Insane story!
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Indo-European ghosts
An interesting new theory about the peculiar nature of the Greek language in the Indo-European language family, where Greek doesn´t seem to have any close relatives (Armenian might be a very distant one). This kind of doesn´t make any sense on the traditional view of how the Indo-European languages developed. A new paper suggests a solution: the Greek and language is derived from a different Proto-Indo-European ancestral population than the other Indo-European languages.
In the classical scenario, the PIEs are identified with the Eurasian steppe culture known as Yamnaya. The paper have found genetic markers among Greeks poiting to their ancestors being a different steppe group group, a PIE "ghost population". The YouTube video above argues that this elusive people isn´t unknown at all. *They* are the Yamnaya. In this scenario, both Greeks and Armenians have partial Yamnayan ancestry and so have their respective languages. Presumably, the original Yamnaya tongue was heavily mixed with the lingos of the Neolithic farmers in the southern Balkans and the Transcaucasus.
In Europe outside the Balkans, another (nameless) Indo-European group gave rise to the Corded Ware culture, the Bell-beaker culture, and so on. Here, Neolithic farmers were more sparse, which explains why these languages have a more "pure" Indo-European character.
Thus, the Proto-Indo-Europeans during the Copper Stone Age were already split into different groups speaking somewhat different languages or dialects. Which, I suppose, raises the question where and when the PIE language first arose (if that´s even a meaningful question).
The content-creator (Fortress of Lugh) also speculates about what this could mean for comparative mythology. Maybe Greek mythology can´t be easily correlated with, say, Celtic mythology. He doesn´t mention Norse or Vedic mythology, but that´s another obvious conclusion. Here, however, it´s important to bear in mind that there isn´t a one-to-one correspondence between genes, language and culture (including mythology). I mean, how do you explain the similarity between the figure on the Pashupati seal and Cernunnos?
Still, it´s an interesting contribution.
Påverkansoperation
Är det såklart inte. Mest bara töntigt gnäll. Men...jag kan inte låta bli att anklaga min ofrivilliga granne Aftonbladet för landsförräderi rättish ock slättish.
De senaste dagarna har AB nämligen promoterat ungdomar á la TikTok som "tvingats göra lumpen mot sin vilja", "vägrar mönstra", et cetera. Flera är unga tjejer. Visste inte ens att vi hade kvinnlig värnplikt i Sverige?
Är det Miljöpartifalangen på AB:s redaktion som varit i farten här? LOL. Den lille stridspitten Anders Lindberg på ledarsidan måste känna sig något besvärad över detta. Nå, så vem gynnas av detta då? Ni gissade rätt: Putin.
Var finns MUST och Säpo när man väl behöver dem? Eller rentav Sapo...
Who killed Laura Palmer, er, Hazel Drew?
I didn´t know that the murder of Laura Palmer in David Lynch´s TV series "Twin Peaks" was inspired by a real crime case, the murder of Hazel Drew in New York State in 1908. Apparently, Mark Frost (David Lynch´s co-creator) used to spend his summers in the area and heard local legends about Drew´s ghost still haunting the woods! There are indeed obvious (and disturbing) similarities between the true crime case and the TV series. Indeed, it seems that Lynch and Frost freely modelled every murder suspect in "Twin Peaks" on men who were at one point investigated for Drew´s murder. Except, I suppose, BOB...
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Trump´s McKinley moment
I also suspect that the sudden renaming of Denali to Mount McKinley (the old "colonialist" name) has some kind of symbolic significance that goes beyond the merely anti-Woke. After all, Trump didn´t bother renaming the mountain last time he was POTUS.
During his first term, Trump tried to align himself with some purported ideological legacy of Andrew Jackson. At least in US political mythology, "anti-imperialist" Bourbon Democrat Grover Cleveland is seen as a Jackson-style character. William McKinley, by contrast, is more to the liking of the Neo-Conservatives and other imperialists.
Before he took office, Trump triggered diplomatic conflicts with about five nations (even threatening to militarily attack Panama). I presume this is supposed to be some kind of "McKinley moment". So far, it mostly sounds like Nixon´s madman strategy...
Religious rabbit hole?
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| Cylon rallying the masses against the nefarious Pythagoreans |
The meme "no atheists in foxholes" have apparently become popular again. For the nth time. OK, so my grandfather was an atheist. And a Resistance fighter during World War II in a certain European nation. He was hiding from the German Nazis in the hills in a small bunker. Does that count?
Vår baserade korean
Har T.H. slutgiltigt passerat Rubicon och blivit "baserad"? Kanske inte, men titta vad han skriver här...
J D Vance: Darwinist?
J D Vance apparently mentioned "Ordo Amoris" in some interview, stating that´s a Christian concept, und so weiter. Churchian, maybe. Jesus? The Sermon on the Mount, cough, cough, cough...
