On the campaign trail

 

Me, trying to sit out the POTUS elections

The election campaign in the US is heating up. Links below are to the pro-Trump Breitbart News site. Some cynical comments...

Even if the allegations against Walz about Chinese ties are true, I´m pretty sure most American politicians did pretty much the same thing until, say, 10 years ago. So the only difference would be that Walz was stupid enough to continue in the same vein throughout the Trump years. 

As for pro-Palestinian activists not voting for Kamala Harris...LOL. What are the chances? So probably a nothingburger. But sure, the slogan "Kamala, you can´t hide, we won´t vote for genocide" is almost bizarrely brilliant. I mean, who´s behind it? The Revolutionary Communist Party? The Revolutionary Workers League? Dude!

The polling results from Pennsylvania (an important swing state) are strange. Note that voters under 40 prefer Trump with a 18-point margin! Less surprising, perhaps, is that atheists overwhelmingly (84%) support Harris. If Robert F Kennedy Jr is included in the polls, Trump and Harris are tied at 47% each of the total Pennsylvanian vote. So perhaps RFK Jr can still play a role in the November elections? Or at least create havoc!

And it´s only August. Still awaiting the October surprise with much fear and trembling...  

House Oversight Committee to launch investigation into Tim Walz´s Chinese connections

Pro-Palestinian protesters set to crash Harris-Walz coronation

Trump leads Kamala in Pennsylvania

Heart and horn

 

What are the origins of the pope´s mitre and similar headgear worn by other bishops, both Catholic and non-Catholic? You´ll never guess it. Hint: it has nothing to do with the god Mithras, which I kind of assumed. Nor is there any connection to Dagon (never heard that one) and probably not to the mouth of a fish (a Christian symbol). 

The actual history of the mitre and its symbolism is far stranger and includes a period in art history when Moses was depicted wearing...horns?! Yes, really.   

Drunk as a skunk

 

Was the atheist debate bro drunk when he wrote this? Note also the discussion thread. Duuuuuuude!  

The argument from non-locality

The archangel of many names

 

A short and somewhat in-house piece by Jesus Mythicist Richard Carrier, arguing that Jesus and Michael were the same angelic personage. In early Christian theology, obviously! The evidence isn´t conclusive, but it remains a tantalizing possibility. "I´m not saying Jesus is Michael, I´m just saying that nobody has seen Jesus and Michael in the same room at the same time".

Of course, Carrier connects the angelomorphic character of Jesus to the Mythicist claim that no historical person named "Jesus" ever existed. Note also that if Carrier is right, the dying and rising god-man would have been a Jewish/Biblical idea, not an external pagan influence. Which is a *Christian* idea, here secularized and turned into creative mythology. To our atheist author, this simply means that Christianity was one of many quirky Jewish sects. 

Carrier also points out that the Jehovah´s Witnesses identify Jesus and Michael. So the Witnesses might be right (!) on this particular point. 

Was Jesus-is-Michael an early Christian mystery teaching?

The Angel of the Face

 

The seemingly crazy idea that Jesus and Yahweh were the same person is actually the official position of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. Of course, they combine it with the Trinity. In a very different way, the Mormons also argue that Jesus and Yahweh are the same. 

That is, both Orthodox and Mormons argue that Yahweh was "the Son" rather than "the Father". So what Carrier writes here is no news...unless you are a Western Christian (Catholic or theologically mainstream Protestant), who indeed argue that Yahweh was the Father. 

I admit that many things fall into place when you make the assumption that early Christians assumed that *Jesus* was speaking through the "Old Testament" writings...  

The Original Scriptural Concept of "The Lord" Jesus

Absolutely sensational

 

Jerry Springer! Cuz why not?
Credit: Justin Hoch

Amazing stuff, I mean, all this time, I assumed Greta Thunberg blew up Nord Stream?! 

Ukraine behind Nord Stream sabotage, reports claims

The Deleuzian body

Or is it Guattarian madness? Who knows?  

Australian breakdancer responds to criticism, etc

Socialist shock

 

Commie in the closet?

Breitbart News attacks a rumored policy proposal from the Kamala Harris campaign: "socialist" price controls. Should you or I tell them about Richard Nixon?   

Kamala Harris to announce Soviet-style price controls

Nixon shock

Executive Order 11615

Dystopia and oblivion

 

I linked to these articles previously, but I kind of feel like linking to them again. Blackpilled, much?

An unfamiliar world

Missing but wanted: Children

Kris i befolkningsfrågan

 

Tobias Hübinette om befolkningsfrågan. Eller snarare den demografiska krisen. Det viktigaste styckena verkar vara dessa:

>>>Japan är redan idag ett land som demografiskt sett ser ut som hela Europa snart kommer att göra – d v s där är normen redan att vara medelålders eller äldre medan födelsetalen är katastrofalt låga och numera omöjliga att vända biologiskt sett. Även om en högerextrem diktatur skulle tvinga samtliga unga vuxna européer att få 3-8 barn på bara några års tid så skulle det antagligen ändå inte kunna vända den nedåtgående trenden.

>>>Mot bakgrund av det nuvarande politiska läget i Europa med en växande och allt mäktigare högerpopulism och radikalhöger (som inte vill ha mer invandring/invandrare) så kommer även Europa därför antagligen att välja Japans väg och fortsätta att åldras och åldras ända tills en kollaps inträffar när andelen i arbetsför ålder blir så liten i förhållande till andelen som är över 65 år att samhällsekonomin och välfärden till slut brakar samman.

>>>Exakt när denna samhällskatastrof inträffar går samtidigt inte att säga och en del menar att den redan är här nu – d v s kanske handlar det snarare om en långsam kollaps än en plötslig sådan.

>>>Kort och gott och sammanfattningsvis är det bara fortsatt invandring från utomeuropeiska länder som kan rädda Europa och Europas ekonomi och välfärd under de kommande decennierna för snart är det inte biologiskt möjligt att ens försöka få upp födelsetalen bland européerna då andelen av den europeiska totalbefolkningen som är i s k fertil ålder hela tiden minskar för varje år som går.

Europas befolkning peakar om två år (etc)