More From My Old Deluded Friend
He is in blue and I am in red:
I'm afraid I'll eventually have to block him. Shame, really.
And the rubes fall for that shtick every time.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 hour ago
Here in Ameri-duh it's already become obvious you don't need to shoot up a Tesla dealership if there's a gas station in the neighborhood. Back in the 60s, city blocks were being...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 hour ago
That is what guerilla warfare is about, or urban warfare, or asymmetrical war. You don't necessarily hope to defeat your opponent militarily, just harass him till he gives up the fight. I...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 2 hours ago
The Irish Republican Army didn't consist of infantry divisions supported by tank battalions and bombers; it amounted to small cadres of dedicated fighters who engaged in sabotage,...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 3 hours ago
Warfare is still a physically strenuous activity.
Conventional warfare in the traditional sense of the past, would be. Not every member of the community will be a...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 5 hours ago
Tradition has it that when the Pythagoreans gained a lot of political power in Croton, Cylon, a democrat, led a popular revolt against them. The mob burned Pythagoras' school. Some traditions...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 5 hours ago
I haven't drunk Guinness since I got a bad hangover from drinking pints of it 20 years ago. My father drinks Guinness though. I usually drink lagers such as Birra Morreti. In Ireland we have...
Debunking Christianity: Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: · 6 hours ago
I am not an antinatalist, however I subscribe to Benatar’s ideas on wrongful birth. A chronically disabled person should be allowed to sue his/her parents for wrongful birth. I only view cases such...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 6 hours ago
That's a puzzler. Perhpas a manifistation of my own delusional state. lol
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 7 hours ago
Unfortunately, competency has little to do when gerrymandering provides safe districts for the most extreme politicians. In primaries, voter turnout is lower and tends to skew toward the most...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
For far too many: "my ignorance is better than your knowledge."
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
She's competent at being re-elected, by voters who believe in a literal Noah's Ark. As long as she can keep distracting her marks, for example with the right-wing media bullhorn currently...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 16 hours ago
#3: the "best colleges," IMO, are only occasionally about the best students. They're mostly endowment mills that punch the tickets of the next generation of...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 16 hours ago
What about those guys who make videos where they ask someone, usually a girl / young woman, some obvious question, like "In what continent is the United States?" The mark (?) will act...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 17 hours ago
#3: the "best colleges," IMO, are only occasionally about the best students. They're mostly endowment mills that punch the tickets of the next generation of "elites" as in...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 18 hours ago
I remember George Bush the father in a speech or an interview on TV when he was president, how he twisted his mouth to mock the word "intellectual", saying with a smirk, "We are not...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 18 hours ago
What is this "competency" of which you speak?
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 18 hours ago
"...get the Hebrew Abjad permanently stuck in one’s head."
The very word "Abjad" is identical in Arabic: ABJAD, but is pronounced "abajad"....
Debunking Christianity: Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
They'd keep voting R.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 19 hours ago
I learned how to type on a Royal manual type writer back in 1962. One of the most useful skills I ever picked up.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 19 hours ago
It makes me laugh to think of the kiddoes going to museums to see how their Great Grand-Boomers lived.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 19 hours ago
and the "civil war" and "secession" rhetoric that's been casually tossed around may become reality sooner rather than later.
There's a YouTube...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 19 hours ago
I don't subscribe to the naturalistic fallacy here.
Note that some philosophers use the term differently than I do here. I refer to the "Appeal to Nature"...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 20 hours ago
Note that a large, and somewhat ironic, obstacle to genetic enhancement for humas are advocates for the disabled (or "differently abled" in the euphemism treadmill). Their reasoning seems...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 20 hours ago
What would the logistics for this enterprise look like? Who would profit? What would happen as a result in the meantime? What social repercussions? What would happen to the millions of...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 20 hours ago