Gregg R Thomas
@greggrthomas
Active 8 years, 7 months ago-
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 24th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 9 months, 2 weeks agoCDC in Atlanta after firing of Susan Monarez.
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Unseen replied to the topic Short Videos (e.g. like TikTok) in the forum
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Unseen replied to the topic Short Videos (e.g. like TikTok) in the forum
Random Posts 9 months, 2 weeks agoWhat makes a bicycle stable. I always assumed it was the rider. However, it turns out that a moving bike (given even a little forward speed) is ridiculously stable on its own, no rider needed.
(Looks like the nondisplaying thumbnail problem strikes again.)
Also, how you execute a turn on a bike has been discovered…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Annie and Andy get your gun! in the forum Politics 9 months, 2 weeks ago
I know Trump would like the USA to be a dictatorship, because that would please his “ego the size of a planet”. But he’s probably not able to pull it off in the United States of America, because its defences are too strong. It remains a democracy, albeit he is busy politicising the machinery of government in his favour.
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Unseen started the topic Annie and Andy get your gun! in the forum Politics 9 months, 2 weeks ago
This highly-researched article maintains that there is no example in history of a peaceful throwing off of a dictatorship.
The article: I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
The opening paragraphs:
In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being…[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 agoEnco, thanks for that……The mention of “Green Acres” got this fronkey farmer singing to himself all day that
Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin’ is the life for me.🙂
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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 agoSeems like an Israeli index fund might be a good bet..
As close to a “sure thing” as you will get. Buy share in companies working in the Bio and AI sector. All future medicine will be in genetics, DNA adaptations and organ transplant advances.
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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 agoChatGPT is 1000 days old today……
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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 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, that’s 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, 2 weeks ago
The damage to American credibility goes far beyond economic policy. Shutting down USAID wasn’t 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. That’s 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, 2 weeks agoThanks, Reg!!
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Simon Paynton posted an update 9 months, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks agoHave a great week Everyone!
“My morality isn’t borrowed from a Bronze Age tribe—it’s built on empathy, not authority. Morality needs neither heaven nor hell to function—just a working conscience and the ability to think beyond yourself. I sleep just fine knowing there’s 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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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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.