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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

Those things sound pretty strange to me.  Everyone’s there to worship nothing?  What’s the point?

@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

I went to one out of curiosity but it was more of a “I am not-religious but I am very spiritual” gathering. I asked if they could be more specific as “demons are spirits too”. They were not happy with that.

Then I noticed it. There, resting against the back wall. It was…[Read more]

I guess i should have searched it. Sometimes i understand Italian words because of Spanish. Strega does not take me to bruja.

Ah there’s no missing that Irish charm there, Reg 😘

Strega is a very bewitching nom de plume.

The ‘more atheists in the UK’ article said “most atheists and agnostics express some type of supernatural belief.”
Well, I don’t, but…
The more I hear about quantum mechanics, pre big bang, multiverse theorys, etc. The more it sounds like magic rather than science.
But ‘a god did it’ or even saying there is intelligence behind it is just…[Read more]

Strega, is Strega an acronym? Stop thinking, reacting, engaging…go away!

What is it?

Thanks Strega!

Thanks, Reg!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Cooperation and shared thinking helped shape human intelligence.

This author, Cody Cottier, does a good and competent job of summarising Michael Tomasello’s work on the evolution of human cognition.  He also misses out some important stuff like cooperative breeding, which allowed a greater brain size (increased help…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this…[Read more]

Lovely, Robert!  I’m having such a pleasant learning day.

jakelafort wrote:
Robert isn’t that old testament language…something about take no gods before me an obvious indication that the ancient hebrews were polytheists? And yea there is irony in that nonsense comes back to bite the originators which were not even original. From what i have read and heard i think Iran is ripe for a revolution. Hop…

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Reg, I had the same joyful reaction – terrific word, adding it to my top drawer of delightful thoughts – Jake – thanks for the gift 🙂

@jakelafort – absquatulate, a great word to have in the vocab.

In future, in a debate with a theist, should I fail to expostulate, I will just absquatulate rather than remonstrate and I won’t care who’s looking, especially when the theist is more intransitive than the verb 🙂

At least whatever Clouseau did was carefully planned.

Reg it looks like Dawkins developed that annoying little eye twitch. I had that when i was practicing law. Luckily Allah removed the eye twitch when i quit. Come to think of it that is what made Chief Inspector Clouseau’s boss in Pink Panther so entertaining.

I once spent about 20 minutes explaining that Intelligent Design was not a valid ‘science’ to a Muslim apologist who was arguing the opposite. Someone asked me if he could expound upon the points I had made and I was happy to allow him to take over.

I have never tried to teach a theist any science since then and I insist on only debating or…[Read more]

Robert isn’t that old testament language…something about take no gods before me an obvious indication that the ancient hebrews were polytheists? And yea there is irony in that nonsense comes back to bite the originators which were not even original.

From what i have read and heard i think Iran is ripe for a revolution. Hopefully they won’t…[Read more]