• =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schilling has passed away

    From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Tue Oct 12 16:36:17 2021
    Forwarded from comp.unix.shell, given that many people here were
    replacing the Mageia-supplied cdrkit (Wodim) package with Schily's
    original (and much better) cdrtools...

    Christian Weisgerber wrote:

    J=C3=B6rg Schilling, aka "schily", has died from cancer.
    =20
    For those who can read German: https://twitter.com/FUZxxl/status/1447319844295254020 https://www.heise.de/news/Nachruf-Open-Source-Welt-trauert-um-Joerg-Schil=
    ling-6214446.html


    --=20
    With respect,
    =3D Aragorn =3D


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Oct 12 22:00:59 2021
    On 13/10/21 02:36, Aragorn wrote:
    Forwarded from comp.unix.shell, given that many people here were
    replacing the Mageia-supplied cdrkit (Wodim) package with Schily's
    original (and much better) cdrtools...

    Christian Weisgerber wrote:

    Jörg Schilling, aka "schily", has died from cancer.

    For those who can read German:
    https://twitter.com/FUZxxl/status/1447319844295254020
    https://www.heise.de/news/Nachruf-Open-Source-Welt-trauert-um-Joerg-Schilling-6214446.html




    I never did get around to installing it.
    And now CD/DVD are deprecating.

    Are all the Linux users "getting on" Are we all ancient?

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Tue Oct 12 22:45:49 2021
    On 10/12/21 14:00, faeychild wrote:
    On 13/10/21 02:36, Aragorn wrote:
    Forwarded from comp.unix.shell, given that many people here were
    replacing the Mageia-supplied cdrkit (Wodim) package with Schily's
    original (and much better) cdrtools...

    Christian Weisgerber wrote:

    Jörg Schilling, aka "schily", has died from cancer.

    For those who can read German:
    https://twitter.com/FUZxxl/status/1447319844295254020
    https://www.heise.de/news/Nachruf-Open-Source-Welt-trauert-um-Joerg-Schilling-6214446.html





    I never did get around to installing it.
    And now CD/DVD are deprecating.

    Are all the Linux users "getting on" Are we all ancient?


    No but few young people would be on Usenet unless they were
    very hip.


    bliss - lost in spacetime and quantal interactions on a macroscopic
    scale.


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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Wed Oct 13 14:38:14 2021
    On 13.10.2021 at 08:00, faeychild scribbled:

    On 13/10/21 02:36, Aragorn wrote:

    Forwarded from comp.unix.shell, given that many people here were
    replacing the Mageia-supplied cdrkit (Wodim) package with Schily's
    original (and much better) cdrtools...
    =20
    Christian Weisgerber wrote:
    =20
    J=C3=B6rg Schilling, aka "schily", has died from cancer.

    For those who can read German:
    https://twitter.com/FUZxxl/status/1447319844295254020
    https://www.heise.de/news/Nachruf-Open-Source-Welt-trauert-um-Joerg-Sc=
    hilling-6214446.html
    =20
    I never did get around to installing it.

    It's not all that much work. Dave W. Hodgins wrote some very clear instructions =E2=80=94 the Duck is your friend. ;)

    That said, luckily enough for me, it comes installed by default in
    Manjaro (and Arch), with "wodim" being a symlink to Schily's actual
    "cdrecord", as opposed to the other way around.

    And now CD/DVD are deprecating.

    Yes, USB sticks have become the new floppy drives, but I for one am
    still using optical media. This machine here won't even boot off of a
    USB stick, even though it's supposed to be able to =E2=80=94 probably a UEFI bug.

    Are all the Linux users "getting on" Are we all ancient?

    Of course we are. Twenty years ago, the people who developed free
    & open source software all came from the UNIX world =E2=80=94 as did J=C3= =B6rg for
    that matter =E2=80=94 but today's developers grew up on Windows, macOS and smartphones, and they don't even understand UNIX.

    And then I'm not even talking of the millennials we're getting over at
    the Manjaro forum. They're almost all gamers, and 98% of them are
    Windows users with a more than fair amount of Windows brainwashing,
    while the remaining 2% are Mac users. And I'd say that about 85% of
    them are all using laptops, with only 15% of them using a desktop
    computer.

    Even the attitudes have changed. While we do have a number of very
    helpful members =E2=80=94 similar to Usenet =E2=80=94 and most of our other=
    members are
    well-behaved, we also get a lot of newbies with an attitude of
    arrogance, coupled with utter stupidity. It's impossible to teach
    those people the error of their ways.

