Not everyday 90's Boom Bap. A lot of UK Rap artists could learn a thing or two in maintaining relevance from Gen. Floating over Pastor Dutchie production that is more EDM than Hip Hop, 'Long Live Fabric' is a showcase of the diverse music cultures that Fabric was a foundation of. It also offers Genesis another chance to showcase his immense versatility. Is there a form of music he can't rap over?
Shouting out a plethora of legends from Wiley & Logan Sama to DJ Semtex & Rodney P and many more, 'Long Live Fabric' highlights the importance of Fabric to UK urban music. This isn't just a London centric issue either. As Genesis states "if they can take Fabric, they can take anywhere." How long until North East Hip Hop platforms such as World Headquarters faces the same scrutiny?
In 'Long Live Fabric', Genesis Elijah captures the exasperation, disappointment but also nostalgia much of the Capital's population is facing. Isn't that part of what makes music so great? It's ability to capture the essence of a specific moment in time?
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Western Civilisation
The Strange Death of Mother Nature
Michael Giffin
Twenty years ago the editor of a journal in a health bureaucracy was confronted with a challenge. The policy officers in primary care decided the term "drowning" was incorrect and attempted to impose what seemed to them a better alternative, "serious immersion", but the editor refused to co-operate. If that incident ended there, the push keeps pushing. When the meanings of words challenge us, or lead down incorrect paths, progressives invent terms to promote their desired outcome, and proscribe the old meanings. This process can be so subtle the population doesn't notice until it finds itself down the rabbit hole with Alice or on a farm run by pigs walking on their hind legs.
The term "nature" is an example of this process. Since the Enlightenment, the West has been studiously disengaging from nature's traditional meanings. Originally, nature (Greek physis, Latin natura) referred to everything not made by humans; it was once a boundary between human activity and the natural order. Speaking metaphorically, the boundary started to blur when Prometheus flew too close to the sun and became increasingly blurry after Dr Frankenstein created his monster. The boundaries are invisible, now that the repetitive acting-out of The Rocky Horror Show has replaced Judeo-Christian belief as the West's moral compass.
This essay appears in November's Quadrant.
The ancient personification of nature as mother has been replaced by non-gendered, non-human terms such as "biosphere". The consequences have been profound. Not long ago the concept of mother nature was at best a cosmology, at worst a marketing tool. There was once a value system around the belief that nature had intentions. If you behaved a certain way, believed in certain things, or consumed product such-and-such, you would be in harmony with what she intended. Attempts to invest the biosphere with this mystical role lack poetic resonance.
The Enlightenment was driven by four broad ideas. First, a commitment to reason as the proper tool and final authority for judging truth-claims. Second, a stress on nature and an appeal to what's natural. Third, a belief in progress. Fourth, a rejection of the authority of any tradition, based on historical evidence or metaphysical systems, which couldn't withstand what Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method (1975) calls "the judgment seat of reason".
Simplistic appeals to the Enlightenment tend to be made by those who take its meaning for granted, but are stumped if asked to describe it, and become defensive if asked for working definitions of reason, nature, progress and authority. In public discourse and private speech, these terms mean what Humpty Dumpty wants them to mean, and for him it's about who's master. In theory, if you control the word, you control the world. In practice, if you don't understand your terms of reference, eventually you'll fall off the wall, your shell will crack open, and your guts will spill out.
It's often said that the instability of our age is similar to 1930s Europe, which in some senses is true, but the similarities are more analogous with 1790s France. When the Enlightenment is invoked, the Reign of Terror is seldom mentioned, and the dots are rarely connected between the philosophes, the guillotine, and what the Jacobin revolutionary J.B. Carrier called the republican marriages celebrated in the national bathtub. This is a euphemism for what happens when ideologues form a group and stage mass murder.
According to the expurgated version, the Enlightenment was a triumph of reason and science over myth and superstition; it was when Christianity was finally exposed as fake news. In the unexpurgated version, Catholics were systematically persecuted and thousands of priests and religious were executed. Protestants were spared, for the most part, because they identified as rational and scientific; somewhat strangely, their news was understood to be less fake than Catholic news. Christianity was suppressed and replaced by an atheistic state religion, the Cult of Reason, which made way for the Cult of the Supreme Being a year later. The real goal was to destroy the Catholic Church, because public persecution is always about eliminating enemies, cementing ideology and consolidating power.
At the time, the citizenry were unable to acknowledge what was happening or were complicit for various reasons. Some were tricoteuses, women who knitted beside the guillotine, lauded as role models, much as feminists are today. The same could be said of popular reaction to today's culture wars. Judging from the state of the commentariat and social media, everyone's a philosophe now. The guillotine is just over there, in the marketplace of ideas, where there's no shortage of tricoteuses.
The philosophes used a vague definition of reason, and an equally vague definition of science, to attack superstition, bigotry, fanaticism and religious intolerance as the chief obstacles to freedom of thought and social reform. They believed a society based on their vague reason and vague science would lead to correct thinking, which would automatically solve problems and lead to progress. Their problem was an inability to define reason or accept the liminality of science. Science is never settled and can take us where a civilisation shouldn't go.
The core tenet of the French Revolution was anthropocentrism, the ultra-rationalist idea, echoing Protagoras, that man is the measure of all things. This tenet is still deeply embedded in every conscious act of modern culture. After Darwin, the theory of natural selection became an alternative to religion, so those who didn't believe in God could still believe in nature with a capital N. Through scientific naturalism, the legitimate child of Romanticism, nature was understood as an organic self-governing unity, "red in tooth and claw" according to Tennyson's famous elegy "In Memoriam".
Has the time come to ask whether, and on what basis, the average Westerner still regards nature as an organic self-governing unity, or whether natural selection is still a viable theory? Has the juggernaut of technological advancement combined with the collapse of traditional moral frameworks to render the ideas of nature and natural selection untenable? If we say we still believe in them, do we really behave as if we do?
These questions flow from the larger question of origins, how organic life came ex nihilo from inorganic matter. In 1927 the Big Bang Theory was proposed by a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, so the theory doesn't contradict Christian ideas about creation if they are properly understood. The Big Bang released matter and energy, but only a handful of elements necessary for life, so how did nature come into being? Did a second Bang do that? Evolution, the scientific theory of how life evolved, tells us nothing about how life began before evolution was set in motion. Did a third Bang do that? The same holds for human uniqueness, its anthropology and psychology, since we don't know when the singularity of the human body and mind began. Did a fourth Bang do that? If we're honest, we must admit our anthropocentrism, deeply embedded in every conscious act of modern culture, is limited to manipulating life-forms we didn't create.
