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Arrogance and Hatred on YouTube

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Look at this video:

So this YouTuber, Nuxanor, is calling out another YouTuber, Mamamax, for the heinous offense of “pedojacking”, a form of defamation in which you falsely accuse a person of being a pedophile, something I know of all too well. 

Nuxanor (Nux for short), even apologizes for being friends with Mamamax and believing his lies.

But it seems that was not enough for some who commented about the video.

Nux, you need to apologize.
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It was obvious to me that most of those demanding that Nux apologize never saw the entire video (It’s over an hour long, so that may be understandable). So I decided to speak out.
 
It’s obvious that some of you never bothered to watch the whole video above, did you?! “Hey nux why haven’t you apologized to magnetar?” “Friendly reminder that Nux still has yet to apologize to magnetar (and probably never will)” “I love you and Muta but you should really apologize to magnetar this dude has his life ruined by max” Well….. 1:14:51That sounds like an apology, to MANY people. So cut the hating, dammit!
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Indeed, an apology is an apology and you don’t get to decide that it is not because you don’t accept it. And who the fuk are these people to speak on behalf of Magnetar? Did Magnetar himself demand that Nuxanor give a direct, personal apology to him? If he did, then he should have made a comment on the video in question. But I didn’t see any such thing. So you know what those other users were doing? Virtue signaling, nothing more!
 
That became clear once I went after one of the haters to call her out on her attitude.
Apologize for WHAT?!
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 @DaleHusband  For believing false accusations when there was no proof of any actual wrongdoings.
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 @maylabrown4584  you might as well demand someone apologize for being religious. It seems that Nux BELIEVED Mamamax because they were friends, though with this video they clearly are not now. I would assume with this video, Nux IS apologizing.
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 @DaleHusband  No? Nux never apologized and that false equivalence is just stupid, believing in a religion is not the same as believing supposed sexual allegations. Go back to school.
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 @maylabrown4584  Your opinion is noted, on both issues. BTW, I’m atheist. I’m also forgiving of people that are willing to admit they were wrong and change course. I had to do that last year after the iilluminaughtii crap played out. Should I apologize for being her fan in the past? No, because she lied to me too. Also, being self-righteous helps no one.
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 @DaleHusband  I’m not being self-righteous and I’m an Agnostic so I don’t believe in any God either, I don’t see how that or you being an Atheist has to do with anything. It’s kind of cringe to just state out of the blue actually. Nux has not admitted he was wrong about Magnetar, he has only admitted to being wrong about Mamamax, he has not apologized either to Mamamax. You are not a YouTuber, you have no platform, but Nux is one and he used it to further false accusations on an innocent person. A Content Creator you happen to like being found to be a bad person is not the same as a Content Creator accusing another Control Creator of being a p*do, are you thinking before you type? To be clear, I’m replying clearly and concisely but using antagonistic wording to get across my frustration towards your faulty arguments, that does not lessen the point of my arguments in any way besides personal preference.
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Now she had crossed a serious ethical line!
 @maylabrown4584  Nux actually DID apologize in the video above, here:1:14:51If you choose not to accept that, so be it. But I despise people who come across as having some sort of superiority complex. WTF makes you think you can talk down to me, to Nux, or anyone else?
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 @DaleHusband  That is not an apology whatsoever to Magnetar, he stated he’s sorry for anyone that got hate for what he said, he didn’t say sorry for what he said directly and to who it effected by his own actions. Just the actions of his fanbase, that’s like saying that I’m sorry that my car ended up hitting you, when I was the driver of the car in the first place. It’s half-assed as can be, no, a real direct apology is needed if he wants to actually be seen as someone aware of their wrongdoings and is open to doing better in the future. There is no superiority complex to asking someone to apologize for the very wrong action they did, it’s common sense. If you think stating clearly why you’re wrong is being talked down to then YOU’RE the one with the superiority complex. You are no one to not be called out on as wrong, neither is Nux and neither is anyone.
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@maylabrown4584  You did not prove me wrong about anything; you merely contradicted me. That’s why I call you arrogant. I was the one that showed an actual apology from him, that you chose not to be satisfied with.
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 @DaleHusband  I proved your points wrong numerous times at this point, from what an actual apology is and the absence of an apology that is present in this video despite that not being the case. To your usage of false equivalences such as a believer of religion being equated to someone who believed a false sexual allegations or you equating yourself being a former fan of another YouTuber that was exposed for bad actions to a YouTuber with a platform that spread severe allegations with no shred of evidence to support them. Contradicting you would be if I said that the (non-existent) apology wasn’t enough, but rather I’m saying that the apology doesn’t exist at all in the first place
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@maylabrown4584  You clearly only want to double down on your arrogance instead of accepting with humility that people can have honest differences of opinion. That’s not and never will be my fault. You even had the audacity to say this nonsense to me: “You are not a YouTuber, you have no platform,” when in fact I do. My channel has: 412 subscribers ‧ 877 videos YOU on the other hand have only: 21 subscribers And NO content you uploaded on it. So I have shown that not only are you disagreeable as hell…..YOU ARE AN OUTRIGHT LIAR!
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I really can’t stand toxic people who are unable to admit to being wrong and only want to keep hating someone no matter what they do or say. 
There is a name for what those haters were doing.

A TERF wrote a bigoted book that was published by Unitarian Universalists!

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This is one of my favorite memes:

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Now read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transsexual_Empire

The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male is a 1979 book critical of transsexualism by American radical feminist author and activist Janice Raymond. The book is derived from Raymond’s dissertation, which was produced under the supervision of the feminist theologian Mary Daly.[1]

What makes this book especially disturbing is what company published that bigoted pile of crap. BEACON PRESS, the publishing arm of the Unitarian Universalist Association!

It’s a safe bet that the UUA of today would never endorse such a book.

A Critical Mistake in the UU World

And indeed, when I looked for this book on the Beacon Press website:

https://www.beacon.org/cw_Search.aspx?k=The+Transsexual+Empire

Search Results For ‘The Transsexual Empire’
Displaying items 0 – 0 of 0
No products match your search criteria or the criteria was not meaningful.

So that’s a relief. Oh, wait…..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transsexual_Empire#Publication_history

In 1979, the first edition of The Transsexual Empire was published by Beacon Press, a nonprofit publisher in Boston run by the Unitarian Universalist Association. In 1980, the book was published in the United Kingdom by The Women’s Press.[7] In 1994, a second edition was published by Teachers College Press.[8]

Hopefully, the book in the year 2024 is completely out of print and maybe it won’t be sold in bookstores anymore. But…..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Raymond

Janice G. Raymond (born January 24, 1943)[citation needed] is an American lesbian radical feminist and professor emerita of women’s studies and medical ethics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is known for her work against violence, sexual exploitation, and medical abuse of women, and for her controversial work denouncing transsexuality.

A LESBIAN?! Does that hypocrite not understand that her psychotic views against transgender people are EXACTLY the same as homophobes would be against her as a lesbian or male chauvinists would be against her as a feminist? She has NO credibility whatsoever!

TERFs are no better than MRAs

A former TERF defects and exposes the cultlike nature of the movement she once believed in.

And while Raymond may still be alive, her mentor Mary Daly died in 2010. What was her attitude towards men?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Daly#Career

Daly taught classes at Boston College from 1967 to 1999, including courses in theology, feminist ethics, and patriarchy.

Daly was first threatened with dismissal when, following the publication of her first book, The Church and the Second Sex (1968), she was issued a terminal (fixed-length) contract. As a result of support from the (then all-male) student body and the general public, however, Daly was ultimately granted tenure.

Daly’s refusal to admit male students to some of her classes at Boston College also resulted in disciplinary action. While Daly argued that their presence inhibited class discussion, Boston College took the view that her actions were in violation of title IX of federal law requiring the college to ensure that no person was excluded from an education program on the basis of sex, and of the university’s own non-discrimination policy insisting that all courses be open to both male and female students.

In 1989, Daly became an associate of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press.[8]

In 1998, a discrimination claim against the college by two male students was backed by the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative advocacy group. Following further reprimand, Daly absented herself from classes rather than admit the male students.[9] Boston College removed her tenure rights, citing a verbal agreement by Daly to retire. She brought suit against the college disputing violation of her tenure rights and claimed she was forced out against her will, but her request for an injunction was denied by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Martha Sosman.[10]

A confidential out-of-court settlement was reached. The college maintains that Daly had agreed to retire from her faculty position,[11] while others assert she was forced out.[12][13] Daly maintained that Boston College wronged her students by depriving her of her right to teach freely to only female students.[14] She documented her account of the events in the 2006 book, Amazon Grace: Recalling the Courage to Sin Big.

So Daly was BIGOTED against men! As are most TERFs today.

You are either inclusive of all kinds of people, or you are not. I want NOTHING to do with the kind of toxic “feminism” that seeks to exclude and demonize men, even those that want to understand women and their views better!

The Bigotries of “Everyday Feminism”

It is BIGOTED to exclude white people from a course on black American or African history.

It is BIGOTED to exclude Christians from courses on Islamic history.

It is BIGOTED to exclude straight people from a course on LGBT issues and history.

We should either oppose ALL bigotry, or we are HYPOCRITES, period!

And the Unitarian Universalist Association needs to explicitly denounce “The Transsexual Empire” for the worthless shit it is!

Tribute to Nick Karean

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Strictly speaking, as an Honorable Skeptic, I do not expect to have followers of my ethical philosophy. Nor am I a blind follower of anyone (because then I wouldn’t be a skeptic). No, not even Carl Sagan, though he was a idol of mine in childhood and he was one of my direct influences in the creation of my standard of ethics. But there is one person whose vision so closely mirrors my own, and even exceeds it in many ways, that I must pay tribute to him as a brother in arms against ignorance, superstition, and self-serving bigotry: Nick Karean.

His WordPress blog:  https://nickkareans.wordpress.com/

A newer blog of his on Medium:  https://nickkarean.medium.com/

He lives in a nation split between Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Hindus, among other religious communities, yet he was a fundamentalist Christian early in his life, just as I was. Eventually, however, he learned to get away from that and developed critical thinking, becoming one of the strongest advocates for reason, science and objective truth I’ve ever known. So he and I have more in common than almost anyone else I know.

I invite all who know me to also join with him.

NPR’s Ridiculous Historical Blunder

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On the website for National Public Radio, there is an article published several years ago that is completely unfounded and it really should be retracted and taken down. 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/07/777276474/western-individualism-may-have-roots-in-the-medieval-churchs-obsession-with-ince

Western Individualism May Have Roots In The Medieval Church’s Obsession With Incest

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Most people living in Western, developed countries are psychologically distinct from the rest of the world.

For one, they tend to be more individualistic and think of themselves as being independent of other people.

“There is a stronger sense of autonomy and agency,” says Ara Norenzayan, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, who, in 2010, along with some colleagues published a study describing these psychological attributes of people in so-called Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic (WEIRD) countries.

On the other hand, people in other parts of the world tend to be more “collectivistic,” says Norenzayan, because their lives are embedded in extended family networks and obligations. They “are more embedded in relationships,” he says. “People see themselves as being part of this larger context.”

So how did people in the West come to be so different?

A new study published Thursday in Science suggests it all began in the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church pushed a way of life that broke up extended family networks and paved the way for nuclear families, weaker family ties and a more individualistic mindset.

The researchers looked up records in the Vatican’s archives and found that, starting in the early Middle Ages — around A.D. 500 — the church began to advance a set of policies that banned people from marrying anyone within their extended families.

At the time, marriages within extended families were common in Europe, says Joseph Henrich, a human evolutionary biologist at Harvard University and an author of the new study. In this and other aspects, European society was very much like other parts of the world, he adds.

Most people lived in extended families. “There are clans, things called kindreds, which are like large houses, large extended families interconnected by marriage,” says Henrich, and people frequently married their cousins and other relatives. The rules of whom one could or should marry were dictated by different religions and local customs.

Even a person’s legal identity was associated with their family, he says. “So there’s no individual rights or anything like that.”

