February 2012
1 post
Spirituality instead of Religion
It’s a brand new polish, for the same old turd! Try it today!
January 2012
1 post
The end of the world
The world will not end. This shit will go on forever. Such is life.
December 2011
1 post
Valid criticism
Tolerance is a good thing, but like everything else in life, it’s essential that it’s understood properly. There is a terrible misunderstanding going around that to be tolerant is to draw no distinctions between any beliefs. Any two opinions are just as valid, and everyone’s opinion is equal. Don’t say anything rude to anybody, because they have every bit as much right to...
November 2011
1 post
False Compromise
There’s an idea going around that if you have a disagreement with someone, it’s best to accept a middle ground. This is only correct if it’s a matter of opinion, and neither position is absurd. For instance, say one person thinks that the world population should be controlled by social order, education and a program of information regarding contraception. Someone else says that...
October 2011
2 posts
E.V.Debs, on being convicted of the sedition act,...
Your Honor, I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice.
I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due time they will...
Science and the future
People talk up how well science explains stuff, and discovers stuff. It’s usually good for explaining stuff and good at discovering stuff, but don’t forget one other thing, what some people consider to be the essential part of science. Science, generally is an attempt to counterfeit a super power: the ability to see the future. We take this for granted, but take to seconds to think...
July 2011
1 post
Foundations of truth
What is it for something to be true? Trivial answers would be that true things are facts, or true things have been proven, or that the something is true is something actual. These are trivial answers, lacking the depth to explain, they only restate. Religious fundamentalists would say that the truth is the word of God. A casual atheist would say something true is something proven by science.
...
June 2011
6 posts
Our unfair advantage.
The left has an advantage over the religious right that I believe gives us a good chance at success: the right does not understand what it is talking about. As such, they waste resources and time and fight ineffectively. They try to fight the demonic forces of homosexuality and socialism with prayer. That is wonderful, instead of doing anything useful, they talk to their imaginary sky-man. The...
The S-word.
A few days ago, the NDP national convention decided to delay the vote on whether the word socialist ought to be dropped from the parties constitution. It’s not the values or ideals that are disputed, but the word. Because socialist has become such a pejorative term in north America since the cold war, the NDP is considering dropping the word to gain broader appeal to people who are...
Aggressive laziness
Regular laziness is passive, it avoids current work, because it doesn’t want to do any work. It’s the lazy that doesn’t mow the lawn because it doesn’t realize the drop in property value when the lawn turns entirely to weeds and rusting car parts means it will need a second job if it wants to buy a new house when the current house rots and collapses. Aggressive laziness has...
Campbell's razor
I would like to suggest people follow a general rule for deciding the preferred theory. All other things being equal, the most disappointing and mundane theory is to be preferred. This rule favours theories involving accidents, incompetence and corruption over conspiracy theories. It favours the placebo effect and self-deception and lying over new-age medicine. It also favours problems caused by...
Philosophy without "why?"
I don’t encourage the use of “why?” it’s overly vague, and allows a myriad of subtle linguistic dodges. When you next use “why?”, try to determine which sense you intend the word in. Many “Why?” type questions derive their difficulty from the indeterminacy of the word “why?”, rather than the actual complexity of the question. The question...
May 2011
1 post
Increasing Freedom
When any freedom is given, another is necessarily taken away. This is not always obvious. To defend freedom in the abstract is impossible. Particular freedoms must be favoured. If people have the freedom to work whatever job they can get without any government interference ensuring they have jobs, they give up the freedom to live without fear of starvation and poverty. If someone has the freedom...
April 2011
5 posts
How to be sure you are right
Only speak in tautologies.
The FOLC
Now, Canada is a constitutional monarchy. Which is stupid, we sure don’t recognize the right of the royal family to rule. So it seems like we should just politely tell them we’re done with them and that democracy is fine with us, the monarchs can go hump themselves with their ridiculous fame and stupidly over-inflated fortune. But we don’t want to. Because the Queen has been a...
6.522
Those who believe they can prove there is nothing mystical can truly only ever prove that their method is not one that can include anything mystical. Nothing is ever found except through faith. Perhaps I am going crazy, but I can’t accept science as anything more than a limited part of a whole.
Secular Exorcism
Has someone you love been babbling about stupid crap, saying things like:
The Earth is only 4000 years old.
