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DSC objects to the philosopical concept of Münchhausen Trilemma. Posted without comment.

I object to the notion that what is called “fundamentalism” is no better an epistemological foundation than the other two parts of the trilemma. 

Why do chemistry, physics and biology involve so much lab-based education? Seeing something first hand offers the hope that a person can better delineate between the realm of conjecture and “real” reality, the stuff that doesn’t give a fig what you think. I find that the older I get, the more of an empiricist I become. While I have broad personal experience in but a minute part of the whole world, I base my pyramids of trust on people whose primary premises match up to my own personal experience. Those who have very little first hand experience in anything must have very little data on which to base their pyramids of trust.

I aver that there are four kinds of questions: Those answerable by logic, those where experiment yields what is essentially certainty, those that yield answers that can never be better than “today’s best guess,” and those that cannot be answered by empiricism at all.

• As you know, some things are true by axiom, ex. a consumable cannot be consumed and still remain available for consumption. These axioms are the foundation for what Hans Hermann Hoppe describes in his essay The Democratic Leviathan.
• Hard science rests on experiments where the outcome is the same no matter how many times one considers repeating it. While dropping a stone a thousand times to see it fall may induce someone to posit that on the 1001th try it will rise when released, such a belief is clearly irrational. 
• Much of today’s “science,” as you’ve well described, falls into the third category. It is the realm of statistical study, where confidence intervals, poisson distributions and Student T tests live. The 95{5c1a0fb425e4d1363f644252322efd648e1c42835b2836cd8f67071ddd0ad0e3} confidence interval of course posits that the hypothesis is 19/20ths likely to be true, but this is not remotely the same standard as category 2 above. Vast amounts of “social science” attempt to mimic this style of study, but there’s no substance to it at all. “Real” science, in my view, is that where variables can actually be controlled, a condition that is laughably absent in a vast amount of what today is billed as science.
• What happens to us when we die? Do we have consciousness beyond our physical envelope? Is there life on distant planets? What color is a virion, and if we could see it like we see a golf ball, what would it look like? These and myriad other questions cannot be answered via empiricism. Providing systematic answers to empirically unanswerable questions is the province of religion. Today’s Equalist Cult religion is particularly odd, in that most of its dogma and sacraments are actually at odds with empirically-derived reality. It is thus a pure exercise of the “power” Orwell illustrated when O’Brian forces Smith to “see” a different number of fingers than O’Brian extends. The first step toward wisdom comes by calling things by their right names.

The author notes that “Human beings are rational animals.” This is daffy on its face. Most humans may be capable of reasoning, but it’s self-evident that few spend any time at all in this part of their mind. As Kahneman shows, experiment after experiment documents that most of the time we let the nearly autonomic part of our brain do all the thinking. Only rarely do we invoke our deliberative, analytical mind. Most people are largely creatures of emotion, and their decisions are based on what action or belief would yield the greatest emotional comfort…and it’s usually to think and do what the herd surrounding them thinks and does. I was dismayed to confront that intelligence does not coassort with rationality. Very smart people are especially good at rationalizing their folly. 

 These are the premises on which I base my objection to axiom and empiricism being lumped in with circular reasoning and “turtles all the way down.” Reality exists. The notion that people see different things when observing the same thing is baloney. If I drop a golf ball and simultaneously launch one horizontally, they will always hit the floor at the same time, no matter who insists with great fervor that the dropped one lands first. If, upon observing them bounce simultaneously, an observer still insists that they hit at different times, it’s not a case of competing epistemologies. Some systems of thought rest on axiom. From axiom comes reliance on empiricism, trusting ones eyes when what’s seen conflicts with others’ ideological constructs. This is not a three part problem. Two of the trilemma’s legs are folly, the third is the only means of attempting to align with reality in order to decide and act. Among today’s great follies is insistence on baseless conjecture as fact. Our society is structured under Taylorist notions, that there’s one best way to live, and the dogma that populates this conflicts openly with observed reality.

A modern example: Say’s Law is “In order to consume, you must first produce.” This is a logical axiom, given that if people consume without producing, eventually there’s nothing produced and thus nothing to consume. If that’s “fundamentalism” and somehow not axiomatically true, show me (Mr. Macris.) Monetary Madness since the 1960’s posits that the ability to enter the market (to consume) can be created out of thin air via the act of borrowing. The IOU (generally a T-bond/T-bill) becomes wealth, and the borrowed loot goes straight into someone’s hands to be used (mostly) to consume. No production precedes this consumption, so the net effect is less product available (but a vastly rising perception of wealth, both in holding the debt and in the rising prices of assets goosed by a tsunami of credit money.) 

