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Roger Scott

@roger-scott47.bsky.social

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With wife >56 years. 7 grandkids. Aussie republican, ret’d geologist, HS teacher. Atheist. Dislike LNP, GOP, MAGA, Ref’m UK. Covid vax’s x9. Fan of science. A just god would have given Mozart >>> his actual life span. Hate injustice. No DMs, solicitations.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 11h

The portents are not good.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15h

Telling it like it is.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 4d

E. Jean Carroll was EXACTLY Trump's "type".

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 7d

Does being religious make you a better person?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Church under investigation after pastor's son sexually assaulted teen

Multiple investigations are examining a Victorian church's response to an assault committed by a senior pastor's son, amid allegations that information was withheld from the church community.

www.abc.net.au

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 14d

Perfect!

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

With much more of this, the movie Idiocracy will need to be re-classified as a documentary.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

Wow. For the first time in ages I agree with what Trump said.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

Dumbest, dumbest, dumber.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

He’s a scientifically illiterate crackpot.
To date he’s only said one thing that made any sense to me, namely when he said that people should not take medical advice from him.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

The manufacturers of Tylenol are pushing back against this nonsense.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

The manufacturers of Tylenol are fighting back against these clownish crackpots.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 15d

How far the US has fallen under the dumbest, most stupid president ever.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 19d

Absolutely!
RFK Jr is an utter crackpot.
quillette.com/2025/09/17/r...

RFK Jr. Must Go

By firing experts, cancelling important research funding, and promoting conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. threatens to undermine some of America’s most important public health achievements.

quillette.com

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 20d

So realistic! 😆
Anti-gay Charlie Kirk jamming with Freddy Mercury in an imaginary place.
Fellow Queen member and not-yet-dead astrophysicist Dr Brian May is also shown, apparently twice.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 20d

Love this.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Farmer goes above and beyond for sky-high wedding proposal

NSW farmer Will Henderson had no choice but to bide his time to pop the question. In the end his efforts were rewarded.

www.abc.net.au

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 23d

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 23d

This poor brainwashed youth. He actually believes people who told him that prayer recently brought a dead person back to life. He prayed for his diabetic sister's recovery as she lay dying.
He went to jail.
Images from an Australian ABC tv program.

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 24d

Can Trump bring a measured response to the Charlie Kirk shooting?
Can Trump bring considered statements to an address to the nation and calm it?
Can a rattlesnake become vegetarian?

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 26d

Problem?

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 26d

Apparently men who join the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church have very little chance of retaining their hair.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 28d

I confessed being a little perplexed by your reply. I’m sorry for any trauma you and your loved ones have suffered during your life.
I was asking about the appearance during evolutionary history of the soul. I don’t see it as a scientifically supportable concept.

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 28d

Sorry about the extra enter. My bad.
The evolution of humanity and indeed all life is now an indisputable fact.
Did the first air breathing vertebrates have a soul? If not when did the lineage leading to humans acquire one?

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Roger Scott @roger-scott47.bsky.social · 28d

At what stage in the course of vertebrate evolution did the soul enter enter the process?

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