A former 40 year Atheist analyzes Atheism, without resorting to theism, deism, or fantasy.
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If You Don't Value Truth, Then What DO You Value?
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If we say that the sane can be coaxed and persuaded to rationality, and we say that rationality presupposes logic, then what can we say of those who actively reject logic?
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Atheists have an obligation to give reasons in the form of logic and evidence for rejecting Theist theories.
Showing posts with label Leftism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leftism. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
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Sunday, February 25, 2018
Can't Make This Stuff Up
College librarians discover new ‘transmisic microaggressions’
Student Faces Expulsion After Saying a Math Symbol [square root symbol] Looks Like a Gun
CNN: Trump Shouldn't Call Psychopathic School Shooter a "Sicko" Because It's "Stigmatizing" to Psychopathic School Shooters
WHEN BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF SCOTT ISRAEL WAS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION, HE RESPONDED: ‘LIONS DON’T CARE ABOUT THE OPINIONS OF SHEEP.’
JAMES DAMORE: GOOGLE LEFTISTS ‘DIG THROUGH A PRIVATE CONSERVATIVE MAILING LIST’ TO GET PEOPLE FIRED.
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Atheism, Mutational Meltdown, and Mouse Utopia
While the correlation is less than perfect, the science works much better than Evolutionary tall tales.
The implication for humans is the same. Medication and preservation of the weakest also propagates through the human population as significant portions are no longer stressed into early demise. The generational effect within Britain is shown in the article linked.
The connection to Atheism and to Leftism becomes obvious, as AtheoLeftism fights for "free stuff" and "increased access for less qualified individuals", and use fictitious offenses to command power to themselves for no productive reason.
I suspect that the degradational affect on the amygdala in the brain is part of this mutational issue:
Atheists are more likely to be left handed, study findsReligiosity is a characteristic which has been shown to have a genetic component. Like left-handedness, deviation from religiosity might be a genetic deviation, or mutation. The significance of mutations in modern societies is modeled in the "Mouse Utopia" experiment:
Mouse Utopia and its Human ImplicationsMice living indulgently in a utopian environment fail to cull weaknesses that appear in the genome. In the real world, weaker mice would be removed by predation. In the mouse utopia they perpetuate the genetic mutations until the entire population can no longer self-sustain.
The implication for humans is the same. Medication and preservation of the weakest also propagates through the human population as significant portions are no longer stressed into early demise. The generational effect within Britain is shown in the article linked.
The connection to Atheism and to Leftism becomes obvious, as AtheoLeftism fights for "free stuff" and "increased access for less qualified individuals", and use fictitious offenses to command power to themselves for no productive reason.
I suspect that the degradational affect on the amygdala in the brain is part of this mutational issue:
The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans, Third Edition
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
How Africa Disappeared
The Zman:
ElephantsRemember when Obama's brother in Kenya said that it would be better for them if the whites returned to Kenya?
The reason for this is Africa, in particular, stands as proof against everything the modern Left says about the human condition. There are no success stories in Africa. Botswana is the closest you get, but it remains one of the poorest places on earth. The rest of Africa is a collection of failed states and basket-cases. Sierre Leone, for example, is no longer able to maintain its water supply and power grid. Nigeria is in a low-grade civil war with Muslims and Zimbabwe is the glaring example of the African failed state.
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You see, Africa is the example that counters everything our Progressive rulers believe about the world. If the blank slate is true, then Africans should have made great strides in closing the gap with the white world. If things like “institutional racism” were real things, Africa should be racing toward modernity now. If colonialism was the reason these places were so backward, a half century of freedom should have gone a long way toward curing the effects of the white man. Instead. everywhere Africa is worse than a half century ago.
The response from our Progressive rulers is to just ignore Africa. You see it in this National Review article on the end of Mugabe’s rule. The authoress is young, so she was poached in the warm liquids of multiculturalism her whole life. Her struggle to explain the decline of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe reads like a person trying to disarm a bomb while blindfolded. She not only avoids the elephant in the room, which is race, she leaves the reader with the impression that there is no such thing as elephants. Race does not exist.
That’s why Africa stopped being important to our Progressive rulers. It’s why the efforts of George Bush to do something about AIDS in Africa was largely ignored. You can’t talk about Africa without talking about race and race realism. Those are taboo subjects, so the whole continent may as well not exist. Bring up the subject in a room full of Progressives and watch their reaction. You won’t see fear. It will be confusion. The subject has been purged from the catechism, so it no longer exists. Africa is not cool anymore.
Friday, December 8, 2017
The Next Leftist Self-Annointment
Matthews: ‘The Worst You Can Say About Democrats Is They’re Too Pure’'Scuse me. I just had to hose off my computer after I snorted all over it. Best joke in a very long time... and I suspect that the Leftocrats will go with that as their motto next year - "Vote Dem; We're TOO Pure" and "Need morals? Let us cook some up for you!".
