01) Bridge Magazine’s new book is first comprehensive telling of Flint water crisis
“Michigan Radio and countless other local and national news outlets have reported various aspects of the crisis, from how it unfolded to how the crisis will affect the city’s children as they grow into adults. And that reporting will continue into the foreseeable future, since Flint water is still not safe to drink, unfiltered.
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Note: This is more of a diversionary tactic of confusion, than a true argument.
This is an old Ray Comfort tactic [maybe he got it from someone else?], where in he equates the cognition behind one form of creativity, with a “need” for cognition behind all naturally occurring order.
One critical problem with this assertion, is that painting is an established art and discipline, which we can observe and see a cognitive mind behind…It’s an extremely well established occurrence.
…The formation of planets, stars, solar systems, etc…on the other hand, are not something we have ever had the opportunity to observe, in their entire process…
Frankly…we don’t know enough about that process, and till this day…we’ve not identified any cognition behind it. We’ve never established that a cognition is even required, for a planet or star to form…And given the sheer vastness of the universe…randomness is entirely plausible…In fact, it seems to be pointed towards and supported.
Given an essentially unlimited amount of chances…we will eventually find things happening, we don’t necessarily expect to happen.
Concluding that a cognition must be there, behind everything, is simply not justified…It is not substantiated…It’s merely asserted, by some people…who cannot substantiate it.
The physical elements which make up everything, have come together to produce earth…But, they’ve also mixed to form entire solar systems, which are expected to be desolate…because they are so hostile towards supporting life, as we know it to exist.
Most of what is out there, is overwhelmingly a treacherous wasteland…and it points towards a lack of any real thought put into it.
It’s far more justified to conclude, that we humans are a curious accident…than to believe that some cognitive creature [we cannot even establish the existence of] decided to invent us.
It makes no sense, to think otherwise…if you care at all, about what studies and research are showing us.
01) Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia: The full interview
“What would happen if Based Mom sat down with Based Goddess for an hour to discuss modern-day feminism? No need to speculate—here’s the full one-hour interview (with bonus content!) featuring Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia where they break down #Gamergate, intersectional feminism, the “male gaze”, and much, much more.”
Here is the interview posted a few days ago, but all in one video.
01) “Regression Therapy” Isn’t Real, but Hollywood Keeps the Myth Alive
“The problem is that there is no empirical evidence to support such notions, certainly not in the way that Freud originally conceptualized them. As far as the scientific community is concerned, there is no secret repression vault, so there cannot be a secret technique to unlock it, thus eliminating the possibility of regression as a feasible therapeutic technique.
There is also a tremendous problem with assuming that there is such a hidden emotional vault […] The problem is that our expectations tend to influence their behavior. If we assume that a hidden, repressed memory exists, we start to hunt for it.
If psychoanalytic therapists and patients go into a therapy session looking for the atrocities that ‘must’ be there, they can quite easily generate false memories in the process. The results can include families fractured by false accusations, and lawsuits based on ill-informed therapy that generated a memory of something terrible that never actually happened.” – Julia Shaw
01) Clinton Delegate Beats Sanders Supporter With Cane (VIDEO)
We cant blame “the democrats”, for one ornery old goat who needs to be put out to pasture…But the way Sanders supporters had their microphones shut off on them?…That speaks volumes, and just continues showing us what contempt is held towards people who can see, “business as usual” is killing our country.
The people who are driving this country into it’s grave, are still in control.
As an extra slap in the face…they actually think that they will get our vote for their establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton…a politician who models, just exactly the sort of corruption the Bernie Sanders movement arose and swelled to depose.
They want us to shut up and hand them our vote…They do not represent us…They wont stand by us, nor fight for us…They’ll just keep advancing a path, which is hurting us all [except the super wealthy minority].
You know what is so enraging about all of this?…
…Bernie Sanders is the only genuine, anti-establishment alternative…
…Yet, because of a myriad of underhanded tactics, he has been pushed out of the race…And now, the only “anti-establishment” candidate left, is Donald Trump…
We’ve been robbed of our true anti-establishment choice…and given Donald Trump, as the token candidate…to make Hillary look “good” by comparison, in her scripted “destiny” to be shoehorned into the U.S. presidency…
That is the way it is being played on us.
