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"Why am I an Agnostic? Robert Ingersoll, Free-Thinker of the 19th century

One of my very favorite philosophers.  25 Minute Video.  

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He's easy to understand but nevertheless, don't expect to understand it after just one or two readings.  

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Here are some of the books and papers worth reading.  Should be free on the Internet:

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A Few Reasons for Doubting – Robert Green Ingersoll

About the Holy Bible – Robert Green Ingersoll

Brooklyn Divines – Robert Green Ingersoll

Heretics And Heresies – Robert Green Ingersoll

Individuality – Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty of All – Robert Green Ingersoll

Myth and Miracle – Robert Green Ingersoll

Progress – Robert Green Ingersoll

Some Reasons Why – Robert Green Ingersoll

The Truth – Robert Green Ingersoll

Why I Am Agnostic – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) was an American lawyer, orator, and political leader known for his broad influence during the Golden Age of Freethought in the late 19th century. Often referred to as "The Great Agnostic," Ingersoll was a staunch advocate of secularism, skepticism, and humanistic philosophy, challenging orthodox religious beliefs and the literal interpretation of the Bible.

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Born in Dresden, New York, Ingersoll was the son of a Congregationalist minister. His early life was marked by frequent moves due to his father's controversial theology, which often put the family in conflict with various church congregations. Ingersoll studied law and passed the bar exam in 1854, embarking on a successful legal career. He also became involved in politics, aligning with the Republican Party and supporting Abraham Lincoln.

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Ingersoll's fame primarily stemmed from his skills as an orator. His public speeches, advocating for scientific skepticism and criticizing religious doctrine, drew large crowds and stirred significant controversy. He was a defender of civil rights and argued for the equality of women and African Americans. Despite his criticisms of religion, he was noted for his advocacy of kindness, love, and family.

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Ingersoll's influence extended to various areas, including politics, religion, and civil rights. He was a prolific speaker and writer, and his lectures and essays contributed significantly to the spread of free thought and secularism in the United States. His legacy is remembered for his eloquent advocacy of reason and humanistic values over religious dogmatism.

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 Ha! This nonsense again? Typical right-wing stupidity.

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Any time right-wing nuts can insinuate or imply that young people are fat, lazy, stupid, too easily offended, too violent, too anti-American, or just want "entitlements," they will do it.

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Spanking may lead to aggression; spanking may turn your kid into a bully; spanking may lead to depression; spanking may lead to decrease language skills; spanking may lead to diminish brain development; spanking may turn your kid into a coward who will rollover or kowtow to anyone they think is superior or stronger to them.

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Where do you idiots draw the line? Is a slap in the face okay? How about a kick in the butt? Is it okay to spank a child right after you had a bad day at work? Is it okay to spank a child when you are really mad at someone else? Is hitting a dog okay? Is it okay to spank your wife?

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I guarantee it. Once they convince weak-minded people that it is okay to hit children, they will want to spank women and beat animals too.

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Don't be so stupid. Read a book or look it up.

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Parents have beaten their kids senseless since homo sapiens became a species. It didn't stop wars; it didn't stop massacres and holocaust; it didn’t stop juvenile delinquency; and it didn't reduce crime.

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There is something seriously wrong with you if you think that spanking or hitting a kid is okay in the 21st century.

 Jewish people were celebrated terrorists long before any Muslim:

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Read Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua. Moses and the “Israelites” were nothing but a raging and violent army that killed people and stole land. 

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That 40 years "wandering in the wilderness" nonsense ... actually that time was used to murder boys and kidnap girls to build an army (Numbers 31:1-18). 

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Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds, and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not (Numbers 13:1-14:38).

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Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.  But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves (Numbers 31:1-18).

 As far as recent history, the clock starts in the 1890s, NOT in 1921 or 1947.  

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In 1897, the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland declared, "Zionism seeks for the Jewish people a publicly recognized legally secured homeland in Palestine" (Basel Program).

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Everything that the Zionists did after that was a conspiracy to steal land in Palestine.  

