Nihilism and it’s Effects

Posted on October 8, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the nihilism that pervades our world, is making our planet and existence no more or less than a tire fire. Nihilism is the philosophy that nothing we do matters, not the good or the bad, our existence is meaningless. Of course this philosophy is ignorant in that it doesn’t take into account the myriad of miracles that we witness every day, the science of quantum physics, the prophecies that have come true nor the astounding nature of our very consciousness itself, but as unscientific and illogical as nihilism is, it has caught on. Both demoralizing and empowering, nihilism takes away from the adherent consequences for his or her actions both good and bad, and replaces them with naked selfishness. If nothing matters, why bother being good, why not do whatever it takes to get ahead. Nihilists believe we have only one shot in this world and after that we rot in the ground. You can see why nihilism is so popular today since progressive materialists have taken over the education system, and why nihilism creates the steady stream of disasters, terrorism, betrayal and crime we see around us today.

The materialist world view is that the universe is unchanging, always has been and always will be. Human existence is nothing but a mere aberration. Our consciousness is either an emergent phenomenon or illusion as is free will and miracles. To the materialist we are just robots fooled into believing such things as God, mind and purpose. If the materialist is correct, the universe is only what we can see, smell, taste, feel, see and hear, then nihilism and materialism makes perfect sense. But how ignorant is the materialist mindset? Imagine if human beings had no sense of hearing. Add to it that no animal has a sense of hearing either. The concept of sound would be fanciful to us. Even measuring sound would be near impossible. Yet we know that sound does indeed exist. We can “hear” it. If we couldn’t however, the concept of sound would be absurd to a materialist because it could not be sensed, measured or understood.

That our multitude of senses, more than just the five commonly understood, like our sense of time, do not include the ability to sense everything possible, proves that there is more to reality than we can ever know. This alone makes the materialist world view absurd. It presupposes everything is observable with out senses. The inferred existence of dark matter, is but one example of the universe being more than we are able to measure, or even understand. As I wrote about before, the double slit experiment proves that reality has a conscious component to it, whether we want it to or not. Physicists model our universe in mathematics, which shows us there is far more to it than we know, and is much more amazing than we ever imagined.

Yet the nihilistic mindset is pervasive today despite our much improved understanding of the nature of reality. That destructive idea stands in direct contradiction of both science and religion. It denies the spirit, meaning and especially the epi-universal nature of human consciousness. Prayer for example, has been scientifically proven to be as effective as the well known but poorly understood placebo effect… even when the subject of prayer doesn’t know he or she is being prayed for! Our colleges teach nihilism, our culture nurtures it and our governments embrace it, because nihilism makes our sins irrelevant, our good deeds superfluous and our intentions nonsense. The nihilist can murder another with a clean conscious because everything is meaningless, they need not do a good deed, because that deed is no different in nature or quality than a bad turn. Nihilism lifts from the adherent the burden of feeling.

Therefore nihilism allows the government to become oppressive, since oppression is an arbitrary term that in the materialistic universe is meaningless, the nihilist can visit violence on anyone they disagree with, because that violence is no different than peaceful discourse, and hate becomes the primary motivating factor, as it is simply another subjective and irrelevant term such as, love. To the nihilist objective truth is that everything and everyone is meaningless. Playing the “knockout game” for the fun of it is not wrong, since nothing has meaning, running a business into the ground and bankrupting the shareholders and employees is irrelevant, because their feelings are subjective not objective, genocide is perfectly acceptable since people’s lives are pointless. Nihilism allows every sort of sin, and violation imaginable since the universe is purposeless.

The absurd philosophy of optimistic nihilism is a contradiction in both terms and logic. To be optimistic about the irrelevant in a pointless universe is insane. It is unscientific. Optimism is a subjective quality of human existence and presupposes meaning while nihilism denies all meaning. The optimist believes there is good in the universe and reality can manifest goodness if only we embrace it. While the nihilist cannot believe in anything of the sort. Which makes optimistic nihilism a trick, a means to fool the gullible into accepting the materialistic view of reality, and embracing pointlessness as a motivating philosophy. Obviously, in a pointless reality there is no point, and to be optimistic under such circumstances is the act of the unhinged.

