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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.

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]

I never really wanted to control my dreams, but preferred to try to understand or at least learn something from them, believing that they’re graphic representations of my subconscious communicating to my consciousness. Sometimes I’d get insights into feelings or issues that were previously eluding me while awake. I feel like I’m opening my mind to…[Read more]

LOL, funny thing is, that was my first silly thought, which embarrassed myself when I read further. But it’s so big! I should have remembered this, and probably shouldn’t admit that I forgot.

What would Mr. Rogers do?

I got the old school furball joke, but not the actual words that came before that.

_Robert_ wrote:
Somehow I think Steve Bannon still influences.

I think he feels his purpose in life is to influence “world order”, even if it must first come from world disorder. It reminds me of when I wished like hell that Dick Cheney would just go away or die, but wouldn’t. Bannon will hang around much longer, as he’s implanted himself firmly…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Pope, i interpreted BIG DEAL as follows.

Point taken. I guess I crossed the line a bit there. It might have raised some hair on me if someone said that to me, as I’m still trying to get over such sensitivities. Think I was mocking arbitrary lines, even if all we humans tend to have them. But look, we can’t constructively apply on…[Read more]

Some evangelical backlash to Trump. And some backlash to the backlash.

(If the following video embed doesn’t work for you, please let me know. Dang, it autoplays! You can turn that off by clicking on the gear for that setting. Does that bug anyone a lot?)

Yeah I’m not in a hurry to see that, because I’ll bet we’re already on the same page. I tend to switch between Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, and The Family is at the top of my list when I switch.

The thing is, I think both religious authoritarians and political authoritarians usually choose to sleep in the same bed. It makes sense for atheists…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It’s hard to see because Trump is so far from being religious in any admirable sense that it takes one’s breath away, but for the religious right, Trump is their useful idiot.

I don’t see it as a one-way kind of puppeteering. Trump and his most powerful supporters are pathologically manipulative of the populous, ideologically fol…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
I’m pretty sure right now Trump is going: Zheesh…Iran actually fought back?

Maybe I’m thinking too cynically on this, but I feel certain that Trump (and possibly other “thinkers” he pays attention to) considered this a risk well worth taking. I’ll never forget all the flags flying when Bush took us to Iraq, and during his re-…[Read more]

Digging further, I see now there is a “clathrate gun” hypothesis (but I prefer the word “runaway” to “gun”).

From that article, a graphic of supposed CO2 and methane (relatively recent) history on Earth: