ANTINATALISM: “Are All the World’s Problems a Result of #Overpopulation?” / Thom Hartmann☮
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Category Archives: Indoctrination
CANNABIS: “‘Quiverfull’ Cult Plans Arranged Marriage Camp for Teens” / The Young Turks / Ana Kasparian, and Ben Mankiewicz ☮
The religious cult associated with TV’s Duggar family, known as the “Quiverfull” movement, is having a retreat for people who want to set up arranged marriages for their teenage children. Quiverfull patriarch Vaughn Ohlman has a website promoting marriage for “Truly True Christian” children. Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?) and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
HAPPY ZOMBIE JEBUS DAY!: “This is Ishtar” ☮
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: “Does the U.S. President Need to be Christian?” ☮
INTELLECTUALISM: “Donald Trump is Winning Because White America is Dying” / The Huffington Post / Matt Ferner ☮
Noam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus, says that the rise of Donald Trump in American politics is, in part, fueled by deeply rooted fear and hopelessness that may be caused by an alarming spike in mortality rates for a generation of poorly educated whites.
“He’s evidently appealing to deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors like those that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war and catastrophe,” Chomsky told The Huffington Post in an interview on Thursday.
RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION: “. . . But Intelligent People Believe in God” ☮
RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION: “I Came Into This Life With No Baggage” ☮
FINE ARTS – LYRIC POETRY: Philip Larkin / “This Be The Verse” / 1971 ☮
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
ANTI-NATALISM: “Non-Motherhood Challenge” ☮
h/t: Ellie Taylor
Non-Motherhood Challenge: I was nominated by myself to post five pictures that make me happy to be a non-mother. Such special memories.
CRITICAL THINKING: “Science vs. Everything Else” ☮
h/t: Friendly Atheist
Always Question Authority 