Cognitive Dissonance - Episode 81: Placenta Eating Contest

Episode Date: January 4, 2013

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will absolutely be bulldozed over. This would open a floodgate of unimaginable proportions. That's why, with those kinds of consequences, to have five of the nine justices ultimately have this kind of power in their hands, that's not how this court and this country was established to have five individuals be able to have that kind of catastrophic social re-engineering power in their hands. That's just not something that was envisioned by the founders. I mean, this is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. I mean, this would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to be able to speak and Christians around the country than anything that the revolutionaries during

the American Revolution even dreamed of facing. This would be the thing that revolutions are made of. This could split the country right in two. This could cause another civil war. And I'm not talking about just people protesting in the streets. This could be that level because what would ultimately happen is a direct collision would immediately happen with pastors, with churches, with Christians, with Christian ministries, with other businesses. It would be an avalanche that would go across the country.

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81. This is the We Don't Have a Guest episode. I know. It's been guest-tacular, man. It has been. Last December, we had I don't know, maybe two. But still, it felt like a lot. It was still exhausting.

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Investigate before you invest in health services or products. Help stamp out quackery. First story we've got to cover here is from theindependent.co.uk. From eating placenta to rubbing coffee on your skin, how celebrities went to war against science. Celebrities lose because they're busy eating placentas. Every fucking time they lose.

eating placentas. Every fucking time they lose. Science is all like, hey, that's cool and all, but you're irrelevant and full of placenta. I think we read this. I think we read this last year or something similar, right?

Like last year, there was another one of these where these are the celebrities who fucking got it wrong about science, about their claims about certain things. And some of them were great. I want to read one here.

This is Patsy Palmer, actress, reported to rub coffee granules into her skin as a beauty treatment against cellulite. Gary Moss, a pharmaceutical scientist, said caffeine may have an effect, but coffee granules won't. There's a perception that coffee might tackle cellulite because of caffeine. He says the problem is that it can't penetrate the skin, that coffee granules won't allow caffeine to penetrate

the skin barrier. The only intended effect is perhaps exfoliation. What you basically have is a woman who has cellulite, who has handfuls of coffee grounds, and she's rubbing it on the back of her thighs and her ass in hopes of taking that cellulite away. That's like having an upset stomach and shoving a Tums in your belly button. You're doing nothing. You're not doing anything. You're going to stink like a fucking barista.

I totally will. I love coffee, but I don't fucking rub it all over. I coat myself in coffee. You know where coffee is best? Shove down your face hole. Yeah, no kidding. Rubbing the fucking, the grounds are good for such things as throwing away and being garbage.

Maybe you can garden with them or some composting. Maybe, maybe. You know, there's a, you know, there's a while, a while ago you and I were talking about apple cider vinegar and how people think that when you drink the apple cider vinegar, it somehow can like this distribute through your body and like work its way around all your aching joints to get rid of your arthritis, like to remove all the calcium around your joints or whatever. That would be fine if you didn't have a digestive system, right? Like if you just had a big hole in your body that you could just pour and then you shook yourself like a fucking flask for vinaigrette, then yes, that's exactly how it would work. That's actually why I drink a nice glass of CLR every morning. It's like CLR. You like gargle with that shit.

Also, I'm dead. Yeah. Well, you know, it'd be like, you know what would be more like what this woman is doing? It'd be more like having a vial of CLR and like rubbing your joint with it. Yeah, I know. Like that would that would be how you would use it. This is the worst hand lotion ever. That's not hand lotion.

That's a fucking caustic chemical. Why are you doing that? I also like the like, well, you should definitely be fucking eating some placenta that's cannibalism yeah like that's the that's that's a human organ it's not a tasty snack if you want a tasty snack pick an animal that's not a human animal it's like it's like eating a scab off your body right and it's your it's a fucking your organ. It'd be like having your appendix removed and being like, doctor, are you going to eat that? Well, it'd be like, I mean, like, why don't we then just like, if a woman has a miscarriage, why don't we just eat the whole thing then?

I don't know. Like we aren't fucking dachshunds. You know what I mean? Like we don't eat the fucking afterbirth. I think, you know what I think they should do instead of just having eat the placenta there, I think what they should do is at like the state fairs have a placenta eating contest.

So you actually have like the pie plates filled with the placenta and you're slamming your face into them. Your hands are tied behind your back. Yeah, your hands are tied. You're covered in gore. You got bits of fucking human flesh dangling from your teeth. It's actually like a zombie festival. It is.

That'd be perfect for like a zombie movie, right? You have a placenta eating contest. Here's a great idea, Cecil. Let's not take any medical advice from fucking celebrities. What did Goldie Awnier say? Let's hear what Goldie Awn said. She says, she said that teaching children about the function of the brain helped them understand where their emotions come from. Professor Della Sala, a neuroscientist, said that teaching would not work any more than understanding the chemical components of a ball would help them kick it better.

That's a great joke. that's a great joke you know like if you're telling your kids about well your you know emotions come from a transmission of chemicals and you know explaining like synapses and neurotransmitters to your children your children are just gonna fucking zone out like how the one does not know about neurotransmitters that i i am sure of. I'm positive of this. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.

Allahu Akbar. This story is from Al Arabiya News. I love this fucking story. This is great. Saudi labor minister faces deadly prayers from angry clerics. A group of religious figures in Saudi Arabia have threatened to strike the labor minister who seeks to create jobs for women with deadly prayers. They're going to pray specifically that he gets cancer.

Yeah. If you want him out and you can pray him into a disease, why wouldn't you pray him into a heart attack or a fucking embolism or something? Pray him into a car accident. Right. Pray him into walking off a cliff. Praying into cancer is like, praying into cancer. It's like, I got cancer, but I'm kind of still around for a while because that shit takes time. So. Sure. I love prayer fights, Cecil. I fucking love prayer fights.

This is great. It's like, this is the way in which they express their anger and do nothing about it. Right. There's no real threat here. You're just saying, I'll pray you into cancer. Okay, go ahead. Pray me into cancer. Who cares? It's just you sitting in your room talking to yourself, man. Right. That's not going to do a thing.

