My usually retort to “being born a Catholic” is “No, I was born an atheist, without no beliefs in any gods, just like you were too”….

and….

“Please explain to me why children need to pray? Better they to go to a church where they can learn to fly”.

Reg:

And for added head-swimming, you could have added that someone can be Irish by Nationality and Jewish by Ethnicity and/or Religion.

After that, you could point to a bat, bee, or squirrel and tell them to find out what it’s like to be them being them and get back to you about it. 🦇🐝🐿️😁

Reg:

I was recently told by a student warrior that I cannot be a Zionist because I was an “Irish Catholic by birth” and “obviously I could never be Jewish”.

But I am a Zionist, I replied, and gave no more information. This bothered him greatly. His friend asked how was it possible for me to be a Zionist.

I replied “By using my right to self-d…

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I was recently told by a student warrior that I cannot be a Zionist because I was an “Irish Catholic by birth” and “obviously I could never be Jewish”.

But I am a Zionist, I replied, and gave no more information. This bothered him greatly. His friend asked how was it possible for me to be a Zionist.

I replied “By using my right to…[Read more]

Reg and Jake:

Willie McCoy (called Slim at home) gets the whole bar’s attention when he explains why European nations adopting a diversified palette of energy sources–including nuclear reactors, continued oil exploration in the North Sea, solar energy beamed down via solar cells mounted on satellites, and sea-based windmills–can help them stand…[Read more]

Reg meets his waterloo as Jake ascends to the stars

Two Irishman fighting over a copy of Dubliners walks into a bar. There a university student wearing a kaafiya and babbling about settler colonial apartheid something or other and how he wants to occupy a buxom and alluring university student and that it is justifiable resistance to take her by…[Read more]

**INTERNATIONAL BAR, DUBLIN — NIGHT**

A crowded bar. REG is standing beside two women, CLAIRE and AOIFE. The conversation has reached the dangerous point where someone has asked what he is interested in.

**CLAIRE**

So what do you do when you’re not working?

**REG**

I think about why England survived Napoleon economically while Holland did…[Read more]

Jake:

Well, if there were a barfly who brought up Adam Smith’s Capitalist condemnation of slavery and contrasts it with George Fitzhugh’s defense of slavery in semi-Feudalistic, semi-Communistic terms, that person would earn the bottomless bar tab and an orgy with the whole bar.

And if AI could do this unprompted, it would earn Overlord status,…[Read more]

Reg made me think of this scene.

Reg and Jake:

Ackshuyally, Jenny McCarthy is a Large Language Model. It’s just that her Language, especially on vaccines, is Largely beyond her bird bath depth. 😁