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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoI use AI for formal work assignments. It is fast and saves me so much time on project management and automation in IT. Outside of that I use it give me a critical opinion of my own wording. It is very good at “arguing” with me and checking my reasoning. But it is always too robotic to use on it’s own. It does not write like a human would.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoFunny thing though, Reg. Your first post was really readable, pulling the reader into your perspective and quite compelling.
The AI post was boring and skimmable without engaging the reader at all. I’ve rarely seen such a clear example of the gap between human and non human communication.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 8th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoThanks, Reg!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 8th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoHave a great week!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoI dropped the above last paragraph into an LLM. It returned this:
Here is a revised version that preserves your intent and tone, but sharpens the ontology and removes the last smuggled metaphors of time having “flow”:
The idea of temporal change is an evolved intuition. Human cognitive architecture developed to model the world as three spatial…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
A moment isn’t precious because it will be gone. It’s precious because it is what it is. In the Block Universe, time and eternity are not “things” that can be harmed.
“If there is no fundamental particle… no beginning and no end… there is no reality as we intuit.”
Yes, correct. That is exa…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
loganharris wrote:
To Sammy, we were too dim to realize that organized religion had evolved for a reason, and to oppose it so much was a character flaw.Even if it was for worthy goals, there are other ways of achieving those worthy goals, and we don’t have to use religion. Unless one of those goals is “worshiping God”, in which case you’re…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
loganharris wrote:
To Sammy, we were too dim to realize that organized religion had evolved for a reason, and to oppose it so much was a character flaw.But everything happens for a reason. That’s a dumb reason to follow religion. It evolved for all kinds of reasons and purposes. So what?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
You’d be thoreau.ing it away. Every moment is precious. Not if it is blocked. Locked and loaded or blocked and unloaded, loaded and fired.
If there is no fundamental particle, irreducible and finite, no fixed location, no absolute measurement, no beginning and no end it follows there is no…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Scientists and mathematicians are trained to follow evidence, yes. But that does not automatically make them the free-est thinkers. In fact, their training often pulls in the opposite direction. Most working scientists spend their careers inside an accepted framework, not questioning it. Richard Feynman was rare not because he was smart, but…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I like the way you’ve fleshed out a working definition of freethinker. Leave it to Reg to dredge and find gold.
It is something we ought to aspire to achiece but i doubt 1 in 10k are there or approximate freethinker as aforementioned. How much better would our lives be if it were a way of life for the majority?
Praise of faith makes me puke…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
I consider myself a free thinker, and other people consider me to be a free spirit. In my experience, the two tend to go together as people take their free-spiritedness into their thinking. I consider someone who is not a free thinker to be a dumbass, as it’s an intellectual failing not to be. So, ideologues are behaving like a dumbass.
The fr…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A free spirit can be apolitical, impulsive and even intellectually lazy. They can actively advocate for (or against) weed, gay marriage, and abortion. These are positions that are arrived at. How were they reached? Were they inherited from family or from the culture and environment someone grew up in or were they arrived at by not being…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoWrit of habeas corpus.
Corpus Christ.
It hangs in the balance. Ideas that central figures must honor or else!
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jakelafort replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Freethinker is a misnomer. No such animal.
If by freethinker you mean one who rejects conventions, norms and ideologies then sure there are those who appear to think independently as opposed to adopting the aformentioned like a child born into a cult or orthodox community and completely brainwashed.
“my mind shouted to me, “That’s a bit lik…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe fox guarding the henhouse and the Great Writ. Yeah, a Republic if you can keep it…..
The paramilitary murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is exactly what arbitrary force without effective oversight looks like in practice.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agojakelafort wrote:
Don’t knock sexual repression. It is great for creating teenage and early twenties suicide bombers.It’s worst in highly patriarchal countries, where the rich men hoover up all the wives, and the poorest men are left with no-one to marry.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoThis just in.
Donald Trump was caught telling the truth. Shock to his central nervous system has resulted in his placement in intensive care. Is expected to make a full recovery and resume his mendacious cant.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 months, 2 weeks agoDon’t knock sexual repression. It is great for creating teenage and early twenties suicide bombers.
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