jakelafort
@jakelafort
Active 6 minutes ago-
jakelafort replied to the topic Are they all just grifters? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 4 months ago
I have previously expressed my dislike err disgust over the label, people of color.
So i have come up with ideas to replace the old and bring in the new.
COLORFULS….COLOR-CHALLENGED…BLANDS…INSIPIDS
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Are they all just grifters? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 4 months ago
These goddamn white atheist pseudo intellectuals on their high hobby horses won’t even take their coffee black!
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Are they all just grifters? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 4 months ago
Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right?
I am not familiar with the author but i think he is full of shit and i think he knows he is full of shit. Disingenuous is he although the numerous barbs may on some points be accurate.
-
jakelafort posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
Simon It would be hypocritical if that were my point.
I am saying cancel is only a label for a phenomenon of tribalism that is pervasive and intended to vilify the left by creating the BS impression that the left is doing something unprecedented.
It is stunningly hypocritical when it comes from judgmental evangelicals. I also think the…[Read more]
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School 27th June 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 4 months agoAutumn & Davis thanks.
I’ve to this point read zero about Canadian first people. Just tangentially in the 1870’s a few tribes crossed the border into Canada and books about voyageurs. Man i wish there were something exposing the hidden history in Canada-imagination is ignited by those horrifying discoveries.
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School 27th June 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 4 months agoAutumn do you have a recommendation-a book that covers the treatment of first peoples in Canada?
-
jakelafort posted a new activity comment 5 years, 4 months ago
Davis you are correct.
I suppose cancel culture is a manifestation of tribalism. The greater the power of the dominant tribe the greater the backlash against individuals who oppose or act against the power. Calling it cancel culture is just a new wrapper to express the outrage of the far right against the subordinates. Dominant groups do…[Read more]
-
So Jake, you’re saying that cancelling people is bad when the right wing or religious people do it, but good when the left does it? Is that not hypocritical?
-
-
jakelafort posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
Here is a little observation about cancel culture. A friend just mentioned this to me.
It is a feckin hypocrisy for Christians to call out others for cancel culture. Missionaries cancelled entire cultures. I wont even bother expanding. It is so obvious.
-
Cancel culture has always existed and will never go away. For the longest time it was mainly the domain of conservative forces. Just think of all the cancelling that went on after 9-11 for anyone critical of overzealous anti-terrorism comments, not “supporting the troops” or the Persian Gulf War. Think of McCarthyism earlier and those in…
-
I think it’s spiteful and vindictive, whoever does it.
-
Davis you are correct.
I suppose cancel culture is a manifestation of tribalism. The greater the power of the dominant tribe the greater the backlash against individuals who oppose or act against the power. Calling it cancel culture is just a new wrapper to express the outrage of the far right against the subordinates. Dominant groups do…
-
So Jake, you’re saying that cancelling people is bad when the right wing or religious people do it, but good when the left does it? Is that not hypocritical?
-
-
-
-
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School 27th June 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 4 months agoDavis wrote…None of us here are excluded, as depending on the specific topic some of us are easily misled on at least a few topics (for a multitude of reasons and there are no exceptions).
You are quite correct. In training ourselves to be critical i think those who have studied philosophy in a serious manner have an advantage. It is so…[Read more]
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School 27th June 2021 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 4 months agoThe social media article is indeed a good’n.
A crisis that few would identify as such in part because they continue to be misled into believing the BS about a free marketplace of ideas. There are many contraindications of the mythology of the free market analogy but so many of us have beliefs that are impervious to evidence that ought to make us…[Read more]
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Your thoughts on so-called critical race theory in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago
Ted the preacher is nauseating. Beats the bejesus out of straw dogs in a sanctimonious, my ass knows better and now yours does too.
Enco wrote…“Critical Race Theory” is a problem because it makes everything about “race”… Autumn effectively addressed this Encoscribble. I am doubling down on how silly it is.
Denying the significance of race i…[Read more]
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Is something wrong with sports? Or is something wrong with transgenders? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 4 months ago
I did not have much of an opinion on this topic until Davis swayed me just now..
I suspect that anyone who obsesses over this issue and how it is unfair is concealing bigotry against trans. It makes me think of the incredible obsession with Israel. Morons who know virtually nothing about history or current geopolitics are suddenly experts on the…[Read more]
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Is something wrong with sports? Or is something wrong with transgenders? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 4 months ago
Unseen, i only tried whitewater rafting once. That was a hoot. I can imagine whitewater kayaking is rafting on steroids.
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Is something wrong with sports? Or is something wrong with transgenders? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 4 months ago
What is that you say? Bouldering/climbing?
That is my luuuuuuv. Stared death right in the face from a mountain side. What a high to have survived. Best one yet. Had cuts all over my body. Didn’t feel a fuckin thing except euphoria when i scampered clear at the summit.
-
jakelafort posted a new activity comment 5 years, 4 months ago
Details Simon, details…
-
Michael Shermer is espousing my ideas, for example, the “pressure to thrive” in this article https://henrycenter.tiu.edu/2021/03/can-science-discover-moral-truths/ and elsewhere. On the one hand, this is good, and to be welcomed. On the other hand, it means he can use his advantage as an already-published author to beat me to the finishing…
-
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Your thoughts on so-called critical race theory in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago
I saw the e. E is not close to I on the keyboard. It is not the first time i had a strong suspicion that Enco is not first hand familiar with his bugaboos. Regurgitation is unworthy of you.
Enco how about living some of the ideas you espouse? As it stands you are religious without being religious.
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Your thoughts on so-called critical race theory in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago
Davis that was purdy good.
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Your thoughts on so-called critical race theory in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago
How does theology advance?
Burn fewer witches and assorted heretics? Stop murdering apostates? Stop dictating depraved morality? In short its path forward is through its extinction.
-
jakelafort replied to the topic Your thoughts on so-called critical race theory in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago
Enco, you wrote… starts with a conclusion it doesn’t first prove, then attempts to shoe-horn data to fit it’s conclusion.
Does that in any way seem similar to your approach?
-
jakelafort posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
- Load More
[Read more]
[Read more]
[Read more]
[Read more]
[Read more]