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Det är *något* konstigt med Hübinettes fixering vid dessa frågor, även om jag ärligt talat inte vet vad det kan vara. Han verkar i vart fall besatt av den "traditionella" överklassen. Vill han innerst inne bli en del av den? Men okej, det är såklart intressant att många vänsterprofiler kommer från *över*klassen, inte ens medelklassen! Slutsatser har dragits.
Thomas Sheridan is...well, controversial. Often coded as Alt Right or even Satanist. But listen to this old video from 2009, which apparently got him banned from (Irish?) public access TV. He sounds like somebody who old fashioned feminists might want to take a bear with!
Will religious people be shocked by UFO disclosure? Our man Brad believes that at least Buddhists won´t. For instance, there is an "alien" bodhisattva arriving on a "UFO" in the Lotus Sutra. Yes, that would be Gadgadasvara alias the Bodhisattva Wondrous Sound. Disclosure happened already 2000 years ago, it seems! So what seems to be the prob? See also link below.
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*...
Some clips from the original (1978-79) "Battlestar Galactica" series. The Mormon influences are obvious in these three excerpts. Most clearly in the first one. But note that the evil guy is called Iblis, the Muslim name for Satan!
- You *do* know that we are evolutionary cousins, right? - Nah, I´m a special creation. God loves beetles!
Just watched a rather boring French docu about the evolution (or is it EVIL-ution) of insects. Apparently, Lucia (or LUCIA = Last Universal Common Insect Ancestor) was a crustacean which crawled out of the ocean...and the rest is history. Hundreds of millions of years of history, to be exact.
No surprise there. I mean, the idea that fleas, locusts and termites (or the praying mantis!) are ultimately derived from a primordial cousin to crayfish and crabs does make a certain intuitive sense. They are equally eerie and unsettling. Like some stuff straight out of Lovecraft.
Although I have to say that arachnids are even worse. Where did *they* come from, I wonder? Color out of space?
Some clips from the Tolkienesque space opera "Babylon 5". The Narn ambassador G´Kar almost makes sense here...
Fun factoid: it actually took me a very long time to realize that "Babylon 5" was heavily indebted to Tolkien, probably because I never read Tolkien´s stories as a child. There are also some nods to C S Lewis (where do you think "Narn" come from?) and maybe even Rudolf Steiner.
This just came up in my YouTube feed the other day, so I decided to link to it for some kind of nostalgic reasons.
I was never a big fan of "Babylon 5" (a.k.a. LOTR-in-Outer-Space), but this clip is actually quite funny. At least if you remember this old scy fy series...
The episodes of this bizarre series have titles like "Portal to the Underworld", "Reptoids of Lassen Park" and "Demonic Dominion" (the latter not linked here). And no, it´s not a documentary about current American politics, LOL. I actually watched this series perhaps ten years ago, when it was called "Mysteries at the National Parks". It seems to have been retitled "National Park Secrets and Legends" (at least sometimes).
Weirdly, I don´t remember how *scary* this series actually is. Or have I just become more paranoid lately? (Any connection to US politics?) It could easily be turned into a "real" horror flick!
Even if taken at face value, many of the incidents could (perhaps) be given natural explanations. Maybe something in the forests make people hallucinate? We´re talking EM effects, volcanic vapor, that kind of stuff. Note also that some of the eye witnesses are self-proclaimed paranormal researchers. Others are Native elders or New Age seekers. Perhaps they are "primed" to have strange experiences? But sure, there is a much simpler hypothesis: ghosts, aliens and unruly spirits are real...
This aint no country for White men. Or any men for that matter.
På Aftonbladets startsida har denna artikel rubriken "Pedofilerna får mig att ge upp".
Åsa Linderborg brukar ju normalt sett vara "övergreppsförminskare", men inte ens hon kan förneka det som händer i en nyproducerad dokumentärserie om polisens "pedofiljägare". Lägg också märke till hur lagstiftningen i vissa fall skyddar pedofilerna! Inte undra på att Linderborg - som tydligen inte vill hamna på samma sida som Dumpen - funderar på att "ge upp".
So I´ve been thinking about the "six degrees of separation". For instance, what about me and Jeffrey Epstein? I´ve met one person who met another person who must have met Pernilla Wahlgren, a former Swedish pop singer. And in 1985, Epstein sat in the audience when Pernilla performed her song "Piccadilly Circus" at the Swedish Melody Festival. So now I only have to find some show hostess or camera guy who met both Pernilla and Epstein (who seems to have been sitting in a VIP section).
That would be four degrees of separation between me and the most notorious sex criminal in the world. More bizarrely still, it also means that there are five degrees of separation between me and the guy who killed Epstein...and six degrees from whoever gave the order! Assuming, of course, that Epstein was murdered and the murderer knew who he was working for.
Ja, det är faktiskt sant. Jeffrey Epstein syntes i rutan under Melodifestivalen 1985, strax innan Pernilla Wahlgren skulle sjunga "Piccadilly Circus". Jeffrey-fucking-Epstein. Helt sanslöst.
SVT tvingades ändra delar av Melodifestivalen efter en tittarstorm. Ni vet, det där med SVT Play bla-bla-bla. Okej, cool. Men till nästa vecka kan det ju ändra programledarnas manus också. Tyckte inte att skämtet om Fritzl var särskilt roligt. Nämligen. Misstänker att hans offer håller med mig...
Vad ska det skämta om nästa gång? Styckmordet i Rönninge? Folkmordet i Sudan? 764, kanske?
Vem hittar på de här jäkla dumheterna? Hjärndöda människor som kallt räknar med att de kan komma undan med vad som helst, eftersom "Mello" är det populäraste underhållningsprogrammet i svensk TV? Jag menar, det har kommit undan med sjukt dålig musik i generationer!
