Croquemitaine

@Croquemitaine

The only animal that truely speaks is the Homo Sapiens, the human. But it's interesting to study and acknowledge other animal communication. Still, considering that deities are also the product of the only animals capable of imagining such, humans, no other animal would start preaching or lying about deities. Humans are the same animals who can imagine talking snakes.

But there also are other problems with the mythology. It exposes a deceptive god, for instance, who purposely tempts humans to then punish them. After apparently creating them with that innate vulnerability. And maybe a god with his own vulnerabilities, because some things cause him to feel threatened and to react irrationaly and aggressively. Just more evidence that it's a human invention, too. We know much more about our origins than the authors of those traditions did.

Stacey #fundie

There's no need to "know all things" to infer that something likely doesn't exist because there is no evidence of it. But you need to pretend to "know all things" to assert that things exist despite the lack of evidence. Therefore, psychological projection. Likewise, there is no need to "affirm" the non existence, there simply is no need to constantly reaffirm the purported existence of something that may not exist. And there is no need to submit one's life to the specific rules of someone who decides what they should be based on flawed premises. Even if evolution is accepted by many religious as well: atheists are not knocking at your door in the morning to "teach you the good word of Darwin", do they? And they don't need constant self-conditioning to maintain an apparently irrational belief that requires such. Only evidence and some understanding of reality.

Are those with stunted mental abilities attracted to fundamental religious groups, or do fundamental religious group stunt mental abilities?

Good point, Nibien. Both, of course, a vicious circle. Also, humans are always vulnerable and opportunists may attempt to trick them when in an even more vulnerable situation, like during a health crisis at the hospital. Others work increasing conflict and wait for society crises to try to take over with their theocracy. This means that human evil is also involved...

Meade Skelton #fundie

Its the Christians who are up against all odds. In Hollywood, you have much better luck if you proclaim yourself an Atheist- or even a Scientologist, than you do if you are Christian.

You were either exposed to lies or cannot interpret statistics. Since most of the US are white Christians, it's also true for most US actors. Maybe not the kind of specific Christian you like?

Some Christians have been fired from jobs in Hollywood for their beliefs.

You are misconstruing actions as belief (for thoughtcrime conspiracy theories and a persecution complex narrative). Actions are what can be observed and what may sometimes result in consequences.

Brian Niemeier #fundie #mammon

BlackCirce & FeminismIs4Women #transphobia

Any time there’s an autogynephile at a gender critical thing, there are going to be women who are angry about it since that’s who we are fighting. This happens almost every time there is a not explicitly radical feminist “gender critical” gathering.

That's what happens when you realize that society is fortunately not as extremist as you are. It also exposes your gatherings as a fringe cabal.

Andrew Anglin #wingnut #conspiracy #psycho

Frankly, he was probably triple vaxed[…]After the fake poisoning event, he was in Germany in late 2020 when the Pfizer vax was first being distributed[…]and he was in some kind of healthcare facility, meaning the vax would have been mandatory [...] I think, legitimately, the most likely cause of death is the vax.

As stupid as usual, I see.

Russia belongs to Vladimir Putin, The Hammer of Christ

Where "Christ" has nothing to do with Jesus, obviously.

Alexi Navalny was a long-time scam artist and political agitator

Like a certain Anglin?

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #wingnut

The is projecting.

Also, I'm not surprised that the NY Post relays outrage propaganda, it's a problematic source on many levels. Also, for an industry to work, it needs to be regulated. For a society to work without everybody fighting eachother, it must manage fraud at an institutional level. So this is either denial, or a statement that you wish some people to be able to get away with anything, with impunity.

various commenters #transphobia

To the obsessed, everyone else must appear to be obsessed, there are psychological reasons. As for Lilith, it's likely a confirmation bias and sampling issue. Some names are in fashion at certain times and places. Who cares. This is also frivolous nonsense. After pronouns, names? Really?

Senator Tom Woods #psycho #enbyphobia #wingnut

We are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state [...] We want to lower taxes and let people be able to live and work and go to the faith they choose.

A very confused mind that cannot see the obvious contradition there, apparently. Assuming that he means the oppression of non-Christianity only, what about other Christians who don't accept to run their lives according to his own bigotry?

a moral state

Hating some people and advocating for their abuse is not "moral". As a self-professed Christian, you may want to actually read the gospels...

C.T. #wingnut #racist #psycho #pratt

Reiner Fuellmich and Stew Peters #wingnut #quack #conspiracy #transphobia

mental terrorism inflicted on the world during the Covid pandemic

Sure. To protect your parents from prematurely dying, your house was bombed, etc.

