Take a Boltzmann brain and combine it with a form of Last Thursdayism and voilà, you get some crazy shit about the laws of thermodynamics being wrong. OK, I also want them to be wrong, but not if the price to pay is some even more insane stuff á la Herr Boltzmann.
Modern science at its worst? Bring back the luminiferous aether, I say!
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LOL. I själva verket har ju Jan Guillou en poäng. Oavsett vad man anser om "själva sakfrågan". Gorillan fortsätter att flexa!
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| Don´t live on Greenland |
What the fuck´s happening on Greenland? In 2025, the centrist Democrats won a plurality of votes and the position of "prime minister" in the local elections. The Democrats are anti-independence and pro-status quo. That is, pro-Danish. The election results looked reasonable, given Trump´s designs on the island. An independent Greenland would be easier for the United States to swallow. Hence, the voters sensible came out against it.
But...in the recent elections to the parliament of Denmark (where Greenland has two seats), the Democrats failed to gain a single seat. Two pro-independence parties, IA and Naleraq, got over half of the Greenland votes and took one seat each. IA is a left-wing party, while Naleraq has been accused of being pro-American!
Does anyone seriously think that Trump won´t notice? Well, I suppose it´s possible that he won´t. I mean, the guy´s half-crazy and, shall we say, rather preoccupied elsewhere. But if the eye of Sauron will gaze upon the world´s largest island again, it might notice that 55% of Greenland´s electorate voted for parties who wish to separate from Denmark. In effect for a suicide pact.
Things might still get colorful.
Another criticism of Facilitated Communication (FC). See also previous blog post. One thing that struck me when reflecting on this problematique is that FC´s transition into the paranormal ("The Telepathy Tapes") is perfectly logical.
FC makes sense only if you postulate that autistic people have highly evolved souls trapped in the wrong body. How else would severly autistic pre-schoolers or ditto elementary school kids suddenly be able to communicate in grammatically correct English or solve mathematical problems far above the grade-levels of their neurotypical peers? A true believer could further argue that the autistic child only establishes a telepathic link with the facilitator, not with anyone else, hence FC only works when the facilitator is around. Or how about the facilitator who communicated with a person who was *literally in a coma?* ESP could work as an explanation. And so on!
There is a New Age concept known as "Crystal Children" which fits neatly into the FC matrix. Who knows, maybe they really are connected somehow? The idea seems to be that children with severe mental challenges are really extremely spiritual and filled with ancient wisdom etc, etc.
It´s rather common that alternative thinkers, when faced with difficulties proving the physical existence of a phenomenon, resort to supranaturalist explanations. Why is Bigfoot so elusive? Maybe because he isn´t a flesh-and-blood creature, but a woodland elf. Indeed, why is it so difficult to get conclusive evidence for any "alternative" claims? Maybe because they are caused by spirits who are tricksters and use fairy glamour to get away? Why can´t the US military ever down a UFO? Because the aliens are really angels or demons. Here we see a similar logic at play: the type 3 autists are immortal reincarnating savant-souls inhabiting (for whatever karmic reasons) a severly impaired body-mind. (Wait ten years and gender dysphoria will be "explained" in the same way: it´s an eternal - and eternally gendered soul - trapped in the physical body of the wrong biological sex.)
I happen to be open-minded to the paranormal / supernatural, so I actually consider this something of a problem. That is, people resorting to the preternatural in ad hoc fashion. Maybe a squatch is a woodland sprite, but if so, please freakin´ prove it, rather than using that claim as an escape hatch from the somewhat embarrasing fact that no physical specimen has ever been secured. Note also that in the case of FC, the failure rate under controlled conditions is 100%, which is a worse result than any experiment with telepathy or remote viewing I´m familiar with!
If you need to associate an alleged physical phenomenon with controversial paranormal claims in order to make it sound more plausible, you really have no leg to stand on.
Only in America? A classical documentary from 1993, "Prisoners of Silence", exposing Facilitated Communication (FC). Or is it a cult?
This is a prequel to the more recent Telepathy Tapes. Under controlled conditions, FC literally *never* works, which means that there is more (alleged/purported) evidence for supernatural phenomena! So ironically, the current paranormal version of FC might actually look *more* convincing than the old school secular ditto...
Ten years from now, somebody will make a similar documentary about, shall we say, certain aspects of Gender Ideology, just wait.
It´s become a weird custom on this blog to post strange pics of Ganesha (Ganapati) on Wednesdays, so here we go again...
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Gadfly Michael Tracey on a very American predicament. Linked here mostly for information.
