TheEncogitationer
@theencogitationer
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
I meant to ask: Where is the Apes’ study of Jane Goodall. I’ll accept an recorded oral report if they haven’t yet mastered the written word. 🦍🎙️😁
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
Now, now sacred cow!
Degrade what we’ve made what we’ve taken for granite. Feldspar. On a lark. On your mark. Ready, set go!
Time can certainly include different things in different places, as evidenced by where you posted this and where everyone else is posting about the subject of time.😁
Time study. Time dilation. Time in a cra…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 6 months ago
Reg:
“Now” is already gone the moment you say it. The instant you think now, neural processing time in your brain has already elapsed so the concept of “now” is reconstructed after the fact. “Now” immediately becomes a memory, not an event. The Andromeda Paradox destroys the idea of a universal cosmic present. Even two people standing a meter apa…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 6 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers:
Trump tells Iranian protesters against Islamist tyranny that “Help is on the way” two weeks after the uprising starts and after anywhere from 12,000 to 20,000 Iranian citizens are dead. I’d say time and agency are pretty damn real. Can you relate?
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoReg:
Your beliefs can change without your permission.
Only if you operate based on evidence, which barring mental defects, is a choice.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
So yea annex Greenland. OKaaaaay. Seems reasonable.
Put Putin, Turkey and Qut the shittar on Gaza board of peace. What could go wrong?
Yes, and Trump is doing all this and imposing tariffs on Europe precisely when the U.S. needs European allies against CRINK–China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Interesting note: The nation name Qatar…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
Sorry, I misread you. I thought you typed “Is it” not “It is”.
The former would make it a Trump impersonation, along with a “Covfefe” and “Thank you for your attention to this matter” thrown in.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
It is so wrong to abandon the Iranians to their theocracy. I was about to rant but i just can’t.
Good Trump impersonation, except his vocabulary wouldn’t include Theocracy and his style wouldn’t include such sophisticated rhyming.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 18th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoReg:
World of Woo: The new Dietary Guidelines.
Listening to RFK Jr. or Trump talk is better than GLP-1 drugs to suppress appetite for anything.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
I saw that about the chemical weapons. Not confirmed yet by Western intel but very credible given the history of chemical weapons use by adjacent forces in the Iran-Iraq War and in the Syrian Civil War.
Oh, and it turns out Trump didn’t destroy all of Iran’s fissible nuclear material:
DEADLY ARSENAL How wounded Iran could be planning…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 6 months ago
Unseen:
Okay, Enco, but we do all that shit in the present, which appears to have no duration whatsoever.
Notice the multiple tenses used in my sentences. Those couldn’t exist or mean anything without time. Not to mention observe all the choices available. Those couldn’t exist either in a wholly free will-free Universe.
It seems like…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 6 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
Meanwhile, real people have been, are now, and will persist in, baking loaves of bread of all varieties, white, wheat, split-top butter, cinnamon raisin, sourdough, and–in spite of everything–rye, pumpernickel, and bagels.
Some of us even make flat breads like tortillas, pitas, and naan. And once these are made, real…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoJake:
Unfortunately, last I heard last night, Trump is backing down on his “help is on the way” for Iran’s protesters, no doubt on the prompting of his Saudi and Qatari donors.
Also, the number of dead, whether formally executed or not, is as high as 20,000, and the numbers came out even before Trump announced he would help. Also, Supreme…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer posted a new activity comment 6 months, 1 week ago
Jake, another thing a really bright AI would instruct the Constable is to either provide adequate security for all parties or use emergency powers and tell everybody: “No nice things for you “
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TheEncogitationer posted a new activity comment 6 months, 1 week ago
Yet another reason not to let AI as it exists now be in charge of anything.
A really bright intelligence would say to the Constable: “Sooo…Let’s see what the 5th and 14th Amendment case law says on cases like this…Oh,wait…You Brits don’t have a written Constitution or Bill of Rights. There’s your trouble…And as for cultural ethos, don’t…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months, 1 week agoJake:
I am hoping he and Net. are doing another end around fooled ya and ya don’t like it.
I wouldn’t give Trump that much credit in his second go-around. He’s gone from playing 4-D chess to playing mumblety-peg with tactical missiles.
I am sure he could not care less how much blood is on his hands but he damn sure cares about reputation and l…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months, 1 week agoFellow Unbelievers:
I think the fat globules and pathogens in that gallon of MAHA Milk has blocked the blood flow to Trump’s brain and got him hallucinating:
I wish they’d keep those kids away. You shouldn’t hear this, kids.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months, 1 week agoJake:
I have heard enough of her and that guy with the Young Jerks. I don’t even want to listen. Zero integrity. And i just do not believe they are as stupid as one might be led to believe.
Fret not. I did the hard work of watching so no one else had to. Part of the topic was contained in the article you linked. Perhaps I am too charitable i…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months, 1 week agoJake:
To give just one example of how the dogma of Anti-Zionism/Antisemitism has just brain-rotted people, I give you this video from the The Young Turks:
On one hand, the Israeli Mossad is supposed to be infiltrating the Iranian masses and inciting the uprising against the Mullahs and Ayatollahs…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 11th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months, 1 week agoFellow Unbelievers:
Not a good day for Iran’s struggle for Enlightenment and Freedom. And the toll of protesters could be as high as 20,000:
Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/ - Load More