Monthly Archives: March 2024

The Side Effects Of Religion, Recovery, Wellness, Exercise (3-31-24)

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Everything comes with side effects04:30 Does Mindfulness Meditation Work for ADHD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJBwdpSPmU23:00 The Emergence Of Conspirituality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15432224:00 Guardian: The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic25:00 Getting Too Good at the Wrong Thing, … Continue reading →

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The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Luke Ford

Harvard International Relations professor Stephen Walt writes in Foreign Policy Mar. 21, 2024: Biden’s critics assume that the United States has enormous leverage over this situation and that a firm word from the president—combined with threats to curtail or halt … Continue reading →

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The Emergence Of Conspirituality

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Luke Ford

Here’s an important paper from 2011 by Charlotte Ward & Prof. David Voas in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, 26:1, 103-121: The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its … Continue reading →

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Decoding Andrew Huberman (3-29-24)

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Luke Ford

02:00 Andrew Huberman of Stanford University, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html08:00 Candace Owens leaves the Daily Wire, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decoding-the-descent-of-jordan-b-peterson24:00 The Pseudoscience of Andrew Huberman, https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/andrew-huberman-huberman-lab-health-advice-podcast-debunk.html27:00 The descent of Jordan Peterson, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decoding-the-descent-of-jordan-b-peterson1:11:15 The business of podcasting, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/posts1:19:10 Tucker Carlson skeptical of American aid to Israel1:20:00 WP: … Continue reading →

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Decoding Left-Wing Livestreamers Destiny, Hasan Piker (3-24-24)

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Why do people watch livestreams?02:00 Hasan Piker is the most popular left-wing stream, as lame as Red Scare podcast, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/hasan-piker-a-swashbuckling-bromance21:00 How Hasan Piker Became Our Generation’s Top Political Pundit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oza5eNpWP0023:30 Livestreamer Destiny doesn’t know much: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/177176570699387308045:00 India’s exploitative sugar … Continue reading →

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Let’s Go Gay For Gaza (3-17-24)

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Gay for Gaza03:00 Israel Is Doing A Great Job Minimizing Civilian Casualties In Gaza, https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-must-can-and-will-win-hamas-defeat-rafah-war-gaza-22e9a19d?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s06:00 Israel-Hamas war: IDF eliminates 15 terrorists in 24 hours, amid Hamas aid attack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvBbZt91AY09:00 A WTF Moment in the Middle East (US Dock in … Continue reading →

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Israel Is Doing A Great Job Minimizing Civilian Casualties In Gaza

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Luke Ford

Ophir Falk writes in the WSJ: Israel has already dismantled 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions, incapacitated more than 21,500 Hamas terrorists—about two-thirds of its force, including two of the top four leaders—and destroyed significant terror tunnels. By contrast, it took … Continue reading →

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The Vanity Fair Oscars Party

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Luke Ford
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The truth has no temperature (3-5-24)

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Have you truly loved a woman?14:00 The Counselor (2013), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193215/https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sean-carroll-the-worst-guru-yet19:00 Trump White House awash in speed, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/21:00 Cormac McCarthy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy30:00 Elliott Blatt joins 52:00 Simple man, https://genius.com/Lynyrd-skynyrd-simple-man-lyrics55:00 How much do you disclose? 58:00 My Al Goldstein interview, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Goldstein59:00 Porn … Continue reading →

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The Strange Death Of Danny Casolaro

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Luke Ford

Ron Rosenbaum wrote for Vanity Fair in 1991: I believe that, in a sense, Danny was correct when he worried he might have been “targeted” with a “slow-acting brain virus.” Not exactly the organic virus he worried about, not Mad … Continue reading →

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