A Few Thoughts For Our Times

 Some people say we live in the age of deception, the post truth era. All is spin and dissemination, perception is all.

Here are a few things to hold on to from great thinkers of the past 1000 years.

Can you add, in the comments section, to the wisdom quoted here about why we should not subserviently and blindly believe in and bow to governmental, medical, scientific, educational, religious, or consensus authority?

> "Those who make you believe absurdity, can make you commit atrocity." - Voltaire

> Those who trade rights for safety, deserve neither.

> "Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein

> "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” -- Ayn Rand

> "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H L Mencken

> "The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

> "The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” - George Orwell

> "In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.” - George Orwell

> "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks ... It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” - Samuel Adams

> "The greatest inequalities arise from efforts to make unequal thigs equal" Aristoltle

> "The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.”
- Thomas S. Monson

> "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
- P. J. O'Rourke

> "The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.” - Bryant H. McGill

> Power has the primary purpose of retaining and growing power.

> "The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.”
- Emma Goldman

> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain

> Distance in time or geography lends power and enchantment to the prevailing view.

> What part of authority bothers you? The part where you have to make decisions for your own life? Or the part where you don't get to make my decisions for me?

> A wise and sage person is never recognized by the followers of authority.

> A governmental edict passed as truth that is too sacred to be challenged is already dead.

> The powerful must muffle the voices of those at odds.

> "The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”- H. L. Mencken

> Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found. - B. Russell

> It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. --Voltaire

> People are bad so we should put people in charge of other people.

> The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

> Fear of being different forces people into group think.

> Fashion entrances every age without people realizing tyrants rule over them.

> Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do. —William Ellery Channing (1780–1842)

> A few scientific and government approved "truths" that have become new "truths":

- Geosynclinal theory of Mt. ranges accepted in texts until 1960 when they were replaced with plate tectonics.

- Newton has been one- upped by quantum physics.

- All genetic information dictated by DNA dogma had been replaced by epigenetics.

- Gravity has been replaced by space-time.

- Countless medical, health, and nutritional science ideas are replaced continuously.

- Cosmology and cosmogony are constantly being revamped.

> The red tape of government approved peer review does not substitute for facts, reason, and experience.

> Peer review is policing of conformity to the current consensus dogma.

> "Terrifying statistics can inspire panic and despair that shuts people down rather than motivating them to action." - Friedrich Nietzsche

> There are 22M articles in Pubmed, 1M added each year, each one is subject to interpretation and disagreement.

> Let us never ever doubt what nobody is sure about.

> Argumentum Ad Baculum-- is argument with threat of force against opponents, a favorite of despotic governments..

> The key to power is bread and circuses.

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Christianity’s Decline Has Not Ushered In A Scientific Utopia But Why Has Prof. Dawkins Come Out As A Cultural Christian.

 When his best selling non - fiction book 'The God Delusion' was causing multiple sensationalist responses in print and broadcast mediaalmost 20 years ago Richard Dawkins was for a time the star of the New Atheism movement. Now, his having spoken of being a cultural Christian is is causing consternation amongst militant atheists, progressives and The Church of Scientism cult.

Dawkins latest position should surprise nobody, he has spoken of his “cultural Christianity” before, without defining how he, as an individual, defines this Cultural Christianity. I can give you my take on the question because like many people who have passed their seventieth year, I was baptized in the Christian religion (though even if anybody had asked if it was what I wanted, at around six weeks old I was not capable of giving informed consent,) began my education at the age of five in a Church of England school, the only school available in a small Shropshire village. So no matter whTat direction any of my generation took when able to make our own choices we are all Cultural Christians in an allegedly Christian nation and the formation of our mopral compass was influence by what are wrongly called Judeo - Christian values. Throughout our lives, people of my genertation have witnessed the decline of Christianity as societies became more open and liberal and the questioning of Christian dogma became socially accepatable. Thus when I referred above to England (Britain if you like, though Scotland and Wales are culturally different from we English,) it was because even as late as the early 1960s there was a social stigma attached to openly rejecting Christianity, so it could never be known how many people truly believed in the Christian faith and how many simply paid lip service to the beliefs of their inherited religion. New Atheism, a fashionable ideology in the fin - de - siecle madness of the 1990s was wrong in crucial respects, but was a predictable reaction to the nonsensical religious philosophy of Christian churches, a mish mash of myths and parables from a variety of belief systems and cults from the middle east and scross Europe. Where New Atheism was mistaken was that it failed to understand the role and importance of some kind of common belief system in human communities. In predicting that following religion's decline the developed world would transform into some kind of enlightened utopia in which, as one boy scientist on a site I was involved in phrased his vision, "Humanity would abandon superstition and magical thinking and we would all live scientifically." And though people who thought like that, science has taken on many aspects of a religious cult, particularly in its approach to vaccination and climate change. New Atheism assumed that, as people abandoned Christianity they would embrace a secular position and line up behind the kind of philosophical position described by Dawkins in "The God Delusion." It is not surprising then that many are shocked to read or hear of Dawkins himself saying that maybe the Christian belief system (as opposed to the many Christian religions,) had something going for it, but when we see the zel with which many people have embraced 'net zero', BLM, The Green New Deal, Globalism and Transgenderism, it is easy to see why the professor might have changed his punlic position on secular (Cultural) Christianity.