"Ordo Amoris" is a trivial principle, perfectly compatible with Judaism and paganism. Or even Darwin´s theory of evolution. Indeed, on evolutionary theory, genetic and reciprocal altruism are *expected* to be the norm. Don´t misunderstand me. "Ordo Amoris" might be true, or even necessary. But if *this* was Jesus´ teaching, the multitude wouldn´t have gasped in wonder at his words!
So essentially, J D Vance - who styles himself a conservative Catholic - just proved Charles Darwin right. How very ironic!
Theologians push back on J D Vance´s view on "ordered love"
Gold, silver and Hellenizers
In a previous blog post, I mentioned the ultra-sedevacantist sect Mary´s Little Remnant and their leader, Richard Ibranyi. Whom I never heard about until earlier this week. Ibranyi argues that the papacy apostasized already in 1130 AD. Thus, for almost one thousand years, the Chair of Peter has been vacant. But why specifically 1130? No idea. The group´s website is difficult to navigate, so I only skimmed some of the material.
Ibranyi has a huge problem with both the Church Fathers and the medieval Catholic Church. He seems to be a kind of "purist" who completely rejects absolutely all pagan/outside influences on Christianity. But many theologians and Church leaders both in the Roman Empire and in medieval Europe were so influenced. They made use of Greco-Roman philosophy and read Greco-Roman literature. Most notably Origen, who sounds almost like a Platonist. Indeed, many Church Fathers were sympathetic to some of Origen´s ideas (Origen wasn´t condemned as a heretic until centuries after his passing). Hence, they were heretics and apostates all. Jerome in particular is attacked, perhaps because the Catholic Church considers him a great teacher. Ibranyi also have a huge problem with high medieval and Renaissance art with its pagan motifs and gargoyles.
The language of his works is frequently strident and extreme, as when he calls Thomas Aquinas "a monster born into this world" or refers to Albert the Great as "Albert the Great Wretch". Post-1130 popes are refered to as "Apostate Antipopes". The mystic Hildegard of Bingen was a "witch". The Black Death (which killed many clergy and monks) was God´s just punishment of the heretical Church.
Somehow, Ibranyi seems to believe that the papacy nevertheless tried to suppress all these heresies until the 12th century. He likes Augustine (surprise) and also Constantine the Great, arguing that the Roman emperor was baptized already in 314 and didn´t die as an Arian heretic. A peculiar trait of Ibranyi´s message is that the Septuagint is considered the most reliable OT translation. This, of course, is the Eastern Orthodox position. The strident purism sounds "Protestant". So what is Catholic about this group, exactly?
Interestingly, when Ibranyi condemns Bernhard of Clairvaux, his line of attack is from the opposite side:
>>>The apostate Bernard was a stoic. He condemned or abhorred good things and good passions that God has given men to enjoy. He abhorred most of the material world as if it were evil. Hence he attempted to become a pure spirit without any attachment to the body or material world, a pure spirit that destroys or totally suppresses good passions and good senses.
>>>Therefore, he had much in common with the Gnostics and Manicheans. In the following quote Bernard condemns the five senses, sports, recreation, theater, actors, beauty, music, pleasant odors, silver, gold, and comely dress as intrinsically evil.
>>>He was a heretic because he was an iconoclast. He abhorred gold, silver, and images. He was a schismatic for saying that he does not belong to good Catholics who like gold, silver, and images in holy places. He was guilty of mortal sins for saying that good Catholics who like gold, silver, and images in God’s churches were fools and incapable of spiritual things.
>>>He was a sacrilegious blasphemer for stealing gold, silver, and gems from giving glory to God. He was guilty of the mortal sin of murder for trying to murder himself and his brothers by severe penances.
>>>One of Bernard’s complaints was the expense of the gold, silver, and images in churches and other Catholic places. He says that these things should have been sold and the money given to the poor and that poor Catholics should keep their money instead of spending it on gold, silver, and images to be used to give glory to God in his churches and other holy places:
>>>The apostate Bernard committed the same sin as Judas Iscariot when Judas wanted to withhold expensive things that give glory to God and instead give the money to the poor, and in Judas’ case to give it to himself because he was a thief.
Well, it´s good to hear that Ibranyi likes the silver and the gold in Christian churches, I mean, how can we *ever* be without *that*, huh? Mary´s Little Remnant reminds me of ultra-leftist Marxist groups which to their shock and utter dismay realize that even Marx and Lenin "supported" nationalism, reform struggles or great power geopolitics.
Ibranyi is still a bit inconsistent, however, perhaps because he really does want to be a Roman Catholic. Somebody else might draw the conclusion that either Paul, James or Christ himself must have been "heretics", since they were either too Jewish or to pagan! And then it´s off to seeing pagan influences in the Torah itself...
