The Pope is either a despicable liar or a complete ignoramus. Or possibly both. (How’s that for a gentle opening statement?) If you think that’s a tad harsh, read on.
Category: Most Dangerous Superstition
Divide-and-Conquer, Pack Mentality Bullshit
If you think “Syria” is the enemy, or “Russia” is the enemy, or “North Korea” is the enemy, or if you think that any other political jurisdiction is the enemy, then you’re falling for the divide-and-conquer, pack-mentality bullshit that empowers the political parasites in all of those places.
For People to Own Other People
Don’t put too much stake in all the “movement” drama, or in any particular individual, organization, or event. Whatever else happens along the way, changing minds is what matters.
Should We Have Faith The Market Will Provide?
Do you know where your lunch today came from? No, I don’t mean from what store; I mean do you know where the ingredients all originated? Who grew or harvested them? Who put them together? And where? Most of us (including me) don’t know, and don’t need to know.
Teaching Children to Think
If you are right about things, then teaching your children how to collect evidence and apply logic will eventually lead them to agree with you. Only people who have flawed views need to try to make other people take things on faith.
Congratulations, You Might Be a Voluntaryist
A brief quiz: Can putting 100 pounds of rock on one end of a seesaw lift a full can on the other end weighing 150 pounds? What if what the can contains is 150 pounds of sand? What if the can contains 150 pounds of guacamole instead?
Real Men Don’t Follow Orders
Dear Aspiring Badass Soldier, working hard to get physically strong, while remaining intellectually, philosophically and morally weak, will just end up making you the politicians’ bitch.
Groups Don’t Act, Only Individuals Act
“The Jews” never did anything to you. “The White Man” never did anything to you. “The Blacks” never did anything to you. “The Muslims” never did anything to you. Individuals do things, and deserve credit or blame for what they do.
Scared or Tricked into Cheering for Evil
One nice thing about people having actual principles is that fear-mongering, propaganda, false flag stunts, and other manipulative bullshit, doesn’t work on them.
Militaries Exist to Create Enemies
Authoritarian empires need enemies, need conflict, need violence, in order to have an excuse to exist. The purpose of “government” militaries is not to defeat enemies, but to create them.