The Musings Of The Consensus

  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 cana...

 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...