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Enco, thanks for the Vienna Teng vid. Was not familiar. I like her and she is good mellow background while doping equines.

Reg, there is a lot to unpack there. I can see part way into the valise.

You are wise to look for surprisingly low odds in maiden races. But ya gotta know how to assess the chances of each entry and the probable price. Ya see that horse you mentioned is trained by Pletcher who usually gets hammered with any 1sters so it would have taken lower…[Read more]

I am doping the ponies and decide to give Aqueduct a quick look see. And in the second race there is a pony named Eudaimonia. I don’t fancy his chances but it is another in an endless sequence of coincidence-the telltale incidence of coincidence.

Fuller, coexistence in place of insistence. Happy happy joy joy aint life a gift? Ahoy

Reg, good anecdotes and illustrative of precisely the point i had in mind yet left unstated except to reference Breakfast Club.

Reg hope your optimism is founded.

You bring up a good point about atheists who are wooed by woo. They aint thinking. Being an atheist is in and of itself not proof of much.

Ya ever see the Breakfast Club? That kind of stratification is present in other ways too. It is ersatz reasoning when all one can do is parrot one’s group. So sure if we…[Read more]

Underlying all of the issues aforementioned is free will. It is a nagging issue and a thorn that can not be displaced. Assumptions about how we ought to…are perhaps unfounded when our nature is so clearly tribal.

I f’ing love the idea of abandoning the traditional education in favor of creating thinkers or attempting to do so. I am not sure…[Read more]

Hedonism interrupted by pneumonia. Got it.

Thanks Simon.

Isn’t that eu word similar to another term used in philosophy that relates to happiness?

eudaimonism?

Hwaat? Reg is going bananas!

I aint looking it up.

Simon, promotes good behavior? Punishes bad?

That one line would be more than enough to discourage me from reading your book. It might otherwise be interesting to see how evolution might serve as a guide to morality.

As to promotes good behavior there is all kinds of shit in religious texts that is despicable. Follow the strictures strictly and…[Read more]

Come on Enco! I have challenged you over and over to defend your political point of view. You’ve got absolutely nothing to say except to trot out propaganda.

Moreover you have used words like smear to describe how you view any negative portrayal of what you hold sacred. When you can’t see any flaws, weaknesses or troubling issues in your…[Read more]