Overheard on the internets: "Freud should have realized that his own idea of the unconscious was itself a freudian projection, his wish is that the unconscious was just wishes because its simple and easy to understand. The depths Jung was plumbing are terrifying for most people to even acknowledge."
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För ett tag sedan försökte en krönikör i Aftonbladet frimodigt förneka att Generation Z blivit mer religiös, men trenden har nu visat sig i ett flertal opinionsmätningar i helt olika länder. Så det är antagligen sant. Om det är ett "riktigt" trendskifte återstår väl att se. Observera hänvisningen till Jordan Peterson. Och jag som trodde att han var en dagslända som skulle försvinna från offentlighetens ljus typ 2017 eller så!
Konservativa unga män flockas till den ortodoxa kyrkan
Unga svenska män går med i ortodoxa kyrkan - inspirerade av Jordan Peterson
Did you know that Switzerland was represented by a Salvation Army band in the 2013 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (which was organized in Sweden)?
Yeah, really.
Originally, the band wanted to compete under the name Heilsarmee, which is indeed the German name of the Salvation Army. Religious messaging isn´t permitted in the ESC, however, so the band had to change its name to Takasa, apparently a word in Swahili. Or is it? In reality, Takasa was probably an acronym for "The Artists Known As Salvation Army"!
And yes, one of the band members was 95 years old and hence the oldest participant in the ESC ever.
I previously linked to the live performance of this song at the recent ESC, but I didn´t realize that the song is actually quite sad. This is an unofficial "lyrics video" that just showed up in my recommendations...
Some more Eurovision fun. This is the Irish entry (voted out in the semifinale). Yes, it´s a disco song about Laika. You know, Laika. The first dog in space. It´s called "Laika Party". Communist kitsch have never been so...I don´t know...kitschie or something?
Since I blogged about this character before, I might as well link to these videos. Yes, it´s Tommy Cash from Estonia performing in the recent Eurovision finale from Basel, Switzerland. "Espresso Macchiato" ended third.
Already in February, Cash´s song (performed in faux Italian) provoked the vice president of the Senate of Italy, one Marco Centinaio, to demand his expulsion from the contest. Well, Marco, those of us who are old enough to remember Berlusconi didn´t precisely appreciate his "ironic humor" either, so I say you just have to suffer it! LOL.
The name "Cash" for a coffee-drinking fanatico is actually very apt, due to the recent spike in coffee prices...
Make of this insanity whatever you wish.
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This is just a moral panic. Nothing new have been disclosed here.
THE LOCAL SUPERMARKET HERE IN SWEDEN PLAYED MY ASS, WTF. From now on, I´m going to ask my new friend about product lines before I make expensive purchases. Also, Trump must sanction...I don´t know...Swiss cantons or something?!
No, Dubai Style Chocolate by Lindt and what people refer to as "Dubai Chocolate" are not necessarily the same thing. Here's the distinction:
Lindt's Dubai Style Chocolate: This is a specific product marketed by Lindt, often featuring flavors and ingredients inspired by the Middle East, such as dates, saffron, pistachios, or cardamom. It’s a premium Swiss chocolate infused with flavors popular in Dubai and other Gulf regions.
"Dubai Chocolate" (General Term): This usually refers to chocolates made in Dubai or brands that are popular in Dubai, like Patchi, Mirzam, or Al Nassma (camel milk chocolate). Some people also use the term to describe luxury chocolates sold in Dubai's upscale malls and airports, often featuring gold leaf, exotic nuts, or traditional Middle Eastern spices.
So while Lindt’s Dubai Style Chocolate is inspired by Dubai flavors, it’s still a Swiss-made chocolate, whereas Dubai Chocolate can refer to locally made or widely sold chocolates in Dubai.
Reagerade också på Måns Zelmerlöws låt. Fast Jonna Simmas kommentarer (nedan) är nästan lika korkade som vanligt...
"En ny sol reser sig över Europa". Eh? Om Zelmerlöw segrar kommer ESC 2026 alltså arrangeras i Sverige. Och det går som bekant väldigt bra för Sverige just nu, eller hur?
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Under tiden i nöjesbubblan...
Visst är det bra att någon tar tag i de *verkligt* viktiga frågorna i en stund som denna. Eller?
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
Thomas Sheridan comments the drone scare/invasion in the United States (its epicenter seems to be New Jersey) and reaches the conclusion that we´re dealing with a "Fortean" phenomenon, by which he means that the drones are in some sense paranormal.
