Church of the Basement Dragon

09/04/2024

If people had to preface their opinions with the amount of education they've had on the subject, I think things would be a lot different.

Regular Joe: "I have zero education in climate science, I have no degree, certifications, or employment history within that field. My sole qualification is that I watched YouTube videos. - Now here's why I think the entire world's scientific community is wrong about the nature and causes of the thing they've spent their entire lives studying...

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People seem to think they just 'always' have to have an opinion on s**t, whether they know a damn thing about it or not. You don't have to. You can just let people who are actually doing their jobs... just do their jobs and keep your du***ss mouth shut.

I don't know a damn thing about cars, if I walked into an auto shop and started offering opinions about why all the mechanics there were doing everything wrong, every single person in hearing distance would know pretty quickly I was just an opinionated as***le.

So why the F**K does every single goddamn person seem to think that doing that with any field of science is just... well that their idiotic opinion is worth even one ten thousandth of someone who does that s**t for a living?

And the worst of those are conspiracy theorists. 'I think this climate change/vaccine/etc is just some big conspiracy by...'

Dude, shut the f**k up. No. Just...NO. Even IF it were a conspiracy, your du***ss wouldn't know it because you have no education in the fields that would be necessary to understand the truth from a lie.

For f**ks sake if most of these morons had to take a test, even a first year test, on ANY of these subjects they develop firm opinions on, they'd get the same score range as a DOG that guessed answers with its NOSE because they wouldn't even be able to do the math or know what half the damn words meant.

But SOMEHOW pig ignorant morons seem to have concluded that a couple of YouTube videos or a stupid superstitious twit bringing a snowball into congress one day is enough to suggest that a global scientific consensus is somehow 'wrong'. Or that they're somehow 'lying'.

These same f**king idiots grew up hearing about the Ozone layer, never doubted it was a problem, and never thought it was strange that every single government in the world got together, addressed, and fixed the problem by creating restrictions on the CFCs causing the damage.

But a f**kton of ignorant idiots have now decided, 'Nope, sure they can prove their knowledge and I have none, but...why should that stop me from being a contrarian piece of s**t!'

People have their right to stupid opinions, sure.
But that doesn't mean they should choose to have them.

08/30/2024

I do not respect superstition.
I 'tolerate' primitive superstitious people's right to be superstitious, but no I do not respect it, especially if it has a propensity to endorse violence of any kind.

If God wants someone dead, let him do it his damn self, otherwise, it's just you, and...f**k you.

08/12/2024

This is a long read , but if you’re a man , you need to read it .

05/27/2024

I haven't addressed the bear question that's come up a lot, but you know something...

If your response to women saying they don't feel safe around strange men and so would rather encounter a bear...

Is to hope for women to be mauled or killed...

They're right to choose the bear.

04/16/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6-cEAJZlE

This is as relevant today as it was in 1947.

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02/15/2023

Stupidity in a person is far more dangerous than evil. An evil person might come to realize the error of their ways, or they might even see the evil that they do as 'necessary' for some greater good to be accomplished. Or, if they are evil by reason of some 'goal' if that goal is accomplished, they have no reason to continue.

But stupid people can't be reasoned out of stupidity. It's an inherent and inescapable quality, they fall in easily with evil and make themselves into tools. They can't be convinced to stop being stupid for the same reason you can't convince a person stuck in a wheelchair to start walking. An evil person might at least create a gain for themselves, but a stupid person will cause losses to the people around them, for no gain at all, and they will never, ever stop.

Worst of all, because they don't recognize their stupidity, lacking the ability or desire to reflect on their choices, they'll continue to make the same mistakes. Consider televangelists. Some of them are outright scammers. Consider Peter Popoff, he convinced millions of people that he was getting messages directly from God and performing miracle healings. It was just his wife on a hidden radio reading prayer cards filled out by visitors.

