#religion for parasites

[infinitysisters]

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤.

Various results will soon be arrived at.

First, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞.

Second, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐧.

Third, that 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞.

Fourth, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲. (aka “crackpot conspirarcy theories”)

But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.

Although this science will be diligently studied, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.

When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen…

Some of these effects depend upon the political and economic character of the country concerned; others are inevitable, whatever this character may be.”

—Bertrand Russell

𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 (1954)

#bertrand russell #prophetic #the age of the big drain #society #it works #mindfuck #propaganda #current state #intellectual decline #manipulation #social engineering #opium of the asses #ideology #religion for parasites #utopianism #scientism #credentialism #striver class are easy pickings #professional managerial class #rent seeking apparatchiks #apparatchiks #education #trust in the experts #philosophers #mathematicians #science #politicization of science #social psychology

[eve-was-framed]

recently finished Shiny Happy People and tbh the religious fundamentalist view on men is 1000x more offensive than anything any feminist has ever said. they see men as wild animals motivated solely by sex and they think men can’t be held accountable for literally anything ever (even sexually abusing babies) because they’re just mindless dummies who have zero control over their emotions and sexuality. women and even little girls are burdened with the task of being caretakers for grown men. if I were male I would be mortified by these teachings

#the men in their religion are basically raised to be fucking parasites #also I hope Josh Duggar kills himself

[bitchfitch]

the good thing about mentioning a character once and then never again for several years is that i can get away with calling this thing the same person as some fairy twink, even though the only similarities are the color pallete and face markings. and if I hadn't said that, none of y'all would be any wiser about it.

#anyways i finally found a design for Neta that i like #Neta #They're a parasitic burrowing wasp now #Renat is still going to look at this thing and say 'you can make a religion out of this'

[identitty-dickruption]

I love to see self-proclaimed radical leftists reinvent conservative talking points from the opposite direction. that feel when you get so leftist you loop back around to believing in segregation, eugenics, and xenophobia

#politics #‘white people and black people should be separate forever’ you know what that sounds like?? #‘everyone who won’t be able to contribute after the revolution are parasites’ HMM okay #‘religion is brainwashing and therefore should be abolished in all circumstances’ glad to know you support genocide!

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims." -- Thomas Sowell

Intersectionality in a nutshell.

#Thomas Sowell #victimhood culture #victimhood #DEI bureaucracy #parasites #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #intersectional activism #religion is a mental illness

[parasitic-saint]

often bought together do not separate them please for the love of god separate them, they will bring the downfall of the whole universe due to their hubris they've mistaken for love

#they also eat people and angels but that can be forgiven #Only The Flesh Is Divine #parasitic saint ocs #goth #religion #religious art #digital art #art

[rainedroptalks]

The silt verses is definitely made for me, as someone with an interest in theology and a moderate amount of religious trauma

#ramblings #hmmm should I make a tag… #raine listens to tsv #I have too many tags man #anyway yea the way religion is treated here is very interesting #and Sister Carpenter’s bit about like #thinking that her brothers death was a punishment for forgetting her faith #which is super fucked up #but also. religion can sometimes make you feel that way #especially if you were raised in a place where god wasn’t a comfort but a thing that leeched off you #and your faith #‘‘a god must feed. a god must be fed’’ #what I’m trying to say is that gods in the silt verses are like parasites

[thirst2]

Mmm, definitely something the world needed: a Catholic start-up company. I imagine Caritas in Veritate had some guidance on this idea…

#it just dawned on me – too – that a ''prayer and meditation app.'' definitely doesn't need venture capitalist money… #there's a million prayer/meditation app.s out there (including christian ones) already #what – exactly – are you providing that's so novel? #nothing that isn't parasitic #i'm sure #Image #About Me #Job Hunting #Capitalism #Religion #Christianity #Catholicism

[tillman]

I love just posting about my stories lore as if everyone knows it. Yeah yeah god, the consciousness, vs god, the thing, we all know the difference here.

#txt #what you dont know the intricate push and pull between vélins central parasitic being of worship? #of course theres also god the author and god the mother and god the father but thats different thats actual religion #god the thing and consciousness are real physical. well. ones physical. things

[mtsodie]

worms in the belly of god

#🎨 #bugsnax #lizbert megafig #DONT THINK I FORGOT ABOUT BUGSNAX!!!!!!!!! #also is this edgy? yes. do i care? no #parasitism tw #parasites tw #religion tw

[nando161mando]

#super bowl #superbowl #ads #advertising #marketing #atheist #atheism #dogma #religion #anti religion #bible nonsense #jerkmillionaires #jerktrillionaires #jerkbillionaires #rent is theft #rent is too damn high #landlords are parasites #landlords are scum #landlords are leeches #landlords are bastards #landlords are the worst #i’m a housing lawyer – landlords use new loophole to push out tenants in ‘bad faith’ evictions #fuck landlords #homeless #court dismisses assault on landlord and son who threw student out in his ‘jocks’ after no rent paid #landlords #landlord #class war #ausgov #politas

[demi-shoggoth]

2023 Reading Log, pt 1

It begins again! With a straggler from 2022.

151. All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell. Last year, the book that made me cry was Women and Other Monsters. This was the book this year. This book is about the author’s grappling with death via the act of visiting and interviewing people who work in fields handling the dead. Morticians, grave diggers, autopsy technicians and cremation operators are interviewed, as are people who you might not think of—crime scene cleaners, a company that works in PR and cleanup for disasters, a bereavement midwife. The material about the death of fetuses and infants is especially devastating, both for me and for the author; her sense of detachment is derailed upon seeing infant corpses being cleaned after autopsy, and coming to terms with that is a major theme of the book. The book ends with the COVID pandemic, and how death has become a much bigger part of everyone’s lives, after decades of denial pushing it to the fringes. This was a powerful read, and I have a lot of emotions about it; I’m glad I read this book, but I will likely never want to read it again.

001. Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State by Joscelyn Goodwin. This was not the book I thought it was going to be when I picked it up. It covers most of the bases—looking at the “Burnt Over” region of Upstate New York and how it was the site of a lot of religious development throughout the 19th century. It covers the well known ones—the Millerites and their more successful spinoffs, the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Seventh Day Adventists, the Mormons, the Spiritualists. It also talks about the interweaving of spiritualist beliefs with leftist politics in the 19th century, and how people like Susan B. Anthony and Fredrick Douglass had connections to séances and channelers. What I did not expect was the strong bias of the author. He is clearly friendly to Helena Blavatsky and Theosophical ideas, much more than an impartial historian would have been of that notorious fraud. The final chapter, where the author lays out his Neoplatonic philosophy and his belief that New York State is the site of ley lines, reads like the reveal in a horror movie. There is useful information to be had here, but it should be taken with more than a grain of salt.

002. Dinosaurs: Profiles from a Lost World by Riley Black, illustrations by Riccardo Frapiccini. The author of this book is on tumblr! Go follow her @rileycatrocks​ , she’s awesome. This book is an overview of what we know about notable dinosaur genera, as well as other Mesozoic reptiles like pterosaurs and crocodiles. The writing is good at summarizing modern research in a readable style; this is a good book for interested laypeople. The art is done using photomanipulation to create the textures on the animals, all of which are featured in a profile head shot. I think it works mostly, but there are some issues. I really like the animals’ eyes, which feel authentic (I especially like the horizontal pupils on many of the ornithiscians). The textures are more hit-and-miss, though. The same sample of monitor lizard skin is used on multiple pieces, and there’s a Brachiosaurus covered in Galapagos tortoise hide that looks really awkward and misshapen. This book was published first in Italy, so I’m a little surprised European dinosaurs don’t get more featured. Although the somewhat obscure and very strange Italian pterosaur Caviramus shows up, which I appreciated.

003. The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky. This book is part food history and part computational linguistics. The book discusses both how foods travel around the world and change when they meet new cultures (like how ketchup was first made with fish, and how much of English and American foodways come from the Middle East). It also covers the linguistic tricks used on menus and food packaging to sell to specific markets, and the similarities in language used on Yelp reviews. These two halves don’t quite gel together the way the author may have hoped. I liked the book, but maybe it could have used a little more scaffolding.

004. what if? 2 by Randall Munroe. This was the hardest I’ve laughed at a book in some time. Highly recommended for the joy factor alone. This is the third of Munroe’s pop-science Q&A books, and like what if? and how to?, it answers questions, some simple, some absurd, with the science of how they would actually work. A lot of planets are destroyed, black holes created, and other chaos ensues. Most of the questions involve physics or chemistry, but there are a few biology questions included (like how many people would a T. rex have to eat in a day, which becomes how many T. rexes can be supported by a single McDonalds).

005. Parasites: The Inside Story by Scott L. Gardner, Judy Diamond and Gabor Racz, illustrated by Brenda Lee. This book is another “recommended for interested laypeople” text, this one about the evolution and ecology of parasites. The book is divided into thirds; the first third covers parasites of humans, the second the life histories and evolution of major clades of parasites, the third individual case studies, most of them involving the first author. The illustrations are a high point—the life cycles of featured parasites are illustrated, and the back of the book has a spotter’s guide to the individual species discussed in the text. I wish it were longer, though—this book is 190 pages, which includes a 10 page glossary and 40 pages of bibliography.

#reading log #lot of emotions in this one #parasite #parasitology #evolution #ecology #pop science #xkcd #linguistics #food history #death #funeral industry #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoart #comparative religion #occultism #new york state #american history

[infinitysisters]

“Once upon a time, when politics were more evenly divided among the elite and less central to their identities, the residents of these affluent bubbles signified their social status through the material symbols of conspicuous consumption: European luxury cars, expensive golf club memberships, and brand name private schools for the kids.

