My guitars

guitar

mmm...Ketogenic diet

Making the world a better place...one laser shooting kitty at a time

FREEDOM

halloween in a nutshell

We need more letters

I CAN'T WRITE ANYMORE

Yay music, and my favorite albums from the last 10 years

In absolutely no order
1. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
Oxford Comma
2. Cursive: Ugly Organ
Art is Hard
3. Kaki King: Until We Felt Red
Yellow Cake
4. Cursive: Happy Hollow
Big Bang
5. The Thermals: The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Pillar Of Salt
6. Beirut: Flying club cup
Nantes
7. Good Life: Album of the Year
Album of the Year

Probably missed a lot, and yes I realize I'm obsessed with Tim Kasher.

New Blog

I've started a new blog at http://vegansizeme.blogspot.com/

My try at Vegan Cooking

Easy recipe I made up for a cheesy garlic basil pasta

Okay the first part is a lie. There's no cheese, instead I used nutritional yeast as a replacement, but yeast sauce sounds gross. So let's get cooking

What you need

1/2 pound of macaroni or fettuccine
1/2 pound of sliced egg plant
Sauce:
1 cup of nutritional yeast
1/4 cup of olive oil
1 Large Onion cut in chunks
8 cloves of garlic cut small
3 teaspoons of smoked paprika
1/2 cup of vegetable broth
teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons soy sauce
1/2 cup of basil leaves
Some black pepper


Cook onions for three minutes on medium-high heat on stove, then add garlic. Continue cooking for 2 more minutes, then add to blender or food processor. Add rest of sauce ingredients and process until slightly smooth. Set aside

Next began cooking sliced egg plants on stove for 5 minutes. Then add 1/2 cup of sauce and stir for 3 minutes.

Cook pasta according to package, top off with the egg plant and sauce, and eat. :)

My new favorite album

It's called "()" by Sigur Ros. It's an experimental album where they use the same lyrics for every song throughout the entire album, although the vocals are recorded in "Vonlenska" ("Hopelandic"), which consists of meaningless syllables and resembles scat singing. The first four songs are slow. "It comprises eight untitled tracks, divided into two parts: the first four tracks are more light and optimistic, while the latter four are bleaker and more melancholic. The two halves are divided by a 36-second silence, and the album opens and closes with a click of distortion."

The album just puts me in a great place.

Watch a video from it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AZIFmkogY

Infanticide, Child Rape and War in Early States

This is Chapter 8 of The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd Demause

The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
Chapter 8
Infanticide, Child Rape and War in Early States

The progress accomplished when moving from tribes to early states based upon more complex non-kinship political systems—splendidly documented by Eli Sagan in his book At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State1—was the result of improvements in childrearing that moved beyond the tribal abandoning childrearing mode described in the previous chapter to the more maternal domination-centered childrearing mode of antiquity. Mothers in early states became more trapped into limited areas in their homes with other females (the gynarchy) and fathers had little to do with their families. As historians have concluded: “In antiquity, women lived shut away. They rarely showed themselves in public [but] stayed in apartments men did not enter; they rarely ate with their husbands….They never spent their days together.”2 Xenophon reports that the women and children were “separated from the men’s quarters by a bolted door,”3 where the men “dined and entertained male guests,” especially the young boys they used in sexual intercourse in preference to their wives. Thus Herodotus could admit that “a boy is not seen by his father before he is five years old, but lives with the women.”4 It was mainly the women of the gynarchy in every early state who determined the child’s personality through infanticide, incest, torture and domination, so early families are termed by historians as matrifamilies: “The family in Egypt was matriarchal. The most important person in the family was not the father, but the mother. The Egyptian wife was called the ‘Ruler of the House.’”5 Right up to the Reformation it was common that “a boy until seventeen should sleep in the same bed as his mother,”6 so that maternal incest was common.

