"I'm entitled to my opinion?" NO! ...You're entitled to your INFORMED opinion!
Sep. 28th, 2009 | 10:12 am
location: Work
music: Among the Weeds - Contemplate the Offer
My oldest son & I have had this debate many a time. Cursive writing in decline. Then again, I print nearly everything.
Molestation at the Whitehouse concert? Where else?
Breakfast at Sulimays ep.33: HARD N HEAVY reviews Ensiferum & Trapped under Ice. Hilarity ensues. (thanks to
Jewish antisemitism. What to do when the critics of Israeli actions are Jewish? A commission headed by a Jewish Zionist issued a damning report, to which the standard cry of "antisemitism" succeeded once again in keeping people from reading it. "War Crimes & Denial" [via
"the bombing of civilian neighborhoods, the use of flechette rounds and white phosphorus against civilian targets, the bombing of mosques and schools, the blocking of rescue parties from reaching the wounded, the killing of fleeing civilians carrying white flags, the use of human shields, and more."
Paul Gottfried provides a review of two recent books on the conservative movement. [via
is held by most actual researchers in the human sciences, and the cultural view is dominant—well-nigh
exclusive, in fact—among our non-scientific elites and educators."
The relationship of Nerds, Geeks & Dorks explained [Cat and Girl]
Reading Kafka can make you smarter?
I started Fall Term at PCC last week. It was very odd. My children's ex-Akido Teacher is my instructor for Southeast Asian/Indian Art.
Interesting article on the evolution and current status of China. The East WAS Red.
Taliban kidnaps professor. Alexander the Great's legacy try for his release.
Russia really did build a "Doomsday Device." It doesn't coat the world in cobalt-thorium-G, but it can detect a strike on Russian soil, determine if the command structure is still present & if it isn't, then it will turn launch authority over to a local person. "Dead Hands" was meant to allow a retaliatory strike upon the US if they initiated a nuclear war. In some ways I miss the 1980s.
It will have been gathered from what has been said above that for us the question is not: 'What is our racial heritage?' To talk about racial value is, for the individual, quite meaningless, for the existence of Christ or the Vedantic doctrine adds nothing to the value of a white man with a base nature any more than the barbarism of certain African tribes takes anything away from a black man of a saintly soul; and as for the effective value, not of a race, but of an ethnic atavism, this is a question of spiritual alchemy, not of scientific or racialist dogmatism. -- Frithjof Schuon. Castes and Races. p54. Perrenial Press 1982
The Malaise is everywhere. "One whopper of a book [Revolt Against the Modern World]...who's made it all the way through? (Be honest....)" This was on the Evola list. The silence was deafening. Then the chorus of "not yet" filtered in. You know a group is in trouble if I am one of the more knowledgeable.
Al Billings turns over Hermetic.com (& the Crowley archives) to someone who says they are still into Thelema....
Title quotation from the movie Dreams With Sharp Teeth. I've not seen it, I just liked the quote.
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Sep. 26th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 19:38 At dark arts festival. My dislike of others is strengthening
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Thou bearest in Heaven at night
Sep. 8th, 2009 | 02:34 pm
location: Work
music: Coil - The Lost Rivers of London
Life has been hectic, what with getting back from Japan, the Labor Day weekend with its demands & preperation for starting my Japanese language class, I barely have time to work at my job. Fortunately, I am still able to work & thus I can find these tidbits for your enjoyment.
keith418 provides this link showing how "liberalism" has moved from being a party of the people to just a bunch of (self)interest parties working to grease each others palms and how this cuts out the normal person...
