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@jakelafort – I agree with you, using the term POC is as if white people are the standard, and everyone else is strange or special.  Perhaps non-white would be a more neutral term.  But then, it sounds like it’s saying someone is a non-person.

Is it right to find a catch-all term for everyone who isn’t white?  I guess like you say, it’s ne…[Read more]

@jakelafort – How does theology advance?

Kant destroyed the “proofs” for the existence of god(s) and that was a crowbar to divorce theology from philosophy. Modern philosophy is secular by nature and has no concerns about ancient gods.

Thomas Paine advanced theology to its correct place in intellectually reasoned thought.

“The study of t…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@jakelafort – I’m disappointed that he seems to have acted like a bit of a dumbass…

I think ‘a bit of a dumbass’ might apply to the first video he made. At the time, he was relatively obscure. I think he said himself that he was surprised how much attention it got. While I think his talk was still irr…[Read more]

@jakelafort – I’m disappointed that he seems to have acted like a bit of a dumbass, and forgotten the welfare of transgender people who are being used as a weapon by both sides.  I’ve heard one transgender activist say, publicly, (literally) that if you question publicly an aspect of transgender orthodoxy, a transgender person is going to kill…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Again I don’t have the facts to hand but it has been shown that these black athletes do share a common trait, known as the “super-fast-twitch” gene. It was also found in the Caribbean athletes and upon further investigation it was shown that these athletes all originated from the same area of western Africa. Colin…

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@jakelafort – Areyouinaband today 🙂

@jadeblackolive

Thanks for the kind words

@jakelafort

“Meaning is derived through involvement”

This quote resonates with me.

@TheEncogitationer

I agree with you on being a happy warrior and alleviate as much suffering as I can, I hope to someday be a beacon of reason. Religion has screwed up my home country. But first I have to take care of myself.

@Jakelafort – Thanks for posting the video. I had not seen it before but was aware of his testament.

In the book “Diderot and the art of thinking freely”, the author Andrew S. Curran writes that:

Meslier’s testament maintains that the entire Catholic religion was nothing more than a human invention; that faith is the foundation of error; that…[Read more]

Glen D wrote:
@jakelafort ” I was not aware of the Gaelic Glen.” It’s actually a generic gaelic suffix “een” . It means ‘little’ or is used as term of endearment. It can also be used as a pejorative. Pretty sure ‘Glen’ is not a gaelic name, but comes from the Irish and Scottish gaelic; ‘gleann’ , a small mountain valley.

Why can’t it be both a pe…[Read more]

@jakelafort

” I was not aware of the Gaelic Glen.”

It’s actually a generic  gaelic suffix  “een” .  It means ‘little’ or is used  as term of endearment.   It can also be used as a pejorative.

Pretty sure ‘Glen’ is not a gaelic name, but comes from the Irish and Scottish gaelic;  ‘gleann’ , a small mountain valley.

@jakelafort.

“No, not a good video!

If you keep playing redneck videos you might be a redneck.”

In what sense? Morally? Moot.

Informative and reasonably objective?  I thought so,  I thought he made a lot of sense.

Now I’m truly not being sarcastic.  I would like to understand why you thought the video was not a good one. This is cheese and ch…[Read more]

@jakelafort – for some reason that reminded me of a quote by Timothy Leary –

“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

About the same time (30 years ago) a neighbor called to my house (5 bedrooms) – which he once called “a den of iniquity” because I kept it as an open house and usu…[Read more]

@Jakelafort: I am feelin a little dyspeptic…now back to the races.

What are the odds of that?

@Jakelafort

I did not say that she sees it as a business transaction,… But at the same time she’s not a dumb bitch. She’s actually super smart. Don’t let her accent fool you. And I heard the story about her that there is almost no major staffing decision that is made without Melania. They were saying that she is the person who chose, or helped…[Read more]

@Jakelafort

All I have to go by is what I’ve heard and read about her. But from what I can tell, there’s a lot about her that I’ve come to respect. I could give you lots of examples but for starters: I read somewhere she “renegotiated” her premarital contract with Donald far beyond what any other wife has been able to get. She has HIM by the ba…[Read more]

@jakelafort

I had not made that connection but thank you for pointing it out…going to listen to that today