But then the great cultural revolution arose on the campuses of the nation’s designer colleges and universities that served as finishing schools for America’s elite. Suddenly, there was a new language with which to display one’s elite educational pedigree. Any ordinary American could object to “racism,” but only a special kind of baccalaureate conferred upon its holders the specialized vocabulary of “white supremacy,” “black bodies” and “the carceral state.” Deploying this lexicon and ostentatiously displaying the opinions they represented became the new signifiers of gentility, cosmopolitanism, and social superiority. It was the dawn of the Great Awokening.

But like all status signifiers, this refined vocabulary exists in a competitive market. It has to evolve to hold its value. As each political posture goes mainstream, its value depreciates as an indicator of one’s rarified status. New, even more avant-garde positions are needed. Mere police reform isn’t enough — we need police abolition! Not only do we think it’s fine to be trans — we salute our own daughter for going on puberty blockers!

For the elite, keeping up with the Joneses means committing oneself to ever more radical activist agendas. The fading memory of Gender Studies 201 is no longer sufficient in this cutthroat arena. The business executives, lawyers and doctors of America’s SuperZips are compelled to hire DEI consultants to bring them and their employees up to speed on the new revolutionary etiquette. They enroll their children in country day schools that instruct kindergarteners in the fallacy of biological sex, providing them with a head start on the other kids they’d be competing with for a Stanford admissions slot.

This radical grandstanding is a new thing among the educated elite — or perhaps an atavistic thing. But scratch a centimeter deeper and you’ll find the same elite that’s always been there, and this, too, has become a hallmark of today’s political left. The contempt for the masses, with their vaccine hesitancy and their latent fascism. The abiding reverence for credentialed experts. The disdain for political dissent and the pathological need to control the public discourse. It’s all still there, just dressed up in revolutionary drag.

The children of the ruling class have colonized the left, and are using its moral language to malign the broader American public as a bigoted, ignorant, dangerous mob. To protect the “vulnerable” and “marginalized” from this threat, they demand the ideological allegiance of every elite political, cultural, and media institution; the social and professional ostracism of dissidents; and the enforcement of speech codes both online and off. “Social justice” has become both a status signifier for the American establishment and a tool to discipline the rabble.”

- Leighton Woodhouse

#society #politics #luxury beliefs #class hiding behind race #america #the west #ideology as religion #secular pieties #wear your flair #no cost religion #parasitic religion #bullshit #wtf happened to the left #moral exhibitionism #Leighton Woodhouse #nailed it #culture

[adlibitur]

I probably havent complained as much here, but one of the massive reasons I left instagram is seeing triple digit thousands followers internet leftists sharing/pinning literal things from the protocols of the elders of zion as "someone needs to be talking about this truth!" in combo with the fun thing leftists always do before they persecute Jews such as comments about "attacking the zionists where they live" (when talking about random jewish civilians not even in israel) and "zionists control the media" and how what happened in russia was "good pushback against genocidal settlers" like greeeeat (sarcasm) to see the horseshoe theory works perfectly for antisemitism.

#leftists idolize a group that didnt work with people who mass murdered jews challenge impossible #because i literally do need someone to name a group that wasnt directly tied to mass killing of jews because i actually cant anymore #the ira worked with the nazis #the ussr well we know what they did #marx literally enforced the narrative that jews are money hungry and 'huckstering' is their religion #lets not spare proudhon of jews are 'always fraudulent and parasitic' or bakunin 'a bloodsucking people' #proudhons diary sounds like nazi writings #bpp had some also super questionable views on the subject as well #like mayhaps in light of a track record of aligning with antisemitism the left can understand jewish people not trusting #because that makes total sense to me given the left has chomped at the bit to use jews as a scapegoat for other issues #like im sorry but actually confront your fucking ideology

[lucky-clover-gazette]

the rings of akhaten is a RARE moffat era w

#the doctor has great speeches #and frees several planets from a parasitic religion #and unsurprisingly moffat did not write this episode #dw

[worldofthechateau]

Vampirism

Instead of being a form of undead, vampirism is caused by a magical parasite called the bloodeater parasite. As per the name, this parasite feeds on blood, so once it's devoured its host's blood, it compels them to ingest more. Due to being magical in nature, the parasite causes the host to grow fangs. Vampire feeding is not pretty.

Other vampire abilities, such as agelessness, night vision, enhanced strength, hypnotic eyes, and the power to turn into a vampire, are all granted by the bloodeater parasite to make it easier for the host to get that sweet, sweet blood.

The parasite also messes with its victim's mind, not just by causing a compulsion to drink blood. Since the parasite is weak to Vitamin D and allicin, it gives its hosts a strong fear of the sun and garlic. Other vampire compulsions, such as the need to count things or get permission before entering, are side effects of the parasite manipulating the mind.

Religious symbols as a vampire weakness is an interesting case– vampires are only repelled by their own religious symbols. Therefore, a Christian vampire would be repelled by crosses, while a Buddhist vampire reacts poorly to a wheel of dharma.

Contrary to popular belief, vampires still need regular food, it's just they can go for longer without eating.

#vampires #vampirism #tw parasite #the chateau #suburban fantasy #urban fantasy #worldbuilding #modern fantasy #tw religion