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Jul 24Liked by Roger’s Bacon

I guess I’ll be the first to offer a literalist interpretation of Sutta? Half joking.

This sounds like a normal evening’s activity in most political circles, might as well be Davos.

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Jul 24Liked by Roger’s Bacon

I always thought that laughter from my service buddies about copulation with pigs, chickens n lambs was urban legend. With the advent of the internet I received several (funny?) images of sex (?) with anything from a bowling pin to an octopus.

I’d like to be in the room listening when they create legislation to help with this issue. The title of this piece says it all, recently in my state someone was accused n arrested for being a literal mother fucker.

I’ll go meditate now n practice some mindfulness.

Thanks for the bacon.

Loving the seeds of science also.

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lol thanks man!

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Jul 24Liked by Roger’s Bacon

this is one area where a materialist analysis clearly falls short of a satisfactory explanation. undoubtedly, there is some perverse psychology at work here. but reducing it down to a psychological misfire is begging the question. they did it just for fun? okay—why was it fun? do these men have some identifiable psychosis, or were they otherwise cognitively functional people who came up with a wild (ha) idea about how they were going to spend an evening together? this took some amount of planning and premeditation—the Ocean's Eleven of depravity. so what made four men say to one another—continually, at every single decision point throughout the entire journey—"yup, this is it, this is the big score. not only do i want to carnally entangle myself with that scaly fella on the other side of the fence—i want to share the experience with three of my homies, who i will presumably have to look in the eye both during and after this encounter. gentlemen, hear me now: there is nothing good on Netflix. this is the only way forward."

i'm being glib; at the same time, this is pretty compelling evidence for good old-fashioned demonic possession. supposedly, that doesn't exist. but i defy anyone to come up with a more parsimonious explanation for whatever the hell this is.

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lol very well said, in full agreement. I edited you comment in at the end of the article, hope you don't mind.

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You know there’s some room for interpretation here.

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wtf. why. what even leads to this?

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dufuq of the day

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Jul 25Liked by Roger’s Bacon

Given that monitor lizards can be rather combative, this act requires either great courage (in the wrong place), serious desperation (I almost would feel sorry for the guys) or a large monetary reward for doing something batshit crazy (the only sensible explanation). I don't think Monitor lizard AIDS would be a problem though, too different metabolism for the virus to cope with I think.

As an aside, I really like the design of the spines on your copy of "Decline and Fall".

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Jul 28Liked by Roger’s Bacon

Nah zoophilia's illegal in Russia, it's just lumped in with article 245 - animal cruelty. In practice you can't just pork a pig unless you're like a cop or a Wagner veteran

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