Strega
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 1 week ago
I didn’t pay much attention to the song above until this newest video came out. It’s so well done, I’ll add a reactor’s analysis of it, and his view on what makes The Warning unique and significant as rising stars. Twenty three minutes, counting a more optional (but still enlightening) post-analysis:
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School February 8th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 1 week agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
[…] organic produce is another woo productI largely agree, although it must be said that there is environmental benefit when farming with less chemicals, and advancing integrated pest management (IPM). If I had more money to spare, I’d be paying more to support those farmers.
Speaking of farmers, or at least some of…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 1 week agoI’ve rarely seen such a clear example of the gap between human and non human communication.
Unfortunately Strega, I have. It traumatized my youth!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 1 week agoI use AI for formal work assignments. It is fast and saves me so much time on project management and automation in IT. Outside of that I use it give me a critical opinion of my own wording. It is very good at “arguing” with me and checking my reasoning. But it is always too robotic to use on it’s own. It does not write like a human would.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 8th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 1 week agoHave a great week!!
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 1 week agoI dropped the above last paragraph into an LLM. It returned this:
Here is a revised version that preserves your intent and tone, but sharpens the ontology and removes the last smuggled metaphors of time having “flow”:
The idea of temporal change is an evolved intuition. Human cognitive architecture developed to model the world as three spatial…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 1 week agoAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
A moment isn’t precious because it will be gone. It’s precious because it is what it is. In the Block Universe, time and eternity are not “things” that can be harmed.
“If there is no fundamental particle… no beginning and no end… there is no reality as we intuit.”
Yes, correct. That is exa…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 1 week ago
loganharris wrote:
To Sammy, we were too dim to realize that organized religion had evolved for a reason, and to oppose it so much was a character flaw.Even if it was for worthy goals, there are other ways of achieving those worthy goals, and we don’t have to use religion. Unless one of those goals is “worshiping God”, in which case you’re…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 1 week ago
loganharris wrote:
To Sammy, we were too dim to realize that organized religion had evolved for a reason, and to oppose it so much was a character flaw.But everything happens for a reason. That’s a dumb reason to follow religion. It evolved for all kinds of reasons and purposes. So what?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 1 week ago
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Scientists and mathematicians are trained to follow evidence, yes. But that does not automatically make them the free-est thinkers. In fact, their training often pulls in the opposite direction. Most working scientists spend their careers inside an accepted framework, not questioning it. Richard Feynman was rare not because he was smart, but…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I consider myself a free thinker, and other people consider me to be a free spirit. In my experience, the two tend to go together as people take their free-spiritedness into their thinking. I consider someone who is not a free thinker to be a dumbass, as it’s an intellectual failing not to be. So, ideologues are behaving like a dumbass.
The fr…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Freethinkers Must Be Free Spirits, In My Opinion in the forum Small Talk 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A free spirit can be apolitical, impulsive and even intellectually lazy. They can actively advocate for (or against) weed, gay marriage, and abortion. These are positions that are arrived at. How were they reached? Were they inherited from family or from the culture and environment someone grew up in or were they arrived at by not being…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 2 weeks agoThe fox guarding the henhouse and the Great Writ. Yeah, a Republic if you can keep it…..
The paramilitary murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is exactly what arbitrary force without effective oversight looks like in practice.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 2 weeks agojakelafort wrote:
Don’t knock sexual repression. It is great for creating teenage and early twenties suicide bombers.It’s worst in highly patriarchal countries, where the rich men hoover up all the wives, and the poorest men are left with no-one to marry.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 2 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
States with higher percentages of evangelical Protestants, theists, and biblical literalists tend to have higher overall frequencies of Google searches for the term “porn.”Similar work connecting religiosity and web searches found a link between state-level religiosity and searches for explicit content like “po…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 2 weeks agoYes, it is all in the data but but the truth is likely more nuanced. States with higher percentages of evangelical Protestants, theists, and biblical literalists tend to have higher overall frequencies of Google searches for the term “porn.”
Similar work connecting religiosity and web searches found a link between state-level religiosity and sea…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School February 1st 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 months, 2 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Why Ideology, not Faith, drives the Culture War.This article is super-interesting. I know you’ve got to be clever to do all that statistics stuff. Evangelicals are conservative and have conservative (i.e., highly patriarchal) views. Non-religious are mainly liberal and have liberal views. That makes a lot of sen…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 2 months, 2 weeks agoAdam Kinsinger served as a savvy and (relatively) good-hearted Republican Congressman. He and Liz Cheney had the gumption to be the only GOP to serve on the Jan 6 select committee. Kinzinger was one of ten House GOP to vote for Trump’s second impeachment.
Also taken from Wikipedia: ‘On February 4, 2022, the Republican National Committee called…[Read more]
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