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@Jakelafort, I am sure that if I walked into a sociology class today, the professor would first ask for my preferred pronouns, then remind the class of the intersectional power dynamics of punctuality, and only then ask if I agreed with the modernized version of the statement that now asserts that “A system is a cohesive whole shaped by bounded r…[Read more]

And Reg as to sociology class ya took me back to my college snooze fest sociology class. I sat next to my roomate in the back of the class. The guy was always high and making me laugh. Prof thought i was a total moron. First exam got highest score. He found out i was only half way to being a moron.

Am posting like an animal spraying my scent…[Read more]

@Jakelafort, I think your posted into the wrong post (like me now)…but no matter.

Your words “Well articulated ideas forming a cohesive something something” reminded me of year one, day one in my Sociology class (it was a business degree course) when the professor announced within the first minute that “a system is a cohesive whole founded…[Read more]

Bravo Reg.

Well articulated ideas forming a cohesive something something. Only aspect i think you are generous is in assuming it requires any conditions to make people believe anything however F’ing stupid or insane although i suppose certain stressors will do just that or add tabasco to the hot tamale.

Globalize the intifada bitches!

Enco says: Conditions for entry are alright in a free society, even silly ones, but not conditions of exit. Conditions for exit are what the Mob and Muslim creeds impose and are crummy and not cromulent.

Yes, indeed, imagine all that. John Lennon wouldn’t have made that sappy song. No Heaven and Hell is a given, but I’m keeping the toaster, TV,…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco, Just like Jews they don’t want you. And that is a good thing. Islam makes it easy to join and deadly to leave. Imagine the world if all cultures kept their BS to themselves? Secular or theistic, the big disgusting ideologies seek converts. Commies. Maggots. Lefty’s. Christians. Muslims only want to take over the world and they are…

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Enco, Just like Jews they don’t want you. And that is a good thing. Islam makes it easy to join and deadly to leave. Imagine the world if all cultures kept their BS to themselves? Secular or theistic, the big disgusting ideologies seek converts. Commies. Maggots. Lefty’s. Christians. Muslims only want to take over the world and they are getting a…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco, this is kind of long but it is a pretty cool vid in which Yasmine Mohammed interviews a Druze Israeli. If memory serves the Druze lady here dispels a lot of lefty/islamist lies and about the culture and history of Druze.

A great video about the Druze in Israel and Yasmeen Mohammed has some thoughtful videos.

But I still didn’t see…[Read more]

Nice little synopsis of the history of Iran starting in 70s. And the women let the lefties have it.

Enco,

It seems to me you are conceptualizing determinism from the perspective of physics. The universe unfolds in a determined way so that were one sophisticated enough in terms of mathematics and positions and forces at any one point the universe 2 billion years hence would be precisely as predicted. But i doubt anyone has the knowledge to have…[Read more]

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-861227

Unseen,

This requires some elaboration, because if Jews lack free will (unlike antisemites) then they aren’t really responsible for their alleged crimes. I don’t recall Hitler or HAMAS saying anything like that. Quite the opposite, actually.

I doubt that Antisemites really think that they have free will either.

This is reflected in how the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Two, Antisemitism in all of it’s forms, whether Theological, Racist, or Political, is a denial of free will on the part of Jews.

This requires some elaboration, because if Jews lack free will (unlike antisemites) then they aren’t really responsible for their alleged crimes. I don’t recall Hitler or HAMAS saying anything l…[Read more]

Enco, this is kind of long but it is a pretty cool vid in which Yasmine Mohammed interviews a Druze Israeli. If memory serves the Druze lady here dispels a lot of lefty/islamist lies and about the culture and history of Druze.

Hey Enco,

Thanks for your thoughtful response.

To touch on some of your points when i brought up the Christian concept of free will i was coming at it from a different perspective. But clearly you’re correct in the way you’ve approached it. The thing in the garden of eden does not exonerate the architect. I was thinking of a free pass given to…[Read more]

Reg and Jake,

There’s a strip of I-77 heading towards Raleigh that is sponsored by the American Druze Society. It looked like a clean strip of road, but I didn’t see anyone working out there. I chalked it up to them being so discreet. 🤫😁.

Further along, there was another strip sponsored by Jains. I wondered then how that could even be…[Read more]

Reg,

Given the gravament of the scandal, that video is just creepy. I shudder to think of what people can do with images like that!

Chat-GPT, it’s time for more briefing.

Jake,

I’m back, with a few thoughts on free will and how it relates to your postings.

One, the Greek philosophers, in particular Aristotle, Epictetus, and the Stoics, discussed issues of free will vs. Determinism centuries before and separate from Judaism and Christianity, so one can hold to free will independent of Abrahamic religion.

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Yes, had a friend from Atheist Ireland in Dublin who is Syrian and lived among a mostly Druze population, before the Civil War.  She was working towards her Masters on a research team that analyzed the brains of people who died from Alzheimer’s disease. I (stupidly) asked her if she got much push back for being an atheist (having wrongly assumed…[Read more]