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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School October 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 weeks, 5 days agoFellow Unbelievers:
Sacre Dieu!. A society of month-long vacations, four-day work weeks, free education, Socialized Medicine, and womb-to-tomb support for all citizens and all who can make it over the borders has not done the French any good:
To answer Ol’ Schickelgruber’s notorious question:
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic This One and Others Like Him Show Promise! in the forum Politics 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Fellow Unbelievers:
And of course, his Enaugural Ceremony would have to include this:
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TheEncogitationer started the topic This One and Others Like Him Show Promise! in the forum Politics 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Fellow Unbelievers:
Green Beret leads ‘double haters’ in mission to blow up midterms
Seth Bodnar is one of seven independent candidates hoping to woo disillusioned voters on both sides of the political spectrum
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/10/05/rhodes-scholar-green-beret-end-two-party-politics-montana/A Green Beret, a Rho…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Third Man Syndrome in the forum Atheism 2 weeks, 5 days ago
oops: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032f9x
Enco, that’s interesting. I think you’re right. It sometimes doesn’t take much to start hallucinating.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Third Man Syndrome in the forum Atheism 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Fellow Unbelievers:
I’m sure there were stressful “Third Man” reactions produced by the hijacking of FlyDubai and the vast drop in elevation that occurred in the struggle to resist the seizure of the aircraft.
And as General Eisenhower observed from inside the gates of Auchwitz-Birkenau, some son-of-a-bitch is going to use these stressful…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Third Man Syndrome in the forum Atheism 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Simon:
I notice some common elements about these scenarios: extreme low temperatures plus extreme elevations that mean lower air pressure.
Changes in elevation and air pressure also produces popping of the eardrums which to the uninformed could seem like steps of a presence that’s not there.
I know from experience that popping of the…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School October 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 weeks, 6 days agoReg:
I enjoy pissing off religious bigots too.
I do too. However–defeating that amalgam of True Scottish Strawmen attacking To the Man from Mott to Bailey and back in an Equivocating Circle which was a Widening Gyre while riding at a Gish Gallop and pickling Red Herrings in a Pot Calling A Kettle Black Tu Quoque-style–does not require being…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Third Man Syndrome in the forum Atheism 2 weeks, 6 days ago
mp3: https://orangebud.co.uk/BBC_Radio_4_Third_Man_Syndrome_2026-10-04.mp3
Left-click – play. Right-click – download.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Third Man Syndrome in the forum Atheism 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Trying to post again:
Here’s a BBC Radio 4 programme that was on yesterday, on the subject.
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School October 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 weeks, 6 days agoReg:
“Just because I might post an interesting article does not mean I agree with it. Which side would you like me to argue from?”
Potentially, any of it is entertaining. As for whether it is true or good, that is ad hoc and case-by-case. In some cases, some sources get it so consistently wrong, they are best used as cage lining for vir…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School October 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 2 weeks, 6 days agoReg:
And it was all the go in Sir Winston’s day, since he coined the phrase, just more hush-hush beck then…Which might explain why Laughing Boy Tucker Carlson thinks Sir Winston was the bad guy of World War II, since Ol’Schicklegruber wouldn’t allow “acts of sabotage against the Aryan people” like butt-stuff and sookie-sookie!
Speaking of…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School October 4th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 weeks agoReg:
If women freely exercising political power threatens your preferred social order, is the problem women’s political power—or your social order? Well Doug, which is it?
A Theocracy under Paula White would be no better than under Doug Wilson, just as Sumaru would be no better than Fu-Manchu. If it’s any political order other than a Con…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer started the topic The Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies Thread in the forum Small Talk 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Fellow Unbelievers:
It’s about time the Forum had a Looney Tune/Merry Melodies Thread, for it’s many tie-ins with the everyday human experience on Earth and the many Secular insights as well.
The logical place to begin is The Beginning, as in that of life on Earth. Bugs Bunny actually eloquently elucidates the Theory of Abiogenesis as it was…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Evolving AI Threats in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks, 1 day agoJake:
Pick your pathogen.
Pick your path.
Doomsday equation aint funny math.
In the hands of lefties/Islamists/Dictators…
How shit unfolds nobody knows. A grim and dire outcome however it flows. Reminds me of negligence law in torts and one of the elements is of course causation. Duty, breach, causation and damages if memory serves/today i…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Evolving AI Threats in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks, 1 day agoFellow Unbelievers:
Beth Mole of Ars Technica got a second opinion of Bobby Brainworm’s views on masks, social distancing, and vaccines from both Google’s GeminiAI and ChatGPT. Both contradict him:
RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate les…[Read more] -
TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Evolving AI Threats in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks, 1 day agoPopeBeanie and Fellow Unbelievers:
Speaking of Bad Actors, Bobby Brainworm is now saying that AI is more reliable than the medical expertise of Doctors and that AIs can be trusted to give valid second medical opinions:
I say not until AI reaches Superintelligence and not until it absorbs all that is taught in…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Evolving AI Threats in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks, 1 day agoFellow Unbelievers:
Yesterday, I encountered a man with an AI made T-Shirt that had a set of praying hands with the glow and radiance that you see in a lot of AI portrayals and the words around the hands said, and I quote:
“Only God Can Me Judge Me!”
Without intending an argument on theology, I simply pointed out to the man that the T-Shirt…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 27th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 weeks, 1 day agoJake:
I’d like to have met him too. Cosmos and The Demon-Haunted Worldwere both super works. But the AI did him no justice in that video by not translating and transcribing him accurately.
AI doesn’t do itself justice evidently, judging from AI actress Tilly Norwood’s interview with Piers Morgan, where she just randomly broke into Chinese…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Evolving AI Threats in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 weeks, 1 day agoFellow Unbelievers:
An interesting article pitting one flavor of Doomers vs. another Flavor of Doomers:
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of d…[Read more] -
TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 27th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 3 weeks, 2 days agoFellow Unbelievers:
Just you wait: Soon, there will be a contingent in MAHA that endorses Medicare-Funded D’Jinn Exorcisms and Female Genital Mutilation For All!
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed courts RFK Jr.’s MAHA voters with new health policy platform
By Kaia Hubbard, Anne Bryson
Updated on: September 29, 2026 / 3:42 PM EDT / CBS…[Read more] - Load More