Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Why do prominent Republican officials keep peddling fake historical quotes when their Dear Leader hates fake news so much?

I disliked pastor Doug Wilson when I first saw him in a debate with Hitchens.

Catholic bishops want to legally protect child abusers from the law of the land.

The volunteer atheist army standing up to Trump.

The Slippery Slope of selective recognition: The Anti-Hinduphobia Bill of Georgia

Texas wants the Ten Commandments displayed in public schools to keep  children from murdering each other and committing adultery.

Why can’t Jordan Peterson say if he’s Christian? (see 1^st video below).

Religious tests for federal judges are unconstitutional and un-American.

World of Woo:  The Seed Oil Gambit. More here.

Environment:  Major US university achieves groundbreaking energy milestone that could set precedent nationwide.

Elon Musk still thinks a trip to a dead planet is worth the effort.

Long Reads:

The Scopes “monkey trial”, 100 years ago.

The Christian Right’s 250-Year fight against America.

What I learned from walking Britain’s entire coast.

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to non-existent studies. He is unqualified to give any scientific medical advice.

As a Capricorn I am compelled to laugh at Astrology.

A look at the online Incel subculture.

The role of migration and population dynamics in shaping human history does not necessitate a return to the flawed ideologies of the past.

A look at what’s new in AI from Google.

What’s it like to be an AI?

How fast does planet Earth move through space?

Sunday Book Club: Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos:   Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists. Has there ever been a more misunderstood religion than Islam? I am regularly arguing with useful Irish Hamas idiots so this was refreshing to hear.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

June already! How dat happen? Have a great week!

[_Robert_]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

June already! How dat happen? Have a great week!

Yeah, I hope summer goes by fast in my frame of reference. I have started thinking about Halloween already. Just can’t enjoy nature for more than a few minutes in this heat and humidity.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I seldom spend time in the Southern States during the summer months. I can handle 80F – 85F in many countries as I tend to spend a lot of time outside. The humidity gets to me and I find it very unpleasant especially if I want to go for a run. I also don’t like the atmosphere created by air con units unless they are properly maintained. I spent 2 hours in a park this morning (after posting Sunday School) and it was about 67F with a warm breeze. It will be in the mid 70F later so will hit the beach. If only we could have some of the soft Florida powdered sand over here……

[Strega]

June already?  Why, looking at your heading for today, Reg, we’ve gone and hit July 🙂

also, thank you for Sunday School 🙂

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

The role of migration and population dynamics in shaping human history does not necessitate a return to the flawed ideologies of the past.

Coincidentally, I was reading this Quillette article yesterday. I agree with what you say.

Proper study of ancient DNA (aDNA, as it’s called) does not mean revival of Gustav Kossinna’s Kultur-Gruppen or any other racist Anthropology.

It’s a matter of understanding causation and the subject matter at hand.

Even if individuals of a certain genotypic or phenotypic Kultur-Gruppen did create a particular artifact, in order for the artifact to spread. others have to have the capability to understand it and use it. That presupposes that a common cognitive apparatus exists among humans to do so.

Also. studying artifacts among differing peoples shows that even when the artifacts have different designs and esthetic features, they serve the same function and purpose, across time and almost always across place.

Moreover, studying ancient or modern DNA shows how little genetic differences there are between either individuals or groups. Something like .0064 of a percent of genes are all that separates any two humans on Earth.

A study at Hadassah Hospital in Israel showed that Semitic peoples came from a single patrilineal genetic line of which Jews and Arabs are offshoots. This discovery makes the present Gaza-Israel War and the worldwide Intifada all the more sad and absurd and all the more reason to stop it.

New knowledge make things better if understood and used right.

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• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum for grammar

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Thanks Strega, someone is paying attention in school 🙂 The problem is Sunday School follows Saturday night! I feel younger already.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

@Enco  – Coincidentally, I was reading this Quillette article yesterday. I agree with what you say.

I was very deliberate and careful in my wording of the post 🙂

New knowledge make things better if understood and used right. 

Yes, but what is common sense to one person is often seen as special knowledge to another.

[_Robert_]

JP can’t say he is a Christian because he is just smart enough not to be one. Unfortunately, he is intellectually dishonest enough the placate his incel, right wing, manosphere of fan boys, who love to talk-up the bible’s subservient status of women.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

What’s it like to be an AI?

Again again, Bullwinkle? I’m detecting a pattern here.

Look, there was talk that AI could have been used to write RFKJR’s MAHA Report. Until AI becomes smart enough to resist being used by proudly delusional, oblivious jerks like RFKJR, I don’t want to know what it’s like to be an AI.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Again again, Bullwinkle? I’m detecting a pattern here.

I was waiting for that 🙂

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

@_Robert_ JP can’t say he is a Christian because he is just smart enough not to be one. Unfortunately, he is intellectually dishonest enough the placate his incel, right wing, manosphere of fan boys, who love to talk-up the bible’s subservient status of women.

Perfectly explained. His followers are not smart enough or have enough experience of living independently to see behind the curtain, which is woven from a fake sense of profundity. He seldom answers a question directly and when he does, he employs terminology that sounds intellectual but is always either vague or overly complicated. I have heard people say they find value in what he says but they have never been able to explain what they mean by that to me. There is nothing insightful in what he says.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

I was very deliberate and careful in my wording of the post

No need to be careful with the phrasing of the post except maybe on YouTube or BlueSky or another site that’s gone beyond Woke to Weenie. Then the post may get “unalived.”

Dating of The post is another matter. I questioned my eyesight and sleeping patterns when I saw the first date. 😁

• This reply was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum due to forgetting the name of a forgettable Social site

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

Perfectly explained. His followers are not smart enough or have enough experience of living independently to see behind the curtain, which is woven from a fake sense of profundity. He seldom answers a question directly and when he does, he employs terminology that sounds intellectual but is always either vague or overly complicated. I have heard people say they find value in what he says but they have never been able to explain what they mean by that to me. There is nothing insightful in what he says.

I chalk it up to the all-beef-and-booze diet snapping something in his brain. Look, Jordie, I love a good porterhouse as much anybody, but you gotta have a zesty herb, fruit, and veggie based tenderizer or steak sauce with it, or a garnish of onions, garlic and carrots with a beef stew. And remember alcohol is derived from fruit and grain.

Jordan Peterson’s dietary advice is as valid as RFKJR’s legal eagle medical advice.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

The Slippery Slope of selective recognition: The Anti-Hinduphobia Bill of Georgia

There is a very simple Occam’s Razor to address this: Every individual has equal rights before the law that deserve equal respect, regardless of thoughts, beliefs, or conditions of birth.

Thoughts and beliefs, however, do not have rights and do not deserve equal respect.

One can respect the right to life and belly-laugh at the idea of having more than one life.

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