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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School November 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

Have a great week!

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce.
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Love your neighbor. Yeah right! in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 7 months ago

Good. I have no problem with the concept of “Freedom of Religion”. But if someone has that, then I want my “Freedom from Religion”. Stigmata for 6 hours?? Excellent! ‘My favorite weapon is the look in your eyes”……
Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic Love your neighbor. Yeah right! in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 7 months ago

It started innocently enough—or so I thought. Sunday morning, with the scent of fresh coffee wafting through my kitchen, I heard it: a syrupy guitar riff accompanied by lyrics about salvation, redemption, and “walking with the Lord.” My renting neighbors ranting about their magical mystery man Jesus were at it again. Windows wide open, speak…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

jakelafort wrote:
AI will control us by 2034? That is absurd. Humans are discerning, have free will and make decisions for themselves!

There is no free will. Just like billiard balls, their actions (and thoughts) emerge inevitably from the antecedent conditions going on in their nervous system and mind, many of these antecedents beyond their…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

jakelafort wrote:
I like the distinction he makes about humans v AI with the former having free speech and the latter not.

Yes, I forgot to mention that! If only I had an AI implant… Oh, what I could do to for the world.

I have empathy for Hamas’s and other terrorist’s kids. Some Palestinian adults are also innocent victims, like gays who need…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Our AI Setups in the forum Artificial Intelligence 1 year, 7 months ago

PopeBeanie’s setup

I pay $20/mth, directly to openAI for ChatGPT. I like them because they keep improving their features, although once in a while their servers respond slowly, I assume caused by periodic growth spurts. They started out prioritizing an ethical business model and operational awareness of ethical uses of AI, e.g. don’t teach how to…[Read more]
PopeBeanie started the topic Our AI Setups in the forum Artificial Intelligence 1 year, 7 months ago

I mean for this topic to maintain currency, for helping each other, and to help people who want to learn what AI options are available.

This here topmost post is subject to updates, to be kept current. I ain’t lyin’. I hope.

Please keep your posts up to date in just one post, if you can, and let me delete your previous post unless we should keep…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

Some really good musicians here.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

jakelafort wrote:
AI will control us by 2034?

I like his analogy of junk information to junk food; how they’re addictive and unhealthy. (I don’t remember his exact words, but that’s what I took away.) Taking this further, the agents are fast food sellers getting your lunch money, analogous to social network AI algorithms getting your clicks.…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

@ Jake

Matt Gaetz is a kind of Picture of Dorian Gray of himself.

What about Stephen Miller? If he looks, acts, and talks like a Nazi…

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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

Wittgenstein was my Master’s thesis (“Wittgenstein and Moore on Certainty”). He’s up there with Berty Russell as a quotable philosopher.

“Light dawns gradually over the whole” is about as perfect a description of how a subject matter becomes understood as there is.
Unseen replied to the topic Adios democracy! in the forum Politics 1 year, 7 months ago

@ Robert

More than shop class, I’m concerned that kids aren’t being taught geography anymore. Now, I’m not a geographer and there are some fairly obscure—hardly ever in the news—countries, but even with a lot of the lesser-encountered ones, I’d at least know where on a map to start looking. I wouldn’t start trying to locate Iran in Africa or Mon…[Read more]
Unseen started the topic Unlike religion, science self corrects. But does it? in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago

The Webb Telescope seems to be telling us that something is very wrong the scientific theory called Dark Matter. When will the scientists admit it?
Unseen replied to the topic Adios democracy! in the forum Politics 1 year, 7 months ago

@ Robert

Shop class probably went the way of Home Economics or Touch Typing Skills classes. I took Shop and also Touch Typing and Mechanical Drawing. Touch typing is the only one I can say serves me in daily life to any degree.
Unseen replied to the topic Adios democracy! in the forum Politics 1 year, 7 months ago

There is a common feeling that you can’t make a decent living without an advanced degree. I have an advanced degree and never got close to as wealthy as a good electrician, carpenter, plumber, elevator mechanic, dental hygienist, or HVAC technician.

And many of these well-paying trade jobs can’t be exported to where labor is cheap. You can’t…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sources of Inspiration in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago

jakelafort wrote:
Another great Jewish contributor in history of thought. Tiny percentage of humans.

100%. I mentioned before, one of my best friends is an agnostic atheist rabbi in his 80s, and he’s still a community-serving dynamo every day. He inspires not by judging or preaching, but by listening and contributing to every conversation, and by…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School November 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 7 months ago

Manifest is the world of the year. I am not surprised as I have hear so many people claim to be doing it.

Manifesting is what psychologists call ‘magical thinking’ or the general illusion that specific mental rituals can change the world around us.
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sources of Inspiration in the forum Science 1 year, 7 months ago

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer posted an update 1 year, 7 months ago

Hello Heather, great to hear from you!
Belle Rose replied to the topic How the Democrats got EVERYTHING wrong in the forum Politics 1 year, 7 months ago

I never thought Harris would actually win regardless of the fact that EVERYONE was assuring me she would. And it wasn’t because I didn’t want her to win, I just didn’t think she would win. I remember having a conversation with my sister-in-law several months ago about Trump versus Biden when Biden was still in the race and I didn’t think Biden w…[Read more]
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