Since the bond market low in 1981, the US gov’t didn’t need to tax in order to spend. This is why spending could skyrocket as tax cuts were passed. Domestic production could be shipped to China, who then sent us endless pre-landfilled junk in exchange for Treasury Debt. Since China doesn’t trade in dollars, that loot came back here…and we now see that Americans pawned their land, their businesses and THEIR POLITICAL SYSTEM in return for some trinkets. China bought our legislatures, our executive branch agencies and our judiciary. Pretty smart on their part. With the helicopter drop of $1,200/person thing this summer, we now see that credit creation has entered a new phase, where the government still does not need to tax, and people no longer need to work in order to consume. Everyone’s a welfare recipient now., not just people on SSDI, AFDC, Section 8, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Prior to this summer, only Big Business oligarchs and financiers received such loot. 

Where’d Say’s Law go?

I’m a longtime reader of your blog and a pastor. Your denunciations of Churchianity are spot on, and I’ve lived through an ugly denominational transition out of the apostasy. I can testify to the rot. I’m attaching the letter I read to begin a sermon this year, where I call out the New Religion, so that you can see how at least some of us are fighting the good fight. I know there are other pastors out there doing the same, but the level of cowardice among so many of my peers in the pulpit is a shame to me.

There’s a new religion growing in our world.

A new Marxist faith.

A new Woke orthodoxy.

A new kind of Luciferian worship that is as old as sin and idolatry itself. 

Eight weeks ago I stood in the pulpit of this church and declared that the formal organization called Black Lives Matter was demonic in both origin and nature. That BLM isn’t, as it purports, an organization promoting racial justice – but, rather, is an organization that is actively working to undermine the knowledge and worship of the One True God.

Eight weeks ago I kicked off this sermon series aiming to help us understand the nature of our enemies by calling out this one organization, but BLM does not stand alone against God in this world.

Instead, what we have been seeing over the past six months, and what has become increasingly clear in the two months I’ve been preaching this series, is that this new Globalist religion has many apostles and adherents in the world – many individuals, groups, and organizations that have bowed the knee and are now demanding the same:

• Antifa
• Hollywood
• Disney Corp.
• Google/FB/Twitter
• the Main Stream Media

along with Governors, Mayors, and other elected officials, at almost every level of government and in both political parties, who have pledged their allegiance to this new Globalist, Marxist, Anti-Christian religion.

And believe me when I call it a religion, because it literally has all the makings.

There are, for instance, blasphemy laws in this new religion.

Just try saying, “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter” in public or on social media. Try to link to a video with medical professionals breaking ranks and speaking to the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine and see how long it stays up.

And there are holy scriptures for this movement too.

Marxist ideologies and writings, which always and only result in class wars and totalitarianism, are the foundational texts of this faith.

Writings about Critical Race Theory pit people against one another based solely on the amount of melanin in our skin.

Prevailing Gender and Sex Theories clearly and purposefully undermine the Biblical definitions of man and woman, husband and wife, and family.

And, even more, this religion’s teachings on Intersectionality argue that victim status is the measure of a person’s worth – with victim status defined as follows:

The less white, the less male, and the less Christian you are, the more you’ve been the subject of systemic victimization, and the more we should be listening to you.

Which is precisely, by the way, how this new orthodoxy distinguishes between clean and unclean.

• The more white.
• The more male.
• The more Christian.

And the more conservative you are politically, the less clean. The less pure. The less holy. The more sinful.

And so this new faith offers the rights of expiation – of having your “sins” forgiven:

Are you hopelessly locked into your White Privilege, and so unaware of your own deep-seated but invisible-to-you racism? Get on your knees and say sorry to a Black person today!

Have you offended the Race Hustlers? You can donate money to the right causes!

Is your workforce not diverse enough? You can make your employees complete sensitivity trainings!

Have you tweeted something the mob didn’t like? You can march with the protestors!

In fact, depending on the nature of the transgression you can do lots of things to seek forgiveness, but in this new Woke Church it only counts if the Priests of this new faith accept it; if the leaders of this cultural revolution deem you acceptable.

• Has Colin Kaepernick vouched for you?
• Do you have President Obama’s endorsement?
• Does Rashida Tlaib, Shaun King, or Van Jones agree with you?
• Have the influential pundits vouched for your credibility to the cause?
• Is there a local person of influence in the movement that can accept your sacrifice?

