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January 14th, 2026

Thank you for clearing that up, Mo.


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  4. The term islamophobia is simply part of a battle for the semantic high ground. But I would argue I am ilithiophobic rather than islamophobic.

  8. As long as we plan have a strong aversion to appearing stupid, why not include pretty much all religions?
    If we wish to consider an infinite entity that somehow created the universe of which we are a part, and eliminate any and all theological sophisms and “laws” attributed to that entity, I have no problem with that belief. Of course, that will never fly with any organized religion in the history of humans.

  9. I may have missed the full meaning of ilithiophobia. It is not so much a fear of appearing stupid as a fear of stupidity. Sorry. The rest of my comment remains pretty much the same.

  10. Think I have already described my fear of human stupidity in a few dozen previous posts…clearly my favourite quote mostly applies to religious absurdities but any absurdities at all will do…

  12. The real problem is the acceptance that human stupidity has to be seen as something sacred. When you can be openly ridiculed and ostracised for crass stupidity as a societal norm it would make people less proud of their “Faith” in preposterous egregious lies…

  13. ‘Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’

  14. Infinity is unknowable by a mind obsessed with exlusively finite objects…to try and describe infinity using finite examples just doesn’t work…

  15. E.g. there are an infinite number of integers and between every integer pair there is an infinite set of real (floating point) numbers…

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