Ashtar Command Book Blog

Monday, May 18, 2026

And the Lord came to his people...

Something extremely funny I wrote in 2021...

Aliens and pyramids

An AI-generated (?) song inspired by "Ancient Aliens". Not very good, but I couldn´t note the name of the "performer": Iris Binary. It´s some kind of AI-related technical term, but it sounds a bit edgy. Binary as opposed to...non-binary? Paradigm shift ahead, maybe?

Borde bombas?

Ännu en korkad krönika som klagar på att Israel-vänliga kulturkrigare (sic) politiserar Eurovision Song Contest.

Alltså...

För det första: Är inte vänstern "kulturkrigare" när de i flera års tid krävt att Israel ska utestängas från Eurovision, och att tävlingen annars bör bojkottas?

För det andra: Är det inte oerhört tondövt att kalla reaktionerna på terrorattackerna/pogromerna den 7 oktober 2023 för "kulturkrig"? Som om det handlade om en konflikt om en regnbågsannons på Facebook. Skribenten verkar dessutom inte kalla reaktionerna på Israels krig i Gaza för "kulturkrig".

För det tredje: Eurovision har alltid handlat om politik. Ukraina har fått anti-ryska kompisröster sedan åtminstone den orangea revolutionen 2005. De har också tävlat med uppenbart anti-ryska sånger vid ett flertal tillfällen. Och vunnit en av dessa gånger. Ingen klagade. Tvärtom buade publiken ut de ryska bidragen. När Norges band viftade med orangea flaggor på scenen under tävlingen i Kiev var det ingen som klagade heller. När Bosnien deltog första gången på 90-talet tävlade landet med en sång som ganska uppenbart handlade om Balkankrigen. Ingen klagade. Och vad Israel beträffar så tävlade landet någon gång på 00-talet med ett Woke hippie-band som t.o.m. hade syriska flaggor på scenen! Ingen klagade. Märkligt, eller hur?

Så varför klagar alla nu? Juuuust det.

För det fjärde: Eurovision Song Contest har i flera årtionden haft en ganska uppenbar LGBTQI-framtoning. Finns det någon som *på fullt allvar* hävdar att detta inte är "politiskt"? Lite som ett kulturkrig kanske?

Jag vet inte om musik och politik "borde" höra ihop. Men däremot verkar det som att nöjesskribenter i kvällspressen borde hålla sig ifrån politiken. Kommentera bara dansarnas ärschlen i fortsättningen, tack så mycket!

Felicia kan bomba i kväll

Monday

It´s Monday again, so here is Shiva again...

Mormon space wives

LOL, something tells me this isn´t the correct Patristic understanding of the Great Commission, but what the heck do I know...

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Osiris slain

Hmmm....

This guy was wrong about Göbekli Tepe and the Eye of Sahara, so is he wrong here, too? Awaiting the next debunk. Maybe.

Storfavoriter

Japp, jag tänker älta ESC ett tag till. Att Finland skulle ha varit storfavoriten tyckte jag alltid lät ytterst märkligt. *Så* jävla bra var inte den där låten. Sorry. Och det verkar som om jag hade rätt...

Innehåller även information om Sveriges röstresultat.

Så nära var Felicia att missa finalen

This is the Way

An analysis of the Star Wars-related TV series "The Mandalorian" from the viewpoint of anthropology and religious studies.

OK, so I have a few objections...

I never watched "The Mandalorian", so I have zero opinions on that one, but what about the anthropology? It simply can´t be true that the strictest religions are the most succesful ones. The most extreme cults (say the Exclusive Brethren or Heaven´s Gate) are always much smaller than the less strict ones (say the Presbyterian Church USA or some New Age network). Or take the Catholic Church. Most Catholics aren´t monks or nuns, obviously. The strictest monastic orders are the smallest ones (the Carthusians). Maybe the *illusion* of strictness is more succesful than outright "liberalism", but that´s a different proposition entirely. The illusion of strictness is good for identity politics, just blending in with broader society isn´t. To maintain the illusion, some "creds" have to be thrown in, but not nearly as many as in a *really* and grimly strict group. "Fish on Friday" isn´t the same thing as veganism or fruitarianism.

Or what about "the routinization of charisma"? The first generation of a religious group might be super-committed, but in order to survive beyond that initial charismatic push, it needs to create institutions which overtime will become bureaucratic, et cetera. It struck me when watching the video that some of the strict religious groups mentioned probably solve the problem by becoming free riders on the rest of society. How hard is it *really* to be an Orthodox Jew if you don´t have to do military service, get welfare money for your large family, and so on? I´m sure the Amish are free riding in some way, too. It´s just that US media are too uncritical and romantic in their attitudes towards them, so we haven´t heard anything about it.

Finally, a complaint about "fictive kinship". Sociologists and anthropologists usually assume that this somehow overrides biology. But does it? First, most fictive kinship systems seem to be practiced within the same population, which means that there *is* a level of genetic kinship between the participants. Group selection could explain this. Second, even when "fictive kinship" is practiced more broadly (say in a missionary religion), the converts will tend to marry other people of the same faith, which means that the kinship ties will become genetical in the normal sense over time. Again, no mystery for evolutionary theory.

In the science fiction TV series "The Mandalorian", one of the characters apparently adopts a baby of an *entirely different species*, treating him as his own son. Which is *highly* unlikely from an evolutionary viewpoint. Showing us that it´s indeed science *fiction*...

So nah, not convincing.