“Matrix 4” prediction

So, if you ask any two fans about the “Matrix” movies, they will have some pet ideology which they believe the movies embody. And these are deeply allegorical movies, so I’m sure you can find influence or parallel to any number of schools of thought. I have seen some interpretations which claim that the entire …

Conversations with Atheists, 26 APR 21

Them: “How many people have you personally met, who attempt to force Atheism on anyone?“ Notice the immediate restriction: my opinion is somehow only valid if I have personally met an offender. Knowledge of world history, access to verifiable stories, documentary evidence; all are somehow meant to be made irrelevant by this sentence. I originally assumed it …

Life After Goog-a-zon

This will be an updating post as I begin migrating from the various social media sites and other “tech giants” who have chosen overtly destroy the right to free speech of their members–as well as censoring the sitting President of the United States. So far, I have deleted my Twitter account with no intended replacement, …

Tenets of Modern “Skepticism”

1. All human thought is either ‘science-based’ or ‘fantasy-based’. These are mutually exclusive, and there are no other possibilities. 2. Everything I like is ‘science-based’. 3. Because it is ‘science-based’, it has value in all situations. People who believe it are smart and good. 4. Everything I don’t like is ‘fantasy-based’. 5. Because it is …

A Thought as Orwell Spins…

The political party currently telling you that the police are racist brutes who cannot be trusted, is the same political party which says that you should forfeit your Constitutionally-affirmed right to self-defense, because police are the only ones which should be trusted with guns.

We Forget the Lessons of Vietnam

I was going to do a political cartoon about our abandonment of the Kurds turning allies against us… But it’s already happened. The whole area aligning with Syria and RUSSIA. And hundreds of ISIS prisoners have already escaped from the facilities we left behind with forces about to be wiped out by Turkey. The response …

Conversations

Me (in response to a Facebook meme): Atheism is fundamentally incompatible with science. Atheist A: “I would like you to explain that. I would never say general creationism is fundamentally incompatible with science. As the existence of a God can not be proven or dis proven. I would say young earth creationism is incompatible with …