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These sample quotes of Chat summarize my blog points/arguments in the section below. See the full comments from Chat at bottom of section just below. Quibble: While I appreciate Chat’s responses, I am not writing for academics or scholars. And … Continue reading →

New Material below: “What happened to Islam at its founding?” (Ebionism and the choice that Muhammad made between the unconditional message of Jesus and reaffirming Paul’s ‘eye for eye’ theology and narrative), “Claiming divine inspiration for very fallible holy books” … Continue reading →

I regularly ask Chat and Grok to evaluate and comment on new material that I post here. This summary is from Chat’s fuller comments below at bottom of this top section: First, Chat’s “One-Paragraph Homepage Distillation” The real monster we … Continue reading →

This from a friend who asked Grok: Wendell, these are the most commonly asked questions about your work, according to GROK. GROK’s answers: 1. Are you denying science or evidence-based views of the world? Krossa often addresses this objection, emphasizing … Continue reading →

See below- “Pulling ‘diamonds out of dung’. Or ‘Contrasting the diamonds with the dung’.” More on the profound contradiction between the message of Historical Jesus and the entirely opposite Christ myth of Paul. These two archetypal persons/messages present differing narrative … Continue reading →

Our personal narratives/belief systems shape our personalities and that influences how we shape our societies. This becomes especially critical when people embrace fear-based themes like apocalyptic, a dominant element in threat theology. That then renders many susceptible to “salvation” schemes … Continue reading →

One of my sons (we were shovelling dirt in a yard) asked me once, “Dad, how can you be so optimistic?” This site is one answer to that. All the arguments posted here, both empirical stuff (Julian Simon-ism material), and … Continue reading →

This from recent Joe Rogan interview: Are we alone in the universe? (Some poking around ultimate meaning/purpose issues) “Joe Rogan Experience #2363 – David Kipping” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNaciADLVs Their comments sparked the following… more of the ‘Daddy’ project here to affirm that … Continue reading →

Here in the link below is the full response of Chat to a request for evaluation and comments on the recent material that I posted on the Three great emergences and their following trajectories. This below includes Chat’s comments on … Continue reading →

“Each emergence brought something radically new into existence— and each has followed a long-term trajectory of increasing complexity, organization, and creative possibility. This pattern does not erase suffering, setbacks, or danger. But it does challenge the idea that collapse and … Continue reading →

See new material below: “The three great emergences, and their subsequent trajectories, affirm my claim that its going to be alright, ultimately.” Then Grok’s usual evaluation and comments with more pushback from me (i.e. just quibbles and qualifiers). Grok’s evaluation … Continue reading →

See also Rod Dreher’s article below on “The Intersectionality of Nick Fuentes: The Groypers’ worldview is a Frankenstein made out of the race essentialism of the progressive left”. Grok and ChatGPT evaluations/comments just below this new opening material. Before I … Continue reading →