Atheist Zone | PopeBeanie | Favorites https://atheistzone.com/members/popebeanie/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of PopeBeanie's favorites. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:59:44 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 fe1223acb36e605d2f70b3acdc25d12a Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 29th 2026 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-march-29th-2026/page/3/#post-60408 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:31:44 +0000 I have an old t-shirt that says “98.8% Chimpanzee”. I wear it when I use the calisthenics bars.  If anyone asks me about it, I say “It’s how I express myself” and if I was a little bit close to 100%  I would be immune to malaria. “So you wanna hang out with me?” 🙂

]]> c34ac81380eb5dfed230f2bf0c2c3743 PopeBeanie replied to the topic War with Iran! in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/groups/politics/forum/topic/war-with-iran/#post-60018 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:53:10 +0000 It looks to me like what’s left of Iranian “leadership” is in suicide mode, whether intentionally acting self-destructively or not. IMO the lower echelons seem to be in some kind automatic (aka “brain dead”) response mode, repeatedly shooting themselves in their feet.

They managed to get other countries involved that said outright that they were…[Read more]

]]> 54d123a11a02bd1f1f29d688957687ee _Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School September 28th 2025 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-september-28th-2025/page/3/#post-59026 Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:20:52 +0000 And if anyone thinks “the army” is an answer to crime in a democracy and will somehow fix the root causes, well they are a fucking fascist. You won’t like “the fix”, you know. Saudi has a super low crime rate. It’s all too stooopid.

]]> cf9a4f0e890c118d0b137d3ecf403a58 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/well-benjamin-heres-your-palestinian-state/#post-58925 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:41:03 +0000 Right now, a two-state solution is still the formula most of the world endorses but the chances of either side accepting it are slim. Netanyahu and right-wing coalition partners oppose a sovereign Palestinian state, citing security concerns and biblical/historic claims. Many ministers advocate permanent control over much of the West Bank. Most…[Read more]

]]> 971e6ab5b2e3d758d69c2e5ccfff3753 Simon Paynton posted an update: According to Joseph Henrich ("The Weirdest People in the […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/46863/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:44:35 +0000 According to Joseph Henrich (“The Weirdest People in the World”):

The higher the percentage of people who believe in a contingent afterlife (hell and heaven) in a country, the lower the murder rate. By contrast, the greater the percentage of people who believe only in heaven, the higher the murder rate. That’s right, believing only in heaven…[Read more]

]]> 6 d4bda2563950d416854059982361c791 _Robert_ posted an update in the group Atheist Cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXfKoXXFUo https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/40526/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:10:42 +0000

]]> 1 4133e5eab8428a3d6a96974ba3f3bb58 jakelafort posted an update: Listening to NPR heard a story about the successor to chat […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/37995/ Sat, 24 Jun 2023 05:54:51 +0000 Listening to NPR heard a story about the successor to chat GPT. Microsoft’s version-billion invested and an apparent 2001 Space Odyssey leap forward compared to the original language model. If the stories are true it is not just a probability machine. It is reasoning. I won’t bother elaborating in regards to the evidence. I assume this will draw…[Read more]

]]> 9 133623a09f5c05483cc4b740678bb04f ysumlin posted an update in the group The African and The Indigenous FreeThinkers: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dna-study-human-cancers-new-cau […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/32270/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 03:25:50 +0000 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dna-study-human-cancers-new-causes-110356799.html

]]> 0 3b79a6095435ef645840b621d5577737 Jody Lee replied to the topic Will you trust the Covid vaccine? in the forum Science https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/will-you-trust-the-covid-vaccine/page/2/#post-35476 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:11:34 +0000 I will be receiving my first dose of the vaccine tomorrow morning! ❤

]]> d56be20b5b63d88a69fdd8f6b1a34ecd Reg the Fronkey Farmer added a photo https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/25563/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:32:34 +0000

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    • ]]>     4     e5e6d8028f4a62c523f9dd5499b337a3 PopeBeanie posted an update: TO ALL: There is an ongoing attack on AtheistZone that’s t […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/21099/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:45:34 +0000 TO ALL: There is an ongoing attack on AtheistZone that’s taken advantage of some kind of flaw in wordpress. DO NOT click on any unfamiliar usernames, as they may take you to a dangerous website. Also, do not investigate the new Groups, of which there are several. I do not have the power to fix these things, and am waiting for the website owner to respond.

