The Musings Of The Consensus

NOTE: All events from Code Geass described below are from the TV series, not the movie complimation canon.  Now, it's no surprise Christians celebrate the birth of Christ, Jesus, the Son of God, every Christmas. It's even in the name, "Christ's Mass", the very day is a celebration devoted to Him. However, for those who are not Christian, let me give you a fictional example of why sometimes you just need to put faith in someone and follow them despite the fear of death. The anime Code Geass, which featured an alternative universe where Japan was under the tyrannical heel of Britannian domination. The Japanese in that universe were treated as second-class citizens, their land renamed "Area 11", their resources selfishly hoarded by their oppressors, and they were even branded "Elevens" instead of being allowed to be proud of their own culture. Sure, they wanted to rebel, but most of their rebel factions were scattered, poorly led, and their Britta

 Because I like sardonically roasting idiocy, I decided to take a gander at the primest stupid I could find, and when I stumbled across this, I knew it was some AAA level idiocy. Now, just to get any possible bias out of the way, yes, I'm a devout Christian, but no, the mere fact people want to worship Satan does not offend me insofar as such is their choice. If they choose to do so in good faith and with an informed conscience, so be it. However, what I'm about to mock is done because what they claim as their basic creed is an ouroboros of fart-huffing contradictions that deserve sporking. https://archive.ph/IQXZ2 https://thesatanictempleoregon.com/about-us/ (My comments in bold, original text in italics) The Satanic Temple is a non-theistic religion and is an IRS-recognized religion. Our Oregon Chapter strives to be a space of conscious, inclusive behavior in a hostile society. We also strive to model the core values of TST. Right off the bat, we got some foolish contradictio

 I recently, because I wanted to try better cheese than is usually shipped via the supermarket, ordered some New York Cheddar from an outfit called Murray's. Now, I only ordered a pound, so I got two 0.5lb hand-sized blocks of cheese, which is fair. Murray's promised the cheese would be well preserved and fresh on arrival, and thanks to good packaging, included ice packs, and having the cheese wrapped securely in cheese paper, they were as good as their word. Now, here is my review of the cheese: First off, this is not a very good "sandwich cheese, it's fairly hard and is not going to slice evenly, but I'm the type who can eat my cheese neat, so that's not a problem. It's a good dinner plate cheese, and complements various dinner meats, and goes well with beverages like some red wine if you'd like to enjoy a classy vintage with the cheese. As for taste, it's hard but not tough to chew. It has a really zesty tang to it, definitely is a lot more disti

 This post is going to be a bit of me, as a political centrist, thumping the noses of both the American Left and Right a bit because some of their political beau ideals are just unrealistic. As the man in the middle, I want to explain why your extreme positions are not going to work and going to suggest some compromise positions. The compromises are not likely to give all of what either side wants, but they are far more realistic and achievable. I will address the topics of abortion for my hypothetical. This is a very polarized topic. Now, I'm a devout Christian, but as Jesus said, we live under both the laws of God and the laws of Men. Ergo, while my ideal is the former, the only thing that is realistic is as best can be arranged under the latter. Here are the extreme positions of both sides: Left: Abortion rights should be as liberal and unrestricted as possible. Right: Abortion should be criminalized and made illegal for any reason. Now, let's be real here. Abortion is never

As the title says, I really want to believe that not every single person who claims to be transgender is a deviant, sex-obsessed pervert using their "trans" status as a shield for being absolute dumpster fires of humanity who want to be insulated from criticism, but more and more evidence keeps mounting every day these people are largely peopled by some of the most fetid scum on the planet. For example, the transgender crowd claimed that the story that some guy claiming to be a woman creeping on people in a Calfornia spa was a transphobic hoax initially, but when it started to look harder and hard to deny, they kept moving goalposts and even blamed the victims to avoid having to face the ugly truth: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1433586845179318273 https://archive.ph/rm0r0 https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/charges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-wi-spa-casecharges-filed-against-sex-offender-in-notorious-wi-spa-incident/ https://archive.ph/fbSFa Short version is that everyone

  17  “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.   18  For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.   19  Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.   20  For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:17-20 Now, most Christians are familiar with this, but this post is written to explain why so many Christians and non-Christians tend to get this wrong. I shall address each group that tends to get this wrong in turn and explain further. Non-believers: A very typical canard of non-believers, especially atheists looking for a cheap "gotcha"

