onyangomakagutu

Strega,

When i read your reply to Simon my kneejerk was you’re right.

Now i am not sure. In general there is something to it. Evolution would bake in to homos that only the atypical psycopath or deviant just goes around murdering. What evolution also bakes in is neuroflexibility or neuroplasticity. In fact it is if not opposite of instinct…[Read more]

Reg,

That useless and possibly dangerous “Therapist” obviously has to be from Great Britain or some other Romper Room where they don’t trust plain folks carrying pocket knives or other edged thingies to cut ropes or any piece of hardware that could block railroad tracks.

Strega,

Don’t feel bad for the fly or the mouse. They would kill you first with the diseases they carry.

As for the bat, build him a house separate from human abodes. He’ll eat the flys and other bugs too.

Reg,

Charlie Chaplin forgot that Hitler and his minions thought “The Kingdom of Heaven” was with them too. And democracies can choose tyranny too.

That last one?  Made me laugh out loud.

Potential Darwin Award winner?

I ridicule my efforts to get a fly out of the kitchen alive. 

I opened the back door fully, you stoopid fly…and the front window too!  Can you not see the gaps with the most light? The one you just entered through? The stray cats stare at me. Earn your keep you lazy band of…..ah, ok he’s gone. Buzz……Arrgh! your brother stayed behind!! T…[Read more]

@simonpaynton

“Murder is wrong”.  You are presenting this as a choice. We choose not to murder because it’s wrong.

But that’s not what stops us from randomly killing annoying people.  We don’t think “I want to throttle you but I’d better not because it’s wrong”.

I mock myself for my revulsion of killing. I ridicule my efforts to get a fl…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths.

In principle, we can make a complete description of the way morality works.  But this still would give a multiplicity of correct answers, according to multiple moral principles or domains; it couldn’t resolve dilemmas such as the abortion issue.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden.

I think it’s impossible to get “moral truths” (such as “murder is wrong”) with the same truth-status as “2 + 2 = 4”.  I think this is because the two kinds of “truth” are about different things – m…[Read more]

Some more info on witchcraft in India as mentioned in last weeks’ post.

Enco says:

If “nobody is home” and we are just “acted on” as opposed to also acting back, then how do you propose we can “create positive influences and minimize negative influences?”. Ever heard of self-awareness?

And just who is the proposed target audience for your proposed novel about Lesbrews? It won’t fly with the Abrahamic crowds who be…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week Everyone!

“Morality needs neither heaven nor hell to function—just a working conscience and the ability to think beyond yourself.”

– Me.

Jake,

Did you know this is sort of common in India? I’d read about Africa but not India. Am so happy to know how we are progressing.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-863236

Hindus have literally millions of Gods, so it’s just a matter of odds and numbers that some permit witchcraft and others have prohibitions against witchcraft.

Jake,

Instead we need to change perspective and understand the reality of NOBODY IS HOME. We are acted on. So lets do what we can to create positive influences and minimize negative influences. And at this rant juncture i am getting off the rant train to climb a little pissy mountain.

If “nobody is home” and we are just “acted on” as opposed to…[Read more]

Meant to write how easy it is to condemn the horrific unspeakable acts and either write the perpetrators off as evil MOFOs or be a retarded lefty and say meh it is cultural relativism and so everything goes.

Instead we need to change perspective and understand the reality of NOBODY IS HOME. We are acted on. So lets do what we can to create…[Read more]

Did you know this is sort of common in India? I’d read about Africa but not India. Am so happy to know how we are progressing.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-863236