tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post8608844480601496995..comments2023-02-19T16:29:34.165+00:00Comments on The West’s darkest hour: The other “lightnings”Checharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-9316312215826621782010-04-23T19:53:20.231+01:002010-04-23T19:53:20.231+01:00> Qualifying the “Middle ages” as totalitarian ...> <em>Qualifying the “Middle ages” as totalitarian is simply outrageous.</em><br /><br />When I read Paz’s book back in 1983 I still didn’t use text-markers and therefore it is a little difficult to find the exact passage that caused the “lightening” and quote him properly.<br /><br />Anyway, I agree with Leszek Kołakowski that the difference between the power of the Church during the High Middle Ages vis-à-vis Communism is that Christendom respected the market and whole spheres of human life that the Communists took over.<br /><br />BTW, in 1990 Paz and Kołakowski met personally in Mexican TV. Magnificent programs.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-48943125363315898942010-03-29T17:12:27.944+01:002010-03-29T17:12:27.944+01:00Hi Chechar,
Let me make a couple of comments
>...Hi Chechar,<br />Let me make a couple of comments<br /><br />> In the phrase Paz had compared the commie totalitarian regimes with the totalitarian Church of the Middle Ages.<br /><br />¿? Qualifying the “Middle ages” as totalitarian is simply outrageous. Te jurisdictions were so fragmented then that totalitarism was impossible. Totalitarism was only possible after the “Enlightenment” (please contain your laughter), when there was no material possibility to oppose the “general will” (please contain your laughter again).<br /><br />> Take for example the undeniable Jewish role in ending segregation. Since then thousands upon thousands of Anglo-Saxon Americans in the South have been exterminated.<br /><br />I do not know what you mean here. In any case, the paragraph is, all in all, very to the heart of the mater.<br /><br />The blacks have now become anti-Semitic, and the Chicanos, La Raza, are free form the holocaustic blackmail. All the revolutionary attempts of the Jewry have ended in a disaster. The have learn nothing, the have forgotten nothing (Ni aprenden ni olvidan). Talleyrand on the Bourbons.<br /><br />> The default religion of human beings is the practice of human sacrifice. This is a pathological virus planted deep in the heart of the human species, which has been given insufficient attention. Virtually all primitive cultures and ancient civilizations engaged in it.<br /><br />I think you exaggerate when you make it the default religion of human beings. In any case, on that point we have to thank Israel (in the biblical sense):<br /><br />http://layijadeneurabia.com/2008/08/14/sacrificios-humanos-y-maltrato-a-los-ninos/<br /><br />> The West’s weakness doesn’t come from neo-liberalism alone. The threat is not only from Islam.<br /><br />That is the point. I had also my own epiphany on the issue, and agree that Islamic aggression is only the consequence, not the cause of our situation.<br /><br />BTW, you will love this site:<br /><br />http://cordeliaforlear.blogspot.com/AMDGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15087668708618365208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-11613564550561169522010-03-09T02:28:36.889+00:002010-03-09T02:28:36.889+00:00P.S.
