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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Unseen,
Talk about illogic, my appeal isn’t an argumentum ad populum (appeal to the mob). The vast majority of well-informed experts who are familiar with what’s going on on the ground hold that Israel is engaging in genocide or something very much close to it. The argumentum ad populum’s mob refers to what you might call The Great Unwas…
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 9 months, 3 weeks ago
TheEncogitationer wrote:
And what I was saying is that no one here has expressed the caricatured, distorted view of the Gaza-Israeli War he was attributing to his opposition. He is constructing not just a Strawman, but a Vaporman.I understood the Enco/Unseen-distortion-perception, then casually ruminated, but got quickly sucked into a (wireless)…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie posted an update 9 months, 3 weeks ago
About replying to “Updates”. Sounds like y’all are referring to Updates as they exist on an AZ main page, right? The page that shows all the newest posts? If I’m wrong, please correct me.
If I got this right, then notice the line underneath the post’s title, that’s in a time format that’s showing how old the post is. Clicking on it will take you…[Read more] -
Unseen replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Talk about illogic, my appeal isn’t an argumentum ad populum (appeal to the mob). The vast majority of well-informed experts who are familiar with what’s going on on the ground hold that Israel is engaging in genocide or something very much close to it. The argumentum ad populum’s mob refers to what you might call The Great Unwashed.
Question: If…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoJake,
Simon isn’t it presumptively bad faith to silence someone> I mean maybe not if it is the far left and the speaker is opposed to the lefty mythology. Or if it is Trump it is always in good faith to silence his opposition.
You do bring up a great point, albeit in a different thread. What is meant by “good faith” and “bad faith?”. And how c…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic December 15, 1791 in the forum
The Atheist Agora 9 months, 3 weeks agoReg:
The goal should not be the absence of disagreement, but the presence of robust dialogue.
And preferably over a cup of robust Nescafé:
Of course, Goya’s Warning System has broken down when people get shot over their spoken thought or have their broadcast licenses pulled in the name of…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoSimon isn’t it presumptively bad faith to silence someone> I mean maybe not if it is the far left and the speaker is opposed to the lefty mythology. Or if it is Trump it is always in good faith to silence his opposition.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic December 15, 1791 in the forum
The Atheist Agora 9 months, 3 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The goal should not be the absence of disagreement, but the presence of robust dialogue.Likewise, it’s unproductive to seek to silence people we disagree with, in good faith. It’s more productive to engage with them and debate.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic December 15, 1791 in the forum
The Atheist Agora 9 months, 3 weeks agoCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The First Amendment was also the first “U.S. aid” to humanity. Not aid in…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoJake,
Enco i don’t see it.
I read a book about the Concordat and it is fuzzy now but the support from both Lutheran and Catholic Church was strong. Yet it was not i think indispensable. You might wonder what would have happened if it had been denounced by either superstition.
Thing is irrational thoughts tend to come in bunches, and tend to r…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoRobert,
As if city life is worse now than the 60s and 70s. Then the cities were deprived of funds during the decades long white exodus out to the burbs but when that was found the be too boring, the trend reversed and wealthy whites wanted back in, redevelopment and rents went up, the propaganda started when Karens and Kens smelled too much…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 9 months, 3 weeks ago
PopeBeanie,
I’m noticing that the opinionator you speak of represents, in ratio, about the same representative minority of atheists we might see in a roomful of Americans. I mean there’s some kind of fallacy of logic here, maybe like “appeal to authority”.
I’m not sure what the representative minority of Atheists in a roomful of America…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 9 months, 3 weeks ago
TheEncogitationer wrote:
Said by no one here but you. POOF! Begone, Vaporman maker!I’m noticing that the opinionator you speak of represents, in ratio, about the same representative minority of atheists we might see in a roomful of Americans. I mean there’s some kind of fallacy of logic here, maybe like “appeal to authority”.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoEnco i don’t see it.
I read a book about the Concordat and it is fuzzy now but the support from both Lutheran and Catholic Church was strong. Yet it was not i think indispensable. You might wonder what would have happened if it had been denounced by either superstition.
If you want to assert that all of the necessary conditions were in place…[Read more]
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, I don’t know how to post a reply to an update, so I’ll have to post it here. Trump would have no pretext for using the National Guard or Military on cities if the Mayors and City Councils and Judges had a handle on things. What happened to Irina Zarutsa in Charlotte, NC is just a single example of how rotten lif… -
TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoJake,
And it was not primarily a Christian movement or spurred by it notwithstanding Lutheranism or the Concordat.
Here’s where you’re mistaken about Nazism. It couldn’t have gotten as far as it did without support from both Catholic and Protestant religion. The Nazis also got support from Occultism such as Madame Blavatsky, who gave them the…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoRobert,
I don’t know how to post a reply to an update, so I’ll have to post it here.
Trump would have no pretext for using the National Guard or Military on cities if the Mayors and City Councils and Judges had a handle on things.
What happened to Irina Zarutsa in Charlotte, NC is just a single example of how rotten life in U.S. cities can…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoAm replying to Robert here because sometimes ya feel like a nut & sometimes you can’t figure out how to reply to your own update.
Neither Christian nor Islamic values take their adherents or victims as the case may be to a good place. That much is clear. (as an aside i despise atheists who have accepted the message that only way to be moral is…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoI saw ya workin Enco. You’re going great guns.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 3 weeks agoJake,
Enco there are maybe 5 people who are regular contributors. And how many read our scribbles? Twice that? None. IDK. Gotta be negligible. Am i rite?
You might be right, but I did want to practice some alliterative allusions and maybe get some creative call back. I guess “scribbles” and “negligible” in close proximity counts.
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