Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

The vulgarity of some Christian preachers is proof of the poisonous nature of religion. Their disregard for the truth is proof that they are nothing but puny liars for Jesus. Sometimes though, it is just hilarious. Other times some are so diseased by religion that they become toxic to society.

This photo and article captures the sheer excitement of Catholicism!

World of Woo:  The Baloney Protection Act.

Environment: Solar-powered device extracts freshwater and lithium from the sea.

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints. Maybe we need a new Republic of Science to bring back a shared reality?

What is common sense for one person is often special knowledge for another.

Human evolution was messy and gradual, not an abrupt revolution. Pacific Islanders appear to have the most ancient human DNA on Earth.

10 big questions about the search for life beyond Earth and where not to look for ET.

I know what my experience is like, but I cannot objectively explain it because my mind is what my embodied brain does from the inside. Experience is the brain process as lived while brain activity is the experience as observed from outside. No problem so!

We are also trying to judge AI from inside the very civilization that is building it. We are not neutral observers outside the experiment. We are active participants inside the process. A simple “pause button” on what a global technological system does is  fantasy. But maybe we should stop pretending that the machine automatically serves us, especially if we hold that reality is centered solely on human experience and not “accelerate the machine” or worship any loss of control over it.

Why Iran continues to choose war over peace. The Ukraine war is now longer than the First World War and the similarities are unsettling.

Sunday Book Club: The Why Behind Things: The animal we are and the world it built

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos: Atheist Indoctrination. Oklahoma Jesus! We don’t need god.

 

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week!

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be useful, trampled upon, rained on, and  blamed for any bad bounce. Let my destiny wear studded boots!”

[Strega]

Thanks, Reg!

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints.

I guess The American Diabetes Association can make rules for admission to their little tree-house, but they sure can’t claim to be for the best interests of Diabetics, especially if they did this on behest of Trump stoolies. Well, they just Streisand-ed themselves.

World of Woo: The Baloney Protection Act.

There’s already a legal doctrine for dealing with Woo: The Implied Warranty of Merchantability, which holds that a product should do what the hypothetical Reasonable Person would expect it to do.

And a Reasonable Person would expect that water with memory would have memory of everything it has ever contacted in the billions of years water has been on Earth.

Under this legal doctrine, Homeopathic “cures” would only be permissable as a theatric or cinematic prop.

[Simon Paynton]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Why Iran continues to choose war over peace.

Until then, the IRGC will pursue its “forever war,” threatening regional stability, the global economy, and U.S. national security.

I knew it – neither side wants to back down.  Trump doesn’t know how to cooperate, the IRGC just wants to keep doing its thing.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

The IRGC just needs to survive. From them that is a win. Funding for its militia armies in Gaza and Lebanon – (Hamas and Hezbollah) – depends on that. Trump has won the war about 25 times already.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be useful, trampled upon, rained on, and blamed for any bad bounce. Let my destiny wear studded boots!”

No need for eternal Masochistic self-harm. Just tell the Scientologists that you have a lifeline “Engram” against expensive “auditing” sessions by cults with cheap electronics kit play-prettys called “E-Meters.”

Guaranteed mind blown.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg and Simon:

Where Trump messed up is not taking out both the Mullahs and the IRGC first, preferably by inciting Iran’s regular Military to mutiny and/or parachuting arms to dissenting Persian citizens. Let the military and dissenters be the “boots on the ground.”

Without the Mullahs and IRGC, arms wouldn’t ship themselves to Hamas and Hezbollah and Uranium wouldn’t centrifuge itself and place itself in warheads.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I knew I was getting old when my cellphone announced “Face not recognized” and I agreed with it 🙂

[jakelafort]

Simon, neither side wants to back down? Trump does not know how to cooperate?

Read the article. IRGC is possessed of an evil all consuming religious ideology. Trump is just a bumbling stumbling would be dictator utterly self absorbed and apparently devoid of principles.