According to Dr. Füellmich's findings, Covid was all fake

According to reality, this is bullshit.

In effect, the purpose of all of it was to dumb down the population, making them more reliant on powerful institutions and more suggestible to extreme ideas.

Thanks to this kind of institutional distrust and reality denial disinformation, much of the population was indeed dumbed down and even radicalized against medicine and reality. And anti-government extremism, indeed.

The masses bought into the fear tactics and brainwashing and voluntarily injected themselves with deadly poison

Your poison somewhat succeeded.

Most of our leaders and those in positions of power are actually psychopaths

Well there's an obviously psychopath "Freedom Caucus" with its Trumpism. There's a Putin with his delusions of grandeur. There are other fascists, it's a problematic movement the world experiences again.

This mind control is more effective in the western world than in Africa.

Because Russia?

The excess mortality rates from the bioweapon injections are high in developed countries

You mean from SARS-CoV-2, because vaccination campaigns there have not been available or were denied thanks to fools like you.

This is because the general public has been dumbed down due to the collapse of our education system

And... who's fighting to censor books exposing realities some don't like, conspiring to destroy public education or replace it with an indoctrination system, arrange to arm and scare maniacs, push disinformation about every shooting event, send their kids at special schools or indoctrinate them at home with propaganda books designed for the purpose of indoctrination? Are you a victim of that, perhaps?

Those who have perpetuated these crimes against humanity must be held accountable at Nuremberg 2.0.

Considering that your straw men are deceptive and hypocritical, you may want to retract this wish? What if actual investigations happened and were not fully corrupt or rigged, reaching conclusions that are very compromising for you? With plenty of evidence to present, not just lies.

Peter Koenig #conspiracy

Emanuel Pastreich #wingnut #elitist #conspiracy

It's an interesting story. Basically it says: I used to be full of pride, then decided to move on (describing all those who didn't as some kind of traitor for not too deserting). Then a complete non-authority in physics, forensics and destruction matters claims to obviously see mistakes with the official investigation's results. Interestingly, to fall in outlandish anti-government conspiracy theories, exposing motivation behind the false premises. It then jumps even further into a parallel "reality": the supposed "pandemic hoax". That's extreme radicalization.

And let's see...

Korea IT Times, named closely, but very distinct to The Korea Times, was mostly a business oriented source, now defunct. It would not be surprising for it to feature COVID-19 denial pro-business-as-usual talking points. It featured opinion posts, including:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211024171117/http://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=105796

A post in The Korea Times was Trumpist, pushing the Trump persecution complex and accusing everything else of insurrection. Then ironically claims that it's to "install a president of questionable qualifications" (because obviously, that's Trump, but not in this apology).
https://web.archive.org/web/20210209075010/https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=303785

Mark Taliano #conspiracy

Stephen Lendman #conspiracy

Mike Whitney #conspiracy

Stephen Lendman #conspiracy

Peter Koenig #conspiracy

Mark Meckler #wingnut #psycho

endorbr #wingnut #transphobia

Persecution complex, apparent hate speech and harassment justifications.

It reminds me of Megyn Kelly at CPAC saying that not converting to nazism and denouncing it instead, is dangerous and the direct cause of nazi abuses. This can be described as a threat, hoping to have a chilling effect. The same old "it's because of Jews", or "because of left wing people and woke ideas". The latter actually universally known to be normal steps on the road to peace and safety. Unlike revolutionary fascism and its hypocritical tension embracing doctrines to instil panic, with wannabe-dictators hoping to be called for by the desperate, while they basically keep the population hostage. When it worked, history shows the crimes against humanity they also committed. And the fact that their false gods couldn't protect them when they ultimately fell.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/megyn-kelly-offers-bizarre-upside-of-rising-anti-semitism-on-campus-our-jewish-friends-are-now-seeing-the-truth/

Joe Wasp #racist #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

A huge white supremacist straw man of "them" and a very confused one.

So maybe it's because Wasp is inbred to a point where he has inferior genetics, causing him to infer by psychological projection that it's also what happens to other people. Putting aside the ironic joke, it's likely more the voluntary reappropriation of scientific knowledge that discredits what the poster admits is pseudoscience. For instance, to deny the fact that genetic diversity promotes a healthy population. And throw in generalizations including cultural aesthetics that the poster, apparently too isolated to understand, feels like whining about. And of course, deny the effects of systemic racism and its consequences, that do have a health impact. Afterall, this is the promotion of racism and immigration and mixing fear mongering.

BondiBlue & pennygadget #transphobia

Just a followup to Malingspann's comment with other irony:

1955: we don't want to know what's in their pants and dresses or for any of it to be visible, and we don't want to know if they sleep together, we want two beds in bedrooms!