But I love this part. This part of the story is the best. Why are they mad? Why are they upset with this guy? And they're upset with him because he's putting women to work. How is he putting women to work, Tom? The ministry began in 2011 enforcing a decision to replace salesmen with Saudi women at lingerie stores because basically female customers were too embarrassed to buy lingerie from a dude.

So they decided to put women in those stores. Could you imagine walking in, like, let's say your high school crush is behind the fucking counter at Walgreens and you walk up with the Preparation H. How embarrassing would that be, right? You're like, no, it's for my new tat. Like, what do you say? Like, what do you say to that? Same thing here.

It's just like, could you imagine the woman walking in like, I would like to look at the laundry. You won't wear a sack. Put your sack on. Oh, we have all the sexiest burkas lined up over here. We have these potato sacks. That's it. It's the best you get. This is our three-legged race section of the lingerie shop.

It's not sexy at all. Yeah, you know, I'd actually read a story about this before, like bras and panties and shit. You had to buy that from some dude. Some dude. Some dude is standing behind the counter you're like i need to buy a bra they ever got a bra uh no bra actually because you're a creepy fucking dude selling me a bra man kidding like what the fuck and this is such a big deal like they're so fucking upset they want him to die they're so mad that like the I would imagine the guy who's selling the bras to the girl, maybe that's the guy who's so mad.

Who's like, man, I can't get free feels and free views anymore. Yeah, right. That's probably it. That's the only thing. And this is the worst situation. Don't they, in their culture, this is the thing that's just like fucking, I want to bang my face off the table because it makes no sense. In their culture, don't they try to fucking separate the men and the women all the time? Aren't they trying to be like, look, you can't talk at this conference that's about women.

You got to fucking shut up and you got to sit away from the guys. And you can't ride a bus and you got to cover your skin, all of it. I don't even want to see your fucking eyes. You got to wear mesh over your goddamn eyes. I don't even want to see your fucking eyes. You got to wear mesh over your goddamn eyes. I don't even want to see your fucking, your seductive lashes blinking at me. But you buy your underwear from a dude? Yeah, I know. What?

Wait, what? Wait, wait, what? Well, you know, obviously the thing is that they don't want women to have money. Because as soon as a woman has means and money, then, I i mean there's a level of independence there that naturally will follow so clearly this is a an attempt to make sure that there can be no even tiny inroad toward independence of a financial nature or otherwise for the women that live here and to be so upset with this guy for allowing this, that you want him dead. I mean, granted, it's a fucking ineffectual assassin, right? No, it totally would.

It's the only worst way ever. You pick the worst assassin. And God, in this situation, is up there and he's like, I'm so mad about this. I wish somebody would just pray. If nobody prays, I can't give him cancer. I can't. But if somebody prays, I'm going to fucking give that guy some motherfucking cancer like nobody's business. But only if they pray and only if the right people pray.

Yeah, you got to invite him into your house or else he's never going to come in your house. God is a giant vampire. God's a vampire genie. Yeah, right. He is a vampire genie. You got to rub the lamp just right and invite him in. And then what would happen if this guy got the cancer and he prayed not to have cancer?

Oh, God would have to obey him. Oh, take that, God. God's like, I hate being everyone's bitch. When is it my turn to make a decision about who gets cancer? Who gets smited? You're on my naughty or nice list.

I think it's a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it's something that you have to earn. And because a Scientologist does, he or she has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. This story is from Huffington Post. Scientology alien space cathedral reportedly revealed in New Mexico. There's basically two big crop circle rings, I guess, that are supposed to be the site of a secret New Mexico Scientology location, Cecil, marked for space aliens. It's so the aliens can know we have boobies. Totally nipples. Because there's two giant circles with two diamond nipples on either one.

How do they do that? That looks like it was precisely done, too. Yeah. It couldn't be just like two dudes with boards. No. Because that's not. You'd need to have an alien of some kind to get this so precise. And actually what's going to happen is the aliens are going to come down and put tassels right there.

And then fly away. Tassels. They're going to put a stripper pole in the background. I love that you have to mark out for the aliens where to land. They've made it across interstellar space.

They've mastered that. They've got that shit covered. Then they're down in the atmosphere and they're like, what do we do now? I don't know. We didn't plan this far ahead. What? Scientology gets weirder and weirder all the time. Now, we know that they believe in other planets and all kinds of weird shit already because, you know, the stuff that – the high-level shit that they believe gets leaked all the time.

And even South Park did a whole episode about what Scientologists believe, which is hilarious if you've never seen it. It's so funny because they never make any jokes. It's just telling you what Scientologists believe, and it's hilarious. They are clearly – they're clearly – I mean, a cult just seems like such a wimpy word for it. Cult just seems like you're like, yeah, they're a cult. Yeah, but they're worse than that. There's got to be something different.

Dude, they're the super volcano of cults. They really are. They're like a fucking – like a super massive star of fucking cults. That's a black hole. They are. They're just insanity. And they take – they do all kinds of crazy shit all the time. It's been reported how they take people into like deprogram, fucking rebuffer the RAM on people.

They like take them in places and like deprogram them. They hold people against their will. They kidnap people. They send out threats to people. They're just against their will. They kidnap people. They send out threats to people. They're just a crazy group of people. And this, I mean, this doesn't help their fucking cause.

A space alien cathedral? No, I would say that does not help their cause. You know what else doesn't help their cause? Calling part of the process being audited. I know. Who wants to be audited? That's like a – we got to call this something when we're making up our crazy fucking fantastical religion. Let's call it being audited because everyone loves the IRS.

Oh, gosh. It's the worst name for it. It doesn't even have like the Christianity and other older religions, Judaism. They have this sort of ring of the ancient to them where they feel like they have some sort of legitimacy because of their age. This feels goofy as shit. It just feels goofy. When you talk about it, you're like, oh, no, you think you get audited? And then like Tom Cruise is involved in this? It's like your spokesperson.

It's Hollywood's shortest leading man is your spokesperson. Well, then you have John T. Revolta as your other fucking – like who cares about these people? And it's crazy, but I think that this is just one of those moments where their crazy slips out and people get to see it. You get to see a little more how crazy they are. Just a little more now and again. And they denied this, of course. They come out and they say, oh no, it's not space

aliens. We just drew breasts. We just drew boobs. We like circles and boobs. Basically,. We like circles and boobs. Basically, they're treating New Mexico like a fucking elementary kid's notebook. They're just doodling. They're doodling. They're doodling all over.

