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Unseen replied to the topic When will the Feds give up on "You should never pay a ransom"? in the forum Small Talk 4 years, 11 months ago

@TheEncogitationer

Maybe you’re ready for a cyber attack, an alien invasion, or the zombie apocalypse but the public will never follow your lead in any numbers and the government can’t just throw them under the bus in the name of a principle that works in a far more regimented society that’s nothing at all like America.
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School 23rd May 2021 in the forum Sunday School 4 years, 12 months ago

@TheEncogitationer – To start with I would never accept a job with a company that did not hire me the first time. I would never re-apply to the same company. If I was not good enough for them the first time then they will never be good enough for me after that. Even if they did offer me another post it would most likely be months later, when I may…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School 30th May 2021 in the forum Sunday School 4 years, 12 months ago

@theEncogitationer – I have used similar arguments in the past. I was threatened with arrest in my polling booth from asking why Bibles were displayed on the desks where voters collected their ballot paper from. This was just a local election but I know it would be repeated on the day of the Marriage Referendum. I was asked by security if I was a…[Read more]
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School 25th April 2021 in the forum Sunday School 5 years ago

TheEncogitationer wrote:
What is not needed is harping on a “rape culture” without firmly defining terms.

I think @TheEncogitationer has a point – “rape culture” is a massive downer. Why not frame it in more neutral or positive and less gruesome terms, such as misogyny, sexism, or consent culture? Who wants to be thinking about rape the whole…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Are ethnic jokes inherently wrong, racist, or offensive? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 1 month ago

@TheEncogitationer: This may be the video? I have seen another similar one somewhere too. Are we not all “out of Africa” anyway…where it all began?
Unseen replied to the topic Short video with almost too much to think about in the forum Science 5 years, 3 months ago

@TheEncogitationer:

In laying out all the things a pleasure robot could do, consider that robots could replace us just about everywhere save, perhaps, in the arts. But I’m not sure that a hyperintelligent AI would have much use for the arts. What is Bleak House, Macbeth, Blade Runner, or a Gauguin painting to an AI?
Unseen replied to the topic Short video with almost too much to think about in the forum Science 5 years, 3 months ago

@TheEncogitationer

Caravaggio was a murderer, Socrates hated democracy, and Mel Gibson is a big schmuck, but they are/were all geniuses (if you doubt Gibson, you probably haven’t seen or truly appreciated Apocalypto).

I get your dislike for Musk, who isn’t alone in giving his kids bizarre names (Moon Unit 2 and Dweezil Zappa?), but thanks for…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School 7th February 2021 in the forum Sunday School 5 years, 3 months ago

@theEncogitationer:

I think you might enjoy this video: Weekend at Jesus’s.
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School 7th February 2021 in the forum Sunday School 5 years, 3 months ago

@theencogitationer:

Now, whether they can land vertically reliably may be another matter entirely.
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School 7th February 2021 in the forum Sunday School 5 years, 3 months ago

@TheEncogitationer. Thanks for the links.

I think many of these laws are restrictive of personal freedom and the pursuit of happiness. What one does, either alone or with other consenting adults, in the privacy of their own “castle” should be no-ones concern.

But conservative Christians can’t bear to think that what they consider to be “vices”…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School 31st January 2021 in the forum Sunday School 5 years, 3 months ago

@theencogitationer – of this decades-or-even-centuries-long horror!

That is what I say. It has been going on for centuries. It would be naive or even plain stupid to think otherwise. That is why it is taking so long for the Vatican to get the problem sorted. The entire Catholic Church should be proscribed and outlawed. Why do people still allow…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Is the US officially a fascist country yet? in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago

@TheEncogitationer: Rich people from all over the world come to the United States for world class treatments at places like The Mayo Clinic and The Cleveland Clinic. Treatments administered by some of the world’s best doctors in a capitalist system are naturally quite expensive.

We may have “the best health care system in the world,” but it’s a…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Is the US officially a fascist country yet? in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago

@TheEncogitationer: Here’s why top economists are not worried about the national debt, now worth over $26 trillion
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is the US officially a fascist country yet? in the forum Politics 5 years, 4 months ago

The US health care system is run for greed and profit. The NHS is run for people. @theencogitationer, I think you’re imagining health care from the godawful US perspective.
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School 27th December 2020. in the forum Sunday School 5 years, 4 months ago

@TheEncogitationer Perhaps you should watch the movie, but I think that the foreigners were making demands that weren’t very helpful to a government that was stretched way beyond its capabilities already. Perhaps if they’d volunteered their services help the Thais identify everyone, recovering the ones they were seeking in due course rather than…[Read more]
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic A question of id-entity in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 5 months ago

@TheEncogitationer – “Froggy Went A’ Courtin’” or “Hot Monkey Love?”

When they were young I trained them to blaspheme a different god each day. Recently I have heard the herd praying to some monkey god and all the little baby Jesuses. The chorus of their latest song is about prophesy and while I can’t quite fully make out the lyrics, it sounds li…[Read more]
Manny replied to the topic Hello Rationalists in the forum Introductions 5 years, 5 months ago

@jadeblackolive

Thanks for the kind words

@jakelafort

“Meaning is derived through involvement”

This quote resonates with me.

@TheEncogitationer

I agree with you on being a happy warrior and alleviate as much suffering as I can, I hope to someday be a beacon of reason. Religion has screwed up my home country. But first I have to take care of myself.
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Are there dangerous ideas? in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 6 months ago

@TheEncogitationer, you might like the Family Guy song.
Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Flyers Defending Reason, Science & Secularism in the forum Announcements 5 years, 7 months ago

@theencogitationer

I am a site mode. Thanks for asking first. I don’t suspect there will be a problem but rather than uploading all in one would you mind posting a small sample first. Then I can create a new pagepost for them all where they can be put under separate topics names.
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Flyers Defending Reason, Science & Secularism in the forum Announcements 5 years, 7 months ago

What’s a filter, @theencogitationer?
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