Thursday, June 04, 2020
Sparkling sucker filter
From a marvelous 1904 essay on witch hunters by Jules Michelet.
Here lies Sprenger's real merit, which is beyond dispute. He is a fool, but an intrepid fool; boldly and unflinchingly he lays down the least acceptable doctrines. Another man would have tried to elude, attenuate, soften objections, —but this is not his way. Beginning on the first page, he sets down openly and displays one by one the natural, self-evident reasons there are for disbelieving the satanic miracles. This done, he adds coldly, "Merely so many heretic mistakes." And never pausing to refute the reasons given, he copies out the texts on the other side, St. Thomas Aquinas, the Bible, legends, canonists, and commentators. First he shows you what common sense has to say, then pulverises it by weight of authority.See Citation Syndrome. See Michael Mann, Lawrence Krauss, Dawkins, Fauci, Neil Ferguson, et al.
The method is everywhere identical. Good common sense first of all, followed by a direct frontal attack, a downright, unhesitating negation of common sense. It would seem natural enough, for instance, to say that, love being in the soul already, it is hardly necessary to assume the mysterious intervention of the Evil One to be required. Is not this fairly self-evident? Not so, says Sprenger...See Flat Assertion and Sucker Filter.
The populace agrees with him to a man. All applaud the proceedings; all are eager, excited, impatient for sentence and execution. Hangings are common enough; but this Sorcerer and Sorceress, it will be a tasty treat to see how the pair will sparkle and splutter like brands in the burning.Modern descriptions of the ineradicable power of The Virus show the same fascination with sparkling. One hunter describes The Virus as glitter, sticking to everything it touches.
Labels: 2000=1000, Carbon Cult, Krauss, Sucker Filter
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