Useful learning

A very smart, rather arrogant and showy, professor I had in my theology studies did leave me with one useful bit of learning. To ask about any proposed fact, not one but three thing:

Is it true?
Is it significant?
Is it compelling?

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Good luck with that

Farrakhan To Detroit: Investment Needed In City

“Why shouldn’t we come together and own Detroit?”

Whaddaya mean "we"...?

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Islam and the West: Either/Or

The long and messy aftermath of the original Reconquista. Historical details new to me.

Articles: The Expulsion of the Moors:

One more example of multiculturalism.

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LGBT culture again

Same-sex desire is not sufficient to explain "gay culture." One might hypothesize that some element of gender dysphoria is involved.

Paul VI was right

(in)Famous for vetoing the opinion of his pontifical commission by continuing to forbid artificial contraception in his 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae, Paul VI was right.

Of course, the horse was already out of the barn by then, both technologically and culturally, and The Pill was on its way to attaining the sacramental status it shares today with abortion.* In ObamaNation, the country formerly known as the USA, it is now an assumed duty of the Federal government to see that this child-preventing wafer is provided freely to any girl or woman who wants it. It is a de facto "civil right."

Two deleterious results of this Pandoran "reproductive technology." It allowed feminism to take off and infect the entire West with a host of ills. And it has allowed the same Western (aka White) nations to de-breed themselves out of existence.

As the native peoples of England and Wales enter population decline, one in ten inhabitants of Britain under age 25 are now Muslim.

We Whites --a combination of the Krell and the Eloi--are the authors of our own destruction, truly The Most Foolish People On The Planet©.

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*Some Canadian feminist, name unrecalled, famously pronounced that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. One of my teachers at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where I did my psychology degree, wrote a book by that very name. In congruent irony, this very feminist scholar hails from Quebec, where the precipitous decline in the native French birthrate, combined with an enthusiasm for Third World immigration into the province, has made it demographically impossible for these perpetually dissatisfied children of France to achieve their dream of independence by plebiscite.

Too telling an image

DisUniting

Steyn warns of 'serious secession movements' [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller:

Mark Steyn and Dennis Miller contemplate leaving the Union.

Steyn would head for Texas. A nice idea, except for the fact that Texas is demographically turning into Mexico.

But I sympathize. Dennis wants to hold a Civil War using a paintball match to decide the outcome. Now that's creativity.

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Burn the witch

Should Research on Race and IQ Be Banned?* | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network:

Dr. Richwine has apparently touched the heart of the Liberal religion. Such ideas must be banned and those who persist, sent to Guantanamo...

I wish this were a piece in The Onion, but it's not.

HT to J Donovan



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X Typing

Ex Cathedra is a Meyers Briggs INTP. Alas.

I find these phrases:
true of me, sorta true of me, not true of me.

loner,
more interested in intellectual pursuits than relationships or family,
wrestles with the meaninglessness of existence,
likes esoteric things,
disorganized,
messy, (alternating with OCD moments of orderliness)
likes science fiction,
can be lonely, 
observer,
private,
can't describe feelings easily, (I've learned how to over the years)
detached,
likes solitude,
not revealing,
unemotional, (on the outside, anyway)
rule breaker,
avoidant,
familiar with the darkside,
skeptical,
acts without consulting others,
does not think they are weird but others do,
socially uncomfortable,
abrupt,
fantasy prone,
does not like happy people, (only if they're dumb; otherwise I like em)
appreciates strangeness,
frequently loses things,
acts without planning,
guarded,
not punctual,
more likely to support marijuana legalization,
not prone to compromise, (practically I do compromise, intellectually, no.)
hard to persuade,
relies on mind more than on others,
calm

Mr B, my demi-nemesis and favorite guy, is an ESTJ...(and a Seven to my Five) which, as he will tell you, is much better. I can't disagree.

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X-(enophobic) Files

One of the worst X-Files episodes --even the producers wished they'd never filmed it-- is Badlaa, about a little deformed Indian beggar with magical powers and a nasty attitude who...oh, never mind. But one of the reviewers wrote an article about The X-(enophobic) Files...in which he ethico-pompously revealed to us that it raised issues of how we view poverty, race, deformity and 'otherness.'

Mother of God. "We"? Whaddaya mean "we", White man?  Anyone who talks like that already has all his answers decided on and you know who the Bad Guys are gonna be. White People Are The Most Foolish People On The Planet.

Now if a character were, say, a White Southerner who was poor and deformed, then Mr Reviewer would really be dealing with 'otherness.'

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