When Nietzsche proclaimed God's death, a consensus about the mystery of origins was lost. Once that happened the mystery of nature could only survive as long as anthropocentrism was held in check. With each human triumph—antisepsis, vaccines, anaesthetics, penicillin, the bomb, the pill, lunar travel, organ transplants, antiretroviral therapy, cloning, sex-reassignment surgery, nanotechnology, gene therapy, growing meat like plants—two things happened. First, the truer anthropocentrism seemed, the less important nature seemed. Second, any morality derived from nature became less possible. This process was gradual and one-way.
Traditionally, Western ethics were deduced through two broad prisms, the deontological and the teleological. The deontological prism, normally associated with Protestantism, revolved around the notions of covenant, duty and obligation. Before the Enlightenment, it was the ethical prism of bible-based religion, while its modern forms include professional codes of conduct, consequentialism, utilitarianism and ultimately hedonism. The teleological prism, normally associated with Catholicism, revolved around the theory of natural law, through which certain human rights were inherent to being made in God's image (imago dei) and from possessing God's gift of human reason. According to the classical correspondence theory of truth, on which natural law depends, the social order mirrors a natural order which mirrors a divine order. Since natural law comes from God it's objective, universal and independent of the laws of states, societies, politics and legislatures.
Why did Protestant ethics, which began in a Bible-based morality focused on the individual as an autonomous subject who interprets, eventually lead to the hedonism of modern, liberal, capitalist democracies? Why did Catholic ethics, which held out against modernity and modernism until the middle of the twentienth century, capitulate to them after Vatican II? Some answers come from cultural anthropology, which theorises a shift from societies based on guilt and collectivism to societies based on pleasure and individualism. Other answers can be found in unresolved tensions within the yet-to-be-completed Enlightenment project, which revolve around the contested meanings of reason, nature, progress and authority.
In his influential book After Virtue (1981), Alasdair MacIntyre suggests that the ethical prisms emerging from the Enlightenment were doomed from the start. Why? Because each of them rejected the Aristotelian idea that humanity has a telos, a goal or purpose, an orientation towards eudaimonia, human flourishing, a God towards which human life is directed. Already an Aristotelian, MacIntyre became a Thomist after writing After Virtue, once he was convinced that Aquinas was "an excellent interpreter" of Aristotle "able to extend and deepen" Aristotle's metaphysics and morality.
MacIntyre mounts a defence of classical metaphysics, which locates humanity's telos in Aquinas's interpretation of Aristotle. This issues a brave challenge to the zeitgeist, because the entire trajectory of Continental philosophy after Kant—within critical theory, communication studies, and among the Left—was anti-Scholastic; premised on an emancipatory or immanent critique of classical metaphysics as an elaborate form of fake news. For example, the philosopher of immanence, Gilles Deleuze, believes Plato's Theory of Forms introduced a "poisonous transcendence" into classical Greek philosophy, which had supposedly been holistic under the Pre-Socratics. Therefore, Deleuze says, every reaction against Platonism is a restoration of immanence which forbids a return to Platonic transcendence. The Incarnation of Jesus doesn't count as immanence, in this line of revisionist thought, since Deleuze sees it as an example of poisonous transcendence. Those who equate Christianity with Platonic transcendence will always regard it as a cause of the problem the philosophers of immanence are trying to solve.
Since the Enlightenment, atavistic anti-Catholicism has remained the last acceptable prejudice in Western culture. It was explicit until after the Second World War, was implicit for a few decades, and became explicit again with the general antipathy towards religion after 9/11. The public persecution of George Pell is an excellent case study of this phenomenon.
The reasons for the phenomenon are complex but have their origin, first, in the emancipatory or immanent critique of classical metaphysics; second, in the widespread inability to distinguish between Islamic fundamentalism and any religious belief unacceptable to the Left. Add to this the existential crisis within Western Christianity itself. As Rod Dreher points out in The Benedict Option (2017), most Western Christians don't profess the fundamentals of the faith their forebears professed. If they did profess those fundamentals, they would be accused of fundamentalism, which places them in a double bind. To be acceptable to secular society, to which they're hostage, Western Christians are pressured into professing a faith their forebears wouldn't recognise and which isn't Christian anyway.
The critical tension within Western Christianity is maintaining a sense of what the faith does or doesn't allow and what can or can't be changed. This tension isn't helped by the Global North colonising the planet with its false gospel of progressivism. The Western church is evaporating at a fast pace. If it is to survive what's ahead, it must rediscover, celebrate and proclaim its fundamental beliefs, like the Early Church, knowing the next Reign of Terror has already begun.
By simply existing, conservative Christians challenge a progressive culture seemingly confident of, yet deeply confused by, its terms of reference. For example, whenever terrorism occurs, anywhere in the world, there is a tendency to blame it on conservative religion. Hiding behind the idea of their rationality, progressives erroneously attach the label of fundamentalism to those who take the fundamentals of their faith seriously. This is strange, given the inherent totalitarianism of progressivism.
Irrationality is in the eye of the beholder. One person's rationality is another person's irrationality and vice versa. The suicide bombers who flew those planes into the Twin Towers were calculatingly rational, according to their definition of rationality, which is obviously different from the one usually invoked with such facility in the West.
Each of us has prejudices, and, more than anything, our prejudices define us. Gadamer believed the Enlightenment's goal of banishing prejudice was misguided, and itself a prejudice, because some prejudices are true while others are false. For Gadamer, it's the task of reason to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate prejudices. This cannot be accomplished without a respectful dialogue about reason rather than the simplistic declarations Westerners habitually make. Benedict XVI tried to propose such a dialogue in his widely misrepresented Regensburg Lecture of September 2006. He wasn't successful because he was atavistically disliked by progressives.
The Christian formula for enlightenment comes from Christ: who he is, what he did, what he asks. Paul puts it thus in 1 Corinthians 1:22–23: "For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles." As Benedict said in Regensburg, because Christ is the Logos, which means word or reason, Christians cannot separate Christ from reason. Natural law presupposes a natural order, which presupposes a creator God, who gave us human reason to work all this out, so let's do it.
In the West, the anthropocentric inheritance of the Enlightenment has created an ever-expanding culture of human rights; however, all discourse about human rights, including the idea of natural rights, descends not from the Enlightenment but from the natural-law tradition of Aquinas as an explicitly Western discourse. Secular formulas for natural law are emerging, which try to ground themselves in the idea of universal human dignity, but how can human dignity be universal apart from the Dignifier who dignifies it? Where does this secular universality come from, if not from a creator God?
Since the Enlightenment, the meaning of the Christ event has been challenged, increasingly, by a secular world that Christians are called to stand apart from. To appease this secular world, many believers have become modern-day Marcionites or Pelagians, which means they've embraced heresy. They assume Christ freed them from the Law, so the Law no longer applies to them. Increasingly, under pressure from feminism, Cultural Marxism, identity politics, and the human rights industry, one hears progressive Christians putting a heterodox spin on the idea of God's love. They promote the non-biblical idea of Jesus on the Cross, embracing all creation, indiscriminately, non-judgmentally, making no moral demands upon them whatsoever. This reduces their faith to the therapeutic level of New Age spirituality: aromatherapy, yoga, massage, eroticism, whatever makes them feel good.
