User:Bongolian

The Bongolian: A Psychedelic Trip to Outer Bongolia

Did you know

Did you know… that the Dutch did not attempt to impose Dutch in Indonesia, preferring instead to administer it through Malay?

Foto funnies

List of predictions of the end of the world

The end of the world is near.

Didit generator

Why is there pain?

Answer: Contrailsdidit!

My work here

Celebrating 9 years of annoying people on RationalWiki.

I have made 35,000 edits as of December 2020. I'm among the top-10 editors by number of edits (and highest in mainspace edits), but I do strive for quality.[1] I have been a moderator since 2017.

Mainspace pages created

Complete revisions

Some major additions/revision I've made

2021 U.S. Capitol riot
Alt-right glossary
Appeal to nature
Aristolochia
Ballotpedia
Cannabis (especially pre-merge from "Marijuana woo")
Clinton body count
Communist glossary
The Daily Stormer
Dr. Strangelove
Fake news
Herbal supplement
Holocaust denial
John Birch Society
List of medicinal plants
Lost Cause of the South
Gavin McInnes
National Enquirer
Neoreactionary movement
Naturopathy
Originalism
Singapore
Unit 731
Vitamin and mineral supplements (particularly the megavitamin section)
WikiLeaks

Category:EvoWiki ports

Funspace pages created

The Devil made me do it.

My +666 character edit to the Heaven page:[2]

Essay

Reflections on reporting Twitter Nazis

Favorite Bible passages

Revelation 21:8 — hot…
Isaiah 32:5 — and hotter
Romans 2:6-14 — why Nobs is headed straight to Hell
Isaiah 30:26 — libtard
2 Kings 18:27 — therapy
Ezekiel 23:20 — for prudes
Acts 9:5 — aren't Biblical double entendres grand?

People I've pissed off in the line of duty

Michael Coombs — he accused me of impersonation
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax — he tried to dox me
Eugene M. McCarthy — I wrote most of his page
Rob Smith — battles lost, war won

