Reflections From a Murky Pond

The winds of time change and with them change the winds of societies and religions or, at least, the hearts and minds of the adherents to religions. When dealing with them, one needs to check the weathervane for their current conditions.

Jihadism Is Islam’s Weathervane

Well the winds of Islam are blowing strongly straight towards the barbarism and feral savagery they wallowed in during the first century of its unfortunate existence.

Yes, it’s quite true that we could look back many centuries and find a time when the Muslim World was arguably the center of philosophical and scientific thought, a time when Muslims should more humanity and tolerance than Christendom did, especially when it came to either free thought or the Jews. Likewise, it is equally true that, if one looks back many centuries, one can find a time when Christendom was horrifically intolerant and prone to persecuting people.

Yet both the golden age of Islam and the dark age of Christianity are long buried in annals of history. We, the living must deal with the winds of today and today the winds of Islam are ill winds indeed.

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It’s basic physics that the law of entropy requires that chaos and dissolution be the natural result of all uncontrolled processes. Most people have some understanding of that fact. What they don’t seem to understand is that the natural laws which govern physics have direct corollaries in almost all other things and systems. That includes entropy.

Change More Often Equates Entropy Than It Does Progress

So when you see or hear people chanting about “change,” “progress,” or “moving forward” into a bright new age, remember that these people are most likely, knowingly or unwittingly, the agents of chaos, dissolution, and destruction. They serve entropy’s purposes, not those of people.

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