    The forum also has a great number of tutorials =E2=80=94 I've written four =
    of
    them myself, but there are tons and tons more from other helpful
    members, Manjaro developers and moderators =E2=80=94 and the Discourse forum engine allows (through a plugin) to mark posts as solutions, in which
    case the solution is added to the opening post of the thread.
    Furthermore, the forum also has a search engine, AND we have categories
    for the different languages.

    So, do you think people bother doing a search? Of course not. They've
    got a problem =E2=80=94 whatever said problem may be =E2=80=94 and they're = going to
    post about it, even though it says right under their nose, in the
    middle of the screen "Please do a search before posting", with a huge
    search box right underneath. <facepalm>

    Oh, and they don't even bother posting in the right categories either.
    To hell with the German section, the Spanish section, the Russian
    section, the Portuguese section, and so on.

    The other day =E2=80=94 a couple of days ago actually =E2=80=94 some guy po= sted about a
    problem with his graphics driver in the #network category. You would
    think that people capable of using a computer would know how to read,
    because they sure as hell know how to write =E2=80=94 they do it all the ti= me.

    Sometimes you give them the solution, and they simply don't see it, so
    that you have to quote your own post back to them. Or you give them
    the solution, and then they post that they did what you said and it
    worked, and they mark their own post as the solution. <rolling eyes>

    And then lastly, you get the help vampires. A thread by a help vampire generally doesn't have a solution, because once you've solved their
    problem they move the goalposts and you need to answer their other
    questions too. And so the thread keeps on going, ad infinitam if you
    don't put a stop to it.

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different
    world now.


    --=20
    With respect,
    =3D Aragorn =3D


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 14 21:52:20 2021
    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:


    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different
    world now.



    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep
    And if you are not on Facebook, you don't exist.
    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and
    texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Regards


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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 14 22:13:09 2021
    On 15.10.2021 at 07:52, faeychild scribbled:

    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different
    world now.

    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep
    And if you are not on Facebook, you don't exist.

    Well, I guess I don't exist then. But how do I convince the tax
    collectors of that? :p

    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Yes, welcome to the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse. :/


    --
    With respect,
    = Aragorn =


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Thu Oct 14 22:27:22 2021
    On 10/14/21 14:13, Aragorn wrote:
    On 15.10.2021 at 07:52, faeychild scribbled:

    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different
    world now.

    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep
    And if you are not on Facebook, you don't exist.

    Well, I guess I don't exist then. But how do I convince the tax
    collectors of that? :p

    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and
    texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Yes, welcome to the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse. :/


    (anti)Social Media is going to take down what we have been
    foolishly calling civilization but is no more than technological
    advances handed over to the true dinosauria, the zombified phone
    walkers and thumb exercisers. Maybe they will be carried forward
    toward totally synthetic experience and become the button pushers
    that people believed would be the course of evolution in the 1950s.

    But that is life, as everyone starts to live in the water
    and turn into seal-like mer-things. Humanity turns out to be
    a blind alley in the march of evolution.

    bliss - 'Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.' After all
    here I am....

    --
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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 15 15:58:45 2021
    On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:27:22 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    On 10/14/21 14:13, Aragorn wrote:
    On 15.10.2021 at 07:52, faeychild scribbled:

    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different
    world now.

    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep
    And if you are not on Facebook, you don't exist.

    Well, I guess I don't exist then. But how do I convince the tax
    collectors of that? :p

    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and
    texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Yes, welcome to the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse. :/


    (anti)Social Media is going to take down what we have been
    foolishly calling civilization but is no more than technological
    advances handed over to the true dinosauria, the zombified phone
    walkers and thumb exercisers. Maybe they will be carried forward
    toward totally synthetic experience and become the button pushers
    that people believed would be the course of evolution in the 1950s.

    <snip>
    I am less concerned about the effects of technological changes
    than about the human psychological propensity to want someone else
    to bear responsibility for all one's major decisions. That has
    led to most people spending their lives subject to tyranny for
    most of history, and it looks like one of the few partial
    exceptions ("Western Civilization") may be fading.

    Islam (Submission) totals about 1.6 billion and increasing. The
    Koran, the Hadith, and the clerisy -- mullah upward to caliph or
    ayatollah -- wield full authority over all Muslims, thus relieving
    them of thinking for themselves.

    The Muslims continue to regard jihad as the highest form of worship
    for Allah and to define it as conversion, slaughter, enslavement,
    or political and economic total domination of all non-Muslims, with
    Heaven and 72 houris for all who die in the process and absolvement
    from all sin for those who engage in it and survive. I consider
    this a problem.

    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam
    and the West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.

    Marxism and its direct and indirect followers had a setback when
    the USSR fell apart, but China is coming on strong and adoption
    by virtually all of the radical left in Western societies of some
    variety of Marxism or a descendant ideology is increasingly of
    concern due to gains in the U.S. in particular.

