Reg the Fronkey Farmer

A few hundred years ago many Christians believed that their God had Hell prepared before he created us Humans. All heated up and ready for when the humans who never heard about “Him” died. With that sort of thinking I suspect he got a virus embedded in one of those planets which corrupted his thinking. He might have been omnipotent once, now he is…[Read more]

The angel Gary is already on the case but it is hard work.

Of course it is called Harvey. I must have picked up that vibe from afar 🙂

The thing about the placebo effect is that placebos still “work” even when we know that the pills are placebos. They work even better if the person administrating them is wearing a white coat.

I like your idea about “ego death”. It leads to the birth of wisdom. When you…[Read more]

@Davis – Only if your rabbit is called Harvey.

Ah, pink unicorn testicles!!

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The difference between Bannon and Cheney is that for Bannon they are a lot less unknown unknowns that he does not know about.

Could the silence from Iran be down to the possibility that it mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian Boeing aircraft? Let’s see how this develops.

Trump is now more distrusted than Putin or Xi according to a new Pew survey.

I think ISIS will be glad of the situation in Iraq so they can regroup.

I don’t think the odds of being alive is the most compelling argument for not slaughtering animals.

I agree. I should have developed that point further. They would consider that animals should have legal  “personhood” status. We should not, as Christians do, consider ourselves to have dominion over them.

I would say “life experiences” were my biggest influences. In my late teens and until my mid twenties I would have lived the “hippyanarchist lifestyle” where vegetarianism was mainstream. When I moved back to Ireland I would eat meat occasionally. When, 10 years ago, at 45, I decided to get fit again. I am fitter now (ignoring my current chest…[Read more]