Scientism: A "New" Religion

When any religion gets a cult status, almost everyone views it in a bad light. But I have always been in the opinion that all religions are cults. Pretty much this joke. "What's the difference between a religion and a cult? About 10 Million Members." But I digress. And worse of all, A new cult is rising and it's look very ugly and I need to start arguing against what is going on with it.

It's Scientism. It's a dogmatic view of science that definitely sounds more like religious drivel and talk with the same condescending attitude, guilt trips, and all sorts of other situations of organized religion. However, the main difference that Scientism says is that it's "Science." The most lackluster argument for a scientific method of analyzing of data, evidence, and logic and applying it to the real world, I've ever heard. And primarily Scientism has been making itself more noticeable in one of the most conflicting and controversial movements that hardly seems like a controversy to many; Environmentalism.

Everyone is crazy about saving the planet by saying fossil fuels, technology, and all assortments of other human progress are going to make the planet uninhabitable for us. All of which was centered around this idea of "climate change." But the term in it itself is a vague notion of something that happens to the planet all the time. The earth goes through constant climate change. When in history (preman or man) has it ever stayed the same? Where temperatures were the most constant they have ever been or the ice levels were always in equilibrium? But then they respond with it's "man made climate change" that's been hurting the world. Now we have a more definitive definition but now it's ridiculous and very alarming. Pretty much the environmentalists are asking us to say that we need to give up our creature comforts and the items that have given us the change to progress and live since the Industrial Revolution and live in primitive savage times where we were stuck hunting with spears and knives, waging war with local tribes and groups, and hating one another rather than connecting and understanding one another.


I'd like to quote one of my favorite comedians George Carlin about Environmentalism. "The Planet is Fine. The People are Fucked!" It's true. The way we have a snooty Intelligentsia that refuses to acknowledge their own mistakes, a bunch of sheeple who have taken it all for granted and thus haven refused to learn anything about what science actually is and what goes on with it, and the extremely annoying celebrity endorsers, like Leo DiCaprio and Al Gore, who demand that we all do the same while also having a hypocritical attitude towards it (Like many televangelists and other "officials" I know with a "do as I say not as I do" attitude) by living in their non-green homes and purchasing and using non-green technologies. Also to quote Carlin again on the environment, "Environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care ... You know what they're interested in. A clean place to live." I feel that's how they are. Even Eric Idle, one of my favorite comedians from the troupe Monty Python, says climate change deniers should be put down easily. I wish it was a Monty Python sketch but I guess your heroes always find a way to disappoint you in the end. And I looked this up and people say he co-founded Earth Day but in reality he was the Master of Ceremonies on the first Earth Day but he is a true evil psychopath; Ira Einhorn had murdered his ex-wife and used her as compost for their plants.

Scientism is a poison now killing off the thing that is important to all of us, human knowledge and understanding and now its becoming politicized, subjective, and altruistic with its philosophies corrupting it's very foundation. Trump said he's drain the swamp but the swamp that needs draining the most is the swamp of bad ideas. Only then can people have truly better and flourishing lives.

Mr. Trump, you're wrong about the Freedom Caucus

I know I'm very late to my opinion on this party but Uber driving for work doesn't always give me a chance but I'm glad to finish this post.

Donald Trump has a new enemy and unlike twisting the name of our enemy in the east (not the war on "terror" as many may say due to such subjective idiosyncratic to never be able to accurately define, but Islamic Fundamentalism as it should be called) he has accurately said one. The Freedom Caucus. There are 32 members joined by primarily fiscal conservatism and the individuals sometimes share a libertarian agenda, but the situation depends, but all 32 and certain supporters like Rand Paul, all saw Trump and Ryan's awful healthcare plan for what is was. Obamacare-lite and just as corrupt as the original.

