jakelafort

@Unseen – Yes it is. Just as well it is located near the Branch Of Awkward Wording Branch.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@jakelafort Can we metaphor even more? Don’t start with the similes though. I mean what would that be even like?

Yes, similes of/for similes is a matter for The Department of Redundancy Department.

@jakelafort Can we metaphor even more?

Don’t start with the similes though. I mean what would that be even like?

If you walk around all day in tight fitting shoes, would you be expecting to feel a sense of relief or would you miss them after taking them off? If the former, then get new shoes and forget about the old way you used to walk. If the latter, then put them on every morning so you don’t have to feel you are losing out.

My friends in Sarasota are expecting storm surges double that of Helene….and that was a record. They have evaced already. The path of Milton is still unpredictable. Stay safe!

Hope nobody nearby hears “the voice of rage and ruin”.

The one from the East.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Strega is a very bewitching nom de plume.

Strega, the witch or the liqueur?

Simon – Those things sound pretty strange to me. Everyone’s there to worship nothing? What’s the point?

Exactly the same as what happens in every other church, I guess.

@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

I went to one out of curiosity but it was more of a “I am not-religious but I am very spiritual” gathering. I asked if they could be more specific as “demons are spirits too”. They were not happy with that.

Then I noticed it. There, resting against the back wall. It was…[Read more]

Strega is a very bewitching nom de plume.

Thanks Strega!

Have a great week everyone!

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this…[Read more]

@jakelafort – absquatulate, a great word to have in the vocab.

In future, in a debate with a theist, should I fail to expostulate, I will just absquatulate rather than remonstrate and I won’t care who’s looking, especially when the theist is more intransitive than the verb 🙂