If Christians are to remain orthodox, in the broadest sense of professing the living dialogical faith defined in the church's creeds—the faith proclaimed by the apostles, the faith written and canonised as scripture, the faith which survived the heresies of the first four centuries, the Reformation and the Enlightenment—they must take Jesus's claim in Matthew 5:18 seriously: "For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished." Jesus was passionate about halakhic debate, which means he took Torah seriously. Simply put, Matthew 5:18 is a warning against progressive Christians making up a liberationist Jesus, to suit whatever ails the body politic, to support whatever confected human right is fashionable at the moment. The meaning of Christ isn't determined by the marketplace of ideas.
Shifts in public opinion, the rationalisation of evil, the glamourisation of sin, may tell us something about sociology, psychology and politics, but they don't determine morality. Polls, surveys and markets don't govern good and evil. Populism and the media don't control right and wrong. If a poll were taken now, asking Americans whether the US should have dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, the results would probably be a resounding No; however, if a poll had been taken at the time, among Americans wanting the war to end, the results would probably have been a resounding Yes. Polls and surveys must have nothing whatsoever to do with a civilisation's moral compass.
In the Roman empire, a foetus or a child wasn't regarded as a person until a father acknowledged his paternity. Until that happened, the foetus or child could be killed, exposed or enslaved. This neo-Pagan principle has returned to the West, disguised as a woman's right to control her body free from patriarchal oppression. Any moral appeals to human responsibility, the limits of freedom, or the right to life, are silenced with pre-emptive accusations of conservative bigotry. Further, women who say, "I would never have an abortion, personally, but I believe it's a woman's right to choose," are evading the moral issue entirely. For Christians, abortion may be a human responsibility, under certain circumstances, but it can never be a human right because God commands them not to kill.
The definition of tolerance is coexisting with those one disagrees with. In theory, tolerance doesn't require the celebration of differences. In practice, in the progressive West, those who don't celebrate the differences they disagree with are labelled intolerant, racist, misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic. This was noticeable during the same-sex-marriage campaign, which was entirely populist and market-driven. There was a complete absence of moral debate. Simply maintaining a civil silence, or pointing out that heterosexual marriage is normative, or that males and females are complementary, was construed as hate speech.
One dark fact was never mentioned during the SSM campaign. In 1992 the humanitarian icon Fred Hollows said HIV-infected persons should be quarantined to protect vulnerable sub-populations such as Aborigines because in Australia the epidemic was "basically a homosexual problem". While this prejudice is easily contextualised, with the benefit of hindsight, basic logic tells us the result of the SSM postal survey would have been No, had the medical profession not been able to offer antiretroviral treatment for HIV infection from 1996 or couldn't cure serious sexually-transmitted diseases such as syphilis. The social tolerance we currently take for granted depends on a society feeling safe from threats to its public health. This has nothing to do with morality or religious belief. It's just common sense.
Gender dysphoria appeared on the scene, relatively suddenly, through leftist lobbying and manipulation of public opinion, with no moral consideration. It's a social fashion looking for legitimation as it expands its market share. The science around gender dysphoria is weak and contentious, like the science around climate change, although lobby groups erroneously insist the science is strong and settled. Gender dysphoria has been approached as a human rights issue, but it's really an issue of public mental health (a social psychosis). Anti-discrimination legislation was adapted to accommodate it. The right of biological males to use female facilities and join female sporting teams was adopted. Speech was compelled. Specious treatment protocols were produced from thin air. Children's puberties were and are blocked, healthy organs were and are cut out, and a lifetime of hormone treatment was and is prescribed.
According to a recent study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the risk of transgendered youth suicide increases exponentially, with suicide attempts at 50 per cent for male teens and 30 per cent for female teens. Among those who transition, a significant proportion experience sex-change regret over time. We can only hope they sue those who irresponsibly promoted and participated in their transition.
Curiously, the interests of cisgendered gays and lesbians have been commandeered by the interests of the transgendered, as the meaningless initialism LGBT+ continues to be repeated mindlessly. Camille Paglia, the celebrity academic feminist and lesbian, speaks of the current transgender obsession, calling medical and surgical intervention in minors child abuse. Her research tells her that, throughout history, an obsession with gender fluidity has always been a sign of imminent civilisational collapse. Her thinking appeals to post-Sturm und Drang distinctions between Apollonian civilisation and Dionysian nature, the dialectic of which is entering a perilous new cycle.
If there's any morality left, deontological or teleological, I wish someone would tell me what it looks like. From where I stand, the urgent challenge facing the West is constructing a moral rationalisation for the exercising of unrestrained human will and uninhibited human desire. The hegemony of anthropocentrism, the idea that man is the measure of all things, has hitherto been unable to articulate a moral framework to replace the one that, we're repeatedly told, was the bedrock of Western civilisation until just the other day.
Philosophers of immanence such as Deleuze believe Platonic transcendence was a "poisoned gift" that gave "plausible philosophical meaning" to a Judeo-Christian belief in the "triumph of the judgment of God". So, paradoxically, what the Left sees as the fatal flaw in classical metaphysics is precisely what gave it enduring strength: Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian revelation unified into a logically coherent whole. The central premise of the Left, that God neither exists nor judges, because man is the measure of all things, has actively undermined Judeo-Christian morality since the Romantic period. The problem with this thinking is its permanent inability to articulate an anthropocentric equivalent of God answering Job out of the whirlwind: "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding." (Job 38:4).
As Dennis Prager says: "Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society cannot survive if it calls immoral things moral." The West has been trying to call immoral things moral since the French Revolution. One must wonder what's more immoral, the recent invention of a female penis and testicles, which demand to be waxed, or a culture of indiscriminate anti-discrimination that makes it illegal for female waxers to say No.
The Enlightenment isn't finished. It never got off the ground. The West still doesn't know what it means by reason, nature, progress or authority. The Reign of Terror is still being re-enacted, as the Counter-Enlightenment continues its war on the Enlightenment. Who will win depends entirely on how long the gender-bending power of The Rocky Horror Show maintains its grip on our moral compass.
Michael Giffin is a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.
Ian MacDougall – 26th November 2019
One helluva word salad there, Michael.
I used to believe that God created Man in his own image. These days, I incline to the view that it was the other way around.
I cannot speak for the West of course, but I do know what I mean by reason, nature, progress and authority. Reason is why heretics are no longer burnt at the stake by the Christian Church; though they are executed in Islamic countries still. Reason is what religious people use to justify to themselves and others why the creed they were born into is the right one, not just for them, but for the whole Earth. But unfortunately "go ye into all the world and preach the gospel" has embedded within it an awful lot of religious, imperial and colonial wars.