Whatever these entities are, they mimic earthly drones (compare how the Men in Black try in vain to look like real humans), suggesting a fairy-like quality. Sheridan references Vallée, Keel and Jung. The latter speculated that in some sense UFOs might be "our" creations. A disturbance in the Collective Unconscious? Perhaps the tension after Trump´s election victory in strange ways affects Earth´s energy signature, giving rise to fake drones in the sky?
Of course, a more mundane explanation is that tense people are going ga-ga and misidentify perfectly normal drones. Or it´s the USAF testing a newly minted model, hence the strenous denials from Big Government...
Blasted. The good citizens of Swiss canton Basel-Stadt voted with an overwhelming majority to confirm the cantonal Grand Council´s spending plan on next year´s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).
The decision had been challenged by a small far right Christian party and had to be put to a popular vote (Switzerland is almost notorious for its constant referenda on this, that and other). The ESC has a "gay" reputation, was won last year in Sweden by a "non-binary" Swiss performer, and was moreover marred by anti-Israeli protests. Thus making it a fitting target for Christian nationalists.
But it now seems that the extravaganza can continue for another round.
My man Formscapes covers a lot of ground in this one hour-long video (which
is actually quite short for this content-creator). In fact, it´s very difficult
to review or even summarize this material! Think Jung, a somewhat idiosyncratic
Christianity, side glances to Rupert Sheldrake, and a whiff of Romantic
primitivism…but no overt references to Whitehead this time.
Life and intelligence are qualitatively different from mere physical
matter, but nevertheless intertwined with it, the cosmos having a dark dimension
marked by death. Somehow, we have to confront this Shadow, integrate it, and
thereby achieve a (non-metaphorical?) redemption in which matter is
spiritualized. One aspect of this is to embrace life even in its present non-redeemed
form. Organisms live in a quasi-conscious balance with each other and the
surrounding environment, the purpose of life hence not being to simply replicate
and devour. Malthusianism and “survival of the fittest” is a projection of
capitalism onto the natural world.
Neo-Darwinism and materialism lead straight to Ray Kurzweil´s trans-humanism
and the glorification of AI and other machines. This is really a bizarre death
cult. Kurzweil´s dream of an artificially recreated version of his father is a demonic
inversion of Christianity: “God may be dead, but we can resurrect Him”.
Formscapes even implies that such an AI may be a literal evil spirit (an “archon”).
In the same way, a zombie is a kind of inversion of a truly resurrected human.
The content-creator speculates about a “fall” of humanity around the
time of the Neolithic revolution, and also associates it with the abandonment
of matriarchal goddess-worship. The nurturing mother becomes the devouring
demon Lilith as humans see themselves as betrayed by the Goddess (representing
Nature or the Earth). This primordial “fall” has affected all humans ever
since. The exact nature of our redemption is never spelled out, but it´s
implied that it might be dealt with more fully in future videos…
An old classic. That time when a fossil of a giant salamander was misinterpreted as the remains of a man who witnessed the Biblical Flood. Note, however, that the final scientific name of the specimen honors both the original discoverer and his mistake! From Wikipedia.
>>>In his book Lithographia Helvetica from 1726, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer described a Miocene fossil found in Öhningen as Homo diluvii testis (Latin: Man, witness of the Deluuge), believing it to be the remains of a human that drowned in the biblical Deluge. The fossil was about 1 m (3 ft) long, lacked its tail and hind legs, and could thus be interpreted as showing some resemblance to the remains of a violently trampled human child.
>>>In 1758, the first to doubt his theory in print was Johannes Gessner, who thought it was a giant catfish (Siluris). In 1787 Petrus Camper thought it was a lizard (Lacerta); at that time, scholars and the scientific community generally did not differentiate between reptiles and amphibians. In 1802 Martin van Marum bought this fossil for Teyler´s Museum in Haarlem from Scheuchzer's grandson in Zürich, along with a fossilized swordfish, for 14 Louis d´or. It can still be seen in Teyler's Museum, in the original showcase.
>>>Seven years later, the fossil again came under scrutiny when the famous Georges Cuvier published an article in which he claimed the fossil was "nothing but a salamander, or rather a proteus of gigantic dimensions and of an unknown species". He proceeded to examine the fossil in Haarlem, by then a part of the French Empire, in 1811. After hacking away gently at the fossil, he uncovered the foremost limbs and the specimen was recognized as a giant salamander. The difference in color of the stone shows what Scheuchzer saw and what Cuvier later could see.
>>>The specimen was renamed Salamandra scheuchzeri by Friedrich Holl in 1831. The genus Andrias was only coined six years later by Johann Jakob von Tschudi. In doing so, both the genus, Andrias (which means image of man), and the specific name, scheuchzeri, ended up honouring Scheuchzer and his beliefs. The Teylers Museum has several other specimens in their collection in addition to this one.