The more people embrace the anti scientific, anti religious and anti human philosophy of nihilism, the more horrific our world will get, in every way. Such a negative idea as nihilism is attractive to psychopaths and sociopaths, in fact it is the primary philosophy of people with that anti social disorder. As our society further becomes nihilistic it must therefore become more psychopathic. Nihilism is the id personified. Even in the face of our expanding knowledge that there is far more to reality than we know, or even can know, the nihilist believes himself the only sane one, and nihilism the ultimate in sanity. One must understand however, no one is as certain they are sane… as the insane. Which of course makes nihilism, insanity at best, diabolical at worst.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Path to Slavery

Posted on October 5, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, no wanna be oppressor or slave master, would ever allow their victims or subjects to have weapons to free themselves… that would be just stupid! This is why free men are armed while slaves are not. It is a prerequisite in order to enslave someone that they be disarmed. Notice Switzerland has never been enslaved, they are armed, evil people always look for easy victims, never dangerous ones. On an individual level, a mugger doesn’t look for a kung fu expert to attack, they choose an old woman or a weakling to pick on. If a mugger attacked a man walking three huge dogs, that would certainly result in an emergency room visit, and would clearly be counterproductive. Oppressors and tyrants are no different than common criminals.

Since violence is the language of tyranny and oppression, only those who are disarmed can be oppressed. This has been the paradigm throughout history. The strong pick on the weak, and if the weak become strong, they are no longer picked on. That is common sense. That is why the Arabs enslaved people from sub Saharan Africa and sold them on the world slave market. Those poor people didn’t have guns nor any weapon capable of stopping their enslavement. Their lack of weapons, far from protecting them from violence, only made violence against them and their wives and children certain. Do you suppose sub Saharan Africans would have been enslaved if they had weapons on par with the Arabs? Of course not, the Arab violence would have been met with violence, making the entire enterprise of slavery a null proposition.

This is one of the primary reasons less advanced people always become subjugated, when they meet more advanced people, the difference in weaponry. The Aztecs didn’t have guns nor gun powder and so when they met Cortez, who did, it only took thirty five Spaniards to conquer a nation of millions that had been oppressing their neighbors for centuries. Long before disease devastated the Aztec empire, a few men with guns, backed with a few formerly oppressed people… beat them in the battle for what is now Mexico City. Guns do not create violence, violence is in the hearts of men, guns protect those who seek peace from those who have violence in their hearts. If the Aztecs had guns Cortez’s landing would have come to naught.

A disarmed person is a victim while an armed person is not. Just like a mugger looks for the easy victim the tyrant seeks to make his subjects easy victims to his oppression. Sun Tsu said that the best battle is no battle, the only way for a tyrant to create these conditions is to disarm the people, so they will be easy to oppress. In order to do this the would be oppressor must claim to want peace through disarmament. The same paradigm holds true for war as well. A sly combatant will seek to get his enemy to disarm in the name of peace and once that enemy has voluntarily disarmed, the cunning enemy will then attack.

Far from removing violence from society by disarming the people, a disarmed people will certainly be subjected to violence, violence they have no way of stopping once they are disarmed. Even in Europe today, where the people are disarmed, we see the tentacles of oppression winding into society at every level. The Right to free speech is a joke in Europe where discourse is now illegal. Thought laws are on the books now in the US, Canada and Europe as well as North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and every other place oppression is on the rise. A man without the ability to defend himself must do, act, say and even think as those with guns tell them to, else violent will be used to bring him under control. Where in the history of Mankind has a disarmed people been free? No where and at no time.

All human Rights, true human Rights, depend on the people’s ability to defend those rights from others who have violence in their hearts. Is it unlikely that someone who is willing to do violence to another, to subjugate them, would lie? Of course they would! Only a fool of the highest order would argue otherwise… a fool or a would be oppressor. All human Rights hang on the penultimate Right of self defense. Take away the ability of people to defend themselves, and history is unambiguous about what happens next, the armed will enslave the unarmed. To that end, the diabolical will use every trick in the book to convince those he or she seeks to enslave, we need not fear for our security or liberty. In reality, if someone claims you or I need not fear for our freedom from them, are most assuredly those very people who seek to oppress us! Remember this, a free man is armed, while a slave is not, and the fastest way to slavery is disarmament…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Shocking Nature of Reality.

Posted on October 1, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, considering the results of the double slit experiment, one can only conclude that human consciousness has a direct effect on reality, thus negating the materialistic view of the universe. In the double slit experiment, the experiment that opened up quantum physics, it was discovered and reproduced many times, that a human being knowing a thing changes the very nature of reality. Shocking really, that the simple fact that a conscious mind knowing a thing changes or sets the nature of reality itself. Basically, the experiment proved that until a human being actually observed where a photon landed, it only exists as a probability! Physicists know this, it is not a secret, just look up the double slit experiment anywhere. Not only is everything is only a probability until it is observed by a person, if all knowledge of that measurement is forgot, it returns to a probability!!!! The next time it is measured it might take a different probable existence!

While this is not that hard to understand, it is not taught in schools, I wonder if that isn’t because of the implications. If, as the physicists say, the entire universe only exists as a probability wave function unless observed, only taking form once observed, then human consciousness is intricate to the workings of reality itself, in some ways it causes reality to become real, take form, emerge from probability to reality, etc… Of course consciousness therefore cannot be an emergent phenomenon, since it is a causal one. One implication is that God must in fact exist, maybe that ability of ours to change reality itself just by measuring it, knowing it and thus fixing it, for a time, can only descend from God. On the other hand it disproves the existence of God, because if we can change the fabric of reality itself, doesn’t that imply we ourselves are gods, perhaps with a little g?

