Glen D

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The deadly boredom of a meaningless life.

This is a very interesting article that is related to our discussion on spirituality.

For instance I avoid funerals even when friends have died.

Mostly I do too. I will usually spend time with them a few weeks later when everyone else has more or less “forgotten” about them. It is often when it means the most to them because  there is too much to take in at the time of the funeral. Sometimes nobody will call to ask them how they…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!

re Why religious people cling to beliefs even when contradicted by evidence.

….the religious dogmatist’s mind appears to be dominated by empathy, while the atheist’s is ruled by the analytic network

I have always been very analytical and a career as an engineer reinforces that. Empathizing with a victim does little to solve the situation that…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

“Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing “Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!” If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.”

Dan Barker.

“If there is a God, athei…[Read more]

Hey Reg, thanks, family invasion yesterday so I kind of lost Sunday!

What this summer’s heat means for global sea level rise.

I played an outside gig yesterday at a bar, heat index was 105 F. I almost passed out a few times. First time I wanted it to rain on a show. It did. We still got paid. This is the most brutal summer so far.

@Davis

It is enormously high and the rest of the developed world sees nothing like it.

Drug cartels are all over the world. So I don’t know if I would really say the rest of the developed world sees nothing like it. The thing about the United States and the high levels of incarceration has a lot to do with the fact that prison in and of itself h…[Read more]

@Davis

I believe there are a few users here on atheist zone who claim they live in southern rural areas with high levels of crime and that their houses get broken into by meth-heads and they honestly believe their only hope in these situations is having a gun.

Davis the way that you talk, I don’t think you’ve ever lived in a place like that. Let…[Read more]

Ivy…the point of my post was to hi-light the level of crime in the USA. It is enormously high and the rest of the developed world sees nothing like it. One of the most often quoted excuses people have for “needing” guns is the tired meme of “protecting their family”. That doesn’t necesarily mean it’s true, but that’s part of the narrative. I…[Read more]

Here in America, we don’t lock people up for having “out there” ideas.

You can’t be mentally healthy if you shoot up a Walmart. We want see these killers fry or rot in solitary for what they did. Thus the legal definition if insane does not cover these killers even though they are not well.

Ivy wrote:

What is your definition of crazy? Anybody who commits mass murder cannot be classified as completely sane. No matter how charming, seemingly logical, or charismatic their arguments to justify what they have done or will do, when you get down to the root of what has caused them to do what they have done, you will most definitely find…

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Have a great week everyone!!

“Teaching is about taking things apart; writing is about putting things together.”

– Toni Morrison

One thing Trump is masterful at is creating a distraction.

Only because we fall for it. If people had the balls to call it what it really is, he would have to switch tactics. But his supporters eat out of his hands and believe every goddamn word he says. It is mind-boggling to me how anybody can be that stupid. Ever since he “won” (Green shirt guy…[Read more]

@Unseen

If you read the El Paso shooter’s “Manifesto,” he clearly is not crazy. He’s no more crazy than an antivaccination freak or a person who believes the government is withholding info about UFO’s. He’s the prisoner of bad, poisonous ideation.

What is your definition of crazy? Anybody who commits mass murder cannot be classified as completely…[Read more]

On e thing Trump is masterful at is creating a distraction. He is now (for now) saying he is in favor of strong background checks to keep crszy people from getting guns.

Hate is not mental illness. If you read the El Paso shooter’s “Manifesto,” he clearly is not crazy. He’s no more crazy than an antivaccination freak or a person who believes…[Read more]

@Davis

In my masters degree I studied American human rights and the justice system writing my masters thesis on the American prison system, the relationship between poverty in the US and levels of crime, (especially compared with other countries) and the death penalty.

Yeah? Well I obtain my masters in forensic psychology, and when I find wrong…[Read more]