Simon Paynton
@simonpaynton
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago
I think if that was the case, the suicide rate would be through the roof. Most people would be actively suicidal. -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 12th June 2022 in the forum Sunday School 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Maybe it’s me who’s confused. I can’t tell the difference. In any case, the biologist Frans de Waal would say they’re wrong to reject the sex binary.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 2 weeks, 3 days ago
You’re saying that for most people, life is just a cruel soul-destroying burden? I don’t believe that’s true. If so, it’s bad news. -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 12th June 2022 in the forum Sunday School 2 weeks, 3 days ago
I was going on Frans de Waal’s conclusion after writing “Different: what apes can teach us about gender”. He says “sex is approximately binary”.
I read the article. I found it a bit confused.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 12th June 2022 in the forum Sunday School 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Biological Science rejects the Sex Binary, and that’s good for humanity.
Surely biological science supports the Sex Binary, but psychological and social sciences reject the Gender Binary.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Why Atheists Need Guns in the forum Politics 3 weeks ago
I guess addicts don’t eat too well so they remain skinny
Divine was a famous marijuana addict.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 29th May 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Is moral expertise possible?
This is an interesting and well-informed article. I learned a few things and don’t find much to disagree with, except the idea that morality is there “for the good of the group”: it originated as “for the good of the individual”, otherwise it couldn’t have evolved. It seems plausible t…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School May 22nd 2022. in the forum Sunday School 1 month ago
In nearly every case the clash with women’s rights is much like the way abolition, desegregation, and racial equality clashed with white rights or the way women’s suffrage and the right to work clashed with men’s rights.
Is that not a false analogy? Because women aren’t the oppressors of trans people: society in general is.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School May 22nd 2022. in the forum Sunday School 1 month ago
I think maybe there are two kinds of “trans rights” in the world, in that some are asserting the right to be who you are every day; and some are extreme (i.e., unlikely) border conditions that could clash with women’s rights.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago
Yes, for some people, life is just a cruel soul-destroying burden. But for everyone else, there are things to be grateful for.-
Thanks to clicking your name, I finally figured out how to reply to these threads without creating a new one. For that, I am very grateful. 😁
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No Simon…it is for MOST people. Something easy to overlook while enjoying your privileged life. It’s like going to a singles bar with some couples and telling the whole audience to be grateful for the happy romantic relationship they are a part of.
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You’re saying that for most people, life is just a cruel soul-destroying burden? I don’t believe that’s true. If so, it’s bad news.
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I think if that was the case, the suicide rate would be through the roof. Most people would be actively suicidal.
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago
If you don’t feel good about facts. what are you going to feel good about?-
Srmarmy Christian sometimes ask the question: “Who does an Atheist thank on Thanksgjving?”
If I am asked, my reply will be: “I thank the person or persons who devoted…
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Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago
I don’t know. It made me feel good, when I heard it. I think it’s a successful little message that is based in facts. -
Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago
I agree, but each of us is no. 1 to ourselves. It’s a thing. -
Simon Paynton posted a new activity comment 1 month, 1 week ago
Well, it’s a healthy positive way to see them. What else would people call them? Shite? Ecology and mother Earth are the best things we have. -
Simon Paynton posted an update 1 month, 1 week ago
Here is an example of being “spiritual without being religious”: the BBC Radio 4 Prayer for the Day with Dr Steve Taylor. If you don’t want to listen (2 minutes) you can just read the text. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0017clr He has done one every day this week. Today it’s about being grateful to be alive.
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it’s great to understand ecology but to frame it as blessings and gifts is ego-centric nonsense that implies creation and sentience.
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Well, it’s a healthy positive way to see them. What else would people call them? Shite? Ecology and mother Earth are the best things we have.
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It’s obnoxious to always make yourself the center of the damn universe. That is what religion and “spirituality” are all about. A total blow-up of own significance. When will we grow the fuck up already?
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I agree, but each of us is no. 1 to ourselves. It’s a thing.
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How lucky we are to be walking on the Earth
Simon, some of us are lucky. Billions of people are not. They live in abject poverty, abuse, oppressive circumstances,…-
Yes, for some people, life is just a cruel soul-destroying burden. But for everyone else, there are things to be grateful for.
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Thanks to clicking your name, I finally figured out how to reply to these threads without creating a new one. For that, I am very grateful. 😁
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No Simon…it is for MOST people. Something easy to overlook while enjoying your privileged life. It’s like going to a singles bar with some couples and telling the whole audience to be grateful for the happy romantic relationship they are a part of.
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You’re saying that for most people, life is just a cruel soul-destroying burden? I don’t believe that’s true. If so, it’s bad news.
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I think if that was the case, the suicide rate would be through the roof. Most people would be actively suicidal.
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Simon Paynton posted an update 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Empathic concern in the animal kingdom -
Simon Paynton posted an update 1 month, 2 weeks ago
@ysumlin – “white people are pure evil savages.” I didn’t know I was an evil savage, because of the colour of my skin. Thanks for informing me. I’ll just go and shoot myself now, for being white.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 1st May 2022. in the forum Sunday School 1 month, 3 weeks ago
OK then, not necessarily more help, but different help. The point is that people’s needs are respected equally.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 1st May 2022. in the forum Sunday School 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Not really, no.
What then?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic
Sunday School 1st May 2022. in the forum Sunday School 1 month, 3 weeks ago
What does that mean?
Like I said (above), there are a number of different varieties of fairness, all based on the idea of equality. This one specifies equal respect for people’s needs, so that the greater the need, the greater the help, in order to make opportunities equal.
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