Freethinker's corner

Whenever perchance an encounter with believers in christianity occurs inevitably they utilize the same worn out arguments which have indisputably been destroyed by reason.

Unless such encounters occur in person I will no longer engage in them. It is fruitless to argue with those who have been mentally compromised by religious dogma. They are helpless to see the truth as they have been blinded by the myth.

This site is for the purposes of debating subtleties of various issues. This site is not for debating those who have been compromised by religious dogma.

                                        (081220)

Yes, it’s true. A murderer that accepts Jesus changes.

Instead of just a murderer he becomes a liar as well.

Quite a change.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/213737/december-11-2008/the-word—the-unbearable-lightness-of-supreme-being

Human emotions are perplexing. Anger, hatred, happiness, depression, sadness are all predictors of mood, and possibly future actions.

Anger and hatred are very negative, along with depression and sadness, these emotions are very detrimental for health, mental and physical.

So why do these negative emotions exist? Why do they cause even more damage, when suppressed?

Might these emotions be considered aberrations in evolution, mutations which have no beneficial effect? Beneficial and detrimental mutations help to drive the evolution of creatures. If a physical change results in an advantage to a creature’s survival it multiplies and prospers, if not, it does not, or does not as well as it might have.

Anger has caused many acts of violence, hatred, an extension of anger, even more, in premeditated ways.

It might be considered that anger and hatred caused creatures to oppose one another which led to those less fit, to die. Are these then to be considered tools of evolution?

Then what of happiness? Maybe happiness evolved only when it was necessary for creatures to gather into groups for mutual survival. Then cooperation was facilitated by happier moods. Smiling, happiness, could be said to display the mood of satisfaction with the state of affairs at the moment.

(Human Behavior Observation: 081214)

Yesterday, December 8, 2008 I witnessed a fine example of fused thinking, a mind already made up, and inflexible. The Host was going to have Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom from Religion Foundation on as a short term guest. Before Annie’s appearance he repeatedly lamented the sign the FFRF had posted in the Capitol building of Washington. (Washington State I presume)

How, he lamented, could someone put up such a devastating sign at this season of seasons? How could anyone so crassly denigrate someone’s belief system? How could someone be so insensitive to others? This set the tone of the interview.

Miss Gaylor did nevertheless appear, which is more than I could have done if so insulted. A very gutsy lady, indeed.

(human behavior observation: 081209)