The result of this new family arrangement was that mothers, grandmothers and aunts became all-powerful in the family, taking out their own enormous frustrations and abandonments by their husbands and their huge responsibilities for feeding and clothing their families by routinely killing their newborn, dominating them and calling them “sinful, greedy beasts” for needing them,7 tying them up in tight swaddling bands, battering and torturing them, handing them over to cruel nurses and adoptive parents for daily care, and giving them to neighboring men and teachers to rape. It is therefore not surprising to discover that after living millions of years under tribal kinships these earliest states could only begin to organize their political systems by repeating their dominating, sadistic childrearing practices, whereby sovereigns were all-powerful delegates of Killer Goddesses, often practicing ritual human sacrifice of children, as of the infants sacrificed to goddesses in megalithic temples. The “wandering spirits” of tribal inner voice alters became organized into the sadistic gods of sacrificial states, and people owed their allegiance beyond kinship ties to rulers and priests in central cities where the Killer Mother goddess ritually slaughtered and ate people to energize Herself.8 The result was an early state that devoted most of its energies to sacrificial wars whose purpose is not just to kill others but also to destroy one’s own warriors and resources in endless suicidal battles. Borrowing from James Masterson’s list of borderline personalities,9 I have described the psychoclass of antiquity as “a narcissistic personality, warding off their sense of an empty self by fusing with the harsh attacking parent inner alter and forming a grandiose self that is exploitative, distrustful, ruthless and lacking in empathy, preoccupied with fantasies of power needed to defend against their weak sense of self.”10

The History of Child Abuse

The History of Child Abuse
by Lloyd deMause

An amazing article by the Founder of the Institute of Psycho-history Lloyd deMaus regaring Child Abuse and its effect over many generations.

The Journal of Psychohistory 25 (3) Winter 1998

The following speech was given at the National Parenting Conference in Boulder, Colorado, on September 25, 1997.

During the past three decades, I have spent much of my scholarly life examining primary sources such as diaries, autobiographies, doctor's reports, ethnographic reports and other documents that document what it must have felt like to have been a child--yesterday and today, in the East and the West, in literate and preliterate cultures.

In several hundred studies published by myself and my associates in The Journal of Psychohistory, we have provided extensive evidence that the history of childhood has been a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes--and the further away from the West one gets--the more massive the neglect and cruelty one finds and the more likely children are to have been killed, rejected, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused by their caretakers.

Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis. Most historical families once practiced infanticide, erotic beating and incest. Most states sacrificed and mutilated their children to relieve the guilt of adults. Even today, we continue to arrange the daily killing, maiming, molestation and starvation of children through our social, military and economic activities. I would like to summarize here some of the evidence I have found as to why child abuse has been humanity's most powerful and most successful ritual, why it has been the cause of war and social violence, and why the eradication of child abuse and neglect is the most important social task we face today.

Insomnia

Trying to fall asleep at 11pm has obviously failed as I'm posting at 2:08am. Sleeping has become more and more difficult as every time I lay in my bed, especially recently, I contemplate what I should do with the knowledge that when I die, it's all over. There's nothing after this, and this is the life we have. It actually reminds me of a monologue, give in the movie Bad Boy Bubby.
" You see, no one's going to help you Bubby, because there isn't anybody out there to do it. No one. We're all just complicated arrangements of atoms and subatomic particles - we don't live. But our atoms do move about in such a way as to give us identity and consciousness. We don't die; our atoms just rearrange themselves. There is no God. There can be no God; it's ridiculous to think in terms of a superior being. An inferior being, maybe, because we, we who don't even exist, we arrange our lives with more order and harmony than God ever arranged the earth. We measure; we plot; we create wonderful new things. We are the architects of our own existence. What a lunatic concept to bow down before a God who slaughters millions of innocent children, slowly and agonizingly starves them to death, beats them, tortures them, rejects them. What folly to even think that we should not insult such a God, damn him, think him out of existence. It is our duty to think God out of existence. It is our duty to insult him. Fuck you, God! Strike me down if you dare, you tyrant, you non-existent fraud! It is the duty of all human beings to think God out of existence. Then we have a future. Because then - and only then - do we take full responsibility for who we are. And that's what you must do, Bubby: think God out of existence; take responsibility for who you are."

You can find the scene here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWe3YGVH58

Why God can't exist

In the world of philosophy, those who make the active claim that God does not exist are often viewed as extremists. Taking a positive stand about the nonexistence of God is considered akin to claiming that all forms of matter, energy and consciousness have already been discovered, and that there is nothing new to be learned from the universe. The simple fact that scientific truths are constantly being overturned is considered reasonable justification for a form of scientific agnosticism, which is generally expanded to include the vague possibility of the existence of a supernatural being such as gods. Since we do not know everything about the universe, agnostics claim, it is impossible to rule out the possibility that gods might exist. Thus “strong atheism” – the positive declaration of the nonexistence of gods – is generally viewed as an irrational position, ironically on par with the theist’s assertion that gods do exist.