And it gets worse. The whole edifice of Christianity: all the art, gothic architecture, music and thought tapers down to one essential idea: sin. Without the Original Sin there is no need for Christ's sacrifice on the Cross.
And Original Sin rests on a tale of a talking snake in the Garden of Eden. It's all there in Genesis 3.
But there's still more…! The forbidden fruit eaten first by Eve, then by Adam at the behest of the talking snake was "the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." And which of the human intellectual disciplines would cover that? Only one possible answer: philosophy, and since ancient times.
I put it to you that the gun is still there in the concoction that is the Book of Genesis, and it's still smoking. The first major war of ideas in the West was between the philosophers and the theologians. It was long and drawn out, but the theologians retreated from hold-out to hold-out all the way to the present day. They won a few battles, and took captive and executed many fine soldiers of Reason. But the theologians lost the war.
Which, ironically, is why you are here today. As a Protestant, you would have been done away with long since if Catholicism had not lost its war on Reason. And modernity is the result, with all the choice it offers.
Stephen Due – 26th November 2019
IanMcD: I suspect that your knowledge of the history of the West is somewhat biased by anti-Christian leanings. Surely it is not true that "all the art, gothic architecture etc" boils down to the idea of "sin"? Christian artistry expresses many things, such as the equality of all people before God, compassion for people who are suffering, forgiveness for people who have done wrong, self-sacrifice for the benefit of others, and the way to lead a good life. Similarly it is not true that "imperial and colonial wars" are the result of Christianity. Colonialism was driven by mercantile and military strategy and had little if anything to do with religion. I'm not saying that Christians have never conducted wars or persecuted people. But of course you are (presumably) not saying that atheists and philosophers have never conducted wars and persecuted people either. Therefore presumably they are just as bad. Why is it then that we find people of all stripes are capable of evil? What is your explanation, leaving aside the truly wonderful story of the talking snake which you have repudiated. Why is it that evil is so prevalent in the atheist states of Communist China and North Korea? Why is outright wickedness so prevalent in Australia? If it were simply a matter of being reasonable, well what could easier? Surely the problem runs deeper than that? People are horrible to each other. Without laws and the police they would be at each other's throats continually.
Rob Brighton – 27th November 2019
I manage to pass through life without the benefit of religion or violence. How does that play out in your Hobson's choice?
Outright wickedness is prevalent only if you view the world through the judgemental paradigm of religious thought. I find it otherwise, decency is the prevalent driver of most I strike to suggest otherwise defies all evidence.
Stephen:
Some pretty fundamental questions there. But take Original Sin out of Christianity, and what is left? Original Sin in Christianity is the justification for the Ten Commandments, all Mosaic law and as well, the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Within that framework, the religion evolved; in its setting in the Holy Land (if the Bible is to be believed, the melting-pot of Mesopotamia and Egypt proceeding to modern Israel and Palestine).
Christianity sees the formation of new breakaway sects all the time, repeating the history of Judaism. Each religion is still very much a work in progress. Islam in its own way is too. After all, they are only human. 😉
"Colonialism was driven by mercantile and military strategy and had little if anything to do with religion." See Wikipedia link.
Why is it then that we find people of all stripes are capable of evil?
I don't go by Genesis, but by science, which in this context means Charles 'Bombshell' Darwin and his successors.
"Why is it then that we find people of all stripes are capable of evil? What is your explanation, leaving aside the truly wonderful story of the talking snake which you have repudiated."
The story of the talking snake is clearly a work of pure fantasy and fiction. If you are gullible enough to believe it, have a nice little earner of a Harbour Bridge up in Sydney going real cheap and on special. You should snap it up. But civil society from hunter-gatherer to urban industrial is about reconciling collective vs individual interests. Both have to reach a middle ground.
.When all basic human needs are satisfied, peace can prevail. When they are not, fights and wars break out. As is the case with all other animal species. Animals are territorial. They also prey upon one another and steal each others' property: as with two dogs fighting over a bone. (Those people over those mountains speak a strange language, wear funny clothes have weird customs and even weirder music. Also, they worship the wrong god. We should raid them.)
There is no book up in the sky in which it is written 'China belongs to the Chinese, Korea belongs to the Koreans, America belongs to the Americans, etc. There has only ever been one simple rule: if you can't defend it, you don't own it. The Irish, Scots, Koreans, Vietnamese, Amerindians, Aboriginal Australians and a host of others all learned that the hard way. Which is why all nations maintain defence forces. (The Vietnamese defended themselves particularly successfully against the colonialist Americans and their acolytes in 1965-75.)
The Christian Golden Rule is a universal moral injunction. Scholarship indicates that it probably originated with Confucius (551-479 BCE) in China, and made its way overland to the Holy Land via long-established trade routes. (The Confucian formulation, like the Ten Commandments, is in the negative, which IMHO is the better form: do not do unto someone else what you would not have that person do to you.)
Links next.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-what-is-the-jewish-afterlife-like-1.5362876
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_colonialism
en passant – 27th November 2019
The resident troll writes comments longer than the original article and often many times to troll everyone as we are the only friends he has.
Drive the troll mad by never commenting on anything he posts until he enlightens the world by writing an article on his insights from his infinite knowledge of everything. Almost godlike?
Poor Eyn Pyssant. The scroll-down key on his (El Cheapo?) computer must be busted yet again.
Alice Thermopolis – 27th November 2019
One could argue – like Jung, Joseph Campbell and so on, religions arose because they express archetypes in the collective unconscious. Their stories, then, should not be read as history. They are allegorical and beyond the reach of reason – which takes everything sensu proprio.
Presumably they will endure, but only as long as millions, if not billions, still seek a sacred "moral compass" to navigate an increasingly banal – and nihilistic – age
See David Tacey: https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Metaphor-Beyond-Literal-Belief/dp/1412856108
Schopenhauer put it like this: "Christianity is in general definitely of an allegorical nature: for what in profane matters is called allegory is in religions called mystery. It has to be conceded that
Christianity is much superior to both these earlier religions [Graeco-Roman paganism and Judaism] not only as regards morality, in which it alone (as far as the Occident is concerned) teaches caritus, reconciliation, love of one's enemy, resignation and denial of one's own will. It is best, however, to communicate this to the great masses, who are incapable of grasping truth directly, in the form of a beautiful allegory, which completely suffices them as a guide to practical living and as an anchor of consolation and hope. But a small addition of absurdity is an necessary ingredient in such an allegory: it serves to illustrate its allegorical nature… It is a vehicle for bringing to the people truths which would otherwise be inaccessible to them."
