Mock Cults/Religions

While I was thinking about the question "do cult leaders believe their own bullshit?" the case of mock cults and mock religions came to mind. A couple of good examples of those are Dudeism, which is a faux religion/philosophy based on the movie The Big Lebowski which is maybe related to concepts from Robert Anton Wilson's "Discordianism".

Another related phony religion is "The Church of the Subgenius" which was a big thing when I was in high school and college--the mascot image of that religion was a 1950s looking man with a pipe named "J.R. Bob Dobbs". I'm not even sure how I knew that. It's possible some friends of mine had materials from the parody "religion" in high school. One of the guys who developed the "Church of the Subgenius" is Ivan Stang who was headquartered in Cleveland Heights, Ohio for some time, which is maybe why it was a big thing here. Stickers of J.R. Bob Dobbs were all over the place. I haven't seen one for ages though.

The mock religions are an interesting case because they are created, intentionally, as a parody of mainstream religions and cults. I think they mock the general concept of "belief" in what's often, ultimately a comic book. Or maybe more generally, they are a reiteration of the concept that the symbolic reasoning mind is really an alien to this earth and can actually "know nothing" of substance. This concept is emphasized most strongly, I think, by science, the ultimate rational mind project which basically demolished all "revealed" religions and then led to the bizarre concepts of the 19th century philosophers who gave birth to Nazi and Zionist ideologies which are really just another species of mock religions.

The "judaism" of a guy like Benjamin Netanyahoo or Ben Shapiro is as "serious" as Dudeism or the Church of Scientology. The core of their "belief" is from a Nazi philosopher who preached that "believing really really hard" was the ultimate/best human activity, which is obviously nonsensical.

Another related example of these fake churches is faux music groups like "the KLF" who had a number of huge hit songs in the early 1990s like "3AM Eternal" and that song that's played all the time at basketball games "Dr Who and the Tardis".

This whole subcategory of philosophy or overall approaches to life is really related to what I'd call "the way", and it pops up at the end of empires. A philosopher like Diogenes is a great example of one. I think the overall category could be labeled "absurdism". I'd even lump stoicism in with that category, and count myself as an absurdist. I think the gnostics are another related category; their claim to knowledge is radically subjective.

The absurdists realize that claims on knowledge are mostly false. Not much can be known. Virtually ever single person parading around on the public stage is an absolute fraud and scumbag. Nations and religions are corporations fleecing people and often mass murdering people for profit.

Will the Psycho Jew Mafia Launch a False Flag Attack on the US?

Unfortunately, it seems like a near certainty that the psycho jew mafia will launch a false flag attack on the US and blame it on Iran and the corrupt doofus government and many dumb fuck Americans will go along with it. However, at the same time lots of people in the US are skeptical of such claims by now. Even if it's 25% of the population that's a whole lot. The media is not as capable of bamboozling the masses as they once were. It's probably wishful thinking to imagine the public would say "no" to escalating the retarded war on Iran to a full scale ground invasion, but it could happen. 

Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Bullshit?

Back in the 1980s, a famous west-coast cult led by an Indian guy named "Bagwan Sri Rajneesh" broke up under pressure from governments for its nefarious activities. The cult was large and had lots of money and real estate all over the world. The cult leader had a collection of Rolls Royce cars. That aspect of the cult was featured on a 60 Minutes piece about it back in the early 80s. I remember watching it when I was a kid.

One of the persistent questions about cults is do the leaders of a cult believe their own bullshit? In the 60 Minutes piece, Rajneesh came across as a very cynical scammer. Whatever words he said were betrayed by his mannerisms and owning a collection of expensive cars, at least that's what I thought when I was maybe 12 years old or so.

 

The Rajneesh cult was just starting to go down the full crazy trail just like Heaven's Gate, or Jonestown cult or Aum Shinrikyo did by the time the Rajneeshies came under legal pressure. For example, they poisoned the local townspeople near their Oregon cult HQ with salmonella in 1984.

