THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1976: "I have observed in the Western world a deeply changing pattern of human relations. The anchors of moral behaviour appear to have dragged to such depths that they no longer hold firm the ship of life: what was once wrong is now simply unconventional, and for the sake of individual freedom must be tolerated. What is tolerated soon becomes accepted. Contrarily, what was once right is now viewed as outdated, old fashioned and is often the target of ridicule."] ARTICLE: We should have seen 'Cuties' coming. Normalization of such material starts with increased exposure. For two generations now, the entertainment industry has been pushing the envelope of debauchery a little bit at a time -- while calling anyone objects a prude or a puritan. This is precisely how "grooming" works. Parents need to be on guard. Slowly getting people used to small actions they would ordinarily find disgusting so that ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- TONY HELLER -- Authoritarian control in Europe is being maintained through a "second wave" of COVID-19 'cases, which don't seem to have any connection to reality. ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- CSLEWISDOODLE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: C.S. Lews' points about miracles are correct and why Ismaili Ignition produced "Ismaili Imamat's Authenticity: The First Objective Evaluation, 'A Signature in History'." See here: http://isma.li/signature] ARTICLE: Whether miracles occur can never be answered by experience. Every potential miracle is, in the last resort, something our senses experience. And our senses are not infallible so we can always say it was an illusion. If our worldview, a priori, excludes the supernatural, "illusion" is what we always say. So what we learn from experience first depends on the philosophy we bring to experience. It is, therefore, useless to appeal to experience before we have settled the philosophical question. If experience cannot prove or disprove miracles, still less can history because, again, the philosophical question must come first. Here is an example of what happens if we skip the preliminary philosophical task and rush on to the historical. In a popular commentary ...

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