Moreover, that human consciousness is able to fix and unfix reality itself, proves unambiguously that the universe, reality, is not materialistic, having always existed exactly as we measure it and will always exist as we have measured it, forever. The double slit experiment proves the unexamined universe is actually a sea of probability. Since it takes a mind, a human mind, to form reality from probability, the nature of the universe cannot be materialistic, ie, unchanging, it must be multi layered, material probability, conscious probability combining to make a spiritual probability. All three interwoven on some deep level of the universe, but once one takes form, the others are forced into reality fully formed, as if they had existed forever.

It solves the question of whether we are machines, angels riding machines or angels. It would seem we are angels riding machines of our own making, even if subconsciously. That our very knowledge of a thing effects that thing’s reality proves, experimentally, our consciousness is in some ways epi universal. Obviously the causal agent is superior to the agent acted upon, ie. only the unmoved can move, Tao De Ching. There is a factor to us then, that is outside and above the reality that we reside, in fact the reality in which we reside is largely a construct of our own making. It is possible that that underlying the waveform of potential, Morphic field as Sheldrake puts it, the Force in Star Wars parlance, Che or perhaps our souls, exists outside and above the physical universe,or is perhaps the structure that the universe molds to?

Some intellectuals are trying to make the case the are living inside a simulation because of the implications of the double slit experiment. This is only materialists trying to justify their blind faith in materialism, in the face of overwhelming experimental empirical and reproducible proof, the universe bends at least to some degree to human consciousness. Since they are zealots in their thinking they claim the universe is a simulation and that we are only programs in that simulation, in other words, our consciousness is an illusion. Yet, if our consciousness is mere illusion, how can it possibly effect reality itself? To answer that the materialist will say, it is part of the simulation, which is begging the question.

The only way to prove beyond any doubt the epi universal quality of consciousness would be to encounter an alien species from another solar system, who had measured reality differently from us. If that turns out to be the case, then what significance would that be, and what implications? One thing is sure, the nature of the universe is far more complex and multi layered than any human being could begin to grasp. While it is too complex to to understand, our very understanding, such as it is, changes reality itself. From the point in time of our measuring reality, it is changed from potential to existance, simply by our thought. So, we, each of us is far more important than we ever realized before, isn’t it time for us to mold reality more to our liking, by being good people, charitable, courteous and hard working, we change reality itself.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Why NFL Players Should Stand for the Anthem.

Posted on September 28, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, our culture is like a house, each part has it’s purpose, The window, the door, the roof, etc… The house, (culture) provides us with many goods like shelter, protection and cover… to burn that culture down, is to deny everyone else the protection, cover and shelter that culture provided, with no benefit in return… and so you could say anyone who seeks such an end is not working for everyone’s good. Now that is a mouthful, isn’t it? What I am speaking to is not just the NFL anthem fiasco, although that is the primary cause of this article, but all the attempts to destroy the Western culture. There are a few concepts here that stand to be explained and I will endeavor to define them in this article.

Our culture is like a house, a house is an edifice that we use to provide us goods. If it didn’t provide any good we would certainly not go to the cost of building and purchasing them, our culture also comes at a high cost in time and energy. Those goods our homes provide are similar to those provided by a culture. The layout of the home provides a structure to our lives as does our culture. We eat in the dining room, cook in the kitchen, relax in the living room and sleep in the bedroom. Windows are like the level of free speech in the culture and doors are the way out if we want. The roof protects us from diversity and the foundation gives our home support to stand. Burn down the house or smash the foundation and the house can no longer provide any of those goods, demolish the culture for some perceived flaw, and it no longer provides the goods it once did, and cannot easily be rebuilt!

Each part has it’s purpose, in a house the parts would be the foundation, windows, doors, walls, etc… in culture there are institutions that take the place of parts, the government, church, clubs, fraternal organizations, schools, etc… each has a purpose. Clubs like the Boy Scouts, to civilize and educate children, so they can be high performers in the society, others to catch those kids who fall through the cracks. Fraternal organizations to raise money for charity and bring human suffering to the eyes of the people. Churches to provide a moral underpinning to society, preventing people’s worst instincts from coming through, and government to provide order. While each in and of itself may not be the paragon of virtue they all are limited from the stock upon which they must recruit. Since people make up every organization there is, we bring our own flaws into them.

