jakelafort
@jakelafort
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 4th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoI have been pondering consciousness in biological and nonbiological. Was chatting with Meta recently and some of my ideas are championed by scientists. Good luck having an original idea.
My gut is that replication is a necessary ingredient for emergence of consciousness biologically but not otherwise. Instead closed systems are required that…[Read more]
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jakelafort posted a new activity comment 2 years, 3 months ago
I don’t see how we can fail to acknowledge the degree to which humans are acted upon as opposed to being free thinkers who decide issues based upon merit. It’s a bottomless rabbit hole contemplating certain ideologies and asking how anyone could support let alone become fervent. No matter how preposterous, illogical, cruel, stupid it won’t…[Read more]
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jakelafort posted an update 2 years, 3 months ago
Not necessarily christian nationalist. Not necessarily Trump as dictator. Rather it will be the gradual degradation of American democratic institutions.
Atheist Zone seems to be dying. Yo Enco?
Genesis of cults and extreme movements? Speak authoritatively and with conviction and you too can burn the kindling. Had a relative who stuck grass…[Read more]
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jakelafort posted an update 2 years, 3 months ago
That is consistent with if i lose election it is rigged.
It would be interesting to have an option when ya vote for Trump…dictator or president. I assume the independents would have very few who voted him in as dictator. But his supporters> haha
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Blivett is six pounds of shit in a 5 lbs bag.
How advantageous for the democrats to run against that platform. Imagine debating Trump how easy it would be to either alienate him from his base after he disavows it or alienating him from majority of voters after he affirms. And it is a journalist’s dereliction of duty not to question him directly…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Simon, Trump utterly unprincipled and machiavellian?
For suah. Abortion? Does not care. Well maybe he has some core principles. IDK. Oh well Soy numero uno. That is one of em.
Highjacking mind i mean to say imposing an ideology and one that is contrary to all natural inclinations. And that is when their brains are unformed. Hell the prefrontal…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Hijacked minds?
Naah. He is just the right guy to exploit the zeitgeist.
They were holding out for a hero. Such charisma. I mean i don’t see it. Hitler i see the charisma and he also was the right guy/right time to exploit the zeitgeist except a far greater percentage was behind him and deifying him. First time i listened to Trump i thought that…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Gonna be interesting if Trump is elected whether he becomes the vicious dictator and destroyer of American democracy (such as it is) that the democrats have been portraying.
And if the assasination attempt was real and he was a snot hair from being toasted will it alter his personality. Seems to me there have been some historical figures who…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
The angle.
Yeah that is the ticket.
The angle of the dangle is what one must untangle. How could the bullet glance perchance in a direct line between Great Britain and France?
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jakelafort replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
He was known as Fred the Indian.
I was 16 and had volunteered to clean 5000 compact fridges during the summer. One day Fred stops by while i am working. He was in an old pick-up truck. So this warehouse in an industrial park was all by itself. Fred pulls out his bow and a target and he is half hammered but amazingly accurate. He says Glen lets…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoTruth is not a construct.
Reality, however, maybe?
Or are they inextricably linked?
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago“Truth doesn’t have to be logical and realistic. Fiction does.”
Truth is not dependent on belief or opinion.
Good fiction has to be logical and realistic or in some way cause the reader, listener or viewer to suspend disbelief. Fiction in ideology/cults and religions are clearly not tied to the above strictures.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months ago“This is shorter: “Truth” is a human concept, otherwise irrelevant in a universe before any consciousness in it has emerged”
That is a variation on the introduction to philosophy tree in the forest quip.
How about some truth quotes?
If you insist.
Truth serves nobody so nobody serves the truth.
Truth is not aesthetic unlike the des…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
I agree with Robert that a debate is not going to change much. I don’t recall the political wise guy who has predicted so many outcomes of SCOTUS but my he thinks debates are not a significant factor. And we saw a guy i think in PA be elected to congress even though he could barely speak. Undermining the candidate by same party may be fatal…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 2 years, 4 months ago
Pope,
My take on when many Americans started to hate on other Americans first started was during conservative talk shows back when radio was still popular. Some liberal talk shows tried to replicate the success, but (IMO) bleeding hearts (at least) chose to focus on having more empathy for less privileged people.
Hatred for others has never…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Moral Relativism in the forum Theism 2 years, 4 months ago
“I have a long read post in Sunday School this week on morals.”
Can’t believe i read the whole thing.
Naa…wa’nt too long.
I am ready for a pop quiz.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Moral Relativism in the forum Theism 2 years, 4 months ago
* In The Stranger by Twain there is a scene in which the villagers are stoning a witch. The friend of the witch picks up a rock and joins in for fear of being not one of the group. So yea it can be dangerous to go against the flow.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Moral Relativism in the forum Theism 2 years, 4 months ago
That is very well stated by Robert.
That is why i harbor no real hope for our future.
Beliefs and morality or even beliefs about morality are transferred from the greater culture/family to our feckless actor. There is nobody home. Absolutely vacant and amenable to you name it. AI could cause us to believe in any way it intends if it attains…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School June 16th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 4 months agoRubin observatory?
Rubin community workshop?
Super powerful Jewescope?
First it was the banks. Then it was the media. Now the Zionists want to take over the cosmos. Zionists have no shame! Believe what they are telling you. Highly educated ivy league students do.
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As for AZ dying, growth has always been slow. I hope Enco’s activity drop isn’t due to health challenges. I’ve not felt that his contributions were…
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