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Unseen, You’ve missed the idioscyncracy i was pointing out: That another sentient life on a par with the beloved and doted animal is condemned to a lifetime of misery before it is executed. We grow up to view cute cute kittahns with those big adoring eyes as objects of love. The oink oink pig, great big fat pink F’r, who is perhaps more…[Read more]

Unseen, you are missing my point.

No quibble about love of cats. No gainsaying the love/friendship/attachment/bond so many of us form with cats and dogs-for some weirdos, snakes and reptiles. Feeling for one rather than another is human although it is mostly a matter of keeping an animal. If you have one you are likely to develop those loving…[Read more]

Unseen i despise Christianity. I am not however so delusional that i blame it for us eating meat.

I was making an observation about how narrow and self-absorbed we are in both the macrocosm and microcosm. The early christians had the geocentric perspective. The earth was the center of the universe. Not until Copernicus published his work…[Read more]

Unseen, i noticed that movie but have not watched it. Jlo is not a great actress. Reminds me of Tom C. They both get roles cuz of their looks. Not awful actors but not great.

Yes pain and suffering and part and parcel. Does not mean we can’t be better. Our neuroplasticity can be manipulated to make us behave and believe ANYTHING. Am not sure i…[Read more]

Nicely jibber jabbered Pope. Jabberwocky talky.

But seriously, the reasoning I proposed doesn’t have any fine lines… technically after the baby’s born, how is it suddenly different as a “person”.

Like i said closer to a person than an acorn. Any indicia of personhood. Being dependent for everything through US b port or biological fittings…[Read more]

Enco there is clearly value or meaning that is attached to work. Work work work. Wok like dis. Talk like dat. How we derive meaning as we go around the merry go round will redound to the ground as those with a cornucopia astound.

Pope says…Everyone draws their line according to some arbitrary length of gestation.

Now how i see it. Roe’s rationale was that a person is capable of sustaining life outside the womb. Ya know closer to an oak tree than a nut.

Abortion is a distortion contortion super itchy icky issue.

Enco, thanks for that.

No that damn sure is not me. I aint got no hair nor am i nearly that whacked out insane.
I know who it is though. He was saying some insane shit on FB. I tried to reason with him. Pointless, that….

Enco,

So your line: Look, I’m not the one with acolyte followers on YouTube, much less acolyte followers on YouTube who refer to me as “the friendly Charles Manson.” So if I were you, I would be very circumspect about throwing around terms like “ideology” and “dogma.” You were just talking out of your ass? It was not with reference to someone yo…[Read more]

Enco, what video?

I have never made a video for youtube.

Enco you are producing a lot of text and very little to no substance.

You are wonderful at avoiding issues.

And what is up with this?

Look, I’m not the one with acolyte followers on YouTube, much less acolyte followers on YouTube who refer to me as “the friendly Charles Manson.” So if I were you, I would be very circumspect about throw…[Read more]

Enco, follow the bouncing ball.

Here is what you wrote: :”Humans doing work has nothing to do with a Judeo-Christian or Protestant or any other ethic.”

The analogy to our forbears or primitive or subsistence humans is inapposite. Of course they had to work! But there was a division of labor that was more equitable. There was a more communal…[Read more]

Wrong Enco, wrong.

If your point is lennin’s, “He who does not work shall not eat” then ya ain’t really saying anything.

The Judeo-Christian/protestant work ethic has an obvious nexus to humans working their asses off in a meaningless quotidian get just enough to get by existence so you can retire and die. Slaves were tricked by Christians into…[Read more]

Pope i was giving a tip of the hat with your point about hyperbole. Yes i think capitalism fucks up a lot of stuff but not everything. In some contexts it is a big positive.

As to the voids thing it is from a Jewish comedian-might have been Jackie Mason-doing schtick partly in Yiddish and capturing some of the jewish cultural nuances.

Beanie, capitalism corrupts everything?

The history channel.

News shows aren’t about news.

Technology driven by capitalism has infected easily infected minds to the detriment of civilization.

No more voids. Had he said to me even one more void….

the sound of silence
is an auditory violence
the need for stimulus
is the impetus
to drone on and on
as drivel driven
drones produce
drivel driven clones
as the author bemoans
never realizing his own drivel
until now

I didn’t listen Pope. But sounds like you are describing hearsay. Hearsay is evidence. Its quality varies. Sometimes it is admissible and others it is not.

And beyond the nitwits there is the issue of designer pets. It is artificial selection catering to aesthetic wants and animals suffer as a result.

I despise abuse of pets. And don’t get me started on treatment of livestock! Not sure licensing pet owners is a good idea seeing how many are in shelters and in need of homes. Putting extra onus on prospective owners/keepers might dissuade some and result in greater numbers of pets being destroyed.

If you want to bring up the purple…[Read more]

michael17, is it evident to you how your world view colors your lens accordingly?

Not that objectivity is possible for humans and yet any form of ideology/orthodoxy renders a flawed human an absolute trash receptacle. I don’t mean that in a bad way…it is just that…