    ]]>     0     375d1f857edc3f794fd99f342f972880 PopeBeanie posted an update: TO ALL: Do not click on any unfamiliar links. There is an […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/21082/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:43:04 +0000 TO ALL: Do not click on any unfamiliar links. There is an ongoing attack that’s taken advantage of some kind of flaw in wordpress. Specifically, I just got taken to affiliatelabz.com just by clicking on a new AZ username.

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    • ]]>     1     5d32a62c5450d25725b651ad379cc414 Davis posted an update: 71495493_1107574 […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/19097/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:18:00 +0000

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    • ]]>     0     f0c5b1d8a97630438454e8fc6bf50d6f _Robert_ posted an update: I see that people still post on the original think atheist forum. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/16738/ Fri, 10 May 2019 14:10:24 +0000 I see that people still post on the original think atheist forum.

    ]]>     6     e14b9c7d5b514a9327cd88c0d312c4ec jakelafort posted an update: There is a tendency to ponder consciousness as though it is […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/16259/ Sat, 30 Mar 2019 05:00:52 +0000 There is a tendency to ponder consciousness as though it is separate and apart from biology. We don’t ask the same questions about binocular vision, bioluminescence, venom, and echolocation.

    We also learn how we may be projecting our bias as special creation (even atheists make this mistake) in our criticism of anthropomorphism as we find the…[Read more]

    ]]>     0     d5c4f109881b2565cd9f00ac3835caa2 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 3rd 2019 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-february-3rd-2019/page/3/#post-25352 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:30:30 +0000 The role of the Satanic Temple is to stop Christians from being allowed to openly ignore the Constitution of the United States. They are very busy at the moment because of the discrimination and persecution of non-Christians and their attempts at thwarting or changing Civil Laws that do not agree with their religious beliefs especially now that…[Read more]

    ]]>         dc02453489b50d4aa34c13d64537d3c8 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School November 18th 2018 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-november-18th-2018/#post-24660 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:44:08 +0000  

    Have a great week everyone!!
    You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

    – Anne Lamott.

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    • ]]>     0     dc0b509a2e4171cf8767059e707405f3 Clearsky posted an update: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/us/einstein-god-letter-auction- […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/14818/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:37:30 +0000 https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/us/einstein-god-letter-auction-trnd/index.html

    ]]>     0     790132c587135dfb8248c8484a39027d jakelafort posted an update: interesting article about […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/14798/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 04:18:14 +0000 interesting article about colds
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180926111001.htm

    ]]>     0     b98309b551316b222a45b10f3373bb69 Earle Sanborn posted an update: And here I thought you were going to thank me for the […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/14113/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:53:03 +0000 And here I thought you were going to thank me for the donation this morning- nope.

    I know several guys who prefer guys- not one said they were born that way. If people would simply admit (honesty) their fantasies, lusts, desires, impulses, etc. as such; instead of trying to hide/blame their gene pool (or even the Devil) for all their actions…[Read more]

    ]]>     3     97ad3ae8f41d26e79dae2953b02ab191 _Robert_ posted an update: had a few drinks and bought a banjo for some reason.. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/13976/ Sat, 11 Aug 2018 20:27:58 +0000 had a few drinks and bought a banjo for some reason..

    ]]>     1     48a1ea5432ca1ffd110750bb8bae9b29 Bwambale Robert posted an update https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/13548/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 17:21:47 +0000 Am currently erecting a perimeter wall on a building at my school, i will be modifying the building as well into cubicles to shelter girl students who are on full board at Kasese Humanist Rukoki campus.

    With Science, we can progress.

    ]]>     0     99b5889824cc0ed0cf342ec12d9d61ad Unseen posted an update in the group Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oYk7fMmfIw https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/13319/ Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:15:28 +0000

    ]]>     1     cec2302eb12f8b55b52654c0bc8937ef jakelafort posted an update: PEOPLE OF COLOR: Is this an acceptable way to refer to […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/12950/ Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:46:49 +0000 PEOPLE OF COLOR:

    Is this an acceptable way to refer to non-Caucasians?

