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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 31st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoBoth MAGA and Anti-MAGA think in group-oriented ways. The Anti-MAGA espouse racial, ethnic, sexual, gender and class identity politics and the MAGA react with their own brand of identity politics. And both assume their desired group identity has monolithic interests and both tolerate no dissent.
Enco, that’s a good depiction of where it’s at. Nei…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Annie and Andy get your gun! in the forum Politics 1 year, 2 months ago
Unseen wrote:
“Make America Great Again” is a slogan supported by claims that America is being taken advantage of, that other countries are cheating us by not paying their allotted share of NATO funding while laughing at us for doing nothing about it. Humiliation, in other words.Yes, but America isn’t reeling from humiliation like Germany was…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Annie and Andy get your gun! in the forum Politics 1 year, 2 months ago
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Unless things change, Simon, he has the currently dominant political party (especially on the state level) working for him. So, it’s no time to be complacent.I know he’s acting dangerously, but I think the dynamics are different from other fascist or would-be fascist regimes. Trump’s glory is in Trump only, since everyone al…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School August 31st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoUnseen wrote:
That’s right, Trump’s electoral strength—and his staying power—have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations.I’ve heard that before. Also that Trump supporters tend to think in a very group-oriented way, they think that groups have to compete, and that their group has to win.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 31st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoI think Bill Maher mentioned this recently. It may have been a different family. But a similar event. A family found Arizona to be “too woke” so they moved to Texas, only to find it was just not conservative enough for them. So they sold everything and
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 31st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoThanks, Reg 🙂
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 31st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoHave a great week!!
“I don’t reject gods. I just apply the same standards I use for everything else—and they don’t make the cut.”
-me.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic Prayer vs. “F**k It”: The Real Healing Power in the forum
Random Posts 1 year, 2 months agoBack in 2006, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson led what was then the biggest-ever study of prayer’s effect on health. Funded by the Templeton Foundation — who were quietly praying it would turn out differently — the trial looked at over 1,800 heart bypass patients. Some were told they were being prayed for, some weren’t, and a whole lot of peop…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 24th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoCDC in Atlanta after firing of Susan Monarez.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Annie and Andy get your gun! in the forum Politics 1 year, 2 months ago
I know Trump would like the USA to be a dictatorship, because that would please his “ego the size of a planet”. But he’s probably not able to pull it off in the United States of America, because its defences are too strong. It remains a democracy, albeit he is busy politicising the machinery of government in his favour.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoEnco, thanks for that……The mention of “Green Acres” got this fronkey farmer singing to himself all day that
Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin’ is the life for me.🙂
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoSeems like an Israeli index fund might be a good bet..
As close to a “sure thing” as you will get. Buy share in companies working in the Bio and AI sector. All future medicine will be in genetics, DNA adaptations and organ transplant advances.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoChatGPT is 1000 days old today……
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoA few other countries understand that A.I. should be discussed at a national level but Israel is already there.
Israel is way ahead in the field of A.I. and…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic It happened. A day that will go down in infamy in the forum Politics 1 year, 2 months ago
Yes, USAID was not always used properly. But fixing the problems and adding better oversight to the projects it finances was a better (and in the long run , a more cost effective) solution than just pulling the plug on the whole thing.
Bolton was probably expecting this as his commentary over the last few years was not going to impress Trump. I…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton posted an update 1 year, 2 months ago
According to Joseph Henrich (“The Weirdest People in the World”):
The higher the percentage of people who believe in a contingent afterlife (hell and heaven) in a country, the lower the murder rate. By contrast, the greater the percentage of people who believe only in heaven, the higher the murder rate. That’s right, believing only in heaven…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 17th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoPopeBeanie Even then, cold objectivity leads me to concluding that there has never been an effectively humane solution, such that even a huge asteroid wiping out that area naturally, i.e. sans human intervention, could have been better for humanity. And easier for outsiders to accept. (How cold is that?)
Wow Pope, that’s some statement. Is it co…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic It happened. A day that will go down in infamy in the forum Politics 1 year, 2 months ago
The damage to American credibility goes far beyond economic policy. Shutting down USAID wasn’t a minor budget; it was a strategic self-inflicted wound to U.S. credibility and influence. The world sees it as a cynical and petty move, given that it was only about 0.1% of GDP. That’s pennies compared to GDP but it bought enormous goodwill and inf…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 24th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 2 months agoThanks, Reg!!
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Simon Paynton posted an update 1 year, 2 months ago
I’m currently reading “The Weirdest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich. It’s very interesting on the formation of religions and why people in the West are so individualist.
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Interesting. Does the sociological sampling include organizations like ISIS/ISIL, or would one’s belief in “contingent afterlife” vary across belief systems?
I’m not arguing against the premise in general, because I think it makes sense. But since the ultimate judge is most commonly considered to be God, then what people consider God/Allah to want…[Read more]
(OMG [sic], and what about the views of atheistic Jews?)
Atheistic Jews? Why Jews? Why not atheistic Greeks? Or atheists? Do Jews have to be singled out as nonhumans in every way possible?
Side-note, have to wonder if Trump considers virgins to be a perk (kinda rhymes with perp) in an afterlife.
I think it varies across belief systems, but after controlling for everything else, it’s the threat of hell and not the promise of heaven that keeps people in line.
I see what you mean. Do Isis believe in hell? They obviously don’t think it’s a sin to kill infidels.