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Jeff Goldstein, on Alt Right
I told you all before and I'll repeat it now: the alt right is not conservative, and it is every bit as driven by identity politics and blood essentialism as the prog left.Anti-intellectual sophistry, eh? In the face of actual, documented, daily hate? Jeff: are you impaired in some data input manner?
Antifa, BLM, CAIR, the New Black Panthers, La Raza, the Pussy Hatters, the KKK -- these are all identity movements and all formed and animated by the kind of identity politics championed by the left, and legitimated by the likes of Edward Said and other academic cultural Marxists who recognized the way to power was to divide, and then control, particular identity groups, whose narratives they seek to create and police.
The alt-right is only "right wing" in the continental sense. The American conservative is classically liberal, while the American progressive is Fabian socialist.
Don't listen to labels; follow the assumptions made by each movement -- the alt right, the prog left -- and you'll soon recognize that they are the same. This is tribalism, no more and no less. And when tribes are at odds, they clash over territory -- be it physical territory or political power. What we are witnessing is an attempt to corrupt the ideals of a propositional nation based on individualism and individual universal rights (and that's how our Constitutional republic is designed to operate) -- a lesson Google's pillorying of a software engineer as "anti-diversity" should have made clear. Intolerance is a hallmark of every authoritarian movement. Simply pretending some intolerance is more noble, which is affected by self-servingly dismissing dissenters as purveyors of "hate," is a ham-fisted surrender to anti-intellectual sophistry.
You should reject this archaic collectivism from whatever group espouses it, because in the end it is simply anti-individualism dressed in mob attire to bolster cowardice and bigotry in numbers.
You were warned.
The inability to determine content seems endemic to these apologists who insist that the Alt-Right is merely identity. Of course it is identity! Buckley conservatism is an identity. RINO is an identity. Antifa is an identity. BLM is an identity. The Alt-Right was assigned its own identity, and named itself.
Today the Left has assigned everyone to an identity, usually with a false proposition for a name. For example, Antifa is actually fascist, communist and socialist. The Democrat National Committee is anti-white, and therefore black-power as their identity. The Republicans are inept, and that's their identity. Humans with testicles are male: that's their identity regardless of any of their claims to the contrary. If you don't recognize your identity, you are an underground dweller.
Some identities want full control over the other identities. That is the main thrust of assigning identities in the first place - Marxist Class War requires it. And that is what this "culture war" has devolved into: war for control of all aspects of everyone's lives. Google wants it. Facebook wants it. Antifa wants it. The BLM/DNC wants it.
The Alt-Right wants to be left alone. But its identity is "NOT Leftist, fascist, communist or other socialist". This tribalism has been forced on them. The Alt-right found its tribe the hard way. Conservatives as a tribe are actually Leftist toadies. Traditional liberalism became the Alt-Right (which is why it is defamed as White Nationalism).
So they cannot be left alone, under the rules of engagement in place by the Left (fascists, communists and other socialists). And they are forced to act in order to thwart their marginalization/enslavement into Re-Education camps.
Ignore THAT at your own peril, Goldstein.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Pre-Frontal Attack?
After WWI, the French built a very long series of fortified bunkers and mounds near the German border in response to the trench warfare that had been so devastating. They had created what was the essence of a huge trench defense which was hundreds of miles long. This major defensive structure was called the Maginot Line, and it was expected to protect France from German invasion.
The Germans did invade, in what became WWII. But they did not attack this French structure head-on. The Germans came at the defenses from the side, starting from near Belgium, and wiped out the Maginot line easily.
Today the culture-driving entities are entrenched. Universities, government, education and much of "big" business are completely controlled by the communist dogs of the Left. There is free speech only for Leftists in the universities, more intrusive regulation from the government, more maleducation from the government-driven education establishment, and Leftist billionaire psychos who got filthy rich from a single program who now control social media and on-line speech with Leftist exclusionary codes. There is tolerance only for themselves; free speech only for themselves; inclusion based on skin color and exclusion based on ideology. Their behavior is totalitarian while pleading anti-fascism (the biggest indicator of ignorance and inverted mentalities of those who think only with their "feelz", and get their information from CNN/NPR). The Leftist path to destruction of all which they hate is well underway.
But those elitist class structures are all vulnerable, like the Maginot Line, from the side.
A great example is the Leftist University of Missouri, which has decreased enrollment in the double digits, and significantly decreased funding from alumni. The government is being re-built from the top-down. Education, at least public education, will likely be rebuilt both top-down and by self-strangulation. Entire Leftist cities will fall further into financial calamity; several have already lost their ability to borrow due to their leftist-drive to use other people's money on Leftist promises which cannot self-sustain. There are now alternative choices for internet structures, such as duckduckgo for honest search, and infogalactic for honest encyclopedic information.
The one aspect of the Leftist hegemony that will not (easily) be defeated is the mind-set in the individual Leftist: the Leftist cannot release the arrogance, the self-derived superiority and deeply held elitist self-image. People who depend on their class to give themselves "meaning" will not have the ability to release their self-indulgence in the face of becoming average, ordinary humans: members of the wrong class. It will require either massive help for these narcissists, or force to deny them power over others.
