Strega
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 24 minutes ago
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 6 hours, 46 minutes ago
@ Jake
I checked and there’s no such thing as a “shoe fly,” but if there was, I think I’d decline to have a slice.
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Unseen started the topic Forget porpoises and crows. Prairie dogs may be smarter. in the forum Science 8 hours, 44 minutes ago
If having a sophisticated language is your measure.
It turns these little ground squirrels have an actual language built on nouns and adjectives (verbs are implied). They may not turn out to be the most intelligent nonhuman animal on Earth as science further examines other candidates, but right now these little guys seem to be the smartest animal…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 11 hours, 11 minutes ago
Bernie Sanders vs. a corporate libertarian.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 15 hours, 54 minutes ago
Blood Pressure and A1-C (which includes cholesterol, blood sugar, and enzyme levels) are very important, I fully agree. I aim, usually with success, to keep both readings in a normal range.
However, BMI, as well as the means of measuring it, I am not yet sure about.
I fully accept the not too scientific nature of the BMI.…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 14 hours ago
As with firearms, defibrillators are only as good or as bad as the hands and minds of the rational, moral agents who use them. And you’d want to stop the bleeding before using a defibrillator at a crime scene, terrorist attack, or war zone.
Talk about missing the point. Was I seriously proposing everyone carry around a d…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Mythbusting: DIY Vs. Mis/Dis/Mal-Information in the forum Advice 1 day, 14 hours ago
I’m still waiting for flying cars.
BTW, while something like the Internet was predicted, nobody I’m aware of predicted the effects it’s had on, well, the world.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 1 day, 21 hours ago
On Frans de Waal (from The Guardian)
The honor he was proudest of, however, was the Ig Nobel prize – awarded for research that “makes people laugh, then think” – he won in 2012 with a colleague, Jennifer Pokorny, for a paper showing that chimps can recognize each other by their bottoms.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days ago
The extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal.
I was sorry to hear of the death of Frans de Waal. He was much more than a primatologist. He gave me several fundamental insights into moral philosophy as well, about natural normativity and the evolutionary basis of competition. He was kind enough to reply to on…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Where is the mainstream press when you need it? in the forum Politics 2 days, 5 hours ago
@ Enco @ Jake
Trump is a moron and, in many ways, prone to be a tool of more nefarious others. Putin is an obvious puppetmaster, but I’m more worried about the maniacs he gets his ideas from. Some of them who played roles in the fake elector attempted coup, but that leaves some really sinister bad actors behind to enable him to carry out their…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic The women are taking over in rock and metal in the forum Small Talk 2 days, 5 hours ago
The ladies are starting to be where it’s at in hard rock and metal. And, no, this is not another post devoted to appreciating The Warning. This is for the rest of them, though I can’t disallow that there may be occasional comparisons.
Larkin Poe specializes in Southern-fried blues-rock, and boy do they know how to put on a show.
Full Concert in…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 2 days, 16 hours ago
@ Enco
I suspect more lives would be saved if everyone had a defibrillator with them than if everyone carried a gun. There is no lack of evidence that countries where gun carrying is rare have far, far, far fewer gun homicides.
One can’t form rational public policy based on black swan events.
So, what is a “black swan event”?
Here are the key…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 2 days, 16 hours ago
A cult is obsessed with a set of beliefs that “explain everything” or else they revere and follow (or even worship) an individual leader or thinker who they believe has it all figured out. In the former case, for our purposes it’s a set of ideas they think are undeniable and are thus sacrosanct. In the latter case, there is one libertarian…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 days, 5 hours ago
The same reviewer gives a very astute analysis of the song Animosity, pointing out details I was unaware of. Of course, he has technology I don’t have at hand allowing him to isolate voices, drums, guitar, and bass. I now have even more respect for Pau’s drumming!
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Is FSM recognized by PA, or HUD? in the forum Advice 3 days, 6 hours ago
Military ‘Section 8’ is a reason for a psychological discharge.
You are correct. But I was actually referring to the HUD-VASH kind of Section 8. And HUD vs HUD-VASH housing are often in the same housing complex, as contracts for both are often initiated and admistrated by the same authority, e.g. by the city or county hou…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Where is the mainstream press when you need it? in the forum Politics 3 days, 10 hours ago
If you’re a woman, a man who loves a woman, or just someone who thinks they ought to be able to buy a condom, you need to vote for Biden, because Trump will try to please the craziest of the right-wing MAGA theocrats.
Whatever you can say about Biden, you can’t say he’s a theocrat.
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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 3 days, 14 hours ago
Obliquely related to this week’s sermon:
The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.
Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.
(source)
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Unseen replied to the topic Life Extension and Health Extension in the forum Science 3 days, 16 hours ago
@ Enco
So, making human chimeras has been going on for a while now. I hadn’t really thought about it before. Anyway, your point?
If some say we shouldn’t kill animals for human sustenance, what about the ethics of wasting one to save a human, in this case, a comedian? I hope the remains of that little piglet ended up on someone’s table or some…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 3 days, 19 hours ago
Have a great week Everyone!
Thanks Strega and Unapolgetic for the links.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum Sunday School 3 days, 19 hours ago
Majority of Americans say religion is losing influence in public life and which cities are the least religious?
19 reason why more people are becoming atheists.
Satanists sue Tennessee district for trying to thwart After School Satan Club.
Religious Conservatives got greedy in Indiana, and it’s costing them.
Does the Mormon Church empower women…[Read more]
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