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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 9th 2020 in the forum Sunday School 6 years, 4 months ago

Thanks Reg!
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Confused in the forum Advice 6 years, 4 months ago

I’ve had a few really incredible/awesome coincidences happen in my life that might influence some people into believing they were caused by supernatural influence. I’ll never forget them. But I’m still not ready to believe they had anything to do with what “believers” say is their go-to assumption. (Presumption, even.) Mere humans make up all…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Evolution of News Organizations in the forum NEWS NEWS NEWS!! Current Events and Favorite News Sources 6 years, 4 months ago

Readers reign supreme, and other takeaways from The New York Times end-of-year earnings report

Excerpt:

On the earnings call, CEO Mark Thompson said “the single biggest reason” behind the paper’s success was the decision to give more autonomy to teams working on the publication’s various digital products. Having multiple cross-d…

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Strega replied to the topic Does history attest to the accuracy of the prophecy of the book of revelation ? in the forum Theism 6 years, 4 months ago

Sorry I haven’t commented until now, but I’ve been busy fornicating and spouting wisdom to men in a most sinful way.

Michael, my question to you is this. If you’ve found what you’re looking for, by way of what you define as evidence, why are you still looking?
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Does history attest to the accuracy of the prophecy of the book of revelation ? in the forum Theism 6 years, 4 months ago

The only truth wrt religion I’m certain of is that mortal human beings wrote all scriptures. The latest, supremely influential contribution to scriptures came from Muhammed (peanut butter upon him), riding on the coattails/wings of Gabriel (and other widespread mythology of the time) to achieve maximum credibility in his neck of the woods/desert…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Does history attest to the accuracy of the prophecy of the book of revelation ? in the forum Theism 6 years, 5 months ago

@michael17 Hey Michael, I’ve fixed several posts (and I think I have a few more to go) that start with a blockquote (which is highly appreciated), but you’re not closing the blockquote (by clicking on the ” quote button) before writing your response. I’m not making a big deal out of it, but appreciate your posts and just want them to be as…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Socialism Always Fails. (Really?) in the forum Politics 6 years, 5 months ago

I learned from the video, mostly because we didn’t go that deep into European systems in polysci class. Thanks in advance for enduring it @Davis, and I hope you have time to offer more of your expertise on it. (Although I’m mostly interested now in how various economic systems will play out, as a probably never-ending set of experiments. And I…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2020 in the forum Sunday School 6 years, 5 months ago

Thanks, Reg!
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Socialism Always Fails. (Really?) in the forum Politics 6 years, 5 months ago

I liked the whole presentation, especially since I could watch most of it at 1.5x speed, and the rest at 1.25x.

I was disappointed that he wasn’t mentioning automation/end-of-work… until he did near the end. This will be an increasingly looming issue, which can be informed only by how we currently are or aren’t able to deal with unemployment…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2020. in the forum Sunday School 6 years, 5 months ago

Ivy wrote:
Cancer can and should be treated with lifestyle but nobody ever tells you that.

If I could propose perfect logic and accuracy here, I see idealism (which is mostly laudable but can’t cover every person’s circumstance) in the first clause, and an over-generalization in the second. But I’m not here to criticize just Ivy for imperfect or…[Read more]
PopeBeanie posted an update in the group Consciousness 6 years, 5 months ago
Le Meetup
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  What would it be like to be…
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  The dogs of ISIS say: ” To Hell with this Jihad crap!” and go off to Disneyland.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2020. in the forum Sunday School 6 years, 5 months ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The “trolley problem” is a good article and worth reading. As Diderot suggested circa 1750, morality should be founded on sociology and not on theology. He is one of my favorite atheist writers.

I’m surprised I haven’t read yet about a possible variation of that problem that could shed a little light on why peo…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2020. in the forum Sunday School 6 years, 5 months ago

Thanks, Reg!
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School January 19th 2020 in the forum Sunday School 6 years, 5 months ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I am not familiar with Dutton’s written work but had this video of his in an old Sunday School.

That’s such an awesome video, I’m sorry I missed it before.

A topic started by @Unseen comes to mind, Is beauty real?

There’s another aspect of sexual selection that wasn’t explicitly mentioned that I think is worth c…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness 6 years, 5 months ago

_Robert_ wrote:
I think “consciousness” as hard as it is to define is probably a byproduct of frontal lobe evolution/development that has nothing to do with survival.

I think that’s not completely incorrect. But I’d say that, at some point even back in the early evolution of consciousness, many new thoughts and new behaviors could be exp…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness 6 years, 5 months ago

Simon Paynton wrote:
[…] Apologists also maintain that atheists have no objective standard of morality, but human well being is an objective criterion in my opinion.

Having said that, I’m sure that atheist anti-theist arguments are full of straw men as well.

Yeah, and speaking of human consciousness, we all have that cognitive bias toward s…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic God's brain in the forum Theism 6 years, 5 months ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Even if it was finite you would need a lot of “space” to store it.

No kidding man, that is a LOT of punch cards! God would be snapping His fingers for weeks.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness 6 years, 5 months ago

Development of Human Consciousness as We Know It

Here’s a pretty good presentation from a PhD student, imo. She doesn’t go deep into religion, but it seems like a good start, and it’s relevant to our consciousness. (The audio’s a bit irritating at first, but improves later.)

Genevieve Von Petzinger
PopeBeanie started the topic Left vs Right: hatefulness markets in the forum Theism 6 years, 5 months ago

–Perceptions–

Atm I can only cite my perceptions, and propose what may be other people’s.

I perceive that there is a conservative vs progressive divide wrt reliance on using hate as a motivator, practically by definition: Traditionalists judge anyone rocking their boat, at least wrt societal matters; Progressives preach tolerance of societal…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic God's brain in the forum Theism 6 years, 5 months ago

Also wrt designing evolutionary processes, He also made sure that sex was a primary motive for competition, rapists, societal shamings, divinely inspired punishments… and nobody wants to talk about this but I’ll bet that Satan has a huuuuge penis to help him win some people over. Maybe even several (penises and people at once).

(Side note, the…[Read more]
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