Edward Dutton (the Jolly Heretic) manages to anger both Woke liberals and conservative Christians in this clip, which is about...Dr Who!
Friday, December 29, 2023
Guldfiskapokalypsen
Av någon anledning skrattade jag faktiskt när jag läste detta. Am I losing it, or what? Ekosystem världen över hotas av guldfiskar stora som gäddor!
Caste and class
This unsympathetic man is apparently the 145th "Shankaracharya" of the Govardhan Mat in Puri, Orissa, India. In the first clip, he attacks the Hare Krishna (ISKCON) as a bunch of unclean LARP-ers, undesirables and interlopers. In the second, he defends the caste system (or strictly speaking the varna system, which the caste system grew out of).
Still, it *is* funny when he exposes the hypocrisy of those who "oppose caste" while having a class society of their own. For instance, the British, who still have a monarchy. Didn´t they make Victoria the Empress of India? Or the Muslims in the Indian sub-continent, who apparently have a de facto caste system. Or the Buddhists in Burma, who claim to be peaceful, but then create their own "kshatriyas" to fight the Muslims!
Browsing the YouTube channel of Govardhan Mat, I have to say that No 145 often comes across as a militant political agitator, apart from being a very "traditionalist" Hindu.
Make of this content what you wish.
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Homini erecti
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A quote from John Michael Greer during a recent exchange on his blog:
>>>Muninn, that I know of, there’s no archeological evidence, and the clairvoyant evidence is sparse; it’s hard to filter it out from the traces left by later cycles of civilization. If I’m correct — and I’m going on scraps of psychically obtained data here, which is a very weak reed to lean on! — the Polarian cycle centered on Antarctica when that was ice free, and the Hyperborean centered on the Arctic Ocean, largely but not wholly on Greenland.
>>>In both these cycles most of humanity remained hunter-gatherers, and the civilizations of both cycles were much less technological than ours — their primary accomplishments were spiritual and magical, though they did have urban centers and long-distance sailing vessels. As a rule, each cycle of civilization has a broader footprint on the material plane than the ones before it; it’s impossible for us even to imagine the material forms of the cycles still to come.
Curiosity killed the moth
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Curiosity is supposedly a virtue, and all that, but I can´t help thinking that scientists get some kind of power trip out of this kind of research. During a number of recent field trips to Morocco, lepidopterists discovered 12 new species of Coleophora, a genus of micro-moths.
While I suppose that´s fascinating somehow, I wonder if this gives scientists (and the rest of us) the illusion of control over the natural world, the universe and/or Existence itself? We can find any small critter, catalogue it and fit it into a vast Systeme. We can also colonize the Moon and terraform Mars. And become like gods?
Perhaps the really interesting observation here is that 12 species of living creatures could evade discovery by Science (or is it Man) for tens of thousands of years...
Who knows what else is out there, LOL.
New and little known Coleophora from Morocco
God loves protists
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| Credit: Alastair Simpson |
The link below goes to an article explaining the evolution of the scientific concept of "kingdoms of life".
Well, in popular science literature and at museums, the situation was a bit different. When I was a kid (think 1970´s), encyclopedias directed at the general public only talked about two kingdoms of life: animals and plants. If a thingy could move around all by itself, it was an animal. Everything else were plants! Simple as.
Then, at some point I don´t quite remember (early 1980´s), the kingdom of the fungi was introduced. So now there were three kingdoms.
And that´s pretty much were I assumed things still stood decades later...until I decided to check up on kingdoms of life on all-knowing Wiki.
WTF?!
It seems nobody even knows how many "kingdoms" there are anymore. Some have discarded that taxonomic level altogether, in favor of the complex diagram above. And that´s just the eukaryotes! Bacteria, archeobacteria, viruses, viroids and prions are not included. And, I suppose, fairies.
But if you look very closely, you can actually find the animals, plants and fungi somewhere in there...
It seems Einstein got it all wrong. God really does place dice with the universe. Even apart from having an inordinate fondness for protists!
Världspolitik
En av de här männen bekämpar terrorism. Den andre är med i NATO.
Gissa vilken av dem som snart kommer att få amerikanska F-16-plan?