We´re dealing with a certain kind of sectarian psychological mentality.
Everyone is an agent
When I was younger, anarchists (yes, anarchists) always explained away any violence at anarchist protest marches by claiming that the violent protesters must be undercover cops or fascist provocateurs.
It just struck me that people on the Alt Right explain away the rank stupidity of many AR influencers in the same way. They must be Deep State operatives, "ticket takers" or whatever.
Now, I don´t deny that there are many agents and provocateurs out there. On the Internet, we call them "trolls". Or even "influencers", LOL. But here´s the question nobody on the fringes seems to be asking: *why is it so damn easy to stage provocations against anarchists or Alt Right keybord warriors*?
The answer is obvious: most of the former actually are violence-prone, and many of the latter do cater to stupid people...
But sure, they are all part of the Spectacle.
Cheq, mate
If Labrador Retrievers are real, why are there still Newfoundland dogs? Can you answer that, evolutionista, huh huh?
Miracle plant
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| AI´s fantasy picture of Silphium |
Yuge if true. Finally, some good news!
Miracle plant used in ancient Greece rediscovered after 2000 years
Tragedy and conspiracy
The recent tragic events in DC has triggered a lot of conspiracy theories. One of the conspiracy theorists is none other than the President of the United States!
The most popular explanation in the Alt Right/Trumpo-sphere seems to be that DEI somehow caused the collision. Underfunding and understaffing seems more likely. The helicopter pilot was, as far as I understand, a White male!
I suppose it would be ironic if it turns out that the whole thing actually was a terrorist attack carried out by the people in the chopper...
Freking out
Timothy (Tim) Freke is mostly known as the co-author of "The Jesus Mysteries", the book that launched my own personal quest for the (Non)Historical Jesus. He also co-wrote "Jesus and the Goddess", which purportedly exegetes the true message of the Gnostic Christ, but ultimately lands in teachings surprisingly similar to certain esoteric and Tantric strands of Hinduism and Buddhism. In other words: not Gnosticism. And probably not my man Jesus, either.
However, it seems Freke has changed his messaging the last couple of years, perhaps under the influence of process philosophers, Ken Wilber and Rupert Sheldrake (although none of them can be made directly responsible). His new understanding of God *is* intriguing to be sure. "God" is seen as an emergent property of a natural process, the beginnings of which can be described by modern science. Thus, the universe begins with a singularity and a big bang, much later life appears, and even later intelligence. Only in the present stage does "God" appear, apparently due to the social and spiritual communion of humans. Presumably, we will see even greater things in the future...
Like the process philosophers, Freke sees the theodicy associated with this evolving-naturalistic god as one of the theology´s strong points. Suffering is an inevitable consequence of the fact that God actually isn´t omnipotent. From the top of my head, the objections to Freke´s peculiar understanding of the divine would be pretty much the same as towards all similar approaches. First, who really wants to worship an evolving limited god? What guarantees do we have that evolution won´t bring about even more evil and suffering in the future? Indeed, what guarantees do we have that God (being an emergent property of human activities) can´t be turned malevolent by a pernicious human group-soul? Or that such a god, even if good, is eternal? He does have a beginning, after all.
And while Freke is contented with a god that emerges from matter, super-strings, quantum fields or whatever, most people will ask "what came before" and draw the conclusion that where there is evolution, there must have been prior involution. Nor will scientists find Freke´s visions compelling or even comprehensible, so the dialogue I think he wants between science and spirituality isn´t likely to become very succesful.
Yes, I sound negative, so let me end by saying that your more than welcome to check out the latest intellectual peregrinations of our mystery man...
Tesla war
Does Trump *want* all US allies to move closer to China, Russia, BRICS or what? A trade war (or is it a Tesla war) seems to be looming between the United States and Canada.
Chrystia Freeland says Canada should target Tesla in tariff fight
Klan country
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Just spotted on YouTube: an ad for a Halloween costume (!) which looks like a Klan outfit (!!). Also known as "the whole world went mad in November", episode 7,621.
Ice, ice baby
AMOC again...
Sabine Hossenfelder seriously worries about northern Europe (including Sweden) becoming dramatically *colder* due to man-made climate change. Perhaps with as much as 10 degrees Centigrade on average! The reason is the so-called collapse of the Gulf Stream (actually the AMOC).
Weirdly, southern Europe will see heat waves instead, while the fate of Sabine´s native Germany is unclear, being hemmed in between the super-cold north and the super-hot south. At the very least, it won´t be pretty.
Does this mean we can´t just move to some nice cabin in the Bavarian countryside to escape the apocalypse?
Cryptid bush meat
An entertaining YouTube clip about cryptids which were *eaten* by those who encountered/discovered them. I didn´t know bush meat could be cryptid, but I suppose there is some logic here. After all, I read somewhere that biologists sometimes scavenge the wet markets in Indochina hoping to find new or elusive mammal species, so who knows what else might be found in the stomachs of hungry post-chimpanzees...