There's going to be like a nose hanging over a brick wall in the future and some other stuff. I don't even know. What other doodles did I do when I was a kid? I did Metallica all the time. You just did a crudely drawn piece. A crudely drawn Metallica up in the corner. I also want to bring up that it says that this deep underground church thing, its vault houses the lectures of Hubbard on gold discs locked in titanium caskets

sealed with argon and it's H-bomb proof. Let's test it. That's the saddest shit in the universe. That's the saddest because if everything else is wiped out, that's going to be around and people are going to be like, wait, what? What the fuck?

Because it's not going to make any more sense then either. Right, no kidding. I look at that and I'm just like, God, you've squandered your resources. You so have. Just like, well, what resources haven't we squandered? Just think if they'd have spent that 29 cents a day to feed children. Yeah, well, we got to record it onto a gold disc and seal it with argon. Why the fuck are we doing that?

I don't know. What if an H-bomb falls on us and there'll be nobody to listen to it? Well, still gotta... Still gotta do it. Survive. Just in case the aliens come looking for boobies. Yeah, right.

The whole area will be destroyed and fucking irradiated. It'll be inhospitable to life. Who will dig it up? Shut up. Seal it with argon. You're not sealing with argon fast enough. Aliens that are looking for boobies

will dig it up, goddammit. Yeah, because the crop circle would remain if an H-bomb hit it. Tom, you have no idea how robust crop circles are. We have the Holy Hand Grenade. Yes, of course. The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. It's one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him. Brother Maynard, bring up the holy hand grenade. Pie Jesu

Domine Dona eis Requiem Pie Jesu Domine Dona eis Requiem This story's from our hometown. It is.

Sweet home, Chicago. It's not good. Yahoo News. Relics said to be from Jesus' birth at a Catholic church. This is Yahoo News. It is for fucking yahoos. Total for yahoos. Tiny little fragments said to be from the manger

that held the infant Jesus. The veil of his mother Mary and one thread from the cloak of St. Joseph. The veil of his mother Mary and one thread. One thread. From the cloak of St. Joseph. One thread survived 2,000 plus years. That's awesome, man. It'll be on display by the Roman Catholic Church in Chicago when it celebrates its 155th anniversary.

Uh-uh. No. You have a thread, a stick, and a napkin. Yeah. That's what you have. That's what you have. I love the part, too, where it says, the Vatican has its own process to determine the authenticity of things,

Bolin said. I'm more concerned with it as an object of faith, which means, you know, you've got to read read this as I don't care if it's bullshit. Do you care if it's bullshit? Do you care that it's not real? I know I don't care that it's not real. You know, when you're ready to just be like, well, I don't really care so much about its authenticity. I just care that it's a matter of faith.

What are you saying about your entire religion? I just care that it's a matter of faith. What are you saying about your entire religion? Well, yeah, it's like, well, we'll just take it on faith because we don't want everyone to find out it's a thread, a napkin, and a stick. That's what we don't want. They actually rejected offers to test it, to carbon date it, to find out what it's from. And the one thing that they say, too, like the manger relic has, quote, more authenticity since it was brought from the Holy Land to the Vatican in the fifth century. So the most authentic thing is at least 500 years after the event.

Right. 500 years minimum after the event. And it's a wood. It's a piece of wood. How do you know that that is the piece of wood? And it's the fucking manger. What fucking Jesus was born in the goddamn thing. 33 years have to pass before it would seem relevant.

So did somebody go down, go back and be like, man, fucking Jesus be dead. He'd be all like the son of God and shit. Moving rocks and shit. Man, we got to go back and find out where he was born and hope that 33 years later that fucking manger is still there. So I can have a chunk of it. Yeah, because they were waiting for another kid. They put it in the attic. Because you only have one shower, Tom.

Right. You only have one baby shower. And you save that shit for the next kid. So it was probably in Mary's attic. Joseph threw it up there. Mary put the major in the attic. I like the idea, though, that there's still these traveling – they call them relics. But don't relics sort of include – or don't relics, I think, have to include body parts? Isn't that sort of what a relic really

is? Well, I don't know, but I know that people back in the Middle Ages, I read a while back that people would travel great distances, like incredible distances to go on pilgrimages to visit various relics. So it was financially advantageous for villages to have in their parish a relic. A relic would bring travelers who brought money. So there's a fucking financial incentive toward fraud. Absolutely. Involved in this whole. So even if you've got something that's 1,500 years old, but you're not going to test it.

So maybe it is. I don't know. There's a fucking direct incentive to be lied to by people who are starving to death. Like they want your money to eat off food. I can't help but picture like a movie with like Mr. Bean in it. And he picks up this thread and he's like flossing with it at some point. And then like wipes his face with like a little napkin. And he's like using the little piece of the manger as a toothpick or something. You know, like I just can't help but envision something like that happening.

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This story is from The Journal. I.E. I.E. I.E. The Journal, i.e. i.e. i.e. Priest says women bring sexual and physical violence on themselves. Not only is this story fucking crazy town, but it's part of an Italian Catholic Christmas message.

So this is Christmas. It's your fault you're raped. It's the worst present ever opened. This guy says in this article, what is his name? Father Piero Scorsese. That's exactly how he pronounces it. See, that's how he pronounces it. He says, how often do we see girls and mature women going around scantily dressed and in provocative clothes?

They provoke the worst instincts, which end in violence or sexual abuse. They should search their consciences and ask, did we bring this on ourselves? And the answer is no. You didn't bring this on yourself. I love it when people like try to defend this. Try to defend this victim blaming because that's all it is. I understand you don't want to paint all guys as rapists, right? So you don't want to – this is clearly doing that. This is clearly painting all guys as rapists because you're saying they're bringing it on themselves.

