Friday, May 29, 2009

History of the internet part 3.5- Word-forged.

Well, I said in the last one I'd flesh out the history of Wordforge someday.
The last chapter gave a fairly good overview, but here goes...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Start the revolution without me, fellas.

Revolution.

Secession.

Balkanization.

There's a raging hardon lately for at least one of the above in various circles.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

War: serious fucking business.

A little Lord Of The Flies kid (probably Todd Junior) wants the other Lord Of The Flies kid's territory, and/or stuff.

So, naturally, he smashes his head in with a rock.
Thus, he gets his territory AND stuff.

Thus is born banditry.

Multiply the bandits, make them "grown up", and you've got war.

Draw lines where the bandits get tired of fighting each other, you've got countries.

Clump enough countries together, you get a superpower.

Draw new lines on the map where the superpower wants some more stuff, you get colonies.

Draw more lines where the colonies "expand", you sooner or later end up with a new country.
Given enough time, another superpower.

Rinse, repeat.

So, war is the serious fucking business of putting the lines on the maps for the Atlas people to color in with their crayons.

They never use blood red though, that'd be too on the nose.

Every now and then, you get a "good war", and those are "sacred", and hands off.

Y'know, like when you have to topple a monster dictator, who became a monster because his country was too decimated to keep proper track of its mentally ill, because some dopey Archduke no one really liked was shot by a guy with syphilis.

Y'know, serious fucking business.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Dicky-Pedia: The Rant.

Well, this one should theoretically be easy, since good ol' Dicky-Pedia should do all the heavy lifting.

Well, I constructed that little beut as a Swiss army knife of arguments, that I think are handy, and need to be kept at the ready.

And, as I sort of explained in a previous post, by having them all inter-linked, and linked to a bunch of my earlier rants, and thus interlinking a bunch of those, it's now a sort of Swiss army knife of Swiss army knives.

Very handy.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

They need to be herded.

Given the mindset undeniably exists that people need to be made to be afraid, and given that this is essentially herding people, and given that people do in fact fear monger, then these fear mongers clearly do think they have the need, and the right to herd people.
And given that such people exploit religion among their tools, then they are herding people with religion.
And given that people defend a system that does this, they too (whether they're aware of it or not) think people need to be herded by religion.
Even if they don't happen to believe in it.

That "people need to be herded with religion", offends people as a phrase doesn't change these essential facts.

What would you rather I call it?

Animals aren't exactly herded with rational debate, and clear arguments for sane ideas that they agree and consent to.

And using something as primal and raw as fear to manipulate people for a desired result isn't exactly along that level of clearheaded honesty.

So, it is fundamentally treating people like animals.

It is herding.

If you have trouble thinking that process is a-okay while calling it that, that's your problem, not mine.

Fear: The Rant.

A little red car pulls into the driveway.
It's Todd, and he's pissed.
Rough day at the salt mines.
"That bitch had better have dinner on the table", he thinks to himself.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sophisticated Theology

A meaningless term, once one ponders whatever the fuck "UNsophisticated theology", might be.

How basic can the arguments get?
"I believe it, because I believe it, SO THERE!!"??

Would that even be "theology"?

Therefore, it's really plain old theology with an important sounding name.

Used as a term of smugness, mostly against atheism.

Sometimes used as a term of smugness against theism, but seemingly only in its most overtly and undeniably violent/perverted excesses.

Or, if the person in question is cornered in a debate by being faced with the ludicrous/contradictory/abhorrent notions of theists texts.

"That's a straw man! That's not the God I recognize/worship! Clearly you haven't read any books on sophisticated theology!".

Thus of course, divorcing themselves from of any theists in the vicinity who take a mainline literalist interpretation of said texts.
Yet they'll turn right around and seek backup from them.

Similar on the surface to "sophisticated spirituality", but unlike the vague boogedy of "spirituality", those who bring "sophisticated theology", into the discussion are either directly defending the God of theism, or (as a debate construct only, it seems) a vague fuzzy Deist God, who only seems to exists as some sense of "the supernatural", camouflaged as "the transcendent", which somehow morphs back into the God of theism via the Bible being "psychologically true", or some such.