“Lightening” is a mere metaphor (I dislike ...<strong>P.S. </strong><br /><br />“Lightening” is a mere metaphor (I dislike the new age term “enlightenment”). As to the Jewish question I’ll quote an edited version of my email that Auster published yesterday in his site:<br /><br /><em>A couple of weeks ago I was still a philo-Semite. What happened in my mind when the lightening struck? Simple. I didn't know that the Jews were overrepresented in the Gulag. But what really shocked me was the discovery that they were also overrepresented in the American immigration reform. That little piece of info, when dully digested radically changed me. To those who call me anti-Semite for that I would tell: “Yeah, kinda like how quickly you change your opinion of your best friend when you find out he's been banging your wife for ten years; rapid descent into hatred.”</em><br /><br />Nothing new-ageish. Just plain common sense.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-70635414841846839172010-03-09T01:28:27.539+00:002010-03-09T01:28:27.539+00:00I (or the late Octavio Paz) could’ve been wrong on...I (or the late Octavio Paz) could’ve been wrong on communism. But I very much doubt it. As to psi, any psychic that demonstrated ESP or PK in labs—with a strict protocol that would include magicians just in case he’s not doing something like a David Copperfield trick—would convince me and the scientific community. But since 1983 (bye bye Marxism) and 1995 (bye bye parapsychology) I’ve had no reason to change my mind again.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-28109155947082710052010-03-09T01:15:16.430+00:002010-03-09T01:15:16.430+00:00Would you agree that:
IF it turns out you are in...Would you agree that: <br /><br />IF it turns out you are incorrect about the truth of what any one of your lightening experiences revealed<br /><br />THEN it would mean your lightening experiences are not revealers of truth?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775583719272089018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-83422845248775101092010-03-08T23:20:05.795+00:002010-03-08T23:20:05.795+00:00You missed my point. I have a substantial library ...You missed my point. I have a substantial library of psi believers and skeptics alike.<br /><br />I mentioned Ray Hyman (now Professor Emeritus) and Professor James Alcock. Both dedicated their lives to evaluate the Rhine school of parapsychology. Besides reading them I have met them twice: once in Mexico and the other in Seattle (in the same conference where I met Carl Sagan by the way). As you know, in the Rhine school there’s no dramatic psi effect; they “measure” it through statistical tools. <br /><br />Well, I subscribed to (1) <i>The Journal of Parapsychology</i> and (2) <i>The Journal of the <b>American</b> Society for Psychical Research</i> . Both purportedly dealt with psi according to the Rhine (statistical) school. On the other hand, the (3) <i>JSPR</i> which accepted my stuff dealt mainly with the other school, the British or qualitative, anecdotal “evidence” of psi. All three journals are written by psi believers. <br /><br />The point is that after studying the pretty sophisticate critique of Hyman and Alcock on the statistical methods used in parapsychology I started to lose faith in the phenomenon and became a psi agnostic. (This was even before the lightening finally hit in 1995.)Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-44387379234234616402010-03-08T22:47:51.697+00:002010-03-08T22:47:51.697+00:00As a personal story that is interesting, but it is...As a personal story that is interesting, but it is just pitting authority figures one against the other. It does not address whether psi is in fact real and what the lightening experiences are. <br /><br />Your post hinges on the assumption that the "lightenings" are the truth; you claim you are right about communism, psi, and the Jews due to sudden lightening experiences of insight.<br /><br />However increasing theoretical and research evidence supports psi at a statistical (but not dramatic, Eschatology-style) level.<br /><br />If psi is real then the "lightenings" don't have truth value. <br /><br />In short, the lightenings are not what you think they are.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775583719272089018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-1572104758174343272010-03-08T21:51:04.905+00:002010-03-08T21:51:04.905+00:00(Re-posted to fix spelling)
But that’s not the wh...<b>(Re-posted to fix spelling)</b><br /><br />But that’s not the whole story... <br /><br />After leaving Eschatology I still believed in the psi hypothesis and started to publish in <i>JSPR</i>. It was not until CSICOP visited Mexico that I had a dinner with Paul Kurtz, Ray Hyman and James Alcock (and also talked to James Randi). Their publications in the conference were for sale and this started a gradual apostasy from the paranormal (after starting to read these guys the “lightening” struck me five years later).Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-63447277594050844182010-03-08T21:48:09.622+00:002010-03-08T21:48:09.622+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-31100632901059662972010-03-08T20:48:09.023+00:002010-03-08T20:48:09.023+00:00That's an interesting story.