 Now, this is gonna be weird, because it's about food, a subject I don't usually discuss, but because I was reading about the history of cheese recently, I figured I might share this, as it's both an opportunity to vent my spleen about something I don't like and a chance to inform the public on something. First off, my dislike of American processed cheese does not mean I do not recognize its value. It's commonly used in various products like cheeseburgers in restaurants because it is very good for cooking purposes. Nor do I think the invention itself was a bad one, I just don't prefer it. That said, let me explain a bit about the history of said cheese. The inventor was James Kraft, the same guy whose last name you might be familiar with who created the Kraft Foods company, and the product Kraft's Macaroni and Cheese. Now, Kraft made process cheese as a way to make a common form of cheese that would be easily made in large batches and easily preserved. Not a

 If people want plastic surgery, fine. If you want to get surgery to be a woman (or a man), whatever, the current things in question, so far, are cosmetic surgery only, you can do whatever you want with your body if you like. However, there is a point where you reach the limit of what is feasible, reasonable, and sane and need to stop. This is going past that: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9908667/Jessica-Alves-travels-Brazil-transgender-woman-womb-transplant.html https://archive.ph/WE2tZ Jessica Alves, born Rodrigo Alves, formerly wanted to be a human Ken Doll. Okay, weird, but whatever, go for it. Then they decided they wanted to be a human Barbie. Again, weird, but whatever, do what you have to do. But now they are basically trying to commit suicide because they have drunk the Koolaid "men can be women" so badly they literally believe they can get a natal woman's uterus implanted in them, which will allow them to have children because they "want to

 These days, politics is utterly polarized, with both the left and right (and I refer to American politics in particular) rabidly against the views of the other side. I know honorable and reasonable people on both sides of the political fence, but some are just rabid dog-level tolerant of a dissenting opinion or even mere disagreement. I'm a socially conservative classic liberal, and that makes me rather centrist. Admittedly, a bit sympathetic to the conservative side, but I refuse to reject liberals out of hand, not all their ideas suck. However, the below is directed at the lunatics and extremists on both sides who cannot agree to disagree without being hateful about it. This said this is just a callout at some things each side does that really need to stop or at least be re-evaluated. 1. To the RIGHT, if I have to hear you screech and moan about immigrants, the LGBT, or whatever else you deem to be screwing up the country, then by all means keep it confined to those who are dist

 Note: If you are from Germany, this post will address some content from the official NSDAP program in a purely academic context only. The author does not endorse Nazism (and in fact has no love for it) and only wishes to cover selected excerpts in English translation under premises that would be legal under the laws of the United States and limited exceptions provided by German law for the purposes of educational and scholarly comment. If you are a German citizen and believe further reading would be unadvisable regardless, please do not read any further. We live in a day and age where certain political types, like those ANTIFA types that are common on social media, call their enemies "nazis" and "fascist", to the point it's become the new "faggot" (this term was a derogatory slur against gays, but devolved into a common generalized internet insult), and based on what I can tell, their definition of Nazi is basically "whatever they have been told

 I wrote I planned to sit back and just watch the horror of the Chris-chan raped his own mother business, but new information has come to light as to the fact he was goaded into it by someone who frankly, if they indeed are guilty of all that is alleged, should never breathe free air again: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/isabella-loretta-janke-bella-the-chris-chan-incest-troll-and-her-clique-of-extremely-sick-people.96787/ https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Isabella_Loretta_Janke According to information dug up on all this, here's the high points, check the above links for more: 1. This woman already is provably guilty of psychologically tormenting students at her university and has admitted or been proven to have murdered animals, including dogs and hamsters. 2. She apparently has the morals of utterly unhinged sociopath, cannot tell the truth on anything, and apparently feels no guilt for any of her actions whatsoever. 3. Goaded Christian "Christine" Weston Chandler in

 This is going to be a dead-serious post about a topic that is very personal to me: Mental illness is something I believe everyone should take seriously. First off, I'm a diagnosed autist with Aspergers who suffers from an anxiety disorder. I see a therapist regularly, take medication for it, and dearly want to minimize the limitations it places on my life. I have been deeply depressed, to the point of attempt suicide and thankfully not succeeding. I still wake up at night from nightmares of my more messed up days and I never want to be as much of a mental basket case as I was then. With this in mind, I just want to say I despise how social media has given people the belief touting your mental disorders as a proud part of your identity is a good thing. I refuse to consider my own problems a good thing and seek every instance of being able to do something constructive about them. I do not want pity for those mental disorders, I refuse to celebrate them, and if I could live a perfect

