Winter Lily

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
World of Woo: Facilitated communication.

Facilitated communication may possibly be woo sometimes, but it’s not always, and it provides a communication lifeline for people who can’t talk but can use their fingers.

I have a nephew who is severely autistic and non-verbal, and he now communicates on an i-pad.  He has…[Read more]

Thank you, Reg!!!

jakelafort wrote:
i did not notice anything about Islamic terorism.

Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

Illustrative cases include the 2015 Charleston church…

[Read more]

Jake,
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows

@fullermingjr No religion is rational by the very definition of the word rational – derived from logic and reason etc.

A religion is by definition a faith based construct, for which belief  is required, not reason.

A Venn diagram of Religion and Rationality would barely touch at their potential meeting point.
I suppose Religion could be…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!  Loved last weeks poem – too many replies under that to comment, so I saved my appreciation for today.

Thanks Reg!!

And thank you very much, Jake!!

AND IT JUST GOT FIXED AS I WAS POSTING.

Enco, we were moderators until this software issue, which probably stems from someone trying to fix the fact we could suddenly see IP addresses.

We are referring to the site owner, @Rebel when we need to consult.  He doesn’t moderate.

so right now, we are all moderated purely by our own sense of decorum…

Jake, got a rap for that?

I would miss Sunday School, I read a lot of the articles.

We’ll get it sorted, jimberoni.

@Reg I also have no mod rights – some shitty update failure maybe. @Rebel needs to pay attention here.

I really like this oldie.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Chimp ‘civil war’ breaks out between 200 great apes

I’m not sure it’s all that surprising.  The group got big and split into two.  Now, they do what chimps do and the two groups are fighting each other.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Since the Dobbs decision, Christians are becoming more aggressive.

I think “aggressive” sums up MAGA in general.  Aggressively stupid, aggressively selfish, aggressively unaccountable.  There was one on the radio today claiming that the Christian God is a God of war.  They’re aggressive.