1/ What is worse? Low-educated Trump supporters being rigid thinkers or highly-educated idiots evoking science & technology, having no clue of what they’re talking about? It’s far from amazing. It’s tragic. And it’s not prejudice, it’s f***ing SURVIVAL.
2/ Scientific BS. There is NOT such a thing as “20% Mexican”. All humans have 99 % identical DNA. We’re all 99% Adolf Hitler. …. and 60% of this DNA is common with bananas. That’s only if we count for DNA. If we root down to bio elements, we’re all 100% bananas.
3/ Imagine in your test results: “your DNA shows you’re 99% Adolf Hitler”. It’s as ridiculous as it gets. But somehow saying “you’re 20% Mexican” pass the scientific standards. DNA fragment polymorphisms give a picture about population movements, but not about identity.
4/ Today, with rich supply of food, it’s all liberal rainbows and funny commercials. During a SERIOUS DEATH-THREATENING FOOD SHORTAGE nonintegrated immigrants will do what their CULTURE OF ORIGIN dictates them to do: tribes + tribe masters + primitive law (e.g. Mex. Cartels).
5 / The “personnalité des lois” is a legal term, a PREDICTABLE RESULT of UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION. It’s how we had “islands of barbaric law” within the Roman law right before the fall of Rome. 2018; The Telegraph: British court recognises sharia law in landmark divorce case.
Another interesting case is North vs. South Korea: Same race. Same language. Radically different culture. Is it humanitarian for S. Korea to open the borders WITHOUT control for social integration?
The atheist community proved to be the most toxic proponent of BLIND TRUST & UNCRITICAL ACCEPTANCE OF AUTHORITY in the name of science. There is not a single mental trap atheist soldiers didn’t fall into giving a hint why atheism contributed nothing to our civilisation.
Dawkins, the famous atheist biologist, is maybe the most important impediment that slows down research in biology, by waging a war against systems biology, playing w/ political & media powerhouse dominating national-level textbooks & curriculums. It’s the disgrace of science.
When atheists talk about history, they make communists look like Saints. They criticise Christianity as synonym of “astrology” that “slows down science” while Byzantines where the FIRST civilisation that BANNED astrology & BANNED theology from higher education (pandidakterion).
Tim O’Neill, an atheist himself, does an amazing job exposing the ignorance & stupidity populated by the major atheist celebrities. We’re not talking about a couple of mistakes here or there, but their core understanding of history, totally BS.
Atheists now use their toxic platform to construct “scientific” arguments against Brexit and Trump. So… apparently… “facts” and “science” show that Trump supporters are idiots, victims of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Stephen Fry voiced over a lecture supporting, among other things, the “scientific fact” that immigration decreases the crime rate (!). Bypassing that LEGAL immigration is NOT the same as ILLEGAL, tribalism & pedophilia are among the imported elements.
This reminds me of another peak of Fry’s ignorance, claiming he would prefer the “greek version” of God. With obviously no clue that the Jews didn’t believe in the afterlife judgement… it was the Greeks that did! (From Homer to Apology of Plato). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo
And this also reminds me of another documentary made by Fry on the issue of depression, promoting the scientific usage of LITHIUM. Of f***ing lithium! Cause that’s what *scientists* told him. Nothing about curcumine, nothing on saffron, nothing on caffein/l-theanine or exercise.
Note: the idea of PRISON, instead of death penalty, was a Christian institution of Canon Law of the middle ages. The Higher Court (Parlement de Paris) created La Tournelle (1436) judging criminal law WITHOUT clergymen. Why? To reinstitute death sentence!
That’s why Montesquieu, although critical of Catholic institution, declared in the “Spirit of the Laws” (1748) that Christian religion overall inspires humanity in western laws. This level of humanity, historically, is NOT found in atheistic & rationalistic regimes.
Comments By using the idea that pedophilia is imported, you are influencing readers in thinking that “these foreign people” are inherently (gut reaction). But the sin you criticize is unfortunately universal, isn’t it? Everything that I write has a context. All great ancient philosophers lived as immigrants. I’m not going around randomly accusing immigrants. But let’s not pretend a huge problem doesn’t exist. Official child-adult marriages is an “immigrated” problem.
