Who’s Marc Rodrigues you ask? I’m not sure, but he sure does get ugly when I replied to “God” in a Tweet, pointing out what has been happening on the planet lately.
Wow. What an angry, bizarre, uncalled for response.
My tweet link was to my essay yesterday: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/10/what-the-year-of-living-dangerously-at-nearly-400-ppm-of-co2-in-earths-atmosphere-looks-like/
Some people don’t handle reality outside of their belief system well I suppose.
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Marc Rodrigues
10:33 am 11 Aug 13
Playing games with my children’s future
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Your kid’s future was mortgaged away long ago by the politicians in the name of saving them. You are angry because you fell for it and elected them. Now you can’t back down because to do so would mean admitting to yourself that you were responsible.
Further proof of my contention that Environmentalism is a fundamentalist religion, closely akin to Creationism in its thinking, albeit with different terminology.
ShrNfr says:
August 11, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Anti-scientific CACCA trumps pseudo-scientific Marxism as a secular millenarian belief system & movement, since not just one class is the enemy, but all of humanity, except for a few self-appointed illuminati. It’s also superior since it cannot be so easily shown false. There’s always some untestable excuse for failed predictions, such as the missing heat hiding in the deep oceans, thermally immeasurable to the precision needed to show the lame excuse a shameless lie.
Yes, Prince Albert was a divinity student at Vanderbilt, where he received Fs in five of the eight classes he took during three semesters. And yes, Stalin did study for the priesthood.
Perhaps he is God’s fool?
As an insomniac dyslexic agnostic, I often lie awake at night wondering if there is a Dog.
I didn’t know He had one of those stupid twitter accounts. I guess now I can ask Him questions directly?
“….. playing games with my children’s future”
But, but God, aren’t we one of your children?
I wonder if Mr. Marc P. Rodrigues’ family knows how he talks on Twitter?
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Maybe he’ll be brave enough to read posts & comments here, now that he has kindly been provided a link to the blog.
Rodrigues – is that Spanish for “nincompoop”?
from what I understand the earth has been heating up and cooling off for millions of years. Are we that arrogant that we think we can impact the nature of millions of years?
An obvious response to God’s twit..
Well gees, if you didn’t want us to use the coal, why the heck did you put it there !!!
Hmmn.
So Marc Rodrigues does not approve of God.
OK. That is his opinion and it is, we are told, Marc Rodrigues’ sole right to not believe in God.
A more interesting question:
Does God believe in Marc Rodrigues; and, if He does not, to where is Marc Rodrigues’ soul the right to go?
Marc Rodrigues is fighting the good fight. He is not accountable for his actions… which is crucial since the enlightened believe the end justifies the means.
I tweeted Marc. I was polite.
Judging from his tweets, I don’t think the rest of his family are enjoying the atmosphere around the dinner table tonight, though.
I’ve been reading his twitter page, he’s an interesting character that’s for sure.
About the only thing I saw on his page that I liked about him was that he’s a NYGiants fan… GMEN!!! 🙂
“Gunga Din says: Coke is made from coal.“
As you know, that’s not the kind of coke that is commonly snorted, though there are some who have done so. Here’s a photo of a pathetic individual who confused the two:
http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/5628/282788-adolf_hitler.jpg
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God (aka Rodrigues @mprodrig),
And exactly which of the +++2,000 ‘true’ Gods in the history of Mankind are you referring too? All of them? You speak for all of them ? M
You speak preferentially for what you claim as the ‘true’ God? I do not care which you ascribe to.
John
Note PS to Skeptics: I do not recommend to my fellow skeptics that we follow the behavior of Socrates who was incarcerated and sentenced to death by a jury in Athens for blasphemy (disbelief) toward the state recognized gods and thusly corruption of the young. Socrates drank the poison offered to him by the state executioners.
Nor do I recommend the behavior of Aristotle who fled Athens based on what happened to Socrates lest “they sin twice against philosophy”.
To all Skeptics I recommend instead the behavior of US Army General McAuliffe who received a German Army demand for surrender in late 1944 in Bastogne. General McAuliffe replied to the Germans with one word, “Nuts.” General McAuliffe eventually prevailed with the help of other parts of the US Army coming to his assistance.
God (aka Rodrigues @mprodrig) is very creepy in the same meme as John Cook’s Skeptical[-less] Science site.
John
Marc Rodrigues is in possession of The Truth, as can all his fellow dinner party attendees attest. You are simply beyond the pail, Mr. Watts.
Seriously, the ideological split in the Western world is so great, there will be a reckoning, as one side is grounded in reality, the other in ideology.
The reference to separate topics in the tweet is a classic example of ideological tribalism. As the excellent Sustainability of Human Progress website notes:
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“Let’s try to get above the battles for a while and look at human ideologies from a Martian point of view.
