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Getting back to the nub of the argument for the moment - is morality subjective or objective? This is the wrong question. the correct one is "what is the origin of morality?" The Brights movement is working on a more scientific and evolutionary approach at the moment, based on the hypothesis: "Moral...

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In Buckinghamshire the local BHA made contact with the Bucks SACRE and gave them a presentation, but even observer membership was refused. It is sensible to have local SACREs because the prevalence of various religions / denominations around the country varies considerably. However, in most areas th...

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Seasons only became observable and interesting when humans migrated out of the tropics and hunted migrating animals, and became really important only with the development of agriculture, leading to the establishment of the calendar. Festival days based on these events were then taken up by religious...

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Freegans get their food by hanging out at the back of supermarkets and grabbing all the "just out of date" food before it gets dumped in the garbage. {Vegetarian shock warning - the following may be distasteful to some people} A couple of people I know are also into roadkill. It's free and (allegedl...

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I vote too for the Pakistani mango. One of the advantages of having a thriving Pakistani community here in Aylesbury is that the market stalls all stock these fruit, usually in boxes of 4-5. My all-time hate is durian, which I was conned into eating in eastern Indonesia. Cross between rotting flesh ...

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Peter Singer covers the religio-social history of vegetarianism well, but states: If animals have rights, ... and much of his approach and argument is based around this issue. This is key for me, because I consider that, in the absence of an absolute moral / religious code, organisms (humans include...

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I'm half-way through Robinson Crusoe at the moment. It was on my daughter's school's summer reading list, and Penguin sell it for only £2, so I bought it for her. "You can't expect me to read that!", she said. It's not bad, once you get used to the old style of writing. Apart from the religious conv...

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

By far better than the recent poor remake.

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What's the difference between an animal and a plant, then, from the food chain point of view?

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Please forgive me if I am asking the obvious. I am not a vegetarian, though some of my favourite dishes could be described as such. From a humanist point of view, what is the ideological basis for vegetarianism? Is there one? Are they linked at all? Is it just personal choice? In my simplistic view,...

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Imps. Small packets of tiny spicy licorice pieces.

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It's not mine. I found it somewhere on the web.

It is actually impossible to take this shot, as the bore shrinks quite quickly, you can't get your head in like that. OK, I admit trying it.

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These people are likely to be (in my view, anyway) just mentally ill and they should be treated as such. Any media interest is likely just to increase their level of psychosis and should be stopped. Would the media get away with it if it was a physical illness and they were exacerbating the problem....

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This is not recommended if someone is blowing it.

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I got 39 out of 44, but having read the explanations I got only two wrong completely, another two through lack of information and one I got right (organisms one) but they marked it wrong. It is OK as a quick test but in many cases they did not give quite enough information to elicit an absolutely co...

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I heard a news item tonight about an Edinburgh Catholic priest who has set up an open confessional as part of the Edinburgh Fringe. All are welcome, Catholic, other Christian, other faiths or indeed those of no faith. He made an interesting point that most people carry around guilt, regrets and othe...

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I was privileged to learn Latin at school, in addition to French. I think the Latin has penetrated rather deeper and stuck rather longer than the French, but probably because of the teacher rather than the subject. With much more short term international travel it is getting very difficult or even w...

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Username: tubataxidriver. My son plays the tuba. He can't manage it on his bike. 'nuf said.

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One of the amazing things is, I think, the fact that by reading these posts my mind / brain function can communicate with all your minds / brain functions in a mutually understandable code (English), wired up at different times in different places in unique biological organisms. If the mind is the i...

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Ideological basis for humanist vegetarianism?

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