TheEncogitationer

Reg and Jake,

There’s a strip of I-77 heading towards Raleigh that is sponsored by the American Druze Society. It looked like a clean strip of road, but I didn’t see anyone working out there. I chalked it up to them being so discreet. 🤫😁.

Further along, there was another strip sponsored by Jains. I wondered then how that could even be…[Read more]

Reg,

Given the gravament of the scandal, that video is just creepy. I shudder to think of what people can do with images like that!

Chat-GPT, it’s time for more briefing.

Jake,

I’m back, with a few thoughts on free will and how it relates to your postings.

One, the Greek philosophers, in particular Aristotle, Epictetus, and the Stoics, discussed issues of free will vs. Determinism centuries before and separate from Judaism and Christianity, so one can hold to free will independent of Abrahamic religion.

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Reg,

Do apologists hate pigeons? Does the Trump administration hate penguins?

The video to the two links are one and the same.

Jake,

More on this later. This is a lot to digest.

Strega,

Thank you @Enco I am buried under a vile cold and my brain has left the chat

Well, take care of yourself and best of thoughts.

Strega,

If people could never change their minds, then any attempts to persuade them with words such as Jake’s would be futile.

Jake,

Hickory dickory dock

Scopes trial is a lock. Aint no monkey related to me. I’m created special and my will is free. Man has progressed after 100 years. New secular religion allays our fears. If we can remove the zionist threat all of us humans set free on the net. Ukraine, Yemen, Syria too…Sudan, Somalia, Darfur, who? Myopia obs…

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Reg,

What’s it like to be a baby?

Well, at least this epistemological cosplay question is easily relatable and has massive sample sizes to provide answers. Two especially big groups of samples are MAGA and Democratic Socialists of America. 😁 And there will be much bigger sample groups to study now that:

IRS says churches can now endorse p…

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Reg,

There needs to be a third value measured on that graph, namely gullibility. If you measured for that, the line would be vertical to infinity.

One thing’s for sure: AI in it’s present form adds nothing to frequency of miracles from my stance. I asked DuckDuckGo’s AI what Doctors have recommended for healing a diabetic foot wound.

When…[Read more]

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers,

Be careful where you get your AI Magic 8-Ball answers. Best to stick with DuckDuckGo web searches.

Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X
The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flo…[Read more]

Jake,

I had a Jamaican gf and have spoken to other women in Jamaica and they confirm the homophobic men in Jamiaica and also quite sexist. Generalization i know. Interestingly Jamaica which was a stopping off point in the Atlantic slave trade had Brown people who made slaves of Black people. Jamaica is very diverse in terms of ethnicities that…

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Simon and Jake,

A note about competition: You say this like it’s a universally bad thing.

Competition in the provision of goods and services in a marketplace makes for better quality of goods and services and it impels the competitors to better practices to produce these goods and services.

Also, Wafa Sultan noted that true civilizations do…[Read more]

Jake,

Who sings that song about Buffalo Soldier?

That was Bob Marley. Who not only sang in tribute to the Manifest Destiny-enforcing Buffalo Soldier, but he was also a misogynist, a homophobe, a rich Socialist hob-knobber, and just a crappy human being made worse by his Rastafarian religion.

The more I learn about celebrities, the less I am…[Read more]

Jake,

While i agree indigenous Americans which by the way the dating of their arrival keeps getting pushed back…i think latest i read is up to 40,000 yrs ago…engaged in slavery and war it was not nearly as systematic and degrading as the Atlantic slave trade which truly was an abomination and unspeakably horrible. But it is also true that sla…

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Reg,

The tip-off that you were dealing with an “It” was that “It” got the date wrong and called the horrors of October 7th a singular “kidnapping” instead of a pogrom.

And, as a side bar absurdity, “It” also downgraded September 11th, 2001 by calling it a singular “kidnapping” instead of an attack on civilization as a whole.

I wouldn’t have…[Read more]

Strega,

You’re much more tribal here in America. People really like labels and grouping terms. Maybe it’s because you had to invade the land you live in, and had to manage indigenous peoples, so it’s a Cowboys and Indians mentality. Or Us vs Them.

What Jake has copiously said addresses this as a human condition, not exclusive to the U.S.A…[Read more]