Guys can't basically handle themselves. They can't control themselves. So you're painting all men as rapists because you're saying they're bringing it on themselves. Guys can't basically handle themselves. They can't control themselves. So you're painting all men as rapists and then you're painting all women as sort of asking for it. So nobody's winning here. Nobody, there's not a winner in this. What you could say is, you know, the clothing really doesn't have much to do with women getting raped at all, period.

Because it doesn't. It just doesn't. No. Most women are raped by people they know. That's just a fucking fact. That's just the fact of the matter. So the idea that you're just going to throw this in there is like, well, the girl was dressed like a slut

so she deserved it. Well, that only happens you know, that happens very infrequently compared to the rest of the rapes that happen out there. You know, the facts that you have are just wrong. But you're also painting people in a ridiculous light that is cartoonish at best. Yeah. Well, of particular note, I mean, beyond the everything that's wrong with everything he

says is they provoke the worst instinct. Right. It is not an instinct for a man to be a rapist. That is not an instinct for a man to be a rapist. That is not an instinctual reaction. As you've mentioned before, that suggests that all men are rapists at heart and that we're only held back from just fucking raping everybody by laws or social conventions. It's just blatantly untrue. It's just blatantly untrue. Rape is not a natural instinct that that we have to

sort of hold at bay like you don't have your fucking moral finger in the dike you know that gets pulled out at the sight of barest flesh and at which time you go fucking wolf wild and start attacking women willy-nilly that's just not how just not how men work, and it's not how women work. It says, he goes down further down in the article. He says, is it possible that all of a sudden men have gone mad? We don't believe it. The fact is that women are increasingly provocative. They become arrogant.

They believe themselves to be self-sufficient. And I think that's the part of his statement that reveals his real nature, right? He is upset that women are self-sufficient. He is upset that women are increasingly not in need of male control and male domination within the society that he's working in. And so he's trying to shift the focus, you know, on their self-sufficiency as the cause for violence levied against women. And it's such an unbelievably hateful thing to say, but he said it on Christmas. Yeah, that's the thing, right?

I mean, how do you sit through a Christmas mass where your priest is just going off on women dressing provocatively, therefore it's kind of expected that this sort of thing happens? I mean, I couldn't sit through that. Right. How do you sit through that? I have no idea how they don't just get up like shame-faced and leave. Like I can't believe I sat in a church and listened to this man. I have made terrible mistakes. I've wasted a lot of my life, including the time leading up to this sermon.

Yeah, no kidding. But, you know, you listen to this and don't you think if I heard this guy say this, I mean, so blatantly untrue. Listen, don't you think if I heard this guy say this, I mean, so blatantly untrue, there has to be a certain segment of the population that hears that and says, if he's so wrong about this, what else is this guy wrong about? I mean, he clearly has no moral authority. There's this thing that a lot of people try to do and a lot of people try to talk about when it comes to rape. And I got into an argument a while back about this I remember I was arguing with somebody and I said you can't blame

rape on the victim by saying that they're scantily clad so therefore it's kind of expected like this guy is saying and somebody said well you wouldn't walk around down on a I had said if I was just wearing a suit and walking downtown, you know, and I got mugged, is it my fault because I was wearing a suit? And the guy even said, he's like, yeah, well, you shouldn't be walking around like Rockefeller or something like that.

And you're like, wait, the idea that I understand that we try to safeguard things, right? We have locks on our doors at home. We have locks on our doors at home. We have locks on our cars. We make sure that we're, you know, not walking through bad neighborhoods or whatever. But the idea that a woman can't go anywhere dressed in any kind of clothing, that is, and let's be honest,

there is provocative clothing. That exists. Provocative clothing absolutely exists. But the idea that she can't go dress like that anywhere, she can't go anywhere dressed like that, is a fault of our society. That means our society is at fault as a whole if she can't go anywhere like that. I understand not walking down, like, the worst fucking neighborhood in the world at, you know, 2 in the morning with a, you know, with fucking covered in like, like glue, like glued on condoms that says rape me. I understand.

That's probably not a good place to be. That is not a good idea. That's not a good idea. However, we are saying that she has no, she doesn't have the right anywhere at any time to dress like that. And that's, and that's where you're wrong. That's where it's not analogous to a house. That's where it's not analogous to a car. That's where it's not analogous to a car.

Yeah, you can't. There's no situation. There's no article of clothing or lack of article of clothing that any person can wear that negates their ability to refuse sexual advances. You can't put a clothes on or take a clothes off. And as a result, you lose your right to refuse consent to sex. That is not a thing that is real. If that's a thing that you're willing to say is real, if you're willing to say as a society, as a people, once this threshold has been passed, women lose their right to refuse consent to sex, then you've abandoned all hope of establishing and maintaining civil order and a reasoned society. Is their argument that or is their argument saying that you're not putting up a reasonable

safeguard against crime that someone else may commit. Well, there's but I think there's a you know, there's there's a clear difference between what's smart to do based on the society that we live in. Right. And what is. When they say they deserve it, you know, when they when when the victim becomes to blame, you know, if if I I were – let's go back to the analogy of wearing expensive, flashy clothing. So let's say I have four Rolexes on my arm. So you're selling Rolexes is what you're saying. And a sign on each one of them that says this is a real Rolex with a price tag dangling off of it. And I'm not even wearing a shirt.

So the only thing you can see are the Rolexes. If somebody robs me, they're still the criminal and I'm still the victim. Right. I made a decision which is probably ill-advised given the society that we live in. Right. But I don't deserve to be robbed. That person still is the criminal. They don't have a right to rob me because I made a decision that is possibly less safe than the optimally safe decision.

Right? Right. I shouldn't – because otherwise it's parkas for everybody. Sure. Yeah. Burkas. Burkas. And the thing is that rape still exists in burka societies.

Absolutely it does. Absolutely it does. Rape is, in fact, every bit if not more prominent in societies that fucking cover their women in like ghosts, you know, in fucking pillowcases and sheets. Because rape isn't a crime of sex and rape isn't a crime of sexual provocation. Rape is a crime of violence and power. And it's absurd to have that conversation. I could wear the Rolexes, man. And if I walked in the west side of Chicago wearing those Rolexes and I get robbed, I made a less than optimally safe decision.

Right. But that guy's still the criminal, and I'm still the victim. What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? Conservapedia. Come on, man.

