Jason Rennie and I produced a special episode of AGAIINST THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, called Trumpamania, where we discuss the election results, and speak of some reforms and crusades Trump promises to begin
We went live two days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_eW0jw2d4
YouTube censored the episode, quoting “medical misinformation”
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After a long pause, my “Not Tire of Winning Yet” series of columns will resume. Already I am backlogged, and cannot keep up. Many events are unfolded as second-order side effects showing a seismic shift in the political and social atmosphere.
It may be premature to say that Woke is dead, but it may not be. Woke has been struck a doughty blow and deep. The monster staggers and sways, gargling blood, eyes crossed, claws twitching and feet twisting. Let us see whether it falls.
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Three days since Donald Trump’s historic landslide:
Pundit Matt Walsh explains the results of the election to any Democrat women who may be nervous. There is nothing to fret about!
Donald J Trump has been elevated to the purple by the prince-electors at Aachen, and coronated in Rome by the Pope, so that he is now Imperator of the Holy Roman Empire, and of the Empire of Man, Rex Quondam Rexque Futurum.
All Glory to God and to his anointed!
The Tribune Assembly of the Commoners in America, who retain a quaint custom of confirming the Electoral determination by local ballot, have also granted His Imperial Majesty the Mandate of the Commons.
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From THE PHOENIX EXULTANT, vol. II of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, where men are as gods, living lives of perfect peace and prosperity, Phaethon of Rhadamanthus discovers all memory of his lifework has been hidden from him. For he is the engineer of the sole starship his civilization has ever produced: the mighty, majestic, and immense Phoenix Exultant. She is a ship to conquer the stars.
But such ambition is outlawed in utopia. Phaethon is a pariah, exiled mentally and physically, denuded of possessions, and cast down among outcasts. His life is sought by sinister agents of the Silent Oecumene: an apocalyptic menace none but he dares see. For in a world where mind or memory can be edited at will, what is truth?
The Phoenix Exultant Ep. 33: Harrier
Our own VicRuiz writes:
I have heard fine-tuning advocates argue that a physical universe would be impossible for which (for example) the gravitational constant was not identical or near-identical to the extant value we observe. Therefore our universe bespeaks creation by someone or something capable of selecting that value.
This causes me to consider that something vaguely analogical to the Euthypro dilemma could be in play.
Is God constrained by the value of G if his intent is to create a universe with living, corporeal beings?
If yes, then God’s choice is limited by something beyond God’s control.
If no, then that phrasing of the fine-tuning argument does not seem particularly strong.
My comment:
Your thoughts run parallel with mine. When I was an atheist, the fine tuning argument did not strike me as particularly strong, nor now when I am faithful Catholic.
The Fine Tuning argument makes the informal fallacy of ambiguity, using the word “impossible” both to mean logically impossible and statistically impossible.
The Fine Tuning argument also makes the formal fallacy of irrelevance. The conclusion that if an event is unlikely, therefore it is deliberate, does not follow. If an event is unlikely, all that means is that it is unlikely.
If we compare it to other events that happened under similar circumstances then we can determine the unlikelihood, and this indeed can rouse our suspicion that the matter was deliberate, but it does not prove it so.
And these suspicions can only land in cases where we see parallel cases.
If I live in a world where monsters rarely eat cookies and children often do, and I enter the kitchen to find the cookie jar raided and junior with crumbs on his cheeks, practical wisdom tells me to disbelieve his tale that a monster ate the cookie and slapped his face.
If, on the other hand, I live on Sesame Street, and the only cookies I ever saw eaten were by a cookie monster, and no good little boy nor girl ever tells a fib, my wisdom would urge the opposite conclusion.
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A reader with the royal yet Caledonian name of Kingmcdee writes:
Just today I witnessed an atheist in Youtube comments … Responding to someone talking about fine-tuning, he asserted that no God was necessary to explain the unlikely course of events on Earth, because there existed Natural Laws which guaranteed that evolution would produce the results that it did.
Apparently he was not aware that Natural Laws are immaterial, eternal, unchangeable, and everywhere applicable – something that no physical thing could ever be.