The best book I've read on how a stateless society would work

A while back Stefan Molyneux wrote a book called " Practical Anarchy" in which he examined how a stateless society could work. To date, I find it to be the best introduction to how a voluntary/pacifist society, and the results of it. Recently, he released the book for free in pdf and audio form, and if you have ever been interested in any of these ideas you should give it a read.

For the PDF:
http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/books/FDR_5_PDF_Practical_Anarchy_Audiobook.pdf

Audio Book:
http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/books/FDR_5_Practical_Anarchy_Audiobook_LOW_QUALITY.mp3

He also has another of other books for free on his web page, my favorite being Universally Preferable Behaviour
http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/

Hans -Hermann Hoppe's "The Idea of a Private Law Society"

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a distinguished fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

http://mises.org/story/2265

The Idea of a Private Law Society

by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Alone on his island, Robinson Crusoe can do whatever he pleases. For him, the question concerning rules of orderly human conduct – social cooperation – simply does not arise. This question can only arise once a second person, Friday, arrives on the island. Yet even then, the question remains largely irrelevant so long as no scarcity exists.

Suppose the island is the Garden of Eden; all external goods are available in superabundance. They are "free goods," just as the air that we breathe is normally a "free" good. Whatever Crusoe does with these goods, his actions have no repercussions – neither with respect to his own future supply of such goods nor regarding the present or future supply of the same goods for Friday (and vice versa). Hence, it is impossible for there ever to be a conflict between Crusoe and Friday concerning the use of such goods. A conflict is only possible if goods are scarce. Only then will the need arise to formulate rules that make orderly, conflict-free social cooperation possible.

In the Garden of Eden only two scarce goods exist: the physical body of a person and its standing room. Crusoe and Friday each have only one body and can stand only at one place at a time. Hence, even in the Garden of Eden conflicts between Crusoe and Friday can arise: Crusoe and Friday cannot occupy the same standing room simultaneously without coming into physical conflict with each other. Accordingly, even in the Garden of Eden rules of orderly social conduct must exist – rules regarding the proper location and movement of human bodies. Outside the Garden of Eden, in the realm of scarcity, there must be rules that regulate not only the use of personal bodies but also of everything scarce so that all possible conflicts can be ruled out. This is the problem of social order.

The Classical Liberal Conception of Social Order

In the history of social and political thought, myriad proposals have been offered as solutions to the problem of social order, and this variety of mutually incompatible proposals has contributed to the fact that the search for a single "correct" solution is frequently deemed illusory, yet a correct solution exists.

Proving Libertarian Morality

By Stefan Molyneux, my good friend from Canada
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux8.html

One of the central challenges faced by libertarians is the need to prove that libertarian moral theory is universally correct, while statist and collectivistic moral theories are incorrect. Until moral rules can be subjected to the same rigour and logic as any other propositions, we will forever be stymied by subjectivism, political prejudices and the argument from effect.

Gun Laws

This is an article I wrote for lewrockwell.com a while back and felt like posting here
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/morales1.html

Gun Laws by Carlos Morales

In the United States, the issues and emotions surrounding gun control often obfuscate what is in essence, a matter of personal choice and responsibility. Currently, a majority of Americans believe that tighter gun restrictions, than those already in place, should be implemented to reduce crime rates and the incidence of mass shootings; and, with support ebbing from the recent Virginia Tech massacre, many politicians and preachers alike have advocated this reactionary policy.

Jesus didn't exist (well at least not the one from the bible)

The Historicity of the New Testament By Carlos Morales


The authenticity and historical validity of the Christian Holy Scriptures has rarely been questioned due to the sacred position it has been endowed. By protecting the text from scholarly criticism, as the Church has done for millennia, the New Testament scriptures have “…bypassed rational argumentation by cultivating superstitious fears” (Price 10). As Christianity remains prominent, emphasis on misconceptions of biblical accounts, as well as the validity of those texts, is necessary in the quest for knowledge. From the Letters from Paul to the Gospel of John, the New Testament is riddled with historical inaccuracies, contradictions, and without regard to the time-space continuum.