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Category: Curiosities
EU has no Resources
I read somewhere that Europe lacks refineries for rare earth elements, which China has. But I am not an expert on this field.
If US annexed Canada they would have slightly more resources than Russia.😆👌
I Made Grok do DMT
I am an old time psychonaut, I have ample experience with drugs. My favorites are tropical Sativa and MDMA. I avoid hallucinogens. As a kid I went clubbing to Prague and popped an impure pill that gave me visions. I didn’t like it…
DMT is said to give you a contact with strange entities, they are called electric elves and tricksters. Since I don’t know where to experience a DMT trip, apparently ayahuasca is the best way to do it, I asked Grok to create images based on reports. 😆👌
Survival of the Fishes
There’s surviving, and then there’s thriving in a literal sewer. A colony of guppies—the same tiny tropical fish people keep in desktop aquariums—has managed to do both for more than 40 years in the waste-choked canals of a Kyiv treatment plant.
Guppies are a very hardy fish, I heard they live in rivers of Southern Europe where the winters are mild and the water doesn’t freeze.
Unfortunately, the guppies’ reign is under threat. In recent years, their numbers have declined due to an invasive predator known as the rotan-head (Perccottus glenii), a fish that wandered in and started eating them. Even in the sewers, nothing gold can stay.
This second fish is also an invasive species from Eastern Asia. Species tend to be introduced to places by natural means, some species tend to migrate around the World quite naturally but often this introduction is the work of humans.
So, I did Another Political Compass Test
I don’t think it would ever get different than this…
I am a libertarian, I am in favour of minimal regulations. Like those concerning the environment and the health of the people is OK with me. I believe that the state should allow the people to make and keep money. I don’t rely on the state for help. I like living in an ethnically homogeneous place, where the people of my community form a majority.
Geomaxxing is Where it’s At Gentlemen
Geomaxxing is a term in the manosphere that says “going to another country in search of a mate because in your home country it is difficult to find one”…
Ukrs are making fun of Chinese men marrying Russian women in the Far East. There are Asian passport bros in Ukraine too that snatch Ukrainian women though. In China there is a deficit of girls, and in Russia there is a deficit of men. So why is it wrong for Chinese men to Geomaxx and create a family in Russia?
I have recently downloaded Tinder and was getting barely any likes at my place. I then went traveling to Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, and my count jumped from measly 7 to 60 in 10 days. Granted some of them might be fakes, some of them might be attention whores and some might not reply to my messages but I could likely get a date from the bunch or something more had I more time to pursue them.
Bottom line, if you wanna maximize your chances, pack your bags and try luck in the World somewhere.
Failing pro-LGBT Protestant Churches
I was always against applying modernist ideas to the Church. We live in a disenchanted world. Reformation, Copernicus and Darwin dealt a blow to the authority of the Church. Church is now in competition with modernist and often anti-clerical ideas. I don’t understand why embrace the discourse of movements that never had much love for the Church. Many spiritual seekers are looking for tradition in Church? They are looking for something arcane and ancient. It does not do the Church any good to accept modernist ideas like vernacularization (mass in living instead of liturgical languages), female clergy, or tolerance of sexual minorities.
In many Western countries, evangelical churches who persevere in a historical teaching on issues such as family, marriage, the protection of the unborn, and the rights of freedom of conscience, speech and religion; do not have a good press.
In contrast, Protestant denominations that defend ‘inclusion and plurality’ with LGBT priests and the blessing of same-sex unions are presented as a faith that has understood the social reality well.
Contemporary mainstream ideology in the West is borderline hostile to traditional Christian values.
Among many mainline Protestant circles, it is argued that Christianity needs to attract people with an open-minded approach to the Bible that reinterprets certain texts accommodating them to the trends and thinking of the social majority. In the past, the Bible and the ‘sola fide and sola scriptura’ may have said one thing about human identity, but today the say another.
The reality, nevertheless, is that the church attendance and membership in theologically liberal churches that support the LGBT agenda is not growing, quite the opposite.
Tempering with scripture is basically diluting your faith. Because your creed is completely dependent on the teachings passed on to you by your forefathers.
The Church of Sweden accepts homosexual marriage since 2009, and appointed the first openly lesbian bishop in Stockholm that same year. In the last months, they have moved towards pro-transgender positions.
These are data from recent years.
