Recent content by lostone

That's very interesting speculation. PNA or TNA? No expert on the subject, and barely literate on it, I found this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26876/

Obama came up from obscurity all of a sudden, in just a few years. Most of the time, though, there are a lot of minor local figures who never pan out and gain national attention.

Being a moron appears to have become an asset to the Presidency

do we need a thread on Texas doing Texas things? Or Florida?

How do you know what God demands, if there is a God? What makes you special? Isn't, by those standards, the opinion of everyone of equal validity?

That is a low standard of truth. What is true? If it is just our personal belief, it's just our opinion. If it has some sort of universal support, verifiable by all, independent of humans, and only then, can we speak of it being true. Even then it is only an assertion.

Our current POTUS is the also a senile in chief. Be more specific.

DeSantis has followed a similar playbook in Florida. Even without a Supreme leader, Oklahoma is on a similar track, Texas as well. It's the new Right Wing playbook.

The obvious mental decline of DJT should have shut this discussion down months ago. Both parties are at fault for protecting their guy.

Like the jobs eliminated by self-checkout lines in grocery stores?

How many people will still have jobs once AI is fully developed? The corporate upper management may have eliminated all need for most of us.

I do know that some Gods exist. I have a cat. He definitely knows that he is a god and he demands to be worshipped. He accepts food offerings. Most of the time, at least.

I used to read a lot of the classics and still retain a lot of interest in ancient Norse and Greek mythology. Beautiful stories, to be sure. Other mythologies from other cultures, albeit they interest me, don't grip me in quite the same way. True or not? What does it matter? They are...

Sometimes I think it is all a cosmic joke, or that god is insane, or dead; the possibilities are limitless, even in a purely materialistic universe.

I prefer the other options, unknown albeit they may be to all of us. My personal Ideology, as you might say? Perhaps. My own faith w/o evidence? OTOH, I am not exactly an atheist, nor an agnostic, and have no fixed beliefs. Which means that you could call me an atheist or an agnostic and...