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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 25th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoNot sure whether a fervent progressive or Trumpist is more ardent. Man oh man they despise and dehumanize the other side. Both certain of their moral high ground and how intractably stupid the other side…
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 25th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoSimon, outwardly and perhaps superficially it makes sense the distinction between universalism and parochialism. What is it that drives an individual to be more associated with the right or left?
What strikes me is the implicit assumption of free will. I am sure economics is a driver of one’s views. Twain said show me where a man gets his corn…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 25th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoYeah it is hard to avoid snickering at those morons. Jihadis? Sure if they were born into Muslim families in an Islamic nation. Are they essentially any different from the progressives?
What strikes me over and over is how stupid it is to credit identity politics. The far left is despicable in its creation and perpetuation of antisemitism. Funny…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Are purported aliens demons? in the forum Theism 1 year, 10 months ago
It is literally impossible to concoct a world view so lacking in credibility, so obviously contrived, so improbable, so depraved, so mythological, so supernatural, so unverified and unverifiable yet inures to the benefit of the leaders, so stupid that it will repel the indoctrinated and if you don’t believe them and do as they want or you are…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 18th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoStrega, clever, but is it unknown rather than chance?
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 11th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoI’d be happy to pay you tuesday for a hamburger today. In the meantime i would be obliged to bum a banana or two.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 11th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoYes the article about AI was sophomoric.
Yes, i have no bananas. I have no bananas today.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School August 4th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 10 months agoI have been pondering consciousness in biological and nonbiological. Was chatting with Meta recently and some of my ideas are championed by scientists. Good luck having an original idea.
My gut is that replication is a necessary ingredient for emergence of consciousness biologically but not otherwise. Instead closed systems are required that…[Read more]
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jakelafort posted an update 1 year, 11 months ago
Not necessarily christian nationalist. Not necessarily Trump as dictator. Rather it will be the gradual degradation of American democratic institutions.
Atheist Zone seems to be dying. Yo Enco?
Genesis of cults and extreme movements? Speak authoritatively and with conviction and you too can burn the kindling. Had a relative who stuck grass…[Read more]
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jakelafort posted an update 1 year, 11 months ago
That is consistent with if i lose election it is rigged.
It would be interesting to have an option when ya vote for Trump…dictator or president. I assume the independents would have very few who voted him in as dictator. But his supporters> haha
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Blivett is six pounds of shit in a 5 lbs bag.
How advantageous for the democrats to run against that platform. Imagine debating Trump how easy it would be to either alienate him from his base after he disavows it or alienating him from majority of voters after he affirms. And it is a journalist’s dereliction of duty not to question him directly…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Simon, Trump utterly unprincipled and machiavellian?
For suah. Abortion? Does not care. Well maybe he has some core principles. IDK. Oh well Soy numero uno. That is one of em.
Highjacking mind i mean to say imposing an ideology and one that is contrary to all natural inclinations. And that is when their brains are unformed. Hell the prefrontal…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Hijacked minds?
Naah. He is just the right guy to exploit the zeitgeist.
They were holding out for a hero. Such charisma. I mean i don’t see it. Hitler i see the charisma and he also was the right guy/right time to exploit the zeitgeist except a far greater percentage was behind him and deifying him. First time i listened to Trump i thought that…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
Gonna be interesting if Trump is elected whether he becomes the vicious dictator and destroyer of American democracy (such as it is) that the democrats have been portraying.
And if the assasination attempt was real and he was a snot hair from being toasted will it alter his personality. Seems to me there have been some historical figures who…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Trump as Manchurian Candidate in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
The angle.
Yeah that is the ticket.
The angle of the dangle is what one must untangle. How could the bullet glance perchance in a direct line between Great Britain and France?
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jakelafort replied to the topic What will the coming civil war look like? in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
He was known as Fred the Indian.
I was 16 and had volunteered to clean 5000 compact fridges during the summer. One day Fred stops by while i am working. He was in an old pick-up truck. So this warehouse in an industrial park was all by itself. Fred pulls out his bow and a target and he is half hammered but amazingly accurate. He says Glen lets…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 11 months agoTruth is not a construct.
Reality, however, maybe?
Or are they inextricably linked?
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 11 months ago“Truth doesn’t have to be logical and realistic. Fiction does.”
Truth is not dependent on belief or opinion.
Good fiction has to be logical and realistic or in some way cause the reader, listener or viewer to suspend disbelief. Fiction in ideology/cults and religions are clearly not tied to the above strictures.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School July 7th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 11 months ago“This is shorter: “Truth” is a human concept, otherwise irrelevant in a universe before any consciousness in it has emerged”
That is a variation on the introduction to philosophy tree in the forest quip.
How about some truth quotes?
If you insist.
Truth serves nobody so nobody serves the truth.
Truth is not aesthetic unlike the des…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic We need to know why Trump is so popular in the forum Politics 1 year, 11 months ago
I agree with Robert that a debate is not going to change much. I don’t recall the political wise guy who has predicted so many outcomes of SCOTUS but my he thinks debates are not a significant factor. And we saw a guy i think in PA be elected to congress even though he could barely speak. Undermining the candidate by same party may be fatal…[Read more]
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As for AZ dying, growth has always been slow. I hope Enco’s activity drop isn’t due to health challenges. I’ve not felt that his contributions were…
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