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Strato From your link: Modern examples of tribal instinctedit Colleges, sports teams, churches, trades unions, female fashions and political parties enable people to exhibit tribal loyalty within large, […]

offg #82 was the hamas atrocity also calculated/premeditated? Yes. Looking back in the history of that region we feel ourselves being dragged along by the ears by a sense of inevitability as both sides and […]

offg Shit definitely does happen but what happens in Israel/Palestine is very calculated. It’s one big land grab enabled by big Daddy USA with all our gifts of money and military hardware. This won’t end well for […]

Haaa Good one Michael!

I hope I achieved the middle ground a few days ago when my good friend of many years asked me what my “sign” is. I gave her a look of exaggerated disapproval out the corner of my eye, which she noticed and […]

Michael 100 Oh yes, that’s the one. I didn’t laugh this time. Nothing funny there at all. Just hopelessness, hate and despair.

Michael 100 Also, there is this gem: Yousef Al-Khattab: When you take the women and dress them like whores, on the street…Richard Dawkins: I don’t dress women, they dress themselves…Yousef Al-Khattab: But yo […]

Joe M I think the Mods did a good thing letting this through. What good does it do for us to be offended and then delete the thread? There’s a great value in letting people show their true colors and then […]

  Mohammad Abu AbdurRahman #44 Now, if God is not a male, then He is not a female with greater reason. This is because males have priority over females. The dependence of a woman is greater than the […]

Phil Short on time but will get to the article soon. Looks good.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to obtain data consisting of IQ and education records of a large n of devout religionists? But even if we had that sort of data in our possession it still would never account for the […]

aldous …possibly none except to fuel the market in secondhand computers.  Haa, so true, so true. The everyday oppression by the Taliban tells them that. Too depressing to contemplate. In Palestine… No […]

aldous #59 I’m sceptical about religious differences being about ideas. More a clash of sub-rational loyalties. Isn’t this part of the definition of “ideology”? Ideologies impose rules of behavior and b […]

aldous   How do you think we can persuade the benighted Mauritanians to bring themselves up-to-date? We could start by sending every individual under the age of 30 a laptop with internet access. Let them […]

#89   Ding-dong the witch is dead…

So, Richard now has a substack site and podcast. Interesting!  

#50 Wiki: A false dilemma (sometimes also referred to as a false dichotomy) is a logical fallacy, which occurs when a limited number of options are incorrectly presented as being mutually exclusive to one […]

Strato Although what do you think about a little ‘debrutalisation?’  And how?   A “little”? How about a lot of debrutalization! Since the George Floyd murder there is much more focus here on police brutal […]

Strato On the right, in regard to America, …And so they embody racism, anti LGBT, women’s reproductive rights, soon contraception, likely premarital and extramarital sex, assisted dying, basically fanatical a […]

Strato I will be reading the article you mention above- In Defense of Merit…  later tonight. Jerry Coyne of Why Evolution is True is one of the authors.  I read his website every morning along with this one a […]