I don’t know anyone dumb enough to believe he has one.
FWIW, I’m still predicting that Trump is going to face legal consequences for trying to overthrow the U.S. government via a violent insurrection.
To answer the reader’s question at left: People have been talking about this since the dawn of the spoken word. The usual argument is that God gave us free will, which means that it’s up to us to choose one action over another, and some of these actions are evil.
In my way of thinking, this is specious; it’s like saying that the cleverest thing that Satan does is fooling us into believing that he doesn’t exist.
A reader notes about the meme here: Merry Christmas brings an awkward silence when I say it. Oh well, too bad. The holiday IS Christmas.
Most adherents to the world’s religions believe that human beings are, in essence, souls that go on to some form of afterlife when they die. Yet, as far as I’m aware, there are no such provisions made for our fellow primates, e.g., chimpanzees, nor for other intelligent species like dolphins and whales, nor for our beloved pets, like the fine dog pictured at left.
This strikes me as the height of ignorance and conceit.
Living in peace is a skill that most of the modern world has not developed to any significant degree.
Yet that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
Question: Take a peek at the meme at left, and examine it for poor logic.
A cow eating grass isn’t bad for the planet. The beef industry that is driving unprecedented levels of deforestation–in particular, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, is, in fact, terrible for the planet.
So here’s the question: What’s the name of the fallacy by which an argument is deliberately misrepresented so to make it easier to defeat?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
If I were to name the ten most intelligent and morally wholesome people who ever lived, Vonnegut would be on the list.
At left is my reasoning.
Property taxes are how we fund public schools. Unless we want illiterate children, we need property taxes.
Of course, we’re headed in the direction of mass ignorance anyway. The popular conception among the MAGA right is that education cranks out woke liberals, and thus our kids are better off without it. If you doubt this, tune into Fox News for a few minutes here and there.
Further, it looks like the Department of Education will soon be a thing of the past.
Here’s another way of defining “woke,” i.e., feeling the pain of others.