I understand what Richard Dawkins is saying but his self description as a cultural Christian has no more meaning than my describing myself as a 'paganistic humanist - and no, you can't join because I haven't worked out what, if anything, it means.

Christianity might have a chance of survival if it could get rid of the Jesus fairy tales (or at least did not require grown ups to profess belief in them,) and admit it's 'Judeo - Christian' values are just borrowings from the Greeks, North - European pagans, Zoroasdtrians, and Hinduism / Buddhism.

The purpose of tribal religions to our neolithic and Bronze Age ancestors was to hold the tribes or clans together through common values and a shared moral compass. Unfortunately the Abrahamic religions killed that aspect of religion because the sole aim was to focus power and wealth in the hands of the priesthood.

Many people will disagree with that statement, some saying that the purpose of the Abrahamic relions is to reconcile humanity to the ways of God the Creator while others will reminds me that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and the puropse of whorship is to redemm our souls. To any of them, and others I say just take a look at the lavish splendour of the medieval cathedrals in Europe, built at enormous cost while ordinary people were living in squalour and starving. Christianity cannot wipe out its brutal and amoral past with pious platitudes.

Then there are the Creationists. I enjoy a good debate and would always be willing to consider a well argued case for Intellihent Design, but if one tries to engage on the topic the opposing premise will be, "But surely you must see that all thw wonders of our world and the Universe xould not have come about by accident, they could only have been created.

Time is a human construct, the universe has always been here doing what it does. Big Bang theory was created by theoretical physicists who believed the secrets of the universe could be found in mathematics explanations when they discovered their mathematical explanations needed a point from which to start calculating. That is speculation of course, with no more had evidence to support it than any creation myth. Where creationists fall down is in floating the idea that an imaginary god could have created anything real.

I have long been aware of the pointlessness of trying to discuss the supernatural claims of the religious as logic tends to go out the window. Even the simple question: ‘Why are you a Christian? ‘ poses a major problem because like myself the vast majority did not become Christians having evaluated all other religions. Needless to say, this applies to the other Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Islam, because the vast majority of their followers were born into them and stay in the faith for reasons which though valid, family, community etc.) are nothing to do with a literal belief in the god or the scriptures. Hinduism is somwhat different, although Hindus are born into the system their concept of the divine does not require them to have absolute faith in imaginaty spirits.

Another point to reflect on is that the belief systems of these religions can be poles apart though the priestly caste claim they worship the same god. For example in Christianity Jesus is seen as the son of God and only through him can you enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In contrast Judaism and Islam just see him as just another human prophet. Even within Christianity itself, opposite and incompatible ideas exist. While Roman Cathloics and European Protestants belive Jesus is the actual son of God, the Eastern ortodoc churches take a different view, while Coptic, Ethiopian and Sycriac Christians have a different belief again. As Christian belief has to be absolute, they can't all be right. But they can all be wrong.

Moreover, all the sacred scriptures of major religions were based on oral traditions passed down over centuries and are highly questionable, for example the Christian gospels were written years after the death of Jesus death, and not by the Aramaic speaking disciples of Jesus as many believe, but by Greek speaking educated scribes.