It can be an “immigrated” problem in some polities such as Sweden. But it’s not in the USA where it is legal in most states. I will agree to say that it can be, but it’s not “always” a problem enabled by lax atheists. It’s not foolish to say Christian Americans are at fault too Just for clarification, in this thread I’m not against all atheists (I praised one in particular). I’m against western atheist intellectuals (aka atheistic scholarship). It is unique. It is unparalleled. Haven’t found any other domain filled – almost exclusively – with ignorance.
In other words, a christian / muslim / jewish author may advocate their religion, spirituality, culture, and it can be a golden treasure. Or trash. But I’ve never seen an atheist writing on atheism, without butchering history, logic, or science (not always in that order).
Things are getting quite serious. I’ve seen students cornered & pushed to participate on liberal questions in an academic setting. They often pretend to be sick & leave the class to escape . I’ll share some tips for approaching topics like:
– gay rights – nationalism
Gay rights: when cornered – in front of a classroom – you may ask back the professor with a simple question: “who is going to be the guarantee of gay rights? The people or an enlightened powerful elite? Who is the SOURCE of legal rights of minorities? The whole class blocks.
If the people are the guarantee of gay rights, then why liberals refuse to do referendums (e.g. in France or US) for those laws? Why do they criticise the whole society as homophobic? Should we then endorse a powerful elite (not the people) as the guarantee of human rights?
On Nationalism: smart asses dominate academic debates declaring or implying that nationalism is created by the Devil and his prophet…. Hitler. I’d propose two approaches.
One approach, when asked, is to answer back: “What nationalism? Franco Nationalism [the Spanish dictator] or Catalonia Nationalism [fighting for independence]? They are both… nationalisms… you know. It’s a quick & dirty way to block the classroom.
A second approach is this: if Hitler used nationalism to spread nazism, then what ideology won nazism? In other words: I’m curious, who actually won the WWII? What kind of songs did our nazi-fighters & heroes sing? Do YOU sing the same songs today monsieur Professor?
1 / “A REFERENDUM was held in Germany on 19 August 1934. The German leadership sought to gain approval for Adolf Hitler’s assumption of supreme power. Hitler used the resultant large “yes” vote to claim public support”.
2 / Another REFERENDUM was held in German-occupied Austria on 10 April 1938, the first nation to be annexed by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The official result was reported as 99.73% in favour, w/ 99.71% turnout. LIFE in 1938 acknowledged that the results were “largely honest”
3 / 2013, Austria: 42 per cent agreed with the view that life “wasn’t all bad under the Nazis”, and 39 per cent said they thought a recurrence of anti-Semitic persecution was likely in Austria.
4 / Turkey has 245 journalists locked up behind bars as of January 24, 2018. 2,745 judges were dismissed and detained, followed by the dismissal, detention or suspension of over 100,000 officials. Erdoğan consolidated his power by REFERENDUM on 16 April 2017
1 / Why so many people love platitudes and empty generalisations?
It’s difficult to keep track on how many “human right” declarations EU has officially signed. You read the same platitudes again & again. Give a Feynman quote to a science geek, he’ll consume it like divine.
2 / Left-wing paranoia (open borders) is answered w/ right-wing generalisations. People choose their platitudes, “borders” vs. “rights”. Nation is NOT “borders”. In fact, all empires were multinational & nations didn’t disappear. Life is complex and requires complex solutions.
3 / Meanwhile academics give naive interpretations confusing the effect w/ the cause. It’s raining cause the floor is wet. Social justice is a phenomenon… cause teens have psychological issues, didn’t clean their room, and didn’t get a job & a life. This BS has taken over.
4 / On top of that, the business experts explain how the “build your business” motto is the solution. Solution to what? to systemic corruption and the hijack of political institutions? to the lack of civic life? solution to media cartels? to banks controlling macroeconomy?
5 / For a long time I thought there was a lack of supply, twitter convinced me there is a lack of demand, particularly in intelligent groups of people. It’s enough to TALK about rights, patriotism or whatever…. Almost never fine-tuning an intelligent debate on the solution.
In legal terms Liberties are NOT considered Rights e.g. Liberties lack exclusivity. You can say “this is my car and don’t touch it” (exclusive right of property) but you can’t say “my free speech, you can’t have it”. A liberty belongs equally to all.
