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Rittenhouse Not Guilty on All Counts

Posted November 19, 2021 By John C Wright

To arms, citizens. Pray, give thanks, rejoice, and prepare for Establishment-sponsored riot and tumult.

Let us also remember the self-restraint and remarkably accurate marksmanship of Kyle Rittenhouse which he demonstrated during the night in question. It is such prudence, self-discipline, and skill that we should attempt to imitate when protecting homes and neighborhood from the Establishment.

Remember to wait until the Establishment-sponsored rioter or arsonist actively threatens life or limb before firing. Consult your local laws concerning duty to retreat and other factors that may mitigate a plea of self-defense. Photographic evidence of the event is crucial.

If the Democrat Establishments control your police, they may have been ordered to stand down, or to assist the rioters. Obey all lawful orders.

Use caution, use proportionate force, use proper gun discipline and safety.

And rejoice. Our Republic is not yet beyond saving. The Establishment and their rioters were not able to intimidate the jury.

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Tim Pool is Paul Revere

Posted November 17, 2021 By John C Wright

Spread this around before it is taken down.

Please visit Timcast IRL YouTube channel to see more from Tim Pool’s show over there: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwN… 

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The Leviathan of Time, Chapter Three: The Voice of Leviathan

Posted November 17, 2021 By John C Wright

The Leviathan of Time Chapter Three: The Voice of Leviathan is now posted.

In which Prince George unaccompanied enters the lair of the were-worm.

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Woke Hath no Fury Like a Woman Scorned

Posted November 16, 2021 By John C Wright

A reader with the Homeric yet quirted name of Thersites observes:

I suspect the seething hostility that contemporary Woke progressives pour out toward working-class white people is essentially the bitter hatred of a spurned lover.

In the 1930s, Marxists and Socialists were utterly convinced that the Tom Joads of the world were naturally on their side, needing only mild prodding to enthusiastically take up the red banner and erect the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

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Magneto and Deontology

Posted November 14, 2021 By John C Wright

Deontology is the theory of ethics that one’s actions are ethically correct if done to fulfill duty, rather than to serve self-interest. Duty includes certain ethical obligations toward others, which, if we satisfy duty, the action is ethical, and if not, then not.
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One Small Step — Thanks to the FF!!

Posted November 12, 2021 By John C Wright

AND SPACE NO LONGER IS BEYOND OUR MORTAL REACH!!

Fantastic Four, Vol. 1, #98 (May 1970) “Mystery on the Moon”, involves Mr. Fantastic, the Human Torch, and the Thing thwarting the scheme of an evil space robot of the Kree, who is aided by a sinister nameless mass buried beneath the lunar surface, to halt the Apollo 11 moon-landing an evil attempt of space-sabotage: for the Kree have decreed than man shall not conquer space!

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Happy Armistice Day

Posted November 11, 2021 By John C Wright

To those who serve, and those who have served, please accept our warmest thanks and honors.

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The Leviathan of Time, Chapter Two: Patron Saint of Witches

Posted November 10, 2021 By John C Wright

The Leviathan of Time Chapter Two: Patron Saint of Witches is now posted.

In which Prince George visits a house of ill repute, which is overlooked with a wink for one of his rank, to visit his father confessor, which is not; and he wonders into what manner of tale his world has been unwillingly taken.

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Climate Claims

Posted November 9, 2021 By John C Wright

It is left to Stephen Crowder, the potty-mouthed comedian, to list failed climate predictions, with links to each source. His citations are as thorough as a paralegal footnoting a legal brief. Below please find an excerpt of the show notes  for his 9th November 2021 episode. 

The words below are from Mr. Crowder’s website. 

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John C Wright on Sci Fi Flicks

Posted November 7, 2021 By John C Wright
I have not written a review for this space of Alex Proyas’ DARK CITY (1998) despite that it is one of my favorite films. However, I was once asked in an interview about my opinions of science fiction films, and my take on this film, and several others, can be found at Mostly Fiction Book Reviews: 
I reprint an excerpt here as a courtesy to my readers. The interviewer’s questions are italicized. 

