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jakelafort replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I like the way you’ve fleshed out a working definition of freethinker. Leave it to Reg to dredge and find gold.
It is something we ought to aspire to achiece but i doubt 1 in 10k are there or approximate freethinker as aforementioned. How much better would our lives be if it were a way of life for the majority?
Praise of faith makes me puke…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I consider myself a free thinker, and other people consider me to be a free spirit. In my experience, the two tend to go together as people take their free-spiritedness into their thinking. I consider someone who is not a free thinker to be a dumbass, as it’s an intellectual failing not to be. So, ideologues are behaving like a dumbass.
The fr…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 3 weeks ago
A free spirit can be apolitical, impulsive and even intellectually lazy. They can actively advocate for (or against) weed, gay marriage, and abortion. These are positions that are arrived at. How were they reached? Were they inherited from family or from the culture and environment someone grew up in or were they arrived at by not being…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoWrit of habeas corpus.
Corpus Christ.
It hangs in the balance. Ideas that central figures must honor or else!
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jakelafort replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Freethinker is a misnomer. No such animal.
If by freethinker you mean one who rejects conventions, norms and ideologies then sure there are those who appear to think independently as opposed to adopting the aformentioned like a child born into a cult or orthodox community and completely brainwashed.
“my mind shouted to me, “That’s a bit lik…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoThe fox guarding the henhouse and the Great Writ. Yeah, a Republic if you can keep it…..
The paramilitary murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is exactly what arbitrary force without effective oversight looks like in practice.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agojakelafort wrote:
Don’t knock sexual repression. It is great for creating teenage and early twenties suicide bombers.It’s worst in highly patriarchal countries, where the rich men hoover up all the wives, and the poorest men are left with no-one to marry.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoThis just in.
Donald Trump was caught telling the truth. Shock to his central nervous system has resulted in his placement in intensive care. Is expected to make a full recovery and resume his mendacious cant.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoDon’t knock sexual repression. It is great for creating teenage and early twenties suicide bombers.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
States with higher percentages of evangelical Protestants, theists, and biblical literalists tend to have higher overall frequencies of Google searches for the term “porn.”Similar work connecting religiosity and web searches found a link between state-level religiosity and searches for explicit content like “po…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoYes, it is all in the data but but the truth is likely more nuanced. States with higher percentages of evangelical Protestants, theists, and biblical literalists tend to have higher overall frequencies of Google searches for the term “porn.”
Similar work connecting religiosity and web searches found a link between state-level religiosity and sea…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Ideology, not Faith, drives the Culture War.This article is super-interesting. I know you’ve got to be clever to do all that statistics stuff. Evangelicals are conservative and have conservative (i.e., highly patriarchal) views. Non-religious are mainly liberal and have liberal views. That makes a lot of sen…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoHere Pope.
Your query is so very…
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 3 months, 3 weeks agoAdam Kinsinger served as a savvy and (relatively) good-hearted Republican Congressman. He and Liz Cheney had the gumption to be the only GOP to serve on the Jan 6 select committee. Kinzinger was one of ten House GOP to vote for Trump’s second impeachment.
Also taken from Wikipedia: ‘On February 4, 2022, the Republican National Committee called…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agojakelafort wrote:
ask him to justify his framing of almost every issue through the narcisstic lens of Trump. How is it that the president of the USA subordinates the interests of the people he is representing as the ultimate public servant to his own interests?If you did that, he would ruin you, and possibly have you shot, lol. Is anyone still…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoPope,
I like how that guy in the vid rhymes Trump and chump.
It is also kind of amusing he sees Trump as the most imbecilic and narcissistic and yet he says he is gonna die soon and have to answer to his maker. hahaha
Ya know it has occurred to me over and over that not one reporter who questions Trump has the gumption to ask him to justify…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoEnco,
Who is Auerbach? You are not talking about Red are ya? The all time great basketball coach of the Boston Celtics who would light a stogie during game when the issue was decided or a foregone conclusion. Would also take out his buddies weekly to his favorite Chinese restaurant where he held court and entertained his guests.
I doubt that is…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 3 months, 3 weeks agoWHOA! This is something to remember! I hope Trump stays up all night on social media for this gem…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 3 weeks agoThe rationale switched from Theological irrationality to Pseudoscientific irrationality.
Yes, that is a good point and a good distinction. I agree that Classical liberalism did not generate antisemitism. It was probably a 1,000 years too late for that. Classical liberalism attacked the fusion of church and state and religious privilege or legal…[Read more]
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