DrBob

And my fav song about Florida…..which gets played as the sun sets on the beach in PCB 🙂

I guess Robert you are “Youtubing” some more so start here with a cover of a classic.

Now I am in a place where I could’ve had religion but my girl wouldn’t let me pray.

@Encogitationer – I got over Jesus stealing my girlfriend once I got me some Sunday afternoon chocolate.

What is at the root of all of this…do you suppose?

I am going to go out on a limb here Robert and make a wild guess. Could it have anything to do with fundamentalist religious beliefs??

I know it will surprise people to find I could think or say such a thing so just putting it out there to see if anyone might think my suggestion could possibly h…[Read more]

It wasn’t just Van Halen who had it bad for teacher….

@ Encog – I fully appreciate your thinking about hitchhiking. However my story relates to the 1980’s when it was “normal”.  I have hitched hundreds of lifts with no trouble. I have never heard of any bad stories, only just self abusing sickos types.

Once I was hitching for about an hour with no success as there were so many groups of girls doing…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!

Robert – I was thinking about posting something like that and my experience would be very  similar. I am not exaggerating in saying that every woman I have been in a relationship with has had to deal with some form of sexual abuse in her past.  Two were survivors of rape. I think they have all told me similar stories about many of their g…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

From The Atlantic, IDEAS: Tucker Carlson, Unmasked

Excerpt:

Although Carlson makes a lot of ridiculous claims in a short period in this clip, it is his comments about children that are most disturbing. After complaining that mask mandates imposed by the state are equivalent to living in North Korea, Carlson executes two athletic rhetorical…

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Here is a video on the reactions of people from around the world on what they think of the U.S. health care system.

I post it as a follow up to the discussions on the topic we had recently. It is from the NYT so might be pay-walled (Yes, I spend $2 pm for it!)

I have no problem with anyone suffering a loss of social standing or having awards revoked. I think Dawkins “question” was more ill-informed than deliberately trying to be antagonistic.

I find that the “outrage” was driven more by the shouts from SJW’s than it was by the reaction of the trans community. I am not trying to defend anyone but some…[Read more]

@Simon – but it’s silly to say that this leads to non-believers having to actively suppress their innate religious feelings. We just don’t.

I fully agree Simon. We do not have any innate religious feelings. Humans are prone to magical thinking, to seeing patterns where none exist and to making up an answer when the correct one is not yet dis…[Read more]

Strange the “Dear Muslima” case about Dawkins and Rebecca Watson has resurfaced here. It was in a hotel in Dublin at the World Atheist Convention in 2011, organized by Atheist Ireland and which I attended. It went from zero to Internet outrage in a very short time frame, with many commentators falsely reporting on it as if they were there. I have…[Read more]

I made a decision about 10 years ago to not use social media. I have no Twitter or Instagram accounts. I do have a Facebook account but it is only to get atheist news. I have “no friends” there and absolutely don’t want any. I did have but I “de-friended” them all. Apparently being an atheists upsets people who only friended me to tell me I am…[Read more]

I think it was foolish of Richard Dawkins to say, apparently, that women shouldn’t complain about getting minor sexual offences against them, because it’s not as bad as a full-blown rape.

@Simon – That is not what he said (or tweeted). I remember the incident very well as I had recently met him.

Here is some of the reporting from Atheist Ire…[Read more]

@Unseen – So, does a MWI theorist maintain that even subatomic events are subject to it as well? Does every subatomic event have one (or, why not?, more) alternatives, each in a different universe?

Yes, I suppose the theorist does as the wave function Ψ defines all the possible states a quantum system to be expressed in. It is only when we…[Read more]