- "We" always think of the Southern Belle as a meek and unassuming example of the unliberated woman. This article shows how the woman may not have been "girt with a sword," but some did bear arms as a result of Union attempts to denigrate and subjugate them. [
keith418]
I wish you could see me now with my hair parted on the side with my black velvet zouave on & pistol by my side & riding my fine colt, Beula. I know you would take me for a Guerilla. I never ride now or walk without my pistol. Quite warlike, you see. (Cordelia Lewis, "I Never Walk or Ride Without My Pistol (October 29, 1862)," in Heroines of Dixie, ed. Jones, 179 - 182)
- Never forget, or should it be "With Friends Like These?" Another article on the attack on the USS Liberty.
- While reading through some old news articles, I came across one about Iman Hams, a 13 year old girl butchered by the IDF while going to school. After she fell, the officer in charge fired two more bullets into her brain & then unloaded his clip into her body. Pretty disgusting. I checked on Wikipedia and found that the officer had been acquitted. This led to some data on the butchery of Palestinian children by Israeli's.Since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000 - which marked the beginning of the most recent upsurge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - at least 954 Palestinian and 123 Israeli children under the age of 18 have been killed, according to B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights monitoring group.And we seriously expect the Palestinians to make peace with these butchers?
The first recorded incident when Palestinian children were targeted by IDF was on 2 November 1950 when three Palestinian children were shot, two fatally by IDF troops near Dayr Ayyub in the Latrun salient. Ali Muhammad Ali Alyyan (12) his sister Fakhriyeh Muhammad Ali Alyyan (10) and their cousin Khadijeh Abd al Fattah Muhammad Ali (8) all from Yalo village, "The two children [Ali and Fakhriyeh] were stood in a wadi bed and the soldiers opened fire at them. According to both [adult] witnesses only one man fired at them with a sten-gun but none of the detachment attempted to interfere". On 25 February 1953 5 Arab shepherds were executed and then their bodies mutilated at al-Burj, 1 was aged 13. During the Beit Jala raid when one demolition charge failed the house was broken into and the occupants (a mother and 4 children, ranging in age from 6 to 14) were then sprayed with machine gun fire and grenades tossed in.
- "By setting Israel up as the Jewish state and claiming to be acting in the name of every Jew on earth" (from here) Isn't this what the Nazi's did? Didn't they set up the Third Reich as an Aryan state claiming to be acting in the name of every Aryan on Earth? Just Saying....
- I Just need to pass on every link to articles written by Paul Gottfried -- and all of you need to read them. WASPs: The Politics of Guilt. [via
keith418]
"Shamstolz, being morally arrogant while lamenting the bigotry of their ancestors."
- How can you not love the Japanese. As part of their "Manga de Doppa" series (bringing classic literature to Japanese Manga readers), they have published "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. Evidently some people are upset... (english)
- Etching of Hitler and Lenin Playing Chess.
- Another item from 2004: "If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn't attack Sweden" - Osama Bin Laden
- Cyber Stalk Your Own Children
- On the importance of play in a child's life vs. activity ("Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone" -- or parents)
- Free Range Madness Kids Freaking out over "outside"
- The Shock of a lifetime, Men lose minds for pretty girls
- Children of Bodom did a cover of Pat Benatar's "Hell is for Children."
- A Friend pointed me to this write-up of an article by Stéphane François which appeared in Journal for the Studies of Radicalism, Vol. 1 no.2.
The text of the article has been rendered into an HTML by Google: "The Euro-Pagan Scene: Between Paganism and Radical Right
Finally, a critique was written by one of the editors of Tyr discussing some of the faults of the essay. [via
keith418]
- This must be the day for pronouncements & manifestos. First, we have the Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, then we have The Monarchist's Manifesto and then I found The Virtues of Deglobalization
Deglobalization:
The aim of the deglobalization paradigm is to move beyond the economics of narrow efficiency, in which the key criterion is the reduction of unit cost, never mind the social and ecological destabilization this process brings about. It is to move beyond a system of economic calculation that, in the words of John Maynard Keynes, made "the whole conduct of life...into a paradox of an accountant's nightmare."
