Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

The God Gap in American politics.

Elon Musk is the tail that wags the DOGE.

Free Speech and combating Religious Hatred.

Atheist chaplains are forging a new path in a changing world.

World of Woo: RFK Jr. is NOT a “vaccine skeptic.” He is antivax.

Environment: Human-caused climate change meant an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year.

Are we moral blank slates at birth?

What will humans look like in 50,000 years?

Scientists explore longevity drugs for dogs that could also extend human life.

Not all forms of carbon removal are created equal.

Sugar is irresistible like a drug. Is it addictive?

Long Reads: Inside the jail block run by Jan 6th rioters. The woman who spent 500 days in a cave. The Invisible Man: A firsthand account of homelessness in America. Inside the Texas Crime Lab that’s solving cold cases. Why history is always political.

Sunday Book Club: The Possibility of Life.

Some odd photographs taken last week. 10 words we learned in 2024.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos: Ultra processed foods and the third age of eating. Why Musk is wrong about Mars. 10 things that atheists are just tired of hearing.

 

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Happy New Year to all!

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Bertrand Russel.

[StregaModerator]

Thanks, Reg!  Happy new year!!!

[unapologeticParticipant]

Atheist chaplains:
Working for the other side is still suporting the other side. Justifying religin’s existance.
He never challenges the believers he minesters.
“especially as humanity grapples with existential threats”
What ‘existential threats’? Climate change in spite of ‘god’s will’?

[unapologeticParticipant]

moral blank slates at birth?:
Babys are notoriously selfish. Not moral.
In the study, babies favored the ‘helper’ puppet, not out of morals or empathy for the ‘struggling’ puppet. But out of self interest.
We all want to be cared for. “Help me too”.
Morals in the test babies would have been reaching for the ‘struggling’ puppet, to help it also.

[unapologeticParticipant]

What will humans look like in 50,000 years?:
We won’t necessarily evolve ‘better’. There are several flaws in us that are not being bread out. But instead being compensated for.
Take my poor eyesight for example. Maybe that trend can be halted with a gene therapy. But if Lazer surgery is cheaper, maybe not.
Lazer surgery being another way to compensate, and still be able to pass on the poor eyesight gene.
The article speculates we will be more homogenized. I doubt that. There is just as much chance of us spliting into different branches.
The enviroment will change, and enviromental conditions is a big driver of evolution. Long term diet is also.
People in the poor regons of the world will be smaller. People in the well-off regions will be more obese. And neither will be attracted to the other.

[unapologeticParticipant]

Is sugar addictive?: Oh, absolutely. (as I sit here binging on egg nog)

[jakelafortParticipant]

From a Newsweek article:

The Taliban have banned windows that look onto areas where Afghan women could be seen inside their homes.

“Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts,” government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid posted on X on Saturday.

This is the latest move taken by the group in its repression of women since the U.S. and its allies pulled out of Afghanistan in February 2020.

The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women’s rights since taking over the country in August 2021, including banning education for girls beyond grade six, banning women from universities and, most recently, banning women’s voices and bare faces in public.

If women are so unattainable and magically delicious that it is illegal to have windows where they may be seen? Covered head to toe in public. That is one thousand no fishing signs to an avid fisherman. Hormones, sex drive ramped up in young men and ya can’t even get a feckin peak at any skin? That is great for suicide bomber business. Init? Verboten here. But over in paradise? All you can handle or imagine and then some.

Islamic culture is a conduit to degeneracy> step right up and strap on a vest for a one way ticket to Paradise. But before you go you should murder some Jews. They are evil and they are genocide maniacal apartheid colonialists and integral to the Zionist entity so you are quite the hero if you murder as many as you can.

But don’t say nuthin bad bout Islam!

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

jakelafort wrote:

“Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts,” government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid posted on X on Saturday.

This is the latest move taken by the group in its repression of women since the U.S. and its allies pulled out of Afghanistan in February 2020.

The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women’s rights since taking over the country in August 2021, including banning education for girls beyond grade six, banning women from universities and, most recently, banning women’s voices and bare faces in public.

That is pure patriarchy in action.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Simon says:

That is pure patriarchy in action.

It is a living breathing nightmarish expression of religious purity. It is not extreme. Just another outbreak of suppurating oozing righteous rapture. Divorced as it is from basic human impulses its victims languish in obscurity as the world turns its venom on Israel/Jews.

It is unimaginable that happening in a Jewish nation. If there are higher standards for Jews there are lower standards from non. And we expect nothing from the swarthy Muslim Islamic sand N’s. Free Palestine. Afghanistan? No molesta por favor. Let them do as they will with their magical thinking and powerful patriarchy. Same goes for the rest of the Islamic world. Free to not only produce the worst imaginable cultures and crucibles of suffering but to take their magical bag of tricks to secular culture there to cry bloody murder at the zionist Jew filth and their faux friends, the Palestinians, but only the ones between the river and the sea. There to Islamize. There to impose rather than assimilate.

The Palestinians who are oppressed by Muslims are not worth mentioning. It would illuminate the hypocrisy and we all know the religion of Jew hatred is sacrosanct. In fact the millions of Muslim on Muslim deaths in last decade? Meh. No Jews so no issue. But lets ponder weak and weary upon a midnight aesthetic dreary whether it is genocide in Gaza.

[jakelafortParticipant]

It is the Zionist government that i despise. I am not a bigot. I judge individuals as individuals. And i judge fairly the government of Israel vis a vis other middle eastern governments.

But if you criticize the beliefs of Muslims you are a bigot and labeled islamophobic. STFU over any constructive sleight even if the calumny is in my mind alone and not conveyed by the speaker.

Funny how the story that follows is representative of events all over the glob. The scapegoats that just keep giving and giving.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israeli-bowlers-banned-from-world-indoor-championships/ar-AA1wKI3I?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=6ef55bac5159439c99238d384bb4a3c2&ei=9

[_Robert_Participant]

A holy war was such as this just multiplies the Zionism and Jihadism. The weapons are the high sacrificial Muslim birthrates vs the Israeli war tech/economy. The actual struggle is that of the gods. There is just no way to achieve the prophesies without all the killing in the holy lands. The average Israeli is light years ahead of the average Palestinian. It doesn’t matter at all. They all are just pawns in this mythical battle.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Jesus, the original NEPO baby.

 

[_Robert_Participant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Jesus, the original NEPO baby.

The “we are in the club” vibe was huge in Catholic school. We are so fuckin HOLY around here; we got it made in the shade!

[_Robert_Participant]

Another Jihadist murdering people having fun. How Shocking.

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