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Search found 29 matches
- November 5th, 2010, 3:38 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Make a Proud Stand for your Beliefs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6272
Make a Proud Stand for your Beliefs
Our modern world offers us (that's you and me) many strange superstitions, ideas and beliefs: We believe that giving birth is better lying on your back. We believe that genes can survive death by replicating. We believe that there are parallel universes created by quantum events. We believe, with a ...
- October 31st, 2010, 2:51 am
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Itchy
- Replies: 84
- Views: 57365
Itchy
Should we scratch our ass when we are At One with Ourselves? Should we, when we are expounding the Humanist position, fart? Should we, when practicing altruism, buy a round of beer for all the lads? If you know the answer to these, or similar questions, I defy you. I defy you here and now, and may y...
- October 31st, 2010, 2:44 am
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: What does Halloween celebrate?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30128
Re: What does Halloween celebrate?
Wht a dull lot you are. And make no mistake, you are a lot, or some sort of weird collection. Let me put my question again so that you cannot deliberately fall dead. What does a person celebrate who celebrates halloween? If you cannot answer that without pretending that we are all celebrating All Sa...
- October 29th, 2010, 2:36 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: What does Halloween celebrate?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30128
Re: What does Halloween celebrate?
I have a close family member who's birthday is November 1st, and she (so she tells us :wink: ) is a saint, Nov 1st being All Saints' or All Hallow's Day. Halloween is merely the evening before. Your guarantee is busted, Jonesey. Can I have my money back, please? Just awful. Are you saying that your...
- October 29th, 2010, 2:32 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: What does Halloween celebrate?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30128
Re: What does Halloween celebrate?
What do we think that we are celebrating when we put our masks on and "celebrate" Halloween? I've asked so many people. No-one knows why or what we are celebrating so I think I can guarantee that no-one will know here. Samhain, wrong again Jonesey. THat's the stupid answer I expected. Most people h...
- October 29th, 2010, 2:17 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Why Time may not be possible
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11604
Re: Why Time may not be possible
This isn't the sort of place to maintain a discussion. There are too many flippant people making threats who are in with the moderator. No offense.Paolo wrote:Come on John Jones, I asked you to demonstrate the truth of your opening assertion.
- October 29th, 2010, 2:08 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: What does Halloween celebrate?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30128
What does Halloween celebrate?
What do we think that we are celebrating when we put our masks on and "celebrate" Halloween? I've asked so many people. No-one knows why or what we are celebrating so I think I can guarantee that no-one will know here.
- October 28th, 2010, 2:30 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The pre-pubescent wonders of science
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13413
Re: The pre-pubescent wonders of science
Hello, John. I'm not sure that I entirely understand your question, but here goes. Does there have to be a choice between stillness and noise, between the ineffable and the ... ahem ... effable? Surely, most people are impressed by all sorts of things, all sorts of attributes. If something impresse...
- October 28th, 2010, 2:19 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The making of the Perfect Humanist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16081
Re: The making of the Perfect Humanist
I suggest there is no such thing as a wrong thought. Some actions are certainly wrong, (IMO) but the only wrong thought is thoughtlessness. Here's a wrong thought: I said to myself "man was made whole". And then something else, a non-physical autonomous agent in the corner of the room said back to ...
- October 28th, 2010, 2:13 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The making of the Perfect Humanist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16081
Re: The making of the Perfect Humanist
getreal wrote:*I really, really want another piece of chocolate cake*
Help! I've had a wrong thought. What should I do?
You should get out of here. Isn't that what happens to everyone else who has wrong thoughts here?
- October 28th, 2010, 2:07 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The Psychological gaze
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11932
Re: The Psychological gaze
Maybe these scientology people have something. Don't they have machines that can read your mind? That'd come in handy! Fanatics who feel their position is threatened will accuse others of being what they are not. It's easier with group support. I think that describes the situation pretty well. What...
- October 26th, 2010, 10:25 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The making of the Perfect Humanist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16081
Re: The making of the Perfect Humanist
There is no such thing as 'true human nature'. We evolve as we evolve. This is where we have got to so far. We don't evolve. Nothing evolves. When animals evolve they die out and new ones take their place. When animals become extinct they die out and new ones do not take their place. With the givin...
- October 26th, 2010, 3:53 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The making of the Perfect Humanist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16081
The making of the Perfect Humanist
Irrational experiences seem to stubbornly persist among certain individuals. Only by genetic engineering and chemical interventions can such experiences be permanantly eliminated from the human genome and psyche. Brain surgery might be too drastic, too limited, but would be called for in severe case...
- October 26th, 2010, 3:42 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The Psychological gaze
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11932
Re: The Psychological gaze
Fia wrote:Are you a scientologist, John?
Like you, I am a black socialist.
- October 25th, 2010, 2:23 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The Psychological gaze
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11932
The Psychological gaze
Does psychology have some uses in modern society? not in any technical sense: Modern Psychology teaches us that "thinking" is a measurable psychological energy that some materials give off. This idea doesn't have any use or reality. But psychology DOES have a use in that it can be used as a weapon a...
- October 24th, 2010, 2:34 am
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Humanism and Superstition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15205
Re: Humanism and Superstition
Maria wrote:That's a bit unfair. The word 'lesson' implies there is something to be learned in it.Alan H wrote:Here endeth today's lesson.
God help us all if we are looking for facts.
- October 24th, 2010, 2:31 am
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Humanism and Superstition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15205
Re: Humanism and Superstition
"Attribution of physical causes to something that is not physical"? I think of it more as not attributing causes at all, or attributing supernatural, magical causes -- effect without cause. Your reference to "supernatural" presented the odd idea that non-physical events are wrongly attributed to ph...
- October 23rd, 2010, 7:33 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Humanism and Superstition
- Replies: 20
- Views: 15205
Humanism and Superstition
Only the scientist believes in superstition. No-one else gives the idea any credence. Superstition is an odd term. It makes fun of the person who uses it against others. For example, to say that "religion is superstitious" mocks the person who says it. Why is this? Superstition is the odd, compulsiv...
- October 20th, 2010, 8:42 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: The pre-pubescent wonders of science
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13413
Re: The pre-pubescent wonders of science
What a curious post, but welcome to the forum anyway :D We have a nice place for introductions. :) Many scientists, and of course Richard Dawkins, implore us to leave the fantasies of religion behind and instead observe the extent and beauty of this awesome universe, a universe that only science ca...
- October 20th, 2010, 8:34 pm
- Forum: John Jones
- Topic: Why Time may not be possible
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11604
Re: Why Time may not be possible
An ever rolling stream is a single event.jaywhat wrote:you mean there would be no ever rolling streams?