A voice crying in the wilderness
Joe Rogan talks to outdoorsman Steven Rinella who cracks a tale (or tall tale) about a crazy Canadian hippie in Alaska who claimed to be the Biblical character John the Baptist?! The hippie turned out to be a parasite and petty thief, but ultimately met his doom in a small cabin during the unforbidding Arctic winter. Apparently, he lacked the proper Essene survival skills. Anyhow...
Rinella´s friend evidently gave the hippie a classical "sky burial". He just threw his corpse outside and the next day it was gone, presumably consumed by some hungry denizen of the Alaskan hinterland.
I admit that this story didn´t move me as much as I expected, but perhaps I´ve been hardened by too much consumption of Tantric material from the happy generations of Tibet...
The marvel of comics
Doreen Virtue strikes again, this time interviewing a fundamentalist Christian who believes that Marvel Comics have a demonic and downright Satanic agenda. Well, maybe.
I admit that his analysis of Stan Lee´s poetry and the characters "Galactus" and "the Silver Surfers" is at least vaguely interesting. The idea seems to be that the comic "Fantastic Four" has a Gnostic subtext, with Galactus being Yahweh (who is cast as an evil devil-like character) while the Silver Surfer is Lucifer. Naturally, the latter turns out to be good and even goes through a Christ-like passion!
Sure, this may even be true. And therefore...what?
Trolling the Chosen Ones
LOL. This is a blast from the recent (apocalyptic) past. I blogged about "Anointed Ashley" or "Prophetess Ashley" myself. I´m about 90% convinced that she was a long-term troll, but on the web you never really know.
Frankly, the "Watchwoman" in the second clip above also sounds like a troll, or an extremely mentally unbalanced cultist. Her main problem with Ashley seems to be that she is the wrong kind of apocalyptic crackpot! The first clip sounds more serious and is posted by a Christian who is opposed to the apocalyptic Rapture-watchers.
I´m not sure what happened to Ashley (did she take to the hills to avoid last summer´s cicada emergence?) but both trollish and un-ironic "Watchmen" and "Watchwomen" are sure to emerge again soon, so I don´t think there will be any dearth of content in this particular corner of cyber-space...
Mary´s Little Remnant
I never heard of *this* sub-branch of sedevacantism before. Richard Ibranyi and his little sect Mary´s Little Remnant somewhere in the United States have taken sedevacantism to its quasi-logical conclusion, rejecting all popes since...wait for it...1130. Yes, really! Not sure why, tbh, but apparently Ibranyi is an adherent of Leonard Feeney, who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in 1953.
Feeney´s ideas, known by his opponents as Feeneyism and here called "Feeneyiteism", include the rejection of baptism by desire and baptism by blood, instead arguing that only baptism by water is valid. As far as I understand, these ideas are older than 1130, so perhaps somebody should form an even more consistent "more Catholic than thou" sect? Or why not become, you know, Protestant?
Another point of hot contention seem to be the idea that sexual intercourse without the intention of procreation should never allowed at all. That is, not even "natural family planning". Since NFP was allowed by some popes pre-Vatican II, again you could argue that the Chair was vacated already before that council.
The content-creator considers Ibranyi´s sect interesting precisely in that it shows how absurd sedevacantism becomes if applied consistently. But (of course) you could also argue in the opposite direction: the papacy is absurd since it doesn´t seem to actually protect the Church from heresies in the first place!
When Muslims saw Mary
Catholic content-creator interviews Eastern Orthodox scholar abour Oriental Orthodox miracle witnessed by thousands of Muslims.
Yes, really. And they even mention Persinger´s speculations about earth lights and tectonic stress! Now, *that´s* a blast from the past (bring back Boomer science)!
I admit that I never heard (or probably never heard - some of the photos look vaguely familiar) about the Zeitoun Marian apparitions, which took place above a Coptic church in Egypt during a period of several years around 1970. The original witnesses were Muslims, and since Christians are a minority in Egypt, it can be safely assumed that many in the large crowds which gathered ouside the church were followers of Islam, too. Nasser´s secular government decided to play it safe and apparently declared the apparitions to be genuinely supernatural!
The Orthodox scholar Travis Dumsday (who has written an entire book on the topic) argues in the clip above that no convincing naturalist explanation has ever been put forward. He discusses the "tectonic strain" hypothesis at some length, apparently because its originator Michael Persinger tried applying it to the Zeitoun situation.
