Atheist Zone | Doug Hanlon | Activity https://atheistzone.com/members/doug1943gmail-com/activity/ Activity feed for Doug Hanlon. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:34:17 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 14add5f7902f5fdf063ee0f6639a1512 Doug Hanlon and TheEncogitationer are now friends https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/41757/ Sun, 24 Mar 2024 06:55:45 +0000 0 5b5dc9a20449283b3bd44acbcd0bb057 Doug Hanlon and Reg the Fronkey Farmer are now friends https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34173/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:24:48 +0000 0 36952779cdd133ccfe04c1a187630e4f Doug Hanlon replied to the topic Advertising-A Hidden Fee in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/advertising-a-hidden-fee/#post-44433 Fri, 02 Sep 2022 23:28:10 +0000 Ad can be extremely annoying.  And only a fool expects them to be always truthful — although they’re usually smart enough not to state outright lies, but simply to suggest things: buy this car and you too  – you overweight pallid dull-as-dishwasher schlumpf — will have a pretty girl riding next to you.

But … there is no alternative, or r…[Read more]

]]> dce40f8adadcfafda2de103bc545e8c0 Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34060/#acomment-34078 Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:11:22 +0000 Yes, I like Jonathan Haidt very much.

And I agree that the word ‘intelligence’ is way too broad.
There is the ‘intelligence’ measured by IQ tests, so-called ‘G’, which is probably just brain-processing-speed.

But I know through personal experience that there are all sorts of people who might do poorly on a standard IQ test — or the…[Read more]

In reply to - Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group Sunday School First, a warning: if anyone taking part in this thread works in, or may in the future work in, any school or university, any government job, or for any […] ]]> 7be9e067f758a5d7936d10e9de2214b2 Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34060/#acomment-34071 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:51:14 +0000 I haven’t paraphrased it. It’s an exact quote, although I have left out the two tribal/racial groups the author is comparing.
The reason I didn’t give the author’s name (and book title) is that i didn’t want to provoke reflex poltiical responses. If I had said the author was Charles Murray, or some other well-known conservative, people would…[Read more]

In reply to - Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group Sunday School First, a warning: if anyone taking part in this thread works in, or may in the future work in, any school or university, any government job, or for any […] ]]> aa3e42f3ba90d298ece9430bcee78aaa Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group Sunday School: First, a warning: if anyone taking part in this thread works […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34060/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:12:55 +0000 First, a warning: if anyone taking part in this thread works in, or may in the future work in, any school or university, any government job, or for any company of any size … then, do NOT express any other opinion besides one of these: ‘IQ is just what IQ tests measure … it has no relevance to anything else’ OR “group differences in IQ are a…[Read more]

]]> 4 33c9bbc25ec4fce36f50d881969a4383 Doug Hanlon replied to the topic Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-august-28th-2022/#post-44358 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 09:24:46 +0000 It’s pointless to argue this issue in the abstract, since everyone can mouth generalities that all decent people would agree with.

So let’s take a concrete example: suppose someone does some research that indicates that one tribal group is more intelligent than another, for genetic reasons.  Or suppose this person just expresses this as his…[Read more]

]]> 5a3d3c44cd570cb57431caada36a1b7e Doug Hanlon replied to the topic Sunday School August 28th 2022 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-august-28th-2022/#post-44350 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:15:55 +0000 As the West declines, we will see the disease of ‘wokeness’ invade previously ‘neutral’ areas. In most cases, since most of our intelligentsia is ‘woke’, we’ll see ‘woke’ political criteria push aside the previous rules which governed things like what articles get published in scientific journals.

Researchers will adjust what they write in order…[Read more]

]]> 39306f7278b8d8957c35feda744ad5c4 Doug Hanlon joined the group Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34034/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 21:15:42 +0000 0 114427205062dcddd664be3e2d549089 Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34018/#acomment-34025 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:23:25 +0000 Just found Hanta Yo on UK Amazon, a used copy for a reasonable price. (New, it’s a couple of hundred dollars!)

    In reply to - Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group History I’m looking for advice here. I would like to read a few books on the following subjects: (1) American Indians, both their history and their present situation. (2) […] ]]>         3e04d21dd31a2de19c4075556210b151 Doug Hanlon posted a new activity comment https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34018/#acomment-34024 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:21:47 +0000 Thanks! I have not read it, nor even heard of it. I’m tolerably ignorant about the history of American Indians, even though I’m a great-great-grandson of Mosholatubee, the chief of the Choctaws, who had to sign the Treat of Dancing Rabbit Hill, which surrendered their good agricultural land in the South, and put them on the Trail of Tears…[Read more]

    In reply to - Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group History I’m looking for advice here. I would like to read a few books on the following subjects: (1) American Indians, both their history and their present situation. (2) […] ]]>         9e68fd46afe0763a267eb0f02d8be40e Doug Hanlon started the topic Greetings from an Unusual Atheist in the forum Introductions https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/greetings-from-an-unusual-atheist/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:37:08 +0000 Greetings to all my fellow atheists here, and my best wishes [ie secular prayers] for you in your personal lives, in these turbulent times, facing an uncertain and possibly danger-filled future.