While highlighting these points I still understand why a religious belief is important to many as it serves as ‘something to hold onto’ or provides a comforting feeling that there is some stabilising force, in a tough and troubled world and so I respect peoples' right to their faith. But if it is the faith rather than the name of the god or the content of the creed that is important surely then we have to respect paganism, Sikhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism and Shamanistic Animism as equals and drop claims to be 'The one true Church'.

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The Orwellian Vaccine Passport Agenda Relies On The Lie Of The "Social Contract"

 

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us,

There is a fundamental question that needs to be asked when examining the vaccine passport issue, and what I find is that almost no one in the mainstream is tackling it directly. The question is this:

Is it legally and morally acceptable to constrict the rights and economic access of people in order to force them to submit to an experimental “vaccine”, or any other medical procedure for that matter?

Furthermore, who gets to decide what medical procedures are acceptable to enforce? Who gets to be the all powerful and benevolent overseer of every human being’s health path. I ask this because I don’t think many people realize the future repercussions of allowing governments or corporations (the same thing these days) to dictate covid vaccinations. It doesn’t stop there; in fact, we have no idea where this stops once the Pandora’s box is opened.

For example, the primary argument of the covid cult and the establishment in favor of vaccine passports is the “social contract” fantasy. They claim that because we “live in a society”, everything we do affects everyone else in some way, and because we are all interconnected in our “collective” we are thus beholden to the collective. In other words, the collective has the “right” to micro-manage the life of the individual because if the individual is allowed to make his/her own decisions they might potentially cause harm to the whole group.

In case you are not familiar with this philosophy it is an extension of socialism and cultural Marxism, and it stands at the very core of vaccine passport propaganda. I have actually had public debates with pro-socialist people in the past who have tried to defend the merits of socialism and every single time the argument comes down to one singular disconnect – I say that if a group of people want to go off and start their own little socialist community they have every right to…as long as it is VOLUNTARY. Then if it fails and collapses it doesn’t matter because it doesn’t affect me or anyone else who did not want to participate.

The problem is that these Socialists/communists/Marxists/collectivists simply do not grasp the notion of voluntarism. They believe that people need to be forced into doing the right thing or helping others, and they are the people that get to decide what the right thing is and who gets the help. They are the people that get to decide what freedoms are acceptable and what freedoms are inconvenient to their agenda. When they say “We live in a society…”, what they really mean is “You live in OUR society, and WE will determine what is best for you.”

When I argue that a socialist community should be voluntary, they inevitably argue that people will not commit to such a system voluntarily so they must be forced to do what is best for the “greater good”.

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"Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality." - Michael Ellner

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The Rise Of Populism: an Explainer

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If that is correct it would go some way to explaining the weird, oppressive laws enacted (by executive order, the democratic equivalent of rule by Imperial Decree,) in the United States during the final months of the Obama administration, not just by the outgoing president, Emperor and Pontifex Maximus Barack Hussein Obama, but by state legislatures in those states traditionally dominated by the Democratic party. As one would expect in California, the world capital of 'progressive' craziness a plethora of new and oppressive laws come into effect as Governor Moonbeam extends the reach of government into the lives of the states people and even animals, and a bizarre new law took effect in Illinois which required hairdressers to obtain training in domestic abuse prevention. 

Hairdressers as domestic abuse coulsellors? WTF?. The basis of the idea is the state would take advantage of the confidential relationship between a woman and her hairdresser to spot the symptoms of control frwakery or even violent abuse and guide the victim toward the embracing arms of agencies of government where she will be made dependent for life by a far more subtle form of abuse that is designed to convince its victims they cannot survive without support.

While not yet fully implemented this daft idea is now part of the qualification process for anyone seeking to become a hairdresser in Illinois and whichever other US states adopt the policy (the usual suspects being California, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and the north east we guess.)

What level of training hover the great and good of Illinois decided is appropriate to enable people to fulfil this complex and sensitive role, you might well ask. Anyone who wants to keep their job as a hairdresser will be required to undergo one hour of training every two years. His / her / zur ability to wield comb, scissors, hairdryer etc. being unchanged, the loss potential earnings should he / she / ze be stipped of the license to weild such weapons of mass beautification in order to provide a service as part of a commercial transaction clearly not seen as an injustice in the bizarro would of Cultural Marxism.