The shelter, protection and cover our culture provides us is the structure that we can utilize to meet our needs, the group in which we can melt into, they provide a moral underpinning limiting the effect of evil, allow for advancement, or not, depending on the culture, and in the case of the west a warped form of meritocracy. There is no disputing the results of the market system and the capitalist mindset on the West. The only truly scientific society that has ever existed, and has used the scientific principles discovered in the West, under Christian morality, has propelled the human race into a standard of living that would have been unheard of, even during the height of the Roman empire, by the emperor himself. A toothache could fell an Augustus while even the poorest have access to antibiotics. While our culture is not ideal it has been the most effective culture mankind has ever come up with.

So what if our oppressive, paternalistic, racist, war mongering society collapsed, burned to the ground by ANTIFA, BLM, the KKK, the Neo NAZIs, anarchists and the radical progressives? Because, it would be replaced by a much more paternalistic, far more racist one and would raise oppression to a new acme. Forget about a job, you will be struggling to get food for the day. Hiding your children against cold, hunger, fear, rioters and gangs roaming the streets. Every post apocalyptic movie you have ever seen would be your reality. The old western culture, you know the horrible one that brought us central heat, cell phones, women voting, people of every descent as citizens, relative security and a modicum of wealth, will have been wiped out. We will have gained chaos, suffering and unending oppression, which it could be argued and has, might create supermen… more likely if you ask me, barbarians.

The ripping down begins in subtle ways, a murmur claiming a culture is unjust, our society factionalizing into armed camps, protests against the very culture and foundation itself, erasing history by removing monuments, teaching kids socialism could work while ignoring the lessons of the Twentieth Century… and not standing for the anthem. While a sovereign human being has the sovereign right not to stand, or do back flips at any time, it is the mark of civilization to to control oneself. The lack of which shows the person to be either uncivilized or intent on destroying our culture… a villain. A person could at a business meeting, start doing back flips, now and then upending tables and such, maybe accidentally kicking a secretary in the face. While it would be his right to do that, no business is forced by human rights to commit corporate suicide, nor should the NFL be compelled to self harm by uncivilized at best, villainous players at worst… let alone our culture itself which is the real target.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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How You can be a Superhero!

Posted on September 24, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a lot of people after seeing television shows like, The Defenders, Superman and Batman, as well as movies like Goldfinger and Limitless, would like to fight for goodness and defeat evil, but sadly, they think they themselves lack the superhuman abilities that would allow them to. Of course we all have superhuman abilities, to fight the forces of evil and defend truth, justice and the American way, we just don’t know it. The answer my friends is in the thousands of tiny decisions we make every day. It is in those decisions that we can crush evil and befriend good. Every time you decide not to do a bad thing, whenever you choose to help another, you are the superhero, just as whenever you decide to do a small evil, you become a mini me Dr. No.

Courtesy is one way to fight evil. When you are courteous you not only help the person… you change the world. We all tend to mimic the behavior we see. When we are subjected to courtesy we therefore pass it on, and that courtesy that you display, in a moment without thought, effects people you never see and goes much further than you can imagine. Maybe even stopping someone from domestic violence, since their sense of humanity has been acknowledged, which is often the catalyst for such violence. On the other hand, when you slam the door in someone’s face, they will mimic that behavior as well. Maybe they will go home and yell at their children, slam the door in someone else face… or set a bomb on a train. Simply by being courteous and not rude can you be a force for good.

Trash talking is one way to become a little agent Smith and create other Agent Smiths. When we back stab people we not only damage them but ourselves as well. The damage to the reputation of the target of our vitriol is obvious but the damage to our own reputation is less obvious. Those who hear our diatribes have to worry that we are bad mouthing them when they are not around, and so they see us in a negative light. When we refuse to engage in backstabbing we show that we are above such childish behavior. We become a capacitor for goodness absorbing evil and dissipating it. Obviously gossiping is never beneficial, but it is fun, as evil often is. When we refuse to engage we become super heroes, we might not be able to leap tall buildings, but we are a force for justice.

When you see injustice, it is up to good people to point it out, especially evil masquerading as justice. Edmund Burke once said, The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. That doesn’t mean you have to don a cape and fly over the city looking for injustice, all it means is that when you see it, point it out. Evil is like mold, it grows in the dark and sunlight is deadly to it. Often evil covers itself from the deadly rays of light, by pretending to be goodness, as it did in Burke’s time. It takes discernment however to see evil for what it is. In Burke’s time many people thought the French Revolution would, in fact could only, result in a good outcome. Burke pointed out that it would end in a violent, bloody horror show, as it did. Sadly, often the heroes are called villains and villains are called heroes, usually by those that promote evil. Isn’t it the sign of a champion, one who does what is right, regardless of the slings and arrows?