Until the Left gives up (or is forceably restrained from) Class War and its status as "saviors", "messiahs" of their perpetually designated Victimhood Classes (usually also themselves), there will be no peace.
So the real question is just this: what must be done to regain a sane society, one which is inhabited by those who leave each other alone, except to help when asked?
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Cause and Effect... and Reversion to the Mean
Cause:
Perhaps the largest Leftist internal non-coherence breaks the spell for rational people: the Left insists on a world that is non-racist, and then tells whites that they are genetically racist. This is eliminationist on its face, and too far into the muck to be redeemed. By declaring war on whites, the Left has withdrawn into a minority position. Even though there are obviously some white SJWs who are against whites, many of the non-white minorities will see the totalitarian viciousness of this (final) race war by the Democrat/Leftist Marxists.
It's still a most interesting time to be alive... and awake, not woke.
Students who avoid making eye contact could be guilty of racism, Oxford University saysEffect:
Gen Z ridicules Leftist teachers: How the Left Blew their Entire Racist LoadHas the pendulum reached peak Leftism?
Have We Already Reached Peak Leftism?Personally, I am encouraged by the great millenial battle at Berkeley. There appear to be enough free speech advocates amongst millennials that they more than balanced the Antifa - Democrats' KKK of the 21st century - and gave them an embarrassing thumping and rout. This is not the stuff of cultural change, of course, but it is an indicator that the entire millennial generation was not captured by education's Leftist indoctrination. And perhaps GenZ is a further glimmer of hope.
"In short, the bad news for us is that the Left dominates the cultural high ground. The good news is that they’ve gone about as far as they can go.
Those 90-95 percent levels of ideological uniformity are as high as you can achieve without the actual imposition of censorship. Indeed, within these fields, you can often observe some of the psychology of a dictatorship: a cloying groupthink in which ideological enforcers police the slightest deviation and dissenters feel that they have to hide their true views if they want to keep their jobs. But without the ability to use actual force to suppress dissenters, the Left cannot go any farther.
Yet you can see why the Left would like to get rid of those last few holdouts, because they provide the germ for a resurgence of heretical views. And that is what should absolutely terrify the Left: the prospect of reversion to the mean."
Perhaps the largest Leftist internal non-coherence breaks the spell for rational people: the Left insists on a world that is non-racist, and then tells whites that they are genetically racist. This is eliminationist on its face, and too far into the muck to be redeemed. By declaring war on whites, the Left has withdrawn into a minority position. Even though there are obviously some white SJWs who are against whites, many of the non-white minorities will see the totalitarian viciousness of this (final) race war by the Democrat/Leftist Marxists.
It's still a most interesting time to be alive... and awake, not woke.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Yeah, This Won't Fly With The CNTL-Left: They Apologize FOR America, not TO America
I'm a Democrat and it's time for our party to apologize to AmericaOR, you could bolt the CNTL-Left and join the ALT-Right. No real reason to be a Donk, ya know.
Saturday, February 4, 2017
If You Think the USA Is Whacky, Try Canada
The Leftist PM recognizes the VOID:
Trudeau says Canada has no ‘core identity’Therefore, Canada is "Post-National".
"The consensus from Canada’s elites has been to condemn the very idea of listing our values, let alone asking newcomers to respect and adhere to them.The lure of One-World Government (no national boundaries), under total Leftist control of course, is seductive. Because: Love, doncha know. Make everybody LOVE everybody else, and presto: utopia.
But a far more controversial idea about Canadian values and identity was recently proposed by our very own prime minister. And the media barely batted an eyelash.
Late last year, Justin Trudeau told the New York Times that Canada is becoming a new kind of country, not defined by our history or European national origins, but by a “pan-cultural heritage”.
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” Trudeau said, concluding that he sees Canada as “the first post-national state.”
Even the New York Times called the suggestion “radical.”
"He doesn’t think there is anything special about Canadian history or traditions.Trudeau is Canada's version of Obama, only stupider... if that's even possible.
Instead, he suggests Canada is nothing but an intellectual construct and a hodgepodge of various people, from various backgrounds, who just happen to live side by side in the territory known as Canada.
Trudeau seems embarrassed, even ashamed of our Western culture and values.
Far from standing up for Canada and promoting our core principles at home and abroad, Trudeau frequently apologizes for Canada.
That’s why he feels no shame in speaking at a segregated mosque, where women and girls are forbidden from entering through the front door, or sitting in the main hall.
He can call himself a “feminist” while also tolerating the subjugation and segregation of women, when it suits his political interests.
That is also why, while in China, Trudeau told the one-party authoritarian state that Canada, too, is imperfect when it comes to human rights.
Trudeau blurred the distinction between Canada’s peaceful, free society and that of a communist dictatorship.
He equated Canada — a democratic country that always strives for peace, justice, liberty and equality — to a closed regime with a sordid history."
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