Furthermore, " we have to recognise that the absurd is to a certain extent appropriate to the human race, indeed an element of its life, and that deception is indispensable to it – a fact which is confirmed in other directions."
pgang – 28th November 2019
I found this article to be pretty confused. Giffin seems to be both attacking and defending the Enlightenment. He (falsely) attributes the engineered benefits of science to enlightened humanism, while condemning its inadequacy in explaining origins or providing a 'rational' morality. He attacks the outcomes of the addiction to reason while defending reason itself. Worst of all he fails to acknowledge the Thomistic roots of the enlightenment, thrashing around for all sorts of anthropological reasons for our current dilemma while ignoring the Reformation's anti-Hellenist rebellion, which threw Christian orthodoxy a lifeline. He seems, in fact, to equate orthodoxy with Thomism.
At least I think that's where he stands because it's quite hard to tell.
Aquinas as the face of Scholasticism (or what seems to be Giffen's 'classical metaphysic'), was largely responsible for the Enlightenment, not the Reformation, nor any social magic. Aquinas introduced the Aristotelian concept of 'reason as the perfect form' into Christian theology. All this did was to inevitably break up theology, grant immanence to man, place the church and the state in contention for top spot, and ultimately pave the way for the humanist (Giffen's 'anthropocentric') enlightenment.
The Catholic church is still parading its Greek philosophy as the last word in Christianity, as are the progressive Evangelical churches which have also succumbed to humanism. The Enlightenment was Greek in nature. All it did was to drop grace from nature (or reason) as an unnecessary accessory, and with it went the authority of Scripture. Aquinas should have seen it coming. While attacking the Reformation as 'heresy', Giffen ignores the Thomistic elephant in the room, which began centuries earlier in the catholic councils, post Chalcedon, as they progressively blurred the incarnation.
Giffen seems to want to go back to the beginning-of-the-end and thumbtack grace back onto reason, like a sticky-note. It will never work. You can't defeat the enemy by becoming the enemy. He is right that Christians need to re-embrace orthodoxy, but a return to Thomism is in the opposite direction.
The confusion within the article was evident in this sentence. 'In 1927 the Big Bang Theory was proposed by a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, so the theory doesn't contradict Christian ideas about creation if they are properly understood.' Rather, Big Bang theory is a perversity of the orthodox creation account nestled in humanist, naturalistic terms. It is also a perversity of our rational understanding of nature because it requires that something magically came from nothing. Does Giffen not comprehend modern cosmology's materialist underpinnings? The Big Bang is pure Enlightenment, and currently one of the top 5 idiotic human ideas masquerading as 'science'.
So no, Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian revelation can never be unified into a logically coherent whole, because the Greeks were pagan humanists who worshipped themselves. It matters not whether the Left think they have won the argument based on their particular form of humanism, because they are not even on the same page as Christians. And the urgent challenge facing the West is not to construct a 'moral rationalization', because no such thing exists. The urgent challenge of the west is to embrace Christian Trinitarian orthodoxy, or cease to exist.
Alice:
You assume that reason exists in its own right but it cannot. In accepting reason as the arbiter of meaning, irrationalism is the inevitable result. Reason cannot explain itself, nor can it solve the dualistic dilemma between the one and the many. Either the one is real, or the many are real, but not both, because reason has to reside in either one or the other.
The Greeks and all proceeding humanists through the Scholastics and the Enlightenment could never resolve this old dilemma. Dualism inevitably results in the breakdown of civilisations, as the state and the individual wage war against each other, as do the idealists and realists. Does that look familiar to the current breakdown of the West?
Yet both the one and the many ARE real and do co-exist, as rational experience shows us, and they are complementary because they exist ontologically within the perfection of the triune God – in whom exists their only explanation. While this is not proof of God (who is self-proving anyway), it is certainly a very powerful evidence.
I think that the worldview you have expounded, particularly in lumping Christianity with other quasi-humanist worldviews as merely a 'religion', requires wishful thinking. Reason is not the final reality, but a part of reality. As with all things in nature and heaven, our connection with it is partial and it can't be relied upon to tell us fully what is and what isn't. Only revelation does that. Why Aquinas did not comprehend this is a mystery.
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"But a small addition of absurdity is an necessary ingredient in such an allegory: it serves to illustrate its allegorical nature… It is a vehicle for bringing to the people truths which would otherwise be inaccessible to them."
I do not buy that; not for one minute. If it were true, popular science magazines and websites would be presented in the same format as nursery rhymes and bedtime stories.
Well, perhaps a few are, but they are well outside the mainstream. Think Scientific American, and New Scientist, etc.
Nietsche had some interesting contributions to make, however. See the link below.
Christians cannot cherry pick as to which is allegory and which not in the Holy Bible. If you want the Acts of the Apostles, as is where is, then you have to accept the Talking Snake in the Garden of Eden on exactly the same historical basis. And the very same Talking Snake is the bedrock of the notion of Sin and Redemption.
https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/what-nietzsche-really-meant-the-apollonian-and-dionysian
Will Japan Acquire Nuclear Weapons?
Anthony Paul
Superior but Brittle
Roger Scruton and Enlightened Patriotism

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Bloody Skull Face
in Heron Flight, My Favorites, New Jersey, Photos
This creepy bloody skull face was inside the tunnel from the previous post.
I sent the photo to Weird NJ Magazine. They published it in issue #35 in October 2010.
Inside the tunnel on Goat Farm Road, Harmony, NJ.
(Originally posted on the website Heron Flight)
The Exact Moment at Which the Young Man's Interest in Otolaryngology Began
in Heron Flight, My Favorites, Photos
It's dark in there. Better use the flash.
Jenkins Malone, Monster – Episode 1: Jenkins at the Bluegrass Festival
in Heron Flight, Music, My Favorites, Stories
Along about the second weekend in May, Jenkins Malone, monster, rambled on over to Califonburg in his 1973 Dodge Dart. It wasn't much of a car, but it had character, with its fine edging of cancerous fender rust along the rear wheel wells, its sun-faded rear dash, and its drooping headliner that sat like a veil atop Jenkins' foam-front trucker's cap. Jenkins didn't care, as monsters usually don't. He was happy to be swinging into town to catch his buddy JB's band romping through tunes at the Bluegrass Festival. It was a down home event, where a down home kind of guy like Jenkins feels downright down home, just the way he likes it.
Jenkins strode in with just a touch of monster strut in his step, lifted by cheerful bluegrass sounds, the crisp mandolin notes bouncing along the top of the music, dancing merrily and helping Jenkins to forget the demands of the day, at least temporarily.
There's JB, Jenkins smiled to himself, Boy can he make that mandolin hop! Sure is one heck of a happy sound!
Jenkins took a seat a few rows from the stage. He nodded hello to JB who gave a nod of acknowledgement back. That's the way it is with buddies, no grand show of emotion, no elaborateness. A nod says enough.