Real-life brief encounters

Philip Agee, CIA turncoat — saw him give a talk
Alt-med
- Instructed to put my bloody knee in the sea in my youth[3] — that part of the sea also happened to be contaminated with PCBs as it turned out
- Saw a burn victim treated with toothpaste[4]
- Homeopathy — was given the sugar pills by an actual MD
- Chiropractor — got my neck cracked, wouldn't go again
- Saw a Himalayan bronze bowl applied directly to a traumatic brain injury patient's head ("sound healing")
Amway — I knew two 'sales associates'.
Animals:
- Archaeopteryx — saw a plaster cast of the Berlin specimen
- Endangered species in the wild, including the California condor, Comanche Springs pupfish, mountain gorilla, Bornean orangutan, and the southern cassowary
- Garra rufa fish — saw the fish nibbling customers' toes
- Lion — seen in the wild
- Lungfish — seen in a public aquarium
- Platypus — seen in the wild
- Primates — seen in the wild
Anti-nuclear movement
Cory Aquino, leader of the Philippines' People Power Revolution — saw her speak
Area 51 outskirts
Isaac Asimov — saw his lecture
Bill Bailey,[5] one of the members of the international brigades in the Spanish Civil War — saw him speak
Jello Biafra
BitChute — seen in the wild, some old white man with a BitChute baseball cap who apparently makes a habit of harassing cashiers with written instructions on how to access his cray-cray BitChute posts
Bohemian Grove — attended open house
Boy Scouts of America — I was one.
Jerry Brown
Harold Camping — drove past his radio station before the End Times came
Cannibalism — I knew someone who thought he unwittingly participated in mortuary cannibalism
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, who was a major force in ending the legitimacy of scientific racism — saw his lecture
Iris Chang — saw her give a book reading of
Charles III — never met The Dude, but we both made minor contributions to the same book
Noam Chomsky — saw him lecture on politics
Crack — have seen people using it in a crack house
Dada — saw a neo-Dada performance
Charles Darwin — saw the actual finches that Darwin collected from the Galapagos
Andrea Dworkin — saw her book reading her book The Rape of Nanking
Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame — saw him driving around a couple of times, also he thanked me for wearing a business suit after we were among the arrestees at a direct action
Erhard Seminars Training — I knew one person who went to the original EST once and was not impressed, also I know someone who was involved with the Landmark derivation.
Felonies of people I've known:
- Arms smuggling — "only" bullets, convicted
- Child endangerment — at least twice, not caught
- Grand theft — the AT&T truck, convicted
- Illegal asbestos building tear-down with intentional undocumented worker exposure — not caught
- Insider trading — got rich, not charged
- Manslaughter — killed a man with a pool cue, convicted
- Rape
  - Date rape — frat boy, not indicted
  - Statutory rape — known two perps, not indicted
- Threatening a judge, convicted
- Vandalism — habitual, not caught
The Firesign Theatre — reunion performance
Games:
- Dungeons & Dragons — played it exactly once
- Game theory — had a college class on the topic, which included the Prisoner's dilemma
- Ouija board — in my misspent youth
- Tarot — have had it read to me
Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, Naropa University and NAMBLA affiliate — saw his poetry reading
Google headquarters — got an informal tour
Greenpeace — visited their ship, The Rainbow Warrior
Kamala Harris
Heroin — saw someone shooting up on the street
Hippies
Holocaust survivors — I've met at least two, one who was hidden as an infant at a convent by his Jewish parents, and one who was an infant when his mother fled across Europe
Home birth — I have attended one. The birther in question also lost at Vatican roulette. I think they may have eaten the placenta of one of their previous children.
The Jerry Springer Show (not The Opera) — I knew two people who were guests on the show
John Birch Society
Ken Kesey, who participated in MKULTRA psychedelic drug experiments — saw him speak and held his hat made of hemp
Naomi Klein — saw her speak on her The Shock Doctrine book tour
Jaron Lanier, futurist/virtual reality pioneer — gifted him a musical instrument
LaRouchies — saw there conspiracy-infested literature table on various sidewalks
LessWrong follower — tee-shirt wearer spotted in the wild
LSD was offered windowpane acid on the street once, but I haven't actually taken it
William Mandel — who was a victim of and stood up to McCarthyism
Benoit Mandelbrot, without whom we would not have fractal wrongness — saw his lecture
Peter Mayhew, the guy who played Chewbacca in Star Wars — sat next to him on a plane
Milky Way
Joseph Mobutu — probably observed him at a distance fishing on a remote riverbank
Kary Mullis, 'winner' of the Ig Nobel Prize
Ralph Nader — saw his lecture
Nudists
Nina Paley of the The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and later of Spinster.xyz
Penn & Teller — saw their magic show (it sucked from nosebleed seats)
PETA — have seen the on the street
Plants:
- Aristolochia
- Betelnut
- Cannabis
- Canola oil
- Coca — chewed the leaf; cocaine — have been to both an active crack house and a formerd one
- Coffee
- Green tea
- Magic mushrooms
- Morning glory seeds
- Orchidaceae — seen in the wild
- Petrified forest
Postmodernism — e.g., Yayoi Kusama exhibition, surrealist art exhibition, Picasso exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
Punks
Religions:
- 3HO
- Amish — saw a buggy going down the road
- Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum in Singapore
- Catholics — have been inside cathedrals, saw the Vatican's traveling art exhibition
- Church of the SubGenius — went to an official event and was deconverted
- Eucharist — have received both a Christian/non-Catholic eucharist (without having been baptized) and a heterodox Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence communion
- Greek Orthodox — had a childhood friend who belonged
- Hare Krishnas
- Hinduism — have been to Hindu temples
- Islam – have been inside mosques, both modest and grand
- Jehovah's Witnesses — they have bothered my door knocker
- Jews — have been to services, including two bat mitzvahs
- Jews for Jesus — saw their street pesterers
- Moonies — passed by on the street
- Mormons
- Ordo Templi Orientis followers — saw a rite that included flogging
- Presbyterians — was proselytized by
- Quakers — have attended meetings
- Rastafarians
- Saint John Coltrane Church — I have heard the radio broadcast by Reverend Wanika Stephens
- Satanists
- Scientology — have been outside one of their buildings
- Seventh-day Adventists pestered my door
- Traditionalist Catholicism — stayed at the house of a TradCath, where my now ex-inlaw, a mainline Catholic, had an exceedingly tedious theological argument
- Unitarians — have attended a service
- Unity Church (New Thought-derived)
- Universal Life Church — I became a priest way back when.
- Westboro Baptist Church members — was harassed by them at an AIDS walk
Revolutionary Communist Party (US)
Karl Rove – saw him in the Austin airport bookshop in 2010 making sure that his 608-page impacted turd of a memoir was perfectly arranged on the display stand, then counseling the cashier about her imperfect shelving
Randy Schekman, before he won the Nobel Prize
Roko's basilisk — no, not the actual beast, but someone in public wearing a t-shirt with that lettering — failed PUA, mindfuck, LessWronger, or just lame?
Bobby Seale — saw his lecture; also saw fellow-Black Panther Party member Eldridge Cleaver on the street
Shaman, both old school and a neoshaman
Harry Shearer, one of the voices on The Simpsons — saw him present his film about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, The Big Uneasy
Valerie Solanas — I saw the first — and perhaps only — production of her play, Up Your Ass.
Tax protesters
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Zen master — wasn't impressed by his mindfulness bell
Traditional Chinese medicine — ate at the Imperial Restaurant in Singapore, which specializes in food with TCM. I had the memorable scorpions on toast.
Trotskyites — saw one who actually had a Trotsky-style beard/mustache
Trump — have made a pilgramage to his "Banker's Heart"
Turing test — I was once given an impromptu test by text messaging. I eventually passed it, but then confessed to the tester that any bot could have scraped that answer from the internet.
Uhuru House — currently a Russian front group
Unidentified flying object — in the days before drones were common, I saw a light in the night sky that moved silently like a quadcopter does nowadays.
Utah Phillips, a Wobbly — saw his performance
Steve Wozniak of Apple Inc. — saw him driving around
Yahoo — knew one of the first employees
Yippies, including co-founder Paul Krassner, a phone phreak who got sent to prison for stealing an AT&T truck, and latter-day Yippies at a smoke-in
Frank Zappa — performance

Oh, the places I have been!

Australia
Bermuda — apex of the Bermuda Triangle
Brunei
Costa Rica
Canada
England
France
Guam
Indonesia
Ireland
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Singapore
Spain — I saw Gibraltar from there
United States — most states, and some parks:
- Grand Canyon
- Hell, well Bumpass Hell anyway
- Mount Shasta (vicinity)
- Yellowstone
ex-Zaïre (Democratic Republic of the Congo)