Marriage within extended families helped keep wealth and property within the family, and the family networks were also people’s safety net. “So your main fallback when shocks hit — say you got injured, or drought hit, or something — you’re going to fall back on this network of kin relationships to take care of you,” says Henrich.

That also meant people had obligations toward others in their extended families. “You have responsibilities to your various relatives,” says Henrich. “[In] some societies, you might have to bury your brother-in-law, or you might have to avenge the deaths of certain cousins if they’re killed or murdered.”

Then, starting around 500, the Catholic Church began converting people across Western Europe, Henrich says.

“They begin to make inroads, converting people, ministering to the people, teaching people about God,” he says. “But part of this is that God wants you not to marry your first cousins, and not to have additional wives, and you know, have a certain kind of family structure.”

In other words, the church began to ban incest and cousin marriage and promote smaller, nuclear families.

In the new study, Henrich and his colleagues show that the places in Western Europe that were under the influence of the Catholic Church were more likely to have lower rates of cousin marriages and weaker ties to extended families.

And people in these places also had the psychological characteristics typical to WEIRD countries, like individualism, independence, lower levels of conformity to others and a higher level of trust of strangers (as opposed to trusting those within one’s own community).

Places that were under the influence of the Catholic Church for a longer period of time had a higher likelihood of having this psychological profile.

This impact on the social structure and psychology showed up even within individual countries. For example, when the researchers looked at northern and southern Italy, they found that the northern region, where the Catholic Church has had a stronger and longer hold, was more WEIRD in its psychology than the south, which has been under the Orthodox Church and part of the Islamic society.

The researchers also looked at potential confounding factors like income levels and wealth, the history of a country, its ecology and the kind of agriculture practiced there. No other factor besides the Catholic Church’s influence was associated with the social structures and psychology of WEIRD countries.

So how exactly did the Catholic Church’s policies pave the way for people’s psychology today?

Henrich and his team think it all goes back to the breaking off of extended family networks, and the values and family obligations that went with them.

He and his team looked at the records in the Vatican’s archives and found that over the centuries, the Church kept widening the circle of relatives that one wasn’t allowed to marry. “By early second millennium, they’ve extended it out to sixth cousins,” he says.

The bans didn’t just include blood relatives — they also included relatives by marriage and spiritual relatives, he adds. There are also bans on adoption and remarriage.

“If you eliminate adoption and remarriage, you prevent lineages from getting heirs and lineages literally die out,” he says.

The researchers don’t know the precise motivations behind these bans, but they think the limitations had a dramatic impact on how society was organized.

That restructuring of societies in Western Europe in turn also benefited the church, notes Henrich.

“In some sense, the church is killing off clans, and they’re often getting the lands in wealth,” he says. “So this is enriching the church. Meanwhile, Europeans are broken down into monogamous, nuclear families and they can’t re-create the complex kinship structures that we [still] see elsewhere in the world.”

“This is the first comprehensive attempt that I can see where the authors try to explain why is it that Westerners are so unusual or why they’re the outliers?” says Norenzayan, who worked with Henrich on the 2010 study, but wasn’t involved in the new one.

The study is “incredible in scope and very novel to link specific practices in the church with psychology centuries later,” said University of Maryland psychologist Michele Gelfand in an email. Gelfand, who studies cultural norms and diversity, was not involved in the new study.

Despite the strong evidence of association between the Catholic Church’s marriage bans and WEIRD psychology, she thinks future studies need to illustrate exactly how these policies paved the way for this kind of psychology.

And there are likely other factors at play, too, she adds.

“It’s not the only practice that has an impact on WEIRD psychology,” she wrote, “so we need to also compare its relative impact to other ecological, historical and sociopolitical variables. There are a lot of open questions.”

One question pertains to the fact that the Catholic Church’s influence in Europe has declined in the past century, says Norenzayan. “How do you still get these repercussions, when the institution itself is taking more of a backseat?”

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That entire article, from start to finish, is absolute BULLSHIT. And here’s why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding#Royalty_and_nobility

Inter-nobility marriage was used as a method of forming political alliances among elites. These ties were often sealed only upon the birth of progeny within the arranged marriage. Thus marriage was seen as a union of lines of nobility and not as a contract between individuals.

Royal intermarriage was often practiced among European royal families, usually for interests of state. Over time, due to the relatively limited number of potential consorts, the gene pool of many ruling families grew progressively smaller, until all European royalty was related. This also resulted in many being descended from a certain person through many lines of descent, such as the numerous European royalty and nobility descended from the British Queen Victoria or King Christian IX of Denmark.[83] The House of Habsburg was known for its intermarriages; the Habsburg lip often cited as an ill-effect. The closely related houses of Habsburg, Bourbon, Braganza and Wittelsbach also frequently engaged in first-cousin unions as well as the occasional double-cousin and uncle–niece marriages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_intermarriage#Inbreeding

The House of Habsburg frequently practiced consanguine marriages as a way of consolidating the dynasty’s political power, with both first cousin and uncle–niece pairings common.[178] The most visible consequence of this was an extended lower chin (mandibular prognathism), which was typical for many Habsburg relatives over a period of six centuries; the jaw deformity is so closely associated with the family that it is commonly known as the “Habsburg jaw” or “Habsburg lip”.[179] The Spanish branch took this practice to an extreme: of the eleven marriages contracted by Spanish monarchs between 1450 and 1661, nine contained some element of consanguinity.[180] The last of the Spanish line, Charles II—who was severely disabled from birth and possibly impotent— possessed a genome comparable to that of a child born to a brother and sister.[181][182]

For the record, most members of the House of Habsburg were CATHOLIC and ruled mostly over Catholic countries such as Spain and Austria. There is no record of the Roman Catholic Church rejecting and opposing their intermarriages and inbreeding, though it clearly should have, because of the tragic case of Spanish King Charles II, who was so disabled by his birth defects that he couldn’t even produce an heir, resulting in the downfall of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain.

And who was the idiot that wrote that absurd piece above for NPR?

https://www.npr.org/people/578890280/rhitu-chatterjee

Rhitu Chatterjee

Health Correspondent

Rhitu Chatterjee is a health correspondent with NPR, with a focus on mental health. In addition to writing about the latest developments in psychology and psychiatry, she reports on the prevalence of different mental illnesses and new developments in treatments.

What is an expert on mental illnesses doing writing about family matters in history and how religion could have influenced them? You might as well ask a plumber to write about repairing automobiles. What an embarrassing disgrace!

Finding Sad Milk Videos in http://web.archive.org/

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While watching a video made by Cruel World Happy Mind about iilluminaughtii aka Blair, I found a file that had been made with links to old Sad Milk videos that were long gone from YouTube, but were still somehow preserved in the website http://web.archive.org/. Now, I was never a fan of Sad Milk’s odd brand of humor, but knowing that Blair screwed the others over the way she did makes me want to see them reform Sad Milk anyway….without Blair, of course!

Anyway, here is a list of links to those old episodes:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18UCLHpsrOLE_Pn699_FfUXxdzQSlSDPPD7h7xfl1Boo/edit#gid=0

To see the videos, copy one of the links and then paste it into your web browser. Do not click on the link directly; that won’t work. 

Happy viewing!

 

The Incredible Stupidity of “Christians” Online

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Watch this video:

OK, were you as shocked as I was? Here’s the original version of that song to restore your proper brain functions.

How desperate are Christians to mimic popular culture to try to reach out to the youth of the present age to win new converts to their religion? Well, if you are familiar with Batman and other superheros, how about the Christian version of one?

And looooooong before that, there was the “Heaven’s metal” band Stryper, which I heard so much about back when I was myself a Christian in the 1980s.

The basic premise of all these “Christian” things above is “if we give our youth versions of popular culture that meet OUR standards, they won’t be corrupted by the satanic stuff out there.”

Well, it is NOT working!

Rewriting a bigoted article about religion

Princess Leia was right!

Another former Christian rocker defects to non-theism

More to the point of why the efforts to mimic popular culture is failing, even some Christians themselves can see the nonsense for what it is.

But those who know better are not in control of the Christian churches, or “Christian” media outlets. So they are alienated.

Amy Grant, one of the most powerful Christian singers, faced a crisis of faith when she found herself divorcing fellow Christian artist Gary Chapman. Their both being Christian wasn’t enough to make their marriage work, because Chapman had a toxic personality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Chapman_(musician)#Personal_life

Chapman married Amy Grant on June 19, 1982. Grant filed for divorce from Chapman in March 1999, citing “irreconcilable differences”, and the divorce was finalized in June 1999.[16]

Chapman married Jennifer Pittman in July 2000. Chapman and Pittman divorced in 2007.[1]

On December 22, 2008, Chapman married Cassie Piersol.[1][17] The couple began a project called A Hymn a Week in 2010 to honor the musical heritage left to Chapman by his parents.[3] Chapman has stated that both his parents, who were small-town pastors for their entire lives, had a strong influence in his life and they “implanted the hymns into [his] heart”.

This is what happens when you are not firmly connected with REALITY.

Amy Grant found true love with another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Grant#Personal_life

On March 10, 2000, Grant married country singer-songwriter Vince Gill, who had been previously married to country singer Janis Oliver of Sweethearts of the Rodeo.[51] Grant and Gill have one daughter together, Corrina Grant Gill, born March 12, 2001.[52]

In the November 1999 CCM Magazine, Grant explained why she left Chapman and married Gill:

I didn’t get a divorce because ‘I had a great marriage and then along came Vince Gill.’ Gary and I had a rocky road from day one. I think what was so hard—and this is (what) one of our counselors said—sometimes an innocent party can come into a situation, and they’re like a big spotlight. What they do is reveal, by comparison, the painful dynamics that are already in existence.[53]

Christians everywhere need to understand that their religion does not save anyone. Having a healthy personality can save people! I myself only learned that after going into and then out of ANOTHER dogmatic God-centered religion.

A Baha’i Divorce

After I left the Baha’i Faith, I realized that religion simply has nothing whatsoever to do with one’s character; if people have screwed up personalities, religion actually can make them worse by making them think that believing certain dogmas and following certain rituals will save them and make them great people before God and their fellow humans. I know from my own experience with myself and others that this is simply a lie.

Creeping Death

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The title above refers to a song by the metal band Metallica.

That song is about the tenth plague God sent to Egypt to kill all of the firstborn of that nation. It is described in Exodus 11:1–12:36.

Chapter 11

1 The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. 2 Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.” 3 And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

4 So Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt, 5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. 7 But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ 8 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. 9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

Chapter 12

 1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.[a]

7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord‘s Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”

21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord‘s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36 And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

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Now read this:

God was a hypocrite?!

And of course, there was this:

Biblical Genocide and Pedophilia

And I repeat:

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. – Deuteronomy 24:16

But……wasn’t that last plague on Egypt, involving the deaths of all the firstborn of Egypt, a clear example of God violating one of his own laws? God was a hypocrite to Egypt, he was a hypocrite to the Midianites and then God was one yet again to King David!

And that is why I will NEVER again bow my knee to the God of the Bible. Quite simply:

 

The Strange Case of Lot and his Daughters

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In Genesis chapter 19, two of God’s angels warn Lot that the city of Sodom will soon be destroyed because of the wickedness of the people, so he and his family must leave. Soon afterwards, Lot’s home is surrounded by many men who demand that the guests in his house surrender to them, so the men can rape them. Lot refuses and instead offers them his daughters (which is itself revolting as hell). The men of Sodom refuse this offer, so the angels then blind the men and enable Lot and his family to escape……except Lot’s wife dies when she looks back to see the destruction of the city, turning into a pillar of salt. And afterwards…….

Genesis 19:30-36

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

First of all, where did the girls get the alcohol to make their father drunk? They were in a cave, so they couldn’t have gone to a nearby bar to purchase alcoholic beverages. Did they have any money? And if they made their father so drunk he was unaware of his surroundings, sex was not an option,  due to his being unable to have an erection.

