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10/06/2025

God proposition: god true or god false?

Originally posted 2013-07-03 16:53:42.

The god proposition is supported not by fact, but by faith. At the end of the day, the final word that the religiously-disposed have is to say that “It is so because I believe it to be so,” before covering their ears. For them, this trumps everything.

This is the hook that caught Descartes when he confronted the issue, and then backed off very quickly. “I think,” he said, “Therefore I am.” This is fine. He is self-aware therefore he is sure he exists. He cannot be entirely sure that he exists as he perceives himself or that anything that is around him is as he perceives it, but he does make a very convincing argument, based on the progression of rational logic, that it is so (and thus takes several hundred pages to confirm what any pragmatist already knows. But that’s an aside.) However, when confronted by the idea of God, God must exist, he says “Because he cannot imagine a world in which he does not.” Oops.

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10/06/2025

Immersive journalism

Originally posted 2022-06-19 15:14:43.

Immersive journalism is a development of the late Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘gonzo’ style, which revolutionised mainstream reporting and continues to do so.

In Immersive journalism, the writer makes no attempt to distance himself from the action; instead he attempts to get as close to the events going on around him and to the people he is writing about as he can. He is inside the aquarium swimming with the angel fish, not outside it looking in. But this remains journalism; he is always a reporter. It’s just that he himself is at the centre.

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10/06/2025

Men and Ladyboys

Originally posted 2023-12-13 17:45:26.

Feminine but not female

So where does that leave the ladyboy? She is feminine but not female. What can she do?

Perhaps she might seek Genital Reconstruction Surgery, to give herself a replica of the Goddess’ treasure. But wait; many ladyboys, who have had GRS, say that their former partners then avoid them. This is even the case where the bakla is uniquely receptive in sex. But suddenly, equipped with her new vagina, finding men becomes hard. I know post-ops who are resigned to having to pay men for sex for the rest of their lives. Some of them are damn hot girls, as well as charming people, both capable of great love and desperate to give it. How can this be?

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10/06/2025

Elephant in the Room (and Crocodiles)

Originally posted 2013-09-30 15:05:59.

They’re the elephant in the room, where relations between ladyboys and men are concerned.

Elephant, you say? Well, almost without exception, the assertion is made that the men who like ladyboys are straight. Yet when you talk to ladyboys in private, a very different picture appears. Half at least of men who seek out ladyboys, far from being straight or anything close, are closet Autogynephiles (AGP) (and homophobic to boot). They’re not homosexuals, but they are definitely not ‘straight’ either.

This is borne out by research done at Northwestern University by Ken Hsu et alia.

We would not expect honesty from these men about this; after all, look at the lengths they go just to deny their own sexuality and maintain a false façade of hetero-normativity. The elephant must be hidden. Their words may be taken with a moderately-sized bucket of salt. But what about the girls? Why do ladypoys ever lend credibility to this falsehood? Why don’t they just call out these guys as closet queens from the get-go?

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10/06/2025

Merry Christmas!

Originally posted 2013-12-24 13:48:26.

Merry Christmas, Christmas, Yule, Saturnalia, Holidays…it doesn’t really matter what it’s called, because the meaning is the same: this is the time of renewal, when we slough off the old year and the wearisome encrustations that have built up and look forward to the new. It is the time when our sun, Sol, which has been slipping lower and lower in the sky, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere, stops, and begins to rise again, bringing with it the promise of warmth.

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10/06/2025

Protecting the Gender Binary, the basis of civilisation.

Originally posted 2023-07-14 12:12:03.

Today, in the West, it is effectively mandated that male on male sexual activity happens only within the gay ‘scene’ and between gay ‘men’ who essentially are indistinguishable from each other. Through this, the myth has evolved that you didn’t have to be girly to want to be nailed to the bed by a hairy beast. Thus was born the ridiculous pseudo-masculine New Gay Man.

[kofi]

Something similar happened amongst lesbians. Until the 1970s, they’d all pretty much look like brickies, but in the new ‘egalitarian’ mode, they had to appear to be feminine. So now you couldn’t tell a lesbian just by looking at her. Well, you could, really, but that would spoil the story, wouldn’t it?

Underlying these cultural shifts is the lying, green-eyed monster of feminism, the greatest curse to afflict humanity since the Black Plague. This saw females as being ‘oppressed’ by males as a result of their sex. So, conflating sex with gender, they made the jejune proclamation that getting rid of gender — specifically the gender binary — would make it all better again.

