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Leah Remini’s ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ to End with Explosive Special

Leah Remini is calling it a day on Scientology and the Aftermath. The actress and activist, who’s been an outspoken critic of the deeply controversial organization since her own exit in 2013, has decided to wrap A&E’s Emmy-winning docuseries after three seasons.

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Directly addressing the topic of the definition of God, I accidentally found this video of Bill Moyers 2013 interview with Daniel Dennett. As usual, I skip several minutes into the long video for you where I recommend you can just watch about 3-1/2 minutes of it, if that’s all you can afford:

I never assume a religionist is also a creationist, even when a large number of religionists actually come here to argue their view, who (by nature) are often die-hard creationists who want to “save” us. I can say from several years of experience now that we normally use the term “creationist” to refer to those strongly believing in genesis, who c…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
Do we use such diarrhea language in any other moment than when we purposefully try to avoid defining something?

Ok, due to Mother Nature, which generally limits what’s possible in Human Nature (not counting Artificial Intelligence that begins innocently/innocuously generated by nerdy/hormonally challenged and philosophically naive…[Read more]

Dear Theists,

Has one or any God spoken to you, personally, and described their self? If not, then every conception or declaration of what God is is merely hearsay, unless you also believe that God personally wrote or dictated scriptures that people, mere mortals, pen and print to this day. Did the angel Gabriel really relay God’s word to Mo…[Read more]

tom sarbeck wrote:
After all, some astrophysicists consider themselves scientists. not sci-fi authors.

Some astrophysicists are plants, planted by real scientists who are secretly hired as post-docs to study conspiracies in academia that compete with their own master plans to dominate the theory space.

Spinach is especially persistent–some say…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
This seems a whole lot less snake oily.

Trump as dictator and other constitutional matters… although Snake Oil is (imo) a currently relevant theme. But personally, albeit merely anecdotally, back in Oct/Nov ’18 I tested my blood sugar, and it was scary high. The next day, I was OFF carbohydrates, with complete conviction. Only…[Read more]

Trump became a kind of reality show star, and now I’m wondering if its success helped him learn better how to manipulate gullible people (which he was successful at even before his stardom).

I think perhaps these shows, along with soap operas, appeal to some inner human, seeking of approval, and fear of being shamed… along with a naive…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I typoed. It’s supposed to be “unready to give up…’ LOL

Thank you for suggesting that. I realized fairly soon after posting that the Portlandia scene wasn’t about the vegetarians of whom you were referring; so I was just posting a favorite scene (of mine), somewhat related.

I don’t really know which Portland memes are empirica…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Most people I know here—including those of us who love animals—are ready to give up pork chops, beef ribs, cheese, and scrambled eggs for tofu, kale, and acai berries.

I believe that!

I still think, at worst, it was a bit of carelessness with words, and that you are wrongly inferring the writer’s intent. I could be wrong, but I am banking on what my philosophy instructor taught us is a “charitable interpretation”.

daughterofkarl wrote:
To be fair, the same could be said to be true of almost every civilization that ever achieved ascendancy on the world stage, whether it’s the French slaughtering the Huguenots, or the English starving the Irish. Genocide and slavery were not unique to America, nor did genocide and slavery not occur in the Americas before t…

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Unseen wrote:
One of the problems of being a beautiful woman is that she can never be sure if her friends—especially male friends—is based on her physical being or her as a legitimate human being.

Same for people with money.

It’s turtles all the way down, and God all the way up.

Glen D wrote:
The big problem with such a creation is that all governments lie their tits off, at least by omission. I doubt we will be told until after the fact, when they have been militarised.

I agree. And I think development of AI “sentience” should be outlawed worldwide or at least limited and subject to oversight because 1) it will be…[Read more]

Glen D wrote:
But then, I’m old and easily confused.

Naw, I haven’t gotten that impression at all.

As for myself, the past week or two has been full of forgetfulness almost every day, which worries me and even makes me get mad at myself. Not to sound morbid, but I also think about old-age forgetfulness as a symptom of “fading consciousness” w…[Read more]

Glen D wrote:
As far as I’m aware, there is no consensus in the mind/body dichotomy.

Oh man, stick around, and you’ll see some consensus on that. Dualism seems mostly dead and gone to Heaven.

Oh, wait, you’re in Australia! [see Recent formulations]

But seriously, ‘Muricans do take the prize when it comes to the dichotomy of traditional belie…[Read more]