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The PROBLEM OF PIFFLE, Part Seven and Conclusion: Cosmos and Chaos

Posted November 6, 2021 By John C Wright

Part Seven and Conclusion: Cosmos and Chaos

We conclude our overview of Problem of Pain inherent in the Monotheist worldview, versus the Problem of Piffle inherent in the Atheist. The previous entries are here:

This overview is not the final word on any of these topics, nor even a close examination: Each point raised has possible rebuttals and counter-rebuttals not here addressed.

This overview, at best, is meant to be a rough survey of the lay of the land to identify where apologists for either view would be wise to prepare answers for deep questions.

While not underestimating the difficulties of defending the monotheist view — for while there is an answer to the Problem of Pain, there are no easy answers — this overview demonstrates the atheist worldview, due to shallow and foolish philosophical roots, faces difficulties more numerous and more fatal.

Simply put, there are too many deep questions to which atheist worldview provides trivial answers or none at all.

A logically consistent atheist worldview portrays the cosmos as nihilist hence irrational, unreal, unknowable, nonsensical, immoral, antinomian, ugly and hopeless.

The human soul cannot flourish in such a cosmos: the atheist avoids despair only by embracing pointless hedonism or paltering hypocrisy.

The atheist answers to the deep questions of life are piffle. That is his main problem.

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GOP Supporting Trillion Dollar Bill

Posted November 6, 2021 By John C Wright

The measure would have failed had they voted with their party. Primary them, please. Phone numbers included for any voters wishing to express their discontent:

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska — 202-225-4155
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania — 202-225-4276
Rep. Andrew Gabarino of New York — 202-225-7896
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio — (OH) 202-225-3876
Rep. John Katko of New York — 202-225-3701
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — 202-225-3635
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York — 202-225-3371
Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia — 202-225-4172
Rep. Tom Reed of New York — 202-225-3161
Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey — 202-225-3765
Fred Upton of Michigan — 202-225-3761
Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey — 202-225-6572
Rep. Don Young of Alaska —  202-225-5765

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Review: V for VOMITOUS

Posted November 5, 2021 By John C Wright

In honor of Guy Fawkes Day, I thought it apt to reprint my review of  V FOR VENDETTA (2005) starring Hugo Weaving.

This was written during the Bush Administration, not long after the fall of the Twin Towers in New York, back when my opinion of Pharmaceutical Companies was less cynical than now. Reprinted here for the edification and amusement of my cherished readers. 

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I had a chance to see V FOR VENDETTA, starring Hugo Weaving’s voice and Natalie Portman’s bald head. I must say that rarely have I hated a movie so much.

Usually when I say I “hate” a movie, it is in the half-serious half-pompous and utterly frivolous way that, for example, a fan of Green Lantern “hates” Kyle Ryner (who is not the real Green Lantern) or the way that fans of Spiderman “hated” the black costume (until it became a supervillain in its own right). In other words, geeky fans are just having fun by disliking something they know, deep down, is not very serious. Fanboys “hate” things because they are things that insult our intelligence, or they are pious-PC dreck, or they treat our beloved schoolboy comic characters with contempt.

But I was appalled by this movie in a most serious way, appalled with a revulsion I can hardly explain. It did not offend my aesthetic sense, but my moral sense.

I am not saying the movie offended the principles of story-telling, such as by being ugly or boring (it was, of course). I thought the movie offended humanity itself, by acting as an apologist for evil, by glorifying terrorism, by upholding as noble the doctrine of nothingness which forms the empty core of nihilism.
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The PROBLEM OF PIFFLE, Part Six: Formless & Void (Continued): Chaotic and Ugly

Posted November 5, 2021 By John C Wright

Part Six: Formless & Void (Concluded): Chaotic and Ugly

We continue our examination of the Formlessness and Void necessarily implied by the atheist worldview below. The previous entries are here:

We have previously established that a godless view of the universe, to be logically consistent with itself, must view the universe as nihilist hence irrational, hence unreal, agnostic, nonsensical, immoral, antinomian. 

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A King of Infinite Space in a Nutshell

Posted November 5, 2021 By John C Wright

The argument that “given infinite time and space, all possibilities becomes actualities” is based on an ambiguity of speech. The word “possible” is used in three ways, first, to say something is practical, second, to say something is imaginable, third, to say something is nonsense.

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