jakelafort

Democracy never existed. Whatever semblance of democracy the USA possesses is deteriorating. Capitalism coupled with human nature causes the deterioration.

The greater the homogeneity of the electorate the easier it is to swallow the disparate views. However it is better to preserve a bastardized democracy than it is to descend into the orange…[Read more]

Ordinarily i think acquiring a gun has more potential for harm than safety. But the circumstances are so volatile that i don’t feel that way presently. It is easy to see that the hand writing was on the wall after the fact. Even so we need not look too hard to find a great deal of scribbling.

It is more what i realize than discover. We have not even gained access to the cave. No shadows. only a bit of the onion to unpeel but without much hope of getting to the center. So unless AI super intelligence can do it we humans are highly unlikely to answer any fundamental questions. It is clear that positing our importance in the universe is…[Read more]

Continuing on the present course is counterproductive. The off chance of a turnitaround teacher v. the likelihood of further alienation suggests that a change is warranted. Ask him what he likes. What does he want to know more about? What does he want to do? Let him choose his path.

Giving him the tough-guy option of continuing in school or…[Read more]

Sleepy Sam?

Pope have you learned to give nicknames from a certain someone who is covid positive?

He does have a soporific voice though.

Hi Pope.

Below is the distressing/informative podcast that is required for Mrs. Abernathy’s class. 47 minutes of your life will not be wasted if you do the deed.

https://wakingup.libsyn.com/218-welcome-to-the-cult-factory

Ivy, she sees it as a business transaction?

If she added to the list of books about her husband she would clean house.

Ivy your support of Melania surprises me.

Do you distinguish it from a woman who chooses to marry a psychopath like Stalin and does it for the money and power? Doesn’t she tacitly or openly approve the values and the destruction her husband causes?

Ivy i thought that would make your day, week, year.

But don’t feel badly for Melania. It is not like she did not know the guy before she got married. Which qualities do you think drew him to her? Or is it his orange hair?

Good idea for a debate format. That would be wizzar pissar but Tr. would not go for it.

It is a pretty distressing albeit informative podcast. Hope ya enjoy it.

Ivy, in case you did not get the connection between podcast i mentioned and social dilemma-the author or producer of Social Dilemma is the guest on the podcast. So damn skippy they believe it. They are in an alternate universe of alternate information. And whatever natural skepticism the hard core may have is obviated by the echo. And i agree that…[Read more]

Ivy, Biden is so far gone. I have no idea how he would have done at age 30, 40, 50 or 60 but at this point his brain is disintegrating.

It is such a joke to evaluate Trump’s claims as though they are ideas worthy of debate-as though he is sincere and has concerns about it. His BS about voting fraud is a tactic, a strategy and ultimately a…[Read more]

But Ivy he asked supremacists to stand by. That is not alarming, right?

That was some entertainment. We watched the bully make Wilson the soccer ball appear old, senile, confused, uncertain, incoherent and effete. Not only did he fail to stand up to Trump’s bullying and interruptions with one exception but he missed opportunity after opportunity…[Read more]

Unseen,

Women have not emerged from the stranglehold of religion until recently-in some places still have not. Suffrage movement started in 19th century but rights in various nations begin around the first world war and for some nations much later. Rights to enter into a contract or to inherit are/were discriminatory. Attitudes towards women…[Read more]

Unseen although i mostly agree with you i don’t think it is fair to compare achievements in art and science unless it is the last few decades. Opps for women were so limited. I also think there may not be as many power hungry would-be CEO’s or heads of state but there are some. Opps again limited do to discrimination.

Unseen, i don’t think anything i said is dogma. The part you quoted is simply an argument against the notion that natural is equated with don’t change it cuz it is natural.

I absolutely agree with you as i have indicated that there are fundamental differences between males and females. Those differences have a biological/evolutionary provenance.…[Read more]