Gregg R Thomas
@greggrthomas
Active 8 years, 7 months ago-
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 1 week agoA few other countries understand that A.I. should be discussed at a national level but Israel is already there.
Israel is way ahead in the field of A.I. and…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic It happened. A day that will go down in infamy in the forum Politics 9 months, 1 week ago
Yes, USAID was not always used properly. But fixing the problems and adding better oversight to the projects it finances was a better (and in the long run , a more cost effective) solution than just pulling the plug on the whole thing.
Bolton was probably expecting this as his commentary over the last few years was not going to impress Trump. I…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton posted an update 9 months, 1 week ago
According to Joseph Henrich (“The Weirdest People in the World”):
The higher the percentage of people who believe in a contingent afterlife (hell and heaven) in a country, the lower the murder rate. By contrast, the greater the percentage of people who believe only in heaven, the higher the murder rate. That’s right, believing only in heaven…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 1 week agoPopeBeanie  Even then, cold objectivity leads me to concluding that there has never been an effectively humane solution, such that even a huge asteroid wiping out that area naturally, i.e. sans human intervention, could have been better for humanity. And easier for outsiders to accept. (How cold is that?)
Wow Pope, thatâs some statement. Is it co…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic It happened. A day that will go down in infamy in the forum Politics 9 months, 1 week ago
The damage to American credibility goes far beyond economic policy. Shutting down USAID wasnât a minor budget; it was a strategic self-inflicted wound to U.S. credibility and influence. The world sees it as a cynical and petty move, given that it was only about 0.1% of GDP. Thatâs pennies compared to GDP but it bought enormous goodwill and inf…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 24th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 1 week agoThanks, Reg!!
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Simon Paynton posted an update 9 months, 1 week ago
I’m currently reading “The Weirdest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich. It’s very interesting on the formation of religions and why people in the West are so individualist.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 24th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 1 week agoHave a great week Everyone!
“My morality isnât borrowed from a Bronze Age tribeâitâs built on empathy, not authority. Morality needs neither heaven nor hell to functionâjust a working conscience and the ability to think beyond yourself. I sleep just fine knowing thereâs no one keeping score.”
– me
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Unseen replied to the topic Canada is the new United States in the forum Politics 9 months, 1 week ago
Or…is Mexico going to be the new United States?
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Unseen replied to the topic Canada is the new United States in the forum Politics 9 months, 1 week ago
Trump’s tariff taxes are hollowing out America’s once world-class economy, much of the business going to Canada (and Mexico, too, to a lesser extent).
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 1 week agoWATCH: Nearly 500,000 Israelis rally for the release of the hostages in Tel Aviv
Nearly half a million Israelis gathered in Hostages Square and the surrounding streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday, demanding the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and a comprehensive deal to end the war.
The mass rally followed a day of nationwide…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 1 week agoWATCH: Nearly 500,000 Israelis rally for the release of the hostages in Tel Aviv
Nearly half a million Israelis gathered in Hostages Square and the surrounding streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday, demanding the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and a comprehensive deal to end the war.
The mass rally followed a day of nationwide…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic It happened. A day that will go down in infamy in the forum Politics 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Today, America became the world’s largest banana republic.
A message is being sent here, but to whom?…
Anyone who is actively opposing Trump, who gets in the way, who speaks out, or embarrasses him.
So, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and AOC, the left-leaning Youtubers, and even the likes of Joe Rogan…[Read more] -
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks agoThe mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside.
Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks agoYeah, corral them all in one target on the East End of the Mediterranean where they’ll be safe.
How’s that working out for the Jews, Jake?
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks agoI think what frustrates the anti-Jew people so much, is that despite the hatred, persecution, mass murdering, dispossessions and other such foul animosities, Jewish people have simply failed to be quelled.
It must be super panty-bunch upsetting for the anti-Jew to see that Jewish people succeed so well in businesses or sciences or wherever they…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks agoWeâre already living in the post-A.I. future.
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks ago@Enco
If you think those Jewish Israeli protests, the holocaust survivor’s criticism, and the Doctors Without Borders testimony is AI generated, you’ll need to provide concrete evidence.
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Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 9 months, 2 weeks ago
There is now a The Warning band movie coming to a theater near you:
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks agoâIn MSFâs nearly 54 years of operation, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians,â said Raquel Ayora, MSF general director. âThe GHF distribution sites masquerading as âaidâ have morphed into a laboratory of crueltyâchildren shot in the chest while reaching for food, people crushed or suffocated in…[Read more]
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Interesting. Does the sociological sampling include organizations like ISIS/ISIL, or would one’s belief in “contingent afterlife” vary across belief systems?
I’m not arguing against the premise in general, because I think it makes sense. But since the ultimate judge is most commonly considered to be God, then what people consider God/Allah to want…[Read more]
(OMG [sic], and what about the views of atheistic Jews?)
Atheistic Jews? Why Jews? Why not atheistic Greeks? Or atheists? Do Jews have to be singled out as nonhumans in every way possible?
Side-note, have to wonder if Trump considers virgins to be a perk (kinda rhymes with perp) in an afterlife.
I think it varies across belief systems, but after controlling for everything else, it’s the threat of hell and not the promise of heaven that keeps people in line.
I see what you mean. Do Isis believe in hell? They obviously don’t think it’s a sin to kill infidels.