TimB

T rump says the Impeachment Inquiry is a “lynching”.

The following is an excerpt from the  Journal “Miranda” article by Wendy H. about America’s history with lynching.

“As part of the lynching ritual, white participants would inscribe on the victims’ bodies the signs of their subordination to white rule so that their mutilated corpses came to em…[Read more]

I think you are right about the press being constructed such that they are in any way obliged to protect citizens’ rights from the govt.  They are not, except to the extent that some idealistic members of the press are guided by a personally chosen sense of journalistic ethics.  AFAIK few if any of the “free press” agree to abide by ethics that i…[Read more]

I think that the big conspiracy in that regard is the massive propaganda that has been conducted for years now, to portray the Russian interference as a conspiracy theory.  Way more ppl, than should have, have come to believe that the Russians did nothing, or at least nothing significant.  They have come to believe that it is a left wing c…[Read more]

Not that you actually have a supernatural skill, but the believers in the supernatural will typically assume that you do.  The Supernatural believers believe and spread beliefs in the supernatural.  But it’s all bunk.

Could a kernel of truth, in Hillary’s accusation, be that the Russians are grooming a 3rd party candidate to undermine the Dem nominee in the general election? That seems well within Russia’s motivation and means and typical strategies. Idk, but it seems to be reason for concern.

But Hillary, show the evidence or go away.

All who have responded on this thread, so far, appear to me to be skeptics.  CFI forums are primarily populated by skeptics.  Some non-skeptics lurk and participate in this particular forum.  (paranormal and pseudoscience forum) But I do not see where any have yet responded to you.

I am pretty sure that the supernatural believers will hail yo…[Read more]

Righty conspiracies are no doubt often more egregiously divorced from reality than what the lefties promote.

But I am still confused re: wtf is going on with this Hillary v Tulsi accusation.  What purpose is served?

If u reach enuf ppl, a couple of them may be fucking on a brown L sofa while their flat screen is playing and an el camino appears in a scene.

Have u ever watched the TV evangelists who start praying aloud and saying they “sense someone with a gall bladder problem being healed”, then they “sense someone with a problem with their lungs being…[Read more]

Hillary should put forth with evidence or she should just shut up and go back to long walks in the forest.

Or if Tulsi is a Russian asset, we have to realize how effective the Russians are at these games.

Xain, I think you just told a joke.  Nice.

It is standard operating procedure with Russian propaganda to create and support the spread of convenient (for them) narratives even tho those narratives may be outlandish in their deceitfulness. Our current alt-rightish govt seems to pick up tactics from the Russians.

What I don’t get, is what is up with Hillary claiming Tulsi Gappart is a…[Read more]

oh, bummer

They may not be stupid or crazy but they sure do believe bullcrap.   And my world is too full of people believing bullcrap lately.

Yes. There is that.

Tho from the abusers perspective, they were taking responsibility to help the girl retain her immortal soul.

No one called me on the fact that most primary filing deadlines don’t expire until after we expect the articles of impeachment to be filed, then a month after that being long enough to do the senate trial.  Thus the whole impeachment process could be done by New Year’s.

Iow, I think it is correct to suggest that the development of religions has been a mostly unavoidable artifact of our complex verbal behavior.

Yes at it’s most basic level natural superstitious behavior (organisms being hard-wired to respond to patterns and associations even if they are only accidental or manipulated) is probably a prerequisite for development of religiosity.  But it also follows that the development of religious thought and religions themselves would develop naturally…[Read more]

When I said “Sounds to me like the bullcrap part of the Neuroscape that lights up when a person is engaging in believing bullcrap has been discovered.”

I was not disputing the existence of certain brain activity that connects some individuals with a sense of something sublime or a presence of such.  I was suggesting that if there is some…[Read more]

It is pretty crappy, but quite in line with evangelical mores.  I hope that Chiaki recovered ok.

Yes and even before early man was particularly verbal, it is a natural process for organisms in general to develop unusual behaviors, at times, by virtue of chance contingencies. (superstitious behaviors)

Then once humans had relatively complex language, superstitious ideations would be off to the races.

I think that lots of other species would…[Read more]