Jim

Fellow Unbelievers,

And all this applies equally to every movement that feels they have to take it to.the streets, from Alt-Righters and Anti-Abortionists to BLM/CEI/CRT/SJWs to Stop Oil Now and Eco-Wackos. Speak your mind if you want, but on your own time and Dime and quit ruining my life!

Fellow Unbelievers,

I’ve, of course, always held the everyone has a right to think and express any thought, even thoughts I disagree with, including disgusting, hateful thoughts. But doing so in a way that violates the equal, pre-existing Individual Rights of others is where that ends.

The right to freedom of thought and expression does not…[Read more]

Simon,

Wound up, wound down, wound all around.

Mortal enemies can become allies. Like mayo and french fries.

Before long a Marshall Plan and the past went into the sanican. But so did Nazism.

Islam on other hand ain’t leaving. The lefties are deceiving. I can’t convey just how automatic Jew hatred is and the antipathy of Muslims towards Jews…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
2 states just makes Israel more vulnerable to attack.

So it’s currently a zero-sum game, that is being wound up rather than wound down with tit-for-tat-plus-raging anger.

Things need to be wound down rather than wound up.  That’s the only way to bring peace, which is presumably what the Palestinians and the Israelis want.  M…[Read more]

Isn’t it amazing how misguided the lefties are? These protests are further evidence of how easily led humans are. Supporting Hamas? WTactualF? The lefty’s Jew hatred is not only a danger to Jews for decades to come but leaves the victims of Islam to fry ice in lives of quiet desperation. Meanwhile the virus of Islam is successfully spreading and…[Read more]

Simon the deviltry is still beyond my ken. Aint got a legal secretary any longer so i will just respond to some of your thoughts.

2 state solution WAS desired by a lot of Israelis. You are certainly correct about Netanyahu. I emphasize was. Not fuzzy wazzy waz a bear and had no hair. Palestinians are indoctrinated into Jew hatred and river to…[Read more]

Jews, Christians and Muslims are just variations of the same cult. When the ancient Jews had their temple destroyed (they used it to sacrifice animals to Yahweh), a sect decided to give up on trying to defeat the Roman empire (“give to Ceaser”), and envisioned a spiritual struggle they could win; coupled with a symbolic one-time sacrifice to…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Neither side wants to live and let live.

Having said that, it’s not a two-player game.  It’s three or four players at least (Israel, Palestinians, Hamas, Iran).

jakelafort wrote:
But i am more wondering whether the stifling of learning can ultimately cause a reduction of intelligence in the overall population.

I don’t see how it can cause a general reduction in intelligence.  But what it must do is to hold back the culture and the economic prosperity of the country (e.g., Iran).  Also: you don’t see a l…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
If only I was an Ivy League student, I would be better able to figure it out and not have to wonder why Netanyahu said that the price Hamas will pay is its very existence.

I think it’s understandable (never mind right or wrong) given the zero-sum situation they are both in.  Hamas wants to wipe out Israel; Netanyahu…[Read more]

Thanks Simon.

I liked the article about schools but it is a bit misleading in failing to convey the scope of the issue.

It is not just Gaza. It is all over the middle east. It is a cultural/religious obsession. And it is far more hard core than is conveyed. The video i recently linked tells story of a kid who grew up there and it captures the…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
WISH I KNEW HOW TO DO THAT DEVILTRY IN ITALICS.

Use the quote function, or the ” blue button (block quote on/off).

I think they’re all authoritarian in various ways.  Religion forms a moral domain – with a goal (worshipping God, enlightenment) and methods of achieving it (religious observance).  Morality has a light and a dark side, like the moon.  Authoritarianism is the dark, harsh, punishing side of morality and hence, religion.

Islam is currently the mo…[Read more]

Simon says,

Muslim people don’t lose their wits, or common intelligence, just because their religion is oppressive. They have to know how to find how to live some kind of life in that stifling environment. That takes intelligence.

Where’s the reproductive selection pressure, in this situation, against intelligence?

WISH I KNEW HOW TO DO THA…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Generations upon generations of mindless devotion, fear, and authoritarian control resulting in retardation of normal curiosity and intellectual exploration might be inheritable in terms of intelligence? It would certainly aid the mind virus of Islam to dumb down its hosts. IDK

Muslim people don’t lose their wits, or common…[Read more]

Why does Islam seem so authoritarian compared with other religions?  Is it really more authoritarian than some of the Christians?

I have been reading a bit and finding out about Hinduism.  They encourage free-thinking and free enquiry – within a rigid framework of rituals connected with ideas of sacredness and purity, and “feudal ethics” (the c…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Adults, one hopes, cooperate for the good of a collective (family, community, employer, club, whatever). That comes over time with life experience and maturity.

We also coooperate just to get things done that we need to achieve and benefits we need to gain.  We also cooperate because socially we enjoy it – a benefit gained through…[Read more]

Religion impacts lives in a number of unfortunate ways.

I have been listening to a slew of apostates of Islam tell their stories and not only is antisemitism more virulent (ubiquitous too) than i realized but the degree of control over every aspect of life is shocking. It is such a blatant and horrific cult. One of the many revelations to me is…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Kids are narcissists.

I wasn’t saying they’re fantastic.  They are monsters compared with adults.  But they seem to be born with innate cooperation skills that aren’t taught.

Compared with a chimpanzee, a 3-year old child is a great team player.

Simon Paynton wrote:
’m not a parent.  According to laboratory experiments, they develop the skills by around the age of 3.  I should have been more precise.  The point is they don’t need to be taught, they do things like respect commitments and help those in need (much of the time) automatically.  That in turn looks like the best coopera…

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