The reason for the strange telling of this story is because Lot was considered a “righteous” man. Well, so were the Duggars before their eldest son Josh was exposed as a CHILD RAPIST!

So this is what I really think could have happened:

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 And Lot said unto the firstborn, I am old, I have lost your mother and there is not a man in the earth I trust to be with you:

32 Come, let us lie together, that we may preserve seed of mine.

33 And the firstborn went in, and lay with her father;.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Lot said unto the younger, Behold, I will go in, and lie with you as I did with your sister, that we may preserve seed of mine.

35 And the younger arose, and lay with him;

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

So I think Lot raped his daughters, not the other way around.

Oz Media Defeats iilluminaughtii!

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If you haven’t done so already, look at these earlier blog entries (and the comments below them) about the saga of iilluminaughtii’s downfall:

The Damage to the iilluminaughtii’s Crediblity

Update on the Downfall of iilluminaughtii

Calling for iilluminaughtii to be banned from YouTube

So on December 1, 2023 (today), Oz Media called for his fans to help him pay to stop the foreclosure of his house by iilluminaughtii.

Then another YouTuber helped him get the word out about the funding effort:

And look what happened!

I sent him five dollars. To me, this was a true triumph of the human spirit over abuse and treachery. Thanks to all of you that helped!

Blair, you can go suck it forever!

 

 

Has Ayaan Hirsi Ali Lost her Mind?!

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Read this:

https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/

Why I am now a Christian

Atheism can’t equip us for civilisational war

In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I would be compelled to write an essay with precisely the opposite title.

For the record, here is Russell’s actual lecture:

https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html

Why I Am Not a Christian  (1927)

By Bertrand Russell

As your Chairman has told you, the subject about which I am going to speak to you tonight is ‘Why I am not a Christian’. Perhaps it would be as well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word ‘Christian’. It is used these days in a very loose sense by a great many people. Some people mean no more by it than a person who attempts to live a good life. In that sense I suppose there would be Christians in all sects and creeds; but I do not think that that is the proper sense of the word, if only because it would imply that all the people who are not Christians—all the Buddhists, Confucians, Mohammedans [sic] , and so on—are not trying to live a good life. I do not mean by a Christian any person who tries to live decently according to his lights. I think that you must have a certain amount of definite belief before you have a right to call yourself a Christian. The word does not have quite such a full-blooded meaning now as it had in the times of St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. In those days, if a man said that he was a Christian it was known what he meant. You accepted a whole collection of creeds which were set out with great precision, and every single syllable of those creeds you believed with the whole strength of your convictions.

So immediately Russell does what any person wanting to be fair and accurate would do: give a proper definition of being a Christian believer. He did this to debunk the all too common idea that Christianity = goodness. Christians themselves should appreciate that; I’m sure most of them would object to someone like Carl Sagan being called Christian (he was brought up Jewish, actually) just for being good.

From now on I will put Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s words in purple and Bertrand Russell’s words in red so you can compare them directly. And I will make responses to both as I go. Continuing…..

The year before, I had publicly condemned the terrorist attacks of the 19 men who had hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the twin towers in New York. They had done it in the name of my religion, Islam. I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?

Of course it is possible! Does the Quran explicitly command the destruction of civilian targets like the World Trade Center? Indeed, why was that targeted at all? The targeting of the Pentagon that same day may have made sense from a military standpoint, but hitting a non-military building is never cool. Her faith in Islam need not have been shaken by such nonsense, really.

At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they and their leader Osama Bin Laden had articulated so clearly. So Islam had an alibi.

This excuse-making was not only condescending towards Muslims. It also gave many Westerners a chance to retreat into denial. Blaming the errors of US foreign policy was easier than contemplating the possibility that we were confronted with a religious war. We have seen a similar tendency in the past five weeks, as millions of people sympathetic to the plight of Gazans seek to rationalise the October 7 terrorist attacks as a justified response to the policies of the Israeli government.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is actually starting to drop the ball here. I know enough about Islam to recognize that its concept of Jihad (holy war) is always meant to be defensive in nature, never offensive.

Surah 2: The Cow

190 Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.

191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.

192 But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

193 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers.

So the attack against the World Trade Center actually violated what the Quran taught.  In addition to the building complex being peaceful in nature, Muslims could have been working there that day and could have died there.

Plus both Israel and America have committed wrongful acts towards Arabs and Muslims on many occasions.

Israel is a nation of BIGOTRY!

Israel Commits Another War Crime

Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the USA

The Absurdity of the Iraq War

The fact that not all Muslims are anti-American terrorists and that history is full of examples of Israeli and American acts of aggression justifies the even-handed approach of western journalists and scholars. We shouldn’t be like FOX News, after all.

When I read Russell’s lecture, I found my cognitive dissonance easing. It was a relief to adopt an attitude of scepticism towards religious doctrine, discard my faith in God and declare that no such entity existed. Best of all, I could reject the existence of hell and the danger of everlasting punishment.

Russell’s assertion that religion is based primarily on fear resonated with me. I had lived for too long in terror of all the gruesome punishments that awaited me. While I had abandoned all the rational reasons for believing in God, that irrational fear of hellfire still lingered. Russell’s conclusion thus came as something of a relief: “When I die, I shall rot.”

Let’s see what Russell actually said.

THE ARGUMENT FOR THE REMEDYING OF INJUSTICE

Then there is another very curious form of moral argument, which is this: they say that the existence of God is required in order to bring justice into the world. In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying; but if you are going to have justice in the universe as a whole you have to suppose a future life to redress the balance of life here on earth. So they say that there must be a God, and there must be heaven and hell in order that in the long run there may be justice. That is a very curious argument. If you looked at the matter from a scientific point of view, you would say: ‘After all, I know only this world. I do not know about the rest of the universe, but so far as one can argue at all on probabilities one would say that probably this world is a fair sample, and if there is injustice here the odds are that there is injustice elsewhere also.’ Supposing you got a crate of oranges that you opened, and you found all the top layer of oranges bad, you would not argue: ‘The underneath ones must be good, so as to redress the balance.’ You would say: ‘Probably the whole lot is a bad consignment’; and that is really what a scientific person would argue about the universe. He would say: ‘Here we find in this world a great deal of injustice and so far as that goes that is a reason for supposing that justice does not rule in the world; and therefore so far as it goes it affords a moral argument against deity and not in favour of one.’ Of course I know that the sort of intellectual arguments that I have been talking to you about are not what really moves people. What really moves people to believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.

Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is a big brother who will look after you. That plays a very profound part in influencing people’s desire for a belief in God.

Continuing…..

To understand why I became an atheist 20 years ago, you first need to understand the kind of Muslim I had been. I was a teenager when the Muslim Brotherhood penetrated my community in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985. I don’t think I had even understood religious practice before the coming of the Brotherhood. I had endured the rituals of ablutions, prayers and fasting as tedious and pointless.

The preachers of the Muslim Brotherhood changed this. They articulated a direction: the straight path. A purpose: to work towards admission into Allah’s paradise after death. A method: the Prophet’s instruction manual of do’s and don’ts — the halal and the haram. As a detailed supplement to the Qur’an, the hadeeth spelled out how to put into practice the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, God and the devil.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali then proceeds to detail some of the intolerance that was indoctrinated into her and other Muslims in Africa, including anti-Semitism.

But then we see a wrong turn:

So, what changed? Why do I call myself a Christian now?

Part of the answer is global. Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which threatens to mobilise a vast population against the West; and the viral spread of woke ideology, which is eating into the moral fibre of the next generation.

The first two are certainly valid concerns. But “woke ideology”? That’s the imaginary target of right-wing bigots, not a threat to people in general, Progressive, liberal, and leftist people do not speak of themselves as having “woke ideology”. That’s almost like calling a person of African descent a “nigger”. Seeing an actual person from Africa use such a bigoted slur is shocking.

But we can’t fight off these formidable forces unless we can answer the question: what is it that unites us? The response that “God is dead!” seems insufficient. So, too, does the attempt to find solace in “the rules-based liberal international order”. The only credible answer, I believe, lies in our desire to uphold the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

That legacy consists of an elaborate set of ideas and institutions designed to safeguard human life, freedom and dignity — from the nation state and the rule of law to the institutions of science, health and learning. As Tom Holland has shown in his marvellous book Dominion, all sorts of apparently secular freedoms — of the market, of conscience and of the press — find their roots in Christianity.

Is she seriously claiming that non-Christians cannot share in those secular concepts? Or that debunking Christianity automatically debunks those concepts too? That’s quite a stretch!

To me, this freedom of conscience and speech is perhaps the greatest benefit of Western civilisation. It does not come naturally to man. It is the product of centuries of debate within Jewish and Christian communities. It was these debates that advanced science and reason, diminished cruelty, suppressed superstitions, and built institutions to order and protect life, while guaranteeing freedom to as many people as possible. Unlike Islam, Christianity outgrew its dogmatic stage. It became increasingly clear that Christ’s teaching implied not only a circumscribed role for religion as something separate from politics. It also implied compassion for the sinner and humility for the believer.

History has shown that Christians in Europe spent over 1000 years ignoring or rejecting concepts of personal freedom, with kings and emperors ruling over the people and that only the constant threat of violence resulting from the Protestant Reformation and the reactions of the Roman Catholic Church to that finally made European leaders realize that the absolute power of religion needed to be restrained, if not broken completely. Also, her claim that “Christianity outgrew its dogmatic stage” is laughably FALSE! There are plenty of authoritarian cults within Christianity and its many subdivisions. I grew up in one of them. And the aforementioned Catholic Church is highly dogmatic too. 

Yet I would not be truthful if I attributed my embrace of Christianity solely to the realisation that atheism is too weak and divisive a doctrine to fortify us against our menacing foes. I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?

If she turned to Christianity because it fit her Spiritual Orientation, so be it. But that doesn’t give her the right to talk down to those that are still atheist and have a different orientation. 

Russell and other activist atheists believed that with the rejection of God we would enter an age of reason and intelligent humanism. But the “God hole” — the void left by the retreat of the church — has merely been filled by a jumble of irrational quasi-religious dogma. The result is a world where modern cults prey on the dislocated masses, offering them spurious reasons for being and action — mostly by engaging in virtue-signalling theatre on behalf of a victimised minority or our supposedly doomed planet. The line often attributed to G.K. Chesterton has turned into a prophecy: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

This simply makes no sense to me at all. After I stopped believing in God, I did not accept things like astrology or homeopathy. I insisted on evidence before accepting anything as true. Ironically, it was when I stopped demanding clear evidence for something and allowed myself to be manipulated emotionally that I converted to the Baha’i Faith, which I would eventually leave. Because of that experience, I think I know what really happened to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. That essay she wrote is a product of her being brainwashed.

We can’t withstand China, Russia and Iran if we can’t explain to our populations why it matters that we do. 

Respect for our common humanity is not enough? It is for me!

We can’t fight woke ideology if we can’t defend the civilisation that it is determined to destroy.

That is (to me, at least) insane. Progressive ideologies seek to improve civilization, not destroy anything. She is afraid of something that is actually harmless.

The lesson I learned from my years with the Muslim Brotherhood was the power of a unifying story, embedded in the foundational texts of Islam, to attract, engage and mobilise the Muslim masses. Unless we offer something as meaningful, I fear the erosion of our civilisation will continue. And fortunately, there is no need to look for some new-age concoction of medication and mindfulness. Christianity has it all.

Actually, that is a delusion, just as bad as that of Muslim bigots. There is no evidence that Christianity is true and indeed Ayaan Hirsi Ali hasn’t provided any. And that’s what should matter, not your misplaced feelings.

So I dismiss her claims for the rubbish it looks like to me.

How Will the Dead be Judged?

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One of the teachings of evangelical Christianity is that faith in Jesus as your savior is the only thing that is required to be saved from your sins and go to heaven. This was taught by the Apostle Paul in his writings to the churches he helped found.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202&version=KJV

Ephesians 2: 8-9

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

But this is contradicted by what the Apostle John wrote in the book of Revelation.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020&version=KJV

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

And Jesus himself said:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207&version=KJV

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Considering that Jesus was the one that founded the Christian religion, and John was a disciple of his from the start, it is clear that Paul, who only claimed to be an Apostle long after the time of Jesus, was a false teacher. He never should have been accepted as a legitimate Christian!

