So They'd Had Practice At It!

I just stumbled on the Herero Uprising, which revealed to me that the Krauts already had plenty of experience with genocide and concentration camps.  No wonder they were so efficient the second time around.

The big difference was that whereas the Nazis immediately gassed the elderly and women with children, in Africa, the Germans actually put those groups to slave labor.  Survivors resembled the Muselmänner of the Nazi camps.

Leftist Hypocrisy # 675

So Welzer smugly advocates a "drastic cut in consumerism, starting with the underlying mentality," but notice the shirt he's wearing...

Sneaking Religion Into Science

“The rapidly progressing study of the human microbiota is revealing that humans are not individual self-contained beings, but instead hugely complex super-organisms that blur the distinction between where ‘we’ end and ‘they’ begin."  (source)

Um, no, Dr. Sirinathsinghji, your thinly veiled pantheism notwithstanding, we are a WHOLE lot more than the sum total of our cells and microbiota:  we have souls.

They do not.

But you're right that we are indeed "hugely complex super-organisms."  An updated way of saying, "made in God's image."

Just As DeTocqueville Predicted

The sad state of American society today.

 

Foul Fruits Not Unforeseeable

The late 60's basically enshrined hedonism (and paganism)---even to the point of reverently labeling (what used to be called) bratty kids "Indigos"---so it's not surprising that we're now experiencing a backlash in the form of a narcissistic free-for-all. 

And what else is new, Big Pharma was quick to cash in on it all (capitalism at its "best").

I Are Sick of False Plurals!

"Manson, along with his followers, were convicted in 1969 of multiple murders, including that of the actress Sharon Tate."  (source) 

"If you live in an urban area, visiting the local health food stores and farmers' markets are typically the quickest route to finding high-quality local egg sources."

"when increasing capacity to feed the sprawling suburbs were foremost on everyone’s mind" (both of these courtesy Mercola's newsletter, what else?)

Speaking of Which...

This sums it up, LMTO!

Ingenious!

I love inkblots and was googling the term when I ran across this most fascinating bit of info.  Kudos to the CMU developers!

How Can 1 Be Plural????

"every one of them have a fatty acid deficiency."  This is the same crew that writes about the "tenants of vital health." 

I wrote this outfit and asked them if they could use a copy editor:  "Oh, no, thanks, we've got plenty of in-house staff."  Yah, maybe, but too many of them seem to lack English skills (wouldn't be surprising in the face of the "Affirmative Action" rubbish in hiring practices).

And while we're at it, "everybody" also uses the singular verb, even though, yes, it evokes an image of all the people in the world.

Peel Off the Accretions!

Blogs allow you to change their "skin."  It reminded me of when a woman I know told me, "Hubby doesn't like using condoms.  He says they detract from the richness of sex."  So, he preferred using his own skin as opposed to the false "skin" of the rubber.

There's a parable in that anecdote:   modern life, with all the fancy-shmancy technology (no, I'm not a Luddite, I'm using a computer, am I not?) tends to have the same effect on the mind and soul as a condom*; the richness and immediacy of real life are coated over with an asphyxiating membrane----which would perhaps partly account for the many cases of alcoholism, drug abuse, self-mutilation, etc.  Life in its undiluted form teems with fascinating and intriguing things to experience, learn and practice. 

Even with all the painful aspects.  It's like what a client told me about his Paxil use (for Social Anxiety Disorder):  "With Paxil, I don't feel any emotions at all [he was also prone to severe bouts of anger], and have no libido."  I told him that as much as I loathe feeling angry or sad, I'd rather endure the whole range of emotions, because it is a vital part of my humanity.  "Why would I want to stunt such a huge chunk of my very essence?"

*Which, as an aside, is one of the reasons I think youngsters should have only very limited access to computers, ipods, etc:  they should instead use their own bodies and imaginations to explore and experience the world:  marvel at the moon and the stars and the clouds; build go-carts and treehouses; spy on birds and coons and possums;  hurtle from the tree-rope into the waterhole below.

Whom Do They Think They're Kidding?

Sandy Hook, Aurora Batman, Boston Marathon, the list grows by the month, it seems.   The latest "shooting" at the LAX airport is yet another of the Pretenders' (touché expression courtesy of JohnO) false flag ops as they steer us more and more toward massive gun control and then, martial law.

It really gets old.

MTM Variation

"No matter how abhorrent you find it, taking up the anti-abortion crusade is somewhat suicidal, but it takes foresight to realize this." * Takes even more foresight to recognize that when millions of babies are aborted, there's a collective suicide happening right there.

"If your example is worth much, then others may be influenced to do it your way. Forced behavior is not always the best approach."*  Let's apply that principle across the board, shall we?  Let's no longer stigmatize, prosecute or punish murderers, rapists, pedophiles, crooked IRS agents, lying presidents, etc.  Let those who don't believe in those behaviors simply "provide a good example."

Wow, have you noticed how well that works in the history of man?  So effectively that the abusers end up slaughtering off (either literally or in some slightly less terminal way, i.e. no promotion; or firing; or blackballing; or gulaging, etc.) those who provide the good example. 