    Marx focused on two premier goals, destruction of religion and
    capitalism, and regarded destruction of the family and property
    rights as inescapable for that.

    I find these to be destructive of a common morality and consequent
    harmony among people, as well as destructive of economic motivation
    and resulting prosperity due to human desire to acquire personal
    power over others and accumulate material wealth.

    The last translates to governmental tyranny by those few able
    to indulge in their desires for power over others, or wealth,
    or both, imposed on those subject to them. Twentieth Century
    history informs of of what that does.

    My justification why I am less concerned about technology
    addressed, I shall drop this subject from a place where
    arguably it does not belong.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    --
    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely
    expects users to be computer friendly.

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 15 21:38:29 2021
    On 16/10/21 01:58, Jim wrote:


    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam
    and the West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.


    All we need is to discover how the universe came to be and these people
    will find themselves looking foolish in the same camp as followers of
    Thor, Zeus, Poseidon, Osiris etc.

    I would enjoy that!

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 00:51:32 2021
    On 10/15/21 13:38, faeychild wrote:

    On 16/10/21 01:58, Jim wrote:


    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam
    and the West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.


    All we need is to discover how the universe came to be and these people
    will find themselves looking foolish in the same camp as followers of
    Thor, Zeus, Poseidon, Osiris etc.

    I would enjoy that!

    Followers of Thor and Odin aka the Asatru are in trouble now
    over racist discrimination. They believe that skin color is key to
    religious beliefs.
    All the old pantheons are seemingly nothing more than worship
    of archetypes embedded in human unconscious. But we will see in due
    course of time if the no-fun-dumb-mentalists don't get in the way.

    But Jörg Schilling has gone on and doubtless either is not
    or else know the truth of all.

    bliss - apparently the creation mythos of the various cults are now
    considered childish.

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 12:52:05 2021
    On 16/10/21 10:51, Bobbie Sellers wrote:


        Followers of Thor and Odin aka the Asatru are in trouble now
    over racist discrimination.  They believe that skin color is key to religious beliefs.
        All the old pantheons are seemingly nothing more than worship
    of archetypes embedded in human unconscious.  But we will see in due
    course of time if the no-fun-dumb-mentalists don't get in the way.

        But Jörg Schilling has gone on and doubtless either is not
    or else know the truth of all.

    bliss - apparently the creation mythos of the various cults are now considered childish.


    Totally correct!


    As a side observation. I was at my neighbors house tonight and we had a
    supply interruption.

    We were watching "Vera" and her table lamp flickered, then dimmed, went
    out and re established
    The TV stayed off, the fridge kept running but the split system aircon
    had a little fit
    I turned it off for a few minutes to cool off any current trip resets
    etc and it started up OK
    But she was quite distraught "What was that! What happened!" panic
    "What if it happens again."

    I said "Nothing, you will be asleep".


    Power interruptions are uncommon but not unheard of.
    She said she had never had one before... "Really???"

    My computer at home was still running. Recording two TV channels. Uptime
    15 hours
    Clearly a different phase

    Most of the population live in world of ignorance based fear and panic.
    Small wonder they believe in Ghosts demons and evil spirits

    Education has truly failed us
    What was it Karl Sagan said...

    I am way of topic anyway.


    Goodnight Bobbie

    Regards


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  • From Herman Viaene@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 13:50:06 2021
    Op Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:58:45 +0000, schreef Jim:

    On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:27:22 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    On 10/14/21 14:13, Aragorn wrote:
    On 15.10.2021 at 07:52, faeychild scribbled:

    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different
    world now.

    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep And if you are not on
    Facebook, you don't exist.

    Well, I guess I don't exist then. But how do I convince the tax
    collectors of that? :p

    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and
    texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Yes, welcome to the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse. :/


    (anti)Social Media is going to take down what we have been
    foolishly calling civilization but is no more than technological
    advances handed over to the true dinosauria, the zombified phone
    walkers and thumb exercisers. Maybe they will be carried forward
    toward totally synthetic experience and become the button pushers that
    people believed would be the course of evolution in the 1950s.

    <snip>
    I am less concerned about the effects of technological changes than
    about the human psychological propensity to want someone else to bear responsibility for all one's major decisions. That has led to most
    people spending their lives subject to tyranny for most of history, and
    it looks like one of the few partial exceptions ("Western Civilization")
    may be fading.

    Islam (Submission) totals about 1.6 billion and increasing. The Koran,
    the Hadith, and the clerisy -- mullah upward to caliph or ayatollah --
    wield full authority over all Muslims, thus relieving them of thinking
    for themselves.

