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Reg,

Was Diogenes Woke?

Where does one get that?

Diogenes wouldn’t want the “Free Palestine” crowd pitching tents next to his Grecian Urn home and possibly using it as a public toilet in his absence.

And Diogenes would care whether his lantern put him out of the Net Zero club.

And Diogenes sure wouldn’t want anyone of any identity getting in…[Read more]

Simon,

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point. The Western Church, in the medieval period (500 – 1500 AD), dismantled the tribe/clan system of family favouritism, and this led to people becoming more individualist and also promoted the idea of free will (so that people could be judged, presumably). So, Christianity was…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I think the writer is “tilting at windmills” and is arguing a point that does not need to be made. It could even be deemed a “strawman argument”. Her critique seems aimed more at an imagined “scientific arrogance” than at how science is genuinely practiced.

I think she’s right that science has had ideological…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
* (That Christian Apologist Gish Galloping Galoot I once told you about one time even went so far as to claim that the entire Enlightenment experiment and even Atheism were the product of Christianity! That takes some real mental gymnastics!)

I’ve got a book that says just that, and they make a good point.  The Western…[Read more]

Robert,

Yeah, I know, it’s just a false allegory, like most of bible but it gets a point across. Plus, I think any frogs swimming in our little pond will get eaten by a largemouth bass almost immediately. There are a few very large (~10 lbs) channel catfish in there as well. I stocked the pond eight years ago.

Frogs are definitely smarter than m…

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Reg and Simon,

Scientific objectivity is a myth but not every idea deserves equal time.

Just because science is practiced in the context of a particular society, culture, or time period doesn’t mean science is bound to that context and not objective.

Something is objective when it’s there when you sleep and there when you wake or when you turn…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Scientific objectivity is a myth

I argue a more accurate view of science is that pure objectivity is impossible. Once you leave the myth of objectivity behind, though, the way forward is not simple. Instead of a belief in an all-knowing science, we are faced with the reality that humans are responsible for what is…

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Robert,

Just frogs in a pot as the water begins to boil.

Contrary to that old urban legend, frogs only stay in water as young tadpoles. Grown frogs don’t stay in water, no matter what the temperature.

This actually makes them smarter than humans in that respect. Frogs don’t engage in The Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Reg,

JD Vance’s Catholicism is displayed by admitting he is happy to commit war crimes.

You know, if someone really wanted to “Make America Healthy Again,” not to mention “End Forever Wars,” and have “Gold Standard Science,” they could start by using Genetic Engineering to make drugs that kill pain without killing people and which don’t e…[Read more]

Jake,

All true. When I went to college, they didn’t have separate classes devoted to Woke power relations, but the same ideology was scattered in many specialized classes that usually ended with “-Studies.”

One history professor had materials promoting such Anti-Israel figures as Congressman Paul Findley and Rev. Jesse Jackson. A poly-sci…[Read more]

Jake,

Important to note in discussing Wokeism: Bona Fide oppression is not a good thing to be aquiesed.

But what Wokeism gets wrong is making Oppressor and Oppressed into inborn attributes which are products of immutable categories such as “race,” “ethnicity,” nationality, sex, sexual orientation, or even ones imborn Class. In truth,…[Read more]

Strega,

Picked up from BlueSky…

RFK Jr. spits out a mouthful of asbestos and takes a swig from his sewage bottle.

“I can already see children getting healthier,” he gurgles, a bone from a roadkill bat lodged in his larynx. “The spike in measles deaths is a sign their mitochondrial vitality is spiking.”

His left ear drops off.

On a more seri…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco,

To the extent it is tried, to the extent it is true, doesn’t denigrate me as a half breed Jew. Nor immigrants eating cats and wielding bats to pulverize gnats. No side taken. Just the sordid acts and the varied facts.

Your pedigree of any degree is of no concern of me, nor should it be anyone else’s. As is scat and shat about cat c…[Read more]

Jake,

I’ve seen ads for several services of interest. The first two claim to be and may be what you propose, though I haven’t browsed them in depth yet:

Straight Arrow News
https://san.com/

I checked out their story on RFK Jr. Hearings. In addition to video, it includes a Big Picture sidebar debunking assertions by RFK Jr., tells how…[Read more]

Reg,

I’m truly confused.

It wasn’t too long ago that the “norms, values, and institutions” were all systemically racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, privileged, and just all-around no-good-nik. Now, Trump is back and all of a sudden “norms, values, and institutions” are the bee’s knees and all who condemned them are struggling…[Read more]

Strega,

Whilst trying to find actual news on the television rather than from podcasts, I hate to say it but Sky News seems to be far better than Auntie Beeb in its accuracy

“Auntie Beeb?” Is that what the Brits call the BBC?

“Auntie Beeb” sound like the name for a dottering old chatter-box who, at best, gets the details wrong and, at worst,…[Read more]

Simon,

You’re talking about the BBC. I get multiple programmes of this nature every day.

Uh, Simon, it’s BBC, monopoly State-run media. It’s going to be biased to whoever is the party and ideology in power and to whatever cultural millieu those in power want to appeal to and embrace.

When media is private, multiple-sourced, and competitive, a…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Opposition to Trump

By “opposition” I mean “telling the truth”, which is opposition to Trump by default.

jakelafort wrote:
Opposition to Trump by disseminating daily/weekly summaries without political spin or charged terms associated with either party.

You’re talking about the BBC.  I get multiple programmes of this nature every day.

Jake,

An idea.

Opposition to Trump by disseminating daily/weekly summaries without political spin or charged terms associated with either party. I had this same idea for a post BS world in which humanity is paramount as opposed to ideology. You know the antithesis of the lies/mythology attendant to being Jewish or the state of Israel.

Pace of…

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