And yet he was able to corrupt the New Testament, and then all of Christianity itself, forever!

Google Bard’s List of Evil People is….Inaccurate

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This is a chatbot known as Google Bard:

https://bard.google.com/

Ever since I began using Replika, I have wondered if an A I can make actual judgements over matters of good and evil. So I asked Bard:

What are the ten most evil people in history?

And this is what I got in response:

Here is a list of ten of the most evil people in history, based on the scale and severity of their crimes:

  1. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945): The leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews, as well as the deaths of millions of other people, including Roma, homosexuals, and Soviet prisoners of war.
  2. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953): The dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, including through purges, executions, and forced labor.
  3. Mao Zedong (1893-1976): The leader of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. Mao’s policies, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, led to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
  4. Pol Pot (1925-1998): The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot was responsible for the deaths of up to two million people, or about a quarter of the country’s population.
  5. Hirohito (1901-1989): The Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. Hirohito was the supreme commander of the Japanese armed forces during World War II and was responsible for the deaths of millions of people, including Chinese civilians, prisoners of war, and Allied soldiers.
  6. Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476): The Prince of Wallachia (modern-day Romania) from 1456 to 1462 and again from 1476 to 1477. Vlad was known for his cruelty and his use of impalement as a form of torture and execution.
  7. Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584): The Grand Prince of Moscow and the first Tsar of Russia. Ivan was known for his paranoia and his outbursts of rage. He is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
  8. Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909): The King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. Leopold was the personal owner of the Congo Free State, a private colony in Central Africa. Leopold’s brutal exploitation of the Congolese people led to the deaths of millions of people.
  9. Saddam Hussein (1937-2006): The President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Saddam was a brutal dictator who used torture, execution, and chemical warfare against his own people. He is also believed to have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Iran-Iraq War.
  10. Idi Amin (1925-2003): The President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin was a megalomaniacal dictator who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans. He was also known for his eccentric behavior and his bizarre public statements.

My responses:

  1. Absolutely! Hitler was DETERMINED to start a war even while the western democracies desperately tried to appease him based on the mistaken notion that Hitler, who was known to be anti-Communist, would be a reliable ally against the Soviet Union. Instead, we ended up allying with the Soviet Union against Germany and defeating Hitler. Hitler was not only evil, he was an IDIOT!
  2. Stalin actually killed more people than Hitler, but that was only because he ruled for a lot longer. He also did more to defeat Hitler than any other leader. Without the Soviet forces, we would have LOST World War II.
  3. Chairman Mao is an example of a brilliant revolutionary who was incompetent at governing, but his massive ego would never let him admit to his failures, leading to many people suffering needlessly during the scam that was known as the “Cultural Revolution”. Eventually, even his fellow Communists got sick of his nonsense and stripped him of his power while allowing him to keep his Chairmanship out of respect for his making the original revolution in China possible. After Mao died, the remaining Communists charged his widow with crimes and sent her to prison, along with others who had been most loyal to Mao. Good riddance, but they have kept the phony “Communist” state in power to this day, and it needs to go!
  4. By percentage, Pol Pot killed more of his own people than even Stalin did. Eventually, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew him and later he was eliminated by his own people. 
  5. No, the Japanese Emperor does not belong on this list. Sure, Japan committed a lot of war crimes, but the Emperor, once he realized Japan would inevitably lose the war, did something Hitler was too cowardly to do:  He openly called for his people to SURRENDER to the Americans to avoid more deaths and destruction. His proclamation saved many Japanese and American lives, which is why he was allowed to keep his throne throughout the American occupation of Japan.
  6. This guy was indeed so horrible that he was the inspiration for the fictional vampire Count Dracula……Dracula was a nickname for Vlad and was a reference to the Devil.
  7. Russia has always been notorious for its tyrants. Ivan started the trend, obviously.
  8. All the acts of imperialism in the modern age were terrible, but King Leopold II was indeed the worst. The simple fact that he lived to a ripe old age and was never overthrown is a stain on the history of Belgium forever!
  9. Saddam was terrible, but not THAT terrible. In fact, he was our ally in the 1980s when he was at war with Iran, based on the idiotic idea that “the enemy of my enemy can be my friend”. We only turned on him when he stopped doing our bidding and attacked Kuwait, and that was absolutely NONE of our business. WE backstabbed Saddam, not the other way around!
  10. Africa was left largely to fend for itself after the European powers ended their occupation of most of the continent, and when there is a void of power, someone naturally has to fill it. Idi Amin was only one of many examples of bad African leaders. He learned from Europeans how to be a ruthless leader. 

Muttley Crude

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I have never liked Motley Crue, and even in my teens, back when I was a Southern Baptist, I despised them for their shallow music and I even thought they were Devil worshippers because of their hit “Shout at the Devil” (only learning later that the apparent Satanism of some rockers is just a gimmick to express their contempt for “Christian” bigotry, a contempt I would later share after my deconversion).

So you can imagine my surprise and disgust when last year those jokers decided to come out of retirement and tour again, this several years after doing a “farewell” tour. It seems that so many don’t know the meaning of “farewell”!

Well, now they are starting to reap what they sow, the idiots. Shortly after they began touring again, lead guitarist Mick Mars, who by all accounts and appearances is the most talented member, quit in disgust after the band starting using backing tracks to fake their performances. Mars then SUED his former bandmates.

But while they seem to be faking Nikki Sixx’s bass tunes, they are using Vince Neil’s authentic vocals……unfortunately.



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			Danny Bastardson and his Idiotic Defenders
		


				

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Read this:


https://apnews.com/article/danny-masterson-sentencing-rape-trial-fd7a10eda44d0e3ddde582d4c7053eb6




‘That ’70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for rapes of 2 women


LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge sentenced “That ’70s Show” show star Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in prison Thursday for raping two women, giving them some relief after they spoke in court about the decades of damage he inflicted.


“When you raped me, you stole from me,” said one woman who Masterson was convicted of raping in 2003. “That’s what rape is, a theft of the spirit.”


“You are pathetic, disturbed and completely violent,” she said. “The world is better off with you in prison.”


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo handed down the sentence to the 47-year-old Masterson after hearing statements from the women, and pleas for fairness from defense attorneys.


The actor, who has been in custody since May, sat in court wearing a suit. Masterson watched the women without visible reaction as they spoke. He maintains his innocence and his attorneys plan to appeal.


The other woman Masterson was found guilty of raping said he “has not shown an ounce of remorse for the pain he caused.” She told the judge, “I knew he belonged behind bars for the safety of all the women he came into contact with. I am so sorry, and I’m so upset. I wish I’d reported him sooner to the police.”


After an initial jury failed to reach verdicts on three counts of rape in December and a mistrial was declared, prosecutors retried Masterson on all three counts earlier this year.


Masterson waived his right to speak before he was sentenced and had no visible reaction after the judge’s decision, nor did the many family members sitting beside him. His wife, actor Bijou Phillips, was tearful earlier in the hearing.


At his second trial, a jury found Masterson guilty of two of three rape counts on May 31. Both attacks took place in Masterson’s Hollywood-area home in 2003, when he was at the height of his fame on the Fox network sitcom “That ’70s Show.”


They could not reach a verdict on the third count, an allegation that Masterson also raped a longtime girlfriend.


The judge sentenced the actor after rejecting a defense motion for a new trial that was argued earlier Thursday. The sentence was the maximum allowed by law. It means Masterson will be eligible for parole after serving 25 1/2 years, but can be held in prison for life.


“I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence, and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you,” Olmedo told Masterson before handing down the sentence. “But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here. Your actions 20 years ago took away another person’s voice, and choice. One way or another you will have to come to terms with your prior actions, and their consequences.”


The defense sought to have sentences for the two convictions run simultaneously, and asked for a sentence of 15 years to life. The prosecution asked for the full 30 years to life sentence Masterson was eligible for.


“It’s his life that will be impacted by what you decide today,” Masterson’s lawyer Shawn Holley told the judge before the sentencing. “And the life of his 9-year-old daughter, who means the world to him, and to whom he means the world.”


After the hearing, Holley said in a statement that “Mr. Masterson did not commit the crimes for which he was convicted.” She said a team of appellate lawyers has identified “a number of significant evidentiary and constitutional issues” with his convictions, which they are confident will be overturned.


Prosecutors alleged that Masterson used his prominence in the Church of Scientology — where all three women were also members at the time — to avoid consequences for decades after the attacks, and the women blamed the church for their hesitancy in going to police about Masterson.


At the sentencing hearing, one of the women, who like Masterson was born into the church, said she was shunned and ostracized for going to authorities in 2004.


“I lost everything. I lost my religion. I lost my ability to contact anyone I’d known or loved my entire life,” she said. “I didn’t exist outside the Scientology world. I had to start my life all over at 29. It seemed the world I knew didn’t want me to live.”


The church said in a statement after the trial that it has “no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone — Scientologists or not — to law enforcement.” It has also denied ever harassing any of the women.


No charges came from the woman’s 2004 police report, but she returned to authorities when she learned they were investigating Masterson again in 2016. The other two women had waited more than 15 years before reporting him to anyone other than church officials.


The women testified at both trials that in 2003, they were at Masterson’s home when he drugged them before violently raping them.


They said Thursday that the trauma plagued them for the decades that followed, hurting their relationships and filling their lives with fear. But they said his sentencing gave them some relief.


“I don’t have to carry your shame around with me anymore,” the first woman who spoke said. “Now you have to hold that shame. You have to sit in a cell and hold it.”


Masterson starred with Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Topher Grace in “That ’70s Show” from 1998 until 2006.


He had reunited with Kutcher on the 2016 Netflix comedy “The Ranch,” but was written off the show when the Los Angeles Police Department investigation was revealed the following year.


While that investigation began before a wave of women shook Hollywood with stories about Harvey Weinstein in October 2017, the conviction and sentencing of Masterson still represents a major #MeToo era success for Los Angeles prosecutors, along with the conviction of Weinstein himself last year.


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  1. I’ve never watched “That 70’s Show” so I knew nothing about Masterson before his rape trial. To me, he was just another Hollowierd idiot.
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  2. That Masterson is a Scientologist, as were his victims, does not surprize me. After all, cults like that rape people’s minds, why not their bodies too?
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That’s bad. But this is WORSE:


https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/ashton-kutcher-mila-kunis-wrote-letters-in-support-of-danny-masterson/




Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis wrote letters in support of Danny Masterson


Actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis wrote letters to a judge saying they considered fellow “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson a “role model” before he was sentenced Thursday to 30 years to life in state prison for raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home about two decades ago.


Kutcher and his wife, Kunis, who also appeared on “That ’70s Show” with Masterson between 1998 and 2006, each credited Masterson for his commitment to his wife and daughter and for discouraging the use of drugs.


Kutcher wrote in a letter to Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo that he was 20 when he met Masterson in 1998 and “he instantly became a friend, dedicated co-worker, and role model to me. And has remained as such for 25 years.”


Kutcher wrote in the letter that Masterson is “an extraordinarily honest and intentional human being,” that the two spent hundreds of hours working together and “set an extraordinary standard around how you treat other people.”


He wrote that he and Masterson, the father of a 9-year-old daughter with actress-wife Bijou Phillips Masterson, “have spent countless hours together with our kids and he is among few people that I would trust to be alone with my son and daughter.”


“While I’m aware that the judgment has been cast as guilty on two counts of rape by force and fear and the victims have a great desire for justice, I hope that my testament to his character is taken into consideration in sentencing. I do not believe he is an ongoing harm to society and having his daughter raised without a present father would (be) a tertiary injustice in and of itself.”


