TheEncogitationer
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic 2021 Scottish Law Against "Stirring Up Hatred" in Full Effect! in the forum Politics 2 years, 2 months ago
Robert,
Hitler’s Nazi Germany was a product of hundreds of years of steeping and indoctrination in Irrationality, Self-Sacrifice, and blind obedience to the State, of which Antisemitism and Racism were one part.
And the Nazis were State actors, which are not stopped by giving the State greater power.
But, yes, you are right about the…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 2 months agoReg,
Much obliged on the input on measures for health. I guess any attempt at measuring is better than none. Still, I have to wonder when it jumps all over the place. Maybe the scale is defective or on low batteries. Must check and see.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 31st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoJake,
There is no contradiction in saying that humans are product of billions of years of Evolution and that humans are unique. Where the teacher got it wrong was assuming that we humans are “chosen” and “created” by a Supernatural Being to be unique.
Steve Job had the right idea. Humans are unique because we innovate our way out of our…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer started the topic 2021 Scottish Law Against "Stirring Up Hatred" in Full Effect! in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
2 years after it passed, this 2021 law in Scotland is now in full effect in what was once home of Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, and The Scottish Enlightenment:
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/part/3It criminalizes the nebulously-defined act of “stirring up hatred” and…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic A baby eating baby. in the forum Small Talk 2 years, 3 months ago
Unapologetic,
Well, Grogu and the frogs he eats are fictional characters of the fictional Star Wars Universe, so I guess Grogu can eat all the frogs he wants.
Just like Looney Tunes characters can all be anthropomorphized and yet try to kill and eat each other too.
Just like Marvel Comics fictional characters are all sapient humans,…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Where is the mainstream press when you need it? in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Unapologetic,
If you run for public office, WE become the judge and jury.
Unfortunately all we can do is keep Rump out of office. Even if we can’t convict, hopefully presenting his crimes in court will convince some trumpettes of his incompetence and treason.
I fully agree that voters can vote against Trump or anyone else for any reason or no r…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 31st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoReg and Fellow Unbelievers,
I am so glad that Paul Ehrlich lost his bet with Julian Simon and The Population Bomb is slowing to a fizzle, because I wouldn’t eat Ms. Greene-Teeth (in any sense of the word “eat”) if she were the last person on Earth!
(And as for the double-entendre sense of “eat,” I would only do that with healthy, clickable,…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 31st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoReg and Fellow Unbelievers,
A recently developed cancer vaccine for dogs could benefit humans.
To reverse the movie title, it should happen to a dog 🐕…and a human🤕…And any PETA freaks and FDA pencil-pushers who stand in the way of this are sadists and ghouls🧟♀️💀…the lot of them!
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 31st 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoReg,
“Respawn Sunday” is an excellent designation for Easter! And the “magical” mushroom treatment for Marjorie Taylor-Greene-Teeth is a fitting tie-in for the name!
🍄🤪Of course, I don’t think it would change her mind. “Magical” mushrooms a.k.a. Psylocybin, was no doubt how those who wrote of Moses, Daniel, Amos, Ezekiel, and St. John The…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Unseen,
More proof that AI is only as good as it’s input and processing and still has many roads to travel, so to speak, before it is our Robot Overlords.
Private solutions to ameliorating transportation problems are happening now in the form of miniaturization, micro-ization, and nano-ization of products. It means many more products get…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Robert,
The biggest “cryptobro” con-artist was Sam Bankman-Fried, and he was a proponent of Effective Altruism. He certainly achieved “Effective Altruism” by getting others to sacrifice their earnings.
Anywho, Effective Altruism is ya’ll’s baby, not Libertarianism’s.
Me, I wouldn’t fully trust any electronic currency that’s not based in…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Unseen,
Everything you said regarding Libertarianism in the first paragraph can be also said of any flavor of Statism or Collectivism. They are all “oughts,” though “oughta” can be based on an “is,” which “is” the case with Individual Rights, which are conditions of existence for survival and flourishing of Man, The Rational Animal.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 17th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoJake,
It sounds like a wonderful dish from a beautiful server, but until the steel-plated or vat-grown pancreas arrives in the mail, I could only have a sliver on my plate. I’d savor every crumb and morsel, tho.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Unseen,
I would not have been as charitable to Bernie as that executive. I would have said:
“Bernie, if you want 40 hours pay for 32 hours work, then scrunch 40 hours of work into 32 hours the way that humans have always done it: with labor-augmenting and labor-saving technology that humans invent and create when they are free to use their…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Libertarianism is a cult in the forum Politics 2 years, 3 months ago
Unseen,
If Libertarianism is a “cult,” than it is the most contrary, cussed, cantankerous, contentious, quarreling “cult” that ever existed! Herding Libertarians, much like herding Atheists, is like herding cats.
For one thing, it didn’t begin with Any Rand, who denounced Libertarians as “Hippies of the Right,” even though many Libertarians…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoReg,
Continuing, “squatter’s rights” may have made sense at a time when there were actual unclaimed parcels of land on the North American Continent unoccupied even by Indigenous tribes. It might even make sense in a hypothetical Post-Apocalyptic scenario where much of Humankind is wiped out. But with already-claimed, labor-mixed, built-upon…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoReg,
The squatters of Beverly Hills.
It doesn’t sound like there are any good people in this story at all.
Nevertheless, the concept of “squatter’s rights” under new laws has been used against hard-working good homeowners and it can easily happen to anyone who has been a victim of Identity Theft who gets their name copied from public…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoStega,
Be safe, don’t overexert yourself in the snow, and keep the mind active against “cabin fever.”
We’ll know something is wrong if we see an entry that keeps repeating:
“All work and no play make Strega a dull girl.
All work and no play make Strega a dull girl.
All work and no play make Strega a dull girl…”
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 24th 2024 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 3 months agoUnseen,
See the movie science myths article in the new secion I created on Mythbusting.
As with firearms, defibrillators are only as good or as bad as the hands and minds of the rational, moral agents who use them. And you’d want to stop the bleeding before using a defibrillator at a crime scene, terrorist attack, or war zone.
As for “Black…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Mythbusting: DIY Vs. Mis/Dis/Mal-Information in the forum Advice 2 years, 3 months ago
Fellow Unbelievers,
Alvin Toffler once said that two words he never used were “trend” and “predict.” With trends and predictions like this, it’s easy to see why:
25 Hilariously Wrong Future Predictions
List of Dates Predicted for Apocalyptic…[Read more]
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