Evolution is a theory, and not rational to believe in.
Homosexuality is a sin.
The Bible is the word of God.
Or else they’ve been mysteriously waking up early and wasting their Sundays, generally saying that magic sky beings help them or that they must do work for ‘The...
March 2011
4 posts
Anti-mice-ism
Once there was a different country run by mice, who had replaced their cat rulers. They took the country, and they ran it for a while, but a cat, cleverly disguised as a mouse snuck in, killed and ate a few select mice, took over and ran the country back into the ground, the same way the cats had been doing originally.
Then, in the other country of mice, the ruling cats pointed to the second...
Tommy Douglas
This a story he used to tell on the campaign trail, and I love it and so should you, I got it here (http://www.saskndp.com/history/mouseland.php3) and I’m reasonably sure they won’t mind me spreading their stuff.:
It’s the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as...
Wat?
1.Democracy is a rule of the majority.
2.America is a democracy.
3.The poorer 80% of Americans have only 15% of the wealth.
4.So the poor 80% rule America.
5.This 80% does not have it in their best interests to maintain this economic system.
6.So this 80% will use their democratic power to change the economic system to something more egalitarian.
Yet (6) is not happening. But if it was...
Here's one for Debs.
Everybody approves of a war on poverty, but not quite everyone realizes that to provide the poor with resources, those with superfluous resources will have to give those up. The people with too little are a direct result of those with too much. Consider a man who owns a lake. If he does not give up some of his water when there is a drought, the water is essentially his fault. Even if he dug the...
February 2011
2 posts
Don't Panic
Whatever happens, just try to make it look cool. Nobody can ask for much more than that.
January 2011
3 posts
Pity and Support
A man is walking down the street and sees someone with a shattered leg in the middle of the road, reaching for a gun just out of his reach. The man in the road says “Please help me, I don’t want to live anymore. Just help me get the gun.” And the man on the sidewalk takes the gun and says “Just walk it off, champ.” and leaves.
Progress
The worst decision we made was teaching people either what they should do, or the skills to do things. Now it’s a goddamn miracle to find someone who knows how to do both.
Awesomeness poisoning
So it turns out you can only be so awesome before it sort of becomes a medical problem. I’m on a sort of treatment to keep my veins from bursting with awesomeness. I have to watch 3 hours of daytime TV a day, and not make any witty comments.
December 2010
5 posts
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November 2010
6 posts
Capitalism and Democracy
In capitalism, the economy that controls how people are fed, clothed, sheltered and educated is run by successful private capitalists. These people are lucky and/or skilled at exploiting their employees. To reward them for their shrewdness, they get to control part of the economy. Since the economy answers basic needs the government ought to answer, there is no reason a democratic society lets...
October 2010
3 posts
Telemarketer VS. Brother Shake
A telemarketer calls, my brother picks up
“Hello, is ________(our dad’s name) home?”
My brother replies in his Master Shake impression (which is really good).
“OH!… He’s dead!.”
Then he hangs up. I thought I had issues. And I did, but this kid, he’s really something…
Welcome back to the Union
Problem with America: The reabsorption of the Confederacy was done in a half assed way, and so some parts of the south are still trapped in 1865, trying to pretend they didn’t lose that war.
September 2010
2 posts
Is your job a waste of time?
Unnecessary workers: Everyone has to go to government buildings every three years and make a case for why what they’re doing in their career has a positive value on society. If they can’t do it, their job is eliminated. To prevent mass poverty and job loss, the minimum legal wage will rise, and the maximum hours permitted in a shift will drop. This creates more jobs paying a living...
So, anyways...
My face has been stuck in a hole because I thought it would fit. Now I want you all to pay attention to me again while I forget about his blog and continue not posting. Remember, the limits of your language of your language are the limits of your world.
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
1 tag
Old, but great. If you're stupid. →
Audio from cops and Zelda bonded to make this monstrosity.
March 2010
2 posts
Dance to a Silent Song
Things go up and things go down
Everything moves and shakes to the music,and you never hear the rythym
It’s a puppet show narrated in a language you don’t know
It’s white light coming out black from the other side of the prism
The sun shines bright when you fall asleep, but you wake up in snow
Things go up and things go down
Everything moves and shakes to the music, and...
SEALAB 2021
WATCH IT, WATCH IT, WATCH IT!
February 2010
3 posts
