Unseen

Life is far more meaningful without searching for moral perfection.

I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered the author’s stereotypical Loving Saint although I have come across some “extraordinary altruists”, or people higher than normal in the range of empathic concern for others.

I have known some Rational Saints, who are motivated by duty to follow…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

I’m told that the Buddha taught that the mind is also a sense organ.  I think that’s true, we can use the mind to know things – to join dots, distill data into knowledge.

Kristina wrote:
I think it speaks to a certain reality of what it means to be correct or to know things.

Someone said, there are at least two kinds of truth: 1) “correspondance”, where a proposition accurately captures reality; 2) “consistency”, where a proposition is logically consistent with other propositions that are known to have…[Read more]

We run into a problem with the term ‘correct’. We need parameters for applying it. Correctness is relative to a number of variables such as desired outcome, acceptable margin of error, methodological limitations etc.

What is it she needs to know in this example? Does she need to know specifically the number of books as accurately and individually…[Read more]

Reg,

So with the “Thoughts and Prayers” App, it’s not just virtue signalling, but virtue blasting and virtue spamming.

This problem gives rise to a new product: a filter that only allows virtue signals to come through with attached documentation of a related good deed.  💩🛡

I guess the app name could be “Realz Not Feelz,” “Street Cred,” or…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Unseen – if the problem was on a tablet then make sure nothing is stuck on the touchscreen. If on a laptop then update the touch-pad drivers, even if a mouse is attached.

Actually both were Windows 10 Dell laptops. It’s the later generation one that has the problem.

Unseen – if the problem was on a tablet then make sure nothing is stuck on the touchscreen. If on a laptop then update the touch-pad drivers, even if a mouse is attached.

What has The Vatican done besides “thoughts and prayers?”

I recently heard a comedian – Anthony Jeselnik – talking about the vanity of the “thoughts and prayers” posters on social media. He compared them to a wedding photographer who only took selfies 🙂

Anyway there is an app for that!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I did not have any “auto scrolling” problem.

Hmm. A problem on one computer but not the one I’m on now.

Reg,

Of course Big Papa Francis thinks we Atheists are good if we do good things…

And the ultimate good thing we can do in his eyes is admit we are miserable born sinners, join the Mother Church, be informed of our other sins of thought, intent, and deed, and be filled with more perpetual guilt which can be assuaged only with grovelling,…[Read more]

I did not have any “auto scrolling” problem. The street preachers and house callers often use this form of apologetic “reasoning”. Science and Faith are not compatible but they never stop trying to justify their beliefs by criticizing Science.

Science has no concerns about religious beliefs. Science have no need religious faith. On one hand the…[Read more]

I gave up trying to discover any fallacies in that article when I realized it wouldn’t stop scrolling. In addition to rotting my brain, they seem to want to put me into a strait-jacket.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Reg, You wrote:

As members of the religion of peace continue to carry out barbaric acts of murder in the name of their imaginary god, we need to bear in mind the importance of Blasphemy. I mean, if their god was real why would she be worried about social media posts? She has never even posted a selfie!

Wow. ! Blasphemy and…

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The way I see it….I “christened” the previous Pope “God’s Rottweiler”. He decided he could no longer be bothered to be the Christian gods’ managing director on Planet Earth. He was replaced by the new M.D. who said that we atheists were better than hypocritical Catholics. So I “christened” him too 🙂

Thanks Reg!