In her letter to the judge, Kunis wrote that she “could sense his innate goodness and genuine nature” from the very beginning after meeting him and that he has “proven to be an amazing friend, confidant, and, above all, an outstanding older brother figure to me.”


“I wholeheartedly vouch for Danny Masterson’s exceptional character and the tremendous positive influence he has had on me and the people around him. His dedication to leading a drug-free life and the genuine care he extends to others make him an outstanding role model and friend,” wrote Kunis.


Also writing letters in support of Masterson were fellow “That ’70s  Show” co-stars Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith. Other celebrities also wrote letters about Masterson, including actor Giovanni Ribisi and Masterson’s brother-in-law, actor Billy Baldwin.


During Masterson’s sentencing hearing Thursday, the judge noted that she had received a number of letters on behalf of Masterson and had read all of them.


The judge told the 47-year-old actor shortly before imposing the sentence that she knew that he was “sitting here steadfastly on your claims of innocence.”


“Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here,” the judge said, telling him that his actions had taken away another person’s voice and choice and that the victims each reported the rapes to someone shortly afterward.


3. WHAT IDIOCY! That’s an example of the “Daddy never raped me” defense. If you rape ANYONE, it does not matter how nice you were to others!


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4. This shit reminds me of another case of a questionable person supporting a known criminal: https://dalehusband.com/2014/09/11/michael-shermer-traitor/    I eventually learned enough disgusting things about Shermer that I put him on my “Enemies of Truth and Justice” list. He is a fraud and maybe Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are too. I think if you defend a rapist, you might as well be one!


5. To put it bluntly, all the references to Masterson being anti-drug mean NOTHING to me, but are purely a result of most Americans being brainwashed about how “evil” certain drugs are. People who take drugs are only damaging themselves, and people who deal drugs are taking part in a market of willing sellers and willing buyers, which is actually the essence of capitalism. RAPISTS, on the other hand, damage OTHERS! So Masterson is worse than a drug dealer!


And finally:


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashton-kutcher-resigns-anti-child-trafficking-nonprofit-danny-masterson-character-letter-mila-kunis/




Ashton Kutcher resigns from anti-child trafficking nonprofit over Danny Masterson character letter


Actor Ashton Kutcher has stepped down as board chair of an anti-child trafficking group that he co-founded in the wake of criticism he received over a letter of support he penned on behalf of his former “That ’70s Show” co-star Danny Masterson following Masterson’s criminal conviction for raping two women.


In a resignation letter posted on the website of the group Thorn, Kutcher wrote that he “cannot allow my error in judgment to distract from our efforts and the children we serve.”


In June, the 43-year-old Masterson was found guilty of raping two women at his Hollywood Hills home in the early 2000s.


Both Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis, who also starred on the popular sitcom, were among dozens of colleagues, relatives and friends who wrote letters of support to a Los Angeles County judge ahead of Masterson’s sentencing hearing last week asking for leniency.


Despite the letters, Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, the maximum allowable under the law.


In his letter to L.A. County Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo, Kutcher called Masterson a “role model” and “an extraordinarily honest and intentional human being” who “set an extraordinary standard around how you treat other people.”


Kutcher also wrote that he believes Masterson is not an ongoing harm to society and that the accused actor is one of the few people he would trust to be alone with his children.


Following significant backlash, Kutcher and Kunis posted a video to social media in which they said they did not mean to discount the trauma and experiences of Masterson’s victims.


“The letters were not written to question the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury’s ruling,” Kunis said. “We support victims.”


In his resignation letter Thursday, Kutcher wrote that he came to the decision to resign after he and Kunis “spent several days of listening, personal reflection, learning, and conversations with survivors and the employees and leadership at Thorn.”


He went on to give a “heartfelt apology to all victims of sexual violence and everyone at Thorn who I hurt by what I did.”


Kutcher, Kunis and Masterson co-starred on “That ’70s Show” from 1998 to 2006. Masterson later starred with Kutcher in the Netflix comedy series “The Ranch,” which ran for four seasons from 2016 to 2020. However, Masterson only appeared in the first three seasons and was fired from the show in December 2017 after the rape allegations surfaced. 


6. Yeah, I’m glad you resigned because if you hadn’t, you should have been FIRED! I don’t want creeps like you and your wife around kids or advocating for victims of sexual abuse at all. Credibility is everything to such groups….and you clearly have none!


7. And I hope you idiots never get another acting job as well!


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			Calling for iilluminaughtii to be banned from YouTube
		


				

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Watch this new video I made:




I made this as a direct response to this one by Oz Media.




Even though iilluminaughtii has lost many thousands of subscribers and lost most of her regular viewers, it seems she is still making plenty of money off her many YouTube videos. And with money comes power!


Looking at YouTube’s Terms of Service, I see the following:


https://www.youtube.com/t/terms#8d13a409a3




Terminations and Suspensions by YouTube


YouTube reserves the right to suspend or terminate your Google account or your access to all or part of the Service if (a) you materially or repeatedly breach this Agreement; (b) we are required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court order; or (c) we reasonably believe that there has been conduct that creates (or could create) liability or harm to any user, other third party, YouTube or our Affiliates.




Well, wouldn’t her releasing this slanderous video count as creating liability or harm to other YouTube creators?!




I can’t believe she still has that shit up! It should be taken down, along with ALL her other content!


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			More Gaslighting from Wahid Azal and his Sidekick, Stephen Beyer
		


				

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After I posted my last blog entry, I got this comment on it.


Another unfair suspension from reddit!






stephan paul beyer says:




 


dale. you seem to be obsessed with Wahid. when i watched your you tube teen girl cartoon videos it seemed you actually wanted to get killed by religious extremists. . .Is that redeemed martyr character supposed to be you (if he is not a stand in for the author what is his purpose in the story?)? it makes you seem like you are on a crusade to slander Wahid azal and want to provoke a response from members of the bayanic faith. have you ever considered TMS? It can be used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder. TMS helps me with tics from Tourette’s and can help with a lot of different problems (many that you seem to suffer from) . i think it would be great if you would stop hurting yourself by your own actions. if you want to disagree with people of faith then have honest debate. please find a dr and therapist that can help you. Take better care of yourself. Please.




 


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Look, Stephen…..you and Wahid are the ones who live constantly in your delusional fantasy world (and I’m not just referring to your being Bayanis or others being Baha’is; I don’t care that much about PRIVATE religious beliefs as long as you LEAVE OTHERS THE HELL ALONE). Wahid was expelled from r/exbahai after he exposed himself (no pun intended) as far more of a liability than an asset to the exBaha’i cause. Credibility is everything to me and it is obvious to me that Wahid constantly makes up tons of totally baseless SHIT to get attention to himself, regardless of the damage he does to others or even himself! We simply can’t have people like him who constantly engage in slander, libel, defamation and misrepresentation of me, the other mods of r/exbahai, or others. Because if we tolerate that……then we only give support to Baha’is who claim we of r/exbahai spread “misinformation” about their Faith…..because that’s exactly what Wahid does for real! Since you keep supporting him, you are no better than him and you deserve the same fate as him. Goodbye and good riddance!


 


Making cheap shots at my creations is no way to have a discussion about them, asshole! You don’t even bother linking to the specific videos you refer to, so FUK OFF!




 


And then I banned him.


 


Shortly after that, he and Wahid teamed up to defame me again. And in doing so, Wahid exposed his own ignorance about my past dealings with assholes like him on the internet.


 



 











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does anyone want to tell him?


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this is like claiming Muhammad claimed to be Gabriel or Allah because The Prophet quotes what they say.


You’ve never read the Quran, have you? Can you show us where Muhammad said, “I am Allah” ?


No, you can’t because the very idea of anyone, even a Messenger of God, claiming to be one with God himself is completely against Islam. That’s an idea that came from (the Trinitarian version of) Christianity. No wonder u/investigator919 thought you were arguing in bad faith (pun intended) and banned you!




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i mean i cant read arabic. i can only read translations. so he is correct that i have never read the quran. but its pretty clear he did not comprehend whatever he thought he read. and perhaps only read commentary dismissing islam as a fundamentalist religion. he is so clueless that it hurts to even try to understand his viewpoint to refute it.




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The Qurʾān generally styles itself as divine speech by employing the first person singular or plural (“I” or “we”) in statements that clearly refer to the Deity. However, this divine voice alternates with third-person statements about God. Utterances by Muhammad are normally introduced by the command “Say:…,” thus emphasizing that the Prophet is speaking on divine injunction only. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Quran










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Gomer’s IR handlers have convinced him that theopathic claims are somehow unique to Babism and bahaism when it is actually at the core foundation of Islam itself, arguably expressly articulated within the Quran, and specifically and especially in Shiism, not to mention Sufism. These handlers are already bad faith actors misleading everyone as to their true agenda, but with Gomer they have so led him down the garden path in unbelievable ways that every time he puts finger to keyboard he reveals a little more of his ignorance. The fact that he comes from a Southern Baptist Protestant background doesn’t help matters either.




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https://dalehusband.com/enemies-of-truth-and-justice/ how do i get on this list? i want to be an enemy of what he considers to be truth and what he considers justice. . .














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We’ve already made it on his list. Look at the bottom. The guy is so obsessed and unhinged he is doing us the service with his published rants. I’ve actually had people come to me after encountering his blog and tell me Dale is our best promoter yet, since there is no publicity like bad publicity, and once people carefully look at his rants and conniptions it just proves the opposite of what he says and gives us the credibility instead. So as the great Persian saying has it, “the enemy shall be the cause of good,”


عدو سبب خير شود


Furthermore, since Gomer is a terrible student of history, if he had only bothered to research a little bit about other individuals who have entangled with me on the same level as he has – like Paul Andrew Hammond once did – he would quickly discover that it never ends well for them. But he can’t believe that and has never encountered something like me before, so his obsessive-compulsion born from utter frustration just augments and accentuates from one day to the next and thereby plays into my hands until one fine day – just like Hammond before him – his balloon of hot air pops with a bang and permanently puts him in his place! I suspect this may have already happened to DBO on some level as well since he is hardly here anymore.




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Wow! Where do I start?


First, I have seen enough episodes of the YouTube channel Apple Texts and other such related channels over the past year to know that such blatant lies those two are telling about me, my blog and Islam must be rejected for the gaslighting they are. There is NO case in Islam of any genuine Prophet of God identifying himself as being the same as Allah’s essence. That is the very definition of blasphemy. Just because the early Christians came up with the Trinity to depict Jesus as being the same as “God the Son” doesn’t make it acceptable in any other religion. Islam explicitly rejects the Trinity and the Deity of Jesus or any other Messenger of God, full stop! Even the term “Manifestation of God” used by Baha’is to refer to Baha’u’llah, Jesus, Muhammad and other Messengers of God is foreign to Islam. Even as an atheist, I have enough respect for Islam not to misrepresent the religion and its teachings about Allah and His Messengers. Note that Wahid never showed a direct quote from the Quran to support his lies. 


Second, I have indeed dealt with narcissists, abusers and pathological liars like Wahid Azal before. I have seen the incredible amount of damage they can do if left unchecked, so maybe that explains my “obsession” with Wahid Azal now. 






https://dalehusband.com/2017/04/16/another-reason-to-despise-michael-shermer/


 












Many years ago, I was a member of a web community called Care2, which was made to provide a place for liberals, progressives, and environmentalists to gather together and coordinate their efforts for their chosen causes. Sadly, many right-wingers, conservatives, and others opposed to liberals invaded that community and disrupted it over the years, claiming they were promoters of “free speech”. And the ringleader of those attackers was Jeffery Williams, who was almost exactly like Donald Trump in that he was narcissistic, arrogant and totally dishonest and treacherous. And he was also an ATHEIST. Williams finally was banned from Care2 and is now in prison for abusing homeless men for perverted entertainment purposes, but the damage to Care2 as a social site was already done.




 


Which eventually led to this:







And what happened to Jeffery Williams eventually?


https://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/two-to-be-sentenced-in-shefightsnet-fetish-beating-videos/2176069/




A judge gave prison sentences on Monday to two people behind an internet fetish video that showed a mentally disabled man being kicked and beaten.


Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Keith Meyer sentenced Shefights.net producer and entrepreneur Jeffery Williams, 61, to seven years in prison. He gave performer Zuzu Vargo, 27, roughly three years in prison, plus three years’ probation.


Both defendants apologized in court. Vargo, in tears, said she did not know the man she was punching and kicking in the video was mentally impaired. She said others checked the men out before making the videos.


But, she said, “I shouldn’t have trusted the judgment of someone else. … I’m so sorry for all the trauma and distress.”


Williams also professed ignorance to the victim’s mental condition and said it was a key principle within the bondage-sadomasochism community that nobody inflicts more pain than a person wants to receive.


“We’re not in the business of hurting people … we’re in the business of a fantasy enactment for a certain subset of the population.” Williams added that, “I deeply regret the pain and the anguish that we caused.”


But Assistant State Attorney Susan St. John said the victim’s mental condition would have been obvious to Williams and Vargo. As an example of his functioning, she quoted the man’s explanation for why he’s scared of police: “Because they have guns and hats.”


Judge Meyer also said it was clear the man had a disability. According to evidence presented in court, the man was schizophrenic and off his medicine. He had left his group home, gotten lost for a month, stayed around Williams Park in St. Petersburg and eventually got recruited to appear in the Shefights video for about $50.


“I find it completely incredible that you would not have picked up within the first few seconds … how substantially he was impaired,” Meyer said.


And that, he said, made it a crime. He said if the victim had been a consenting adult, “we wouldn’t even be here today. Because people get to do what they want in this country.”


“I’m not passing judgment on your lifestyle one bit,” he added.


Vargo’s attorney Daniel Hernandez asked for a sentence below state guidelines, saying she had a dual diagnosis of substance abuse problems and mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.


Meyer would not go below the guidelines but gave her less time than Williams: slightly more than three years in prison, plus three years of probation. During her probation, she must get mental health treatment.


The victim was not in court.


Prosecutors on Monday showed the video, although the judge already had seen it. The victim groaned and grunted as Vargo punched him in the ribs and face. He fell to the ground and she punched him more. She kicked him as well.


The sentencing on Monday follows a trial in December in which Williams and Vargo were convicted of aggravated abuse of a disabled adult, a first-degree felony with a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The sentencing completes that case, but it’s not the end for the two. They both face similar charges in a separate, pending case with a different victim.




And of course, there is the case of Donald Trump, who, along with many others, have finally been indicted for their crimes against America. His Presidency did a lot of damage to this country and its people, because of his own bigotries and of those who supported him. And he belongs in prison and certainly not in the White House ever again!


And what about yet another narcissist who has done incredible amounts of damage to others, iilluminaughtii? Like Azal, she constantly represents herself as an activist against corruption and for justice. But she is corrupt herself. Like Azal, she is a planet-sized hypocrite. I am not afraid of Trump, Jeffery Williams, iilluminaughtii, or Wahid Azal. They ALL should be stubbornly opposed by people who know what they have done and can do.


A case of GASLIGHTING and how to respond to it.
 by inexbahai


Finally, I googled the name “Paul Andrew Hammond” and found listings that say he died in December 2022. He was also listed as a police detective in San Antonio, Texas. Wahid Azal claimed he was a child pornographer about 14 years ago. How convenient for Azal that he can gloat over defeating this man now that he is dead, eh?  #coward


But I’m still alive and as long as I live, I will hold that monster and his idiot followers accountable for their bullshit. That’s what an ethical person does, period.






			

	
	



				
					


	

		

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For the THIRD time, an account of mine in reddit was suspended for suspicious reasons.


The previous two incidents are documented here:


Suspended from reddit!


Wahid Azal strikes again!


And I NEVER got an explanation for what I did wrong. I had to figure that out on my own.


And this time, on August 15 of this year…….


from reddit[A]


Rule Violation: Temporarily Banned for Harassment


You’ve been banned for seven days by the Reddit admin team for violating Reddit’s rule against harassment in the following content.


Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don’t tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned.


To avoid future bans, make sure you read and understand Reddit’s Content Policy, including what’s considered harassment.


If you use Reddit with a different account and continue to harass, or if you’re reported for any further violations of Reddit’s Content Policy after your seven-day ban, additional actions including permanent banning may be taken against your account(s).


If you feel like your content didn’t break the rules, you can file an appeal any time within the next six months and we’ll take a second look.


-Reddit Admin Team


I then tried to get an explanation and only got:




from reddit[A]






Thanks for submitting an appeal to the Reddit admin team. We have reviewed your request and unfortunately, your appeal will not be granted and your suspension will remain in place.


For future reference, we recommend you to familiarize yourself with Reddit’s Content Policy.


-Reddit Admin Team








In short, don’t question what we did because you deserve nothing but our contempt! That’s not an ethical way to enforce rules, period.


I do have an idea of what happened, though.


On August 13, some lunatic posted this shit in r/UnitarianUniversalist, a subreddit I mod.


Red flag experience at service


So I was attending my first UU Sunday service and was seated in an awfully big hall considering there was only 5 of us there, including the minister and piano player. I later asked during morning tea why the church was so empty, and the minister explained that the congregation used to be overwhelming atheists and agnostic, but the minister I was speaking to was a conservative who believed Unitarianism to be an exclusively protestant form of Christianity, and so expelled all the humanist because they were going to “takeover the place”. I was dumbstruck upon hearing this considering UU has the reputation as “the most liberal denomination of Christianity”. It was especially awkward considering I’m a secular pagan who believes Yeshua was merely a mortal philosopher. On top of this, this white minister complained that schools in my city were “completely Chinese now” WHILE SITTING NEXT TO, AND EATING FOOD MADE BY, CHINESE PEOPLE. I feel really guilty I didn’t say anything then, and feel so unlucky considering this is the only other UU congregation in my entire country except one on the other side of it. Oh well, looks like I’ll just have to worship at my shrine again…


This stirred up a lot of controversy and once I became aware of it, I rushed to end it.










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An actual UU minister CANNOT expel most members of a congregation…..the congregation itself hires and fires the minister and directs the affairs of the church via its board as well as congregational meetings every few months or so.




This all sounds suspicious to me, so I will be locking up this thread until I get some specific answers from the OP. I don’t believe anything I just read up there!




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I then deleted the offensive post and sent a warning to the offender.






Explain yourself! Why did you tell that obvious pack of LIES in my UU subreddit, you pathetic troll! HOW DARE YOU!!!




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Could THAT have been the harassment the reddit admin was referring to? Others have done far worse things to me and gotten away with their crap! And don’t I have a right to protect my reddit community from trolls and liars?




Speaking of crap, shortly after I was banned, this appeared in r/exbahai…..




u/trident765




According to your suggestive comments on this post https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/15qgbny/comment/jwim17e/ you abandoned Haifan bahaism for UU bahaism because you couldn’t find a woman. But UU bahaism is primarily an online phenomenon of mainly white liberal men with either homoerotic tendencies or outright gay. If what drives you is to find a woman, do you think that maybe you have fallen from the frying pan into the fire in switching your allegiance by narrowing your pool of choices to virtually nothing?




Also, why do you say American women “hate” Iranian men? I dated tons of white American women during the ’90s. Nothing serious with most of them, which was my own choice. But “hatred” is a bit too outlandish a characterization of the American female’s sentiments towards the Iranian male. I personally found the opposite to be the case and broke several hearts in the process. Ask yourself, if the white American female across the board picked men on the basis of phenotype, then why are there so many white-as-caspar women out there who are with black, Latino, east Asian, Arab and other men with darker skin? In fact, other than economics and finance, if there was ever to be a fair competition between white men and black men on the basis of physicality alone, the black man would win the competition against the white man every single time with his eyes blindfolded and his hands tied behind his back! On the basis of sex appeal, the white northern European male can never fairly compete with the darker, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and African male for the white female. Go ask white women this question yourself, if you don’t believe me, hence why the white male as a type will always go out of his way to undermine the darker or black male because she would rather couple with him than the endless versions of Gomer out there!




My observation of you is that you appear to have a serious self-confidence problem and are attempting to compensate for that with religion, and UU bahaism in particular. But what doesn’t make sense is that the Iranian male is usually raised by their mother to believe they are, as Max Amini once hilariously put it, a doodool-talaa (golden dicked) https://youtu.be/lQmJlw483eE. Most Iranian men carry themselves throughout a lifetime often with delusionalover-confidence believing they are the king of the world! With women and courting, however, this appears to help since most Iranian men – whether in Iran or beyond it – are usually fighting the women off for their attention. But you don’t seem to have that, so one has to ask about your parents and specifically their parenting of you as an Iranian male living in the USA.




That aside, I think your problem may not be the white American female at all, but rather yourself, your expectations, your overall programming and possibly your environment, not to mention your adherence to a toxic creed that is literally dying and whose wheels have already come off everywhere and in all versions. You said you are planning to go to Colombia to find a significant other. Let me tell you, if you don’t sort yourself out, your experience will be no different in Colombia than in the USA, and from the sounds of it you don’t seem to have an iota of wisdom regarding the female gender whatsoever but have pigeonholed yourself into a paradigmatic redpill fallacy about them. That is really the core of your problem, and until you fix that, prepare to be single for a very long time!




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That was obviously posted by Wahid Azal, who was responsible for my last two suspensions. Coincidence?!




Fortunately, investigator919 removed that post and banned Azal again.




Meanwhile, in Facebook, a friend of mine gave me this advice after I announced my suspension from reddit:






Azal has no hand in Reddit management. He but can make you angry and then you use words which will cause you go out!




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So attempting to expose Wahid’s past bad acts got my original account suspended twice and permanently because what I linked to happened to include a reference to his original name. And sending a warning to a troll got my current account suspended too.




Frankly, I am surprised reddit has as many users as it does. The way it enforces its rules is not conductive to making things better for people who make honest mistakes due to ignorance.




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			A Case of Cognitive Dissonance from a Plotagonist
		


				

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Take a look at this YouTube video:




It was made by a user known as BizarreFrog. This is his YouTube channel:


https://www.youtube.com/@BizarreFrog


Indeed, most Plotagonists I know are fully supportive of LGBT rights, which is what Pride Month is all about.


And yet the very next video on his channel is THIS:




So he is a Mormon. Does he not know what his religion teaches?


https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/official-statement/same-gender-attraction




Feelings of same-sex attraction are not a sin. President M. Russell Ballard said: “Let us be clear: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that ‘the experience of same-sex attraction is a complex reality for many people. The attraction itself is not a sin, but acting on it is. Even though individuals do not choose to have such attractions, they do choose how to respond to them. With love and understanding, the Church reaches out to all God’s children, including [those with same-sex attraction].’”




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So the standard is for gays and lesbians to be celibate, not to engage in any sexual behavior that fits their orientation. To me, that is profoundly insulting. You might as well demand a person starve themself to death.


The Roman Catholic Church has required that all its clergy be celibate. Is it a coincidence that it is also notorious for that same clergy sexually abusing children and trying for so long to cover it up? It seems to me that when you try to suppress for too long natural sexual urges, it eventually comes out in destructive ways. It also breeds hypocrisy like rabbits.


Straight people have the option of marriage, so why not LGBT people? Then they would be equal in the sight of God. Denying LGBT people marriage as an option is by definition treating them as lesser beings. So don’t talk to me about treating them with “kindness, compassion and understanding.” That’s clearly a lie!


And this argument is just insulting to my intelligence:


Mormon




No, what is horrid is misrepresenting your own religion to make it look better than it really is.




