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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Women’s bodies are moralized more than men’s, study finds.

Thank you for posting this.  I haven’t seen it anywhere else, and it’s enabled me to answer a number of long-standing questions in research on morality.  Namely, about moral purity, “harmless harms”, and “moral dumbfounding”.

Moral purity means obser…[Read more]

Enco,

Where do you come down on organic food v non?

That sunday school video about evil/stupidity is food for thought. Reg threw one right down the middle. For Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who opposed the Nazis, and made a distinction between evil and stupidity, stupidity was more dangerous than evil. One can be stupid and yet…[Read more]

Reg,

Bierce had some real doozies that could have added comic relief to Webster’s work if they were contemporaries, as well as some things that wouldn’t pass muster with either standards of his day or now.

Reg,

The correspondance Theory of Truth should be the only governing principle for any government document, curricula, or media. You can use any word, as long as it corresponds to something real.

“Transgendered” can stay, but a sex-neutral “birthing person” will have to wait until there are successful ovary and womb transplants.…[Read more]

@TheEncogitationer  – Your descriptions of the various foods are good. I was reminded of Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary” which I dip into on occasion. Here.

@Unapologetic – What are freedom freckle parties?

During COVID many  people who “did their own research” decided it was a great idea to have parties so that they could get COVID and would then be able to build up their own natural immunity to the virus. As it transpired many of them  only gate-crashed Heaven. You know, religious freedom and all t…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

More thoughts on food:

* There are only two kinds of fish: “Wild-Caught” and “Son-of-Wild-Caught” a.k.a. aquaculture-raised. Of the two, “Son-of-Wild-Caught” is more likely to be better, since at least in principle it can be isolated from the Mercury, Lead, and microplastics that the “Wild-Caught” eat.

* Food is a process,…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
Robert, colour me shocked. You mean you don’t want to dance with me after all?

Oh, by all means, let’s dance if that song is on.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unapologetic, Some clever answers, but I would go further and take on the premises behind the questions. For instance, why is the efficacy of reason to be questioned and not faith? Why does the Natural Universe need creation instead of having always existed? Can’t any prophesy be said to be true if stated vaguely e…

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Robert, colour me shocked. You mean you don’t want to dance with me after all?

Strega wrote:
Well thanks Reg, sorry I was late to the party 🙂

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco. This ain’t no fooling around.

Well thanks Reg, sorry I was late to the party 🙂

Trumponomics isn’t even smoke and mirrors. It’s nuts:

Unapologetic,

Some clever answers, but I would go further and take on the premises behind the questions.

For instance, why is the efficacy of reason to be questioned and not faith? Why does the Natural Universe need creation instead of having always existed? Can’t any prophesy be said to be true if stated vaguely enough? Assuming that Jesus…[Read more]

I don’t get it. If DOGE stands for Department Of Government Efficiency, what is the standard of efficiency they are using, because how does cutting staff at the IRS or Social Security Administration reduced telephone hold times or get one in to speak to an agent more quickly? How does cutting the number of aircraft controllers reduce aircraft…[Read more]

Robert,

I’m sure that doesn’t affect the texture of the meat once the Cajun marinade or Jamaican Jerk season works it’s way through their fright-stiffened pullets.😋

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge

If you’re a war hero whose surname is “Gay” or if you’re the legendary WW2 bomber named Enola Gay, you’re too “woke” or “light in the loafers” for Trumplandia.

WASHINGTON (AP) — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay…[Read more]

What are freedom freckle parties?

My answers to the 30 questions:

1. Are you certain that God does not exist, or that you can’t know whether He exists?
A: I am certain that god exists as a fictional enforcer for a heaven/hell protection scam.

2. How do you know that?
A: From the manipulative actions of your cult and it’s followers.

5. Did y…[Read more]

Enco, speaking of food, I asked my waiter how they prepared the chicken here and he said “we flat out just tell ’em they are gonna die”.