    The Muslims continue to regard jihad as the highest form of worship for
    Allah and to define it as conversion, slaughter, enslavement, or
    political and economic total domination of all non-Muslims, with Heaven
    and 72 houris for all who die in the process and absolvement from all
    sin for those who engage in it and survive. I consider this a problem.

    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the
    West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.

    Marxism and its direct and indirect followers had a setback when the
    USSR fell apart, but China is coming on strong and adoption by virtually
    all of the radical left in Western societies of some variety of Marxism
    or a descendant ideology is increasingly of concern due to gains in the
    U.S. in particular.

    Marx focused on two premier goals, destruction of religion and
    capitalism, and regarded destruction of the family and property rights
    as inescapable for that.

    I find these to be destructive of a common morality and consequent
    harmony among people, as well as destructive of economic motivation and resulting prosperity due to human desire to acquire personal power over others and accumulate material wealth.

    The last translates to governmental tyranny by those few able to indulge
    in their desires for power over others, or wealth,
    or both, imposed on those subject to them. Twentieth Century history
    informs of of what that does.

    My justification why I am less concerned about technology addressed, I
    shall drop this subject from a place where arguably it does not belong.

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of Islam
    and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or any kind of Protestantism.

    Herman Viaene


    Cheers!

    jim b.


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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 14:38:57 2021
    On 16.10.2021 at 12:50, Herman Viaene scribbled:

    Op Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:58:45 +0000, schreef Jim:

    The Muslims continue to regard jihad as the highest form of worship
    for Allah and to define it as conversion, slaughter, enslavement, or political and economic total domination of all non-Muslims, with
    Heaven and 72 houris for all who die in the process and absolvement
    from all sin for those who engage in it and survive. I consider
    this a problem.

    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and
    the West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.

    Marxism and its direct and indirect followers had a setback when the
    USSR fell apart, but China is coming on strong and adoption by
    virtually all of the radical left in Western societies of some
    variety of Marxism or a descendant ideology is increasingly of
    concern due to gains in the U.S. in particular.

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of
    Islam and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or
    any kind of Protestantism.

    It is always easier to spot the splinter in someone else's eye than to
    see the beam in one's own. ;)


    --
    With respect,
    = Aragorn =


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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 15:07:11 2021
    On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 12:50:06 +0000, Herman Viaene wrote:

    Op Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:58:45 +0000, schreef Jim:

    On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:27:22 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    On 10/14/21 14:13, Aragorn wrote:
    On 15.10.2021 at 07:52, faeychild scribbled:

    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different >>>>>> world now.

    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep And if you are not on
    Facebook, you don't exist.

    Well, I guess I don't exist then. But how do I convince the tax
    collectors of that? :p

    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and >>>>> texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Yes, welcome to the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse. :/


    (anti)Social Media is going to take down what we have been
    foolishly calling civilization but is no more than technological
    advances handed over to the true dinosauria, the zombified phone
    walkers and thumb exercisers. Maybe they will be carried forward
    toward totally synthetic experience and become the button pushers that
    people believed would be the course of evolution in the 1950s.

    <snip>
    I am less concerned about the effects of technological changes than
    about the human psychological propensity to want someone else to bear
    responsibility for all one's major decisions. That has led to most
    people spending their lives subject to tyranny for most of history, and
    it looks like one of the few partial exceptions ("Western Civilization")
    may be fading.

    Islam (Submission) totals about 1.6 billion and increasing. The Koran,
    the Hadith, and the clerisy -- mullah upward to caliph or ayatollah --
    wield full authority over all Muslims, thus relieving them of thinking
    for themselves.

    The Muslims continue to regard jihad as the highest form of worship for
    Allah and to define it as conversion, slaughter, enslavement, or
    political and economic total domination of all non-Muslims, with Heaven
    and 72 houris for all who die in the process and absolvement from all
    sin for those who engage in it and survive. I consider this a problem.

    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the
    West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.

    Marxism and its direct and indirect followers had a setback when the
    USSR fell apart, but China is coming on strong and adoption by virtually
    all of the radical left in Western societies of some variety of Marxism
    or a descendant ideology is increasingly of concern due to gains in the
    U.S. in particular.

    Marx focused on two premier goals, destruction of religion and
    capitalism, and regarded destruction of the family and property rights
    as inescapable for that.

    I find these to be destructive of a common morality and consequent
    harmony among people, as well as destructive of economic motivation and
    resulting prosperity due to human desire to acquire personal power over
    others and accumulate material wealth.

    The last translates to governmental tyranny by those few able to indulge
    in their desires for power over others, or wealth,
    or both, imposed on those subject to them. Twentieth Century history
    informs of of what that does.

    My justification why I am less concerned about technology addressed, I
    shall drop this subject from a place where arguably it does not belong.

