Reg the Fronkey Farmer

I found it very difficult to get a straight answer from Dr. Bob.  Obfuscation is the word that comes to mind. He certainly has a practical outlook to dealing with issues that are common to us all and is an intelligent man. However I can only ever get so far into a conversation with a theist, no matter how intelligent or world-wise they are,…[Read more]

Having grown up in Catholic Ireland I would have viewed Catholicism as “normal”– not having much experience of other religions to contrast it with.  Over the years I have debated with people from various cults – Mormons, J.W.’s, Speaking in Tongues Evangelicals amongst others. I was wrong. They are all equally deluded. In fact I find many Catho…[Read more]

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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

– Bertrand Russell.

Yes, Money. While the Bible may have been used to defend it at times, it was mostly for economic and political reasons that it was fought over. There are those who still insist it was about succession and not about slavery. There are a few other myths about it too here.

I may be in Savannah around Thanksgiving later this year and will check out t…[Read more]

Would it be a fair comment to say that the war was almost entirely about slavery?

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Religion. It has given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

– Jon Stewart.

the story linked under “rational doubt”. The voices we hear in our heads are “us”. There is no dualism. What you hear in your thought process is “you”. There is no outside agency sending you messages.

My work here is done!!

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But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose – which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.

– Richard Feynman.