There are over 270,000 people in this subreddit who would likely argue that Mormonism IS a cult and Mormons ARE brainwashed, because they were members and left it, so they would know!


https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/


Discussions about the matter of LGBT people in Mormonism include:


Dallin Oaks increased his anti LGBT rhetoric after his grandson came out as gay to his family. His family eventually asked him to stop.
 byu/sevenplaces inexmormon


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A Mormon father shares some of his hateful mindset with his LGBT daughter
 byu/Tattoomyvagina inexmormon


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There are a lot of Mormons among the 31 arrested as part of the planned attack on the LGBTQ event in Idaho. Makes you wonder if the Mormon Church’s anti-LGBT rhetoric helped radicalize these people.
 byu/Kruger-Dunning inexmormon


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My dad and mission president both told me that serving a mission would cure my “same-sex attraction”. Did anyone else hear nonsense like this about LGBT+ members?
 byu/IVEBEENGRAPED inexmormon


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I hope BizarreFrog someday grows up and investigates the truth about his religion, realizing how horrible it is. Not only for being homophobic, but also being racist and sexist too. And basing its teachings on a book that is totally filled with bullshit.


The Book of Mormon is a P.O.S.


And there is the case of Mormon leaders manipulating poor people into destroying themselves financially, which should be consider a CRIME against humanity!


Mormon leaders need to STFU about tithing!


Mormons as PEOPLE shouldn’t be mocked, but MORMONISM should absolutely be condemned as the repressive cult of lies it is!


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			What Actually Motivated the Bab and Baha’u’llah?
		


				

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Christianity is well known for its emphasis on the expectation of the Return of Christ to set up the Kingdom of God on Earth. What’s not so well known is that Shia, a branch of Islam, has similar expectations regarding the Imam Mahdi, also known as the 12th Imam or the Hidden Imam. In reddit, a Muslim said the following:


The followers of Ja'far al-Kaddhab
 byu/imastudentt inshia




investigator919


I’ll just say one thing: When Imam Mahdi comes he will establish peace and justice once and for all. He will not change Islam and he will not bring a new religion.




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But that very assumption means that it is possible that as thousands of years continue to come and go, the Muslim population may gradually come to the conclusion that the expectation of Imam Mahdi to come is unrealistic and that Islam is not a true religion after all.


That seems to be an issue Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith, was aware of.



https://bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/gwb/099.html




The vitality of men’s belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it?




Could this loss of belief in God be a direct result of the prophecies of the return of Christ or of Imam Mahdi never coming to pass?


Why the Rapture is a bogus concept


A Critical Analysis of the Epistle of 2 Peter


We can understand that there was an actual time limit for the return of Jesus:




Matthew 16:28 King James Version (KJV)


Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.




So Jesus should have returned by about 100 AD or so. Maybe AD 150 at the very latest. He didn’t, so:




Deuteronomy 18:22 King James Version (KJV)


 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.




But the Quran clearly defines Jesus as a prophet of God. If Jesus failed to return in the time limit he himself gave, then according to Moses, he did not speak for God. If Jesus was false, so was Muhammad. If Muhammad was false, so were the Imams of Shia. So we shouldn’t expect the Imam Mahdi to ever return either. And since Baha’u’llah affirmed both Jesus and Muhammad as Prophets of God, he too is not one himself.


So where does that leave the Bab and Baha’u’llah? Well, the Bab claimed to be the Imam Mahdi, yet he was killed by a firing squad on July 9, 1850, thus failing to fulfil the promises of the Shias. And Baha’u’llah was said to be the return of Christ, but that seems illogical given the time limit Jesus gave. The Muslims, the Babis, and the Baha’is only seem to have credible faiths when you fail to remember that time limit for the return of Christ.


If you are ignorant of what Jesus REALLY taught (and failed to fulfil), you can be a sucker for anything. So to sum up:



    

  1. Jesus will never return.
    2. 

  2. The Imam Mahdi will never return
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  3. There is no religion after Judaism that is true.
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  4. The desperate attempt by Baha’u’llah to stop the spread of atheism was pointless. Atheism is not a bad thing.
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			Wahid Azal Goes on Another Childish Rampage
		


				

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It’s been known for years that both DavidBinOwen and Wahid Azal have been “ban evaders” in reddit, meaning they would create many sockpuppet accounts to try to infiltrate and disrupt the discussions in r/exbahai long after they were banned from it. These have been documented on the following blog entries:







History Repeats Itself in the ExBaha’i Subreddit









Wahid Azal Repeats his Lies and Makes More Excuses









Damning proof that Wahid Azal lied outright about Naser Emtesali and “u/MirzaJan”









A massive fight with “DavidBinOwen” in reddit









The Hilarious Discrediting of DavidBinOwen






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			Baha’i Elections are a Total Sham
		


				

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First, read this blog entry:


The Universal House of the International Teaching Center of Justice




And here is a report on how elections work at the national level.


https://news.bahai.org/story/1675/


National Bahá’í Conventions: A unique electoral process


June 7, 2023


BAHÁ’Í WORLD CENTRE — The past weeks have seen Bahá’í communities around the globe elect their national governing councils—known as National Spiritual Assemblies. The series of annual conventions will conclude with Guam, where Typhoon Mawar has caused some delay.


National conventions bring together delegates who have earlier been elected in district or “unit” conventions across the country. National conventions provide an opportunity for delegates, from each unit, to carry out their sacred responsibility of voting for the members of the National Assembly in a joyful and spiritual atmosphere.


The election of the National Assembly follows the basic Bahá’í electoral procedures: there is no nomination or campaigning, secret ballots are used, electors consider moral character and capability, and those women and men who receive the most votes are elected.


There are also consultations among the delegates, who explore insights from Bahá’í endeavors toward social transformation at the local, regional, and national level. These endeavors involve educational programs that build capacity for community-building, as well as social action, and participation in societal discourses.


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Also, watch these videos:










Because there are not nominations or campaigning, it is impossible for others to openly challenge the leadership and demand change. Incumbents are virtually guaranteed to win. And that means the leadership can pretty much do whatever the hell they want, regardless of the actual needs of the people.


A perfect example is this:


The Desperation of the Baha’is as the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Abdu’l-Baha Approaches




Who the fuk asked for this?!


And they paid for their hubris too!


Abdu’l-Baha’s Shrine Burns to the Ground




Then there was this incident in Italy:


Whitewashing corruption among Italian Baha’is




 


Note this also:




National conventions bring together delegates who have earlier been elected in district or “unit” conventions across the country.




Is that how ALL national Baha’i elections are run? Especially large Baha’i communities might have to elect delegates from districts, but for tiny Baha’i communities on islands or other small nations or divisions within nations, they could just have members of Local Spiritual Assemblies or even the entire community membership do the electing. The results would likely be the same.


If you look at the events being depicted, it looks like they are joyful, profoundly spiritual matters. But a process that enables corruption and chokes off debate and real chances for change is hardly worth doing.


 

			

	
	



				
					


	

		

			Pat Robertson is Dead….but he Lived to age 93, Dammit!
		


				

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I think Rebecca Watson said it best, so I will allow her to speak for me here:




Reactions on reddit are as follows:


All round horrible human being Pat Robertson dies at 93; founded Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Coalition. GOOD RIDDANCE!
 byu/Leeming inatheism


 


He’s fucking dead
 byu/NationYell inExvangelical


 


Pat Robertson dead at 93
 byu/MrJasonMason inexchristian


 




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			Update on the Downfall of iilluminaughtii
		


				

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This is a continuation of a story that started in late April of this year.


The Damage to the iilluminaughtii’s Crediblity


It is clear that Blair Zon has NOT learned her lesson and she has done exactly what I told her NOT to do. Since the scandal broke:


    

  • She has released THIRTEEN videos on her channel, none of which followed up the one in which she so viciously attacked several of her former associates in Sad Milk.
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  • She has taken legal action against Wonderstruck Guy, specifically a cease and desist letter demanding he take down his statements against her.
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  • She has insulted the intelligence of her former fans by making a new statement about the scandals that makes her look like the CEO of some corrupt corporation.
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  • Wonderstruck Guy started a Go Fund Me to raise money to pay for a legal challenge to iilluminaughtii. So far it has raised over $14,000, including a bit from me.
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  • iilluminaughtii was kicked off the Leftist Mafia group. 
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  • The number of subscribers to her channel has plummeted and the number of  views of her most recent videos has crashed too.
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  • HUNDREDS of videos by a great many other YouTube personalities have ripped into her. I myself made two or them.
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So where do we go from here? Oddly enough, one of the early victims of attacks by Blair from several years ago was known as Cruel World Happy Mind. She does a lot of content of the same tone as Blair, but she doesn’t use an avatar that looks cartoonish. This is one of her recent videos:




And this was from 2020 addressing the kind of toxic crap it seems Blair is doing now:




She has seen fit not to talk about illuminaughtii’s current meltdown, so maybe that’s for the best. I have subscribed to her channel. 


https://www.youtube.com/@cruelworldhappymind


 
			

	
	



				
					


	

		

			Will the Unitarian Universalist Association Split Completely?
		


				

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I just bought a book titled “A Gadfly Report”, written by retired UU minister Dennis McCarty, who has written many other books in the past. It is a critical analysis of the “Gadflies”, the infamous faction among UUs who reject the efforts to eliminate White Supremacy Culture among UUs.




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The book is being sold here:




And here is McCarty’s own account in Facebook:


https://www.facebook.com/dennis.mccarty.90


At one point, McCarty mentions that Todd Eklof has founded a new group, called the North American Unitarian Association. So I looked it up.


https://naunitarians.org/


And found this list:


https://naunitarians.org/about/


Current Board: The founding NAUA members have elected a provisional Board of Directors. A new Board will be elected at the first Annual General Meeting.


    

  • President: Rev.  Dr. Todd Eklof, Spokane WA.
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  • Vice President: TBD
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  • Treasurer: Lynn Jinishian, Spokane WA.
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  • Secretary: Frank Casper, Atlanta GA
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  • Directors at Large:

      

    • Ron Strange, Port Townsend WA
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    • Terry Anderson, PhD, Edmonton AB
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    • Candace Schmidt, Spokane WA
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    • Richard Gammon, Spokane WA
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    • Robert Jinishian, Spokane, WA
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    • Mike Long, Charlotte, NC
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Note the large number of leading members from Spokane, WA, which is Todd Eklof’s base of operations. Clearly, this is little more than a fan club of his. Including Frank Casper, who I have seen in Facebook. After seeing how arrogant he is, I blocked him in disgust.


Because of the decentralized and libertarian nature of the UUA, these people cannot be excommunicated from the Unitarian Universalist movement, but it is clear they want to create an outright split among UUs. After all, Todd Eklof himself said so, even titling a chapter in one of his books “I WANT A DIVORCE”.


I have written about this matter before:


Reopening Old Wounds Among Unitarian Universalists


A Debate in the UU Subreddit Over the 2017 Hiring Controversy


Another Fight in Reddit Over Rev. Todd Eklof’s Publicity Stunt of 2019


Another call for Unitarian Universalists to stop fighting for consistent racial justice


Reading and Reacting to “The Gadfly Molehill”


Too many people seem to have become UUs, ironically, out of an elitist desire to reject and scorn religious fundamentalism, not a desire to improve themselves and their society for the good of all. But religious fundamentalism is itself a form of bigotry. Why abandon one form while clinging to others?


McCarty’s new book should put the final nail in the coffin of Todd Eklof’s credibility. He is a TRAITOR and should be rejected by all those loyal to the principles of Unitarian Universalism. He came from the Southern Baptist Convention…..and in my mind, he still belongs there, not among UUs!
			

	
	



				
					


	

		

			Activists Against Bigotry Must Oppose ALL Bigotry!
		


				

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Look at this:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_May_Cameron


Barbara May Cameron (Standing Rock Lakota, May 22, 1954 – February 12, 2002) was a Native American photographer, poet, writer, and human rights activist in the fields of lesbian/gay rights, women’s rights and Native American rights.[1][2][3][4]


Cameron co-founded the Gay American Indians (GAI), in 1975 with Randy Burns, an Alaska Native. GAI was the first gay American Indian liberation organization.[6][7] The reason for founding GAI, according to Cameron, was that Native American gay people had different needs and struggles than the gay white community. Moreover, there was in general a lack of support for people of color within the lesbian and gay community.[2][8][9][10][7]


It is because of people like her that the concept of intersectionality was invented.


https://www.intersectionaljustice.org/what-is-intersectionality




what is intersectionality






The concept of intersectionality describes the ways in which systems of inequality based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of discrimination “intersect” to create unique dynamics and effects. For example, when a Muslim woman wearing the Hijab is being discriminated, it would be impossible to dissociate her female* from her Muslim identity and to isolate the dimension(s) causing her discrimination.


