TimB

The state governments already have databases on voters (voter registration roles and tabulations of when you voted).  I think the T rump administration was trying for awhile to get that information from the states, all compiled by the Federal govt. (that would have been a step towards totalitarianism, I suspect).

Maybe we should mandate a paper…[Read more]

But what is the function of yawning?  My first guess is that it is pretty much a reflexive behavior, like sneezing or blinking one’s eyes. The typical explanation that it promotes circulation seems believable to me, but IDK if that’s all there is to it.  But a connection to praying, I suspect, is co-incidental at most.

The posts about yawning, have led to me yawning.  (Really. I am not saying that to be cute.) What yawning is about is a question worthy of analysis, I think. I have yawned a few times now, but didn’t think to try to start praying in the midst of one. I just enjoyed the yawns.  OTOH

A yawn goes by pretty quickly.  By the time, I said to myself “D…[Read more]

Xain, you said “…Or to put it another way you can either be right or happy.”

Not really.  You will never be perfectly “right” no matter how much you learn, cause there will always be more to learn.  If your best guess about reality, now, is that it is crap,  then make something useful out of the crap, or establish an oasis within the crap, or…[Read more]

Kool, You don’t want to help the religions of the world get to know each other better, and get along?  (I don’t blame you.)

BTW, it’s nice that you dropped by the Forums, Lois.  Long time no see.

Sounds like the guy (Michael Foust) that wrote that article took something Dawkins said and WAY WAY overgeneralized it to be saying what he WANTED Dawkins to have said.

From Dawkins simply saying that some ppl, who sincerely believe God is watching them, might behave better than they would otherwise, this Foust really went to town putting his own…[Read more]

Tee, thanks.  That article starts out with “reality testing”.  I assumed that I would know that I was dreaming, as the one time I think that I experienced lucid dreaming, I knew that I was dreaming.  Perhaps people who are really good at it, would not automatically know, (like you did not know at 1st).  It is, to use CC’s word “trippy”, that you…[Read more]

This is a bit off topic, but CC, Maddy is single right?  What do you think about a match up with Conan?  He looks like a handsome, studly consort.

I have 2 main reactions to that story:

1) T rump is a BIG PUSSY when it comes to standing up to autocrats.

2) T rump really truly may be a Putin puppet, one way or another.

And generally, it is sickening that we have a POTUS like this.

One of the several dishonest tactics that he Trumpists are using to try to effectively counter the impeachment process, is to flat out lie and say Obama did the same crime that he (T rump) has been found out about, recently (i.e., trying to bribe foreign countries into helping him politically by using the aid money we have for that country held…[Read more]

As I am the anonymous sexy whistleblower for Halloween, I will leak the formerly classified name of the dog who was the last to see Bagdaddy alive.  His name is…  shhhh…

“Conan”

(not to be confused with the late night comedian talk show host of the same name).

Good Boy! Conan. Good dog.

The real horror of Halloween would be revealed if we could ever determine what that thing is on Donald T rump’s head.

What if it is sentient? I mean more sentient than he is.  Tho that’s not saying much.

Also there is this: https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsweek-trumps-hair-could-cause-penis-problems-ryan-saavedra

For Halloween it seems appropriate to present the last verse of Crowley’s “Conversion of the Devil”:

Oh how the good converted Fiend
Worries those Postulants unweaned!
Though now he dances deosil
He poinds them many a purging pill.
He cleans them from their piggish food;
He brings them to beatitude.
“Hua is God!” quoth Asmodee:
“There is none…[Read more]

I am not worried about it.  I don’t even worry about nightmares. (By nightmares, I mean dreams with somewhat disturbing content. They are not really scary to me.)

Tho I did have an episode many years ago, when I came awake, but seemed paralyzed while having the sensation that there was an evil presence that I did not dare to try to look at. (I…[Read more]

A near miss Halloween asteroid was identified this morning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spooky-halloween-asteroid-flyby-one-of-the-closest-near-misses-ever-seen/ar-AAJEGqs?ocid=spartanntp

(Don’t be scared. It was only 7meters across at most.)

“What’s really remarkable about this spooky space rock sighting is that it speaks to…[Read more]

“…So great, we’ve always been liars, and we have more information at our finger tips than ever – where (or how) does that help us deal with today and the political chaos being instigated by that major political party, yes, teabagger/trumster Republicans…”

Yeah, so lying is part of the human repertoire, and always has been. Pinker is a cle…[Read more]

I don’t tweet, but the vid is nicely done Tee.

Part of Halloween is making fun of the dark and evil things that can lurk in the recesses of our imagination, or in this case, the recesses of our govt.