Being a force for good is easy as pie. It does not take the ability to fly, stop bullets or even telekinesis, it only takes a tiny bit of effort. Our world is the result of trillions of little decisions, made by everyday people, every moment of every day. It is the aggregate of those decisions that make our world a good one or an evil one. You and I have the power to change the world by making right decisions rather than wrong ones. I am sure you can think of many areas in your life, as do I, where we can make a small change that will result in a small good. But that is all it takes! Just make one less bad decision today, and two less bad ones tomorrow, you only need to move the ball a little at a time down the field. It may not seem like you are making a difference, but changing the world is not a matter of defeating SPECTOR but of improving our microscopic corner of it.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Problem of Evil

Posted on September 21, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the problem of evil has been with us since the dawn of time, and many have used it to “prove” God does not exist, or alternatively… he does. The real issue however is not the problem of evil but of oppression. Which makes the real question then, is God a tyrant or a loving parent? If he were a benevolent tyrant, then there would be no evil because he would not tolerate it, if however he is a loving parent, he tolerates evil and when his children skin their knee, he picks them up and comforts them. How is it that if God expunged the universe of evil, would that make him a tyrant, you ask? Simple, to eradicate evil in all it’s forms, God would have to eliminate free will and stop the dynamism of the universe, which only could be done by oppressive means… making God a tyrant.

Autocrats detest free will, well, everyone else free will, not their own. As a result they use draconian means to quash free will, especially where it threatens their agency, but often in a vain attempt to make their country a “better place.” The oppressor sees opportunity in suppressing evil, and in doing so he foists evil on his people. But God would do it so we would like it… some might argue. To that I ask, when and where has tyranny and oppression ever been good? Moreover, those who seek to be cradled from all life’s ills by a benevolent tyrannical God, always seem to favor unlimited government, carrying their need to be coddled from the supernatural to the mundane.

Without free will we would be mere automatons, acting as we are programmed and capable of nothing else. You cannot have it both ways. Remove free will and you have taken away our creativity, our genius, our individuality and everything that makes us human beings. A robot suffers no pain, never feels a loss, cannot create a symphony or write a novel… would you have a good God turn us into robots? Sure we would feel no pain, would never suffer, couldn’t feel pain or even die, but at what cost? We wouldn’t be able to do any of the things that makes us uniquely human. That humanity, creativity and genius come at cost is no great detractor. If you think about it, everything comes at cost, nothing is free and everything worth having requires effort. Would the anti deist take that away from us as well?

The problem of natural disasters is the fall back position of those who would have God turn us into mechanical men. Sure, after a hurricane like Harvey, automatons would be programmed to help each other, but they wouldn’t do it out of a sense of compassion, no they would do it because they are programmed to! Natural disasters bring out both the best and worst of humanity. People selflessly wading through toxic alligator filled water… to save a cat! How is that not saintly? It is the very natural disasters that give free will meaning and shows the value of free will, in and of itself. While suffering is the natural state whenever the universe is dynamic, it is our reaction to them that shows what we are made of, and who we really are.

Think about what makes a parent a good parent. Is the parent who sends their child to school in a football helmet, so they don’t bump their little head, a good parent or a bad one? What about the parent who refuses to allow their child to learn to ride a bicycle, drive a car or go to the store? If a child is to grow into a functioning adult, he or she must bump their head, skin their knee and risk a car crash. All of which grows us as human beings. To protect a child at the expense of that child’s maturity, is to stultify that child, and we as human beings are no different. Without risk, free will and the lessons we learn from them we would be crippled as human beings.

Lastly you have to look at it from God’s perspective. If you were God and knew, really knew, that those who deserve it will go to heaven and live eternally in joy, death is no penalty, but a reward. Moreover, how would someone who has never suffered know joy? Without context, what is hot without cold, what is light without darkness and what is good without bad? Mere arbitrary words in a dictionary, words without meaning or substance. Like Einstein said, everything is relative, an hour on a park bench holding the hand of a lover seems like a second, and a second on a hot stove seems like eternity. It is in context that we understand arbitrary concepts, such as good and evil, and without context heaven would be as mundane as washing the dishes.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Post Modernism is Diabolic

Posted on September 17, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… Post modernist philosophy is as irrational as it is diabolic. To believe in post modernism one must deny science, mathematics, and even reality itself. The fundamental thesis of post modernism is that there are no absolute truths, and so they claim a man is not a man, a woman is not a woman and up is down. The philosophy leads to any number of absurdities. Post modernism is a spurious philosophy. A spurious argument is one that sounds logical but is indeed based on a fallacy and is intended to manipulate, a spurious philosophy is also based on a logical fallacy, and is intended to misdirect people from the real truth. I will explain here why it is based on fallacious notion, leaving it up to you to decide whether it is intended to fool us.