If President Trump wishes to truly be an ally of freedom, he needs to realize how devastating Obamacare is and especially how it's hurting Americans that giving them the care they need. The Freedom Caucus is in the right on how Ryancare/Trumpcare/Obamacare-lite is bad policy and it will define Trump's first 100 days and the rest of his 4 years until he realizes that you can't control something so important as people's lives. Obamacare may claim it gives health insurance but we all get the same quality of health insurance which is exceedingly low. Not one politician or anyone can fully claim that Obamacare or any similar healthcare bills will actually still provide the same quality of healthcare we had with other programs without Obamacare or other similar programs. It's time to give such healthcare acts and bills a euthanasia proposal. It needs to be let down and thus our health in return will start getting better.

Evil Scientists on the Moon, Spaceship Anarchy, and CHEESY MOVIES! OH MY! A Mystery Science Theatre 3000 review

I remember when I first heard of MST3K (the official Abbreviation of Mystery Science Theater 3000). It was by accident from some friends in High School but I didn't start watching some episodes until last year. Overall, it was a very simple, low budget, show that weirdly seemed to work.

The basic plot was that one guy got captured by some evil scientists and they have been looking for the cheesiest movie to torture the world with. First it was series creator Joel Hodgson and then it was Mike Nelson. Now the future of MST3K is back and a new generation of comedians have taken over the cheesy movie anarchy that is Mystery Science Theater 3000.

In the new return of the series, comedian Jonah Ray (called Jonah Heston) is playing our victim with Felicia Day (known for being part of the Geek and Sundry YouTube Channel [and a personal new favorite channel of mine]) plays Kinga Forrester, daughter of the original torturing professor Dr. Clayton Forrester (played by Trace Beaulieu) and granddaughter to the second tortured for most of Mike Nelson's episodes, Pearl Forrester (with Mary Jo Perl returning to play her for a couple of episodes). Trying to reclaim her family legacy she finally gets Jonah as a willing victim to her evil and gets her assistant Max (a.k.a. TV's Son of TV's Frank played by Patton Oswalt) to help assist her and they even have a Show Jazz Band lead by Har Mar Superstar, a ska bandleader. But do not worry about all the evil people as Jonah has some sanity kept with 4 robot friends. Cambot, (the silent one), Gypsy (the only female robot now voiced by a female; comedienne Rebecca Hanson) Tom Servo (the cool guy robot voiced currently by Baron Vaughn) and Crow T. Robot (the different robot voiced by Hampton Yount).

Overall, All actors deliver some great lines with sarcasm and wit with talking back or with one another as well as noting and commenting on every part of the terrible movies our victims on The Satellite of Love must watch. As well as acting in these episodes, the actors playing the main victims have also written the episodes and greatly follows the insane, goofball, and absurd comedy of the original series. This is also in part to both the fan raised Kickstarter for the revival (which had the highest successful campaign for TV and Movies. $5,764,229 dollars to be exact.) and the fact that Joel is executive producer for the series as well. Guest writers have also contributed like Justin Roiland from Rick and Morty, Dana Gould from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Dan Harmond who hosts HarmondQuest and written for NBC's Arrested Development Community.  All of the writing has been supplied by many modern comedy writers and comedians who have lent their talents for this series and have supplied quite a fun run for this series.

As for the settings, each of the sets gives the nostalgic feel of the original series with the low budget look but it still looks pretty stylized and different from the overall series taken in part to the Kickstarter and the Netflix backup. The sci-fi surroundings compliment the overall series aspect of the cheesy movies they all riff on as well. Makes perfect sense. And the introduction song still rings as iconic with just a few lyric changes to Jonah's arrival as our test subject friend. A new song as well as more will arrive with my personal preview of "Every Country has a Monster," a funny mythological rap on all the mysterious creatures that all countries must face off against written by famous Songwriter and Composer Robert Lopez (Of Avenue Q, Book of Mormon, and Frozen fame).

Definately check out MST3K on Netflix. An absurdly funny, clean, and yet silly show and makes a good point of reviving shows done right.
4.5/5

More to Come and A Late Happy Legal Theft Day

Hi Everybody. I just forgot to mention to have a Happy Tax Day or as I like to call it, Unhappy Legal Theft Day. Remember that all taxation is a form of theft but done legally by governments all over the world whether they be local, state, or federal. Well, now that that was done and over with, I just wanted to say since I'll be working more for Uber, I'll have less time to do for my articles and blogging but once a Week I'll be working on topics and then I'll post them throughout the week. Thanks for being patient and I hope to see you reading my articles.

