Tea Party message to world: We’re still a land of ‘morans’
Posted: 21st May 2010 by Zeno Telos in Christianity, VideosTags: America is #1, Christianity, morans, Tea Party
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Signs of Anarchy in Greece
Posted: 3rd April 2010 by Zeno Telos in Christianity, Punk, RevolutionTags: Anarchy, Archdiocese, Church Orgy, Greek Riots, posters, Revolution
The land of the gods is going through some hard times. Before the current debt crisis, Greece was already facing major social unrest over chronic low wages, corruption, and limited job opportunities. On December 6, 2008, Greek police killed 15 year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Exarcheia district of Athens, an anarchist hangout. The incident led to weeks of marches, riots, and occupations. With the new crisis, the streets are packed again as people resist continued cuts to wages and services. In honor of the Greek uprisings, here are some street posters pasted up in Exarcheia from the demonstrations that followed the killing.
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“Cops! Pigs! Murderers!” Now a standard chant in Greek protests. |
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“Truce!? We’ve just started!” |
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“The Tank was Right” – connecting the current police repression to 1974, when the Greek military junta in power attacked student protesters with tanks. |
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Pirates of the Aegean. Ahoy, scurvies! Anarchists are pirates too. |
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Anarchist poster from Lefkosia, Cyprus (aka Nicosia). It’s not connected to the Greek riots, but worth including. It was posted in front of an Orthodox Church and reads “Group Sex in the yard of the Archdiocese. January 1, 2010, 9:00pm” |
Pastafarians top Christian Churches
Posted: 28th February 2010 by Zeno Telos in Christianity, Flying Spaghetti MonsterTags: Christianity, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Kiva
The loving touch of His Noodly Appendage knows no boundaries.
Some worshipers of the Christian God claim that pagans and non-believers have no moral center. Which is why its fun to look at the community teams on Kiva, an organization that allows lenders to finance micro-loans to those living in poverty around the world.
The team “Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-religious” is the number one overall lender. These blasphemous heathens have lent over $1.6 million, beating out Kiva Christians, who are just below $1 million. Under the category of Religion Congregations guess who’s on top? Move over Lord Jesus. Meet Lord Cheeses. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster claims the heavenly glory with its heretical membership out-lending number two and three teams: Kiva Mormons and Catholic Kiva.
To help spread the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, you can join his team and start lending to small entrepreneurs with just $25. As the money is paid back, you can make new loans. My first loan was to a family making soccer balls in Bolivia. That’s two reasons to make a yearly contribution: spreading goodwill and expanding the presence of His Noodlyness. RAmen.
Is Sarah Palin the Antichrist?
Posted: 26th February 2010 by Zeno Telos in Christianity, VideosTags: America is #1, antichrist, rap, Rap Ness & G-Zilla, Sarah Palin
While that’s giving her too much credit, she’s a great poster-child for America’s decline; the savior of the “America is #1″ crowd, whose hubris grows even after the iceberg has hit. They pray, “If only the whole world could be like Wasilla.” This comical video sums her up:
Book of the Decade: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007)
Posted: 15th February 2010 by Zeno Telos in Guerras Machinas ApocalypticaTags: book of the decade, Guerras Machinas Apocalyptica, Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine
The Privatization of War
I’m ashamed to say that I was one of the people who passed this book up despite the countless recommendations from friends. It took seeing Naomi Klein speak in person to make me rush out and read it. I implore you not to make the same mistake. If you haven’t read it, get this treasure now. As we reflect on the past decade, this book stands out as one of the most important.
Klein’s masterpiece is the ultimate work for understanding the changes in economics and politics from the 1960s to our present global system. Don’t let the heavy topic overwhelm you. The thoroughly researched book is a captivating page-turner with clear, powerful language. Anyone can pick this up and love it.
Klein shows the systematic way repression has been delivered during societal crises over the last forty years in order to force unpopular economic changes . From Chile to Poland to South Africa, the narrative tells the story of how crises are exploited to push privatization and unfettered free markets on people while shattering social programs and movements.
The results are disturbing and ongoing. In each case, democracy was curtailed or crushed in the interests of the economically powerful. With Hurricane Katrina and Iraq she explains the latest stages of this “disaster capitalism”, as relief efforts and wars are privatized and become even more profitable for corporate elites. For example, Klein describes how in the newly conquered Iraq, the US prioritized the privatization of Iraqi oil after they destroyed the country’s infrastructure, gutted public services, and looked the other way while its cultural heritage was looted.
As the world becomes more and more divided into gilded, gated communities and struggling masses, this timely tome is required reading. And to be kept in mind while we see what’s happening in Haiti…
Brace Yourself For War Games
Posted: 21st December 2009 by Zeno Telos in Guerras Machinas ApocalypticaTags: BigDog, Boston Dynamics, DARPA, Defense Dept, Guerras Machinas Apocalyptica, Petman, Robot Killing Machines, Terminator, Toasters, Uncool Satan (Mars Satanas)
Still laughing at Sarah Conner? Then check out the latest developments below. Guerras Machinas Apocalyptica is coming.
