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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School June 11th 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 2 years, 11 months agoBelle Rose wrote:
more actual data would be amazing.There’s this: “No woman ‘totally straight’, study says”
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Big Brother Is Watching You…for "Bias Incidents" in the forum Politics 3 years ago
RichRaelian wrote:
I’am more concerned about others ease dropping on my conversations and invading my privacy through walls.As a schizophrenic, I used to think people could hear me through walls and I could hear them. But now I don’t.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic ChatGPT, version GPT-3 in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 years agoAccording to the BBC Radio 4 programme I put in my “update”, Chat GPT is just a super-sophisticated predictive-text machine, based on what it’s learned from scooting around the (human-built) internet. But clearly, it’s very good at what it does.
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Simon Paynton posted an update 3 years ago
Really informative programme on BBC Radio 4 about Chat GPT – interview with an professor of computational linguistics. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l97m
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Thoughts on Tucker Leaving Fox. in the forum Politics 3 years ago
Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Foxic Tuckerlol
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School April 23rd 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Pew Research: Most advanced economies say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral.This is really interesting and it ties in with a fascinating paper I am still reading. It’s about the differences between communal and individualist societies. The individualist societies are mainly Western, and these (co…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Have you been worrying about CBDC? Maybe you should be. in the forum Politics 3 years ago
RichRaelian wrote:
As a schizophrenic single man I obsessively worry all the time.I’m a schizophrenic too. But I’m very lucky that my symptoms are completely controlled by medication. Before then I spent about 8 years getting more and more ill, and unruly, and troublesome for everyone else. I did some very creative things that no-one would be…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Does the mainstream press work for the Pentagon now? in the forum Politics 3 years ago
Who did it is a news story. The BBC went into a long discussion about the contents of the leak, how embarrassing it is for the US and their inability to keep secrets, etc., etc. They covered all the angles.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Ukraine has already lost the war in the forum Politics 3 years, 1 month ago
Unseen wrote:
I’m not sure why the U.S. should even belong in NATO since it is European nations which need to worry about Russia invadingBut the world is interdependent. The US can’t survive alone, with a busted-up Europe. It would fuck up the world even worse than it already is.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Ukraine has already lost the war in the forum Politics 3 years, 1 month ago
Unseen wrote:
I’m not sure why the U.S. should even belong to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not being a North Atlantic country.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Ukraine has already lost the war in the forum Politics 3 years, 1 month ago
If Russia isn’t held back, it’s going to try and take over Europe. The country has gone nuts.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 3 years, 1 month ago
Autumn wrote:
Pretending to be a victim when one has their abuse called out is also a tactic taken by abusers and enablers of abusers.That’s true. It also is.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 3 years, 1 month ago
Autumn wrote:
pretend to get cancelled?It is funny. But it’s also the classic line taken by victimisers and abusers everywhere: “look, I did X bad thing. But the victim isn’t really suffering.”
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 3 years, 1 month ago
Noel wrote:
Thanks Davis. Just asked for this definition in another post. What you said. What I think it is too. Guess if someone does not wish me to wield that word they can weaponize the shit out of it and cause the rest of us mere mortals to never use it.Here is a very interesting series of 15-minute programmes on BBC Radio 4 recently, about…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 3 years, 1 month ago
Davis wrote:
Why is there pushback against it? Because hearing otherwise destroys their world view that they aren’t part of the problem, that we live in a post-biggoted world, they have to make tiny changes in the way they behave and speak with is too much of a burden or downright conservative biggotry. Some or all of the above.It’s the o…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 3 years, 2 months ago
rhonjon wrote:
What’s important—what will help us to start communicating and answering the original question—is not what the word “spiritual” means universally in all its ubiquitous manifestations. All we need to know is what the poster meant when he asked the question.It’s a broad subject, that deals with broad themes, like “society”, “science”…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 3 years, 2 months ago
Spirituality could be described as an umbrella term. Also, many of its constituent concepts are vague and fuzzy too. That doesn’t mean they don’t refer to anything.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School March 5th 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 2 months agoIt’s just a tentative hypothesis. I’m not that well-informed. People in the Middle East often seem to have different priorities from those in the West (patriarchy etc.), with what we see as normal, being forgotten.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School March 5th 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 2 months agojakelafort wrote:
Islam is a DRIVER of immorality.To people in a guilt culture (for example, us), people in a shame culture look immoral, as if all they care about is how they appear to others.
The main shame cultures are those of the Far East and Middle East, while the guilt cultures are those of Europe, especially north-west…
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