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, July 26, 2015

Authority, Love, and God.

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beliefnet I suspect that the "Presence within" is part of the deference to authority genetic basic moral imperative you argue for...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Meaningful Living

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beliefnet Whether or not there is a God, meaningful living is all there is to being human.  We all die, and return to the stardust from w...

Meaningful Living

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beliefnet There are many ways gays can have biological offspring if they want them.  Others may adopt which is just as beneficial for the...

Objective Evidence for God.

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beliefnet ff. God, god(s), and goddesses (henceforth referred to as God) is defined as an imaginary creation of a human mind or a grou...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Give me the child until 7 ...

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Beliefnet The cerebral cortex, that which makes humans sapient, isn't fully developed until two and is overdeveloped at that point un...

God of the Credo

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beliefnet Blü : Yes, gods don't have objective existence. The objective existence of God for Catholics is rationally observed in ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Nyah Wynne on UBI

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Nyah Wynne 3 hrs   ·   Thoughts on the value of a Universal Basic Income The biggest reason I support UBI(Univ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Religious CV

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I do not need to defend my knowledge of religions of all cultures including the dominant ones of the cultures I have lived in.  My bookshe...

Atheism or Anti-Theism?

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beliefnet Perhaps we can get around to actually discussing atheism? rockyJew We are discussing atheism that is: why we are not a belie...

Torah Myth as Allegory

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beliefnet Which do you imagine are 'critical stories' in the Torah texts? As you are well aware, JC, one of the Jewish principl...

Reinterpreting Jesus as God

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beliefnet Jul 15, 2015 -- 9:50PM, Blü wrote: Which brings us to this thread, where we consider a being who, the story says, lives i...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Goo to Zoo to You Redux.

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beliefnet Again, I challenge you to take a look at just what the DNA Information coding and non-coding system is.  The signature of Y...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Born Good Learn Bad

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Social animals are born socially responsible at least within their species.  That is they are born good.  Socialization begins at birth a...

Human Worth

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beliefnet If you have one, what is your standard for measuring human worth? OFS How well a person embraces the UU First Principle: Th...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Hillel, Jesus and the Decalogue

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beliefnet christine3 wrote: "These are our highest most honesty-keeping rules and should be considered sacred. If you follow the...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Church Across the Street

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In the UU RE Curriculum there is a unit called the Church Across the Street.  A Sunday School class and teacher from a neighbor church, sy...

Critical Thinking in Religion

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In some religious traditions, Jews and Jesuits come immediately to mind, critical thinking about religion is encouraged post puberty.  But...

Belief Genetics

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I doubt that the belief gene has been identified. (And probably won't be, people have been burned at the stake for less.)  But accordi...

Pure Thought

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beliefnet Jun 21, 2015 -- 10:54AM, Blü wrote: And can you offer a testable (hence falsifiable) hypothesis about the ...

Catholic Experience of God through the Eyes of an Atheist.

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Beliefnet In my experience, mainly with Catholics, I have found that for them God is a real construct of the historical collective consc...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

God and BS - Is there a Distinction

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beliefnet Ancient history but worth preserving jcarlinbn 2/2/2004 1:52 AM 1 out of 26 ...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Ritual, Belief, and Understanding

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beliefnet I use ritual as a shorthand for important belief sets for any religion.  If you learn them early enough and repeat them offen e...

J neat.

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beliefnet Argumentative Jew wrote: I don't know of a 'Jahwist' faith community - so I'm not sure at all what you're...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

The Whiite, Male, Middle Class, MBA Perspective

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beliefnet Jun 7, 2015 -- 7:01PM, LDS wrote: My thing is that too many people - including certain posters - are so caught up in thei...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Science, Religionm and the Theory of Everything

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Just to be clear:  Science says nothing at all about how the universe(s) came to be.  Science observes the fact that the universe(s) exi...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Assailing BS Conceptual Blocks

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beliefnet Once more assailing religious conceptual blocks.  Not expecting to succeed, but the BS cannot remain unchallenged.  JCar...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

On Death - Henry Scott Holland

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Death Is Nothing At All - Poem by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Skeptical Conceptual Blocks

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beliefnet christine3 :It seems most atheists here get a reaction when they read the words paranormal, supernormal, superconscious, supern...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Religious, Spiritual, and Atheist.

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I think Forrest Church's mantra is appropriate here.  Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.  I had a cha...

Spirituality

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I don't bother to use "spiritual" much, since like many other useful words in English, its meaning has been so corrupted by ...

Christian Atheists

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beliefnet YEC:  I would think almost all of the Atheist living in a free society are to one degree or another.   It is hard to be a Chris...

Jesuism 2015

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Interesting that Christian atheists redirects to a rather useful article on Jesuism.  When I was looking for a title for a thread on athe...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

A Female Jahwist?

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According to Harold Bloom in the Book of J the Jahwist was a high class educated women in Solomon's or Rehoboam's court tasked wit...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Atheists are Funnier than Christians.

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beliefnet   Mormon wrote: And once again, you cherry-pick in order to try and make a point. Atheist Now, that is a joke!  Is ther...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Why Create?

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beliefnet May 12, 2015 -- 4:35PM, JCarlin wrote: "So that is how God does it!" is essentially not conceptually different ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

What is Humanism

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beliefnet The UU First Principle is about as good a definition as I can find:   The inherent worth and dignity of every person. I go ...

The Science of God's Creation

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beliefnet May 12, 2015 -- 2:14AM, Roymond wrote: I wish you could have visited our Intelligent Design club in college.  It was all ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Theistic Humanism

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I am convinced by long studies of Jefferson and Jesus the preacher man that both were theistic humanists.  When I was a kid in the UU trad...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Commination

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I was raised Pisco, and when Christians are fighting each other, I usually regard the Piscos/Anglicans as my team (though on occasions the...

Back to Jesus Christians

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The back to Jesus the preacher man movement in Christianity, in essence back to the synoptic Gospels, while not blessed by the hierarchy e...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Winter Holidays

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Christmas for me has always been defined by the music. I never much cared for either the religious or the secular hoopla, although the yul...

Gender in Language

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beliefnet   Roymond wrote: Good point about the Hebrew.  It's worth noting that the same point essentially extends to all languag...
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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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