Vance Booker

Unseen I would be delighted if you can demonstrate that a significant proportion of woke people engage in the kind of bullying and cancelling you mentioned. Any empirical source will do. Conservative pundits weaving a ridiculous narrative, don’t count. I haven’t seen any evidence that it is anything other than a fringe activity or false narrative,…[Read more]

Unseen and Simon, you are buying into the ridiculous narrative that “woke” people (already a nebulous and useless term at this point) engage in excessive “cancelling” or bullying. This is bullshit. It is a phenomena of extreme elements of progressive sub-culture. Just as say, hate-spewing cranks are an overzealous element of conservative culture.…[Read more]

“Woke” has become such a snarl word by those resistant to social progress that it has lost all value (which was perhaps part of the point). I mean, literally anything that reactionaries don’t like can be labeled woke:

• New tax funded shelter for the homeless: wokeness
• Considering abortion for incest rape victims and allowing exceptions to…

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Throughout history, Muslims like the “KJ Reports” team led by Kasim Javed and Ahmed Ajmi, have never overly pro-democratic. It just doesn’t work well with such a restrictive religion.

This is Islamophobic. Democracy is as strong in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Albania as it is in Poland, Hungary or Northern Ireland. That is, it is not the parti…[Read more]

@jake you sent me down a foxhole looking for Raëlism information.

In short, alien godlike creatures in UFOs were the intelligence that designed humans.

Had more fun looking for the umlaut for my ë

Love me some lawyer rap 🙂

I occasionally wonder if the Christians that come to this site, do so for some alternative titillation, since masturbation is a mortal sin for them.

Lol rhonjon- this is exactly what a Christian apologist sounds like.

Apropos of the child abuse aspect, the Catholic Church has a Captive insurance company (captives do not have public accounts) up here in Vermont that holds a $600 million reserve to pay off abuse victims with so they don’t go to court.
There are no other ‘child-abuse con…[Read more]

There was something akin to Science before the method was more frequent adopted for inquiry about the natural world during the Enlightenment. Even Aristotle had a psudo method for verifying information and the Greeks had worked out something along the line of critical thinking. To say that the Bible was written in a time when or even during a time…[Read more]

rhonjon at least you’re trying it. Thanks, Unseen – very helpful.

You may notice I don’t use the right way to quote. I just copy and paste and put ordinary quote marks in the text itself.

Unseen does it properly

Be like Unseen 🙂

No, they’re opposite as in not caring whether you want to be a Sikh or not 🙂

Rhonjon, wasn’t there some kind of basic ‘green’ tutorial in those Bible verses?  Something about burning a bush that spoke in voices?

Simon,

Have you ever heard of ‘Crime of Passion’ laws?

In France in the 19th century a killing done in a jealous instant rage, for example, like catching your lover in bed with another and killing them, was actually a valid defence and you’d get off altogether.

Ahh the good old 19th Century, when jealous men were entitled to kill their betra…[Read more]

‘Disowned’ sounds a lot better than stoned to death or another sort of ‘honour kill’. And I imagine if you choose not to have an arranged marriage which is a core expectation in your family, it’d be you rejecting them.

Sikhism is not evangelical. It’s the opposite. They give whatever you need and don’t ask your religion. If you want to know about their religion, you can ask, and a teacher will be found. It is not exclusive – all are welcome to believe in the Sikh way. They’re one god, reincarnation believers.