    I grew up in Houston in the 1950s, surrounded by (notional) believers, forced to say the Lord’s Prayer every morning at school for the 12 years of my…[Read more]

    ]]>         e8aab66e9365ee813080259bccdffe5c Doug Hanlon replied to the topic FIRE is on Fire in Anti-Abortion South Carolina! in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/fire-is-on-fire-in-anti-abortion-south-carolina/#post-44336 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:17:22 +0000 I think Autumn has hit the nail on the head.  In THIS instance, the anti-abortionists are not, technically, violating the principle of free speech.  From their point of view, prohibiting the provision of information about how to have an abortion would be like prohibiting posting where Salman Rushdie is hiding, or providing information on how to m…[Read more]

    ]]>         a99b43be1b3074fd9ec668593c98b354 Doug Hanlon joined the group The Atheist Agora https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34020/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:54:18 +0000 0 4caec13c13b5bd0a08405bc68da06d4e Doug Hanlon joined the group Twitter atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34019/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:54:08 +0000 0 a23613e8e3cfc7a7b200f97778ec6a10 Doug Hanlon posted an update in the group History: I'm looking for advice here. I would like to read a few […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34018/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:53:40 +0000 I’m looking for advice here.

    I would like to read a few books on the following subjects:
    (1) American Indians, both their history and their present situation.
    (2) The Austro-Hungarian Empire.

    I can do the usual web searches, and I have access to JSTORE, but I have found that literate people can often offer advice on titles and sources (web…[Read more]

    ]]>     3     eae45b5d101e6556b23c71b899a996fb Doug Hanlon joined the group History https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34017/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:50:57 +0000 0 4d53336257214ff155c6e1a4a91c3df1 Doug Hanlon joined the group Science -- the kind that requires evidence and reason. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34016/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:50:55 +0000 1 45aa69fc24e3d7bb2777592cd82f9dbc Doug Hanlon joined the group Tips https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34015/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:50:47 +0000 0 eb42bd43cd76e49227b23319f27fbd4b Doug Hanlon joined the group To Do or not To Do https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34014/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:49:03 +0000 0 f4f0822b35b27f912a20d4b9c8f7a973 Doug Hanlon joined the group Knowledge https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34013/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:52 +0000 0 491d8b425017c4ea9dd8ec2fd4f51db3 Doug Hanlon joined the group Humanism https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34012/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:43 +0000 0 c784ad3a434398eff1dbf8e0250e7fdc Doug Hanlon joined the group Politics https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34011/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:38 +0000 0 bf362c27668ff7888c1daee99f3b7a12 Doug Hanlon joined the group Astronomy https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34010/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:36 +0000 0 ebbecbf8b5d9c6ba08e09f75885093e0 Doug Hanlon joined the group + Welcome to Atheist Zone https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34009/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:34 +0000 0 906e02b815b4ddf2be085124c5a844dc Doug Hanlon joined the group The African and The Indigenous FreeThinkers https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34008/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:22 +0000 0 9ec8e6e2d693dfec929d6cc22ad62b4f Doug Hanlon joined the group Evolving Media & News Sources https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34007/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:48:19 +0000 0 3a62dc7eeb44fb34520e0d5e0ae6cb5b Doug Hanlon posted an update: @theencogitationer Hi ... I think we share some world-view, […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34006/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:23:08 +0000 @theencogitationer Hi … I think we share some world-view, e.g. Ukraine. I see them as victims of American arrogance/stupidity, pushed into the maw of the Bear, when they could have done what even Stalin let Finland and Austria do after WWII, i.e. be ‘neutral’ in military terms, while otherwise enjoying all the benefits of capitalism and liberal…[Read more]

    ]]>     0     0d27089212535ae87a97f828d19c61cb Doug Hanlon replied to the topic Since we are repatriating artwork, do we need to discuss... in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/since-we-are-repatriating-artwork-do-we-need-to-discuss/#post-44335 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:15:18 +0000 Of course, the Americas were taken from the original inhabitants by force.

    If we should ‘cancel’ people — like Thomas Jefferson — who were slave owners two hundred years ago, ie judge them by the standards of civilized countries in the 21st Century, then of course we should return these lands to the descendants of the people who were the…[Read more]

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