TheEncogitationer

Jake:

Reg, if aliens show up at your door and are to us what we are to eukaryotes and KNOW the nature of the universe what odds would you require before you laid down your money on the block universe?

Pascal’s Wager doesn’t answer any question, otherwise Vegas would be the data capital of the world.

Reg:

I can’t think of a reply or a witty retort. I can only hear the words “Diet of Worms” (sic) echoing in my head and I am visualizing a sleuth of bears chanting “I’m a Bear and Bears love to embrace Catholics” as they wander into the forest.

The “Diet of Worms” comes after the bears embrace and engorge on the frightened Catholics t…[Read more]

Reg:

I think that Carrie Prejean Boller and Candace Owens have a secret deal going: If one becomes the first female Pope, the other will be the first female Grand Inquisitor. And if Brigitte Macron becomes the first female Pope, they’ll both go Martin Luther-mouth-foaming Protestant.

Reg:

I’ll give all this my best college try, but it’ll be in small bites as much as I can chew and absorb.

I am not claiming that by treating time as non-fundamental explains daily life better. It doesn’t need to. We have evolved to quantify change as time passing. Cause and effect, before and later, and of course aging. This timekeeping l…

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PopeBeanie:

The narrator was clearly an AI or Bot from how it mispronounced words. Also, the video had an appearance of being a grainy old-timey film when digital video doesn’t naturally have that appearance.

Given what was going on in Minneapolis, the story could have been credible, though the devil is always in the details and always needs…[Read more]

Reg:

Fret not, I’ll wait until the laptop problem’s fixed. Meanwhile:

Member of White House Religious Liberty Commission booted after antisemitism hearing
Sophie Brams
Wed, February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM EST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/member-white-house-religious-liberty-221525146.html

🎶There she is!
Former Ms. California and Ms. USA…[Read more]

Reg:

What does non-fundanental non-divisible time explain that is not explained by time as a fundamental and divisible?

Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a reminder that “The Good Old Days Weren’t Always Good”:

Right Chemistry: America’s healthier past is no more than a myth
There was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination.

By Joe Schwarcz • Special to Montreal Gazette
Published Feb 06, 2026
Last updated Feb 06, 2…[Read more]

Reg:

I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

And there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

Jake:

Mother fucking Christ killing Zionist White colonial settler apartheid genociding guilt spreading emetic peripatetic homeless zioned clowned round mound lacking standing to be disbanding outperforming and chosen like Moses who opposes the Philistines and faerie queens & goddamn Lezbrews and zionist Jews guilt by association in a craven…

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Simon:

I used to know someone, a lowly speed freak from a council estate, who could tell people’s future. She could read a short distance into the future, and while we were all out that night, she told me about the drama that was unfolding at my home. When I got home, her story was true. She didn’t know where I lived, didn’t know any of the p…

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Fellow Unbelievers:

What makes that Raw Story link above about Benny Johnson and Tim Burchett such a groaner is not just the conspiracy-ology and the reality denial, but also their complete irrelevancy!

You don’t have to deny Barack Hussein Obama’s ontological, biological, taxinomic, sapient, religious, or citizenship status to make a case…[Read more]

Reg:

I will concede with you that different observers experience time differently and it has been proven that two different observers at different speeds and elevations experience time differently. But saying that time is not fundamental or divisable doesn’t seem to follow from that. Unless I’m missing something, this notion doesn’t appear to…[Read more]

Reg:

I was holding off on linking the Sweet Brown Video.

You can tell that the maker of that video shared an Atheist sense of humor from the Jesus cuddling the baby Tyrannosaurus 🧔🦖 and The Knights of the Round Table from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

I think I saw Mike Lindell and/or Cliff Ratzenberger from Cheers and/or Sean Connery…[Read more]