain to reinforce critically ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

An Atheist on Tillich

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Tillich, op. cit., pp. 20-21 -- "Philosophy necessarily asks the question of reality as a whole, the question of the structure of being...
Friday, August 3, 2012

The Creator of the Universe!

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There is no creator, and even if there were there is no god that could be identified with it. I am the Creator of the Universe due to my...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Social Humanism

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It is self-evident that atheism rejects a dualist worldview. But that is only the starting point for the worldview of an atheist. Material...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Conditional Radical Respect

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beliefnet Atheists are frequently accused of having no moral standards because moral standards are more diffuse and driven by intelligent ...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Why an Atheist

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beliefnet I was raised in a Unitarian family, and one of the features of UU RE is the study of other religions, ostensibly to broaden our s...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Spiritual but Not Religious

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beliefnet however, I believe "spiritual but not religious" will replace organized religion. Aka_me Spiritual but not religious...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Post enlightenment social values

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beliefnet post-"Enlightenment" (supposedly) Autnomous "Modern" Humans, who value The Individual SELF above almost anyo...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Miniver Cheevy: Consent

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Miniver Cheevy: Consent Thinking about the rules of the game of Lets Get Laid. The following comment appearing there is dependent on that ...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Gender Inclusive Pronouns

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Back in the mid 20th Century the feminist movement tried with some success to ban the generic use of "men" and "man" as ...

A Buddhist on immortality

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beliefnet I didn't have a lot of words of comfort for my dad then, but if he were here now, I'd tell him: you are going to live ...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Reality

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beliefnet Funny thing is that reality has a "liberal bias". Steven Guy
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Christianity is not a Force for an Ideal Society

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Christianity (like most other religions) is used in two ways: to justify all the prejudices and power imbalances of society as it stands, or...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Nuns they are a changing

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Tony Auth
Monday, April 16, 2012

Pain and God

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beliefnet Pain is not necessarily bad, but pain caused by another human whether physical or mental is bad, in fact positively immoral for ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Apolitical Atheists?

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beliefnet Yet I also think that atheists would do well to steer clear of American politics. American politics is corrupt, the gambolin...
Monday, April 2, 2012

On Prejudice

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Prejudice. During those years I came to understand that there is a difference between prejudice and bigotry. Prejudice is exactly what it s...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Is Homosexuality Natural in Late Adolescent Men?

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I LOVE PENIS! Facebook post of 17yo. male. The thought occurred to me that if 17yo males didn't love penis, we wouldn't have armies...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Future of the Religious Right

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beliefnet As the religious right is systematically destroying the education and hence competitiveness of their children in the secular wor...
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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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