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• Post #3180716

  @rbreich https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110004692269161242

• Post #3180715

  @DaveRussell I look at the people with IQ's of 145+ (the people who get into and earn degrees from Harvard, Yale etc.) and the power and influence they exert and I strongly believe that a lot of our problems are due to the deference the rest of us give them. Some of this is envy. I'd like to be that smart and to have achieved what they have.. If these people were really smarter than the rest of us I'd have no problem with them running things. Paradoxically, many of the...

• Post #3180714

  @DaveRussell But I'm congenitally lazy! There's a funny chess story about talent vs application. This Russian goes around giving chess lessons but doesn't even know the moves. A saying attributed to him went "The blond plays well and the brunette plays poorly and all the chess lessons in the world will not change that."

• Post #3180711

  @DaveRussell Don’t know if you’ll be able to access this. Tish Harrison Warren is an Anglican, evangelical priest (or pastor?) who claims moderate social views. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/jesus-he-gets-us-ad-campaign.html (continued)

• Post #3180710

  @DaveRussell https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110017993007298155 In response I emailed her I'm Jewish but I don't practice and I don't believe.  I read that this week was the minor holiday of Purim, which never got mentioned in my  youth, outside of Hebrew school.  Over the years I've read more than a smidgen of Persian first empire history and nothing I read suggested  anything resembling the Purim story.  I looked it up this week and it is established his...

• Post #3180709

  @DaveRussell https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110018009577023665So Jews continue to celebrate Purim on the sole basis that their ancestors celebrated it.  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has many aspects but it has been rendered intractable by the Harredian insistence, that Israel possess all of Biblical  Israel and the Muslim insistence,  that Muslims have sovereignty over (at least!) a portion of Jerusalem because Muhammad  ascended to heaven from the city (which any reasonable person...

• Post #3180708

  @DaveRussell https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110018030385021513 Christianity with its myths of the Resurrection and the Godhead of Jesus  is in my view the worst of the patriarchal Abrahamic religions because it combines absurdity, megalomaniacal power aspirations and an obsessive urge to proselytize. It is past time to drown the aged infant of the Abrahamic religions in the bathtub.

• Post #3180707

  @DaveRussell #LInks_to_all_4_Toots_on_religion https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110017993007298155 https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110018009577023665 https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110018030385021513 https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110018061048736733

• Post #3180706

  @DaveRussell Do you not agree with me on the Abrahamic religions?

• Post #3180705

  @CatalyzedTransmogrification You need to go a bit lighter on the self pity.

• Post #3180704

  @DaveRussell It was 4 linked toots. Don't have the time to reconstruct 4 message right now but maybe I can direct message you just a copy & paste.

• Post #3180703

  @DaveRussell #DeSantis_&Force_feeding_at_Guantanamo https://twitter.com/marshalgrouchy/status/1637449658107670531?s=20

• Post #3180702

  https://stranger.social/@MarshalGrouchy/110050253378391458

• Post #3180701

  @DaveRussellrussell@stranger.social #Announcement Opening of Hilbert's Grand Hotel - An infinite number of rooms and each room can accommodate an infinite number of guests. Reasonable rates!

• Post #3180700

  #Ron_DeSantis DeSantis' stupidity has reduced his Ivy League brain to the size of a pea.

• Post #3180699

  #Ron_DeSantis To use a phrase outside of its usual context "A stiff prick has no conscience."