What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? Actual fuck. What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck? Actual fuck? What the actual fuck? What the actual fuck, Conservapedia? Same-sex marriage is a proposed redefinition or variation on the traditional concept of marriage, granting same-sex unions the same legal status as heterosexual marriage, contrary to thousands of years

of success based on a one-man, one-woman marriage system, and in direct violation of the Bible and most other religious teachings. In Norway and Sweden, the adoption of same-sex marriage has led to a loss in respect for the marriage institution itself, even for traditional couples. In Massachusetts, the imposition of same-sex marriage led to a decline in property values

and an exodus from the state by many. Also in response to the introduction of same-sex marriage, the State Department of Public Health changed marriage certificates to read Party A and Party B instead of husband and wife. In May 2012, voters in North Carolina banned both same-sex marriage and gay unions. North Carolina, thereby, became the 29th state to pass an amendment against gay marriage by a huge 61 to 39 percent margin. Barack Obama, heavily dependent on gay donations for his re-election,

rushed to prop up the homosexual agenda by endorsing same-sex marriage after its stunning defeat in this swing state. Various detailed polls and studies about same-sex marriage conducted in several countries generally show that support for same-sex marriage increases with higher levels of education, and that younger people are more likely to support the legalization of it than older generations. Polls show the most right-wing religious people are more likely to oppose it. Prior to 2012, in each U.S. state, to hold a voter referendum on the issue, the public rejected same-sex marriage laws by

a small majority. However, in 2012, Maine, Washington, and Maryland voted in favor of same-sex marriage. Additionally, recent polls indicate that more than half of Americans support same-sex marriage, approximately 53%. Campaigns advocating same-sex marriage are at the forefront of the gay rights movement's attempt to elevate homosexuality to the same moral plane as heterosexuality, overturning centuries of established tradition whereby homosexuals would keep their, according to many Christians, sinful acts hidden.

Some opponents of marriage claim its purpose is to destroy the family as an institution, merely to secure a legal basis for sexual freedom. According to some opponents of marriage, the primary purpose of marriage is to bring joy to society as much as to safeguard the development of happy families, and it is not for individual glory. They believe that unrelated people living together make each other miserable and harm society. Among the many reasons homosexuals might advocate same-sex marriage are the ability to make emergent health care decisions for a loved one in the absence of a durable power of attorney or living will, the alteration of the laws

of interstate succession to include gay partners, and equal tax treatment as heterosexual married couples. Current United States law defines marriage as one man, one woman for purposes of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex relationships as marriages for any purpose, even if permitted under state law, and permits a state to disregard a same-sex marriage entered into in another state. An interesting consequence of the federal definition of marriage is that it specifically rules out polygamy. Cecil, it is now 2013, and we would be remiss if we did not cover the psychic predictions from 2012. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

I love these so much. These are awesome, man. This story is from about.com, paranormal.about.com for those searching. Spectacular. Spec-fucking-tacular. My favorite, let's go through a few of the favorites. Sure, sure. Let's work our way through.

China loses its reputation as a world financial leader after clashes with protesters begin over economic reform and foreign investments start to fall. That did not happen. No. No. No. That is not the fucking case.

That is just a fucking swing and a miss. I like this one. It says, this is from Judy Heavenly. The last one here, it says, angels will be seen walking among us by some with extraordinary powers of perception. That may or may not have happened, Tom. How would we know? It could be happening right now.

How would we know? It could always be happening. It's like fucking somebody's going to see a leprechaun, but he's not going to tell you. Yeah, right. Yeah. There's a putter gold at the end of the rainbow. Finish your putter gold days. Yeah.

There's a putter gold at the end of the rainbow. There's a putter goldies. Well, do you remember this story from 2012 when Iran saw a nuclear explosion? No, I don't. You don't remember that? What about this one, Tom? Giant prehistoric sea monsters under the sea. I remember that did happen. How about

gold disappoints? That's a good one. How about this one? This one almost certainly happened. Animals and birds, wild and domestic, will attack people leading up to the end of 2012. Really? As a man

who is afraid of birds, that is the worst prediction. That is a terrible prediction. That's not one. Here's another one from the same person. Earth will fall off its axis a little more. Whoops. Whoopsie. A little more.

Earth had a couple of drinks in 2012. Totally did. It was a little tipsy. It was like, whoa. I fucking fell. This is good, too. The map of the world will change because of catastrophic events happening in the world. You know, I think that that's a pretty clever one because you could point to a war, possibly, and say, well, somebody took over some part of the country.

Right. Therefore, you know, I think some of these are pretty clever. That they're not, you know, obviously something like this will happen. Although, the last one on this same person, this Nikki, the psychic to the stars as she is, her last one is

National Hockey League for Women. There isn't a National Hockey League for men this year, you dumb fuck. They're on strike. You'd think you'd

fucking, you'd think you'd catch that. My favorite is by Conchetta Bertoldi, because she says that she's been communicating with spirits since childhood and is the author of the book. The book. Do dead people see you in the shower? No.

And other questions. You've been all but dying to ask a medium. Oh, how very, very clever, Conchetta. Medical breakthroughs. I just love the way this is written. Medical breakthroughs will happen in 2012 and beyond! Beyond! Yeah, that's medical breakthroughs kind of all

are always happening. Since like 1900, they've been happening like crazy every year. When they stop happening, that's when you're that's a cause for concern. Like, what's going on in medicine oh were we supposed to be looking into yeah we're supposed to be doing research and development we didn't do any of that did anybody do it this year joe i thought it was your turn to do medical research

this year fucking joe called in sick all 2012 yo i don't know this is a stupid thing to say but then they go on to say stem cell research will provide us with cures and progress that is almost unbelievable. However, people need to get out of the way of stem cell research. That's like so 2008 anyway. The stem cell research gives us the cures, but we need to get out of the way. We need to get out of the way. But if we were in the way, how would they give us the cures? Well, we're in the way of the cures, Tom. Get out of the way. We need to get out of the way, yeah. But if we were in the way, how would they give us the cures? Well, we're in the way of the cures, Tom.

