TheEncogitationer
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoFellow Unbelievers,
I’ve, of course, always held the everyone has a right to think and express any thought, even thoughts I disagree with, including disgusting, hateful thoughts. But doing so in a way that violates the equal, pre-existing Individual Rights of others is where that ends.
The right to freedom of thought and expression does not…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer started the topic Charlotte, NC Fundamentalist Christian Preacher Tells All on His Dogma!! in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
This is a very interesting story and video I couldn’t resist sharing! It is always jarring and awakening to see such candor from the religious!
Pastor Loran Livingston just down the road from me in Charlotte, NC tips the hand of Fundamentalist Christianity on it’s stance about the Enlightenment ideals of the Founding Fathers…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoJake,
I would say for sure that how a religion regards incestuous relationships, hereditary Monarchy, and heterosexual relationships across religious lines would have an affect on the genetics of the adhersnts.
Likewise, if a religion–such as Christian Identity, original Mormonism, Black Hebrew Israelites, The Nation of Islam, or Ancestral…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoJake,
Is it a stretch or bigotry to wonder whether century after century of Islam has caused a dumbing of the general population? If animals living underground or in caves generation after generation have in many cases lost their eyesight does generation after generation of Islamic life make epigentic changes both through the failure to…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoRobert,
Yes…Humans are no longer subject to the normal genetic screening processes. In many cases the least-fittest humans can propagate as much as anyone. It seems the struggle is changing to the situation where we somehow force our environment to adapt to us. We will fail, of course. Elon Musk can’t even build a decent electric truck, let alo…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoReg,
There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.
I should say so. They all have eyes, antennae, feelers, and in the case of catfish, taste buds on the skin. Still looking for their Tigris-Euphrates, Alexandria, Wall Street, and Houston Launch Pad, though.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoReg,
Lots of wise thoughts from Dennett on epistemology and metaphysics, but economic history shows that In Gold We Trust is more solid monetary footing than “In God We Trust” on paper.
We wouldn’t have the present Inflation, Stagflation and Shrinkflation if the amount of Dollars hinged on the amount of Gold for which a Dollar is exchangeable.…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School April 21st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoFirst, thanks to Simon for alerting us on the death of Daniel Dennett. Kindest thoughts. He was the more low-key of The Four Horsemen. I really need to read more of him.
Now, Reg,
If I had known that the Jezebel Spirit was going to make an appearance, then I would have too.
I heard Rev. Joe Chambers from Charlotte, NC preaching 20 years ago about…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Jake,
Funny, I didn’t know Muslims could do free-form poetry slams.
😁I have always seconded your motion about the United Nations and it was one of the few points where I always parted ways with all versions of The Humanist Manifesto. Not until a vast majority of mankind values Secularism and Political and Economic Freedom would such an…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Unseen,
No one has a “right” to property values on their real estate that hinge on the efforts of other human beings and treating non-commercial real estate as an investment is a sucker’s bet.
Individuals and non-aggressor nations, however, do have an independent right to exist and have life and a corellary right to defend that life, and if a…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Unseen,
Hmmm….I stand corrected on the water solution, but the smoker as well as beekeeper suits do definitely work. My Sister has a hive and always uses these devices for protection, with success.
And the moment someone threatens my very existence and has made numerous multiple attempts on my existence, that counts as the first strike, so…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer posted an update in the group
Gandhi's Words! 2 years, 2 months agoRichRaelian, you may want to do a double-take like Tom Servo of MST3K had to do about “The South’s Gonna Do It Again!”. Mike evidently had to give Tom a little talking-to during the commercial break:
(Fast-Forward to 1:11:18 to 1:24:24)
MST3K: Laserblast
Both with The Holocaust and The Jim Crow…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer posted an update in the group
Gandhi's Words! 2 years, 2 months agoUh, RichRaelian, the original Gandhi was not only Anti-Zionist, but actually advocated that Jews in Europe and The Middle East practice his Satyagraha (Passive Resistance) while they were being rounded up and anihilated by the Nazi Holocaust!
Gandhi & Zionism: ‘The Jews’
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Unseen,
When judged by standards of Omniscience and Omnipotence, any human-created system of defense will be a failure.
However, when judged by the standard of how much fatality and damage the drones could have inflicted on both the Israeli military and Israeli civilians vs. how much was actually inflicted, then “The Iran Dome” was largely a…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Jake,
I saw a little bit of that video and it sounds fascinating. I’ll have to catch it later when I have more free time.
Nota bene Dennis Prager is the master of False Binaries and Distinctions Without Difference, so you have to always keep that in mind with anything from Prager U. Certainly nothing pro-Atheist or even pro-Secular will come…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
I just got off of work to learn this: Israel has struck back at the Mullahs’ latest swarm attack:
Flight map shows skies over western Iran empty after Israel ‘launched a revenge strike’
By Yelena Mandenberg News Reporter
04:02, 19 Apr 2024UPDATED04:20, 19 APR…[Read more] -
TheEncogitationer posted an update in the group
Gandhi's Words! 2 years, 2 months agoNow why would ostensibly superior Mayan Space Gods keep themselves in a position that would give them irregularity and hemorrhoids? 😁
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Unseen,
No President in 45 years has adequately dealt with the Mullahs of Iran the way they deserve, but Biden did way more than Trump to help the Mullahs of Iran.
Biden issued a waiver on sanctions in 2022 in exchange for Iran building it’s capacity for nuclear power production, even though the waste from that could be used to create “dirty…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Unseen,
It was a swarm of aircraft not accounted for by the Israeli military and could have easily been a diversion and/or prelude for something even worse such as missiles, including a possible nuclear weapon. The Israelis were 100 percent correct to shoot them all down.
By the way, the attack also included The Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Another Theater Opens in the War of Dar Al-Islam (Them) Vs. Dar Al-Harb (Us) in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
The people of the Iranian Diaspora (and possibly also Iranians still stuck in Iran?) are standing against the Mullahs and with Israel! Hurray!
Iranians, expats run online campaign against attack on Israel
Story by Aakash Sharma • 1…[Read more] - Load More