Kara Connor

@Unseen – The Dems simply got ahead of their skis and are paying the price.

They paid the price because the GOP amplified their “wokeness”. It got major airtime on Faux News and the other platforms that MAGA tune in to. It was always headline news for MAGA even when only a small minority of the Dems had vocalized it. The GOP got voters foc…[Read more]

@TheEncogitationer: On the design argument……

There is fundamental flaw in the Fine-Tuning Argument that many Christian apologists use. If a god created the universe, then it would not appear finely tuned—it would simply be as it was designed to be. The need to invoke fine-tuning actually undermines the premise of an all-powerful creator in s…[Read more]

@_Robert_ Sunday school today is awash with stories of how Amerika is bucking traditional conservative values.

At the editorial meeting this morning I decided to tone down “the politics”. No-one disagreed with me 🙂

But you comment got me thinking. I started to answer it and somehow ended up with the following so I will publish it and be…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week folks!

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for critical thinking.”

– Leo Tolstoy.

Lear’s business license has been revoked for violating city ordinances, which include a provision that requires security personnel uniforms be clearly and visibly marked with the word “Security,” Sergeant Reneau said.

Re the badges video, what caught my attention first was that it looked like they were wearing black shirts.

I too had forgotten about Natan Sharansky.  It is good to read a different perspective, especially when it is from someone whose life experience gives it a weighting that basement pundits can never attain.

Who are you and where are your badges?

A letter in the Free Press.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
the rules of the “patriarchy” don’t redound to the benefit of most men. … Lots of reverse serendipity to go around on this flying mudball in space.

You’re right, those things are true.  There’s a sore deal for men there.  However, they’re there for reasons of practical necessity – someone’s got to do those jobs, and wom…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Women’s bodies are moralized more than men’s, study finds.

This finding is exactly consistent with patriarchy behaving as a moral domain whose overarching method is to dominate and control women and their sexuality.  Women are subject to all kinds of rules that men are not.  The more they try to assert self-…[Read more]

@Enco, no problem, thanks. I devised a simple routine to see if I could catch Chatgpt out. I think I have made A.I. look a bit dumb. I will post later…..

@Enco –  You might want to do your own spell-checking instead of farming it out. It would be a better loving example to people you want to teach Critical Thinking.

I did. Liar and lair are both considered correct by any spell checker. It was a typo on my behalf and it was in the Sunday School post.But thanks for the rather snide comment.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Your initial belief (before evidence) + new evidence = updated belief.

That sounds very reasonable.

Unseen wrote:
It is not single axioms that strike me as obvious, it is a system in which consequences and premises give one another mutual support.” — Wittgenstein, On Certainty, sec. 141-42

That’s good too.  If ther…[Read more]

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Bayes in action!!

Introduction to formal and informal fallacies.