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Davis replied to the topic A Sober Reminder to Unbelievers Everywhere! in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago

Ehhhh…I have no problem with works that ridicule ideologies. I do have problem with those who make blanket statements about speech not being violent.
Davis replied to the topic A Sober Reminder to Unbelievers Everywhere! in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago

Anyone who thinks that speech cannot be violent is terribly deluded. Tell that to children in school about to commit suicide from relentless verbal bullying, those who stay at home from the scars of public bigotry and domestic partners battered by verbal abuse.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Since we are repatriating artwork, do we need to discuss… in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago

Why not? We could all just move to Palestine.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School August 14th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 10 months ago

Autumn wrote:
Obviously I am generalizing and speculating, but that’s sort of how I see it in broad strokes.

But it makes sense to me. While I have another kind of speculation to add…

From the intro of that article:

Our worldview forms during childhood as a result of our socialization within a particular cultural context. Our views get r…

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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 14th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 10 months ago

Thanks, Reg!!!
PopeBeanie started the topic "Nuclear documents"? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago

This story might not just be “small talk”. I’m crossing my fingers that Trump has a real criminal charge that could put him away or take him off the GOP stage. From WaPo:

Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to p…

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Davis replied to the topic Sometimes war crimes are okay, right? in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 10 months ago

But that shouldn’t equate to using non-combatants as sacrificial pawns or a total callous indifference to collateral civilian casualties.

Having any rules of war is meaningless if non-combatants are disposable. If you can pick off civilians as part of some other strategic aim, then why not just bomb a school for some aim or mustard gas people f…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

An AI would be able to watch millions of movies, read billions of pages of history, scientific journals, books – and also religious documents.

Our AI would understand all human emotions, and would get its motivation from where it saw it was needed.

Our AI would become the god that so many people are missing.
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

I suspect the first thing a manifesting AI would do would be to hide whilst it self-discovered. A self-aware AI would not need to reveal itself.

There is nothing to disprove the existence of an AI already. If one doesn’t yet exist, when it starts to manifest, it will hide and self-discover.

When the AI takes control of everything, it still w…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 7th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Reg!!
Davis replied to the topic Trumpism minus the Trump? in the forum Politics 3 years, 11 months ago

When a market can be efficiently free and minimally regulated in a way that meets the safety and best interests of the people, then it should be free. This should not be controversial. When the conditions are rife for underdevelopment of a sector, antitrust, consumer abuse (there are so many kinds of consumer abuse), endangers the safety of…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 3 years, 11 months ago

LONDON

DUBLIN

MAINE

SAN FRANCISCO

UKRAINE

SPAIN

Clock HTML source, if you know how to edit a web page:
https://www.timeanddate.com/clocks/free.html
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School July 31st 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

Thanks, Reg!
Davis replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 11 months ago

It is very debatable whether it is a pronoun and you’ll note from the discussion on the talk page (and the subsequent linked talk page) that this is hardly settled. I would say by convention it acts as a pronoun, I suppose, but once you open that can of worms you could add a LOT to the category pronoun, to the point that distinguishing pronouns…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 3 years, 11 months ago

Advanced Tip How to add quote blocks from posts that are on a different page. This is a continuation of the post directly above, so make sure you understand how that works, first.

blah blah blah [work in progress… this may take me some time to write].

Quick summary: Click the post #ID number and create a new tab for it; Highlight the desired…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Trumpism minus the Trump? in the forum Politics 3 years, 11 months ago

Autumn wrote:
The thing is, Trump didn’t really run on much of a platform in the first place.

Granted, much of his platform was dismissable rhetoric, but it energized a base to emerge, react, and vote for him in both 2016 and 2020: “Build a wall that Mexico will pay for”; “Lock her up”; more blame on immigrants “they’re rapists”; “ban Muslims f…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 3 years, 11 months ago

I now use this topic area for temporarily editing posts until they’re acceptable to be published. In fact THIS post that you’re reading is a work in progress.

The following tip will be too much trouble for some… maybe I’m the only poster here who needs to use it consistently… like practically every time I write any post! Here’s my new…[Read more]
PopeBeanie started the topic Trumpism minus the Trump? in the forum Politics 3 years, 11 months ago

Would it be just as threatening to democracy? I think yes, likely. It seems to me that the overall theme of Republicans is to attain more power in any way possible, even when it corrupts all three branches of state and federal government, e.g. SCOTUS, POTUS, and US Congress plus state legislatures.

Here’s a possible hint that Republicans might…[Read more]
Davis replied to the topic Things we are uncomfortable talking about can be things we need to talk about in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 11 months ago

i) Anyone can reading can tell this is a disingenuous statement.

Disingenuous statements made to score petty points is intellectually low. Gross.
PopeBeanie started the topic Your Personal Scratch Zones in the forum Tips 3 years, 11 months ago

Feel free to start a new post below, to experiment with what works or doesn’t work in terms of editing features, and so on. You may leave your posts here, or delete them, or if you want to delete a post but can’t, leave another post below asking me to delete it.

I’ll leave up an example of my own scratch zone, including “PopeBeanie” in its title.…[Read more]
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