Without this approval, no amount of sorrys will ever be enough.

Because this is a war over Truth, and this new religion demands your conversion.

As exhibit “A” I present to you this perverted faith’s one and only Sacrament – which is clearly the murder of the unborn through abortion. The zeal with which this Globalist, Marxist, and anti-Christian religion pursues this agenda reveals just how sacred a right they believe it to be!

It. Is. Demonic.

And so while it looks like we fight against these so-called priests, they are just men and women: blood and flesh. Their blasphemy laws and rights of forgiveness may be lived out in the physical world, but they are rooted in the spiritual forces of darkness. The “scriptures” they lift up can be held and read, but they are simply the tangible expressions of their spiritual agendas. Their definitions of “clean” and “unclean” are built on the foundations of power and control in the material world, but they have neither.

Because our real war is with the Principalities and Powers that lurk behind and empower from underneath – that hide their demonic faces behind the masks of institutional “progress” and “wokeness” and “being on the right side of history”.

Our real battle is not with the destructive fruits of this movement, but with its demonic roots.

The accusation strikes me as bordering on the impossible, given how incoherent Dr. Peterson’s writing is. But what is much more remarkable than the accusation of plagiarism is the identity of the author Jordan Peterson is supposedly plagiarizing:

The Devil and His Due: How Jordan Peterson Plagiarizes Adolf Hitler by Troy Parfitt offers into evidence some 3,100 instances of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson allegedly copying the written and spoken text of Adolf Hitler. Volume One of a two-volume series will be released on November 1, 2020 in e-book and paperback edition. Its length is 460 pages.

Jordan Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, best-selling author of 12 Rules for Life, and pop-psych guru whose YouTube channel boasts 2.87 million subscribers. Often described as controversial, Peterson shot to fame after challenging Canada’s Bill C-16, which made it illegal to deny employment to or discriminate against people based on their gender identity or expression.

In The Devil and His Due, Parfitt argues that “the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon” is a mainstream cult whose leader identifies as “the saviour,” feigns Christian beliefs, glorifies Satan, discusses “the Jewish question,” encourages converts to slaughter goats in backyard sacrifices that ought to be “sufficiently bloody,” suggests that suicide can be an effective method for achieving revenge, touts banned substances as “miracle cures,” and teaches that the alt-right project is “incomplete.” Parfitt also asserts that Peterson employs Hitlerite speech to communicate in a crypto-fascist code, but that his supporters seem generally unaware of this.

Parfitt wondered if Peterson might have been borrowing from Hitler after noticing that he frequently complimented the dictator. “He says he’s rescuing people from the clutches of the far-right, but tells his followers that Hitler was a genius who was good at nearly everything, so I read Mein Kampf to see if he had found it inspiring. What I discovered was blatant academic theft.” Parfitt claims that Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and Maps of Meaning are riddled with language and ideas from Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Second Book, Table Talk, and speeches. 

Do you know what this means? It means Jordan Peterson is literally Hitler. We are amused. 

Nevertheless, color me very, very dubious indeed. Because as awful as Jordan Peterson is, those who have read Jordanetics will know that Jordan Peterson didn’t even manage to get Hitler’s description of “the Big Lie” correct. 

Don’t bother asking for a link. This is from a press release from the publisher.

UPDATE: Interesting. Speaking of those who have read Jordanetics, the author may not be anywhere nearly as out there as the press release makes it sound. If nothing else, Parfitt correctly picked up on the occult elements of Peterson’s philosophy.

As author Troy Parfitt began to doubt his own sanity with his discoveries of Jordan Peterson’s freakish love affair with the occult, Vox Day’s book “Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity’s Greatest Thinker” provided a welcome validation that it was not Parfitt who had lost his marbles, but Peterson.

It is impossible that Day’s and Parfitt’s revelations about Jordan Peterson’s infatuation with the occult–and indeed the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley–could be mere coincidence.

Despite having opposing political views, Parfitt maintains that Day deserves a lot of praise for his book, and says “Jordanetics” was largely ignored because of Day’s far-right political views, and that even left-leaning JP critics have bashed Parfitt for even mentioning Vox Day. The media has a lot of explaining to do, Parfitt says. Vox Day gave them the evidence and they ignored it. Peterson critics are so blinkered by their own political hang-ups that they refused to read or even discuss Day’s book.

Eppure le idee, si circolano…

 ZT writes of a personal tragedy:

My husband passed away unexpectedly in his sleep Friday morning and I’m struggling. Any prayers offered from you all here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

My condolences to ZT and her family. If you are so inclined, feel free to express yours here as well.