Which is why we have so many abusers of various stripes in power on various levels, all the way from your office supervisor to the guy in the Black House.  "Might makes right."  Survival of the most vicious.  SOB's rule. 

Darwinism at its "best."

And hey, speaking of which, if we start presuming we know whose life is worthy of being allowed to come to term and whose is not, that opens the door to all kinds of arbitrary weeding out, doesn't it?  All those who, say, are libertarians:  all their unborn infants would be forcibly terminated (assuming they hadn't already done us the favor of voluntarily annihilating their offspring in the womb).  We can't, after all, tolerate a bunch of seditionists proliferating (no pun intended) and opposing our Nanny State agenda, can we.  Man must after all maintain his glorious ascent up the evolutionary ladder (Teilhardism, our salvation, amen).

Perhaps there exists a concealed explanation for certain people's insistence that abortion should not be outlawed, a deep-structure motivation if you will:  might they harbor a subconscious wish that their mother had aborted them?  Might their "laissez-faireism" in regards to prenatal infanticide actually constitute a camouflaged retroactive death wish?
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*It's conceivable that this sort of "rationale" might come across a smidgeon less disingenuous if those who advocate it weren't the types whose promiscuity is so often at fault for the abortion being deemed "necessary" in the first place.

Obviously Another MTM Disciple

MTMers are in the same category as those who've not outgrown their belief in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

"My daughter is not in her bed this morning. She's only 7.... Oh my God! . . . Oh my God! . . . Oh my God!" says a panicky Van Dam as she gasped for breath.
"Take a deep breath, OK?" says the 911 operator. "Think confident thoughts and everything will be OK." (my emphasis)

As we all know, little Danielle Van Dam was anything but "OK." 

And since when does the 911 operator job description include dispensing bromides? 

With Which I Am Fed Up

For the past maybe 3 years, at forums, blogs and in essays, I keep seeing "of which" used in the most inane ways. Latest example: "school (of which I attended many years back)."

What is it with stupid memes proliferating? Do these people even minimally think about what they're writing?!? How does "of" make even one microbe of sense there?!

The school of which you write obviously didn't teach you well. {snarl}

No, it is not OC to fume about this sort of thing (tiny details can
reveal a lot), because these fatuous memes are symbolic of something much larger, that is, a populace so dumb that they do things like vote for an Obarfma. This kind of idiocy is symptomatic of a severely ill society/body politic.

And while we're at it, the expression is not "different to" (they're
obviously confusing this with "similar to"), but rather "different
FROM"! I even heard an unctious commentator on a BBC documentary make this mistake!

WHERE are the editors?!?!

Rubbish Recycled

Aka Hinduism/Pealism redux.

In workshops and webinars offered around the globe, Davis [Rennie baby, of SDS fame] tells listeners that the world is "not solid, objective or real, but a psychological construct" whose origin lies within each one of us...  "We create our own reality, right down to the last detail," he states. "So when each of us changes our thoughts, we change the world we live in."...Davis says that it is time to move into a world where there is no blame and no judgment. His vision is a world where there is nothing to fix, because trying to fix something (or someone) implies it is wrong, and that he reminds, is a judgment.  (source)

 


So let me get this straight:  as part of the world, Davis himself is nothing more than a psychological construct (or maybe it's his silly notions that are).  But whose exactly?  His own?  Mine?  Or those of the author of the article?  Or of his parents?   So what happens if his particular construct of the world clashes with mine?  Does he simply wish me into oblivion?  Further, how does he deal with hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, conflagrations, all those pesky little anonymous constructs that have a tendency to overwhelm us mortals?

 And just think, the only thing the Jews had to do to escape Hitler and the gas chambers was "change their thoughts."  Just decide that the round-ups and the shootings and, oh yeah, the gassings were nothing more than a psychological construct that the persecuted could---Presto-Changeo!---will away merely by thinking beautiful thoughts of being back home in the shtetl...or even better, being on some Tahitian island with 100's of virgins. 

And the no-judgment thing:  no doubt, the Nazis would love it, since it gets them off the hook for their massacres.  Come to think of it, what if Davis is paid to evangelize the masses with this Baspel, the better to allow the scoundrels in Big Government and Big Business to continue all their outrages with cheerful impunity?

Oy, why am I such a cynic?  After all, if this MTM (Magic Thoughts Method) really works, wouldn't it be a most wonderful way of getting rid of the Plague in the White House?  What's not to like about that?

I think whoever designed this bumper sticker perfectly summed up the ludicrousy of that whole MTM mentality:

Tesla's Little Known "Twin"

"He was critical of textbook theory and the arrogance and lack of imagination of 'experts' and refused to go to college, believing that he would lose his intuitive gifts."  (emphasis mine) source

Such was the insightful attitude of Viktor Schauberger, the man the Nazis forced to help build the Repulsine prototypical UFO.   Like other famous inventors (Edison, Einstein, Wright Brothers), he didn't thrive in the collective body-warehouse environment cleverly euphemized as "school." 

Brings to mind Rousseau's observation:
 
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton — these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led them to those places where their vast genius carried them? Ordinary teachers could only have limited their understanding by confining it to their own narrow capabilities."