Dumsday and his Catholic interviewer Cameron Bertuzzi also discuss theology at some length. For instance, why can´t Protestants accept Marian apparitions? There is a lot of conflict in the commentary section on precisely this issue. I get the impression that while Bertuzzi has no problem claiming Coptic apparitions for Catholic apologetics, Dumsday is somewhat more cautious about Fatima, no doubt because of the heavy Roman theological baggage surrounding it. (He doesn´t say it, but "errors of Russia" could, I suppose, be interpreted as a reference to Eastern Orthodoxy!) Note also that the Coptic Catholic Church, a pro-Rome breakaway from the Coptic Orthodox Church, accepted Our Lady of Zeitoun. So Bertuzzi´s positive appraisal of her could be seen as part of the Uniate project.
While the Zeitoun apparitions are interesting to be sure, I think the theological angle is rather weak. After all, would Bertuzzi accept similar apparitions of al-Khidr, Krishna or the Three Nephites? Maybe, but I suspect he would like to use the same strategy as his Protestant critics in the commentary section and explain theme as demonic!
Finally, it´s not clear to me what exactly the crowds were really seeing. Even Dumsday tacitly admits that the best photos of "Mary" are also the most problematic ones...
Still, worth the while watching.
Friday, January 31, 2025
The eternal return of the Messiah
I heard about "the Taoist Messiah" a couple of years ago, when reading up on Taoism (here spelled Daoism). Or rather really existing Taoism, which turns out to be very far removed from California hippies, organic farming or Winnie the Pooh.
Think divine saviors appearing on mountains and revealing scriptures, Messianic movements organizing millenarian rebellions against reprobate emperors, a chosen remnant creating utopia...and then off to the next cycle, rinse and repeat, all throughout Chinese history.
The emperors responded by killing everyone suspected of involvement in such movements. Even having a name suspiciously similar to that of the Taoist Messiah could be enough to seal your fate...and that of your entire family.
I think it´s obvious that we´re dealing with Zoroastrian influence eclectically combined with "real" Taoism. Thus, the savior figure is said to be an apotheosis of Lao-tse, his mission is to "balance the Tao", and he appears as part of a cyclical cosmology (rather than the once-and-for-all version of Zoroastrian and Abrahamic soteriology). Still, it does seem to "work" (kind of).
It could be argued (and I do argue) that the Taiping rebellion was a "Christian" version of the same phenomenon, while the Communist Party of China is a secularized ditto. And today, the CPC is challenged by a more typical millenarian cult. Yes, that would be Falun gong!
It seems that Li Hong never really left the building. Or that mountain...
The light of the Matrix
I´m not surprised that David Icke has embraced the idea of "soul traps". It´s exactly the kind of paranoid and contrarian notion you would expect from this conspiracy theorist to end all conspiracy theories. The idea is that seemingly blissful and benign near death experiences (NDEs) are really part of the Simulation or Matrix, which I assume is held together by evil reptiloid space aliens. If your soul gets tricked and flies into the light at death, it will be mind-wiped and forced to reincarnate on prison planet Earth.
A *somewhat* less paranoid interpretation would be similar to Buddhism, where there are a number of temporary "heaven-realms" which may be nice & cozy as far as they go...but sub specie eternitatis, they don´t go very far. The soul (or no-soul) must eventually be reborn as a human again...and suffering starts all over. But in the Buddhist scenario, the only real culprit is *you* and your negative karma.
In Icke´s version, there are actively malevolent forces working behind the scenes to imprison us in the Matrix (yes, that´s a reference to the science fiction film "The Matrix"). The love that flows in a NDE would therefore be fake, and so are the angelic beings or ascended masters who come to greet the soul in the afterlife.
I´m not sure if we can somehow get rid of these spiritual free-riders, but Icke seems to be suggesting that nothing can be done...except trying to find the real light (at one point Icke calls it "watery light" as opposed to electro-magnetic ditto) which will finally liberate us.
The David Lynch Effect
A somewhat confusing video, in which famous movie maker David Lynch (who recently passed away - or passed on?) tries to explain the basic worldview of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and why he joined this particular New Religious Movement. A sequel to my previous blog post about Lynch, Twin Peaks and TM.
The happy generations
Recently deceased film maker David Lynch was an active practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM). Or perhaps a member of the TM cult, if you´re more critical of these things. The first video above features Zen Buddhist teacher and author Brad Warner critiquing TM. It´s all in there: the Natural Law Party, the yogic flying, the obsession with celebrity (including the Beatles and Lynch), the claim that TM is just a wholesome meditation technique (when it´s really a guru-centered Shaiva sect) and the expensive mantras. Yepp, a real blast from the past. Or at least the 1970´s.
I assume Lynch must have been interested in Buddhism before he went into TM, since the Dharma is mentioned at several points in "Twin Peaks". Three examples in the clips below. My favorite is "Albert´s path is a strange and difficult one", although it´s not made explicit whether or not the hard nosed detective is specifically a Buddhist. I mean, he could just as well be interpreted as a Quaker?!
