Sunday School

[UnseenParticipant]

“Super” means either “over” or “above.” “Sub” means either “under” or “below.” However, even over, above, under, and below are ambiguous themselves, having different meanings in different contexts.

Context is everything in language.

[UnseenParticipant]

@Reg

On the matter of gravity stretching space, the example is often given of a heavy ball on an elastic surface like a trampoline. That’s fallacious. It is at best a faulty analogy and here’s what’s wrong with it.

That example envisions a three-dimensional object, the ball, on a two-dimensional surface, which is easy to visualize. However, a real massive object exists in a three-dimensional space. Infinite number of planes. In the one-dimensional example, we see it sinking into the plane. Sinking in one-dimension in other words. But can it sink into an infinite number of planes?

The analogy breaks down once you stop to think about it.

[_Robert_Participant]

Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

 

[UnseenParticipant]

_Robert_ wrote:

Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

Would they buy a Honda or Peugeot if it was made in Mississippi or Kentucky?

[UnseenParticipant]

WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

Putin never loses at Judo, Kim. who also plays golf, gets holes in one all the time, and Trump has a mysterious talent for winning golf tournaments which are never covered by the sports press, with mysteriously anonymous opponents, and on his own golf coursess.

Would you trust this man with the country’s economy?

[_Robert_Participant]

Unseen wrote:

WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

There has to be some sort of flaw in the homo sapiens brain when it comes to picking leaders. Every once in a while, people get lucky, but for the most part we have been and still are, ruled by the biggest assholes.

[_Robert_Participant]

John Oliver enlightened me on the trans athlete situation.

I feel bad for one of my favorite bloggers who never talks trans issues. So I now really think trans were weaponized by the right.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Robert and Unseen,

Using a word for a concept should not be taken to mean belief that the concept actually exists. I use the word “Supernatural” to mean a thing that is “beyond” the Natural Universe and not operating by Natural Laws. I suppose all the other prefixes could apply too, as well as “Supranatural” or “Extranatural.”. It could include Gods, Angels, Devils, Spirits, Ghosts, D’Jinns, or realms or forces beyond the Natural Universe and Natural Laws.

However it is described, I don’t buy it or think that it explains anything.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Unseen and Robert,

What’s the surprise here? Trump gets support for his tariffs from Peter Navarro who gets his bogus advice from an imaginary economist friend “Ron Vara,” whose name is an anagram of “Navarro.”

Trump’s Anti-China Trade Advisor Invented a Fake Economist To Sell His Protectionist Views
Peter Navarro also said Americans wouldn’t pay the costs of Trump’s tariffs, a claim that seems to be equally fabricated.
Eric Boehm | 10.17.2019 9:50 AM
https://reason.com/2019/10/17/trumps-anti-china-trade-advisor-invented-a-fake-economist-to-sell-his-protectionist-trade-views/

And Muskie the DOGE Dog is tearing into Navarro and “Ron Vara” now:

Elon Musk Says Peter Navarro Is ‘Dumber Than a Sack of Bricks’
Musk is right. Navarro is a socialist with foolish economic views who should never have been put in charge of anything.
Eric Boehm | 4.8.2025 3:15 PM
https://reason.com/2025/04/08/elon-musk-says-peter-navarro-is-dumber-than-a-sack-of-bricks/

[StregaModerator]

Enco, I’ve always found “unnatural” to suffice.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Robert,

Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

Eco-Fascism is a definite thing, along with many other flavors. They all translate into subordination of the Individual to the Nation, Class, Race, Religion, and the State consisting of Fearless Leader and Party Cronies. This guy Brofessor Stein explained every disgusting flavor in two videos. Eco-Fascism is in the second video:

The OG Fascisms from Italy, Germany, and Spain are in the first video:

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[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Strega,

Enco, I’ve always found “unnatural” to suffice.

That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

And just think of the mental short circuits that would result from using unnatural food for unnatural acts.

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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

She: I am not really religious but I am very spiritual.

Me: But is that enough? Really, is it? Just how not religious are you? How much more is very spiritual to just being regular spiritual? Is there training involved?

She: Huh??

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Wow……

[UnseenParticipant]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

If something happens or manages to exist or to be manufactured, it satisfies the laws of nature and is ipso facto “natural.”

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