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of Islam
    and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or any kind of Protestantism.

    Should one attack what seems to be the "least-bad" of the major
    contingents?

    Success in such attack would seem likely to damage all, attacked
    and attacker alike.

    Of course, "least-bad" may be subject to disputes dependent on one's
    existing values. If you think destroying all not like you in some
    specific way is the epitome of "good," that would not favor any
    variety of Christianity.

    Survival and increase in numbers as the highest good would lead
    to a different judgment, not necessarily dependent on our
    individual or collective conscious goals and values.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 15:36:31 2021
    On 16.10.2021 at 14:07, Jim scribbled:

    On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 12:50:06 +0000, Herman Viaene wrote:

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of
    Islam and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of
    the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of
    them) or any kind of Protestantism.

    Should one attack what seems to be the "least-bad" of the major
    contingents?

    Success in such attack would seem likely to damage all, attacked
    and attacker alike.

    Of course, "least-bad" may be subject to disputes dependent on one's
    existing values. If you think destroying all not like you in some
    specific way is the epitome of "good," that would not favor any
    variety of Christianity.

    I don't think perpetually invading and occupying sovereign nations
    since the end of World War II in order to "spread democracy" would be
    the answer either.

    Some believe in the Koran and corporeal punishment, others believe in
    the petrodollar, with the slogan "In God We Trust" proudly printed on
    it.

    Same shit, different asshole. <shrug>

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 16 16:18:23 2021
    On 10/16/21 07:07, Jim wrote:
    On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 12:50:06 +0000, Herman Viaene wrote:

    Op Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:58:45 +0000, schreef Jim:

    On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:27:22 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    On 10/14/21 14:13, Aragorn wrote:
    On 15.10.2021 at 07:52, faeychild scribbled:

    On 14/10/21 00:38, Aragorn wrote:

    So, long story short, yeah, we're all dinosaurs. It's a different >>>>>>> world now.

    I believe that you are valued by your "Facebook" "likes". It is
    seriously important to be one of the sheep And if you are not on
    Facebook, you don't exist.

    And that is fun, not being seen by the Farcebookers.


    Well, I guess I don't exist then. But how do I convince the tax
    collectors of that? :p

    I could not spend my entire day walking around looking at a phone and >>>>>> texting nonsense to shallow buffoons.

    Yes, welcome to the Smartphone Zombie Apocalypse. :/


    (anti)Social Media is going to take down what we have been
    foolishly calling civilization but is no more than technological
    advances handed over to the true dinosauria, the zombified phone
    walkers and thumb exercisers. Maybe they will be carried forward
    toward totally synthetic experience and become the button pushers that >>>> people believed would be the course of evolution in the 1950s.

    <snip>
    I am less concerned about the effects of technological changes than
    about the human psychological propensity to want someone else to bear
    responsibility for all one's major decisions. That has led to most
    people spending their lives subject to tyranny for most of history, and
    it looks like one of the few partial exceptions ("Western Civilization") >>> may be fading.

    Islam (Submission) totals about 1.6 billion and increasing. The Koran,
    the Hadith, and the clerisy -- mullah upward to caliph or ayatollah --
    wield full authority over all Muslims, thus relieving them of thinking
    for themselves.

    The Muslims continue to regard jihad as the highest form of worship for
    Allah and to define it as conversion, slaughter, enslavement, or
    political and economic total domination of all non-Muslims, with Heaven
    and 72 houris for all who die in the process and absolvement from all
    sin for those who engage in it and survive. I consider this a problem.

    Our USA Christian Dominionist maintain similar precepts.

    See Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the
    West by Raymond Ibrahim for details if such interest you.

    If only Sword and Scimtars, were still the only tools of the warlike.


    Marxism and its direct and indirect followers had a setback when the
    USSR fell apart, but China is coming on strong and adoption by virtually >>> all of the radical left in Western societies of some variety of Marxism
    or a descendant ideology is increasingly of concern due to gains in the
    U.S. in particular.

    That is called the Labor Movement. As for Capitalism the damage it has
    done at home and abroad is horrendous. A vile form of petrochemical capitalism refuses to give up its profits while executives
    of companies are overpaid and the workers' pay lags behind the Cost of
    Living.


    Marx focused on two premier goals, destruction of religion and
    capitalism, and regarded destruction of the family and property rights
    as inescapable for that.


    Marx was trained as a priest so he knew how bad religion could be. If he had come from a propertied family he might not have been so harsh.
    But in Europe and Asia of the time most of the properties were
    exploitative aristos. In the USA the Propertied was a much wider class
    but the top property owners thought of the rest as less than human.