…And they think we are going to flock to Hillary, in order to stop Donald Trump…and that this is all the motivation they need to give us?…Beyond that, it’s all middle fingers?
I’m just about prepared to vote for Donald Trump, just to spite the democratic party…in hopes of derailing the Clinton coup…Let them take their grand plan of making history, and shove it back up their butts…They are the last people on this planet, who deserve the accomplishment or the accolades…The way they would have accomplished it, is just despicable.
…It’s time to snatch it from their jaws.
I do not agree with Bernie Sanders, that Hillary must be voted for in order to keep Trump out of the white house…The Hillary people are already snubbing the Bernie people…The democratic party, is not the place where we are going to get anywhere…
I don’t know if Bernie made a mistake in becoming a democrat, and using their party to attempt becoming U.S. president…But I do think he is making a mistake, in bowing out and not jumping to a third party for it’s nomination.
I think he is making a major mistake, by supporting Hillary…someone who embodies, all that is wrong with politics in the U.S…someone who is opposed, to nearly all of the vital issues Bernie stands for. Bernie is becoming subordinate, because he thinks Trump would be a disaster…
…Well…Yes…Trump would be a disaster, and a shock to the system…
…We need a serious shake up, and a shock to the system in U.S. politics…right now…
…The establishment wants to snatch away our viable candidate [Bernie Sanders], and leave us with Donald Trump?…You want to corner us, by leaving us with an “anti-establishment” candidate so outrageous?…
…Do you really want to play chicken with our political system, like this?…
Very well…
…Unless I find some extremely compelling third party candidate, who is doing what Bernie should be doing right now…then I am going to vote for the dancing clown of wall street [Donald Trump], solely to spite Hillary and her sheep…in hopes of making certain, that she never becomes U.S. president.
You want to treat us like this?…Fuck You!…Your attitude, your self entitlement and your platform, are all rotten to the core…
…There needs to be a serious house cleaning in U.S. politics…and all of the Hillary people [amongst so many others], need to be gone.
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Date: June 26, 2016
01) Un-named Author: “A letter to my mother”
02) Todd Nickerson: Pedophiles deserve free speech just like everyone else
03) Octaevius Altair: There is no “Virtuous Celibacy”
04) Lucas Pazzo Folle: About the non-offending pedophile
05) Samuel Zehdenick: The Finkelhor dogma
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“There is no such thing as closure. Family therapist Pauline Boss says that the idea of closure in fact leads us astray — it’s a myth we need to put aside, like the idea we’ve accepted that grief has five linear stages and we come out the other side done with it. She coined the term “ambiguous loss,” creating a new field in family therapy and psychology. And she has wisdom for the complicated griefs and losses in all of our lives and in how we best approach the losses of others — including those very much in our public midst right now.”
I’ve often thought of “closure” as cliché and conditioning. Just another elusive ideal.
To my mind…it’s more useful fighting injustice, while striving to come to terms with your loss…than it is to chase after “closure”.
When damage is done…there is no point, when it is undone…It doesn’t just stop…You cant always put it behind you.
“The documentary film-maker Rex Bloomstein gains unprecedented access to HMP Whatton in Nottinghamshire, the largest sex offender prison in Europe, to investigate how its inmates are rehabilitated for release.”
When Dave Potter [one of the prisons “facilitators of these programs”] says they treat all “sex offenders” the same, because they consider violent rape and child pornography viewing to be some kind of moral equivalence…
…I suddenly found myself wishing I could have been in the room with Dave, when he spewed this bile…to slap him upside his head, extremely hard…and yell “Moron!”…”Idiot!”…”Filthy Liar!”…
I don’t usually have this kind of emotion overtake me…But, this level of dishonesty, makes me outright sick…and outraged…It makes my blood boil, to be honest.
While interesting…this documentary is a mixed bag.
01) Bridge Magazine’s new book is first comprehensive telling of Flint water crisis
