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Hail Hitchens!

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:42:30 +0100

Christopher Hitchens was a tart-tongued speaker and perceptive journalist whose secular classic GOD IS NOT GREAT will stand as inspiration for generations of faith-free people. He lived fully and thought deeply — an exemplar for fellow individualists. He will be remembered.

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Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:07:39 +0100

iwdrm: “She’s young, she’s in high school, she’s sexually...

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:50:13 +0200

iwdrm:

“She’s young, she’s in high school, she’s sexually active, she’s taking drugs, she’s crying out for help. … Well damn Cooper, that really narrows it down, you’re talking about half the high school girls in America!”

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:44:28 +0200

““When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.””

- Friedrich Nietzsche

saffronandceladon: “Chaos reigns.”

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:15:52 +0200

saffronandceladon:

“Chaos reigns.”

theholyprepuce: “Blood Ties” (Wiezy krwi) Katarzyna Kozyra -...

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:40 +0200

theholyprepuce:

“Blood Ties” (Wiezy krwi)

Katarzyna Kozyra - 1995

The first version of the Blood Ties photograph was presented in 1995 in response to the war between Christians and Muslims in Bosnia.

Four years later, Blood Ties 2 was created in response to the war between Christians and Muslims in Kosovo. The intention was to bring into focus the violence and suffering inflicted on women by the clashing religions.

Each of the panels features a naked woman – the artist herself and her disabled sister (with an amputated leg) – on the backdrop of a red cross or crescent surrounded in two panels by cabbages and cauliflowers. The women themselves are posed to appear as casualties, connoting surrender, fear, vulnerability and hurt; an impression underscored by the non-commercial realistic nudity of the female body and the disability of one of the sisters.

Blood Ties 2 was to be exhibited as public art on 400 municipal billboards in the major towns of Poland as part of an outdoor gallery project.

The Catholic Church protested the blasphemy and allegedly unholy usage of religious symbols. They interpreted the women as menacing and not as victims.

Only the bottom two panels were eventually allowed to be displayed on a few billboards, but the pictures had to be modified so that the cross and the crescent became indecipherable. The antiwar message was consequently lost.

Concealment of the billboards was a benchmark example of stifling public debate of women’s rights in the context of religious claims. It was the first post-communist example of religious norms with heavy-handed pretensions to universality, taking precedence over the civil rights and autonomy of individual citizens.

priment: Shutter Island

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:55:46 +0200

priment:

Shutter Island

kevinislaughter: A short video about my business cards.Shot on...

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:38:32 +0200

kevinislaughter:

A short video about my business cards.
Shot on a Panasonic Lumix GH2 with a 20 mm - F/1.7 lens, voice over recorded with a Samson C01U.

"Corruptio optimi pessima: no greater cruelty will be devised than by those who are sure, or are..."

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:34:04 +0200

“Corruptio optimi pessima: no greater cruelty will be devised than by those who are sure, or are assured, that they are doing good.”

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How one becomes what one is

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:35:19 +0200

I never had a TV when I was young. While my friends used to spend hours and hours watching He-Man or soap operas, I used to read newspapers and books. Lots of them. The classics. The best-sellers. The philosophical treatises. The forbidden (including many books about the ‘occult’, a subject which fascinated me for a long time). I also used to go through my father’s classical music collection quite a lot; he never liked modern music of any kind. I did not listen to pop, I listened to Rimsky-Korsakov. My image of a star was Herbert von Karajan, not Michael Jackson. My obsessive reading made me a copywriter — and a good one at that. This is how it all started: from books and newspapers, consumed voraciously, day after day, throughout my teen years. I would not be what I am today if I had owned a TV set.

Even though I did not have a telly, I had access to computers and technology in general quite early. My father was one of the early adopters of the internet. In the beginning of 1994 we got our first dial-up access to the web, after a few years playing with the local BBS. Not only a huge amount of digital data became available, but new means of acquiring books became accessible — namely Amazon. From 1994 onwards I was able to easily get books in English, a new language, a new challenge and a new universe of information.

Apart from becoming an ad copywriter (or a Madman, to use the term popularized by — oh the irony —, a TV series), I decided to study History, receiving my first degree in 1995. A few years later I completed a postgraduate course in communication theory and journalism. All subjects related to my years spent gathering information.

Anyway, this is the story of my first intellectual endeavours. This is why I am more intelligent than the average John Doe. People don’t like to brag about their own intelligence because they are mediocre themselves — or they are conditioned to accept their fellow humans without criticism (the hypocrisy of egalitarianism, particularly strong in the Scandinavian lands). It’s comfortable to be ordinary, to be stupid, to behave exactly like your neighbour. Fortunately I can dismiss this kind of comfort. I’d rather be a black sheep than a role model in any given society.

