As to its prevalence i think it is not common but beyond exigent circumstances like the Donner Party, Communist Revolution in China and i am sure many others it has been practiced ritualistically. New Guinea for sure. I think i read Commanches did. And some South American…[Read more]

Cannibalism is ok as long as you eat the liver with fava beans and a good chianti.

Hannibal Lecter and Bobby Brainworm either learned one from another or learned from the same tainted source. Liver has a lot of vitamins, but is also a filter for the bodies waste. It’s never good to eat liver–whether beef, chicken, pork, or…[Read more]

Cannibalism is ok as long as you eat the liver with fava beans and a good chianti.

Good thing a wide swathe of ideologues won’t judge cuz cultures are relative and the hell with the victims. They just shuffled the deck and some end in the relative out-house of cultures. Besides they make up for it and put Israel on a pedestal so that their…[Read more]

I seriously don’t know what to make of this story. I’m not laughing over it, even granting the premise that playing “Yakety Sax” on the soundtrack makes every video funny.

He could have had an epiphany of Enlightenment had he lived.

Or he could have been yet another molester priest or another Mother Teresa who got divine…[Read more]

“What a terrible thing to do. What a horribly unethical and cruel thing to do.”

I had posted this story last week, but it is important enough to repeat.

Africa is a proving ground/dumping ground for all the worst things from oppressive religions and ideologies.

I just heard this story below last night coming home from work (Wa…[Read more]

Since members of the Muslim Brotherhood think us Kuffir are game to be hunted and eaten, we Kuffir should be so dangerous that we are not worth hunting and eating:

What Happens When Jews Don’t Fight
Central Synagogue showed us that if we outsource our security, we will only invite more attacks
by
Liel Leibovitz
August 17, 2…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth?

I would not go near AI to help me with philosophy, beyond a Google search result.  But if people do want to use it, I can see uses for it – checking reasoning, for example.

I think there should be two tasks, done by…[Read more]

I’ll check the video after work, assuming there’s no actual World’s Most Dangerous Game cooking show. Right now, I’m in a NSFW spot.

Well, The Orange Emperor and his blushing blindered advisers sure didn’t think about this possibility!🙄:

Iran issues chilling threat to cut ‘all the world’s internet’
World War 3 tensions are ramping up to alarming levels.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2258640/iran-cut-worlds-internet-strait-of-hormuz

Nor did Elon…[Read more]

Three members of Muslim Brotherhood are breaking bread and regaling each other with tales of their recent exploits.

Achmed says “Yeah so i heard how you two were part of the gang rape of the infidel’s wife and the slaughter of the infidel. And you took his two daughters as slaves. What i want to know is whether you ate the…[Read more]

One of the homes of The Enlightenment is still in flames and getting worse.

Analysis-France’s unrest lays bare ‘slow agony’ of Macron’s twilight months
By Michel Rose
Mon, October 19, 2026 at 9:25 AM EDT
4 min read
Add Yahoo as a preferred…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth?

That’s an interesting way of looking at it.  Michael Tomasello, for example, is someone who does a lot of philosophy referring to a lot of experimental results.  That’s why I trust his ideas enough to give them the time o…[Read more]

I just finished watching Yuval Noah Harari. Whether we are all collectively demented or becoming that way from AI, Mr. Harari is one of the few who are the least troubled by our collective dementia.

Basically, he looks at AI the way Ben Franklin looked at the Montgolfier Brothers hot-air balloon. While others who beheld the…[Read more]

AI could lead to the collective dementia of humankind, says Yuval Noah Harari.”

Is he saying we’re not collectively demented now? This I’ll have to watch tonight!

The illiteracy crisis has a religion problem

All very true, but most children in the U.S. still attend State schools, so the crises of illiteracy, a literacy, illnumeracy, anumeracy, and lack of critical thinking skills rest with the State as well as with Religion and the merging of both.

Our Teacher’s Unions the National Education…[Read more]

Atheism, n. The refusal to surrender one’s sense of humor to an imaginary audience.

“This place sure gone crazy!”

The jew hating frenzy is indicative of a very fucked up world. Perhaps it is cuz when scapegoating is at its nadir or zenith depending on perspective that is when the greatest social upheavals are fueled by rage. Human nature when shit goes south to seek someone or something to blame. Ya see…[Read more]

I was only 2/5’s listening to the critique but what i heard was shameful and lazy and BS.

Fret not. I Did the hard work of listening so that you and other thoughtful minds don’t have to. Only about 2/5s of the statements about New Atheism made sense.

Forget it, Jake. Great Britain and Continental Europe are Fishbowl World in a room f…[Read more]

I will now be deleting the files from my web space.

