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1. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser
Our fundraiser took a big step forward thanks primarily to a single very generous donor: our total now stands at $81,177.91. Once again, my sincere thanks to all who have helped. But we are still a long way from our goal of $300,000 and still more than $20,000 behind where we were at the same time last year ($101,213.21). Generally, the rule is that 50% of fundraising happens in the last quarter of the year. Which means that we are not likely to meet our goal unless we get to $150,000 by the end of the month. Let’s try to make that happen!
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3. Your Chance to Own a Piece of Meme History
Note: There are still a few copies left.
The “Happy Merchant” is the most famous cartoon since Mickey Mouse. Its creator, A. Wyatt Mann, has been drawing cartoons for decades. People have been copying, adapting, and merchandising his work for years, but he was not in it for the money. He did it for the sheer joy of creation and the fun of mocking politically correct sacred cows.
A. Wyatt Mann has now released a limited edition of 100 signed, numbered, high-quality prints of the Happy Merchant at $200 each.
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In addition to offering these limited edition prints, Mann’s website also includes a vast and growing collection of various merchant memes, merchant art by fans, and particularly subversive hidden merchant memes. There’s even an exclusive interview with A. Wyatt Mann inthe biography section: https://awyattmann.com/
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Why do people make odd numbered dollar contributions?
Sometimes it is to make a political statement (like “$1984”).
Some of it goes back to the days when people mailed in contributions which were then read out on air (like “23.32”). The podcaster could acknowledge the contribution without having to give away the sender’s name, while the contributor knew the donation was received by recognizing the unique dollar amount.
OPSEC.
Not sure now if it was this stream or the MW/Keith one, but can someone explain the ontological argument really slowly, without assuming the “therefore” bit. Explain the therefore bit, atom by atom. I’ve gone over it many times. It makes no sense to me.
I do get the starting premises:
God is the most perfect/greatest being imaginable,
The ‘greaterness’ of reality to something just in the mind,
If God, the greatest being is only in the mind, then in theory, there could be some being greater who also exists in reality. Still ok.
Then there’s the jump I don’t get, to God must therefore exist, I assume because of this contradiction between God as an ideal only in the mind, and this different possible version that exists also in reality, who’s greater because he’s real. So I guess there’s two ‘greatest’ conceptions of God. But they can’t both be the greatest.
It’s not stated properly in the argument, but because this ‘real’ God as perfection is also our conception, I think might be something to do with the outcome, but I haven’t been able to join it together. Anselm uses the language “no greater than that which be conceived”. How we get to “therefore God exists then”, is just baffling. Perhaps it made some sense for this 11th century cleric. It needs rewording today, recontexualizing for a different audience today, who may not be familiar with certain philosophical or theological assumptions.
It’s not even clear to me what later philosophers are responding to. Apparently they ‘get’ it. I can’t unravel it from them.
The closest thing I can find on the Wikipedia article to the missing leap, is this line:
Consequently, a thing than which nothing greater can be conceived cannot be conceived not to exist and so it must exist.
TBH, this is the end of philosophy I have never warmed to. It looks like some private word game, or using language and words interchangeably with things, to get a result. When people get turned off by philosophy, it’s probably this stuff.
But change my view :DDD
I plan to write something on this topic, but not in the near future.
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Great. Look forward to it.
“It makes no sense to me.”
The reason you enjoy watching football, or whatever your sport is, is because you understand the rules of the game and you know who the players are. The same can be said for Christianity; unless you know who the players are and the rules of the game you will never get it.
This is related to my question.
Question 1 for Grok:
Within how many weeks the 7 AfD candidates died in Germany?
Grok’s answer : Two weeks.
There are about 20000 seats in North Westphalia in the September elections.
Question 2 for Grok.
What is the probability that in a random sample of 20000 people, at least 7 die within 2 weeks in Germany?
Grok’s answer: 0.0028, or 0.28%
If you are really generous with the parameters (considering that these politicians tend to be older, over 55), maybe you get to 1%. If you take into account the spatial localization of these events (North Westphalia), and the fact that they were all in AfD the probability can only decrease, really decrease.
This is not a likely event by any means. That’s a fact.
To be fair, I don’t know what policies they favored related to defense, apart from the official AfD stance (only AfD insiders can answer this question, and the police if they do their job right), these were local politicians, the defense policies are usually pushed by higher level members of the AfD, but as a message sent to AfD, this chain of events will surely have an impact. So this part of my question was speculation, I admit, but there are members of AfD that favor a German nuclear weapons program, that’s a fact according to reported news.
Personally I believe that Europe must reach nuclear deterrent parity with the Asiatic Empires, if survival is a priority for Europeans in the future, here I agree with Greg. As for nonproliferation, what are they talking about, all of Asia in nuclear to their teeth (and the Russians played a big part in this game, among others) ?
The German authorities reported no foul play, yeah right, no surprise there, what else is new ? If I am right, even writing this comment is probably not a good idea, even when hiding behind a fake name. Luckily I don’t have any real or potential power to affect the defense strategy of a country like Germany (or any other important issue), so probably they won’t bother. Pardon my conspiracy theory tendencies, promise I’ll be a good boy sometime in the future, but for the time being, I don’t give a shit.
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