TheEncogitationer

Jake,

Wrong Enco, wrong.

If your point is lennin’s, “He who does not work shall not eat” then ya ain’t really saying anything.

The Judeo-Christian/protestant work ethic has an obvious nexus to humans working their asses off in a meaningless quotidian get just enough to get by existence so you can retire and die. Slaves were tricked by Christi…

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RichRaelian,

Humans doing work has nothing to do with a Judeo-Christian or Protestant or any other ethic. It is the nature of life in general and human life in particular. Life is self-sustaining, self-generating action to obtain the constituent Elements to maintain physical integrity.

And these last three years of Hellscape-on-Earth have…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Hypothesis 1.5: Many members of Congress, as well as the Executive and Judicial Branches of Government do not understand real intelligence, let alone Artificial Intelligence.

Hypothesis 2.5: That lack of understanding of real intelligence has never stopped many members of Congress, as well as the Executive and Judicial…[Read more]

Unseen,

@Enco

I’m a little bit lost as to what “serial murders” you are referring to. And are you seriously arguing that since there’s no shortage of ways to kill people, that’s an excuse not to act on a very common way? Serial murders with guns are very hard to accomplish. The perps are usually quickly apprehended after the first episode.…

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Since clapping and snapping fingers would be considered offensive nowadays, I’ll just have to do Jazz Hands. Can ya dig it, Man? 👐👐👐

Strega,

Good question. On government-owned roads, driving is a privilege (though strangely they don’t enforce traffic laws on bicyclists who run stop signs, weave in and out of traffic, get in driver’s blind spots, and Eco-Wacko bicyclists like Critical Mass who do this in swarms in city traffic and threaten motorists with bike chains and bike…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

I’m sorry I pressed the report button on your post. You did nothing wrong. I just have clumsy fingers on a tiny smartphone pad. My apologies.

Robert and Fellow Unbelievers,

One will note the conspicuous lack of firearms involved in the overwhelming bulk of serial murders such as those mentioned here. Once on occasion, yes, but usually their weapons of choice are knives, garottes, blunt instruments, or drugs/poisons.

Also, what you’re calling for with firearms would be no different…[Read more]

Reg,

Here’s the Dr. Demento ditty by Dr. Randy Hazlick a.k.a. Dr. Rock.

Sometimes this quote is attributed to Dorothy Parker, Steve Allen, or The Urban Trubador Tom Waits.

Others have said the medically accurate way to say it is:

“I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me, than to…[Read more]

Strega and Fellow Unbelievers,

I trust and know that there are many happier mediums between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.

Unseen,

If Democratic or Republican voters keep doing what they’re doing, it’ll take the Cool Hand Luke treatment for them to “get their mind right” because that’s where their way leads…and maybe they won’t “get their mind right” even then:

I hope they like saunas and raw eggs.

Jake,

Not that objectivity is possible for humans and yet any form of ideology/orthodoxy renders a flawed human an absolute trash receptacle. I don’t mean that in a bad way…it is just that…

Objectivity is impossible? As Regis would always ask: “Is that your final answer?” 🙂

Michael17,

Couldn’t a body from outside the Solar System of sufficient size and gravitational pull come in and mess with the orbits of any of the Planets or Dwarf Planets, whether Inner Solar System or Outer Solar System?

Yeah, I know I’m throwing in a hypothetical, but is it any less possible than the notion of “fine tuning?” Couldn’t it…[Read more]

PopeBeanie,

Apologies on the misspelling of “Randee of the Redwoods.”. It has been a while since I watched him myself, but Jake’s speaking-in-tongues in a wilderness-like setting on YouTube did bring back the memory almost completely. 😁

Fellow Unbelievers, and especially Reg,

Alas, Ireland has not got the memo on how and how not to fight bias, prejudice, and hate.

There is now a proposed “hate speech” bill that would make mere possession of hateful media content either in hard copy form or on a smart device a crime, regardless of whether it was communicated to any other person,…[Read more]