Jenkins allowed himself to settle into the scene. There was a guy with a cobra tattoo on his calf selling ice cream from a truck to the side of the stage. He had a tendency to ring the bell on the truck after every song he liked. Which was every song, Jenkins noticed with annoyance. There was a chubby kid selling large pretzels off to the other side. A guy with stubbly gray whiskers in dark denim overalls and an old dingy t-shirt sat with his overweight wife, who sat with her breasts in her lap like two forgotten babies swaddled within her blouse. A youngster of about six, chubby like the pretzel kid, was doing an odd head banging belly dance in a moo-moo and flip-flops in front of the stage.
Americana at its finest, mused Jenkins.
After several enjoyable tunes, including a Johnny Cash cover that would do the Man in Black honor, in Jenkins' opinion, JB's band wrapped it up. With a wipe of his brow on his forearm, JB pulled up a chair next to Jenkins.
"What's up, big guy?"
"Not much," Jenkins replied. "That was some playin' today, bro. You never fail to get my toes tappin' and my heart wishin' I was still playin'"
"Hey, you still got it big guy," encouraged JB, "You'll be playing again. Just give it time."
"Hey, JB, you see that little girl dancing up there?"
"Does she look like she's got Downs or somethin' to you?"
"Geez! You're right! Poor thing."
"No, man. She's happy. Look at her. God bless her, man."
"Hey, J, you wanna come over for dinner tonight? Me and the misses are having a couple of the guys in the band over tonight. We're gonna get Thai food from this place by me. They got this great fake duck tofu dish, man. You wanna join us?"
"Nah, man, I can't. Too much stuff to do, you know?"
"Alright, man. Maybe next time."
"Yo, JB, what's up with that girl you guys got singing in the band?"
"Oh yeah, man, that's Alison. She can really sing, huh?"
"Yeah, she's alright. Kinda stone faced. Don't you think?"
"Yeah, a little. But she's cool. Really, J, she's cool."
"She does have nice shoes, bro."
"Shoes?"
"Yeah, man. My girl would dig them shoes. Look at 'em. They look all paisley or somethin'."
The next band shambled onto the stage. The steel guitar began to cry and the singer crooned, "Tennessee Whiskey…" He was a man of Jenkins' build with what appeared to be a medium-sized forest animal for a beard and a nest of hair in which such an animal might happily hunker down. He was shifty-eyed, wouldn't look anyone straight in the eye while he was onstage.
Ah, thought Jenkins, wouldn't I love to have a pint of that smooth black label Tennessee whiskey right now!
Just then HE came along. Daryl. He turned a chair around and sat facing Jenkins and JB with a big cheesy grin.
"Yo, bro! That was some wild playin'!"
"Thanks, man. That's very kind of you," replied JB.
"No, man I was trippin' while you were up there."
"Uh… and your name is…?"
"Oh! Sorry, man! I'm Daryl. But the guys I hang with called me Crazy D. You can call me Crazy D if you want to. Hey, can I get your phone number?"
Geez! Who is this kid? Jenkins thought to himself. What a clown!
"Aww, Daryl, uh, Crazy D, man, my cell phone's busted, you know? It went through the wash and then melted in the dryer and then, uh, big Jenkins here stepped on it by accident."
"Damn. That's too bad. Hey, you outta get one of them pre-paid phones, man. There only like 20 bucks at Wal-Mart, you know?"
Oh God, I definitely need some whiskey now, Jenkins continued thinking. Look at this kid with the sleeves cut off of his Bullet for My Valentine t-shirt and his work jacket tied around his waist.
"Hey, kid. How old are you?"
No. Your brother, Jenkins' mind spazzed.
"I'm seventeen. Hey, guys, check this out. Check this out. I was at this huge rock concert festival thing last weekend. There were like, I don't know, fifty bands there! I'm not kidding. It was freakin' awesome! The mosh pit was sooo cool! I had a blast moshin', you know?"
"Yeah, man! Look at this bruise on my arm! I got that in the pit."
"Nice, Crazy D. It kinda looks like Kentucky," said Jenkins with a grin.
JB snorted.
"Guys, we should start a mosh pit right now. We should just like go right up there in front of the stage and just, you know, freakin' start slammin' into each other and stuff."
"Yeah, then we can start spooning and making out and crap," said Jenkins with one of his typical absurdist comments meant to catch the intelligently challenged off guard.
JB snorted again. "Aw, don't mind him, Daryl. He's just yankin' your chain."
"No, really. Moshin' is so much fun. Look at the scratches all over my back from last weekend," continued Daryl, lifting his shirt. "You should have seen this one girl. She got punched right in the FACE and she DIED, man. She DIED."
"And that's your idea of fun?" asked JB in disbelief.
"Oh, I was alright man. I had a lot of fun in the pit there."
"That's because he didn't get punched in the face and die, JB."
"But, those guys in the pit were crazy, man. They kept running into my girl on purpose. I had to take the one guy down, you know what I mean. I had to step up for my lady, you know what I'm sayin'? Those guys were hurtin' girls, man. They were like a bunch of monsters in that pit, man!"
"Uh, hey, Daryl, watch it."
"Oh man, I'm sorry. I didn't mean nothin' by it. I didn't mean they were really monsters like you're a monster, man. I'm sorry."
"Here's another thing, kid," said Jenkins straightly. "Nobody uses the 'M' word who ain't a monster. You dig? Only me and my monster bros can use the 'M' word with each other. Then it's cool. But people like you, you need to refer to us as Monster-Americans. Ok?"
"Uh, yeah, man. I'm sorry. Hey guys, I'll be back. That's my girlfriend over there. I think she's mad at me." Daryl got up to leave just as suddenly as he first appeared.
"You mean the one with that little bit of beard on her chin and the army boots?" laughed Jenkins.
"Yeah, that's her. I'll be back."
"Jenkins, man, you're a hoot! The 'M' word! You really had that kid goin'!"
"Ha!" laughed Jenkins. "Good times! Good times! Hey, my friend, I'm headin' out. I gotta split before 'Crazy D' comes back over here. But maybe you'll get a little action with him later. He seems to really have a thing for you, man! At least maybe a little spoonin' behind the stage! Ha!"
"I'll text you the details later! Ha!"
"Later, bro."
"I love ya, big J."
"Aw, don't let Daryl hear ya sayin' that. You'll break the poor kid's heart! See ya."
The Dodge Dart motored over the mountains toward home, Jenkins humming "Tennessee Whiskey" with the windows down.
"I gotta get a pair of them shoes for my girl. She'd like those."
Slaughter at the Mouse Hotel
in Heron Flight, My Favorites
Last night, I fell asleep finally at 1 AM. I hadn't had much sleep all week and I was happy to have finally hit the sack.
But then… maybe an hour or two later, I woke up to this scratching sound in my room. I was so tired that I just reached over and banged on the floor to make it go away. But it wouldn't. I put music on so I couldn't hear it and fell asleep again. I knew it was a damn mouse.