Developing the computer brain: Researchers at IBM have developed their parallel cortical simulator, known as C2, to 4.5% the cerebral cortex capacity of a human brain, significantly higher than that of a cat. The complexity is at a point where they are struggling to figure out what the computer brain is actually “thinking”.
The groundwork for cyber control: Security firm McAfee recently released a report saying that we are at the dawn of cyber warfare, with the US, UK, Germany, France, China and North Korea already in the game. Through the internet, a country’s infrastructure – electricity, communications, business, production – can be disrupted.
And, of course, the robot killing machines: The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland created a 1,000 robots that competed against each other in two groups for food. The machines were able to find hidden food sources, lie, detect liars, and pass on information to other bots.
Boston Dynamics, a robotics design company, developed The BigDog robot with funding from DARPA, an agency of the US Defense Department. It can carry 340 loads over all terrain types and walked 12.8 miles without stopping or refueling, a record for legged travel. It’s other project is Petman – a bipedal bot that sweats, stimulates human body temperature, and walks almost human-like.
Jack Black does Flying Spaghetti Monster vs the Invisible Pink Unicorn
Posted: 6th December 2009 by Zeno Telos in Flying Spaghetti Monster, Gods, VideosTags: Flying Spaghetti Monster, Gods, Invisible Pink Unicorn, Jack Black, Modern Polytheism
Lord Cheeses and Her Pinkness duke it out in this timeless rock epic. Don’t miss the shots of the beer volcano and stripper factory in FSM heaven. And for the hardcore, here’s the mp3.
The Return of Polytheism
Posted: 12th October 2009 by Zeno Telos in Christianity, Flying Spaghetti Monster, GodsTags: Christianity, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Gods, Modern Polytheism
Clearly a deity you want to worship
by Zeno Telos
The Greeks figured out something amazing in their understanding of the divine. Other gods were inhuman monsters whom civilizations feared, such as Egyptian or Babylonian deities, or all-powerful bastards whom civilizations feared, such as the Hebrew God. Not the Greek gods. They looked like us, partied like us, and would even come down and have sex with us. They were us- immoral, imperfect, and at odds with each other. The eminent Edith Hamilton wrote the following in 1940:
“That is the miracle of Greek mythology – a humanized world, men freed from the paralyzing fear of an omnipotent Unknown. The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere…were banned from Greece.”
The Gods and Heroes were not from some netherworld – they were from your hometown: the Pegasus returned to its stable at night in Corinth, Odysseus hailed from Ithaca, Aphrodite from Cyprus, Pan from Arcadia, Dionysus from Thebes (and his mom was human!). There were no omnipotent Gods. Even the most powerful amongst them, Zeus, who commanded lightning, rain, and thunder, could be deceived or defeated in his schemes (often by Hera), and frequently had to go great lengths to get his way. The Fates also controlled destiny, a force he could not bend. Zeus ruled, but there was a balance of power throughout the Heavens. Makes sense. Absolute power corrupts absolutely (just check out the Hebrew and Christian gods).
It is impressive to note that amongst the Greeks, no cities worshiped Ares, the God of War. He was there, he had his business to do, but no one thanked him for it. (The Romans, not surprisingly, loved him). Perhaps the most brilliant realization of the Greeks is that the Gods did not create the universe, but that the universe gave birth to the Gods – a radical proposal, even now, despite it being a basic tenet of the cosmos.
Monotheism becomes dominant with two innovations Christians added to the heavenly Hebrew lord: One, God didn’t just scare the living shit out of you, but he loved you as well, and two, that a mere belief in him and his crucified son (who was actually him- the story kinda breaks down here) could get you into an eternal paradise. All the injustice in one’s life could be endured with stoic fortitude because this toilet earth was just a temporary passage ship on the way to eternal Disneyland. This was an ingenious message for converting the suffering masses, but while professing only one god there was zero tolerance for the other deities. This meant lots of people needed to be eradicated who didn’t understand how one demon-seeing hippie getting crucified by the Romans could possibly have anything to do with their lives. Clearly a regression.
Now I’m certainly not saying you need to dump your deity, just that you should expand your options. Believers who continue to live in the false reality of monotheism and put their faith solely into one being like Yahweh or the Flying Spaghetti Monster are missing out. Not only do multiple gods mesh with cosmic reality, but having more of them allows one to better enjoy life. Greek Gods aren’t judgmental and there’s one for any need you may have. So you can keep your crosses or your pirate regalia, just add busts of Zeus with some disrobed statues of Aphrodite to the new altar at your pad.
Must See: Danzig & Shakira, the evil duo
Posted: 25th September 2009 by Zeno Telos in Danzig, Punk, VideosTags: Danzig, Hips Don't Lie, Shakira
The greatest video ever. Captions done by the Yale Institute of Danzig Research (I’ve been trying to get a post there for years). It is written that Danzig will feed all the non-believers to his wolves after the apocalypse and Shakira will rule by his side.