Discerning charisma
Conservative Lutheran theologian Jordan B Cooper criticizes charismatic Christianity (including the prosperity gospel) and "discernment ministries". I couldn´t help thinking about Doreen Virtue when I saw the last clip, but it´s possible that Cooper is attacking much worse groups...
I have no particular horse in this race, so I link to this out of purely personal interest. My blog, my rules, yes?
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Mot undergången
Hamas vägrar kapitulera. Notera att fredsplanen enligt uppgifterna föreslagits av Egypten och Qatar!
Vinden från söder
Har även lyfts av Aftonbladet (i en numera låst artikel). Slutsats: Förmodligen sant.
Ryssland startar flygbolag i Turkiet, planerar ny migrantkris
Catholic Enlightenment?
Lutheran theologian Jordan B Cooper lectures for one hour about the *Catholic* contributions to secularism and Enlightenment thought.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Jesuits are the main culprits in this regard, with ideas that "objectively" pointed towards skepticism, tolerance of atheism and ideas about universal religion.
By contrast, Lutheran theologians during the same period were unabashedly "Realist" and often harked back to Thomas Aquinas!
Actually a very interesting contribution.
The sphere of insanity
"Insane Curiosity" is a curious channel on YouTube. It seems to alternate between conventional takes on things astronomical and technological (read: our destiny really is in the stars, or at least on the moon Titan) and more heterodox positioning.
As in the three clips above, all of which have a distinctly anti-cornucopian flavor. Note the negative comments in the commentary sections from the true believers in Unlimited Progress.
I haven´t had time to double check the concrete claims in the videos, but they seem reasonably legit. We will never reach Proxima Centauri. Or even Titan. And of course the Dyson sphere is nuts!
Winter is coming
At first glance, "Insane Curiosity" looked like an interesting YouTube channel with heterodox takes, but I now suspect that the channel is mostly click bait. A few controversial takes co-exist rather uneasily with more conventional material.
On man-made global warming, the narrator (a fake voice?) manages to take three different positions, depending on video. One: it´s real. Two: it´s real but will cause a new ice age (!). Three: it´s fake and a new ice age will come due to natural fluctuations in the Sun.
This video promotes alternative number three.
Maybe the content creators will make up their minds at some point during the next Milankovich cycle?
Sasquatch´s shadow
"Bigfoot´s Reflection" is a pro-Bigfoot documentary from 2007, apparently produced in Canada. It´s quite interesting.
The Bigfoot "hunters" featured sometimes argue in a scientific way, sometimes in a more "spiritual" fashion. The romantic idea that Nature or the World are still wild and mysterious, and should remain that way, are clearly important to these people. Bigfoot symbolizes this wildness and the dream of an intelligent primate that hasn´t become "civilized" and doesn´t try to dominate every other living species.
Some token skeptics are also featured.
Slow-paced, but could work on a rainy day...
Lapplands Anubis
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Kalis och Anubis´ heliga djur har åter siktats i vårt östra grannland! Bilden ovan är dock tagen i Israel.
Friday, December 22, 2023
Evidence of absence?
So the "debunking" of the idea that pre-human industrial civilizations existed is to create a theory about how we couldn´t detect such a civilization, even if it *had* existed?
LOL.
Seldom has the old adage "absence of evidence isn´t evidence of absence" been more apt!
But Fred Hoyle was right...
A Chinese scientific paper speculates in Hoyle-like terms about life coming from the clouds...clouds in outer space, that is!
"Vi är överens om det civila försvaret"
Ha ha ha.
Några citat:
"Vänsterpartiet har inte bara tonat ner kritiken mot Nato i den nya rapporten. Partiet ser även vissa fördelar med det svenska Natomedlemskapet. Satsningar på infrastruktur, främst tågräls, kan behöva göras och då kan Nato vara med och finansiera investeringarna, påpekar Hanna Gunnarsson.
– Det kommer att krävas mer järnväg och bättre infrastruktur för att, i en situation av höjd beredskap, kunna ta emot militärpersonal, säger hon.
– Vänsterpartiet skulle inte säga nej till att Nato ger oss bättre järnväg i norra eller västra Sverige. Vi får se det som att något gott kanske kommer från det här medlemskapet."