Happy Easter.

Hi Guys. I wanted to say thanks for following this blog. And from me to you, I say Happy Easter. Enjoy your time with family and friends and go out searching for eggs. Just wanted to keep this short and sweet.

Review: The Oedipus Cycle as translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald

And now for something completely different. (In that I haven't done this yet until now.)

And a small notice. Thanks for following me on this blog. As of right now, with my work for Uber going as it is, I've been very busy with working due to some debts to powers that be. So I'm trying to write all my articles on the day or days, I have time off of. Hopefully, I can get that soon as I have 6 drafts for articles in the works including Syria, The Recent Reveal of the Concentration Camps, and a review of Persona 5. Thank you for understanding.

Today I'm going to review a book. But this is actually a series of plays. The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles. But like most foreign and ancient works, they're usually translated and all translations are varied in style, prose, objectivity in diction, and execution in translation. The adaptation I'm discussing is by authors Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. With many famous works like Les Miserables, Journey to the West, Don Quixote, and Cyrano De Bergerac, and pop culture phenomenons like Harry Potter, all of them need to be translated among all the regions of the world and there are fears of getting things lost in translation or deciding how to directly translate a well known work of art. Mr. Fitts and Mr. Fritzgerald both decide to go for the direct translation of the source and let the play do all the artistry.

Before I continue, I'd like to at least give off some perspective as to why I chose this variant to read. This version of the Oedipus cycle was suggested from a lecture given by Objectivist Scholar Dr. Leonard Peikoff about 8 great plays and I plan to review all of them hopefully if I can get the plays soon. Fortunately I own 3 of these plays. Antigone, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Othello. But they will be reviewed for another time.

The Oedipus Cycle focuses on the time after Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx to his exile and death, and his daughter Antigone's mission to bury her brother with the respect he deserves. Each of these plays deals with primarily of themes between family, fate vs. free will, questioning of authoritarian societies, taking responsibility for one's actions, and redemption. I'll be focusing on a basic plotline with my opinions on the translations way they have told the story.

In Oedipus Rex, King Oedipus is trying to find the killer of the King of Thebes unbeknownst to him, he has successfully fulfilled a prophecy inclining him to kill his father and marry his mother. (Ok. So I spoiled the story but lets face it. We all know the myth unless you were asleep in English or History.) In Oedipus at Colossus Oedipus and Antigone are at Colossus seeking asylum from the King of Athens as they have fleed Thebes but Thebes' conflicts still antagonize the father/brother and daughter/sister duo. Finally, Antigone is the conclusion of this story where our titular heroine tries to bury her disavowed brother much against the tyrannical King Creon.

Personally, I can see why Oedipus Rex and Antigone are vital in their essence of Western Literature as they feature many important themes including loyalty to family and confidants over the state, anti-authoritarianism, fate vs. free will, Apolloian vs Dionysian choices, and the importance of Classical Tragedy in our lives. All of these themes revolve between these two plays. Oedipus at Colossus is more the black sheep of the trilogy because it serves to function more so as a connecting arc between the other two plays but this does have in a functioning importance. The power of redemption. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus' hubris is what causes him to destroy himself even when his many good characteristics are solid. In order to redeem himself to Thebes and the gods, he blinds himself and exiles himself out of Thebes for all to see. In Colossus, Oedipus accepts the fate he is given him especially since he is fated to die at Colossus by harpies. With the King of Athens giving him asylum, we see Oedipus regain his virtues as he has learned from his mistakes with his marriage to Jocasta (his mother) and allow pride to swell and take over him completely.

Now for the translation, Fitts and Fritzgerald use a more literal translation with still keeping figurative language when it provides important to the emphasis of the story. This doesn't mean the dialogue isn't engaging. In fact, it helps clarify to the audience more about Oedipus' life and times as well as give us a helpful understanding of his situation. Although usually, plays are meant to be performed rather than read, (i.e. Shakespeare) none the less, we can learn a lot from the stories they tell since dialogue is our primary source of information for the world they live in. The dialogue of this play does exactly that and more so with giving some pretty fascinating dialogue primarily for the long soliloquies and monologues seen in the play. Oedipus is given some very hard and confessional pieces in the two plays that feature him.

