Jim

moral blank slates at birth?:
Babys are notoriously selfish. Not moral.
In the study, babies favored the ‘helper’ puppet, not out of morals or empathy for the ‘struggling’ puppet. But out of self interest.
We all want to be cared for. “Help me too”.
Morals in the test babies would have been reaching for the ‘struggling’ puppet, to help it also.

Atheist chaplains:
Working for the other side is still suporting the other side. Justifying religin’s existance.
He never challenges the believers he minesters.
“especially as humanity grapples with existential threats”
What ‘existential threats’? Climate change in spite of ‘god’s will’?

Thanks, Reg!  Happy new year!!!

Happy New Year to all!

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Bertrand Russel.

Jake, if ape-like humans of a million years ago hear a sound from some bushes, the ones who runs without checking the facts will live, while the one who want to know what made that noise might not. So most of the tribe runs off together. The curious one gets eaten alive.

How many times have i read/heard people ejaculate with conviction how this group or that group is terminally stupid? Trumpers. Progressives. Aborigines. Hicks. Chicks. Chicks with dicks. Is there any native difference in intelligence between groups? Almost certainly but it misses my point and even the crem de la that is good soup group is…[Read more]

@Strega – Too many people are afraid to live on their own for even a short period of time. I highly recommend it.

Maybe just don’t start writing a novel about what can happen to Jack when he spends too much time at work and not enough time playing. 🙂

For those with terminal illnesses, assisted dying is a powerful quality of life option. For most, just knowing that they have the legal option in place in case they want or need to avail of it at some future point, immediately improves their quality of life. It also allows their love ones, who would assist them, the peace of mind knowing they…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die.

I don’t think that assisted dying on the grounds of depression should be legal, because depression is always in theory reversible.  On the other hand, it took being genuinely offered to die for this lady to want to live again.  It’s a difficult one.

@Strega I’m sorry to hear about your divorce. Acreage in the woods  sounds lovely though. Glad to hear you’re feeling positive about the future in 2025!

Strega wrote:
As part of my divorce, I gave the whole house and contents to my almost-ex wife. I then landed the perfect place to live. I’m ‘caretaker’ for my friends spare house (the mother died a while back) sort of like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. I pay a peppercorn rent and have a four bedroom house in the woods with 6 acres of land, and h…

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As part of my divorce, I gave the whole house and contents to my almost-ex wife. I then landed the perfect place to live. I’m ‘caretaker’ for my friends spare house (the mother died a while back) sort of like Jack Nicholson in The Shining.

I pay a peppercorn rent and have a four bedroom house in the woods with 6 acres of land, and heating from…[Read more]

Thanks Strega, hope you are warm and cozy where you are. I was almost going to fly to Atlanta today but skipped it this Christmas. Weather is better here!

Hey Reg!  Thank you!  Great year of Sunday School 🙂

Have a great week everyone and a very Happy Christmas!

After hearing Trump today on the spending deal, I have decided to stop listening to him and to Vance when he takes over. Who voted for Elon Musk, btw?

When i was a kid and the topic of original sin was in play i was just amazed anyone would buy into that nonsense. Even JP with his ridiculous casuistry would not stoop so low.

But i wonder if an extension of that thinking is not in play in the Christian mantra, ‘Who Killed Christ? The Jews killed Christ!’ And today all of those putative sins of…[Read more]

You can download a free ChatGPT app for your phone. Just select the voice you want to converse with and press the microphone button.

Android one is here

jakelafort wrote:
I want to know what the thinker thinks.

Like Peter Griffin on ecstacy:  “how are you doing that?”