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Nicely done Reg.

There goes special creation and a young earth.

I had a debate recently with a theist (No, I don’t have a life) who spent time trying to convince me that Evolution was ‘only a theory’. I won’t repeat it here as you are all familiar with the usual tropes about Irreducible Complexity, Fine Tuning Arguments, The Watchmaker analogy etc. I pointed out the assumptions and fallacies in his argumen…[Read more]

I don’t even see how anyone promoting Islamic ideology can call themselves a liberal. What a con job.

Pope, not sure how valuable comments are since my assumption is that tendentious videos about ideological issues will have most views and comments primarily from those aligned with speaker. But i don’t typically read the comments so i am not sure.

About dysfunctional idealisms? We have to recognize some fundamental truths. Humans are so utterly…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
And yet more evidence of how stupid far left ideologues are. Ignorance and stupidity reign supreme. Twas ever thus.

Is it cheating if I just bypassed 1-1/2 hours of video and got a 5-minute gist of it by scanning the YT member comments? I do that fairly often now, for long videos.

Or, what can we do to mitigate these…[Read more]

And yet more evidence of how stupid far left ideologues are. Ignorance and stupidity reign supreme. Twas ever thus.

I wish there were more like her as well. Although i wonder how she turned out. Is she another ideologue going with the current? Or is she free as can be within the paramaters of our nature and the laws of the unvirse?

Yes, reading a good book will increase your happiness.

I think Harris is making a mistake in following tired advice to stay above the fray. Instead she should roll up her sleeves, get her hands dirty and expose the utter mess that is Trump.

Perfect opportunity right now as he asks her to take a cognitive test. She is stupid says he. Well call him out for F’s sake! Tell him he is a blow hard and is…[Read more]

If happiness is exercising curiosity it follows that all religion and ideology is its enemy.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
New Atheist in Ireland: Reg, thank you for your patience. You have been very good at listening and your arguments have finally persuaded me that my belief in the Christian god is no longer possible to maintain. What really triggered it for me was when you said to me to embrace and challenge my doubts and not to fear…

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Thanks Jake. There is a similar quote from Richard Feynman;

“I’d much rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question”.

Reg you get full credit for your role in deprogramming or deconverting.

I love that Bertrand quote. The certainty comes in knowing how far afield the cocksure are from the cockswain as the former are taken along by the river while the latter navigate it.

@Jakelafort….as she was indoctrinated by Jehovah Witnesses for all of her life, I have edited it to read “always told to do”.

Possibly irrelevant comment: the philosopher Willard V.O. Quine held that everything exists once properly categorized. For example, faeries exist when you categorize them as mythological beings.

Aristotle had an elaborate system of categories and that influenced our way of thinking about the world until Occam came along and sorted that out. What…[Read more]

Thought to do or taught to do?

Now lets see that magic with a hard core Muslim!

New Atheist in Ireland: Reg, thank you for your patience. You have been very good at listening and your arguments have finally persuaded me that my belief in the Christian god is no longer possible to maintain. What really triggered it for me was when you said to me to embrace and challenge my doubts and not to fear them as I was always told to…[Read more]

“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”.

Possibly irrelevant comment: the philosopher Willard V.O. Quine held that everything exists once properly categorized. For example, faeries exist wheh you categorize them as mythological beings.

Thanks, Reg!