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Enco,

I think Sarah Silverman made a joke about how the Germans screwed up in the holocaust. Biggest customers of Mercedes would have been Jews. “That is just bad business.” It was something along those lines.

Enco,

Jew hatred/antisemitism ain’t going nowheres. Longer legs than Betty Grable.

I just want it to be honest. The pretense of the lefties? I want to see honest debates in which the mythology is debunked and the proponents are embarrassed, humiliated and discredited. Now i know many of the champions of Palestinianism and demonization of Israel…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Are all you guys still supporting government-run health care after all this?

Has there ever been a more corruptive, governmental force in a civilized country, bent on destroying a health care system than what’s happening now? The damage seems so intentional. Even the incompetence seems intentionally made as permanently…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
But I can attest today that a Jesus Fish on a work van or business sign doesn’t necessarily equal trust or quality. Televangelists and Noah’s Ark theme parks do not help matters either.

I think the “trust” thing works both ways with religious people.  I’m always suspiciously on the look out for tell-tale hypocrisy.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Tribes and clans can be and were dismantled by travel and trade between different peoples.

Travel and trade come into the story.  But in the first place, if family, clan and tribe ties are dissolved to a great extent, then people become individuals.  And religion provided the trust necessary for individuals to trade, o…[Read more]

I think Holy Water is meant to have some spirit in it? And 10 year old scotch is no longer for 10 years olds.

“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.…..W.C. Fields.

Ha! Enco, the Church guided water ignorance had a strange but happy side effect. It turns out that the locals (in the uk) discovered that people who drunk wine, gin or beer did not get sick, whereas those drinking water were keeling over everywhere.  As a result, adults and children alike were swigging back the alcohol, giving gentle rise to the…[Read more]

Was Diogenes Woke?

We agree. He was not! 🙂

Christianity back in the day and Islam in any islamic nation today is the death of individuality and individual rights. The regulation of life is all encompassing and it swallows up all that is decent and desirable in life. Listen to any honest Muslims who have forsaken their cults and you will see i know of what i speak. And everything i have…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced.

I think she’s right that science has had ideological…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
* (That Christian Apologist Gish Galloping Galoot I once told you about one time even went so far as to claim that the entire Enlightenment experiment and even Atheism were the product of Christianity! That takes some real mental gymnastics!)

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point.  The Western…[Read more]

Yeah Enco, I don’t recall exactly when Americans started loading themselves onto the short busses because I spent my working years with teams of engineers and scientists. I generally thought the average among us had a lick of sense. My grandparents understood that vaccines do save lives and authoritarianism is bad. They knew not to eat so much…[Read more]

Burst into bull frog? There are a few known cases of it happening.

Frog log.

There i was. There i was. Northern Maine beside the lake beneath the trees fluttering and dancing in the breeze. GF sitting peacefully alongside ingesting the tranquil scene and the din of nature. Well don’t ya know i burst into bullfrog. I am a passable mimic. Even so am to this day unsure what caused me to break into bullfrog. Don’t…[Read more]

I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced. Very few scientists claim perfect objectivity; rather, they emphasize the method as t…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Scientific objectivity is a myth

I argue a more accurate view of science is that pure objectivity is impossible. Once you leave the myth of objectivity behind, though, the way forward is not simple. Instead of a belief in an all-knowing science, we are faced with the reality that humans are responsible for what is…

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Thanks Reg 🙂

Just frogs in a pot as the water begins to boil.

“My farm is going out of business, but I still believe Trump is doing the right thing”.

Ain’t that America. Little pink houses for you and me.

Have a great week everyone!!

Atheism isn’t a belief—it’s a refusal to pretend. 

Although it’s from a ‘Gentile’, I find he offers a different viewpoint…..sample.