So, he either believed that the Universe was ordered by immaterial and universal principles (a strange form of atheism indeed), or that the order of the Universe simply needed no explanation (hardly very rational).
My comment:
Allow me respectfully to disagree in part, and agree in part.
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From THE PHOENIX EXULTANT, vol. II of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, where men are as gods, living lives of perfect peace and prosperity, Phaethon of Rhadamanthus discovers all memory of his lifework has been hidden from him. For he is the engineer of the sole starship his civilization has ever produced: the mighty, majestic, and immense Phoenix Exultant. She is a ship to conquer the stars.
But such ambition is outlawed in utopia. Phaethon is a pariah, exiled mentally and physically, denuded of possessions, and cast down among outcasts. His life is sought by sinister agents of the Silent Oecumene: an apocalyptic menace none but he dares see. For in a world where mind or memory can be edited at will, what is truth?
The Phoenix Exultant Ep. 32: At Dawn
Letter from my old boss, Mr. Macris, that I wanted to share:
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Now, you might be saying: “Alex, in just a week we’re having an important Presidential election — there’s war in Europe, war in tthe Middle East, war everywhere — UFO activity is at an all-time high — everyone’s attention is focused elsewhere! Good God, man, how could you launch an incredible RPG sourcebook with over 1,000 magic items at a time like this?”
But friends, there is no better time!
I must capture value now, while the dollar still has worth, while the advanced infrastructure for digital fulfillment remains intact, while the global trade routes still allow me to source art from around the world!
It is entirely possible that in four days, or four weeks, or four months, that ravening hordes of hungry ex-journalists displaced by AI, or angry voters who mistake my white house for the White House, or malicious extraterrestrial invaders who have come to abduct my wife and dog, will descend upon my household.
Imagine the loss to the RPG industry if, as I am felled in a rising tide of violence that shakes the nation to its core, or an alien invasion, or a nuclear strike by China, I had left this sourcebook unreleased? Knowing that my imperishable fame as a game designer did not reach the pinnacle it would have if only I had dared to launch now?
You see, then, that I have no choice.
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A wise and otherwise insightful political commentator was a lamenting the downfall of the Isle of Britain to the paynym savages, Moors, and Mohammadins, Communists and Jacobins currently overwhelming and dismantling that most august cradle of Western Liberty and rule of law, home of Milton and Shakespeare and Blackstone. He knew something was wrong, but could not put his finger on the source. He thought that it might be indeed the idolization and the glorification of science and reason in the modern era. He seemed not to realize that communism is a religion that speaks in the name of science and reason even while destroying science and reason. See Leninism or Lysenkoism for details.
Science and reason are useful tools when properly subordinated to Christian metaphysics. However making science into an idol, worshiping science, both destroys science and destroys worship.
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Reprinted from Voice of Sanity (https://x.com/HouseofElon)
Voice of Sanity reviews the resume of Kamala Harris as any employer would do — for what is a voter aside from the employer of a public servant? — and marked what stands out as a red flag. see below.
CV for Kamala Harris – Sources linked & within below.
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Here are two or three more musical numbers I’d like to share with my readers, which I post this time for the sheer joy and bemusement of the music, without any social or political commentary. Enjoy.
Girl Hunt from The Bandwagon(1953).
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From THE PHOENIX EXULTANT, vol. II of my debut trilogy.
In the far future, where men are as gods, living lives of perfect peace and prosperity, Phaethon of Rhadamanthus discovers all memory of his lifework has been hidden from him. For he is the engineer of the sole starship his civilization has ever produced: the mighty, majestic, and immense Phoenix Exultant. She is a ship to conquer the stars.
But such ambition is outlawed in utopia. Phaethon is a pariah, exiled mentally and physically, denuded of possessions, and cast down among outcasts. His life is sought by sinister agents of the Silent Oecumene: an apocalyptic menace none but he dares see. For in a world where mind or memory can be edited at will, what is truth?
The Phoenix Exultant Ep. 31: The Emergency Persona
Musical numbers from an earlier generation are entertaining and instructive.
Pass That Peacepipe (1947)
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