everything is cults

This. I grew up reading Schaeffer (certainly not the wide-eyed radical by that scene’s standards) literally lay out the rationale for overthrowing the government on moral/religious grounds, and the prolife movement openly debated the morality of targeted assassinations for decades.

Every decade or so the URCNA has had to make its members repudiate the Rushdoony/Doug Wilson "we have to remake the government in the vision of Old Testament" law stuff, so you know it smells crazy in there

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character(s). Wrong answers only.

The WHCD gunman went to Caltech, so it's inevitable that the "staged shooting" conspiracy theory and the "missing scientists" conspiracy theory are going to link up.

Begging, screaming, throwing up

This is why you should try my strategy, never getting reposted

Art by the Brothers Hildebrandt for Tolkien calendars 1977-79

1. This History Thread is about the mountains of Burma (Myanmar.) The distinctive terrain has formed borders & provided population enclaves with safe havens & means of resistance. Mountains may be sacred. Or despoiled by mineral & timber exploitation. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌄

Charles Vess, 1994

Gwen Danielson, who lived with Ziz (of Zizians fame) during the Rationalist Fleet days and left the group shortly before the killings started, has made a blog post. Tl,dr: "My understanding of Ziz's beliefs...contradict with the deaths that actually happened." www.lesswrong.com/posts/mbrmZm...

Frank Kelly Freas, “Saved by the Future,” 1975

For some people the Satanic Panic never ended.

Too late

this is a total tangent but rewatched Ferris Bueller the other day and was thinking about how it's a heist movie, they're stealing time and actually adulthood/respect/responsibility from a school/system that wastes their time and infantilizes them

Susan Entwistle. The Garden Path. #Acrylics #Pointillism

Art by Rodney Matthews ‘The Rainbow Room’ (1993)

Oh, it's literally called Everyman (1984) by Vallejo.

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

We inoculated one of our garden beds with winecap mushroom spores two years ago. We got nothing. Last year a few popped up near the bed. Last week dozens of caps were growing all over the garden. We harvested like 5 lbs today, and we'll get more after tomorrow's rain.

The political history of the U.S. since the 1970s is basically that thing where a species' predator disappears and the species overpopulates and destroys the whole habitat. If centrists really wanted a "Normal" right, their top priority would be to bring back the left

I wrote about Donald Trump v. The Pope

"Swann’s fantasies spoke to the feminist, gay-rights, and environmental movements. His intense focus on 'civilization' processed the growing sense of cultural malaise." Sean Guynes on Thomas Burnett Swann: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thomas-burnett-swann-fantasy-sf-queer-romance-wolfwinter/

Utagawa Hiroshige. Naruto Whirlpool, Awa Province. Japan, 1853.

Two pages into this book and I can say with confidence it is the worst written thing I have ever read. I think I got cancer by the third paragraph. I love it already.

one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.

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If you thought telling people they should learn to cook was maddening, just think how they will react when you tell them they need to plant Victory Gardens.

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Pope Leo at an appearance in Cameroon stated: Alright, here's War Pigs

Bring back the Humiliation of Canossa!!!

Post a picture of yourself as a Doctor

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

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Italian government to Trump…

Some are asking

According to Revelation 13, they’ll roll out the simulacrum 42 months after he survived that head shot, or sometime around January, 2028

La couverture du jour... « Les Trafiquants de Kelter » Par Terry Oakes (artiste gallois) Défis Fantastiques №15 Andrew Chapman, 1985 #livresdontvousetesleheros #LDVELH #livresjeu #jdrsolo #fightingfantasy #gamebooks #terryoakes #defisfantastiques #TheRingsOfKether

Julie Inman, Malice in Wonderland, 1980

Michel Simeon, 1967

Sliman Mansour, Desert Tune, 1977. Oil on canvas

Ryoichi Ikegami

Ken Meyer Jr., Tears in the Rain