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DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

agnostic

atheist

belief

faith

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DaddyOfTheRose Still not comprehending you. You gave answers. I said, but you aren't replying to the conversation. In your response to my response, you don't pull yourself on topic, either. As before, although I feel somewhat insulted that you don't speak about my...

28 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose If you will forgive my saying so, you aren't really having a conversation related to the topic of the discussion. I appreciate any voice or perspective which tries to communicate and add to this discussion, but you seem out of touch. Essentially, you've...

27 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose Oh, I think.. given a long length of time.. evolution can still work against something like drugs, too. One possible example of this would be comparison of European settlers against Native Americans when it came to alcohol consumption and tobacco use. Native...

27 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose Bird, SmilingJack, then Galena. ~~~~ Bird, Not everyone knows God, this is plainly obvious not only from people who asset atheist or agnostic stances but also in looking at some people who claim to endorse a religion but are not made better for doing...

27 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose I can see that, religion being man made. Excepting that the drive for religion seems to occur all over nature and may, although man made, also be something natural to mankind. For example, a beaver will build a dam to hold back water.. so it's beaver-made. But...

26 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose Forgive me if I misunderstand you, but your approach to agnostic belief seems to imply a belief in some sort of spirit but professes that this spirit cannot be understood completely. It also seems you see no value in seeking to further understand this...

26 Aug 11

katsmeow1213 @katsmeow1213 (28716) • United States 25 Aug 11

Some of you may remember the discussion I posted awhile back about my sister in law calling my husband a freeloader. We haven't spoken to her since then, needless to say. As if that wasn't bad enough, I found out a couple days...

family

sister in law

spreading opinions

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DaddyOfTheRose ( http://aesopfables.com/kidnap.html ) "And there are others who resent your making children happy and who sneer at you and call you a foolish old rattlepate! You are quite right to hate such base slanderers, and you ought to be revenged upon them for their...

26 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose The point was kind of a way of stepping back and asking nature her opinion instead of figuring everything else ourselves. I might be able to provide a rational explanation to support and promote a specific design of bridge. Yet, even if my math and engineering...

26 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose "Religion is an idea that does not hinder our ability to reproduce." From and evolutionary perspective, it has negative selective pressures on reproduction if no other forces can counter balance it. For one, it requires time. Now, you can still...

26 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 26 Aug 11

Religion makes demands: restricting a person's choices, requiring church attendance at certain times, and expecting the contribution of tithes. From an evolutionary biological approach, these are costs incurred by the religious...

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DaddyOfTheRose I do believe the human mind searches for answers. I even hold that the human mind will invent and believe in a poorly thought out answer when no good one presents itself. In some ways, this is the basis of science because scientists make a hypothesis and then...

26 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 25 Aug 11

Twisting evidence to suit theory instead of adjusting theory to conform to evidence. This discussion topic involves the tendency to people to avoid facing the truth. The inspiration for this particular line of thought...

blind

reason

those who will not see

thought

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DaddyOfTheRose Faith can be a tricky thing, but there must be some value in it. Religions place limits on behavior, require time, and demand tithes. Evolution would indicate it should be slowly removed from the population by negative selective pressures unless it provides...

26 Aug 11

DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 25 Aug 11

Twisting evidence to suit theory instead of adjusting theory to conform to evidence. This discussion topic involves the tendency to people to avoid facing the truth. The inspiration for this particular line of thought...

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DaddyOfTheRose I've always enjoyed a good proverb. :) Something that seems true upon reading it and fits will with intuitive experience. I have a tangentially related set of proverbs. "There are none so blind as they who will not see." "There are not so deaf as they who...

25 Aug 11

Angel @Angelee_27 (3460) • United States 21 Aug 11

Hello fellow myLotters, I have been thinking about random things, and I happened to think of this. Why are there lights in the refrigerator? I mean, we are usually not supposed to have midnight snacks, or eat after a certain...

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DaddyOfTheRose Certainly so. Even with the light on, I have to shift around and look for things sometimes. I can only imagine how that would be complicated by a dark fridge. I have a pantry without a light and find myself routinely wishing the builders of my house would have...

22 Aug 11

lilybug @lilybug (21107) • United States 21 Aug 11

I was mad the other day at work about my schedule. I knew that getting rid my boss getting rid of the guy that no one liked working with was going to change my hours a little bit, but I will admit I was really pissed off when I...

admitting fault

apology

wrong

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DaddyOfTheRose I wouldn't expect either person to be totally wrong. Such as things are, however, it might be prudent to smooth things over.

22 Aug 11

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sarahruthbeth22 @sarahruthbeth22 (43143) • United States 5 Jul 11

Am I the only one on the planet who uses computers but isn't on Facebook. It seems that way these days. Sorry I won't be joining this craze. Does this mean in a few years I won't count? Your thoughts.

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DaddyOfTheRose I find the contrary to be true. Thanks to Facebook, I'm able to keep in touch with people and.. when I see them again.. I have something to talk about.

5 Jul 11

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DaddyOfTheRose @DaddyOfTheRose (2934) • United States 8 Dec 09

"What a terrible future! I'm never going to get married or have kids. I'll work all day every day until I die while another enjoys the fruits of all my labor. This crystal ball sucks, it must be broken!" -- Ant...

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DaddyOfTheRose .hi.. Hello. I'm sorry but I beg to disagree with you.. my view on parenting is not the same with you.. Never a problem on this end with listening to an alternative point of view. No need to say your sorry. :) As for me, I believe...

11 Dec 09

coffeebreak @coffeebreak (17798) • United States 23 Aug 09

I really enjoy watching most of the Food Network cooking shows. From Paula Deene to Rachele Ray to Bobby Flay... although I admit, I am not to pleased with the new ones lately...but the oldies but goodies... their shows are fun to...

cooking shows

cooking with the food network stars

food network

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DaddyOfTheRose There used to be a show called the Frugal Gourmet that my father watched and I thought was interesting. As I said, I am not a person of high means, so any show employing truffles or snails is above my head and my wallet.

11 Nov 09

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