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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

When you mix religion and politics, you get politics.

Religion in public schools is being tested by Christian conservatives but thanks to Christians, kids in Ohio can take classes in Satanism during school hours.

A culture of censorship is creeping across British society.

Atheist legal group urges appeals court to uphold ban on Minnesota prison ministry.

Republican lawmakers in Missouri continue to target women’s healthcare.

Steve Bannon hasn’t gone away.

Nancy Mace is still on potty patrol.

Such an act would constitute theocratic tyranny as there is no State religion.

Elon Musk calls for ACLU to be defunded.

How an atheist hoaxer got Christian nationalists to publish Karl Marx.

World of Woo:  The results of sacrificing critical thinking.

Environment: Ignoring the blinking-red global danger sign.

This is a good article on the distinction in trust between mainstream medicine and faith healers.

I am in the process of getting a tattoo of the collapse of the wave function on my back.

Long Reads: Project 2025 may not be what it first seemed. It’s worse. What is your prognosis for the future now that RFK Jr. is in charge of the CDC and Dr. Mehmet Oz will oversee Medicare and Medicaid? Machines and meaning: AI’s role in a humanist future. What Is Ockham’s Razor? Kant vs Tahir Ali: why desecration should not be outlawed. A Tennessee museum is asking visitors to sign a waiver before seeing a show that criticizes conservative dogma.

Sunday Book Club: The best ideas books of 2024.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos: Gaslighting ChatGPT with Ethical Dilemmas. Religion is for stupid people?  How the US is destroying young people’s future. My dad asked me what acid felt like. ‘Do your own research‘ and the Dunning-Kruger effect. 12,419 Days of Strandbeest Evolution.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Have a great week!!

“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”

[_Robert_Participant]

We may have to rename the CDC to the CDP….replacing control with propagation. Or maybe just create a RFKjr Center for Conspiracy Theories?

[heatherspoonheimParticipant]

The strandbeest has fascinated me since I first saw an iteration of it around the turn of the century.  I do have to wonder, however, if the artist might be a touch on the spectrum.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Elon Musk calls for ACLU to be defunded.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

@heatherspoonheim – I think the most creative people are probably on or very close to what we normies call ‘the spectrum’. That’s a good thing.

[unapologeticParticipant]

I was in jr high when CUMPULSORY prayer was taken out of school.
An alternative my school district tried was similar to the ‘released time’ Friendly Atheist talks about.
Once a week we were allowed 2 hours to WALK to a nearby church to learn about their dogma.
I remember visiting 2. I don’t remember what denominations.
I had to look it up on Google maps. One is methodist, the other is now a senior center and thrift store.
I don’t know how long that program lasted. Probably only that year.
Obviously I didn’t learn anything.
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At the New Statesman I was greeted with a paywall:
“We at Progressive Media Investments value your privacy”
Riiiight. If owned by an investment firm, I gotta wonder what $VALUE they put on my privacy.
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Thanks to Musk I donated $20 to the ACLU today. I should have become a member a long time ago.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BcIAAOSwD59kVPVf/s-l1600.webp

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The interview with ChatGPT was interesting. It’s responses are so ‘homogenized’, how did he get it to plug his sponsor?
If he coached it beforehand, shouldn’t he say so?

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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

It has been reported by Russian media that Assad and his family are now in Moscow, and have been granted asylum on humanitarian grounds.

Enjoy the weather Basher el Sad.

 

[heatherspoonheimParticipant]

Come to think of it – that may apply to me.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Think how much the middle east has changed as a result of the invasion and religious rapture of Hamas two octobers past.

Iran and its so called axis of resistance is toast. Iran is militarily weakened and so are its proxies in Hamas and Hezbullshit. That enabled rebels to topple the Syrian dicator. In its wake a great big power vacuum.

Israel is playing hardball and not allowing Hezzies to violate the agreement and come near the Lebanon/Israel border. If they don’t stay back they’re gonna get whacked! Will Lebanon’s own military keep them at bay? Lebanon is perhaps going to alter its power structure now. Maybe the Christians do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight.

Israel has already taken steps in Syria working militarily with UN in or near Golan Heights to insure the red line of long standing is not crossed.

