tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4798302405879901952024-03-15T22:41:22.180-04:00IliocentrismIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comBlogger1243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-36085376611467943372024-03-15T14:28:00.007-04:002024-03-15T22:40:47.923-04:00Matt Walsh and "GamerGate 2.0"You, Gentle Reader, may not have heard of the current outrage among "Gamers" directed at Matt Walsh over his recent video remarks (at Daily Wire) concerning "GamerGate 2.0" For that matter, you almost certainly never heard of "GamerGate 1.0", which was about 10 years ago.Here is my take on the outrage of the "Gamers" --1) They are reacting like spoiled children throwing a tantrum, even though Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-13801450617895165572024-03-12T15:16:00.005-04:002024-03-12T19:29:39.466-04:00Comes the Word, Comes the DayComment by nihilist2christian:"Some day we are going to look back on this time and these practices the same way we view lobotomy, and those practising it in the same way we see people like Josef Mengele."The arrival of that day requires, at a minimum, that sane people *refuse* to cooperate with their false language. Non-exhaustively, and in no particular order:NEVER use ‘gender’ to refer to ‘sex’Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-52495776725185080542024-03-02T19:39:00.003-05:002024-03-03T02:37:46.870-05:00False Dichotomy: Pelagianism or Calvinism Below is my response (with a minor edit or two) to an internet friend's recent blog post: You Are Saved By Your Works"You Are Saved By Your
Works ... because you're the only
variable in the equation."
<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> The heresy expressed here is call
'Pelagianism'. While
The One True Bureaucracy has *officially* condemned this belief as heresy since
theIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-44870960386752681052024-03-02T08:24:00.000-05:002024-03-02T08:24:09.452-05:00Not everything that matters can be counted. And not everything that can be counted matters. My short response to scientism (i.e. the "I f-ing love science!" variant of atheism) --How many microangelos are in The Pieta or a just-blossomed rose?Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-58751004985199007552024-03-01T01:12:00.000-05:002024-03-01T01:12:11.367-05:00The Charitable-Industrial Complex According to the linked page, concerning the MS Society for 2022, the top three officers "earned" --1) $473,993 compensation + $33,351 other2) $331,191 compensation + $34,536 other3) $325,645 compensation + $50,221 otherThese, and other similarly "compensated" persons, are those who set the leftist/commie policies by which the organization tossed overboard a 90-year-old woman who had Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-78812475859182956952024-02-23T14:20:00.007-05:002024-02-23T16:22:27.107-05:00Anyone Can Weaponize Feminism to Use Against Women In the YouTube video linked below, Tim Pool discusses an article by a (female) journalist in which she describes how she was scammed -- blatantly, obviously scammed -- out of $50,000. Here are my thoughts --1) Feminism is -- and always has been -- primarily a tool to convince women to voluntarily offer themselves up as prey to sexually perverted men. You will have noticed Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-43457436158504535202024-02-22T12:23:00.025-05:002024-03-05T16:29:16.819-05:0099.7% of Agenda-Driven Statistics Are Bogus From the linked item at Don Surber's substack -- ========ITEM 4: The LA Times reported, “It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags, ushering in a wave of anti-plastic legislation from coast to coast.”The story also said, “According to a report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG, 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste wasIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-83106405627870724122024-02-21T21:51:00.001-05:002024-02-22T03:52:14.005-05:00It Could Be Heaven Or It Could Be Hell This is a comment I posted to a resurrected thread (link below) at the 'Shadow To Light' blog --TFBW (from 2020/01/18): "For the sake of argument, let me concede the point that God could make his omniscience, omnipotence, infinity, eternal nature, holiness, and other divine characteristics fully apparent to you in such a way that they would all be immediately recognisable for what theyIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-57748985280689726382024-02-11T11:11:00.008-05:002024-02-11T13:22:40.502-05:00Leftist Hatred For "Blond Blue-Eyed Jesus" Is Just Hatred For Jesus ... And For White PeopleLeftists *hate* Jesus. And, while they do indeed hate white people, they hate Jesus far more. Though they do sometimes find it useful to their goal of enslaving everyone else to engage in "God talk".One of the ways leftists love to express their hatred of Jesus, and of white people, is to mock the "Blond Blue-Eyed Jesus" whom Europeans have allegedly foist upon the world, along with Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-68011347852669560332024-02-10T02:13:00.001-05:002024-02-13T14:54:10.329-05:00The Problem of Too Many "Elites"One major reason that we have so many "Champaign socialists" in our society has to do with the present-day overproduction of elite wannabes due to the manner of the restructuring of "higher education" following WWII.Not everyone born into the "elite class", as the discussed Hasan Piker was, is competent enough on his own merits to maintain the status to which he was born, nor as is even more Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-16189178983410700002024-02-09T00:24:00.027-05:002024-02-09T02:33:59.696-05:00When is a Constitution "unconstitutional?"The ongoing left-right political battle in the US is at root a battle between two conflicting and contradictory moral systems, as mediated by a battle between two conflicting and contradictory constitutions: the written US Constitution of 1787, on the one hand, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (*) and its penumbras and emanations, on the other hand.When the Republicans enacted the Civil Rights Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-33620135246908002452024-02-06T23:18:00.020-05:002024-02-07T01:16:18.645-05:00The Nexus of Language and Politics -- "Native American"Other than his use of the leftist delegitimizing term, "Native American", Matt Walsh is spot on in the linked video.The leftists invented the term "Native American" as a step toward denying that you and I are Americans at all. This is merely a similar delegitimizing tactic to the leftist assertion that we Americans cannot call ourselves "Americans" because the USA is not the totality Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-25619457789106211172024-02-03T22:58:00.004-05:002024-02-03T23:01:12.645-05:00Orphaned By DivorceNo matter how old you are, if your parents divorce, you eventually end up being orphaned twice! And the first orphaning feels like surviving a loved one's suicide.Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-12027667222531124002024-02-01T22:03:00.006-05:002024-02-01T23:52:36.105-05:00Why Is America Doomed? This image, or rather the mindset that prompts people to post and re-post it, illustrates *why* America is doomed -- In case the image isn't enough to get my point across, I shall spell it out -- "America is doomed because even the 'conservatives' are fools."Recently, on GAB, someone posted that image. I replied with: "The alleged soon-coming "military tribunals" would be Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-84461443013586594692024-01-25T21:49:00.000-05:002024-01-25T21:49:22.380-05:00It's Ironic ... Or SomethingSavor the irony -- by which, I mean hypocrisy -- of Democrats and other leftists engaging in hair-on-fire histrionics over the Republican governor of Texas attempting to close the border of his State to *unlawful* entry by non-citizens as compared to the response just a couple of years ago when a number of Democratic governors closed the borders of their States to the *lawful* entry of citizens.Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-64483307984844958812024-01-18T00:06:00.004-05:002024-02-07T01:18:08.193-05:00When Is a Joke Not a Joke? When the joke highlights the hypocrisy of Democrats and other leftists, obviously.The other day,'The Babylon Bee' put up a piece with the headline, "Trump Promises Vivek An Administration Position Running The White House 7-Eleven"1) 'The Babylon Bee's' joke *is* funny, it's very funny;2) The joke isn't *about* Ramaswamy; it's a multi-layered joke (which is why it's so funny) *about* the Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-16871466429767746282024-01-16T05:02:00.003-05:002024-01-16T05:03:48.779-05:00Do You *Really* Want a Damascus Road Experience? I've stated this before --It's clear, from the typical atheistic demand for evidence of the reality of God, coupled with a total inability to define what they themselves would accept as being such evidence, intersected with their consistent refusal to engage in good-faith discussion when a "theist" attempts to provide evidence even in such a situation, that what the too-typical atheists areIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-7159983894143267612024-01-13T21:01:00.005-05:002024-03-11T06:39:46.783-04:00Steps to Converting to Nuclear Power You can know that the "Save The Earth" types are hypocrites and that their "concern" for the environment is a mask for their true goals by the fact that they refuse to countenance the generation of electricity via nuclear power.0) "Green/Renewable" energy is a pipe-dream, at best, but mostly a scam with multiple objectives;1) Battery-powered cars will almost certainly never meet our needs;2Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-58436480607798402912024-01-05T16:09:00.016-05:002024-01-10T20:38:07.988-05:00On Internet ScamsFor every Nigerian Prince trying to get access to your life's savings, there are 100 YouTubers doing ad-reads for scam products or services. I'll try to explain the scamishness of the broad categories I can think of at the moment:GOLD -- gold is not an investment. At best, gold is a hedge -- but only if you actually possess the physical gold. Far more commonly, gold is a gamble, a Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-14889552694630818622023-12-29T03:11:00.005-05:002024-01-05T16:52:57.025-05:00Nikki Haley's "Gotcha" MomentSo, the leftists are having a pretend melt-down because the RINO Nikki Haley -- who, by the way, is not a natural born US citizen (*) -- gave the "wrong" answer to a "gotcha" question about the "cause" of the so-called (**) US Civil War.Here is the truth about the "cause" of the so-called US Civil War --Slavery wasn't the cause of the "Civil War".
The *cause* of the (falsely named) Civil Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-20672061740019710682023-12-28T05:35:00.008-05:002023-12-28T13:17:32.859-05:00Concerning the Thought of Yehezkel KaufmannThe first linked video discusses the thesis of a certain Yehezkel Kaufmann, who was a Jewish philosopher and Biblical scholar. I'd never before heard of Yehezkel Kaufmann, who died when I was a small child ... and yet I had all on my own come to much the same conclusions as presented in the linked video and in the Wickedpedia article on Kaufmann.Here is a summary of my thought on the Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-48431469717193751962023-12-23T13:20:00.028-05:002023-12-26T05:28:13.090-05:00It's Christmas-time; And That Means ...It's Christmas-time; and that means ... endless repetitions of popular "secularist" (by which I mean anti-Christian) "myths" (by which I mean lies) about Christmas. Sometimes, these "myths" are even spread by people who claim to be Christians.By the way, even as a "fundie" Christian, I was taught as a child -- in church -- that Christ clearly wasn't born on December 25, as there wouldn't Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-83574258936609518572023-12-20T02:43:00.003-05:002023-12-21T00:39:15.951-05:00How Evolution Explains Sex Differences ... Or NotLinked Video Title: "How Evolution Explains Sex Differences"I'm not going to waste a minute of my time watching this video -- the title alone, plus the fact that Gad Saad is an "evolutionary psychologist" (*), is all I need to know to know that the video is a waste of time and intellect.But, in case you, Gentle Reader, are still intimidated by the asserted authority of the religionistsIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-85997464593203543882023-12-19T02:11:00.000-05:002023-12-19T02:11:05.024-05:00Socialized Medicine, AgainHeadline: "Canadian Woman Dies After Waiting 10 Weeks for Cancer Treatment" Well, it's not quite that she simply died, it's that she was murdered by the Canadian state.https://www.lifenews.com/2023/12/18/canadian-woman-euthanized-after-waiting-10-weeks-for-cancer-treatment-appointment/Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-2588479650645940942023-12-11T16:11:00.008-05:002023-12-11T16:43:16.235-05:00On TattoosA man who covers himself with tattoos is *unmanly* -- he shows himself to have not the mindset of a mature man, but rather of an immature girl. For, rather than seeking recognition according to his deeds, by what he creates or builds, he seeks attention by how how decorates his body.Ilíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.com1