The prevalence of cultish behavior and beliefs is lost on many people. For example, in the image above of Rajneesh in a Rolls includes a bunch of people in "asian" style garb and many people associate cult behavior with things "asiatic" or from "the east". However, there are plenty of jews in cults, or european descended people in western style cults. You can find scenes of mobs of jews worshipping various messiah type figures wearing their particular garb which is just some version of the robes warn by the Rajneeshies.

Here's a picture of Trump visiting the grave of Schneerson, the guy pictured above, who led a large cult that apparently is running the US government now.

One model of the cult leader is they are a cynical scammer who knows the ideas they sell to their believers are all imaginary. That is, if they were to have a discussion with an outsider about their cult's beliefs, they'd acknowledge the cult beliefs are just a bunch of nonsense and stories. Another model of the cult leader type is they are also "committed" to their stories. Often they invent a third party, aka "god" who gave them a "revelation".

I think the second type of cult leader is actually the most common and it's the current model in charge of Israel, or the model of the neocons in the United States, which actually seems based on Germanic romantic philosophy and the overall "anti-rationalist" theme of it.

Is the Trump Admin Dumb Enough to Send Troops into Iran?

Lots of pundits are pointing out an "Iran Invasion" is essentially a suicide mission, or is totally implausible to begin with due to the terrain in Iran: It's extremely rugged, even worse than Afghanistan. Also the Iranians had decades to prepare for such a war, so any attempt to invade would likely turn into a bloody failure regardless of air superiority and technological wonder tools like satellites, etc...

In spite of that, the Trump admin seems to be intimating an invasion is in the offing. This makes me wonder if the purpose of the whole Iran boondoggle is really to "destroy" the US to rush in the next level of jewing the population with crypto-currency and AI tracking of behavior.

Anyway, we'll see what happens. The war doesn't seem to be following the script the US and Israel had hoped for and it keeps getting more dangerous every day.

Kelly Osbourne: Bad Models of Reality

I think I watched at least a few episodes of whatever TV show the Osbourne family was on in the early 2000s, so I was aware of who Kelly Osbourne is when her current day picture started circulating the Internet as a cautionary plastic surgery tale. She currently looks like a ghoul.

I think that's a great example of the vast gulf between the ideas people can have about 3D reality world, including their own body, and the natural order of things. It seems like there's no "good" cosmetic surgery, except for things like repairing injuries. Reshaping a human's face or body to fit some particular notion of beauty seems to almost always produce a trainwreck outcome.

Humans seem to have some built in methods of assessing very slight deviations from the natural distribution of muscle, bone, and skin maybe to help us avoid people with diseases. When a plastic surgeon slices and dices somebody's bones and muscles, it leaves some weird fingerprint of distortion that registers as "diseased" or something similar.

A few months ago I was on a flight to LA and sat behind a woman who had filler injected into her face--mainly her lips. She frequently talked to her husband throughout the flight, and he was across the aisle from her so her face was frequently visible. The filler is supposed to make a person look younger, but it just looks  like swelling, maybe from an insect sting. It must not be possible to replace lost collagen and other elements of the natural youthful skin in a way that accurately mimics it. It looks "off". This naturally draws attention if for no other reason than to figure out the problem the person is having.

Kelly Osbourne's visage is just a great example of the gulf between the natural order of things and the mental model of reality, which in her case is just some opinions she, maybe her family and a plastic surgeon had about what her face should look like.

The US "Secretary of War" Is a Cult Freak

 There's a video from 2019 of the current "Secretary of War" ranting about "building the temple" and all the associated kookery. A bunch of death cults infiltrated the Federal government. Aum Shinrikyo successfully infiltrated the Japanese government and police as well.

Israel Spraying Syrian Farmers' Crops

 There's a video from France 24, a public TV station, showing Israeli crop dusters spraying Syrian farmer's crops. Here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp9Xfess3Q

War, chaos, death and destruction from a racial supremacist ethnostate that unfortunately seems to completely control the federal government in the US.