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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Philosophers have always been concerned with the question of how best to philosophize.

Is philosophy really too specialised?  I see mathematics, science and philosophy as three parts of the same thing – the systematic search for knowledge.  We would’t say that mathematics and science are too academic and s…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

I should add the obligatory disclaimer that what is funny in the movies would not be funny in real life. Don’t use firearms in altered states of consciousness and above all never fire firearms in the air! 32 feet per second is 32 feet per second and whatever is going at that speed plus the speed of a bullet can come…[Read more]

Reg,

Inside the Church of the Straw Graspers.

While consenting adults certainly have the right to do with their minds and bodies as they wish and have the responsibility to pay the freight and certainly shouldn’t be oppressed or subsidized by the State, psychedelic religion is certainly nothing new.

A lot of forensic and medical experts…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A recent poll on U.S. public opinion about human evolution.

29% of respondents preferred “Humans evolved into their present form without divine intervention,” 24% preferred “Humans evolved into their present form, but God directed the process,” and 37% preferred “Humans did not evolve….”

In giving this response,…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
He replied, Yes, but it should always be read in the context of the whole text and Jesus would have his reasons for not forgiving him that may not have been revealed to us.

Of course! Everything happens for a reason, even if those initially unfathomable, unpredictable reasons are married into and can’t be divorced…[Read more]

Reg,

Now that was hilarious to mix mythologies like that! And since the early Church did get Paul’s writings in Greek, and did borrow a lot of iconography from the Greeks via the Romans, and for the longest time didn’t even believe in the common riff-raff using Bibles, they are especially none the wiser! 😁😁😁

@Enco – I save up all my sarcasm and ‘tough’ questions for Catholics. Most of them can’t even explain their theology to me. They know even less about the Bible and many of them don’t even possess one!

I asked one of them recently why Jesus would not help Sisyphus take a break from pushing the rock up the hill when he begged him to. You know, the…[Read more]

Reg,

This gives rise to questions you could have asked the Creationists: “Was God too busy to send King Solomon and the two alleged Baby-Mamas DNA testing kits to solve the problem, complete with Q-Tip™ Cotton Swabs to collect the saliva samples? And couldn’t God have sent Mary a Supernatural sperm sample and a Clearblue Easy™ pregnancy test and…[Read more]

From part of a discussion between myself and 2 theists that stopped me on the street to tell me about some “very good news”.

I knew from the outset that they were Creationists without them expressly telling me so.  (You can tell when you see their knuckles hit the sidewalk). They were ‘teaching’ me about the wisdom of Solomon and how clever i…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

Our seven extinct hominid ancestors each thought that they were made in the “image of god too”, lol.

A bit shorter this week as I was busy at work. Have a great week!

Enco, in re N. Korea everything i have read and the escapees i have listened to paint a kafkaesque picture that is so grim that i want to puke. The failure to hear any outcry or do anything to help is not surprising. Humans are so easily led. Selective and directed outrage is the rule.

I imagine your understanding of pick 5 is lottery related. I…[Read more]

Jake,

Ya know where people are utterly fucked? North Korea.

Ya know the humanitarian crisis is producing outcries from crickets whose chorus is heard by nobody, no how. If you listen ever so quietly and stay perfectly still the crickets whisper it is the Jews, the Jews. And that is the news.

Very true. North Korea’s problem is Juche, not…[Read more]

Strega hit the nail on this. Fear is big business. Some of it is even justified and plays a part in an endless circle.

Ok Enco.

Ya know where people are utterly fucked? North Korea.

Ya know the humanitarian crisis is producing outcries from crickets whose chorus is heard by nobody, no how. If you listen ever so quietly and stay perfectly still the crickets whisper it is the Jews, the Jews. And that is the news. I paid my dues. Thought i was gonna lose. But i…[Read more]

Jake,

Strega it looks as though your text saw a gun and was afraid to finish her thoughts.

I assume anybody who has worked with the public and seen the nasty and ugly side of humans and how quickly a situation can turn deadly is more open to the idea of having guns on their person for defense.

Enco has that libertarian religion so the idea of…

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Welcome Strega.

No question SECURITY in terms of economic well being and personal access to health care would ameliorate the gun climate greatly.

Thanks Jake. I was going to say that to address the overarching issue, I think fixing the health system would have massive positive repercussions inasmuch as medical liability insurances and workers comp stuff would be a fraction of what they are now, and a huge fear block would be lifted.

Then I think tackling the gun issues might be a viable…[Read more]

Strega it looks as though your text saw a gun and was afraid to finish her thoughts.

I assume anybody who has worked with the public and seen the nasty and ugly side of humans and how quickly a situation can turn deadly is more open to the idea of having guns on their person for defense.

Enco has that libertarian religion so the idea of…[Read more]