At least we´re the happy generations, right?
Autism increases
The Woke libertarian girl who refused to vote for RFK Jr with the argument that his anti-vaxx stance is really a form of hate against autistic people has gotten herself new eyeglasses.
Oh.
Den heliga yttrandefriheten
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| - Yttrandefrihet, vasa? Komma ICKE på fråga! |
Det här är bara en annan form av svensk naivitet. Linderborg missuppfattar dessutom poängen med yttrandefrihet. Den har *aldrig* primärt handlat om några dadaistiska avantgarde-konstnärers "rätt att utmana den fina smaken". Bara en gammal kulturredaktör kan uttrycka sig så!
Självfallet handlar det om politik. I allmänhet om att olika elitgrupper vill lösa sina inbördes konflikter på ett "civiliserat" sätt. Vanligt folk kan genom kamp tilltvinga sig en plats vid förhandlingsbordet. Det kan även handla om geniernas rätt att säga geniala saker utan att gamla mossiga dogmatiker kan stoppa dem. Alltså genier som filosofer, vetenskapsmän, och så vidare. Vilket gynnar vissa moderniserande elitgrupper. Och i bästa fall samhället i dess helhet.
Den korkade dadaisten och dennes puerila provokationer är det pris samhället betalar för yttrandefriheten. Den är inte yttrandefrihetens kärna, mål eller syfte.
Dessutom kan yttrandefriheten aldrig vara total. Är det ens önskvärt att så är fallet? Om inte staten har rätt att under vissa omständigheter reglera yttrandefriheten kommer vilken provokatör som helst att kunna sabotera viktiga politiska beslut eller äventyra rikets säkerhet. Vill Åsa Linderborg ha total yttrandefrihet i krigstid...för motståndarsidan?
Det nordirländska tillståndet
Vår ofrivillige grannbloggare nu igen. Enligt Hübinette har det inte sprängts så här mycket i Sverige sedan slutskedet av kriget mot Ryssland 1809. Lägg även märke till jämförelsen med Nordirland!
När ska vi börja kalla de här händelserna för inbördeskrig? Eller åtminstone terrorism.
Är förresten tillräckligt gammal för att minnas när medierna för bara en månad sedan skröt med att antalet sprängningar i Sverige minsann börjat minska...
Trovärdiga källor
*Lite* oklart om detta keltiska samhälle verkligen var kvinnodominerat, men jag håller med om att det åtminstone något stärker de romerska källornas tillförlitlighet. Detta apropå den första länken. Den andra artikeln har jag redan länkat till en gång tidigare, but here we go again...
A new stage
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| SWP shaking hands with Trump capitalista? |
I´m old enough to remember when the U.S. Socialist Workers Party *supported* the ANC and *opposed* the State of Israel. Look now...
I´m also old enough to remember (last year) how the SWP condemned the Biden administration when *it* tried to cajole Israel into a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. But now, they claim that the Trump-brokered ceasefire is "a new stage in the fight to defend Israel"?!
In plain English: the Communist (?) SWP tacitly supports Donald Trump!
South African government condemns immigrant coal miners to die
Ceasefire is new stage in fight to defend Israel as refuge for Jews
Blod (och jord) är tjockare än vatten
Tobias Hübinette jobbar stenhårt efter principen "guilt by association". Tycker kanske att Musks morfar kan ha varit en intressant person. Technocracy och Social Credit, hmmm...
Världens mäktigaste män har rasism, nazism och anti-semitism i sina släkthistorier
Tiraspoltransgaz
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| Communist shakes hands with capitalist |
This is some kind of Henry Kissinger-level stuff from the European Union. Please note that "Transnistria" is a non-recognized pro-Russian quasi-Communist breakaway republic. If you can´t beat ´em...bribe ´em.
It seems that Russian Gazprom provides gas to both Moldova and Transnistria, perhaps through the same pipelines? Since Moldova has a pro-Western government, Russia decided to stop the gas deliveries, but this unfortunately left pro-Russian Transnistria hanging in the air...and deprived of gas, too?!
Are the Russians actually losing the plot?
The EU offers emergency support to tackle the energy crisis in Moldova
Pro-Russian separatists refuse EU gas
Sunday, January 26, 2025
På spaning
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| Små detektiver på spaning |
Har givetvis ingen välgrundad åsikt om denne influencer och hans eventuella kopplingar till det röd-bruna blocket, men jag kan inte låta bli att länka till det senaste dramat från Hübinetto-sfären. Som jag brukar säga: "Detta är inte en skvallerblogg, utom när det faktiskt är det". Observera attacken på det nybildade vänsterpartiet Solidaritet.
The Trump Doctrine: Make America Bigger Again
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It seems "American isolationism" doesn´t stop at the Lower 48...