If there is no such thing as truth, then science, which is based on the idea that the the fundamental truths of the natural world can be understood through the scientific method… ie, theory tested by experimentation, leading to an examination of the empirical evidence that substantiates the theory, or not. If there are no fundamental truths then science is bollix. Either post modernism is illogical or science is. Since the two ideas are diametrically opposed one has to believe one or the other. So is science illogical or is post modernism? Mathematics is also based on the theory there are fundamental truths in numbers. Mathematics states that two plus two equals four, but if there are no fundamental truths, then two plus two could equal five, one or twenty five million. Either post modernism is correct in stating there are no truths or mathematics is correct in stating there are fundamental truths. Both cannot be correct. Therefore either post modernism is irrational or mathematics is irrational.

Medicine is based on finding truths about how the human body works. If there are no truths, then a post modernist must believe that a witch doctor dancing around dressed in feathers and his face painted white, shaking a severed chicken leg over a patient is equally as effective a treatment as penicillin for strep throat, an ear infection or staph. I wonder, how many professors who absolutely believe in post modernism would go to a witch doctor to treat their syphilis? If they actually believe there are no truths then both options are equally valid. Moreover, by going to an oppressed witch doctor, they are showing their solidarity with the oppressed, and virtue signaling their open mindedness. It could be argued then, that those who avow a belief in post modernism, would have to go to a witch doctor to be treated for cancer rather than an oncologist, who subscribes to the patriarchal hegemony.

Perhaps this is why post modernists deny gender. I wonder, is a dog with a penis a male, or something else? What about a cat with a vagina and mammary glands, is that animal a female, or something else? If post modernists are correct then planes should fall from the sky since the science of aviation is based on fundamental truths of fluid dynamics. I cannot understand why a post modernist would put money in a bank, since their philosophy denies mathematics, it would seem a fools errand if there are no fundamental truths in numbers, their account could drop to zero simply because they made a deposit. Yet many people our society considers well educated, have convinced themselves of the fundamental ideology of post modernism, and by doing so must then deny science, medicine and mathematics. One can only conclude that post modernists are insane or diabolical.

Post modernism in truth denies reality itself. It is like a fantasy, where flights of the absurd are commonplace, up is down and down is up. The post modernists have embraced the ethos of good being evil and evil being good. The poster child for the philosophy of post modernism, is none other than George Orwell’s dystopian novel, his book 1984. In it he parrots post modernists by saying, war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength, or are post modernists parroting Orwell? Reality cannot be denied any length of time before there are terrible consequences for the deniers. I have to wonder aloud however, in a world where reality is attacked and fantasy is embraced… how long before reality fights back with a vengeance? Moreover… who’s interests are served?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Atheism and Morality

Posted on September 14, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the argument that atheists always fall back on, “I am a good person and I don’t believe in God…” presumes human nature to be saintly, when the direct opposite is true. Philosophers from Hsun Ching to the Victorian era came to the same conclusion, that the congenital nature of human beings is evil and the good in us is a learned trait. Others have believed that we are innately good, and before to be evil takes an outside force, Mohamed and Mencius are examples. Any rational glance at the nature of humanity however shows unequivocal that we, you and I, are evil at heart and civilization in us is taught. Moreover, the fundamental role of religion, not all but most, is to create a foundation upon which civilization can exist. Without that grounding, civilization itself must crumble, like a building with it’s foundation removed.

Take the spoiled child. He or she is anything but civilized. They are all ego and lack empathy. The spoiled child is a terror to be around, they speak out of turn, are violent, brutish, offensive and often friendless. No one wants to be around them. That missing civilization in them, (poor socialization), doesn’t serve them well, in fact a spoiled child typically has a very hard time being a productive member of society. Their antisocial tendencies alienates them from others, potential friends, bosses, coworkers and society at large. A culture of spoiled people, children in all but name, would not produce enough food to eat, let alone a scientific method. Clearly the path to barbarism then is to remove the socialization from the people. Some might argue, atheism is not the same as a spoiled child, which at first glance might seem true, but after a little bit of reflection is clearly spurious, because atheism is all about spoiled children. The atheist doesn’t want any limitations, just as a spoiled child shrugs off responsibility and limitations… and religion imposes responsibility and limitations.

Why would people be moral if not for the foundation of morality taught in most religions? Why self sacrifice, why play by the rules and why not just take what you want from someone weaker? Like a spoiled child. I am reminded of the Gaul King who when asked by the Roman, “By what right do you attack this city?” and answered, “By natural right, that the strong must take from the weak so the weak will perish and the strong may live.” Nietzsche had much the same philosophy, that each person create their own morality, and what is the logical end of such a philosophy? Anarchy. As a philosopher once said, life under anarchy is short, violent and brutish. Remove the civilizing impulse that religion gives, and you remove civilization itself, and all the goods that come of it as well.