V och MP tonar ner NATO-kritiken
The hadrosaur hypothesis
Some clips from the climax of the classical "Star Trek Voyager" episode "Distant Origin", supposedly an allegory over Galileo Galilei´s conflict with the Inquisition, but probably directed against contemporary American Christian fundamentalists (it was originally aired in 1997). I think it´s clearly about the creation-evolution controversy in US public schools (and public life).
The starship Voyager discovers an alien civilization that turns out to be distantly related to extinct dinosaurs on Earth (!), but the alien religion denies evolution ("distant origins") in the name of the Doctrine and, I suppose, Empire. All attempts to teach the creationist hadrosaurians "the epic of evolution" fails, dissent is suppressed, and the Doctrine reigns supreme.
Note also the similarity to the Silurian Hypothesis, first proposed in 2018 and named after another race of intelligent reptiles in science fiction, this time from "Doctor Who"...
Challenger deep
We know that human conquest of outer space is impossible. Yet, this pipe dream is still considered some kind of sine qua non of the Western Idea of Progress. The Space Age, remember? We simply *must* conquer space, despite the obvious impossibility of such an enterprise.
It would probably be easier to build towns in the Antarctica, or a colony in the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
Yet, nobody has ever proposed such a scheme.
It´s almost as if something ideological, indeed, "religious", was going on here...
Cargo cult
Is modernity unique? Or is it just the "Age of Reason" of Faustian civilization within an even grander cycle known as the Axial Age (which started about 2,500 years ago)?
And where does that leave us and our smart little asses?
After all, modernity is only about 300 years old, and is already winding down all around us...
The dimwit range
According to a very strange YouTube definition of atheism, you can be an atheist even if you believe in green-purple unicorns of magnificently large size espousing magical powers...provided you don´t believe in God. Or was it "God or gods"? And how the heck is a levitating unicorn of the greenish-purple disposition not ay god, per say?
The consequences of such a view are truly staggering. For instance, 100% of Tibetans are atheists. I mean, who knew? The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was actually a conflict between two wings of militant atheism. Also, have you heard about the New Age atheists in California? Not sure what the Skeptic movement have against them, LOL. Damn sectarians!!
The Stone Age was atheist, too. I mean, didn´t their shamans actually communicate with green-lilac unicorns of mastodont size? Or were these truly extraordinary magical beings really yellow-beige? And they weren´t gods, remember. Cuz reasons.
The dimwit range, agent Cooper, is a strange and beautiful place.
QAnon takes over town, JW´s allow beards!
Just another Tuesday in exoteric la-la-land. A weird QAnon cult tries to take over a small town in Saskatchewan, the cult apparently being headed by a self-appointed "Queen of Canada" who is really Filipino?! Meanwhile, the Jehovah´s Witnesses has taken the momentous decision to allow its male members to wear beards!
Thursday, December 21, 2023
One of a kind
A polemic against the notion of "created kinds", a staple of young earth creationism. From the Darwinist YouTube channel with the strange name Gutsick Gibbon.
Note the (hopefully plastic) crania in the background...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Charismatic populist authoritarianism
Not John Michael Greer´s best essay, but for various reasons, I can´t help linking to it...
Note (as usual) that he doesn´t factor in climate change in his predictions for the future.
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Devas and Nagas
Doug´s Dharma is a "secular Buddhist" channel on YouTube, and here tries to play down or reinterpret the fact that early Buddhist cosmology included devas (gods or demigods) and nagas (another class of supernatural beings, often referred to as snake-spirits in English). I can´t say he´s entirely convincing, tbh. But sure, from a secular viewpoint, these beings must be declared to be either entirely irrelevant or even non-existent.
Blessable
The Pope approves blessings of same-sex unions under certain conditions, but still no female clergy. Still not sure how to interpret this fact. Is the gay lobby in the Catholic Church stronger than the feminist ditto? And why would that be?
Omställning
Ännu ett exempel på att den "gröna omställningen" sakta men säkert håller på att överges. Eller så att säga ställas om...
Monday, December 18, 2023
Esotericism in power
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“How public was Shaivism?” is a 2019 essay by
British scholar Alexis Sanderson, apparently taken from a volume called “Tantric
Communities in Context”. It´s an interesting summary of what we know about
Shaivism as a state religion during the early medieval period. At first glance,
the Shaiva religious traditions seem unlikely candidates to play such a role,
being either “lay” and non-Brahminical, or esoteric in character. Indeed, some
of the esoteric groups were extremely ascetic or downright bizarre. But as
usual, nothing it what it seems in good ol´ Hindustan!
