Strega wrote:
(It has to be Reg, Pope – he knows the byte-speak language)

Indeed. 🙂

BTW @RegTheFronkeyFarmer, the main problem I was having was that, in the list of Groups, there were blank spaces in several parts of the list where several groups should have appeared. Our elevated rights groups weren’t appearing, so I couldn’t reach you or R…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
This is after clearing cache and data for the site in Chrome didn’t change anything and switching to DuckDuckGo after clearing cache and data and clicking on the Forum link on the main page.

The first time you mentioned this, I checked and didn’t have the problem. This time, I signed in as a normal user, and I DO see the p…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer Reg!!!!

I understand that the concept of truth is not simple and is hard to define precisely.  If something is l…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Group Selection: Groups with cooperative, moral members tend to survive and thrive better, promoting the evolution of moral behavior.

Ethical Frameworks: Philosophical doctrines like Kant’s categorical imperative or utilitarianism guide moral actions through reasoned principles.

These are flat-out wrong.  Beyond th…[Read more]

Johan wrote:
Or do you rather want to keep your live a secret because of its sinning character?

I can guarantee you I have never once sinned.

You agree, Brother @regthefronkeyfarmer?

This is my favourite bit. I think someone’s made a new friend.

Autumn wrote:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Johan, if your god exists on FB or in some Metaverse, I am happy for you. But I have no interest in your bus as all the wheels seem to have fallen off it.

I agree brother. I am the Mother of God sending her children off to school, but the bus needs no wheels because God is the bus, the journey, and…

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michael17 wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

michael17 wrote:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR9h83Mk/This should cause a storm of interrogating skeptics:

Cuz it just doesn’t get more scientific than testimony from insane religious zealots on a tictok video. Pathetic.

Quoting Carl Sagan: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” The highly estee…

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Unseen wrote:

Belle Rose wrote:
Why is it do you think that the words of God would have needed to be “selected” by a council?

Well said, BR!

I agree, Brother.  The Words of God creates Life.  As is seen in Genesis.  I used them to create myself to be a Mother of God’s Kids and are using them now to Create my Family.  As is seen on Faceboo…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I suppose psychosis is always going to find an expression. I wonder whether borderline psychosis might not manifest without the fertile territory religion furnishes its host. Talk about immersed in horse shit there is seemingly endless mythology and opportunity to superimpose oneself in the fiction.

Seems you are also stuck in…[Read more]

I don’t know Perkins personally, but I’m no supporter.  As I said in another post, it’s really bad when “evangelical types” syncretistically blend nationalism with theology.

You also talked about Catholics meeting in their church buildings and holding “Mass”, denying the reality of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.  M…[Read more]

You said, “…my main thing is debating with theists of all or any Faiths.”  Interesting.  Hey, I’m game.  Is there a thread you want to start here on the AtheistZone.com, or do you want to do this via email one-on-one?  Either way, I’m game.  I’m confident I would learn something and who k…[Read more]

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.

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

When you say you are confused about what you believe are you talking about belief in God or with something broader that involves trusting specific people and what they say?

honestly all of the above. Just everything. A paper and pen is a good idea. Right now I don’t know who to trust.

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]

@regthefronkeyfarmer – have you got examples of his negative statements about atheists?  I haven’t heard any of these.

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?

“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]

– 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]

– surely the “validity of the idea” is how true it is.  Science is surely about finding out the highest possible quality information about how the world works.

“Truth and love” is very diff…[Read more]

I think philosophy can be compared to art – anyone can be an artist.

Broadly…[Read more]

– imagine if you went to the doctor, and asked him/her what is wrong with you.  The doc just gives you a vague hand-waving answer, they obviously can’t be bothered to look at you.  So, they don’t know, and they don’t care.  That’s the connection between truth and love.  We need to…[Read more]

@belen – you might find this useful, written in conjunction with a medical doctor and a Buddhist monk.

I’m a great believer in synchronicity.  If something sounds like woo, t…[Read more]

@unseen – I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

@jakelafort – there are two classes of ethical principles: interpersonal, and cultural.  The interpersonal were the original ones from small groups before culture and religion, which is why they are shared by…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer – “Admitting you don’t have all the answers but striving to find them is a better place to be?”

– that’s true.  Why is this?  Why do we always want to know things?  Why is it, “knowledge is a hit”?  Making sense of the world must be a survival skill.  It actually gives us pleasure to know things…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
@michael17 it’s as if I announced that I was in search of a pink unicorn, I’d read about it from many sources, even seen pictures, but I’d yet to find it. It would trigger incredulous responses and I wouldn’t be taken seriously. What is the difference? @regthefronkeyfarmer good luck with the horses!

I guess my subject has more mi…

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@regthefronkeyfarmer good luck with the horses!