Some atheists argue people will become civilized as a result of rational thought. They might recon that people would self control and become self interested rightly understood, as Tocqueville said, but to come to such a conclusion, one must not have read Tocqueville because he said America is good because her people are good, if the people cease to be good, America will cease to be good. He also laid the credit for the innate goodness in the American people of the time to our Christian foundation. It was the morality that Christianity teaches that allows people to be self interested rightly understood, not some innate rational conclusion. It is perfectly rational to rob a bank in the absence of law, and moral not to, in that same absence.

Moreover, history is unambiguous, those nations that have embraced atheism as a philosophy, namely socialist experiments, have all been catastrophes. From the French Revolution that ended in the mass slaughter of human beings, to Pol Pot’s Cambodia, where little girls went down rows of middle aged men tied up, placing a plastic bag over each head until the man stopped struggling for air, atheist nations have been the focus of evil in the modern world. The crimes against humanity by atheists, like Hitler, were and always will be industrial in nature, effect and quality.

While religion has been perverted to justify crimes, those crimes were in opposition to the actual teaching of most religions. Imagine Jesus Christ’s revulsion to the slaughter of people in his name, you suppose Buddha wanted people harmed in his name, the fundamental conflict in the Bagavaad Gita was not the war, but Arjuna’s inner moral battle about the killing. No matter what you think of Christianity and Christians, Christ is and can only be described as a good man, and his teachings, do unto others, turn the other cheek, love thy enemies, love thy neighbors, let he who is without sin cast the first stone, etc… prove that. Crimes against humanity done in Christ’s name, Lao Tzu, Confucius or Buddha, is spitting in their faces.

One thing most atheists have in common is their love of tyranny. They shirk the limitations of morality and therefore must impose limitation through oppression. They judge others by themselves, and seeing themselves wanting, assume everyone else is as empty inside as they. Of course not all atheists are evil, most consider themselves to be good people, and many are. That is not because of some innate morality they carry, but is the result of the morality they were taught as children, often Christian morality, the very morality they so despise. They even judge goodness by the template of Jesus’ teachings. Remove the foundation, and you destroy the edifice, demolish the structure and it can no longer provide shelter. We can become spoiled children or civilized adults, but remember this, spoiled children cannot create civilization, only civilized people can do that.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Preparedness

Posted on September 9, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… it is better to be prepared than to be ready to act. No matter how fast on your feet you might be, catastrophe often is sudden and unexpected, as it was during hurricane Harvey. When disaster comes, those who are the most likely to come out on top are not the strongest, smartest nor the fastest, but the most prepared, the wisest. Preparation need not cost much either, what does a few cases of water and some canned food stashed in the basement cost? Nor is preparedness difficult, how hard is it to learn to shoot a gun? Many of us think that a disaster only happens other places, the coast, near volcanoes or just to other people. The truth however is that a catastrophe can happen anywhere at any time and need not be local. Isn’t it better then to prepare and watch everyone else working hard, running fast and struggling to get a meager case of water? Moreover, those who prepare are a godsend to those who haven’t after a calamity.

Since the Solar eclipse, there has been a steady stream of cataclysms, from Harvey inundating Houston and the solar flare threatening our electronic infrastructure, to Irma flattening Caribbean Islands and now aiming it’s wrath at Florida, so it should be obvious to everyone that we are all susceptible to natural and man made disasters. There is not a place on Earth that is not occasionally subject to some type of catastrophe, whether it be flooding, hurricane, earthquakes, volcanoes, blizzards, tsunamis and even the long tailed events like meteor strikes, solar EMPs and super volcanoes. We live on a dynamic, ever changing planet and as such, only the Pollianish believe they are immune.

The first part of preparation should be to choose a home that is not in a flood plain, next to a smoldering volcano, on a coast subject to regular tsunamis or on an earthquake fault. Amazingly, these are the exact places where real estate is the most expensive! Everyone wants to live by the ocean, on flat land and with an astounding view of Mount Saint Helens. Of course, these are the very places where preparation is the most important, because they are the very places where you are certain to experience a disaster. Since no amount of preparation can save you if your home is covered in fifty feet of red hot ash, ten feet underwater or flattened in a hurricane, all of us should have a plan to flee if we are forced to. Those who rely on the government in case of a disaster are the ones who experience the worse results. Look at all the people who fled to the Superdome during Katrina. Do you want your family to end up in a FEMA camp?

While no amount of preparation could have saved you if you lived in Pompeii or Herculaneum, sometimes the only answer is to flee, but even then a well thought out plan of action in such an event, is much better than running screaming, with your arms in the air as the pyroclastic cloud races toward you and your family, at sixty miles an hour. You are not going to outrun that! On the plus side, maybe in a few thousand years some archaeologist will fill the void left by your rotted corpse with plaster, and make a grotesque statue of your last moments. Thin comfort that. There is more to fleeing than running helter skelter. You have to think long and hard beforehand, where will I go, what will I bring, how will I get there and have a backup plan if any of these scenarios become unworkable.