Sanderson distinguishes four distinct
tradition within Shaivism, which he terms lay Shaivism, Atimarga, Mantramarga
and Kulamarga. Of these, the two latter are usually considered Tantric, but the
author makes the interesting point that the Mantramarga emerged from the Atimarga,
and that even the Shakta element within Tantrism was originally taken over from
an Atimarga group. Traditions sharply different and divergent on paper were
frequently syncretized, making the boundaries less clear cut in practice. The
relations between initiatory (esoteric) groups and lay groups were frequently
complex, for instance when initiatory Shaivas took control of lay Shaiva institutions
with the blessings of the local king. Within lay Shaivism, the Shivadharma literature
is directed at a kind of “lay elite” the members of which wish to become more
devout and pious. When performed by a king, Shivadharma rituals benefit not
only the king personally, but the entire royal family and government, who are
all said to be saved and transposed to Shiva´s heaven after death due to the
monarch´s observance. Indeed, if the king organizes public spectacles while
sacrificing to Shiva in a temple and showing respects to the Shaiva guru and
ditto ascetics, the entire kingdom will prosper: no famine or plague will
befall it, it will expand territorially, and so on. Here, there can be no doubt
that Shaivism was a very public religion indeed. (I assume that the guru and
the ascetics mentioned here were initiatory Shaivas who had attached themselves
to public places of worship.)
Sanderson then makes an interesting excursus
on the Atimarga, often considered one of the most extreme religious traditions,
since its practitioners actively try to become outcasts from society, for instance
by feigning madness or by seemingly doing penance for murdering a Brahmin.
However, it turns out that there were actually two kinds of Atimargins: the
ascetic sadhakas and the more moderate acharyas. The latter are said to acquire
“infinite merit” by initiating the sadhakas, conversing with laymen, and giving
them darshan (a blessing transmitted through gazing). Inscriptions from the
Middle Ages prove that acharyas could own property, got married and transferred
their positions to their sons, and donated resources on a non-sectarian basis
to religious shrines (the sadhakas by contrast were only allowed to worship
Rudra). Somnath Patan, a town holy to the Pashupata branch of the Atimarga, was
ruled by king-like acharyas in charge of building fortifications and engaging in
other building projects. This obviously raises all kinds of awkward questions,
such as: are *all* religious traditions essentially fake?! The acharyas could
also interact with the king, something forbidden to sadhakas. Sanderson
mentions epigraphic evidence showing that a certain Maharaja donated land to a
temple for the Mother-Goddesses established by a Pashupata acharya.
While the barking mad Atimargins thus turn out
to have a moderate faction, the moderate Right Hand Path Tantrikas of the Shaiva
Siddhanta school turn out to have ascetics and monasteries. Indeed, the
Saiddhantikas spread throughout the Indian subcontinent precisely by initiating
kings and using their lavish initiation fees to found new monasteries as sub-branches
of a rapidly expanding organization. Some Saiddhantika gurus had initiated more
than one monarch. This alliance with the royal power necessitated a pragmatic change
in the teachings of Shaiva Siddhanta. Liberation was originally only possible
for those able to regularly carry out the complex rituals associated with this form
of the Mantramarga. Since kings evidently couldn´t practice in this exacting
way, the doctrine was changed so that initiation itself bestowed liberation. The
Tantric rituals were to be observed only by those who had the ability to do so.
As if the promise of liberation after death wasn´t enough, the kings were also
promised prestige and military might as additional benefits of initiation.
Really, we are hard to please! It´s also interesting that while the royal initiation
ritual sensu stricto was private, the celebrations surrounding it were very
public indeed, making an “esoteric” form of Shaivism highly visible.
But what about the even more esoteric
non-Saiddhantika forms of the Mantramarga and the Kulamarga? It turns out that
even these traditions have been used by the royal power to carry out magical rituals
of protection on behalf of the royal family, the state or the community.