 It's been awhile since news of the Steam Deck has been out, and I just wanted to share a few thoughts about it. First off, Valve claims to learned a few lessons from the SteamOS petering out, and the Steam Deck is apparently an application of learning a few lessons from that experience. The particular high points of what seems to be lessons learned I plan to note and comment on. 1. The system itself is rather expensive, especially if you spring for the $699 version, but given it intends to make most Steam games run on a portable system, the price is lower than I expected, though while I remain optimistic they learned some lessons on the hardware side of things, I plan to reserve judgment on whether the price is justified until release. 2. The Steam deck will be using an ARM processor specialized for gaming and a Linux distro based on Arch as its core, which, given the rolling release bleeding edge support for Wine/Proton Steam relies on for Linux gamers wanting to run Windows game

 This is not going to be an overly long post, but I just want to make a few comments and then I'll just watch to see how this whole nightmare unfolds. 1. First, as to the nature of the crimes alleged (as the proof seems pretty clear but as of this point no warrant has been issued for an arrest yet on any charge at the time of this writing), I am beyond horrified and appalled, as I would hope anyone with any morality would be, and if it's indeed as horrific as I've seen described in all particulars, I hope Chris is duly punished under the law if he is in fact guilty. 2. The above said, a certain group of scum has come out all over social media, most people like Chris who claim to be transgender or are sympathizers of them, who have had the idiotic brass to say we need to respect the pronouns of someone who may have committed a truly heinous crime and that misgendering is just as bad. Here is my take on that: Shut. Up. Chris, by HIS own admission, only adopted the transgender

 Had you told me as little as two years ago it would be remotely possible to buy Super Robot Wars in the United States without importing, I'd have laughed at you. Sure, SRW since Moon Dwellers got English translations for Asian countries where that is a predominant language, but I never thought they would do more use that as a legal workaround for the nightmares of direct licensing in Western countries. Even after the SRW devs all but admitted foreign sales of SRW outside of Japan were making bank and SRW T was blatant confirmation they noticed the Western fanbase and added content specifically to please them (G Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, and Magic Knights Rayearth were especially blatant evidence it was made with the West as much as the East in mind, and Captain Harlock is something both sides of the pond have fond memories of), I figured that was the best we Westerners were gonna get and considering the Switch and PS4 only required foreign accounts for DLC, that struck me as pretty fa

 I'm writing this in light of the fact I've gotten some heat for the fact I've had some rather politically incorrect remarks to say about the LGBT, particularly the T, nonbinary people, and similar topics. I'm writing this to clear the air for good just where I stand. As to any human being who is part of this group, no, I do not hate you as a living, breathing member of the human race. You are entitled to dignity, compassion, and respect as human beings, and insofar as you are entitled to legal rights to do anything, I will not stop you and deplore anyone who illegally tries to trammel on those rights. I do of course have certain moral beliefs about homosexuality, transsexuality, pronouns other than male and female, and so on, but that is MY morality, you are entirely free to disagree with me and I respect your disagreement. However, the following is an itemized list of things I do oppose or have ideological dissent over. 1. Being forced to censor or rewrite history to

 Of late, the LGBT crew (and I forget all the other letters they usually tack on to it), and even then mostly the T especially, have gotten incredibly vocal about wiping out all opposition to their agenda, even in the United States, where there are ironclad legal barriers in place to give everyone the legal and moral right to peaceably disagree with them. As an American citizen, I'm stunned how some of these lunatics, as recent as my last few blog posts, in fact, have had the derangement to call me, of all people a bigot. Yes, you heard that right, a bigot. I consider that both hilarious and mind bendingly stupid, when, and I will quote something I posted in a Discord discussion I said about myself, this: The most messed up thing is I've long been one of the most tolerant people on the planet, even of things I morally despise so long as it's not criminal. Have a sex fetish? Cool, just be lawfully consenting adults and keep it discreet. Gay marriage? Fine, do what you gotta