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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 10 hours, 22 minutes ago
Up, up and away to the atheist meetup today. Up so high in the quest for shoe fly pie. Below the spaghetti monster flies by. Me oh my, up so high, never knew dialogue and polemics could make me fly. Be contentious without a clue spewing narratives is what we do. Freethinkers are chimerical tinkers. We are determined and blinded in blinkers.…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 11 hours, 2 minutes ago
Jake,
It sounds like a wonderful dish from a beautiful server, but until the steel-plated or vat-grown pancreas arrives in the mail, I could only have a sliver on my plate. I’d savor every crumb and morsel, tho.
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 20 hours, 26 minutes ago
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 23 hours, 22 minutes ago
Enco, read about adverse possession. It is English in origin and dates back to 1600 or so. It really is contrary to our sensibilities. Or is it further back from the 14th century during the plague years? That would make for a good story. I can’t remember and i aint looking it up. But it is like legal theft.
In usa states have statutes that…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day ago
Reg,
Continuing, “squatter’s rights” may have made sense at a time when there were actual unclaimed parcels of land on the North American Continent unoccupied even by Indigenous tribes. It might even make sense in a hypothetical Post-Apocalyptic scenario where much of Humankind is wiped out. But with already-claimed, labor-mixed, built-upon…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day ago
Reg,
The squatters of Beverly Hills.
It doesn’t sound like there are any good people in this story at all.
Nevertheless, the concept of “squatter’s rights” under new laws has been used against hard-working good homeowners and it can easily happen to anyone who has been a victim of Identity Theft who gets their name copied from public…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 1 hour ago
I was wrong. Admitting that makes me strong.
“Shoo-fly pie began as a crust-less molasses cake called centennial cake in 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. There is no evidence of it being made before the American Civil War.”
Unseen you are given the responsibility of a…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 1 hour ago
Those ingredients in Shoe fly pie make me think it is a war time recipe. Where is the beef?
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 1 hour ago
Here is Grandma Shumway’s world famous recipe.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15853/my-grandmas-shoo-fly-pie/
And here is that song you never knew but longed to hear.
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 2 hours ago
@ Jake
I checked and there’s no such thing as a “shoe fly,” but if there was, I think I’d decline to have a slice.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 5 hours ago
I remember that key lime pie from Publix.
My oh my that key lime pie twice as yummy as shoe fly pie.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 11 hours ago
Blood Pressure and A1-C (which includes cholesterol, blood sugar, and enzyme levels) are very important, I fully agree. I aim, usually with success, to keep both readings in a normal range.
However, BMI, as well as the means of measuring it, I am not yet sure about.
I fully accept the not too scientific nature of the BMI.…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days, 10 hours ago
As with firearms, defibrillators are only as good or as bad as the hands and minds of the rational, moral agents who use them. And you’d want to stop the bleeding before using a defibrillator at a crime scene, terrorist attack, or war zone.
Talk about missing the point. Was I seriously proposing everyone carry around a d…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days, 11 hours ago
Stega,
Be safe, don’t overexert yourself in the snow, and keep the mind active against “cabin fever.”
We’ll know something is wrong if we see an entry that keeps repeating:
“All work and no play make Strega a dull girl.
All work and no play make Strega a dull girl.
All work and no play make Strega a dull girl…”
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days, 12 hours ago
Unseen,
See the movie science myths article in the new secion I created on Mythbusting.
As with firearms, defibrillators are only as good or as bad as the hands and minds of the rational, moral agents who use them. And you’d want to stop the bleeding before using a defibrillator at a crime scene, terrorist attack, or war zone.
As for “Black…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days, 17 hours ago
On Frans de Waal (from The Guardian)
The honor he was proudest of, however, was the Ig Nobel prize – awarded for research that “makes people laugh, then think” – he won in 2012 with a colleague, Jennifer Pokorny, for a paper showing that chimps can recognize each other by their bottoms.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days, 20 hours ago
The extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal.
I was sorry to hear of the death of Frans de Waal. He was much more than a primatologist. He gave me several fundamental insights into moral philosophy as well, about natural normativity and the evolutionary basis of competition. He was kind enough to reply to on…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 3 days, 4 hours ago
I suspect more lives would be saved if everyone had a defibrillator with them than if everyone carried a gun.
Unseen I love this!
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 3 days, 12 hours ago
@ Enco
I suspect more lives would be saved if everyone had a defibrillator with them than if everyone carried a gun. There is no lack of evidence that countries where gun carrying is rare have far, far, far fewer gun homicides.
One can’t form rational public policy based on black swan events.
So, what is a “black swan event”?
Here are the key…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 3 days, 13 hours ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
Oh, and no one in Moscow could shoot back, so chalk another one against Putin and a Russian legal system that doesn’t recognize a right to keep and bear arms.
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