jakelafort

including when we decide to shrug off those same beliefs.

Some random thoughts……We should consider our beliefs from a different perspective. They are not our possessions that we can just shrug off or pick up and cherish. Beliefs are a process. Believing in something is an ongoing process and not a finished product. They have an emotional imp…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Furthermore the notion that we are FREE to exercise the religion of our CHOICE is misleading at best.

The fact that people tend to believe and practice the religion they grow up with certainly fits into the notion that there are causes driving everything we do, including when we decide to shrug off those same beliefs. If you…[Read more]

@ Robert

And you believe him, I guess.

The Warning is, I maintain, the best songwriting band to come along since The Beatles, and may in some ways be even better than The Beatles in terms of rock and roll, because at some point in TB’s career arc, they largely abandoned rock and roll to create songs in other genres as well as songs that defy any sort of categorization. Clearly, Eleanor…[Read more]

@ Jake

When you say negative things about Islam and implicitly include any member of the faith that is a broad brush and an expression of Islamophobia. Now, based on the behavior of some Christians and some leaders and government proclaiming to act in its name, using your standard there probably should be a term “Christianophobia” or some similar…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
It shows how retarded the progressives are sucking up to Islam. Instead of attacking ideas and showing how meretricious, fictitious and destructive it is you get called out for Islamophobia. I would not limit critical studies/criticism to Islam but presently it is the numero uno among the sleeps of reason. It is pig pile on the…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Alabama’s I.V.F. ruling shows our slide toward Theocracy. To those advancing these ideas, the will of God counts more than the will of the American people, even when Americans object or disagree.

We don’t have an official religion on the Federal level, but this shows it’s possible to have one on the state level, or a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Fellow Unbelievers, A good-sized sum of all fertilized eggs end up flushed down the toilet naturally and completely without a woman’s knowledge. Are these fetus fetishists gonna have law enforcers sloshing around in sewers searching for zygotes and forcing women to “prove” that they didn’t premeditatedly (versus spontan…

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Alabama’s I.V.F. ruling shows our slide toward Theocracy.

To those advancing these ideas, the will of God counts more than the will of the American people, even when Americans object or disagree.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How can there be a murder charge when there is no body? A frozen embryo is about 120 microns in size. Ten of them in a row would be about a tenth of one millimeter in length. If there is a power cut during a hurricane (an “Act of God”) and the freezer defrosts, will the management team be arrested for mass mur…

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How can there be a murder charge when there is no body? A frozen embryo is about 120 microns in size. Ten of them in a row would be about a tenth of one millimeter in length.  If there is a power cut during a hurricane (an “Act of God”) and the freezer defrosts, will the management team be arrested for mass murder?

A fairly good semipro recording with decent audio of TW playing Hell You Call A Dream.

_Robert_ wrote:
No, they have “categorized” themselves as criminals. If you are behaving as an agent against the tribe of humanity, you will be stopped from further victimization as the first step. To allow it to continue is a moral breech against future victims.  As far as “rehabilitation”, sure let’s spend tons of valuable resources on people…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Yeah, Unseen you didn’t address my argument or provide anything like a solution beyond “everything goes” and an assertion that no one is accountable for their shitty behavior. Yet you can’t even define freewill. The champion of scumbags, rapists, grifters, thieves, scam artists, violent assholes, and murderous dictators. Oh, the…

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jakelafort wrote:
On the other hand free will or its permutations are kind of irrelevant. We always live our lives in a way that feels like free will. And we respond for the most part to others as though they are responsible and accountable for their behavior. So it is really insignificant in an issue like homelessness.

Let’s deconstruct…[Read more]