Clonmel Protests For Clonmel People

Far-right agitators from all over the country are converging on a housing development of 82 modular homes in Clonmel earmarked for asylum-seekers.

"We've seen lots of unvetted males being bussed in to shout abuse at vulnerable people," said one concerned Clonmel resident. "We don't know where they're from, or if they've been involved in any kind of criminal activity."

Other native Clonmel people were not so diplomatic.

"Go back to where you came from!" shouted another concerned Clonmel resident. "Just get back on your bus and go home!"

"We already have enough far-right goons in this town already," said another very concerned Clonmel resident. "You've seen what it's like on Saturdays. We just can't handle anymore."

Too many outsiders up in here.

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ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Japan attacked a military target thousands of miles away from any American land. America dropped two atomic bombs on concentrated civilian populations on the Japanese mainland.

We need to be able to speak these truths without feeling the need to add a “but”.

Christians are only Christians because they want to sin. 

Perhaps the best evidence that Atheism is an intellectually vacant position is the Atheists need to create straw men to rationalize their stance. The crux of the issue in this pathetic cartoon is the concept of “sin”. The word sin has its roots in archery. Archers would shoot at a target with concentric rings from a great distance. The outer ring of the target was worth no points (but you still see that the arrow hit the target). In tournaments a judge would be placed down range, partly to prevent cheating, to observe the arrows strike the target and call out the result. If the arrow completely missed the target the judge would call out “sin” — you’ve completely missed the target.

Why is this important?

Because the real distinction between the Atheist and the Christian in this cartoon is their belief, or disbelief, in objective truth and objective reality — The “target” one must completely miss to “sin”. An atheist believes that morality is a construct and, by implication, reality is ultimately subjective — there is no target. This sets up two diametrically opposed ways of looking at the world:

The Christian, by believing in objective truth, implicitly believes that there are objective moral standards. It also follows from these premises, that there must be something just, moral and rational manifest in the Universe (aka God). The inductive proof of purpose: If purpose exists then there is a source from which purpose is derived (an author), otherwise all purpose (all meaning) is illusory and all logic fallacy. A Christian believes, given a truth out there, that, to be in harmony with the universe, he must be in conformity to this truth. A Christian acknowledges his own limits and lack of understanding and contemplates ‘mysteries”: While there is an objective truth, it is beyond his understanding. A Christian must rely on narrative to help him make sense of the vastness of reality. He knows his narrative isn’t “the truth”, he is a truth seeker attempting to move closer to something greater than himself. To the degree that his narrative is in error, the Christian will err — sometimes to the point of “sin”. It is, however, a Christian’s belief in, and love of, objective truth, reality and morality that drives his quest and calls him to repentance. Believing in a just, moral God, that loves and calls to its creation (and, yes, that can all be derived logically, much as the Stoics did), his desire to know and conform to God’s will absolves him of his sins - he is a participant as the universe mold him to it’s ends — dancing with God.

An atheist believes that he is the author of his own reality. His narrative, to him, is the truth (to the degree he believes there is truth)— he is, in essence, his own God. He rejects an objective God because his narrative cannot contain, let alone explain, the vastness of reality with all it’s seemingly contradictory and cruel manifestations. He must retain an unsupported belief in purpose to retain some semblance of sanity but he believes, absurdly, that purpose can be self-created (again, implicitly making himself the author of reality, aka, God). The cognitive dissonance of this world view allows him to assimilate Christian principles of objective reality, morality and truth (the foundations of western “Science” — which we used to call “philosophy”: love of Truth) without attributing them to their source. Ultimately, the Atheist seeks to make the universe conform to his own will and rebels against his own conformity. A Christian would quickly recognize this worldview as Satanic and it would not take a lot of inquiry to see how often atheism is the gateway drug to Satanism.

No.

The purpose of that cartoon is to demonstrate the poverty of the theist position that atheists “just want to sin”. That’s the entire purpose of that cartoon.

This guy appear to not only have missed that point, but typed a whole bunch of words that are essentially meaningless babble. It’s standard presuppositionalist nonsense. Just read that second paragraph above and try to make sense of any of it. Good luck.

The worst form of pseudo-philosophy is shit like "everything in reality is either Chaos or Order," "everything in reality is either Masculine or Feminine," "everything in reality is either Dark or Light" like dude you haven't discovered some deep truth about the universe you've literally just discovered Adjectives. I can say everything in reality is either Heavy or Light depending on whether I can lift it over my head but that doesn't give you any profound fuckin insight I'm just describing shit and yes this is about jordan peterson

Forcing your reality into a series of clearly-defined boxes that don’t explain anything is the opposite of philosophy.

What's happening right now in the Ukraine is awful, but also if you're a Muslim and not white enough you can go fuck yourself

Please think of the reasons we’re all so upset about what’s happening in the Ukraine and ask yourself whether or not those reasons also apply to other areas (like Palestine, Somalia, Yemen etc.). And if they do, why do you think you’re not upset by these? What do these places have in common that does not apply to the Ukraine?