TheEncogitationer

Fellow Unbelievers,

I think now I remember now why I dropped out of this Forum several months back: Atheists may be free of the irrationality surrounding and derived from the idea of God, but they still can embrace other forms of irrationality.

It was out of an act of purest optimism that I came back hoping I could help counteract that…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

As i researched more on NCRI, my hopes for a better iran and a better world got dashed.

NCRI and it’s founder MEK has engaged in terrorism and sided with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein during Iran’s war with him in the Eighties.

National Council of Resistance of…[Read more]

Reg,

What does the AI say about whether the colors of a Physician, a collegen pad, a Menuka Honey pad, a Band-Aid, and a pressure offloading boot really matter by any amount in healing a Diabetic Ulcer?

If the answer is any amount greater than -1 Monkey.Crap/Christ, the thing needs rebooting, along with re-programming to play a Doctor on TV.

Jake,

Maybe the revolt in Iran will inspire Palestinians to revolt against Hamas, Lebanese to revolt against Hezbollah, and Secularists to revolt against Islamists in the Sunni Islamic nations, Indonesia, and Erdogan’s Turkiye. That would be a jackpot against Islam’s ultimate goàl of a world in Submission!

All of these governments and…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

There is some good news in the world and proof that freedom-loving people can fight and stand for themselves and each other without foreign aid from Uncle Sam:

Emboldened by Trump, Iranian Dissidents Demand Overthrow of Rulers…[Read more]

Robert,

Oooof! We all could have lived an entire present human lifetime or better yet a Transhumanist Singularitarian eternity without having seen that!

Netanyahu may not have a chaise lounge where the Israelis want to send him. October 7th was 9/11-level failure of intelligence and imagination for Israel that happened on his watch. And like…[Read more]

Jake and Reg,

Quoting Jake:

Enco the Chinese were way ahead of Europe until they were strangled by Confusionism. Is that a word? You know the guy. It was another sleep of reason and the masses going along with the current. I think it was known as the star fleet. And it was well before Magellan and Vasco de Gama et al. They knew about scurvy.…

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Jake,

Chiang Kai Shek was no hero just because he opposed Mao and U.S. support of Chiang was pretty cynical. They were both mass murderers of different scales and China hasn’t had really good ideas on government since Lao Tzu. Even the followers of Taoism have surrounded those ideas with Woo.

Reg,

YouTube is filled with street interviewers asking Palestinians and Pro-Palestinian activists their thoughts on “Queers for Palestine”, as well as asking “Queers for Palestine” their thoughts on homophobia in the Islamic world.

The cognitive dissonance and suicidal ideation are amazing to behold.

Jake,

Enco, i was not thinking of the communist rev. in China. Could be any place. But your take is a gross oversimplification. I oppose doctinaire thinking. Unfortunately we see the overwhelming numbers married to their ideology and incapable of analyzing their betrothed. Regurgitation of political rhetoric is the outer limit for the masses.…

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Reg,

…and the idea for a sovereign wealth fund is not a very good one…

This is a terrible Universal Basic Income idea of Trump’s. Alaska already has a form of this, where State citizens get a share of oil revenues. It doesn’t change the fact that everything there is more expensive than in the contiguous 48 States due to having to ship eve…[Read more]

Jakedelafort,

I inadvertently wrote capitalism when i intended communism in relation to a dalliance.

So yeah communism has proven itself to be abhorrent. However and let me be concrete. Lets assume a famine, a bloody revolution. People starving to death and eating corpses. That happened during the Chinese revolution in fact. THAT may be the…

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Reg,

Who needs the stupid FDA anyway! I am going to chill out tomorrow with a lucky dip of compound meds from “Hims and Hers”.

Indeed. They are the biggest barrier to the drug repurposing we were discussing earlier. If the FDA wasn’t put on a leash, AIDS patients couldn’t use Thalidomide in their therapy.

If the label is accurate and all ris…[Read more]

Jakedelafort,

I am not in any way endorsing communism. Only saying that there are phases in which fledgling nations in exigent circumstances are or may be better served by a dalliance with capitalism than say a fucking ruthless dictator. Imposing from without and having no regard for the people who live there is cold, ice cold. And yes…

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Jakelafort,

I think the contemporary political rhetoric was roughly we can fight them over there or over here. And then there was the domino theory. Consistent with US foreign policy we chose to fight em there and never seemed to care if it was some ruthless dictator we supported.

By repealing foreign aid, we don’t have to fight here or there.…[Read more]

Robert,

You’re assuming a lot of things either not found in evidence or contradictory.

For one, that Ho Chi Minh became a Communist because leaders at Versailles ignored calls for self-determination. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc Fallacy. Two, that foreign aid is necessary for a nation’s self-determination, an oxymoron if ever there was one.…[Read more]

Reg,

The point is that we had a taxpayer funded presence in China that did neither the U.S nor the entire world any good against the Wu-Flu. A screen door on a submarine for every one affected by it.

And since when can only Doctors ask questions of other Doctors? Is getting a second opinion now considered traffiking in Disinformation?

Robert,

Uh, the U.S. had a taxpayer-funded gain-of-function lab in Wuhan, after decades of open relations with Red China since the time of Nixon! Fat lot of good that foreign aid did us with the global Wu-Flu pandemic!

NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials
Story by Josh C…[Read more]

Robert,

I agree, accidents happen, but let’s chew on this latest pronouncement for a while.

Trump announces “Anti-Christian Bias Task Force” during the National Prayer Breakfast to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” within the federal government and end the “religious persecution” of Christians in the United States.

Now here is where all Ame…[Read more]

Jake,

I don’t know if machine learning was involved, but Doctors have discovered that Metformin not only reduces blood sugar, but also has anti-carcinogenic properties and may even be anti-aging.

Anything that can identify multiple genetic interactions or multiple uses for a drug and do it at computing speed would do more to make drugs better…[Read more]