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Thanks Strega.

Good read unspoiled by a walk. And yet i love to walk and conduct internal talk utilizing internal clock. Tick tock metronome block.

I thought of mantra and how one college class on religion the first day professor said here we are AGAIN. There was some recent notion in astronomy or cosmology that indicated life might just repeat…[Read more]

Strega,

Any stories you care to share i am all ears.

Also, how did your experiences alter your world view?

Enco,

Here is AI response to “Do chimps have culture?”

Yes, chimpanzees exhibit culture, defined as behaviors that are socially transmitted rather than genetically inherited or caused solely by ecological factors. Different chimpanzee communities across Africa possess unique traditions—such as specific tool usage, grooming techniques, and c…[Read more]

Enco,

Chimps can be culturally morphed to alternate behaviors. The whole debate is like nature/nurture. If you ascribe all to one or other you have missed the fed ex delivery.

The plastisity of human behavior is remarkable. There is no depth of stupidity and credulity too far. No depth of moral bankruptcy too depraved. Comfort in the social…[Read more]

Where male dominance is in effect as it is among chimanzees we observe no human rights. Chimanzees regard females in estrus or not as property. Worse than traditional slaves in some regards. Male chimps will do their dangdest to separate a female from the troop and rape it with a few good thrusts and then it is back to the troop and nobody knows…[Read more]

Strega,

We are plastic. It is neither a vehicle nor a root.

The chimp article was spurious if not arboreous.

The herd won’t chime in if they’re incurious.

Where to start. Let me see. Rip it up and set the herd free. The notion that bias seeps into science is true. It does not however follow that Jane Goodall’s conclusions were nonscientific and one of the bases of bias.

“Chimps aren’t that smart; on t…[Read more]

Enco,

Ya can’t take out the instinct of a feline notwithstanding artificial selection. They are predators to the core. I should not say that because in all likelihood given enough time and artificial selection it might be diminished and ultimately end. But as things stand our little friends are giving us gifts cuz we are part of their posse.

I…[Read more]

https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/california-big-game-hunter-ernie-dosio-dead-elephants-africa-hunt

Whether far right or far left it is follow the leader and a descent into violence and debauchery is within the scope of real possibilities under the right circumstances.

I find this illustrative of how easily led and stupid the great majority of humans are. Berkley law students. That should mean something,…[Read more]

Read it quickly Simon but i did not notice anything about Islamic terorism. And i am not sure how that would be categorized. Belongs on left not right. But i don’t see any reckoning. No doubt the wack job right wing racists are dangerous. Hard core Maga fuckerz will kill a bitch. And yet i don’t think they are any kind of existential threat or…[Read more]

Thanks Enco.

Politics should be divorced from this shit but good luck with that. I wonder how the far left attacks/violence line up with far right. Right has Waco wack job Branch Davidians and Timothy McVeigh and idk how many lone wolves and some other major incidents. Not sure how the shootings in schools are even categorized. Obviously…[Read more]

Enco,

Seems like a weird indictment…for paying informants? Stoking racial hatred? How did the informants do that?

Some years ago i read a book written by one of the top dogs in Southern Poverty Law Center. I don’t remember a lefty bent. Maybe i just wasn’t hip to it. Is there some indication they only want to uncover far right hate groups?…[Read more]

Enco,

Funny stuff on cult/religion. Funny cuz of its accuracy. And as i’ve indicated here a discreet cult of say 500 carrying on precisely as hard core Muslims would be viewed as a departure from any form of decent way to live. Cult members would be seen as victims who outside world helps to deprogram.

The deliberate entanglement in the…[Read more]

Can you imagine the opposition to critical thinking as a key aspect of curriculum K through 12 and into higher ed? The opposition to opposition of the imposition of reason would be viewed as treason. Parents having little Johny and Jane asking questions about the bs in the temple, mosque or church? They would freak. Magas would go wild. Obviously…[Read more]

By 1st grade our critical thinking students ought to be leary of hero worship, of any system of thought that requires faith. Oh my aching back latch. How stupid to drop your guard and accept on “good authority” the BS that follows.

If ya ain’t got the goods shut your fucking mouth or sell it to somebody who is no brighter than a rock baking in the sun.

Yeah man, Enco.

Beliefs. How many times have i heard sentiments along the lines, ‘i don’t care about other’s beliefs as long as it does not affect me.’ Fooling a human is no more difficult than a dog that we train. There is nobody home in the majority of cases in which humans are hoodwinked by you name the ideology: communism, palestinianism,…[Read more]

Yes, Fuller, i did say and i do mean that religion is make-believe.

Were it not for indoctrination and the personal stake and emotions of wish thinking then god(s) would be as easy to discard as Santa Clause or fill in the blank. It is childish. It is infantile. But we are human and there you are.

I would think the distinction between employee in private v official government position or quasi government is pretty straightforward. Compelling and accommodating trickier.