Dark Flow

 

It´s becoming increasingly obvious (to this blogger at any rate) that the scientists don´t really know shit about the origins or real make-up of the universe. It´s hypotheses at best, speculations at worst (and most).

So why have we been led to believe otherwise, in countless of books and documentaries, written by the scientists themselves? I mean, it´s almost as if the scientists are the New Priesthood of Modernity.

Oh, that´s why. 

It´s myth (almost) all the way down. Well, at least we can be sure of one thing: our ancestors really were a bunch of ape-men. For whatever reason, cosmological hubris was a succesful survival strategy among australopiths on the East African savannahs 3 million years ago. 

Or maybe that´s just another myth...

Ingen aning

 

Jag, begrundandes mitt bloggande

Har ingen aning om hur mitt bloggande kommer att utvecklas under 2025. Det känns som att jag behöver något slags nyorientering, men jag har ingen aning om vad det skulle kunna vara för något...

Känner mig lite som en Tiktok-flykting, faktiskt.  

Nyord 2025

 

Två Tiktok-flyktingar?

Jag tror bestämt att 2025 just fick sitt första nyord: Tiktok-flykting. Rubriken är förresten missvisande.

Amerikanska Tiktok-flyktingar söker skydd i Kina

18 januari 2025

 

En av rubrikerna handlar om Israel. En annan om Sverige. Gissa vilken som är vilken? Från vår ofrivilliga grannblogg "Aftonbladet". 

The final countdown

 

Here we go again. "Professor Dave Explains" have the latest updates on the so-called Final Experiment and its aftermath. 

As many people probably know by now, American Christian pastor Will Duffy took several flat earthers with him on an expedition to Antarctica. The purpose: to prove once and for all that the Earth is a globe. On the most popular flat earth "model", there can´t be a 24-hour sun ("midnight sun") in Antarctica. Indeed, Antarctica doesn´t even exist but is a mysterious ice wall guarded by heavily armed troops c/o NASA or some such agency?! Lo and behold, the flat earthers did see the sun at midnight. As far as I understand, there were three flat earthers present, but only one changed his mind and rejoined the rest of the humanity. Note that the entire 24-hour day with sunlight was livestreamed on YouTube, that compasses and GPS were used to prove that the team actually was in Antarctica (and not in the Arctic) and that drones were flown over the area to prove that they weren´t in a studio. 

Meanwhile at home (and on the web), the fallout has been *epic*, with most flat earthers experiencing cognitive dissonance and coming up with various ad hoc explanations as to what actually happened in Antarctica. This wasn´t unexpected, but "Professor Dave" hopes that the flat earth community is about to split apart, since every "flerfer" seems to have his own pet theory about The Final Experiment. Some even debunk the worst conspiracy claims of the others! Were they filming inside the Vegas Sphere? Did they build a similar building in Antarctica? Or is a 24-hour sun in Antarctica compatible with a flat earth model, after all? The flat earthers who accompanied Will Duffy are accused of being "shills" or "double agents". 

Most original - surprise - is Dean Odle, the Christian fundamentalist preacher who was too crazy even for Greg Locke (another fringey preacher). Odle claims that Will Duffy is a "fake pastor", that many of the participants in the expedition were Satanists, and that Satan himself tricked everyone with a fake 24-hour sun?! Not sure what this even means. Was the "sun" actually a UFO, a mirage, or Screwtape having a break? Odle also believe that the US government can change the weather (let me guess: HAARP?), so I suppose the Devil has many friends in high places...

I think it´s still too early to tell whether this is the final countdown, or whether the flat earthers will eventually unite around a common explanation and simply continue to proselytize á la Marian Keech in "When Prophecy Fails". Odle will certainly do so. But yeah, the whole flat earth thing does feel "so 2015". Maybe it really is time to move on. 

Hollow Earth next?   

Double standards

 

Every time a popular fantasy writer is exposed as a serial abuser, we are told by his or her fans among the literati that you *can* enjoy´s a writer´s work even though the writer itself is problematic.

Really?

Now, apply that principle to Leni Riefenstahl...

LOL!  

Friday rant

 

Cylon of Croton demanding a democratic constitution
from the Pythagoreans.
Weird AI fantasy picture!