Roman & medieval societies were based on granting rights to those considered honourable or loyal. Traditionally those who “fight for the regime” enjoyed privileges (see modern LGBT-Bankers relationship). Feudocracy was the same: granting special rights based on loyalty.
Both US & French Revolutions & Constitutions had ultimate purpose to create a “new model” of State (new for Europe) that would LIMIT any special rights or privileges to groups or individuals, even if their work was considered honourable or meritocratic (e.g. army, priests).
What is Human Right? The concept is complicated w/ many applications. Today we see, based on Hohfeld’s famous distinction, a disproportionate movement to the “Privilege/Power/Immunity” aspects dominating the term, based on marxist ideology. From liberty rights to claim rights.
I don’t believe in the supremacy of economy as moving force. My premises include that: (1) macroeconomy is rigged (2) a loaded gun is stronger than a loaded wallet (3) a loaded mind is stronger than a loaded gun
2/ Russia is a global player for two reasons: loaded gun + loaded mind (they carefully read the opponent). The combination of two builds up a sustainable economic force.
All major conservative voices in Europe are poor minds backed by the loaded guns of US neocons-Israel axis.
3/ Salvini met Trump in US back in 2016. He finally won because Trump won, both supporting Jerusalem as capital of Israel. If the handlers of Trump go down, Salvini goes down. The whole story of “economic model of growth”, in my view, is pure BS.
1/ Distinguishing the fine line between Objection & Disrespect was a key to western culture. Tyrants around the world, for 1000s of years, rejected any serious objection as a form of disrespect.
no objection = no progress. radical objection = chaos
2/ The most ancient text in western civilisation is Iliad, by Homer. Epic poems from other cultures praised their glorious leaders. Iliad kicks off with a DEBATE in a COUNCIL & OBJECTION to the leader. According to Homer ignoring objections & warnings is payed by a high price.
3 / The fathers of the church combined Jesus’ OBJECTION to Pharisees, with Socrates OBJECTION to Sophists. Teaching kids how to respectfully object. That was called as Ecclesiastic Paideia (christian education), combined with Thyrathen paideia (non-christian, classics).
4 / Christianity evolved as the strongest movement of objection to Roman authority. Today the most illiterate generation in the planet believes that you couldn’t object the Pope. That’s False. Stalin was the true archetype of leader that you could NOT Object.
5/ Example: Today, it’s “common knowledge” that Copernicus was going against the Church w/ his heliocentric model. In fact it was the Pope & Cardinals that financed him gave him ancient manuscripts & URGED him to publish radically new ideas, OBJECTING the scientists of his time.
6/ Modern constitutions, parliaments, civil liberties & institutions come from British Royalty & Aristocracy, inspiring the french enlightenment. The British moved forward with new levels of objection to the Pope (externally) and objection to their King (internally).
7/ We can summarise the heart of modern civil culture in one phrase “His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition”. Notes: – Opposition was written with capital “O”. – Opposition is NOT disloyalty.
It’s part of being loyal and serving the public interest with opposing views.
8/ German products are superior because in German culture there is a brutal honesty in judging efficiency & productivity. It’s the healthy objection to trash products that makes productivity superior. BS is called out.
9/ Greek philosophy is superior because in Greek culture there was (and still is) a brutal honesty in criticising sources of abstract ideas. Modern ideas by major European philosophers (like Voltaire) are called out as naive wishy-washy culture (θολοκουλτούρα) by the greeks.
10/ China is full of ghost cities. Buildings with materials falling over & elevators breaking so often that some prefer to take the stairs for precaution. Why? Chinese IQ is supposed to be high. Science & tech is thriving. What is missing?No literature of healthy objection!
11/ The phrase “Radical progressive” is oxymoron. Radical opposition is AGAINST healthy opposition, thus against progress.As @promulgatus phrased it “revolutions don’t scale”. They can scale into tyranny quickly since INEPTITUDE survives better by SILENCING OPPOSITION.
12/ When freedom of speech is silenced (like we gradually see in US) there is a major symptom through time: “ACCIDENT ACCELERATION”. USSR fell from within, after Chernobyl disaster. It was a wake up call that communist kids can’t play with matches without burning the house.
13/ Tsipras is textbook example of marxist accident acceleration. After selling Macedonia, removing classics from examinations, by ignoring all warnings he let a local fire become the 2nd deadliest fire of the 21st century WITHOUT any ALERT or EVACUATION.