Sanderson gives a number of examples, including a medieval cult of Shaiva deities
in the Khmer Empire and secretive cults of the transgressive goddess Kubjika in
Nepal down to the early 21st century. Indeed, the royal massacre in
Nepal in 2001 was attributed by some traditionalists to a failure to carry out
certain Tantric rituals. Indeed, even non-Shaivas such as the Atharvavedins (Vedic
“priests” specializing in the Atharva Veda) coopted some Kulamarga practices,
specifically mantras associated with Kali to offer kings protection in battle.
It seems esotericism isn´t always esoteric. No
surprise there, tbh. Still, it could be seen as somewhat weird and perhaps even
chilling that “problematic” Tantric deities are worshipped at the highest echelons
of a warrior-prone royal hierarchy. With that, I close this perhaps somewhat
narrow blog post.
Lakshman Joo´s secret
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Swami Lakshman Joo (1907-1991) was a Tantric Hindu
teacher in the Kashmir Shaivism tradition, apparently regarded as extinct during
his lifetime. It´s not entirely clear to me, but it seems that most of what
passes for “Kashmir Shaivism” today (at least in the West) can be traced back
to Lakshman Joo, who taught both Western scholars, beat poets and other
spiritual teachers. I recently read a tribute to Lakshman Joo by British
Indologist Alexis Sanderson, “Swami Lakshman Joo and His Place in the
Kashmirian Shaiva Tradition”, published in the 2007 collection “Samvidullasah: Manifestation
of Divine Consciousness. Swami Lakshman Joo: Saint-Scholar of Kashmir Shaivism.
A Centenary Tribute”. Sanderson´s text is available free on the web, but the collection
as a whole isn´t, so the context is lacking. I get the impression that Sanderson
wants to defend Lakhsman Joo´s place in the Kashmir Shaiva tradition against
unnamed critics who had perhaps questioned his proper credentials. Sanderson
had studied the works of Kashmir Shaiva sage Abhinava Gupta (10th
century) under Lakshman Joo, but I can´t help wondering if Sanderson´s
sympathies go further still. Not that there is anything bad with that, of course!
There are several related problems with the transmission
and survival of Kashmir Shaivism (really a cluster of several different
traditions, some of which Abhinava Gupta tried to syncretize). One is that less
scriptures are preserved the further away we get from Abhinava´s time. During
the 13th century, commentator Jayaratha sometimes misunderstood Abhinava
Gupta´s points, for the simple reason that the source texts were no longer
available. The situation got progressively worse in later centuries, to a large
extent because of the Muslim conquest and rule of Kashmir, and the decline of
the Brahmin estate in the Kashmir Valley. Two of the traditions synthesized by
Abhinava Gupta, Trika and Krama, no longer existed in their respective ritual
forms. Other Kashmir Shaiva rituals were still carried out during the 19th
century, but only by very small groups of Brahmins who evidently were just going
through the motions. When Lakshman Joo was born, Kashmir Shaivism in this “living”
sense no longer existed.
However, Sanderson argues that this isn´t
really a problem for Lakshman Joo´s credentials, since the great Abhinava Gupta
had argued that the Shaiva rituals themselves are only efficacious if conjoined
to gnosis. It´s the gnosis that liberates, not the ritual as such (the latter
position was taken by the more exoteric Shaiva Siddhanta tradition). Sanderson
has even found evidence of a post-Abhinava Gupta but pre-Lakshman Joo tradition
according to which a non-ritualist Trika gnosis can be combined with mainline
Brahmin (Smarta) rituals, rather than with specifically Trika ditto. Which just
happens to be exactly the practice of Swami Lakshman Joo! The scripture in question
is called the Mrititattvanusmarana (well, I think) and can´t be older than the
15th century (since it excommunicates all Brahmins who learn Persian
– the language of the Muslim administration - something that firstly became
common during this period). According to this apparently unpublished text, one
path to liberation is precisely to go from Smarta rituals to Trika gnosis.
Alexis Sanderson´s article is very narrow and
scholarly, but I admit that it was a fascinating read (after a fashion). It was
also intriguing to learn that Sanderson studied under Lakshman Joo for six
years (!), and that the old teacher never tired of explaining and exegeting Abhinava
Gupta´s works for the Western student, despite the latter´s seeming
incomprehension of all things non-dual. And yes, the number of religious
traditions of Homo sapiens are almost endless…
TikTok mutiny
Maybe the Ukrainian army should take over US defenses? I mean, wtf. Note also that the article in conservative Breitbart News kind of misses the point. It seems the "TikTok mutiny" isn´t entirely unjustified!
