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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 25th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 2 months ago

Simon, outwardly and perhaps superficially it makes sense the distinction between universalism and parochialism. What is it that drives an individual to be more associated with the right or left?

What strikes me is the implicit assumption of free will. I am sure economics is a driver of one’s views. Twain said show me where a man gets his corn…[Read more]
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 25th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 2 months ago

Yeah it is hard to avoid snickering at those morons. Jihadis? Sure if they were born into Muslim families in an Islamic nation. Are they essentially any different from the progressives?

What strikes me over and over is how stupid it is to credit identity politics. The far left is despicable in its creation and perpetuation of antisemitism. Funny…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday Schol August 25th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Reg!
jakelafort replied to the topic Are purported aliens demons? in the forum Theism 2 years, 2 months ago

It is literally impossible to concoct a world view so lacking in credibility, so obviously contrived, so improbable, so depraved, so mythological, so supernatural, so unverified and unverifiable yet inures to the benefit of the leaders, so stupid that it will repel the indoctrinated and if you don’t believe them and do as they want or you are…[Read more]
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 18th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 2 months ago

Strega, clever, but is it unknown rather than chance?
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 18th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 2 months ago

I don’t even think I could cope with a 2 minute clairvoyance talent, let alone a wide open future view.

10:00 – Sitting in my office, drinking coffee and dumbly gazing out the window, I see that at 10:02 a bird will smash into the window, scaring the crap out of me, causing me to spill my coffee all over my shirt.

10:01 – In order to avoid the p…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 18th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Reg!!!
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 11th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

I’d be happy to pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. In the meantime i would be obliged to bum a banana or two.
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 11th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

Yes the article about AI was sophomoric.

Yes, i have no bananas. I have no bananas today.
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 11th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

Thanks, Reg 🙂
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 4th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

Belated thanks, Reg!
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 4th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

I have been pondering consciousness in biological and nonbiological. Was chatting with Meta recently and some of my ideas are championed by scientists. Good luck having an original idea.

My gut is that replication is a necessary ingredient for emergence of consciousness biologically but not otherwise. Instead closed systems are required that…[Read more]
jakelafort posted an update 2 years, 3 months ago

Not necessarily christian nationalist. Not necessarily Trump as dictator. Rather it will be the gradual degradation of American democratic institutions.

Atheist Zone seems to be dying. Yo Enco?

Genesis of cults and extreme movements? Speak authoritatively and with conviction and you too can burn the kindling. Had a relative who stuck grass…[Read more]
- PopeBeanie replied 2 years, 3 months ago
  
  I see this crisis more as a swinging pendulum, or as recently shown by SCOTUS, having relatively quick and significant jumps to the right. The problem is that this swing might self-permanentize.
  
  As for AZ dying, growth has always been slow. I hope Enco’s activity drop isn’t due to health challenges. I’ve not felt that his contributions were…
  
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  - jakelafort replied 2 years, 3 months ago
    
    I don’t see how we can fail to acknowledge the degree to which humans are acted upon as opposed to being free thinkers who decide issues based upon merit. It’s a bottomless rabbit hole contemplating certain ideologies and asking how anyone could support let alone become fervent. No matter how preposterous, illogical, cruel, stupid it won’t…
    
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School July 28th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

Thanks, Reg!!!
jakelafort posted an update 2 years, 3 months ago

That is consistent with if i lose election it is rigged.

It would be interesting to have an option when ya vote for Trump…dictator or president. I assume the independents would have very few who voted him in as dictator. But his supporters> haha
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School July 21st 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago

Thanks, Reg!
jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago

Blivett is six pounds of shit in a 5 lbs bag.

How advantageous for the democrats to run against that platform. Imagine debating Trump how easy it would be to either alienate him from his base after he disavows it or alienating him from majority of voters after he affirms. And it is a journalist’s dereliction of duty not to question him directly…[Read more]
jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago

Simon, Trump utterly unprincipled and machiavellian?

For suah. Abortion? Does not care. Well maybe he has some core principles. IDK. Oh well Soy numero uno. That is one of em.

Highjacking mind i mean to say imposing an ideology and one that is contrary to all natural inclinations. And that is when their brains are unformed. Hell the prefrontal…[Read more]
jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago

Hijacked minds?

Naah. He is just the right guy to exploit the zeitgeist.

They were holding out for a hero. Such charisma. I mean i don’t see it. Hitler i see the charisma and he also was the right guy/right time to exploit the zeitgeist except a far greater percentage was behind him and deifying him. First time i listened to Trump i thought that…[Read more]
jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago

Gonna be interesting if Trump is elected whether he becomes the vicious dictator and destroyer of American democracy (such as it is) that the democrats have been portraying.

And if the assasination attempt was real and he was a snot hair from being toasted will it alter his personality. Seems to me there have been some historical figures who…[Read more]
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