Jim

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!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Were tariffs applied to the Trump Bible as it was printed in China?

MAGA divided: Are hurricanes God’s wrath or a Deep State weather weapon?

*R*O*F*L*

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

–Bertrand Russell (The Triumph of Stupidity)

@Unseen – Yes it is. Just as well it is located near the Branch Of Awkward Wording Branch.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@jakelafort Can we metaphor even more? Don’t start with the similes though. I mean what would that be even like?

Yes, similes of/for similes is a matter for The Department of Redundancy Department.

And yet more strega data.

Looks like galliano.

@Reg – thank you for saying it was the East 😉

@Unseen that liqueur was a major element to the choice. Also, S is a straw yellow, very similar to the liqueur.

Reg it would be like anything else.

Similies in homilies. Metaphors in and out of doors.
Images of dirty drawers as petulant children demand smores.

Poetry would reign supreme as all evil would be jettisoned on a laser beam. A chimera in every stocking as grown ups engage in playful mocking.

@jakelafort Can we metaphor even more?

Don’t start with the similes though. I mean what would that be even like?

Shoes metaphor. River metaphor. Can we metaphor even more? I’ll keep score.

I love old sneakers and hiking shoes. Adore em. I even remember having dress shoes that had holes in em. I had to be cautious to keep feet planted lest soles of my shoes create bad impression. Sure walking in rain and through puddles was a hastle but not so much that i…[Read more]

If you walk around all day in tight fitting shoes, would you be expecting to feel a sense of relief or would you miss them after taking them off? If the former, then get new shoes and forget about the old way you used to walk. If the latter, then put them on every morning so you don’t have to feel you are losing out.