Popoff is simply evil, and he fed his greed by preying on the stupidity of others. For intelligent people, even those who might have been tricked initially, this would be a learning moment. But stupid people just flocked to the next self proclaimed miracle worker, having learned nothing.

Stupid people are prone to panic, and consider inevident assertions as evidence by itself. Recall the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, when stupidity in large numbers (which not surprisingly launched a number of profitable ministries) resulted in wild accusations of satanic activity in churches and sent lots of innocent people to prison off of little to no evidence. Almost all of those people were subsequently freed when the furor died down, but some were not, because they were too poor to continue to fight to get justice for themselves.

Stupidity in powerful positions can cause even greater losses, because the reach they have is far broader. Consider King Edward II, his obsession with one close friend was so great that he let it tear apart his country. He fought disastrous wars and could never see more than one step ahead of himself. He brought his country to ruin because he was so stupid he could never understand that the actions he undertook would have consequences for himself and his country.

This isn't to say that evil people can't be stupid, often that just makes things worse. Consider Stalin. Stubborn, short sighted, blind and easily deceived, he was so stupid he wouldn't believe the N***s would invade his country even when they were actively invading it, and his habit of just throwing bodies at the problem until it was solved has continued to have implications for Russia today due to the demographic shift caused by the lost generation (all those who died in WWII and would have no children...what with death and all) but he also did everything he could to secure himself and his own personal power.

I suppose what I'm saying is... beware the stupid.

02/09/2023

True …

01/31/2023

Bigotry and religion go hand in hand so often that it is more or less expected now.

01/15/2023

The world has continued to be a chaotic and difficult place as we begin 2023. And I hope that this finds you all as well as you can be as we move forward. For myself, it has been an interesting beginning. A novel of mine reached the top 100 briefly on Amazon, peaking at #65, (Adopted By Humans, if you're curious), new stories are rolling out as I continue to pursue life as an author while I prepare to end my time as a banker.

And in all these dark days, I've sought answers, trying, as many of you, to understand just how the hell we got to this point. To the point where someone who argues that Jewish space lasers caused a forest fire could be elected...twice. To the point where a multi-time GED failure with no legal experience, who married a pe*****le who is on a s*x offender registry, to the point where a woman who said demon s***m causes female health problems is considered a reasonable source of information... while the world's leading experts and institutions of science are discounted as being party to vast conspiracies.

I had a person tell me that he found it 'suspicious' that all the world's medical institutions were in agreement with one another on vaccination. How does one even answer this kind of delusion?

And we've had actual senators deny climate change while Texas ices over, or bring in snow onto the senate floor as if to show that this would mean climate change is not real, declaring that it can't be real because an invisible undetectable deity they pray to, 'wouldn't allow that to happen'.

How does it begin? What do we do?

And I think I, through no true credit of my own, have stumbled upon something akin to an answer.

Ironically, a religious person helped provide it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor, was arrested by the N***s for speaking against the regime. While in prison, he concluded the problem was... stupidity.

Now as Tyrion Lannister once said, 'Much has been written about the great men in history, but not nearly enough about morons.'

And herein lies the problem. There are five basic laws of stupidity.

-There are a lot more of them than you think. A comedian once said 'think about how dumb the average person is, now remember than about half are dumber than that.'

-The likelihood of stupidity is independent of everything else. Education level, race, s*x, nationality, income, none of that will determine if a person is 'stupid' or not. I would venture to say that some things make stupidity more probable... for example high exposure to lead, or being surrounded by people who reinforce selfishness and denigrate learning and reflection. But on the whole, most characteristics are irrelevant.

-A stupid person is a person who causes losses without gains for themselves.

Who would do that? Well, think about it. During WWII there were Jews who backed Hi**er, and they ended up getting thrown into death camps anyway. They thought they would be considered 'the right ones' and they were wrong. They actively harmed their own interests. There were French troops who were some of Hi**er's last soldiers. There are Republicans who are openly gay, but vote for and support the party that actively fights against their most basic rights. They're shocked, shocked that they don't get to speak at the Republican conventions. Think of every person you know who makes 30K a year, pays $600 in medical insurance, but votes against single payer healthcare because 'socialism bad'.