Monarchist:
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." [CS Lewis]
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." [Winston Churchill]
Futurist:
After such a triumphal entry into Italian musical society and after establishing contact with the public, publishers and critics, I was able to judge with supreme serenity the intellectual mediocrity, commercial baseness and misoneism that reduce Italian music to a unique and almost unvarying form of vulgar melodrama, an absolute result of which is our inferiority when compared to the Futurist evolution of music in other countries.
Evening Star by EA Poe
'Twas noontide of summer,
And midtime of night,
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, through the light
Of the brighter, cold moon.
'Mid planets her slaves,
Herself in the Heavens,
Her beam on the waves. |
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It was passed from one bird to another
Aug. 31st, 2009 | 01:04 pm
location: Work
Max Ernst
The Blessed Virgin Chastising the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses
1926
- Gottfried takes on White Guilt, Gates and more [via
keith418]
- The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers [via
girlyunderwear]
- The coming rift between American Jewry & Zionism [via
keith418]
- I Just chortled when I saw this question:
Imagine that while watching a squirrel run along a power line, you see it touch a second wire and explode. Which would be closest to your reaction?
- Sweden refuses to cave in to Isreali demands. "There are calls from some quarters in Israel that we in some way or another should take an official position to distance ourselves from this article or even to intervene to prevent such an article being published," Bildt wrote on Thursday.
"But our country does not work that way - and neither should it."
- One of the Thelemic Criticisms of Christianity is its unbridled compassion, the urge to "Love Thy Neighbor" even when they are undeserving of that love or if that love is ultimately undermining one's ability to seek or do one's will.
keith418 provided these two articles which illustrate that the Bible calls for a stricter implementation than the OTO is currently willing to do. What place does Thelema hold if it is more corrupted with pity and compassion than Christianity? Can we bring about the promises of Thelema if we becoming more Christian than the Christians?
- Totalitarian Kitsch.
- Whether Crowley's personal behavior was bad is somewhat irrelevant to me," he says. “What's important is that he was amazingly prescient. He knew what was going on. And as a musician I'm actually happy that occultism is nothing without practice. I do magical tricks with music because I practice a lot. You get music to the point that it appears to be magic, even though there ain't no magic. The only magic in the universe is the magic that we create ourselves." [via
keith418] Crowley's grandson releases fifth album
- Amusing. Whites tend to facebook while blacks & hispanics tend to MySpace (no word on where the asians are hanging out). Obviously, this is the fault of those cruel whites who refuse to allow the blacks & hispanics to associate with white people. I mean why would blacks and hispanics choose to associate with other blacks and hispanics...
Solving the problem of "virtual segregation" [via
keith418]
- Purging English of potentially offensive phrases. It reminds me of when someone accused me of being antisemitic because I used the word kype & they thought it was derived from Kike.
- Somewhat entertaining rant by the War Nerd called "Why I Hate WWII"
- What do they really expect? When the promises made to them are broken, it becomes obvious that the "liberal democratic process" is a lie. If they had wanted the Balkan's to remain in the leftist bracket, they shouldn't have removed democratically elected leaders, pursued an uneven prosecution of suspected "war criminals," nor broke the agreement for the end of hostilities by giving Kosovo to Albanian terrorists. An article on the supposed rise of fascism in the Balkans.
- I actually saw a Van with a PA system exhorting people to vote for the Happy Realization Party.
Bird
It was passed from one bird to another,
the whole gift of the day.
The day went from flute to flute,
went dressed in vegetation,
in flights which opened a tunnel
through the wind would pass
to where birds were breaking open
the dense blue air -
and there, night came in.
When I returned from so many journeys,
I stayed suspended and green
between sun and geography -
I saw how wings worked,
how perfumes are transmitted
by feathery telegraph,
and from above I saw the path,
the springs and the roof tiles,
the fishermen at their trades,
the trousers of the foam;
I saw it all from my green sky.
I had no more alphabet
than the swallows in their courses,
the tiny, shining water
of the small bird on fire
which dances out of the pollen.
