TheEncogitationer

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Fellow Unbelievers:

What makes that Raw Story link above about Benny Johnson and Tim Burchett such a groaner is not just the conspiracy-ology and the reality denial, but also their complete irrelevancy!

You don’t have to deny Barack Hussein Obama’s ontological, biological, taxinomic, sapient, religious, or citizenship status to make a case against his many policy snafus.

Just Obama’s appeasionist stance on the Islamic world and Iran in particular made his foreign policy dangerous. The Mullahs of Iran could not have present nuclear ambitions and have emboldened Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Syria’s Assad regimes without Obama’s pallets of money. Trump’s half-ass strike on Iran’s nuke facilities during the Twelve-Day War and his continuing hem-haw for a deal are just variations on a theme.

And domestically, Bush and Obama’s bailout of Detroit and Wall Street paved the way for Trump’s symbiosis towards TechBro Trillionaires.

And I can attest that Obama’s Affordable Care Act didn’t live up to it’s claims, not even keeping my Doctors. Two of them with many years of practice ahead of them nevertheless retired shortly after Obamacare passed, no doubt scared of the rightly foreseen outcomes.

Yet MAGA Republicans continue to traffick in conspiracies about Obama’s identity and the latest witches brew from RFK Jr. rather than repealing Obamacare and bringing liberating changes to health care.

It’s going to be a long three years. Hang tight if you can.

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Reg:

I will concede with you that different observers experience time differently and it has been proven that two different observers at different speeds and elevations experience time differently. But saying that time is not fundamental or divisable doesn’t seem to follow from that. Unless I’m missing something, this notion doesn’t appear to address any gaps in our understanding of the universe.

The comparison to color in visible objects doesn’t fit also because different colors have different wavelengths and different Hertz readings on the electromagnetic scale, even if some people have red-green deficiencies and even if some animals like bulls are totally colorblind.

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Reg:

I was holding off on linking the Sweet Brown Video.

You can tell that the maker of that video shared an Atheist sense of humor from the Jesus cuddling the baby Tyrannosaurus 🧔🦖 and The Knights of the Round Table from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

I think I saw Mike Lindell and/or Cliff Ratzenberger from Cheers and/or Sean Connery clapping in that video. Even more fitting!

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Reg:

I’m real concerned with all this time denial talk. I don’t want you ending up like, like these two:

‘Obama was created’: GOP lawmaker claims first Black president ‘not organic’ man
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By David Edwards
February 13, 2026 12:51PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-barack-obama-created/#comments_section_start

“Like, Obama’s the one, Obama’s the one who’s, like, sort of skated on this,” Johnson argued. “And nobody’s really brought up his name. But wait a second, like, the vast majority of Epstein’s most heinous crimes took place while Barack Obama was president. Epstein got out of jail right as Barack Obama was being put into office.”

“Obama is, like, signing executive orders,” he continued. “You can, like, tie all this back to the Rothschild Bank. Like, he’s, like, doing all this stuff. And he’s, like, somehow, like, Obama’s getting zero pushback on this. Why is nobody asking Obama, like, why didn’t you do something about Jeffrey Epstein?”

“Because President Obama was created,” Burchett alleged. “He was not, he’s not organic. I mean, you pick this obscure guy from college who has zero records you have college professors that don’t remember him ever being there and he runs and he’s and all of a sudden people drop out of races and he’s unopposed and he goes from a state senator to a to a U.S. senator to an unknown to be in the United States because he was created.”

Benny Johnson claims that Useful Idiot for Islam Obama was in with the Rothschilds and Tim Burchett has gone from “Birtherism” to ” Obama Inorganicism” or even “Obama Mythicism.”. And hey, if a Christian has any contact with Science and Modernity, couldn’t Obama walk creation and chew organic gum at the same time?

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Trump’s FDA head Vinay Prasad isn’t even considering approval on a Moderna mRNA flu vaccine:

An mRNA Refusal to File
11 Feb 20262:01 PM ET By Derek Lowe 3 min read
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mrna-refusal-file

I wonder if Trump and RFK Jr has a deal going to sell rectal flashlights and bleach syringes that has something to do with this decision? Or Ivormectin is getting Medicare coverage? Maybe Trump ally Modi is offering to bottle and sell Ganges water?

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Reg:

While pondering the pushback, I’ll also add: Where is the “It works, bitches” part of these claims about time?

Atomic Theory is proved by nuclear weapons and reactors, the Germ Theory of Disease is proven by the efficacy of vaccines and hand-washing. Evolution is proven by any dog breeder and by visiting any historic site where doors and time period clothing are smaller. Where is the killer app of time denial?

And why is it always Theoretical Physics and Cosmology that does this mind-jangling stuff?

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Reg:

Will Mind Shift cease to exist if NPR/American Public Media/PRI/PRX/Pacifica Radio doesn’t meet it’s Quarterly Beg-A-Thon goals?

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Reg:

But isn’t the speed of light 186,282 Miles per Second?

And doesn’t time slow for an object as it approaches the speed of light according to Einstein’s Relativity Theory?

And didn’t comparative experiments with atomic clocks on the ground and on skyscrapers, airlines, and satellites confirm and demonstrate both General and Special Relativity?

And doesn’t light and atomic particles in atomic clocks move faster than human memory of moments?