Get out of the way. The cure's trying to take a left. Sidney Friedman, Sidney Sear Friedman, says this. George Clooney will become a father! Father! Exclamation point. I love that there's an exclamation point. Like all these things that are happening, upsetting earthquake activity,

and they're talking about like Jennifer Aniston will get engaged. There's no fucking exclamation point up there, but right here, George Clooney will become a father, exclamation point. He's got one too that's great. An unusual bug is found in Brooklyn. Hey. It's like that happens, right? Because you know somebody at some point in Brooklyn was like,

you ever seen that bug? No, I've never seen one like that. Oh, it's unusual. It's pretty unusual. Oh my god, he was right! Some of these are really good. There's one person in here. This is the one you were just talking about, Bertoldi or whatever.

Bertoldi! This one. Movies will come out of Hollywood that will change the world, unite the world, and create futuristic vision of oneness bringing down divisions by countries. Wasn't that that Cloud Gate or whatever movie?

Cloud Atlas? Cloud Atlas, that's it, yeah. It changed everything. Well, fucking Prometheus didn't do it. No, it certainly didn't. God damn. I'll bring George on to talk about that again. The Psychic Twins, last one I'm going to talk about here,

the best one of all, I think, hands down, is The Psychic Twins. Letting go of negative patterns, and it doesn't mean it's not of, it Letting go of negative patterns. And it doesn't mean it's not of. It's letting go of negative patterns. More acceptance of positive patterns and choices. Well, that's got nothing on Michelle Hayek. New spatial truths. New spatial truths.

That's all it says. The fuck does that even mean? They also say some areas of land disappear. Yeah. Wait, where did Nebraska go? There's some of these that are really great. We're going to link to this, obviously, in the show notes. It's every time you want to find an article that we talk about.

It's always in the show notes at DissonancePod.com. We're going to link to these, dig through some of these. There's a couple they were right about. One person said President Barack Obama will face conservative Republican Mitt Romney as the U.S. presidential choice after the primary. So they were right about that. But somebody else down here is like, the Republicans are going to win the race. Not even close. And they're all talking about nuclear war and Al-Qaeda is active without bin Laden and all this other stuff.

They're just talking about a bunch of stuff that if you're just thinking about recent news, you could sort of chip shot in the future a lot of this stuff. And some of this stuff, there's somebody who's looking at recent news from last year. Think about it, Tom. November of last year, what was huge? Occupy movement. Huge. Somebody's talking about it in here, like how it's going to still be a big deal. Well, yeah, and it

seemed like it was going to be the defining story. But then it kind of fizzled out. It just fizzled out. And you're like, okay, well, this person obviously paid attention to the news, but they're not any more psychic than fucking anybody else.

No, they're just like, a thing that is happening will continue to happen. Yeah. And if it does, then I win. Some of them are outrageous, but the ones that are the funniest, I think, are the ones that you could just tell somebody looked at their most recent news and said, I'll just pick this. See, so there's also from psychics.co.uk the 2013 predictions. So listeners, this is what we have to look forward to. This is, I mean, you can fucking set your watch by this stuff.

This shit seems legit. It does seem legit. What's your favorite one in here? There's a bunch of these. My favorite one, again, I just love this stuff about China. It seems like wish fulfillment for nut jobs. In particularly, we will see the signs of China breaking into separate nations with Mongolia taking the lead for independence. China has lasted thousands of years without breaking into separate nations.

And 2013 is going to just, now there's just different nations. I like the woman who's talking about, like, the royal family. Like, I would give a fiddler's fuck about the royal family, whether or not this is true or not. She's talking about, like, good news about the baby, the passing of Duke of Edinburgh, and, oh, gosh, who gives a fuck? Why do they, you know, you're wasting your, if you had psychic potential, of Duke of Edinburgh and oh gosh, who gives a fuck?

Why do they, you know, you're wasting your, if you had psychic potential, you're wasting it on the famous. You are wasting it. Who cares whether or not the fucking

Duke of Edinburgh gets lit on fire tomorrow? Nobody cares except for the Duke of Edinburgh. Maybe his direct relatives. That's it. Nobody else cares.

You know, the thing is, is like most people in the world couldn't point the Duke of Edinburgh out if he was in front of them. Like, oh, that's fucking, I don't know. Is that my gas station attendant? I don't know who that is. Are you my dad? I'm the Duke of Edinburgh.

Well, I just love the idea that you're wasting your psychic potential. I mean, you have this gift that can see into the future. So instead of predicting this year whether or not there's going to be another terrorist attack as big as 9-11, nah, I'm going to waste it on the Duke of fucking Edinburgh. Well, wouldn't it be terrible if psychic bullshit was true, but you just didn't have any control over what the spirits would tell you. Right.

And, like, the spirits are just fucking celebrity hounds. And you're just like, oh, my fucking God, I don't care. Angelina and Brad are going to have another baby. The baby's name is going to be Apple Pie. And Apple Pie is going to be six pounds and three ounces. Oh, would you shut the fuck up, spirit? Would you tell me one motherfucking thing I actually care about? And Angelina's lips are going to get bigger and bigger and bigger and blow up

like balloons they're gonna envelope her whole head she's gonna actually turn her whole head inside out eventually that would be great I would fucking love that if you just got you just got the shitty angel you know what I mean like you got the dumb angel

who just tells you stupid fucking vapid bullshit. It's like, you're wasting my time. You're telling me the future and it is still a waste of my fucking life. There's the very beginning of Craig's predictions are lame as shit. Let me read this. It says,

my precognition tells me that 2013 is going to be another tough years with continued financial troubles and escalating world conflicts. But despite many world problems, 2013 will be the start of a growing spirituality throughout the world. It looks bad, but the tide is turning and better human values will eventually start to emerge.

Hmm. What a fucking douche. That guy's basically just not saying anything well not just that he's like he's basically equating better human values with spirituality oh absolutely yeah that's not necessarily a fucking true statement

no but you know if you don't buy into spirituality fucking mumbo jumbo crystals and pyramids then you know why would you go to Craig's website donate $19.95 or whatever? You want answers? I think I'm entitled to them. You want answers! I want the truth! You can't handle the truth!

