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1-day-old kitten survives against all odds with the help of a kind woman who takes her in, and 14 weeks later she's the purrfect example of the second chances all cats deserve. - Every cat deserves a chance, no matter how the odds are stacked against them at the start. That's the belief the global cat community was built on, and it'...
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What that movie should have been - I didn’t care much for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, so today I made the movie I wanted. It didn’t require hundreds of millions of dollars, either. I bought s...21 hours ago
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“I’m Not Talking About 2020. I’m Talking About 2026.” - [image: Large red numbers “2020” with gold borders, shown against a transparent background.] 2020 is more than just a security blanket for MAHA/MAGA disinf...1 day ago
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Another Pentagon UAP Release – More Dots - I saw the movie, Disclosure Day. I was not impressed. It was (mild spoiler alert) a completely unimaginative wet dream of what the UFO community fantasiz...4 days ago
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song - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a-NRfXg1vFtueolqHBnurOHIAg51UDtL/view?usp=drive_link9 months ago
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Oameni Vrednici de Atentie - Oameni Vrednici de Atentie. Imi plac umanii care nu sunt anosti. Fiintele acelea care-si conecteaza limba la creier inainte de a spune ceva. Care nu deschi...10 months ago
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Multiplication of unlawful disjunctions - Charles B. writes: Apparently, birds are not considered wild animals by law. Reference here, where apparently feeding them in parks in permitted except if ...1 year ago
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Thanks for stopping by…. - I grew up in a wilderness area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in a town proudly proclaiming almost 300 citizens on its road sign. Life there focused on surv...7 years ago
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Guy in cheesy old Scientology promo looks kinda like Josh Timonen - Fast forward to about 3:00. I never met Josh so I can't say if it's him or not. Would be a few years younger in the promo.
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Couldn't all religions be classified as (more or less) dangerous cults? Surely the choice of one or the other is something of a false dichotomy? :-)
ReplyDeleteI hope your wrist is healing well :-)
Cult status is always relative to all the other religious sects competing for members in some community. Large, dominant sects can't be cults.
ReplyDeleteIn our environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, being right wasn't enough. Our ancestors also had to be quick. And so our brains come wired with a few shortcuts or rules of thumb that impose a feeling of the right answer before we've even got the slide rule out. "The majority are correct" is one such shortcut. "The alpha male is correct" is another.
We expect humans to accept the assertions of their enveloping culture without criticism. Few have the time or capacity to examine the basis of what passes for conventional wisdom. But as a corollary anyone who embraces a minority view --particularly if that viewpoint imposes significant cost or risk-- is expected to double and triple check the basis of their belief.
Lucky thing the majority and the alpha male are daft often enough else we'd never have evolved the capacity for science.