Atheist Zone | tom sarbeck | Mentions https://atheistzone.com/members/toms/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning tom sarbeck. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:52:45 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6900ef968c415183c12ef6661f296cf9 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Where is Robert? in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/where-is-robert/page/2/#post-32796 Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:03:53 +0000

tom sarbeck wrote:
PB, too much scifi here; too little science. Cheers.

Too much psuedo-science everywhere! I’m struggling with trying to communicate positively with people around here, especially the very noisy Trump fans that take over the local paper’s comment section, even though they’re in a conservative minority among a progressive…[Read more]

]]> 7ca6d4e5d794fdf1fb2521c70613ab2e PopeBeanie replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/2/#post-26006 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:52:53 +0000 I personally appreciate @toms tenacity and sincerity, but/and not attributions of nefarious purpose. I over-use the word charlatan, when I should reserve its use for pushers of woo who are blatantly pushing it for personal profit. Most anti-vaxers, for example, aren’t in that category, but are truly ignorant of the facts at large, and/or are…[Read more]

]]> 308f872a02e1b6630808f2495f5f39a4 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Are Scientists or Pseudoscientists Claiming They Found a Black Hole? in the forum Science https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/are-scientists-or-pseudoscientists-claiming-they-found-a-black-hole/page/2/#post-26001 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:43:04 +0000

tom sarbeck wrote:
I find April 18th important, for that date I don’t drink JWBL

Thank you for saying that, for I wouldn’t have figured out JWBL was a drink, and not Jehovah’s Witness something something. 🙂 (Even in my 60’s I haven’t yet attended any conversations in someone’s study. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a smoking jacket.)

So @toms,…[Read more]

]]> e2948609869bdd0c8ee4836158149dbe PopeBeanie replied to the topic The Universe Is Not Math; It’s Energy in the forum Science https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-universe-is-not-math-its-energy/page/3/#post-11621 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:34:07 +0000 For @TomS in particular, I submit “Fruitcake Mathematics.” (This video is in an article among the 2018-09-16 Sunday School links.)

It’s a Fruitcake, all the way down… and it might be bouncy.

]]> 0a0eefc2484a877f785cb71dc001f97a Simon Paynton replied to the topic When Life Became Sentient in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/when-life-became-sentient/page/3/#post-10709 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:11:13 +0000 @toms – surely AZ is open to all comers, as long as they’re polite, which Earl is.

@davis – are you saying that humans are the only animals that are social, and feel distress?

@robert – that’s a beautiful looking pond.

]]> 3fd8fe2a2593789006ce97dd89a4e853 PopeBeanie replied to the topic A little something regarding the decline of Darwinism and Neo-Darwinists in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/a-little-something-regarding-the-decline-of-darwinism-and-neo-darwinists/#post-10629 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:53:02 +0000

Earle Sanborn wrote:
Very quick answer

Well, my answer was quicker and the question I posed more immediately ignored.

I would like very much to stay focused on the original topic, unless original poster @TomS likes these loooong tangents.

In any case, please feel free to start your own topic, and try to allow for a two-way discussion by…[Read more]

]]> 200583cbef49be4adff6d6d0be7f5790 PopeBeanie started the topic A little something regarding the decline of Darwinism and Neo-Darwinists in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/a-little-something-regarding-the-decline-of-darwinism-and-neo-darwinists/ Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:46:59 +0000 [Readers, I (PopeBeanie) took the unusual step of creating this topic with posts that seemed out of place in a different topic. See my note below for more detail.]

tom sarbeck wrote:
Then, let Earle be Earle.

@toms, I’m in favor of moving the off-topic comments to their own, separate topic. But only if you say ok.

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]]> ec9162b94c3bbfea1fbb526e9d6327a4 PopeBeanie replied to the topic If photons have no mass, how can they have energy? in the forum Science https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/if-photons-have-no-mass-how-can-they-have-energy/#post-10584 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 05:43:48 +0000 LOL, just like the big bang, and we’d have to start all over again. Gives me more time to think about responding to @TomS. 🙂

]]> b20556c20d1e89f15b3c76b40b392b11 daughterofkarl replied to the topic For Starters... in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/for-starters/page/2/#post-10261 Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:06:55 +0000

PopeBeanie wrote:
I’m personally not ready to completely define “consciousness”, or for that matter not even “intelligence”. I’m more comfortable breaking them down into components, most of which we can agree on. Also, like @toms, I’ll avoid the word “purpose” just like Reg cautions against use of the word “forward” in the context of evolution;…

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]]> e8cbbda0a9981c5ce959d7a180596533 PopeBeanie replied to the topic For Starters... in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/for-starters/page/2/#post-10254 Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:06:27 +0000 I’m personally not ready to completely define “consciousness”, or for that matter not even “intelligence”. I’m more comfortable breaking them down into components, most of which we can agree on. Also, like @TomS, I’ll avoid the word “purpose” just like Reg cautions against use of the word “forward” in the context of evolution; i.e. maybe I’m just…[Read more]

]]> f29bc398cfc152039a1b690bfde52910 PopeBeanie started the topic Quantum Mechanics - Pilot Wave proposals in the forum Science -- the kind that requires evidence and reason. https://atheistzone.com/groups/science-the-kind-that-requires-evidence-and-reason/forum/topic/quantum-mechanics-pilot-wave-proposals/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 04:37:10 +0000 No need to click on the links I provide here, unless you’re really interested in going deeper into the physics. In fact I recommend non-geeks to just skim down to “Deterministic Quantumness: Probable Baloney”.

I’m not a physicist, nor have I ever passed a calculus class. (Statistics, yes, and my father and I made a “wave machine” at home, like…[Read more]

]]> a7b664f276e34ec4ed24741c0e6bdcf6 PopeBeanie replied to the topic WDYYB in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/wdyyb/page/2/#post-7674 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:33:35 +0000

That WDYYB bullshit is just old school pseudoscience.

I have a different take on that, possibly because of a naivete… I think I read Transactional Analysis, but today I had to look up WDYYB to see what it’s about. You’re probably ahead of me on that, and I’m thinking that if you’re right about it, I’m ok if I don’t waste any more time looking…[Read more]

]]> aef95a6f969ee48f2cce379a1bfc3b14 Strega replied to the topic WDYYB in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/wdyyb/#post-7589 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:27:00 +0000 @belen Belle, I see this as a tool for self improvement, which I am always looking for as I am a continuous work-in-progress. When @toms first mentioned it, I did not realize that it was a depiction of co-dependency.  That’s not to say that every time someone says, ‘Why don’t you’ and offers a solution that this is wrong, nor that every time s…[Read more]

]]> dda6c7b6c031855b6d8a52a7cebf5131 Strega started the topic WDYYB in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/wdyyb/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:17:25 +0000 So thanks to @toms I’ve taken a much closer look at my own participation in codependency- and found some surprising similarities in how I interact with the people I care about.  Surprised, but not impressed, I’m attempting to change my response structure, with somewhat astonishing beneficial results.

Example :-  Close friend took about ten minut…[Read more]

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