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Humans are conditioned by nature, as an evolved survival strategy to save time and energy, back in ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 14, 2022:

First and foremost your survival strategy, as far as one can garner glean and gather from your meagre griffonage and scrivenery, appears to be so superlatively developed (doubtless honed by a lifetime of devotion) that I hesitate due to my own SS to wax lyrical of your mastery. I am fearful and can't be bothered saying you've found the god seed. I reckon the lies about the universe were created in the firmament because no-one knew why stuff happened, stories and lies were convenient, and everyone is gullible.

Who is good at math?

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 14, 2022:

An onassis of it.

I'm not getting an email so that I can confirm my membership but I don't seem to have a problem with...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 13, 2022:

@AnneWimsey it's a lot like Christmas.

Resurrection

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 12, 2022:

It would be fair to say that the RC version is the most risible. OTHER GODS THAT ROSE FROM THE DEAD IN SPRING BEFORE JESUS CHRIST Posted on December 8, 2016 by Garrett S. Griffin under Religion In the same way many ancient Mediterranean societies told tales of gods born to virgins (some on December 25) before the time of Christ, the archetype of gods rising from the dead is likewise older than Christianity, an uncomfortable historical fact for many religious people but not necessarily unforeseeable given the power of human imagination and the long stretch of human history before the Common Era (or Anno Domini, A.D., if you prefer). In human religion, gods often die and return to life, sometimes in their old form, sometimes in a new one (see All About Adam and Eve, Richard Gillooly, and Godless, Dan Barker). They also often came to earth disguised as mortals, especially in Greek and Hindu myths. Dionysus was killed, descended into hell, and was reborn — in Zeus’ thigh of all places. Greek gods, goddesses, and mortals often descended into hell for various reasons and later rejoined the living. Demeter’s daughter, Persephone, descended into Hades and returned in the spring. Attis, a Phrygian-Greek vegetation god born of the virgin Nana, castrated himself and, depending on the version, either bled to death from this or was hanged on a pine tree. He was reborn after three days, his blood redeeming the earth as it fell from his body. His worshipers celebrated the salvation from death offered to them by Attis by decorating a pine tree each spring. This took place on March 25, a date later used by Christians for the Easter celebration (while no longer used for Easter, Catholics still use it to celebrate the Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary). In Egypt, Osiris died, was resurrected, and ascended into heaven. Horus came back from the dead. Like many gods related to vegetation, Adonis, worshiped in Babylonia and Syria as early as the 7th century B.C., died annually (in the fall) and was resurrected (in the spring). In Greece, Heracles was mortal but rose into heaven to take his place among the gods just before he died. In Hindu mythology, Shiva cut off Ganesha’s head but Pavarti convinced him to bring the god back to life. Krishna is accidentally killed by a hunter, but comes back to life and ascends into heaven. The Sumerian king Tammuz was killed but resurrected by the gods and made a god himself. According to the Mesoamerican people, Quetzalcoatl killed himself, but after a few days in the underworld returned to heaven. Then there’s Mithra, made the “Protector of the Empire” by the Romans in 307 AD, right before Christianity was declared the official religion, but actually a Person god worshipped ...

Religion is Not about God [agnostic.com] .

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Then it must be about us and our ineluctable religious naturalism which is as inarguable as motherhood and as convenient as a shroud for a theologians cloak. Religious Naturalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_naturalism

And the fake eyelashes and groomed eyebrows get me!

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Cultures where men do the dress up puts things in perspective.

Here is an interesting article on whether or not we should stop calling addiction a disease.

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 12, 2022:

The author Sidhharrth S. Kumaar is the Founder of NumroVani and a registered pharmacist turned Astro Numerologist however, despite the lack of veridical merit, I do like this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1CLjF8Q8xo

Jan 2022 Media Bias chart is out. Where do your favorite news sources fall on this chart?

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Which one is Agnostic.com?

Go you good thing. No bias or slant to the reporting. It's getting bigger by the day [abc.net.au]

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Things appear to be getting out of control: "One man leapt over a barricade and was chased by two officers into the centre of the forecourt. The man was led away in handcuffs as bystanders cheered for him. Police warned protesters they would be arrested if they followed suit."

Looking for friends

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Welcome friend. My only benefit is hemispherical challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hPv6EuV7dM

The Sordid Details Okay, friends, I promised to stop tantalizing and start telling, so here goes:...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 10, 2022:

The organist Was quite off pissed At suitors poetic Unsuited noetic With deepest apologies to Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Scientism is defined as the view that science and scientific method are the best or only objective ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 10, 2022:

Sounds like you've been sucker punched into the feeble feckless pejoratives of religious ranters about those naughty New Atheists. Scientism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism

HOI POLLOI - Noun…the masses; the common people; a usually derogatory term used to describe the ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 10, 2022:

The hoi oligoi sayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KZ-PqkaCX8

Tru dat. 😆

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

This reveals that some people are right-handed, fond of convenience and don't have small children. What a struggle it must be to not have the central full-length fish burner and de rigeuer turbotiere.

GLIB.

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

With grace and slick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnS0GaiIewM

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

The essay is attached.

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

George's salmagundi, despite being somewhat (1984 and Animal Farm), was a potluck fave but he never attended the word of the day club meetings. https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/ (antediluvian and bucolic)

You might want to read this interesting article I brang you ... or is it I have broughten?

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

Bought instead of brought and vice versa is not uncommon.

Just something that I thought was funny and wanted to share.

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

His pants were beret s'il vous plait and his action that of the hauteur auteur.

Going with @glennlab and his last meme!

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 9, 2022:

Eventually I rolled over, called the ASPCA, played dead upon their arrival, and escaped over the back fence. I made some money turning tricks for strangers before heading to the home of lost dogs, Broadway. I played all the non-speaking dog parts in Shakespeare, even being afforded a standing ovation for my ineffable three-legged riposte to "Out Damn Spot". By now I was hooked on the bright lights of substance abuse and joined the elite Dog Sniffer Unit of the NYPD. It was all hard graft from there on. I got caught returning to my own vomit by the integrity unit. I knew then that it was time to see a police dog psychiatrist.

Pie…a British social & political commentator and blogger explains to America why Boris Johnson is...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Bojo is almost irrelevant compared with the litany of mismanagement outlined in the final salvo, although it's hard to be too disparaging of not one but two parties upon Phil's impending interment.

Going with @glennlab and his last meme!

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 8, 2022:

It began as a very young pup when I was admonished for being on the lounge with everyone else. It then escalated into a full blown attention seeking syndrome. Before I knew it I was sinking my teeth into soft flesh and leg-humping visitors with the sort of gusto I'd observed in the bedroom. Worse was to come when they discovered I could talk.

Ok, I was born in Southwest Louisiana and didn't live north of Interstate 10 until I joined the Air ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 8, 2022:

Cuisses de Grenouille à la Provençale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKcd7yPLdU

If there were no humans, would Time exist? (I am not referring to the magazine)

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 7, 2022:

If I define time and prove it exists then I can begin to wonder. If there was no movement could time dilate? If there was no space would time exist? If ifs and ands were pots and pans would there be work for tinker's hands?

As followup to my recent post concerning religion and government and recent discussions about ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Skado's latest spruiking of god botherer academia included reference to several forms of evolutionary religiosity including the adaptive, the by product, and a new one to bolster their publish or be damned cred. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo

I have a problem here that I think is based somehow in a cognitive bias and I need a little help in ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Visual memories influence perception.

500 points to level 9!!!