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How about everything.

He's right about Malthus and Hubbard being wrong; that's just history.


Yes, history from the1798 and 1956, and he argues that because of a couple of bad predictions by a couple of scientists that long ago means the science behind demography and geology is discredited. (and it was Hubbert, not Hubbard, he was the scientology guy)


trying to discredit the science of demography


He says Malthus was wrong; that's not the same as trying to discredit the science of demography.


Yes, in the context of his posts, it is the same. He uses the fact that Malthus got the date wrong to support the denial of the current conclusions of the science of demography, Malthus was wrong 225 years ago so don’t listen to scientists, population growth and scarce resources are not a problem.  


his argument against conservation and the development of alternative energy sources

Faux didn't directly argue against those things in this post.


His science denial posts are all related by a common theme that argues that conservation and the development of alternatives are unnecessary, and having read all of them, I have reached the conclusion that “I think Fauxlaw got his Faux Science degree at Trump University”.


enough oil to meet our growing consumption requirements

Humans are already shifting to renewables as they become more cost-effective;


Yeah, I know, and the industries are shifting because they don’t deny the science that supports such shifts.

running out of oil isn't the critical bottleneck you are implying.


I didn’t imply that, I replied to his argument that we aren’t running out of oil, you know, the argument that tries to discredit the subject science based on the fact that Hubbert missed the date seventy years ago.  Again, a predictive miss 70 years ago doesn’t mean the entire related scientific field loses all credibility and therefore, the concept that oil is not a renewable resource is just wrong, the concept that oil takes millions of years to be produced is just wrong.


He is a science denier, and these are some incredibly weak reasons to deny science, and because of that “I think Fauxlaw got his Faux Science degree at Trump University”.

Sidewalker

The words of the Bible were meant to resonate on many different levels to bring about a synthesis of mind, heart, and soul, they were meant to be listened to with the heart and responded to with the heart in order to give expression to the soul that is within the words and events that they expressed. The original words surely revealed dimensions that go beyond the surface understanding of any written translation, they were designed to integrate the listener's reality with God's reality and show how they are one. You simply cannot confuse a literal translation of the words with the experience of Truth that they attempted to impart.


Jesus invited His listeners to “seek the Kingdom within” (Luke 17:21), and it is the truth that "is within" that the Bible speaks of and to. If we listen to that "voice within" we will know how to interpret it and we will be able to distinguish between what is permanent truth and what is cultural bias. Consequently, when I read the Bible, I try to read it with my heart rather than my intellect and to do so I change my focus from actively pondering the external events to passively opening to the internal, transcendent knowledge within.


We cannot confuse the words and the language with the reality and truth that they attempt to represent symbolically. Language is no more than a very limited symbol of the reality experienced and then expressed, changing in time and place, and meaning different things to different people of different points of view, in different contexts.


Biblical literalism creates a blindness that flows from thinking spiritual reality is as we have labeled it with words; we miss out on the depth and wonder of spiritual reality if we limit it to the words we use to describe it Literalism attempts to make faith stagnant, it doesn’t allow doctrine to change and adapt to circumstances in order to have contemporary meaning, and that is tragic because Scripture is referential to much more than some strange events that happened a long time ago, as Huston Smith said, "It is about religion alive".


Isaiah 55:8-9

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”


Sidewalker
I think Fauxlaw got his Faux Science degree at Trump University

What specific things did he say in his post that you disagree with?


Seriously, I can’t believe you need to ask me that? How about everything.


Fauxlaw is a science denier; he denies science in favor of a belief in some kind of conspiracy theory science. He asserts preposterous ideas that deny fundamental principles of many of our interrelated scientific disciplines, by simply denying the competence of the scientific enterprise whenever it suits his agenda.


It’s profoundly hypocritical that he starts out by trying to discredit the science of demography by claiming its founder, Thomas Malthus wasn’t qualified because he was not educated “in the field”, true Malthus was an economist rather than “educated in the field” of demography. But that is not “like asking a plumber for legal advice” at all. The study of population dynamics is a central discipline in the field of Economics, in the 1700s, economics is where you found the study of population dynamics, so he was educated “in the field”. Fauxlaw’s faux argument is that he was not educated in the science of “demography”, well no shit, that’s because it wasn’t around yet, Malthus pretty much invented the field in 1798 with his publication of his foundational population dynamics study. This is just uninformed nonsense coming hypocritically from someone who does not have educational credentials in the field.


This uninformed criticism is somehow used to discredit the entire field of demography and it’s 225 years of analysis, study, and development of scientific knowledge as some kind of conspiracy to misinform us. He counters the field with a single mathematical formula that is supposed to demonstrate that all of humanity just didn’t know what they were doing when the inhabited the habitable regions of the world, and agriculture and food production industries were wrong, distribution methods were wrong, pretty much the way mankind has developed societies, economics, technology throughout the world has been invalidated by his inane simplistic formula.


Then he moves on to his argument against conservation and the development of alternative energy sources, all on the basis that oil is a renewable resource. He asserts that since the process of creating oil from organic material is still happening, the earth can just make more, and we will never run out. This argument is preposterous, we know consumption rates, and we have a ballpark idea of how much we’ve taken and how much there is left, and it’s nuts to say there isn’t a supply problem coming.