Leading conservative religious organization warns that Christians will soon be treated like blacks in Jim Crow era. The American Family Association has its predictions for 60 years out, Cecil. 60 years! What doil. 60 years. What do you think of some of these, Tom? I think most of them wouldn't be so bad. They're all bemoaning the absolute downfall of civil society. And I read some of these and I'm like, yeah, that might happen. That'd be a good thing.

That's okay. Yeah, like tax credit given to churches and non-profit organizations will cease. Hell, if David Silverman has his wish, it'll happen within 17 years. Right. Church buildings will be little used, with many sold to secular buyers. Okay. Well, no,

they end that, though, by saying, and the money received going to the government. Why would a secular buyer buy the church? Because socialism. Oh, yeah. When you put it that way, it does make no sense. Because socialism.

Socialism is the fucking evil. I love these guys because everything is socialist. Like when you look through, it talks about nearly everything here where they keep talking about, here we go. Families, we know, drastically changed with the state taking charge of the children beginning at birth. I mean, right there. It's like they're talking about a social collective, a sort of human beings no longer take care of their own children. They just shit the kids out and then they shove them to the state and the state decides

what happens to them. You know when that has happened? Not at all. That's not a thing. That's not going to happen. It might happen in a sci-fi book. That's where it happens. You're like, I saw it in THX 1138 or whatever the fuck. And Logan's Run.

Those aren't real worlds. Those are dystopias, stupid. But they do. They paint this as a dystopic universe, right? And you read this and it's like, well, none of that's going to happen, man. None of it. None of it is going to happen. Some of it

just doesn't even make sense. Christian broadcasting will be declared illegal based on the separation of church and state. The airways belong to the government. Therefore, they cannot be used for any religious purpose. The airways don't belong to the government. That's not a true. So the whole like the premise is just flawed. It's like it's not what that can't be. That can's just not how it's going to. Here's one that makes even less sense.

Marriage will include two, three, four, or any number of participants. Why don't you start with any number of participants? Do you have to list the first three? I must list all the options. It could be two, three, four, five, six, seven. Hold on. Don't stop me. Eight, nine, ten.

But anyway, marriage will include... The following numbers will be acceptable numbers for the number of participants in a family. Marriage will include two, three, four, any number of participants. That's stupid. Marriage will not be important with individuals moving in and out of a family group at will.

Well then, why would you even have it? If we're all just fucking and we're all just shitting babies out, we're all throwing them at the government after we're done, why do you even have it like if we're all just fucking and we're all just shitting babies out we're all throwing them at the government after we're done why do i even have to get married like what's the fucking point then by this own thing it'd be like hey you want to get married no it's not important oh yeah let's still get married anyway because marriages will include lots of people but it's not important that we so why did we do it i don't know here give a baby to the government how many babies do you have give them to the government

yeah hey where's the government at we got to give them a baby yeah oh yeah go to the mr government like uncle sam's not a person that's not a real person there's not a there's not a stern man with a white beard and gray hair to take care of your baby. Uncles, the government is an idea. It's not a thing. You can't give a baby to the government. This one here. Who would do it?

I know notes. We will have or had or have had a Muslim president. Okay, so what? Yeah. And that's like one of their worst wants. It's like, man, it's getting so bad that one day we're going to have a Muslim president. Well, half of you think fucking Barack Obama's a Muslim. I know.

So fucking too late, bro. Well, you know, that would only be a problem if you erode the separation of church and state first, right? If you're a Christian and there's a strict separation of church and state, then it wouldn't make any fucking difference. You're like, we have a Muslim president, but thankfully we have a strict separation of church and state, and so it doesn't matter. So we're all happy. Yeah. So let's look at his policies. Let's judge him on his actual actions instead of what fucking made-up thing he believes in.

But then how would we vilify him? Yeah. This is all about basically saying that socialism is right around the corner in America and that basically gay marriage is going to absolutely fucking fist-fuck the entire notion of American apple pie life. And it's ridiculous. This American Family Association is a fucking bag of assholes. Okay, so we wanted to cover a few emails

and we wanted to thank, first off, we want to thank everybody who sends in voicemails and emails. Thank you very much for doing it. We can't get to everything. We get a lot of them for doing it. We can't get to everything. We get a lot of them every week, and we certainly don't get to the hate mail. We really don't get to that at all. But we want to thank everybody for sending emails. We don't mention to you.

Understand that we've read everything, so thank you for sending it in. We want to start out, though, with Kevin. Kevin had an interesting story about the Doctors Without Borders, Apocalypse Without Borders charity drive that we put on, Tom. Yeah, he did. He's basically giving us some credit kind of for kicking him in the ass a little bit by having the Doctors Without Borders, Apocalypse Without Borders charity drive.

He has started a monthly contribution to Doctors Without Borders and a Christmas tradition whereby he makes a donation to Doctors Without Borders for every Christmas card that he receives. While I would be loathe to take credit for your generosity, I do again want to express our heartfelt and sincere appreciation for all of the people that did donate to that charity drive. I think it was a success far beyond our imaginings. And we're just so grateful for all of those folks. And Kevin, we're grateful to you for continuing this and making your own pledge to Doctors Without Borders. It's a great organization. We got a couple signs here from Ted. Ted sends a sign. I'm going to put one of these up on our page for the episode here. My favorite one is the top one.

I like the bottom one because it's a state sign. It's a state-written sign that says what's ahead. But my favorite is the first one that's included here. It's just a shopping center. But, Tom, it's got an interesting name. It is. It's the Glory Hole Center. Glory Hole Center. Center of the Glory Hole.

Who's that guy on the uh? So, thank you for sending it, and I'll use it for the episode this time. Aaron sends an email. Tom, I'm going to read it. It says, I was on Facebook, and I saw one of those people who said that God didn't step in at the shooting.

And he's talking about in Utah because we didn't allow him in our schools. And I became angry enough to comment on his post. A debate ensued, but I cannot stop thinking that I am a bad person for starting the conflict. Any thoughts? Tom, you're a lover of debate. I do love a good debate. You know, first of all, if it was a debate that I do love a good debate. You know, first of all, if it was a debate that ensued, a legitimate debate, an exchange of ideas in a persuasive fashion,

not a vitriolic name-calling. But if it's a debate, then a debate that ensues is not a bad thing. You should never regret a debate. An exchange of ideas is never regrettable. And then, you know, he says he thinks he's a bad person for starting the conflict. Facebook is a public forum, people. You can't start something on Facebook by replying to a status. Yeah. You didn't start it then. That's not how starting works. I totally – one thing you got to remember to be is respectful.

