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Robert i am sure it is just an oversight. Why tackle the real issues? It is messy and it offends too many in their ranks. Reminds me how on one occasion and one only i wrote a letter to editor. Skeptical Inquirer. Gist was how the hell are you gonna be so legit in challenging fringe and yet so cowardly in omitting God. No response.

Prakriti ombudsman statistician
Pacified ossification savage
Pensive opportunity salesperson
Professional operating solver
Passed over Socrates

Presenter of strategy
Positivity obligation surety
Promulgator of solutions
Potentate of sagacity
Pangloss operative slayer
Prince of secularism

Your turn.

Piece of Sunshine!

Thank you ever so much Autumn!

I am not too excited about POC. Groups can go with whatever handle they like. I propose POD for Muslims. People of death. And the funny thing is i think a lot of Muslims would take it and run with it.

Enco it would be lovely if humans responded well to that free market. If the very brightest generalists among us were all of us then it might be reasonably efficient. I would no more force critical thinking on students then any other subject is forced. If you proved a typical dolt then you can take shop, auto mechanics ( i got a C in that) or an…[Read more]

Well said again Robert.

My sentiments are liberal all the way but fuck that shit.

Let em eat Kake?

What are the lessons?

For my 12 cents owing to inflation humans are bogged down by their nature-presumably it is the need for group cohesiveness imbedded in our biology. No survival without cohesion. That was then. Now it is followers, followers towing the party line be they the most ignorant and poverty stricken, the most…[Read more]

Robert:

My opinions changed a while back. As a xtian, I really didn’t have an opinion about the practice of Islam. As I gave up belief and began studying religions as a secularist; only then did I realize how destructive religion is. Islam, however, takes the cake. Death is the penalty for leaving the religion, it is growing in numbers, and it i…[Read more]

Autumn, color me obtuse.

It is quantum entanglement gone awry. Neurons all gnarly n shit. Particles dancing the wrong way. It clears up after a night of sleep and a hike.

Britannica: American exceptionalism, idea that the United States of America is a unique and even morally superior country for historical, ideological, or religious reasons. Proponents of American exceptionalism generally pair the belief with the claim that the United States is obligated to play a special role in global politics.

Assertions of…[Read more]

Sounds like Rudyard Kipling-think.

I am not going to respond to Davis cuz these exchanges are becoming nasty. Just gonna engender bad feelings and accomplish nothing.

But i am curious whether anyone has had a change of opinion about issues in the middle east between Arabs/Palestinians and Israelis, or about Islam and its nature? I doubt it. But it would be interesting.

I am reminded of an exchange in a theist/atheist forum today. The Atheist said tongue in cheek. The poor victims in gaza will be in paradise. So it calls comes out well in the end. Big approval from the Muslim.

Autumn wrote:

Nah. If you’re going to keep up with the ‘death cult’ nonsense, those are the rules of the game we’ll play by. You don’t have arguments. You don’t have a position. You don’t even have personhood. You have a culty mindvirus. That’s how we get to do things. I get to decide for you that those are your motivations and limitations, wh…[Read more]

Act 5
Scene 3

Autumn: Typical cultist response. God damn colonialist mindvirus.

Jake: In high dudgeon did she bludgeon. guffaw

Close curtains

Autumn there was a withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 that forced Israelis out of there. They elected terrorists instead of choosing life. Their aid goes to their maniacal objectives. Subordinate life to death. Brilliant. I agree the occupation of the West Bank should have ended. Too late now. I agree that the Jewish right wing settlers are a major…[Read more]

Davis, absolutely agree that holocaust could have originated just about anywhere in Europe. Obviously not Denmark! But yeah the seething hatred of centuries unabated and so many nations with neighbors turning in their Jewish neighbors to the Nazis. All over Eastern Europe and Russia same dynamic. (I wish the left would stop its hyperfocus on…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:

That’s the very point we’re making to you. The difference between Palestine and Israel is that Israel is succeeding.

Misleading. My point is that there is no respite from the onslaught. Okay, brief periods without being attacked wholesale, just intermittent rockets and terrorist attack. Jews as a whole in Israel are not out to get…[Read more]

Autumn, that was a nice analysis most of which i agree as it pertains to Nazi Germany. However it was not responsive to the argument i am making. I was not making an analogy.

But since you have taken the time to write your thoughts i will say i disagree with the following. “One of the major factors fuelling German anti-semitism and nationalistic…[Read more]