Insulting religion (by patcondell)

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:58:50 +0200

Insulting religion (by patcondell)

Not surprising at all. Religion poisons everything, including...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:24:40 +0200

Not surprising at all. Religion poisons everything, including one’s sexual life.

theholyprepuce:

The nun who ate the Holy Foreskin of Jesus (SRSLY)

The Austrian nun Agnes Blannbekin joined the Third Order of Saint Francis in Vienna in 1260 and for the rest of her life refused to eat meat, claiming the body of Christ was enough meat for her. She wasn’t joking!

She claimed to taste Christ while eating the Eucharist and described drinking a “refreshing spiritual drink” from the spear wound of Jesus. She would have orgasms whenever Jesus appeared to her (see more about this here).

She was obsessed with the Holy Prepuce and claimed to have felt the foreskin of Jesus in her mouth.

Her visions were transcribed by a Franciscan monk and he records: “Crying and with compassion, she began to think about the foreskin of Christ, where it may be located [after the Resurrection].

And behold, soon she felt with the greatest sweetness on her tongue a little piece of skin alike the skin in an egg, which she swallowed.

After she had swallowed it, she again felt the little skin on her tongue with sweetness as before, and again she swallowed it.

And this happened to her about a hundred times. And when she felt it so frequently, she was tempted to touch it with her finger.

And when she wanted to do so, that little skin went down her throat on its own. And it was told to her that the foreskin was resurrected with the Lord on the day of resurrection.

And so great was the sweetness of tasting that little skin that she felt in all [her] limbs and parts of the limbs a sweet transformation.”

Saint Bridget of Sweden also tasted Jesus’s foreskin and claimed that it was as sweet as honey…. but more about her in a later post.

Artist: Milo Manara

theholyprepuce: If someone sets off a nuclear device in a large...

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:59:08 +0200

theholyprepuce:

If someone sets off a nuclear device in a large city — New York, London, Tel Aviv — it’s not going to be a terrorist cell from Disney or Budget Rent-a-Car. It will be a religious nut.

Eating the evolutionary way

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:49:00 +0200

I lost almost 13 kg in less than 2 months eating exclusively meat and animal fat. The caveman diet is literally bloody brilliant. Grains and legumes make you lazy, fluffy and give you a bunch of nasty diseases like diabetes. Human beings are evolutionary programmed to eat meat, not the other way around. Hunter-gatherers ate basically meat, eggs and (a few) wild plants for 2 million years. Grains and legumes entered human nutrition only 10,000 years ago, which is nothing in evolutionary terms. We are mainly carnivore and the health benefits of a carnivore diet are self-evident. Being a Darwinian means being an animal eater. The truth is, vegetarians — and especially vegans — suck dinosaur balls with their pseudo-science, hippie attitude and good-guy badges.

eccentricoddities: The Godfather (1972)

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:33:37 +0200

eccentricoddities:

The Godfather (1972)

Pat Condell nails it again. Another honest man.

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:23:00 +0200

Pat Condell nails it again. Another honest man.

"Progressives claim to adamantly support women’s rights and gay rights, but they don’t flinch at the..."

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:51:00 +0200

“Progressives claim to adamantly support women’s rights and gay rights, but they don’t flinch at the hijabs and honor killings and clitoridectomies and public stonings for sodomy. They see no irony in the fact that a push for ‘freedom’ is being assayed by fanatical adherents of a religion whose very name means ‘submission’. They don’t point out the fact that the Islamic definition of ‘equality’ excludes all non-Muslims and even female Muslims, who by definition can’t belong to a ‘Brotherhood’.”

- Jim Goad is a honest man. I admire honest people.

The wisdom of chaplain Katz

Mon, 30 May 2011 20:26:00 +0200

The following is an extract of Jaroslav Hašek’s masterpiece, The Good Soldier Švejk, published in English by Penguin Books.

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Blinking his eyes he [the pious catechist] asked Katz: ‘Don’t you believe in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary? Don’t you believe that the thumb of St John the Baptist, which is preserved in the Piarists’ monastery, is genuine? Do you believe in the Lord at all? And if you don’t, why are you a chaplain?’

‘My dear colleague,’ answered Katz, patting him familiarly on the back, ‘until the state recognizes that soldiers who are going to their death at the front don’t need the blessing of God for it, the chaplaincy remains a decently paid profession, where a chap isn’t overworked. It was better for me than running about on the drill-ground and going on manoeuvres. Then I used to get orders from my superiors but now I do what I like. I represent someone who doesn’t exist and myself play the part of God. If I don’t want to absolve anybody’s sins then I don’t, even if they beg me on their bended knees. But you’d find bloody few people nowadays who’d go that far.’

(…)

Finally they put him [the pious and now drunk catechist] to bed. Before he fell asleep he proclaimed, raising his right hand in a solemn oath: ‘I believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Bring me the breviary.’

Švejk put into his hand a book which was lying on the night table. The pious catechist then fell asleep with Boccaccio’s Decameron in his hand.

terramalus: “The Ascension of the Ego From Ecstasy to Ecstasy,”...

Sun, 29 May 2011 21:47:08 +0200

terramalus:

“The Ascension of the Ego From Ecstasy to Ecstasy,” Austin Osman Spare, 1910.

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My future tattoo.