A reader writes about an observation he has made in his travels through various small towns:

I don’t know what is going on but something is happening below the surface. Locally, the various banks have been shutting down branch offices all over. In the small towns, who owns the prime property at the intersection of Main and State Streets? Banks.

I was talking to someone whose husband ran a branch is a small town. The bank shut down that office. He got out of finance. In a small town of 5,000 in the borough and another 5,000 or so in the township, a big player shut down its branch. That property is now up for sale. That office had been in existence as long as I can remember.

This town used to have in the early 80s a Chevy-Oldsmobile, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler-Plymouth, and Pontiac-Buick dealerships. All are gone now. The Chrysler dealership built a new building in another small town in the county. The original location deals only in used cars now.

Something is up with the banks.

Banks don’t make their money from deposits anymore. And increasingly, they don’t make money from loans anymore. So there simply isn’t any point in maintaining branches for service to non-revenue-producing customers who have no savings and can’t take out any more loans.

It’s interesting that they’re trying to sell the real estate, though. That tends to indicate that they need cash. It won’t be even remotely surprising if the next financial crisis starts later this month; I would be very surprised if it didn’t start before the end of 2021.

Even if the Apostle Paul hadn’t warned us about the dangers of false “Christian” leaders infiltrating the flock, William Bradford, the first governor of Plymouth colony, did in his book Plymouth Plantation:

In Chapter Five, Bradford discusses a minister named John Lyford who arrived a few years after Plymouth was founded. Lyford was the textbook example of an SJW.

He immediately sought to become a church member upon arrival and after that started defending “delinquents” in the colony while holding secret meetings and spreading gossip. His plan of course was to divide the community and start a separate church he would control.

He was caught sending slanderous letters to England about people in the colony, on top of intercepting his own friends’ letters and annotating them before resealing them. Like a true social justice warrior, Lyford lied and denied he wrote the letters until they were produced. He then engaged in theatrical displays of repentance and pleas for forgiveness to the point where he generated sympathy among colony members – only to secretly write letters to England defending his behavior.

It is then that Lyford’s wife reveals to Bradford her husband’s history back home in England and Ireland as a pathological liar and philander to the point where she couldn’t have a female servant in the house because he slept with all the others. This was on top of lying to her about fathering a bastard child prior to their marriage. Then men from England report to Bradford that while “counseling” a young man contemplating marriage, Leyford met the girl in private and raped her, who later married the young man without telling him until afterwards.

Bradford writes that after they expelled him from Plymouth, Lyford proceeded to abandon all his friends that still stuck with him and died shortly afterwards in Virginia.

There’s a reason why St. Paul and other apostles warned about false teachers in their letters.They have been a threat to the church since the beginning, anywhere a group of Christians gather. What we’re experiencing today is not unique. The question is whether a body of believers under attack or being infiltrated are led by strong men with the moral courage to identify, confront, and cast the wolves out, or cowards who have exchanged truth for niceness.

Predators not only go where the prey is, they have a very finely attuned understand of how to go about putting themselves in position to obtain it. Always be very, very dubious of any enthusiastic new member who is extremely helpful and assiduously pursues leadership and other positions of influence.

The Puritans had the sense to expel this predator. Unfortunately, and despite the Biblical admonition, most modern churches won’t expel anyone, not for adultery, not for abortion, and not for axe-murdering.

Apparently this gentleman was not pleased by the Voxiversity video about Jordan Peterson.

