Simon Paynton

Left and Right don’t apply to Islamic terrorism except that Islamists think that they are the only ones who are Right and should be the only ones who are Left.

I like that line 🙂

@Enco –  you wrote: I got lucky and was able to get a prescription for a COVID-19 vaccine, completely covered by my insurance, with only the hassle of going to my Primary Care Physician, who fortunately didn’t charge me for the visit. 

You needed a script from a physician to get a COVID-19 vaccine and it cost money? Did booster vaccines also cos…[Read more]

Hours spent on religious indoctrination (especially in schools that emphasize rote memorization of doctrine) are hours not spent on inquiry-based learning, STEM labs, or building critical reasoning skills. When students are trained to accept authority and revelation as the highest form of knowledge, they often carry weaker habits of skepticism,…[Read more]

Here is a useful site to verify images…..i.e. fake or taken from elsewhere and re-used.

https://tineye.com/

@jakelafort…. I used to have a t-shirt with that quote. I wore it back in the days when blasphemy was a thing in Ireland. It started  lot of rows and arguments….which was my intention 🙂

If you ever want a ‘different’ book to read, then I would recommend this one. I have it somewhere in the house. Reading the first page of the prologue…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week!!

“If evidence is the engine of progress, magical thinking is the handbrake left on.” – me.

Yes, the fundamentalist position is where the religious should aspire to be. If one is ‘true believer’ then no reasoning is allowed in. NO point just being a “Sunday Christian”. Faith must become the totality of the brain process. Anything less is not acceptable to your peers.

At some point in the past I remember thinking that religious fundamentalism was a byproduct of whatever religion someone followed. But it is not. It is the natural destination to arrive at if you stay the course of the indoctrination process. There are just degrees of how “mental” people become once they reach the destination point.

I did not expect to find myself in agreement with Ted Cruz…..

I think you’ve been pretty objective and spot on, too. But…

_Robert_ wrote:
Our quasi-democracy is over. Bought and paid for.  We are too fat and idiotic to even realize it. The 0.1% are now unstoppable.

I was dead wrong that Trump and co-conspirators could pull things off as well as they have. I underestimated his stupidity and/or willingness…[Read more]

On the Topic of Incompetance, Again

Our Trump-installed FBI director Ka$h Patel, children’s book writer and podcaster.

16-1/2 minutes

TheEncogitationer wrote:
[In reply to @Unseen‘s I’m on the right side of history, I feel, on Gaza.]

Feelz is not an argument.

I feel, in this moment of Hamas vs Israeli history, there is no “right side of history”.

Humanity has fucked up here, with no quick fix. All we can do now to inform our future, is to review history, debate, cry, and d…[Read more]

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Cheers, Reg!