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I guess Sagan wrote when he was high. Damn sure aint hurting your scribbles Reg.

Quite informative.

Am wondering how the notion of providing housing for homeless knowing that it is less expensive than status quo will be received by the right.

Good links. It is good to know that there is a place where helping the fallen to rise actually occurs.

Man alive, Enco, you still managed to avoid saying anything substantive in re to the instant issue.

Are you totally cool with free market capitalism in the form of real estate transactions in which the purchaser takes the property with restrictions on alienation so that undesirables are SOL? Have you observed that allowing such freedom of…[Read more]

Enco, i aint utterly sure of nuthin.

I do have a friend who thinks i am autistic only cuz i can speak backwards and he knows of an autistic kid who does the same.

I am not scolding ya. I would just like to see you get out of the mindset of worshipping free market capitalism and libertarianism. Here is a guideline promulgated by Jake the Flake.…[Read more]

Although it oughtn’t concern ya is that your place in Hibernia?

I see ya workin Unseen. Not bad.

We desperately need advances in neuroscience. It is imperative that we have some grasp on how it is humans are so easily manipulated, so amenable to group-think, so vulnerable to religion, political ideology and tribalism. We are on a crash course with our extinction. Therefore we need to understand ourselves before we can change ourselves.

It is not a simple matter to navigate the world given our biology and the luck of the draw in our environment. If i were emperor i would change the curriculum in public schools in an effort to assist.

I betya 95 percent of the victims of AI directed social media programming are unaware of confirmation bias. It is hard enough when one has…[Read more]

Simon, how have you changed in your perception of JP? And from prior conversations here how have you changed on JC? I see what looks like intransigence. But i am not picking on you. I am saying that is how we humans are to a greater and lesser degree. We become so damn glued to our positions that it is not easy to move the needle. The notion of…[Read more]

We have here a microcosm of the free market place of ideas.

I dare say our members are above average in brainyosity. (my neologism, my spelling) And yet in spite of vigorous debate neither side has much impact on the other. I don’t know a great deal about JP. But i instantly despised him and no doubt that influences my disposition in evaluating…[Read more]

I wonder whether JP is compromised in spending years to reconcile his religious views with his views of reality. Instead of having the integrity to embrace apostasy with its attendant honesty and sense of liberation he spawned another fantasy world. Truth did not serve him and he does not serve the truth. Once having opened Pandora’s box of BS he…[Read more]

Davis, that is great.

We Americans cherish our freedom to drop dead in the event we get sick and haven’t insurance or means. What is the alternative? A nanny state! Ewww. As long as free market capitalism is entrenched and controlling our lawmakers and social policy all is well.

So Simon has the needle moved at all in your assessment of J.C. and J.P.?

Savor the bread and wine. Cannibilism is divine!

whereas transgenders a sign
of el diablo

No cogito
Ergo Enco

Don’t be that guy.
Use your noggin.

Ain’t no humans ya ought to worship. Ain’t no political or economic systems either. If you can’t criticize some aspects of your political/economic viewpoints you are an ideologue-it is religious thinking which is to say it is not thinking at all.

Enco,

You answered the question. Thank you for that.

The problem is you did not address the issue. The ills of free market capitalism are manifold and malignant. The two M’s but in this case they melt in your hands not in your mouth. I gave you one tiny manifestation of free market capitalism. It is not a hypothetical issue either. It is a…[Read more]

Hebrews coffee, boils the hell out of it, lox in the flavor brews for the Jews with Moses’ noses.

Christina, Sol and Ben are the characters in Unseen’s first ethnic joke.

Robert, i would not be surprised if Craig is otherwise ignorant. But as a polemicist he is pretty good considering he has a pretty much impossible job apologizing for Christianity.

Reg, that joke was A ok.

They’re on a par with Sol and Ben which aint all that bad.