Still, there is a certain logic to Trump´s geopolitics. If the United States directly controls Greenland and the Panama Canal (or even Canada), it doesn´t matter whether the foreign policy is globalist, imperialist-nationalist or isolationist-nationalist. The US can still defend itself thanks to "natural borders". And perhaps extract some rare earth minerals or additional oil?
It would also be logical even for a very nationalist US to have *some* allies on the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean, perhaps Norway, Ireland and the UK? Sweden, Finland and poor little Denmark are borderline cases in such a scenario. The rest of Europe might as well join the Russian Federation.
Well, I suppose the race to the bottom just got a little bit more interesting!
Brännpunkt Grönland
Fandor rock
Believe it or not, but this is a real rock song based on the Urantia Book. And yes, "Master of the Sky" prominently mentions the fandors...all but un-ironically?! It´s actually a quite good tune and video, all things considered. I assume Visions of Reality is the name of the band.
From the YouTube channel Faith Evolves, made famous by a somewhat strange cyber-drama a couple of weeks ago. Or straight from the geographic center of infinity? ;-)
The 8th tower
I just learned a new term: "aesthetic deism". It´s counter-intuitive. I mean, if God is real he must be a Surrealist! Or a Dadaist...
If it quacks like Titanic
Ex-Christian debate bro Derek Lambert is the content-creator behind the YouTube channel MythVision. I linked to it before, including a shocking presentation on human sacrifice in the Old Testament (hint: Yahweh was into it, too).
In this presentation, Derek discusses the similarities between the Gospels and various ancient myths and legends (complete with made up eye-witnesses of heavenly ascensions). He reaches the conclusion that the Jesus stories as recorded in the four Gospels are indeed myths. Jesus may have been a real historical person, but his life has been heavily overlain by mythologemes.
No surprise there, I suppose. The main point of the presentation is that Christian apologetics are based on special pleading: in the case of Jesus, the myths must be actual historical events, while nobody takes the pagan stories seriously. Did Augustus ascend to heaven? Did Julius Caesar appear on Roman roads long after his death? Could Vespasian heal the sick? When the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus burned himself alive on a funeral pyre, did his soul really leave the body in the form of a fiery phoenix, while an earthquake shook the surroundings?
Some of the arguments Derek responds to are somewhat strange, like the idea that atheists should regard the sinking of "Titanic" as mythological, since a novel published 14 years earlier contain eerie parallels to the real event. Eh?
Derek also mentions his own spiritual journey through various fundamentalist Christian denominations, Preterism and Hyper-Preterism, and atheist Jesus Mythicism (he mentions "Zeitgeist"). Not sure if this video contains any really new information for those versed in this apparently never-ending debate, but I suppose it could be of some interest on a rainy afternoon...
Det svenska tillståndet
Några förutsägelser. "Vänster"blocket segrar i valet 2026 p.g.a. ökad arbetslöshet, sänkt A-kassa och skyhöga priser på allt från mat till el.
Sossarna genomför sin tvångsassimilering/bussning av svenska barn och ungdomar, vilket leder till skolstrider i halva Sverige. Elpriserna och bensinpriset förblir skyhöga, detta för att SAP måste göra upp med något som heter Miljöpartiet. Ersättningen till arbetslösa höjs något, men inte tillräckligt och inte för alla (som förra gången). Skatten på rika höjs medan hyresregleringarna bevaras, detta för att SAP måste göra upp med Vänsterpartiet.
Arbetskraftsinvandringen förblir hög, detta för att SAP måste göra upp med Centern. Kriminaliteten fortsätter att öka, samtidigt som SAP bluddrar på om nya fritidsgårdar (som aldrig ens blir av - man kanske kan bussa invandrare till svenska fritidsgårdar?).
I valet 2030 segrar högerblocket igen, och allt återgår till den nuvarande skiten. Sedan vinner "vänster"blocket 2034...
Ja, ni förstår. Och de strukturella problemen förblir olösta. Hur det kommer att sluta? Antingen med inbördeskrig, militärkupp eller rysk invasion. Och en stor del av svenska folket kommer att stödja kuppen. Trodde tills ganska nyligen inte att detta skulle kunna hända (inte egentligen), men nu undrar jag faktiskt på fullt allvar.
Let´s hope Brahman is Love.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
The pink raven paradox
"What do you mean, mate, I never met David Hume, I mean, I just exchanged Christmas greetings with him and then we formed a caucus in the Scottish Whig party, don´t blame me for the problems of your bloody science!"
Sig Hale
We already know that the world went mad shortly after Trump´s election victory, and the crazy is clearly set to continue. I mean, look at this...and the tweets do seem to be genuine!
Yes, the ADL (that´s the ADL) actually *refuses to condemn* Elon Musk´s Roman salute at the inauguration?! HA HA HA. Because he is pro-Israeli, obviously, but this way literally nobody will take the ADL seriously in the future. Probably not even pro-Israeli Jews!