Pablo Neruda
1904-1973
Parral, Chile
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a
Aug. 13th, 2009 | 07:14 am
location: Yokosuka, Japan
music: Polysics - POLY 1 (POLYSICS) with B - THEME FROM LUPIN THE 3RD 3
- NEETs (Not in Employment, Edutation or Training) die off -- nearly 17%. Should we thank providence for Natural Selection?
- Related is this comic from little gamers which succinctly explains the realistic difficulties in establishing universal health care.
- Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
Oyster , n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
Other great words. Thanks to
keith418 - Devotional statues as used on Battlestar Galactica [via
keith418] - For my Archeology Friends: Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland [via
keith418] - It appears that their is a gene in our "Junk" DNA that, if it were active, would prevent HIV's ability to infect our cells.
- There was an interview with Anne Akiko Meyers on 89.9 AllClassical.Org. I believe I shall buy a couple of her CD's.
- Watched Mishima's Yûkoku: The Rite of Love and Death. (Wiki) I liked it, though I am aware that many are not drawn to silent films or the Noh stage [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh].
The essential story (told in 30 min) deals with a man torn between the duty of following his emporer's orders and his duty toward his friends who staged a coup which has now been rejected by the emporer. He was not in the coup because he was married and in love so they left him at home. Now torn, he resolves to avoid dishonor by killing himself. His wife, due to her love for her husband resolves to follow him into death. Their last night is filled with passion. He commits seppeku, she drives her dagger into her brain through the flesh under her chin. Touching. Some stills are in my album.
- Todays word of the day is Sokushinbutsu -- becoming enlightened through self mummification.
- When I think of how my son lost a library book, I sometimes wish that librarians still had this law on the books:
“Whoever willfully detains any book or other property belonging to any Public Educational Institutition, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one or more than twenty five dollars or by inprisonment in jail not exceeding six months.” - We have seen or know this guy... XKCD
- The woman selling magazine subscriptions told me I waqs hot & offered me a blowjob for $20. Does that count as a double solicitation?
- August 9th was my Second Son's 12th Birthday.
- This was great. Plutherus pointed me to Robotman who has been having some problems in the My Little Pony Forums.
- I've also been seeing these cute little SmartForTwo cars running around.
- More on England's immigration problems. My favorite line: "Wanting a better deal for her child doesn't make her anti-immigrant. But if we can't find a better answer to her despair then she soon will be." Trevor Phillips warns of immigration 'cold war'
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Aug. 5th, 2009 | 09:37 am
location: Work
- The big lie of Afghanistan -- "My country hasn't been liberated: it's still under the warlords' control, and Nato occupation only reinforces their power." Now remember, the Troops are "turning power over to the Iraqi Military as fast as the Iraqi's can handle it," but we are also increasing deployments to Afghanistan. [via
keith418]
- Guy friends rule -- Ladies: Want to not talk about feelings? Want a pal who'll offer to kick someone's ass for you? Hang with dudes
I love this quote "Yet that suspicion of opposite sex fraternization, that notion that anything between a straight man and woman is inherently prurient/doomed, persists." It seems to me that the whole war of the sexes is merely a condition created by the sex-negativity of Christianity & its derivatives. [via
keith418]
- Oh my, oh my, another treat from Keith418, "The Spiritual Fascism of Rene Guenon and His Followers." It is so sexy. It's a bit long (mainly because he repeats himself a lot) but rather entertaining.
"Traditionalism is a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged, narrow minded and self serving men, a criticism that extends to the women in the cults as well, who by and large support the patriarchy and are willing to keep the secrets, lie, justify their submission and surrender, do whatever it takes to protect the Traditionalist fantasy. What they call 'metaphysics' is merely a faltering dream of fading glory stolen from dead or failing societies. In the end the Traditionalist fantasy is a self mirroring world of narcissistic symbolists who serve a far right political agenda, and in most cases, don’t even realize it."
