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Reader Challenge: Is This Article A Troll, Or Are We Doomed?
Okay, girls and boys, and even you girls who think your boys, and vice versa. Here's a challenge for you. Read through the article at this link --- Struggling with…
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Brain Scientist Thinks Their Brains Are Out To Kill Them And Get Away With It
The peer-reviewed paper by Messrs Dor-Ziderman, Lutz, and Goldstein is in NeuroImage (the journal went with the hip no space) "Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat".…
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Cultural Appropriation Guarantees Tribal Politics, Anti-People-Of-No-Colorism
It is interesting to examine to what extent the progressive, SJW idea of "cultural appropriation" is unique and in how it fits in with their overall narrative. As an example…
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The Fading Of Christianity In Numbers. Embracing The Dying Of The Light?
An interesting statistic, the source of which I do not know and therefore cannot verify, shows that those who claim they are "not religious" is increasing in North Africa. Libya…
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Synod Leaders Sign Pact Of Extreme Global Warming, Silly Walks
Over the weekend, so ace report Edward Pentin tells us, leaders at the Amazon Synod signed a document "Pact of the Catacombs for the Common Home", an echo of an…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: On Miracles
Previous post. It's a miracle! ON MIRACLES 1 Things that are at times divinely accomplished, apart from the generally established order in things, are customarily called miracles; for we admire…
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The Week In Doom — It’s On Edition
Item Big changes to grueling Special Forces course draw scrutiny (Thanks to Bill Raynor for the tip.) For the nearly 200 candidates scrambling through Hoffman Forest at Camp Mackall, the…
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Pew Says Trust In Scientists Up. How Depressing
Pew says "Americans' confidence that scientists act in the public interest is up since 2016". This surprises, because we have been tracking how science is becoming woker and woker, the…