Reg the Fronkey Farmer

@regthefronkeyfarmer – could be Studio 54 on a good night.

@regthefronkeyfarmer – Westermarck

I have a paper on “Finnish philosophers” that talks about Westermarck, I’ll give it another look.  I’ve encountered him in talking about anthropology.

Around when Sarah Palin was running for VP with McCain and pushing the idea that Obama would create Death Panels that would decide who should live or die as a result of his promised health care reforms, I made a bumper sticker: Palin/Schiavo 2008.

Waitasec, @RegTheFronkeyFarmer, that Schiavo link goes to a Paula White article.

@Regthefronkeyfarmer If you listen to what he actually says in regards to those things it is not the same as his stupid punk ass followers. What I have heard him say the most on the issue is the fact that he gets upset about the fact that feminists tend to believe that the gender gap in pay equality it’s only related to gender, and he is p…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer – how does religion warp otherwise good people into doing bad things?  Maybe it’s false to call people good or bad, since there’s probably a bit of good and bad, or light and dark, in all of us.

I think that the big fault of religion is that it gives people reasons to judge, exclude, and hate others.

Apart from this, it…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@regthefronkeyfarmer – do you know, where did AI get that from? What do they mean?

Sounds familiar but could you link the page URL please.

What is Humanism?

Atheist Ireland said:

here are supposed naturalists and empiricists modelling their ethics on pseudoscientific claims

@regthefronkeyfarmer – do you know, where did AI get that from?  What do they mean?

@regthefronkeyfarmer –

“self-domestication”

When you’ve read the book, can you say why he says that coalitions started to bring down dominant individuals?  There has to be a reason why they started.  From reading the review, it seems like that is a gap in his hypothesis.

The second part of Chapais’ self-domestication hypothesis is the evolu…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer – congratulations on helping to get the Irish blasphemy law overturned.

@regthefronkeyfarmer – “source article”

– I think that’s a great article until it goes off the rails at the end.  You can almost hear the guy break down sobbing.

It’s interesting to study Trump as a narcissist, from a moral point of view.  Each narcissist has a punch bag, or various punch bags, but Trump’s punch bag seems to be most of the w…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
BTW, I notice that these posts haven’t gone away. What’s different?

@Unseen, because these posts are like any regular post, in a topic. (And this topic also happens to exist within a group forum, but one wouldn’t necessarily notice that.)

If this still doesn’t make sense, I hope you can ask for more clarification, so we can even…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer – you’re right, from the little I’ve seen of Bill Maher he’s just telling it like it is, and does seem very reasonable.  I guess I was talking more about some of the intemperate talk which gets bandied around about how Islam is evil and fascist, etc. and that’s all there is to it.