Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Breaking Westphalia
Continuing the theme of pathological abstraction. Northern rebellion and Southern secession, written in 1904 by Ewing, answers and verifies several of my long-running questions. Ewing covers the Kansas terrorists in fine detail, verifying my historical and personal conclusions. Ewing also looks closely at the process of federation in 1776. He finds that the 13 colonies…
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Round trip
Suddenly this year, plenty of people who were stoutly defending absolute free speech “rights” have turned into censors. Before October, these “conservatives” had been smashing “liberals” for turning into censors. What makes this particular reversal salient is the round trip. 9/11 turned many “freedom”-loving people into censors against Islam. I was among that crowd. Afterward,…
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A fine Foy story.
From REA News in 1940…. John L. Jones of Silver Hill makes chairs. His father before him made chairs and his father before him and so on back for more generations than can now be counted; on back to the pioneer days of Tennessee and on back of that to the “ould sod.” But all…
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Trading
Tiffany talks with Sammy again. Predictably he’s taken up trading mackerel packs, which are the modern prison equivalent of cigarettes. When I was in the walls, cigarettes were the currency. Each pack had a “par value” of a quarter, though the actual price in the commissary was 40 cents. I bought my way out of…
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Reprint on two-way obligation
Linked in previous about AI and compensation, worth reprinting. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via Evolution News, a POWERFUL idea from Neil Thomas. It was the would-be rehabilitation of those ancient materialist thinkers by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, in the late 18th century, coupled with the later Victorian crisis of faith and…
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Natural, not natural
Advertising is natural. Most plants and animals advertise either positively or negatively. Plants create colors and smells and electrostatic fields to attract pollinators. Male animals use color and smell and sound to attract females and scare off competitors. Some are false advertisers, disguising themselves as poisonous or attractive or big. Basing a business on advertising…
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More on the same
Since I’m reprinting work from an era when my brain functioned, here’s one from 2019, just before the NAZI TORTURE CAMP used up my gumption. = = = = = START REPRINT: Idiot headless-line: Susceptibility to mental illness may have helped humans adapt over the millenia. I didn’t bother to read the brainless article. Headline…
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Reprint from 2014
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. The footnote at the end turned out to be especially permanent. I’ve made one important edit. In 2014 I was calling the modern elite Commies. I later learned more about the real Soviet system, and more about Stalin himself. These modern idiots are the exact opposite of real Communists…
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From an extremely different era 20
From an 1886 printers trade journal: Mahomet had said: The ink of the wise is worth more than the blood of the martyrs. Before 1990 it was possible to treat Mohammed as a source of wisdom. After Bush The Father declared war on Islam, the entire religion of Islam became our enemy, and we decided…
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Reprint from last month
Polls consistently show that people are tired of war and tired of being beaten up and muzzled and needled and disemployed by Share Value capitalists. Across the world most countries are quickly moving away from the warmongers and Share Value capitalists. From Africa to Latin America to India to Russia to China, the old strong…
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Huge explanation
Tiffany’s recount of Nishad Singh’s testimony includes one huge explanatory fact. Sammy spent unspeakably huge amounts to buy endorsements. Michael Kives was the agent, a “one-stop shop” for other celebrities. Sammy paid 500 million to Kives. Kives then paid for the most important endorsement of all: Satan’s pet author Michael Lewis. Satan’s pet wrote the…
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Ohmari’s law
Sohrab Ahmari gets everything right. So far I haven’t heard one false note in his discussions. In this interview with Trish Wood he focuses on the standard Friedmanite lie that price is an automatic result of equal forces on two sides, like a drain trap. Nobody believes this brazenly delusional lie. Even the economists don’t…
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More reprint on the same subject
From 2017 as usual = = = = = START REPRINT: Similar to this item, here’s another strong piece of pre-Bergoglio Catholic thinking, based on a Ratzinger quote. He continues by noting “energies eroded to routine as entropy increases . . . the drowsy nausea . . . exasperated, vague waiting – but for what?”…
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If you really want…
If you really want to encourage families and civilization, you MUST force business to provide secure jobs. Secure employment and independent artisans (gig work) have always been the two poles of work. Most people are worker bees. Only a few are designed for the gig life. = = = = = START REPRINT: There is…
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Sailer atypically misses
Sailer on India: = = = = = START SAILER: Narendra Modi is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of changing the name of his country to “Bharat” as an anti-colonial gesture. And the California legislature has, after much acrimony among Hindus, sent a bill to governor Gavin Newsom’s desk outlawing the ancient Hindu…
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