TERF-wannabe-1955: we want to know what's in your pants and under your dresses!

torino #conspiracy #wingnut

This sounds like colonialist propaganda attempting to deny the legitimacy and territorial integrity of European countries, that also happen to be targetted for fracturing by Russia, interestingly...

LordsOfLastLight #racist #dunning-kruger #fundie

Hypocritical preaching and pseudohistory. Claiming to want to protect people, while demonizing society, whining about black supremacism when paradoxically promoting your white supremacist black slavery fantasies. Abuse apologetics. If you want to improve the situation of poverty, drug abuse and exploitative churches, work with the relevant organizations, don't promote retrogradation, racism, exploitation and slavery.

KEEMSTAR #conspiracy

Jack Posobiec #wingnut #psycho

CPAC indeed was an early adopter of the Big Lie and turned into one of the Trumpist insurrectionist cults, constantly promoting defeated Trump as the president, and featuring people like Orban. This should make CPAC become illegitimate for many conservatives who know better than to want Hitler 2 (or Hitler 3)... And of course Posobiec was also affiliated with Turning Point, that organizes online political trolling campaigns with exploited teens.

That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.

And this really means: allegiance not to the country but to a mobster and wannabe dictator.

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #wingnut

KEEMSTAR #conspiracy

Ben Garrison #wingnut

Ken Ham #biphobia #conspiracy #forced-birth #fundie #homophobia #transphobia #wingnut

Why do you need to repeat those assertions from ignorance constantly? Religion! But not any religion, reality denying religion, needing to promote a false equivalence between your claims and everything else.

Steve Kirsch #conspiracy

I recommend that you consult a professional, about that unhealthy obsession causing you to promote nonsense dangerous to health... There's self-harm, but this also crosses the point of potentially harming others, too...

Bride Ministries International #fundie #crackpot #magick #ufo #conspiracy

thank You that the earth is yours

But can't take care of it for us, with those who claim to be on his side also not caring for it, so very unlikely. Especially with the lack of evidence for his existence and all the evidence that it's actually human imagination.

my stewardship

Which really means "what I claim to be mine."

that no plague will come near my dwelling

There are actual ways to help, like health guidelines and prevention like vaccination. Instead of your yes:

spell, incantation, voodoo, sorcery

That are not that different from prayer magic.

non-human senders

Imaginary beings like demons, or dehumanization of the superstitiously accused?

that they would know that Jesus is Lord

I would need evidence more than empty assertion.

I cancel and render powerless all attempts at mind-to-mind communication

The point where it meets a paranoid schizophrenia psychosis episode symptom...

In the spirit, I establish a matrix of protection around me

More ritual magic.

every attack of technology and physical waves of all sorts, including sound, EMF, radiowave, microwave, light wave, gamma wave, and all other wave forms.

More psychosis, and anti-infrastructure conspiracy theories, based on misinformation and disinformation. And themes to radicalize and recruit terrorists...

I infuse this matrix with the blood of Yeshua ... and deploy the heavenly hosts

Bloody magic... And a self-inflated image of being able to control and order hordes, even if they're imaginary.

age, timeline, and dimension, past, present, and future to infinity. Amen!

Have you read the model prayer attributed to Jesus, the Our Father? It ends with another formula... Why not add the four corners of the Earth, name them explicitly, with their Angels, etc? And trace a pentagram. Oh maybe that'd be evil White Magic, suddenly?

various commenters #transphobia

You'd like to impose oppression and forced "conversion" to people with sex orientations you dislike. It is exposed as pseudoscience. You are weaponizing it against other people that you don't like. It's still pseudoscience and social control enforcement. But false equivalence, because it was never medicine in the first place, thus nothing to do with affirmation or transitioning. And transpeople may or may not be gay. Anti-science activism with straw men and denial of the reality of transpeople, to promote bigotry.

Donald J. Trump #wingnut

"Overthrow the US for the Trump cartel, for MY EMPIRE, worship your Sith lord. The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. Like 'MAGA'. Unlimited [white] POWER!"

Jesse Lee Peterson #crackpot #dunning-kruger

"Swallow this pill of ignorance and madness for Satan who wants to exploit you, please."

Russ Winter #wingnut #dunning-kruger #racist #conspiracy

Adapation of a typical fundamentalist straw man, similar to "thinking is human pride". Ironically, the same justify their low instincts by citing and reinterpreting what they find convenient from scripture. Claiming that evil is divine, or that not embracing their false excuses is evil, with frivolous threats of retribution. Control freak.

part of a secret society (whether they know it or not)

"I decide what they are", even if actually clueless.