Overall, I'd say get it. This is a true piece of the written world that must be read before your death. A true Greek and Western Civilization Classic for anyone interested in those genres.
4.5/5

A Travesty in Australia and Even More Prothetlyzing?

Well, I heard the news after a long weekend of work and celebration. One of my favorite atheists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been threatened by the regressive left of Australia and now feels unsafe to give her lectures. This is a true crime of intellectual merit to censor one of the leading intellectual leaders, one whom I greatly respect and a person who had first hand experience with the evils of the Islamic Fundamentalist Movement, and just abandon her like this. I hope many Australians find this wrathening and should tell the socialists to pipe down and listen to what she has to say before they speak their "hate speech" cries. Hate speech will always exist no matter what anyone wants to hear of it or say. I have to get used to it especially when some of my own acquaintances and even friends say things that are hurtful to myself or I stand appalled and what they would imply.

The Socialists have constantly wanted to give Islam a standing ovation when the religion is as barbaric as other religions have been with killing non-believers and other ridiculous kosher law claims. Unfortunately, unlike every other religion that has been pacified with reason and the Enlightenment, Islam has refused to give any leeway even when it was under a Scientific Golden Age where they were influenced by the Aristotlean Tradition. Then it just vanished. It still confuses me to this day how a religion who helped preserve greatly the knowledge of a philosopher who was once thought lost due to the Great Fire of the Alexandria Lighthouse could 180 into a massacring censoring cult.

But that is weirdly how Islam works. It hates progress, freedom of speech and thought, and criticism of religion. Never give them any leeway into making you earn unearned guilt for not thinking like them. They don't speak for women, children, homosexuals, people of different faiths, atheists, or any of the like. Their automaton culture is of stagnation, suffering, and death.

In other news of that time, now we have this really weird story because I didn't expect who was censoring everyone. Apparently the Social Justice Warriros, (they should be called the Socialist Jaundice Warriors; At least it's more accurate of a name.) have told people not to enjoy sex. WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING? I usually had expected this kind of mentality from the Muslims or of televangelist Christians like Jerry Fawell Jr. or Paula White. But now it's coming from the left who were pretty ok with gay sex but now if you enjoy sex, you are a bad person. Even more unearned guilt is coming from these psychopathic whackaloons. I'm really happy I left the Left. I can sure tell you they aren't progressive or liberal at all. They're really fucking annoying and fucking crazy. Folks, better to stay away from them and run for the hills and for those on the left who are seeing how regressive they are, I suggest reading von Mises, Rand, Milton Friedman, Ayann Hirsi Ali and other intellectuals who actually care about your freedom and humanity in general.

APRIL FOOL'S!

APRIL FOOL'S. If you read the first letter of all the sentences they spell that phrase. HELL NO I'm not quitting. I just started and I am getting some more people than usual reading my blog and I have too many things to post about. And the year is not over yet. So get out there and prank some people.

Everyone, I have some bad news.

After all that has happened, I'm sad to say it but I now am stopping my blog. Particularly, it has to do with the fact of hardly gathering much of an audience I was hoping for especially since most of my articles deals with politics over other issues.
Really, I wanted to make this blog enjoyable, easy to digest with good ideas and opinions, and hopefully worth sharing among others when I advertize it.
I really had hope since December, there would be a new audience being attracted to it but I guess some things just aren't meant to happen.
Luckily, I'll be keeping myself busy with my work at Uber, my writing for my stories, and spending time with family and loved one's.

For now, all I can say is thank you all very much for being a part of this blog.
Overall, I can't really really tell about happy it was when you listened even though, I had no idea to who listened.
Objectively, this was the best thing for me since also I was busy with my new work.
Lastly, I just wanted to say this won't be an ending for me, it's a new beginning.
So remember, I won't say goodbye, I say au revoir.