TheEncogitationer

Unseen,

But recall the discussion of Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like Being A Bat?” In his What Does It All Mean?. You can’t just observe or infer what is like to be a bat. You have to be a bat being a bat to know for sure. But since you can’t communicate as a bat what it’s like being a bat to a human, the question is unanswerable. Ditto with…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Sorry, I didn’t mean to repeat myself.

Joke,

I sometimes say “only this, nothing more” when i go through a drive through for coffee or whatever. I think only once, maybe twice, has the response been drive right up or some affirmation of understanding. It’s “anything else sir?”

So, what’d they say? “OK, Poe! Move it on up!” 🐦‍⬛ 😁

Joke,

I sometimes say “only this, nothing more” when i go through a drive through for coffee or whatever. I think only once, maybe twice, has the response been drive right up or some affirmation of understanding. It’s “anything else sir?”

So, what’d they say? “OK, Poe! Move it on up!” 🐦‍⬛ 😁

Reg,

Crow T. Robot repeatedly tried to posit what it would be like if Rocky from the Fugitive Alien movie franchise were Rocky The Flying Squirrel. It did not result in result in interspecies/intersapient understanding and empathy on the part of Joel Robinson.

Now, to be clear, no one should be bent…[Read more]

Reg,

What’s it like being a raven or a crow?

Again, Bullwinkle? What next? What is it like being Rocky the Flying Squirrel?

Unless the raven could quoth on this in a tongue that we bore, we can never know, now or evermore.

Unseen,

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals?

The Russian Orthodox Church wouldn’t tell that to men unless it’s to serve as a double agent or saboteur for Putin.

Reg,

How to fix the American healthcare system.

I have a diabetic foot wound as we speak and have had my foot in a boot for 8 months.

None of that New York Times “Old Grey Lady” socio-babble addresses my problem.

I don’t smoke and with Metformin and proper diet I keep my blood sugar below 120mg/DCL most mornings. I would exercise and have…[Read more]

Reg,

Young US men are joining Russian churches promising ‘absurd levels of manliness’.

So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them? Or for that matter if you want your Sunday Mornings free? Or if you don’t like Patriarch Kyrill telling you what to think? Or if you don’t favor invading Ukraine and kidnapping thousands of…[Read more]

Jake,

I imagine that city bears are too preoccupied with avoiding road-kill status so they don’t end up in RFKJR’s trunk.

Robert,

Ahh…afraid of China owning US treasuries, are you? The reason they did is that until recently our bonds were as good as gold and the dollar was the world’s currency. The entire planet was invested in the success of our government and society. Now that the codependency (aka “globalism”) and our special status is being destroy…

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Robert,

Yeah, try explaining how this works to fearful Christian conservatives, whose entire lives are based on landing natural and supernatural credit. The crazy thing is that much of the national debt is owed to foreigners (like the Chinese) who would suffer badly if the country defaulted.

I was worried about my Federal agricultural-loan bonds…

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Unseen,

Ah, the national debt may not matter anyway…

Except that what the Government taxes us to pay just the interest is that much less that private Citizens can invest in goods and services-producing businesses to keep GDP growing.

Note to self: Do not hire such economists or Janet Yellen to administer so much as an ice cream truck.

Reg,

One good thing: You won’t find the police departments of Battle Creek or Hamatramck, Michigan paying for a similar event with their Sha’ria enforcers. Most Muslims have a strong cultural aversion to dogs.

Unseen,

No one is claiming it’s more than it is or was ever intended to be. As for ripping off future generations, that’s a bug not a feature. The mens rea you seem to be implying simply isn’t there.

When the American Association of Retired Pharts and Congresscritters in thrall to them endorse the system complete with the “bug,” there is the m…[Read more]

Reg,

World of Woo: RFK Jr.’s refusal to ‘give advice’ on vaccines is dangerous advice.

As strange as this sounds, he’s actually making sense, since he is not a Doctor and what medical pronouncements he has given are absurd. (I’ll even add his pronouncements against food coloring, because somewhere, somebody is going to use something reall…[Read more]

Reg,

A shaggy dog story from Ken Ham, the man behind the plan for the lark with the ark in the park.

Was Ken Ham trying to train police dogs to be like “Son of Sam”‘s dog and detect the Antichrist? The story is evidently a paywalled revelation.

I’m sure Ken Ham wouldn’t want dogs to be like George Carlin’s dog who ignores the TV and does what…[Read more]

Robert,

If Social Security is so good, why do people have also private investments for their retirement? And do caring societies rip off future generations for the sake of the present?

And since you don’t understand what a Ponzi Scheme is, here is the definition. Clearly not all businesses meet that definition:

Ponzi…[Read more]

Robert,

Progressive God FDR and his Brains Trust were the ones who designed Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, where those who benfited depended upon a stream of new workers entering the workforce and taxed to pay into the system. They never reckoned on many people aging beyond 65 or on people having fewer children in response to increased wages…[Read more]

Unseen,

You didn’t even read what I just wrote. Sorry, I’m not providing fuel and raw materials for a Strawman factory.