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What's cookin' for Easter weekend?

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 Four days off. Thank goodness. We up here in N. Ontario got buried in the last week. The worst behind us now.  As for what's cookin': I will be preparin' a huge stew, one of my specialties. Then each day of the weekend I will enjoy a bowl with maybe a salad or some dinner rolls. My stews tend to be thick and rich, and spicy. Lookin' forward to a bowl a night...........................by myself. You see, a certain young lady has left me. For Easter no less. You're thinkin' yeah this is one of her trips back home to see her daughters. You would be right. So why didn't I go with her. Her stay will be a longer one. Her one daughter is gravely ill, and has been for years. But now worse than ever. So Geri will be staying a few weeks to tend to her. If the medical profession has ever failed someone it is with her daughter. They have done every possible test under the sun and still don't know why she is at death's door. She is a tall lady of 5'6" a

What Stupid Things Do You Wonder About?

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  The title says it all.  Stupid, not important, doesn’t matter, but you still spend time wondering about.   Bunny always wonders how superheroes go to the toilet.  Form fitting, one-piece costumes look nifty, but require a complete undressing for a simple emptying of the bladder.  Doc Oc can do a lot of damage in the time it takes Spidey to suit up after a whiz. What about you.  What utterly stupid things occupy your brain cells? J.P. Bunny

What annoys/delights you?

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SNOWFLAKE : Susan, hint: a thread about our emotions. That ought to be an interesting one. *     *     * Okay, challenge accepted. Emotions are killers; mostly figuratively but sometimes literally. Sometimes they can take on the form of what’s called “temporary insanity.”  Those so-called “crimes of passion” is the best example, I'd say. Recall O.J.’s rage of jealousy when he believed his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, was having an affair with Ronald Goldman?  He temporarily flipped out, or so many of us believe.  Maybe you didn’t think he did it, and that could be a thread for another day.  But let’s not go there today. Let’s stick to something a little/LOT more innocuous; our everyday emotions, the garden variety stuff. Question:   So, what are you overly touchy about/emotionally swayed by, whether in a happy or sad way? (E.g., your significant other, kids, pets, family/extended family, politicians, religions, work, life/people in general, other?)  What gets to you, a

High-school Days! Have you ever gotten over them?

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 Tell us your high school memories! 1. Did you marry your high school sweetheart? 2. What did you drive? 3. Where did you work? 4. Where did you live? 5. Were you in choir/band? 6. Still talk to your best friends? 7. Ever get suspended? 8. If you could, would you go back? 9. Still talk to the person that you went to prom with? 10. Did you skip? 11. Go to all the football games? 12. Do you still have your yearbook? 13. Did you follow your "original" career plan? 14. Do you still have your senior ring? 15. Favorite teacher? 16. Most hated teacher? 17. What was your style? Hippie? Greaser? Ponce? 18. Favorite music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8gsIVWKj7c AlextheKay is screwing around today

Jekyl and Hyde

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I recall the classic tale of Doctor Jekyl and Mister Hyde: The psychological story of a man living a secret double life, respected physician by day, murderous shadow by night.   Some years ago I began working in a program managed by a supervisor who was known for having  unpredictable personality shifts. I soon learned the description was true. One week he'd be jovial and communicative and on other weeks he'd be sullen and barking. When in a bad mood he didn't hesitate to  hand down needlessly harsh criticism of staff during meetings, a trait that generated resentment and diminished  overall efficiency in the workplace. We never knew what we were going to encounter. I minimized contact with him and learned to approach him guardedly because I never knew whether his response with be grin or glower.  I did not savor those years and I was glad when he retired.  Have you ever had to live with, work with, or otherwise rub elbows with someone like that? Someone who had an split pe

It's Sunday, let's go to church! 😇

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Christian nationalism (CN) is a powerful wealth and power movement that is urgently intent on establishing American as a corrupt, aggressive, bigoted fundamentalist Christian theocracy. The core CN goal is to impose Christian Sharia law above the secular constitution and "man-made" laws, which are firmly believed to be inferior to God's laws. According to God, as told to us by CN elites, the kleptocratic theocratic political machine is to be run by a Christian Taliban comprised mostly of wealthy, White heterosexual men. Evidence of God's choice is their wealth and sex, with God ordaining that men are superior to women. Although hard core CN is backed by only a minority of Americans, maybe about 25%, the American electoral system allows for a tyranny imposed by such a minority. No law says that majority opinion and votes has to control.  The reason for the urgency among CN elites is the constant decrease in the role of religion in the lives of increasing numbers of Ame

Regarding God chatbots

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All of us here are curious about the anticipated merger of artificial intelligence chatbots with religion. We are on the verge of another reformation or something dark ages as AI insights begin to, as Steve Bannon would say, flood the zone with s**t.  A Scientific American article discusses  artificial intelligence religion chatbots: God Chatbots Offer Spiritual Insights on Demand.  What Could Go Wrong? Just before midnight on the first day of Ramadan last year, Raihan Khan—a 20-year-old Muslim student living in Kolkata—announced in a LinkedIn post that he had launched QuranGPT, an artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot he had designed to answer questions and provide advice based on Islam’s holiest text. Then he went to sleep. He awoke seven hours later to find it had crashed because of an overflow of traffic. A lot of the comments were positive, but others were not. Some were flat-out threatening. QuranGPT—which has now been used by about 230,000 people around the world—is just one o