    I find these to be destructive of a common morality and consequent
    harmony among people, as well as destructive of economic motivation and
    resulting prosperity due to human desire to acquire personal power over
    others and accumulate material wealth.

    Economic motivation for non-Capitalist consists of getting enough money
    to live on and enjoy non-working moments.


    The last translates to governmental tyranny by those few able to indulge >>> in their desires for power over others, or wealth,
    or both, imposed on those subject to them. Twentieth Century history
    informs of of what that does.

    My justification why I am less concerned about technology addressed, I
    shall drop this subject from a place where arguably it does not belong.

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of Islam
    and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian
    authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or any kind of
    Protestantism.

    Should one attack what seems to be the "least-bad" of the major
    contingents?

    Success in such attack would seem likely to damage all, attacked
    and attacker alike.

    Of course, "least-bad" may be subject to disputes dependent on one's
    existing values. If you think destroying all not like you in some
    specific way is the epitome of "good," that would not favor any
    variety of Christianity.

    Survival and increase in numbers as the highest good would lead
    to a different judgment, not necessarily dependent on our
    individual or collective conscious goals and values.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    Actually Buddhism has many varieties and even violent against
    other religions while Hinduism has attacked Christianity, Islam and
    Buddhism. Even Shinto a religion without dogmas has had a vile
    variety that helped motivate the War on China and the Pacific War.

    I won't say that Christianity is worse than other religions
    because as far as I can see they are all based on primitive beliefs.
    I went to several Protestant church mostly fundamentalist as I grew
    up and to Catholic High School which gave me plenty of grounds to
    reject religion but I investigated in every direction that was
    feasible and remain now an unconvinced Atheist. I mean a prime
    mover is perfectly compatible with the creation and evolution of
    the SpaceTime Continuum. But no viable evidence except in the
    basic arrangements which allow for being and duration.

    Some varieties of Buddhism though are perfectly compatible
    with Ethical Humanism which is quite christian but leaves out
    supernatural motivations. As for more people we have enough
    that in some area the Seas are over fertilized by out waste. The
    result is overgrowth of Sargassum weed. The weed is washing up
    on the beaches of the Caribbean sea where it rots emitting
    hydrogen sulphide, a stinky and poisonous gas.


    Mats of Sargassum macroalgae overruns the Caribbean and
    culprit of the power outage in Puerto Rico. <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/12/2057577/-Mats-of-Sargassum-macroalgae-overruns-the-Caribbean-and-culprit-of-the-power-outage-in-Puerto-Rico>

    And so our our poisonous stink comes back to us...


    So survival OK. Greatest Goods are debatable.
    Jörg Schilling has passed on and either is not or knows the truth.
    Though he was helpful in life I don't think he is going to
    clue us in.

    bliss - Your tag lines (k) were stolen!
    (more) There is a puff of smoke!

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  • From Herman Viaene@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 08:21:23 2021
    Op Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:07:11 +0000, schreef Jim:

    ....snip......

    Should one attack what seems to be the "least-bad" of the major
    contingents?



    Oh yes, I've been waiting on that one: comments on islam and marxism is rightfull criticism, on "Christianity" is an attack.
    And who is better placed to see "Christianty"'s wrongs and try to do
    something about it than the "Christians" themselves?????
    In Dutch we have an expression, difficult to translate: if everyone
    sweeps before his own door, then the whole street is cleaned up.

    Herman Viaene

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 12:51:34 2021
    On 16/10/21 23:50, Herman Viaene wrote:

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of Islam
    and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or any kind of Protestantism.


    The crusades being the elephant in the room

    I wouldn't be terribly forgiving about it either

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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 13:53:19 2021
    Subject: [OT] Religions (was: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schilling has passed
    away)

    On 17.10.2021 at 22:51, faeychild scribbled:

    On 16/10/21 23:50, Herman Viaene wrote:
    =20
    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of
    Islam and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of
    the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of
    them) or any kind of Protestantism. =20
    =20
    The crusades being the elephant in the room
    =20
    Don't forget the Spanish Inquisition, with people first being tortured
    and then either burned at the stake, quartered by horses, cast into a
    river with a millstone tied to their necks, broken on the wheel, or =E2=80=
    =94
    if they were lucky =E2=80=94 simply beheaded with an ax.

    Even now in the 21st century, being an altar boy is a fairly hazardous
    way of wasting one's youth.

    But hey, you mustn't complain about any of it. After all, "Jesus died
    for your sins", you know? ;)


    Catholicism : "Shit happens because I deserve it."

    Protestanism : "Shit won't happen if I work harder."

    7th-Day Adventists : "Shit only happens on Saturdays."

    Islam : "Shit happens because of the infidels."

    Judaism : "Why is this shit always happening to me?"