Here I was hoping to find actual intellectual criticism of Mr. Peterson. Instead I just find an absurd amount of baseless claims, twisting of the truth, and appeals to emotion. This video is a shining example of hate-mongering and ignorance hidden behind a veil of “entertainment”. Points for reference: 1 guy disputing Jordan’s claims is not evidence of his claims being false. It also doesn’t mean that what Jordan is saying is absolutely true. The entire point of lectures in real academia is for people to look at life from different angles to improve your own scope of understanding. This is to say, knowledge is just repetition, intellect is using knowledge to form your own ideas. If I were to compare it to food, it’s like being given potatoes and experimenting on your own to make mashed potatoes, or home fries, or gratin, etc. Only sheep take words at face value and apply them as rules for life, because every life is different. You call out his mental illness, yes the guy is clinically depressed, he’s talked about it openly. Despite having clinical depression, this guy has risen to be an esteemed professor. The people who bring about real change to the world are not the sheep, but instead the skeptics, the insane, and the so-called mentally ill. Jordan, instead of falling to his “illness”, has instead used that different perspective to give people a different (and overwhelmingly positive) outlook on their own lives and role in society. You criticize his inability to claim a religious doctrine multiple times through the video. He has described this perfectly in other talks. A large part of this is he doesn’t want to get lumped into groups, as you are trying to do. If he says he isn’t Christian, then he is atheist scum that shouldn’t be listened to, if he is, then he is a religious fool that is blind to the truth. He recognizes this question as a “gotcha”, and it’s disappointing that anyone claiming to be a purveyor of knowledge would push this argument (that’s talking about you here buddy). I honestly don’t know why I bothered with a response to a creator who clipped a fragment of JP quoting Nietzsche and tried to attribute the thought/words to his view of life. That alone shows your blatant disrespect to knowledge and towards the sanctity of intelligent debate. What kind of person lambastes another for quoting someone else? You. You do that sir. Under your methodology, any history teacher who talks about the holocaust or the gulags is now scum of the earth, not worthy of being listened to. 

It strikes me that if the gentleman is correct, and the people who bring about real change to the world are the insane and the mentally ill, that would go a long way toward explaining why everything is getting crazier and crazier.

You can almost see the demons whispering in his ears.

 An observant reader notes the source of the Color Revolution currently taking place in the USA.

You probably already know this, but if not, Michael McFaul has surfaced again. He’s the Stanford professor who was Obama’s ambassador to Russia and the creator of that idiotic “reset” policy, but before that, he was considered an expert on revolution, especially the Color Revolutions. According to McFaul, the seven factors necessary for a successful revolution are:

•     A semi-autocratic rather that fully autocratic regime
•     An unpopular incumbent
•     A united and organized opposition
•     An ability to quickly drive home the point that voting results were falsified
•     Enough independent media to inform citizens about the falsified vote
•     A political opposition capable of mobilizing tens of thousands or more demonstrators to protest electoral fraud
•     Divisions among the regime’s coercive forces

What I didn’t know is that the State Department under Hillary Clinton turned these factors into a program and exported it, using it to destabilize and overthrow governments all over the Arab and former-Soviet world, especially in Ukraine.

Hench Ukraine’s interest in keeping an eye on McFaul’s activities. Better still:

“But it was McFaul’s role in the U.S. interference in the Russian 2012 election that put in motion everything that followed. Perception makes its own reality, and the Russian perception is that McFaul and the Obama administration purposefully put their thumb on the scale of Russia’s presidential election to keep Putin from winning. McFaul has been banned from traveling to Russia, and in 2018 Putin approached Trump for permission to have Russian intelligence officers question McFaul about alleged illegal activities conducted while he was ambassador. While the Russian claims are unsubstantiated allegations, and their request facially absurd, the fact remains that when it comes to apportioning blame for the sorry state of U.S.-Russian relations today, one need look no further than Michael McFaul and his decades-long effort to create Russian “democracy” from whole cloth as laying the foundation for failure.”

In 2014, having made a thorough botch of trying to install American-style democracy all over the Arab and post-Soviet world, McFaul resigned and slunk back to Stanford, to resume teaching… until this past weekend, when he reemerged as a quotable expert on foreign relations: “Trump has lost the Intelligence Community. He has lost the State Department. He has lost the military. How can he continue to serve as our Commander in Chief?”

I keep thinking about McFaul’s seven prerequisites for a successful revolution. It looks to me as if we’re in Step 7 of the plan now: creating divisions among the regime’s coercive forces, to make it impossible for them to present a coordinated response to the riots in the streets. Having failed to install democracy everywhere else in the world, it looks as if McFaul and his ilk have decided to bring the revolution back home.

Is it just me, or do you hear it too? It sounds like … chickens … coming home to roost.

Not that the situation isn’t serious, but I can’t help being amused by the appropriate nature of the man’s name. McFoul indeed. What we’re seeing here is not about “liberals” or “the Left”, it’s actually the neocon’s World Trotskyite Revolution attempting to reestablish their control over the USA now that they’ve lost Russia.

Sacrificial Lamb nobly attempts to explain to the Boomers why they are, and will probably remain, the most despised generation in recorded human history, before they pass from the stage:

You Boomers always had more wealth, more opportunity, and more political power than us younger generations……and your narcissistic stupidity caused you geezers to squander it all. If current trends continue on, then most of the people that will end up taking care of you Boomers in nursing homes will be low IQ, white-hating black Africans….here in a previously white nation. No joke. I know this because I have seen this multiple times, with my very own eyes. You Boomers wanted cheaper labor, and you got it.

