Marianne

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If Anti-Israel protesters have other accusations, I am open to hearing them.

Problems of sufficiency, distribution, and security of aid would not be problems if Israel were genocidal, because a genocidal Israel wouldn’t even bother with sending or allowing aid. And the UN has never been an i…

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@Enco

Feeding Gazan civilians you say? WTH are you talking about?

Actively seeking pariah state status!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
The Anti-Israel protestors are alleging all three.

The fallacy of composition is a logical fallacy that occurs when one incorrectly assumes that what is true for the parts of a whole must also be true for the whole itself. In other words, it’s the mistake of attributing a characteristic of individual members or parts to…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, So what is it, War, Genocide, or Apartheid? Anti-Israel protesters keep moving the goalposts here.

Why do you assume they all speak with one voice? I’ll stick with genocide for myself. It sure looks like Netanyahu and his ilk won’t be done until the last man, woman, child, and infant is pushing up daisies.…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
The disproportionate contribution to science made by Jews is freaky. So is the disproportionate and often inaccurate laser focus on Israel as it prosecutes its war against Islam. How many lefties have even a passing familiarity with the following other than Ukraine where targeting civilians is not a topic of concern: Ukraine.…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Fellow Unbelievers, Sorry, I didn’t mean to repeat myself.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.”

Ummm… Bombing an abortion clinic? Murdering a doctor who performs abortions in their driveway in front of their wife/husband and/or their children?

You have to remember the difference in what they may believe to be moral.

Speaking of Poe, he is a total one-off, no other poet coming close to being even vaguely like him. For me, much as I love The Raven and Annabel Lee, my favorite poem by Poe is “Alone” (his quotes, and the only time he framed a poem’s title in them). It’s unlike his other poems in terms of being so deeply reflective.

“Alone”

From childhood’s h…[Read more]

@Enco

I don’t know what it’s like to be you and vice versa. Sometimes, I don’t even know what it’s like to be me.

At the same time, I do wonder what it feels like to be this or that animal. I know my cat about as well as I know any person and sometimes I think we understand each other, sometimes we obviously don’t.

What’s it like being an octopus, having a brain like you and me but also another brain in each of its eight arms?

And what about squirrels, who are incredibly resourceful and capable of acrobatics that make cats and monkeys stare in abject wonder.

And what about prairie dogs, the only animals science…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them?

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals? Oh, maybe it has to do with meeting chicks. Shoulda known.

Apropos of nothing in particular. Just some Sunday morning fun:

One of the hardest words to rhyme with is “poetry.”
Poets flop when the give it a goetry.
Long have they struggled,
But mostly they’ve bungled.
The wordsmiths mostly give up in woe-etry.

Speaking of therapists, did anyone ever notice that one space turns “therapist” into “the rapist”?