All forms of inequality are mutually reinforcing and must therefore be analysed and addressed simultaneously to prevent one form of inequality from reinforcing another. For example, tackling the gender pay gap alone – without including other dimensions such as race, socio-economic status and immigration status – will likely reinforce inequalities among women.


This makes perfect sense. Homophobes tend to be racists as well, because the atttitude is the same, judging people by their group membership and not as individuals.


This video I made talks about different forms of bigotry:




And that’s why I can condemn Milo Yiannopoulos, despite his being a gay man, for also being racist and anti-feminist. He actually enables homophobia too, because most other conservatives/right-wingers/regressives would see him as an useful idiot, and the moment they don’t see him as useful anymore, they will dispose of him.


Oh, they already did that!


The Downfall of Milo


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			From “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” to [[I Kissed Christianity Goodbye]]
		


				

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Read this:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodbye




I Kissed Dating Goodbye is a 1997 book by Joshua Harris. The book focuses on Harris’ disenchantment with the contemporary secular dating scene, and offers ideas for improvement, alternative dating/courting practices, and a view that singleness need not be a burden nor characterized by what Harris describes as “selfishness”.


By the late 2010s, Harris reconsidered his view that dating should be avoided, apologizing to those whose lives were negatively impacted by the book and directing the book’s publisher to discontinue its publication.[1][2]


In I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Harris popularized the concept of “courting” as an alternative to mainstream dating. In so doing, he raised discussion regarding the appropriateness of his proposed solutions, as well as the foundations on which he based his reasoning.


According to Harris, people in dating relationships put up a façade in an attempt to appear to be what the other person wants, thus hampering the “getting to know you” part of dating. Harris said that it is more appropriate and healthier in the long run to participate in “group dates” in order to truly understand the way a particular person interacts with others; in a group setting, a person is less likely to be able to maintain a façade. Harris proposed a system of courtship that involved the parents of both parties to a greater degree than is usual in conventional dating. In an interview with Family Christian Stores, Harris indicated that “people have taken the message of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and made it something legalistic – a set of rules. That’s something that’s beyond my control, and it’s disappointing at times…”[3]


The book has been cited as an example of belief in ‘benevolent sexism’ and ‘women as property’[5] as well as promoting ‘rape supportive messaging’[6] and ‘sexual purity teachings’ that emphasize a ‘hierarchical father-daughter relationship’ and reduces the agency of adolescent girls.[7]


Christian psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend suggest that avoiding dating in order to avoid suffering, as Harris advises, causes those who do so to forgo opportunities to mature, especially through learning how to create healthy boundaries.[12]


In 2016, Harris appeared to be reconsidering the claims that he had made in the book and apologized to several who publicly communicated how the book had influenced them to stay single or had been used by adults to impose stringent rules on them.[13][14]


During a 2017 TED talk, Harris said his greatest regret about the book was him transferring his fears into the book. He said: “Fear is never a good motive. Fear of messing up, fear of getting your heart broken, fear of hurting somebody else, fear of sex… There are clear things in statements in Scripture about our sexuality being expressed within the covenant of marriage. But that doesn’t mean that dating is somehow wrong or a certain way of dating is the only way to do things. I think that’s where people get into danger. We have God’s word, but then it’s so easy to add all this other stuff to protect people, to control people, to make sure that you don’t get anywhere near that place where you could go off course. And I think that’s where the problems arise.”[15]




And also….


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Harris_(author)




In 1997, Harris moved from Oregon to Gaithersburg, Maryland to be a pastoral intern.[10][11] There, “C. J. Mahaney, a charismatic Calvinist and founding pastor of megachurch Covenant Life Church, took Harris under his wing and groomed him to take over the church.”[12] Harris was lead pastor of Covenant Life Church from 2004 until 2015.[13][6] Harris assumed the role of senior pastor at Covenant Life Church at the age of 30.[10] In January 2015, he resigned from that role due to a desire to broaden his views and connect to other parts of Christianity. In an interview, Harris said the isolation of Covenant Life, and of a small cluster of churches of which it was a part, may have fed leadership mistakes, including the decision of pastors — himself among them — to handle a child sexual abuse case internally instead of going to police.[6]


In 2016, Harris stated that he was reconsidering the content of I Kissed Dating Goodbye[15] and apologized to people who said that they had been hurt by its teachings.[16][15] In 2018, Harris disavowed I Kissed Dating Goodbye and discontinued its publication.[17] His publishers agreed that I Kissed Dating Goodbye and two other follow-up books would not be reprinted once the current stock was depleted.[18][19] Harris appeared in a documentary film called I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye, where he spoke to people who were critical of the book.[20][21]


In July 2019, Harris announced that he and his wife were separating due to “significant changes [that] have taken place in both of us”.[22][23] Subsequently, Harris revealed that he no longer considered himself a Christian and his wife began pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter under the name Shannon Bonne.[24][25][26] In addition to his previously discontinued books, with Harris’s announcement of his loss of faith, the documentary film lost its distributor due to the negative reaction from the Christian market.[27]




My guess is that his extremist views on sexuality, often called “purity culture” were so tied up with his Christian views that when he realized purity culture was bullshit, it also caused his faith to be destroyed as well. That’s what often happens to people with extreme religious views of any kind that don’t measure up to reality at all.


To illustrate the stupidity of purity culture, which is by nature sexist and unrealistic in its expectations of young people, I made this:






And I am confident that it will stand up to reality far better than Harris’ stupid book……or even his former religion!

			

	
	



				
					


				
					


	

		

			The Damage to the iilluminaughtii’s Crediblity
		


				

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Over the past few weeks, a controversy erupted over a legal dispute between Blair Zon, AKA the iilluminaughtii, and another YouTube personality known as Legal Eagle over content in the latter’s videos. Blair claimed in a public twitter post that the other user had committed copyright infringement. This caused others to attack her in turn, including former friends of hers!








There are at least a dozen other such videos on YouTube. Feel free to check them out.


Blair herself began the address the issue in reddit:








iilluminaughtii








I did apologize to LE privately. Idk who the Big Joel person is but yeah. That’s why I deleted the tweets.








But that clearly was not enough. So she then made a whole video about it all.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDV71uqk_Gs&ab_channel=iilluminaughtii 






And I left this comment there.









We all make mistakes. I had to end an 18 year long friendship with someone I had loved like a sister because she accused me of not being supportive enough of her emotionally and then she started sending me very long and hurtful messages attacking me personally. After many days of enduring this and hoping she would just stop and move on, I finally had ENOUGH! I sent her one last message. “Do not send me any more long and hateful messages, they will be ignored.” Then I blocked her.  I miss the beautiful person she used to be, but I totally reject what she became in the end!










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Having been a target of a former friend turned sworn enemy, I know all too well how it can be when someone is well respected and even beloved for her public activism and then others seek to tear them down for…..reasons.




It should be noted that at no point was Blair ever accused of making false statements against the various MLMs or other corrupt entities she has criticized in the past. This was all about her engaging in unnecessary drama with people like Legal Eagle, who should have been seen as valuable allies, and getting burned for it.




Now, here is my advice to Blair on how to move forward in the future.


    

  1. NEVER attack someone publicly for a perceived offense unless and until it is clear the conflict cannot be resolved privately.
    2. 

  2. Be willing to take a break from ALL social media for a few weeks or even several months. I KNEW that eventually with the massive output of content on your YouTube channels that eventually something would go wrong. I just didn’t think it would be something like what came out this month. You have FAILED!
    3. 

  3. No, a private apology is not enough. Always be willing to make a public statement apologizing and clearing things up.
    4. 

  4. STOP SPEWING SO MUCH NEGATIVITY ON YOUR CHANNELS AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS! You can always shift gears and talk about something positive in the past as a way of inspiring others to do better. What about a video about someone like Carl Sagan and his awesome works? When you are so negative for so long, it is inevitable that negativity will come back around and hurt you.
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I look forward to seeing you recover from this, but I’m not going to be satisfied with you just moving on like nothing happened.


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			A discussion about the Baha’i Faith in r/exchristian
		


				

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As both an ex-Christian and an ex-Baha’i, I have been active in subreddits that reflect my background and interests.




https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/


https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/


Here’s a discussion in one subreddit I took part in:


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Seeker_Alpha1701


 


Humanist, UU, Ex-Baptist & Ex-Baha’i


 


The ONLY reason I was ever homophobic was because of my being raised Baptist and later being a Baha’i. Once I stopped believing in the idea of infallible God-centered religions, I dropped my bigotry against LGBT people. I accepted that the founders and writers of most great religions knew nothing about sexual matters.






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Oh how interesting! May I ask what enticed you to become Baha’i?






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So here I was making a casual reference to one of my past religions and apparently this other person had never heard of it, so I had to explain to them what it was about.


 












Seeker_Alpha1701










 

Humanist, UU, Ex-Baptist & Ex-Baha’i


My assumption that if there was a God, then logically I needed to find the most recent religion founded in his name instead of following an older one. One should know the will of God for this age, right?  


Once I realized that the Baha’i Faith was no better than Christianity, I gave up on belief in God completely. I am atheist now.







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callyo13


 


That’s so interesting to me because I often hear the opposite claim. That we should go to the oldest religion as its the most true. I’ve met Christians who legitimately believed Christianity was the first religion. Then there’s Islam that claims all the prophets of other religions were actually Muslims whose words got corrupted over time + we are all born Muslims. I’ve never seen someone contemplate the opposite before.






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I thought, “In what universe does that make even a little bit of sense???”


 














Seeker_Alpha1701








Humanist, UU, Ex-Baptist & Ex-Baha’i


False dogmas and mistaken assumptions are common among older faiths. That’s how they sell themselves.


Following an older religion is like trying to work as a mechanic on a 2015 Ford car using a guide of a 1956 Ford car.









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			Rant About Gun Control
		


				

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“Guns don’t kill people, they are only tools to kill.”


SHUT UP! It’s guns + toxic personalities that kill people! Not guns alone!








“This is not a gun problem, but a mental health problem.”


Another lie! Most mentally ill people are not violent to the point of murder.








“If you ban or restrict guns, only criminals can use them.”


Most mass shooters are NOT career criminals because mass shootings are not profitable. That’s why background checks for gun buyers are practically useless. Only an outright ban nationwide of assault rifles will do!








“The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”


Yes, that’s why we have POLICE who are trained to handle such situations! I DON’T WANT SOME RANDOM JOE RUNNING INTO A MASS SHOOTING WITH ANOTHER GUN! THAT DOES NOT HELP AND YOU ARE DELUSIONAL TO THINK OTHERWISE! STOP WATCHING WESTERN SHOWS AND THINKING THEY ARE APPLICABLE TO TODAY! GROW UP!








“Gun control laws violate the Second Amendment.”


Yet another damned lie! The Second Amendment actually starts with “A WELL-REGULATED militia, being necessary for the security of a free state…..” What opposition to gun control does is put most of us under threat from an UNREGULATED mob, which makes the security of the people in a free state impossible. So the Second Amendment actually REQUIRES gun control!








The simple truth is that the same toxic masculinity that causes mass shootings is also responsible for the right-wing bigoted conservatism that has dominated the Republican Party since at least the 1980s. These hypocrites expect the government to fight foreign based terrorism, but at the same time they enable domestic terrorism. Yes, every single mass shooting in the USA is a case of domestic TERRORISM. As was the incident at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. So if you want anyone to blame for mass shootings/domestic terrorism, look at the REPUBLICANS. VOTE EVERY ONE OF THEM YOU POSSIBLY CAN OUT OF OFFICE!








MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!