"The Traditionalists are raiders of other religions,, cultural vampires, to put it dramatically, perennial parasites, who sink their esoteric proboscis into the body of worn and ailing faiths and try to suck life out of them so as to increase the power of traditionalism."
- I learned something new, Einstein went from ardent Zionist to being a supporter of the Two State Solution. [via
keith418]
- Some rather pleasing photographs (NSFW)
The first one that I saw was this one
- An article on Yukio Mishima. (Wikipedia)
"Today, baseball players and television stars are lionised. Those who specialise in skills that will fascinate an audience tend to abandon their existence as total human personalities and be reduced to a kind of skilled puppet. This tendency reflects the ideals of our time. On this point there is no difference between performers and technicians. The present is the age of technocracy... differently expressed, it is the age of performing artists. It means specialisation and therefore the confinement of the individual into a single cog."
Interesting Adverts using Mishima
“Among you gentlemen is there not one single person who will stand with me?”
- A rather shallow article on Nietzsche's view on the Dionysian & Apollonian impulses.
- Beware the Gnomes of Nuremberg
Title quote by Salvador Dali
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Jul. 29th, 2009 | 09:55 am
location: Work
music: Lolishit - Loli Maid Dating Sim
- Feminist wet dream unlikely. Deteriorating Y-Chromosome does not spell extinction of the male half of the species.
- "You can imagine that this type of law makes adults less eager to volunteer for schools, Scouts or any activity with kids involved, because they have to undergo (and often pay for) security checks first. But what’s worse is that in this suspicious climate, adults grow wary of any involvement with kids. Frank Furedi, author of “Paranoid Parenting,” cites the story of a 2-year-old who wandered away from her nursery. A man driving by noticed her on the street, but (as he later testified at an inquest) he didn’t stop to help for fear he’d be accused of trying to abduct her.
She ended up at a pond - and drowned." - A man decided the road was to busy for another man to be bicycling with his child (who was attached via an approved car seat to the bicycle) so he shot him.
- It's not like I can deny it when people say things like this "I've been thinking about joining the Caliphate this summer but I changed my mind. Unfortunately many of Thelemites these days are just a bunch of hippies, unable to notice that their main godform is a wargod." I mean how should I respond, "No no, the actual hippies were violent, it was only the poseurs who were like many of our OTO members?"
- Some weird combination of Techno, Power Electronics and Anime. Song titles are similar to those of Nicole12. You can download Lolishit Albums at MySpace (in the blog).
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In the opening and shutting of his gates of heaven, cannot he do so as a female bird?
Jul. 22nd, 2009 | 08:47 am
location: Work
music: Marc Almond + Nick Cave - Body Unknown [live]
- Obama's plan to deal with GWOT detainee's is quite a bit different than most think. Freedom? I don't think so... [
keith418]
- Is there really such a stigma on not wanting children? I get funny looks because I have children. They do turn into a sort of respect when they realize I am a single parent of four boys. It has always seemed to me that from the 80's on that popular culture has promoted childlessness. All of the things to do are geared towards the child-free, caring for children is difficult as parenting is discouraged (instead you are supposed to drop them off at some childcare) & the populace is generally infantilized to the point of inanity. Admittedly, this may be one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't issues.
keith418 pointed us to this article on the difficulties of stating that you don't want a child.
- Yes, I too would like this Cylon War Print [via
keith418]
- AIPAC gives advice on "defending" the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Namely, attack the idea as an ethnic purge of Jews. Details at the Gaurdian. [via
keith418]
- Broadband access is now a moral right. Muslim & Christians ally together for "the 'right to disseminate and receive information,' it's a 'right that helps to define ourselves as human beings and political actors,' and it's absolutely essential for everyone in a modern society." "Increasingly in the United States, the fundamental right to communicate is meaningless without high speed Internet access."