>>>The Defense Department estimated in 2022 that “286,000 service members struggled with food access in 2020 and 2021, with junior enlisted troops most at risk,” reported Stripes. According to a 2019 report from the Government Accountability Office, more than 22,000 active-duty troops used food stamps.
>>>Over 60 percent of active duty service members are overweight or obese, an October report by the American Security Project found.
>>>A 2022 study from the Pentagon found that 77 percent of young Americans would not qualify for military service due to being overweight, using drugs, or having mental and physical health problems.
>>>The Pentagon also discovered that only nine percent of Americans between the ages of 16-21 said they would consider military service last year, dropping 13 points from before the coronavirus pandemic.
Gen Z recruits engaged in "TikTok mutiny"
Service members struggling with hunger
Sunday, December 17, 2023
From darkness, darkness comes
A short clip about "Celtic Christianity", not the ancient Church organizations in the Celtic lands, but rather the modern phenomenon.
Proponents of *this* Celtic Christianity are often "inclusive", pro-ecology and feminist. They want to believe that there was an independent Celtic Church during the Early Middle Ages, different from the Roman Church.
Not so, argues the theologian/historian interviewed in the clip above. The liturgical language of the Church in the British Isles was Latin, and it always recognized the Pope as the Patriarch of the West. The two most important contributions of the "Celtic Church" to Christendom were a codification of the canon law and a penitentiary system. In other words, the Celtic Christians were just as legalist and sin-obsessed as the Roman ditto!
Yet, it´s precisely this kind of Christianity the modern new agey "Celtic Christians" want to get away from...
Man-Lion to the rescue
Is everyone trying to claim Shankaracharya these days? I knew that Shaktas are trying to do so, and here we have a Vaishnava (specifically ISKCON) example.
When abducted by a murderous Kapalika, the sage gets help from none other than Narasimha, the "Man-Lion" incarnation of Vishnu, who is apparently pretty good at kicking the butts of skullstaff-wearing cultists!
The toll of the transition
The grizzly toll of the Green transition.
Aftonbladet´s investigation into child labor and the electric car industry
Grönkapitalismens pris
How science became unscientific
An almost two-hour presentation from a YouTube channel known as Formscapes. It seems to blend metaphysics á la Whitehead and occultism with alternative or "fringe" science, including the Electric Universe. Also think Rupert Sheldrake! Actually quite interesting.
Of all the trees so lovely
A very interesting presentation on the origins of the Christmas tree, from a scholarly channel on YouTube.
The short story is that the tree isn´t "pagan", neither Roman nor Germanic, but probably originated in 14th century Alsace (Elsass) and Baden, both regions being Catholic at the time (although I suppose you could call them "Germanic" if you like).
The first secure evidence of Christmas trees comes from the 15th century, again from Alsace and Baden, the practice then spreading like wildfire to other regions of Central and Northern Europe.
In its present form, I suppose we are dealing with an late 19th century American re-imagining of the medieval German custom - no surprise there!
Very interesting contribution, actually.
Stargate Lanka
I assume this was taped when Thomas Sheridan traveled to Sri Lanka before the COVID pandemic. He visited some kind of Tantric monument, popularly known as a "stargate" by Western enthusiasts.
Sabine and the climate crisis
Sabine Hossenfelder on climate change and our inability (?) to do anything about it. Hard hitting truths or just another flavor of copium?
Sabine times three
Three videos featuring Sabine Hossenfelder, criticizing certain aspects of modern cosmology. Difficult but interesting.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Den lille havfrue
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"Men anon, varför klagar du på koranlagen i Danmark, du kan fortfarande linda in Moseböckerna i en regnbågsflagga!"
Trassligt havssnöre eller dödahavsrullar?
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Nu har väl klimatförändringarna gått lite för långt, eller? Något som kallas "trassligt havssnöre" har börjat dyka upp vid Bohusläns kust, och roar sig högeligen med att attackera vinterbadare. Som iofs förtjänar en påminnelse om att Havet ger, Havet tar. Särskilt fucking ishavet i december, yao.
So whatever you do, don´t take a winter bath on the Swedish west coast!
