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June 15, 2011
Intellectual Stakeout
- One Cʘsmos: Is Man the Problem or the Solution? One thing is certain: before the arrival of man, there were no problems in the cosmos, and therefore no solutions either. For roughly nine or ten billion of its thirteen or fourteen billion years, the cosmos was free of even the shadow of a hint of a problem, since it hadn't yet left mother nature's basement and gotten a Life.
- Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction? The more mainstream and popular eBay became, and the more familiar people became with auctions, the less exciting they seemed. As the novelty wore off, other factors, like convenience, grew more important. So, too, did things like shipping costs.
- The Real Reason Gay Men Don't Get Fat There is only one thing that keeps gay men in shape: fear. Yes, every gay—at least those of the stereotypical abdominal-obsessed physique that populates Fire Island and Palm Springs—is brought about because gay men are afraid that they will be alone for the rest of their lives.
- Animated Intelligence With such fare as The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, and the now-canceled King of the Hill and Futurama providing some of the most witty and insightful commentary available, modern society stands in a unique historic position—a children’s genre is now the only means through which adult themes are routinely expressed.
- Belmont Club ｻ What Happened to Recovery Summer? If the society were like a human body, an observer from Mars would notice that government has been growing on it faster than anything else. Unlike other private companies, which have a season of growth and which eventually die or fade, Government Inc appears to be immortal. It has no self-destruct code in its DNA.
- Confessions of an Apple Store Employee We get a lot of drug dealers who try to buy iPhones with fake IDs. You can tell them instantly just by how shady they act, and they know you know, but you obviously can't start accusing them of being drug dealers—they are customers, after all.
- An Effort by Deep-Sea Divers to Repair a New York Water Tunnel All tunnels leak, but this one is a sieve. For most of the last two decades, the Rondout-West Branch tunnel — 45 miles long, 13.5 feet wide, up to 1,200 feet below ground and responsible for ferrying half of New York City’s water supply from reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains — has been leaking some 20 million gallons a day.
- Tom Nelson: The Grey Lady parties like it's 2007: Well after most Americans have figured out the global warming hoax, in a single article, The New York Times is still blaming CO2 for allergies, Lyme disease, malaria, dengue fever, extreme weather, asthma, trauma, depression, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
- It was fairly common in medieval times to put east at the top. Which has a logic to it: when traveling across open terrain, the one consistent thing you had to orient yourself by when you broke camp in the morning was the sunrise. In fact, that’s the source of the term “orient yourself”: it literally means to face east. -- timoni.org
- From John C. Wright's Journal, Tolkien and Beowulf: In these modern times, when Christian and Postchristian struggle for the souls of men, and the popular picture of the Christian is of a book-burner rather than the preserver of pagan literature, it is often hard to recall the respect with which the Christian imagination held their pagan fore-bearers and preserved their works.
Posted by Vanderleun at June 15, 2011 6:42 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Re: Tolkien and Beowulf, fortitude and honor are ideals, beacons for the "lost" and standards for the "found", regardless of the god.
An argument for Creationism is that God designed us to need Him, to seek Him. And, ironically, it is the new church godlessness and/or the new church of Environmentalism which feels the need to snuff out Christianity to make room for their own god(s).
The reason Christianity is treated with less respect than it treated paganism is because we are witnessing a religious coup, a devolution set into motion by The Left, for The Left. Devolution of man, devolution of civilization, devolution of the very constructs of natural selection... The Left believes in man-made selection so long as they are in power.
In the conquering of one faith, insert a new god, complete with a new image, new powers, new rules and new "good guys" and, subsequently new "bad guys" as a means to a political and financial end.
Greed and power. It's the same old story repeated over and over again. Every new faith deems its god and people supreme, but the struggle to achieve fortitude and honor is universal and never ends well except in fiction.
In reality, the cycle will continue and the baby will be thrown out with the bath water until the earth finally stops spinning.
Westernized Muslims long to see their faith brought into "modernity". Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser is one of the outspoken leaders in this weak movement, a movement that has been upstaged by The Arab Spring.
And how does the American Left react? By enabling the most violent Muslims the world has to offer. Why? To conquer Christianity, full stop.
Devolution. Devolution of Muslims, devolution of Christians, devolution of Jews.
Ah, American Jews who remain loyal to the Democrats, the party which actively participates in Israel's destruction. If that isn't an example of human devolution, then I don't know what is!
Christian Europe is dead and Christian America is under full assault.
Israel is just Israel. It would simpler to answer the question "When haven't Jews been under attack?"
And Muslims... well.. they've had 1500 years to modernize. I think it's safe to say they are not only devolving, despite The Arab Spring, but they are demanding the rest of us devolve along with them.
Regardless, it is safe to say, that the concept of individual liberties endowed by a creator and protected by The United States Constitution had to have been inspired by a loving god, not a tyrannical god. And lucky for us, our God-given right to choose our god is also protected by the same document.
How tragic, how ungrateful how blasphemous to such a good God and how collectively suicidal it is that we would throw away the most perfect agreement in the history of mankind for the sake of destroying the very set of virtues that bore it, that being the enlightenment of the Protestant Reformation.
Arab Spring, my ass.
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Posted by: RedCarolina at June 16, 2011 10:24 AM
Family Guy is only rarely and accidentally adult in the sense of maturity. Simpsons used to be but has long since lost its humor and slouched into leftist nonsense.
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