Another Version of the Ailment

 Lime Disease 2:  disorder accounting for a sourpuss
disposition

More than meets the eye

If someone fundamentally disbelieves in the existence of microbes, no amount of microscope gazings will convince him:  "Ah, that's just made up, the same way stuff can be photoshopped in still images or videos."  So, axiomatic for the believer in bacteria, viruses, etc. is the existence of those entities.  Even the scientist has a type of faith. 

It is intriguing to note in this connection that as early as the 6th century BC, the Jains already postulated the existence of unseen microbiological life.  Just imagine if they had introduced that concept to, say, the average non-Jainist chieftain at that time:  at best they'd have been laughed out of court, or at worst, put to death as some sort of blasphemers.

Now, supposing that there is another unseen realm, an unseen dimension, surpassing the scope of telescopes and microscopes---or any other "scopes" for that matter.  The uniformitarian, entrenched in his metaphysical naturalism, scoffs at that concept in the same way as the above-mentioned disbelievers scoffed at the possibility of the microbiological realm.  These scoffers are akin to the colorblind dolt who pshaws his neighbor's rapture at the blazing sunset, or to the tone-deaf wretch who has contempt for the man enthralled with the magnificence of Brahms' violin concerto.

Pity that metaphysical Philistinism prevails.

New Spelling Rules...Evidently

In the past 2-3 months, I have encountered about 6 examples of a fatuous spelling error:  Islamist, religionist, atheist, altruist, analyst, anarchist all used with plural verbs (indicating that in each case, more than one whatever-ist was meant), yet lacking an "s" at the end.  Now, it is true that a certain group can't for the life of them make certain sounds properly ("axe" instead of "ask"), and this group also has tremendous trouble pronouncing the plural of words ending in "st," but WHY on earth this has become a widespread accepted (?) spelling is beyond me.

I am fed up with idiotic memes taking hold and spreading thru the populace like the Black Plague.

Has "N" Become a Non-Ntity?

In the past week or so, I have seen this misspelling about 3x:  "predominately."

No.

"In Beverly Hills, rich folks predominate," or, if you will, "Beverly Hills is populated predominantly by rich folks."

There is no such thing as "predominately."

This Is Why Hillbillies Distrust Revenooers

Not that I've ever trusted the gov't. (going to public "schools" cured me of that early on), but this just seems to beat all:
 
Immediately after World War II, researchers at Vanderbilt University gave 829 pregnant mothers in Tennessee what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies, but were, in fact, mixtures containing radioactive iron, to determine how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta. At least three children are known to have died from the experiments, from cancers and leukemias. Four of the women's babies died from cancers as a result of the experiments, and the women experienced rashes, bruises, anemia, hair/tooth loss, and cancer.

And that's not all.

Nobody can disconvince me that the Feds (or whoever it might be) aren't using "persistant contrails" as a camouflage for other vile experimentation or worse.

The Age of the Intellectual Wimp

It's no secret that ever since the late 60's, the obsession with emotions and sensations (that first poisoned the West's bloodstream with the advent of Romanticism) has made rational thought and discourse ever more scarce.  Standard PCism is of course a truism in this regard.  But what are we to make of the following?!

Person X:  "I believe that Communism is an ersatz-religion."

Leftist:  {foaming at the mouth} "That's hate speech!!"

Whine, whine.   Why don't you just cut all our tongues out and fingers off, while you're at it?

When Nature Becomes A Parable

Notice how the following bit of science info provides a mini-allegory of what has been happening to the Western Middle Class for the past 48 or so years (the ultimate irony residing in the name of the small molecule, with the key syllable being the 2nd).

Researchers working on the question of antibiotic resistant found that in an experimental Escherichia coli colony, the most antibiotic resistant bacteria in the group produce a small molecule called indole. This protein then floods through the communal broth of the population, triggering protective mechanisms in the less resistant members.

However producing the indole weakens the individuals bacteria that made it in the first time, the scientists at Boston University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard showed. "They don't grow as well as they could, because they're producing indole for everybody else," James Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, said in a release.

(source)

Disciples of Herod, Take Note!

The multitude of modern Mengele followers---those who think unborn babies aren't human & hence disposable---would have shrilly-smugly advocated this little guy's being slaughtered in the womb.

From birth, Nick Vujicic has been afflicted with tetra-amelia syndrome.  But he's unstoppable:  he got a degree in accounting and financial planning and travels the world as a motivational speaker.  He swims, 

 

surfs

and even got married!

 

 

The Consummate Hypocrisy of Leftism

They wage a ceaseless clamorous war against "mixing church and state," but when it fits their agenda, they have no compunctions at all about blending religion and gov't. (think Martin Luther King, for the starkest example).  One of their all-time successful propaganda films in this regard is "Dead Man Walking."  Jesus has words put into His mouth that He never spoke, Southerners with English problems are painted as Bible boobs, and the double murderer convict is even at one point blasphemously presented as a Christ figure:  when they've strapped him to the death table, just before he's lowered.

It is not the function of the church to dole out capital punishment.  But it also most certainly is not the function of the state to dole out compassion & forgiveness.  Justice is the state's proper role.  Justice alone.