Kara Connor

Strega wrote:
Attilla the Hun … Genghis Khan … Alexander III of Macedonia

Yes, but those people didn’t teach people nice manners and things like that.

@simon. Attilla the Hun had some people who succeeded as a result of his brutality.

Genghis Khan unified all the Mongolian tribes with his brutality.

Alexander III of Macedonia was a fiendishly cruel man who introduced elephants to the art of war. No doubt a few people were happy with this.

I’m not going to mention the German guy.

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I don’t consider that Islam is an organisation dedicated to evil.  It’s supposed to be making the world a better place, especially for people who believe in it.  I believe it does succeed in some respects that can be seen and felt by people who don’t suffer its bad effects.

But human nature is a faulty and wonky thing, Islam is strongly p…[Read more]

Yes, to an atheist, Islam seems extreme, unbending and oppressive.  It’s also been hijacked by patriarchy.

At what time in its history was Islam not patriarchal?  If anyone would like to hear what women in Afghanistan think about it, you had better ask them very soon.

But I disagree with what a commenter said – that it’s incompatible with We…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How much science should there be in philosophy?

Our understanding of the world around us (whether through metaphysics or other means) cannot go against our best scientific knowledge.  Not only that, the right way of doing metaphysics requires a close investigation of science and its results.

I can’t disagree with…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism

I have to assume that the author, Obaid Omer, knows his stuff because he grew up in a Muslim family and culture.

Yes, to an atheist, Islam seems extreme, unbending and oppressive.  It’s also been hijacked by patriarchy.  But I disagree with what a commenter said – that it’s inc…[Read more]

Well, at least we now might know where he got his brain worm from. And to think I ran close to it on a 5K run!

Strega gets her fingerprints sent to space forever and I could be spending my days on the look out for pic-a-nic baskets 🙂

In The Washington Post, Amanda Katz noted that Kennedy had terminated his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, “ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles.”

🙂

@_Robert_
I lived (in sin, haha) with an electronic engineer in the early 80’s.

There are two memorable elements of this story

1. He had one contract building circuit boards that would used in a satellite by the Ministry of Defence in the UK. I had to sign the Official Secrets Act in case he talked in his sleep. Anyway there was a time p…[Read more]

Thanks Strega, have a colorful day 🙂

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week!

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

–Jidda Krishnamurti

@unseen Pi is like a long Chinese dragon. The three is a lead strong red. The 1 is white but then 4 green and 2 yellow. Effectively colours tailing off into the distance.

@Jake I like the weirdness.  I met someone who has sound synesthesia and listens to music whilst she watches colours dance.

It’s a fun oddity

I have colour synesthesia :).
Something like 40% of people have it in a small way.

If you’d like to check whether you are in that 40%, ask yourself “What colour is Wednesday?”

You will either have no idea what this question even means, or you will have a specific colour that comes to mind. The latter are those with at least a touch of colou…[Read more]

I knew someone who claimed to have synesthesia but I think it was just a pigment of their imagination.

Okay, I have changed my mind and I will pick the other half of the box 🙂

@_Robert_  The system is really “out of the box” thinking. Or in the box. Well, let’s just use half a box.

If I was doing some acid I would have trouble deciding which half of the box to use 🙂