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Paradism’ll cause a schism.

If ya wan da honey
ya need da money

One life to lose.

Hasten the inevitable. We are immortal.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Apropos of nothing i am reading a book. Title is Horse and Buggy Doctor. I recommend it to give some context to just how far we have come. Also lots of amusing anecdotes and description of days of yore.

All of the science, all of the guidance, ought to be utterly divorced from politics. Count on humans to fuck up everything no matter how urgent.

I am outside hiking a lot and i never wear a mask but i move along and encounter few humans and buzz by em when i do. Often there is a breeze so i doubt there is much risk. But yeah i imagine big public…[Read more]

Pope,

Thanks for your thoughts and that linked article. Sheds some light for sure.

Do you have any opinion on transmission of covid outside?

Idiocray is a fun movie that feels less and less far out.

I would invite Trump to be a special guest on new reality show: Are you smarter than a chimp? “Today we have a very special guest the former president of the USA and a self-described very stable genius.

https://bigthink.com/life/chimpanzees-beat-humans/

Sorry Strega.

Unintended consequences. At least atheists are not afraid of foxholes.

Just looked at your pic. You got the Raelian symbol. Cool!

“Hello! Thank you for recognizing online Raelian Schizophrenics like me.”

Hi. Are you a Raelian? If so i am curious to know what you believe-the tenets and whether there is evidence to support.

A nun and a canary share a cucumber in a coal mine.

Nun: Oh you eat those things?

Canary: Yeah, what else?

Nun: Ask rhonjon…i don’t fucking know.

Strega,

“I occasionally wonder if the Christians that come to this site, do so for some alternative titillation, since masturbation is a mortal sin for them.”

Nice line. Good policy for Christianity to keep em feeling guilty for something they will keep doing anyhow. Better go to confession and do a bunch of rosary beads!

Ever see the…[Read more]

Robert,

“If you have a society already preconditioned via indoctrination to believe a celestial authoritarian is required, it is easier to subjugate them with a human figure. Note how modern democracy arose when people started rejecting that notion. Kings and queens lost their heads.”

Agreed mostly. Kings and queens were losing heads long before…[Read more]

Strega,

Doctor Bob is not an apologist. He is simply an affable curmudgeon. No axe to grind unless it is to grind the mind of those who are not aligned.

Apologies Enco.

I was making a joke. Was poking fun at the circumambient hypersensitivity to racism. And damn what an exagerration. Some tiny fraction of woke and the entire group gets taken to task. My bad. Racism is usually a blunt force instrument. Yet it can be subtle like housing and job denials without any apparent hostility. My mistaken…[Read more]

Robert, i think it is virtually inarguable that totalitarianism survives through fear of punishment. Was not questioning that part of the equation. My query is how dictatorship sustains itself. Are the subjects of dictatorship to blame because they are cowards? Is that always the case?

I think mythology is central to dictatorship. Japanese…[Read more]

From Robert: Dictators depend on cowards. Of course, the MAGA crowd are cowards, afraid of everything. Masks, vaccines, immigrants, strong women, blacks, atheists, LGBTQ, vaccines, and education. That’s a dictator’s entire deal, fear. Dictators like Hitler, Putin, Pol Pot and Saddam are the biggest cowards of all. They know they have to keep ter…[Read more]

Enco,

“Jake,

In all fairness, Judaism was a syncretism of Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian and other worldviews and got Monotheism from Zoroastrianism in Persia.”

I did not comment. Ya know why you directed it to me? Cuz i am the Jew here. The good half of me at any rate. So to that is say Enco THAT IS RACIST!

I think you are omitting a major…[Read more]

“It will take a lot more war, earthquakes, floods and pestilence to trim those numbers. You are right that things will change drastically. The games have already begun!”

I think nuclear war is the greatest existential threat in our immediate future. Old patterns are continuing. Conventional war, even world war fought that way (good luck with…[Read more]

Yoga is dope but i don’t know what spiritual means. Hare Krishna? ANNOYING

I try yoga but suck at it. This guy i’m about to link is spiritual. Least wooish woo too. Anyways if you haven’t heard of him or his breathing technique i recommend it. Check the comments. If you do it regularly you will improve at holding breath. He has some mindfulness…[Read more]

Samurai got jiggy with it in rape of Nanking. Contests to see how many heads could be decapitated fastest. Great with American Pow’s in the Philippines too not to mention the Filippinos. Chop your nuts off and stay true to Bushido so what admire a bonsai tree and Japanese poetry? Some spiritual mighty might…

Spiritual. If you enter the forest…[Read more]

Simon, no way to know. Others might be of the opinion that transcendentalism, anything that is not mundane, or quotidian or nine thousand other things. Garbage in/garbage out.