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I've actually said I feel JP has a terrible grasp of logic and a self-serving approach to truth to the point that no one should pay attention to anything he says. In your world, that makes me his apologist. You even purport that I am 'not rocking the boat,' meaning, in your mind, not rocking...

Let's not pretend the fascists give a shit about what I do or how I react. The person that cares is you. You are personally annoyed that my words do not fall in line with how you feel I should act, and you are willing to make whatever assumptions you need in order to justify that annoyance. I...

So, part of my trimming routine is to catch up on shows. One of the shows in my backlog folder is Jim Jefferies. Low and behold, one of episodes waiting for me was with the JP interview. While I didn't come away liking JP any more, I did come away with renewed disdain for people willing to...

Probably? Why hedge your bets? Obviously, if I don't feel that I want my mind littered with the rhetorical ramblings of JP, that must mean I have no strong feelings about the issues he speaks on. It must mean that if someone in my life expressed the same arguments, I wouldn't say anything to...

I'll have to find a way to live with your disappointment.

I have only heard snippets of JP's political views from his own mouth. My extent of the man's outlook is limited to the 3-4 hour interview he did with Sam Harris in which he spends half of it arguing the absurd idea that anything which is useful is true. He wasn't suggesting some sort of...

I also feel like people have little to look up to or be inspired by these days. None of our institutions are worthy of respect. The police, education, politics, corporations, banks, entertainment industry- they're all piles of shit ran by shitty people who shit on everything. Unless it's their...

Keep in mind that this is a journalist's shitty interpretation of the current state of scientific research. Someone who is trained to evaluate scientific literature would never come away from this subject with the idea the "scientists say blah blah." Really, all that can be said here is that...

"If the chemtrail conspiracy were true, millions of pilots would be needed to crop dust the American population. A typical crop duster might use seven ounces of agent diluted in seven gallons of water to cover one acre of land. Chemtrail 'people dusters' would use a similar concentration to...

Monsanto doesn't sue for cross pollination, they sue for breach of contract or patent infringement (theft). Even then, there has only been 147 lawsuits filed since 1997. It certainly doesn't happen everyday. If you find Monsanto seed has somehow found its way into your crops, they will remove...

This is also obvious when a strain name becomes popular and then suddenly everyone has their own version. Oh, Snoop Dogg says Cookie Blaze Bomber is the shit, and now everyone wants it? Better get a cutting and knock it up with some kush pollen, and now we have the Blazing Kush Bomb. The...

My unqualified opinion of JP; He's an apologist for bad ideas who occasionally says some rational things on accident and constantly gets shade for things he didn't actually say or mean instead of the horrible stuff he actually says and means.

My views do not depend on eschewing emotions, but rather, carefully navigating them. Emotions are a wonderful and valuable tool of the human intellect. I believe that if one does not pay attention to emotion, one cannot be fully informed. The problem is that the more we learn about human...

The mechanisms behind what you described are known as confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. These are demonstrable, repeatable and well documented features of human intelligence. One wonders why God would need to include built-in hurtles to rationality when he designed intelligence...

I imagine what he would say is that God is not a theory or explanation, but a person. God gave us science and so science cannot disprove God. This is, at least, what he says in some of his debates. I'm not sure how much weight should be given to the fact that Lennox considers intelligence to...

Technically religious "theories" are actually something called immunized hypotheses. This is when an explanation is constructed in such a way as to avoid any attempt at falsification. IOW the hypothesis is immune to criticism. This is done by special pleading/moving the goal posts to the...

You've given us Pascal's Wager, which is bad logic and was debunked a couple of hundred years ago. The problem with Pascal's wager is that there are hundreds of Gods to choose from, and many of them do not want you to worship any God but themselves. So, the odds that you happen to have picked...

Yes, potential energy is stored in the ball as it's lifted, and when dropped it's converted to kinetic energy. A rock is solid, meaning it doesn't deform, so no, or very little, energy gets dissipated by deforming it. Instead, the energy may go into the surface/floor and leave a dent. This is...

Everything in the simulation would have to have been inserted or emerge from what has been inserted. The idea basically suffers the same flaws as solipsism because it is unfalsifiable. We can't ask ourselves what reality would look like if it weren't being simulated, because if we are in a...

No, everything I wrote past the first line was gibberish. I was trying to be silly. Despite my namesake, physics is not in my wheelhouse. It's been a few years since college, but I believe, if we are talking about a rubber ball, the primary reason it bounces is because of the elasticity...