So, again, it's the same old theology with a pretty name.

Which makes it just another tool in the bag of tricks of old time theology.

And like old fashioned theology, it all boils down in the end to faith.

(See here for how the Bible itself pops the bubble of these twits)

(Also see "Religion", "organized religion", Holy", & "Sacred")

Even more random audio foolishness.

Worst ones yet!!
*Idiot grin of sarcastic enthusiasm*

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

The religious argument.

Once you nitpick away all the "sophisticated", defenses, it pretty much boils down to this...

(With Apollo playing religion, the temple representing "the sacred", and The U.S.S. Enterprise representing logic)

PPPHHHHHTTT!!!!!!



PPPPHHHHHTTTTT!!!!!



STOP!!! STOP!!! STOOOOOP!!!!!!



...that's pretty much it...
Correct me if you think I missed a finer point...

Friday, May 15, 2009

Audioblogs triple play!!

Consolidating. :)

Meaningless slogans 2- advertising!


The biggest bummy in the world!

Movie rules!

Enjoy!

Meaningless slogans 2- Advertising (audio version)

Text version.
(Meaningless slogans 2- Advertising)

Advertising - Me

The biggest bummy in the world!! (audio version)

Text version..
(The biggest bummy in the world)

Biggest bummy - Me

Movie rules (audio version)

Text version.
(Movie rules)

movies - Me

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Why was I born?

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Metaphysics Of Pussy.

This one's rather raunchy, no kids allowed.

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People are fucking boring.

So much so, It intruded into my dreams once.
Wrote it down at the time, dug it up just now, here's how it goes...

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Friday, May 8, 2009

Meaningless Slogans (audio version)

My best yet! :D

Text version.
(Meaningless Slogans)


Slogans - Me

Little Red Cars. (Audio version)

Another audio blog!

Text version.
(Little Red Cars)

Little Red Cars - Me

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Oh for crying out loud (part 2)

Did some curious Googling to see what I'm linked to....and I seem to be on the list of Virginia blogs at NetRightNation.

Course, you'll have to do a page search, I'm low on a loong list.

Um...yeah....if you're reading this having come from NetRightNation,..um....I'm neither from Virginia, nor conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

Hmm...maybe this is some kind of capricious monkey business in return for me mindlessly answering that "do you like Obama?", poll that was linked on TrekMovie.com, and finding out after I had taken it, it was run by WorldNetDaily, and then in turn having myself taken off their spam list.

I seem to recall one of the spams mentioning the impending creation of this NRN atrocity.

Anyway, now you know, NRN is a WND front.

And that I don't dislike Obama.
Yet.

Anyway, lesson of the day, don't take polls.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Transcendent.

Given the meaninglessness of "supernatural", the only meaningful definitions would be 1a, 1b, and 4 from Merriam-Webster.

Given the sloppy Kantian sense of the word, it's no wonder it's relentlessly confused with "the supernatural".

Deliberately and stubbornly so by many of "the spiritual", and the religious.

Supernatural.

A meaningless nonsense term.

From Merriam-Webster...

Note "beyond the visible universe", and "transcend the laws of nature".

If something is "beyond the visible universe", and therefore undetectable in this universe, then it can't truly be said to exist in any meaningful fashion, and one is under no obligation to entertain the notion that it does.
The only way to do so is on faith.

If it is detectable in this universe, then it is part of it, subject to scientific inquiry and therefore part of nature.

Likewise, if one "transcends the laws of nature", and this event can be observed and studied, then this becomes part of scientific inquiry, and thus is part of the laws of nature.

Thus, any attempt at defining "supernatural", defines itself out of existence.

It's quite literally meaningless.

(Also see "transcendent")

Monday, May 4, 2009

More consolidated updates.

Tackled "the spiritual", and its offshoots "spirituality", and "sophisticated spirituality".