14 / We can’t review the topic of OBJECTION in western history without mentioning J. Chrysostom: Archbishop of Constantinople, pillar of Christianity, most prolific Orthodox author, introduced Christmas. He was finally EXILED for his constant OPPOSITION to ABUSE OF AUTHORITY.
1/ This is written by the infamous JAVIER SOLANA, Secretary-General of NATO & EU Representative for Foreign and Security Policy. He claims “no conflict is unsolvable when diplomatic creativity […]”.
A Tsipras agreement against the 70%+ of greeks is “diplomatic creativity”.
2/ Soros named his son Alexander, and gave him “Macedonia” as a gift. “Project Syndicate” is a fitting name. A mafia syndicate, a CIA/EU/NATO cartel showing off their teeth, their ability to “change history” & our intellectuals (highly educated illiterates) don’t get it.
3 / My take is this: in the end nobody can hide from history. Communism & Nazism were just phases. Claiming themselves to have the eternal glory of Truth, breaking traditional values & historical truth. Seemingly invincible powers were kneeled down by their own incapacities.
4/ When the US foreign policy of Donald Trump goes against 70% of Greeks (polls on Macedonia) & finances the “Macedonia language” propaganda (FBI agents protecting Tsipras) for instrumental reasons (NATO bases, control of N. Greece) this is a SYMPTOM of malignant disease.
5/ We can label this “political disorder” with various names or phrases: “NO INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW” or “THE RULE OF THE MOST POWERFUL” or “NO STANDARDS/NO LAWS/ NO TRUTHS/NO BALANCED CONSENSUS” or “THE RULE OF THE JUNGLE” or “NO RESPECT FOR HISTORICAL TRUTH”
6/ The spirit of this “New World (dis)Order” may superficially take the form of “nationalism” or “globalism” but it accepts the basic marxist premises & terminology: – capital over higher values – materialism over wisdom – money over honour – instrumental dialectic over truth.
7/ This “disorder” expresses a general LACK OF RESPECT for the TRUTH. And it has plenty of different symptoms: – There is a reason why the founder of Linux stepped down. – There is a reason why founder of Python stepped down. – There is a reason why Google becomes a cult.
8/ There is a reason why Jordan Peterson has a free pass to lecture on the topic of religion & christianity, claiming the exact OPPOSITE of what Jesus said and only a few noticing.
9/ There is a reason why you can say “Byzantine was Rome” in english, and get away with it.
10/ There is a reason why Yuval Noah Harari & Steven Pinker, the Dumb & Dumber of intellectualism, managed to become “philosophers”. There is a reason why “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” has 5,040 customer reviews. As one reader wrote, it’s “Fun, Enjoyable Easy Read”.
11/ Appropriating the legacy of Alexander the Great is part of the same disorder. But it’s going against gravity. You can buy politicians to change the “laws of gravity” for your own benefit, but in the end you’ll break your neck. There ARE natural laws / truths.
12/ Μore than 140 fake news websites run out of N. Macedonia. A center for Psychological Operations. I warn my friends from day #1: Soros & Trump play the same game in the region. Fake “Macedonia” survives only by selling its soul to the highest bidder.
We often fail to understand a critical element of Sweden & the Nordic Countries. In biology it’s called “evolutionary pressure” or “selection pressure”. They only evolutionary pressure Nordics had was bad weather. Sweden saw WWI & WWII from the screen, eating popcorn.
In contrast, the area with the highest cultural & historical evolutionary pressure was (and remains) the Mediterranean and Middle East. Around the Byzantine region where the extremes collide. The Meds can’t afford to be Swedish. The historical selection pressure is HUGE.
The hard North (& NWest) climates played major role in advancement of technology (they needed tech to survive). Tech = NWest. But in terms of culture & history, how often has Sweden been conquered? Almost zero geostrategic significance. Even nazis didn’t bother to invade them.
So did Switzerland? Sure about this? Pick up your history book about the fear and pressure they suffered because Hitler gave a damn about neutral countries.
“fear and pressure” is not the same as having 10% of your population slaughtered. I’m not trying to underestimate the values of North&West, they are models in many ways. But NOT in cultural pressure (e.g. from Islam). In that respect we have to COPY the model of the Meds.
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