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One of the dishonest things they did was to quietly start paying poor Jewish people to move to Palestine in the early 1900s to flood the region with Jewish people.  They then started adding more Jewish people by providing aid and support groups to help the poor people that they had inserted into Palestine.  

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And instead of meeting in Palestine to "buy land," the Zionists congresses met with mostly the British and White Europeans for almost 30/40-years in places like Basle, Switzerland; London, England; and The Hague, Netherlands ... anywhere EXCEPT in Palestine which is exactly what con-artists would do if they wanted to keep the residents in Palestine uninformed.   Look at the pictures of the delegates at the First Zionist Congress.  I don't see people from the Middle East.

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For over 1,000 years, White Europeans expelled or murdered Jews. No one really wanted Jewish people in their own country so when the Zionists decided to steal land in Palestine in the 1890s, mostly White Americans and Europeans conspired to help them.  They had everyone in their back pocket before the people living in Palestine understood what was going on.

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None of the countries in the Middle East supported this plan.  The people living in Palestine were never fairly advised or consulted.  They never would have had anti-Zionist demonstrations and riots in the 1920s if people were so willing to sell land to Zionists.  When the Zionists invaded, it was a bum's rush ... a forcible and swift ejection.

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If I want to live or buy land in New York, I would certainly not go to North Korea or China to make deals.

Duck(t) Tape: the World's Most Useful Tool.

 Nigel asks Louis if he is a cat man, and Louis replies;

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"Do I have brains in my head? Do I have a heart in my chest? Who is this stunning creature?"

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Louis Marlowe Litt from Suits 

 Toxic.  Unhelpful.  Malicious.  

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We should wonder about the motivations of people who keep posting the same old divisive declarations over and over again.  

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Watch out for extremists or mercenaries (or China or Russia) on Facebook that are just trying to create animosity and discontentment in America.

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ad nauseam:  referring to something that has been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.  ~ Oxford Languages.

 Are you a psychopath or a sociopath or do you perhaps have some other kind of antisocial personality disorder?

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Are you sure that you are not projecting your own psychological issues or defective traits on other people?

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Are you sure that you are not the one who is worried about getting their teeth knocked out by a U.S. Marine?

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U.S. Army veterans aren't particularly afraid of U.S. Marines. And most U.S. Marines wouldn't hit someone for exercising their free speech.

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What is wrong with you?

 Who's posting this toxic stupid nonsense? Children got killed all of the time. I was there.

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We should wonder about the motivations of people who keep posting the same old malicious declarations millions of time.  

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Watch out for extremists or mercenaries (or China or Russia) on Facebook that are just trying to create animosity and discontentment in America.Who's posting this toxic Anti-American Anti-Westerner crap?   

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Don't let stupid people kill your kids:

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The child mortality rate in the United States, for children under the age of five, was 462.9 deaths per thousand births in 1800. This means that for every thousand babies born in 1800, over 46 percent did not make it to their fifth birthday. ~ Aaron O'Neill

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In 1900, 30 percent of all deaths in the United States occurred in children less than 5 years of age compared to just 1.4 percent in 1999 (CDC, 1999a; NCHS, 2001a).

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In the 1960s, the infant mortality rate in the U.S. was 240.7 deaths per 10,000 infants.

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During the 1960s overall, the US had 6.7 deaths per 10,000 among kids and teens ages 1 to 19. ~ karen.kaplan latimes

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Brain injury is the most serious injury risk, with 26,000 children seen in emergency rooms each year for a traumatic brain injury related to bicycle riding [USA]. Bike helmets reduce the risk of head injury by at least 45%, brain injury by 33%, facial injury by 27% and fatal injury by 29%. ~ Johns Hopkins University.

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In recent years, 76% of the pediatric patients who were hospitalized at Mayo Clinic because of a bicycle-related traumatic injury were not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash,” says Lombard. “Wearing helmets can decrease the chances of sustaining a serious head injury in a bike crash by as much as 80 percent. ~ Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

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A study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that helmeted riders in the group they studied had an 85 percent reduction in their risk of head injury during a crash.