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American social thought is mainly polarized along one axis – the liberal – conservative axis.
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Most people who pay attention to the issues belong to one or the other ideological tribe. Each tribe has its views on a whole spectrum of issues, although logically these issues are not strongly correlated.
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Here are some of the issues.
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abortion
gun control
nuclear power
national defense
affirmative action
communism – in Cuba and formerly Soviet communism
multi-culturalism
what to do about poverty
what to do about the environment
gay rights
global warming
relative importance of equality of opportunity and equality of outcome
punishment of harassing or offending others vs. free speech
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People’s attitudes on these 10 issues tend to be strongly correlated, although logically there should be little connection between a person’s attitude to abortion and his attitude to multi-culturalism.
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Here’s a nice example of a reaction to my Web page on nuclear energy that illustrates membership in one tribe with many causes. …”
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http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ideology.html
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Although this tweet is more clearly an example of ideological tribalism than anything else, at other times I am reminded of the Star Wars quote:
“fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate.” While I don’t know what it would be like to want others to believe a position I couldn’t defend in sustained argument or which depended on select true facts not being spread (such as no global warming in the past 15 years), I imagine it must lead to insecurity and hence fear, trying not to show weakness and finding comfort when surrounded by fellow tribe members but secretly having fear of the edifice of falsehoods eventually being found out by more people.
Hello,
A very strange fellow that Marc Rodrigues @mprodrig.
Not enough information to triangulate position for killing by USAF Drone ‘Hammer Und Sickle’.
Will orbit until further orders.
Well, the tweet to Mr. Watts is now gone.
But I did find this winner:
[snip -lets leave well enough alone – anthony]
I’ve long suspected the internet is somehow connected to parallel alternate universes, as I find people and concepts there that vary from completely different from what I’ve experienced before and will ever expect to find out here in my reality, to those that are very similar but somehow distorted or twisted in strange frightening ways.
I’m just going to stay in mine for now, and hope Mr. Rodrigues stays in his. If my realism and intellect should come in contact with what Mr. Rodrigues has, the energy release from the cataclysmic annihilation event
could destroy the universe we meet in, at least.
[snip]
Not far above my post, Kadaka points out that Mark Rodriguez even goes full Sharpton… He outright screeches that he thinks everyone is “virulent” because Obama is black. Obviously, this is a form of projection, and says a lot about Mark and his thoughts on race. But just as importantly, it says a lot about the CAGW mindset regarding their belief system… And it’s actually rather incredible to believe that people can make their way in the world if they think this way… Consider:
If Mark Rodriguez has to go full Sharpton (similar to going Godwin), it is tantamount to an admission that his position / argument is not a logical one – it is simply an emotional one. (He knows he cannot win on logic, that’s why he uses the Sharpton defense).
And yet Mark Rodriguez, a person who is apparently capable of securing food, water, electricity, a mobile device, and all the other comforts in life, is apparently able to make his way through life driven by emotion, not by logic. (100 thousand years ago, the cro-magnons were defeated. Apparently they are making a comeback.)
So, there IS a GOD ? Well, he tweets !
Anyway, whazzup with that Rodriguez pimp ? Man what a dill ! Hey buddy, you’d be best advised to keep your stupidity to yourself lest we all get to bathe in your stupidity … ah, too late!
It’s unfortunate that social discourse today has become so routinely coarse that people don’t bat an eye at rants like this worm’s. Even the level of obscene invective he resorts to (presumably because having no better response to facts that upset his applecart) doesn’t draw the attention to the defects in his “thinking” and his mind the way it should, for most people. I must conceded, however, that it provides a very accurate picture of the depth (or lack thereof) of the intellectuality behind AGW. Maybe he thinks the F word itself is “evidence” that AGW is true.
People like Rodrigues (whose name, from the spelling, is probably Portuguese, Catalan or possibly even French, rather than Spanish – too bad we can’t call him a llorona or a cabron!) cannot be reached by any process of reasoning or demonstrating facts. The only way to reach vermin like him is to get the word out to the uninformed masses, and then sic them on him. Sic the people he drives into deeper poverty with his policies on him, and let them get their pound of flesh out of him.
In re attacks on der Fuehrer because he’s black –
I’d be willing to bet that Rodrigues would have some pretty nasty things to say about people like Herman Cain or Dr. Ben Carson, who have committed the unforgivable sin (in the warnists’ and generally in the left’s eye)s of being black men who think for themselves.
Scratch a lefty deep enough and the bigotry always comes out in ’em. You’d be hard put to find a real, traditional right-winger that can spew more vitriol against African Americans than the left routinely does.