Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Unseen wrote:
We use the same word, pain, but my sensation is mine alone. You can’t feel it. And of course it’s true vice versa. We simply make an assumption of parity based on similar behavior, but when it comes to my perceptions and yours, each of us is on a desert island with no hope of rescue.

But if I see you stub your toe, and I am at all…[Read more]

Instead of the myopic view, how about if we examine the accomplishments of Harvard Medical School alone, and gauge that against the alleviation of guilty conscience by the entitled Harvard students and staff with their flawed but inconsequential support of Palestinians.

https://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/timeline-discovery

Imagine the…[Read more]

The article on consciousness gets into an area I’ve always found fascinating.

Consciousness is an illusion in the sense that our perception of the world is given to us by our brain. Is an orange orange in color out there in the world? No, because outside of a nervous system, what we call orange isn’t a color at all, it’s a wave length. In that…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Another embed test.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
The last times I went to a library, it had loud, noisy kids who chased each other in the library and librarians and “security” who didn’t have the brass to throw them out, and the fleas from someone’s comfort/familiar animal attacked me and practically chased me out. One library had signs telling people not to bring f…

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Enco, yes. The local library is here is all of that. You get a good whiff of urine as you approach gateway to literary wonders. Those who have just about given up on life have all but moved in.

I also practically lived in the library at my university when I was working on my grad degree. Thankfully I did have a home to go to when I left.

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Conservatism in older age may reflect disillusionment. Idk.

Have not read Bradbury since i was 12 or 13. Might be a good idea to order a few books and get reacquainted. If i come back and remember my prior life i may take his advice on how to become a writer.

jakelafort wrote:
Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries…[Read more]

Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need can be discovered 🙂

Reminds me of something one of my favorite authors would say.

Yes, the god of the gaps steps in when they bring out the arguments from complexity, incredulity, and ignorance.

It tells us something, that the domicile of the gods went from the top of the mountain, then up into the clouds, them out into space and then finally some unknown supernatural realm.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End —In Memory of the Pope, 4/20 On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome, A holy puff drifted through sacred air. The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan— As incense mixed with something… dank and rare. JD approached, with scripture in his coat, Hillbilly psalms…

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Well shucks, the pope is dead, right after welcoming JD Vance. Here he was featuring baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh. Not wrapped well enough to protect a baby from his army of pedophiles that he shuffled around the world. Or maybe he just admires the tenacity and faith of the death cult. Hard to say. If there was a hell, surely cuddles would not…[Read more]

I’m so glad the Whitehouse eradicated all the anti-christian bias. Morons.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, The Zombies I refer to are not the 60’s British Invasion band. The crisis in Little Rock predated them. I’m referring to undead things in human form who travel in hoards and prey on real humans with brains.

The mobs in Little Rock met that description. The mobs on campuses today are little different. An armed esc…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, Whataboutism is a Fallacy, but What-it-is-ism is never.

And “Sleepy Joe” is used more than just by MAGA. It’s really too generous, because it assumes Biden has the sentience to need sleep.

If Trump being dictatorial, let the Courts declare the statue Unconstitutional instead of just ruling on it this one insta…

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Well i can’t argue Enco. You were present to assess the spirit of the comment.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, Deporting Citizens to a place where they couldn’t exercise right to counsel or due process would be Unconstitutional. But not non-Citizens.

And if the 1952 law giving the Secretary of State power to deport for foreign policy reasons is Uncontitutional, wasn’t it so under every subsequent President including Oba…

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