A stupid person may or may not cause losses to themselves, but they definitely cause losses, and don't even gain from it.

There is a caveat to this. People who cause losses to others, but DO gain from it. These are your 'bandits' or 'evil people'. Think about Donald Trump, his constant fundraising still floods my inbox, and during the peak of his fundraising HE ALONE comprised roughly 1% of chargebacks, disputes, and fraud claims nationwide because his website's solicitation contained a prechecked box authorizing them to charge debit and credit cards more money later... and a lot of people just didn't see it, so they unwittingly gave more money.

These 'bandits' are the same sort that tried to start a 'conservative bank' only to take all the money and run. Or the cryptobro advocates who keep rugpulling and taking money.

Bandits are predictable, vile, but you can understand how they work. I've seen every scam under the sun in my time at the bank, and the details vary but the process does not.

But stupid people don't. They fall for the same scams over and over. Faith healers are a dime a dozen, and yet they continue to draw followers over and over again. When a scandal breaks, they move on to the next one, buying planes to make pastors rich, voting against their interest or voting to harm people just 'because'.

And this brings us to the next problem.

-People who aren't stupid, don't realize how destructive stupid people are. Every line we think is impossibly too far, turns out not to be as far as we thought. Back when our air was so poisonous that people died from it, stupid people opposed clean air legislation. In the 80s, they were cutting the seatbelts out of cars, and in more recent times, they're antivaxxers who now throw out terms like 'pure blood'.

Hell a f**kton of stupid people tried to stop an election certification, and when it failed, everybody who egged them on said, 'We weren't serious, no reasonable person would believe us' and the ones who were arrested were defended with the claim that the accused was too stupid to be held accountable' and yet those same people have learned nothing.

And herein is the final point...

-This makes stupid people the most exceptionally dangerous. I can't argue with reason or evidence, facts or logic, with a stupid person. Hell, their own leadership tells them not to argue facts because they won't win. The thing about stupidity is... those strategies don't work precisely because reality is irrelevant to the stupid, they can just dismiss them, ignore them, pretend they don't exist or build them into some vast conspiracy theory.

I had somebody tell me that they seriously thought that climate scientists were making things up so that they could keep getting jobs studying climate, they then incorrectly cited a study on cattle ranching that they hadn't read, then insisted the climate scientists all over the world were ignoring the decomposition of the grass, and the whole thing was just a big conspiracy.

If facts and expertise can be dismissed as conspiracy... what remains?

So what do we do? What's the solution?

Well the answer lies in something else. Or so I think.

Stupid people aren't going anywhere, and they happen in every society. The important thing is in those who are the 'bandits'.

The people who profit from propogating stupidity. Societies stand or fall on the basis of how people who are NOT stupid, act. If the stupid are more or less protected, i.e. by say... not allowing people to trick them, lie to them for profit, etc. then stupidity is harder for evil people to weaponize.

But if the 'bandits' who rob them blind, push stupidity onto the stupid, exploit them at every turn, and weaponize them for their own ends, are able to increase? Then society will inevitably crumble under the weight of grift and absurdity.

In short, the bandits need consequences. Painful ones. Throwing Alex Jones into poverty is going to be a nice start. But consequences need to start hammering them hard, and across the board. If we allow it to continue unchecked, the weight of stupidity will bring everything crashing down.

12/06/2022

"You Just Don't Want to be Accountable"

This is a pretty common argument from religious people, mostly Xians in my experience, but it happens from the Islamic side as well. It does get rephrased quite a bit, 'you just don't want to be responsible for your actions. You want to be your own god. You don't want to answer to anyone. You don't like rules. Pick your flavor of poison, it always comes down the same way.

But as with most (if not all) religious arguments, there is a great big 'hold up' there to be had.