- Drop the flashcards. If you want your child to succeed, give them chores to do around the house. Connect with Kids gives us "Pre-School Responsibility"
- I don't know if any of you have read Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy, but if he is cautioning against inculcating a fear of adults, it must be a serious problem indeed. Another problem is that it causes adults to fear helping a child in distress. "A survey of 500 men by Identikids, the ID tag company, found that 75 per cent of men will not help children in distress for fear of what it looks like to others. Because of heightened awareness of paedophilia there is concern about helping children in public places who appear to be lost or in a vulnerable situation." Is this really what we want to teach our children? The events are set in the UK, but the problem extends far beyond that country. "The 'stranger danger' panic is creating a hostile adult world" [Psychology Today]
- How does one say "Kristallnacht" in Yiddish? Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris
- The truth may soon be illegal. Calling Jews 'Nazis' may be criminalised.
- Sex & Poetry: Lord Byron's Great Insight
- The Man's fault. It isn't a Recession, it's a He-cession. The historical evolutionary inevitability of "The Death of Macho" (where the ideal is for all men to become metrosexuals)
- Calvin, father of Modernity?
- The Hell's Angels of Denmark are combating ethnic gang violence.
- Article on the lessons of George Orwell
- Jewish Stormtroopers in New York.
- Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster showcases rare and recently discovered erotic artwork by the most seminal artist in comics, Joe Shuster. Created in the early 1950s when Shuster was down on his luck after suing his publisher, DC Comics, over the copyright for Superman, he illustrated these images for an obscure series of magazines called "Nights of Horror," published under the counter until they were banned by the U.S. Senate. Juvenile deliquency, Dr. Fredric Wertham, and the Brooklyn Thrill Killers gang all figure into this sensational story. (quote by USA Today)
- I was told today that 'The Path of Cinnabar' shipped today. (2009-07-20)
- Animator Kanada Yoshinori passed away of myocardial infarction on July 21st. He was 57 years old.
Kanada invented numbers of unique art styles in the early age of Japanese modern anime. They were named with the prefix "Kanada", such as "Kanada Perspective", "Kanada Posing", "Kanada Motion" etc. His animations strongly influenced young animators and formed a group of artists called "Kanada Followers".
He worked on several of Miyazaki Hayao's movies and was given a special title "Genga Gashira (chief animator)" in Castle in the Sky.
TTC 10
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a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter
Jul. 13th, 2009 | 02:45 pm
location: Work
music: Menace Ruine - Dismantling
- I know the footage has been done to death, but it is still funny. Hitler Finds Out Michael Jackson Died.
- Elmer Gantry (1960)
Lulu Bains: Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps! - The Herd Instinct replicates itself on-line. Researcher ignores player customs & plays the game as the rules indicate. Amusing how it shows that social conventions can counter the actual purposes and inherent rules (e.g. social conventions counter "natural law").
- XKCD comments on the dangers of TV Tropes. We know it's true.
- Children allowed to climb hill. School closed.
- "most of our happiness is actually dependent on our self-discipline."
keith418 provided this link to an article discussing self-discipline. - Haaretz waxes on the activities of the IDF. Remember folks, this is what the billions in foreign aid to Israel allows to happen. (via
keith418) - "Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22891 An excellent article on the diminishing "wilderness of childhood."
