The Dark Ages With Waldemar Januszczak

Very recommendable!

Waldemar presents a number of very interesting points in his first part:

1. Very early depictions of Jesus Christ showed him as young, attractive man without a beard, sometimes even feminine. Only several hundred years later was he painted like Zeus with a full beard and towering like a god on a throne
2. There is a lot about the secret language of early Christians
3. Early christian churches were home churches not basilicas or cathedrals

Part 1: An Age Of Light

The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light - Part Two

About Huns, Goths, and Vandals

The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light - Part Three

About Islamic art. Very recommendable!

The Dark Ages: An Age Of Light - Part Four

About Carolingians, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, and Irish monks

Diatoms And The Global Warming Hoax

Posted: 7/19/2019

If you had any doubts that the Global Warming Hoax (a.k.a. Climate Change) is the greatest hoax/scam perpetrated on humans in several generations, here is more evidence.

Diatoms (a.k.a. brown algae) generate about “20% of the Earth’s Oxygen” (S1, S2) and they store huge amounts of carbon dioxide. “They are responsible for 40 percent of the organic carbon produced in the world's oceans each year” (S2). At the end of their lives, they sink to the ocean’s floor. Despite the critical functions of diatoms, little has been known about their life cycle and their health to this day. Apparently, there are “thousands of different kinds of diatoms” (S2) and, I guess, we still know very little about them.

There is still so much, we do not know! Any pretense of knowledge is a false sense of superiority! We still live in the Dark Ages! The superstitions of the Medieval era did not end with the Renaissance or Enlightenment!

Sources (S):

1. Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans (published 7/18/19)
2. Could Tiny Diatoms Help Offset Global Warming? (1/26/08)

The Fallacy Of Empathy

Posted: 4/26/2015

Claim Of Moral Superiority

U.S. President Barack Obama argued empathy as a criterion to nominate Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some opponents of capital punishment claim empathy when arguing against such punishment.

Are these and other examples implicit claims of moral superiority over rationality? It sure looks like it.

Reason Trumps Empathy

Empathy can easily be an expression of regression towards the Dark Ages!

Empathy often commits injustice, because of bias and prejudice.

Empathy can easily lead to preferential treatment of some people over other people in similar circumstances or situations. Empathy is selective!

Empathy can easily make one blind and cloud one’s judgement.

Rationality or reason is not without empathy or compassion, but it is consciousness to strive towards more balance and justice for all. Rationality without empathy is without conscience.

Equanimity comes easier with rationality than with empathy.

Evolution Of Sympathy

Emphatic people are commonly more liked than rational people, because reason is still in short supply.

Human evolution has been slow over the past 2-3 million years. Rationality is perhaps only 3-5 thousand years old, but the evolution or reason has been and continues to be much faster.