Trump has been played like a fool over and over. Trump wants to end this thing and get cooperation from all parties. He is desperate to end this debacle. He wants to save face and portray the outcome as a victory and that very obvious intention is exploited by IRGC. He has fucked over Israel and the majority of Iranians and IRGC poses an ongoing threat emboldened by their standoff against the Zionist entity and the great satan.

Islamism in general gets a boost from this whole sordid affair. And the lefty scum will continue in their fantasy world and ridiculous constructs/narratives. BTW i did go off on MAGA and Trump today. I know it seems i have a particular vitriolic and visceral hatred of lefty/progressivism. Yeah i do. It is so utterly stupid and degenerate and racist and a betrayal of human rights. MAGA morons are probably just as stupid and degenerate. And then when i am not feeling emotions but simply analyzing i just see what i have seen for a long time in that the majority of humans at all times and in all places are easily manipulated and easily indoctrinated into any beliefs regardles of how head shaking they are and any morality regardless of how barbaric.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s the latest of 39 proclamations of “Peace In Our Time.” Trump and whoever he’s negotiating with don’t agree on even a “Memorandum of Understanding” proceeding a “Deal,” with Israel not even in the loop except for Trump restraining Israel from fighting back against Hezbollah.

Oh. and before the deal even takes place, no talk of depriving the IRGC of nuclear weapons aspirations, the IRGC could get lifted sanctions, renewed oil revenues, and $300 Billion of “Reconstruction” funds. Even worse than past deals from Obama and Biden, and those were horrible. And I doubt Trump’s billionaire donors will be paying for all this. It’s us taxpayers, only us.

By the way, Jake, has anybody in New England proposed chipping Maine off of the Contiguous 48 States and offering it to Iran or any other repressive, regressive regime? Graham Platner and his brainless fans would be a perfect fit.

[jakelafort]

Enco,

This deal is shakier than a Shaker with Parkinson’s disease. How things proceed is anybody’s guess.

Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820. I would like to see a new territory perhaps in Maine in which the minority of Americans who are proudly uncaptured by ideological brain worm infestation syndrome reside peacefully and productively and don’t tread on me. BWIS bliss.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Is it a ‘Peace Deal’ or just a ‘Ceasefire Agreement’?

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

Interesting bit of little-taught American history there. First time I ever heard that.

Here’s something you never hear amid all the non-stop barage of anti-Israel hatred:

Israel actually has a micronation in it’s borders called Akhzivland, founded by Iranian Eli Avivi. Avivi legally resisted attempts by the Israeli government to seize Akhzivland in Israel’s courts, and the courts actually granted Avivi a 99-year lease on the land!

Yep, the big, bad, oppressive imperialist Apartheid Zionist Aggressor Entity is stopped by it’s own independent judiciary.😁

The most evil regime in the world…except for every other regime that also has eminent domain, including the U.S.A. as sang of in John Cougar Melloncamp’s “Pink Houses” and Jethro Tull’s “Farm on the Freeway.”

The evil regime that says: “We’re prosecuting you for ‘creating a country without permission'” and then introspectively says: “Oh, wait!…”😁

I don’t know where Aaron Chandler-Blake stands on Israel, but he just made the case for Israel anyway.

He also documents the history of other Micronations, conspicuously, most in Europe and none mentioned in the Islamic world.

He also does a bang-up job destroying the pseudoarcheology and pseudohistory and conspiracy-ology of Tartaria, which is most likely a big Putin psy-op meant to discombobulate Western minds.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Is it a ‘Peace Deal’ or just a ‘Ceasefire Agreement’?

It is two new modern entries in Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.

The term used on Trump’s side is something like “Formation of a Concept of a Plan” a diplomatic way of saying “Trump pulled this out of his ass alongside his enbedded head.”

The Islamic Arabic word for this is Hudna, which is a temporary sessation in fighting in order to gather new resources and fighters, make new plans, and resume Jihad again later.

Either way, it’s nothing good.

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