Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Happy Holidays to all! I hope everyone is safe given the extreme weather events. Later today Ameca, the humanoid robot, will broadcast a Christmas message on Channel 4 in the UK. I will link it here when I get a chance.  See also last video below.

Atheists aren’t fighting a “war on Christmas” because Christians don’t own the idea of a winter celebration.

Churchgoing and belief in God stand at historic lows, despite a megachurch surge. It will continue to trend in the same direction.

A Senator in Nebraska intends to ignore the Constitution and indoctrinate school children. I wonder if Education Secretary Cardona will explain why this is not just wrong but also illegal.

Fox News host seeks enlightenment from the TST about sexy Satan.

Atheists make up a large percentage of the world’s population and we are growing in numbers.

World of Woo: 2022 Misinformation Year in Review.

Environment: Could video streaming be as bad for the climate as driving a car?

The concept of ‘wave-particle duality’ applies to all matter – including you! Next, they will be telling us that Time is just an illusion.

Ten most significant world events in 2022.

The Top Ten dinosaur discoveries of 2022.

5 ways climate change made life more expensive in 2022

The Biggest Discoveries in 2022 in Physics.

Long Reads: My favorite Woo story of the year – The Death Cheaters. Prisoners of Ideology – A more reasoned politics is critical to the future of society. Experts debate the risks of made-to-order DNA.

Podcast: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Sunday Book Club: Unbelievers.

Some photographs taken last week.  Some striking images from 2022.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Video:  On Reason and Rationality – Steven Pinker meets Richard Dawkins. The search for objective reality – with Jim Peebles. Is Success Luck or Hard Work?  The secret lives of runners. How Ameca the humanoid robot was made.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

Happy Winter Solstice Holidays to you and all at The Atheist Zone!

Today, it’s just another day so far to do things I haven’t had the chance to do the rest of the week. Even though my vehicle has a full gas tank, a new oil change, a topped-up radiator, and now a new battery, the damn thing still won’t turn over at all in this bone-cold weather. (“Global Warming” sure has a funny way of showing itself!)

The problem is either electrical or chemical because, well, that’s all that exists, right? Whether solid, liquid, or gas! 😁

I had to catch a cab to work on Christmas Eve and will have to do so tomorrow and the mechanics won’t be open until Tuesday!

I wish more people regarded Christmas as just another day so I could possibly get a mechanic out to my vehicle now!

Here’s the Holidays are better to you and yours and that the coming New Year is better for all of us!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

OK, here is an alternative Christmas message for you.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

Does she do automotive work and house calls? Once I get mobile, I would gladly get her a case of RoboCop’s favorite baby food as a gratuity. 🤖😁

[Strega]

Thanks Reg!

[Belle Rose]

😂 😂 😂

I’m going to start celebrating winter solstice instead of Christmas.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

@Belle Rose – You could start here to celebrate the winter solstice. You can even apply for a lottery ticket to enter the chamber on the day. It is less than an hour from me and “the locals” have been going there for over 5,000 years 🙂

I even came out one day to find Joe Biden’s security detail wandering around the field!

[Simon Paynton]

Apparently the Roman festival of Saturnalia had a lot to do with Christmas.

[Davis]

Wishing you all a wonderful secular holiday season enjoying Christmas (if you celebrate it) and any other holiday as well as New Years. I’m truly fond of all of you (even those I frequently disagree with) and enjoy chatting and exploring topics with all of you! Enjoy very much your precious time off.

This is my first Christmas without my mother, and since she has left us, considering how unconditionally loving she was and how much she told people this, I’ve developed a habit of telling people a lot more frequently what they mean to me. The holidays is an ideal time to do this, and I strongly encourage you to tell your loved ones and friends this year what they mean to you. It doesn’t even have to be soppy…a simply phrase such as: “I’m glad to have you as a buddy” will mean a lot to your friend.

Enjoy the holidays all and, thanks once again Reg for a lovely Sunday School

[Strega]

Davis  You are one of my favourite members. You post thoughtful, well researched views and carry an inherent kindness that underpins your writing. I consider it a privilege to share this site with you. Thank you for enabling me to let you know how I value you 🙂

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Thanks Davis. I have recently started saying “Thanks, I appreciate that” more often when someone does something for me. Telling someone that you appreciate their action is more welcomed than just a ‘Thank you’.

Just imagine if we all agreed with each other all the time on this site?  We would have left years ago 🙂

[jakelafort]

Kind words Davis.

It is evident from a few years of reading your posts that you are a kind and thoughtful person. Good advice given in your holiday message. If i may add one thing it is for those able-bodied who are inactive to add exercise to the mix-make it part of your life.

It is good to express appreciation to others. I just hate it when it gets to be mindless rote. eg…Y’all come back now, ya hear? How ya doin?

[Unseen]

I celebrate Christmas in a secular way, treating it as a time for getting along with family by communing with family members and exchanging gifts. I just don’t express any religious sentiments, treating Christmas like Halloween, as a holiday that long ago lost its original religious meaning.

[Belle Rose]

@Reg that is a fabulous idea 😊

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