What a way to go out, gotta grant them that much.
Come into the moment...and read some books
Isn´t oneness with Brahman an *experience*? If so, why the obsession with "lineage" and the study of certain books (written language being relatively recent in human history anyway)? Or is the entire Brahman thing just a strong intellectual conviction?
Somehow, I find it difficult to believe that these are the secret teachings of the Nath-panth!
Topless nuns?
Shocking, shocking I say! Is this interpretation correct? It seems so, judging by the artwork. Short form: Buddhist nuns are allowed, nay, required in certain situations to dress with one shoulder uncovered. Also, in the wilderness, nuns might as well be topless?!
Vilken fråga
LOL. Förenta Staterna har såklart varit en oligarki i minst 100 år. Kanske längre. Skillnaden är kanske att Rockefellers, Rotschilds eller Henry Ford var smartare. De verkar ha kontrollerat riktiga banker och/eller företag också, med riktiga (?) pengar resp. verklig produktion. En av dem var visst vicepresident också.
Men vad fan kontrollerar Zucc eller Musk? Dina kokrecept? Rymdraketer som inte ens kan flyga? Men okej, de både startar och kommer ner...
Nästan som att man föredrar äldre tiders oligarki. Då även Big Labor och Big Ethnic Machine kunde sitta med vid bordet och pösa.
Moralpanik
Har svaga minnen av moralpaniken kring Fem-böckerna när jag var barn. Minns dock inte sammanhanget, men de nämndes t.o.m. på nyheterna. Alltid i samma veva som Kitty-böckerna.
Vår ofrivilliga grannblogg har kvittona.
Dogs and hogs
Some sectarian ISKCON-related stuff, from a group that claims to be the really real ISKCON. They have the really real edition of their sacred writings, too! You know the drift. Probably only of interest to really hardcore Hare Krishna-watchers.
Debunking materialism?
Donald Hoffman and Bernardo Kastrup debunks materialism in three short YouTube clips. They seem to be posted on a spiritual channel!
Generation hopplös?
Eller kanske inte? Klagomål på den yngre generationen är ju närmast universella, men det kanske är allvar nu? Observera hänvisningen till pandemin. Observera även artikeln om "ghosting" (som jag bloggat om tidigare).
Generation Z är inte lata - de är rädda
Generationen som får sparken i ilfart
Trenden: tackar ja till jobb - men dyker aldrig upp
Warer Swenske...eller mest bara dumskallarnas socialism?
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Tobias Hübinette igen. Han har fått tydliga problem på grund av sin mångomtalade "konsekvensneutralitet". Igen! Detta trots att hans analyser egentligen är väldigt vänstervridna. Jag gissar att splittringen mellan vanliga liberaler och vänsterradikaler efter Hamas´ pogrom 2023 gjort att han och andra vänsterradikaler som tar avstånd från anti-semitism "på riktigt" har hamnat mellan två stolar.
Observera också kommentaren om "dumskallarnas socialism" med anledning av den märkliga folkfronten mellan en vänsterradikal, en gangsterrappare och en nynazist?! Det relevanta citatet följer.
>>>Den unga generationen bestående av Generation Z (alla invånare som är födda ca 1996-2010) och Generation Alpha (födda 2010-17) har som bekant i det närmaste slutat att läsa tidningar (liksom böcker), lyssna på radio och titta på tv och får i stället i stort sett alla sina nyheter via internet och olika sociala medieplattformar och fr a lever de sina liv i den digitala världen och just nu marineras de alldeles uppenbarligen i en giftig blandning av antisemitism, högerpopulism och gangstersubkultur.
>>>I mångt och mycket handlar denna utveckling om att vänstern numera är så svag hos den unga generationen vilket har resulterat i att det som ibland kallas ”dumskallarnas socialism” – d v s antisemitismen – därför får härja fritt.
>>>Antisemitiska konspirationsteorier har helt enkelt fått ett starkt fäste hos den uppväxande generationen som samtidigt röstar höger och inte minst på SD och formligen ”badar” i den hyperindividualistiska, hedonistiska, egoistiska, materialistiska och nyliberala gangstersubkulturen som ”marknadsförs” via gangsterrappen och som är den överlägset största ungdomssubkulturen bland landets barn och unga.
"Den mest folkkära svenska musikgenren"
Elite human capital
Notorious libertarian gadfly Richard Hanania muses about the contradictions within the American far right.
Don't try this in Europe or the Middle East, Richie me boy.
Defeat racism by heightening the contradictions
October surprise
Israel challenges the Islamists and hard leftists...again. The reactions of the latter might be interesting.
Or did you think this issue would just go away?
Israel sends October 7 survivor to compete in Eurovision Song Contest
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