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Cyclists sustain more head injuries than football players. According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, cycling played a role in about 86,000 of the 447,000 sports-related head injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2009. Football, on the other hand, accounted for 47,000 of those head injuries, and baseball, 38,394.

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A February 2017 analysis in the International Journal of Epidemiology reviewed 40 separate studies and found helmet use significantly reduced the odds of head injury. They also found the odds of a fatal head injury to be lower when cyclists wore a helmet.

According to Stanford bicycle program coordinator Ariadne Scott, Stanford trauma surgeons note that 98 percent of people who suffer head injuries from bike crashes were not wearing a helmet. ~ Stanford

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This review included five well conducted case‐control studies and found that helmets provide a 63–88% reduction in the risk of head, brain and severe brain injury for all ages of bicyclists. Helmets were found to provide equal levels of protection for crashes involving motor vehicles (69%) and crashes from all other causes (68%). Furthermore, injuries to the upper and mid facial areas were found to be reduced by 65%, although helmets did not prevent lower facial injuries. ~ Ivers R. Systematic reviews of bicycle helmet research. Inj Prev. 2007 Jun;13(3):190. doi: 10.1136/ip.2007.015966. PMID: 17567976; PMCID: PMC2598379.

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This study has some limitations, but the results strongly suggest that Traumatic Brain Injury in adult cyclists could be reduced if cyclists in the Netherlands would wear a helmet more often.

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Bicycle Helmets and Bicycle-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in the Netherlands

Crispijn L. van den Brand, Lennard B. Karger, Susanne T.M. Nijman, Huib Valkenberg, and Korné Jellema

Published Online:17 Nov 2020 h doi org/10 1089/neur.2020.0010

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Every year, some 50,000 are seriously injured in an accident and in around one-third of cases the victim suffers a brain injury, the doctors say. However, wearing a helmet cuts the risk of serious head injury by 60% and a deadly brain injury by 71%.

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‘We aim to cut the number of cycling accident victims considerably in the coming years,’ said neurologist Myrthe Boss. ‘If that target is not reached, policy makers should seriously consider making it compulsory.’

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Figures from national statistics agency CBS earlier this year showed that 229 cyclists died in accidents last year, the highest figure in 25 years. One in three was riding an electric bike.

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Neurologists launch campaign to encourage bike helmets and slash brain injuries

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HealthSociety October 5, 2021

© 2022 DutchNews

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A group of neurologists and trauma surgeons drawn from some of the leading hospitals in the Netherlands are calling on people to wear helmets while cycling, saying it will lead to a reduction in deaths resulting from brain injuries.

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United under the banner Arsten voor Veilig Fietsen (link is external) (Doctors for Safe Cycling), the medics claim that of the approximately 50,000 cyclists who sustain serious injuries each year in the Netherlands, around one in three suffer a brain injury.

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by SIMON_MACMICHAEL TUE, OCT 05, 2021 17:00

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Skateboard-related injuries 

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The overall mortality was 1.1% and ranged from 0% in the age group younger than 10 years to 0.3% in the group 10 years to 16 years and 2.6% in the group older than 16 years (p < 0.001). The incidence of severe trauma (Injury Severity Score ≥ 16) in the three age groups was 5.4%, 13.5%, and 23.7%, respectively (p < 0.001). The incidence of traumatic brain injury in the three age groups was 24.1%, 32.6%, and 45.5%, respectively (p < 0.001). The younger age group (younger than 10 years) was significantly more likely to suffer femur fractures and less likely to suffer tibia fractures than the older age groups. Helmets and use of a skateboard park were significant factors protecting against head injury.

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CONCLUSION:

Skateboard-related injuries are associated with a high incidence of traumatic brain injury and long bone fractures. Age plays an important role in the anatomic distribution of injuries, injury severity, and outcomes. Our findings demonstrate that helmet utilization and designated skateboard areas significantly reduce the incidence of serious head injuries.

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 pubmed        ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20065875/    2010 Oct

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