Why should we believe that philosophers have discovered something terribly important? You know, some "lofty ideals"...or was it "ideas"? Or "Ideas", perhaps?

Take Plato, for instance. Is this the same Plato whose "Republic" simply superimposes an idealized Sparta onto the Athenian social structure? The same Plato whose "Laws" were probably based on real Cretan oligarchic city-states? The same Plato who tried to "educate" two consecutive tyrants of Syracuse? The Plato whose teacher Socrates was executed by the democrats of Athens for his pesky "questioning" (a.k.a. sedition)? *That* Plato?

Why should we take anything he ever wrote about the World of Forms seriously? This ilk of the pro-Spartan Athenian oligarchy. Oh, and to those who say that Plato wrote "dialogues about Love"...ahem, no, he wrote dialogues about pederasty. Or rather about how to transmute homo-eroticism into a mystical quest for the Divine. I mean it´s almost as if he wrote "Symposium" in a very definite social context or something...

Are all ideas simply products of their social, political and economic surroundings? Perhaps not, but it takes a genius to transcend the Zeitgeist. And nobody listens to intellectuals anyway. Certainly not if their ideas *aren´t* in tune with the Zeitgeist. So most philosophies will certainly be products of their socio-economic surroundings. I mean, why should we expect otherwise? And if they are not, they will equally certainly remain completely marginal. Even in academe. 

And that´s that. But of course the intellectuals (to whom philosophers belong) always overestimate their importance. "The pen is mightier than the sword". No, it isn´t. It literally isn´t. Wanna bet? "The poets make history". Yeah, Friedrich Schiller - rather than Napoleon - made history, right? "Strong minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; weak minds discuss people." LOL. No, strong mind discusses events and then mobilizes those with "average" minds (who discuss people). The truly weak minds are the intellectuals, the airheads, who "discuss ideas" whatever that even means - at a Paris café, perchance? 

The real movers and shakers of history are the great statesmen, the captains of industry, the brilliant scientists, the strong generals, the women who scheme in the background...and the heroes of the common people providing muscle. Perhaps the prophets, too? Where are the philosophes, pray tell me? 

It´s a conflict as old as sunshine. The people want debt relief, land redistribution, a democratic constitution even. The Pythagoreans want to "discuss ideas" while acting like an overbearing oligarchy. So Cylon stormed their meeting-hall. Cylon did nothing wrong...and it will all happen again. 

It´s all a lie

 

Please note that Sabine Hossenfelder is a real scientist, not just some random YouTuber. Here is what she says about current theories of cosmogenesis. Or "theories". Buckle up! 

>>>The currently most popular theory for matter and anti-matter goes like this. Brace yourself: The universe was created from a quantum fluctuation of a field called the inflaton. There is no evidence for such a quantum fluctuation or such a field. 

>>>This inflaton field then decays into a lot of other  particles including right handed neutrinos. There is zero evidence that these right handed neutrinos ever existed. And those right-handed neutrinos then further decay into matter and anti-matter. Which then needs the CP-violation.

>>>That’s a lot to swallow, but particle  physics being what it is, there are many other “theories” for how matter came to dominate over anti-matter that don’t involve neutrinos. Maybe it was some X-particle that makes up dark matter, though there’s no evidence that it exists. 

>>>Or a Higgs triplet, though there’s no  evidence that this exists. Or meta-stable WIMPs, or a technibaryon, or hylogenesis which requires  three new particles, for none of which there is any evidence. And the kicker is that none of those theories even predicts the amount of matter or antimatter.

So it´s all a lie then? Got it in one! Therefore God. Or the Urantia Bible? OK, I´m joking but you get the drift...

Aghori, dinner is served

 

This is apparently Henry Jolicoeur´s most viewed YouTube video, with about 250,000 views so far. I´m not surprised. Henry was allowed to film inside the most sacred cremation ground in Varanasi, India. He reads from both the Zohar and the Mahabharata while the flames consume a number of dead bodies.

The clip *is* very graphic. But hardly the worst on YouTube, where you can find videos of the Aghori sect *literally eating ashes from cremations*...  

Frihet och nödvändighet

 

Credit: Alan Light 

David Lynch har gått från nödvändighetens rike till frihetens.