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If you walk around all day in tight fitting shoes, would you be expecting to feel a sense of relief or would you miss them after taking them off? If the former, then get new shoes and forget about the old way you used to walk. If the latter, then put them on every morning so you don’t have to feel you are losing out.

I don’t feel a void.  I don’t feel life is meaningless, and I’m not a nihilist.  Christians can’t make sense of that.  Which may be understandable as they are required to see something from another’s point of view.  What Christians worship is a void in our life, yet there’s “nothing there” in the sense of there being no void.

It’s not even the…[Read more]

I think it is easier to herd cats than to organize a meeting of atheists on a Sunday 🙂 What ya reckon? @jakelafort

I reckon you’z right Reg. Alliterative license taken.

I get a visceral reaction so at least for me it is a hard no. At same time i credit Sam Harris for recognizing the void some atheists may feel in not having that community…[Read more]

My friends in Sarasota are expecting storm surges double that of Helene….and that was a record. They have evaced already. The path of Milton is still unpredictable. Stay safe!

Hope nobody nearby hears “the voice of rage and ruin”.

First big band from that red stapler hurricane just came through here. Look like we may get the Southern eye-wall of Milton but we already had about a foot of rain.

“Don’t go round tonight or your bound to lose your life”

The one from the East.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Strega is a very bewitching nom de plume.

Strega, the witch or the liqueur?

Lol, that’s true

Simon – Those things sound pretty strange to me. Everyone’s there to worship nothing? What’s the point?

Exactly the same as what happens in every other church, I guess.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

Those things sound pretty strange to me.  Everyone’s there to worship nothing?  What’s the point?

@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

I went to one out of curiosity but it was more of a “I am not-religious but I am very spiritual” gathering. I asked if they could be more specific as “demons are spirits too”. They were not happy with that.

Then I noticed it. There, resting against the back wall. It was…[Read more]

I guess i should have searched it. Sometimes i understand Italian words because of Spanish. Strega does not take me to bruja.

Ah there’s no missing that Irish charm there, Reg 😘

Strega is a very bewitching nom de plume.

The ‘more atheists in the UK’ article said “most atheists and agnostics express some type of supernatural belief.”
Well, I don’t, but…
The more I hear about quantum mechanics, pre big bang, multiverse theorys, etc. The more it sounds like magic rather than science.
But ‘a god did it’ or even saying there is intelligence behind it is just…[Read more]

Strega, is Strega an acronym? Stop thinking, reacting, engaging…go away!

What is it?

Thanks Strega!

Thanks, Reg!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Cooperation and shared thinking helped shape human intelligence.

This author, Cody Cottier, does a good and competent job of summarising Michael Tomasello’s work on the evolution of human cognition.  He also misses out some important stuff like cooperative breeding, which allowed a greater brain size (increased help…[Read more]