W-Dad 40

Here to dispense dad advice to grease the wheels of life.

[W-Dad 40 @WDad401]

@totalwar Can we have any tantalizing hints on the nature of the Monkey King in IE?

[W-Dad 40 @WDad401]

I'm going to backpedal here and say if I see a man wearing a polo I assume he wears diapers.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

Full post on my blog: https://t.co/5WbAAzzqyI

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

So, today, many don’t believe in religion because they consider it dogmatic, but unconsciously and dogmatically believe in this ideology: Enlightenment.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

The Enlightenment way of thinking may have ‘freed’ people of believing in God, but at the very moment when this philosophy rose, ideologies were born.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

But of course, rarely will we hear that being denounced, because we still live in that era, where one of the most criminal and bloody act of history [the French Revolution] is presented as ‘glorious’ and ‘good’.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

The aforementioned catastrophes are a result of the ideology which promoted the cult of progress, reason and science, which ended becoming the cult of irrationality, regress and crimes.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

Ironically, we rarely realize that the most morbid and inhumane crimes were committed during the Enlightenment and Modern era. Concentration camps, gulag, genocides, eugenics, racism, reign of terror, totalitarianism, etc.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

This genius propaganda has affected and influenced most of us, therefore it’s not surprising how our imagination has been constructed. For example, when we think or talk about [the] historical horrors, the vast majority will think of the those ‘dark’ Middle Ages.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

Demonizing the Other is the best way to begin a fight, because it gives you the feeling of the moral superiority. In our case, this has been done by distorting and misinterpreting historical facts, and inventing myths and false villains and heroes.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

The Enlightenment historiography is still the most successful propaganda ever made; it refused to die, because the [anti-Christian] sentiment which these thinkers had promoted seems to be popular ever since.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

And this is a serious problem. Many school textbooks, media, etc. promote most of these myths, which are inherently biased and dangerous, because they distort the truth.

[Albert Bikaj @AlbertBikaj]

I’m a graduate in Medieval Studies, and when I try to explain some myths about it, people look at me as if I was insane. The Enlightenment propaganda is so strong, that telling the truth about Medieval era sounds like a crazy right-wing conspiracy theory.

[W-Dad 40 @WDad401]

My next D&D character will be a gnome named Toasty Tight. He will invent the weighted blanket.

[W-Dad 40 @WDad401]

If I see a man in a polo I just assume he beats his wife.

[W-Dad 40 @WDad401]

You haven't live till a kid with a wakizashi has tried to gut you like a mackarel at 6:47 pm.

[W-Dad 40 @WDad401]

As long as Iggy Azalea is alive rap hasn't died.