Category: General

Filler Post #1

So, a while ago, ‘Cerebus’ came to its end.

I was probably about twenty when Hewligan and Darmeus introduced me to the Aardvark. I had already cultivated an interest in earth pigs but Cerebus was different. ‘High Society’ and ‘Church and State’ weren’t just comic books; they were treatises, dealing with matters political, religious and polemical in a way that I had never seen. This was the point in time that I realised that the things people call ‘pop culture’ could be so much more than ‘idle entertainment.’ (more…)

11/14/2006

The SAS and other demonic forces

Here follows vaguely related content; it’s another haphazard book review of a tome I thought was going to be more useful than it turned out to be…Who here remembers Satanic Abuse Syndrome (which, rather drolly, can become the acronym ‘SAS’ (which a proper Conspiracy Theorist would have a field day with))? It was all the rage a decade back, with mass reportings in the States and Australia. The Christchurch Civic Creche scandal we had in New Zealand had overtones of SAS and it was from such cases that we’ve now inherited the wisdom not to trust regression or hypnotherapy as good evidence for an event’s occurrence. I’m not going to go into that subject; it’s been covered by better minds with much more experience in other places. No, as usual I’m interested in the Conspiracy Theory angle. (more…)

10/26/2006

Toasters

Good friend Nick and I were watching the season three opener of BSG with a virgin the other night. Said virgin, upon seeing the Colonials engage in suicide bombing asked how they could get away with that on American TV.

Nick and I immediately said ‘Cable!’ (more…)

10/19/2006

Cost/Benefit Analysis

Another strange inference form I’m finding in the 911 Truth Movement is the seemingly borrowed from Economics idea that every event must benefit a person in a postive way. I’m actually hesitant to explicate this properly because the terminology is always going to be loaded. What is a ‘positive beneft?’ How do we measure outcomes? And so forth. Perhaps an example will help.

The designated scapegoats of 9/11 gained nothing positive from it. On the other hand, even the hardliners in Washington themselves agree 9/11 boosted their agenda. Who benefits from more of the same? The fear campaign, always resting on the official 9/11 story, looks deliberate. be attacked, is the fastest method for these rulers to get their way when they want war.–Transcript of ‘The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw’ hosted by Barrie Zwicker

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10/19/2006

It has always been this way

So, as part of my academic masochism I have been reading a whole host of 911 Truth Movement-related articles (links here, here and here). Seeing that they are mostly comprised of Strawman Arguments (always fallacious) I’ve found myself groaning so often that my co-workers think I must have stomach troubles. I’m sure that I will get ulcers from this project, if only because my paranoia (a post for another time; it’s utterly irrational paranoia and its completely due to reading too much paranoiac material) is at an all time high.Still, there is profit to this, for I seem to have discovered (although not necessarily a novel discovery) that there seems to be a rather constant use of what I will call, for the time being, a post hoc fallacy, which is that behaviour now is inferred to be true of the past as well. (more…)

10/16/2006

Jesuits

I’m currently reading up on the evilness of Jesuits and found this astounding paragraph:

And thus Vatican II came to pass. Out went almost 2,000 years of Church teaching, in came the errors that were previously condemned by it.They created a “New Mass” that was condemned by previous popes, and changed the ordination and consecration rites, which invalidated them. If a man is going to offer the True Mass, he has to follow the rules of the Church to become ordained and then offer the True Mass according to the rules of the Church.So now rather than having priests who are ordained according to the revealed teachings of the Catholic Church, we have laymen who are not ordained offering a religious service that has been anathematized by the Council of Trent. Not even Benedict XVI was properly consecrated as a Bishop, which is one reason why an increasing number of Catholics question the validity of his Papacy.

Condemed by previous Popes? I thought they had died. The New Mass anathematised by the Council of Trent? That was very forward thinking of them, seeing that the New Mass was instigated some five hundred years after that auspicious meeting.Yea, verily, there be some great stuff to read at Illuminati News.

10/12/2006