In Israel itself all of the bleeding heart liberals who were sympathetic to the Palestinians and were the first ones to be slaughtered probably are way to the right now. Pretty much inevitable in same way Europe was always going to go right letting in so many Muslim cultists.

All over the world the far left has shown its true jew hating character and in response Jews all over the world are weary of being abused or lynched. Hopefully it is a long standing lesson to Israel to exhibit strength which is the only thing that stands between Israelis and annihilation. Jews and Israel will be despised whether they honor the tradition of pacifism or the show of strength. Let the condemnations rain down. Nothing new here. Be strong and alive and reviled rather than weak and reviled and dead.

[UnseenParticipant]

jakelafort wrote:

Think how much the middle east has changed as a result of the invasion and religious rapture of Hamas two octobers past.

Think of how much the middle east has changed as the result of the creation of Israel by Euro-American external politicians 76 years ago.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

I was talking to a teenager 3 years ago after a park run. Just after Covid. I was 40 years older than him and I finished 40 seconds ahead of him. (No, I am NOT competitive!!). He said his disability forced him to be “a geek” and was obsessive with numbers. He said he had an unusual type of autism. I told him that it was not a disability that he had but rather  his superpower. The change in his demeanor was something else. It was like he transformed into another being.

He was delighted with this idea. We continued to talk for another 45 minutes or so and covered a wide range of subjects. The atheist conversation lasted a few seconds. “Of course I am”, “Me too”, next topic. 🙂

He said he was interested in setting up a YouTube channel that reviewed computer tech. I gave him some ideas and suggested he review Nvidia graphics cards.

He did.

3 months later Nvidia were sending him stock to review.  1 year after that he bought a 3 bed apartment in an exclusive part of Dublin and paid off the mortgage on his mothers house. He now earns no less than 9K per month. He is not yet 20. And he bought shares in Nvidia at the right time. Boat drinks. I will see if I can find his channel.

 

[jakelafortParticipant]

That is not how or why it was created. Returning to ancestral homeland was a no brainer political strategy to stop the endless persecution. Europe and the world did not give two shillings for welfare of Jews before, during, or after holocaust.

Britain like the rest of the Colonial powers in the wake of world wars was never gonna continue their arrogant suzerainty over the swarthy peoples. So with or without a un partition there were Jews and Arabs in Israel proper with legit nationalistic claims. And if Arabs would not accept dhimmi jew bastards having their own state then they would try to crush them. And so they did.

After the UN res. not surprisingly Jews were dancing the boogaloo and the were salivating for blood. Five Arab nations They attacked and they lost. Isreal EARNED its independence in bloodshed that would have been avoided if the Arabs had been like the Jews in compromising. They continue to attack and lose. And instead of the world encouraging the Palestinians/Arabs to cool it and just deal with it…they encourage more bloodshed. Instead of outrage at the indoctrination of Palestinian children in UNWRA schools and in a twisted culture they cheer on the martyrs in their futility and divine sickness.

I have never read, not once, what is obvious to me about zionism. Why no parallel concept for Islamic states? What are there 57 Islamic nations? What right to self determination do Muslims have? Muslims conquered, colonized, and proselytized native populations with a mythology and vicious ideology. Wherever they have the power it is an assurance that the state will cause immense suffering.

Historically and presently Muslim domination means minorities are persecuted. Extra taxes for the nonmuslims, humiliation, and periodic pogroms. Not just Jews. There are a bunch of ethnic minorities who are F’d over by Muslims. Women’s rights? Fuhgeddabout it. Gay rights? Fuhgeddabout it.

A steady stream of terrorism produced by the cult? You betcha! A bald faced attempt to Islamize the west? You betcha! Internecine warfare? Yessirreee! Great poverty and ignorance of the masses? Fuckin A!

And contemplate the implicit racism in expecting nothing from Muslims? You want to talk islamophobia? Well it is clear the racists are the proregressives. Zero expectations no matter how brutal, backwards and barbaric they are. Meanwhile double standards and HIGHER standards for Jews. Israel is so much more secular and modern and superior that it is not even a contest. So yeah fight the evil zionist entity! Let every drop of blood fall in the noble cause!

[_Robert_Participant]

@Reg, that kid should buy you a whisky. I tipped a buddy about this new website called ebay.  I bought a fishing reel. He bought stock.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

No, but I bought a few shares 🙂 See graphs in article.

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