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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 days, 6 hours agoDidn’t see northern light but the stars twinkled with all their might.
During day a china blue sky draped in white snow was ever so fly.
So impressed with Trump. Comes to power in the USA not once but twice. “You can make it in America.” Give us your wretched refuse, your untermensch and megalomaniacs. Literally anybody has a shot. No matter…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 days, 9 hours agoYour beliefs can change without your permission.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer posted an update 3 days, 12 hours ago
If you are in North America, check out the northern lights display tonight. Great photos taken in Dublin, Ireland. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 days, 13 hours ago
Unseen wrote:
No, you feel you have a certain amount of agency.What I’m saying is, we treat ourselves and each other as if we have agency, whether we “really” do or not. It’s on this level that we’re held accountable.
See, you can’t talk about agency without implying agency where there really is none. And I mean you you,…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 3 days, 14 hours ago
Unseen wrote:
No, you feel you have a certain amount of agency.What I’m saying is, we treat ourselves and each other as if we have agency, whether we “really” do or not. It’s on this level that we’re held accountable.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 6 hours agoHegemonic like a tonic.
That is ok Enco. I am a very unstable half-wit.
The article on consciousness had me shaking my bald assed head. Same special creation ethos in science encountered by Jane Allgood. Yeah but those monkeys are only reacting to stimuli. Descarte’s automata. It is totally automatic whenever you are around. Pathetic.
The…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 4 days, 7 hours ago
How long is now?
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 4 days, 7 hours ago
Simon Paynton wrote:
As far as accountability and free will go, I’d say that we all operate in an everyday world of “as-if” free will – we have a certain amount of agency over our actions – and we’re judged and held accountable on this as-if agency.No, you feel you have a certain amount of agency. If you are sure there’s any agency at all, exp…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 12 hours agoJake:
Sorry, I misread you. I thought you typed “Is it” not “It is”.
The former would make it a Trump impersonation, along with a “Covfefe” and “Thank you for your attention to this matter” thrown in.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 4 days, 15 hours ago
Unseen wrote:
Some will say, “But that’s nihilistic. That means there’s no point to anything. The child abuser, the family annihilator, the terrorist…they’re no better or worse than the hero or altruist or selfless caregiver.”I don’t know what to tell you other than…”Yup! In a very real sense, we’re not the author of our actions, no matter…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 16 hours agoJake:
It is so wrong to abandon the Iranians to their theocracy. I was about to rant but i just can’t.
Good Trump impersonation, except his vocabulary wouldn’t include Theocracy and his style wouldn’t include such sophisticated rhyming.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 18th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 17 hours agoReg:
World of Woo: The new Dietary Guidelines.
Listening to RFK Jr. or Trump talk is better than GLP-1 drugs to suppress appetite for anything.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 18th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 19 hours agoThanks, Reg 🙂
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 18th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 21 hours agoTime…..
Tree.
Two hundred years of standing.Three-year-old
staring up,
motionless for a minute.Neither knows
how long that minute is.Only I do —
because I remember
when minutes mattered differently.And yet that moment belongs
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 18th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 4 days, 21 hours agoHave a great week!
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 days, 5 hours agoIt is so wrong to abandon the Iranians to their theocracy. I was about to rant but i just can’t.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 days, 6 hours agoJake:
I saw that about the chemical weapons. Not confirmed yet by Western intel but very credible given the history of chemical weapons use by adjacent forces in the Iran-Iraq War and in the Syrian Civil War.
Oh, and it turns out Trump didn’t destroy all of Iran’s fissible nuclear material:
DEADLY ARSENAL How wounded Iran could be planning…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 days, 11 hours ago
Unseen:
Okay, Enco, but we do all that shit in the present, which appears to have no duration whatsoever.
Notice the multiple tenses used in my sentences. Those couldn’t exist or mean anything without time. Not to mention observe all the choices available. Those couldn’t exist either in a wholly free will-free Universe.
It seems like…
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 days, 13 hours ago
Okay, Enco, but we do all that shit in the present, which appears to have no duration whatsoever.
It seems like everything we do is in a world defined by Zeno. You know, that paradox guy.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 days, 16 hours ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
Meanwhile, real people have been, are now, and will persist in, baking loaves of bread of all varieties, white, wheat, split-top butter, cinnamon raisin, sourdough, and–in spite of everything–rye, pumpernickel, and bagels.
Some of us even make flat breads like tortillas, pitas, and naan. And once these are made, real…[Read more]
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