Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Simon,

But you’re talking from the position of your armchair, off the top of your head, with no evidence.

The burden of proof rests with those who assert that there was a Garden of Eden/Golden Age/Noble Savagery.

Also, we know there is both intra-species and inter-species violence in the Animal Kingdom and the Primate Order of which Humans a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.

However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too complicated

But you’re talking from the position of your armchair, off the top of your head, with no evidence.

Uh, ackshuyally, that did…

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Robert,

Not your most coherent ramble. Try some of Reg’s good weed.

In some of the spots i can only guess the implications. No latent Jew hate? It is static? The zeitgeist does not change when the ideology changes? When leaders give dog whistles?

If we think far right. Oh wait no far right? Just the right. You will have to explain that because…[Read more]

Robert:

Oh, this real first-rate smooth brain chatter, LOL. The left “awakened the far right’s latent Jew hate”. That’s brilliant.

So where is Jake wrong here? He’s just saying that one hand washes the other, especially when both are embarked on the same ugly goal.

The left isn’t looking for that final solution to the Jesus killers, the rejec…

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jakelafort wrote:
Simon, from the woke left and it’s anti-isreal Jew Hating campaign which has infiltrated universities with nonacademic studies in Jew hating propaganda, leaked into mainstream media and awakened the far right’s latent Jew hate here are today’s headlines in the Jerusalem Post.

Oh, this real first-rate smooth brain chatter, LOL. …[Read more]

Simon,

No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy? Sounds great. It’s true that people died very young though.

Did you read what I just said? There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.

However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too c…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.

I take your point, that living conditions and the lack of advanced medicine would have made…[Read more]

I wonder if Schrödinger was ever nervous on Christmas morning as he opened his boxes of presents? Did he call his cat “socks”??

Reg:

Arizona senator who thinks mankind came from monkeys has a say in childhood education.

Senator Farnsworth didn’t say he thought mankind came from monkeys, but rather that the Theory of Evolution said so. He is doing a good impersonation of a monkey by flinging poop, though.

Also, Mitzi Epstein got it wrong when she said that “Evolution…[Read more]

As always, you are very welcome Strega 🙂

Thank you Reg. I’m really touched. Your poem is amazing and I’m honoured by the dedication.

(And thanks for Sunday School!)

I smoked some good weed last night. I imagined an artist digging into the earth for inspiration with bare hands and scraping the hand of a philosopher digging from the opposite direction…. so I wrote a poem. I will dedicate it to Strega 🙂

Digging

You dig from your side
with charcoal hands,
following a feeling
you can’t quite name.

I dig fro…[Read more]

Have a great week and Happy Solstice from close to where I live, this morning. More here.

@simon it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.

I just read the linked article and i confess utter ignorance of the Kabyle people and their struggle for self determination. I just wonder who the lefties will support.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-israel-of-north-africa-just-declared-independence-the-west-cant-ignore-it/

I keep hearing about where AI is weak, and that’s ok. It’s often true. But many in society typically prefer to just leave it at that, ignoring that AI is at least good at: Summarizing the words and conclusions of everything published on the internet. For better, and for worse, of course, but I love delving into topics that would take ten or a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m saying there was no Garden of Eden or “Golden Age” or “Noble Savagery”, whether terrifying, beautiful, or otherwise.

No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy?  Sounds great.  It’s true that people died very young though.

Simon,

You’re talking about life in the Garden of Eden. I think it must have been both terrifying and beautiful.

I’m saying there was no Garden of Eden or “Golden Age” or “Noble Savagery”, whether terrifying, beautiful, or otherwise.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
As rotten as things can be today, it was always worse in times past.

You’re talking about life in the Garden of Eden.  I think it must have been both terrifying and beautiful.

Simon:

It did, and any political violence is deplorable. Even if he was aggressively anti-liberal, he had the right idea in debating people.

You are correct and I certainly wasn’t supporting that as an option. Just pointing out that all ways of dealing with opposing viewpoints have outcomes that are hard to pin down.