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Totally Robert. You can only self-develop as much as society will allow you to. No culture within a nation is inherently incapable of self-development. If a community is not progressing with everyone else then they are being held back. Being silent about this, not pointing out the injustice and discrimination, not fighting against it and quietly…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Knipperdolling of the week: Can you spot any flaws in this letter?

It’s pretty scary when people say that it’s sinful and evil not to be religious.

From an outside perspective, as a white person, I see that black people in the US/UK face two main problems: being forced into a low socio-economic status, and not being treated as equal human beings.  The first is very hard to fix, and the second is easier.

Simon Paynton wrote:

The battle for moral authority.

Eli Steele seems to be saying that the reasons for the disadvantage of black people in the USA is that the Left have treated them as an identity rather than as people – promoting people based on their identity, rather than on personal merit. He favours the idea of personal development rather t…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Sam Harris — The Moral Landscape: How Science can determine Human Values.

Sam Harris is great, and I think his book has a lot of interesting things to say, but he makes a fundamental error in assuming without question that benefit and harm are the primary human values.  He should have recognised that these are a so…[Read more]

The battle for moral authority.

Eli Steele seems to be saying that the reasons for the disadvantage of black people in the USA is that the Left have treated them as an identity rather than as people – promoting people based on their identity, rather than on personal merit.  He favours the idea of personal development rather than an “easy hand…[Read more]

Speaking of Podcast Addict (where Reg’s suggested podcast download resides), I want to say that their android app is probably my most favorite app of all time, and has been for years. They are constantly adding more and more great features. I pay for the subscription version with a few more features, but the free version is great, too.

The app…[Read more]

@unseen if you are able to see the heading of the article when you meet the paywall, type it into a google search and you’ll get other copies of the same article on free sites like Associated Press.

“Pakistan seeks to block US-based website of minority Ahmadis” was the headline of the article I think you wanted. If you put that in the searc…[Read more]

Here you go Unseen. I can view it here and I am not subscribed to it. It is somewhat of a local news story for you.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has ordered a U.S.-based website propagating the faith of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadis shut down over allegedly blasphemous content, one of the site’s managers said Thursday.

Harris Zafar said Pakistan’s Telecom…[Read more]

Brilliant. Thanks, Reg!

Reg, I went to read that article about Pakistan trying to infringe on our freedoms but, once again, I’m confronted by a Washington Post pay wall and I won’t be alone.

I spend a lot of time reading news stories, but so many of the primary sources nowadays are behind pay walls, so I look to secondary sources to tell me what they said.

This is a…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

If we are to have another contest (Civil War) in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other……. keep the church and state separate for…[Read more]

Reg,

Josh Hawley would have been right next to King George III condemning those upstart writers of The Declaration of Independence for thinking “all just powers derive from the consent of the governed” instead of Divine Right.

He would also have stood with Pope Gregory XVI, Pope Pius IX, and Pope Leo XIII in their blasting of Enlightnment…[Read more]

Reg,

The Voyager crafts may have a different itenerary back to Earth if some go out to intercept them.  I’d bet on andy Griffith and friends making the trip before Elon Musk can even blow up on the launch pad:

That article about time only existing because/when we measure it reminded me, perhaps bizarrely, of Kurt Vonnegut’s off-the-cuff definition of death as becoming “stuck in time.”

re..The Cuddly One gives women something to keep them occupied..

Yeah, there is a very specific biblical blurb on women lecturing men..1 Timothy 2:12

“I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.”

But that doesn’t resonate with Joyce Meyer or Trump’s nut, Paula White for some…[Read more]

Reg, thanks for the reprint. Clearly, Sen. Hawley is a Christian Supremacist.

The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage

By Katherine Stewart

Ms. Stewart has reported on the religious right for more than a decade. She is the author of “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.”

In today’s Republican Party, the path to power is to build up a lie in order to overturn democracy. At least that is what…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!