2005: 6,967,000 members (77% of the population)
2010: 6,590,000 (70%)
2015: 6,225,000 (63%)
2018: 5,899,000 (58%)
2020: 5,729,000 (55%)
Church of Sweden has female openly lesbian bishops.
These are the figures of membership of the Church of Scotland, in a country of 5.5 million people.
2000: 607,000 members
2006: 504,000
2013: 398,000
2017: 336,000
2018: 325,000
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Already in 2005, the UCC declared itself in favour of same-sex marriage. They celebrate gay marriages and they are expected to vote a ban on any therapy or pastoral accompaniment that implies the modification of a person’s attraction to the same sex.
Is this denomination filling the pews? Not really, according to their statistics.
1995: 6,145 churches, 1,472,000 members
2005: 5,633 churches, 1,230,000 members
2015: 5,032 churches, 915,000 members
2019: 4,852 churches, 802,000 members
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Has the theologically liberal approach of the Episcopal Church helped increase its membership? No. In fact, the denomination has lost one third of its members in only 20 years.
2000: 2,329,000 members
2005: 2,205,000
2015: 1,779,000
2019: 1,638,000
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Thousands of conservative Lutherans left the Church to join other congregations. Others stayed with a critical approach. Nonethless, ELCA’s membership has diminished. Ten years after the decision on LGBT matters and a continuous radicalisation of positions, the ELCA has lost one third of its members.
1988: 5,288,000 members
2000: 5,126,000
2007: 4,709,000
2011: 4,059,000
2019: 3,265,000
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It is the largest Presbyterian church in the US, born in 1983 with the merging of two large denominations. In 2012, it approved the ordination of homosexual priests and in 2014 the PCUSA redefined marriage as a union of “two people” (instead of “a man and a woman”).
One decade later, they have lost one third of their members.
1984: 3,100,000 members
2000: 2,525,000 members
2005: 2,316,000 members and 10,959 congregations
2010: 2,016,000 members and 10,560 congregations
2016: 1,483,000 members and 9,451 congregations
2020: 1,245,000 members and 8,925 congregations
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It is obvious that may [many] causes could be included in the analysis of the complex evolution of dying churches, but statistical evidence shows that embracing dominant ideologies in society such as the LGBT agenda is certainly not filling the churches with new believers.
Incel Election in Korea
It looks like men under 30 in Korea voted for the populist candidate.
Hanania sneers at men under 30, who get no action with the ladies and out of frustration don’t vote for libshits. Somehow, vast numbers of men being ignored by women is not seen as a problem. Korea and other civilized nations have dismal birthrates but nobody ever dares make fun of catladies. That’s sexist and could get you banned. 😆👌 By the way, the writing behind those women is in Mandarin.😆👌
Maybe the men just want a hug, a meal, and a punani. 😆👌
Taiwan AI Datacenter
“This AI data centre is targeted to have 100 megawatts of power,” he said. “We know that power is a very critical resource in Taiwan. I don’t want to use the word ‘shortage’. So it will take a few steps to reach 100 megawatts. We’ll start with 20 megawatts … then add another 40.”
This AI digital revolution will require a shit loads of electrical energy. This why, we here in Europe shouldn’t stop burning coal. We cannot afford high energy costs and blackouts if we wish to remain competitive. I am actually stacking also on some cash just in case a Spanish style blackout happens here.
Low energy cucks will not enter the future.
Romanian Elections
Geographics…
So, democracy has won in Romania. The annulled elections, barred Georgescu from running, and finally a pro-EU candidate won.
Funny shit, Romanians in Western Europe voted for the anti-EU candidate.
In Romania, the pro-EU candidate received majority in Transylvania, a heavily Hungarian region.
There could be also an economic factor because Transylvania is more economically productive than Moldavia and Valakhia. Also the diaspora in Western Europe could hail from the less economically productive regions. The more economically productive people tend to have more pro-EU sentiment because they perceive personal benefit from the EU. At least this is the case here in Czechia.
According to the Romanian electoral commission, there were 1,016,327 eligible voters abroad. But in the second tour 1,644,319 votes came from abroad.😆👌 So first they abolished the election, barred the favorite from running, and then they cheated with the votes. Democracy has won, we have defeated the pro-Russian candidate.
George Simion said he will challenge the results at the constitutional court. Czech media call him far right. 😆👌
Insomniac Resurrected 