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RE: Random Thoughts
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 pm
(October 29, 2025 at 1:47 pm)Paraselene Wrote: The new way of responding to "How's it going?" is:
"It's going."
"It's going, then it stops, then it starts going again."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2025 at 10:05 am by Alan V.)
I am more and more convinced over time that the popularity of the God concept derives from our evolutionary psychology, which is ironic.
"This world was made for us, we are important to and guided by the most powerful being, we will live eternally" and so on. Very self-serving stuff.
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 pm
The real reason the country is in debt:
They're wasting money shipping packages all around the country instead of just shipping directly.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 pm
It’s been said - with some justification, I think - that the threshold of emotional maturity is the acceptance of one’s own mortality. In that sense, belief in an eternal afterlife is a juvenile fantasy.
Boru
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 pm
(November 4, 2025 at 8:29 pm)Alan V Wrote: (November 4, 2025 at 5:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s been said - with some justification, I think - that the threshold of emotional maturity is the acceptance of one’s own mortality. In that sense, belief in an eternal afterlife is a juvenile fantasy.
Boru
People who believe in eternal life -- and there are a lot who still do -- are largely driven by their desires and emotions rather than by reason. All of the evidence is against it.
They need to work on their intellectual lives.
And religious leadership is militating against that.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:29 pm
When business comes at the cost of an unfair economy, you need to rethink the business model.
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 pm
My oldest granddaughter is doing internships at a safe house for women escaping from domestic violence and also a facility for children removed from unsafe situations to stay till they are either taken in by other family or foster families. She was home this weekend so I went through my stash of quilts and sent her about eight back so that some of the ladies and kids and pick out a quilt to keep as their own. I had originally thought of taking them to a nursing home, but this is better.
She was so excited to be bringing in donations for the people she is working with.
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RE: Random Thoughts
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 pm
I had a smoke before my call with a country in Asia this evening. Weeeeeee!
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