Billie M Jones

That’s why we have a democracy. To keep such matters from being settled by violence.

It seems that Enco, and the rioters who stormed Congress…have a different idea of what Democracy is.

Without giving any spoilers for the movie Serenity and it’s prologue TV show Firefly, anything can be said to “work”. It all depends on the purpose.

I see. So suddenly…you are a relativist? Yeah it was pretty clear, it works if avoiding pointless deaths is more important to you than the illusion of absolute rights. I guess I simply wasn’…[Read more]

It is hard Enco to figure out what your take is on this.

Could you explain, precisely, how anything happening in Tennessee at the time, remotely compared to what Facists and Nazis were doing? I ask because, it is utterly vile to compare the utter horror of true restrictions on freedoms, genocide, mass murder, unthinkable oppression with something…[Read more]

Another off-stager:

Oh no, not this topic again? Yeah, you betchya.

I really like the following interview about Putin’s historical motivation to go to war, largely because it’s not two or more guys trying to trash other media, commentators, or griping about the establishment (although sometimes it’s worthwhile), or about stirring up conspiracy theories or starting…[Read more]

RichRaelian wrote:
Hello! I’am sorry but I disagree with the title of this post.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m not sure who said it, but: “The human mind is a wonderful thing. It can think anything it wants to think.”

I don’t like the title, either. IMO the “the” in it strongly implies “every”, which of course is hyperbolic and unreali…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
fuzzy logic has nothing to say about religious belief. It’s intended to handle partial truths

I knew that and also thought maybe you were joking, and Reg too. So I poked a little after wondering if the “partial truth” here was in what people say when they state what they believe. It makes total sense for me for some atheists and a…[Read more]

I believe in fuzzy logic, among other forms of reasoning. While I’m not a proponent of it, or agnostic about it.

Gun control (limiting guns to those who are mentally stable, trained, inspected, who have safety measures in place and a good reason to have each different kind of weapon) is effective…works. It simply works. Easily avoided gun accidents and fatalities are lower. Virtually every civilised Western country has gun control to various levels, and…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
[..] I am not grieving for them.

I haven’t heard of them either, but got interested. The security certificates for each site expired 27 days ago, according to my chromebook. The commonest reason for an expired certificate is that the website owner hasn’t paid to renew it. If it expired that long ago, I imagine the owner’s either…[Read more]