Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Can people believe a broken bone is fixed with faith or by prayer.?Yes, when they are delusional. The body will heal itself and medical assistance will help the process. But reasoning only happens in the mind. It is a skill that needs to be developed. As Dan Dennett once  said;” Yes, I do believe in a power greater than myself. I call it gravity”.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

Yes, but can you reason your way out of a broken leg?  Who or what does the work, in the end, of healing a broken bone?  The doctors, nurses, hospital, etc. only help it along.

Have a great week everybody!

“I don’t believe in a higher power. I believe in higher reasoning.” – me.

That’s super-interesting, Enco.  That’s why I love the history of languages, they’re a way into the ancient past movements of people.

According to the internet, Aquatinian was the tribal language of the Aquatini tribe or clan or whatever, in the Pyrenees.  It’s a Paleohispanic and Vasconic language.  Around where I live, we had the Iceni tr…[Read more]

Jake and Simon,

It turns out that although Basque language is unique, it may not be as totally mysterious as I had previously supposed. It is actually a genetic isolate language that has been spoken in the same region for longer than surrounding Indo-European languages. It’s ancestor is thought to be Aquatinian. Some linguists think it is…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

Yes, absolutely. Just a side-note, elsewhere in that video they were also discussing how to terminate pathogens with a “cocktail” approach, which is applying more than one treatment at once in order to kill faster, lea…[Read more]

That Basque region in Spain is also the one area that resisted the onslaught of the Muslims in the 8th century. I believe Basques are also the people who bring us jai alia. If ya ain’t seen it an entertaining gambling sport that requires great reflexes and hand/eye coordination. Chula.

Imagine the Almohades and Almoravides slaughtering, raping…[Read more]

Simon,

Genetics would certainly explain the capacity for language. Whether there are innate structures in the brain for how a language forms is something different.

Another great mystery is the Basque language. It’s still a guess where it came from because it bears no resemblance to Spanish or French, yet Basque country is in between Spain and France.

Reg,

The Time article I cited said the same thing, but it evidently needs repetition, so no fault here.

Mind you, while I still think that crime is crime, regardless of the motive, as long as the hate enhancement exists, everyone should be covered by it.

It is so F’d up. RELIGION based? aaaahm does that mean Jewish atheists who get their chops busted because they are being blamed for the lefty lies about Israel won’t be considered in the hate crime stats?

I have read and heard how Jew hatred is a litmus test for societal stability and it certainly meets the knee jerk test.

FBI: Anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised nearly 70% of all religion-based hate crimes in 2024

Enco, wasn’t it Noam Chomsky who said that the human brain is biologically primed to learn languages?  Any functioning human language.

I’m sure there is a story to why the various language families write left to right or right to left.  I believe the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was made as a Russian version of the Greek alphabet, by St Cyril (…[Read more]

Jake, Simon, and Reg:

The language portion of that video was interesting too.

Another thing I’ve always wondered is how people close enough to interact developed families of languages so different that they use different alphabets and are written in different directions?

PopeBeanie,

Another thought on this: If they’re killed off fast enough, the bacteria aren’t around to evolve.

PopeBeanie,

I realized this while watching this awesome episode on bacteria phages, which are viruses that prey only on bacteria. I start the hour long episode more than halfway in, and it’s not important to watch any further than their discussion on gain of function:

Wait…Don’t watch all of a video about a medical regimen that has to be c…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
English two is from the exact same ancestor,

We have two, twin, twine, between, etc.

Unseen:

Read the article from Time.

In September 2024, FBI data showed that anti-Jewish hate crimes had increased by 63% since 2023. Despite Jewish Americans making up just 2% of the U.S. population, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes made up 15% of all reported hate crimes in 2023 and 68% of all reported religion-based hate…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its death count. And women and children are among suicide bombers too.

And note the spike in Antisemitic incidents in one year’s time after October 7, 2023. The next year hasn’t arrived yet either so there is room for more.

Crimes against blacks, women…[Read more]

I have never heard anyone else compare English and Sanskrit but from what I know, you are correct. Many UrduGaelicHindi words also have the same Proto-Indo-European roots.

Take the word for the number ‘2’.

In Hindi and Urdu (I speak some Hindi as I have in-laws from India) 2 is spelled as ‘do’ and is pronounced ‘doe’.  (Hindustani)

In Gaelic (…[Read more]