So if nobody is perfect and everybody deserves to suffer, and nobody deserves to go to any kind of Heaven, but your religion of choice promises that you can get there anyway through prayer, repentance, divine forgiveness, following the rules, and then their god of choice will graciously forgive your imperfections and give you a reward you don't deserve and cannot earn...

Then wait just a second.

That means that your entire religion is set up around one great big dodge of accountability. If anything, 'atheists' are the only ones in the room (alright, agnostics too, if you really want to split that hair) who are taking accountability for themselves.

We're the only ones 'not' worried about answering for our actions. We're not trying to get something we don't deserve, or avoid any potential consequence for our actions.

The more you think about it... the absolute GALL, the HUBRIS of religious people who set up their entire lives around a belief system meant to keep them from being punished for their actions and get an unearned reward... to then look at nonbelievers as if 'we' are the ones who don't want to be answerable for our life choices? It is mind boggling.

Look, I know this page has some religious people following it, so let me tell you this... Nothing bothers me LESS than the idea that I might have to answer for the way I live my life, after I die.

It really isn't a problem to me, the idea that I 'might' in some hypothetical sense of reality that I'm not yet aware of, have to act as my own lawyer before some cosmic judge is really pretty trivial.

I wouldn't mind that, as long as the deity isn't a monster or a moron that is incapable of telling the moral difference between telling a white lie to spare someone's feelings, and say... child r**e.

And if it is a monster of that sort, well what kind of a sick mind is going to kiss up to it to get anything, let alone to get to spend more time with it?

When you get down to it really... the question goes the other way, why are religious people so terrified of accountability? It makes you wonder what they're really feeling guilty for? We can't go a year without a church abuse coverup scandal, and look at some of the questions they ask. 'What's to stop you from ra**ng or murdering if you don't fear punishment from god or going to hell?'

When the people who build their lives around avoiding accountability, are the same people who ask a question like that, all while they still continue to give time and money and support to child and general s*x abuse scandal riddled organizations... really it makes me think the FBI should be checking their browser histories.

Or you know, in the end, maybe it is just projection, the accusation is the confession. They accuse the people who by their beliefs 'will' be accountable, of not wanting to be accountable, while they're avoiding accountability...

Because in the end, that's what they fear most, and fear is when you get right down to it, their primary motivation.

And that's just sad.

11/18/2022

Jehovah's Witnesses policy...
BTW, the Church of Satan's policy is to notify police and remove the suspected offender from any possible contact with minors. Anyone found guilty can no longer be part of their association in any capacity.

JW? Notify legal. Well what about the cops? Well they spend millions of dollars in fines to avoid informing the police.

11/15/2022

In 2 Kings we have the story of how Elisha took Elijah's place as a prophet. In this story, Elijah and Elisha are traveling around quite a bit from place to place, frankly we have no idea 'why' they were going places. But Elisha just kept insisting on going with Elijah no matter what.

Elijah allegedly promises Elisha (when nobody is around) that Elisha will get a double portion of his spirit if he's with him when he goes to heaven.

No sooner than they're completely alone than a chariot and horses of fire show up, and Elijah goes up to Heaven without having died...for some reason. Elisha returns to their other traveling companions without Elijah and spins this story, and they all want to go look for Elijah.

Elisha really, really doesn't want them to go looking, he's described as arguing against a search until he's embarrassed, and they don't find him. This seemingly is enough to convince them either that Elisha was telling the truth, or that Elisha will make you f**king disappear if you don't believe him.

As the story is presented, we're supposed to treat this as some miraculous event, but come on. Realistically? Elisha killed Elijah, tossed his co**se into the river, and made up the BS about inheriting all his power and then some in order to make himself seem even greater than his master.

Take this story in any other context... guy stands to inherit a lot, goes off alone with the guy he is to inherit from, comes back alone with a story about the guy going up to Heaven and not dying... do you believe it? Or do you charge the guy with murder?

Exactly.