Davis

Yes, the fundamentalist position is where the religious should aspire to be. If one is ‘true believer’ then no reasoning is allowed in. NO point just being a “Sunday Christian”. Faith must become the totality of the brain process. Anything less is not acceptable to your peers.

I agree Reg.

The ones secular folks typically view as extreme are the purists.

At some point in the past I remember thinking that religious fundamentalism was a byproduct of whatever religion someone followed. But it is not. It is the natural destination to arrive at if you stay the course of the indoctrination process. There are just degrees of how “mental” people become once they reach the destination point.

Enco,

Banning speech is at its nadir when government does it. Total supression means zero democracy.

At the same time free speech is not an absolute. And as i have indicated and still opine there are instances in which hate speech should be banned. But that is just me and the fucking progressives that i now despise! And i despise them even…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I did not expect to find myself in agreement with Ted Cruz…..

Nor i. I expected Rand Paul to be the first to speak up. I still hope he will become part of a conservative resistance to the excesses of Trump.

And for toppings?

Yes mam. We have jimmy’s, whipped cream, caramel it would seem. But i recommonend brain droppings as the better toppings.

My first impression was understandable. How can humans be so stupid? How is it possible that they can’t see through religion? Conclusion. Humans are as a whole incredibly stupid. Later i asked myself whether…[Read more]

I did not expect to find myself in agreement with Ted Cruz…..

I think you’ve been pretty objective and spot on, too. But…

_Robert_ wrote:
Our quasi-democracy is over. Bought and paid for.  We are too fat and idiotic to even realize it. The 0.1% are now unstoppable.

I was dead wrong that Trump and co-conspirators could pull things off as well as they have. I underestimated his stupidity and/or willingness…[Read more]

I was right about a lot of things. The biggest being that the over-the-top left would shift the whole thing to the right. Davis got so mad at me. Wonder what he thinks now that Project 2025 and xtian nationalism/fascism is in charge in the US.

However, I thought conservatives might learn a bit of basic science, since they were unvaxed and getting…[Read more]

Enco,

I don’t know how plausible it is to be a bad hostage to the point that they want to let you go as opposed to torture, rape and murder you.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/world-news/freed-israeli-hostages-made-final-act-of-defiance-to-spoil-hamas-photo-op/

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, You posted one article entitled: When Vladimir Putin escalates his war, the world must meet him.

This article did praise the Ukrainians for resistance.

Everything else you posted was boasting how Putin and his weaponry were strong like bull, and how all the usual suspect “experts” blamed Ukraine and the West for…

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Enco,

We really need to discuss some of these matters. These are matters we need to discuss. Full disclosure. That is what i say to Yuki the cat.

See it in thread? You may notice my brain droppings are deposited willy nilly so failing to see it is not surprising. Ideally it would HAVE BEEN (cuz it is water under the ferris wheel) NATO but it…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, I don’t go on TikTok, so I had to look up “sharking.” No I don’t support sharking or upskirting or any nonconsensual sexual act. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not have such esoteric terminology and thus is easy to understand.

So you stand behind your implication that if someone doesn’t condemn something…[Read more]

Oh i did not change my mind Enco.

I think a great many lives could have been saved. I would have and i think i said at time let Putin know privately that if any further aggression comes that he will be assassinated and All of Nato countries will attack.

I am not saying there is any ethical justification for Russia. I am just thinking practical.…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Not one post that I could find condemning Putin for the invasion of Ukraine.

You’re actually attributing pro-Russian sympathies to me based on what I did not say. OK. Have you ever expressed an explicit condemnation of sharking or upskirting?

Oh wait Enco. By surrender you mean Islam?

I have never been down with Islam. In fact the tolerance, neigh encouragement by the lefties to a barbaric ideology makes me puke.