Tukte Yekan

Thanks Reg!  We’ve had a bit of snow here so I’ve been digging out my car.

Obliquely related to this week’s sermon:

The number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world.

Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion – though increasing in countries such as the United States and France – will make up a declining share of the world’s total population.

(source)

Reg,

Innocent Russian civilians are victims of both Islamifascist terrorists and of Putin thinking he can somehow have Muslims as allies in his Revanchist aspirations towards Ukraine and the former Soviet Empire.

Little does Putin realize that Islam, too, has it’s own global aspirations baked right into the very Qu’ran which Putin doesn’t want…[Read more]

The pathetic apologetics of Islam is dismantled.

How many ways are we failing Muslims by coddling them? Whose interest do we serve in doing so? By making it anathema to criticize the precious ideas/beliefs that keep so many in ignorance and sustain a depraved morality? And this while women, LGBT and other less than equals are oppressed.

Was…[Read more]

Have a great week Everyone!

Thanks Strega and Unapolgetic for the links.

I buy into the argument that vegans kill animals through opening up wild land to agriculture to grow all the additional vegetables.

I’m aware of the counterarguments, many of which would work if something very unlikely were to happen: everyone becoming vegan.

Instead, we’d have vegans causing the destruction of wild land which would involve…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
It reminds me of the story of two wolves:

I think this article by Scott Barry Kaufman is really well put together and has some interesting theories.  It seems that SBK really knows what he is talking about.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01006

Reg,

Blood Pressure and A1-C (which includes cholesterol, blood sugar, and enzyme levels) are very important, I fully agree. I aim, usually with success, to keep both readings in a normal range.

However, BMI, as well as the means of measuring it, I am not yet sure about.

Penn Gillette and Teller in their Showtime series Penn & Teller:…[Read more]

OH my bad!! HaHa!. 117, not 177.  Thanks Jake 🙂

Reg,

Scrivener’s error as to your BP.

Either that or get to the hospital NOW!

Seriously – watch the video above.

I completely stopped eating meat about 10 years ago as I had eaten very little in the previous four or five years. I have been 99% vegetarian since then. I am closing in on sixty and I had a medical checkup recently. The important numbers to know are your BMI, Blood Pressure and Total Cholesterol level. My current stats are 23.2, 117/76 and 4.7…[Read more]

Please get back to me when fake meat science can produce an artificial rack of baby back ribs or a lamb cutlet.

Plants see and hear and feel, too. There is no difference between plants and animals in that regard.

There is nothing left to eat if one is totally logical about it.

Plants

Enco,

Conflation and confabulation to my consternation and indignation. Prove me wrong and i will belong to the bloodthirsty and the strong.

As it is nobody beats the whiz. Make it fizz. Let logic ring through all the land. Rational man knows he can. We ain’t rational though…MAN!

Jake,

Much obliged on the reference to *Freethink! I had never seen this Web Site in my many browsings on Singularitarianism and Transhumanism. The beefy rice with built-in beef sounds tasty as well!

More on the other post later. That is a ton of conflation and confabulation to unpack.

Reg,

Gary Larson’s anthropomorphisms were always great Sunday Morning comic strip entertainment, as were Looney Tunes’ anthropomorphisms on Saturday Morning! As I had shown earlier with Looney Tunes cartoons on Economics, they both can convey great truths.

Nevertheless, in the real world, the target market for both are humans and, perhaps…[Read more]

Unapologetic,

I could be wrong, I think I remember that at one time PETA was offering a $ prize for someone to invent vat-grown meat. PETA is your current market.

I had not thought of that possibility. It would be a chance for them to get some actual Vitamin B12 versus synthetic Vitamin B12 which is an analog of the real thing.

But, of course,…[Read more]

And i forgot to link the article. I also lost my glasses and keys today so that is major minor.

https://www.freethink.com/science/cultivated-beef-rice?fbclid=IwAR2VFXDxYFtw20oaq3ozb1HEJPo9uPkxna74L4ukwFOt_NPD52oBJFQo69c