    Hinduism : "This shit has happened before."

    Buddhism : "If shit happens, is it really shit?"

    Hare Krishna : "Shit happens, rama lama ding dong!"

    Rastafarianism : "Littaz smoke dees sheet, mon!"


    :p

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    With respect,
    =3D Aragorn =3D


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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 14:20:40 2021
    On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 22:51:34 +1100, faeychild wrote:

    On 16/10/21 23:50, Herman Viaene wrote:

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of Islam
    and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian
    authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or any kind of
    Protestantism.


    The crusades being the elephant in the room

    I wouldn't be terribly forgiving about it either

    Read the book Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim.

    You will have a new perspective on the Crusades, and
    likely on a variety of other major historical sagas
    as well.

    Cheers!

    jim .

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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 14:53:04 2021
    Subject: Re: [OT] Religions (was: =?iso-8859-1?B?SvZyZw==?= Schilling has
    passed away)

    On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:53:19 +0200, Aragorn wrote:

    On 17.10.2021 at 22:51, faeychild scribbled:

    On 16/10/21 23:50, Herman Viaene wrote:

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of
    Islam and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of
    the Christian authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of
    them) or any kind of Protestantism.

    The crusades being the elephant in the room

    Don't forget the Spanish Inquisition, with people first being tortured
    and then either burned at the stake, quartered by horses, cast into a
    river with a millstone tied to their necks, broken on the wheel, or —
    if they were lucky — simply beheaded with an ax.


    The Spanish Inquisition was not far from trivial, in comparison to
    activities of the Muslims in Spain. I seem to remember a death toll
    of only 3,000 or so. Not trivial by thinking in England or Christian
    Europe but nothing unusual or notable elsewhere. Again, Read Raymond Ibrahim's book Sword and Scimitar.

    That said, Roman Catholicism has been subject to much criticism within
    the United States, with a principal complaint the Catholic Church
    dominated people's thinking and decisions to such an extent it
    constituted a despotism.

    In this sense, it ranks right up with Islam and Communism in responding
    to people's propensity to want someone else to bear responsibility for
    all one's major decisions, and has likewise led to most people spending
    their lives subject to tyranny.

    Departure of U.S. Catholics from such obedience to the Church, presumably
    in response to the influence of Protestantism, has reduced criticism of Catholicism in the U.S., while evoking criticism from within the
    Roman Catholic Church itself for the errant ways of many of its own people...

    And the Orthodox or Eastern Catholic Church is a topic for yet
    more study, if ever I get around to it.

    Reverting to my failure to worry too much about technology, I find
    technology like California' terrain and weather to be wonderful.
    It's the people all too often associated with them that constitute
    the onerous problems afflicting.


    Even now in the 21st century, being an altar boy is a fairly hazardous
    way of wasting one's youth.

    But hey, you mustn't complain about any of it. After all, "Jesus died
    for your sins", you know? ;)


    Catholicism : "Shit happens because I deserve it."

    Protestanism : "Shit won't happen if I work harder."

    7th-Day Adventists : "Shit only happens on Saturdays."

    Islam : "Shit happens because of the infidels."

    Judaism : "Why is this shit always happening to me?"

    Hinduism : "This shit has happened before."

    Buddhism : "If shit happens, is it really shit?"

    Hare Krishna : "Shit happens, rama lama ding dong!"

    Rastafarianism : "Littaz smoke dees sheet, mon!"


    :p

    Cheers!

    jim b.


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 16:01:20 2021
    On 10/17/21 04:51, faeychild wrote:
    On 16/10/21 23:50, Herman Viaene wrote:

    I find it strange when people start enumerating the bad sides of Islam
    and Marxism, they always forget to list the wrong-doings of the Christian
    authorities, be it Catholic (being myself one of them) or any kind of
    Protestantism.


    The crusades being the elephant in the room

    I wouldn't be terribly forgiving about it either

    I consider the Inquisition particularly in Spain
    as the Rhinoceros in the room. Then there was the
    attack on the Renaissance's natural sciences rejecting
    the observation of Galileo Galilei, etc. to be pretty
    bad but the Crusades were at about the worst level with
    the death of children, the attacks by fellow Christians
    on the City of Constantinople now Istanbul, the massacre
    of the people of Jerusalem, winding up with the Wars over
    religion in Europe proper, the mistreatment of children
    in orphanages, but it seems the horrors never end.

    Oh and it continues until now in the USA with the Christianists
    screaming about suppression of religion when they are told to
    stay within bounds of religion and stay out of politics.

    But Jörg Schilling is still dead as far as I know. If that
    changes I hope it will be noted here.

    bliss - lost in spacetime and quantal interactions on a macroscopic
    scale.

