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.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Morals as Thought Police

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beliefnet I think you are confusing morality with social justice. Morality at least for those of us that don't get it from some deit...

Manners, Atheists and Free Will.

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Beliefnet Those who do recognize their own authority rests in their own moral sense and thinking mind have the chance to operate with a...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Values and Morality

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beliefnet If our values are not policing our thoughts immoral actions would be all to common.  See any fervent believer that does as told...

Source of morality

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beliefnet We all get our concepts of good and evil, right or wrong from the same place: The local society we grew up in, very slightly mod...
Friday, April 4, 2014

HowMuch Sleep is Enough

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It depends on genetics.  A good article can be found at http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232784 Excerpt: Unfortunately, for most of us...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Dual Careers and Sex

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Excerpt from Amanda Hess in Slate Gottlieb’s story relies heavily on a 2012 study (PDF) published in the American Sociological Review t...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Is Death an Extinction?

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beliefnet Is death an extinction ?  frbnsn In the sense of the particular body, certainly.  In the sense of the whole person probably ...

Pain and Death and Morality

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beliefnet Humans and other social animals work very hard to eradicate pain because pain is next to death on the spectrum of things to t...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Late Pleistocene Predators.

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The following is speculation pure and simple, but based on narrow science discoveries with a lot of help from the speculations of Jon Frankl...

Genesis 3:16

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Beliefnet DotNotInOz wrote: The Garden of Eden story is one of the nastiest in the Bible. It was a setup from the get-go. Somebody w...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Why I Live.

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beliefnet Why do you desire to accomplish well your endeavors? Are you pleased with your creations / your accomplishments?  -  iamachil...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

More on Historical Jesus

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beliefnet A rational analysis of the available data admittedly limited to the Gospels and some recently discovered Gnostic writings, show...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Social Reality

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beliefnet I think of morality as a socially generated reality.  It is not coexistent with physical or science reality as there is no way...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Socially Responsible Humanism

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Thad Yep, J'Carlin. That's my sense of "prick", too. And I reiterate: unfortunately, any prick can be a father, too. ...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

TRUTH™ Means that Others are Wrong.

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Beliefnet The theist concern for the TRUTH TM is a critical difference that causes many problems.  If you have the TRUTH TM then by defin...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Is is sex or sexism that sells?

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Jonathan Korman “Everyone says sex sells, but actually sexism sells. There’s a difference.” -@femfreq (via @mmjordahl) Not so. If...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Homophobia

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Courtesy The Other 98% facebook. 10/14/13 I hate the word Homophobia. It isn't a phobia. You're not afraid. You're an Assho...
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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Yesterday is up. No, it is East.

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http://edge.org/conversation/how-does-our-language-shape-the-way-we-think What we have learned is that people who speak different language...

Godless Evolution in a Nutshell

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beliefnet As the universe evolved heavy elements were created in hot massive stars that exploded seeding the universe with heavier elemen...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Spirituality is Ordinary Sensory Input.

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Beliefnet Okay, so we feel something unusual, overwhelming even. How can we be certain, as F1fan suggests, it's not simply imagina...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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Beliefnet   iamachildofhis wrote:   JCarlin wrote:   iamachildofhis wrote: iama:  We know that "all die." JCarlin: E...
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J'Carlin
Silicon Valley, CA, United States
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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