So, the same files are available at DropBox:

The third man syndrome

Thanks for the link. The critiques of New Atheism were kind of hit and miss. Some with validity that can help, some just based on “vibes” or “feelz.”

One the speakers said New Atheism was “performative”. If “performative” means the dictionary definition–“being enacted as it is said”–does this mean the movement is speaking God out of…[Read more]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032s9x

Environment: CNN’s scary plastics report should be tossed into the recycling bin.

This reminds me of the scare talk of last decade when people were alleging that the bread used by Subway Sandwiches™ contained the same plastics used in yoga mats.

I responded by going to my quiet space and said “OOOhm! Best Yoga mats I’ve ever t…[Read more]

Bobby Brainworm and some rotten people in the State of Denmark are repeating a version of the infamous Tuskeegee Syphillis Experiment:
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
Melody…[Read more]

To expect AI to practice Philosophical thought and to act ethically first requires creators and owners who do the same. For once, here’s some words from both the “Godfather” of AI and from a AI component manufacturer.

AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfi…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
What do you mean by “thorough and satisfactorily.” How do you determine it is satisfactory. What makes your interpretation of human behavior better than another? Those questions involve reasoning about evidence, explanatory adequacy and competing hypotheses.

A good example is conceptions of fairness, how it evo…[Read more]

Sorry, I meant Thomas Nagel. But while I’m thinking of it, “What is it like for Earnest Nagel to be Thomas Nagel?”
😁

“Mister Earnest Nagel, call your office! A bat,a bee, and a flying squirrel are waiting on the Party Line! The flying squirrel says: ‘Again?'”
📞📵📱📠😁

You can tell us what it is like to be you. How much differently you feel after someone you love dies, after your bet loses, been informed you have a horrible disease, your friend is getting married. But you can’t tell what is like to be another human any better than an lLM. If anything LLM’s are better situated to do so. They interact…[Read more]

Here is the one part i take exception. “They cannot, by themselves, tell us whether those answers are well founded, ethically defensible, historically informed, or rhetorically misleading.”

There are or will be millions of agents and ideally they will train children to be skeptical and acute. Yea i know that is a…[Read more]

Will artificial intelligence change how philosophy is conducted?

While I would never want to farm out philosophy to AI or any other intelligent being, once they have a level of intelligence equal to or exceeding humans, they can all be partners in better understanding concepts in Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Political…[Read more]

“I have to praise you like I should” since you pay more attention to writing than Turning Point-ers* pay attention to their own Bibles.

But Turning Point-ers are too busy reading The Daily Mail’s latest…[Read more]

Enco,

“If TPUSA comes to your town, Please, I abhor you:”

Reimagine that sentence. I implore you.

Great catch! ⚾

A little ‘Inside Baseball” from a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000:

Whenever Joel and/or the Bots are making an empassioned plea, They’ll always say: “Please, I abhor you…”

One of their many humorous tics of spe…

Based on query i fed Meta about William Lane Craig debate i suspect it is a fait accompli. And why not. It is just reasoning.

“If TPUSA comes to your town, Please, I abhor you:”

Reimagine that sentence. I implore you.

Evidently, the Turning Point-ers like eating parts of living beings like the Zombies of George Romero movies or like The Reavers of the Firefly/Serenity franchise, not to mention a-robbin’and a-stabbin’and a-lootin’ and a-shootin’:

‘Awkward’: TPUSA event with Jewish speaker sparks hateful MAGA…[Read more]

Philosophy is an inte…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Will artificial intelligence change how philosophy is conducted?

I don’t believe that AI could ever do moral philosophy.  The moral philosophy that I do is descriptive (the only valid kind) and to do that, a person needs to know what it’s like to be a human being.

On top of that, why would we ever want AI to do our…[Read more]

World of Woo: How pseudoscience is duping football.

If they want to stop dementia. maybe a good place to start is not sitting in a deep-freeze, but instead not deliberately hitting the soccer ball with their heads. Repeated head blows don’t do boxers any good! So why would they be any good for soccer players?

At least with U.S.…[Read more]

Sorry, but I just had to post this.

I’m not eating anything from that bucket after Jim Bakker ate from the ladle, gagged a little in his mouth, and dipped the ladle back in the bucket, especially since Jim Bakker also hawks some bogus cure for COVID-19!

And Tubby singing a cover of “My Girl” in praise of The End Times is just cringe-y.…[Read more]

Rutgers. This is my gun, this if for fun on the brain? Rutgers it is. Can’t refer to the misspelling as a typo since it is a missing character. Failure of compression omission.

As manic as I can be about correcting my spelling, errors can still be fun. The Rugers/Rutgers confusion was too good to resist.

Never formally studied logic. H…

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