Zeuglodon Beta

Following on from my previous comment (assuming it passes moderation), I took a dive into this article on Biden’s mixed initial rescue plan. A bit more of a glimmer of understanding, though the article makes […]

Well, one more. I’m looking at the topic that seems to be the most common justification (example) for voter patterns last election: inflation. Specifically, I’m looking through the list of factors for the […]

Michael 100: The irony is that if Biden or Harris had done most of what Trump did on the campaign, let alone being twice impeached, 34 time convicted, they would have been toast. But, as you say people, out of […]

Oh yes, and the Biden “garbage” controversy. And pointing out why the Democrats are bad at messaging. And Trump survived two assassination attempts. [REDACTED] on a bike. Like, what part of “Trump is […]

I’ve literally just encountered someone try to justify Trump as “merely incompetent” by comparing that most heinous of leftist vices… gender-affirming surgery on children (more details on the subject, for those […]

Michael 100: The lesser of two evils, my sweet rear end! I’m getting really exasperated at the number of people making this moral equivalency argument. What petty, myopic yardstick were they using!? Is this that […]

Wow, America really is a lost cause. I had low expectations already, but I’m clearly not being pessimistic enough. So let’s recap, for those who don’t remember what this administration delivered last time. […]

Sticking a pin in https://richarddawkins.net/2024/11/open-discussion-november-2024/#comment-216361 and one in https://richarddawkins.net/2024/11/open-discussion-november-2024/#comment-216367, for future reference. […]

Is anyone still wrestling with the idea of what exactly life is made of No, but you’d still have to indicate the level we’re interested in regardless. Otherwise, the answer could range from a list of elements […]

Michael 100: I’m looking back at my own journey. I don’t have any doubt that I was a person of deep religious faith. But at a particular instant, it occurred to me that the faith was a fairy tale. Faith eva […]

Strato: I think the pre-Darwin physicists could be partly pardoned, but not the post-Darwinian ones. Yes, that biological breakthrough was the clincher, wasn’t it? The discovery of evolutionary mechanisms was […]

Oh, and while I’m waiting to see if my giga-comment will pass moderation… Michael 100: Tony, at 2:46. I was just about to add a line about those who subscribe to New Age Religion to my questions to […]

Michael 100: A good question. I don’t technically know the answer (I admit it baffles me at times too), but if I had to organize my thoughts off the top of my head… What you write about makes sense, but […]

Tony: Hm. In hindsight, my wording was sloppy and unsatisfying (for instance, “the enemy of reason” comes across as too sweeping and imprecise), especially since it apparently has led to such a perplexingly […]

I’d further add that there often seems to be an element of wish fulfillment or self-expression in “faith”. Wish fulfillment: because people on some level like to think, or idealize and expect that they have more […]

Sorry to hog the thread, but I noticed in the feed on the front page a link to an article which I find articulates well what I was getting at. Besides, y’all might enjoy reading it for a few minutes! It’s about […]

Michael 100: as evidenced by Cairslley’s and Zeuglodon’s excellent posts Hm, I will say that I don’t and indeed can’t speak for all atheists and agnostics. Being an advocate for scientism myself, I’d mee […]

Michael 100: I just had a Google as well. Found some results. Not sure about the “College of St. Benedict” in the ResearchGate source, but Wikipedia claims that there is a College of Saint Benedict and Saint […]

Vincent M. Smiles: Bear with me. This is going to be a looooong one… There are a lot of premises in your comment which I find dubious, but to zero in on the key points: the modern mind distrusts intangible […]

Marco: Well, an obvious alternative is that at least some of those people are still treating this as a Republican vote first and foremost, whether through loyalty or genuine belief that they’re at least broadly […]