So don't call some – don't use ad hominem attacks against them like we do on this show, Tom, because we're all about the ad hom. Ad hominem, right. No, but don't attack somebody. I mean these are people that you are presumably friends with. You're presumably at least acquaintances enough with them to be their Facebook friend. So maybe you're commenting on somewhere that's a Facebook page. I don't know. But if it's somebody else's wall, you're commenting on an acquaintance at the very least's wall.

So you know them. You have context with them outside of Facebook. So I always try to be as respectful as possible and pull myself out of a conversation if somebody's being rude. I normally don't play that. I'm just like, well, you're being rude. I don't care.

Obviously, this is much more important to you than it is to me. But like Tom says, it's a place for that. I mean, it's specifically made for that. If it wasn't, then it would just be Tumblr where you can't fucking comment. Yeah, and it would be boring. You just shit your fucking stuff out on there, and then nobody can say anything about it. Yeah.

Here's an idea. Yeah. I disagree, so I have to make a Tumblr that disputes you. And link to your Tumblr, and our Tumblrs can fight in a Tumblr royale. They'll do a little tumble. Two Tumblrs enter, one Tumblr, and our Tumblrs can fight in a Tumblr royale. They'll do a little tumble. Two Tumblrs enter, one Tumblr leaves. But good luck. I'm pretty sure you didn't piss anybody off.

All right, so we got an email from Barbara Tom. This is a great email. Barbara says she'd been listening to us for a few months. She gave us a five-star rating. It was a very nice email. We're happy that you listened. Thank you for listening. And she also

mentions that there should be a Hillbilly God t-shirt. There really should be a Hillbilly God t-shirt, but man, we are inept when it comes to designing things. So if somebody designs a good Hillbilly God t-shirt, we may or may not use it. So if you have your ideas or suggestions,

feel free to send them in. Also, if you have your ideas or suggestions, feel free to send them in. Also, if you have suggestions for other shirts or other things, send them to us. Maybe we'll use them. The people that do our shirts are actually very great. They have a really simple process that they just set things up and go with it. Obviously, we'll have to create a new logo or whatever, but if you create something like that and send it to us, there's a chance we'll use it. So if you have an idea, let us know.

That's a great idea, though. Hillbilly God t-shirt. We'll get our team of graphic designers working on it. And by team of graphic designers, we mean you. Tom, we got an email from Matt, who is a junior in high school, an atheist and a homosexual. And he says that he's surrounded by teenage rednecks and cowboys, all of which have Jesus taint rather heavily. That's got to be a pretty awful situation to be in. We want to thank you.

You sent us a paper in for one of your classes. We want to thank you for sending it. And good luck to you. It sounds like you're probably in a pretty rural area, and it probably isn't very good. But hopefully you'll get out of there unscathed, and you'll move on. High school isn't that important,

and you'll find that out later on in life. I think Jesus taint also sounds kind of filthy. It does. When I said it, I was thinking about it. I was like, Jesus Taint. I got a little correction from last time, Tom. Do you want to read Christopher's email? I do.

Guys, you run my favorite podcast, period. I laugh so hard I cry, and I do it so much, my girlfriend is starting to question my sexuality. I'm not seriously correcting you on this, but I had to tell you how much I loved hearing you talk about buckets flying on b2 stealth bombers i thought it was fucking awesome that of all the aircraft in the u.s air forces fleet you chose one of the handful of subsonic ones to use in your analogy it was fucking perfect oh yeah it was. I don't fucking know, man. I'm not a fucking pilot.

No, that's awesome. Thanks for pointing it out. Yeah, I guess I did choose a subsonic one. I'm sure there's plenty of supersonic ones. I just chose one that wasn't. What is it, F-16 supersonic? Man, they should all be. Even, like, the big cargo jets for no reason.

Just send the hookers. Get it going. We have no reason to be going this fast. Shut up. But it just burns fuel for nothing. So we got an email, too, from Martin, and Martin sends us a nice, long, funny story. It's a little too long to read here, but it was funny and crazy, and we laughed. So thank you, Martin, for sending it.

And we want to end here I'm going to be in Las Vegas for the podcast awards this upcoming week I'm going to be attending the new media expo out there and I'll be in the audience eagerly cheering on the person

who actually won the religious inspiration. I hope it's an atheist. That's all I hope. I don't care if it's us. I just hope an atheist won. So if it's an atheist, awesome. If it's reasonable doubts, awesome. But if it's like fucking Joe Bob's prayer session, I'm going to be furious.

But we're going to be out there. I'm going to be out there for the rest of the week, but I'm going to be out there I'm going to be out there for the rest of the week but I'm going to be recording out there so there's going to be a weird recording schedule I'm probably going to be releasing sometime earlier next week sometime around middle of the week maybe a little later

next week we are then on next Sunday recording supposedly we hope with Andy Wilson from the Merseyside Skeptics for Incredulous. We're going to be on another episode of Incredulous. We hope that that's going to take place on the 13th. I'll keep you posted and let you know when that is actually going to happen. But we've been contacted by Andy.

We have a confirmed date. So look for us on a future episode of Incredulous 2. That's a guy who didn't learn his lesson the first time. I know. What the fuck was he thinking? He's like, wow, these guys were terrible last time. Let's bring them back. Fucking lame-ass goddamn guests. Oh, man.

That's a dearth of options. I know. At that point, you're just like, hmm. That's it. George was busy. Matt Dillahunty. I mean, all the big names were busy. All the little names were busy.

And then they had to come to us. Right. And basically, they have to rely on Marsh to save the show. What are the subsonic names? Well, that leaves that. It's a relatively short episode this time, but I'm leaving to go to Vegas, so fucking take what you can get. And we'll leave you, as always, with the skeptic's creed. Credulity is not a virtue.

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