Then at 4 it woke me again. This time much closer to my bed. Then I realized the dirty thing was on my dresser!!! But I couldn't see it among the vitamin bottles, the Wal-Mart receipts, and the rest of the flotsam and jetsam of the frantic ocean known as my life. So, I wearily reached over and tried slamming a drawer, the one where I stash my winter gloves and hats, to make the beast flee.
The clawing and nibbling hesitated… then continued.
Finally I realized that it must be under the small bookshelf, crafted by jigsaw and screwdriver 20 years ago, sitting on top of my dresser. A bit of space beneath provided a perfect mouse hideout.
Slightly more awake then, I remembered that there were three mouse traps in a package stashed in a kitchen cabinet, the ones I bought for the Mouse Mobile when January deep froze the world and the mice took refuge in my car's heating system. Four of the infiltrators died then.
Unbelievably, in route to the kitchen, I heard scratching, then scurrying! More pests afoot!
"I DECLARE WAR ON THEE, RODENTS! YE SHALL NOT LIVE TO SEE DAWN'S ARRIVAL!"
I deftly deployed two traps at either end of the kitchen counter and strategically stationed the third atop the dresser, abutting the rear of the bookshelf. Taking cover in bed, I waited.
Less than two minutes later I heard "WHACK!" out in the kitchen.
10 minutes later…. "WHACK!" on the dresser!
"Keep the change, ya filthy animal!"
And another bit the dust while I slept the sleep of the victorious.
Final Score: Sam – 3 Vermin – 0!
Dunged
Yesterday on a sunny afternoon…
Driving down a country road…
"Hey, Tim, did you see that? It looked like a purse in the middle of the road."
Slamming the car in reverse and backing up to check it out…
"Yeah, it is a purse. Cool! Maybe I don't need to go to the ATM for cash after all!"
Stepping out of the car…
"Watch it be full of shit! There are probably kids hiding in the corn over there watching."
"Damn… it's heavy. I wonder what's in it."
Squeezing the bottom of the purse…
"It's squishy and warm!"
"Open it!"
"OH MAN! THERE IS SHIT IN IT! SOMEBODY GOT ME GOOD!"
Driving away laughing and wondering…
"Somebody is probably watching from one of those houses and laughing right now!"
In the rearview mirror… a kid runs out from the corn and moves the purse back to the middle of the lane.
Jamming on the breaks…
"What are you doing??"
"I'm going back! That little fucker got me!"
"What are you going to do??"
One moment later… jumping from the car…
"OK, YOU PECKERHEADS!! WHERE ARE YA! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE… AH HA! I SEE YOU! YOU GOT ME, MAN! YOU GOT ME! I'M USUALLY THE GUY PLAYING TRICKS ON OTHER PEOPLE! BUT YOU GOT ME THIS TIME!"
A kid comes out of the corn… his face beaming…
"Did ya open it?? Did ya look inside?? THERE'S COW SHIT IN THERE!"
"I peeked inside. Now I can't wait to get home and wash my hands!"
Tim is out of the car now…
"Ha! That's great! I can tell you guys have seen The Mighty Ducks!"
"Yeah! Yesterday, we filled an old suitcase full of cow shit and left it by the road. Some guy stopped and threw it in the back of his truck without looking in it and left! Ha! Bet he was surprised when he got home!"
"Man, this is hilarious! I feel like hiding in the corn with you guys and watching all the other dumb people stop!"
A second kid emerges from the corn…
"Dude, just so you know… you REALLY made our day!"
From the corn comes a camera crew and Aston Kutcher…
"Sammy, you've been DUNGED!"


A family from Illinois is thankful that their son survived a medical emergency during a Caribbean cruise aboard Carnival's Dream cruise ship which quickly turned into a nightmare.
NBC Chicago reports that the Cohn family were three days into their week long cruise, when their 14 year old son Stephen became very ill with severe stomach pain and internal bleeding.
Heading to St. Thomas, the captain diverted the cruise ship to Puerto Rico. However, Stephen's medical condition deteriorated and the captain summoned a coast guard helicopter to medevac the child from the ship. The child's mom, Michelle Cohn, was also lifted from the cruise ship and accompanied her son to an intensive care unit in Puerto Rico.
The helicopter rescue avoided what would have been a 6 hours journey to the port in Puerto Rico.
The boy's parents thanked Carnival for saving their son's life, saying "They saved his life. They absolutely saved his life."
For other happy endings, read our articles about cruise ship medevacs here.


While progressive employers like Netflix and Facebook continue to implement transgender-inclusive policies, such as adding gender reassignment surgery to their lists of staff benefits, many companies lag behind, hindering their gender-diverse and transgender employees from being their authentic selves in the workplace.
In time for its 2015 Workplace Summit, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, a nonprofit dedicated to achieving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace equality, will debut its Workplace Gender Identity and Transition Guidelines, outlining best practices for creating safe, welcoming and inclusive workplaces for gender-diverse and transgender employees.
An Oklahoma judge is quoting passages from the Bible and using junk science to deny trans people the right to have their names officially changed.
Taboo Subjects: Does our T Fit Into The LGB?
What TG's Don't Talk About! Part One: Are Crossdressers Really Part Of The GLBT? Caution: This series of articles might Piss You Off! These might be subjects you don't want to talk about, you want to ignore, or you might hope no one suspects they exist.


Teenagers involved in the National Citizen Service in Letchworth have organised a charity quiz and raffle night for Carers in Hertfordshire.
NCS brings teenagers together for a four-week course, which involves teambuilding activities, residential trips and a community project.
One Letchworth team have been working to secure venues and designing posters – with the end goal of raising money for the charity, which provides support to unpaid carers across the county.
Team member Rebekah Timms said: "My group and I chose this charity because of the great support they provide, especially to young people.
"At the event there will be prizes up for grabs for the quiz winners, as well as a raffle.
The quiz and raffle will take place at the Icknield Centre tomorrow from 7pm to 9.30pm. Tickets cost £2 for adults and £1 for children.
Anyone who wishes to attend should email ncs.letchworth@gmail.com.
To find out more about the National Citizen Service, go to ncsyes.co.uk.


Night takes Queen: where do all the wasps go in winter?
The flight of the bumblebee is not only an excellent classical piece composed by Rimsky-Korsakov, but also the subject of another 'fact' about insects, which usually goes something like: "According to the laws of physics, bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly." or a phrase of similar meaning. Indeed, the violation of the observably consistent Newtonian Laws of Motion by bumblebees and only bumblebees is not a very strong position to hold and might suggest the advocate of this belief should more fully examine how bumblebees generate lift. I shall try to provide such an examination. But first, let us delve into insect flight more generally!
If a flea were the size of a human could it really jump over the Eiffel Tower?
Quite a lengthy one for you this time.