Friday, December 8, 2023
Abrahamix
Christianity and Islam are two Jewish sects which both are trying to conquer the world. The original Jews only wanted a small territory around Jerusalem...
The singing thylacine
The thylacine is a large Australian marsupial believed to be extinct since 1936, but enthusiasts claim (or hope) that it has survived somewhere in the Tasmanian wilderness. The short piece linked to below argues that thylacines may have survived in New Guinea instead.
Unfortunately, misidentification cannot be ruled out in this case, since there is a similar-looking placental mammal on the island: the New Guinea "singing dog". The animal also seems ecologically impossible, according to some scientists.
That being said, the eye witness accounts don´t sound entirely far fetched either, so perhaps thylacine-hunters should bribe the proper Indonesian authorities and aim straight for the Jajawijaya Mountains...
Robots at Cisco Grove
An interesting episode of The Why Files about an almost unknown UFO case, the Cisco Grove incident from 1964. It became more widly publicized just about ten years ago.
I have no "natural" explanation from the top of my armchair, but since the military investigated the case, some kind of secret aircraft experiment surely can´t be ruled out. Neither can a psychotic episode...or some kind of combination of both.
Unless it´s the fairies. As per usual.
Kan inte hålla tyst?
Som sagt var...
Lite märkligt ändå att Taylor Swift-memet fortfarande tas på allvar.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Håller Putin på att vinna kriget?
Enligt samstämmiga världskrigsrubriker i kvällspressen är svaret "nej". Faktum är att Putin förlorade kriget redan på dag ett. Och han har bara förlorat sedan dess?!
Skribenten nedan kallade länge Mariupols fall för "Putins enda seger". Trots att Putin redan då erövrat en stor del av södra och östra Ukraina. Och så vidare.
Men nu svänger han, totalt utan självkritik. Jag ville först skriva något om hur jag ser på *det*, men då hade väl Google censurerat det här inlägget också.
Och eftersom ni undrar: Jag stödjer fortfarande Ukraina. Det jag alltid vänt mig mot är den idiotiska propagandan, som ju inte ens har fungerat enligt sina egna definitioner. Trots ständiga försäkringar om att Putin ligger på dödsbädden, redan ersatts av en dubbelgångare eller bara har Nordkorea som allierad (dumheter alltihop) så har "krigströttheten" (sic) ändå brett ut sig i både USA och Europa. Och tydligen även i Ukraina, om man läser det finstilta.
It´s almost as if some other approach is needed.
Och så säger man inte "vinna" om krig på högsvenska. Man säger "segra", "gå segrande ur" eller något sådant. Krig är inte en fotbollsmatch, lika lite som krigströtthet är något man kan känna om man inte lever i ett land som faktiskt krigar...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Gods of autumn
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| Credit: LMP 2001 |
John Michael Greer discusses Ayaan Hirsi Ali´s conversion to Christianity, the Satanic Temple and a possible new Satan scare in this essay. The most interesting prediction is that many of the wokesters who currently LARP Satanism will soon convert to fundamentalist Christianity!
He also takes a broader historical look at the phenomena Spengler called the Second Religiosity and the new Age of Faith. I for one believe he is on to something. Note also the comments on the ages of "Reason", including our belief in progress.
JMG doesn´t discuss the topic in this essay, but Islam is the most obvious contender for the dominant religion in the new Age of Faith. For various reasons, I would prefer something else entirely...
People into the cyclical theory of history might also see parallels here to "the inner proletariat" and "outer proletariat" of Toynbee, Muslim populations currently being both (!) in relation to the Western world.
All in all, a tour de force from the Archdruid.
Star Wars
Israel has some interesting trinkets, it seems. But so has the Houthis...
Israel won first ever space battle
Ondskan
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Lite märkligt att denna reflektion publicerats i Nyheter Idag. Lägg förresten märke till att artikelförfattarens "lösningar" verkar vara rent individuella. Vilka *politiska* och samhälleliga konsekvenser följer av nedanstående?
Dumpen Hardcore
Ett medborgargarde attackerar misstänkta pedofiler i Linköpingsområdet. De kallar sig Pedo Hunters Sweden (PHS) eller Dumpen Hardcore. Fria Tider citerar Corren, men den artikeln är låst.
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