TheEncogitationer

  • Reg and Simon,

    Reg wrote:

    A bunch of hippies are smoking weed and chilling out….very calm and egalitarian. One of them opens a box of chocolate cookies. He becomes the leader. Humans just cannot cope without having a leader. And if he (or she) can do the thinking for them too, then the happier they all will be.

    Simon replied:

    In an e…

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  • Jake,

    Enco, Just like Jews they don’t want you. And that is a good thing. Islam makes it easy to join and deadly to leave. Imagine the world if all cultures kept their BS to themselves? Secular or theistic, the big disgusting ideologies seek converts. Commies. Maggots. Lefty’s. Christians. Muslims only want to take over the world and they are…

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  • Jake,

    Enco, this is kind of long but it is a pretty cool vid in which Yasmine Mohammed interviews a Druze Israeli. If memory serves the Druze lady here dispels a lot of lefty/islamist lies and about the culture and history of Druze.

    A great video about the Druze in Israel and Yasmeen Mohammed has some thoughtful videos.

    But I still didn’t see…[Read more]

  • Unseen,

    This requires some elaboration, because if Jews lack free will (unlike antisemites) then they aren’t really responsible for their alleged crimes. I don’t recall Hitler or HAMAS saying anything like that. Quite the opposite, actually.

    I doubt that Antisemites really think that they have free will either.

    This is reflected in how the…[Read more]

  • 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.

    And…[Read more]

  • 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.

  • Simon,

    They would have had landmarks on the land by which to compare the movements of the stars. I’m sure they would have been fascinated with what was going on in the sky, regularly, year after year.

    Very true. And a simple stick perpendicular in the ground casting a shadow on the ground was the first sun dial to determine daytime hours, a…[Read more]

  • 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.

  • Reg,

    Please, nobody mention Graham Hancock or his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse where he misrepresents archaeology and undermines Indigenous heritage. He tends to creep into these conversations.

    It’s high time that someone “Just ask questions” back to Joe Rogan, Graham Hancock, Erik Van Däniken, and others like them.

    For instance, if it…[Read more]

  • Simon,

    Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the Sun’s solstices and equinoxes.

    One thing they could have done without writing would be to make a model of what they wanted on the ground, put stakes in at various points on the model, then used strands of cordage of equal length t…[Read more]

  • 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]

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