The 'well-known fact' that "If a flea were the size of a human, it could jump over the Eiffel Tower" is an interesting misconception – one that disregards laws of scaling and structural engineering. A brief analysis of the claim can reveal some of its substantial flaws. But before we go any further, let's use our imaginations, if only as a preliminary thought-experiment.
Picture a human-sized flea (let's say about 170cm in length), henceforth named 'enormo-flea'. It has the exact same proportions as an ordinary flea, but happens to be 170cm long.
Public perceptions towards insects and allied taxa: why are so many people afraid of them?
Public perceptions of the vast majority of insects and terrestrial arthropods tend to be fairly negative. Indeed, the word "insect" alone can elicit a visceral response in some. Attitudes towards insects in the general public of many developed countries are dominated by Fear, where many people are afraid of insects, and Power, where they may want to control insects (The Buzz of Insects, 2007).
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People Share The Most Terrifying Theories They've Ever Heard
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Humanity has come up with some pretty interesting theories over the years.
Some are definitely more interesting than others.
Some of them are just downright terrifying.
Redditor Comprehensive-Note31 asked:
"What is the scariest theory known to man?"
Dual Consciousness Theory
"The dual consciousness theory disturbed me when I read about it."
"Basically (in my limited, layman understanding), a corpus callosotomy is a procedure that is sometimes used to treat conditions like epilepsy, where the connection between the two halves of the brain is severed."
"People can survive this and continue to live semi normally, but usually with some cognitive impairments. Both halves of the brain continue to be 'alive', but there is little to no communication between the two sides."
"People who undergo the procedure can also exhibit some strange phenomena like alien hand syndrome, where the patient feels like some of their limbs will move on their own accord. They can also have difficulty controlling their non-dominant hand, trouble speaking, and issues with certain parts of their vision."
"The dual consciousness theory posits that both halves of the brain retain a consciousness after this procedure. Essentially, you become two people sharing the same body, completely unaware of each other."
"One variation of the theory is that one half of the brain is dominant, controlling most bodily functions, while the other half is basically cut off from most external stimuli, unable to communicate with the outside world, for their rest of their life."
"Obviously this is only a theory and may not be correct. Also, even with the concerns around the operation I can totally understand parents choosing this for their kids - epilepsy can be a debilitating disease and this could be the only option."
"My sister had epilepsy and thankfully she got over it with medication, but it is brutal. Not everyone who has this operation has the side effects that I described, many of them lead normal lives."
"I'm not disturbed by people who have had this operation, just by the implications the theory could have for consciousness in general."
-anemonegemini
The Great Filter
"The great filter. The idea that we see no other civilizations out in space because they hit some wall that made them go extinct."
"Whatever it may be, it could be the reason we see no intelligent life out there, the question is, are we past the filter, or is the worst still to come?"
-_Filter
"Good news, then"
"The Great Filter doesn't take into account that the Universe has only been liveable for an EXTREMELY short amount of time, and, in all likelihood, we are one of, if not the very, first advanced civilizations."
"Basically, the Great Filter doesn't say it's impossible for civilizations to get to the Expansionist and Grabby stages, just hard."
"And because it's just hard, that means that if there were advanced civilizations before our own, we would see the Grabby results of them."
"But we don't, which is not a confirmation of the Great Filter, but more an indication that we are very, very, very early in the timeline of this Universe's 'liveable' stage, & for expanding & becoming Grabby ourselves."
"So the Great Filter is more a cautionary hypothesis than it is a death sentence law of nature."
-emillang1000
Cold, Cold Death
"Cold Death of the universe. That the speed at which the universe is expanding is to the point where gravity will never pull it back."
"Matter will spread out and cool down and decay until everything, everywhere, just stops. forever."
-fdsdfg
We'd Never Know
"The fact that it would take 8 minutes for earth to know that the sun exploded and it could have exploded 7 minutes ago"
-My-name-is-jef56
Proton Decay
"The theory of proton decay, where every single bit of baryonic matter will eventually just spontaneously dissolve into radiation and fundamental particles, guaranteeing that there will be no survivors at the end of the universe is... yeah terrible"
-KentoKeiHayama
"Genuinely asking here; isn't the impending (but incomprehensibly far in the future) heat death of the universe a fairly widely-shared, well-grounded theory at this point? I'm not sure if the two are actually interchangeable so maybe this is a moot point. I don't know sh*t about sh*t so please feel free to ignore me."
-JamesSFordESQ
"There would still be matter with heat death - just cold and no interaction. The idea though is that, given enough time, it may be that protons decay too. If that is the case, then not only would the heat death occur, there would be no matter, either. From bleak to bleaker, really."
-WolfySpice
Uncanny Valley
"The idea that the Uncanny Valley is because of the ancient hominids we used to interact with during the Pleistocene. Sure, there were interbreeding events, but imagine if you had no idea what a Neanderthal or a Denisovan were and saw one for the first time."
"You and your family have been traveling far from home and seek refuge in a cave for the night. You get a fire going, everyone starts to relax."
"Then out of nowhere, this 'almost human' looking being walks up. You all panic and run. Reacting with fear was probably the easiest way to make it out of an encounter like that alive."
-Bromelia_and_Bismuth
"Solipsism. Basically There's no way to prove that anyone other than yourself actually exists. You can dive deeper if you like its actually pretty interesting."
-CasualBiceps
"My dad's friend believes this. He's essentially seen enough therapists that he just finds it easier to 'go with the illusion'."
"He has a wife. He loves her. He 100% believes she's not real."
"She's aware of this, and for some reason takes him as he is. He's a really nice guy."
"He seems incredibly content. Like if this is what the matrix is giving him, he may as well find joy in it."
-A_Is_For_Azathoth
What Is Consciousness?
"That our consciousness doesn't actually direct our actions, but just makes up stories to explain our actions to itself. Consciousness might not even be useful to our evolution, it could just be a weird phenomena that came about as our brains became more complex and developed more self-monitoring systems."
False Vacuum Decay
"In quantum field theory, a false vacuum is a hypothetical vacuum that is stable, but not in the most stable state possible (it is metastable). It may last for a very long time in that state, but could eventually decay to the more stable state, an event known as false vacuum decay."
"The most common suggestion of how such a decay might happen in our universe is called bubble nucleation – if a small region of the universe by chance reached a more stable vacuum, this 'bubble' (also called 'bounce')would spread."
-pradeep23
We Literally Can't Know
"What if our understandings of physics and science, what we base out whole lives around, is just wrong. A man born without eyes cannot see, what if we are missing a huge chunk of reality, simply due to an inability to detect it?"
-LucarioKing0
"This seems incredibly likely to me. Our senses evolved for survival, not necessarily for accurate perception of reality."
-fwonkas
Not all theories are scary, but some of these ones are getting into existential dread territory.
Remember, though, they're just theories—not facts.
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