May 2015 – The Impious Digest

Thirty – Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer

May 28, 2015 JAG

Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend.
Use different meanings of your opponent's words to refute his argument. Example: Person A says, "You do not understand the mysteries of Kant's philosophy. "Person B replies, "Of, if it's mysteries you're talking about, I'll have nothing to do with them." […]

Jack the Ripper’s Skull & Bones

May 22, 2015 JAG

Jack the Ripper taunts police, writes of murdering at least 15 girls before killing himself to “cheat the scaffold.” […]

Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796

May 18, 2015 JAG

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State… It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." […]

The Beatles and Their Most Infamous Album Cover Revisited

May 14, 2015 JAG

So what exactly was the symbolism of butchered and beheaded babies? You would be very, very surprised. […]

CIA’s Greatest Hits: COMING SOON

May 3, 2015 JAG

Chairman Frank Church, D- Idaho., the Senate Intelligence Committee, holds up a poison daft gun as co-chairman John G. Tower, R-Texas looks at the weapon during a session the panel's probe of the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1975 in Washington. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin) […]