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Jake:

I have heard enough of her and that guy with the Young Jerks. I don’t even want to listen. Zero integrity. And i just do not believe they are as stupid as one might be led to believe.

Fret not. I did the hard work of watching so no one else had to. Part of the topic was contained in the article you linked. Perhaps I am too charitable i…[Read more]

This is disconcerting.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-883264

Enco,

I have heard enough of her and that guy with the Young Jerks. I don’t even want to listen. Zero integrity. And i just do not believe they are as stupid as one might be led to believe.

Ya know from what i gather the Iranians are the least Jew hating in all of North Africa and Middle East. And that in spite of the quotidian indoctrination…[Read more]

Jake:

To give just one example of how the dogma of Anti-Zionism/Antisemitism has just brain-rotted people, I give you this video from the The Young Turks:

On one hand, the Israeli Mossad is supposed to be infiltrating the Iranian masses and inciting the uprising against the Mullahs and Ayatollahs…[Read more]

Ideologies demand power and drain brain cells. Not only in terms of cogitation but in terms of empathy and compassion.

If the victims are in a villified group then the ideologues will be anyhwhere from indifferent to jubilant. If the victims are not in a protected or romanticized group it is indifference and even positive emotions if those…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Not a good day for Iran’s struggle for Enlightenment and Freedom. And the toll of protesters could be as high as 20,000:

Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I must respect your beliefs?? Some chance of me doing that when I don’t even respect my own. I don’t believe things to feel safe. You don’t want your beliefs respected. You want them immunized for criticism.

Someone said that people with intellectual humility are more successful, they didn’t specify in what way. …[Read more]

Simon…about the reply from the evangelical street hawker – He was confused  as to why I treated what he said as a subjective claim rather than an objective truth.  These people are very well versed in controlling the conversation. They can dodge the question or reply with a question and most people don’t realize this.

EG, if I say I don’t b…[Read more]

Jake:

Thanks for the missing link. Enco.

Cogito ergo Enco.

Well, thanks, but all I did was merely pass along the Atheist Republic link. It’s all that I can do in my position.

Armin and friends are the ones to thank more for doing happy warrior work by monitoring Iran’s uprising for hours at a time. As a Canadian of Iranian descent, Armin…[Read more]

Thanks for the missing link. Enco.

Cogito ergo Enco.

Do you think Venezuela and icy roads are the main stories causing Iran to be shuffled off to Buffalo? Or would the coverage by be de minimis and missing us even without headline news?

Reg’s take is on the make. Particularly taken with the part about ideology demanding power. How ideologies form and become so damn dogmatic and intransigent with the dummies infecting other dummies is an interesting topic. Free Palestine bitches. Fuck the Iranians. Globalize the intifada. Make America Great Again like it was when those people knew…[Read more]

Reg:

Tribalism: How “Us vs. Them” takes hold.

“Race riot.”. Very clever. I see what they did there.

If there has to be any preferences in Universities, it should be for Sri Lankans, Rwandans, Balkans, and Singaporans to teach all the DEI Woke Eggheads and Free Palestine-ers that their way lies madness.

Reg:

Funny thing. The promoters of high-Alkaline “Kangen” water call their concoction “Restructured” water. So basically an old wine in a new bottle.

One of the promoters of “Kangen” Water approached me about it, saying that it’s anti-acidic properties might help my diabetic foot wounds. I don’t think it got though to her when I reminded her…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: Structured water.

Funny, I didn’t think the meltoff from Igloos had health benefits. 😁

Thank you, I’ll be here all week! Try the veal!

Jake:

Armin Navabi’s YouTube Channel Atheist Republic has been going non-stop covering Iran’s uprising as well as the Israel-Hamas War before that.

https://m.youtube.com/@AtheistRepublic

So much to take in all at once, but well worth jumping in!

Jake:

Inshallah

No, “الشعب الإيراني مستعد”. “The Iranian people willing.”

I just hope that there’s no more destruction than is necessary to free the Iranian people. From what I’ve seen of interior pictures, mosques could make really great dance halls and skating rinks.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Me, in conversation with a evangelical street preacher in Dublin last week.

What did they say back?  Anything?  Very well put.

Thanks Reg!!

“Most of my friends are so well educated they can scarcely believe God exists.”

Theologian Lelio Sozzini in a letter to John Calvin on 14 May 1549 from Switzerland, commenting on the unusually high level of skepticism about God’s existence among educated men in Italy. It was an early encounter with what later historians see as the rise of s…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

“I must respect your beliefs?? Some chance of me doing that when I don’t even respect my own. I don’t believe things to feel safe. You don’t want your beliefs respected. You want them immunized for criticism. Once they are protected from scrutiny, beliefs will metastasize into ideology and when ideology remains unchall…[Read more]