Those who survive, are most likely the ones who have thought out a plan, prepared and acted on that plan. Driving down a road that has become a raging river to escape a flood is never the best option. With all the disasters we have seen recently, do you want to be the guy on the evening news stranded in his Suburban in the middle of a torrent, begging the news camera for help? Do you think that guy thought it out? Be the person who thinks it out, build or buy where catastrophes are less likely, have water sources not dependent on the local infrastructure if possible, have food and water stored and have a plan of escape. You are not immune nor are you too important to face death by disaster. Imagine how terrible it would be, to loose a beloved child or even dog to a cataclysm, when it could have been avoided by burning a few calories beforehand, thinking about what you would do? Be safe, be a blessing to those who haven’t planned… and God bless.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Weakness of Regulation as a Means to Solve Problems

Posted on September 6, 2017 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, that which is set by culture, should be changed by culture and not legislation. Today the elite have the opposite idea. They believe government legislation can right all wrongs. That is partially why we see so much regulation. Nearly every aspect of human existence is regulated by some arcane government rule. This mindset has pervaded the people, to the extent most just accept regulation as the solution to all ills, at face value. Despite decades of examples that prove regulation only makes problems worse, and examples that the culture can do miracles, people still believe the fiction. The government monopoly school system is largely to blame for this. Look at the different results of the “war on drugs,” and the anti cigarette campaigns.

In the 1950s, almost everyone smoked and very few took drugs. Rod Serling, the creator of the Twilight Zone, smoked a cigarette while introducing his show. In old episodes of Rockford Files from the 1970s people would light up a cigarette in someone’s home without even asking if it is okay. Cigarettes were far more acceptable and embedded in our culture than drugs have ever been. Yet today cigarette smoking has seen a dramatic decrease while the scourge of drugs has become an epidemic. The one, cigarettes, was controlled by culture while the other, drugs, has been controlled by regulation. In and of itself, showing at least anecdotally that regulation makes problems worse, while changing the culture can make things better.

Not all cultural changes are positive though. While the cultural elite were very nearly unanimous that cigarette use should be curtailed, they also promoted drug use and the drug culture. Drugs were depicted to be cool while cigarettes were shown to be disgusting. As the people, and especially children who are far more susceptible to propaganda, became immersed in the pro drug / anti cigarette cultures, the use of cigarettes declined rapidly, despite their being legal, while drug use expanded dramatically, eve though drugs are illegal. Knowing this it is hard to deny the cultural elite have more power to change people’s perceptions than any amount of regulation, no matter how draconian.

Any time I suggest to a progressive that regulations should be dialed way back they always come up with the excuse, what about drugs, corporate malfeasance, toxic waste dumps and the children? Then they sit back with a smug grin that they have caught me. Of course the easy answer is the cultural difference between cigarettes and drugs but one can think much deeper than that. The culture of our corporations is that of the new class and was transmitted to them by our universities. It is a toxic culture of the ends justifying the means, of class separation, and of elitism. How many times have you heard the term, “flyover country?” That epitomizes the culture of the new class, namely they believe themselves to be the smartest, wisest and most concerned people, while the rest of us hoi polloi are miscreants in dire need of being put in our place. In short, the problems they exclaim can only be solved by regulation, are created by culture, and will only be made worse by regulation.

It is attractive though, the idea that any problem can be solved by government regulation and spending. When I was in the first grade, there was a publication disseminated to the schools. In one edition there was a story how Nixon was coming to terms with democrats about spending. The article said, democrats believe that almost any problem can be solved if only you spend enough, while republicans believe spending cannot solve every problem. In my six year old first grade mind, I thought to myself, “Of course! If you spend enough any problem can be solved!” Regulation is the same, it is mentally lazy to think that any problem can be solved by regulation as well. But I ask you, can we spend enough to stop a hurricane, what about regulating racism away, is it possible to solve hunger by regulation or spending for that matter? The easy answer is yes, the correct one is a resounding, no!

So here we are, with problems galore and multiplying exponentially, seemingly all are intractable. The scourge of drugs is at an all time high despite the war on drugs, corporations are off the rails as far as corruption goes, we have political violence on our streets not seen since NAZI Germany, our politicians don’t care about Constitutional limitations or our nation’s good, immigration is impoverishing entire nations and gun crime is out of control, in the very places with the toughest laws against guns. Regulation has not solved any problem, anywhere at anytime, yet it is always the fall back position. Meanwhile we have definitive proof that changing the culture can actually solve our problems. If we truly want to solve our most intractable problems, then all we need do is look at the template of the anti cigarette campaigns, and simply change the culture. Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, by that standard our culture, government and indeed the people themselves are insane.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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