Gregg R Thomas

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The body will heal itself

That sounds like your own personal higher power, that you have a relationship with.

Can people believe a broken bone is fixed with faith or by prayer.?Yes, when they are delusional. The body will heal itself and medical assistance will help the process. But reasoning only happens in the mind. It is a skill that needs to be developed. As Dan Dennett once  said;” Yes, I do believe in a power greater than myself. I call it gravity”.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

Yes, but can you reason your way out of a broken leg?  Who or what does the work, in the end, of healing a broken bone?  The doctors, nurses, hospital, etc. only help it along.

Have a great week everybody!

“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

That’s super-interesting, Enco.  That’s why I love the history of languages, they’re a way into the ancient past movements of people.

According to the internet, Aquatinian was the tribal language of the Aquatini tribe or clan or whatever, in the Pyrenees.  It’s a Paleohispanic and Vasconic language.  Around where I live, we had the Iceni tr…[Read more]

FBI: Anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised nearly 70% of all religion-based hate crimes in 2024

Enco, wasn’t it Noam Chomsky who said that the human brain is biologically primed to learn languages?  Any functioning human language.

I’m sure there is a story to why the various language families write left to right or right to left.  I believe the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was made as a Russian version of the Greek alphabet, by St Cyril (…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
English two is from the exact same ancestor,

We have two, twin, twine, between, etc.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its death count. And women and children are among suicide bombers too.

And note the spike in Antisemitic incidents in one year’s time after October 7, 2023. The next year hasn’t arrived yet either so there is room for more.

Crimes against blacks, women…[Read more]

I have never heard anyone else compare English and Sanskrit but from what I know, you are correct. Many UrduGaelicHindi words also have the same Proto-Indo-European roots.

Take the word for the number ‘2’.

In Hindi and Urdu (I speak some Hindi as I have in-laws from India) 2 is spelled as ‘do’ and is pronounced ‘doe’.  (Hindustani)

In Gaelic (…[Read more]

Well, I seem to have got that all wrong.  Sc- words are from the latin caedere, meaning cut, str- words are from the Pali Indo-European root

strenk – “tight, narrow; pull tight, twist” (see string (n.))

Jake,

I just checked and English and Arabic don’t belong to the same family, so they are put together very differently.  English and Hindi are in the same family.

The root system sounds a lot like Sanskrit.  Many of the Sanskrit roots exist in English, like the sc- sound for cutting, e.g., scar, scythe, scissors; and str- for long thin things l…[Read more]

Jake – ruby, rust, russet.  In Europe we’re surrounded by a bunch of related languages, all with the same roots.

Apparently though Finnish is a strange outlier that doesn’t bear any relation to the other European languages.  According to Wikipedia it’s Uralic rather than Indo-European in its family.  I went to Norway for 10 days once, and they se…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Is this lack of evidence about danger to Jews in America? You’ll want to tell that to the Jews in Boulder, CO, the Israelis in Washington, D.C, and PA Governor Josh Shapiro.

The most conservative estimate of dead Palestinians is that of the Israeli government: 17.000 (give or take). At the other end, the Gaza Ministry o…[Read more]

Jake – yes, Rus, rose, rouge, red, etc.

jakelafort wrote:
Vikings went all the way into Russia

Apparently Russia is named after the red hair of the vikings.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If Jews are not safe in Ivy League Academia in America, the most educated and intellectual in society, that says something very telling about how much safety there is among the hoi-polloi. That’s no dance.

Any campus is likely to have a lot of politically-energized and -committed individuals whose politics can spill o…[Read more]

@Jakelafort – Is this the video version of the same podcast?