While Cultural Marxist are fond of babbling about the utopian dreams of Marx and followers who believe a perfect world would ensue if only people would stop being indiviuals, stop living for themselves and learn to 'live for each other' to use an often quoted and rarely understood phrase. In order to be able to help others we must first help ourselves. A rarely quoted comment on Cultural Marxism that I believe should be shouted from the rooftops is the warning the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin gave Marx in 1870(ish) when he predicted that a Socialist or Communist government would quickly become more oppressive that the old absolute monarchies of Europe. Bakunin has been proved right in every nation where communism has been tried and even in democratic nations, elected governments of socialist parties have quickly developed authoritarian tendencies.

The rise of populism, symbolised by the victory of Donald Trump in the US election and the result of the UK's referendum on whether we should remain in the increasingly authoritarian vand federalist European Union isn’t the politics of rejecting the policies of politicians and experts, it is in fact a total rejection of the kind of “experts” who, having spent all their lives in schools and universities filling their head with theory and book - learning, feel themselves qualified to pontificate on a subject of which they have an almost total lack of understanding; life.

Such experts deserve more than voters' contempt disdain. Educational qualifications and endorsement from state agencies are now seen by a growing proportion of the global population as measures of incompetence and a bureaucratic obsession with process and procedure and pedantic devotion to pointless rules and regulations. Qualifications it seems, nothing at all to do with intellectual capacity apart from objectivity. It isn’t the denial of reasoned argument but rather the logical end of it.

Thus we have come to a state where on one side we have the people who are not part of 'The State' and are intelligent (in many different ways), creative and self reliant, and the ones who have embedded themselves in the suffocating grip of bureaucracy and have lost the power to think critically and reason objectively and have become dependent on process and procedure, rules and regulations.

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Cicero Said: Know Who Your Real Enemies Are

Marcus Tullius Cicero, advocate, reformer, philosopher, orator.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43BC

Now who do we think he might have been talking about? The people who go around wringing their hands and telling us we must be 'nice' to those who want to take what we have made great, destroy what we have made for our comfort and prosperity and kill us. Such people are ignorant of the fact that it was not being 'nice' that got our species of weak, slow running, poor tree climbing, and sadly lacking natural weapons hairless apes to the top of the food chain.

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The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech

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Until recently Universities were places where any ideas were welcome and any economic, social, or scientific theory, no matter how extreme would be given a fair hearing and debated openly. Were that not the case, how far do you think the ideas of Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle, respectively the fathers of modern physics and chemistry would have progressed in a world still dominated by religious dogma.

In the past five decades however, and with increasing intensity, the freedom of thought and speech cherished in universities (as well as the press and regular drinkers in public bars) in democratic societies has increasingly come under attack from those who style themselves 'The Left'. This of itself is bizarre because left wing thinking ought to be about freedom of the individual, self determination and personal development. People died for the right to speak freely, just as they did for the right of every citizen to vote in democratic elections. So where did it all start to go wrong? How did the idea that there is only one set of acceptable answers to society's problems (the 'pensée unique' to use a French phrase I am fond of) and that those who challenge the orthodoxy should be silence and prevented from broadcasting their ideas in print or verbally.

Literally translated, 'pensée unique' means single thought but in modern usage it means single mindset, as in the ideal of complete conformity to the orthodoxies of a society. At a recent G20 conference (London, 2009) a proponent of globalism called on governments of the developing nations to work towards creating not just a system og global governance but a global culture . "To persuade all the peoples of the world to accept a common set of values and morals is the only way forward," he said.

"On the contrary," a delagate from one of the emerging economies replied, "it will leave those who do not accept the single mindset by the wayside. To ignore people's sense of national allegiance and the role of the nation-state and force people to accept the'single mindset ' which you embody is out-of-date and dangerous."

It is in fact as out of date and dangerous as Marxism; in his Communist Manifesto Karl Marx predicted in a communist world people would cease to exist as invididuals and be only components of a mechanistic state. Marx's sociopathic state offers a grim enough prospect to warn all thinking people off his version of communism. But not our current generation of students it seems. From being the crazy, anarchic idiots of National Lampoon's Animal House in the 1970s, students have become self righteous prigs.

