john may

That’s a very broad brush you’re using there. Islam and evangelical Christianity are at one end, but relatively inoffensive religions like Theravada Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism and Quakerism lie at the other.

Theravada Bhuddists have held two religious wars in the last few decades (and extremely violent attack against Hindus in Sri Lan…[Read more]

Hi Johan

Babies?  Are you calling adults babies?  I’m somewhat confused as to the point you are making.  Which God is this?  I’ve never read anything about babies capturing babies. Perhaps you are trying to make an analogy?  Perhaps your point is that only a “born again Christian” can be welcomed somewhere. I’m not sure where. Feel free to annotate.

Indeed Jake. We seemed to have seriously utterly missed the giant 1km tall elephant on the planet: religion. The most fucking dangerous idea ever to curse our solar system (perhaps even the galaxy or the universe). I love to think that there are planets or moons (or whatever) out there where intelligent beings emerged without building up so many…[Read more]

I would say that Trump claiming that if he loses it means the democrats rigged the election (or cheated in some way) is only dangerous in certain countries. Saying that kind of thing in Canada and most of the EU will cost you lots of votes and damage nothing because citizens will be overwhelmingly revolted by being treated like stupid children. In…[Read more]

I suffer from severe chronic back pain (for 20 years now). People seriously resist going onto medication thinking it’s a one-way-street to higher and higher doses, but I had the opposite experience in fact. True I needed higher doses for a few years (at one point taking exceptionally strong morphine derivatives) but at the moment I take a fraction…[Read more]

If a kid can hang on for 5 or 10 years there may be an answer.

I don’t know if you have suffered chronic pain or agony. It is horrendous. Imagine having the feeling of your bones broken every day and given totally insufficient pain killers. And being told: don’t worry…in five years there just might be a chance we can reduce a little bit of that…[Read more]

I would certainly rather the parents have that conversation than just let the kid suffer because they don’t want to have it, worse because they cannot let go earlier and the most worstest: because the divine being in the sky they believe in doesn’t permit it. The only reason the West is still so bloody hung up on euthanasia is because of the…[Read more]

I don’t think that terminally ill anyone (children or adults) should be euthanized against their will (that is crazy) but they most certainly be allowed to die with dignity if they wish (their parents desire to extend their suffering for their own reasons be damned). To expect someone to continue suffering is what cheapens life.

Man can work out morality mostly through reason and dispense the need for the artificial authority through an invented divine being. The bonus with this is you get rid of thought control punishment for victimless crimes (blasphemy) and can adapt much quicker to advancing knowledge (the need for the use of condoms or say the realisation that…[Read more]

No, Godly beings have human constructed morality because God is a human construction, invented by confused, scared and fragile human beings yet to be enlightened.

You said:

And now BLM movement does not want to hear that the cops kill blacks at greater rate is false. But it is false.

It wasn’t clear if this was an extension of Sam Harris’s ideas or your own commentary so if you were just paraphrasing something by Harris then I appologise.

Re: Unseen

No I don’t think that any idea should be heavily…[Read more]

Could you please tell me Jake what data you are using to defend the preposterous claim that black people aren’t being killed by police at a much higher proportion than their population? WTF?

It seems the democrats are moving slightly more towards conservative ideology to court potential (only potential) Republican converts. The Republicans aren’t doing the same. If anything they are heading more towards far-right ideologies and not making any slight compromise ideologically. This means everything in American politics is heading…[Read more]

I see unseen. So you’re fine with letting trans people be a woman or man in just about every other way but discriminating against trans-people when it comes to sports. What about LGTBQ+ people? Should they be stuck in their own category? A majority of people around the world don’t consider them “natural” men and women. I also fail to see how…[Read more]

They’ve undergone hormone therapy (which highly reduces testosterone and raises estrogen). Their numbers are also tiny. It’s not like there has been an avalanche of trans-women (please get that right) standing on all the podiums. As you’ve said before, what’s fair about someone born with a better genetic profile competing against someone with…[Read more]

And please be a little more careful with using terms like “artificial woman”.  They aren’t robots created in a laboratory. The term trans-woman communicates the same information without the (admittedly possibly unintended) derogatory connotation.

No Unseen. I said there should be the normal league where people play for the gender they identify with (meaning a transwoman plays on the woman’s team). And another league for people who kick up a fuss and cannot handle living in the 21st century.