TheEncogitationer

Fellow Unbelievers,

It is now another Thanksgiving Day!

In addition to the classic Unbeliever’s blessings linked above, it is also helpful to remember the folly of having “God as your witness” rather than the discoveries of the human science of Ornithology:

And on a serious note, it also helps to know just where…[Read more]

Simon,

It’s important to make a distinction between errors of fact and errors of morality. If errors of fact such as spelling were a reason for guilt, I could never get a post out and you might not ever have written a book (which I look forward to reading when I get a chance, by the way.)

Also, while mnemonic devices are a good thing, unlike…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

I’m back.

Ken Ham evidently thinks there is some connection between The Tower of Babel desert legend and Evolution and racism that is just not found in evidence.

One, The Tower of Babel story is about JHVH-1 splitting humans into languages to keep them from being like him.

Newsflash: The mere existence of the…[Read more]

Reg,

The story about Ken Ham and his Testor’s model Tower of Babel was fascinTing. Man has gone 238,000 miles in space to the Moon and back the same distance and has sent a human-made satellite Voyager II outside of our Solar System over 4 billion miles in space. That’s far higher than any human-created structure on Earth, even assuming a Tower…[Read more]

Reg,

I meant to add: I got my Pfizer booster shot today!

As before, no waiting, no appointment, no fuss, no nuss! So far, no Big Bird feathers popping out, no 5G antennae coming out of my ears, no USB orifice growing out for Bill Gates to insert programming! Oh, and as before, not a hint of so-called “vaccine guilt.” Just got it like that!…[Read more]

Reg,

Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option should have been subtitled: Oh, Noes! The Obergefell Ruling Is Law! Lock Me In The Basement Before I Gay-Marry!

I streamed a documentary on Tubi.tv yesterday called God Save Russia, which followed Kirill, the top-dog Patriarch/Head Muthah In Charge of the Patriarchate of The Russian Orthodox Church.…[Read more]

Jake,

Here’s the thing: You claimed to Davis that you referenced Standard Oil before I asked about it. I double-scanned the thread and saw no such reference, then I asked you to link where you did reference it. You didn’t provide where you had referred to Standard Oil. You only referred anything after I asked.

Here’s a Pro-Tip: If you’re…[Read more]

Reg,

Kindest thoughts for Bobbie Kirkhart and her circle of friends and family. I wish all paths to Atheism were as easy as a long beach trip. May she live on through the work she left behind and through ours.

Many likes for the Bill Maher video! My Nephew is about the same way. He went from Bernie Bro to Trumpista–one flavor of crazy to…[Read more]

Jake,

You still didn’t provide those links prior to now, as you said you did, so your linking might as well have never happened.

And the 13th Amendment against slavery and all of the enabling legislation still exists to this day. All that was ever needed was the will to enforce them, and clearly, a whole lot of Progressives revered in history…[Read more]

Unseen,

Actually, under The Monroe Docrtine, yes, we can keep any hostile foreign power out of the Hemisphere. And again, it would be all the more pressing with a nuclear-armed Cuba than with Southeast Asia.

Robert,

So I’m picking up where Ayn Rand failed and left off. I don’t smoke and don’t eat the Soylent Green Gummint Cheese.

I will also contribute my Batchelor’s mite and work towards Ray Kurzweil’s Singularit…because where that’s going, we won’t need Social Security and Medicare/MedicId.

Jake,

One, I never seen any hypothetical about Standard Oil and slave labor on this thread or any other. Provide a link or it never happened.

Two, since I did put “Standard Oil” and “Slavery” into DuckDuckGo and learned something new, fuck Henry Flagler and anyone else who initiates force against the peaceful to get what they want.

Three,…[Read more]

Unseen,

I meant to address this earlier:

I agree that we should never have got involved in Vietnam, but it’s not like never going in in the first place would have spared the Vietnamese people from living under the Communist government they have now, a government BTW which has raised the level of prosperity of the average citizen, allows c…

[Read more]

Unseen,

A free-market in health care would not delay the construction of a hospital for 15+ years, including for the past now nearly 24 months of the COVID-19 Pandemic/Endemic.

Yet that is what “Certificate Of Need” laws did to a hospital in Fort Mill South Carolina and does to medical facilities in 35 States where “Certificate Of Nèed” laws…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

In the midst of all this excitement, I forgot there is yet another informal Logical Fallacy: Argumentum Ad Misericordiam (Appeal To Sympathy or Pity.)

It has been expressed in various ways such as

“Think Of The Children!”,

“You Want People To Die!”,

“Buy This Magazine Or We Club This Baby Seal!” (Actual headline for…[Read more]