As everyone knows, it takes millions of years for organic material to become oil, and we have a pretty good idea of how much organic material it takes to create enough oil to meet our growing consumption requirements, and he simply denies the validity to the scientific community and the collective analytical knowledge of trillion-dollar industries. He says it doesn’t take millions of years, and apparently, there are secrets places where the earth is converting massive amounts of organic material into oil, and doing it very quickly, those trillion-dollar industries and the scientific community just missed it, like they are all part of a vast conspiracy to misinform us.


After consideration, I came to the conclusion that; “I think Fauxlaw got his Faux Science degree at Trump University”


Sidewalker
> Porn is not named → lust is named


Of course it isn't named, the Bible doesn't mention things that had not been developed yet, go figure.


→ therefore porn is only sinful insofar as it produces lust.


What would be the point of porn that doesn't produce lust? Seems that by definition, if it doesn't produce lust, it isn't porn.

Sidewalker
I wasn't joking


Of course you’re not joking, you are too self-righteous for jokes, you are the same as those who looked down on Jesus saying, “Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” (Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34), you would be accusing Jesus of being an agent of “Beelzebub” and “the prince of demons” (Matthew 9:34 and Matthew 12:24)


Jesus responded to your kind, so I don't have to:


Matthew 23:5-6 Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues.


Matthew 12:34-35 

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.


Matthew 23:33 

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?


Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from the people, for you do not enter in yourselves; nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.


Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel about on sea and land to make one convert; and when you succeed, you make your converts twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.


Luke 18:14

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others…for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Sidewalker
You all know that there would have been no Jesus if people had iPhones back then, don't you?


He practically invented going viral, getting 2 billion followers without any technology at all, imagine if he had iPhones and the Internet, with a Blog and Tick Tock videos, he would be the King of the Influencers.

Sidewalker
"This study evaluated the rape fantasies of female undergraduates (N = 355) using a fantasy checklist that reflected the legal definition of rape and a sexual fantasy log that included systematic prompts and self-ratings. Results indicated that 62% of women have had a rape fantasy, which is somewhat higher than previous estimates. For women who have had rape fantasies, the median frequency of these fantasies was about 4 times per year, with 14% of participants reporting that they had rape fantasies at least once a week. In contrast to previous research, which suggested that rape fantasies were either entirely aversive or entirely erotic, rape fantasies were found to exist on an erotic-aversive continuum, with 9% completely aversive, 45% completely erotic, and 46% both erotic and aversive."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19085605/


In the unlikely event that you ever actually meet a real woman, I think maybe you shouldn't tell her you know she wants to be raped.


She probably can, and will, beat the crap out of you.

Sidewalker
Most women have rape fantasies, so I can believe that desalination plants are more likely to be a deal breaker there.


I was talking about something you know nothing about, real live women, not A! women, not inflatable women, and not young girls.

Sidewalker
If you think this is a strawman, then I literally had a far left ex friend that disassociated with me because I defended desalination plants (she claimed they were racist because Israel did them).


Oh sure, "desalination plants" is why she disassociated with you, you obsession with misogyny, violence against women, and rape were just fine, but desalination is the problem LOL.


Good one. I'll bet you're an incel because of your desalination views too.


"I'm sorry honey, the hatred and violence and rape was fun, but desalination is where I draw the line, it's all over between us, I'll find some other guy to hate, hurt, and rape me, I need a rapist that cares enough about me to not support desalination" LOL


You are a hoot man.



Sidewalker
I know the patterns the systems are looking for and I can assure you Rex is on the radar of multiple agencies,

What a great use of tax payers money. thank God I am not a tax payer, so I dont finance that bullshit.


There are some real bad people out there, and I think it's a good thing that we can identify and track them.


We live in a world of big data. You are naive if you think you have anything resembling a right to privacy in social interactions, if you just show your face in public they can legally develop a biometric profile, and then facial recognition can pretty much track you wherever you go, and on-line activities allow psychological profiling, it's not just Google watching you.


I live with it, the way I see it, I'm glad they can watch the bad guys and apply predictive analytics to dangerous people, and I'm also sure anybody watching me has way too much time on their hands, I'm just too boring to make anybody's lists.



Sidewalker
This site will get sued big time later or.banned in all non US nations and US states worth their salt in morality, at leasst formthose under 18.

Time will tell.

If I was law enforcement this would already be under investigation but I am not and its why I can even dare debate on it. Yoy are entertaining illegal chats.


For years I worked for a company that helped develop the data analytics tools to track on-line activity for law enforcement and the military, especially the fifth army.


I know the patterns the systems are looking for and I can assure you Rex is on the radar of multiple agencies, he's certainly being monitored and analytically profiled as high risk, they have databases that know more about him than he does himself. They are relational databases, so people who interact with him ion a positive or supportive manner get on their radar too, it's probably a good thing you and I have consistently expressed disapproval, presumably that's been noted.










Sidewalker

Just this morning my wife told me we are done, so I am ready, and it was easy peasey, all I had to do is let my wife handle everything.


Except for, I did do the outdoor lights, utilizing the Clark Griswold approach to Christmas Lights. People in the neighborhood need to wear sunglasses when they drive by, they say only two manmade structures are visible from outer space, the Great Wall of China, and my house at Christmas time.

Sidewalker

If you can create money out of nothing but math, why not a God too, we can call it Crypto God.



Sidewalker
See above.

And for sure, Yin has it's Yang.

And of course, let's not forget that social hierarchy breeds greed, corruption and paranoia....Putin and Trump are fine examples.


Have you heard that now Trump wants to change the name of the San Andreas Fault?


He's renaming it Joe Biden's Fault.