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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.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I did not expect to find myself in agreement with Ted Cruz…..

Nor i. I expected Rand Paul to be the first to speak up. I still hope he will become part of a conservative resistance to the excesses of Trump.

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]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, You posted one article entitled: When Vladimir Putin escalates his war, the world must meet him.

This article did praise the Ukrainians for resistance.

Everything else you posted was boasting how Putin and his weaponry were strong like bull, and how all the usual suspect “experts” blamed Ukraine and the West for…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen, I don’t go on TikTok, so I had to look up “sharking.” No I don’t support sharking or upskirting or any nonconsensual sexual act. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not have such esoteric terminology and thus is easy to understand.

So you stand behind your implication that if someone doesn’t condemn something…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Not one post that I could find condemning Putin for the invasion of Ukraine.

You’re actually attributing pro-Russian sympathies to me based on what I did not say. OK. Have you ever expressed an explicit condemnation of sharking or upskirting?

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]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Still, “Lucky”??? Where’s the “luck” in getting shot and killed???

Yes, vs. his wife and/or children, if he’s at all gallant.

Feelz is not an argument.

History will deliver the final verdict.

It is not a sin, but where did you ever make that proclamation when the Russo-Ukrainian War started?

I’m not going to look, but…[Read more]

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
You’re saying Charlie Kirk was lucky to get shot and killed???

You might have just outdone all the crap you’ve said since the Ruuso-Ukraine War and the Gaza-Israeli War.

Sure. He’s the one who doesn’t see our astronomical gun death problem as even a problem, because it’s basically a kind of “cost of doing business” if you…[Read more]

Just about everyone outside China underestimates China.  They added about 357GW of wind and solar capacity in 2024. The total in the EU was about 80GW and the USA, a maximum of 60GW. China will probably be further ahead this year, around the 500GW mark. Yes, they are still investing in coal but have defined targets to phase it out in the long…[Read more]