    Perhaps you have not contemplated what is being conveyed in using the moniker, people of color. It is a way or distinguishing high’ranking from low. What else can it be? White is a color, right? Caucasians are not even white and in fact variegated in shade or pigment and yet…[Read more]

    ]]>     4     277e9c966ff3e1ab670a01504790c277 private started the topic Christofascism in senior residences in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/christofascism-in-senior-residences/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:46:42 +0000 I am 86 and not a christian. The evangelical busybodies who are in the majority in this senior residential (federally assisted) complex are making life miserable for me.

    They evidently gave my phone number to the minister of their nearby church. That minister made a hate phonecall to me. He told me that I am going to hell because I don’t…[Read more]

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    • ]]>     0     03505a21db4c5bb1b20741153518c798 Zweifel replied to the topic Whaaaaat????? in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/whaaaaat/page/2/#post-8510 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:30:05 +0000 The other day on Farcebook I ran into a pic of someone holding a sign that said “Diversity is code for white genocide.” It boggles my mind that anyone could believe and/or promulgate such bullshit. Sweet Jesus is hate speech exactly like ‘diversity’ is code for white genocide.

    ]]>         87f475b6c900febd23804813949286a5 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School October 8th 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-october-8th-2017/#post-5826 Sun, 15 Oct 2017 09:48:39 +0000 Some worms have adapted to very high levels of arsenic in just 170 years that they are now considered a new species of worm. We also need to be careful when using the term “purpose” or “direction” when talking about Evolution.  There is no “guiding hand” behind it.

    More at 4:10 – 7:40

    ]]>         9b7b2aa00fb00523b285bb4bb48c4541 Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School October 1st 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-october-1st-2017/page/2/#post-5771 Sun, 08 Oct 2017 08:00:37 +0000 “why do we have science?”

    – this opens up a whole can of worms, and part of that can of worms, in my opinion, is a “theory of perception”:  why, and how, we seek information.  So, here’s my theory of perception, which, as far as it’s correct, is open to being expanded.

     

    THEORY OF PERCEPTION

    – why we seek information

    – how we obtain it

    WHY W…[Read more]

    ]]>         acb0b7494710b7b7d5bb5db75329e8de Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School October 1st 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-october-1st-2017/page/2/#post-5768 Sat, 07 Oct 2017 18:22:41 +0000 “epigenetics”

    – apparently, when we are about to go and seek short-term, “hedonic” pleasure, i.e. fun, our genes set up an inflammation response in the body, as if we are expecting to get wounded.  I have no idea why this might be.

    It would be interesting to see if we get the same inflammation response when we do something we know is morally wrong.

    ]]>         f5ee7f0f126c616cb7c4d7f0fb534bdf Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School October 1st 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-october-1st-2017/page/2/#post-5760 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:18:39 +0000 I had a few good articles on Epigenetics in previous Sunday Schools on TA.  I will see if I can dig then out.

    ]]>         769e98782a123180a944729c80edef1e Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Life on a Warm Planet in the forum Science https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/life-on-a-warm-planet/#post-5641 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:08:50 +0000 There is a major problem that gets very little attention. It is the rates that the permafrost in Russia is melting at. There are now “huge” craters becoming visible where the permafrost has melted. Permafrost holds vast field of Methane in place which is much more damaging that CO2 even though it exists in much smaller quantities. It will feed the…[Read more]

    ]]>         c77a861077eebc955cd286d24b1fe008 Sharon Nichols posted an update: The new Arkansas bill 911 that allows for placing "in God We […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/7487/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:58:00 +0000 The new Arkansas bill 911 that allows for placing “in God We Trust” in every public school classroom in Ark., needs a response from atheist parents of children in these schools. I am the Asst. Director of American Atheists in Arkansas and if you are willing to become a plaintiff in this case, please contact me: snichols@atheists.org

    ]]>     0     dcc14491c0796f2ec953ab3c0ec2d557 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School July 23rd 2017 in the forum Sunday School https://atheistzone.com/groups/sunday-school/forum/topic/sunday-school-july-23rd-2017/#post-3817 Sun, 23 Jul 2017 11:49:28 +0000 Have a great week everyone!!