Recently, my younger daughter, after the usual struggle and exhilaration, learned to ride her bicycle. Her joy at her achievement was rapidly followed by a creeping sense of puzzlement and disappointment as it became clear to both of us that there was nowhere for her to ride it—nowhere that I was willing to let her go. Should I send my children out to play? (via
keith418)
I remember getting up, having breakfast, doing my chores & then wandering in the Deschutes National Forest (around Crescent Lake) until I got hungry and then turning around to head back. Since I lived on a mountain, I explored "up" and then returned "down." I wish that there were places like that for my children to go to -- ones that don't require me to drive them across town or what-not. - Since I find myself discussing this a lot (& not nearly to my satisfaction) I am excerpting this citation from
keith418's bog quoting Paul Gottfried on the relationship between Liberalism/Communism/etc & Christianity:
"As far as I can see, it is the Left, given its reformulation of Christian universalism and Christian commitment to comforting the oppressed, which has produced the greatest danger to Western civilization. The Left projects a fantasy that fits the Western moral imagination. It thrives as a 'Christian heresy,' according to Karl Barth, a brilliant Christian theologian who himself succumbed to that heresy. A Christian civilization created the moral and eschatological framework that leftist anti-Christians have taken over and adapted. It is the fascists, not the Communists or multiculturalists, who were the sideshow in modern Western history As the anthropologist Micea Eliade observed fifty years ago, fascism, and in particular its most violent and aberrant form, Nazism, bungled the task of fitting established Christian societies into a revamped or pagan mythology.
"Eliade expressed concern that the Left's use of Christian mythology made it unstoppable, barring a successful reappropriation by Christianity of its own redemptive history. While there were intellectual efforts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to move in a neopagan direction, fascist leaders could not effect the change of mind that was necessary to their triumph. Fascist, and especially Nazi, politics aroused indignation in a way that the Communists did not. The reason was not that the Communist regimes in practice were less brutal. It was, rather, as Eliade points out, that they adopted Christian rhetoric and Christian values to justify their murderous social experiments. Communist states profited from two ingrained beliefs that were linked to Christianity directly or indirectly: the Christian vision of a final universal justice for the unjustly suffering, and the Enlightenment's recasting of this vision as scientific progress. Lest there be doubts about where I stand, I agree entirely with Ernst Nolte, who in 1996, in correspondence with the French historian Francois Furet, depicted European fascism as a 'secondary movement,' that is, an ultimately disastrous attempt to subdue the revolutionary Left through awkward imitation. Nolte has advanced the opinion that everything being equal, the Left has enjoyed a steady recruiting advantage relative to the far Right. It has drawn support by recycling Judeo-Christian ideals and eschatology and has done so with brilliant success even while abandoning Marxist baggage." - A Report on the convoluted opinions regarding science held by most Americans.
- Is the Swine Flu merely a Darwinian Struggle to rid the world of Obesity? It amuses me that it isn't until the very end that the idea of losing weight is offered as a solution.
"Doctors tracking the pandemic say they see a pattern in hospital reports from Glasgow to Melbourne and from Santiago to New York. People infected with the bug who have a body mass index greater than 40, deemed morbidly obese, suffer respiratory complications that are harder to treat and can be fatal."
"The agency is investigating whether overweight people need different antiviral treatment or flu vaccinations."
"Fat cells secrete chemicals that cause chronic, low-level inflammation that can hamper the body’s immune response and narrow the airways"
"People may reduce their risk of developing complications from swine flu -- as well as many other diseases -- by maintaining a healthy weight, quitting smoking, exercising regularly and moderating alcohol intake"
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Silenced Birds
Jul. 4th, 2009 | 10:13 am
location: Home, Portland, OR
music: Klinik - Brain
- Giving up my iPod for a Walkman 8:47 AM Jun 30th
- Comics artist Mark Sable detained for "Unthinkable" acts 10:27 AM Jun 30th
- "But the idea of a pure openness, a pure democracy, is a naïve one." (NYTimes)10:40 AM Jun 30th
- Why Are People Obsessed with Their Kids? 11:36 AM Jun 30th