Like a lot of ...That's an interesting story. <br /><br />Like a lot of religious people the group you were part of are taking a more subtle truth and trying to turn it into a fantasy of personal power and importance.<br /><br />Regardless, their actions do not argue against psi, only against a science-fiction form of psi like in Star Wars (or the Bible).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775583719272089018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-83794883909391347102010-03-08T16:26:22.589+00:002010-03-08T16:26:22.589+00:00Before you say that I’m wrong, take a look at the ...Before you say that I’m wrong, take a look at <a href="http://caesartort.blogspot.com/2006/10/obviously-greatest-tragedy-that-can.html" rel="nofollow">the very first entry</a> of this blog.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-68008115877564270492010-03-08T09:49:11.263+00:002010-03-08T09:49:11.263+00:00You're wrong about psi.
And that's the wh...You're wrong about psi.<br /><br />And that's the whole problem with the "lightenings".Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775583719272089018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-63242611144583554072010-03-04T16:16:31.358+00:002010-03-04T16:16:31.358+00:00Well... Since Thomas was the first to write on it ...Well... Since Thomas was the first to write on it and the one who changed my mind, perhaps you could try it?Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-84698082285196012772010-03-04T10:57:36.313+00:002010-03-04T10:57:36.313+00:00I don’t know a specific book in English language. ...<i>I don’t know a specific book in English language. </i><br /><br />I could make it slowly through a Spanish one.dudhduddhdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12386575757949129658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-60031389045739323632010-03-04T01:04:25.374+00:002010-03-04T01:04:25.374+00:00I will correct that mistake (TOO) right now.I will correct that mistake (TOO) right now.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-35179423699322911992010-03-04T00:53:44.236+00:002010-03-04T00:53:44.236+00:00Good post Chechar.
Jews are indeed the primary ve...Good post Chechar.<br /><br />Jews are indeed the primary vectors of liberalism. For numerous centuries now overly powerful, dishonest, and scheming Jews have brainwashed The West with alien ideologies, and these anti-White ideologies (liberalism, feminism, multiracialism & multiculturalism, communism, plutocratic hypercapitalism, mass-consumerism, atheism, mass-urbanism, etc) are causing The West to 'commit suicide' as it were. <br /><br />There are biological parallels of this in Nature that mimic the dynamic between Jews (parasites) and White Europeans (the host): for instance, there are creatures who are brainwashed by a parasite which ultimately leads them to their suicidal downfall to benefit said parasite -- http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/<br /><br />"Conversely, in Occidental Dissent Kevin MacDonald wrote..."<br /><br />Minor correction -- MacDonald writes for The Occidental Observer (TOO), not Occidental Dissent (OD). There are many Occidental _________ websites so they are easy to mix up.Theo Tiefwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287746262106251824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-56567327259359884502010-03-03T23:21:37.164+00:002010-03-03T23:21:37.164+00:00Hi danielj, you are very welcomed here.
You won’t...Hi <b>danielj</b>, you are very welcomed here.<br /><br />You won’t believe it, but in my teens I spent two years in the Madrid School: a school founded by those who fled from the Franco regime. <br /><br />It was not until I watched a TV series on the Spanish Civil War based upon Hugh Thomas’ seminal book on the subject that I realized that at school I got it all wrong.<br /><br />I don’t know a specific book in English language. Thomas, being a Briton, was the first scholar to research the subject thoroughly.<br /><br />Today I believe that Spain badly needs another Franco...Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-42477777936965353882010-03-03T22:56:01.460+00:002010-03-03T22:56:01.460+00:00Don't feel bad that it took you time. You didn...Don't feel bad that it took you time. You didn't have the information or the framework to absorb it until just now.<br /><br />You seem like a smart guy. I, for one, am glad you arrived just in time to fight.<br /><br />You got any good book recommendations about the Spanish Civil War and about Franco?dudhduddhdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12386575757949129658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35605999.post-85894627550306218412010-03-03T22:09:36.724+00:002010-03-03T22:09:36.724+00:00Incidentally, Paz was the winner of the 1990 Nobel...Incidentally, Paz was the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. The mex commies still hate him.Checharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958061355210472570noreply@blogger.com