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Occam also has an X article up – STOP BILL C-9 – CALL YOUR MP!
Our World
Women Are Wonderful, Men Can Be Useful
Chris Williamson: “It’s very hard to try and put forward something that doesn’t sound like putting the brakes on women. And I don’t think that’s what either of us …”
Here is the problem in a nutshell. We must never say No to a woman, no matter the social atrophy and misery she and her sisters are causing. Carlson, in turn, gives the only permissible response: “Are women happier than they were?”
A conversation about men’s lives quickly becomes a conversation about what women want.
European Christian pacifists face truth: Peace requires strength
For centuries, many European Christians have proudly declared that following Jesus means rejecting violence. But as Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine drags into its fourth year, even lifelong pacifists are beginning to ask whether peace can survive without the means to defend it.
Christianity Today reports on a moral and theological shift taking place among Europe’s faithful.
Memories of the Way We Were
Conservative commentary on how Western liberalism has lost its way tends to be almost exclusively focused on the changes that half a century of Left-liberal ‘progress’ have wrought. But it is surely equally important to be clear about what is felt to have been lost in the process. Here are my own.
To be clear, these are the recollections and impressions of someone growing up in 1950s and 60s England. They are not a depiction of some prelapsarian ideal world. People today who would identify as socially conservative would, I think, feel an affinity with much but by no means all of it.
The problem with greed: Our economic system benefits only those at the very top – but it’s not too late for change
The 21st century – if you hadn’t noticed – has been a pretty rocky ride. We’ve already been through several economic crashes, a global pandemic and an affordability crisis, not to mention wars in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nor is the political landscape much cause for joy: of the democracies around in the 1990s, more than 25 have slid back to dictatorship or authoritarian semi-democracy, while China and Russia are once again ruled by autocrats. The United States every day looks more like the Roman Republic near its end, run by a President openly seeking Caesar’s perpetual dictatorship with even less deference to the Senate.
Judge, Discriminate, and Hold Prejudices
Theodore Dalrymple is one of my favorite living writers. He makes complex notions seem obvious and self-evident while employing a sporadic dry wit. His is reliably enjoyable reading that feels like a guilty pleasure.
He has a fascinating history as an English psychologist working in some of Britain’s slums and its prisons. He encounters the modern philosophies through the people who live them, who have really internalized the concept that their crimes were the fault of anything except their own will: their bad upbringing, their parents, their anxiety, their addictions, their ancestry, and so on.
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Does God exist? Modern science shows he must, bestseller argues
Science and religion have never been easy bedfellows. As Thomas Jefferson put it in 1820, priests “dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight”. Five centuries of scientific breakthroughs — from Galileo to Darwin to Crick and Watson — have eroded our belief in the divine.
But now, according to a new book, a “great reversal” is under way. Science, its authors argue over 580 pages, has come full circle and “forcefully put the question of the existence of a creator God back on the table”.
h/t kiki9
What’s Wrong With Las Vegas?
Just north of the Las Vegas Strip lies a graveyard of relics that recalls the boomtown’s lofty ambitions.
Dented metal signs, neon bulbs humming, lie in the desert dust, welcoming you to a city as varied as its defunct businesses: the bright pink feathers of the original Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino; the Red Barn’s crimson cherry in a martini glass, homage to one of the city’s first gay bars; the dancing “Happy Shirt” of Steiner Cleaners, Liberace’s one-time laundry.
They are reminders of long-closed places in a city that has reinvented itself time and time again.
I love Vegas. Mostly because Kathy loved it.
Never big gamblers we always managed to enjoy ourselves and had a bucket list of attractions we hoped to tick off on our next visit.
One day I’ll complete that list.
It sounds like the corporate pirates have worked their magic and turned their back on Middle America.
That’s worked great for Disney and Netflix.
Viva Las Vegas!
Occam’s Razor Gardening, Cooking & Canning Ep 123
Welcome.
Still looks a frost mid week but with a low of 5 vs 2 C overnight Tuesday.
This episode is more of a rant than an update on the state of the garden, other than what you see.
The Antichrist is back
The monster known as the Antichrist has been stalking Christians for nearly 2,000 years. Mostly it has fed the nightmares of frightened peasants or credulous fundamentalists. But now it has emerged from the most secular place on Earth, Silicon Valley, and its prophet is a billionaire venture capitalist married to a man.
The origins of the Antichrist legend lie in the Book of Revelation, in which the nations submit to a Beast whose name is concealed by the number 666. He forces everyone to receive a mysterious ‘mark on their right hands or foreheads’ without which they cannot buy or sell anything. This triggers the return of Jesus at the Battle of Armageddon. Early Christians seized on the ambiguous term ‘antichrist’, a word found in the Epistles of John, used in the plural to refer to heretics in general, and combined it with the Beast. Enter the demonic supervillain known as the Antichrist – a Satanic demagogue so seductive that he conquers the world and, in more recent interpretations, uses his implanted mark to usher in one-world government.