In a time where college students are offended by just about everything that causes them to question their indoctrination, US magazine The Federalist Papers reports that one professor at University of North Carolina, Wilmington decided to cut through the politically correct rhetoric and let his students know that they aren’t "the special snowflake liberals" and their parents and school teachers would have them believe.

His epic class introduction has gone viral, and for good reason: this is the most common sense lecture to come out of any college in a long time. Here's a taster:

Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC-Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended. If we don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman.

Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.

Of course, your high school might not be the problem. It is entirely possible that the main reason why so many of you are confused about free speech is that piece of paper hanging on the wall right over there. Please turn your attention to that ridiculous document that is framed and hanging by the door. In fact, take a few minutes to read it before you leave class today. It is our campus speech code. It specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is “respectful.” That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire.

One of my grandfathers served in World War I. My step-grandfather served in World War II. My sixth great grandfather enlisted in the American Revolution when he was only thirteen. These great men did not fight so we could simply relinquish our rights to the enemy within our borders. That enemy is the Marxists who run our public universities. If you are a Marxist and I just offended you, well, that’s tough. I guess they don’t make communists like they used to.

Unbelievably, a student once complained to the Department chairwoman that my mention of God and a Creator was a violation of Separation of Church and State. Let me be as clear as I possibly can: If any of you actually think that my decision to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence in the course syllabus is unconstitutional then you suffer from severe intellectual hernia.

Indeed, it takes hard work to become stupid enough to think the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional. If you agree with the student who made that complaint then you are probably just an anti-religious zealot. Therefore, I am going to ask you to do exactly three things and do them in the exact order that I specify.

First, get out of my class. You can fill out the drop slip over at James Hall. Just tell them you don’t believe in true diversity and you want to be surrounded by people who agree with your twisted interpretation of the Constitution simply because they are the kind of people who will protect you from having your beliefs challenged or your feelings hurt.

Second, withdraw from the university. If you find that you are actually relieved because you will no longer be in a class where your beliefs might be challenged then you aren’t ready for college. Go get a job building houses so you can work with some illegal aliens who will help you gain a better appreciation of what this country has to offer.

Finally, if this doesn’t work then I would simply ask you to get the hell out of the country. The ever-growing thinned-skinned minority you have joined is simply ruining life in this once-great nation. Please move to some place like Cuba where you can enjoy the company of communists and get excellent health care. Just hop on a leaky boat and start paddling your way towards utopia. You will not be missed.

Professor Adams hits the nail on the head, but it is not just themselves the precious little liberal luvvies believe should be protected from anything that might offend. As all Boggart related online publications have reported, they are always eager to take offence on behalf of others. There are few genuine cultural divisions in the world that cannot be overcome with a little goodwill on both sides. Most of the issues that divide people are arbitrarily created, not only by the ruling elites who, like the Roman, know that human nature changes little, and so Cicero's strategy of divide and rule is still effective two thousand years later, but also by the useful idiots of Uncle Joe Stalin's famous phrase and the mindless sycophants (sheeple) who have infiltrated our higher education systems.

It is not coincidence that cultural Marxists, "social justice warriors", Politically Correct busybodies, militant feminists and globalists tend to create artificial divisions between people and classes through their obsession with identity politics. This is what cultural Marxists and followers of The Fabian Society do.

Their chief weapons are the use of arbitrary "victim status" to various minorities, based on how "oppressed" or "marginalised" they supposedly are thus dividing them from each other and from mainstream society. The less statistically prominent a particular group is (less represented in a job field, media, education, population, etc.) in any western society based on their color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc., generally the more victim group status is afforded to them by social justice gatekeepers. Fashions change as rapidly in the world of cultural Marxism, Muslims are the currently favoured religious minority (that Muslim culture is sexist, homophobic and justifies rape of infidel women hasn't penetrated the SJWs self righteousness shields yet). Whites and males (straight white males especially) are at the bottom of the list of people who can be seen as victims of society and we are repeatedly targeted by SJW organizations and left wing online hate mobs as upholders of an absurd theory they call "the patriarchy" (Again, they reveal their ignorance by favouring the most patriarchal culture on the planet, Islam.

In the end however, Cultural Marxism harms every individual in the long run it harms the concept of individualism itself. The pensée unique has no rooms available for indiviuals.

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