TheEncogitationer

Robert,

Emperor Hirohito’s warriors also ably used these sharp Samurai swords for Seppuku or Hirakiri when they brought “dishonor” to themselves or their Emperor. It was also portrayed as occurring in earlier Japanese history on the mini-series for James Clavell’s novel Shogun..

This feature of an “Honor Culture” at least saved their enemies…[Read more]

Jake,

While I’m not a “Blue Eyed Samurai,” I am a “Round Eye Ronin and Gajin” who admires technical prowess from anybody and any source and I seek it’s friendly application for self-defence and peaceful utility.

Which dope shit are you talking about? The Guy Clark video? Yeah, he’s something. Country music isn’t my favorite but it always make…[Read more]

Robert,

The Japanese did that with tomatoes because their island nation is rocky with few natural resources. So they have get as much out of what they have as possible.

And their swordcraft of flipping the steel on itself 30,000 times is what makes the Samuai Sword so strong and sharp.

Greetings again, Belle Rose!

I hope you had a safe and wonderful Holiday! Is anything improved about your situation?

Fellow Unbelievers,

Everything that lives, whether carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore, lives off of something else.

With the exception of yogurt with active cultures and raw sourdough, all food is most likely dead food and is definitely dying since the day a sperm fertilized an egg or a stamen and pistol pollenated. Entropy is a bitch and…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

I’ve decided for the coming New Year to research this topic further and to, so to speak, breathe some new life into this subject. Here is a great insight from Balaji Shrinivasan on Life Extension vis-a-vis Universal Health Care:

https://youtube.com/shorts/aAii1LJ8rLk?si=q3OM77IsCbatl73V

Jake,

Yeah Enco, the where they lived or who was there first argument is nonsense. But if you are going to use it the Jews win that argument.

By itself, you are correct that mere presence on real estate is not sufficient to establish a claim.

However, presence is a necessary condition for Lockean mixing of labor and thought with previously…[Read more]

Unseen,

I’m not interested whoever was there first arguments. Obviously, using that sort of logic, we’d have to give the Americas back to the Native Americans and they’d have to make a trek back toward Mongolia in order to give the land back to the mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, saber-toothed “cats,” and the rest.

Dumb, and especiall…[Read more]

Jake,

I fully agree with the case Oren makes with facts.

I just think citing The Holy Bible and Al-Qu’ran even as historical sources puts him needlessly on shaky ground when Archeology, Anthropology, and Genetics are available, evidence-based, and better for making his case.

A right position wrongly argued is no service to that…[Read more]

Unseen,

See my citation of John McCarthy’s documentary above. Not biblical, solely evidence-based.

Jake,

The man in the “No Free Palestine” video would have a stronger case if he cited archeological, anthropological, and genetic evidence rather than The Holy Bible as an historical source.

According to John McCarthy in his documentary It Ain’t Necessarily So, the people known as Hebrew Israelites came to what we call “The Holy Land” from…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Folks, this does not end with just Gaza and Israel:

US and allies scramble to respond to Houthi attacks on key Red Sea shipping lanes
By Natasha Bertrand and Michael Williams, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 8:01 AM EST, Wed December 20, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/houthi-red-sea-attacks/index.html

Obviously,…[Read more]