And doesn’t all this depend on time moving and having divisability?

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Jake and Reg:

Reg, sounds like Hossenpfeffer talking.

Is all this just a sophisticated, science-y-sounding way for her to say: “Don’t Mention The War!”

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PopeBeanie:

Samoans, I’ll look into that, thanks. More RFK epidemics to come… I wonder if he knows the small pox vax connection to cow pox.

83 measles deaths in Samoa from RFK Jr’s hyping of anti-vax sentiment in 2019.

That same anti-vax sentiment is at work now in the present U.S. measles outbreak. Ground Zero of the measles outbreak in the U.S. is South Carolina, most cases stemming from Spartanburg County, which has the biggest number of religious exemptions for government school vaccination requirements. Dr. Oz’ too-little-too-late urgings to get the vaccine don’t undo God talk.

As for Oz’ boss, RFK Jr. and his raw milk moustache obviously doubts that cows can be a vector for disease, so small pox vaccine for RFK Jr. is out of the question.

RFK Jr. probably thinks it can all be cured with balancing of Humors, Chakras, and Animal Magnetism, all during a Mercury Retrograde…Inshallah.

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Jake:

Anyone notice this story?

The reckoning is coming.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602083545

I hate to say it, but that man killed himself for nothing, since Trump is reckoning on seeing what kind of deal with the Ayatollahs and Mullahs he can make for a Nobel Peace Prize, whether the world is at peace or not, and regardless of how many protesters are slaughtered.

Not to dimminish the massacre in Iran, but where did the man get that more Iranians were massacred than in Ukraine and Russia and Israel and Palestine? Did he mean in a month’s time? I could see that. Or are the numbers even worse than reported? Or was the man just speaking from trauma?

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Reg:

Surely you didn’t pay for an AI subscription to tell you that time doesn’t exist!

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PopeBeanie:

I largely agree, although it must be said that there is environmental benefit when farming with less chemicals, and advancing integrated pest management (IPM). If I had more money to spare, I’d be paying more to support those farmers.

As I’ve observed before, everything is natural and everything is chemicals and you can say both at the same time.

Organic farming does use pesticides when other. preventive measures fail, however, organic standards prohibit Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), even when GMO can produce plants more resistant to preying insects and more attractive to insect eaters.

Are Pesticides Used in Organic Farming–Institute for Environmental Research and Education
https://iere.org/are-pesticides-used-in-organic-farming/

Also. Organic farming produces less per acre and thus requires more clear-cut wilderness land to produce the same yield as non-organic farming. Organic Farming is really not “Green”.

Speaking of farmers, or at least some of them, they can better afford their experiences of drinking raw milk because they’re more aware of how to mitigate risks of pathogens in their product.

Actually, most farmers are intimately aware of where cows roam outdoors and how they have diarrhea on their udders. This is one of many reasons why almost all milk on the market is Pasteurized. Pasteurization is the mitigation.

Non-Pasteurized milk is the fringe exception like poisonous Fugu fish in Japan. Both products should be confined to consenting adults who sign a waiver that states that the consumers take their own lives in their own hands.

However, I’m absolutely certain that RFK Jr.’s ideals and arrogance will lead to the premature death of thousands of people, even kids. Probably has already led to deaths, but he’s also in charge of whether or not and how to notice.

There have already been deaths in Samoa from RFK Jr.’s quackery, as well as measles death in the contiguous 50 States caused by the anti-vax mindset he encourages. Remember, RFK Jr. is a lawyer not a Doctor.

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Reg:

World of Woo: Raw Milk.

Basically, when you drink raw milk, any air-bourne, water-bourne, ground-bourne, and carcass-bourne pathogen that contacts the udders comes with it: e coli, salmonella, trichinae, listeria, wisteria, cryprosporidia, ghiardia, H1N1, and other viruses, bacteria, and microbes.. Definitely not the Milk of Human Kindness, or even pet kindness, since they too can get sick and die from raw milk. And no added calcium or Vitamin A and D from raw milk either and it costs more than Pasteurized milk on Amazon.

Raw milk drinkers will tell you that more people die from infected produce than raw milk. What they don’t know or tell is that infected produce is typically organic and has contact with the same pathogens as raw milk and is untreated or unclean, and organic produce is another woo product.

For all of his complaints about toxins from Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Data, RFK JR forgot about the things that predated them all: Big Biosphere and Big Stupidity.

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Fellow Unbelievers:

As with Czar Putin and Emperor Xi wanting immortality, Peter Attia and Jeffrey Epstein are also not what I had in mind when extolling Life Extension and Health Extension:

Can Longevity Guru Peter Attia ‘Outlive’ His Epstein Friendship?
By Matt Stieb, Intelligencer staff writer
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/can-health-guru-dr-attia-outlive-his-epstein-friendship.html

Fortunately, I didn’t follow Peter Attia beyond a few videos, not enough to be grifted any more than everyone else.

Times like this, you gotta wonder if it’s a futile enterprise, at least until our species has a big reset.
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I remember Jack LaLanne and Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw seemed like good representatives of Life and Health Extension…Note the past tense, though. They’re sadly no longer with us:

Whatever Happened to “Life Extension” Authors Dirk (sic) Pierson (sic) and Sandy Shaw?
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-1980s-life-extension-authors-dirk-pierson-and-sandy-shaw/214630

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