Andrew Anglin #transphobia #enbyphobia #psycho

Says the nazi incel freak in hiding... Weaponizing evil for hate speech promoting more evil.

Pastor Bobby Leonard #sexist

Rape culture, victim shaming, women subjugation, protecting abusers. Then wondering why your attendance suffers...

Tucker Carlson #wingnut #psycho

"They're both very nice people"

Moscow[…]Nicer than any city in my country[…]

Why not move there?

Although to be fair, both the US and Russia have known major longstanding infrastructure problems. It also varies with state and city.

it’s wildly diverse[…]hard to run a country like that for 24 years

If you appreciate diversity, why are you on the side fighting against it in the US?

I suppose that this is our typical Carlson hypocritical bullshit...

Udsuna #fundie

Multiple universes may make sense if they vary allowing some to have the components for the eventual development of life, which would have happened with ours. It also echos discoveries at other scales in our own universe, when we realized for instance that there are many suns in our own galaxy, that there then are many galaxies and clusters of them. So why not many universes. It's still hypothetical and there are plenty of "multiverse"s some actually doctrines more than science, others even part of conspiracy theories, similar to universe simulation ideas.

What I perceive here is a need to justify the fact that despite things normally having originating causes (sentient or not), to be perceived as superior and all-powerful, humans tend to imagine their gods to be outside the constraints of physics and causality. Afterall, it's an argument for the supernatural, afterlife fantasies, etc. So logically one may ask: but what/who created your deity? In polytheism, one might have a family tree to go through until the paradox is reached. In reality, humans created it, but to deny that and claim the reverse (i.e. "in the image of God", to deny "human anthropomorphic deity"), more metaphysical arguments are needed, so there's a tradition of such.

Yaridovich #fundie

And not everyone is satisfied with a simple ready-made list of rules and answers for everything. Especially when it cannot cover all situations, or turns out to contain errors, exposing its own failures. The same reason there are so many religions and law codes. And the same reason humans developed science. Besides, those particular commandments were adapted from a few older ones and were from a particular human tradition. You likely wouldn't want to also adopt the savagery of the Deuterononic code, or of older similar ones that influenced it, like that of Hammurabi. The statement appears to advocate forcing the conversion or elimination of whoever you consider heretic. According to your own version of whatever Abrahamic tradition you are advocating for. The same attitude that actually promotes and justifies conflicts and theocratic totalitarianism, etc. Nobody expects the inquisition...

chionos #fundie

Serapy #fundie

udsuna #fundie

"I can imagine things that don't exist, therefore they have actual existence and are necessarily superior and older than the physical world." But since human brains have created imaginary deities, they had to come first and actually evolved quite late in the universe.

udsuna #fundie

Pointing out fallacies does not need to be considered insulting, it is always an opportunity to gracefully recognize mistakes or limitations and to learn. A temporary crisis may occur because of cognitive dissonance and the realization of having invested so much in vanity, though. I experienced that. But also, being on the defensive is compatible with persecution complex...

udsuna #fundie

~Dagger Trepe~ #fundie

It's called resuscitation, but of course, when it fails, it's too late. :) And when it works, it's not because of a soul that came back, but because the person (body) wasn't really dead, or irreversibly unconscious. You may call consciousness "soul" by metaphor, but there's no actual evidence for the existence of spirits outside of brains. Even some theologians interpret the Biblical concept of "soul" to simply mean "being".

But this recalls to the fact that the human ability to imagine, and the fear of death, are a main cause of religiosity. There are stories of miracles in tradition, but no evidence of miracles in reality. Using an old story as an argument, assuming that it must really have happened, is fallacious. So is claiming that the old story must be true because another verse in another book also accumulated in the canon says that all scripture is inspired. You're arguing against the ability of current science to resurect, but it actually saves many lives in situations where it was not previously possible and to someone from the middle ages or earlier, this could appear like a miracle. At the same time, you cannot provide evidence of miraculous resuscitation using better means. Which is hypocritical.

If there wasn't a soul, then why can't they bring back that force of life?

This really means: I assert that a soul independent from the body exists and from that flawed premise, therefore assume that the only possible reason of death would be the soul leaving it. Without being able to show evidence of souls, anywhere, or at their claimed destination. On the other hand, the physical process of death and decomposition can be observed. We can even reliably infer that if permitted to, other life may feed on it. But we can only imagine souls and recite traditions about them.

~Dagger Trepe~ #fundie

Only by reading and hearing about God's word will you understand everything

Because what does not exist cannot manifest itself and it is really conditioning into a tradition. And selling a constant flow of literature and services is convenient.