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Hell Is For Children

May 24

By Roderick

The New York State report found students as young as nine years old subjected to sudden, painful, repeated electric shocks for ‘refusing to follow staff directions’, ‘failing to maintain a neat appearance’, “stopping work for more than ten seconds”, “getting out of seat”, “interrupting others”, “nagging”, ‘swearing’, ‘whispering’ and ‘slouching in chair’, and ‘‘moving conversation away from staff”. …

“These devices are much stronger than police stun guns (1-4 milliamps),” says Gregory Miller, former teacher at JRC. … In McCollins’ case, school staff used the powerfully painful electric shock device (45 – 91 milliamps, at 66 volts) on McCollins over the course of seven hours for not taking off his coat in class. After his “therapy” was over, McCollins was admitted to a nearby children’s hospital ….

(More.)

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In Hoc Signo Vinces

May 24

By Roderick

Constantine seeing the signum

From Christian News Wire. (CHT Bruce Majors; be sure to read the whole thing.)

A Cross made from the Cross carried Around the World on foot by Arthur Blessitt (319 nations, island groups and territories almost 40,000 miles) Is ‘Now Orbiting The Earth’! The Cross went up on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft. Celestis was the launch company.

The Celestis canister with the Cross was carried as a secondary payload on the Falcon 9’s second stage & is not on the Dragon. The cross in space is expected to remain in orbit for a year or more.

In other words, it was discarded and left to fall to earth in flames?

The Cross was carried Around the Earth on foot and Now the is Cross Flying Around this Earth over Washington DC, Saudi Arabia, Jerusalem, Asia, Australia etc.

I’m having trouble picturing the shape of this orbit. I think Isaac Newton might be puzzled too.

The cross is passing over you where ever you are.

Okay, that doesn’t help with the orbit thing.

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Philately: Who Needs It, Part 2

May 24

By Roderick

Another sign that the Randian aversion to free content is weakening: the entire text of Mary Ann and Charles Sures’ memoir Facets of Ayn Rand now appears to be online.

The Sures’ book was incidentally the subject of my second blog post ever.

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Trip Pics VII

May 24

By Roderick

Photos from three IHS conferences: Bryn Mawr/Philadelphia in July 2010 (4 pages), Fredericksburg in January 2011 (1 page), and Towson in July 2011 (1 page).

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The Kingdom of the Fish

May 23

By Roderick

skelefish

Within the kingdom of the fish
the fisher-king is king
his hooks, his lures bring surcease sweet
to those who sway beneath his sway
and at his plate sublimely meet
the tines, the teeth, the palate grey
the finless flay, the stingless sting

Within the kingdom of the fish
the fisher-king is strong
each darting shape among the reeds
dreams dreamless dreams of silvered halls
where throned and robed her sovran feeds
as twilight after twilight falls
and long they wait, and long

Yet in the kingdom of the fish
the consummation tarries
no trident spears, no net enfolds
as slumb’ring sleepless in our crèche
the like grip gripless our need holds
for ’gainst our citadel of flesh
no host invests, nor harries

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Worley “Evolves” on Gay Rights

May 22

By Roderick

Australopithecus

It saddens my heart to think that homosexuals can go around, bless God, and get the applause of a lot of people. Lesbians and all the rest of it? Bless God, forty years ago they’d have hung ’em, bless God, from a white oak tree, wouldn’t they? Amen.
– Pastor Charles Worley, 1978

Build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 miles long. Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. Have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed ’em, and – and you know what? In a few years they’ll die out.
– Pastor Charles Worley, 2012

From execution to incarceration in just 34 years! At this rate, by 2046 he’ll be down to advocating a mere fine.

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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.

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