    “Deities inhabit the dark places over the horizon of knowledge, and retreat as light approaches.”

    – A.C. Grayling.

     

    ]]>         35c957aa63a31adb098386403d667a79 TJ replied to the topic What is God? in the forum Theism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/what-is-god/#post-3414 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 01:58:57 +0000 @What is God

     

    God is the answer to what happens to where my lap goes when I stand up.

    He is a mistake made by primates to help explain what they could not understand.

    We are the force that created gods, a mistake.  Correction of that mistake eventually lead to understanding evolution, relativity, and the math involved in bill calculations at…[Read more]

    ]]>         83c10e5068fe1ad05d44cad9dbe0502d Andrew Brown replied to the topic Natural Selection: Dems Want It to Go Slower, Repubs Want It to Go Faster in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/natural-selection-dems-want-it-to-go-slower-repubs-want-it-to-go-dems-arfaster/#post-3386 Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:44:07 +0000 The idea of artificial selection is such a misnomer. We are part of nature just like everything else. Everything is natural evolution. Whatever we decide to do is part of the natural cycle as we are not apart from it. Humans are evolving just as everything else in the Cosmos is evolving.

    The national parties are bought and owned by the mega…[Read more]

    ]]>         9ae6ff9df7215b54752df01b412584a6 _Robert_ replied to the topic Donald Trump in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/donald-trump/page/5/#post-3194 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:59:40 +0000 Davis, when you say the US entered the war at the last minute we simply had no means to enter Europe’s war in 1940, with an insignificant army and no real war machinery. Talk about gearing up! The US war production was truly the arsenal of democracy, even supplying the Russians and Chinese.

    And then there was “our war”, the one in the Pacific.…[Read more]

    ]]>         a1bc7b7d72bd12c3edf2c572afd7ecea Davis replied to the topic Donald Trump in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/donald-trump/page/5/#post-3187 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:15:16 +0000 1. We saved the world a couple of times.

    Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Volunteers from Ireland, contingents from India and the Carribean etc entered the war to help Europe from nearly the beginning. America entered the war quite late, letting its European allies and trading partners fend for themselves while countless millions died, then at…[Read more]

    ]]>         42c27677364906ebcd1f8605100874c3 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Donald Trump in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/donald-trump/page/5/#post-3184 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 20:06:26 +0000

    Jason wrote:
    Is there a way I can hide my name? I thought I chose to make my name only visible to me, yet everyone sees it?

    I see what appears to be a possible conflict between users or identities, but no way for me to edit any of it. Please friend me if you want further, private info on this issue.

    ]]>         c16f6d0095e193d30b3f8a5232e6f28c Davis replied to the topic Donald Trump in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/donald-trump/page/5/#post-3182 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:06:22 +0000 And yet…the evidence shows that when limited social programs and health care systems are employed in every single developed-democracy in the world except America (dozens of them)…the system doesn’t remotely resemble your cliche strawman description of it. I was born in and have lived in five countries with social-democracy (Germany, Canada,…[Read more]

    ]]>         852625d486f32a81fd8468ca8018b4f1 Davyd R Ondrejko replied to the topic Moving over from TA in the forum Introductions https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/moving-over-from-ta/page/2/#post-3011 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:02:55 +0000 Heya Pope!  No, there were no format buttons, but that’s because I wasn’t in Forum mode I guess, I was just typing what seems to be an “update” to a thread.  Just have to get used to how to get where I want to be!

    And btw, for anyone who doesn’t like the bright white background, I found (about half an hour ago) an addon for Firefox that totally f…[Read more]

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    • ]]>     0     cc8d1a96b6d499c9de45309465929119 PopeBeanie started the topic Searching AtheistZone (not ThinkAtheist) in the forum Tips https://atheistzone.com/groups/tips/forum/topic/google-searching-atheistzone-and-thinkatheist/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:46:52 +0000 The most comprehensive search available at the moment here on AZ is the Forums Search, which searches both the General Forums and the Group Forums. The magnifying glass icon in the upper right next to your avatar doesn’t work, although I think it did at one time. (I’ll pass this on to @rebel.)
    @PopeBeanie

    Google’s search can be more flexible,…[Read more]

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