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jakelafort wrote:
Ya jump into a hole in the ice and come out and roll around in the snow. Afterwards ya can say ya had a SPIRITUAL experience.

LOL, or a Near Death Experience. I still can’t deny that a human can feel connection with that, even if amorphous; even if their context is religious.

One of the clearest, personal examples I can think…[Read more]

My views on life after death beliefs, if I can put them in a nutshell:

Some other animals mourn their dead, as if they can’t believe they’re actually dead, and they keep searching for their lost companion. Most humans, too. There is a natural disbelief in the actual loss. I claim that this is also evidence of “spirituality”, but as I’ve mentioned…[Read more]

… although I am curious if God ever personally claimed a specific gender, or to actually be a real father? It’s all just hearsay, as far as I can determine.

Strega wrote:
Really hope that the responses to this do not contain great swathes of biblical text.

LOL, I’m aiming for that too, while this exercise necessarily requires evidence from an outside source. Preferably directly from God, but I’m not holding my breath.

Besides the fact that we humans have trouble with answering those questions sometimes even about other humans, and note that those questions and answers are still evolving and depend on current cultural perspectives, I choose to not ever assume that AI will have “personhood” equivalent to humanhood, or animalhood, for that matter. In fact, I…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
All because Ye put his Antisemitism out on his sleeve! Damn! I love seeing just deserts!

I’m not saying that he’s not an outright anti-Semite, and his White Lives Matter mantra is some white racist’s favorite denigration of BLM, but he really has had some mental health issues that became apparent even long before he…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
So, that was my brief moment of racism this week.

I wanted my daughters to have Japanese sounding names, but I didn’t push the matter when their Japanese mom wanted them to have local-like names here in USA. I did get to name the younger daughter with something any Japanese person could easily remember and pronounce, and later in…[Read more]

Here’s my favorite (so far) presentation of examples of rock and jazz drum history. (Bonzo’s included, too. You know, that Led Zeppelin drummer.)

Simon Paynton wrote:
a really nice mixtape of Arabic and East European trap music

I have to admit self-defeat now. I really don’t like most trap music I’ve heard. But it’s still significant, historically, and has influenced other music, even Polyphia’s, who’s pretty cutting-edge-creative. I downloaded the mixtape anyway, in case I can use bits or…[Read more]

Trap Music

I’m not much “into” trap music except for its technically creative aspects, but it is a topic in music history after all. As an aside to this aside to atheistic topics, somehow relating atheistic themes in this thread will be in the back of my mind, at least. (I’m just going through a phase now of how to invent new music, and learn…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
Ehhh…the BBC may only seem left leaning by American standards. It is famously “neutral” […]

Correction appreciated, and good to know. I just just apologized to my leftiness for ignoring it.

I pretty much agree with all of that, although BBC seems left leaning at times, but I feel mostly aware of the lean and appreciate their sincere attempts. Reddit is one where I might expect a range of leans or non-leans I could pick from, but I haven’t dug far enough into it yet.