- People reject free money out of anger (How the Social Contract is enforced even to our detriment) 12:45 PM Jun 30th
- Study: choir prefers being preached to by 2:1 margin (active avoidance of conflicting information) 12:18 PM Jul 2nd
- Facebook 'sparked white flight from MySpace' (Why is seeking smarter & richer a bad thing?) about 21 hours ago
- Her biggest crime was trusting her own parenting. about 10 hours ago
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Jun. 29th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 08:45 Who else gets away with "trying" like this? Israel and Human Trafficking: bit.ly/BoPmh
- 08:57 Fabrication of Iran's Unrest: BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda tinyurl.com/lpztwd
- 09:03 Iran, Social Media and the Rise of Genetically Modified Grassroots Organizations : The Fog Machine tinyurl.com/ljoq9n
- 09:04 Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut tinyurl.com/kkug3y
- 09:10 On a Classical Education (I got 12 out of 14 questions right in the little quiz at the end) tinyurl.com/lnf2wp
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Jun. 28th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 11:02 WHat does Wikipedia not ahve an article for? entry: Magick (Aleister Crowley) bit.ly/4EDyqP
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Jun. 27th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 18:38 Jewish school broke race laws by barring boy whose mother 'was not a Jew' tinyurl.com/lelaqa
- 23:10 He's dead. His music was alright, but I was no fan. I liked Weird Al's versions better than the originals. I want no more info on tributes
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Jun. 26th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 11:11 Lolicon dream come true? 16 year old toddler. abcnews.go.com/print?id=7880954
- 12:14 The Death of Love (via Keith418) bit.ly/XEkVE
- 12:36 Multiculturalism vs. Art, or why there aren't any revolutions in popular arts.. (via Keith418) tinyurl.com/llfavk
- 12:40 Award-winning Palestinian journalist recounts being tortured by Israel while trying to return home (via Keith418) tinyurl.com/lgagnx
- 12:46 Islamo-fascism, Judaeo-fascism, Bapto-fascism, and Why We Need More Bars (Go Fred!, another gem from Keith418) tinyurl.com/nzmt64
- 13:02 Memories of Radicalism from the 60's and its influences now bit.ly/G9tuN
- 14:06 Cancelled WoW. I had it for the kids, but they weren't remembering to use it (March was last time). I was only on hold for 40minutes....
- 14:13 Shools cautioned against stripping 13 year old girls bit.ly/5eiCc
- 14:18 More child porn without sex or naked children: Man Charged In 'Virtual Porn' Case bit.ly/128gDs
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Jun. 25th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 09:06 Lenore Skenazy in the Huffington Post bit.ly/1NMD0t
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Jun. 24th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 11:03 Six year olds thought to have built a Nuclear Reactor. www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/23/2
606539.htm - 13:15 Nazi Stealth Fighter on National Geographic bit.ly/sqWtK
- 14:49 Tesla gets loan approval from US Department of Energy www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/23/tesla.electr
ic.cars/index.html - 14:50 Wired reviewed Nissan's Electric Car (due out end of 2010) bit.ly/MC7sH
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Jun. 23rd, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 09:30 Article on Ray Bradbury & his assistance in saving libraries. bit.ly/3wbAlA
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Jun. 22nd, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 10:09 WJ on Secessionist movements. online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702
04482304574219813708759806.html - 10:21 why the fascists are winning in Europe (Macleans, not very deep) bit.ly/MDydK
- 10:31 Ahmadinejad won. Get over it [I wonder if the fuss is just pretext to justify a Serbia act II or cont of Iraq] tinyurl.com/lzd5h8
- 10:33 Guevara's granddaughter to appear in PETA campaign www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/0
6/18/20090618ArgentinianPeta.html - 11:27 (Not new for most of us, but...) America’s Left-Conservative Heritage tinyurl.com/m2523o (Attack The System)
- 11:46 Too much. I post a link on how Ahmadinejad won & I start getting followed by a guy promoting the election fraud angle. Hilarious.
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Jun. 21st, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 10:15 Watched 'O brother where art thou' & 'dick tracy'
- 10:28 Check out: Connections Academy (salem)
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Jun. 20th, 2009 | 06:30 pm
- 22:53 YouTube - TheShoujoAiYuriFC's Channel bit.ly/EtasA