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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 18:51:21 2021
    On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:01:20 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Oh and it continues until now in the USA with the Christianists
    screaming about suppression of religion when they are told to
    stay within bounds of religion and stay out of politics.

    Amendment I to the U.S. Constitution was intended to keep the
    Federal Government's fingers out of religion.

    IIRC, at the time it was written and adopted, a majority of
    the colonies had an established religion, and absolutely nothing
    was being done at the Federal level to affect that. Changes
    at the state level did occur, particularly in the early 1800s,
    but they did not restrict or discourage participation in
    politics by religions entities, just restricted or discouraged
    governmental participation in or support for religion by the state.

    It was never intended to keep religion out of politics.

    Those who think or complain otherwise are simply unaware
    of the details of history and desirous of imposing their
    opinions on others.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Sun Oct 17 19:05:05 2021
    On 10/17/21 10:51, Jim wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:01:20 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Oh and it continues until now in the USA with the Christianists
    screaming about suppression of religion when they are told to
    stay within bounds of religion and stay out of politics.

    Amendment I to the U.S. Constitution was intended to keep the
    Federal Government's fingers out of religion.

    IIRC, at the time it was written and adopted, a majority of
    the colonies had an established religion, and absolutely nothing
    was being done at the Federal level to affect that. Changes
    at the state level did occur, particularly in the early 1800s,
    but they did not restrict or discourage participation in
    politics by religions entities, just restricted or discouraged
    governmental participation in or support for religion by the state.

    It was never intended to keep religion out of politics.

    Those who think or complain otherwise are simply unaware
    of the details of history and desirous of imposing their
    opinions on others.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    That has not been the interpretation of several successive
    Supreme Courts in my lifetime and I believe previous to that but,
    Jörg Schilling is still dead and while tacking on other subjects
    is common enough I doubt he would be encouraged by this.

    The religious wars in Europe following the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic counter-reformation is why we don't
    ave an established church in this nation. Too much blood shed
    and too much disruption of commerce. Could be compared to the
    effect of the Black Death. Religion can be a mental plague.

    We can avoid religious wars internally, I hope but, since
    the Anti-vaccinations, anti-mask movements and rejection of common
    public health measures by religious institutions my hope is waning.

    bliss - 'Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.' After all
    here I am...

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  • From Jim@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 18 02:40:23 2021
    On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:05:05 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    On 10/17/21 10:51, Jim wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:01:20 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Oh and it continues until now in the USA with the Christianists
    screaming about suppression of religion when they are told to
    stay within bounds of religion and stay out of politics.

    Amendment I to the U.S. Constitution was intended to keep the
    Federal Government's fingers out of religion.

    IIRC, at the time it was written and adopted, a majority of
    the colonies had an established religion, and absolutely nothing
    was being done at the Federal level to affect that. Changes
    at the state level did occur, particularly in the early 1800s,
    but they did not restrict or discourage participation in
    politics by religions entities, just restricted or discouraged
    governmental participation in or support for religion by the state.

    It was never intended to keep religion out of politics.

    Those who think or complain otherwise are simply unaware
    of the details of history and desirous of imposing their
    opinions on others.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    That has not been the interpretation of several successive
    Supreme Courts in my lifetime and I believe previous to that but,
    Jörg Schilling is still dead and while tacking on other subjects
    is common enough I doubt he would be encouraged by this.

    The religious wars in Europe following the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic counter-reformation is why we don't
    ave an established church in this nation. Too much blood shed
    and too much disruption of commerce. Could be compared to the
    effect of the Black Death. Religion can be a mental plague.

    We can avoid religious wars internally, I hope but, since
    the Anti-vaccinations, anti-mask movements and rejection of common
    public health measures by religious institutions my hope is waning.

    bliss - 'Nearly any fool can use a Linux computer. Many do.' After all
    here I am...

    Your comment above is strong evidence you know little or nothing
    of the roles, conflicts, and commonalities of the varieties of
    Christian faith in the colonies and the states they became, up
    through at least 1800.

    This is not a proper forum to address such matters, though, and
    I will simply restate that my comment above stands.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 25 13:38:35 2021
    On 18/10/21 12:40, Jim wrote:

    Your comment above is strong evidence you know little or nothing
    of the roles, conflicts, and commonalities of the varieties of
    Christian faith in the colonies and the states they became, up
    through at least 1800.

    This is not a proper forum to address such matters, though, and
    I will simply restate that my comment above stands.

    Cheers!

    jim b.


    Thanks, Jim. I was beginning to wonder if I was in the right place!

    Jörg's recursive script is simple compared to what happened when I tried
    to install CPAN. I think that I will need to come back tomorrow morning
    to check on progress.

    Doug.

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