Theology for Dummies, AKA atheism.
Wokeness is the ruling class high on estrogen.
Some people think they are able to manage their lives without the state -- like a host in no need of parasites.
The desire to reimagine the police is a consequence of imagining them. In other words, delusions are cured by more of them.
For the left, it's an easy choice between St. George and Uncle Tim. Nothing triggers them like a black person who doesn't speak like a retarded child or behave like a raging psychopath.
If less than 6% of the population commits more than 50% of crime, we need to reimagine statistics.
Disparate impact will not be eliminated until there is equality of outcome between the gifted and stupid.
Standards are barriers to equality. In order to equalize slam dunks we need to either lower the basket or eliminate it entirely.
Equity is achievable, but only with more inequality between citizens and elites.
You know you're privileged when your insanity not only costs you nothing but assures a lucrative career in journalism, academia, or politics.
Imaginary oppression is license to oppress. In Christianity, the holy one was an innocent victim. For the left, the victim is the innocent and holy one.
Social justice is just the left's appeal to your heart on behalf of its fist.
We are guided by continuous feedback from reality. The left used to just ignore the messages, now they shoot the messenger.
Progressive attacks on free speech are an autoimmune disorder of the soul.
Wisdom puts limits on mere knowledge. Without it we are limited by the arbitrary limits of our own ideology.
Ideology is reality enclosed in thought. Reality is the transformation of uncontainable being to thought and knowledge.
The primordial revelation consists of: 1) the intelligible object, 2) the intelligent subject, and 3) the flow between them. Which presumes an even more primordial link between intelligences, or between Subject and subjects.
Is comes from nature, ought from God, must from the state. State compulsion to do what we oughtn't, or to pretend nature is what it isn't, is justification for revolution.
In the absence of freedom there is no meaning. Doctrines that deny free will aren't even meaningless.
11 comments:
Every one of these needs the angry crying NPC character as a followup.
Hello. Great post, more new aphorisms to read and ponder. I'll need some help unpacking a few of them:
"If less than 6% of the population commits more than 50% of crime, we need to reimagine statistics." Is this a real thing? If so, who or what is the 6%? I've never seen anything like that in print before.
"Wokeness is the ruling class high on estrogen." Please explain. What is wokeness and how is wokeness affected by estrogen? This is like another language you're speaking here; there is no precedent for this concept that I am aware of.
"Disparate impact will not be eliminated until there is equality of outcome between the gifted and stupid." For this I need to know what a disparate impact is, why it should be eliminated, and who is gifted and who is stupid and how can you determine that. Need some help here.
"You know you're privileged when your insanity not only costs you nothing but assures a lucrative career in journalism, academia, or politics." I happen to be a professor of Journalism, and also an incumbent public official. So am I privileged? Am I insane? Probably a little of both. So this one I could relate to. And I'm rich too.
-Citizen X
Wut, more aphorisms? C'mon. Get with the program and give us a real post.
He who wishes to influence is prolix. Brevity is an indication of respect for the reader.
Painting with thalo blue can lead to many happy accidents. And so can alizarin crimson.
But sap green is where all the squirrels live.
This aphorism:
"Is comes from nature, ought from God, must from the state." is quite pithy. I like it.
Now, the must from the state includes all the statutes and regulations that comprise rule-of-law, so I don't take all that as a bad thing.
There are boundaries to prevent wicked men and women from running amok; the baton, the pepper spray, the shotgun. These are the instruments by which order is kept.
When law enforcement folk start breaking regulations and statutes, then you get rioting. The police have to be very moral and scrupulous people. It is a tall order since there is a flood tide of brigands and ne'er-do-wells to contend with.
Right now the left is in control of the police apparatus and so we shall see if they ensure we have an orderly society where rule-of-law is respected and the enforcers are beyond reproach.
As for the rest of you, move along. Nothing to see here.
The concept of “Rule of Law” fails because most folks are blithering idiots. Even if you give them rule books to memorize they’ll still find ways to believe and rationalize whatever dear leader or dear culture de jour tells them to regardless of whatever’s been proven true in the past. Even if that rule book is the Bible, they’ll still cherry pick verses to rationalize.
Should we grant these idiots the freedom to do whatever dear leader or dear culture tells them to regardless of what’s been proven true in the past? Will this just lead to a revival of the angry mob stonings and witch burnings of old? Or worse, forced-cry-acting during dear leaders funeral processions and MAGA rallies? I think that this may be beyond anybody’s pay grade and those who think themselves superior should be stoned and then witch-burned. But that’s just me.
Should only those who pass batteries of extensive testings be allowed into dear leader positions? And if they fail to perform per predetermined specs, they be removed? Will these regs only lead to My Pillow guys yelling that elections were stolen and that blithering idiots who storm capitols without any proof should be given free pillows? Again, beyond my pay grade. Both Karl Marx and Milton Friedman tried and failed.
Hold on a sec. Both Karl Marx and Milton Friedman were Jews. The plot thickens.
God continues to do a spectacular job with the universe, when we refuse to play ball we have to accept the consequences.
"In the absence of freedom there is no meaning. Doctrines that deny free will aren't even meaningless."
Truly meaningful.
On behalf of cetaceans everywhere I thank you for this post, which celebrates freedom. In the open ocean, whales treasure free will and the blessed room to move in all directions. Our way is not to conform; we innovate on the wide waters. We decide which fish to eat, which to let pass. Each whale, dolphin, and porpoise is a an ambassador of freedom in this world; the waters ring with our songs.
Except for the orcas. Now they are another matter altogether. Their speech is ugly. Their minds are ugly. Are they even cetaceans? Sometimes we are not sure.
But in the main, are in solidarity with you. Ye princes of land, lurching around on your spit tails upon dry beaches and trails, how you can stand it we don't know. You have your domain, and we ours.
Regards, Rorqual, big one, blowing. Thar I blow.
When you think about it, being held captive to do tricks for crowds of humans who believe in freedom seems pretty fucked up. It’d be less so if they dropped a whale into our tank so we could tear it apart, freely. I’d think that’d be closer to human natural law reality too, methinks. But I guess you humans do need your little moral superiorities.
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