Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Why should we care?
Religion News Service discusses the dechurching of the Yankee world, and asks what will happen to all those buildings? Allegedly we would care if 100k libraries shut down or 100k schools shut down, but we don’t care about 100k churches. All of those things happened in 2020. Churches did nothing to protect their people from…
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Astrolabes in the news!
Astrolabes don’t hit the headlines often, to put it mildly. Here’s a news item about a newly discovered connection of an old astrolabe. = = = = = START QUOTE: As Gigante began to study the astrolabe – a scientific tool which dates from 11th century Spain and is used to chart stars and other…
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Demonic constant, fake variable
Oregon is recriminalizing hard drugs after decriminalizing for three years. This is a good move but as always with legislatures it’s a fake move. Constants and variables! Fentanyl is a city-ending plague EVERYWHERE, not just where drugs are decriminalized. Every city has the same genocide. Portland is no worse than Philly or Spokane or NYC.…
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Starving the demons
There’s no way to kill or depose demons who own everything, but Nature has a way of starving overgrown monsters who trample and gobble up all the plants. Pointed via the Pillar substack, a list of the Vatican’s budget problems. This is good news for the real church, which is in Africa along with Snowbird…
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It was really The Street!
TIL, as they say, that Wall Street was an OUTDOOR AUCTION for a hundred years, and didn’t come inside as an organized exchange until 1921. The outdoor auction occupied the full width of Broad Street, not Wall Street, with traders shouting bids at each other. After telephones were common, the traders rented offices in facing…
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The ledger does balance
I’m frustrated when evil people get punished for the wrong reason. My narrow little bookkeeper soul wants to see Debits and Credits balancing. Along with all the other national leaders except Tanzania and Belarus, Trump committed the biggest crime in history. He will never be punished for his crime. Instead, he is being punished somewhat…
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Necessary compromise
The anticoiners at Reddit discuss whether bitcoin is halal or haram. Some of the commenters get the important point. The basic rules of Islam solidly forbid all forms of speculation and usury. BUT modern Muslims engage in banking with interest, and engage in speculation, just like modern Jews and Christians. All three abrahamic branches agree…
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We manage somehow
It’s a peculiar situation. Polls consistently show that 2/3 of the population is perfectly tired of the political and corporate teams and all the crimes committed by the political and corporate teams. Yet no writers or politicians or corporations or advertisers or churches or entertainers are trying to pick up this audience. All the output…
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Must be genetic
Random irrelevant thought. Provisioning, laying aside food or other value toward the future, must be in the genes. Protists and plants and insects do it automatically. Birds and mammals do it in a more intelligent way. Finding that Yes, I’ve Got Enough After All gives tremendous pleasure, and this happy event occurs often in dreams.…
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If this succeeds…
Via Politico, two big donors are suing the ‘No Labels’ outfit for fraud. The Durst family gave $150k to No Labels at a time when No Labels was claiming to be a bipartisan think tank. After that, No Labels started running a third-party candidate, which the Dursts claim is a bait-n-switch. I’ve been agitating for…
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Pile of crap
Crap: The Catholic Church created the first universities. They were beacons of light, preservers and defenders of timeless truth. It is difficult for us to even imagine. = = = = = No. From the start universities have been defenders of orthodox doctrine. That was part of their intended purpose, and it’s still part of…
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No, it’s not neofeudalism
I’ve made this point before. It’s worth repeating. Everyone is referring to the gig economy as neofeudalism. The personalities are unquestionably feudal, the same insane inbred incestuous imbecilic aristocrats who ruled Europe for 500 years. The system is the exact opposite. Feudalism was based on TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS. The lord was required to support his serfs…
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Why do I defend Hollywood?
Why do I worry about the survival of Hollywood? I haven’t liked anything they produced since 1970, and very little since 1950. Everything they produce now is intentionally awful, devoid of empathy and depth. Mike Gioia writes a spirited defense of the new independent producers, emphasizing that AI will give more power to the independents…
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Medieval mindset
The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect…
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Metawait 2
At a fixed timepoint in every episode of Lady Edgar’s official propaganda outlet This is your FBI, the smarmy Special Agent slaps his forehead and says “Wait! Why didn’t I notice this before?” Here’s one of those moments. For many years I’ve been focusing on ZERO TAX as the sole purpose of Repooflicans and Tech…
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