Dived head first into examining "faith", and its wishy-washy cousin "faith in faith".

And I topped it off with a sober estimation of "religion", its brutish bludgeon "organized religion", and their mutual waste product, the concept of "blasphemy".

And, as with the last consolidation, I retro linked all these terms into my previous rants for a nice little cross-reference effect.

Which is why I actually wrote all these as mini-posts in the first place, to have a kind of "Devil's dictionary", thing going on.
Sort of a fragmented rant scattered all over the blog.

Faith.

To take the existence of the object of "the sacred", and/or "the holy", on gut feeling.

Gut feeling of course, being the basis for "the sacred", and "the holy", in the first place.

If you doubt it's just gut feeling, see the problems with "the transcendent", and "the supernatural".

(See this rant for a deeper contemplation on the subject)

(Also see "faith in faith")

Organized religion.

Religious folks gathered into a political bloc.

(Also see Religion)

Religion.

When mythology and/or spirituality decays into orthodoxy.

(See here for a more thorough dissection)

(Also see "organized religion", & "sophisticated theology")

Blasphemy.

To violate "the sacred", by merely not finding it sacred.

(See here for a more thorough dissection)

(Also see "holy")

Faith in faith.

Also known as "belief in belief".

Practiced by the "spiritual", and hypocritical atheists.

Basically, they've rejected mainline religion for themselves, yet feel the need to defend it.

Sort of a by-proxy sense of "the sacred", on behalf of an imaginary other.

In its nastier incarnations, will play the "it's bigotry!", defense, or nastiest of all, the contempt-for-mankind riddled "they need to be herded!", argument as displayed by types like Vox Day and Leo Strauss.

(Also see "faith")

Sophisticated spirituality.

"Spirituality", without the nastiness, but still the hurt feelings if you don't find their stuff "sacred".

Also used as a term of smugness against organized religion, and/or the atheists who bash it.

Ex. "I agree with (insert outspoken celebrity atheist) about organized religion, but he makes no accommodation/acknowledgment to sophisticated spirituality".

(Also see "sophisticated theology")

Spiritual.

When a person practices "spirituality", or "sophisticated spirituality".

And/or to confuse the transcendent with the supernatural.

And/or to have "faith in faith".

(Also sometimes claimed as an adjective by so-called practitioners of so-called "sophisticated theology")

Spirituality.

When a person rejects mainline religion, but doesn't want to let go of "the sacred", and "the holy".

This is known as "being spiritual".

Won't sue or kill you as when the organized religions get offended over what they find "sacred", but they'll still get verbally nasty.

At the very least, pissy.

In pissy mode, they'll likely attempt to show that "science is a faith", and call other disciplines that bear no relation to spirituality "woo-woo", and "mumbo-jumbo", and have no trouble whatever applying those labels to other religions and spiritualities.

(Also see "sophisticated spirituality")

Consolidating today's updates.

Broke down the bullshit surrounding "the sacred", and "the holy".

Said all that needed to be said about the whole "pro-life", deal.

Gave a quick capsule review of "Red Dawn", in anticipation of the upcoming remake.

Holy.

Same as "sacred", as far as I can tell, except this flavor is specifically for religion.

(Also see "blasphemy", & "faith")

Red Dawn.

Piece of shit.

Pro-life.

Anti-woman.

Case closed.

Sacred.

Nearest I can figure, this is how this whole "sacred", idea works.

A person arbitrarily picks an object, or idea, or set of ideas, decides it's not only very special to them, but that it should be very special to you, and if it isn't, they get to have hurt feelings.

And if society backs up their special feelings, they get to sue you, hurt you, or kill you over it.

Neat trick.

(Also see "faith", "holy", and "blasphemy")

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Song of the week 3!!

Friday, May 1, 2009

"The Irrational Atheist"

"The Irrational Atheist", by Vox Day.

Someone sent me a free e-copy of this yesterday.

Spent 4 hours half reading, half skimming it.
Was hoping for some morbid chuckles.
It didn't disappoint.
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