We are all suffering from an endless parade of Boomer selfishness and Boomer mistakes.

Stop being defensive, and take a hard look in the mirror. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re going to have a full-blown civil war soon, and you Boomers need to acknowledge your role (wittingly or not) in creating this increasingly dystopian and Luciferian world that we live in today.

Oh, and people don’t bust you Boomers’ chops for being old. They bust your chops for being the most narcissistic, selfish, and delusional generation in modern history. People bust Boomer chops because you guys inherited a nation of laws, tradition, ethnic and racial cohesion, and prosperity….AND THEN JUST THREW IT AWAY, even when your adult generation still had demographics in your favor. You may have been (((manipulated))) into doing so, but that is not an acceptable excuse.

Can you now understand why some people might hold a slight grudge, or at least deliberately taunt you Boomers?

It’s time to take a hard look in the mirror, geezer…..because the sun is setting soon.

Generation X doesn’t hate its grandparents or its kids. The Zoomers don’t hate their Gen-X parents. But both generations, as well as the Millennials, despise Boomers. Indeed, the small minority of Boomers capable of both a) generational self-reflection and b) self-identification rather than generational identification despise their fellow Boomers too. 

There is a reason that “Boomer” is now used unironically as an insult by the two youngest generations, and that reason is that being a Boomer is observably synonymous with narcissism, selfishness, short time preferences, indifference to one’s posterity, technological and temporal cluelessness, lack of gratitude, and generational identification.

If you’re a Boomer, instead of asking yourself if this is true of you, try asking yourself if it is true of your acquaintances of an age with you. Do they sacrifice for their children and grandchildren or do they live in nicer homes than their kids do on the other side of the country? Are they leaving bigger and better legacies for their descendants than their ancestors left for them or do they brag about spending their children’s inheritances? What sort of world are they leaving behind them? Will the Earth be a better place for them having been here or not?

The sun is setting, Boomer. Isn’t it time you stop lying to yourself about how your generation changed the world and face up to the material consequences of your generation’s actions? Wouldn’t it be better to spend your final chapter doing whatever you can to rectify the damage that has been done over the course of your lifetime?

Not that the usual morons will pay any heed to this, but simply because it will permit me to tell them in the future that I already pointed this out, I would like everyone to please note that all comments are moderated here. This is necessary because there are literally hundreds of spam comments that spammers attempt to post here every day due to the 100k daily pageview traffic. If moderation was not in effect, the comments would be entirely unreadable.

THIS MEANS THAT IF YOUR COMMENT DOES NOT APPEAR RIGHT AWAY, DO NOT TRY TO POST IT A SECOND TIME. THIS MEANS YOU, YOU MORON. 

UPDATE: ALSO AND ESPECIALLY YOU, BOOMER.

Literally nothing that anyone has to say is so urgent that it necessitates a second, or third, or even fourth attempt to post it. If you’re worried that your Very Important Comment may have been lost, then for the love of all that is Good, Beautiful, and True, accept with equanimity that possibility as The Decretive Will of God, An Act of Nature, An Unfortunate Accident, or even The Insidious Work of the Father of Lies, whatever may happen to best suit your particular philosophical perspective. FFS, this isn’t a difficult concept!

Let me repeat for those of you who are too stupid to grasp the readily apparent: DO NOT TRY TO COMMENT A SECOND TIME WHEN YOUR INITIAL COMMENT DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY APPEAR.

Furthermore, please note that adding an “OT” to your off-topic comment does not make it acceptable. It is still off-topic. If you feel the need to share your Very Important Opinion or some Very Important News, then feel free to do so on your own site. Do not do it here. All that adding “OT” to your off-topic comment accomplishes is to make it clear that you know you’re a jackass and you’re going to try to hijack the mic even though you know you’re not supposed to. Furthermore, if your Very Important Breaking News is a link to Drudge, Twitter, Instapundit, or the AP News Wire, then there is absolutely no need to “alert” anyone to anything. 

This may come as shocking news to the solipsistic, but everyone else reads those sites too.

UPDATE: If you’re a Boomer who doesn’t understand why everyone Gen X and younger can’t stand you and your g-g-generation, allow me to point out that one of the regular Boomers here has ALREADY tried to post the same comment on this post TWICE, presumably because he didn’t see the first one appear immediately. The Day of the Pillow cannot arrive soon enough.