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10/06/2025

Peg Replacement on a Fiddle or Violin

Originally posted 2013-06-27 22:56:04.

To replace a peg, you’ll need the right tools.

Some of these are specialised, and can be expensive, but even after just one set of pegs, you’ll be ahead, and believe me, then you’ll want to do more.

One of the most common problems with old violins is that the pegs are poorly fitted, are not a match to the violin or are just plain old worn out. A fiddle that won’t tune because the pegs jam or slip is a curse. Fitting new pegs is not difficult to do.

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10/06/2025

Hippy chicks, bedhopping and Hawkwind,: London 1973

Originally posted 2023-06-23 18:41:22.

Hawkwind, Bedhopping and Hippy Chicks. London in 1973, to a young lad fresh from the sticks, was something else. It certainly wasn’t the London of today.

I lived in a squat (much to my mother’s horror) with a bunch of other young people. I was seventeen. Yes, we were hippies. What classified the hippies, as far as we could see, was that we were all resolutely middle-class, smoked pot and followed an ‘alternative’ lifestyle. Hippy guys wore their hair long, past their shoulders, with jeans and maybe tie-dyed tee-shirts and hippy chicks tended to go for floral print dresses and that ethereal look. They also had a penchant for Patchouli Oil!

We read Oz magazine and Time Out — though we rarely actually went out, on account of being broke most of the time. There was no Internet and we rarely had access to a television, so listening to music was our main entertainment. And I do have to say, some pub landlords were very hostile towards us, even though, if we went to a pub, we were always very quiet and polite. I don’t recall anyone ever getting into a fight, not even over a chick. (Hippy chicks came in two variants: the ones who stuck with one guy like glue and those who liked to spread their love; the latter could cause tensions.)

Hippy Chicks and bedhopping.

This piece describes going to see Hawkwind perform under the arches in Ladbroke Grove, on a Saturday. I met Michael Moorcock, who was a hero of mine (still is.) I also met the famous Lemmy Kilmister, RIP, who was then the bass player with Hawkwind, before going on to form Motorhead, which was far more his thin. It goes on to discuss ‘bedhopping’, which was indulged in by nominally homeless hippy chicks and life as it was lived in a squat with no electricity or water! (We were very adventurous.)

We were all very young; I think the oldest of us was twenty-two; I crave forgiveness for our youthful excesses.

10/06/2025

Sex Atypical Boys

Originally posted 2018-04-27 09:52:47.

Nearly all Sex Atypical boys, if they persist, will become adult Homosexual transsexuals (HSTS) or pseudo-masculine Homosexuals. These are exclusively attracted to masculine men. This has been established beyond doubt and one would have thought that, in our enlightened era, we would be happy to go along with this. But a movement has coalesced that aims to challenge this: the ‘gender critical’ movement.

Characteristics of Sex Atypical boys

The obvious clustering of physical and behavioural characteristics around childhood Sex Atypical boys, makes it clear that these individuals are naturally shifted towards opposite-sex norms. In other words, people who are Sex Atypical in childhood are naturally so.

Which type they will develop into, the True Transsexual or HSTS, or the pseudo-masculine gay, cannot be predicted in childhood. To attempt to condition them towards one or the other — almost exclusively, in the West, towards the pseudo-masculine form, is grossly abusive, yet it is clearly what the gender-crit movement exists to do.

[kofi]

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10/06/2025

Marriage: Why women invented it.

Originally posted 2018-02-16 11:35:01.

Marriage is a puzzle. Why does it exist at all?

Humans are a peculiar species, because it takes so long for our children to reach sexual maturity. This is because of the size of our brains. The overall development of human children is slowed in order for our brains, which are not only big but highly sophisticated, to grow and for us to learn enough to survive. And why do we need to learn? Because human society is complex and navigating it takes great skill and knowledge.

Even animals with similar omnivorous diets to ours like chimps, our near relatives, mature much more quickly. And the issue is not one of body mass; a bovine will grow to adulthood, five times the mass of a human, in 30 months. We are special in this regard.

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Immersive journalism is a development of the late Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘gonzo’ style, which revolutionised mainstream reporting and continues to do so.

Men and ladyboys — how do they relate? This series of articles will explore the topic.

Feminine but not female

They’re the elephant in the room, where relations between ladyboys and men are concerned.

Hippy Chicks and bedhopping.

Characteristics of Sex Atypical boys