"Adolf Hitler Der Letzte Avatar Ebook Feng Shui Esoterismo Cabala Tarot Magia Metodo Pilates Yoga."
-- Christopher Locke, finding a lot of the very-popular subjects covered on TMR, while reprinting part of the URL to Nazi Miguel Serrano's book, "Hitler the Last Avatar" (that's Miguel, above, with the Dalai Lama) and making a bunch of other profoundNewAge/Nazi connections - to the "white people" in the "progressive" liberal fascist cult - also known as the Mystic Bourgeoisie.
There - now, if you want, all you post-Germany, Israel-hating, "spiritual" earth-loving Nazi health freaks can, openly, sing along with your anthem - adopting the appropriate straight-arm salute, of course:
In a typical essay showing all the myriad ways homeopathy goes wrong, the usual suspects are displayed: the theory behind it doesn’t make sense, water doesn’t have memory, diluting medicine actually makes it weaker, and all that.
But you don’t need to go into all that detail. Why not? Because homeopathy is self-denying!
Just look at it this way:
If homeopathy works, then obviously the less you use it, the stronger it gets. So the best way to apply homeopathy is to not use it at all.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Still, homeopaths tend to be immune to logic and reason (ironically, proving homeopathy at least in principle: the less likely you are to ask for scientific evidence to support it, the stronger homeopathological evidence gets).
So we need a practical application, a way to stop homeopathy practitioners cold. And I think I have it.
The next time you meet one, ask them what they do when they get thirsty.
If they really believe homeopathy, then within days all the homeopaths will be gone, deceased due to diligently dogmatic dehydration.
And the beauty of it?
According to their own logic, once all the homeopaths are gone, they will have reached maximum strength.
They win, we win, medicine wins, logic wins. Everyone wins.
Well, technically, they don’t win, being dead and all. But they made their point! I think.
Anyway, spread the word! And if you’re a homeopath, then it’s your duty to link to this very blog post: according to your own tenets, the more it gets out there, the weaker it is! So submit it to Digg, submit it to Fark, put it on Slashdot, and Boing Boing, and Neatorama. Get millions of people to visit this page. It’s the only way to stop skepticism!"
-- Phil Plait putting Samuel Hahnemann's "logic" to good use, which he surely got from Bad Astronomy.
"The fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. I don’t care if you’re the Pope of Rome, President of the United States, or even Man of the Year — something can always go wrong. And go ahead, complain, tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help — watch him fly."
-- Loren Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) head rat in the Cohen Brothers' world full of them - explaining what watching all the "nice" people taught him - which is to stay Blood Simple.
"Word came this weekend that a new USA Today - Gallup Poll found the 44-year-old [Sarah Palin], a mother of five, is the nation's second most-admired woman, behind only Hillary Clinton and ahead of someone named Oprah Winfrey."
-- Andrew Malcolm, finding the conservative Governor of Alaska, lodged right between NewAge's proverbial "rock and a hard place," mentioned in The Los Angeles Times.
-- Jutta Rosenblat, speaking of her husband, Sam Rosenblat, who - on his death bed - refused to speak to his brother, Herman Rosenblat, for spreading the Oprah-promoted lie of "Angel at the Fence" (which also disgusts Herman's kids) according to The New York Post.
"The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance."
-- The Labor Party, the Netherland's largest left-wing political group, finally abandoning being Punk'd (after events like the assassination of the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, above) in a new position paper that declares TMR as the way to go, shocking the International Herald Tribune.
"It’s too bad that the people who run mentor programs are often so steeped in bad social theory, nonjudgmentalism, and 'cultural sensitivity' that they discourage volunteers from teaching their mentees how to move up in America."
-- Naomi Schaefer Riley, who TMR couldn't agree with more - please, please, please show me how it's done! - in the City Journal.
"...Left to our own devices, we tend to make bad, uninformed choices,...authors, Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein — experts in what is known as ‘behavioural economics’ — suggest the solution lies in establishing a ‘default option’: presumed consent.
...All of this is pure misanthropy. Thaler and Sunstein generously concede that ‘humans are not exactly lemmings’, but add that we are ‘easily influenced by the statements and deeds of others’. In this Frankenstein-like process, they argue, we normally act due to our ‘automative response’ to many situations in an unconscious manner, before we apparently realise we’re doing it. So the ‘trick’ is to recognise how people are able unconsciously to recognise and respond to the many hidden clues, stimuli and social norms present in the world around us, and ultimately can have a positive effect on our behaviour. The clue for any government, or anyone else wishing to influence human behaviour, is therefore is to create the necessary conditions so as to ‘nudge’ us in the right direction in the choices we make."
"It amazed me when I looked around and saw the reaction of all these people who considered themselves open-minded… They all thought the exact same way and I wanted to tell them 'you’re not open-minded, you’re progressive and there’s a difference'. The same people would assume that every single conservative point of view was wrong and evil. I’m not a conservative by any means, but I see value in discourse and actually listening to the other side, whether they’re wrong or right. But they wouldn’t listen at all. They were as intolerant as the people they hated.
That contradiction just really irritated me, and it really stuck with me and I guess inspired some of the anger that comes out in my blog and book."
-- Christian Lander, on "people who are doing things that appear to be beneficial to the world but are essentially just being used as status symbols" and why he created "Stuff White People Like" (he noticed the Left's hypocrisy after Ann Coulter visited his college) on Spiked!
And - hey! - does this sound familiar?:
"...Behind their often conceited struggle for uniqueness there is, paradoxically, a desire to conform. These two desires are not easily united, and the impossible pursuit of being an individual while at the same time fitting in leads to a particularly angsty, narcissistic, snobby, duplicitous and guilt-ridden personality type."
"Ellie Nesler, who sparked a national debate about vigilantism after killing her son's accused molester in a courtroom in 1993, has died of cancer. She was 56.
Nesler died Friday morning at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, according to hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Brown. She had battled breast cancer since 1994.
Nesler made headlines when she shot Daniel Driver five times in the head in a Tuolumne County courtroom during a break in his preliminary hearing for allegedly molesting four boys, including her then-6-year-old son William, at a Christian camp."
I remember when Nesler acted and - like most people - until my divorce, I never understood the reaction she could have - not to the abuse of her child, but how horrifying things can become when "spirituality" is mixed with acts of depravity; the way the cover of religion can warp and destroy one's entire world view. I still don't think people understand it. I think the general perception of reality, out there, is far too shallow to appreciate what a mindf*@k that so-called "Christian" placed in this unsuspecting woman's lap - just as I don't think my NewAge ex, or her NewAge "doctor," comprehend what they've put me through. They don't have the intelligence, or the compassion, to identify with it.
My heart goes out to the family of Ellie Nesler: She deserved better - from all of us.
HEH: “Another memoir hoax, and once again, Oprah fell for it.” She’s a sucker for a good life story, true or not.
The Obama angle. You know, Oprah's gullibility is no joke. She's hugely influential. Skeptoid put her first on his list of "Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience."
When you have a giant audience, you have a giant responsibility. Maybe you don't want such a responsibility, in which case, fine, keep your mouth shut; or limit your performance to jokes or acting or whatever it is you do.
There - now, if you want, all you post-Germany, Israel-hating, "spiritual" earth-loving Nazi health freaks can, openly, sing along with your anthem - adopting the appropriate straight-arm salute, of course:
