Western Civilization has a great big God shaped hole at its center.
Nietzsche and Bronze Age Pervert had a go at filling that hole with something more manly than Christianity, but Nietzsche failed and Bronze Age Pervert is no Nietzsche. Bronze Age Pervert correctly tells us that the job now is destruction, but the left will destroy itself soon enough if we don’t. We need to prepare for construction once the left self destructs.
The Christianity of Constantine and Charles the Hammer was manly enough for anyone. We could do with the Christianity of King John the Third. Christianity tends to holiness spiral the sermon on the mount and the Good Samaritan, but provided you don’t holiness spiral, the Sermon on the Mount and Good Samaritan is entirely compatible with being a man. After you are out of cheeks you can beat the stuffing out of the bad guy.
If Christ is the incarnation, then he is, among other things, the incarnation of the logos, and interpretations of his words that give him meanings incompatible with game theory and evolutionary psychology should be treated as heresy. (Because the New Testament is politically incorrect, Game theorists are apt to neglect to mention that in a world of imperfect and asymmetric information, the strategy that leads to cooperate/cooperate equilibrium is one tit for two tats, rather than tit for tat. But even less does a strategy of zero tits for unlimited tats lead to cooperate/cooperate equilibrium.)
The death of God led to the death of western philosophy, summarized by Alf in his book “The Resurrection of Godâ€.
- “What does it mean to be a good person?â€
- Aristotle
- “What does it mean to be?â€
- Descartes
- “What does it mean?â€
- Nietzsche
- “What does ‘it’ mean?â€
- Bertrand Russell
- “What does it?â€
- C.S. Lewis
- “What?â€
- Lil’ John
- “42â€
- Douglas Adams
And eventually to the death of science, for if there is no truth, what is science? You need to take the ground beneath your feet on faith. Build on the void, your buildings fall down. An individual atheist scientist can do fine science, but science as a collective endeavor, as a social endeavor, requires a shared belief in the pursuit of truth, and we just have not been successful at maintaining a shared belief in truth without God. Hence the reproducibility crisis and peer review, which replaces evidence with social consensus. Robert Boyle told us that if a scientist talks about consensus, he is likely dishonest, and, honest or not, is facilitating dishonesty. He who believes in consensus, has no regard for truth. Robert Boyle tells us that if a prominent expert tells you experts agree, or gives you third hand evidence, what they supposedly agree upon is unlikely to be true. The supposed expert consensus is being manipulated, and you are being manipulated. If the supposed consensus was not being manipulated, they would invoke evidence from primary sources, not consensus nor third hand evidence.
Alf tells us:
if man necessarily has individual faith, then what do we call shared faith? Well, we call it religion, of course.
I hope for Alf to be Archbishop under Holy American Emperor Trump.
The faith of Gnon requires adherence to law of Gnon, which requires, among other things, that people are required to see what is in front of their noses. If someone cannot commit, or even acknowledge, a thought crime against progressivism, they are not of our faith, but of a faith that intends our destruction.
The faith of Gnon requires confidence that God intends use to be happy, provided that we follow his laws, intends us to conquer the world and the stars, requires the white pill. If someone accepts the red pill but concludes the black pill from the red pill, concludes from the red pill that a wife and children that belong to him, in a home that belongs to him, will not make him happy, not of our faith. The black pill is gnosticism. The white pill requires us to accept the world of the fall, the world of Darwinian natural selection, and still be cheerful and optimistic about it. Every morning the dawn wakes me up, I squeeze my wife’s backside, and she makes me coffee while I watch the sun rise over the islands and the sea. Most evenings I check my fruit trees, then I sit down on my log in my garden, and watch the sun set over the mountains. Every few weeks, I get drunk with my friends. Is this a world that belongs to Satan? Is this a world ruled by Satan? Every dinner and most lunches I thank the Lord for my food, for the pleasant company with whom I eat it, and for the beautiful creation in which I eat it.
The faith of Gnon requires that we respect the lessons of old and successful social technologies – eighteenth century marriage, Biblical marriage, recently existent capitalism, and science as it was before 1944, that we think very carefully before dismantling Chesterton’s fence, and carefully monitor the consequences of dismantling, or failing to properly maintain, Chesterton’s fence, requires proper respect for tribal taboos and the copybook headings.
Cooperate/cooperate equilibrium between men and women requires indissoluble marriage, otherwise you get defect/defect. We need marriage vows and a marriage ceremony that reflects and respects the fact that humans are heterogamous organisms. Children need to be raised in one household by their mother and their father. One household requires one head of household, and if your marriage ceremony does not give this woman to this man, if the wife does not promise to honor and obey, to submit and reverence, you are not actually getting married, because you are not actually forming one household, you are getting gay married.
The faith of Gnon requires generosity and forgiveness, but generosity and forgiveness should not be unlimited, lest we empower evil. Charity begins at home, and we owe more generosity and forgiveness to kin, friends, neighbors, and co-religionists, than we owe to strangers in places we could not find on a map. We owe peace and goodwill to strangers of goodwill, but no more than that, and not everyone is of goodwill. Sometimes you have to go Old Testament. The New Testament does not cancel the Old, merely cancels the legalism that the Jews substitute for the spirit of the law. We are risen killer apes, angel and killer ape both, and we rose on a thousand genocides, as tribes of killer apes that cooperated more effectively wiped out tribes of killer apes that cooperated less effectively.
We should be peaceful to all men of goodwill. A few centuries ago Europe achieved a highly successful social technology for peace on earth, for avoiding terrifying and immensely destructive wars, which social technology which was lost during the twentieth century. That social technology was: Cuius regio, eius religio, the Peace of Westphalia. Interpreting “religio†broadly, that means that every country is entitled to its own ways, and that the current ruler should be respected even if he is not following our ways. The Peace of Westphalia aims for a world of sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors, and honor the differences that make each country special and unique. When the Harvard and mainstream media priesthood call someone a “dictator†that means they are plotting to overthrow him and probably kill him, which is not very peaceful. Installing “liberal democracy†on the bloodstained sands of the Middle East on people unfamiliar with “liberal democracy†and demonstrably bad at it is far from peaceful. We should pay the rulers of alien countries appropriate respect and refer to them by the titles that they have managed to get away with, rather than calling them something that implies that overthrowing them and murdering them is good. We should accept each country conducting themselves in the ways that are particular to the uniqueness of each country. When the holier than thou priesthood of Harvard and the mainstream media support a violent, destructive, dangerous, and revolutionary faction in Hong Kong in order to install “liberal democracy†in Hong Kong, a system that the people of Hong Kong have never experienced, do not genuinely comprehend, and are clearly even less competent than ourselves to operate, that is an act of war by a nuclear power against another nuclear power. The state religion should be universal within the state, but should not impose itself outside the state, while maintaining collegiality and communion with the state religion of other states with a similar state religion. The state religion should never pursue or encourage the overthrow of a sovereign, unless its own sovereign has first declared war. Especially against a nuclear power.
Wasn’t it Dalrock as archbishop before?, Dalrock is a very solid guy.
The difference between Dalrock and me is that Dalrock would find a handle like Jewish Pedophile offensive, while I see the merit.
But would Dalrock say of a handle and/or headline such as “My Gay Dad (Who Raped Me) Overdosed On Quaalude“?
A-OK, no doubt 😂
Dalrock would rightly ignore it and not say anything.
Wish I had never started using long ‘offensive’ names on this blog; you took it in a weird direction with your characteristic Jewish charisma.
To comment on the article/the reason for it: I think Moldbug should be less looking at BAP and instead looking at the space he and his ideas came from and how to cultivate/grow these spaces. There are some interesting things happening in a few chat apps. Not nearly enough. Hard to find interesting things to read – new ideas coming too slowly.
Both Dalrock and Alf are great IMO.
“meanings incompatible with game theory and evolutionary psychology should be treated as heresy.”
I have read a decent amount of evolutionary psychology, as well as a decent amount of ancient greek philosophy and some of the works of Augustine and Aquinas.
On the face of it – and I could be wrong, but it appears to me that evolutionary psychology is a description of the behaviour and desires of fallen humanity and as such is more or less compatible with Christian moral philosophy.
However, given that I would also posit that the system of moral theology more or less perfected by Aquinas which he inherited from the greeks and Augustine is more complete as it includes mankinds desire to reach for higher goods such as truth – beauty and so on.
I don’t know that much about game theory and as such i confine my assertions to saying that the moral theology of Aquinas would be superior to evolutionary psychology as a description of the desires and behaviours of humanity. However, it may be the case that evolutionary psychology is more thorough and complete as a description of mankind as fallen but not as attempting to live as the image of God.
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Hypergamy has its unfallen counterpart.
The feminine in its unfallen state is manifested in the person of Eve prior to the 1st sin.
In Christ is the perfect Masculinity. In both gentleness and strength. Ying and Yang in proper order. Lion and Lamb.
Psalm 72:
Endow the king with Your justice, O God,
and the son of the king with Your righteousness.
2He will judge Your people with righteousness
and Your afflicted with justice.
3May the mountains bring peace to the people,
and the hills bring righteousness.
4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people;
may he save the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor.
5 May they fear him as long as the sun shines,
as long as the moon remains,
through all generations.
6 May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.
7 May the righteous flourish in his days
and prosperity abound,
until the moon is no more.
8 May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
9May the nomads bow before him,
and his enemies lick the dust.
10May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute;
may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
11May all kings bow down to him
and all nations serve him.
12For he shall deliver the needy who cry out
and the afflicted who have no helper.
13He will have compassion on the poor and needy
and save the lives of the oppressed.
14He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for their blood is precious in his sight.
15Long may he live!
May gold from Sheba be given him.
May people ever pray for him;
may they bless him all day long.
16May there be an abundance of grain in the land;
may it sway atop the hills.
May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon,
and its people like the grass of the field.
17May his name endure forever;
may his name increase as long as the sun shines.
In him may all nations be blessed;
may they call him blessed.
18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel,
who alone does marvelous deeds.
19And blessed be His glorious name forever;
may all the earth be filled with His glory.
He was a bastard who died childless(and a virgin had he not fucked whores) while being humiliated by his enemies. If that’s your understanding of “perfect Masculinity” or “proper order”…
There is also this interesting fact that due to the Logos taking on humanity that this is made possible:
The statement by St. Athanasius of Alexandria, “The Son of God became man, that we might become god”, [the second g is always lowercase since man can never become a God] indicates the concept beautifully. II Peter 1:4 says that we have become ” . . . partakers of divine nature.” Athanasius amplifies the meaning of this verse when he says theosis is “becoming by grace what God is by nature” (De Incarnatione, I)
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis
Evopsy focuses on what humans have in common with animals. And that’s a lot. And the Dark Enlightenment puts an emphasis on it, because these aspects have been long neglected among all that Prog virtue-signalling about human perfectability, so it is important to remind people that a large part of human nature is pretty much on the stronger-dog-breeds level. And that 99% of of the higher and loftier aspects of human behavior are mostly just signalling for social advantages.
And still. There is something in human nature that is truly higher, that is above the level of the animal. It is very hard to tell what it is. I find myself stumbling my way, step by step, away from atheism, towards theism. It is not really something I want. It cannot be social signalling as the IRL social life I have these days is minimal, because people annoy me more and more, I often hardly talk with anyone but wife and kid for days on, and pretty much everybody I still talk with is an atheist.
I don’t know what it is, what exactly is attracting me in that direction. It is not some kind of moral virtue. The best I can describe is that it is a desire for consistency. As long as I am atheist my thoughts are not in a good logical order and it bothers me. I have long realized that at some level value judgements, moral judgements and aesthetic judgements have to be objective, I mean even when we deny this we still act as if they were true, otherwise nothing would work. I mean I have tried for a long time to just be pragmatic, be a “Burkean” anti-intellectual conservative, let’s just do whatever tradition showed to be well working and not really think much about why. But terms “well working” or terms like “eucivic” or “dysfunctional society” or “tired of living in Mordor” handwave away certain value judgements via basically considering them common-sense and obvious. It’s a tribal thing, people who see obvious dysfunction where there is obvious dysfunction are called Us, those who don’t, Them. But all this is avoid the deeper problem of why exactly are obvious value judgements correct. It is not enough to say the Right is sane and the Left is not. People do not need science to know someone eating cow dung instead of a steak or an apple is insane. So you can avoid intellectualism and still do the right things. But there is a little inner voice of curiosity telling us to have a science of nutrition to find out what is good about steaks and apples and what is bad about cow dung. That we want to understand the world. And it is the same with values. Obvious common-sense sane value judgements still need to be grounded in something. It seems they are somehow written into the fabric of Nature. And that points towards something like God.
It is the same thing as with physics, with science. The problem with the prediction theory of truth is that you can just keep adding epicycles until you have enough of them that your prediction capability reached the limitations of your observation capability, which is currently not terribly good. You can just do fitting curves until you have equations that tell you correctly where the Mars will be in 30 years from today. And yet I think we all feel that there is more to truth than this. That there is more to science than adding epicycles and tinkering with curve-fitting, that truth implies an insight into the deep natures of things and true predictions are necessary but not sufficient tests of truth. So it means Maxwellian, Einsteinian equations are written into the fabric of the universe. The simplest explanation would be that we are living in a simulation and the code runs those equations. But as Moldbug has pointed out, belief in an alien sysadmin running a simulated universe or belief in God differs only in aesthetics. The attributes like omniscience, omnipotence etc. are there.
The best kind of atheists became atheists because they felt they cannot be intellectually honest otherwise. I feel being drawn back to theism because I feel I cannot be intellectually honest, or consistent and logical enough otherwise.
MP is going through something similar:
http://malcolmpollack.com/2019/06/03/all-sail-no-ballast/
http://malcolmpollack.com/2019/04/05/pilgrims-progress/
I would say that Peter Lynds’ “Eternal Universe” answer to the question of “Why there is something rather than nothing” rests on the premise that “nothing” is a stable, constant, unchangeable state. But if it’s conceivable for existence to turn into nothing (for whatever reason), it may likewise be conceivable that nothing turn into something – “nothing” is not necessarily stable, constant, and unchangeable. Grasping that, one may as well believe in a Divine Creator, albeit — perhaps! — one that Himself emerged spontaneously, giving shape to our universe, and doing whatever else.
Seems like the marriage of virtue ethics and evolutionary psychology is nothing a robust set of apologetics couldn’t manage — virtues are heuristics, which is how actual brains work.
Regardless, virtue ethics must be exalted and most of what came afterwards (Bentham, Mill, Kant, etc.) must be made to take the blame for the disastrous 19th-20th century consequences and relegated to the ash-cash of history.
Mill, in my mind, bears the lion’s share of blame. He is the OG conservicuck.
No. A conservicuck is a weak friend. Mill was about as liberal as it gets, clearly he was a strong enemy.
This is also my problem with Jim calling Burke the first cuckservative. He was a Whig, not a Tory. A weak Tory could be a cuckservative. Not a Whig. He wanted Whigs to boil the frog slower and generally lawfully, which makes him a smart enemy with good tactical sense, not a weak friend.
Prog History preserves cautious frog-boilers as “conservatives” while those who flat out said the frog should not be boiled are generally forgotten.
Considering the demolition of virtue ethics as an important step in the decline, I think that only makes sense in this specific way: it is not that it led to people being disinterested in virtue. Oh, no. Virtue-signalling is a deeply entrenched psychological thing, I mean, just how could a social being, a talking animal not be interested in what others think about him? Rather what happened is that the intellectual study of virtues got demolished, so now it is driven by fashion and people lack the intellectual framework to reason about real and fake virtues and more importantly their relationships. Obligatory Chesterton:
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
One might even say that evolutionary psychology studies humanity as one more species of godless animals, while Aquinas has hope.
Evolutionary psychology is apt to result in the black pill. Natural selection is undeniably mighty bleak. But we can and should be white pilled anyway. Every sunrise white pills me.
In any case, the question is not whether evopsych is inherently optimistic or pessimistic, but whether or not it’s true. If true, we have to deal with it and incorporate it into the religion, otherwise we end up like the reality-denying progressives.
Perhaps one might say, it’s reasonably true given the assumptions.
To expand on this, firstly, evopsych gets criticized for weak methods and unjustified conclusions (“just so stories”) so actual truth content may vary.
Secondly, it follows the usual science metaphysical assumptions, basically nihilism. If memory serves, this was more or less the motivation of the field: humans are just another species of animal and should be studied in the same way. Hence, if you will, studying the godless animals.
The criticism comes from progressives denying what is in front of their nose, and getting upset because evopsych correctly predicts what I see in front of my nose, and they see in front of their noses.
Right. The “methods” could involve Mescaline and goat semen, for all I care; either they make testable claims with correct predictions, or they don’t.
Not to say that we should never question the methodology of a study, but that’s the sort of thing you worry about when evaluating highly specific claims and have very little other data to go on. People who claim that evopsych is sketchy but autoethnography in critical race theory is A-OK are transparently hypocritical and full of shit. Evopsych is far more predictive than even conventional psychology.
I certainly agree that the examples you mention are far, far greater embarrassments, such that IMO ought to be followed by tarring and feathering, public whippings, deportation or exile, hangings, etc.
And as above, I would agree the study of the godless animal is a useful model with some predictive power in our era, “reasonably true”.
An example of just-so stories is a semi-popular explanation for why homosexuality persists in populations when it should die out.
The theory goes like this: the gay man does not procreate but instead takes care of his nephews (a commonly observed gay activity, I’m sure we all agree), thus raising inclusive fitness even though he has no offspring himself.
There are more plausible theories about this, I should say, but the point is not that. The above is really an example of elevating a hypothesis into a law without testing it.
Hm, perhaps that use of ‘instead’ was unclear and suggests celibacy or something. Not my intent. The theoretical proposal is that the gay man adds so much more than just mere offspring.
Maybe homosexuality persists for the same reason Down’s Syndrome persists.
Except evopsych says nothing about the cause of homosexuality, and evolutionary biologists reject it outright. Read Greg Cochran on this. The “helpful uncle” hypothesis violates the basic premise of natural selection at a genetic level, which states that any seemingly altruistic allele would have to cause more genes – not more individuals – to reproduce, than the one being sacrificed. For example, it must save two brothers, four nephews, etc. That is not in evidence with homosexuality, and no mechanism has been proposed by which the helpful uncle would actually be helpful.
So that’s not really a criticism of evopsych, because the hypothesis came straight out of the Harvard community.
Far more likely evopsych explanation for homos is gay shaman theory, i. e. a segment of the male population engaging in priesthood to the exclusion of everything else, thereby generating asabiyyah equivalent to saving more than two brothers, four cousins etc.
The flipside is a church full of homos in a civilization’s decadent and degenerate phases.
What is prediction?
What has evopsych predicted?
Not all criticism of it comes from progressives, but granted that anyone criticizing it must establish bona fides.
The red pill.
Anyone who gives you any good red pill information is hip to evopsych. Female nature is incomprehensible and makes no sense except in the light of evopsych.
Evopsych is 150 years old at the most generous possible; I suspect far younger. The red pill is as old as Adam. As you often point out, the red pill comes from observation unimpeded by doublethink.
More importantly, that doesn’t count as prediction, no more than the equivalent does in climate science.
What does count as prediction is that stuff we found incomprehensible is now intelligible.
Evopsych makes sense out of data that we were inclined to reject because it seemingly made no sense.
It is like Newton deriving Kepler’s laws from universal gravitation by inventing calculus. He already knew Kepler’s laws, and invented calculus to make sense out of them.
Lacking evopsych, people tend to reject the evidence of their eyes, because the evidence of their eyes does not make sense. If you don’t believe it, you cannot see it.
We see with our own eyes “Alpha Fucks, Beta Bucks.” The Bible doesn’t explain why we’re seeing it, nor does it elucidate this universal phenomenon; EvoPsych, on the other hand, explains it perfectly well. The Bible dispenses red-pills about how culture should deal with women, while EvoPsych greatly helps us uncover the underlying reasons why the Bible’s prescribed social technologies work – Bible derived Chesterton’s Fences and EvoPsych complement each other, and both are valuable.
Not just the red pill, but also the emergence of new traits in geographically-separated populations. And it is congruent with life history (sometimes simplified as r/K).
More generally, what can evolution itself, broadly speaking, predict? In the human domain, not very much that we should be willing to do controlled experiments on, so the more annoying blue-pilled religious sorts use it as an excuse to dismiss entirely. But if one dismisses evolution because it can’t make short-term predictions, then one might as well dismiss history more broadly, because what can history predict with 100% certainty either? To retardation that road leads. Evopsych does make correct long-term predictions, such as crashing fertility.
Anyway, evolution is basically the core principle of AI, and AI works, whether or not we understand exactly why. If AI works, then evolution can occur, and if evolution can occur, almost certainly did occur over millions of years, and if evolution is true, then evopsych is true, because the notion that adaptations only happen from the neck down is idiotic.
I think evolutionary psychology is a misnomer. Sociobiology, behavioral biology etc. would be better, because evolution is all about how things came to be in the past. And that is not really that important. The important thing is the biological aspects of the human mind *right now*. How hormones influence our behavior, how hormones influence brain development, what sex differences that leads to, what genes are responsible for intelligence and how they are distributed and all that. This is present stuff, not past stuff. The evolutionary aspect mostly just generates ideas about where to look, what to check.
You can understand how the eye works without knowing how it evolved, although knowing how it evolved helps understanding why it works the way it does.
This is why I am sort of less pissed at religious evolution deniers as I used to be. They tend to attack three things: origin of life, origin of man, and speciation. What I want is to understand current humans. I don’t really need to go back more than the Stone Age for that. And no human speciation since the Stone Age, except maybe some already extinct subset of Abos, unimportant. All current humans are interfertile, hence one species. Or maybe some Pygmies not but who gives a shit, really. All actually important current humans are interfertile, hence speciation-denial plays no role. *shrug*
Emphasizing the evo part is good because many of the psychological characteristics of humans are very distasteful to very many people, and explaining their strength and proliferation, and thus forcing these people to swallow the distasteful pill, is best or only done via evolutionary means.
Just saying “women rather like rape, and what they say on the issue does not map onto how they act on the issue does not map onto how they feel on the issue” will make your liberal or cuckservative friends very upset, while saying “psychosexual programming follows reproduction, women being conquered and bred by hostile tribes are no less evolutionarily successful than those in nice cozy pair bonds” does not make them upset, unless they are extra insane.
Telling them how it is will make them angry and not convince them, telling them why it is will maybe convince them.
We are convinced by how well something makes sense, and things make sense in their context – in progressive context, gay religion sort of makes sense, but in evolutionary context, is obviously a memetic plague from the demon haunted dark.
Wolves, dogs, and coyotes are interfertile. Are they one species?
Lions and tigers are interfertile. Are they one species?
The behavior of women in regard to sex and reproduction only makes sense in the context of natural selection. If you simply take it as an arbitrary given, hard to make sense of it, hard to believe it.
Hang on a sec. The definition of a species includes not the ability to reproduce, but the ability to produce fertile offspring. Ligers are almost always infertile.
It’s not an absolute; a tiny proportion might be fertile. In the case of humans, though, it’s very rare for mixed-race offspring to be infertile unless there was already some kind of genetic condition in the parents.
Human races map better to the nebulous concept of subspecies.
There is also the fascinating arctic gulls, where adjacent species are interfertile but other combinations are not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
(Though some prefer to call this a ‘Rassenkreis’.)
No, they make sense without natural selection.
Since the fall, our passions rule our reason. Our animal nature tends to dominate our rational nature. Without reason, we are like the other animals, and will act like them. Women are weaker in intellect and in will, and are more affected, being often totally subject to their own momentary feelings. With sex, it is even worse, since women are passive receivers of the active man – reason is even less in the driver’s seat. Ergo female sexuality is very animalistic. Doesn’t vary depending on heritable factors, but does vary on the surface level, iff. good upbringing trains girl to avoid temptation. Natural selection is not looking promising as an explanation.
You don’t really think it’s hard to believe without natural selection, since it’s what you see with your own two eyes.
This does not adequately explain the phenomenon of shit tests, why women love you to break laws and especially the anti heterosexuality laws on “rape”, and “sexual harassment”, and why the unconscious purpose of their one hundred point checklists is to find a man that spectacularly fails to meet them.
Female nature makes no sense except in the light of evopsych. Our fallen nature is only explicable in terms of competition between tribes of male killer apes, and women seeking abduction into the tribe with the successful band of brothers.
Our fallen nature is only explicable in terms of its final causes, its ends and purposes. Evopsych is an attempt to explain those final causes by reducing them to efficient and material causes. But we don’t need evopsych to be able to tell that language is for communication, or that we have a natural love for our own children, or that jealousy is different in men vs. in women. (Dunbar’s number is a good example – see the wiki article. I see that as representative of evopsych as a ‘discipline,’ and it’s retarded.)
And we don’t need it to tell us that women love it when we pass their shit tests, because they want to get bred by the biggest stud. They want to get bred by the biggest stud because they are so detached from reason, their desires become essentially animal. It’s the same thing that happens when a boy grows up without being taught language/law/morality/low time preference. Women are just a lot more unteachable – you can’t set them firmly down in anything and expect them to stay there on reason alone, not without feeding their feelings from time to time. Weaker in body, weaker in mind.
We don’t need evopsych to tell us we are just animals with intellect and will.
Also: if natural selection were the cause, then why would AWALT? Civilized women would be, at heart, less feral than savage women, because the feral reproductive strategy has operated forever among savages. But at heart, AWALT. I’m not speaking from much data on this point, but it’s the impression I get.
If we could effectively measure female ferality in relation to heredity, I expect that we would see regression to the mean, consistent with a foundation in immutable human nature, rather than natural selection.
But God does work through efficient and material causes. You are repeating the error that caused the Jews to lose Israel. The prophecy said that they would lose Israel if they failed to obey God’s law. And they were losing Israel, with direct Roman rule over Jerusalem and puppet Kings in the rest of Israel. So they doubled down on observing God’s law in relation to cheese crumbs. Which was an excuse, and continues to be an excuse, for disobeying God’s law, for violating the spirit and intent of the law, which disobedience got them expelled through efficient and material causes.
You are interpreting “shit tests” in a way that implies that it is wicked and wrong to pass shit tests. No it is not. You are giving us the black pill on women, which is not a true reflection of female nature.
Because you will not pay attention to efficient and material causes, you are, like the Jews of the time of Jesus, coming to wicked conclusions.
The black pill is not the red pill. It is a wicked substitute for the red pill, that results in bad and self destructive conduct. It does not get you laid, and obstructs you from having family and children. It impairs your relationship with your wife.
This is a testable claim, and one that fails to hold up in reality.
I’ll take Darwinism over Cath-tardery, thank you very much. We need a new religion, not that tired old “God did it, end of story” crap. Yes, God did a lot of important stuff, but God does not want us to stop looking for answers, else he would not have given us curiosity.
Don’t mistake me. (1) There is essentially no girl on earth who would not become an eager little slut in the right circumstances. (2) Most girls can be brought up to avoid getting anywhere near those circumstances, because they fear their father, their priest, God, and social shame, and can, *to a point*, follow their rules. (3) We cannot rely on that upbringing, because la donna e mobile, and because we know our ancestors couldn’t. Male control must be ever-present.
My point was that female ferality does not seem to vary with heredity, and the closest thing to variance it has is based on upbringing. That doesn’t suggest something driven by natural selection.
Nothing under the sun is new. If your religion is founded on truths that change, it’s not much of a religion. And “God did it end of story” is for protestants. If our religion were against curiosity, then I would not be on reaction.la.
There are obvious racial differences in female propensity to turn feral, given half a chance, but the biggest difference is exposure to Cathedral memes, especially cathedral memes early in puberty, around twelve to thirteen.
It depends very much on what school taught them around that age, and to a lesser, but still considerable, extent, on what the media showed them. Continued exposure to Cathedral memes, particularly at elite universities, worsens the problem, but twelve to thirteen is the age that makes a critical difference.
Sure it does. But sexuality, like intelligence, is complicated. It’s influenced by several factors, both genetic and environmental. Cathedral memes, as Jim says, but also maternal abandonment (daycare), fatherlessness, and so on.
What you’re claiming would be a bit like going to North Korea and saying that height does not seem to be hereditary. Of course it is, it’s just that the environmental influence is so strongly negative that it o overwhelms most of the genetic variance. You can’t really raise up the ugly, stupid and feral to become beautiful, brilliant and civilized, but you absolutely can do the reverse.
@jim and also @Steve
Species are one level in a gradual hierarchy of taxonomy with levels like genus and family above and subspecies and breeds below. In such cases, you have a bit of a leeway exactly which joints of reality you want to carve on what level, right? You can put interfertility on the species level, or subspecies, or genus. Whichever makes more sense.
Well, unless one level of the hierarchy is special. Is the species level of hierarchy special?
That is, is it a problem if one is equating species with interfertility, while equating genus with interfertility or equating subspecies with interfertility wouldn’t be a problem?
Or is it more like interfertility is just a bad joint to carve and should be left out of the whole hiearchy of categories?
Nuts.
Humans are interfertile but are multiple species.
Wolves, coyotes, dogs, jackals – interfertile.
Lions, tigers – interfertile.
Horses, zebra
Polar bears, brown bears
etc.
Not what Steve Johnson said.
The real reason to not be nearly as pissed at fundies as one is pissed at Progs is that old-school trad-tard fundie evolution-deniers are out of power, while academic shitlib Prog evolution-deniers (“anti-racists”) have been in power for many decades. Whoever makes falsified and false claims about this world is doing Satan’s work, as Satan is a liar and the father of lies; and Progs are deeply and piously religious evolution-deniers, except that their religion is modern. We are not interested in replacing one set of lies with another set of lies; it is the truth that sets one free (John 8:32).
Currently, the burning issue is religious evolution-deniers of the Prog kind; but having sufficiently low time-preference, we seek to build the Kingdom for centuries to come, and that requires us to establish principles that will hold true in a thousand years. One such principle should be that you don’t learn your physics and biology from the book of Genesis, but from observation and study of nature, because the Creation Account in Genesis relayed spiritual and moral truths only, not material ones, and anyone who says otherwise is a heretic who doesn’t belong in the priesthood. That Cultural Marxists are now in power, while Flat Earthers aren’t in power, doesn’t mean that we should tolerate Flat Earthism.
This plays into the Prog frame of endlessly playing with categorizations. The empirical approach is that e.g. Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans have been separate for 70,000 years, leading to marked observable differences between their respective phenotypes in a wide enough range of hereditary traits, and as such they are, for all practical purposes, different species.
Prog trolls say: “Why be petty about sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub classifications?”, to which we can respond by explaining that, at the margins, specieation is always necessarily arbitrary, or some such; but the more convenient response is “I see in front of my nose that there are different human species,” or as WN trolls meme’d it in this and in this and in similar memes.
Evopsych isn’t a prediction, it is an explanation. Saint Aquinas was simply more of the explanation, that we may assign greater morality towards because we identify greater with his morality rather than when Catherine McKinnon correctly stated that all sex is rape.
Don’t lose sight of the truth. It will not and is not the truth any of us want. It’s a hard truth, it will terrorize your ego greater than any punpkinhead or spirit. But it is the truth. Ego be damned.
Yet women are wonderful, to the man they have submitted unto. And they remain utterly wonderful, so long as that submission from that first abduction remains. And from that springs children, which are mighty wonderful.
At times I too feel the pull of the black pill. I’m not the best guy. I know I’m not the best guy. But I can arrange my own life such that she thinks I am the best guy *for her*.
I once a decade ago went to dinner with my pastor’s secretary. I took my children and my wife trick or treating tonight and we passed by that very house, where he lived. I pointed it out to Mrs Jacket. A story she is familiar with. The porch lights dark, the house dark, I wondered out loud if he still actually lives there?
When I went to dinner with him and his fake wife he wasn’t home from work when his wife rushed both kids upstairs. The first child’s father was in prison. A regular church marriage no better than the marriage church tried to put me into when I first got divorced. No thanks. His wife I had never met before got very close to me, as she arranged the plates for the dinner, and was very fun and happy, flirty even.
Then he came home. And he immediately wanted to lecture her about Moses sermon from the mount.
She rolled her eyes. Later served dinner. The frozen lasagna she didn’t make was still cold. He said to his fake wife, “it’s still cold”, she laughed and flauntily grabbed his plate and threw it in the microwave then came and sat down right next to me. I looked at her, and then at him, and she did the same.
Because I wanted to support my brother.
He didn’t eat his dinner, and I didn’t eat mine.
Then we went to see the kids, which she rushed away as soon as possible so we could watch a movie. She chose a horror film, which he objected to, again quoting the Bible. She ignored him and gave me pointed looks, saying, “look what I am dealing with”
Saying, “take me, abduct me, I want a strong man”
The night went on I could continue. My wife, my real wife, is familiar with this story.
Now the point. Right when he came home he was lecturing her about the sermon on the mount. I often speak to my wife about the importance of our biblical commandant, often starting with a parable from my own life. Or an example from her life, which she has told me the surface about, yet I understand what was actually happening.
As our host says we are risen killer apes. Our women behave just so. Us men need to accept what this means and what it means about women. They are perfectly rational, when viewed as the abductees who now must breed with their captor, the victor. And to love and support him.
Saint Aquinas says the same, only that we must act in accordance with a band of brothers and repress our women to be abducted within our own group. Where we act accordingly.
You may lose, personally you may lose. But you were always going to lose. Your group may live on. You sabotaging your own people because you are not the best one? You and your people both lose.
Or maybe you’ll win? Not as the best one, but as a good one. Who loves his people, even though he isn’t the secret king. Saint Aquinas will not work anymore, we can all read. Evo psych can help you to understand what is going on, if you can accept truly that no, you are not the best one, but maybe you can figure out how to be her best one. And perhaps we can engineer a new social technology for our children to succeed the best for our people.
The relevance of Evolutionary Psychology is that it implies that the Old Testament rules on marriage, family, and sex, are required in order to provide a social order that can fulfill our desires – that, among other things, women are not happy with emancipation, emancipation is a fitness test. Women do not genuinely want emancipation because it prevents male and female cooperation in reproduction, plunging us into defect/defect equilibrium. Emancipated women do not reproduce.
The relevance of game theory is that in a world with imperfect and asymmetric information, cooperate/cooperate equilibrium requires a strategy of one tit for two tats “the other cheek”, “the extra mile”- but not, however, zero tits for unlimited tats. We want cooperate/cooperate equilibrium, not cooperate/defect equilibrium.
Outstanding post.
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I’m torn between commenting ‘thank you Jim, very cool.’ and ‘I love you man.’
I think I’ll go with ‘I love you man.’
I love you man!
> Charity begins at home
What bothers me about the Effective Altruism crowd is that they do not seem to care if their gifts are going to keep on giving. How do they know if Malawi kid saved with the $8 anti-malaria mosquito net is not going to grow up into some kind of a monster whose existence is a huge net negative to other people?
If you want to be utilitarian, you should try to start a *utilitarian cascade* for example, you pay for the education of a bright poor kid into becoming a scientist on the condition that he will find another bright poor kid and pay for his education into becoming a scientists, so he will pay the debt forward, that way your gift keeps on giving and you haven’t just accidentally effectively altruisted yourself into saving a future monster. But how can you enforce it?
And the answer that pops out is that you pay for your sons education into becoming a scientist, or your nephew, or someone from your tightly knit religious community, where you have a chance of enforcement.
I see no other way around it. Despite the EA folks talking about giving effectively instead of for the warm fuzzy feelings, as long as you haven’t tried hard to ensure that the recipient of your gift is going to use it in a good way, you are still in warm fuzzy territory.
This problem has been adequately explained in Plato’s Republic, where Socrates told the guy who said justice equals paying debts that if you borrowed a sword from someone, and you notice he is in a murderous rage against some other dude, is that a good time to return the sword? I.e. you have to consider how your actions will influence the actions of others, you cannot just consider your own actions good or bad in themselves.
And I see no other way than doing it at home. Returning that sword or gifting a sword just has to be connected with controlling or at least predicting the behavior of the recipient which in turn implies being an as big as possible part of the social environment, reference group of that guy.
(Interestingly it seems I have understood that instinctively before I have managed to put it into words. The only time I remember I gave to charity was on Kiva.org a $300 loan to a woman married with kids in Bosnia to buy a sewing machine to supplement her husbands income by sewing people clothes. I thought hard about how that could go wrong, the only answer I could find is if she is lying, but she repaid the loan so probably did something productive with it. Then I withdrew from Kiva because the rest were mostly Africans and Latin Americans. Me being Central European, for me Bosnia is part of my broader backyard, it is a place whose relations and norms I do have some ideas about. Making Bosnia more productive can’t be a bad thing for Central Europe. Making Mexico more productive is probably not a bad thing for Americans. Reduces migration pressure etc. But I don’t know anything about Africa. So no loans.)
Good points, I mainly agree.
What bothers me about the Effective Altruist crowd is that they do not seem terribly curious as to whether their gift is murdering large numbers of children.
Long distance altruism is apt to go horribly wrong – for example western clinics spreading AIDS, “We are the Children”, Haiti after the earthquake. The EA crowd don’t care.
“Heterosexual aids” is not spread by heterosexuals, it is spread by foreign aid funded clinics re-using needles.
Aid to Haiti after the earthquake spread cholera, famine, and destruction.
Aid to Ethiopia “we are the world, we are the children” provided logistic support for an army engaged in terror and mass murder, and was deployed in conjunction with the mass use of slave labor in which slaves were brutally neglected.
The Effective Altruism crowd is alarmingly incurious about the frequent catastrophic failures of long distance altruism targeting distant strangers very different from ourselves.
Your supposed cynicism assumes progressive frame, that spreading liberal democracy is niceness and virtue, and liberal democracy causes unicorns to fart rainbows, without attempting to argue for progressive frame.
If you want to make that claim, that spreading liberal democracy would be nice, and would be an act of generosity and virtue, on this blog, going to have to make it explicitly and present an argument for it.
The progressive desire to bring human rights and democracy to Hong Kong and the middle east is every bit as genuine, sincere, and heartfelt, as the desire of the worshipers of Moloch to persuade the Israelites to sacrifice their children to Moloch by burning them alive. Trying to find an evil Jewish capitalist overlord reason for the our elite sponsoring the Hong Kong riots assumes as self evident the wonderfulness, goodness, and kindness of actually intending to spread liberal democracy.
“Progressive frame” assumes that “liberal democracy” is niceness and virtue. (Do you disagree?)
“Jim/NRx frame” assumes that “liberal democracy” is horror and terror. (Do you disagree?)
“My frame” assumes that “liberal democracy” is basically irrelevant except as a mobilization strategy. (Hundreds of thousands in HongKong; hundreds of thousands in Kiev; millions in Egypt; etc.)
You may generalize this if you like: I assume that all ideologies are little more than mobilization strategies. (Or, as the case may be, demobilization strategies.)
In reading things I don’t say, you strike at shadows. In censoring, you lie. Censorship is violence, violence not merely against the idea, but the idea as such.
In HongKong, the CIA executes the will of the President. This is obvious for anyone with eyes to see.
It is absolutely obvious that the CIA and the state department are defying Trump in Hong Kong, just as much as it is absolutely obvious that the FBI and the State Department are defying Trump over the Ukraine.
Your frame is disproven by Syria and the Congo. In Syria, liberal democracy was the expulsion of the Christians and the genocide of the Alawites, in the Congo, it was the genocide of the Tutsi. The sincerity of these people is proven by the terrible costs, as the sincerity of the worshipers of Moloch was proven by casting their own children into the fire.
If they were cynically using liberal democracy as a mobilization strategy, would install governments less destructive. Example, much cited by Trump: The government we installed in Iraq not only expelled the Christians, but denied American companies access to oil. Because the genocide of the Tutsi and Alawites was extermination and attempted extermination of a privileged elite, progressives were fine with giving effect to the will of the people, but if the installed government does not wish to advance women over men in the education system, they conclude that the installed government does not genuinely represent the will of the people. This is genuine and sincere madness, not the rational pursuit of self interest by evil Jewish capitalists.
The frame that liberal democracy is merely a mobilization strategy presupposes that the ideals are fake, and not sincerely pushed, which presupposes that they are good and noble ideals. But when the majority wants approved objectives, such as equality and social justice, and vote for these objectives to be achieved in disastrous ways, we see that fans of liberal democracy are sincere – and that liberal democracy is a very bad idea.
Trump’s refusal to support terror, mass murder, and unending war is continually condemned as being friendly with “dictators” – obviously Hong Kong and Syria is not Trump policy, it is defiance of Trump’s policy. He gets fiercely condemned by the mass media and stubbornly resisted by the State Department. Further, that the policy is motivated by rational self interest is frequently falsified by utterly catastrophic outcomes. The policy is genuine and sincere madness and genuinely self destructive evil, and that it is not Trump’s policy is repeatedly demonstrated by the fierce condemnation of Trump over Hong Kong and Syria.
The sincerity of the worshipers of liberal democracy is regularly demonstrated in the same way that the sincerity of the worshipers of Moloch was regularly demonstrated.
“It is absolutely obvious that the CIA and the state department are defying Trump in Hong Kong, just as much as it is absolutely obvious that the FBI and the State Department are defying Trump over the Ukraine.”
I have no idea what’s going on in the Ukraine, but it is absolutely obvious that, in HongKong, the CIA (or whomever) is acting in perfect congruence with Steve Bannon’s propagandistic activities.
“Your frame is disproven by Syria and the Congo. In Syria, liberal democracy was the expulsion of the Christians and the genocide of the Alawites, in the Congo, it was the genocide of the Tutsi.”
Backwards rationalization. It’s an old joke that America has long installed America-friendly tinpot governments in banana republics in Central and South America and all over the world.
Consider Libya. What was Qaddafi’s fatal error? Being a military king for forty years? No problem! Trying to establish a pan-Arab gold-backed currency? Thirty thousand bombs, courtesy of NATO, within six months!
“If they were cynically using liberal democracy as a mobilization strategy, would install governments less destructive.”
In the Ukraine they didn’t just use liberal democracy as a mobilization strategy, they used neonazism.
You are constantly telling us of how “the left” (not a real thing) is continually “knocking over apple carts to grab apples”, and now you are telling me that when I observe “smash and grab” it isn’t really smash and grab because I observe too much smash to be believable. Ech!
“The government we installed in Iraq not only expelled the Christians, but denied American companies access to oil.”
I don’t know who got the oil, but Occam’s razor suggests that he who installs the government gets the oil. The American government has been engaged in many apparently irrational and self-destructive policies since WWII, increasing as we get further and further away from that fateful event, indicating America’s steadily decreasing control over the American government.
“not the rational pursuit of self interest by evil Jewish capitalists.”
The race of a capitalist is relatively insignificant insofar as he comports himself in his economic activities. His opportunities for economic activities will naturally be to some degree regulated by his race.
“The frame that liberal democracy is merely a mobilization strategy presupposes that the ideals are fake, and not sincerely pushed, which presupposes that they are good and noble ideals.”
MacLeod hierarchy. There are plenty of true believers; somehow, inexplicably, they never seem to end up with the lion’s share of the plunder.
“But when the majority wants approved objectives, such as equality and social justice, and vote for these objectives to be achieved in disastrous ways, we see that fans of liberal democracy are sincere – and that liberal democracy is a very bad idea.”
Yarvin made two claims simultaneously: that democracy was very bad and responsible for most of our problems, and that also democracy had been rendered entirely irrelevant by the administrative state.
You are making the same argument. The problem is that they are of two fundamentally disjoint realities: you cannot have both.
“Trump’s refusal to support terror, mass murder, and unending war is continually condemned as being friendly with “dictators†– obviously Hong Kong and Syria is not Trump policy, it is defiance of Trump’s policy.”
ISIS was a sockpuppet of the Obama/Clinton White House. When Trump swept into Office, he rapidly put the kibosh on that scenario. Trump’s legacy, however, will be what he did (or didn’t do) to China: there can be only one. In this area, Trump, Bannon, and the observed activities of the CIA are in perfect congruence. (And if you think that they are not, then you should explain why, in economic and geostrategic, not ideological, terms.)
“Further, that the policy is motivated by rational self interest is frequently falsified by utterly catastrophic outcomes, etc. etc.”
It seemed to work out pretty well for Biden’s son, if not quite as well as the fire sale of the USSR worked out for the Oligarchs, or as well as the American occupancy of Afghanistan has worked out for… certain folks. The question, as always, is whose rational self-interest?
Cui bono?
Cui bono?
Cui bono?
Or, sure, keep fretting that Venezuela, the country sitting atop the most oil in the world, is poor and wracked by crisis because of a garden-variety ineffective socialist government and not because of the usual reasons: the White House froze its finances and embargoed its trade.
Oops, that was so ten months ago.
You are outraged by Bannon’s exposition of Trump’s strategic position against China. Yet you are unable to mention the crimes that Soro’s antifa committed in Hong Kong.
You, progressives, conservacucks, and the mainstream media explode with bitter outrage at Steve Bannon’s account of the strategy that Trump pursues, as do the conservacucks who support democracy protests in Hong Kong while wearing black to symbolize identification with the Hong Kong branch of Soro’s antifa.
The intent to overthrow the Chinese regime is likely to result in war with China. The Bannon/Trump strategy aims at more or less peaceful containment, and is opposed and hated by our enemies, such as yourself, who want not containment, but “engagement” – meaning giving China our technology in return for the opportunity to subvert their regime.
The Trump/Bannon strategy takes for granted the Chinese regime as stable, legitimate, and durable. His enemies, and ours, want overthrow. Big difference.
And this big difference is met by outrage, your outrage among that outrage. You could not contain your outrage at Bannon and Trump in the same breath as you presuppose and take for granted that liberal democracy for Hong Kong is unicorns farting rainbows and deny the notorious crimes of liberal democracy in the Ukraine.
To give G-D his due, I’m sure our ruling elites are not completely uninterested in extracting moola from their foreign adventurism. Biden’s net worth demonstrates it.
But if our elites weren’t true believers in liberal democracy, why would they choose to impose it, when that means having to deal with all the costly setbacks and failures that go along with it? Instead of imposing anarchy post-Gaddafi, it would have been far more economical, efficient, and straightforward to install a replacement dictator with whom business could be done.
No, I rather suspect that when our elites feather their own nests, it’s just that they see it as a matter of course that of course they should be well compensated for their superior holiness.
Codevilla nails it:
The gender studies professor not only gets her money eventually from government, but she dreams of being part of a world-transforming enterprise.
RTWT. The parts about the CIA are less quotable but even more apt.
Thank you very much for the Codevilla link.
A fabulous elaboration of The Cathedral and how it works.
You presuppose that Trump is in charge of US foreign policy, and that I agree that Trump is in charge of US foreign policy, when even the New York Times< cheerfully admits that the foreign policy establishment is running its own foreign policy, and not only launching color revolutions against other countries without his permission, but launching a color revolution against Trump. Your mask is slipping. Check with HR to see if that meme is still to be defended now that the New York Times has retreated from it.
The same as every other middle-eastern king’s fatal error: declaring independence from the United States and refusing to force teachers to teach schoolchildren how to put a condom on a banana.
Oy vey. The mask slips a little more with every post you make.
You haven’t proven the grab, only the smash which is obvious. You are using the same tactic you always use of declaring that you have proven something and then moving on to talk about the consequences of that proof. But there is no proof. Libya didn’t have any resources worth fighting a war over, and Iraqi oil didn’t go to American companies.
Of course you can have both. There is this thing called “time”. If a tornado ravages your home, and you never fix it up because you are poor and lazy, then the tornado was responsible for the initial destruction and you are responsible for the subsequent decay. There’s no contradiction here.
Qui curat? Qui curat? Qui curat? It’s always some distraction or other with you.
Yeah, because Venezuela was doing stupendously before that. Highly-educated population, diverse industry, full employment, quality healthcare… uh, wait a sec, never mind.
I guess the resident potato nagger has finally given up on the “more rightist than thou” act and is just openly shilling for socialism now. Well done, fam; I think we finally broke him.
Unresponsive. Mere confident assertion without evidence or explanation.
Of course socialism makes people poor, up to and including large numbers of people dying of starvation, and telling us that socialism cannot possibly make Venezuela as poor as it has become is unpersuasive.
Venezuela can get a great deal poorer, and probably soon will.
And a heartfelt dedication to democracy and mob rule can result in ruin without mob rule being the slightest bit effective.
The Russian government functioned by stealing from the black market.
Next he’ll be telling us that the Khmer Rouge wasn’t real communism, and if it wasn’t for those interfering capitalist wreckers, the Vietnamese and their American allies, Cambodia today would be full of spaceships and crystal spires.
Cui bono ruina Rhodesiae, faggote?
Ian Smith was a great leader but a terrible politician. He didn’t merely quietly buck the authority of the British Crown, he kicked at its teeth.
Nuts
The British government decided to murder them all. What should he then have done?
>declaring independence from the United States
Except he didn’t do that.
>Libya didn’t have any resources worth fighting a war over…
First, you’re ignoring the argument that the people benefitting from a war are not the same as those who pay its costs.
Second, Libya had a fairly substantial gold reserve that Qaddafi has allegedly planning to use as backing for a currency:
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/6528
and, unprecedented in all of history, the first act of the rebels was to establish a central bank:
https://www.cnbc.com/id/42308613
Or it could have been condoms on bananas. Can’t discount the possibility, after all.
“Except he didn’t do that.”
Correct.
“the people benefitting from a war are not the same as those who pay its costs”
Precisely.
“Second, Libya had a fairly substantial gold reserve that Qaddafi has allegedly planning to use as backing for a currency:”
Allegedly.
“and, unprecedented in all of history, the first act of the rebels was to establish a central bank”
LOL.
Yes, he did. What do you need to see, a written declaration? That’s not how the American protectorate system works. Declaring independence from the hegemony means, for the most part, refusing progressivism, refusing democracy, and making virulently anti-American rhetoric. That is how a country declares secessionist intent.
Which is exactly what communists, not capitalists, would do after taking control of an economy.
>Yes, he did. What do you need to see, a written declaration?
Anything at all beyond an unsubstantiated assertion would be a good start.
Do you disagree that France and Germany are American protectorates, that Iran and Syria are largely Russian protectorates, and Malaysia and Singapore are Chinese protectorates? Generally speaking, do you acknowledge the informal system of 20th-21st century imperial geopolitics?
I’m asking a serious question, because if your answer is “no” – if you believe, for example, that the “international community” is an international community – then there is not much point in arguing because we are not speaking the same language.
If you do acknowledge those things, then you tell me: what is the difference between an American protectorate, a foreign protectorate, and a sovereign state? If we acknowledge that the formal relationships are corrupted, then how do you tell them apart in reality?
How are these questions relevant to what Qaddafi did to cause his removal?
Sure, I acknowledge these things, except that I’m not sure that Iran is a Russian protectorate. We’ve all read our Moldbug here, haven’t we? “You can always replace the words ‘international community’ with the words ‘State department’ and the meaning will improve.”
What does this have to do with Libya? Do you actually know something about Libya and Qaddafi, or is this inference from first principles?
This subject is fascinating. In my PoliSci department, the majority of students and faculty are hamstrung by formalist terms (irony is not lost on me lol). NT put it quite succinctly in terms of the major informal protectorates to establish the frame, but he left out the many others. This is not a fault at all, so i will attempt to elaborate and thus slot Libya into the frame.
In addition to the previously listed client state schemas, there is the Commonwealth of Nations which is Britain’s motley crue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations ), France’s collection of post-colonial dependents, and Germany’s financial foster children, under the auspices of the ECB. Each of these varies in form and function, but they still adhere to the rough structure of Protector/Client. Libya is an African anaomoly in the modern age; it is the slut of empires. Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Caliphs, Ottomans, Spaniards, and Italians have all called it their clay. In the 1950s it went solo. It’s uniqueness comes from the fact that all of its former occupiers were defunct or irrelevant when it gained independence. As such, it had no European powers to lean on for stability. Qaddafi held the show together much like Zaire/Congo under Mobutu; he played off foreign interventionists against each other. His biggest silent partner was France, who is the nation that advocated the strongest for his destabilization in 2011. Libya was a real blessing to Europe in terms of soaking up immigrants. Why France and the EU decided to fuck up a good thing is not something I have studied. Strategically, the progressivist destabilizers of Europe just needed the US to OK their hijinx, as that was the last major power that had significant dealings with them (destruction of WMD and related programs).
The assumption behind all this is that rational self-interest = grabbing infinite amounts of money. But the problem is, money has above a certain level diminishing utility. Especially for the purpose of purchasing social status, there is little status difference between owning a Ferrari and owning a whole fleet of Ferraris.
So to put it clearly, I flat out refuse to believe that someone who has a billion dollars is particularly interested in smashing a part of the world to grab another billion dollars. As it will make very little difference to his life.
Except if he sees it as a game. But in that case it is a Game of Power where money is merely used for score-keeping. But it is not a very good way to keep that sort of score.
Except if money is used to pay off a large number of minions. I can imagine Soros does care about another billion dollars, because he uses that to pay a large number of activists and journalists and bribed politicians and whatnot, he has the kind of system through which money can be converted into power. He cares about power, has a system for converting money intgo power. But notice that very few billionaires have such a system.
Soros basically invented the money-power version of drip irrigation, where some unemployed intersectional basketweaving grad in Bulgaria is willing to play color-revolutionary 24/7 for peanuts like fifteen grand a year, even less, so he gets immense power leverage even out of just a few megabucks here and there. That is pretty impressive, but also rare.
FWIW, the basketweaving peanuts come from NED, not Soros. Soros is smarter than that; his MO is to lobby for a law that mandates his NGOs be financed by the state budget.
You don’t get rich by spending your own money, after all.
Okay, sure. And? Are you mistaking us for Constitutionfags and spergatarians again? “How dare you censor me, evil NAP violators!”
If you act in bad faith, expect to have violence done unto you. If censorship is the worst outcome you receive, consider yourself fortunate.
I have no problem with China throwing fifth columnists in prison for reeducation, and no problem with Jim muzzling commenters who are continuously disruptive. I believe I speak for many, if not most here, in that regard.
Don’t shirk from the full quote, friend.
“If you act in bad faith, expect to have violence done unto you. If censorship is the worst outcome you receive, consider yourself fortunate. I have no problem with Jim muzzling those who frequently present empirical facts standing in stark juxtaposition to his sweeping ideological proclamations.”
I submit to your moral order, O great one. Freedom of speech, excepting libel, slander, threat, and obscenity, was a mistake of the Enlightenment like every other thought of the Enlightenment, and the Reformation generally, was a mistake. The Protestants were wrong to rebel against the rightful authority of that Mouthpiece of God, the
UniversalCatholic Church. I relinquish all thought of freedom of conscience. Every man is not his own priest. Oh how I was mistaken. You are my one and only priest. Please afford me the privilege to kiss your boot, like that hook-nosed faggot Pope kissed the feet of those Eritrean holy men.When we are in power, we intend to deal with enemy memes in a violent manner that humiliates the hosts of those memes, because if we don’t, that is how you will deal with us, as illustrated by the current debates on global warming, heterosexual interaction between men and women, and straight marriage.
A priesthood that admits to having a “pedophile” problem, but refuses to Name The Gay and accept that what it really has is a homosexual problem, is a priesthood run by homos who are deeply averse to normal heterosexual relations in every fiber of their cachexic bodies, and whose memeplex itself is gay as a result. Which phenomenon, by the way, is not at all exclusive to Catholicism, although Catholics do possess a Talmud-like talent and tendency (that could give a Yeshiva student a run for his shekels) to rationalize the flaws of their religious organization. I guess the difference between the Cachexic Church and some of its Poztestant adversaries is that the former is still technically in the closet.
When Catholics stop saying that they have a “pedophile” problem, and explicitly, unequivocally admit that they have a gay problem, is when their Church will be back on track to spiritual and moral goodness. Don’t hold your breath, though.
@G-D
Answer this multiple choice question. Remember, multiple choice questions cannot be obfuscated. So choose one.
A 12-year old female has sexual fantasies of:
A) Being an independent womyn astronomerette and attracting men with her professional credential.
B) Getting married to a dependable programmer.
C) Getting beaten and raped by a train of tatted up thugs.
D) … wait a minute, only pedophiles think 12 year old children have sexual fantasies.
The answer isn’t in the choices.
She has fantasies and will act impulsively so that (C) happens (if unrestrained) but she doesn’t consciously think that’s what she wants – it’s just the end result of what she does.
The degree to which it’s conscious is inversely related to the quantity and quality of parenting she has had. 12 year old girls with fathers from happy stable families will be consciously aware of their marital desire for a programmer-ish niceguy (Harry Potter); and a contradicting physical desire for the (in reality effeminate) rock star or actor, desire that sooner or later transforms into a more realistic desire for nearby masculine high-status men.
12y.o girls from crapulent families are likelier to explicitly fantasize about being raped (or worse), by thugs and by non-thugs. If nerdy, they will later date programmers while suggesting and provoking them in every way possible to act out those fantasies, and becoming very frustrated if the programmers don’t evolve into the ultraviolent thugs they overtly wished for. This is the appeal of “50 shades of grey”. Whereas lower-IQ girls of this background will just directly date (if that is the right term) or have children with thugs without the programmer intermediate state.
I don’t see this connection between class, IQ and female bad behavior, or rather the connection looks the other way around to me. The worst is not the girl from the trailer park. The worst is the high IQ lawerette who went to an elite university.
Fatherless girls (or girls whos father’s died early) are LESS attracted to antisocial traits and more tolerant of nerdy spergish beta males then girls from good families. A fatherless girl may be more likely to act on her worst impulses, but her worst impulses are likely to be less bad then a fatherless girl’s worst impulses.
Take it from a sperg who is pretty lacking in dark triad traits…
@Omar
This is retarded. Apply the hierarchy of needs. If a woman is starving, she goes looking for food. If she is full, she goes looking for cock. Duh.
>12 year old girls with fathers from happy stable families will be consciously aware of their marital desire for a programmer-ish niceguy
Most 12 year old girls seem very consciously aware that they want to get “raped”, dominated and owned by men who look like they have the strength and the will to crack skulls; being a thug, a rockstar or an actor or not is relatively irrelevant, it’s just that thugs are more prone to look like that.
Healthy young men who look like they have the strength and the will to crack skulls, if decently groomed, look like a “Prince Charming” they all want to marry.
A good example of that is Brad Pitt, who can play Aquiles in Troy and look like a man with the strength and the will to crack skulls but inside is a huge faggot like most Hollywood victims.
I’ve had plenty of “good family” 12ish year old girls bothering me to know. Some go to great lengths, write you letters and have very elaborate fantasies.
@Omar
It’s hindbrain vs. forebrain. Higher IQ and better upbringing means they are more aware of what is good for them long term and have a father to set an example of it. But forebrain reasoning doesn’t reliably lead to actions in girls. The hindbrain does and in ways they aren’t even aware of.
Hence girls volunteering at refugee camps, taking detours to walk by refugee camps. Usually it’s subtle, sometimes very obvious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZHAa-0w2NQ
Or somehow ending up in certain areas very late at night
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4736452/Girl-15-raped-TWICE-two-different-men-day.html
This will happen AFTER giving the Harry Styles types they have a physical attraction to multiple opportunities. Harry styles might even take the opportunity, but treat them nicely, which displeases their hindbrain.
The cognitive dissonance caused by the gap between the hindbrain and forebrain is so wide that even women need to paper over it with their ‘hamster’, despite being experts in cognitive dissonance. Athough the usual go-to is to just deny agency. ‘I’m a good girl, just want a good man’ *has sex with violent criminal* ‘It just happened’ or ‘he took advantage of me’.
Once past the epiphany phase at around 30, the forebrain starts to take over and the computer programmer gets a shot. But this is driven by pure necessity.
‘The answer isn’t in the choices.
She has fantasies and will act impulsively so that (C) happens (if unrestrained) but she doesn’t consciously think that’s what she wants – it’s just the end result of what she does.’
Exactly
To help to usher in a healthy society. People like this cross-dressing freak and drag queen demons would need to be put down like a dog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IZb7lQVXrY
“Jessica Yaniv” may he rest in piss.
Yes, basically. This is one area where I think Vox put it best: “free speech” was never much more than an excuse to weaken the blasphemy laws; the very instant progressives gained power, they started to criminalize speech against their religion. Free speech is an anti-concept, like representative democracy.
There is always a state religion, and that religion is never going to permit flat-out heresy within its borders.
I don’t want to get into details now but Jim on coop/coop equilibrium = Moldbug on Order. For example, when libertarians talk about spontaneous order arising on the market from mutually beneficial transactions, they mean coop/coop equilibriums.
Order = coop/coop equilibriums. This is important. Very important. It keeps your eyes on the ball.
It is not the difference between authority vs. liberty that is important. It is good authority / good liberty which means order which means coop/coop vs. bad authority / bad liberty which means disorder which means coop/defect or defect/defect.
Speaking of Moldbug, he’s finally back with some new insights:
https://americanmind.org/author/curtis-yarvin/
In this environment, nothing one says under one’s true name is likely to be entirely true.
In today’s environment, it is impossible to speak the truth under one’s true name, and dangerous to speak the truth even under any durable and widely used identity. Therefore, people who post under names tend to be unreliable. Hence the term “namefagâ€. If someone posts under his true name, he is a “namefag†– probably unreliable and lying. Even someone who posts under a durable pseudonym is apt show excessive restraint on many topics.
The aids virus does not itself kill you. The aids virus “wants†to stick around to give itself lots of opportunities to infect other people, so wants to disable the immune system for obvious reasons. Then, without a immune system, something else is likely to kill you.
When I say “wantsâ€, of course the aids virus is not conscious, does not literally want anything at all. Rather, natural selection means that a virus that disables the immune system will have opportunities to spread, while a virus that fails to disable the immune system only has a short window of opportunity to spread before the immune system kills it, unless it is so virulent that it likely kills its host before it has the opportunity to spread.
Similarly, a successful memetic disease that spreads through state power, through the state system for propagation of official truth “wants†to disable truth speaking and truth telling – hence the replication crisis, peer review, and the death of science. We are now in the peculiar situation that truth is best obtained from anonymous sources, which is seriously suboptimal. Namefags always lie. The drug companies are abandoning drug development, because science just does not work any more. No one believes their research, and they do not believe anyone else’s research.
It used to be that there were a small number of sensitive topics, and if you stayed away from those, you could speak the truth on everything else, but now it is near enough to all of them that it might as well be all of them, hence the replication crisis. Similarly, the aids virus tends to wind up totally suppressing the immune system, even though more selective shutdown would serve its interests more effectively.
The memetic disease, the demon, does not “want†to shut down truth telling wholesale. It “wants†to shut down truth telling selectively, but inevitably, there is collateral damage, so it winds up shutting down truth telling wholesale.
To exorcise the demon, we need a prophet, and since the demon occupies the role of the official state church, we need a true king.
In today’s environment, it is impossible to speak the truth under one’s true name
Solzhenitsyn was there first, and nailed the metaphor:
I must voluntarily trammel myself with silken threads drawn through my tongue, my ears, my eyelids, and then stitched to my shoulders, the skin of my back, and my belly
Yarvin is a brilliant guy, but reading his “clear pill” piece I could sense the threads.
Then again, if Solzhenitsyn had spoken his mind plainly, he’d have been arrested and executed on the spot. In this country today, a truth-teller faces– so far– only exclusion from white-collar work. But maybe Yarvin has amassed enough dough that those “threads” were only a conscious attenuation of his trademark style to try and, I don’t know, appeal to a different audience?
In that case we may yet hope his Claremont pieces hit the reader with the sort of plain speaking we are regularly treated to by our host.
I think it is an appeal to a different audience. NRx/DE isn’t really a success story in the long run. Lots of good stuff were posted, but many of the blogs and mags are deleted, no longer updated or rarely updated. Blogs are a terrible medium for such a purpose as people don’t really read archives. This is why I am trying to make mine look like a book. There are ten books worth of good stuff on Jim’s alone and fifty on the rest of the blogs but who is gonna write them? Well, maybe Alf.
Did at least NRx/DE ideas influence the broader Dissident Right? Possibly. I don’t really see the influence on VD, for example.
So I guess Yarvin is trying to give it another shot, to give a pink pill to to a more mainstream conservative audience. Purple pills are combination of truths and lies, see Jordan Peterson. They are poisoned, because people are so hungry for straight talk that if someone tells the truth on some topics he gets so much cred that people believe everything else he says. Pink pills contain no lies but do not unpack every aspect of the truth. They are not poisoned, but are definitely watered down. They are useful – they do not scare people, there is a lower chance of you getting in trouble, and some people are able to do the homework. IKEA truths. Some assembly required. Some dots the reader needs to connect on his own.
I generally consider it a good idea to throw pink pills to more intelligent conservatives and see what happens.
If my blog ever goes dark, you should assume that I have infiltrated a place of power and am wiping out my footprints. If that becomes the case, raise a glass to me. I can only hope that the same logic applies to certain NRx outlets that have vanished.
I am actually writing several books, but none of them will be openly connected to this name.
Speaking of which, raise a glass to deconstructingleftism who got shoah’ed off wordpress right after making a post saying that they seem to not care enough about blogs to shoah them.
You can still read it on the rss feed.
https://deconstructingleftism.wordpress.com/feed/
You can tell that an egregore is flowing, rather than ebbing, by its demon-summoning trend. In non-occult terms, and in this context, I’d translate that to the following: If your blog spawns ever more blogs, which in turn spawn ever more blogs themselves, and the blog-deletion rate doesn’t negate your blogosphere’s growth, then the influence your blogs exerts is increasing. If vice versa, your influence is shrinking.
Jim’s blog had spawned Nick Land’s Xenosystems in 2013 (yep, check out Land’s numerous references to Jim early in the archives), which in turn spawned the previous iteration of NRx. Then NRx collapsed and died under the weight of its own clowns and lolcows (a temporary ebb), only to resurrect on Jim’s blog in 2018, which has been spawning ever more blogs ever since. That this hyperstition only intensifies is evidenced by the rise in both the quality and quantity of Jimian meme-dissemination, and this, hopefully, is scarcely the beginning.
This matches my perception that Jim’s stuff is super interesting from 2018 onward, and was super interesting around 2012-13, but was a bit less interesting around 2015-16 or so.
Okay, I’m curious: What happened to science in 1944 specifically?
In 1944, Harvard, a religious seminary, finally achieved its ancient aim of dominion over the Royal Society, a continuation of the efforts of their predecessors under Charles the Second to disrupt meetings of the Royal Society by sending in the seventeenth century equivalent of Antifa – which Charles the Second dealt with as we intend to deal with Antifa.
In 1944, Harvard imposed peer review, the religious method of establishing social consensus on what is morally right, in place of the scientific method of ascertaining what is in fact true.
Our current state religion makes falsifiable and false claims about this world. We intend to replace it with a state religion that whenever it goes near a falsifiable claim, deploys the scientific method, as recommended by Saint Augustine, and, more rigorously and precisely, by Robert Boyle. We will continue to use the religious method on unfalsifiable matters of faith and morals.
To this day the Roman Catholic Church is rightly ridiculed for sticking its oar into the dispute about the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, and that is precisely what Saint Augustine said would happen.
Hadn’t realized that peer review rose to prominence in 1944. Is there a history or synopsis I can read?
None in the mainstream. If it is going to be written, one of us will have to write it.
Googling the following sentences tells the perhaps most important parts of the story:
” Nature’s former editor John Maddox was fond of saying that the groundbreaking 1953 DNA paper would never have made it past modern peer review because it was too speculative.”
“Hate the peer-review process? Einstein did too”
I mean I really don’t know much about science, but I figure if peer review is in the blue corner and special relativity and DNA are in the red corner then I know which side I am on.
Einstein was wrong and the reviewer was right, as far as the paper itself was concerned. Peer review does work (inefficiently and with side effects, but it works) as a means of filtering for correctness in areas where that assessment is basically a question of whether some mathematical arguments are correct.
Where standards start to drift (that is, theory-spiral) away from mathematical rigor and experimental testability, peer review is a lot less useful and eventually the side effects predominate. Maybe Jim thinks the side effects are really the primary intended purpose, but I think that depends on which field at which time one is talking about. The problems of peer review are largely problems of secret data sets (a.k.a non-replicability) and theory-spiralled criteria of what constitutes a publishable result (such as shifting from seeking causal mechanisms to the infinite make-work and make-money of correlation studies is psychology and economics). I am saying the real trouble is when the whole field progressively (sic) goes bonkers because of permanent free money for bullshit.
Not what I see.
In theory, Peer Review is going to catch it when someone does his maths wrong, but cannot catch it if he does his observations wrong, will instead define “wrong” by social consensus, not by truth
But in practice, when Michael Mann does his maths wrong, but by torturing the numbers gets the socially approved result …
Peer review results in falsification not only of observation, since observations are measured against social approval, but results in maths being measured against social approval.
I’m not sure why you’re so anxious to excuse peer review and attribute its destructive tendencies to the externalities that it actually caused itself. I’ve seen these same destructive tendencies in other disciplines, too; changing any merit- or evolution-based process into a democratic one always produces garbage.
Science didn’t need peer review, it worked perfectly fine on the basis of citations, reproducibility and practicability. It has noticeably declined since we got peer review, has not improved in any area or capacity. The “theory spiral” you cite is because of the peer review system, which creates that incentive.
Peer review spread like mold, but it took quite a while for it to really dominate every scientific discipline. For example, Bednorz&Müller published the discovery of high temperature superconductivity in a non-reviewed journal in 1986.
Don’t know about the importance of 1944 as peer review has been there before and ground breaking work was published long after 1944.
Bednorz and Mueller published in a journal that, according to Wikipedia at least, was peer reviewed. A similar case is Schechtman’s work on quasicrystals; he faced severe resistance but (again according to Wikipedia) does not appear to have had trouble publishing in peer reviewed journals.
As long as there is more demand than supply of publication space in leading journals, some selection mechanism has to be used. In the pre-Internet state of communication technology, how is that supposed to work without some sort of social process tantamount to peer review?
With current technology we have better options, but I think pointing the finger at peer review is looking at the “cape not the matador” to use Jim’s term.
They published in “Zeitschrift für Physik B”. Why do you think they chose that instead of Phy. Rev. or J. of appl. Phys.?
Mueller gives a fascinating and complete explanation in an interview, http://ethw.org/Oral-History:K._Alex_M%C3%BCller .
In short, peer review can be abused to delay or scoop a publication in ways that have effects internal to the field, such as who gets how much of the credit for a discovery. In subjects that are scientific, i.e., experiment or mathematics ultimately decides correctness, it is unusual for peer review to have the power to stop a discovery from being published in the short- and medium-term, and in the long term it is almost impossible. The entire subfield would have to be killed off (such as research into eugenics or human race differences) and that level of politics happens at a pay grade above journal referees and editors.
When peer review silences unwanted fact, it generally purges the target right out of science altogether. Global warming. Animal fat. Vaccine hazards.
No one cared about dipolarons, so nothing very terrible happened to Alex Müller, but sooner or later everything gets politicized.
Peer review gets projected backwards. Same as everyone always supported gay marriage and no longer remembers not supporting gay marriage.
Einstein’s theory of General relativity predated the peer review racket.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=general+relativity%2Cpeer+review&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cgeneral%20relativity%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cpeer%20review%3B%2Cc0
The main source of problems is the Theory Spiral toward useless academism (when funding is decoupled from utility, lifetime tenure and “academic freedom” instituted, professors unionize, etc etc), not a holiness spiral imposing itself through peer review. The latter is present but is a distant second or third place, or lower, among the causes of the rot. I don’t know what event you refer to from 1944, but the main thing that happened to academia around that time was a giant expansion phase for the 30 years after WW2, and that was the main driver of the Theory Spiral. More jobs + funding + exponential PhD production = spiral of bullshit.
It was much, much harder to get an academic job in the United States before 1950 than afterward.
So, do you think Baghdadi finally biting it will have any real effect, or just business as usual?
We have already seen the real effect of Trump pursing victory in Syria, rather than pursuing the extermination of the Alawites and the expulsion of the Christians. Trump talks of victory, because he is actually achieving victory, because he is victoriously ending the forever wars.
What are the underlying unspoken assumptions of turning the other cheek — which has become a universalized metaphor for retreat of the civilized and Christian man?
First, Christ assumes that your opponent will not go beyond slapping you in the face. No knife, no sword, no gun involved. No punch with the fist, no kick in the gut. Just an impulsive slap in the face, no worse than that.
Now consider that this may NOT (or not mainly) be a metaphor, and take it literally instead. Then, it’s only an admonition to give an impulsive but not lethal opponent a chance to come to his senses — if all he threatens is indeed slapping. But if he resorts to graver things, all bets are off, and turning the other cheek doesn’t apply. Christ doesn’t say you’re supposed to turn the other side of your thorax after having received a stab in the first.
Second, Christ’s admonition assumes that the two guys involved are of the same people — Jews in this case. So, the whole thing only applies with heavy reservations, if at all, to violence between people who are not co-nationals. This is because with people from different peoples, the risk that slapping is not the upper limit of the violent tactics your opponent will apply, but only the first step on an escalation ladder, is uncalculable.
Turning the other cheek is NOT metaphor for a generalized principle of giving in — it is literally turning the other cheek (or s.th. else on that harmless level) to an impulsive compatriot or ally, as a chance to come to his senses, and no more than that.
Pretty much.
One nitpick: “Striking the cheek” was neither totally literal nor totally metaphorical in old Jewish parlance; it was a common idiomatic phrase connoting humiliation, in particular. Humiliation alone is usually not immediately life-threatening.
But, as Jim says, Christ’s idiomatic reference only spoke of the other cheek; i.e., only one additional humiliation ought to be tolerated – not an infinity of additional humiliations.
One of the gospels talk about the right cheek being smacked. Indicating that is a backhand.
Basically a form of insult and a way that one would treat a socially inferior person.
So it lines up with the fact that it is about humilation.
Okay info, off topic question: Do you agree with the following paragraph in its entirety:
When a 13-year-old slut documents herself squirting and fucking for the camera and uploads the documentation to PornHub, to be fapped to and disseminated by millions of heterosexual men, the problem is not PornHub, and the problem is not millions of heterosexual men turned on by a fertile female, and the problem is not some nefarious (non-existent) evil men who “victimized” the 13-year-old slut into squirting and fucking for the camera. Rather, the problem is that women are out of control, which problem equally applies both to 13-year-old jailbaits and 43-year-old milfs. In accordance with what Jim explicitly and unambiguously wrote here, come the restoration, PornHub will continue to exist and to have porn, including currently-prohibited jailbaits, but will not have deviant porn of the gay, tranny, femdom, and cuck varieties.
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That 13 year old is likely daughter of a single mom without benefit of good father who would had her married to a good man she is in love with.
She wouldnt even be on pornhub as a result.
Plus prostitution including of what pornhub facilitates would be highly discourged as per (Leviticus 19:29) as much sexual activity should be confined to wedlock as much as possible.
Hardly responsive. You didn’t tell us whether you agree or disagree; you subtly switched subject. Pattern status: noted.
Yeah, because modern sexually misbehaving teenage women are just swept off their feet, wildly infatuated by “good men.” Totally. You know, FBI shill, to be successful at entryism, you need to play the chameleon and “blend in”; you can’t just issue such staggering blue-pilled proclamations and then expect us to believe that you’re an organic poster.
Unlike Puritans, who ostensibly attempt to “discourage prostitution” by going after male clients and other men, Leviticus is (as usual) based and red-pilled:
I.e., Leviticus tells the cucked trad-dads that they should prevent their own daughters from being whores; in other words, daughters should be tightly controlled (possibly even chained to the wall in the basement), which is mighty hard to pull off as it requires coming down on them like a ton of bricks, hence young marriage. Leviticus places the blame for whoredom squarely on chicks and their fathers, not on any “evil men” or “pedophiles” or “molesters” or PornHub.
Also,
PornHub is not causing women, whom you present as innately chaste and angelic, to become whores. They are whores because there is no alpha male to dominate them and provide them with reproductive sex from a young age, and there is no alpha male to dominate them as such because Puritan society made that strictly illegal. When heterosexuality is legal again, there will be far fewer whores, without so much as touching PornHub.
Another issue is that we tolerate huge amounts of corrosive female porn, in which a 5/10 chick gets with a billionaire king vampire pirate demon lover, while male porn that depicts the mating dance as it naturally occurs in real life is altogether verboten, as it would offend and violate the precepts of Feminist Political Correctness. Come the restoration, we’re going to make female pornographic “literature” (cliterature) illegal, and make heterosexual male porn that realistically and accurately depicts the mating dance, with overcoming token resistance and all that, as legal as buying milk at the grocery store.
You failed the WRPQ, shill.
Women naturally chaste? What?
Did you read my comment?
There is no legitimate sexual expression outside wedlock. Outside is inherently fornication. And a profane use of what is created for holy use exclusive to the marriage bed.
As for “good men” I have in mind King David or Joshua as archetypes. I refuse the notion that somehow being a provider means one has to be beta bucks.
The point which you stubbornly refuse to address is who is causing the proliferation of whoredom. Reaction and the Bible say that feral women, and weak fathers, are to blame. You blame everyone in the world except feral women and weak fathers, hence blue-pilled.
As a priesthood, it’s our role to produce an explanation for why young marriage is so vital. If you stick to the “Women misbehave because evil men make them misbehave,” you will never be able to successfully explain why young marriage is so urgently needed – as, indeed, the modern day Puritans tell us that marriage should be postponed as late as possible, and are unable to comprehend the arguments for young marriage.
If you’ve read some Ezekiel (including your favorite chapter: 16), you may know precisely which unflattering and graphic language he uses to describe rampant thottery. You will notice that all the Biblical prophets who touched on and alluded to the subject of prostitution and adultery place the blame not on “evil men,” but on out-of-control women. We should do the same.
That makes sense.
But I did state the benefit of having a good father. I think you are mistaken by thinking that what I mean by good father is a weak feckless betacuck.
Which is the same as being fatherless for the woman.
As for the woman. She has to be saved and to fear God as well as being under the headship of a Godly man.1st under her Father then her Husband.
I am also well aware of the predatory adulteress who ends up killing many powerful men.
You wrote:
Note the emboldened part; that’s what I disputed.
Feral 13-year-olds who squirt and fuck for the camera, and upload documentation thereof to PornHub, are highly unlikely to be “in love” with a good man who’s available for marriage. She needs to be married off with or without “love,” because waiting on women to pick their mates according to their “love” (‘gina tingle) inevitably results in lots of whoredom and a sharp decline of TFR.
Sexually misbehaving girls should be shotgun married either to the man who deflowered them, or else to whoever is willing to take them, with or without “being in love.” Romanticism was poisonous from the beginning.
Rather, they are highly likely to be in love with a good man who is available for marriage. The problem is that not very long afterwards, they will be in love with another good man who is available for marriage, and soon after that with very bad man. Hence the need for shotgun marriage.
@shaman
“Sexually misbehaving girls should be shotgun married either to the man who deflowered them”
This is a good solution.
“She needs to be married off with or without “love,†because waiting on women to pick their mates according to their “love†(‘gina tingle) inevitably results in lots of whoredom and a sharp decline of TFR. ”
Whilst I agree with the whoredom part.
I do find the rest difficult to accept.
How will this work and not result in some kind of backlash?
I can only find negative information as a result of this practice and no positive like brides running away from such arrangements and other problems.
What is the truth? And how will I find accurate information to weight this against what info I can find?
So I am unsure.
This was entirely normal right up to the late 1960s, normal within my lifetime, so I don’t believe it led to problems.
Reflect on the late eighteenth century Australian practice of marrying off women right off the boat, sometimes the whole boatload within hours of their arrival. It seems to have worked fine, though a few decades later the Victorians found it shocking.
They had a huge whore problem until they cracked down by imposing marriage, then zero whore problem until the Victorians made them ease up. The instamarried women seem to have instantly assimilated to the middle class mores of the people who imposed marriage on them. Looks like Stockholm syndrome. There was a fair bit of rebellion, but it was merely shit test. When the authorities showed a firm hand, they passed the shit test and everything came up roses. The rebellion evaporated into smiles and giggles.
What I prefer is supervised courting. Where the Father accompanies his daughter on the hunt for a Husband.
Through the ritual of courting with various suitable suitors. The suitor she likes best gets to marry her.
Unless all the stories or so called evidence of women running away from marrying men they don’t even know before hand or other negative consequences is made up lies.
Including all the books I read in the library on this subject which shows the same thing.
Lies.
Romance propaganda.
Observed present day female behavior is that they take exceedingly well to being assigned by an alpha male to one of his subordinates. Where Dad is the alpha of the family, should work the same way.
There was a problem with them running off with the musician, but the modern courtship procedure does not seem to have fixed that, if anything made it worse. Make sure you are seen to command the musician at your wedding.
“Through the ritual of courting with various suitable suitors. The suitor she likes best gets to marry her.”
You have to go back.
Women like dark triad traits mostly, traits that we don’t want to encourage too much.
Do you believe the surrounding culture may have also increased this incidence of women running away from arranged marriages?
I remember reading that said women got the authorities involved or other men to rescue women from said arrangements.
Perhaps its the unique said pathology of the groups themselves which are often cults like the kingstons and other mormon breakaway groups.
From time to time the authorities make drama over Mormon arranged marriages, but the manufactured drama is always phony – it never comes from the women.
I see absolutely no evidence of the reality you claim to see. There may be a social consensus that the reality exists, but the reality does not exist.
@jim
Interesting. I never knew that.
I bet that whatever is the truth that this can be replicated over and over against.
Women should suffer no ill psychological effects like suicidality or abuse of children at their hands if such arrangements is optimal.
Anyway it also goes to show that its important to archive true history.
@jim
I base my claims on those books:
https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-After-Cult-Survivors-Lessons/dp/0307590712
https://www.amazon.com/Church-Lies-Flora-Jessop/dp/0470565462
It looks like may be actual evil going on there that is little to do with the 1960’s norm that you recounted.
Poster girl principle applies. If the poster girl for a supposed phenomenon is fake, not one actual case of the supposed phenomenon exists.
If they could find one woman fleeing an arranged marriage, her face would be on the cover.
Some time ago they arrested a whole bunch of FLDS, making similar sensational claims, and the case fell apart underneath them, because of the failure of the rescued “children” to cooperate except under extreme duress. They wanted to go back to their husbands.
If FLDS women were fleeing arranged marriages, they would have found a stooge to put her name on their books who had fled an arranged marriage that was about to happen or had just happened, not a stooge who fled her marriage after hitting the wall and being neglected.
The stooge whose name they put on those books, Flora Jessop, had eight children and fled after hitting the wall, because her husband had taken a new wife. If she fled because being married against her will, was not terribly quick about it.
They have been looking very very very hard to “rescue” women fleeing arranged marriages, and who do they come up with?
Flora Jessop.
Eight children, hits wall, gets sexually neglected.
If Flora Jessop is your poster girl, then you cannot find a single poster girl for the cause of women fleeing arranged marriages.
They were looking for children fleeing arranged marriages, found some milfs whose husbands neglected them for younger wives. Which outcome tells me that young girls like arranged marriages.
If young girls did not like arranged marriage, they would have a better poster girl.
That can work to some degree, but only if the daughter is still very young and the father’s goal is to marry her off as quickly as possible.
What actually tends to happen, in practice, is that blue-pilled fathers think their daughters are princesses who deserve princes, decide that they are going to be gatekeepers, are entirely too picky in these “hunts”, and allow their daughters to get to an unmarried age where they sneak out at 3 am to get banged by Nigerian immigrants. That age can be 12, or even younger in some cases. (Shaman will say as soon as they hit adrenarche, but there is probably a few-years gap between when they first start feeling horny vs. when they sneak behind the bushes to get pounded in the ass while their father talks to the mailman).
The question then becomes whether or not society should take active steps to prevent that outcome, and if not prevented, then who is deemed responsible and what amelioration is required to preserve the community.
Progressive doctrine is that it should not be prevented, should even be encouraged, and when it happens, no one is responsible and nothing should be done, and it is perfectly natural for the girl to ride a carousel of a thousand cocks before age thirty, then become a box wine auntie, all while draining innocent men of their resources using the proxy of state violence.
Victorian trad-cuck doctrine rejects the progressive solution but doesn’t offer one of its own. It’s the “teach men not to rape” of conservatism – “teach fathers not to blue-pill”. Well, some of them are going to, which is why the Old Testament very clearly indicates that husbands come before fathers. If you insist on this idea that marriage is really a collaborative effort between father and daughter, then you need a Plan B for when that fails. Can’t just ignore the problem.
@Jim
As for the claims. Where can I find this info?
Which info? I made a lot of claims.
But the killer argument is that they hunger and thirst for a poster girl, and have not found one. The ideological descendants of the Puritans have been moralfagging against arranged marriage since the Mormon war. Where is their poster girl?
I point to examples of societies were women were married off to men they had never met, and everything went fine. Well, such societies have not yet been entirely suppressed. Still the norm in India and in parts of Eurasia, still the norm in FLDS. You say that this leads to drama. If drama, poster girls. Where are the poster girls.
I don’t have to provide documentation for lack of drama. I don’t have to prove a negative. The cathedral has to provide first hand examples of drama. Where is their poster girl?
I don’t have to provide documentation. The Cathedral has to provide poster girls.
@jim
Carolyn Jessop seemed to really have had evil done to her by her incestous father compared to Flora.
Or she probably is simply another poster girl too. Although it seems as far as I can see on youtube a few others.
Carolyn Jessop left her husband after she was 35, when she had hit the wall, after no longer fertile, after her husband had taken a younger wife and had sexually neglected her.
Therefore, not credible. If this drama was happening, we would get poster girls who did not have the usual female axes to grind. The poster girl our enemies hunger and thirst for is a young girl fleeing an arranged marriage or an evil patriarchal biological father. They cannot find the poster girl they hunger for and thirst for, which proves she does not exist. Not a single one.
I do not believe for one moment that Carolyn Jessop wrote her book. She was the least ridiculous excuse for a poster girl that they could find to put on the cover.
The contents of her book allegedly reflect total lack of familiarity with the everyday ordinary life of the FLDS church. If they are doing all those evil things that the book reports, they are not doing all those ordinary everyday things that it reports. If she wrote it, and what if she said is true, they would have found the poster girl they hunger for. It was ghost written by a ghost writer unfamiliar with the ordinary everyday life of the FLDS, who failed to consult with the purported author.
I don’t have to prove a negative. Our enemies have to prove a positive. If what they say is true, everyone be sick of seeing the poster girl, because you would be unable to avoid seeing her.
The poster girl they want, and claim exists, is a young girl fleeing oppression by patriarchal biological father who to the poor girl’s horror arranges marriage with a man she has never met.
But because that is the natural social order, which being natural they have been unable to entirely suppress, large numbers of young girls are, even today, raised by patriarchal biological fathers and married off to men they have never met. A conspicuous lack of poster girls ensues.
@jim
Your claims do make a lot of sense.
“Some time ago they arrested a whole bunch of FLDS, making similar sensational claims, and the case fell apart underneath them, because of the failure of the rescued “children†to cooperate except under extreme duress. They wanted to go back to their husbands.”
I am interested in sources that corroborates this claim. That’s why I asked for info.
@Not Tom
“Victorian trad-cuck doctrine rejects the progressive solution but doesn’t offer one of its own. It’s the “teach men not to rape†of conservatism – “teach fathers not to blue-pillâ€. Well, some of them are going to, which is why the Old Testament very clearly indicates that husbands come before fathers. If you insist on this idea that marriage is really a collaborative effort between father and daughter, then you need a Plan B for when that fails. Can’t just ignore the problem.”
Scott over at Dalrock’s did successfully arrange marriages for his daughters by this collaboration. Involving his whole family it ended up being.
And yes some blue-pill cucks for Dad’s are problems.
And plan B is required
If they cannot be deprogrammed of the Blue-pill wouldn’t it be better for such lines to go extinct?
Women can, and regularly do, turn on a dime. Their resistance to being unemancipated is a shit test. When the shit test is passed, they will blossom like roses. The late eighteenth century Australian authorities had 100% success in making whores into wives, despite a fair bit of indignant resistance, which resistance invariably turned out to be less serious than it seemed. You just need a society that will enable men to pass shit tests, social approval for men passing, and social disapproval backed by direct coercion against feral women. Most women, even the best of them, are apt to push a shit test to the point where it becomes physical – not necessarily violent, but you have to be prepared to physically compel her. To adequately suppress bad female behavior, we are going to need the society to also compel her. They like it when they are compelled.
I live thirty minutes from a polygamist town and know of guys who have left the flds church, but not girls. Anecdotal, but still interesting.
I also have heard from the (female) cousin of the author of Educated, who had called her out for blatantly lying about their family. The publishing industry has pushed that book hard, so you can be sure they’re desperate for a poster girl.
But you see, none of us are saying that Trad Dads shouldn’t be allowed to handle matters this way, if they can do so successfully. However, fathers will need to compel their more rebellious (i.e. shit-testing) daughters, and society needs to compel the weak fathers.
Anything else is the limp-wristed libertarian argument: “It’s better when all transactions in society are voluntary.” Yes, great, tell that the progressives who want to skim off the top and their clients who will straight up beat and rob you. We don’t live in that utopia. Sometimes, in little isolated pockets, it can exist transiently, but we need to avoid over-generalizing and acknowledge that those spaces are only able to exist thanks to a lot of involuntarism, notably a red-pilled state religion.
No, for several important reasons:
1. It’s an inherently contradictory position to claim that society should make marriage attainable and safe for natural betas, and also that those betas should die out if they can’t control their daughters.
2. Girls in their prime fertility years shit-test far more often, and far more severely, than older women. The father may not be accustomed to that kind of shit test, especially if he married late. This isn’t his fault, particularly when society has deprived him of that vital knowledge.
3. Betas are the men who are actually able to cooperate at scale. Alphas are always fighting each other for supremacy. No betas = no civilization.
So no, it’s not better. “Let betas just die off” means unchecked hypergamy and reverting to a primitive Africa-tier state of civilization. And the betas still won’t go away, because betas still exist in Africa. It’s fractal; kill off the bottom 90% and you just have a new bottom 90%, to which women will escalate their shit-tests accordingly.
We don’t want a society with no betas. We want a society where alphas and betas cooperate – that is, alphas facilitate beta marriages and maybe take a few extra females for themselves – rather than 90% of fertile women banging the 10% chads and leaving all other men out in the cold.
There are no beta males in black Africa or the Arab world, just a lot of frustrated alphas, generals without armies.
That’s not how the sexual hierarchy works.
You may perceive them as having alpha traits compared to some local reference point, but where they are, they are beta. Every group of every sexually-reproducing species has alphas and betas, even fish.
@jim
I was able to confirm many of those claims. But how would I be able to confirm the case that those ” rescued children” didnt cooperate.
I am still doubtful without confirmation in this case. Where can I find: Newspapers,case files and other evidence that this happened?
I do note that said behavior would be dismissed as stockholm syndrome that could be undone by deprogramming and. “Therapy”
You are looking in the wrong place. You are looking at the wrong thing.
If one of those LDFS “child” wives had cooperated, she, rather than Carolyn Jessop, would be the poster girl. I don’t have to prove they failed to cooperate – indeed I cannot prove that they failed to cooperate. It is just that despite dramatic claims about what the LDFS was guilty of, and how all these “children” had been rescued from dire sexual oppression, the case mysteriously and quietly evaporated, from which I infer a lack of cooperation from the “victims”.
Rather, the Cathedral has to prove they cooperated, that a single one of them cooperated. The Cathedral has to produce its poster girl.
This is using the same term to describe two different things.
Alpha / beta in animals means high rank / low rank – since the behaviors are simpler, genetic programming for them is simpler so alphas and betas are made by some other dimension then act according to rank.
In humans you have different species so the dichotomy works differently. Eurasian humans have gone through Y chromosome replacement events – in plain terms, men get wiped out by men of a competing tribe. This has happened many many times so the selection changed to encompass more complex behaviors – cooperative followers who make good order followers and can hold a formation and slaughter men who can’t. *That’s* what “beta” means for Eurasian men. For African men the animal definition is closer to the truth. They all share programming to dance and fight and fuck and some are simply better at that so the losers slink away and use their next best option – ambushing women from the bushes but they’re all executing the same program.
In other words, betas still exist in Africa. They’re just low-functioning like all Africans.
This is almost like an inverse Lewontin fallacy: “the difference between alphas and betas in Africa is smaller than the difference between African betas and Eurasian betas, therefore there is no sexual hierarchy in Africa”. The conclusion does not follow from the premises.
We can grant that European betas are the ones we care about, since after all we are largely talking about the program for European-descended societies – but there is always a sexual hierarchy, no matter where you go. There are men who are getting laid a lot and men who are getting laid very little or not at all. You especially see this in the parts of the Arab world where polygamy is the norm. And no matter where the betas live, if they want to keep on living, they need to learn how to cooperate, even if said cooperation is at a much smaller scale than European cooperation or is not game-theoretically ideal.
No.
The term means something when applied to Eurasian humans. Africans aren’t low-functioning Eurasians – they’re Africans – a different species.
And somehow you think that I believe that female romance novels isn’t porn?
As for women being innately chaste. See the solution to that in my comment.
Another idea: Turning the other cheek is quite useful in determining whether or not your opponent is serious about harming you. One strike, could be a mistake. Two strikes, hmm. Three strikes – “and you’re out.”
This. The goal is the determine the intentions of the other. It is possible that the other guy is a good guy and just believes you are a bad guy, because of some malicious gossip. One strike, turning the other cheek gives a very strong message that you are a good guy. At that point a good guy will realize you are not a bad guy and switch to talking. Two strikes are a message he is a bad guy and that is when you open the can of whoop-ass.
Another thing is, I don’t speak Aramaic or Ancient Greek, but do have some Latin, and diligite inimicos vestros does not really mean love your enemies. It is more like respect your rivals or show benevolence to your rivals.
amare = to love as an emotion
diligire = originally, to take, to prefer, to select, metaphorically, the kind of “love” only a rational being is capable of, a rational decision, and for that I think respect or showing benevolence is a better translation, it is not really about “feeling love” but behavior
hostes = the external enemy, the enemy of the community
inimicus (non-friend) = enemy inside the community, clan feud, competitor, rival
“Don’t piss inside the tent” does capture the spirit to some extent, too. Normally, political opponents should be mere rivals but plain simply the left went too far, one cannot really not consider them an enemy anymore. Even Angelo Codavilla, who really looks like a moderate professor and not some “rabid” far-right figure, said “We realize that you hate us and therefore we hate you back.” https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/culture-news/292763/angelo-codevilla So as of now, leftists even when they are literally neighbors are enemies, not rivals, and only other rightists can count as rivals.
With respect, I disagree after hearing different interpretation from Musonius Rufus.
Jesus said that if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to them your other cheek. I think the key word is “right.â€
One’s right cheek is struck by a backhand slap – the insult of a “better.†The intention of such a slap being to remind the subordinate of his place. Jesus’ teaching here, I believe, is to demand the blow fall upon the left cheek. Right fist to left cheek. This is a call to resistance as men, by refusing to accept slaps as a slave.
The governors may give you a beating, but you can insist that they must beat you as a man. This to me is the opposite of meek supplication – it is a call for manly resistance, especially when under physical attack.
Naturally, this is just the sort of thing that the governors wish to turn on its head with their ugly lies.
Snowden seems like a curious case, but it may just be as simple as the type of leftist that includes Taibi, Frank, and all the other Point Deer Make Moose leftists. I bet some part of him thought Brobama would sweep in and save him from the corrupt, megalomaniac spook lords, only to find that He is They. To his credit, the IC admin class has been thoroughly pozz’d, but what he saw as constitutional violations was actually diversity ineptitude. He exposed how bad their OpSec was, thinking he was being patriotic. Sad, really.
Snowdon believed in the official truth of the Cathedral. Discovered otherwise.
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Listening to Joe Rogans episode with Edward Snowden, ES strikes me as a dishonest weasel, a filthy little homo and a commie traitor, only by hearing him moan at length about how it somehow should be his boss’s duty to stay in a building potentially targeted for terror bombing for the chance to, during these last minutes, deliver some sort of data pertaining to the impending terror attack, reasonably ending his life.
What is your position on Snowden, austere lords of the commentariat?
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Deleted for reframing ten’s comment as lawful and legitimate grounds for us to be harassed and arrested by the FBI, contrary to its entirely clear meaning.
Failed to meet your bust quota?
Firstly, I’d really appreciate it if you’d let this one through, as it contains, appended to my message to you, a public service announcement regarding my evergreen political stance vis-Ã -vis the National Security State.
Secondly, Edward Snowden noticed that most of the staff of the “intelligence community” was sent home during precisely the time, if ever, that they would be most useful and necessary, and he interpreted it as rank cowardice.
A less charitable person would interpret it not as cowardice but as something else, perhaps something much more in line with staging training exercises at the exact same time that those events are actually happening.
But you, Jim, you will know otherwise until the day you take your last rattling breath lying face-first on a dusty road in bumfuck Asia somewhere.
Or maybe, considering your obsession with the FBI, you yourself are a federal officer, and I’ve been sending words straight into a straight-up honeypot this whole time.
Incidentally, NSA et al., I hereby disavow every political and political-adjacent thing I’ve ever communicated via electronic medium, on this blog and elsewhere, but especially on this blog. My support for and loyalty to Mr. Trump (or his designated successor(s)) will endure until the day he leaves Office, at which point my support and loyalty will smoothly transfer to Mrs. Clinton (or whomever), and I would really prefer not to die in a FEMA camp, or have my fingernails pulled out in a CIA black site somewhere, so just tell me what to say to get back into good standing with the Leviathan and I’ll type them up and affix my signature in blood.
Thanks in advance!
If you want to keep a training exercise secret from the spy community, you do not hold it in their building.
And if the top people are holding a super top secret training exercise, they do not go home.
I suspect that the top people did not go home.
What follows is the tradcath assessment of the Jim program given here. Disputes first, agreements and support lower down.
(1) The peace of Westphalia is impossible to accept per se. Yes with heathens, but never with heretics. Anyone who is baptized, is subject to our law – those baptized who aren’t Catholics are fugitives and rebels, deserving death if obstinate. There can be temporary toleration of heretic powers – and we cannot break faith with them, like Mohammedans do – but it is never a peace before victory, only a truce. There is no Christianity without the power of the keys, and no authority is safe once one adopts the principle that the greatest princes in the world should, when speaking with each other, ignore that divinely-instituted authority. There is an unbroken line from cuius regio eius religio to moral relativism, and to banishing God from government entirely.
(2) Catholic (and Greek) philosophy leads inevitably, in principle, to a “one world government” – call it the Empire, or call it Christendom. Neither “states” nor “nations” are naturally “sovereign” – sovereignty is a sort of half-anti-concept. In a natural society, there are many authorities with many jurisdictions. Not only the King, the Bishop, and each Paterfamilias, but cities each with their own traditional forms, guilds, some crimes under the jurisdiction of local courts, others under the clergy’s, others reserved to higher places. The Church is not one thing among others in civil society, it itself contains both the lay and clerical hierarchies. All authorities flow from three sources in principle: the Emperor, the Pope, and Nature, and each of those from God. But it is wrong, greedy, and proud for the King or the Pope to grasp at everything under them, trying to rationalize those lower ranks, codifying laws, leveling differences between peoples. That has the consequences which have been discussed on this blog.
All the arguments against anarchy and in favor of government at the scale of cities and peoples also apply at the scale of the whole world. Only, with extreme decentralization (that word is usually also an anti-concept), because of the great differences between peoples.
(3) It is far from established that men evolved from apes and that Galileo was right. Both of those positions were historically established by false consensus and similar unscientific dishonesty, and, the arguments in their favor are insufficient at best.
(4) Clerical celibacy is, as far as I can tell, the normative tradition, with exceptions only tolerated in times and places. And clerical continence was even more universal: that is, even where priests had wives from before ordination, they were obliged to not have sex. The primary reason for this – dedicating the sacred – will escape a merely functionalist/natural account of religion. Being a role model paterfamilias is the job of the lay elites – the clergy have a separate role. It is true that our clergy fought feminism far less than they should have.
If you want to argue otherwise, have to cite your sources. A lot of assertions on this subject, a lot of abuse of St. Jerome, never any sources. Sola scriptura is not going to cut it – the communion of the saints has to back you up on your interpretation.
(5) The Jim program for marriage is, in the important respects, the same as the normative Catholic teaching on marriage. There are some details that bear discussion. Over-emphasis on the woman’s consent to the detriment of her father’s has been a big problem for us, and the “full Jim” has not been the mainstream for some time. Our doctrine that the consent of the spouses is the form and matter of the sacrament does, I think, need re-clarification. The way I figure it is, the woman’s consent is part of the form *normally*, but various circumstances (like being a slut) can substitute for her consent, as Deuteronomy 20 and other parts of the law prove. I agree that the father’s refusal normally invalidates a marriage: a matter of natural law which we have lately neglected to enforce in canon law.
Husbands do not have natively the authority to punish their wives (or children) with death. But, for a case like adultery, the law can give him that authority. It can also tolerate him doing it wrongfully, just as it can tolerate brothels.
For a man to lie with a whore is fornication and has never been counted otherwise. Likewise remarriage after divorce.
Consummation of marriage after betrothal but before the exchange of consent is a doubtful case. The mainstream has called it fornication, but there is a little room to argue the other side, as far as I can see. Exposing bastard infants (as in, leaving them to die) is probably not possible to justify, but death is a valid penalty for the adulterous wife pregnant with the bastard, and that is one line of thought to consider.
(6) The given interpretation of “turn the other cheek” is, more or less, the traditional interpretation. The 1582 Rheims commentary says, on that verse: “Here also the Anabaptists gather of the letter, that it is not lawful to go to law for our right; as Luther also upon this place held, that Christians might not resist the Turk; whereas by this, as that which followeth, patience only is signified, and a will to suffer more, rather than to revenge: for neither did Christ nor St. Paul follow the letter, by turning the other cheek.” In other words: It just means to be patient; don’t be holier than Christ; pacifism is heretical.
St. John Chrysostom on the same verse, says: “Wherefore He not only forbade you to be angry when smitten, but even enjoined you to satiate the other’s desire, that so neither may the former blow appear to have befallen you against your will. For thus, lost as he may be to shame, you will be able to smite him with a mortal blow, rather than if you had smitten him with your hand; or if his shamelessness be still greater, you will make him gentle in proportion.” In other words: Have patience today, to vanquish your enemies tomorrow. Incompatible with pacifist interpretation.
The given interpretation of the good Samaritan is, broadly, also correct. Yes, it’s obligatory to love your neighbor as yourself (“as” meaning, “less than, but like”). Yes, as St. Cyril of Alexandria says, “neither Priest nor Levite became neighbor to the sufferer, but he only who had compassion on him.” But Christ also said “Go, and do thou in like manner” – so doing good only to those who do good to us is not good enough (“Do good to them that hate you.”). There’s where it gets more indefinite – who should we become neighbor to?
What does prevent it from being universalist is the doctrine of the order of charity. Galatians 6:10 has “Let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith,” and I Timothy 5:8 has “If any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” So this is the doctrine that man doesn’t owe charity to all equally, but to God first, then himself, then his family, then his countrymen, last the foreigner; and a Catholic before a non-Catholic. These inequalities will all continue even in heaven. Cf. https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/SS/SS026.html.
Which is why the Restored state needs to destroy the Donatist papacy for good if it gets an opportunity and force the heretic tradhomo church into the Orthodox Church.
Not the top priority but the meddlesome international and anti-civilizational nature of Catholicism is stated here.
The teachings of the Catholic Church are mostly in line with the goals of the Restoration. Just kill all the faggot/leftist priests and the Church will sort itself out.
The differences listed above are relatively minor.
And how did that work out?
As soon as the Pope asserted that he, rather than Kings and lords, got to appoint bishops and priests, you got the great schism, and eventually the sack of Rome. Your doctrine was de-facto abandoned when the rivers of blood it had so regularly unleashed finally and predictably washed over the Vatican itself.
If multiple states, multiple state religions. We would like them to be mostly Christian, and the Christian ones in fellowship and communion with each other, and in this sense, one universal Christendom, but if you want a priest in Russia to be subject to a priest in Rome, this did not fly a thousand years ago, and even less will it fly today.
Preserving and recovering the working social technologies of the past also means remembering past lessons on what did not work. Universal state religion in a world of multiple states never worked. The doctrine you proclaim failed immediately, often failed with gigantic bloodshed, and continued to fail all the way to the sack of Rome, after which enormous bloodshed right in the Vatican it was de-facto quietly abandoned. One state, one state religion.
We don’t have the elite manpower to establish one world government. The American empire has inevitably and predictably become the anti American empire, as the Turkish empire became the anti Turkish empire. Ataturk had to cut the Turkish empire loose, as Trump is trying to cut the American Empire loose. Come the restoration, we may well have to abandon California, at least until we have had a couple of generations of elite fertility. If we hang on to California, and I have fond memories of the California of a couple of decades past, it is going to be tense. It would be nice to keep Berkeley and Stanford, if we demolished all the newer buildings and reduced the student population to few percent of current numbers. Maybe keep some rump states in California.
We have the complete and continuous horse sequence, all the way from a small forest dwelling omnivore with somewhat human hands to the plains running modern horse with small vestiges of the hand. No missing links and no punctuated equilibrium. Smooth and continuous evolution all the way. Inside the dolphn fin is not the fish fin, but a remarkably human hand.
If horses, so also men.
Galileo turned his telescope to the sky, and saw that Venus had phases like the moon, falsifying the Ptolemaic system. When the Pope stuck his oar into that quarrel, he got the ridicule he deserved, as Saint Augustine predicted.
Saint Jerome was an evil man, a poison tree that has brought forth poison fruit ever since.
Saint Paul expected and recommended that Bishops should normally and usually be monogamously married with children. Saint Paul also told us that a married man is obligated to have sex with his wife.
Ditch Saint Jerome, or ditch Saint Paul.
New Testament, and that the gay mafia has been notoriously influential in the Church since the eleventh century.
How old is this doctrine? I will bet you one milliBTC that consent was not form and substance of the sacrament until the twentieth century.
That we still say “With this ring I thee wed†suggests that until very recently, marriage was a sacrament administered unilaterally by the husband, not by the priest nor the wife.
I bet you cannot find old sources sacramentalizing consent – they will be plausibly stretched to say that consent was necessary for the sacrament, but they will not say that consent was the sacrament. My expectation is that the sacrament was taken away from the husband some time twentieth century.
We do good to those that hate us when there is a plausible prospect that they will stop hating us, we return good for evil in order to reach cooperate/cooperate equilibrium. If it does not work, stop doing it. If it does not work, the other guy is evil, and you are empowering and enabling evil.
Augustine also along with Jerome had similar negative views on sex in general including in wedlock. That such a union is only for reproduction and doing so for pleasure is lustful and adulterous especially in his debate like Julian at the time.
In contradiction to 1 Corin 7 and the Song of Solomon.
This puritanical pro-frigidity meme has haunted Christianity ever since. In spite of denials in the effect of “have no understanding of actual Christianity”
If you want to be really pissed off, read the apocryphal, holiness spiraled “Acts of Paul and Thecla.” A puritanical heresy more damaging than everything produced by the Frankfurt School, combined.
It looks like SJWism has been present among those so called “ascetics” already.
Who wrote those “apocrypha”. Along with Augustine and Jerome. The 1st pearl clutchers in regards to sexuality.
After sinning in promiscuity and sodomy. Jumping from one end of retardation to another.
Remaining equally and unhealthily obsessed with sex.
Just like our current culture. The puritanism and so called “sexual revolution” 2 sides of the same coin.
Akin to how nowadays beautiful women portrayed in art even tastefully is “hypersexualization” or “objectification” whilst celebrating child gender mutilation and child drag queens or drag queen story hours.
Boxing us in false binaries.
Never arriving at the healthy golden mean.
In the Bible, the only reason to abstain from marital sex is the maintenance of ritual purity, which, as we’ve seen, has been fulfilled through Jesus Christ.
We see it in Exodus 19, when the people are about to receive the Ten Commandments:
Notice that they should not go near a woman for 2 days due to ritual defilement; that’s the same reason given in Leviticus 15:19-33 to avoid intimate relations with a menstruating woman. Contrary to the blatant lies of the rabbis, it is not prohibited per se; what is prohibited is being ritually defiled by menstrual blood, and going to the Temple while in such a state of ritual defilement (verse 31). If one is not going to the Temple, the prohibition does not apply.
The orthodox Jewish interpretation of Leviticus 15:19-33 completely disregards the plain meaning of the text, which prohibits those who touch a menstruating woman from going to the Tabernacle i.e. the Temple while in such a state of ritual impurity, and falsely construe it as a prohibition under all circumstances, which it emphatically isn’t. Since Jews don’t usually read the Bible, and just believe whatever nonsense the rabbis tell them, 99.9% of Jews have no idea what the text even says here.
In similar vein, we famously read about King David in 1 Samuel 21:
Once again, the prohibition of sexual intercourse is exclusively for reasons of ritual impurity. Otherwise, there is no suggestion or implication that sexual relations are “bad.” People who give themselves “bonus holiness points” for abstaining from sex have evidently not read the book in a serious manner.
And since Jews have misinterpreted everything related to ritual impurity, torturing the text to come up with prohibitions that aren’t there, Jesus had to fulfill in his own mission all of these commandments once and for all, so that they won’t be valid anymore.
Agreed. Although I fail to see a direct line to so called ascetics like Augustine.
Unless due to such talmuldic lies ended up taking up the anti-sex holy spiral memes.
The relevant section in Leviticus 15:
Notice that there is no sweeping prohibition of sexual intimacy with a menstruating woman, contrary to what any orthodox Jew will confidently tell you; the strict prohibition is against entering and defiling the Temple while in a state of menstruation-induced ritual impurity.
And again, as Jim often says, the Jewish purity spiraling about blood contamination of various kinds has been disastrous, which is why it had to be done away with. You give an orthodox Jew one sane commandment, and he derives 300 different insane prohibitions therefrom, without any basis in the original; and then the essence of the religion is all but forgotten.
I get it. In light of your earlier comments.
We don’t usually know who the authors of apocryphal writings are, but often enough it’s members of the mainstream religion itself. The Protoevangelium of James is an apocryphal text telling us that Mary remained a virgin her whole life; despite not being part of our regular Scripture, it was used by St. Jerome to “substantiate” his insane pro-celibacy arguments.
Likewise, the apocryphal Shepherd of Hermas, in Mandate 4, tells us:
Catch that? This is classic holiness spiraling. Jesus explicitly permitted divorce on account of adultery; so what does the writer of the Shepherd do? He tells us that remarriage to a different woman after you divorce your first wife is forbidden; you must “abide alone” after kicking out the cheating whore, and if at some point your ex-wife supposedly “repents” of cucking you, then certainly you must take her back.
I’m not making this up!
The thing is, the Shepherd was considered as authoritative by some Church Fathers; had it been canonized, Christianity would officially be Cuckianity. Well, they exercised good and sound judgment by ultimately excluding the text, but it goes to demonstrate how holiness spiraling works. St. Jerome argued from the Protoevangelium that celibacy is desirable to God (not just clerical celibacy; we’re talking in general here), and any other holiness spiraling faggot could easily use the Shepherd to argue that it’s impermissible to marry another woman after divorce on account of adultery.
Notably, despite the Shepherd being excluded from Scripture, Catholics don’t permit remarriage (though annulment may be granted, sometimes), taking a holiness spiraled stance that doesn’t accord with the Scripture we consider canonical. Even though the Shepherd is considered “spurious” and apocryphal, the Catholics adhere to its doctrine about divorce, practicing Cuckianity. Then Nikolai tells us that if we deem some Scripture as less important than other Scripture, we are in “great error.”
By their fruits, we know them. If the fruit is cuckoldry, as in the Shepherd of Hermas and Roman Catholicism, we know that it’s not from God, but from Satan. Poisonous fruits are borne by poisonous trees, and this doctrine is cyanide.
Actually, let me correct myself: Not so much members of mainstream religion, as entryists into it, e.g. St. Jerome, who was an entryist that successfully managed to sneak in and subsequently turned the healthy teachings of Jesus Christ and St. Paul into a holiness spiraled version of themselves, using both rabbinic textual torture and an appeal to works that we now regard as apocrypha, such as the Protoevangelium.
In (1) you completely confuse spiritual and secular authority. It is pretty much Cesaropapism 101. I don’t even know if it worths discussing things on this level, but I will give a shot:
The Church, the Fishers of Men have authority over people. Kings have authority over land. CREI was not about forcible conversion but about subjects not of the King’s confession leaving the land. So yeah, Kings not being in communion with the Pope is bad, they are violating the Pope’s authority over themselves as persons. So would any random guy. But it is entirely independent of the fact that they have the right to make their own rules about everything including religious practice over the land they rule. Not over people but over land. People who disagree with the rules can leave. The Church has no authority over land except land they own but in general not – that is rendered unto Caesar.
I’m struck by how closely the “Trad Cath” position resembles Talmudic legalism.
“Oh, we can’t have that social technology, because of this unprincipled exception. And I disagree with your interpretation of that over there, it clearly means something different from what it says in plain language. Also, when we say consent doesn’t matter, what we really mean is that other things can substitute for explicit consent. And you can’t have any of those other things either because rabble rabble rabble blah blahdy blah”.
Hey guy, I’ll give two shits what Catholics have to say about morality and governance when, or rather if, you manage to solve the out-of-control homosexual problem in your own church. Until then, I’m not only not buying what you’re selling, I’m muting all your commercials and tearing down your stupid billboards.
Niiiidriveevof,
I agree with the Catholic position that life begins exactly at conception and not a day later – it’s the only position that actually makes sense.
I disagree with the Catholic position that, as a corollary to the above, it is never justified to commit pre-birth infanticide (abortion). You see, we don’t currently have the technology to turn mentally and/or physically defective mutants into normal people. Maybe in a hundred or so years, we will have such technology, but currently we don’t. It is also not currently possible to genetically engineer someone whose DNA isn’t 50% yours to have a DNA that is 50% yours.
Does that mean that ‘tards, cripples, psychos, monstrosities, rape-babies, cuck-babies, etc., etc., should always be inflicted on fathers who vehemently don’t want them? You say, “Yes, because otherwise it would be murder.” I say, “No, because I and my loved ones are more important than even a trillion random people whose very (vile) existence is highly harmful for the lives of me and my loved ones. My country should not be flooded with a trillion Africans, nor should my household or the households of my neighbors be made to accommodate any number of malignant people.”
The same logic that leads you to bring forth retards and cuck-babies into the world leads your clergy to welcome trillions of homicidally hostile rapeugees into Europe. If the boys from tha hood showz up to rape your wife, would you keep the rape-baby? Yes, you would, and that’s cuckoldry at its most grotesque.
The Bible itself is silent about abortive filicide (as it is silent about masturbation, by the way; twisting verses out of context won’t do, as I’ve memorized the whole thing) – which is not to say that it outright condones abortive filicide, or fapping for that matter; however, if it were prohibited, then either Mosaic Law or one of the Prophets or Jesus or Paul would have said so. None of them said so.
Exodus 21:
If, while fighting some guy, you accidentally hit and cause someone else’s wife (not the wife of the guy you’re fighting, but a totally random woman) to miscarry, you are to pay a fine, determined by the husband and the judges. Only if you kill the woman herself, have you committed murder.
Since causing someone else’s wife to miscarry is explicitly not considered murder according to Mosaic Law, but a much lesser offense, it means that “ABORTION IS MURDER” is a totally un-Biblical stance. The Bible says nothing about abortive filicide, i.e. killing your own fetus; and since causing a random woman to miscarry without any major physical complications is explicitly not murder, and the punishment for committing such a crime is paying a fine to the husband, just like a regular offense of a property damage type, it plainly means that making your own wife miscarry (i.e. abortion) is regarded as if you damage your own property, which is obviously allowed, though not encouraged.
The spirit and plain meaning of the Biblical Old Testament law, then, are that you, the husband, have a life-and-death authority over your wife’s fetus, because that fetus is your property. You are not supposed to damage your own property, but you have a right to do that.
Talmudic screeching from #Triggered Trad-Caths in 3… 2… 1…
By the above logic, it would thus follow that killing one’s child or wife should be punishable by fine. If the child or wife is merely property, then someone killing your wife or child is merely a property crime.
Causing an accidental miscarriage amounting to an appropriate fine is an acceptable punishment, as we don’t want to put people in prison for that type of accident.
If you admit that life begins at conception, then you have to admit all of the morals and ethics that a person has when he is nine months in the womb is the same if he is nine months out of the womb.
Now, if a man wishes to kill a rape baby, retard, monstrosity, etc., I am NOT necessarily against one taking such an action. However, it’s still killing a child.
There are instances when killing children is acceptable, such as wartime. There are numerous examples of killing children in scripture, and as by Adam’s fall, no one has the right to live. But don’t go as far as to try to pretend that it isn’t killing children.
Remember, people are going to have to believe in the religion for the religion to work. Its fine if you want to create the atheist reactionary church, it’s sad that it’s the only church willing to take power in today’s world.
But at the end of the day, we are the ones who are going to absorb NRX, because Jim’s blog doesn’t believe in God the way Progressives believe in equality. After all, this blog ADMITS that atheistic Darwinism isn’t enough.
This presupposes the prog theory that property does not matter, so taking it does not matter.
Does matter.
I agree. Didn’t intend to imply that property doesn’t matter.
The fact that killing another’s wife and children is not just a “property crime” like arson or larceny doesn’t mean that the wife and children aren’t property.
Shaman isn’t exactly wrong here; it’s more so I was a bit offended by his sharp tongue.
Have you fully grasped the very first sentence in my post, which said:
?
I never disputed that abortion is killing a person; the Catholics are perfectly to correct to argue this position. What they are not correct about is their inference: “And therefore having an abortion is akin to murder.” This may confuse you at first, until you realize that murder means unjustified killing, and that abortion may not necessarily be unjustified.
You write:
There is a fundamental moral difference between someone committing uxoricide and filicide versus someone killing someone else’s wife or child. In the former case, it is sometimes acceptable to kill one’s own wife or child. In the latter case, “eye for an eye.” Someone can be a person, and property, simultaneously. Thus, if you kill someone else’s wife, you commit an offense against his property, and murder – at once! In contrast, if you kill your own wife, for instance in flagrante delicto, then you destroy your own property (which is permissible, of course), and you commit a killing that can be easily justified, thus not murder. The same pretty much applies to everyone who’s your property, although it’s regulated by various laws concerning treatment of one’s property.
We’re talking Biblical law here; imprisonment was not commanded by it, although it was used nevertheless. Regardless, that causing a random woman to miscarry is explicitly not murder, and does not justify “an eye for an eye,” means that abortion — a husband killing the fetus, in his own wife’s womb, whom he owns — is likewise not murder, and merely amounts to the destruction of one’s own property.
Sure. Filicide is sometimes justified. It’s a very consistent position.
Strange doctrine. I’d say that most people do indeed have a right to live (whatever “right” even means), but that some don’t. And I argue that in addition to enemies and certain classes of criminals, those who are under your own ownership may also be killed, if there’s justification, which sometimes there is.
What’s your point about atheism? I’m arguing Biblical morality here, and am not an atheist. My point is that “life begins at conception” (correct) doesn’t mean that rape-babies, cuck-babies, retards, etc., should be suffered to be born. Based on Exodus 21:22-23, this position is in line with fetuses being the property of their father, and as such, it may be justified for him to kill them.
Ok, thanks, I think I just misunderstood your position.
I don’t disagree.
The unfortunate fact of roman infanticide at the time is that it disproportionately killed girls. Leading to a critical shortage of women.
Whilst christians rescued many of them and converted many women. Ensuing a surplus of women and combined with high fertility took over Roman Empire.
Looking around today’s world, I see high rates of female infanticide wherever women are free agents in countries that lack a comprehensive welfare state. A daughter bound to obedience is a family asset — you can trade her for an obedient wife for one of your sons, whereas liberated females are useless eaters at all ages. This problem is not self-correcting, as the vast surplus of thirsty men means women can slut it up as long as they want and still land a husband.
The early Christians rescued and raised many abandoned baby girls, but you can’t repeat that trick today because the unfortunate girls are ripped out of the womb before their lungs are ready to breathe.
What a shame.
In earlier times, Romans solved that problem by taking the women of their enemies. They could’ve taken the surplus women of Christians if they so wished but they didn’t, why? They liked boys and orgies more? They couldn’t possibly violate the individuality of the poor women?
The Roman capacity to control women seems to have collapsed some time between The Republic and the Empire. It is not clear why or how. But we see complaints that even slave women were uncontrollable.
The phrase “who will guard the guards?” was originally uttered in reference to locking your concubines in a dungeon.
Observed control of women in modern day societies relies on female elders, female kin, and female friends, keeping an eye on each other, and ratting out misconduct to the female kin of the male who has authority over the misbehaving woman.
The answer to the question, in societies that have some success in guarding women, is that the female kin and female friends will guard the guards.
It looks like the Christians had higher reproductive success and cooperate/cooperate equilibrium between wives and husbands, because older Christian women guarded the younger Christian women. Similarly, today’s Mormons.
Observed control of women in modern day societies relies entirely on men preventing each other from controlling their own women. Do family matriarchs drag you to jail and take your stuff for disobeying your woman? No, it is men who are really concerned about the safety and well-being of other men’s women.
“Guarding” women is a lie that as you say, the next generation ended up believing. They need to be kept on close watch not because they’ll be in mortal danger otherwise, it’s because they really want to be with other men.
Women keeping an eye on each other has limited effectiveness if society fails to back the patriarch, and society backing the patriarch has limited effectiveness if the women back each other.
Empty statement. Obviously, if everyone backs you it is better than if only some do.
Do women actually back each other? If they do, why is misbehavior impossible to prevent provided you can do anything to your woman with no obstruction from other men?
I observe good women and bad women, and I allow my wife to only associate with good women. This has a surprisingly large impact on female behavior and female association. One male who does a half assed job of faking alpha issues a disapproval, and no end of women suddenly start striving to be seen as good.
Isn’t your wife dead? Or did you get a new one?
Anyways, you are being unresponsive. We agree that women can be coerced with shame and ostracization. My claim is that this is an inferior substitute to physical control and punishment used only because other men make physical control unavailable, and it is enough to prevent female misbehavior regardless of how much women resist it individually or collectively. Do you disagree with this? Why?
Got a new wife. Girlfriends were too much drama.
Physical coercion has limited effectiveness unless the female community keeps an eye on each other. Chicks are always wandering off on some entirely plausible excuse.
The eyes that they keep on each other have to be backed by coercive male authority, and male authority has to be empowered by chicks keeping an eye on each other.
“Physical coercion has limited effectiveness unless the female community keeps an eye on each other.”
LOL relying on female gossip about each other is not a good system. The intel agent in Turkey is right, the most important thing is to bring back beatings. Most women are subconsciously unhappy they don’t get beatings occasionally. Bondage porn is not generally popular among men, its wildly popular among women. And its not just that they want the subjugation they want the beatings.
Also from a more redpilled age (though it was a controversial song even at the time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20Oz9Yr_So
Yes, but you have to know, before you can beat. And for this, you need female to female gossip.
Agreed you need beatings, but beatings do not suffice. You also need support from her friends.
Nature inherently gives women more power than men, and men dominate the woman the way lion tamer dominates lions.
It is a dance. You succeed in dominating them because they are not really trying too hard to avoid being dominated.
@The Cominator
The early Christians have shunning. Per the example of Paul in regards to a sexually immoral man.
https://biblehub.com/bsb/1_corinthians/5.htm
I see no explicit mention of beatings at all.
God-fearing women holding each other accountable seems to be the norm per Jim’s argument.
>I see no explicit mention of beatings at all.
Women demand beatings. A friend of mine got in between a man who was beating his girlfriend in public once. The girl attack him for getting in the way.
That should have spelled the end of your friendship.
>That should have spelled the end of your friendship.
Why? This was close to 15 years ago back when I everyone I knew was blue pilled. We learned all learned the hard way that the media and our parents had lied to us about real life. I stumbled onto NRX because I’d learned from direct observation and my freinds that everything I was being told was a pack of lies.
I’ve viscerally despised white knights ever since kindergarten & wanted to see them run over with trucks, but I guess not everyone’s instincts are as healthy and pro-social as mine.
I’ve crossed the spectrum myself, but the whiteknight bullshit was always an act. It always is. Sometimes it is an act with deep feeling behind it. The reality is that women crave the badness they experience.
OT. When are you going to assassinate the sand nigger, shaman. He is a curse.
Well, he posts infrequently and his posts contain little content besides low-effort concern trolling and cheap boasting (*yawn* – so boring), but I’ll keep an eye on his villainy if that’s necessary.
@shaman
Who?
If you’re saying it’s simply impossible to know what women are up to, you should elaborate on that. I’m just not convinced that it’s impossible to control women by yourself given there is no intervention by deeply concerned men. Can you not think of anything? It could be mighty difficult for the average man now, but in a society where this is taken as the norm I’m not so sure.
I have managed to control some women. It is dangerous, illegal, and difficult. But women like it.
>By the above logic, it would thus follow that killing one’s child or wife should be punishable by fine.
Remember weregild? To be fair I found it very weird that one could get away with murder just by paying a fine. Sounded like a very light punishment. Then Nick Szabo wrote some articles about similar customs among certain groups of American Indians. I have some Eastern Euro examples too.
So weregild is certainly weird to us who are used to an-eye-for-an-eye logic of punishment but if it popped up it different places, maybe some benefit of doubt should be given to it and examined how exactly it worked.
For example I wonder if weregild was not about punishing a person but making one clan pay damages to another clan, more in the direction of civil tort than criminal justice. And perhaps punishment would have been internally done by the clan. Dunno.
The end of weregild is when Christianity became a strong enough influence and that states were powerful enough that Lex Talonis can be properly enforced.
Initially on highway robbery and banditry. Before detective work came into being via former criminal which enabled better detection of petty murderers.
The bible does mention “spilling thy seed on the ground” as was the case of Oneg. But his intent was to deny his wife’s inheritance. I oppose abortion. And see it as one of the factors that has caused the decline of white people in the US.
Onan’s crime was refusal to procreate with Tamar by cumming outside of her rather than inside of her, thus refraining from his important obligation to fulfill their levirate marriage (Genesis 38):
It has nothing to do with regular fapping – not even remotely similar.
Other relevant verses are:
Leviticus 15:
No prohibition.
Deuteronomy 23:
You should not spill semen on yourself when you’re engage in warfare against your enemies, or if you do so, then go outside till the evening and wash yourself. No prohibition of fapping in general.
And Christians are not obligated to keep the Biblical ritual purity laws, anyway, just as Christians should not observe the Biblical dietary laws. Hence this is a moot point.
Note that this is not intended as fap-endorsement; but when I say that the Bible is silent about masturbation (per se), it’s because it is factually so, and any lies to the contrary, like all lies, are of the Devil. If you think that fapping is bad, then by all means, abstain from it and voice your enthusiastic support for the #NoFap internet sub-culture; just don’t falsely claim that “This is what the Bible commands,” for it commands no such thing.
@shaman, Very good. You definitely know your fapping law. I’d award you a PhD, but I’m just a Dot Indian. And a fed.
Don’t be a butthurt faggot. I warned you what would happen and encouraged you to lurk moar. FWIW i don’t think you are a dotdotdot, but i do think you are a bogstandard WN; heart in the right place (if a little back and to the left) but brain off galavanting elsewhere. I can give you 14 reasons why you and i could be m80s, but in this place you have a lot to learn, and you set yourself back by taking on your betters over minor quibbles and orthogonal issues.
Lurk moar, friend. Go back and read the Jim catalog starting in ~2017 and read the comments as well. You could have a place here. Earn it.
Lighten up Fred, this isn’t your blog.
Then stop embarrassing my team with your /pol/ tier tautological stupidity.
I love 4chan /pol but oldschool wignats (who are often shills notice the frequent spamming of “Zion Don” posts) are not what makes /pol great.
8chan /pol (it will come back) was unique in that it had some genuinely intelligent and nonshill wignatish types (not sure why this happened).
I’ve been a /pol/tard for a long time, and a bro before that, but at least i don’t shit where i eat. This fag can’t into hierarchy.
Imagine you are a longtime member of a certain social club. Sometime you have never met comes in and starts talking smack to all of the members. A few members politely tell him that he’s welcome to stay, but needs to shut the hell up.
His response: “oh lighten up, loser, it’s not YOUR club”.
Does this sound like prosocial behavior to you? If this club were a nightclub, the bouncer would have already thrown you (probably literally thrown) out onto the curb.
This is what I mean when I say “low status”. Even the more autistic commenters tend to understand when they’re skating on thin ice.
@Fred, Take it easy now. Look at you, white nighting it for all these lads. Good show. But, they’re resilient lads and can fight their own battles. Besides, I just saw it as harmless banter. I understand you have been here for a bit and have found your home. No worries mate. Stiff upper lip. Have some tea and crumpets and relax a bit.
You are just trying to create trouble, and you use memes such as “white knighting” without real comprehension of the ideas those shibboleths represent – which shows you are presenting yourself as one thing, when in reality you are another thing – such as a dot Indian employed by the FBI.
@Tom, Now if I did nothing but lurk, how would you know I even read your musings. Communication is a multipath endeavor. To inform or persuade. You give your opinion, I provide feedback. You then adjust your opinion until you have persuaded me to your point. Besides how could I read King Fredricks posts today if I’m busy reviewing posts back to 2017 as he suggested?
Not necessary. The request was to read just Jim’s posts going back a few years (or even a few months), then read the comments without interjecting yourself, then eventually join the conversation when you understand what’s going on. That is, in fact, what most regular commenters here did themselves.
You do show some engagement with the ideas so I’ll cut you some slack. But really, it is not important to us to know that you are reading. Jim gets some 30k uniques a day, IIRC. We see our memes penetrating into the alt right and even the mainstream right. We know that people are reading.
Communication is a two-way street but social hierarchy is not. As of right now, you’re at the bottom of the totem pole. If you want to be treated with respect, earn it. Before you’ve earned it, probably a good idea to lay off any personal attacks, even if you feel slighted. That’s how status works. FA and I can mock each other, if we so choose; you, the noob, may not. Didn’t we all learn this system by third grade?
@Tom, Respect is earned both ways. I suggest you reread your own post and see who needs to work on their social skills. Reading between your lines I see: you are not wanted here, you are not needed here, I have imagined authority here, and a hint of fear of losing ones hierarchy. Don’t be so defensive. Besides earlier posts you claim I am a wolf. How do you expect a wolf to behave.
Nobody here is interested in earning the respect of someone who sounds curiously like a dot Indian FBI employee.
You keep mangling the memes and shibboleths that you randomly decorate your comments with, indicating that you need to read and understand more before commenting. You are trying to pass as one of us, and keep screwing up. You need to understand our memes and shibboleths before superficially aping them.
You are coming from another place, and concealing what place you come from. This self concealment does not inspire confidence. Who are you. What are you? You have to earn our respect. Nobody has to earn your respect. You are not one of us, you are outgroup. You are making an effort to understand our memes and shibboleths, but will not be treated as ingroup until you have better understanding. You are not CR, you are doing better than he is, but you still persistently outgroup yourself by your incomprehension.
You are more like a coydog than a wolf.
Apu,
The question on everyone’s mind is: what’s your age?
White Man is doing standard D&C, against Not Tom and Frederick Algernon in particular.
Rather incompetently, I might add.
If not a dot-Indian, as some suspect, then you are what Vox would call a gamma. Why would you think that we are looking to earn your respect? Who the hell are you, newfag, and why should we care?
You’re confusing antipathy with indifference. 100% on the “not needed”, but as for “not wanted”, that is really up to you to decide.
Not even close. The only authority here is Jim’s. I might have influence, but you are nowhere near bright enough or charismatic enough to threaten it. Thinking otherwise is, again, as Vox would say, gamma.
“If not a dot-Indian, as some suspect, then you are what Vox would call a gamma.”
Eh lets not pretend that Teddy Spaghetti’s autistic and contrived socio-sexual hierarchy has any basis in reality.
@Comminator
They’re allusions, Michael!
Vox Day’s gamma maps very well to a set of behaviors that I readily observe in real life.
Cominator, my son, it is time for you to go outside.
Vox Day’s analysis will not get you laid, and is less useful in understanding disputes on the internet than he believes.
His analysis is corrupted by the fact that he has a purple pill understanding of female sexual nature, as people who fail to accept evopsych and natural selection frequently do, failing to swallow the red pill in its entirety, and his wife is a groupie, whose nature he is reluctant to fully and correctly understand.
His analysis of social justice warriors is useful and valuable, though it needs to be placed in the context of the holiness spiral, the struggle within the progressive elite, and the ensuing ever leftwards motion of the overton window.
From the point of view of an individual, what matters is that the members of the priestly class in any group or organization are going to try to take it over with weaponized holiness, and when you are dealing with such a takeover bid, his analysis of the situation and the necessary tactics is dead on and extremely valuable to everyone.
But his sociosexual hierarchy is ultimately a collection of rationalizations for avoiding an accurate understanding of female nature in general, and his wife’s nature in particular. His main routine application of that analysis is internet disputes, which it fogs, rather than clarifies. That one frequently sees a set of behaviors that fit a category does not necessarily imply that that category is useful in understanding, predicting, or dealing with those behaviors. Categorizing people as gammas is not very predictive, and is useless in dealing with them. He always ends up cutting off contact, indicating failure of prediction and management.
The category that is useful for deciding whether to cut off contact is “evil”, not “gamma”/
I’m not. But he is right to identify the pattern of behavior and give it a name, no matter how silly the name is. Ankle-biters with feminine psychology who cannot bear their own low status, so they hallucinate themselves as being much more important and successful, and go around demanding respect from people who could not care less about their respect. They also never get the hint, and never pipe down until it’s too late.
Call it what you want, but it’s a real thing and I’m seeing it here. Entering a community of strangers and telling them what it takes to earn your respect is the height of social retardation.
“White male” is displaying other problem behaviors which the category “gamma” fails to predict. The category groups unlike people together, and incorrectly groups problem behaviors.
@Jim
Hierarchy of needs applies. Getting laid is secondary to identifying real life behaviors that lead another man to take a swing at you. One good hit ends the game forever.
What you say otherwise is true and observable.
This is not entirely true. It is a useful heuristic for the interval of a few seconds up to fifteen minutes in which another person decides to use physical violence. After this time you can use other tactics.
I agree with everything you said. I don’t support his hierarchy as a concept, and I know it’s based on autoethnography rather than genuine observation of others.
While we’re on the subject, though, how do you recommend dealing with people who:
– Make frequent and primarily negative contributions
– Act as though they believe they’re the smartest guy in the room
– Think they’re entitled to respect
– Think others want to please them
– Humblebrag often
– Don’t take the hint when warned about their conduct
– Are prone to anti-social behavior when confronted; and
– Tend to hold grudges and snipe frequently?
You are describing the impacts of a grab bag of bad behaviors, not describing the inward causes of those bad behaviors, or even the bad behaviors themselves.
You deal with bad behavior in a way specific to that bad behavior, to the person misbehaving, and the situation.
You consider there to be no value at all at identifying patterns of bad behavior that are frequently found together and identifying common techniques for dealing with them?
It can obviously be taken too far, like the DSM. But saying we shouldn’t notice patterns of behavior doesn’t sound right to me either.
The categorization is not working for Vox Day in his internet interactions. He encounters one bad behavior, projects another that is not in fact present, fails to detect a third that is present, and goes off in the wrong direction.
So called gamma behavior maps very well to the more negative aspects of Teddy Spaghetti’s personality that he doesn’t like about himself.
There is no typical gamma personality that matches to a low place in the male status hierarchy as distinct from Omega personality.
Vox’s Gamma theory also atrributes dark triad traits (like deception) to so called gammas… but low status tends to be inversely correlated with dark triad traits and spergs/autists rarely lie and aren’t good at it.
>Teddy Spaghetti
You were kicked off his forum, yes?
Actually no. I’ve only posted on his forum probably a grand total of seven times though.
I think you are right about him projecting the entire thing, and his “sigma” mary sue superpower ego trip is worse still, like stuff me and my friends made up when we were twelve and making custom rules for dungeons and dragons. (oh shit pants dropped)
If anything, many of the people he calls gammas are actually alphas, but in nerdy, low value hierarchies, the coolest and smartest dude in the crappy gang that noone likes.
Onan’s crime was not ejaculating into his wife, so does this support a prohibition against contraception? Will contraception be outlawed come the Restoration?
We have to get those birth rates up amirite
Contraception may or may not be banned, but that has nothing to do with Onan’s reneging on his obligation to fulfill his levirate marriage to his dead brother’s widow. God killed him for depriving his brother of progeny, and not for anything else.
Onan’s short episode keeps being misused to prohibit things totally unrelated to it; those things may or may not be bad things, but they have nothing to do with Onan’s story.
You are torturing the bible to support the anti sex holiness spiraled version, or have been misled by someone else’s bible torture.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated that if men have the opportunity to be patriarchs, they will move heaven and earth to have substantial families. Nothing else moves the needle by more than background noise, not even war and famine. We have had condoms and sponges since the late bronze age. It does not move the needle, though social acceptance of sexual deviancy has a surprisingly large effect – but even that, not very large.
I suspect that tolerance of deviancy primarily has effect by increasing and reflecting tolerance of feral women.
The two high fertility white groups in US, FDLS and Amish, both allow contraception, and are not terribly worried by heterosexual male activities.
>And Christians are not obligated to keep the Biblical ritual purity laws, anyway, just as Christians should not observe the Biblical dietary laws.
>Til heaven and earth pass away, not a jot nor tittle shall pass from the law til all be fulfilled.
Jesus said that. He also warned that he would turn away those (like you Shaman) that preach iniquity (lawlessness).
Jesus was very clear, the law applies to God’s people, forever.
1 John 5 might provide you with clarity, although I suspect you are on the side of the deceiver, as is the Catholic Church.
Nuts.
1. The jots and tittles have not passed away, but trying to deduce right action legalistically from jots and tittles was leading the Jews horribly and disastrously astray, and Jesus unequivocally condemned this, saying it would give them death, which it did.
2. Christ fulfilled the law so you don’t have to.
When Jesus said “not one jot and tittle shall pass away” but conspicuously declined to instruct his followers to actually follow ever jot and tittle he was speaking ambiguously, because his time had not yet come.
And if you find Jesus ambiguous, Saint Paul made it absolutely clear. Christians are not required to follow the letter of the law, and jots and tittles legalism is condemned.
God works through what Aristotle called material and efficient causation, and if Christ is, among other things, the incarnation of the logos right understanding of truth and right action must be based on understanding the way material and efficient causes act, the copybook headings, not on torturing commas, jots, and tittles.
The trouble with jots and tittles is that with a sufficiently large supply of jots and tittles, you can always find a legalistic justification for doing the bad things that you want to do, and then when someone complains about the bad things you are doing, you double down on keeping cheese crumbs and meat juice separate. Which is what got the Jews expelled from Israel, and is a substantial part of what causes them to keep getting expelled from various places. Jews are always worrying about cheese crumbs as they massively violate the tenth commandment, and they worry about cheese crumbs twice as much when they violate commandments five to nine.
@I_Never_Knew_You
Let’s see if you can do what Jesus Christ can do… answer a RedPill on women question.
The entire sacrificial system is a shadow of jesus’ sacrifice. And when the real thing comes the shadow passes away. Along with ritual purity laws. Even as ritual purity laws is very useful for hygiene and disease control.
https://www.biblehub.com/bsb/hebrews/10.htm
Hence the laws of ritual purity of sacrifice and the ministry of the ark of the covenant is abolished.
Ritual purity needed to be abolished, for it was substituted for actual purity. To avoid walking on ground contaminated with the blood of chickens sacrificed to pagan god, the Jews got themselves covered in the wrongfully spilled blood of a Roman cop whom they killed in the course of performing his duty to enforce a necessary and just Roman law.
Ritual purity would have prevented Peter from talking to a good and pious man. It had become legalistic, and divorced from genuine purity. Whenever Orthodox Jews make some terrible concession to modernity and progressivism, they double down on cheese crumbs.
We continue to observe the rule on burying our poop and washing our hands before meals, but we justify it by material and efficient causation, not on a lengthy chain of talmudic interpreters.
The synagogue of satan existed in the day of incarnation:
https://biblehub.com/bsb/matthew/23.htm
For this reason also God showed this vision to Peter declaring ritual purity abolished :
https://biblehub.com/bsb/acts/10.htm
I’m having trouble shaking the feeling that abortion is inherently evil, but I suppose your first point that abortions can be justified and therefore not all abortions are murder, makes sense.
However, it doesn’t seem very fair to declare open season on “tards, cripples, psychos, monstrosities, rape-babies, and cuck-babiesâ€. A mans wife and children are his property but more importantly they belong to God and ultimately God decides who he imbues with life. Life cannot be taken unless there’s a justification and being a retard,cripple, or otherwise inconvenience does not justify taking someone’s life.
Only a moral violation against God’s law justifies a killing. Even if abortion is a lesser offense than murder, it is still taking a life and requires justification. Maybe rape/cuck-babies could be killed, but even they could be given up for adoption.
There have been a few saints who were retards and cripples, so clearly God cares for them just like he cares for normal people.
I don’t argue that you have justification to break into your neighbor’s home and slay his retard son. I do maintain that if your own wife’s fetus is a malignant entity (retards, cuck-babies, rape-babies, monsters, etc., being malignant entities), then it may be justified for you to kill it, because if you don’t do so, you’re bound to inflict misery on yourself, your wife, your normal children, your close family, your community, and others. If you let your property wreak havoc on yourself and society, your conduct is both anti-social and self-destructive; and such fetuses, being your property, are a havoc for which you’re responsible.
Of course, if you wish to keep the limbless abomination, then by all means do so and suffer the consequences; but telling fathers that their wives must bring forth these monsters is destructive holiness spiraling, and it’s no wonder that celibate and childless (“totally not gay!”) priests are the ones who preach this doctrine.
Right, this works like any other property law. I can park my car in my own backyard, smash it up with a baseball bat, pour gasoline on it and light it on fire. You cannot do that to my car, even if I was going to do it anyway.
>Right, this works like any other property law.
Doesn’t take long for you lot to slide into the murder of infants does it? Why not sacrifice the remains to Baal, no point in half measures. Never seen a video of the joy in a Down’s Syndrome child’s life, and his parents too? You’d hack it out of the womb and throw it away like trash.
>I do maintain that if your own wife’s fetus is a malignant entity (retards, cuck-babies, rape-babies, monsters, etc., being malignant entities), then it may be justified for you to kill it, because if you don’t do so, you’re bound to inflict misery on yourself, your wife, your normal children, your close family, your community, and others.
This must be the white pill Jim refers to in the post. You make up your own rules and decide who and when to kill. Always easier if it’s defenseless kids of course. Lacking faith, and not actually believing the Bible is true, you’d not even think to turn to God for healing would you?
I took a strong stance against bastardcide but with unsalvagable genetic defectives best aborted when the defect is detected.
@INKY
How many kids do you have?
How much experience do you have interacting with/caring for the retarded?
I am pretty sure you are taking a logical position based on an emotional perspective. I am 100% against abortion from a philosophical perspective, but, having much experience with the retarded, i am absolutely with NT and S that, until we can rescue them from the flesh cage GNON saw fit to house them in, they are better off not here. It fucking sucks. Some of the best people I have ever met, from an emotional perspective of course, were downies. Fun loving, carefree mongoloids hell bent on getting and giving smiles and hugs. What those cute videos don’t ever show are the bed sores, infections, sexual assaults (you can all fuck off with trying to RPWQ me; a hard charging 250lb downie intent on stub finger banging a preteen is not a good thing), massive medical bills, and whole lives invested in keeping them barely healthy. It is gross, but necessary, to confront hard questions objectively, legalistically, and thoroughly.
To whit, the person(s) that are responsible and hold the continuing responsibility for the retarded are the ones that should decide what is done with them. If a billionaire wants to put his retard offspring to pasture, hiring the best caretakers and keeping a close watch on them, by all means do. A poor family with six other kids who subsist on the goodwill of the state, the community, and the church by necessity abandon some or all of their agency, hence they lose the ultimate choice potential. I don’t like this. I wish we spent the money wasted on breast cancer “research” and AIDS amelioration on fixing the retarded, but we do not.
Abortion is a curse. Abortion is a crutch. Abortion is a medical procedure. Abortion has utility. How these truths slot together is a coup-complete issue. Using the Cucktholic church’s bullshit axiomatic stance is a waste of time and effort.
Quality post.
“Abortion is a curse. Abortion is a crutch. Abortion is a medical procedure. Abortion has utility. How these truths slot together is a coup-complete issue. Using the Cucktholic church’s bullshit axiomatic stance is a waste of time and effort.”
Also the Cucklick Church is a horrible hypocrite on this issue given their involvement in running the Quebec orphanages and other similar institutions elsewhere in the world, the Quebec orphanages were only a step above Dr. Mengele running an orphanage for jewish children, I mean they were complete with fatal medical experiments (and its why I cannot endorse Jim’s position that the state should be totally indifferent to bastards… the description of those places were real evil to the personally undeserving. Bastards should be aborted generally but the few who slip through should not be left to such an evil fate as that).
The church only came out against abortion because they thought the hispanic-catholic abortion rate was higher then the Anglo abortion rate. John Paul II was an evil man, the progressive Cathedral (which used to have some measure of sanity) did not used to endorse mass immigration really… he is the one who put the idea in their heads.
Why do you nitpick on such a minor and obscure historical event like the Duplessis Orphans?
Children and women are a man’s property and since the children were orphans, they were discarded property. The Catholic Church took possession of them and therefore had a right to use their property how they saw fit. So a few kids died in Quebec, that alone hardly makes the Church a hypocrite. They killed them AFTER they were born, so this is consistent with the Church’s stance on abortion.
The actions of a few rogue orphanages shouldn’t be used to smear the entire Church anyway.
If this orphanage incident were the only issue, i guess i could understand leaving the Catholic church alone. But the sad fact is that the Vatican, and by extension the Faith, is complicit in the most heinous, willful destruction of Occidental prosperity. The current Pope is the worst progressive in the spotlight. The church itself has been casting its lot with the muddy ones around the globe. One need not portray the Church in a negative light so much as just point to what it does and says.
I know there are good catholic men out their. A number of them are my kin. But they are the extreme minority. Mormons do more for justice and order incidentally than Catholics do intentionally.
My position has basically aligned with Jim’s. If an infertile couple wishes to adopt a bastard, fine. I wouldn’t recommend it, but wouldn’t engage the state to stop them, either. However, if said child has not been adopted, it is the property of the mother’s lawful husband, who absolutely cannot be forced to care for it, put it up for adoption, or perform any other kindness, if we are to maintain any semblance of civilization. It is the husband’s decision, not ours and not the government’s, whether it goes up on Craigslist or down the river.
The penalty for any woman cuckolding her husband – and neglecting to mention living children from a previous relationship is a form of cuckolding – should generally be their termination, and possibly hers as well depending on the severity of the crime. Some bastards might survive, but that should be the rare exception. Every woman alive should know the motto: chase chubs, lose cubs.
Anyway, all of this was just an example to illustrate how I’m not the least bit concerned about Catholic moralfagging on abortion. Yes, I’m for abortion (on the husband’s authority) and I’m for infanticide on the same grounds. And if I support paternal infanticide, you are not going to talk me out of paternal abortion.
Of course, if a mother-to-be defies her husband and performs either act against his wishes, then that shall be punishable by death.
Ugh WordPress threading, that reply was supposed to be on the thread underneath it.
Your moralfagging has been noted. Our ethics are based on human flourishing and the iron laws of Gnon, not your feefees.
Or kill the bastard spawn several years after emergence from the womb. Infants and toddlers, being unable to care for themselves and thus a net liability to society until they get older, are the property of their parents. And if a married man discovers previously-unknown children from his current wife, that makes them his property, to either raise as his own or dispose of at will, preferably the latter.
This silly notion that every human life is absolutely sacred and must be protected at all costs is not found anywhere in either Testament. If you moralfag yourself into a belief that killing can never ever be justified, then you are a pacifist faggot unfit to be either a warrior or a priest.
Seconded. My son has made me soft, but only to a certain degree. I have a new found appreciation for tiny fingers i never had before, but the thought of him being harassed by the worthless spawn of slut single mothers and the trash of the urban jungle ignites a terrible fire in my belly.
I hate that we have come to this place. Abortion should be a very rare, purely medical curiosity. The current trials and tribulations must guide our thinking as we craft a path forward. We cannot let it get this bad again.
Let post birth bastard spawn be adopted not killed plz… The bitch did something wrong the bastard did not.
Paternal consent and shotgun marriage will solve most of the abortion problem.
But we still will have a problem when men who cannot marry (usually because they are disinclined to work and spending frequent periods in prison) get women pregnant. My recommended solution is that she is then forced to marry someone selected by her father, and then her husband decides what to do with his unfortunate demonspawn.
Reflect on the flood of brown babies born to white mothers in Sweden. If not for abortion, there would be a lot more of them. What are you going to do about that?
We have to get serious about curtailing dysgenic female preferences. We don’t want a system where the cost of irresponsible sexual decision can be dumped off on society, and if the costs of irresponsible sexual decisions are carried by private actors, those private actors are going to wind up disposing of inconvenient demonspawn.
There will not be many bastards in our system. Let those few who are not aborted be taken by kindly (yes i would screen out sadists…) infertile or christian couples inclined to raise them. With 2% of the amount of bastards we have now should have no problem.
We should not be evil when we dont have to be (as we do with incurable leftists and muslims).
“Or kill the bastard spawn several years after emergence from the womb.â€
This is a fence you don’t want to tear down. And if you do, then you’re fucking insane, and I would feel good to see you fitted with a concrete boot in preparation for a boat ride.
“This silly notion that every human life is absolutely sacred and must be protected at all costs…If you moralfag yourself into a belief that killing can never ever be justified…â€
See?
There is no real difference between a child sixteen weeks after conception, and a child sixteen weeks after birth. If we can murder the one, we can murder the other.
That fence has come down already, and been down for quite some time.
What is the death rate among sons torn from their fathers at an early age? My guess is mighty high.
And seventy years ago, getting rid of the surplus demonspawn of women who got pregnant to bad boys, though theoretically illegal, happened all the time and no one particularly wanted to pay too much attention. It is just that now the demonspawn lives, and the sons of good men die.
You respond not to Not Tom, but to the positions that the Cathedral attributes to those it intends to murder. Your response is so absolutely irrelevant to anything anyone has said, or is likely to say, in this thread that I really have no idea whom you think you are responding to.
Jim forget the morality of being so cruel on the very few bastards who get through (since my proposal is that the law mandate abortion unless a financially responsible man wants to claim the kid and the man in charge of the woman okays the pregnancy)…
The optics of saying we’re okay with post birth child killing of children who are not extremely genetically defective (down syndrome etc) is super duper toxic. Especially since there are so many angry lost boys who did not have fathers, and generally the white ones (and there are unfortunately many of those now) are generally on our side.
We can treat the few who slip through (I think it will be around 2% of modern numbers) decently without destroying society and that is the solution we should take and we should not talk about the other way… EVER.
Come on Cominator, we all love you. Take it easy. Here are the best optics, in my view:
https://i.imgur.com/JCmRjIv.png
LOL but fucked up Shaman, despite agreeing that heterosexual pedophilia is so rare to be almost nonexistent I’d show no mercy to the few Podestas of the world.
Two necrophiliacs were walking to a graveyard one says to the other you still have your girlfriend, the other one goes no the rotten cunt split on me.
The Cominator,
optics is not foundational. The optics of this blog that has attracted its readership is that of open reasoned discussion, all out assault on taboo and crimethink, and apologetics of what our enemies consider inhumane cruelties – not that they have an issue with inhumane cruelties in general.
The womans womb is not the individualizing rubicon you seem to imply – there is no truly meaningful difference between the infant sixteen weeks after conception, still in the womb, and sixteen weeks after birth. There is big difference in the relationship to the mother only.
If killing one is permissible, so is killing the other.
The foundation of the law is coop-coop equilibrium between patriarchal hierarchies – the bastard has no place in the hierarchies, unless adopted or employed. Imagine all involved parties agree that no, don’t kill the bastards, they deserve a shot, they are here and their murder serves no purpose by default – who among them will go looking really hard for missing bastards, not adopted nor employed?
Where is the gnon compliance?
Does it not actually require corruption and the seeds of commie dictatorship to do this?
That said, don’t kill bastards unless they’re bastards, and it certainly is bad optics that might turn off valuable allies to seem overly enthusiastic about murder, an offense of which you are guilty too, helicopter boss. On the other hand it certainly would also be bad optics to install crimethink filters on any issue.
You wish for bastards to not have to fear that they will be preyed upon by blooddrunk reactionaries aching for smooth unfortunate necks to break under cold hard hands, and that seems pretty good, but doesn’t really connect to the issue.
We don’t want a state apparatus for hunting down and killing bastards. But we do want males in authority over the sexual conduct of women, and we do want the cost of bastards to be born by males in authority over misbehaving women, which means we don’t want a state apparatus for taking care of them, nor a society, which watches too hard to find out if bastards are being taken care of or worries over much about a mysteriously high “natural” death rate of bastards.
Much as we now have a society that holds that an infant in the womb can be murdered contrary to the will and desire of his father, and that piously ignores the welfare of children torn from their father at a very early age. We now have a curious lack of data on the survival rate among young children torn from their biological fathers, and come the reaction we will have a similar curious lack of data on the survival rate of bastards in the custody of husbands who are justly outraged by their existence.
“We don’t want a state apparatus for hunting down and killing bastards.”
We want a state apparatus dedicated to the early abortion of children likely to become a public charge ie that have no responsible male to care for them… with a possible exemption for soldiers killed in action during the course of a woman’s pregnancy.
“we will have a similar curious lack of data on the survival rate of bastards in the custody of husbands who are justly outraged by their existence.”
I’m saying let the outraged husbands (the bastards who slip through the cracks will generally lack an outrage husbands) give them away and kill the mother.
I have said I oppose death for adultery alone, but trying to pass off a pregnancy that isn’t her mans is much much more severe and should be met with death.
We don’t want public charges at all. Stick the male who has proper authority over the woman with the problem, and don’t get too curious as to how he solves it.
We don’t want fertile age women with no male in proper authority over them at all. Solution to that problem is that if a woman engages in sexual misconduct, she gets stuck under the authority of the man she engaged in sexual misconduct with. If the man she engaged in sexual misconduct with is unsuitable, and her father is nonexistent or ineffectual, the state sticks her with someone, anyone.
“We want a state apparatus dedicated to the early abortion of children likely to become a public chargeâ€
Why would we want this?
If we have a state apparatus to abort babies then logically we should have a state apparatus that hunts down bastards that we failed to abort.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t Jim saying that bastards tend to have a high mortality rate and that these problems tend to solve themselves. I don’t see a reason to create a state apparatus that overreaches and intrudes into private family affairs. There won’t be any state apparatus that cares for or disposes of unwanted bastards. But I suppose anyone is free to open orphanages or conversely, to gun down bastards like a deranged Blade Runner.
I think your zeal for saving bastards is well intentioned but I think the best solution is a hands off approach to the Bastard Question.
Also I agree with ten, if we’re okay with fathers aborting their children then unwanted bastards should be free game. There’s no significant moral difference between abortion and killing a discarded bastard.
May I introduce you to Seth Putnam? Just 2 poems.
Van Full Of Retards
Van full of retards – hahaha
Van full of retards – you drool on yourself
You couldn’t even win a bronze
In the Special Olympics
Your parents are ashamed
Of themselves and of you
Van full of retards – hahaha
I Snuck A Retard In To A Sperm Bank
You fucking dyke
You didn’t want to get touched by a man
You wanted to be a strong single mother
So you ordered a sensitive, gay poet’s sperm
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
Instead of a bright poet offspring
You’re stuck with a drooling retard
You went broke paying for special care
Your girlfriend left you for another woman
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
I snuck a retard into a sperm bank
Moonman once said,
There’s no room in our Aryan homes
For people with fucked-up chromosomes
Too many downies with squinty-eyed sockets
Blow them away with massive Moon-rockets
Verily, it’s super cool
To lock mongoloids outside the gym pool
Special Ed children shit their beds
Just lodge a bullet inside their heads
Trust me, it’s really not that hard
To rid this world of all the retards
These retards are on my list
Of those to kill, like Communists
As Stephen Lynch would remark,
Watch them run
Watch them fall
Watch them try to catch a ball
Olympics
Special Olympics
Watch them laugh
Watch them drool
Watch them fall into the pool
That’s diving
At the Special Olympics
Kid with DOWNS
Wins the race
Even though he stood in place
Olympics
Special Olympics
‘Round his neck
Gold medals hung
Resting on his giant tongue-
Olympics
Special Olympics
Sure, the Final Solution to the Retard Problem is way down the list after thot-patrolling your camwhore daughter by chaining her to my bedroom, stacking feral coons like Mount Everest, turning fruits into vegetables, and removing kebab, but I’m all for ‘tardocide. And I burst in uproarious laughter when your feelings are hurt, knowing that your gay dad shrimped you.
(Yes – shrimped, i.e., he sucked his own and/or another man’s viral semen from your rectum using a straw. It’s a real term describing a real homosexual practice)
If it’s alright for a man to slay his malignant entity, do you think it’s a wise idea to encourage retards and monsters to kill themselves?
If it’s alright to kill these people, and that the holiness-spiralling doctrine of every human having the right to live is wrong, is suicide ok? If every man is to himself his own property, then wouldn’t he have the right to dispose of himself?
I’m genuinely not trying to give you a gotcha question, I’m just wondering where this logic leads to.
If Samson, the Biblical Hercules, had justification to self-terminate, how much more do lesser individuals have it.
Now, I don’t know if you should be actively encouraging familially-unrelated ‘tards to self-cull (as they aren’t your property), but overall everyone is better off without them, and if we don’t make a fuss about bastards going down the river, how much more should we not make a fuss about grotesque uncanny mutants falling off windows and so forth. As for regular people, I’d say that suicide is bad, should be rare, and should certainly not be encouraged, but again, if Suffering Samson could intentionally get himself killed — he thereby exterminated lots of Philistines — then so can normal people, especially if the circumstances strongly call for it.
Holiness-spiraling doctrinaire Trad Caths can go fuck themselves.
Interesting. On a social matter podcast, a long long time ago, the topic of masturbation arose and the catholic consensus was that masturbation was evil and you should not do it. But your take makes much more sense.
Masturbation may be bad, if it prevents you from hooking up with a chick (and marrying that chick). But usually, lifelong masturbation is the inevitable and unavoidable consequence of involuntary celibacy, and not a cause thereof.
People who blame fapping — or their porn habits — for their sundry failures in life, are invariably dipshits who don’t see that the Woman Question is a society-destroying, civilization-annihilating issue, much more fundamental and crucial than TOUCHING THE WEE-WEE. Blaming masturbation is the henpecked halfwit trad-cuck’s natural recourse in lieu of talking honestly about women being out of control. Blaming masturbation for tfw no gf is a typical Politically Correct (Factually Incorrect) effeminate millennial position, because advocacy of hardcore patriarchy is not allowed; a convenient substitute for discussion of the collapse of marriage in the West.
Don’t expect the ‘tards at Socialist Matter to give a damn what Scripture says about the matter (it says nothing); Rabbinic Judaism and Catholic Christianity are siamese twins, both holiness spiraling — albeit in different directions — though the latter admittedly has way better artistic and architectural aesthetics, credit where it’s due. Socialist Matter deserved to die ignominiously like the rabid dog that it was.
Paul laid the groundwork for Christianity being open to gentiles in order to bring jews back to god. He believed jews would be jealous at gentiles worshiping their god. Constantine adopted Christianity to bring different tribes of people together. Under any Abrahamic religion, you must acknowledge that jews are the chosen of god. So that when jews push for change, they have already won over you. Jews have decided the legacy of whiteness must end. At the rate the U.S. is going, this country will be a latin country with 10 years, if not already so. What to do: ?
Being God’s chosen people doesn’t mean you get to boss others around. It means you are an example for others; one that involves living and working together while others descend into insane death cults. Falling into a death cult yourself rather obviously voids the agreement.
Agreed. The 10 Commandments were a positive for humanity as well as the sermon on the mount. This new generation of jews who claim we are cattle will get us all killed eventually. When the “minorities” start their cleansing spree, they probably wont take the time to ask if your a jew. If you look white, you’re white.
Observing the letter of the law while violating the spirit directly got the Jews killed by the Romans.
In the pursuit of power over gentiles many of them have assimilated to the death cult of progressivism, which will likely end in progressives throwing them to the wolves. There is ample evidence that trooferism is FBI shills starting the process of dumping prog Jews in favor of prog dot Indians.
Time and time again, a treasonous elite hires Jews to do its dirty work against their subjects, and then when things go pear shaped, blames the Jewish pawnbroker and the Jewish distiller.
Ignoring the tenth commandment in favor of esoteric and extreme interpretations of the rule about contamination by blood, led to Jews ignoring the commandment on coveting, and then the commandment on murder, and then being terribly righteous about it led to them being slaughtered and expelled by the Romans. Today, it is time for them to stop worrying about cheese, and start worrying about the tenth commandment. Every progressive Jew is in massive violation of the tenth commandment. It got them killed the in Roman times, and the way the wind blows, may well get them killed again. Trooferism is an indication that our elite is preparing to do what so many elites have done before so many times.
Some may be willing scape goats. The lure of wealth and power is strong. After listening to Ignateve, that is a man with conviction, not a puppet. If there is an elite behind the curtain, waiting to put all this on israel’s head, that must be a clever one. But still, you cannot lead a person where they are not already willing to go.
Ignateve? Noel Ignatiev?
The Jew who thinks he is going to genocide whites?
Suicidally deluded. He is as crazy as the Jews who thought they could defeat Rome.
Sucked into progressivism. The arc of history, he thinks, is on his side.
No it is not. We have been through this time and time again. History does not repeat, but it rhymes. He is being set up to take the blame when things go pear shaped, and is playing into it by deserving a substantial part of the blame.
He thinks history is on his side because he want to exterminate those near him, supposedly in favor of strangers who live far away, and thinks that this is very holy of him, and that his superior holiness will give him victory, as Jews thought that superior holiness would give them victory over the Romans.
By trooferism, I’m understanding you to think the elite is losing control of what the masses believe to be reality and will soon need a fall guy? Or maybe I read you wrong. If so, you must have a high degree of confidence that we will come out on top. I’m not so sure. The numbers are way down. And I don’t see us replenishing too fast. I understood that to be your motive for early marriage.
Exactly so. The elite is already readying the tactic that previous treasonous elites have so often used before. They are already acting to set up the Jews as their fall guy, and a great many Jews are enthusiastically walking right into the role set up for them.
As before, the letter of the law killeth, but the spirit of the law giveth life. And the spirit of the law is that progressivism violates the tenth commandment, and the tenth commandment matters more than cheese crumbs.
To wit: This afternoon, watched the documentary “Zero Days” about Stuxnet.
Beware of hard-hitting documentaries speaking truth to USG power.
This one, to Jim’s point, is all about setting up Israel Jews as USG fall guy.
“Beware of hard-hitting documentaries speaking truth to USG power.”
Can you elaborate on this statement? I watched the documentary. It seemed informative, but the tech involved was very far over my head.
There are no hard hitting documentaries speaking truth to power, and if they purport to be so, they are telling USG lies.
Ignateve? Noel Ignatiev?
The Jew who thinks he is going to genocide whites?
Suicidally deluded. He is as crazy as the Jews who thought they could defeat Rome.
Sucked into progressivism. The arc of history, he thinks, is on his side.
No it is not. We have been through this time and time again. History does not repeat, but it rhymes. He is being set up to take the blame when things go pear shaped, and is playing into it by deserving a substantial part of the blame.
He thinks history is on his side because he want to exterminate those near him, supposedly in favor of strangers who live far away, and thinks that this is very holy of him, and that his superior holiness will give him victory, as Jews thought that superior holiness would give them victory over the Romans.
He is part of a setup to blame the Jews, as much as the troofers are. And it is not hard to find Jews deserving of some substantial part of the blame, but paying too much attention to Jews means you are looking at the matador’s cape, when you should be looking at the matador’s sword.
Sooner or later he is going to get a helicopter tour to the Pacific, but there are quite a lot of non Jews that also need helicopter tours, and my concern is that if we pay too much attention to Neol Ignatiev, other people who need helicopter tours will not get them, while the mob is distracted by knocking over a Jewish distillery.
Are you saying the “sword” is our own people, progressives? We are our own worst enemy scenario. I’ve considered such a notion.
Progressives aren’t our own people. They may look like our own people, but they are heretics turned death cult.
Agreed. Regressive’s would be a more fitting word to a death cult.
Jews always walk into this under their own power. They get set up to take the blame, but with great and irritating self righteousness they walk into blameworthy roles that have been set up for them.
Jews are the attack dogs progressives sic on their enemies. If someone puts the dogs to you, do you blame the dogs? No, you blame the master, and you shoot the master and the dogs both. You don’t go killing everyone’s family dog and ignore that the owner was the real threat.
Unless, of course, you are using the dogs as scapegoats. “Oh, no, I didn’t attack you. It was all those dogs. We have to do something about all these dog attacks.”
@shadow, Attack dogs? Let’s throw-back to ’67 and view that thought in light of the attempted sinking of USS Liberty. Who was master in that scenario in your view, LBJ?
When you send a warship into battle zone, without informing either of the participants, what do you think is going to happen? (And if you had informed the participants, fog of war would still ensue.) In this sense, LBJ was the master. USS Liberty distracts us from the evil done by George Soros and Victoria Nuland.
To characterize them as attack dogs would imply the notion of mindless beast and therefore exculpate them from morality. They know right from wrong as demonstrated by their religious writings. Oh, I forgot we are just cattle to them.
@Jim, Liberty was a non offensive listening vessel in international waters. Flying an oversized US flag on a clear blue day. I’ve heard the Israeli control tower tapes. There was no mistake. The surviving veterans claim it was a deliberate attack. I’ve seen the interviews. Now what?
Fog of war.
Did not look inoffensive. If they had disguised it as a fishing boat, or a tour ship, or some such, then it would look inoffensive. Go into a war zone looking suspicious, people are going to kill you on suspicion. That is war.
When Trump sent his men to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi he informed Russia and Turkey where they were going to be, and told them that the mission was not hostile and not in conflict with Russian or Turkish interests. What did LBJ do?
If Trump had not informed Russia or Turkey, and they opened fire, no one would have been surprised, least of all Trump.
The USS Liberty was not attacked by US Jews, it was attacked by Israelis, Israel being another country that US Jews hate and want to destroy. We are not talking about Israel, we are talking about USG court Jews. Do not change the subject.
@shadow, You’re right, I have strayed off topic. My mistake.
@Jim, You’re an intelligent man. Perhaps you need to research this further. The Israeli control tower made a positive ID on the vessels hull number via flyby. There was no mistake. They also jammed the transmissions for help after the attack.
Since this topic has been brought up…
The attack on the Liberty was very likely deliberate in full knowledge it was a US ship (as the Israeli pilots were circling the ship for a long time without attacking) but likely LBJ or the CIA was using the liberty to monitor Israeli communications and pass the info on to the Arabs for whatever reason.
Golda Meir (for I’m sure the decision to actually order the attack was taken at the highest level in Israel) decided that whatever intel the Liberty was passing was so dangerous as it was worth taking the risk the US wouldn’t declare war.
Correction Golda Meir wasn’t the Israeli PM during the Six Day War that was Levi Eshkol.
@Jim, You spoke of fall-guys earlier. What makes you so sure that this “Bag-Daddy” character ever existed. We’ll never know now because he is in the ocean, probably next to Bin Ladin. Nice touch though having a dog as hero. This is the stuff of movies.
He demonstrated his existence most forcefully, confiscating an ocean of oil from various people who were distinctly unhappy about that, and a horde of fertile age women.
@Commietater, That’s conjecture on your part. Who we were for or against. Why would we pass intel to Egypt. As a military leader we see our role as monitoring hot-spots in the world. That is what we did. There is no way for you to know if or who we share intelligence with.
B, in the comment linked by Shaman, plausibly concludes that whatever LBJ intended, the USS Liberty was on a hostile spying mission against Israel and for the Arabs. This was not necessarily top government policy, but was spy agency policy.
I doubt that at the time the Israelis had information that it was on a hostile spying mission against Israel. But it looked suspicious, and when a suspicious ship goes into a war zone …
B wrote a relevant comment here:
https://blog.reaction.la/science/technological-decay-2/#comment-1178717
Just some context: the US pivot towards Israel was subsequent to ’67. It developed slowly until ’79 when Two Pillars collapsed. Despite loudmouth congressional ‘tards proclaim, the IC and the DoD have always been and remain very leery of Israel. This doesn’t mean they do not support them often, nor does it mean that they aren’t lousy with Israeli spies.
Also, USG gives an immense amount of money to Egypt and have done so for a long time, though it seems to have gone down of late.
Well, I agree he’s crazy but, if rabbi Noel, is so far off base, why is not the whole jewish community, ADL and the like stepping out to denounce him? After listening to him on youtube I had to see if this guy was legit and read his book “Race Traitor”. Not good!
Because the ADL represents progressives, not Jews. The Jews say this openly. A few examples that I just pulled right now from a Google search:
– https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/191920/my-adl-problem
– https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-shame-of-the-anti-defamation-league/
– https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/02/adl_antifa_and_koch_toxic_anti-trump_league_141392.html
– https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/28/jewish-americans-deserve-better-adl/
I don’t expect you to read all of those from start to finish, and actually wouldn’t recommend it as they tend to be tinged with the usual Jewish paranoia and loggorhea. But just skim them briefly and the common thread is obvious: there is a massive and widening split between Zionist Jews and Progressive Jews. They aren’t the same people.
Yes, the Zionist Jews tend to be “Israel first”, but as long as Trump makes occasional approving grunts in Israel’s direction and doesn’t hand over gobs of cash and military-grade weapons to Palestine and Iran, they love the man and think he’s their savior, and are at least as economically and socially conservative as any white gentile boomer.
The Progressive Jews are just… progressive. If not for their semitic last names and big noses, you literally would not be able to tell them apart from any other SWPL or Democrat voter, because they do not deviate one inch from the progressive narrative. Not the same people; might as well be a different race entirely, and sort of are when you consider actual countries of origin (former Soviet bloc states vs. older Eastern European and Prussian Empire stock).
Understand. There are various semite factions each with their political agenda. The orthodox jews seem to lean conservative with a live and let live approach to other groups. That is the way. All peoples need their customs and living space. The forced multicult cult cannot work. It will only end badly. I suspect jews are reading this blog. To those, whites want to live in peace. No one is out to get you.
But they don’t. As Jim says, whites are wolf to whites. Whites want to form packs, and live in peace with their packs, and go to war against other packs. Progressives are overwhelmingly white, and want to exterminate all of the bad whites.
Attempts to create an identity based entirely on whiteness will fail because they do not have a mechanism to filter out white liberals, who clearly do not want to be left alone or live in peace, clearly thrive on their hatred of you.
The solution to this is (was) Westphalian sovereignty, and pre-Catholic Christian theology. If all you have is whiteness, you are lost in the desert.
@Tom, Whites don’t have a monopoly in wolf: Rwanda. You could make the same argument about any group. Every wolf suffers it’s fleas. The string pullers believed Westphalian sovereignty led to nationalism. So globalization was a rejection of westphalia. Nationalism was labeled the boggy man for both world wars. I say people need their living space and their customs.
That is a much, much better articulation of the sovereignty doctrine. Congratulations, you’ve passed your first lesson and are well on your way to graduating from wignattery.
Just don’t mistake “white people” for a single people. I can promise you that you have very little in common with the French or Danish, and they wouldn’t want to live with a million of you, nor would you want to live with a million of them. Yes, it’s far more tolerable than a million Africans or Central Americans or Indians, but you are still alien to each other and will eventually grow to hate each other and fight each other, because you do not share history or customs.
What wignats clumsily try to express through assertions about whiteness is actually American-ness, but it sounds almost as incoherent because the term “American” is not only corrupted by outright foreigners and holiness-spiraling progressives, but also the “melting pot” of white nations that never really consolidated. So what you actually want is something lower than white, even lower than white American: your tribe is Appalachian, New England, New France, and so on. Those are the “nations”, they all happen to be white but together they do not form a white nation, they are held together as an Empire (formerly a Republic).
>Bringing up the USS Liberty here
You have to go back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIo4MCO-_U
@Comintator, What, you want me to watch a youtube video now. Can’t you just summarize here the main points
Its a short youtube video that says you talk like a fag and your shit is retarded.
Attacking Israel as opposed to leftist jews marks you as either a leftist or stupid.
@Commietater, lol, Straight and to the point! I like it. Saves me time too. You sound like a pro-semite shill. Why don’t you reread the Commie Manifesto since you don’t like what a write.
https://i.imgflip.com/64guq.jpg
@Shilltater, That a pic of your mom, I’ll pass. Haven’t had dinner yet.
Pro-semite shill? Sounds like a glow-in-the-dark nagger. Time to answer the woman question, fed.
@shadow, Not this again. I’m not a fed. You know I could accuse this of being some sort of honeypot to trap political dissidents. But, this seems better than 4 or 8 chan for the time being. And actually some of you seem educated. But think what you want. Why should I go on the defensive.
Hey Dot Indian Man (or “DIM,” for short),
Why didn’t you answer Jim’s repeated questions about Zimmerman/Trayvon and Kate’s Wall?
@shaman, Oh, I’m an Indian now? I do like curry. Doesn’t change that fact that I am actually white. The questions posed, I was not on that day. I took it as rhetorical. The Zimmerman thing was awhile back. He shot the skittles guy after getting his head slammed in the pavement. Self defense. The wall girl was killed by an illegal. She has a jewish sounding last name, so you guys should be up in arms over it. As to the wall, we probably need one. But, we also need to stop employing illegals. Do I pass?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
@Frederick Algernon
Based and Billy Madison pilled.
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170712202623-02-donald-trump-0712-large-169.jpg
>The Peace of Westphalia aims for a world of sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors, and honor the differences that make each country special and unique.
How do you juxtapose this with European states from 1648-1800 going well outside of their domestic borders and building up vast empires PRIOR to the era of “New Imperialism”, in which the West started doing imperialism as an exercise in spreading faggy ideologies, rather than just as good old Moldbuggian power politics?
Please note, I’m not arguing that this imperialism was bad, if I was than you’d be right to out me as an anti-imperialist commie faggot who probably loves Nelson Mandela. What I am saying though is I don’t see how pursuing empire can be in line with your assertion that the Peace of Westphalia sought a world of sovereign and independent nations. Seeking to conquer other nations is the exact opposite of “sovereignty” and “independence”, at least, for the particular nations being conquered.
You presuppose prog history.
From 1648 to 1800, the Europeans were not building empires.
Rather, European pirates and mobile bandits in Asia were transitioning from mobile banditry to stationary banditry.
Then, in the early nineteenth century, the left found these bandits embarrassing, and decided on “white man’s burden”, and the resulting empires were projected backwards.
>Then, in the early nineteenth century, the left found these bandits embarrassing, and decided on “white man’s burdenâ€, and the resulting empires were projected backwards.
It’s always interesting how these conquerors and explorers were the ones paying the king a share of the wealth they brought in instead of the King paying them to conquer new areas. That struck me as very odd as child first learning history. In the light of the idea that they were mobile bandits basically paying the crown off to leave them alone and legitimatize their actives makes a lot more sense.
I don’t know too much about the Anglo perspective, but Jim’s description is definitely much more realistic than talking about imperialism.
As a Spaniard, blood of the pioneer European explorers and conquerors, I can say that Pizarro and Cortés were definitely not trying to “build an empire”, they were just looking for gold and adventure.
It’s recorded that at some point Pizarro drew a line on the sand and told his men something like: “This way to go to Panamá, to be poor, the other way to Perú, to be rich; make your choice”.
That’s definitely not the mindset of someone building an empire, though I’m going to disagree on the description, pirates implies plenty of things they were not. Pirates are cowards, not adventurers or conquerors, they focus on abusing merchants who cannot protect themselves. Those men didn’t give a shit and braved empires with very few (as few as 13 in this case).
I wouldn’t call legitimacy “paying the King off” though. It’s much better to pay him tribute and be recognized as a hero of your fatherland rather than founding your own and opposing him, that way can enjoy the fame and the wealth back home where you want it and you can enjoy it. It’s worthless to have tons of gold if you only have apes and coconut trees as companionship and it’s dangerous and unwise to fight your boss for just a bit of gold.
I don’t really understand why treaties between Christian European powers would have anything to do with how they treated the Guarani in Paraguay. They weren’t universalists. Nobody was talking about a global world of sovereign nations (AFAIK), but a Europe / Christendom of sovereign rulers. Sovereign rulers, not sovereign nations in the modern sense.
Well that was kind of the answer I was expecting from Jim to be honest, that Westphalia was referring to sovereign states within Europe respecting other sovereign states within Europe, that all shared a sort of similar history, religion, ethnicity, and genes (at least to some extent or another).
And as I noted in what I originally said, we all know how efficient and well-run these early overseas territories were. So it is obvious that whatever you think the reason for them being created was (in Jim’s case transition from mobile banditry to stationary banditry) the reason certainly was not universalisim or some other faggy ideology, because if that was the case the overseas territories would have immediately became terrible to live in.
@Mike, Whole volumes could be written to answer your question. Western Civilization expansion is generally accepted to start around 1500. There various European countries were in competition over trade. Portugal and Spain had an edge due to sea power. England’s goal was to maintain balance and established itself in North America to prevent Spain from gaining advantage. I believe one of the motivators to reach the East Indies was opium. The decline in colonialism seems to coincide with the post French revolution and the fall of monarchies. I could write a wall of text on it like shaman does but that’s it in a nutshell.
Lenin’s theory of colonialism and imperialism deleted without attempt to refute it, since no one cares about it any more and it was always just too silly.
Not going to debate that tired old lie here. Off topic because our enemies are not running on it any more and are quietly letting it be forgotten.
@G-D
What’s the matter fed? Unable to answer my simple multiple choice question on women?
Answered; silently deleted. Jim plays dirty and you’re a santorum of the variety of santorum as so famously coined by acerbic homosexual Dan Savage.
I don’t silently delete, except when it is the same as something that has already been deleted with the same explanation several times, or if it is merely a boring, unimaginative, and unfunny insult,
You never answer anything, and should you actually answer, I would most certainly allow it.
Answer his question!
You have not answered his question.
If you lie that you answered it and I silently deleted your answer, answer on Dissenter, the uncensorable comment section of the interenet, on Dissenter’s comment section for this blog post.
If I silently deleted something that purported to be an answer, it is because instead of answering, you used his question as a hook on which to hang a repetition of something that had already been deleted with the same explanation far too many times.
Not an answer to Starman’s question.
He anticipated that you would give such an evasive non answer and ruled out that kind of answer in advance.
And then specifically ruled it out a second time.
Yes, I know very well that you ruled out “that kind of answer” in advance.
But you are telling me that I did not in fact see what I personally saw with my very own eyes.
And as that is a level of coercion I simply cannot abide, I more fully appreciate my Founding Fathers’ wisdom with each passing day.
We all see very young girls going ga-ga over men famous for girls going ga-ga over them. Our interpretation of this phenomenon evidently differs from yours. We think it is the same phenomenon as them going ga-ga over Charles Manson, hence irrelevant to Starman’s question. “Cinderella” is a preselection sex fantasy, but Snow White’s prince kills the evil step mother in a grossly horrible fashion. In stories targeted at boys, the hero dispatches the bad guy with a sword or a gun.
Answer Starman’s question. Or, if it is an unfair question, adequately explain why it is unfair. That girls go ga-ga over fame, especially famous female pre-selection, is not a demonstration that they do not go ga-ga over lawbreaking, violence, and cruelty. “Cinderella” does not falsify the lesson of “Snow White”.
If someone asks you about the propensity of the alpha male in stories targeted at girls to do bad things, often bad things to the female protagonist herself, that Cinderella’s prince seems reasonably kindly and peaceable is not relevant. Cinderella did not get the hots because he was kindly and peaceable.
Unresponsive.
You are evading Starman’s question, not answering it but changing the subject.
If you want to change the subject and call it an answer, you are going to have to explain why Starman’s question was a bad question.
I already explained at great length why this “answer” is not an answer, and giving the same answer all over again just wastes my time and yours.
“acerbic homosexual Dan Savage.”
Having a homosexual advise the public on relationships is just another sign of the times, by the way. Meteor-san, please hurry.
If you intend to conquer a country outright because its weak and no major allies fine, but don’t start moralfagging about human rights, the rights of papists, muslims etc. in some other country you don’t have an interest in conquering…
If you’re referring to Israelstein, I would prefer the US opt out entirely and let Ishmael and Isaac sort out their family squabbles like good brothers should.
The funny thing is that the US is aiding both sides. I think they would find an agreement if furthering the struggle would not attract handouts from the US to both sides.
You can blame Eisenhower’s military industrial complex for that. We like to wet our beak.
So would Israel. You think they don’t dream of being free from the Cathedral?
But what a lot of people mean when they say this is: stop aiding the Red Empire in Israel, but continue aiding the Blue Empire. Don’t give them any aid or sell them any weapons, but continue pressuring them to have gays in the military, prevent women from marrying young, and stop defending their territory or creating buffer zones.
If both influences disappeared from Israel, then they would probably begin ethnic cleansing and subsequently, having done so, pay virtually no attention to the United States. If only Arlington influence disappears from Israel, and Foggy Bottom influence remains, then they likely go the way of Rhodesia. They really do not want to go the way of Rhodesia and are politically savvy enough to maintain connections with Arlington until such time as they can eliminate the Foggy Bottom influence.
You want Israel to stop lobbying in the USA? Great, help them secede permanently from the Cathedral.
@Tom, You miss-understand me. I want to stay out of Palestine’s and Israel’s business entirely. Please specify meaning of eliminate “foggy bottom”.
“Foggy Bottom” in this case is the a metonym for the State Department (while in the literal sense it is the neighborhood in the District of Corruption the State Department is in).
You need to lurk moar and read more.
And Arlington is the Military-Industrial Complex.
Do you understand? The United States are a power struggle between two empires: one that is insane, evil and destructive, and another that is craven, corrupt, and ossified. Israel lobbies and gets chummy with the latter in order to gain limited protection from the former.
You see the latter – Arlington – and only the latter. You want the latter to go away. That is a leftist meme, they also want only the Arlington-Israel alliance to go away so that Foggy Bottom can complete its agenda of destruction.
Eliminate the Foggy Bottom influence and the Arlington shenanigans will largely disappear because they would be unnecessary. Israel is perfectly capable of doing its own bombing.
Moral fagging about your state religion will be permitted only after the sovereign declares war. or issues letters of marque and reprisal. Any premature moral fagging will result in a visit from the inquisition asking why the priesthood is running its own foreign policy.
Our political weapon is ridicule.
Mock the woke.
Moke the Wock
MOKE THE WOCK
I think the Bible is about due for some new updated material. The “New” testament has become too old, just like the old testament before it. And that “new” new testament should be written by jim.
Something needs to be done, and soon. NT was based on loving thy neighbor as thyself. And now it seems to have swung too far.
“Love thy neighbour as thyself”, the LORD said, so as to tell godly men in certain terms that they can not cheat, push out, or fuck over their neighbour, that their neighbour deserves justice and benevolence. This can never go too far, can never swing too far.
Then, stinking satanic communists, enlightenment homos and assorted cucks instead said they have the right to take your stuff and rape you to death, that everyone is your neighbour, and that you may not defend yourself from evil, to which the godly answer is easy; execution of all perpetrators.
“Then, stinking satanic communists, enlightenment homos and assorted cucks instead said they have the right to take your stuff and rape you to death, that everyone is your neighbour, and that you may not defend yourself from evil, to which the godly answer is easy; execution of all perpetrators.”
Deus Vult.
Canon is closed.
I like your analogy of “risen killer apes” and from a visceral standpoint that is probably true. But in ape politics it isn’t always the strongest or most intelligent ape that rises to the top, but the most clever. Many fences have been torn down, cast aside taking us away from a system where society worked like a well lubricated machine. And we have been brought to this by a lot of empty heads who imagine themselves our betters. Without any understanding of what they have ruined or why it existed in the first place and only reaped change for the sake if change. It will take strength and resolve to restore order. We are not quite ready, but we are getting there.
Deleted for once again telling us that boring repetitious official cathedral memes are actually hard hitting subversive extreme right wing secret revelations.
You said that before, and we have heard those memes before.
And it is unresponsive to White Man’s point – you are swerving away from his conversation to the unrelated payload you are trying to push, like Cathy Newman’s passive aggressive “What you are really saying is …”.
No it is entirely unrelated to what White Man was really saying.
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Unresponsive.
Answer Starman’s question.
If you don’t like any of the choices, critique his multiple choice that twelve year old girls do not dream about any of these cases. Specify explicitly the case he failed to nominate. Tell us the kind of person that twelve year old girls actually dream about, and why your chosen example shows innocent twelve year old dreams. It is unclear what your chosen example is intended to prove.
I would interpret your chosen example the same way I interpret “Cinderella”, preselection fantasy, consistent with my oft repeated claim that underage girls always go for alpha males with adult female pre-selection, that preselection is disproportionately important to horrifyingly young girls. You presumably have a different interpretation, but evade telling us what it supposedly demonstrates.
You are telling us, or rather assuming as self evident and obvious, that our enemies do not even pretend to take America’s officially unofficial state religion seriously, at least when talking in private, that the reason they do evil things is not because we have an evil and demonic state religion, but because our rulers lack sincere faith in official belief and official virtue.
I would love to debate this claim with you, but I am just not going to allow you to assume it as self evident and obvious.
Let’s debate this claim. Respond to my claims that our enemies do stuff that is not only evil, but self destructive, because of their faith.
Let us start with my oft repeated claim that Pol Pot was a saint.
similarly here.
Or if HR does not allow you to talk about Pol Pot, since he was abruptly retconned from saintliness and wisdom personified, to Ronald Raygun’s puppet, let us talk about Obamacare.
Re: Pol Pot and evil. Near/far could also be used in time, not just space. Far: long-term goals. Near: the methods used right now to reach them. So the usual what end justifies what means stuff. Evil people commit evil acts in the near time for good goals in the far time. Does it follow that you recognize a good guy more by his near-time means, methods, than by his far-time goals?
Of course. I can tell who is a good man in one minute. Other people don’t seem to be as perceptive, and when I was younger, I was not as perceptive as I am now.
Evil people have a guard on themselves to stop their evil and malice from showing through, but I can see the guard cutting in and out when the interaction strays towards their secret evil, as though a shadow passes over their face.
Goodness shows up near and quickly, evil hides, but you can see it hiding. And noble, but far off, goals, like caring about people he does not know and who are unlike himself, are standard hiding places. But in personal interaction, I can see the mask slide over his face in an instant, and I instantly know he intends something he does not wish me to know.
To detect evil in text, over the internet, is harder and slower. Caring for people far away in distance and time is a tell. Another good, very good tell, is the lie. If someone says what he does not genuinely believe, he intends you harm, and you can detect his lack of belief by the arguments he uses – thus, for example, those who supposedly argued that Zimmerman attacked Trayvon would instead use arguments justifying Trayvon’s attack on Zimmerman, betraying that they simply approved of darker skinned people attacking lighter skinned people. Whenever a global warmer says “Climate Change”, you can tell he is covering his ass. And, of course, any time someone presupposes consensus in the face of people who conspicuously fails to agree with that consensus, as for example the famous Troofer argument “Jet fuel does not melt steel”, without actually presenting any evidence that any steel melted, or that building seven fell onto its own footprint. You can immediately tell that they are all knowingly lying for evil purposes without knowing a thing about Zimmerman killing Trayvon, the 911 attack, or global warming. To figure out why they are lying, what their evil and malicious plot is, you do have to know a little about the topic – to spot what they are failing to talk about. Thus troofers never mention the suspicious misconduct FBI or Mueller, which one would suppose is the one thread of real evidence for their theories, therefore agents for the FBI. Warmists never acknowledge the absolutely inconsequential effect of green energy, therefore, even if you don’t know how every green energy project turns out in practice, you can conclude that they want to shake down the grid (carbon credits) and don’t care about destroying western civilization, or actively desire the destruction of western civilization. And, of course, a lot of them are watermelons, who just want a justification for socialism so that they starve and enslave the workers and the farmers. They are the ones that say “green jobs”, meaning government jobs. The carbon credits greenies are primarily in it for the shakedown, but the watermelon greenies are primarily in it to destroy the people that they hate. The Paris accord was in part motivated by that, by desire to hurt class enemies, though it was primarily motivated by desire to destroy the economy of flyover country in order to move white male working class voters into federal electorates with a large excess of Democratic party voters. It made absolutely no sense in terms of its supposed purpose, just as “green energy” makes no sense in terms of its supposed purpose.
“Evil people commit evil acts in the near time for good goals in the far time.”
Careful this is generally true but its also the kind of thinking that has the political right showing mercy in victory…
We cannot make that mistake this time (of course it will come down to the decision of likely Trump or his son but the advice he should be getting is that unless no mercy is shown that in the future the left will takeover and all your descendents will be murdered), other then Suharto its always been leftists who have thoroughly wiped themselves out but the problem is they take millions of innocents with them. So let us understand that whatever the score total of leftist who have to get on the choppers after they start a civil war and lose… that it is not evil but justice that they die.
@jim let’s test evil-detection: https://twitter.com/DoctorsXr/status/1187377667928141824 or another source for the same videio: https://www.rubberrepublic.com/new-work-richard-horton-the-lancet/
I don’t think this man, Lancet editor Richard Horton is a bureaucratic bugman driven by an NPCish autopilot, there is something in his facial expression and the eyes that looks like pure malice to me, as if someone making a cruel joke. A 100% absolutely would not buy a used car from him vibe. What do you think?
Yes, evil, but harder to detect the evil, because the person he intends to harm is not right in front of him. If the person was right there, I would be able to see the evil intent much more easily.
Deleted for lying about what I said.
Also deleted because your version of what I said presupposes our supposedly shared agreement that Marxism-Leninism is true.
If you want to discuss Lenist theories of imperialist oppression, please respond in the thread on the topic after first familiarizing yourself with the reactionary and anarcho capitalist concept of mobile banditry and stationary banditry.
And by “respond” I mean respond, not just glibly assume that Marxism Leninism is true and everyone else in the thread agrees that it is true. Reply to their accounts of what happened, explaining why their story is wrong and Lenin’s story is true. Acknowledge that there is not universal agreement on the self evident truth of Marxism Leninism.
I don’t assume that Marxist-Leninism is true, [*rest deleted*]
If you don’t believe Marxism Leninism, you must disagree with it on some point of fact. Every time Trump makes a speech to businessmen, he makes a point rejecting the most stupid factual claims of Marxist economics and/or Marxist class theory. On what points do you agree with him?
If you believe Marxism Leninism to be true but don’t assume Marxism Leninism to be true, make an actual factual argument for Marxism-Leninism from economics or history against one of the many arguments I have made, and one of the many items of evidence I and others have presented, for example in the recent thread on colonial empires, that violates your holy catechism.
Responses of the form “I am on your side, I am not on the side of Marxism Leninism” will be silently deleted. You are on our side but you believe all the factual claims of Marxism Leninism while disagreeing with the entire reactionary canon?
In all fairness, my reading of Marxism/Leninism/Communism source materials consists entirely of The Communist Manifesto and bits and pieces of Das Kapital. So it’s fair to say that I’m a low-information not-a-Marxist-Leninist.
That in no way mitigates my position that you are an enormous cocksucker:
Oh, American foreign policy is driven entirely by oil? No fookin’ way, m8.
I asked you to disagree with one single point of Marxism Leninism, and you did not.
I asked you to make evidence based argument against one single factual claim by reaction, libertarianism, Trump’s National Capitalism, etc, that contradicts Marxism Leninism, and you did not. Your unfailing response to all our factual claims is that everyone, including us, agrees with every jot and tittle of Marxism Leninism, therefore debate, evidence, and argument is not needed. To disagree with any detail, however obscure, minor, absurd, and unintelligible, of Marxism Leninism is supposedly, “ha ha, too absurd” to warrant rebuttal.
(Though in your latest comment, you did in fact give a rebuttal, though not in the specific areas I asked for. You are improving.)
You are a lying commie, and you are a high information commie, because you are aware of and faithful to every single jot and tittle of Marxism-Leninism, and adhere to every jot and tittle with religious fidelity, in the face of a hostile audience, and even when some now obsolete microdetail of Marxism Leninism is being quietly abandoned and unofficially ignored by the Cathedral like Lenin’s theory of imperialism. No low information vulgar Marxist would be triggered by non Lenist accounts of imperialism. For a low information Marxist “Imperialism bad” suffices.
And when Trump, unlike Bush, takes the oil, he is heading head first into the outrage of the Cathedral that attempted to genocide the Alawites, but was so damned holy it let ISIS take the oil. The Leninist account of imperialism is falsified both by the old version (white man’s burden) and the new version (“liberal democracy”), both of whom were so damned holy that they impoverished their supposed beneficiaries by not letting western businesses effectively develop the dominated societies.
If we have a Trump autocoup the Leninist account may well become an accurate description of imperialism by Trump’s National Capitalism, but it was a wildly inaccurate description of earlier forms of imperialism.
It is not an analogy, but a simple fact. Chimps and men make war, therefore the common ancestor of chimp and man made war. War creates evolutionary pressure for extended cooperation, hence killer apes are apt to rise on a thousand genocides.
Jim, in regards to your evil detection ability (I cannot reply to the actual post above), is Jordan Peterson evil? My sensors just never picked up on it but Vox Day seems convinced.
Jordan Peterson is not on our side, for he toys with the truth without actually speaking it. But he is not evil. More that he is weak – he wants to speak the truth, but dares not.
Weak in character or weak in position?
They threw every label they had on him, hoping one would stick, with which they could take him down. They didn’t stick right and he kept standing.
How much truth could he speak before the labels started to stick, taking him down?
Is there a good reason to fight for truths that will undo whatever good influence he might otherwise excert?
EG faith goldy – she is a likeable enough woman and her “error” in petersons eyes was being chummy with the wrong crowd. Had he had her on his panel the nazi collaborator label WOULD stick. It took her down, it would take him down. Vox day thinks this is his duty and he is a demonic liar for letting goldy go, which in my opinion is like putting your head under the treads of a tank, just because you dislike the tank.
(i get tired by my own JBP apologism, too – sorry. I think jim has a sound view on JBP while many commenters do not)
Weak in position. Hard for a man in Jordan Peterson’s position to speak the truth.
But he is not speaking the truth.
This guy describes how many countries in SAmerica have suffered the same exact attacks by leftists then veers wide of the mark in terms of explaining what they mean.
https://americanmind.org/essays/red-october-in-chile/
How do you go about “measuring” how big a deal this Chile thing actually is?
1) Chile is a right wingish nation in a region lousy with left wing nations. If they go hard left, a government level purity spiral is possible. This has grave ramifications for the whole hemisphere.
2) According to the author, the unrest follows a pattern or script that has been occuring in very similar ways. This seems to imply a coordinated and concerted effort by some centralized force or entity. This implies that their is a proto-war occuring. It then becomes paramount to identify the central actor(s) in order to combat them directly.
3) Watching and waiting, unfortunately, seems to be our only recourse at the moment. From my perspective, the issue of importance rests on whether Brazil will be fighting a unidirectional war or an omnidirectional war in the next 10 years.
All conflicts are between elites. The current Chilean conflict is between the professoriat and the Chilean government, hence the government wisely shut the universities. But shutting them is not enough. Needs to purge the professoriat. Find your enemies, and arrest them. The government needs to make sure the men who pay taxes and enforce order get pussy. They need to disempower the group that is trying to overthrow them, and empower the men on whom they rely for taxes and order.
To solve the Chilean problem, close the schools and the universities, not as a temporary measure, which the president has wisely done, but as part of reconstruction of the economy to reduce the power of the academic gatekeepers. Set up a system for filtering the smart fraction that disempowers the professoriat, which is teaching girls to be whores, and boys to be thieves. Fix the credentialing system to filter for good character, as well as smarts.
Also the current system of price controls, which does not in fact control prices, is a flashpoint. If you go through the motions of controlling prices, people promptly demand that you actually control prices.
With the schools shut down, this is going to quietly fade away – only to come back when he re-opens the schools. Purge the professoriat, and disempower the gatekeepers. Redevelop the universities into offices, housing, and shopping centers.
Politically set prices politicized the economy, encourages people to think that they can grab stuff. Minor concessions in the vague direction of Venezuelan socialism provoke demand for actual Venezuelan socialism.
Elite defection is a problem. You need large numbers of respectable, hard working, married, property owning, armed males on your side. The collapse of marriage and fertility in Chile means that the elite just does not have footsoldiers on its side. The regime does not look after the men who maintain order and create wealth. They don’t get pussy and children, so have no stake in maintaining the status quo. If you are the status quo, this is bad news.
The collapse of fertility and marriage means more alienated men, isolated from the society, the economy, and the male hierarchy. It is also an indication of the rising power of the professoriat. And the rising professoriat, feeling its oats, is grabbing for more power.
If the current elite wants to stay in power, needs to keep the universities closed, and eventually re-open them with far fewer professors and students. Needs to channel the economy around the gatekeepers so that far fewer people want to go to university, and the benefits of going to university are far less. Soldiers and police need to get more pussy, professors less.
After the president said “close the universities”, the next thing he should have said is “How many police and soldiers have wives and children?”
And the third thing he should have said is “How long can we keep the universities closed, and how can we make sure that when they finally re-open they are considerably smaller, less powerful, less important in people’s lives and plans, and less wealthy?”
If he does not gut the professoriat, the professoriat is going to gut the current ruling elite. It is them or him. They intend to overthrow and purge the current ruling elite. The current ruling elite needs to overthrown and purge them.
Does the ruler get wives and children for the police and army the same way you get it for any man in the country, ie coverture and patriarchy, or do you add to that things that give the police and army higher status?
No safe spaces for the campus dwellers.
So here was an experiment:
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/231695935
I was mildly surprised. I am putting out a call to the prolific among us to post some concise RP tests so I, and potentially others, do not have to make up questions on the fly. Some memes are born great. Some memes are conferred greatness. Some memes get greatness when they are thrust upon people.
What surprised you? I don’t see anything surprising there. /pol/ is heavily infiltrated.
The Dutchman and the burger both “passed” the test. That is what mildly surprised me.
We have committed our forces. The battle awaits us. May almighty God grant us glorious victory.
How effective are the different types of redpill questions? I know a guy who worked in army intelligence who can answer the women question, but csn’t answer any question about race. I know a guy who can answer questions about race, but not about women. Is it just necessary to do both?
On second thought, the wq is used to weed out those in official capacities, like feds, whose HR departments don’t let them get offscript, which script can’t be written to include thought crimes. So sure, in personal conversation people can pass one or the other question, but not while online acting as a shill. Right?
Exaggerated stupid parody “racism” is allowed by the powers that be for shilling purpose. The woman question is so essential to the progressive religion (and when the progressive leftism and the Cathedral 1st rose with Woodrow Wilson it was just as racist as the German National Socialist Workers Party… I know this may sound like Dems are the real racist but in this case it is absolute historical fact) and project that nobody in the Cathedral can even speak of it.
This is why I stubbornly cling to my minority opinion that Jordan Peterson is from the POV of the progressive “faith” a poison heresy that will destroy the progressive faith in anyone who listens to him.
This is offtopic. Given the dire states of Boers. What is their best options for survival?
Leave or reconquer. They are going to be killed. And the Cathedral is not going to allow them to reconquer, but if Trump succeeds in cutting the (anti)American empire loose, the opportunity to reconquer will become available.
If the antiAmerican empire won’t stop a reconquest, any of you guys want to charter a boat? We can swing past Mexico for some larger toys, pick up friends in Europe, then head down south to the fight. No straw deaths, if there’s a good old war of conquest to be had.
Move to Orania. Regard blacks as dangerous fauna, not cheap labor. Pay white people to clean the house, cook meals, and mow the lawn, or do it yourself. Only true apartheid can save the Boers.
I suppose the most painful part is leaving behind black, colored, and Indian friends to be hacked to death by starving mobs. You cannot save them; they will have find or found their own Oranias.
Seems that someone — either a Jewish troll, or Judaizing Protestant, or LARPagan troll — expects me to engage in Christian apologia against heresies, one such heresy being that Christians should observe the Old Testament’s ritual purity laws and dietary laws.
“I_Never_Knew_You” quotes me and writes:
Okay then, let’s do this. In the discussion with Eli, I’ve established that Jesus did not preach anything radically outside Jewish tradition. (The discussion is not yet over, by the way) Here I will establish that the purity aspects of Mosaic Law are fulfilled through Jesus Christ, and that God no longer expects His followers to observe them, if ever He did. I’m not going to prove here that Jesus was the Messiah according to Old Testament prophesies, or that his mission was intended for the whole world rather than merely for the Jews; these are easy enough for me to prove also, but outside the scope of this specific discussion. Here, we merely discuss whether or not Jesus could have had authority to do away with ritual worship.
First, let’s see what makes Moses unique, in contrast to regular prophets:
Exodus 33:
Numbers 12:
Deuteronomy 34:
All of these verses establish one thing very clearly: Not every prophet who comes by has the same authority as the authority of Moses. A regular prophet does not see God face to face, does not speak with God as one speaks with a friend, but receives divine revelation in the form of “visions,” “dreams,” and “riddles.” Moses could establish the law; regular prophets could not.
Here’s the twist, though; we were promised that there would arrive another prophet with the same authority!
Deuteronomy 18:
These two verses alone are sufficient to dispel the orthodox Jewish (and Judaizing Protestant) notion that God’s Law was given once and for all, and would never again be renewed or amended. Because if that were the case, why would another prophet like Moses be needed? Now ask any orthodox Jew to name a prophet “like Moses,” and — disregarding the explicit divine promise quoted here — he will tell you that there was no prophet like Moses, nor, he will imply, will there ever be one. So again I ask: What is the meaning of another prophet “like Moses,” if not to turn people to God’s true will, and to instruct them in God’s true commandments? If one Moses (and one Law) had been enough, there would have been no promise of another prophet with similar authority (and, by extension, another Law).
Ask an orthodox Jew what it means that another prophet like Moses will arrive, and see him twisting himself into knots in a Talmudic fashion and torturing the text to make it say the opposite of what it very clearly says.
Okay, so what would be the nature of Second Moses’ mission?
Jeremiah 31:
A new covenant of following the spirit of the law rather than the dead letter of the law; a covenant of Faith and Grace instead of the old covenant in which divine favor is bestowed by observing the Mosaic rites. A new covenant surely can only be established by a new Moses, rather than by any regular prophet.
A further confirmation is seen in Ezekiel 20:
Well, clearly another prophet like Moses is needed to set things straight – to turn people away from the “bad laws” by which a person can “not live” and to true knowledge of the Lord.
That the Israelite ritual worship, which is the source and telos of both the purity (cleanliness and uncleanliness) laws and the dietary laws, is unappealing to God and fundamentally futile, as He expects something altogether different from His worshipers, has been explicitly repeated or otherwise alluded to a great number of times throughout the Old Testament. Judaizers can ignore these verses all they want, and that’s precisely what they do; and yet here they are, for everyone’s edification.
Amos 5:
Hosea 2:
Hosea 6:
Hosea 14:
Micah 6:
Isaiah 1:
Isaiah 40:
Isaiah 66 (see also Psalm 24:3-4):
Jeremiah 7:
Jeremiah 14:
Malachi 1:
Psalm 50:
Psalm 51:
Psalm 69:
Proverbs 21:
These verses, and some others (less explicit) not quoted here, are all familiar to those who’ve actually read the Bible, to say nothing of those who’ve memorized vast segments thereof. We see clearly that God is displeased with the Israelite rituals, has a thoroughly negative attitude towards their sacrifices, regards not their Temple and ceremonies, and as such, doesn’t care whatsoever about the Mosaic statutes of ritual purity and impurity, of which the dietary laws are but an extension. Ritual purity is needed for ritual sacrifice; no ritual sacrifice, no ritual purity. Ask an orthodox Jew why eating pork was forbidden, and you won’t hear a reply more complex than “God said so.” But there is logic to everything; eating pork was forbidden because its flesh, like other kinds of flesh, is unfit for ritual sacrifice, and therefore by eating it, you make yourself unfit to conduct and participate in ritual sacrifice; it ritually defiles you, hence you can’t worship God according to the ancient Israelite form.
But God doesn’t care for the Israelite form of ritual sacrifice, and if you have no intention of practicing it, then the prohibition of pork consumption simply doesn’t apply to you.
All of that is obvious enough, and whoever tells you otherwise is lying to you and misleading you. The authority of Moses, like the authority of Abraham, and that of all the prophets, was based on receiving it from God, not from man. The Second Moses mentioned earlier — the one who can renew and amend the law given at Sinai — likewise receives his authority directly from God, and not from anything else. And, being like Moses, has divine authority and divine approval to set forth a different kind of law, a new covenant. It is in this light that the following verses, and some others, are to be understood:
Matthew 12:
Matthew 15:
Mark 2:
Luke 6:
Christianity is the fulfillment of ritual worship; it does away with the dead letter of the law in favor of its spirit, Jesus having an authority no smaller (indeed, greater) than Moses. This notion is rejected by Judaizers, who contend that Jesus could not have had authority on par with Moses’, and that therefore all parts of Mosaic Law are valid today – in explicit contradiction of Deuteronomy 18:18, where a prophet like Moses is promised; who, being like Moses, has divine authority and divine approval to establish a new covenant unlike the previous one (Jeremiah 31:31-32) and to replace the bad statutes (Ezekiel 20:25). Such is the Messiah, the Son of Man, Jesus Christ.
This again is alluded to in Deuteronomy 10:
It is not the circumcision of the flesh that God desires, but the circumcision of the heart; Christianity is the circumcision of the heart. This point has been amply established by Saint Paul, e.g.:
Philippians 3:
Go ahead and contradict my argument, Mr. “I_Never_Knew_You.”
When the Jews were expelled from Israel by the Romans, this was because they had in fact stolen and murdered, while faithfully and legalistically following the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law. Indeed, what pissed off the Romans was that they were so damned righteous and holy about doing bad things.
As for perjury and worshiping false gods, I am not aware that they did that in the lead up to that expulsion.
What Jesus called swallowing the camel and straining out a gnat. Cancelling matters of Justice and Mercy in effect by not only torturing scripture but add rules and regulations not even existing in the OT in order to facilitate evil:
https://biblehub.com/bsb/mark/7.htm
I’d like to add more citations from the OT reflecting the futility of and the negative attitude towards sacrifices, so that those who argue that God intended for religion to be based on sacrificial rites — and hence ritual purity and impurity — will perhaps see the error of their ways. The commandments are supposed to be in line with Natural Law, are intended to facilitate life (Leviticus 18:5; see also 2 Samuel 14:14) rather than to obstruct it. The sheer number is sufficient to establish the point.
1 Samuel 15:
Hosea 8:
Hosea 9:
Jeremiah 6:
Jeremiah 7:
Haggai 2:
Psalm 40:
Proverbs 15:
Proverbs 21:
Ecclestiastes 5:
Sirach 34:
Sirach 35:
Despite all that, among Second Temple Jewry, the focus of religion shifted to a holiness spiral of legalistic superstitions, of obsession with meat and dairy, blood contamination, and bizarre Sabbath violations; even though God had made it amply clear that He is not at all concerned about the sacrificial aspects of religion (which sacrificial aspects are the basis of purity and impurity laws), the Jews, and particularly the Pharisees, made a whole show of zealously observing dietary and ritual laws, while conspicuously failing to observe anything that might promote a cooperate-cooperate equilibrium with Greek neighbors and Roman policemen. The Temple did not have to be destroyed; the nation did not have to be exiled; these things happened for a reason. Orthodox Jews, unlike Christians, do not have a satisfactory answer as to why all that happened.
Thank you for posts in this spirit; much appreciated.
Shaman,
It’s a pity you didn’t save yourself a whole lot of time and just address what Jesus actually said, here is what he said:
‘The Fulfillment of the Law
17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. 18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.…’
For the slower readers, fulfillment does not mean abandonment or termination of the laws, it means that Jesus literally filled them full, with the loss of his life as one perfect sacrifice, thereby replacing the need for animal sacrifices.
What else did he do? You didn’t highlight it yourself, although you did quote it (surprise, surprise):
‘I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God’
Jesus sent us the Comforter, literally God’s Spirit, to help us to know God’s will. Interestingly, Jesus was also a recipient of the Holy Spirit, immediately after his baptism.
1 John 5 explains the process we must follow:
‘1Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone loving the One having begotten Him also loves the one having been begotten from Him. 2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we should keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. 4For everyone having been born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory having overcome the world: our faith.
5Now who is the one overcoming the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?’
1. Believe that Jesus is the Christ, the begotten son of God.
2. Love God and Jesus.
3. We love God and keep his commandments (i.e. the law).
4. That is the way to love God, to keep His commandments, they’re not difficult.
5. Faith overcomes the world.
6. Faith is believing God sent His Son Jesus to die for us.
So, Jesus died so that when humans sin (which all do, although those with the Holy Spirit do not find it burdensome to keep to the law) their sins do not condemn them to eternal death at Judgement Day (that’s what it means to not be under the law any more, that’s how our debt record is blotted out).
But Jesus did not die to free us all to sin (and sin is defined in scripture as lawlessness) whenever we want, and to ignore all of God’s commands. Nor to remove the earthly penalties for breaking the law. It’s entirely righteous to protect society/nation by killing an adulterer, whilst at the same time hoping that he/she repents of their sin before mortal death, so that at Judgement Day their eternal life is assured. Likewise for sodomites and murderers and Sabbath breakers etc. God gave us His laws to ensure a stable nation, with righteous rules on marriage, the food we can eat, curing diseases, waging warfare, lending money/goods/slaves, property, tithes, helping the poor and widows. It’s a long list, but only 613 laws, hardly a large number by comparison with today’s ridiculous bloated statute books.
The only change is the removal of the need to sacrifice animals.
You may have read that ‘God is love’. How do we know what that means?
‘And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.’
God literally lives in me, via His Spirit, it’s inside me, guiding me, helping me to know Him better and His will.
But what is this ‘love’, which is ‘agape’ in Greek. It’s an amazing revelation:
’26 agápÄ“ – properly, love which centers in moral preference. So too in secular ancient Greek, 26 (agápÄ“) focuses on preference; likewise the verb form (25 /agapáÅ) in antiquity meant “to prefer” (TDNT, 7). In the NT, 26 (agápÄ“) typically refers to divine love (= what God prefers). ‘
Agape is literally what God prefers. How do we know what He prefers? Well, he helpfully told us back in Deuteronomy and Leviticus when he gave the world His laws. So God IS what He prefers, and He is love, and guess what, we are commanded to love our neighbours and to love God (both are also ‘agape’). So we don’t love them by any fluffy ways, or by being nice, we love them by obeying God’s commands relating to neighbours: not stealing from them, murdering them, coveting their things, and so on. Perfect.
Who would be so foolish to try to argue that those laws no longer apply? I can imagine deceivers telling us otherwise, but not those with the Spirit of God within them.
You highlighted that ‘The Sabbath was made for man’. Yes, indeed, a wonderful blessing to have this day set aside for rest and worship and prayer. God felt it was so important, He put it on tablets of stone with the other nine big commands. I assume you’re an firm advocate of observing the Sabbath each Saturday therefore? Or did you fall for the bisexual pagan Constantine’s move to Sun-day worship? Surely you’re not that easily duped? Plenty are though, they don’t fear Jehovah one iota, and are lacking the Holy Spirit, sadly lost. But obviously, if you’re happy to ditch the Sabbath command, you would struggle to then retain any of the other Big Nine. Hypocrites might try I suppose.
You also ignored Jesus’ own warnings against those preaching iniquity (lawlessness) which is very dangerous, as it guarantees he’ll turn you away on Judgement Day, so if there was any doubt that this issue is THE BIG ONE for Jehovah and Jesus, surely that sentence would leave no doubt?
Just to be clear, following the law does not earn salvation, but the deep desire to obey the law comes as result of God being within us, and letting us know what He wants, by placing His laws in our hearts and minds.
Eventually, when Jesus comes to rule with the saved on earth, all laws will be followed, including God’s feast days, which are wonderful to observe, much more meaningful than the pagan abominations of Christmas and Easter. Revelation and other scripture refers to al nations observing the feast days.
For the most part, your argument was with some imaginary Jewish person I think, but I will be curious to see if you agree with my elaboration, and please remember, don’t dismiss of disagree with Jesus’ own words on the subject, as that makes you look really silly, or a deceiver.
Address Jesus’ words, rather than misinterpreting Paul.
Glosoli,
I’m not interested in having a long conversation with you, because the arguments put forth by people on the schizophrenia spectrum — while often amusing — do not deserve serious consideration. You are not wanted here, and not respected here. Maybe you can have a conversation with the demons in your head, instead?
Nevertheless, I’ll go over some of your deceptions and lies for everyone else’s edification.
Right: It means that in Jesus Christ the ritual aspects of the law have been completed and accomplished, hence the Jews and the rest of humanity need not observe them; as Jim said above, Jesus did it so you won’t have to.
You can keep saying “lawlessness,” “lawlessness,” “lawlessness,” “lawlessness,” “lawlessness,” “lawlessness,” “lawlessness” all you want, and it will remain a lie. First, sin is defined as transgression or violation. To sin against X is to commit a transgression against X. Secondly, nobody is advocating lawlessness. Christianity, which has nothing to do with your demonic single-member-religion, observes the spirit of the law, rather than the dead letter of the law, which spirit of the law is manifested in Natural Law, and reflected in Old Testament commandments that aren’t concerned with ritual purity and impurity, or with legalistic technicalities.
Nobody’s ignoring anything.
Sure.
You are lumping together things that are unlike.
Orthodox Jewish meme; it’s fewer than 613. You did not count the commandments yourself, instead relying on what the rabbis tell you. And of the approximately 600 commandments there are, one third deal with Temple sacrifices and practices. As for the other 400 or so, many of them no longer apply due to historical reasons (e.g., various ethnicities have disappeared), and many of them no longer apply because they had been fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Perhaps someone should make a list of the approximately 600 commandments of the Pentateuch, and explain which ones are relevant today and which ones aren’t.
No, the change is that ritual law and legalism are no longer valid. This includes the sacrifice of animals, also the dietary laws, the ritual purity and defilement laws, and everything that is of the letter rather than of the spirit.
It’s not God that’s inside of you; it’s schizophrenia.
The spirit of the law is allowing one’s household at least one day of rest per week; whether it’s Saturday, Sunday, or Tuesday doesn’t matter.
You’re not getting any more replies from me, Glosoli.
Keep screeching.
By their fruits you will know them. The fruits of legalism have been at best underwhelming, at worst suicidal and democidal.
Attempting to deduce ought from ought gets you into obviously wicked and stupid territory mighty fast, regardless of how reasonable and authoritative your starting point is. After a few steps of deducing ought from ought, you find yourself some place that smells very wrong.
Shaman,
Clearly you are content to ignore Jesus’ own words.
That’s a shame, but typical of the Churchians of today.
Not a single piece of scripture in your reply, just your view. Youc an keep it, your opinion means diddly squat.
>Perhaps someone should make a list of the approximately 600 commandments of the Pentateuch, and explain which ones are relevant today and which ones aren’t.
I’m just about to start on that with a brother.
May God allow some readers to know Him and His will. Amen.
People commonly get strange meanings for the words of Jesus by attacking his words like a lawyer trying to break a contract, taking one phrase from him talking to one person about one subject, and another phrase from him talking to another person about another subject.
The words of Jesus are, taken in the context of the questions people asked him and the reasons they were asking these questions, clear, intelligible, and sane. When he gives a trick answer, it is because someone has asked him a trick question.
That “not one jot or tittle shall perish from the law” has to be understood in the context that people are condemning Jesus and his followers for not being legalistic. You cannot, in that context, run off with it and deduce legalism.
You, on the other hand, are floridly insane, projecting your evil and insane delusions onto Jesus.
Others, however, are just nuts.
’17And the dragon was angry with the woman, and he went to make to war with the rest of her children keeping the commandments of God and holding the testimony of Jesus.’
’11Blessed are you when they shall insult you and shall persecute you, and lying shall say all kinds of evil against you on account of Me. 12Rejoice and exult, because great is your reward in the heavens; for thus they persecuted the prophets before you.’
’19Whoever then shall break one of the least of these commandments and shall teach others the same, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whoever shall keep and shall teach them, he will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens. 20For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall never enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ‘
‘9Therefore pray you like this:
‘Our Father in the heavens,
hallowed be Your name!
10Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
as in heaven, so ALSO upon earth.’
’21Not everyone saying to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of My Father in the heavens. 22Many will say to Me in that the day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23And then I will declare unto them, ‘I never knew you; depart you from Me, those working lawlessness.’
’49And having stretched out His hand to His disciples, He said, “Behold, My mother and My brothers. 50For whoever shall do the will of My Father who is in the heavens, he is My brother and sister and mother.â€
‘“Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14Leave them! They are blind guides of the blind.d And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.â€
Don’t be led by a blind man into a pit. Time is short, repent, turn to Jehovah and His Son.
You are preaching a Jewish heresy of Christianity, which is as unchristian as progressivism itself, but has far fewer adherents.
In fact I suspect you are the only adherent, which is an indication of florid insanity.
Every piece of scripture above is the literal words of Christ himself, including his Revelation to John. I just added a warning about being led into a pit by a blind man.
The fact you call these verses heresies means I declare victory, on behalf of the Lord, who was, of course, Jewish, and as we all know, salvation is of the Jews.
People reading should know you are a servant of Satan, along the same lines as the bisexual pagan Constantine.
(For a former friend, this might make him smile: Jesus was literally a hybrid. Miss you brother, for some odd reason).
Can you rescue my answer to Rocket 7, it vanished, then my 2nd attempt was refused as a 2nd attempt. Thanks.
You are quoting the bible out of context though and to prove… what point?
Like Nikolai, I_Never_Knew_You simply assumes that the bible supports him, and if tells us that if we disagree with him, we are rejecting God.
But he has a lot more evidence for that claim that Nikolai does. Nikolai is apt to tell us that whatever doctrine came out last week from a bed with a big pile of naked gay priests in it comes directly from the New Testament, and if we doubt it we are doubting the New Testament and the Church fathers.
Gnosticism, on the other hand, has plausible scriptural support, and it clearly has overwhelming empirical support. Christian answers to the problem of evil are not terribly persuasive.
But Gnosticism simply is not Christian, is not Christianity, and Gnostics have a really bad record of bad conduct and being generally harmful.
On the gripping hand, right now a Church run by the gay mafia is doing a lot more damage than Gnosticism.
OK, Christian answers to the problem of evil are not very persuasive, but every morning that there is a good sunrise, I watch the sunrise, drink the coffee my wife made for me, and am persuaded anyway.
@INKY
You refused to answer my RedPill on women question, FBI shill.
One possible Christian solution to the problem of evil is the proposition that, by consistently following Christ, it’s possible for a civilization to gradually diminish the extent of evil within it – indeed, that were it not for various anti-Christian religions and heresies such as (respectively) Islam and Puritanism, the world today would be so much better, thanks precisely to the positive pro-civilizational influence of legitimate Christianity itself.
This argument is particularly compelling in light of the fact that without Christianity there would not have been an Industrial Revolution; alone among the religions of the world, Christianity facilitates the kind inter-group and inter-personal cooperation that makes scientific and technological progress possible. No Christianity, no Francis Bacon, no Robert Boyle, no Scientific Method, no Royal Society. When Christianity is firmly dominant, everything is getting gradually better, people feel hopeful and optimistic, and Gnosticism then becomes rather unappealing. Evil is fading, under these circumstances.
Quite so.
But the puritans were hostile to the scientific method, and their holier than God ideological descendants are today hostile in the same way for the same reasons. And, infamously, the pope stuck his oar into the dispute about the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, and looked like an idiot for so doing. The Copernican system correctly predicted that Venus would show phases like the moon, and Ptolemaic system incorrectly predicted that it would not – more precisely, it predicted the wrong phases at the wrong parts of its orbit.
Christianity, rightly interpreted (Christ as the incarnation of the Logos) supports the scientific method, and Christianity has been generally less destructive of science than its competitors, in particular less destructive than the current doctrine that there is no objective truth. But actually existent Christianity has not been all that supportive of the scientific method. The Biblical commandments on speaking truth do not directly address the issues raised Robert Boyle in the The Sceptical Chymist, which address how the community should support truth. Robert Boyle addresses the madness of crowds, whereas the Bible focuses on individual lying, slander, and perjury, and only very peripherally addresses the madness of crowds.
The Bible worries about Ann lying to Bob about Carol. Boyle worries about Ann believing Carol, and Carol believing Ann, when neither of them actually know whereof they speak. Boyle is worried about argument from consensus being substituted for argument from empirical evidence, argument from consensus falsely purporting to be argument from empirical evidence.
A classic example being this graph, where all the graph from 1870 to 1975 is quite obviously pulled out of their ass and the graph from 1970 to 1979 is based on fragmentary and incomplete data.
@I_never_knew-you
I wonder why you can’t answer a redpill on women question?
Ask it.
@glosoli
Answer this multiple choice question. Remember, multiple choice questions cannot be obfuscated. So choose one.
A 12-year old female has sexual fantasies of:
A) Being an independent womyn astronomerette and attracting men with her professional credential.
B) Getting married to a dependable programmer.
C) Getting beaten and raped by a train of tatted up thugs.
D) … wait a minute, only pedophiles think 12 year old children have sexual fantasies.
Proof-texting Old Testament quotes about x,y, z in the law ‘not pleasing to God’ out of the context of it being *wickedness* that made those things not pleasing to God isn’t impressive (especially when I know a half dozen Old Testament prophecies indicating those aspects of the Law to some degree were expected to be restored and practiced during the end times). But a lot of nice effort went into collecting all of those, I’ll give you that. The Jeremiah verse about a New Covenant and your contextualizing Moses and Deuteronomy 18:18 is probably the most persuasive, so great job there, as with your previous contextualizing Jesus’s moral teachings as not being too radically different from scripture before him.
Christianity has taken a lot of the Old Testament out of context from the beginning. The generous way some scholars call it is a “messianic” perspective on scripture, wherein Christians interpret the entire Old Testament as pointing to Christ. As examples, Psalm 45 and Psalm 110 clearly reference the Davidic King as a “God” and “Lord” who held both Kingly and Priestly authority like Melchizedek (evident by the fact that David and Solomon had authority over the Levites in priestly affairs as they saw fit), while the New Testament conveniently re-interprets both those Psalms to be about Christ.
What would have been more persuasive and impressive than proof-texting the Old Testament would have been to collect all the New Testament verses that point to Gentiles not being under the Israelite law and covenants (e.g. ‘ordinances nailed to the cross’), as those are plentiful. The Book of Acts is clear that non-Jews are only under some aspects of the old law (see Acts 21:18-26 as a good example of Paul supporting Jews to still keep their traditions, but Gentiles not to do so).
Acts 21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
25 [But] As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from strangled [animals], and from fornication [Acts 15:20].
(As a personal religious update: I have gone Mormon Fundamentalist in recent years; God is alive and well, though it is clear that whites have a hard time with group cohesion even with similar religious views.
After knowing the original Mormon temple doctrine for several years I am still very impressed with it: While the LDS Church recently removed the temple covenant for a woman to ‘hearken to’ / ‘obey’ her husband, while he covenanted to obey God, any Fundamentalist interested in the original ritual will know that a core aspect of the original doctrine was for a woman to covenant for their husband to be their god. While a Mormon male’s goal is to attain to rulership / godhood as a King and Priest unto God (e.g. Revelation 1:6), a woman’s is to attain to being a Queen and Priestess “unto her husband”, her authority derived from her union in marriage. The Eternal Family / Celestial Marriage teaching definitely goes a long way to reversing the Celibacy Fetish heresy that has plagued Christianity from almost the beginning. And Mormonism’s British Israelism-ish belief, identifying European Whites as “lost Ephraimites” and thus just as much “God’s Chosen People” as the Jews, isn’t bad either.)
For those interested in the (unfortunate) recent changes to the Mormon Church’s temple ceremonies that were praised by Feminists:
” GONE: women’s promise to hearken to their husbands, as the husbands hearken directly to the Lord. Men are no longer intermediaries between women and God in the temple.
EXPANDED: the role of Eve, who previously had no dialogue after the expulsion from Eden, and is now purportedly more loquacious than Satan.
UNITED: women and men covenanting together to serve God, with the same promises, rather than covenanting separately with slightly different wording.”
“Gender equality in the language of the sealing ceremony, where the bride and groom now apparently make the same promises to each other”
Other significant changes not mentioned in this article include that women are no longer expected to veil their faces during Temple prayer rituals; also that women are no longer anointed to become “a Queen and Priestess unto your husband” but Queen and Priestess “unto God” like the men.
https://religionnews.com/2019/01/03/major-changes-to-mormon-temple-ceremony-especially-for-women/
“One woman, who attended a temple ceremony in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, was stunned by the elimination of many “sexist†elements.”
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/01/02/lds-church-releases/
You are larping. You have no respect for the endowment and thus, no faith. Most of you’ve said is true and valid, but you’ve said much that should not be said outside the temple. I don’t blame you for larping to get a great wife or wives with many children, but for the sake of the faith that is bringing you a happy lifestyle, don’t talk about what should only be spoken of in the temple.
Hey Jacob. I wrote in haste. I’m sorry for any offense I’ve caused, and I apologize for what I’ve said. It’s not true and I shouldn’t have said it.
No offense taken Bob. It can be jarring figuring out what should and should not be talked about when it comes to the Mormon temple ritual. There are certain things you covenant not to reveal in the ceremony, and I respect those covenants.
I am not “larping” but raised in the faith and from Mormon pioneer stock, a descendant of Hyrum Smith. Fundamentalism is the “reactionary” path for Mormonism. Finding out what Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor taught and believed, and how to best to live and perpetuate those principles. Doctrine, revelation, authority, and history are all important.
If you get into the history, [most of] the things I mentioned you can find the apostles of Joseph Smith were not shy about talking about publicly. In my historical writings on the temple doctrine I do go further than what they would have been comfortable with, but in the spirit of understanding the ritual and its history, rather than to degrade it.
OK… what just happened…
Yes, it was my misunderstanding. I’m glad you can represent Hyrum’s descendants, holding true to the faith.
It is a shame that the most recent Temple changes were so feminist. I think the falling LDS birthrates reflect the watering down of doctrine and am emphasis on inclusion.
I’ve tried to think of why that came to be and want to ask how you think so many members adopted equality as the 0th article of faith. I think BYU is to blame. It needs professors who are establishment-trained to run its programs, so it attracts leftist converts from the heart of the cathedral. They churn out excellent accountants and engineers, but also preach their progressive beliefs. The religion and church history classes are especially bad. I had two church history and religion professors in my BYU ward who were ardent leftists and lukewarm in their faith, often taking about their constant, serious doubts.
The BYU grads eventually filled up all the bureaucratic offices and many general authority positions, so we now have President Nelson saying to reporters that women should focus on having children, but anonymous Ensign editors writing articles on how diversity is actually unity. The top top leaders are fairly traditional, the middle leadership and half the members are very liberal, and the other half are sorta redpilled.
I have a friend convinced that we’re going to be given Temple gay marriage as a stumbling block and have to wait for the Church to be cleansed to enjoy the fullness of the gospel as a church. I think we just need an inquisition.
Falling Mormon birthrates are evidence of weaker patriarchy. Headship is still somewhat taught but not consistently. Also, birth control is no longer preached against (Boyd K. Packer kept on subtly teaching against birth control up until his death, but he is the only one in recent years I can recall doing so). I agree that outside academia likely is what corrupted BYU. What BYU is today demonstrates how poisonous academia is even at a religious university. I agree with Jim’s prescription: minimize your sons’ exposure, and keep your daughters as far away as possible.
I see the LDS Church looking for status by promoting refugee resettlement, illegal immigration, cozying up with the NAACP, supporting gay pride parades, etc. I was not surprised but disappointed to see Governor Gary Herbert this week write a letter begging Trump to allow more refugees to come to Utah.
I thought the November 2015 policy against baptisms of kids with homosexual parents was a good line in the sand against the Left. But then the abrupt removal of the policy 7 months ago, coupled with the quiet handbook change no longer defining same-sex marriage as apostasy was not a good sign.
I am waiting for the second church that Joseph Smith laid the foundation for to come forth (D&C 77:11). Joseph Smith’s close followers understood he taught there was higher priesthood for a higher organization above the Church of Christ that would eventually be established: a family order founded upon patriarchal priesthood. Brigham Young tried it in 1847 but it didn’t work out (he said the people were too wicked for it). Splinter groups have also attempted it without success. I hope we’ll see the day that it comes forth.
Do you two chaps have any thoughts on the North Mexico atrocities?
The ancestor of some of the victims murdered my friend’s ancestor in the 70s. To evade prison, the guy fled to Mexico with his wives. Also, a polygamist, so not mainstream LDS. It’s still a tragedy, though it won’t dent our coreligionists’ civic nationalism.
On a related note, back when the cartels took over that Mexican state capital, I talked to some friends about cartels taking over a US city with the same terrorism of families. They all said it was impossible cause muh gunz and we’d retaliate by destroying them in Mexico. The US and LDS nonresponse unfortunately won’t dent their bravado.
A small segment of Mormon doomsayers have a tendency to want live south of the border because of the doom and destruction expected to befall the United States (also because of the history of the United States’ persecution of polygamy).
But these murders (like others) show that being white and living in a NAM country is like painting a target on your back. However hypothetically bad things could get in the United States, I don’t have an imagination capable of believing things in the near future will ever be worse here.
Jacob V, what do you think about the Book of Mormon’s case for kings? I think a good case can be made.
On the one hand, 2 Ne 10:11 explicitly states the gentiles won’t have a king. Hard to get around that, I think.
On the other hand, when you pay attention to what happened under the Nephite kings and under the Nephite judges, the kings look better in every way, despite the prophets talking about how undesirable kings are.
King Noah is used as the example of why kings are bad. He led his people to do bad things, but he was the first wicked king in four hundred years. If he’s their worst, and the only one they complain about, then I’d say monarchy has a good track record among the Nephites.
Additionally, a number of righteous kings are described and praised. The Nephi’s in Jacob 1, Jarom 1:7, King Mosiah, King Benjamin, and Captain Moroni when he acted as dictator.
In the chapters where we are warned against the problems kings cause, it’s easy to see that those problems are present during the reign of the judges, and are sometimes worse.
Mosiah 29:7 We’re warned about the wars of succession under kings. And yet, there’s a civil war under the first chief judge, two chapters later.
Mosiah 29:13 We’re told kings would be great if they were always just men, but since they’re not, we should elect judges. But how many of the judges in Alma were just? The chief judges were mostly ok, but the lower judges were corrupted as early as under the second chief judge, Pahoran.
Mosiah 29:17 We’re told how much wickedness King Noah caused. But there’s also the concurrent story of Alma the Elder under their wicked king. They were persecuted by the king for praying out loud, but it did not lead them to wickedness.
Mosiah 29:21 You can’t dethrone an iniquitous king, but the same turned out to be true for the chief judges. When the Gadiantons got their chief judge in, he had to be assasinated by his brother, which led to another civil war, which only ended because of the famine Nephi caused.
Mosiah 29:23 All governments destroy those who don’t obey them. Assuming representative gov wouldn’t was naive and turned out to be incorrect.
Mosiah 29:26 Governing according to public opinion causes problems we’re already familiar with. Unsurprisingly, the Nehors, a rival church, appeared immediately after the king stepped down. They later influenced the people to get the government to do bad things, like have the Christians killed (Alma 14:16).
Mosiah 29:27 We’re told the people do not often want wickedness and when they do, they’re ripe to be destroyed. However, the Nephites were righteous for over 200 years under kings (Jarom 1:13) and only the wicked “had” to be destroyed (Omni 1:5). Then they were righteous again for another hundred years, I think. Under the elected judges, it took only 100 years before they completely self-destructed.
Mosiah 29:29 The judges weren’t judged by higher or lower judges. That never worked. They were judged by the secret combinations and the whole government succumbed to a group that belonged to a different religion.
Mosiah 29:36Â Supposedly, wickedness is greater under kings, but it all went to crap within one generation of representative government.
In Mosiah 23, Alma refuses to be a king because they lead the people to be wicked. They are promptly conquered and given a wicked king, who tries and fails to lead the people into wickedness. This is the same Alma who thought he could convince King Noah to spare Abinadi and that the Lamanite king would keep his word to free them. I don’t think Alma is a good authority on kings.
In Mosiah 26, the king refuses to judge the people on purely religious matters and sends that back to the prophet. Additionally, it explicitly says, “Now King Mosiah had given Alma the authority over the church.” Rather reactionary, I’d say.
Interestingly, there were no secret combinations under Nephite kings. The Lamanites under a king succeeded in getting rid of the secret combinations, even when they had taken over the representative Nephite gov in Helaman 6.
When an anti-Christ, Sherem, appeared under a king, he was unsuccesful. When Nehor appeared right after the monarch stepped down, he succeeded in starting a rival church that led to civil wars and wickedness. On the other hand, Korihor was unsuccesful under the judges, so maybe this isn’t that clear.
Even if the Book of Mormon argues against kings, it certainly provides fodder for arguments against representative government, for reasons reactionaries already know.
Those are some great references to argue for the preferability of kings. Thanks for taking the time to share. The way I interpret 2 Nephi 10:11 is that the context is condemnation of wicked kings who would take away the rights of the people, and that it was not meant to condemn divinely sanctioned kings that are blessed by God (as the Millennium Jesus Christ will rule as King of Kings and Lord of Lords).
As with every faith, scripture should be interpreted with tradition, not against it. The Theocratic ideal taught in early Mormonism is one of my favorite “lost teachings” of our faith. There are two excellent chapters on the subject in “Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power” that show from very early on Joseph Smith’s teachings and revelations supported “theocratic ethics”, though they were not fully unfolded until the last year of his life.
In the Council of Fifty minutes recently made available, JS defines his version of Theocracy (“Theodemocracy”) as being the voice of the people agreeing to the voice of God, with the context being that the voice of God is given through the King and the people should accept it as law. Nauvoo Mormons even argued that Theocracy by itself didn’t necessarily violate the First Amendment, only if the ruling religion prevented the free belief of other faiths.
If you haven’t read it before, I recommend his editorial “The Government of God” published in the July 15, 1842 issue of the Times and Seasons, his first public article promoting Theocracy, about the time he began to teach about end-time “Kingdom of God” foreseen by Daniel as necessitating Theocracy as part of the “Restitution of All Things.”
http://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n18.htm
Theocracy = priest rule. If you think it can work you haven’t been paying much attention.
@The Cominator
A true Theocracy is only possible with the 2nd coming. When Jesus Christ directly rules from his capital at Jerusalem.
Yes but until then it will not work.
I understand that is how “Theocracy” is defined in a non-Mormon context. In the Mormon context, “Theocracy” was rule by the divinely appointed King, who also happened to be the Prophet and Priest. They were sustained as “Prophet, Priest, and King” under God, yet it was clear that King was the highest of those offices:
“I will advance from Prophet to Priest, and then to King, not to the kingdoms of this but of the Most High God.” (Joseph Smith, 16 July 1843)
“Let us use the term ‘proper source’ instead of ‘king’ and it will be all understood and no person can take advantage. A man can preach through all the world and use words which the devil cannot detect.†(Joseph Smith, 18 April 1844)
Instead of an elite Priesthood, Mormonism promoted a universal Priesthood of every male. Every Mormon male if worthy had a share of “kingly power” pertaining to his own family, under the “one man” who held the title of “Prophet, Priest, and King” (Brigham Young generally would delegate the ‘priest’ duties of the Temple to his first counselor [cf. Heber C. Kimball being in charge of administering the Mormon temple ritual], and ‘prophet’ duties to his second counselor [cf. Jedediah M. Grant being assigned to the “Mormon Reformation” of preaching repentance to the people]).
The Mormon Theocracy in early Utah worked pretty well until it was crushed by the US government. Still, its eugenic legacy lasted over a hundred years.
Mainstream LDS is now pozzed. The Mormon elders will be marching in pride parades and slutwalks soon enough. The strong Nevertrump element among Mormons foretold this.
Human endeavours will fail. God’s actions however is unstoppable. (Acts 5:38-39).
Pozzed churches will fall. Heresies will fail. But the church of God endures.
And where is the actual church of God now?
In the mustard seed, wherever two or three are gathered together.
@The Contaminator
Agreed
Based and Redpilled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl_6lvlnnAU
OT excerpt from new book by Trump’s eldest son:
“I knew that when it came down to it, all the morons in the House and Senate … would throw me in jail themselves if they had the power to do it. They just wanted to get my father out of office and punish anyone who supported him — starting with me and my family.”
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1190675391318544384
I will answer other comments later as time permits.
Yes, Trump gets it. If the Democrats are ever allowed to return to power, they are going to imprison, and eventally kill, Trump and his family.
And eventually, kill everyone.
As I am fond of saying, we have walked this path before. It always ends in murder, and usually enormous mass murder. History does not repeat, but it rhymes.
another OT. The Brookings Institution, via The Atlantic, channels Boldmug:
“Too Much Democracy is Bad for Democracy”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/too-much-democracy-is-bad-for-democracy/600766/
The whole thing is stupid and not worth reading in detail, I post it mainly for the title, but they propose to put party before democracy and leave the candidate selection more in the hands of Suitable Professionals, so as to avoid “populism”.
2020 will be fun.
On second look, the article is completely hilarious when read in full, like Moldbug on drugs doing a spoken-word extemporized impersonation of a Democrat.
As if on cue to also channel Jim, they compare the democracy problem to a lack of peer review and refer to another Brookings masterpiece from 2017,
“Re-inserting peer review in the American presidential nomination process”
https://www.brookings.edu/research/re-inserting-peer-review-in-the-american-presidential-nomination-process/
This is the priesthood being pissy that they have lost control and that they know the mob hates them and put Trump in… Social Democracy is a sacred sacrament to the Cathedral but only insofar as people who do not seriously fuck with leftist/cathedral plans obtain office. Then the Cathedral should override the election.
Moldbug truly hates Democracy, Jim truly hates Democracy but I think Ji thinks the monarch should somewhat have the confidence of the realm’s productive freeholders and of course the soldiers.
Reminder that non-castrated men who voluntarily choose to avoid marriage aren’t following Jesus’ instruction.
Matthew 19:
“But [only]” = ἀλλά:
1. an opposition to concessions; nevertheless, notwithstanding
2. an objection
3. an exception
4. a restriction
5. contrariwise
“Eunuch” = εá½Î½Î¿á¿¦Ï‡Î¿Ï‚:
1. castrated person, eunuch
This is Jesus, in plain language, responding to his disciples who suggest that in order to avoid divorce it is better not to marry in the first place, by objecting to their argument, and telling them that unmarriage can only ever be fit for those who are biologically without testicles, and are capable of receiving this λόγον (word). I.e., if you are not a castrato, you certainly need to get married.
This is Jesus being in perfect agreement with Jimianity and the red-pill, being in perfect agreement with the position that men with balls have sexual needs, which are legitimate, hence should not avoid marriage. Jesus does not say or imply that it’s better to be unmarried (it’s his disciples who brought that notion up); just the opposite, he objects to that idea and tells us that only if you’re a biological eunuch, and are inclined to accept it, should you accept it. Otherwise, it’s emphatically not for you.
Any blue-pilled, holiness spiraled reading of this text is false, does not follow from the text. Jesus does not approve of a degenerate faggot lifestyle. Jesus said nothing wrong.
“there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heavenâ€
Could the quoted section above also be interpreted metaphorically? Non-eunuchs who choose to not get married have made themselves metaphorical eunuchs for the kingdom of God. Wouldn’t it be wise to preemptively give an outlet to holiness spirals? How do we know when Jesus is speaking metaphorically or strictly literally?
I don’t intend to torture the scripture, I just want to be sure.
If all men are supposed to get married and have kids then humanity fucked up Christ’s instructions almost as soon as he left. Early Christians got it right. Then you claim that early theologians like Saint Augustine and Saint Jerome started a holiness spiral and all subsequent Christian sects eventually spiraled as well. So collectively, there’s only been a few hundred years of Christianity as Christ intended?
Wouldn’t it also be dysgenic to encourage EVERY man with working balls to marry and reproduce?
The metaphorical interpretation is not new, but it’s exactly that interpretation that has given rise to the holiness spiral. Jesus spoke only of biological eunuchs, people who literally chop off their balls and have no desire to be with women. Allowing for “metaphorical eunuchs” made it easier for sexual deviants of all sorts to claim bonus holiness points vis-a-vis regular folks and to insinuate themselves into the Church. A metaphorical interpretation is not healthy, and it’s better to stick with the actual words of Christ, which clearly refer to a biological condition (hence “who have been so from birth,” “have been made eunuchs by men”) that makes marriage unfeasible and undesirable for them. Jesus did not accord bonus holiness points to virgins, and encouraged men to get married.
No. What you mean by “outlet” is better defined as “pressure-release valve,” and the way to achieve that, so as to avoid catastrophically initiating an anti-sex holiness spiral, is exactly by limiting celibate virginity-signalling to eunuchs, who are naturally low status. We want the King, the warriors, and taxpaying heads-of-households and husbands to have high status, and various sex freaks to have low status. That’s the pro-natalist, GNON-ordered hierarchy.
Well, in this case, we know it because “who have been so from birth” and “have been made eunuchs by men” are clearly not metaphorical descriptions.
Something like that, yes.
No; first of all, anti-social types need to be excommunicated (at the very least), and outside the community let them do whatever the heck – they are not likely to thrive there, anyway. Secondly, successful men naturally have larger families — a greater number of descendants — than unsuccessful men, and with the restoration of patriarchy, the natural male socio-sexual order will return, and with it eugenic elite fertility. We want every productive man to be married and have children (and we want every man to be productive), but naturally, members of the elite, the most successful men in society, the most productive, intelligent, or otherwise valuable, the top 15%, will find it easier to own larger families than those lower than themselves down the hierarchy. That’s perfectly eugenic.
“there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.—
It’s rather obvious that this verse means that some people become celibate in order to more wholly dedicate themselves to God and that Jesus is encouraging them to do so, if they are able to bear the yoke of celibacy.
See the Doay-Rheims Bible commentary
http://www.drbo.org/chapter/47019.htm
“”There are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs, for the kingdom of heaven”: This text is not to be taken in the literal sense; but means, that there are such, who have taken a firm and commendable resolution of leading a single and chaste life, in order to serve God in a more perfect state than those who marry: as St. Paul clearly shews. 1 Cor. 7. 37, 38.”
Also see St. John Chrysostom’s homily on this verse.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/200162.htm
“Having spoken then of the eunuchs that are eunuchs for nought and fruitlessly, unless with the mind they too practise temperance, and of those that are virgins for Heaven’s sake, He proceeds again to say, He that is able to receive it, let him receive it, at once making them more earnest by showing that the good work is exceeding in greatness, and not suffering the thing to be shut up in the compulsion of a law, because of His unspeakable gentleness. And this He said, when He showed it to be most possible, in order that the emulation of the free choice might be greater.”
And just for good measure, the Council of Trent
http://www.thecounciloftrent.com/ch24.htm
“CANON X.-If any one saith, that the marriage state is to be placed above the state of virginity, or of celibacy, and that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity, or in celibacy, than to be united in matrimony; let him be anathema.”
Lastly Summa Theologica
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3152.htm
“On the contrary, Augustine says (De Virgin. xix): “Both solid reason and the authority of Holy Writ show that neither is marriage sinful, nor is it to be equaled to the good of virginal continence or even to that of widowhood.”
I answer that, According to Jerome (Contra Jovin. i) the error of Jovinian consisted in holding virginity not to be preferable to marriage. This error is refuted above all by the example of Christ Who both chose a virgin for His mother, and remained Himself a virgin, and by the teaching of the Apostle who (1 Corinthians 7) counsels virginity as the greater good.
It is also refuted by reason, both because a Divine good takes precedence of a human good, and because the good of the soul is preferable to the good of the body, and again because the good of the contemplative life is better than that of the active life.
Now virginity is directed to the good of the soul in respect of the contemplative life, which consists in thinking “on the things of God” [Vulgate: ‘the Lord’], whereas marriage is directed to the good of the body, namely the bodily increase of the human race, and belongs to the active life, since the man and woman who embrace the married life have to think “on the things of the world,” as the Apostle says (1 Corinthians 7:34). Without doubt therefore virginity is preferable to conjugal continence.”
God does, in fact, reward extra bonus holiness points to celibates. Rejecting the Church Fathers is rejecting Christ.
That is a holiness spiralled interpretation. The disciples ask “Is it better not to marry?”, and Jesus replies that except for a few exceptional and unfortunate cases, it is better to marry.
A more reasonable interpretation in context, is that if God calls you to celibacy, follow that road, but it is also mighty bad luck and fortunately God calls mighty few to celibacy.
The disciples ask Jesus if they should call people to celibacy, and the short of his answer is that they should not.
Question: How does the Lord reward those who do right in His eyes?
Answer: Psalm 128:
Question: How did the Lord bless Job for his moral perfection?
Answer: Job 42:10-17:
If celibacy were a superior path to family life in terms of holiness, God would not reward the righteous with large families, as that would signify a reduction in their level of righteousness. For Christianity to not descend into Cuckianity, this masochistic celibacy fetish has to be discarded. Even if the Church Fathers had had plausible justification to praise celibacy back in the day (doubtful), there’s no reason to turn that into an immutable, eternal, and absolutely unchangeable doctrine, particularly now that we see clearly that its fruits are evil and rotten.
(“NO! OY VEY! CHRISTIANITY MUST REMAIN CUCKIANITY, FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER!” – Official Cucktholic Position. Hence, a new religion is urgently needed, one solidly based on the Old and New Testaments, but not identical with the holiness spiraled abomination that is modern Cuckianity, which sanctifies giving birth to cuck-babies and rape-babies and retards and monsters, and sanctifies infinite blue balls and a gay clergy)
You can say it’s a Catholic meme all you want, fact is that both the Orthodox and the Catholics agree that celibacy was and is something important in religious life. If you believe that this is a fundamentally cucked position, then just say you trust Jesus’ word itself most on this matter, and say that you (for the most part) distrust or disregard the Church Father’s position on this, that they were already holiness spiraling. Then your take becomes entirely true in my eyes. Otherwise, your are just being contradicted by Saints left and right.
Exactly what I’m saying.
Important question though, was St. Paul cucked then too? I recall a famous line from one of his epistles where he says it is “regrettable” (or something along those lines) that people need to get married. However he does also say that although it isn’t quite ideal, it is quite necessary, so that people don’t go insane. So maybe not cucked.
I remember it now, it’s 1 Corinthians 7.
St. Paul was quite solid on patriarchy, including in 1 Corinthians itself (in chapters 7, 11, and 14), but unfortunately he opened the door for holiness spiraling by some of his pro-celibacy pronouncements in chapter 7. It should be understood that when reporting on Christ’s authentic doctrine, e.g. on the issue of divorce, St. Paul was spot on, but when voicing his own personal views, which occasionally he did, he was sometimes wrong – and to distinguish between St. Paul’s personal views and the views of God and Tradition, we have the rest of the Bible, where marriage is highly recommended, and celibacy not recommended.
NRx is now building a new religion that is heavily based on old school Christianity, but not exactly identical with it, because we seek to put safeguards in place against the holiness spiraling that killed old school Christianity, and is now killing Judaism and Islam, turning all traditional religions into homosexual bluecon cuckoldry. To un-pozz Christianity (currently it is terminally pozzed), some of the Church positions espoused in the past will have to be discarded, or else we’ll end up with the same dire problems that led to the current state of affairs.
“and is now killing Judaism and Islam”
Islam despite being mostly right about women (while being wrong on its kind of pro purdahish stance) was always a demonic doctrine.
“It should be understood that when reporting on Christ’s authentic doctrine, e.g. on the issue of divorce, St. Paul was spot on, but when voicing his own personal views, which occasionally he did, he was sometimes wrong”
Denying the inerrancy of Scripture is a very grave error. If you ditch the Church Fathers, you’re essentially ditching Christianity, as the last few centuries have shown. If you don’t venerate saints, you’ll wind up venerating demons.
If you ditch the Church Fathers AND you pick and choose what parts of St. Paul’s letters you have to listen to, well that necessarily leads to picking and choosing what parts of the Gospels and the Old Testament you have to listen to.
You then have neither Tradition nor Sola Scriptura and that leaves the door open to the progestantism we see today. Along with countless Kookanics, Glosolis and Shelby’s who think that they and they alone perfectly interpret God’s commands. Either way, not Christianity.
And yes of course children are a blessing, but the holiest humans to ever walk the earth were celibates. Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Paul, etc.
All that said, I don’t have a problem with ordaining married men. I do have a problem with blaspheming the Church Fathers and ignoring the Bible whenever it contradicts Jim.
Saint Jerome rejected Saint Paul. It is your Church fathers that reject scripture.
Ditch Saint Jerome, or ditch Saint Paul. Choose!
Saint Paul tells us that Bishops should ordinarily and usually be married with children. He also tells us that husbands are obligated to have sex with their wives and continue to have sex with their wives.
So don’t give me that pious inerrancy of scripture nonsense, when the Church has holiness spiralled its way out of scripture.
Saint Jerome was an evil man, and his evil doctrines have ever since borne evil fruit. Notably the current gay mafia running the Roman Catholic Church that plots together while naked in bed together in a great big pile.
Let us talk about what Saint Paul said, and about gay priests having sex in a great big pile.
@Nikolai
There is something fundamentally off putting about being forced to accept someone else’s opinion regardless of experience. I am not advocating trashing tradition for preference, but stare decisis is a double edged sword that can be used to cleave order just as readily as expanding prosperity. Point being, i think the truths of the bible are self evident, and the failings are knowable. St. Paul is given massive primacy, but this may be more because of the Council of Nicea than because he was always right.
In a different context, the 14th Amendment is the cause of a staggering amount of the terribleness in society today. It would be better if it hadn’t been included. That being said, it was the Warren court that turned the 14th into its lolita whore and fucked this country. To do that, they needed the FDR appointments. These were predicated on the Wilsonian millenialist travesties. The problem is compounded by generations of misinterpretation, ill will, and out right subversion of traditions. Repealing the 14th wouldn’t solve the problem, much in the same way that overturning Roe v. Wade won’t fix women.
I am not excoriating you or challenging the faithful here (moreso than i already do, anyway); but blind dogmatism does not seem to serve our interests.
Nikolai,
I consider all the Scripture handed down to us to be divinely inspired, including some stuff that Protestants (to say nothing of Jews) don’t consider canonical, and including those bits that disagree, or seem to disagree, with Jim.
However, belief in Scriptural Inerrancy is neither sufficient to prevent the kooks, nor does disbelief in it necessarily result in kookery. Moreover, not all parts of Scripture are equally essential for a Godly life. Both Matthew and Tobit are inspired, but Matthew is essential, Tobit – not so much. For all intents and purposes, St. Jerome has greater authority than a random fella off the street, St. Paul has greater authority than St. Jerome, and Jesus Christ has greater authority than all of the Saints.
The militant atheists at Reddit are correct: The Bible contains six gorillion contradictions. To them, that totally disproves all religion, *strokes greasy neckbeard*. To me, it means that it’s a text written by humans, who are naturally fallible, but nevertheless I consider it — all of it — to be divinely inspired. And, to borrow a term commonly used in the AI world, I believe that God’s interests and ours are “aligned.” So, we work with the Scripture we’ve got in order to have civilizational prosperity, and hope that God is on our side. If a certain bit of Scripture doesn’t seem to work, we don’t ditch it, we don’t erase it off the books, but we may consider attaching lower importance to it than to the stuff that obviously does work.
My theistic position is that the Bible is a divinely inspired text, and that God established the Church (broadly defined) for it to serve His purposes. My atheistic position is that we need something to hold on to lest we collectively drown, and the Bible is as good as it gets, even disregarding the notion of divine inspiration completely. Both of these propositions are not incompatible with having a new religion that is based on old school Christianity, that is a continuation of the Church, but not exactly identical with its past institutions or with all of its past doctrines, because these have given way to destructive memes. New religion, not for reasons of strange schizophrenic voices screaming profanities inside one’s head, but for the perfectly rational and logical reasons of Jim, Spandrell, and other non-crackpots in NRx.
Possibly, that will necessitate accepting Jim (or whoever else) as a literal prophet, and his texts as Scripture; something like Joseph Smith. In fact, if all the regular Christian denominations descend to florid Satanism, and Mormonism doesn’t, then we may as well seriously reflect on the validity of Mormonism – it doesn’t contradict either the theistic or the atheistic propositions explained in the previous paragraph. Right now though, it’s better to go with OT+NT, read in light of our current empirically-derived knowledge of the human condition (EvoPsych, Game Theory, etc.), and adjusted in light of the errors that have accumulated throughout the ages, e.g. the grave error and evil heresy that is egalitarianism.
Where does all that leave us? Answer: With a lot of heavy lifting to do, waiting ahead of us. What we’re doing right here looks like a good start. NRx is a priesthood, and as a priesthood we’re trying to establish and coordinate our doctrine – or, if you prefer, our Red-Pilled interpretation of the Scripture we have, which is OT+NT. But the “We need a prophet” thing is not really a joke; we actually do need a prophet, someone to declare himself to be speaking for God, or Nature’s God, or both, i.e. for GNON.
(Hey, I don’t expect you to take someone who calls himself “MY SATANIST DADDY FISTED ME 666” as a religious authority, but Jim, the human flesh-and-blood who has singlehandedly established NRx as a priesthood, does have real potential)
And if not, well, we still need to figure out how to read Scripture in a most expedient manner, because the fruits of modern Cuckianity are rotten, and an urgent fixing is needed. Jim has been saying all along that we either fix Christianity or replace it. I prefer fixing it. It’s doable. If that means de-emphasizing a certain bit of Scripture, or creatively reinterpreting some of the more problematic stuff in there, so be it. As long as we hold OT+NT as the basis of our little harmless religious experimentation right here, we’re all good. God wants us to succeed. The kooks you mention could have been useful if they hadn’t been, well, kooks – but hopefully we’ll have enough normal people here to make this project, whose aim is to establish a non-pozzed, pro-civilizational version of Christianity, work.
And I don’t ask you to drop Catholicism; if it works for you, great. It’s just that those of us who consider modern Catholicism to be Cucktholicism (and most or all of modern Protestantism to be Poztestantism) are looking for something else, and likely we’ll have to create it ourselves.
Shaman,
I sincerely appreciate your entirely amicable and reasonable response. Were I reading it maybe 3 years ago, I don’t think I’d disagree with a single word. But since joining the Church, my worldview has changed somewhat.
I wouldn’t say Scripture contradicts itself, so much as it offers conflicting advice, but that’s just a reflection of the nature of human interaction. Ex. in situation A the best course of action is X, but in situation B which looks almost identical to A, the best course of action is the exact opposite of X. This seems contradictory at first glance, but makes more sense when you think about the little intricacies of everyday life (to say nothing of geopolitics). Or as Jim once put it, sometimes you have to turn the other cheek and sometimes you have to slaughter the women and children.
But where I disagree with you is that you seem to view religion as a means to an end. You want a society with strong social cohesion, where every woman isn’t a whore, where you can have a marriage as it was understood for millennia without living in constant fear of arrest for imaginary voodoo crimes, where actual criminals are swiftly dealt with and honest men have nothing to fear from law enforcement, where you can walk down your city streets without feeling like a stranger in your own country perhaps even in your own mind. In short, what our grandparents or great grandparents had.
These are perfectly legitimate desires and I want all these things too. But you seem to see religion as a way to establish and reinforce a sane society, whereas I see religion as an end unto itself; a well which, when properly maintained, will spring forth all these positive externalities and more.
“Hey, I don’t expect you to take someone who calls himself “MY SATANIST DADDY FISTED ME 666†as a religious authority”
In truth, you know Scripture better than I do. At least the Old Testament.
Basically, I just want to live in a world with the social
and cultural institutions of pre-reformation Europe, but with modern technology. To my understanding, this is what the theonomist branch of NRx has always advocated. Non-pozzed Christianity still exists, albeit it’s rather small and oftentimes difficult to find. If you live in a city, try out your local Latin Mass. You may be pleasantly surprised.
Instead of building a new church, I want to restore the one Christ Himself founded, outside of which there is no salvation. I understand this may appear to be an insurmountable task, given the current state of the Chruch, but crazier things have happened.
The other worldly mission of the Church is like the progressive claim to care deeply about the welfare of strangers in places that they could not find on a map – a justification for doing bad things to those close to one that one should care about. If the Church does not care about its mission in this world, not likely it cares about its other worldly mission.
The earthly telos of the true faith is upholding these earthly good things, in the language of the Dark Englightenment, cooperate/cooperate equilibrium, and when you explain that the true mission of the faith is other worldly, you then immediately conclude that it is OK for the faith to aggressively undermine these good things, and you then proceed to torture the Gospels into extraordinary and unreasonable readings consistent with doctrines concocted, sometimes very recently concocted, by a bunch of gay priests having sex in a great big pile. Who was it told us that “I do” is the form and substance of the sacrament of marriage?
All of which indicates a faith unlikely to achieve the other worldly telos of the faith. By their fruits you shall know them, and your local Catholic Church is full of fruits.
If your faith disregards its earthly telos in the name of its other worldly telos, it is unlikely to be accomplishing its other worldly telos. Most Catholics only show up to be hatched, matched, and dispatched, and when they are matched, the priest proceeds to undermine the marriage. If you want a traditional wedding, you are likely to find that the only pastor you can find is not part of any larger Church.
Let us talk about Saint Paul versus Saint Jerome. One of these has to be an evil heretic. You cannot piously have them both as saints.
As I keep saying Saint Paul says that Bishops should normally and ordinarily be married with children, and that a married man is obligated to continue to sexually gratify his wife. It is not clear to me which of Pauline propositions you dispute – I keep seeing a blurry fog of squid ink that causes my eyes to glaze over. What is your interpretation of Paul?
Don’t tell me it is like the doctrine of the trinity, beyond mortal comprehension, for Saint Paul was a mortal, but I surely find your explanations of what Saint Paul is really saying beyond mortal comprehension.
If Christ is fully man, Jesus was a man, he had brothers, and it is natural and right that one of his brothers ran the first Christian Church, that husbands should continue to gratify their wives, that Bishops should normally and normatively be married with children, and should continue to have children while Bishops.
And if Bishops normally and normatively were married with children, your Church would not be run by the gay mafia.
By the way Nikolai,
The notion that Joseph and Mary never had sex was introduced by gay, homosexual, faggot theologians who took big bulky dicks up their asses and felt incredibly smug about it. Jesus Christ had literal brothers and literal sisters, and your Satanic Church Fathers, including the usual suspect known as St. Jerome, have been denying it as part of their effeminate cuckfag holiness spiral. The (majority of) Protestants are 100% right to reject this diseased doctrine.
From the link:
Jim is right: St. Jerome was an evil man, an evil tree, and his doctrines have been bearing evil fruit ever since. St. Jerome was making stuff up out of thin air, cherry-picking Scripture out of context and sadistically twisting and torturing the text like the KGB to say the exact opposite of what it actually says in a manner that would’ve made the Talmudists blush, and everything he touched immediately turned into shit.
It’s because of nonsense like that of St. Jerome and his fellow fags that we need a new religion.
“Let us talk about Saint Paul versus Saint Jerome. One of these has to be an evil heretic. You cannot piously have them both as saints.”
Just laughably absurd. If you told this to any learned Christian from the 5th century to the reformation, they’d look at you as though you had five heads. St Jerome spent his life translating all of St. Paul’s works into latin, writing commentaries on them and debating various heretics on their interpretation.
“It is not clear to me which of Pauline propositions you dispute – I keep seeing a blurry fog of squid ink that causes my eyes to glaze over. What is your interpretation of Paul?”
What makes you think I dispute any of them? My interpretation is the interpretation of Aquinas and the Church Fathers. That celibacy is a holier state than marriage. That Paul allowed married priests and bishops as a concession, not as a commandment. I cited four different sources above. How am I unclear? Did St. Paul not write 1 Corinthians 7?
http://www.drbo.org/chapter/53007.htm
“But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. [7] For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.”
“[6] “By indulgence”: That is, by a condescension to your weakness.”
“I would that all men were even as myself”. Does that not include priests and bishops?
And even if that passage of Scripture wasn’t there, it’d still be obvious that celibacy is preferable for the reasons Aquinas cites above. You can blaspheme Mary and the Church Fathers all you want, Jesus was a lifelong celibate and Scripture repeatedly calls Christians, especially priests, to imitate Him.
Even Martin Luther of all people did not deny the perpetual virginity of the Virgin Mary.
“And if Bishops normally and normatively were married with children, your Church would not be run by the gay mafia.”
Give me a break. The Anglican church allows married priests and its 100x gayer than even worst of the Jesuit Order. Same goes for every mainline protestant denomination.
You realize the gay mafia doesn’t care about married priests right? Clerical celibacy is an ancient tradition espoused by the Church Fathers, so of course they don’t give a shit about it. The gay mafia in the recent Amazon Synod openly came out in favor of married priests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/popes-amazon-synod-proposes-married-priests-female-leaders/2019/10/27/5f1153f6-f87f-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html
I’d like to close by saying St. Jerome did literally nothing wrong and cumbrains hate him because they can’t stand the thought of someone dedicating themselves to any higher calling than cooming. Although what else should one expect from members of a church founded on adultery?
Not an answer. If Saint Paul did not mean what he said and say what he meant, what then was he saying?
I am not going to allow any of your posts through until you answer that question.
Answer me! If Saint Paul did not mean what he said about Bishops, marriage, children, and sex, what did he mean? Saint Jerome dodged the question, and you are dodging the question.
Stop dodging. Do what Saint Jerome conspicuously failed to do.
You are snatching fragments of Saint Paul from a very different context and torturing his words to say things that are radically incompatible with what he said when talking directly about bishops, children and marriage, and when talking directly about marriage and sex. If he did not mean what he said when he was actually talking about these issues directly, what did he mean?
What Saint Paul said on these topics is sane, reasonable, wise and good. What Saint Jerome said is evil, malicious, hateful, and insane – and flatly contradicts Saint Paul. One or the other has to go.
Saint Jerome’s malice and evil is ancient. But I am pretty sure that making “I do” the sacrament of marriage comes from the bed of a much more recent pile of naked gay priests. Please dig up the origins of that one.
The only way you can canonize both of them is to bury what one of them said, or bury what the other one said. Which in the age of the internet is no longer a viable option. One of them has to go.
Pretending to keep both of them around was always hypocrisy. One or the other always had to be quietly buried. When the bible was translated, it became inconvenient to bury Saint Paul. When the internet arrived, inconvenient to bury Saint Jerome. So today, one of them has to go.
Woah, woah there Shaman, you dropped a bit too much of a truth-bomb on me there. Are you merely saying that Mary and Joseph weren’t virgins but that the birth of Jesus himself was still a virgin birth (ie not conceived via sex)? Or are you denying the virgin birth as well?
Also, in response to Jim briefly, I think what Nikolai is disputing about Paul is a few small passages from 1 Corinthians 7. As I was saying to Shaman, there is a distinct couple of passages in 1 Corinthians 7 where Paul for all intents and purposes implies that celibacy, while not being the calling for the majority of people, is pleasing:
“I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all of you were as I am……. 8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.”
However, please note (as I said to Shaman) that he IMMEDIATELY follows this up by stating that most people cannot handle being celibate, so it is proper for them to marry so they don’t go insane:
“9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”
Point being, you are right to say that Paul believes marriage to be holy in the Lord’s sight, but if Paul states that he himself is superior in holiness via him being single (“I wish that all of you were as I am”) I don’t see how he isn’t implying celibacy is superior. Going from there, it doesn’t take much to stretch that statement to (as the Catholics have) “Oh, the majority of people should marry. Well, the clergy aren’t the majority of people, so that means they shouldn’t marry”.
Also, Orthodox bishops have been celibate almost as long as Catholic ones, although their lower clergy are not. Prots as far as I can tell let all clergy marry.
Nikolai:
A strawman, the result of crimestop.
What we can’t stand is granting celibacy higher status than normal married life, because that leads to blue-pilled and unhealthy doctrines about male-female relations, such as have been plaguing the Church for a long while. When celibacy is considered to be holier than marriage, a whole host of bad fruits start growing (cuckoldry is tolerated and indirectly encouraged, gays run the Church from unhygienic bedrooms where scat parties doth regularly transpire, and — most crucially — heterosexuality is devastatingly vilified), as has been argued at length here.
We see all that happening in front of our noses, we recognize what causes it, and we seek to fix it. Telling us that “Saint Jerome did nothing wrong” is telling us that we must not endeavor to fix the problem; the next step is denial of there even being a problem, as indeed you are denying that the elevation of celibacy above marriage has led to catastrophic results for healthy male-female relations. Sadly, then, you’ve chosen the side of Satan, the liar.
Mike,
Did not deny the virgin conception of Jesus. I deny the insane idea that Mary and Joseph have lived their whole married life in perpetual celibacy, which mad idea is both contradicted by Scripture itself, and is transparently intended to elevate the status of virginity up to the high heavens, as Satanic Church Fathers such as e.g. Saint Jerome designed.
Oooh wait a minute. Nikolai, have you dedicated yourself to a higher calling than cooming? Is this just another case of identity politics gone nuts?
What is going on is obvious of course. Children make you immortal, remaining celibate is failing in attaining immortality. Celibacy is a display of weakness. St Paul was correct in his interpretation that some men simply prefer the celibate way and that this is OK, but that it is NOT the way for most men, since God built us to have children, to attain immortality.
Then what is the role of st Jerome? Well, he did the same thing all leftists do: elevating weakness to a virtue. St Jerome interprets the Darwinistic dead end of celibacy as a strength, just like Progs interpret diversity and sodomy as a strength, thereby undermining non-celibates as Progs undermine whites and straights.
Do you want holiness spirals? ‘Cos that’s how you get holiness spirals.
These are deep waters in which i do not belong – but when theologians debate a thing called “perpetual virginity”, they do not mean “lifelong mundane sexlessness”. They mean something of the sort of 1) the state of virginity has spiritual significance other than that of pragmatic paternity certainty etc, and that 2) Mary, the ideal woman and mother of God, our merciful mother, maintains this state until the end of times, not something as retardedly trivial as if joseph banged his wife, which we for many reasons must assume he did – scripture says so and otherwise he was a fucking fag and our faith would not be around, so he banged his wife good.
Nah. Unfortunately, effete nerdy theologians, who deserve to be stuffed into their own lockers after school and/or have their faces shoved into toilets while the water is flushed (a so-called “swirlie”) during lunch break, do indeed very much passionately argue that Joseph the Carpenter literally never fucked his early-teen-married wife Mary, because he was her “guardian” and a “holy man,” blahblahblah stupid gay crap.
If Saint Jerome were alive today, he would be making #MeToo accusations against himself on Tumblr and uploading videos of himself grievously sobbing into “Velvet Soft” ass-wipes about Climate Change to a YouTube channel with 37 subscribers who all have gay dads (who raped them).
@Jim, That’s four times you’ve said I am Dot Indian and Fed. Do you mean literally an Indian? Why would you think that. Please explain how you could possibly conclude that I an an Indian from anything I have written. Regarding being a Fed, a Fed would not need to post anything, you guys will eventually incriminate yourselves all on your own.
My guess is some of you are jewish based on your detailed bible knowledge and some of you are zionist christian due to defense of israel.
You could save us both time a break down the purpose of your club and if I like it I’ll keep reading.
Accusing people of being jews who are not here is not helping your case we do have open jews here. LURK MOAR!
My question is just for the blog owner Jim.
Do you seriously think I am indian or fed and I cannot understand the purpose of your blog. Please explain.
You don’t get to choose who responds to you, newfag. Learn your place, Ranjeet.
@Tom, Looks like my reply got deleted Tom. I’ll make it more friendly, Foxtrot Uniform, your posterior.
Unfunny insults will be deleted. Insults on this blog have to either informative or entertaining. Verse or readily recognizable parody is nearly always approved. Comments that contain worthwhile content in addition to boring insults are allowed, but the standard for worthwhile content goes up.
Your insult is not up to scratch, though I am allowing it this once. Future insults along those lines will be silently deleted, even if they are not obscene. If you are going to insult people in future, you are going to have to improve your insults.
Since how I can’t get a straight answer. The purpose of this blog is for a group of trolls to act important and make snarky comments that they would never do in the real world. Not at least without lots of dental insurance. You guys can’t be for real. No one talks the way you do. No wonder why your spending all your life on here stroking each others ego.
You are obviously not what you purport to be.
A dot Indian working for the fbi is the usual case, but I really have no idea.
As I said, you need to do more work on our shibboleths and memes before attempting to use them to signal ingroup membership.
When someone inappropriately signals ingroup membership, he is usually FBI, though we are afflicted with considerably fewer FBI than the white nationalists are. So probably FBI. That you are a dot Indian is just a wild assed guess, because the FBI is hiring a lot of dot Indians for this job, and because you called yourself “White Male”.
The ngos deployed by Harvard just cannot help signalling that they are wonderfully well informed about the latest official truth, which you have not done, so probably not ngo.
I’m not part of any group. And wasn’t sent to monitor you. But now that I’ve posted to your blog, you might very well have some red flags. So if you’re paranoid, your probably not far off base.
https://i.imgur.com/KdK6HnQ.jpg
That’s a feature, not a bug. Unlike wignat communities, it’s not supposed to be easy to fit in.
I very much doubt that you’d be staging fistfights with any of us in person. Sharp rhetoric and physical discipline are not mutually exclusive.
Personally, I think it could be garden-variety wignat, but the disciplinarian warning applies: if he doesn’t want us to treat him like a pajeet, he needs to stop acting like one.
Again, “hail fellow Christian”. It is obvious that not only are you not a Christian, you do not derive from a Christian background and suffer from profound ignorance of Christianity.
If you are going to pull the “hail fellow Christian” act, do try to correctly use some basic Christian shibboleths and memes, or better still, reference something vaguely relevant from the New Testament.
Your ngo should have sent someone with some slight familiarity with Christianity, when this blog started addressing religious issues.
Your belief system, Marxism Leninism and Cultural Marxism, is generally held by progressives of Jewish background. You lack enough Christian background to insert a few random Christian shibboleths when pulling the “hail fellow Christian” act.
LOL I *so* wish I’d screenshotted my comment so I could expose you one more time for the lying piece of garbage you really are. Sadly I forgot what you were for a second, so now readers can only see your astronomical misrepresentation and not what you were *actually* replying to, which had precisely ZERO PERCENT to do with any of the drivel you just spouted.
The sheer chutzpah of this retard: he seriously thinks the majority of people here just don’t know what he’s up to, that’s how easy to fool they are.
I allow enough of your posts through that everyone can see that the posts that I do allow through are exactly the way I describe the posts I silence – and I usually silence them because they are repetitions of stuff I have already allowed through.
Repetitious commie crap that refuses to engage any of the arguments against Marxism Leninism and Cultural Marxism.
If you were willing to make an argument, I would allow it through, but commies never make arguments, because you were shot out of the water centuries ago.
What’s Jim “up to”? I see that innuendo from you a lot, yet you never quite seem to spell it out.
If you mean that he’s up to muzzling shills like yourself and helping to lay the philosophical groundwork for dumping you and your NGO buddies into the middle of the Pacific, then we know, and we approve.
It’s typical commie babble: ‘you may have beaten me for now, but I still hate your guts. Rest assured that one day when you show weakness me and my commie buddies will kill you and your family.’
Of course, the most relevant part is he acknowledges being beaten. That he acts like a bitter loser is, I think, no surprise to anyone here.
Normal person behaviour is fucking off from a blog where the host is a lying censor and a shill for ones enemies – obviously the audience does not agree that this is the case, since they are here, and you are crazy for thinking so and staying.
The amount of flak the CR policy receives, 0, reflects the opinion of the audience – maybe this is because we are all drooling morons led by the nose ring to the slaughter house by the grand overjew, maybe it is because we never saw what you wrote and just trust the censorship of our host, or maybe it is because we have seen what you think, several annoyingly big books worth of it, and we don’t like it or your indignant spamhappy ways, and wisely support suppressing it.
like, shut the fuck up dude.
(if you stopped the repetitive antagonism everything would be much nicer for everyone, and dissidence is valuable – you could be valuable here. let go of the pride, it does not serve you)
I loathe censorship and i used to enjoy CR posts from a long time ago as i thought them stimulating (prior to his blackpill shit about having kids). And, as you very accurately stated, I have 0 problem with him being censored. He is obviously externally compelled to be here. No sane man would continue. Glenfilthie is gone, and many others besides for various reasons. Why this fag continues to stick around indicates high level faggotry with a deep need for abuse.
…lol what if CR is a girl? Might explain the reckless fag stuff, the inherent socialism, and the deep desire to keep getting beaten.
Why did Glenfilthe and others drop off this blog? Many commentators seemed to have dropped out.
That’s just the nature of the medium. New people come, old people go, sometimes old people just create new identities. Even shaman disappeared for a little while.
People get too busy. People become worried about their privacy. People get married or have kids or have more kids. Some people ragequit or stressquit. Maybe some people just get bored.
If there’s an implied question here about moderation damping engagement, I’d say that’s working as intended; the true measure of value is not how many unique individuals interject themselves into the conversation, but how far the memes spread, and judging by some of Trump’s recent speeches, I’d say they spread quite far indeed.
Okay.
Quality in the comment section has def increased compared to before, both through formal and informal moderation.
Yeah, people come, people go. It’s a hobby thing; you do it for a while, perhaps you get bored, or you found what you were looking for, or you find a new hobby. Few hobbies like this tho.
The anonymity makes it harder to build a community. Scott Alexander has about ten percent of Jim’s charisma, yet his commenters have real-life meet-ups and everything. That’s much more streamlined, whereas my identity here and offline are very decidedly separate.
Before the relentless deletia, your (CR) long rambling comments were a sui generis form of ASCII art that I enjoyed as such.
Then the quixotic salmon-run struggle against the moderation provided a sort of comic relief.
Now, it just looks like spam for the sake of spam. Failing to take the obvious step of creating your own blog, one that defensively archives the ASCII art in all its glory, is a sign of bad faith. You write walls of text sure to be screened but can’t be bothered to cut and paste? I suspect Jim is making solid and generous decisions on the moderation, precisely because he strikes me as having old school laissez-faire online free speech inclinations in practice, no matter how much he might disavow free speech in theory.
If you respond, please do so with actions such as making a blog, not (a priori idiotic) complaints that you are being denied the audience earned by someone else’s years of high end blogging.
He did create a blog only a few months ago. He posted some five or so entries a day, of not inconsiderable length, for a very short time before shutting it down. He also took a stroll through twitter in the same fashion around the time.
I don’t know if the fed shill memeing is always seriously meant or if it is a means of taking the air out of low quality commenters.
Jim always challenges CR to discuss things he is not allowed to acknowledge even exist like the woman question and because he fails we assume he is bound to a script. Hes admitted to having worked for the British government in the past as well.
Feds don’t pay enough to get true oddball creatives. It’s hard to simulate prolix semiautistic inspired nonsense with Tortured Soul overtones, fiction writers work hard to get those kinds of effects, and you can’t get it on tap at industrial scale in fluent grammatically correct American English for 25 dollars an hour.
For the more conventionally disputatious and less earnest writers like “Allah” it is easier to imagine that they could be Fed-ayeen.
On the contrary if Allah is a fed or a shill he much outranks CR who repeats the same crap with minor tedious variations every time.
Allah is allowed to go off script to a much greater extent then CR is which speaks to him being a Cathedral inner party type rather then Outer Party type.
Or, might “Allah” be exactly what he says, a Turkish university student?
Nah, that can’t be true. Too far-fetched. He must be an FBI agent using a Turkish VPN.
Personally, I use it as a rhetorical device to indicate that someone’s position, or behavior, is aligned with working for a government agency.
I tend to agree with Omar about this one. Without revealing too much here, let’s say that I know how actual feds write, and none of these regular antagonists fits the bill, though on a scale of 0-10, I’d put CR at 2 and Allah at 4 – both scores being maximums.
The hallmark of a fed is that he knows and understands you all too well, and — despite his plausible deniability — you can tell clearly that he knows and understands you all too well. Feds have more SIGNIT than you can shake your stick at, and spend a whole lot of time analyzing it. If someone seems to not know or understand you at all, likely not a real fed.
And feds who shoot their comments at personal blogs usually perform very brief “hit and run” jobs. The longer one sticks around, the less likely he’s a fed.
> Turkish VPN
The way to bet is always against someone being a fed, gay, actual crazy, or other statistically small-to-tiny category, absent strong or specific evidence. That doesn’t mean our guesses at the probabilities have to be the same in every case.
There is some social utility to telling people if they don’t want to be considered as potential shill/fed/troll then not to write and engage like one.
> More sigint
Certainly there is a difference between high level agents (which “Allah” may well be one) and low level shills. The shills not having access to such information only scripts to read from.
I never doubted you were a Turk. I doubt you are the Turk you claim to be.
CR is an fbi or havard shill – he says what he is directed to say.
He just cannot go off script. Nikolai does a lot of irritatingly scripted stuff, but it is openly the official script of his religion and he can go off the official script of his religion. CR gives us a script, denies the religion whose script it is, and just cannot go off script.
Lots of people give scripted stuff lots of the time. Shills are defined by not only giving scripted stuff, but by saying “I am not an X, I am totally an opponent of X”, and then sticking unshakably to the X script.
Troofers are obviously shills, because not only will they unshakably stick to script, but they will not say anything critical of Mueller or the FBI, even though Mueller and FBI misconduct could plausibly be interpreted as evidence that the hijackers were a show stage managed by Mueller and the FBI.
CR is an obvious shill, because his work is obviously being scrutinized by HR, as for example when he piously blamed the acid attacks in the streets of Britain on the white working class – albeit in his case, he obviously has British supervision, while people who focus on troofism obviously have US FBI supervision.
If he was a genuine lost soul and genuine nutcase, would be able to acknowledge hate facts when they are glaringly obvious. If his beliefs were genuine, there is nothing stopping him from noticing bad conduct by non wealthy foreigners. Denying the acid attacks was very plainly the heavy hand of Human Resources, not the policeman inside.
Plus a genuine communist just does not stick to every jot and tittle of the communist script when you talk to them in private. CR is just too doctrinaire to be genuine. A genuine communist will concede, at least in private, that there are some parts of communist doctrine that have passed their use by date and are a bit on the nose. It is obvious that everything he posts is under supervision by communist supervisor who requires adherence to the communist line, even parts of the line that have grown old, stinky, and an embarrassment.
It’s not just the “senior” institutions who shill, though. There’s Media Matters, Share Blue, and a variety of other commie content farmers, and they all pay their people – generally minimum wage – to shill specific subjects and never go off script.
I’m not really that familiar with CR’s history, but he doesn’t appear to be that smart; I’m guessing 120ish IQ. FBI probably looks for higher quality, and although they are likely not finding much quality these days, CR has been around for… I think at least a few years now? If he’s fed, he’s got to be in some dogshit position that’s basically assigned as a punishment.
NGO is more likely to me for most of these guys, probably one of the Soros OSF offshoots.
(Considering the response to the maimed version of my post it must have been better – for the record, the rest of it was a teary eyed sad interpretation of CR as a lonely, desperate nut alone in the night, returning here for the memory of once feeling like he belonged.)
What you say makes sense and i could only speculatively argue against it – maybe his lockin is due to personal antagonism to you. I don’t have a tuned shill radar.
Abraham on rabbinic dietary laws:
King David on rabbinic dietary laws:
The obsession with separating meat and dairy is not Biblical. The rabbis have abrogated the important commandments — don’t murder, don’t covet, don’t steal, don’t bear false witness — in favor of made-up nonsense that was evidently unfamiliar to previous generations.
And in particular, the no covet rule. Trouble is, that coveting is a holy sacrament of progressivism, and the rabbis want to be acceptable to progressives.
Jim, you are very wise but I often wish you would cite more sources for your views as not everybody has read what you have read. In this case, I can help: it was largely Richard Dworkin who defined coveting as the holy sacrament of progressivism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/envy/#3.2
“A different way in which envy might be thought to motivate broadly egalitarian thought is by appeal to the idea of envy-free allocations. A distribution of goods is said to be “envy-free†when no one prefers anyone else’s bundle of resources to her own.[24] The suggestion here is not that envy is the psychological motivation for the concern with equality, but rather that, where a distribution in fact produces envy, this is grounds to doubt the fairness of the distribution. But ‘envy’ in these contexts is a technical term for any situation in which someone prefers another’s bundles of goods, and does not refer to the emotional syndrome with which this entry is concerned.[25]”
I.e. the definition of envy as sin is turned to its opposite, it is not the sin of the envious, but the sin of a distribution, if it is capable of “producing” envy, then it is unfair, regardless of whether people actually feel the emotion of envy or not. It follows logically that actually feeling envy becomes having a good unfairness-detector, which is logically an important thing for a social reformist egalitarian, and thus a virtue.
Parched corn! Wow. I thought corn was undiscovered in Mexico at that time.
That and thank you for the food/meat/dairy Bible excerpts. Abraham was pre-Genesis/Exodus/Deuteronomy, and David was post, so those are two great data points that I had never put up the effort to find myself.
Corn is a word that has been in the English language before Columbus and meant all grain. I guess the work slowly came to mean American grain because maize is a word that flows less in English sentences.
The word “peppercorn” is a reminder of this.
In the KJV it means parched grain, though, not Zea Mays.
Anyway, whatever “Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk” actually means, it is clear that the Pharisaic interpretation of this commandment, that all meat and dairy must be thoroughly separated, is a wild and far stretch, that it had not been even remotely observed either before or after Mosaic Law went into effect, and that constantly doubling down on this superstitious issue is a form of “religious OCD,” leading to ever less observance of core commandments as more and more of one’s attention is diverted to those darn maleficent cheese crumbs.
In modern Israel, IDF combatants who dare to put cheese in the “meat refrigerator” or sausages in the “dairy refrigerator” are routinely punished. Personally, I’d suggest subjecting the IDF’s rabbis to electroconvulsive therapy (sans any sedation) until their OCD is completely and permanently cured, but then, of course I’d suggest that.
“Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk.â€
Do you think that was even meant literally in the first place? I don’t recall ever eating (or just seeing) meat boiled in milk before.
If memory serves, boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was a ritual in one of the various pagan and demonic playbooks back in OT days. A lot of the stuff in the first 5 books of the Bible is basically…don’t do what these pagan dogs do.
Possibly, Jehu is correct, and it refers to an ancient Canaanite pagan rite.
Another possibility is that the word read as milk (chalav) should rather be read as fat (chelev), and that the commandment basically tells us, “If you feast on the young goat, be kind and spare its mother.”
Deuteronomy 22 says:
So, possibly the commandment says something similar.
Its also to do with not up mixing life and death.
Just like how dead bodies can make a man ritually unclean.
Or that using a living giving nourishing substance like milk in and mixing it up with a dead animal or using it as an instrument of death by boiling a live animal.
Many other measures to separate life and death are apparent when one applies this theme to the Old Testament.
This fits with the theme of Jesus as saying God is a god of the living. (Mark 12:27)
And his dislike of dead bodies in (Jeremiah 16:18) when commenting on Idols.
Nuts
Not what Jesus said.
??? I am not quoting the gospels. It is a deduction. Separation from death and disease seems to be a major theme in ritual purity.
One is physically pure by not eating animals that have died of natural causes and not drinking water polluted by decaying bodies. One is sacrally pure by avoiding wrongfully spilled human blood. The Jews substituted one for the other, and got covered in the blood of a Roman cop slain in the course of performing his rightful duty.
You propose to return to the error that Jesus Christ pointed out and corrected. Which is the opposite of Christianity. What goes into your mouth can merely make you sick in body. What comes out of your mouth can make you sick in the head.
The new covenant did away with those things yes.
But I am talking about why such ritual purity laws were handed down by God in the 1st place.
And their symbolic significance.
Jesus is dead on in regards to moral and spiritual cleaniness.
So I dont see how explanation of ritual purity and its symbolic purpose is proposing what you said.
It was meant to be symbol pointing to something greater.
The meaning of those purity laws gets tortured into the grossest impurity
I don’t think it happened in the first temple period, but when the Romans started kicking the Jew’s asses in the second temple period, they started torturing the law to justify morally vile conduct – hence Jesus had a short way on ritual purity.
Over and over again, the voice of God in the Old Testament tells us that ritual purity is only a stand in for genuinely good conduct. The congregation of the Lord should demand outward compliance with rather silly and arbitrary rules because we cannot tell if someone is inwardly complying with sensible and important rules.
But it came to pass that people were legalistically complying with these rather silly and arbitrary rules, and legalistic compliance was not an indicator of inward compliance with sensible and important rules, but rather an indicator of the grossest violation of these sensible and important rules. Observing the letter of the law ceased to correlate with observing the spirit of the law, spectacularly so in the incident that eventually resulted in the Roman expulsion of the Jews.
The letter of the law stopped working because the Jews were lawyering God, gaming the system. Gnon was unimpressed.
Agreed. The Lawgiver himself had to incarnate to set things straight.
I read a case made in this comment section that the meaning is metaphorical and the sentiment is “don’t screw someone for doing you a kindness”.
he mad
All of your questions can be answered by reading previous posts.
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Top kek.
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Hindu or Thai? Just FBI: Now’s in your auditorium.
Acne-faced ‘n lacking taste: I’m here to monitor ya.
Walls-of-text, who knows what’s next? Truly, Mahabharata.
Such bummer, shitposting-spammer: Merely collecting data.
Speaking of shit? Right on the street! I spread my defecation.
Ya’ll on my lists, unlucky autists: Show me cooperation!
Lowly snark, glows-in-the-dark: A federal requirement.
Thick unibrow, like flatulent cow: Polluting the environment.
Witness my wit, I’m no Dalit: They call it “Indo-ARYAN.”
Hear whatta say: shower’s passé! I stench of reeking carrion.
O great Ganga, cowabunga: In excrement I’ll dive!
The eyes of HR, are never too far: Thank Vishnu I’m alive.
Paralyzed dick, I’ll send you its pic: Repay with bobs ‘n vag!
Ain’t a felony, excessive melanin: So call me Agent Rajj.
Furiously fapped, locations I mapped: To toilet-voyeur Cyndi.
Low-effort scripts, penis death-gripped: An unresponsive Bindi.
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To the tech savvy here; how much of this article is trustworthy?
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/
All of it. All this information, and the object code on which it is based, has been widely available since the Stuxnet turned itself off in 2012. The analysis and object code was widely shared.
Your entire very lengthy post can be paraphrased as “Marxism Leninism is obviously true because it is obviously true.”
No longer very obvious, even to the mainstream left. If your account of imperialism was accurate, not only would ISIS not have gotten the oil, Saudi Arabia would not have gotten it either. That was Trump’s point, to which you have failed to reply. The problem is not that you are not replying to an obscure band of reactionaries and a bunch of libertarians who believe that the baker should be forced to bake a gay wedding cake, but that you are not replying to President Trump.
The argument that the oil, including ISIS oil is secretly owned by evil capitalist overlords is as transparently insane as the argument that towers fell in 9/11 to demolition charges. Like the troofers, you never actually provide any support, you just assume the support is well known. Marxism is the equivalent of “Jet fuel cannot melt steel”, which argument assumes that molten steel is entirely obvious and uncontroversial, but is never accompanied by any evidence for molten steel.
Similarly, no evidence for invisible capitalist overlords, and your wrath is not actually directed at these invisible capitalist overlords who secretly own the oil anyway, but at the peasant with two cows, and the man who owns your local Domino’s franchise.
Whats with all the “gay nationalists” and “conservatives in this thread?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JLPtalk/status/1189954252271050752
In addition to claiming to be a right winger, a right winger who takes Marxist History, Marxist Economics, and Marxist Class history to be self evidently true, so self evident that it is entirely unnecessary to present evidence or argument, you are now claiming to be a Christian, which you very plainly are not, nor of Christian background.
Tell us the New Testament position on female initiated divorce, homosexuality, and the roles of husband and wife in marriage. You know every jot and tittle of Marxist dogma, but are entirely unaware of the contents of the New Testament.
All your beliefs are a heresy from Judaism, whereas a standard issue progressive has beliefs that are a heresy from Christianity. Further, your obvious ignorance of Christianity suggests a Jewish derived background.
If you’re lying about him like you’re lying about me, he could very well be correctly observing that lifelong monogamy was absolutely standard and routine until 1963, when LBJew directed the CIA et al. to effect Civil Rights, Sexual Revolution, and the Great Catholic Cleansing.
And we would never know, because you’re a censor to make Stalin blush.
If I am lying about you, post something that does not assume that every jot and tittle of Marxism Leninism and cultural Marxism is universally accepted, uncontroversial and obvious, and argues for some point of Marxist History, Marxist Economics, and Marxist Class theory from within the frame that your point is controversial, far from universally accepted, generally rejected by me and most of your audience, requires actual evidence, and present actual evidence for your claim.
Respond to any one of the numerous rebuttals on this blog.
Or, since you are now purporting to be of Christian background, post a rebuttal to the faith that argues from within a Christian frame, using Christian, rather than Jewish shibboleths, and which shows some vague familiarity with traditional Christianity, at least at the Margaret Mead level. Emulate one of those progressives in the tradition of Margaret Mead who have sufficient familiarity with Christianity to argue that progressivism is the truest Christianity. What you know of Christianity comes from the Frankfurt School, heretical Jews who got what they think that they know of Christianity from Orthodox Jews.
You’re confusing me with someone else.
Name a thing and I’ll tell you why you’re wrong:
* Moon landing
* 9/11
* gommunism
* the Puritan Hypothesis
* Venezuela
* ISIS and NSS
* how normal things were before 9/11
* American population replacement
* Australian immigration and your misplaced dicksucking of Turnball (Turnbull?) or whomever
* Christopher Langan
* Spielberg’s magnum opus, A.I.
Choose!
I choose Marxist Economics and Marxist History theory. Let us debate whether Israel was capitalist at the time of Jesus, and capitalist at the time of King Solomon, since we have an ample supply of troofers, but not many Marxists, and we have an ample supply of documents that are familiar to most of my readers, though unfamiliar to yourself, that were written back then.
The advantage of Israeli history is that they wrote books, which were translated before political correctness was enforced on translations of old books – Authorized King James Translation.
But if you insist on assuming, rather than arguing, Marxism, we could do 9/11: As for 911, I choose molten steel, or dancing Israeli Mossad agents, or World Trade Center building seven falling on its own foundations like a demolition, rather than falling towards the massive terrorist damage and the fire into the square to the south of it. Citing troofers as evidence for trooferism will be deleted. Citing the FBI will be deleted, because Mueller and the FBI are the original troofers. You have to produce the photos that the FBI lied about, not their interpretation of what the photos supposedly show. Similarly, let us see the photos of molten steel, the rubble pile of building seven, etc rather than what Mueller, assorted universities, and the FBI tell us these photos show.
One hundred and eleven troofer “facts” which presuppose molten steel, dancing Israelis, or building seven falling on its own foundations like a demolition will be, as usual, silently deleted, as will comments that presuppose that periods for which we have adequate and familiar documents were not capitalist.
You’re not actually willing to debate the “Puritan hypothesis”, you just casually dismiss cladistics in favor of inane Marxist theories.
Really, on any of these topics, you won’t actually present any evidence, or rebut our evidence, you’ll just ignore our evidence and spout Marxist claptrap. It’s happened dozens of times by now. How stupid do you think we are not to notice the pattern?
Unresponsive.
Give us argument and evidence. You are not allowed to simply assume your conclusion.
To make an argument against the cladistic analysis of puritanism/progressivism, you have to say something like “At date X, Frankfurt School Jews came in to Harvard and replaced the Christian puritans” or something like that
OK, what date, and how Christian were the Harvard professoriat by then?
The cladistic model is that Harvard was a holier than thou priestly seminary created to rule New England as the official state religion of New England, then by the time of the Civil war considerably holier than Jesus, and not long thereafter holier than God, at which point they proudly proclaimed that Christians were despicable and contemptible deplorables who needed to be emasculated and their guns taken away, long before the professoriat allowed Jews into Harvard.
It was Christians transitioning to progressivism that were responsible for the War of Northern Aggression, the dismantling of marriage, and women’s suffrage.
You cannot just dismiss the cladistic model of progressivism as the latest name change for Brownism, except you give us approximate dates for changes in the official faith and personnel.
Unresponsive. You are going through the motions of debating on empirical evidence, without actually engaging your interlocutor’s argument.
Asked for empirical evidence that “the Civil War had nothing to do with holier-than-thou antiracism†you respond with an enormous pile of highly convincing empirical evidence that politicians of that time were shockingly, unthinkably, and indescribably unholy by 2019 standards.
2008 Obama was shockingly unholy by Obama 2012 standards, and both very different Obamas shockingly unholy by 2019 standards, as Trump cheerfully points out with great regularity.
This is rather like Troofers being challenged on their claim that there was molten steel when the towers collapsed, and responding by providing a mountain of empirical evidence that jet fuel cannot melt steel. Yes, indeed jet fuel cannot melt steel, but the relevant question is not how holy 1860 was compared to 2019, but how holy 1855 was compared to 1865.
Its too bad none of the shills ever actually attack the Puritan hypothesis, because there are actually some flaws in the theory.
1. The Post-Puritans were the originators of early leftism but they actually LOST the power struggle in the Northern states after the Civil war and lost it pretty badly. It took Woodrow Wilson (a Southerner with IMHO outright Marxists sympathies) to breath life into the corpse of progressive leftism.
2. From the New Deal onward to the modern era the progressive constituency relied upon Catholic ethnics and (as the wignats are so found of exagerrating) jewish intellectuals. Though second wave feminism originated with left wing CIA WASPs (who paid all Jewish women to push it).
On the one hand, you have a point.
On the other hand, Puritanism is still more destructive than Catholicism – it has of all Catholicism’s vices, and none of its virtues. Both religions are dominated by gays who take it up their incontinent assholes, but Puritans are open about it, while Catholics are in the closet. Both religions are antithetical to male sexuality, but Puritans have taken it all the way to en masse (((circumcision))), Comstockery, banning prostitution, an ever rising Age of Consent, and similar projects which are still ongoing and intensifying. Both religions are universalist, but it’s the Puritans who launch bloody wars to “reform” and police the entire planet about Womyn’s Liberation and condoms-on-bananas and “Human Rights Democracy.” Both religions are full of whiney kvetching cucktards with balls more blue than the deepest ocean, but at least Catholics build beautiful Cathedrals while Puritans only create ugliness.
Catholicism was heavily infiltrated by Satan; Puritanism was outright invented by him.
How recent are the latest reasonably OK Catholic Cathedrals?
Not very recent, presumably.
My point to Cominator is that I counter-signal Catholicism because all the Catholic shills here (they know who they are) are pushing cucked positions and falsely call these positions “Reactionary.”
For example, these Cucktholics gladly and happily support and join in the blue-pilled, blue-balled, and blue-uniformed WASP Poztestant obsession with masturbation, pornography, prostitution, and teenage sex, they tell us that husbands have no justification whatsoever to flush down defective perilous womb-cancers, and they pat themselves on their hunched and warty backs for being celibate.
(“THE FUCKING KIKEEEEES OWN ALL THE PORN STUDIOS!!! MUH JEFFREY EPSTEIN SATANIC PANIC!!! THE JEWS ARE MAKING ME RUB MY OWN PENIS INVOLUNTARILY!!! MY INNOCENT DAUGHTER IS FUCKING NIGGERS ON MODELHUB BECAUSE SHAMAN FROM JIM’S BLOG, WHO IS MOST CERTAINLY A JEWISH PEDOPHILE, FORCES HER INTO IT BY EMITTING HIS IRRESISTIBLE, CHARISMATIC, AND TELEPATHIC MIND CONTROL RAYS!!! ABOO HOO HOO, ABLOOOOO!!!!!!!!!”)
Still, come the restoration, ordinary Catholics won’t be needlessly persecuted for being Catholic (and ordinary Jews won’t be needlessly persecuted for being Jewish), but Puritans of all stripes and backgrounds will definitely be forced to enjoy a warm and refreshing shower in Auschwitz – or a helicopter ride, I guess.
The closest thing to actual Puritans in the US today are Baptist Evangelicals and they overwhelmingly supported Trump. In the case of Southern Baptists they supported him in the Republican primaries.
I am ADAMANTLY opposed to giving them helicopter rides they saved the country. It was the POST puritans and the Puritans that Cromwell himself defeated (and exiled) who caused the problems and it wasn’t even entirely them… as I mentioned above there are a lot of flaws with the puritan hypothesis.
The proper way to look at Epstein was that he was a glownigger running a honeytrap.
My approach to handling Catholicism will be to train up a bunch of Orthodox priests and an Orthodox Patriarch, and one day all the existing Catholic Church’s property will become part of the American Orthodox Church (communicating with the Pope without Imperial authorization will become treasonous contact with a foreign power on day one and this will be strictly enforced) and Catholic clergy would be given the choice between swearing allegiance to the new American Orthodox Patriarch under royal control or going to a work camp in Alaska.
The laity wouldn’t be harassed unless they tried to contact the Vatican directly without permission (as mentioned that would be treason), they would just have nowhere Catholic to go.
The reason that Baptists are closest to the original puritans is that they escaped the holiness spiral. The defining feature of the Puritans is that they were in a holiness spiral from the beginning, which led to the English civil war, and their ideological descendants are still trapped in a holiness spiral, having become holier than Jesus before the war of Northern Aggression, and are today militant atheists intent on driving Christianity, not only out of public life, but out of everyone’s private lives, because they have become holier than God, and are determined to inflict their superior holiness on everyone, through the schools, through child protective services (which wants to transexualize your boys, sell them to gays, and pimp out your daughters) and through Human Resources.
The holiness spiral caused the English civil war, it caused the war of Northern Aggression, and is now rapidly approaching Civil War II, which may well feature nuclear weapons.
Cromwell saved England, in that he cut off the holiness spiral sooner than Stalin did, and was less a captive of Puritan beliefs than Stalin was a captive of Communist beliefs. Cromwell gave Monck a praetorian guard, while Stalin failed to give Beria a praetorian guard. But Cromwell was still a Puritan and a regicide, and England did not get back on the path to civilization, empire, science, technology, and industrialization until the Restoration.
Puritanism was Christian heresy, and Progressivism is Puritan heresy. One could even argue that Marxist-Leninism and Intersectionality are Progressive heresy, and some progressives do argue that, although they use secular phrasing.
It’s all one big, never-ending holiness spiral. You can find individuals and groups at various stages who rejected the holiness spiral and chose stasis instead; they are the “conservatives” of their generation. But what they choose is almost always stasis, never restoration.
We don’t need stasis, we need restoration.
> Puritan hypothesis … some flaws in the theory
Like any retrospective explanation, it’s fit to the data, so empirically adequate by construction, without the adequacy as such necessarily being impressive. The same applies to evolution, for more or less the same reason, hence the (somewhat pointless and motivated) dissatisfaction with calling evolution “science” or taking it as a complete explanation. We explain backwards but want to reason forward.
Jim tries to get at underlying mechanisms (WQ and all that), needed for prediction and control (engineering), which is more convincing but at present requires leaps of faith to accept the evopsych/PUA work in progress as basically a done deal. At the moment I think the Moldbug historical approach is the most convincing — evidence of past successful and unsuccessful models counts for a hell of a lot — but the Jimian clarification via sociobiology can eventually surpass it with enough foundational work to go beyond mere rhetorical persuasion. Hence the need for a new canon of truly-reactionary history books and meditations such as Alf’s book on God, working out the evo-game theory for networks of agents and so on.
Returning to the Puritan hypothesis. Cladistics can always be done retrospectively. Everything descends from something, which descends from something else. Jim put it succintly in the Aaronson-Boldmug epic: “it was inevitable that the branch of leftism that took longest to go pear-shaped would end up ruling the world”. But this does not rely on any property of Leftism other than it being whatever is currently super-hyper-powerful and descends from something only slightly less super-powerful that had enough Darwinian inclination to further increase its power. This is more or less Moldbug’s definition, leftism (“a mystery cult of power”) is that ideology which constantly seeks power as an end. This does not help predict what movements in the present are best ideologically adapted to become tomorrow’s successor-leftism. We can extrapolate historical trends to say that, democracy having being the vehicle for the last couple of centuries and still being in power, whatever vacuums up more voters and gives them more rights will continue to be it for a while. Thus, more and more Inclusion (antiracism, immigration, lower voting age, welfare; everyone knows the drill). But the cladistics goes back more than 200 years, and the institutional structure can change again, so this is just an extension of recent trends and not an explanation of what leftism “really is”.
In short: retrospection feasible, medium-term prediction possible, genuine mechanism discovery is difficult.
Silently censoring your posts for the usual reasons. Your verse needs improvement. Giving you marks for effort though. Try again with more respect for sense and poetic scan and I will let it through.
Not everything that attempts to be parody and verse, is. Insults are graded on entertainment value.
My verse? My verse was great. The rhythm was perfect. You have to infer the double- and triple-beats, though: it gets complex. Consider the following:
It’s really quite a shame, but he plays the part,
Of a cryptographer with a fatal brain fart:
He believed what he saw on the television screen,
The results we have seen, ‘twas poor mental hygiene.
Here’s the approximate rhythm:
da- dadadadada, dadada da da,
dadada, dadada, dadadada da da,
dadada dadada, dadadada da da,
dadada dadada, dadadada da da
OK, that passes, but the rest of it stank.
Thank you.
That poem is criminal. There is no metrical form in English poetry into which that could plausibly be crammed. It’s reasonably close to an alexandrine though. Are you perhaps an uncultured Frenchman?
I’m insanely bright, my structure, rhythm, allusion, and imagery are superior to Byron, Keats, Shelley, et al., and I can’t live by your rules, maan.
(sigh) You keep thinking papier-mâché is a structural material. And it still isn’t.
That’s what those trailing-after-Cthulhu and believing this time IT surely stopped swimming did so many times, invariably creating Frankenstein grade constructs. The Cult of the Supreme Being, Wiccans and Hubbardologists being the most obvious.
The first problem with fake things is exactly being unnatural. Which is why this invariably attracts mostly loons and phonies, and this sets the course. Even if it’s true that otherwise this could be mostly irrelevant after a while, since any such phenomenon is re-shaped by its own memetic evolution combined with pre-existing behavior stereotypes of an ethnos.
Speak in plain English. I know what point you are trying to make but no one will reply to your pseudointellectual garble.
You have a wife. A seaside house, a garden with fruit tries, friends and money to get drunk with. Your life is great. Now consider this:
There are people out there who are alone, living with their parents at a late age, or renting some pod in a megalopolis where you have to drive for hours before you see a single tree, who have to choose between paying their electricity bill or eating and who have nobody to confide in, especially with regard to their badthink, let alone the money or time to drink alcohol. None or very little of this is their fault – they were simply born in a world ruled by the Cathedral (Satan), which hates them and wants to see them suffer.
Hard to imagine why these people would have a bleak outlook.
Not even trying to insult you here, Jim. I’m genuinely curious as to why someone in a shitty situation would believe the world is not ruled by Satan, especially when he sees an entity very much resembling Satan shitting all over him out of what appears to be pure sadism.
Because, despite being in shitty situations, people have dreams and hopes.
What we have created here, through NRx and Jim’s blog, is, for the first time since Progs exterminated the hope Jesus brought, is a new hope. We recognize much of the modern world is shitty, we recognize how and why it is shitty, and we have created a solution for that shittiness. Implement our solution in your life, and you will find your life situation drastically improving.
Of course, that does not guarantee you a seaside house by next year. Whereas Jim is a relatively wealthy man, I, by implementing Jimian solutions in my life, am still just-above-broke. But I’m doing pretty well. I have a pretty girl who makes me tasty dinners, a kid whose laughter lights up the whole house, and I’m enjoying what I’m doing, both for money and in my spare time. It’s not much, but it’s mine, you know? That satisfies me greatly.
And really, compared to most people around me, I do exceptionally well. Despite most people making more money than me, I can see the envy on their face. What all this is about is telling people: why be envious when you can have the same thing we have? All you have to do is listen…
“Implement our solution in your life, and you will find your life situation drastically improving.”
What is this solution exactly?
It is hard to provide a cookie cutter solution because people are different, with different problems.
For me, it meant re-evaluating my entire life. I cut off toxic people, which in my case was my entire family and a big chunk of my social circle. Previously, I did not value property. Now I see it as an imperative to secure it – so I went out of my way to buy a house. I used the red pill to secure a nice girl, and because of the red pill our relation is very solid. I pushed her to have children; a woman not wanting to bear your children is a shit-test. I quit my education to become a physician; physicians are government employed, I avoid anything governmental like it is the plague. I now do work where I am valued for my results, as opposed to how well I suck up to others. It pays less, but every euro feels earned. Finally, I carry myself differently. People have expectations of you based on societal norms; because I get my norms from this obscure corner on the internet, I behave differently from what people expect, better than people expect. You gain more respect.
But again, that’s what it means for me.
I feel a change in my attitude and I don’t know if it too comes from getting my values from this obscure place of the internet.
Used to be socially anxious which boils down to being worried how people judge me.
This not only stopped, but in fact I feel I am judging people now. Complete opposite.
It is not a very happy place to be in yet, because right now I tend to judge most people very negatively. Which is not a very inspiring place to be in. I sort of should try to see more good in people.
The reason I tend to judge people very negatively now is that I have always hated dishonesty. You and Jim are saying we always perform to a certain extent, we are always dancing monkeys, but I was never okay with that. Never okay with too much of that at least.
I am okay with it to that extent where there is a script of etiquette to follow. Muh autismo likes that, when the rules are clear. Where the forms are performance, but the CONTENT is honest. That is sort of like accounting, I like accounting, put real stuff in the books, but put it onto the socially decided account number, so true content, social form.
I tend to judge people very negatively because I get too much NPCis scripted content, where everything is said because it is socially expected to say that and there is no real actual honest part of the message. This is just me. For example I always hated chitchatting. Talking for me always was to exchange interesting information, not to exchange entirely empty, content-free forms. It’s like accounting with made up numbers. It is stuff like I don’t enter my birthday on LinkedIn because I don’t like people giving me entry empty, not really meant birthday greetings. Because those who really care about it have my phone number and will call. But going through an entirely not-meant script of sending best wishes on LinkedIn to people you don’t give any fucks about just disgusts me.
So I judge that harshly and sort of trying to learn to judge that less harshly in order to be more whitepilled about people.
But at least becoming very judgemental solved any anxiety about worrying about how people judge me.
(Another thing on judgementalism and confidence. I think it is very often so that the strong confidence that is really necessary for Game / RP comes from formerly having been seen that hot thot as a demigodess and worrying if one is good enough for her, and now seeing her as a dirty slut who should be grateful to us for expressing interesting in her. But again, that is not a happy place to be, most men eventually stop slut-hunting, try to find a decent woman and if succeed feel so grateful that there is a real danger of the frame being lost, back to beta and pedestalizing her. Being grateful for having found a decent woman AND still keeping alphaish frame – now that is playing it on hard mode.)
The problem with good women is women are herd creatures and the herd of evil insane American women in time wears them all day. All women BECOME like that.
One of the most obvious signs of having found a decent woman is that she strongly dislikes the fem-herd. My wife’s opinion is that women can be decent when on their own but when they get together in a group it’s all backstabby gossip, so she meets her friends (other mothers) on a one to one basis, not together. She is telling me the problem with meeting not one but two or three female friends is that when she goes to take a pee she can be sure they are laughing “Have you seen those terrible shoes she is wearing?” and wants none of that.
I think it is relevant, because what will those women do who do meet other women in groups? They only way they avoid that sort of backstab is to conform 101% to the group so they cannot gossip/secretly criticize about anything. So I guess that creates herdiness. Going on shoe shopping together so none of them can make fun of the shoe later on behind her back.
“One of the most obvious signs of having found a decent woman is that she strongly dislikes the fem-herd. My wife’s opinion is that women can be decent when on their own but when they get together in a group it’s all backstabby gossip, so she meets her friends (other mothers)”
ABSOLUTELY but the problem is the fem herd tends to reel them in.
Knew a girl (we weren’t banging as she was married and although I probably could of she really liked me for whatever reason… but as I actually really loved this one and she was married I specifically would not want to take advantage of her big flaw of having poor impulse control) who for years was as trustworthy and honest as any male friend who avoided girls nights and would only see her sisters and ONE old female friend absent mixed company. She was manipulated into changing this and soon her character severely changed for the worst, honest loyal and trustworthy became a typical untrustworthy lying American bitch.
Although this may sound strange this was even more blackpilling then a bad break with the good girlfriend… as the good girlfriend was good as long as she was infactuated with me but in a lot of other ways bad character (and she was a huge pretty fanatical shitlib politically) the female I wasn’t banging… really had a good selfless honest character that changed rapidly for the worse when she stopped isolating herself from other women.
Yet here you are, performing your monkey dance for us other monkeys 😉
I did not pull my wife with beta provider game, and I am always tempted to give her too much beta provider game. When she says she loves me I am always tempted to reply that I love her. And when I do that too often she gets stroppy. So I continue to dance the same dance as when I was looking for a new wife.
I continue to play the dangerous bad boy adventurer. Otherwise, things would get difficult. Sometimes I neglect the dance, and things do get difficult.
I have friends and acquaintances with good marriages and respectful well behaved children, and friends and acquaintances with bad marriages and difficult children. And I can see what works and what fails. So, I do what works.
The same in the small as in the large. Family, property, and patriarchy.
Indeed the large solution is merely a hope and a plan for making the small solution legal again, as it was two hundred years ago.
We need a true King to lead us in battle, so that we can each be King each under his own roof, but, Kings and battles being chancy things, each man must build his little Kingdom for himself without the government noticing and destroying what he has built.
The plan is
Without Throne and Altar, hard to have freehold, family, and property, but it is doable if you are willing to take some risks, willing to live the lifestyle you were created for, even though it is illegal and vehemently condemned day and night.
If you would be willing to share, what do you consider to be the characteristics/attributes of a king to follow into battle?
It seems to me that lots of “soyboys” (among others) think they are the only one fit to be leader/king, but they are pretty easy normally to tell since they can’t even talk the talk. Then there are others who talk a good talk, and seem to mostly be doing an okay job of leading, but every so often make a bad decision for the group, and never undo the change. (and then in a year or a few, the group/company is dying/dead.)
So maybe the better question would be: How can a person tell when to forgive a leader for not being a perfect all knowing being, and when to acknowledge that they are not really fit to be leader/king?
In a small group, the beta male makes the alpha male alpha by acting beta to his alpha. The chicks see the alpha male’s status endorsed by his entourage, and follow the alpha around. The alpha then gives some of his surplus to the betas.
The True King and the True Faith is this system in the large, with the top alphas in the Kingdom acting beta to the King, who then confirms them in their little Kingdoms, and similarly down to the peasant in his hovel, with the peasant’s lord treating the peasant as a king under the small and leaky roof of the peasant’s hovel.
This system went horribly wrong when King Louis the fourteenth disempowered the nobility of the sword, and ruled through the servants in his palace, which became the nobility of the robe, but empowered not himself, but dangerously powerful bureaucrats dangerously close to the throne. Then King Louis the sixteenth interfered with the price of grain, empowering the mob against the merchants, whereupon the bureaucracy used the mob against the King. And here we are.
And as with the True King, so with the True Faith. The True Faith conducts a marriage ceremony suitable for heterogamous organisms, and socially enforces cooperate/cooperate equilibrium between men and women as a matter of faith and morals.
At present, if you try to organize a marriage ceremony through any mainstream religion, they are not going to marry you, they are going to insist on gay marrying you.
Our enemies promise to redistribute the means of production, but the white working class know that they would have no idea what to do with the means of production. If it actually got redistributed to them, they would starve. We, however, promise to redistribute the means of reproduction.
Our enemies notice that merchants are vulnerable, so they incite a mob to burn down the supermarket as in Ferguson and Venezuela. We, however, notice that Jeremy Meeks is more vulnerable, and what he has will not be destroyed by the transfer, but will be enormously improved in value. The authorities in late eighteenth century, early nineteenth century Australia had one hundred percent success in turning whores into wives, and the newly married women, their shit tests passed, internalized the values commanded.
The bureaucracy was already excessively meddling in the French economy under Louis XIV.
Things got especially bad under Louis XVI because he got into what was sort of a world war (of which the American Revolution was only a part) with England that ended in a military statemate but a bankrupt treasury. I think Louis XVI then tried to fix the price of grain at an artifically low cost things spiraled out of control the Tennis Court Oaths happened (the Estates General disempowering the king extralegally) but they quickly found they had sawed off the branch they were sitting on.
“Let them eat cake” was not a stupid as it sounds. As in Venezuela there was no bread, because of price control, but not everything was price controlled until after the French Revolution and The Maximum. So she was advising the masses to sneak through the cracks in the system. Pretty much as we are doing. And instead the revolutionaries shut down the cracks, as the Democrats plan to do.
I think the problem was that the non-price controlled food was even more expensive then the pre price control bread (and the French unlike the rest of Europe did not grow the other cheap food eaten by Europe’s poor, potatoes) so the bread didn’t exist and the other food was unaffordable to the Parisian poor.
If you have property, wife, children, and authority over your property and family, you will probably be happy enough, often enough.
If.
>The faith of Gnon requires confidence that God intends use to be happy, provided that we follow his laws, intends us to conquer the world and the stars, requires the white pill. If someone accepts the red pill but concludes the black pill from the red pill, concludes from the red pill that a wife and children that belong to him, in a home that belongs to him, will not make him happy, not of our faith. The black pill is gnosticism. The white pill requires us to accept the world of the fall, the world of Darwinian natural selection, and still be cheerful and optimistic about it. Every morning the dawn wakes me up, I squeeze my wife’s backside, and she makes me coffee while I watch the sun rise over the islands and the sea. Most evenings I check my fruit trees, then I sit down on my log in my garden, and watch the sun set over the mountains. Every few weeks, I get drunk with my friends. Is this a world that belongs to Satan? Is this a world ruled by Satan? Every dinner and most lunches I thank the Lord for my food, for the pleasant company with whom I eat it, and for the beautiful creation in which I eat it.
The Gospels of Christ teach that this world is not for His followers, and that we will find it to be generally hard to bear. Christ went so far as to say you will hate this life.
So, you could conclude that’s a big black pill I suppose, if you don’t actually believe the Bible and Jehovah and Jesus are who they say they are.
But if you do believe the Bible, and you have faith, or something better than faith (physical evidence, as I have) then you actually move past the red pill, past the black pill, and on to the Golden Pill.
The Golden Pill means that you can get through life on a planet you’re not from originally with ease, despite the evils Satan wreaks in ever-increasing amounts, because you know that eventually (and probably sooner than most think) you’ll be rescued by the return of the Lord Jesus to sort things out. He’ll wipe out most of humanity, those who didn’t believe in who he was. He’ll send Satan into a prison for 1,000 years and then he’ll literally rule the earth from Jerusalem, and those who have been the best advocates for his Father’s laws, commands and statutes will be placed in positions of power.
After a thousand years, Satan is released for a bit, there’s a final war (maybe Jim will be in the ranks with Satan eh?) which obviously Jesus wins with ease, and then every nation on the planet acknowledges him as supreme ruler for even more.
Then, the best bit, all the dead, and those still living, everyone that’s ever existed, will have to kneel before Jesus, acknowledge his power and glory, and be judged by him, based on their faith in him, or otherwise. Even many who believed in who he was will be found guilty of preaching lawlessness (the Catholics and Protestants will be turned away, as they willfully don’t observe the Sabbath). Muslims will all be found guilty, and all atheists, followers of Baal, gnon (whoever that is), Hindus, Sikhs. all guilty.
The guilty will burn in the lake of fire until they’re dead. Forever. Knowing the truth as they burn. I imagine I will be stood to the side as Jim is thrown in, watching him burn to death in agony, gone forever, not to the stars, but to oblivion for eternity. Would that be THE black pill Jim?
Me, I’ll be resurrected (if dead) into a perfected body, and will live forever, literally forever, on earth with Jesus ruling, and Jehovah will join us, bringing His temple back down to Jerusalem.
I expect to become a scratch golfer as eternity progresses, that will be fun, I hope to get a game with Seve, hoping he makes it through Judgement.
Would you call that a Golden Pill, eternity on earth with no evil around, just perfection? I would.
And, if need be, as I continue to speak for the Lord in the years ahead, I end up being martyred, perhaps by the likes of Alf, or Jim, who preach entirely faked up Gospels like the Catholics always have, I’ll not bat an eyelid. I enjoy my sleep, and a rest til Jesus returns will be fine.
Oh, I mentioned the evidence, rather than faith. Yes, as well as some dreams and visions I was given back in February, overnight whilst I was asleep a song was changed on a playlist on my phone, with one pop song being replaced by a Gospel song. The same playlist on my PC and the burned CD I have in my car were unchanged. Literally a miracle, I was amazed, but I was given proof. I think I know why too.
Details at my blog, Dumnonia Watchman (blogspot). You’ll find it.
Don’t fall for the BS of the blog owner here. Look what he writes:
>If you have property, wife, children, and authority over your property and family, you will probably be happy enough, often enough.
Yet fully 80%+ of his posts are about what a mess all of those facets of modern life are. So why does he lie to you? Because he’s working for the prince of lies, and he wants NONE of you to follow Jesus and obey His Father’s will, here on earth, as it is in heaven.
Don’t be deceived, grab a Bible, ask to know the truth, to know Jehovah and Jesus, and mean it, that’s all you need to do, and it will happen (I just wrote a one-line sentence in an email a few years back, expressing a curiosity to know God, if He existed, that was it, but I meant it. Boom, suddenly everything changed).
May God let you see through the fog and find Him, he’s waiting. Amen.
Presuming Salvation and gloating about it is one of the most unchristian things imaginable. Real Christianity is constantly begging God for mercy and incessantly decrying you’re own unworthiness. It’s almost impressive how you manage to be a gnostic and a judaizer at the same time, usually those are conflicting heresies.
Btw, what institution codified the Bible that you worship? It’s on the tip of my tongue…
>Presuming Salvation and gloating about it is one of the most unchristian things imaginable.
Chapter and verse please, I have no interest in your opinion, Roman.
Here’s what scripture says though:
’11And this is the testimony: that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12The one having the Son has life; the one not having the Son of God does not have life.
13I have written these things to you, the ones believing in the name of the Son of God, so that you may KNOW that you have eternal life.’
I know this, it’s great.
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Jim, you’ve called me a gnostic several times, and I literally have never even had a clue what a gnostic was, so I had a quick look at wiki. Here’s what I found:
Three periods can be discerned in the development of Gnosticism:[55]
Late first century and early second century: development of Gnostic ideas, contemporaneous with the writing of the New Testament;
Mid second century to early third century: highpoint of the classical Gnostic teachers and their systems, “who claimed that their systems represented the inner truth revealed by Jesus;”[55]
End of second century to fourth century: reaction by the proto-orthodox church and condemnent as heresy, and subsequent decline.
‘During the first period, four types of tradition developed:[55]
1. Genesis was reinterpreted in Jewish milieus, viewing Jahweh as a jealous God who enslaved people; freedom was to be obtained from this jealous God;
2.A wisdom tradition developed, in which Jesus’ sayings were interpreted as pointers to an esoteric wisdom, in which the soul could be divinized through identification with wisdom.[55][note 21] Some of Jesus’ sayings may have been incorporated into the gospels to put a limit on this development. The conflicts described in 1 Corinthians may have been inspired by a clash between this wisdom tradition and Paul’s gospel of crucifixion and arising;[55]
3. A soteriology developed from popular forms of Platonism in which the soul ascended to union with the Divine;
4. A mythical story developed about the descent of a heavenly creature to reveal the Divine world as the true home of human beings.[55] Jewish Christianity saw the Messiah, or Christ, as “an eternal aspect of God’s hidden nature, his “spirit” and “truth,” who revealed himself throughout sacred history.”[43′]’
You will never be able to find one single sentence I’ve written here at your little blog that matches any of the four points listed above. Go ahead and try, anyone, search the blog, and you’ll not find a single comment that even comes close to the nonsense above.
Also this at Wiki:
‘Gnosis refers to knowledge based on personal experience or perception. In a religious context, gnosis is mystical or esoteric knowledge based on direct participation with the divine. In most Gnostic systems the sufficient cause of salvation is this “knowledge of” (“acquaintance with”) the divine. It is an inward “knowing,” comparable to that encouraged by Plotinus (neo-Platonism), and differs from Christian proto-orthodox views.[1] With gnosis comes a fuller insight, and gives an understanding of the deeper spiritual meanings of doctrines, scriptures, and rituals.[citation needed]’
There are and have been millions of Christians like me through the ages, who simply take their faith entirely from God’s word, the Bible, and spurn man-made traditions and Roman revisions. Most of us end up as martyrs, we expect it.
I have no special knowledge, just the Holy Spirit within me, which keeps me on the narrow path. I am not spiritual, in fact I never spiritualise scripture. You may not like the fact that I quote Jesus and stick to his commands and those of Jehovah, but that’s because you’re working for our enemy, Satan. So you want to distort everything in the Bible, and use it for your own enrichment.
Let me finish with some more scripture:
’15Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone should love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16because all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the vaunting of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17And the world is passing away, and its desire; but the one doing the will of God abides to the age. ‘
‘4Everyone committing sin also commits lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5And you know that He appeared, so that He might take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6Anyone abiding in Him does not sin; anyone sinning has not seen Him, nor has he known Him.
7Little children,b let no one lead you astray; the one practicing righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8The one practicing sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God was revealed, so that He might destroy the works of the devil.
9Anyone having been born of God does not practice sin, because His seed abides in him, and he is not able to continue sinning, because he has been born of God. 10Through this, the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: anyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, and also the one not loving his brother.’
’21Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God, 22and whatever we might ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him. 23And this is His commandment, that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another, just as He gave the commandment to us. 24And the one keeping His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: by the Spirit whom He has given to us.’
‘4I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5And now I implore you, lady, not as though I am writing to you a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another. 6And this is love, that we should walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. ‘
Here you go Jim, this final piece of scripture describes both me and you:
>7’For many deceivers have entered into the world, those not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8Watch yourselves, so that you should not lose what things we have worked for,a but you may receive a full reward. 9Anyone going on ahead, and not abiding in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. The one abiding in the teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son.’
One of us abides in Christ and one of us is a deceiver.
Do you Jim confess that Jesus was the Messiah, the only begotten son of Jehovah, who was killed, rose from death on the third day, then ascended to heaven, where he sits right now, on the right hand side of God, until he’ll return in glory to rid the world of sin.
Do you confess that Jim?
Will you answer that question with a yes or no Jim?
I do, I confess it all, so I have the Father and the Son.
What, precisely, do you have?
Piously announcing that you stick to the commands of Jesus is holier than thou, since Jesus told us that we could not do so, which is part of his and Saint Paul’s considerable efforts to prevent his followers from holiness spiraling in the manner that the Pharisees were holiness spiraling.
So, in your posts to this blog, you are very clearly not sticking to the commands of Jesus.
Rather, you are telling us that Gnosticism is holier than Christianity. Observed behavior of Gnostics in practice is that in their actual lives, they are considerably less holy than Christians, and in telling us of your spiritual superiority, you are being considerably less holy than myself in your messaging to this blog.
You have said this all before and it is getting repetitious. This argument is a waste of space, and further posts, especially lengthy posts, are likely to be censored for repetition. Your arguments for Gnosticism are defensible and plausible, but we have been through these arguments before for two millenia. Piously announcing that you are holy is unholy online activity indicative of the offline activity for which Gnostics have been infamous for two millennia.
Gnostics generally fail to reproduce or to cooperate. Gnosticism is the black pill. Gnostics give up on this world for presumed salvation in the next, which means that in observed practice they give up on right conduct, on loyalty to friends and kin, in this world.
It is the religious equivalent of “Men Going their own way” Christians are required to not give up on this world and they are also required to not be holier than thou. You fail on both counts, which is a reliable indicator that like most Gnostics for two millennia, you fail on just about every count.
Deleted for repetitious claims of holiness that are forever beyond the capability of mortals to achieve, and a stubborn misreading of the gospels, which might perhaps be defensible in a different context, but is utterly indefensible when accompanied by, and used to justify, implausible proclamations of holiness.
Which characterizes what is wrong with Gnostics. While Progressives are holier than you are because they care deeply about strangers in places they could not find on a map, and thus are dangerous to kin, friends, and other progressives, Gnostics are holier than you are because privy to secrets you do not know, though they are eager to share, and thus are dangerous to kin, friends, and other Gnostics.
The superior holiness of both progressives and Gnostics is unimpaired by doing very bad things to friends, family, and neighbors.
@INKY INKT
What’s so hard about answering a RedPill on women question?
You are a Gnostic. There is plenty in this life to support Gnosticism, and if you pick and choose fragments from the scriptures, plenty to support Gnosticism in the scriptures, for the devil can quote scripture to his purpose.
But Gnosticism is heresy, was declared to be heresy way back in the beginning, and observed behavior of Gnostics is similar to that of Satanists, wicked and self destructive, dangerous to their friends and impotent against their enemies. By your fruits, we know you.
Gnostics are not Christians, but they tell adherents of every faith that they have the truer version of their enemy’s faith. You told the Jews that you were Jewish, you told the Christians that you were Christian, you told the Zoroastrians that you were Zoroastrian, and you told the Manicheans that you were Manichean, and the Manicheans were deceived.
Gnosticism keeps coming back because the world of the fall, the world of natural selection, is mighty harsh, and Gnostics keep going away, because they don’t cooperate with each other very well and they do not reproduce successfully.
Readers of this blog are privy to some uncommon knowledge: That the Western world is ruled by a leaderless, increasingly insane leftist cult, and that this cult is destined for an inglorious end. None of us know exactly how it will play out, and no one is safe, but the more leftist you are, the more likely you are to die in the coming left-ocalypse.
How is our secret knowledge different from that of the Gnostics?
Gnostic knowledge makes Gnostics holier than thou, without the inconvenient requirement of actually having to act rightly in this world to friends, neighbors, and kin. Same as progressivism, where caring deeply about people you cannot find on a map excuses you from caring about friends and kin.
The survivorship fallacy is that stuff that has befallen every other nation is unlikely to befall us, because the anglosphere has been going fine for centuries. This is akin to a stock market bubble. It is true that markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. It is, however, also true that that which cannot continue, will not.
So we are not analogous to Gnostics. We are analogous to people calling a stock market bubble.
Holiness escalation has been a very successful strategy for progressives (not so much for Gnostics) as investing in tulips was a very successful strategy, so more and more people are following that strategy, as more and more people invested in tulips. The price of progressive holiness, like the price of tulips, has become unsustainable. (Gnostic holiness, however, remains cheap, which it should, being entirely worthless.)
Our secret knowledge is that holiness spirals are followed not by value of holiness permanently stabilizing at extremely high values, but by a sudden catastrophic collapse. As they say when giving stock market advice, past performance is no guarantee of future results. At some point going ever lefter is going to get one killed, probably by one’s fellow leftists. Trouble is, it is likely to get everyone else killed first.
I think you mean “recency bias”. Being lefter-than-thou has always been a winning strategy as far back as any living person in the Anglosphere can remember, so it always will be.
Good answer, and thanks for leaving up some Gnostic postings so we can learn to spot Gnostics in the wild.
Survivorship bias means that those polities where everything went pear shaped are not around any more. All surviving polities are polities where things have not gone pear shaped. So people look at every surviving polity and say “this time it is different”.
Mike quotes Solzhenitsyn :
And if you shove one of the not-surviving polities in their faces, they say, “That’s not socialism”. When Sweden gets bad enough, progressives will piously declare that Sweden is not socialist, never was socialist, and we never said it was!
They already do that and they are not married to the concept of socialism – they are married to the concept of robbing and murdering the peasant with two cows and knocking over the apple cart. If the concept socialism is a succesful vector for achieving these goals, it is pursued and defended, otherwise not.
My sole purpose in life is to be accused of being a Jew, a pedophile, and especially a Jewish pedophile, by Trad Tard losers who never influenced the culture war, never wrote successful books, never produced viral manifestos, never created their own thriving ideological movements, never had hundreds of direct followers (and tens of thousands of indirect followers), never reached 4,000,000+ views on any one of their blogs, never had their memes disseminated all over the internet, never gained notoriety for their epic trolling campaigns, and whose reality testing is half-way between CR and Kookanic.
WRPQ: According to the Red Pill, who is responsible for Internet Pornography?
a. Capitalism. As we all know, and all agree, modern society is ruled by Capital, and serves his interests above all else. The only reason to dispute this account of reality is being a Baby Boomer. As such, the reason some girls go into porn is that our capitalist culture of consumerism, hedonism, and materialism, offers them money to do something so anathema to their inborn natures. Prior to capitalism, i.e. prior to the 18th century, there were virtually no prostitutes. The people who claim that prostitution is the oldest profession, and that it was common for 10% of women in most societies to be prostitutes, have clearly not read enough Marxist literature to set them straight. Once money is abolished, the problem will solve itself. But Capital, helped by his Randian libertarian supporters, is preventing us from abolishing him, so here we are.
b. Misogyny. In the same way that racism alone makes POCs commit disproportionate violent crime, homophobia causes homosexuals to get AIDS, and transphobia causes transsexuals to commit suicide, misogyny makes women have sex for money in front of a camera. Some people among us are innately evil, or can’t get laid, or have a small penis, and these people then develop irrational prejudices against womyn. Driven by these irrational and misplaced feelings, they go on to oppress, demean, and objectify women by giving them money in exchange for a sexual performance. Sadly, there is no real solution to such misogynistic oppression, but the least we can do is agree that men are awful. Awful, awful, awful.
c. Directly, out-of-control women are responsible for it, because when sexually liberated, women are prone to make bad and stupid sexual choices which later on they might regret. Since female sexual promiscuity has become the norm, and men aren’t legally allowed to pass women’s shit tests and effectively own women as wives and daughters, lots of women — especially those educated in Progressivism — figure that they may as well become literal whores and get banged like a drum by stud porn actors. It’s an altogether unsurprising development. Indirectly, the Cathedral’s Progressive holiness spiral is to blame, and particularly the blue-pilled Victorian lie that women naturally make wise sexual choices, and should therefore be liberated to make them, rather than married off when they are young to economically productive husbands who can provide them with reproductive sex. The leftist Cathedral, being memetically Puritan (with substantial Quaker influence), tells us that we must never question the wisdom behind female sexual behavior, that women always make rational and good and wonderful sexual choices, that women fully understand the implications of their decisions, and that the problem is everything in the world except female misbehavior. The cladistically Puritan Cathedral doesn’t allow husbands and fathers to own their families, thus female sexual liberation, thus mass whoredom. The solution is abolishing the Cathedral and Prog education, and restoring hardcore coverture.
d. Jews. Since Jews own all of the studios, and most political power is theirs, it logically follows that they are able to induce women to overcome their inner nature (which is chaste) and work as whores against their own wills. Jews have that kind of power. Boomers like Jim may argue that Jews can’t actually make women do things that they don’t want to do, that women are more powerful than Jews and not vice versa, but that’s just typical deluded Boomer nonsense – in actual fact, Jews have more power than women, and are alone capable of playing women like a fiddle. Really, it’s not women who produce porn by documenting themselves spreading and riding. It’s the damn Jews. Women just do whatever the Jews who own the studios and rule society tell them to do, because of the infamous Jewish mind tricks that we all agree exist. It’s not women who are exploiting their Jewish pimps – it is the Jewish pimps who are the exploiters in all of this. Besides, why blame female nature and female sexual liberation under the Cathedral, and thereby risk angering some girls whom I’m trying to impress because I’m a classic beta orbiter, when I can just blame a category of Bad Foreign Men? The solution is a variation on Sieg: Heil Hitler.
e. Technology. There would not be Internet Pornography if there were no internet – fact. We need to eliminate the internet, and indeed, we need to destroy all the technological and scientific inventions of the 21st and 20th centuries. I’m not crazy and not mad at all, by the way.
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Let’s see how many accusations of Jewish pedophilia (or just Jewishness, or just pedophilia) this one gets me from ideologically PWNED Trad Tards with precisely 0 achievements.
Just want to say these “Jewish pedophile DESTROYS heretics with scripture and logic” threads are absolutely brilliant and much appreciated. Based and redpilled!
Ecclesiastes, a pretty mixed (interpolated) work, contains lots of Epicurean stuff, which is fundamentally anti-Gnostic. If anyone is looking for Biblical Scripture that says “Enjoying one’s daily life is generally better than not enjoying it,” this book delivers the stuff. Epicureanism may be regarded by some as a heresy, but if so, then it is the opposite heresy to Gnosticism, it isn’t nearly as destructive, and it’s better to err on the side of Epicureanism than on the side of Gnosticism.
Chapter 5:
Chapter 8:
Chapter 9:
Of course, people looking for Gnosticism in the Bible can find it, but as discussed ITT, when both material conditions and public morals are improving, as under Christianity in its relatively non-pozzed phases, Gnosticism becomes unattractive and people tend to be drawn more to an Epicurean life-outlook. The Gnostics, after all, turned the Dionysian rites on their head, inverting their cathartic debauchery of yore into Nirvana-seeking through renunciation of the world:
Ascent vs. decline.
Arguably, the differentiation between an Old Testament and a New Testament is itself a concession made by Christians towards Jews.
Since God’s will is independent of Mosaic Law (hence the pre-Mosaic tales in Genesis, or the decidedly non-Mosaic Samson narrative, for instance), any of the relevant texts that reflect it might simply be Scripture; the differentiation between Old and New was made not primarily on the basis of chronology, but on the basis of content: the “Old” doesn’t directly follow Jesus’ mission, while the “New” does. Law vs. Gospel.
But why make this distinction? The Christian view is that Jesus Christ’s mission marks a new covenant that concretizes the manifestation of Divine Will on Earth, i.e. the Logos – it fulfilled ritual law, and substituted the spirit of the law for legalism; yet it is of the same exact origin as the so-called “Hebrew Bible.” The Law and the Gospel are inseparable, as the latter in no way cancels out the former, but rather breathes a fresh and indispensable life into it by unshackling it of its dead letter, so that its spirit may be made manifest.
The response to the heresy of Marcionism, which rejected the “Jewish Bible” completely, should have been “We make no distinction between an Old Testament and a New Testament; both of them are one and the same Holy Bible, both are of the very same divine source.” The failure to do so looks suspiciously like a theological concession made to the Jews, i.e.: “You Jews have your Old stuff, whereas we Christians have your Old stuff plus our own New stuff,” implying a clear and obvious rift between the former and the latter.
Instead, should have framed it rather differently, should have framed it as: “Our Scripture is whole and undivided; yours is partial and incomplete.” The difference here may seem all too subtle, but it’s quite meaningful: There is but one unified and essentially indivisible Bible, which Christians possess, and Jews don’t; neither the Law nor the Gospel can stand independently, within such a frame.
In short, not “the Law vs. the Gospel,” but “the Law and the Gospel,” the latter being the live spirit without which the former is but an inanimate instrument, yet both being essential, and being inseparable.
In 2013, in a conversation with B, Jim wrote:
100% agreed, and I would like to add that this doctrine is not at all incompatible with some old school (really old school) Jewish views, albeit obviously not orthodox Jewish views like B’s.
Let’s consider the full implications of Exodus 6:3:
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty [El-Shaddai], but by My name LORD [Yahweh] I was not known to them.
Clearly then, the Biblical authors were comfortable enough with the idea that God incarnates in various different manners, at times revealing one aspect of His, and at different times revealing another of His aspects. If that’s the case, then who is to say that Yahweh couldn’t descend down from His Throne and embody a human form to walk among us? To say that Jesus could not have been God is to dismiss Exodus 6:3, because — so goes the inner logic of that position — God must only have a single aspect which He reveals to humanity. But in actual fact, we do read in this verse that Abraham, Issac, and Jacob knew God as El-Shaddai and were unfamiliar with Yahweh; and if so, then it may well be argues that Jesus Christ was another manifestation of God that only was revealed.
Point being, contrary to orthodox Jewish accusations, accepting that Christ is an aspect of God is not “the worship of foreign deities,” because Scripture tells us that God may choose to reveal Himself in different ways, at different times, to different people, even using different names and identities. If Christ cannot be true God and true man (at once), then Exodus 6:3 should urgently get scrubbed off the Bible, because according to that view, God only has a single identity. Nah, God can assume or manifest whatever identity He so desires. Jews should think well before arguing that “Christ is a foreign deity,” because then they’d have to resolve the emergent discrepancy between El-Shaddai and Yahweh, to say nothing of El-Elyon, Elohim, and I Am That I Am – other theonyms and theophanies.
So, next time a Jew or some other heretic pulls off the “Jesus could not have been God” line on you, raise the implications of Exodus 6:3.
>I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty [El-Shaddai], but by My name LORD [Yahweh] I was not known to them.
If God appears as God Almighty, the one and only living God, but does not choose to reveal His Name (or one of them), you’d have to pretty stupid to infer He’s appearing as something other than Himself, given that He has stated He appeared as Himself, but just didn’t reveal His name.
A logical fallacy is ever I saw one.
If the Son of God, Jesus, the Messiah, literally begotten by Yahweh via Mary’s conception, and then needing the Holy Spirit to descend upon him to begin his ministry, it’s a safe bet it’s not God, but His son.
If that son subsequently dies, literally dead for 3 days and 3 nights, good chance it’s not God, as God can’t die for a few days. He is eternal.
If the son constantly prays to Jahweh, seeks His approval, obeys His will even unto death, and if Jahweh expresses pleasure in His son, good chance it isn’t God.
If the son chastises a man who calls him good, saying only My Father in heaven is good, good chance it isn’t God.
If the son is unable to decide on who sits on His left hand, as told to the mother of the sons of Zebedee, saying God alone can decide, probably not God.
If the son falls to the ground in anguish and asks God if the cup can be taken from him, definitely not God, especially if the son then agrees he will follow God’s will.
If the son needs to call on God for 12 legions of angels, not God.
If the son, and no man, and no angels, but God alone know the date when the son will return, definitely not God.
If the son relies on two testimonies, his own, and that of God, unless he’s really bad at maths, not God.
If the son does not speak of his own accord, but of that of His Father, God, who sent him, not God.
If the son Jesus, goes to His Father, who is greater than the son, not God.
If life eternal is knowing the one true God, and also the man Jesus, not God.
If the son says “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.†he’s definitely not God.
I think that’s more than enough to destroy the Trinitarian myth, which was invented to fit with Greek/Roman ideas of their gods, and was nothing to do with the reality of Jesus Christ.
Jewish legalism. Lawyering God demonstrably results in a social order that self destructs. Your methods of argument are discredited by the events that led to the destruction of the Temple.
Plus, you just sound insane.
Stop twisting yourself into Talmudic knots. God appeared as one thing to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, identifying as El-Shaddai (sometimes translated as “God of the Mountains” or, alternatively, as “God of the Wilderness”), and He appeared as “I Am That I Am” to Moses during the Burning Bush episode in Exodus 3:14, and as Yahweh later on in Exodus 6:3. Plainly, that tells us that God may manifest differently if He so chooses.
God had diverse theophanies throughout the entire Bible, not to mention the Apocrypha, and there’s no reason why Jesus Christ could not have been one of them. Hence, Trinitarianism (God is Three and God is One): The Lord, The Logos, and The Holy Ghost.
Jehovah didn’t appear to anyone on earth.
Jesus himself said so …. ‘Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from God; He has seen the Father’
Also John 1:18, and 1J 4:12 both confirm this.
Also, Jehovah Himself tells Moses on the mountain that no one can see Him and live, so hides Moses in a crack in the rockface as He passes.
Scripture tells you literally that it was the Angel of the Lord, not God, in the burning bush, it tells you literally that Abraham was talking to God’s messenger, not to God and scripture literally tells you that Jacob wrestled with a man (again, an angel, they often appear as men).
>So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
>Just then, the Angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!†“Here I am,†he replied.
>There the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
>“I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you,†the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—before you. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.â€
And He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.â€
So to even suggest that God has shown Himself in ANY form to ANY man (except to the man Jesus) at ANY time is to contradict Jehovah Himself, Jesus, and dozens of examples too.
Just pure heresy and lies.
You’re really bad at this aren’t you?
Nope. We were specifically discussing manifestations of God, and God can manifest however He wishes – angel, human, or anything else, as indeed He has manifested in various different manners all over the Bible. Who are you to (contradict Scripture and) tell God what He can and cannot do?
John 10:30: “I and the Father are one.”
Shaman,
We, and everyone reading this argument, know exactly what we are (not were) discussing.
All reading here have read God’s words on the subject, and they have read Jesus’ words on the subject. You and I both know too eh?
They have read your words on the subject too, and your opinion differs from that of God and Jesus. I assume everyone (but you) knows what the Angels of God are too?
You are, of course, welcome to have your opinion, and to argue literally with God and Jesus. An incoherent approach to be sure, but you have the gift of free will.
If you have been deceived, I am happy to have opened your eyes. If you seek to deceive, I suggest you repent and stop, as those (like you) preaching a false gospel will suffer for it, according to scripture.
You failed to refute one single item of the scriptural examples I provided to show that Jesus was the Son of God, but not God Himself. You didn’t even try.
But I will refute your one piece of scripture now. The Greek word ἕν (one) does not imply being a part of the same substance. This is clearly illustrated in John 17:11 and 17:21-23, where in these passages Jesus prays to God that the disciples may be one (ἕν) as Jesus and God are.
>22And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, so that they may be one, as We are one— 23I in them, and You in Me—that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You loved Me.
>I in them, and You in Me–that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You loved Me.
The word ‘unity’ in verse 23 (above) is the same Greek word as ‘one’. Note that unity does not mean the same as union. It means ‘agreed, working together’, not physically joined.
So, I bid you farewell, and hope that you will stop spreading lies and heresies, as God hates people who do that.
Both Scripture and logic tell us that God can manifest however He wishes – and He evidently did, including as the Logos, the Christ.
@shaman
>Both Scripture and logic tell us that God can manifest however He wishes – and He evidently did, including as the Logos, the Christ.
If Scripture told us that God can manifest as He wishes, I’m sure you would quote chapter and verse.
You don’t, you merely assert that it tells us.
Weak.
Your logic is like a flea on a rat’s ass compared to the power and glory of Jehovah, and He tells us that no man may see His glory, lest they die (scripture quoted above).
Your continued argument with God Himself is instructive of your motivation, you are seeking to deceive, to lessen God’s majesty. You’re certainly a risk-taker.
You fail miserably, in the same way Satan fails miserably. Try following the winner, and avoiding the lying loser, otherwise you face a terrible judgement.
God can do whatever He wants.
Chapter and verse of scripture has been quoted at you repeatedly.
Banning you for failure to respond, among other things.
I banned the intelligent and thoughtful Nikolai for failure to respond when Saint Paul was quoted at him.
He, unlike you, is capable of intelligent response. In the unlikely event that you intelligently respond, I will allow it through. I hope to see an intelligent response from Nikolai. Not really expecting one from you.
Unresponsive posts from you will be silently deleted. Unresponsive posts from Nikolai will be deleted, but followed by a demand for response, but to my regret, he is not responding.
Unresponsive.
How do these people explain away what Saint Paul said? They just assume universal consensus that Saint Paul said the direct opposite of what he said, much as CR insists on interpreting me and Adam Smith as accepting Marxist theory lock stock and barrel, without attempting to give any explanation of why I supposedly agree with what I have just vehemently disagreed with. Everyone supposedly knows that Saint Paul supposedly said “celibacy”, and the fact that he repeatedly and directly said “no celibacy” is quietly dumped down the memory hole.
Is their explanation internally coherent and plausible? Saint Paul did not commend celibacy over marriage. He commended self control, but noticed that it was not common, and therefore recommended marriage, an observation confirmed by the present state of the Roman Catholic Church.
And supposing that he was commending celibacy, and claiming to himself be celibate, which is not how I read him, he unambiguously rejected clerical celibacy. Saint Paul tells us Bishops and Deacons should or must be married with children, and if married, should or must be having sex with their wives. If saint Paul was celibate, which I doubt, he did not want any celibates in the clergy, in part because of well founded suspicion that scandal would ensue, in part because he wanted demonstrated capability to successfully exercise patriarchal authority.
Engage the words of Saint Paul directly. Don’t just blithely ignore him and assume that we all agree that he said the direct opposite of what he plainly said.
Explain to us why Saint Paul’s words mean the direct opposite of their plain and direct meaning. Saint Paul tells us that clergy should or must be married with children, and married men should be having sex with their wives.
Nikolai,
As Jim says, conversations with you aren’t fruitless, unlike those with the schizophrenics, which is why we are having these conversations. It is unfortunate, however, that you insist that only the Catholic interpretation of Scripture is plausible, in much the same way that Orthodox Jews insist that only their interpretation of Scripture is plausible.
The most reasonable interpretation of St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 is that he considers sexual self-control to be superior to sexual incontinence. If you have no active lust, says he, it may be preferable that you not marry. He then goes on to explain, in very explicit words, that while he personally has that kind of nature, people as a general rule do not, hence they should get married – lest they end up tempted by Satan. He does not advocate celibacy, he opposes celibacy, because people (who aren’t exceptional cases like St. Paul himself) cannot remain celibate without falling into sin.
How do we know that St. Paul is praising sexual self-control, and at the very same time, tells us to get married and have sex with our wives, since otherwise we lose that self-control? Let’s see:
Titus 2:
St. Paul is preaching marriage here, not celibacy, and he is telling men and women to have marital sex, and to avoid such things as adultery and sodomy. Women should “be subject to their husbands,” which strongly implies always being sexually available to their husbands. We see here no indication that St. Paul considers sexless marriages to be superior to normal marriages (in fact, just the opposite), nor is there any indication that celibacy is likely to result in anything positive.
1 Timothy 4:
St. Paul prophesies through the Holy Spirit that in the future, “hypocritical liars” will arrive who will “forbid people to marry,” which is against the will of God. In other words, those who teach that being unmarried is holier than being married are comparable and akin to Judaizers who claim that avoiding certain foods makes you holier than if you don’t avoid them. St. Paul denounces both the Judaizers and those who teach celibacy, in the very same breath. These are the works of “deceiving spirits,” “taught by demons.” Prohibition of marriage, says he, is from Satan, as is prohibition of certain foods – cucks and kooks BTFO.
1 Timothy 5:
Widows younger than 60 — yes, Nikolai, St. Paul says 60 — possess “sensual desires,” and consequently “want to marry,” which is exactly what they should do. Otherwise, says he, “not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to,” which evidently is also the case with all of the childless unmarried cat ladies we see today. That is what St. Paul explicitly tells us; he does not consider celibate women to be holier than married women, rather, the exact opposite is the case – St. Paul recognizes that fertile females (and even some recently infertile females) possess an overpowering sex-drive, and should therefore be married. Thus we read: “I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.” Once again, tells us the Apostle in no-uncertain terms, failure to marry is apt to result in Satan worship and Satanic practices.
Hebrews 13 is quite conclusive:
If “marriage should be honored by all,” you don’t get bonus holiness points for celibacy. Otherwise, St. Paul would have said that celibacy should be honored by all, which he clearly did not say and did not imply.
Again, in light of all this, the reasonable interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7 is as follows: “It would be better if everyone had the sexual self-control that I possess, being able to overcome lust at all times, or to not experience lust in the first place; and since that is emphatically not the case, marriage is excellent and good and commendable, people should get married and have plenty of sex within marriage, and should definitely not be celibate, lest they end up controlled by Satan.” This is a nuanced position, but it’s not all that very complicated, now, is it? The refusal of holiness-spiraling Churchians to see what is in plain sight has made their Churches into dens of jeering demons.
When nuance is hit with a holiness spiral, nuance goes out the window – and with it, everything else Saint Paul said on sex, marriage, and the clergy.
Single women make trouble because they are cruising for a dicking. They make trouble because they hope that the alpha will come out of hiding and demonstrate his alpha by giving them a spanking.
By the way Nikolai,
On whether God communicates with us by (among other things) revealing His Scripture to us, or through Tradition alone, the Bible itself provides a definite answer. I’m bringing up this point because people like you are likely to tell us: “Okay, even if your interpretation of Scripture is perfectly correct, and even if it’s a healthy and sound interpretation, I’m still going to follow the Tradition which I have received from my Church.” Well, in that case, you should at least know what the Bible says.
2 Kings 22:
Summary: The High Priest Hilkiah found a Book of the Law, the contents of which were absolutely unknown and unfamiliar to everyone in the Kingdom, except to a prophetess named Huldah (verses 14-20). There was absolutely no Tradition regarding this newfound Scripture, and therefore, if the people involved had been “Traditionalists,” they would have totally dismissed the text and forgotten about it, burying it in some library somewhere, or dumping it in the garbage. Yet, upon reading it, the High Priest, the Secretary, and King Josiah himself, were struck by the soundness and correctness of the contents, and realized that it was a legitimate Sacred Text that should be followed rather than ignored. So, the Book of the Law was thenceforth perceived as authoritative and the King ordered everyone to adhere to it (see: 2 Kings 23; 2 Chronicles 34-35), without any “Tradition” to affirm its authenticity. The text, as it were, spoke for itself; it suddenly revealed itself as the word of God.
Nehemiah 8:
Summary: Ezra the Scribe, who was also a Priest, taught the nation to observe the Feast of Tabernacles, with which none were even remotely familiar. There was no Tradition at all about it, and it had not been observed for centuries – once again, it was discovered (or rediscovered) in the Book of the Law. If Ezra had been a “Traditionalist,” he could have simply pronounced those sections of the Book dealing with the Feast of Tabernacles to be Apocrypha or Pseudepigrapha or whatever, and dismissed them entirely. Instead, he exercised his judgement, figured that these commandments were valid and authentic, and that it was good for the nation to follow them, so called on the people to do so. Once again, that a certain text — or anything else, for that matter — is newfound or has been long neglected, doesn’t necessarily mean that it isn’t from God; it clearly depends on what the text actually says. By their fruits, we know them.
The fruits of correctly following the Pauline writings, with or without “Tradition,” are manifestly good. The fruits of following St. Jerome are evil, regardless of how authoritative the Church proclaims him to be. King Josiah and Hilkiah the High Priest were deeply impressed with the Book found in the Temple, considered it to reflect God’s genuine commandments to Moses, and embraced it; likewise, Ezra the Scribe found the Feast of Tabernacles in the Book of the Law, figured that it’s authentic and good stuff, and re-instituted it. Tradition was not so much disregarded as it was rightly and justifiably placed in subordination to direct Divine Revelations which also happened to produce good fruit.
There’s an important lesson here for us, then: A divine revelation that produces great and healthy fruit trumps even long-established traditions that evidently, obvious as the nose on your face, produce poisonous and rotten fruit. The original Pauline doctrines about sex and marriage, which doctrines are good, trump your Church’s holiness-spiraled teachings about clerical celibacy, which teachings are bad.
@Jim,
re your deleting my comment (made as I_Never_Knew_That) above:
>Deleted for repetitious claims of holiness that are forever beyond the capability of mortals to achieve, and a stubborn misreading of the gospels, which might perhaps be defensible in a different context, but is utterly indefensible when accompanied by, and used to justify, implausible proclamations of holiness.
In fact the comment was deleted (I suspect) because it suggested a wager to Jim.
He has called me a Gnostic many times, something I literally had to google a few days ago to discover what that was. Nothing like me at all.
I suggested to Jim that we agree a wager on the subject, and he would win the wager if he could prove by quoting any comments here at this talk-shop of his that proved I was speaking Gnostic beliefs. I would win when he is unable to back his libelous claims. (I haven’t yet taken legal advice on the subject, but I suspect costs would be very high to the loser in such a case).
It would need to be suitably adjudicated, as I don’t trust Jim as far as I could throw him.
But his minions know now he ran away from a wager, and lied about why he deleted the comment.
Anyone considering the value or truth of Christian faith is in the den of Satan’s supporters here, the modern wannabe Catholics.
Jim, a weak lying coward.
We don’t owe you our precious time.
regrettably, posts on religion tend to attract commenters that are stupid and floridly insane.
Attracting some insane commenters is not a bad thing, it is a sign that you are really outside consensus reality. OTOH the kind of commenter I don’t understand is that type that loudly announces that he despises you, that he despises people who agree with you and yet sticks around. WTF. It’s like disliking a restaurant but still keeping on going there to eat anyway.
I don’t like thinking they are getting paid for it, too conspiracy theory-like, but yeah, people don’t do things they dislike in their free time without getting paid.
That some of them are unable to commit, or even acknowledge, thought crimes consistent with their hail fellow reactionary persona suggests that some of them are answerable to Human Resources, and troofers are obviously fbi.
Every Christian religious tradition should be subjected to the “fruits” test in Matthew 7. The fruits of celibacy are consistent faggotry and evil plus the great evil of papism ultramonatism and thus the evil of priestly rule (the Papacy in its modern level of authority not existing until Gregory VII the great heretic of Rome whereas the Bishop of Rome was just a 1st among equals prior to him) as such we conclude that because celibacy bears bad fruit that a celibate priesthood is hated by god.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-pope-francis-to-abolish-priestly-celibacy-according-to-leaked-amazon-synod-exhortation
If having married priests is the solution to faggot entryism then what does the Pope have to gain by potentially eliminating priestly celibacy?
Is this just a stepping stone to ratifying gay marriage in the Church?
“If having married priests is the solution to faggot entryism”
I reject your “frame” here. There is no IF question here, it IS the solution to faggot entryism period. I’m not allowing tradcucks the false frame that there is any solution to faggot entryism that doesn’t involve eliminating celibacy.
“then what does the Pope have to gain by potentially eliminating priestly celibacy?”
As a non-catholic I love Francis because he has broken the very pernicious political influence of the Vatican by being an OPEN shitlib rather than a clever closet artful shitlib as John Paul II was (mr I’m anticommunist but you should open your borders and expand your welfare state). If he eliminates celibacy he’ll be really great.
You say moralfagging and tradcuck so often that they’re starting to lose their meaning.
I’ll never understand your particular hatred of the Catholic church. In terms of Progressive corruption it is no worse than any other Christian denomination. And don’t bring up the orphanages again, because whining about a bunch of orphans really is moralfagging.
Giving warriors higher status than priests enables warriors to police the priests and keep the faggots out, then celibacy is possible without the faggotry.
Globalism and priestly supremacy are innately part of catholicism as of dictatus papae. Orthodoxy does not have this, it only has the problem of celibacy but to a lesser degree than catholicism.
Warriors would have zero interest in enforcing celibacy. Athletes often dont fuck or jerkoff before a game, and boxers and MMA fighters go for long periods celibate but in general a warrior type is going to think lifetime celibacy is just weird.
Moralfagging about kids being tortured… Im okay with that.
“Moralfagging about kids being tortured… Im okay with that”
Is that a personal opinion or is it meant to reflect an official NRx position?
Please tell me if the following statements are correct:
1. Women and children are a man’s property.
2. A man can do whatever he likes with his property.
3. If he discards his property then anyone is free to claim it for themselves and do with it what they please
So in a reactionary state, should the government care if discarded property is claimed and then destroyed?
The question presupposes an oversupply of entirely unwanted children, like rats, that a man with an intact biological family discarded his offspring in the street, but kept his wife, and no other kinfolk exist.
The case seems unlikely, and the question presupposes an argument for state intervention in families, which inevitably becomes state replacement of families – thus in at least some states, Child Protective services seems alarmingly hostile to intact biological families headed by and supported by affluent husbands, especially if Christian, and is apt to strike destructively on entirely frivolous and contrived justifications.
One could argue that the Reactionary Position is morally equivalent to that position – but the argument that the reactionary position is morally equivalent to that position presupposes facts about the family, human nature, society, and the state that Reaction vehemently disputes.
I suppose my question is a bit too hypothetical and relies on too many pressuppotions to be answered seriously but I was trying to apply the principles I saw in other comments.
“The question presupposes an oversupply of entirely unwanted children, like rats”
I didn’t mean to imply that there is or will be an abundance of unwanted children but rather wanted clarification on the reactionary position on fathers killing their own children and wives.
Jim you said
“There is no real difference between a child sixteen weeks after conception, and a child sixteen weeks after birth. If we can murder the one, we can murder the other.”
https://blog.reaction.la/faith/the-resurrection-of-god/#comment-2218894
And a comment from NT:
“Right, this works like any other property law. I can park my car in my own backyard, smash it up with a baseball bat, pour gasoline on it and light it on fire. You cannot do that to my car, even if I was going to do it anyway”
https://blog.reaction.la/faith/the-resurrection-of-god/#comment-2208015
So if a father can kill his own child at anytime without interference, then anyone with proper ownership and authority of their child can kill it at anytime. Because if a father can end his child’s life in the womb then he should also be able to end it at anytime in the future. I’m not saying that father’s massacring their own children will be a common occurrence but rather asking if I am interpreting and applying these principles correctly.
In the same sense that there is no state apparatus for stopping people from destroying their own cars on their own property, I assume that their will be no state apparatus from stopping father’s (or anyone else with proper ownership of the child, such as orphanages) from potentially terminating their progeny and starting over if they choose to do so.
Am I correct in saying that the reactionary position is that a man has absolute lawful authority over his property and that there will be no state apparatus from stopping him from potentially culling his wife, his harem, his kids, his dogs, and his goldfish on a whim?
comment from shaman:
“a husband killing the fetus, in his own wife’s womb, whom he owns — is likewise not murder, and merely amounts to the destruction of one’s own property.”
https://blog.reaction.la/faith/the-resurrection-of-god/#comment-2206630
A man is sovereign over everything he owns and he can kill his wife and children with no external party questioning his justification for his actions regarding his property. A patriarch killing his progeny and wife isn’t murder but destruction of his own property. Just as God has total sovereignty over all of creation, a patriarchs household is a microcosm of God’s kingdom and he has total sovereignty over his property.
If the reactionary position is not morally equivalent to what I’ve described above then what is the reactionary position?
Well, yes, but …
It is not at all the same thing as destroying your car. It is immensely different.
Obviously a man that did this without good reason would be a very bad man, and no one should trust him. But not every very bad thing is properly the business of the state. The problem is that stopping some bad things is apt to undermine the freedom of action of good and law abiding people to do good, and is not always very effective in stopping those bad things. Further, any intervention will be gamed, with the servants of the state using it for purposes considerably more questionable than stopping the evil that it was intended to stop – the current horrific, criminal, lawless and evil Child Protective services being exhibit A. The sovereign is apt to find that he has empowered the priesthood, and disempowered himself.
I normally stay out of the deep theological discussions, but I clicked through and saw this:
OK, that’s interesting, sounds almost like it comes from Jim or Paul. But keep reading:
…and there it is. The author of the article (not the above quotes) says: “There is no reason to prohibit in other regions of the world what will be permitted in some parts of the Amazon.” But isn’t there? Double standards are part of the game, and this one would promote non-white fertility over white fertility.
regrettably, posts on religion tend to attract commenters that are stupid and floridly insane.
Silently banning you from here on.
I have already discussed the Gnostic heresy far too many times, and I am not going to debate Gnosticism all over again.
Deleted for refusal to discuss Saint Paul’s explicit directive that Deacons and Bishops should normally or always be married with children.
Are you telling me that Paul is saying that the priesthood should be composed of formerly married men who have abandoned their wives? That is what you seem to be telling me. If Paul’s words do not mean what they say, what then do they mean?
Your method is to torture fragments of Paul into evil and madness, and then glibly assume that somehow his plain directive that Deacons and Bishops should normally or always be married with children can therefore be ignored, because blatantly inconsistent with evil and madness, that it must have some other meaning, which meaning you neglect to explain.
Instead of holiness spiraling carefully selected fragments of Paul to insanity and absurdity, rendering them incoherent and making them contradict each other, and contradict our common sense knowledge of human nature, and our historical knowledge of how priestly celibacy has actually worked out in practice, let us discuss Paul’s explicit directive that Deacons and Bishops should normally or always be married with children. Let us discuss the texts that cannot be tortured into evil and madness, rather than only the texts that can be tortured.
You assert that because you have made a plausible case that some parts of Paul can be given evil, depraved, and insane meanings, the parts that cannot be given evil and insane meanings can simply be ignored in favor of some other meaning never quite explained. This is backwards reasoning. Rather, because some parts of Paul have plain and clear meanings that are incompatible with evil and madness, it is obviously incorrect to give evil and insane meanings to those fragments that can plausibly be given evil and insane meanings, however plausible the argument for depravity and evil is for a few fragments isolated from the context of the whole.
Rather, we need to first discuss Saint Paul’s straightforward directive that Deacons and Bishops should be married with children, and then we can look at fragments more amenable to text torture.
You have hinted darkly at some alternate meaning of Paul’s directive that priests should be married with children, without actually committing yourself to any clear meaning. Tell us plainly what you think Paul is saying when he tells us:
And when he tells us
I ask again: Is Saint Paul telling Titus to construct a priesthood of wife abandoners? If he does not mean what he says about the qualifications for priesthood, what then is he saying?
If Saint Paul did not expect Titus and Timothy to do as directed, what did he expect them to do? Suppose you are Titus and recruiting a priesthood as directed by Saint Paul. What are the sex lives and sexual and reproductive histories of the priests you have selected? Do you think that after they become Bishops they stopped having sex with their wives and having children? Do you think Saint Paul would have been happy if Titus had instead selected a priesthood composed almost entirely of childless single men?
If that is what you think tell me so, so that we can debate it.
If Saint Paul is not saying what he says, what is he saying? If Titus and Timothy are not to do as directed, what are they directed to do?
What is your text torture for these sections of Saint Paul? Are you telling me that if Titus had instead recruited a priesthood resembling the modern Catholic priesthood, Paul would think that Titus had obeyed him?
I don’t know what you are telling me. I keep asking, and you keep not answering.
Obviously first thing Saint Paul would have said to Titus would have been “Hey, that is almost the opposite of what I told you to do”.
And, in view of his words on celibacy, the next thing he would have said to Titus is “How do you know that they are actually celibate, and not perverts having sex with each other in a great big pile?”
Do you disagree? I cannot tell what escape route you claim to have away from what scripture and common sense command. I keep asking, you keep not answering.
Ok, let’s debate this.
“Deleted for refusal to discuss Saint Paul’s explicit directive that Deacons and Bishops should normally or always be married with children.”
I explicitly discussed that verse in my comment. I can only assume you deleted my comment without reading it in its entirety. I’ll repeat what I said: St. Paul thinks celibacy is holier than marriage, but he allows married priests as a concession to gentiles who have no custom of male celibacy. If he sent Timothy and Titus to Greece looking for celibate men, they likely would not have found any, especially given that Greeks worshiped the sodomite Zeus.
St. Paul isn’t commanding that priests should be married. “Husband of one wife” is a nice way of saying “no polygamists”. St. Paul is saying n<2, not n=1. When St. Paul talks about marriage he explicitly says (1 Corinthians 7)"But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. [7] For I would that all men were even as myself." And in the same letter he says (ch 11)"Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ." The perfect Christian is celibate, and St. Paul would never command someone to deviate from perfection, unless they were burning with passion and unable to maintain celibacy.
"Is Saint Paul telling Titus to construct a priesthood of wife abandoners?"
No, but it's worth noting that Jesus explicitly commends wife abandonment. (Luke 18) "[28] Then Peter said: Behold, we have left ALL THINGS, and have followed thee. [29] Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, OR WIFE, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, [30] Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting." (emphasis mine).
St. Paul or St. Luke. Choose! (/s)
The apostles were the original bishops and they left their wives to follow Christ. There's no indication they remarried and Christ obviously wouldn't let them fornicate, so the apostles must have been celibate. Do you think St. Paul wouldn't have let the Apostles be bishops?
"Do you think Saint Paul would have been happy if Titus had instead selected a priesthood composed almost entirely of childless single men?" Yes. As long as they were virtuous.
"Obviously first thing Saint Paul would have said to Titus would have been “Hey, that is almost the opposite of what I told you to doâ€." Not at all. If my boss asked me to hire workers with high school diplomas and I hire workers with masters degrees, I did not disobey his orders. Rather I exceeded his expectations. St. Paul believed celibacy was holier than marriage and told his readers to imitate him in his unmarried state. He would've been ecstatic if Titus and Timothy found men similar to Paul. It makes no sense to claim that St. Paul didn't want celibates in Church leadership, as St. Paul himself was a celibate in Church leadership and the Church was founded by Jesus, a celibate priest.
"And, in view of his words on celibacy, the next thing he would have said to Titus is “How do you know that they are actually celibate, and not perverts having sex with each other in a great big pile?â€"
I'm curious, is that the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of a group of religious men who are dedicated to celibacy? What do you think Christ and the apostles were doing in the desert? In any case, it's generally pretty obvious when a man is a sodomite. More often than not, you can tell within a five minute conversation. I'm sure Paul entrusted Timothy and Titus to discern whether a potential priest was fit for Holy Orders or not.
If I may ask you a few questions Jim, you've often said that Scripture should be interpreted by the Communion of Saints. Do you still hold this position? The Communion of Saints overwhelmingly side with me on this issue. Why the particular hate of St. Jerome? All the Church Fathers agreed that celibacy was holier than marriage. Why no similar criticism of say Sts. Augustine, Chrysostom, Basil, Cyprian, Ambrose etc.? Did I miss a blog post somewhere?
You claim that a married priesthood would've prevented the gay mafia. Seems obviously untrue to me. Why is every mainline protestant denomination with married priests 10x gayer than even the worst of Catholicism? Lutherans transgenderize their children, Anglicans ordain openly gay bishops, Episcopalians bless furries. The gay mafia actually wants a married priesthood because the gay mafia hates Tradition and thinks introducing reforms is high status.
I'll close with one more Bible verse. Revelation 14 "And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. [2] And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder; and the voice which I heard, was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps. [3] And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the ancients; and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand, who were purchased from the earth. [4] These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb: [5] And in their mouth there was found no lie; for they are without spot before the throne of God."
You still refuse to discuss Saint Paul’s words, instead just lying barefaced about what he said. That is not discussion.
You are lying, and Saint Jerome is lying. And this is the last time I will allow a comment from you that refuses to discuss the words of Saint Paul on the requirements for the priesthood.
Your method is to text torture tiny fragments of Paul into evil and madness, and then glibly assume that somehow his plain directive that Deacons and Bishops should normally or always be married with children can therefore be ignored, that because it is blatantly inconsistent with evil and madness it must have some other meaning, which meaning you neglect to explain.
If you cut and past subsentence fragments of Saint Paul, as someone making a ransom note by cutting and pasting newspaper headlines, this is not discussing the words of Saint Paul, this is lying barefaced about the words of Saint Paul, and this is the last time I will allow it.
You explain away “Husband of only one wife” as actually meaning “at most one wife, and possibly zero wives”,
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Saint Paul demands demonstrated success at family and patriarchy.
You interpretation of “one wife” only makes sense if you ignore everything preceding, then stop in mid sentence and toss “ruling their children and their own houses well” down the the ditch.
Your interpretation makes no sense in the context of the whole sentence, nor in the social context of the time (Jewish polygamy, Roman monogamy but concubines and slave girls are fine) it clearly means one and no more. But OK, in the social context manufactured by the gay mafia, it could well mean “one or zero wives” as a four word sentence fragment. But not in the context of the entire sentence, and not in the context of the immediately preceding sentence.
How do you explain away the requirement for demonstrated success at patriarchy?
If some fruit is supposedly celibate, how can he “ruleth well his own house”?
Answer me!
No more cutting and pasting tiny fragments of Saint Paul to stand him on his head and turn him upside down. That is not discussing his words. That is lying about what he said.
If you are going to explain away what Saint Paul said, you have to quote the whole sentence, and give an alternate meaning for the entire sentence, not an alternate meaning for one fragment of the sentence in isolation that ignores the rest of the sentence.
How can some supposed celibate “ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity”?
Answer me!
How is a celibate “One that ruleth well his own house” even if he actually is celibate? And it does not seem that any church in the past couple of thousand years has been particularly vigorous about making sure that supposed celibates are actually celibate, rather than deviant.
Again I ask:
How can some supposed celibate be “one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity”?
And again you fail to answer.
You can text torture away “only one wife” to mean “at most one wife”, contrary to the plain meaning. How do you text torture away “One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity”?
How do you text torture away “the husband of one wife, having faithful children“?
The husband of one wife. Having children.
The point and purpose of this directive is to insist that the priesthood is composed of men who have successfully demonstrated patriarchal authority. How does a celibate successfully demonstrate patriarchal authority?
This explain why, in a society where marriage had collapsed, women converted to Christianity, as white Christian women are now converting to Islam. Instead of a dead God who will give them a “Season of Singleness”, they converted then and are converting now to a religion where the top alpha will give them a husband and children.
The Christian Church, in order to perform its role as the bride of Christ, has to be a familist movement in its earthly mission. For it to be a familist movement, has to have a priesthood of men with demonstrated success at patriarchy. Chicks of all ages dig men with adult female pre-selection. Conversely, every Church dies about a century after the priests start pissing on husbands. The husbands stop turning up, and after century, no one turns up. The first to die of that was the Congregationalists, who were mighty big when America was young, And then attendance fell, and fell, and fell, and eventually fell to zero, and now every Church is dying of that. Anglicanism started pissing on husbands in 1928, and now they are on the verge of death, with nearly empty churches and what little congregation they have in their eighties and nineties.
Simply astonishing. It’s like English isn’t your first language. Does reading comprehension just plummet after a certain age?
I keep telling you exactly what St. Paul meant in the plainest possible terms, I keep showing you how your interpretation is inconsistent with St. Paul’s other writings and the Gospels and you just keep asking me the same questions as though I didn’t write anything. I’ll repeat myself for the umpteenth time.
St. Paul isn’t saying a bishop or deacon must be a married man with his house in order. St. Paul is saying that if a married man wants to be a bishop or deacon, said man must, at the very least, have his house in order. St. Paul would prefer a celibate priesthood, but Timothy and Titus would be unlikely to find any celibates in Greece. I keep telling you this and you keep not responding.
The lines you incessantly quote are not universal requirements for the episcopate, they’re concessions given a unique circumstance. You fight a war with the army you can muster, not the army you wish you had.
If marriage were a requirement for priesthood, then Elijah, John the Baptist, John the Apostle and Jesus Christ Himself would be unfit to be bishops, which is obviously insane. Do you think St. Paul would have deemed Jesus unfit for the priesthood? And you tell me *my* interpretation doesn’t make any sense?
“No more cutting and pasting tiny fragments of Saint Paul to stand him on his head and turn him upside down. That is not discussing his words. That is lying about what he said.”
Textbook projection. St. Paul was a celibate man who was dead to the passions of the world, encouraged his followers to practice celibacy and severely admonished fornicators. And you imagine him as the leader of some sort of Epicurean fertility cult because you have two paragraphs where he permits married clerics. If you think I’m using “tiny fragments”, let’s debate the entire seventh chapter of 1st Corinthians.
“The Christian Church, in order to perform its role as the bride of Christ, has to be a familist movement in its earthly mission. For it to be a familist movement, has to have a priesthood of men with demonstrated success at patriarchy.”
This is just flatly false. The leaders of Christianity, Jesus, Paul and John were all unmarried celibates and Peter left his wife to follow Christ. We’ve had a celibate priesthood for countless centuries and the Church has been a familist movement in practice up until the past several decades (and it remains a familist movement on paper).
We’ve all seen the Monty Python sketch: Catholics having a million children because every sperm is sacred while Protestants marriages consist of protected sex once a year. And to this day I see couples with 4+ kids sitting in the pews of my local Latin Mass. If anything a married priesthood seems to lower fertility.
Well, now you are actually saying it. You were dancing around it, saying it and not saying it. And you are still reluctant to directly quote Paul’s words. Perhaps you fear you would burst into flames if you did.
Can you directly quote Saint Paul? The devil can quote scripture to his purpose, but does so very very carefully.
Paul said, as a requirement to be a priest or a deacon:
And you are now flatly telling me he did not say it.
Rather, we could not know in advance that they were fit to be priests, and if we recruited new priests with the same background as them, some of them would be fit to be priests, some of them, quite a lot of them, would be unfit to be priests, and some of them would be members of the Lavender Mafia, sodomites looking for a job that gives them access to young boys.
Saint Paul did not say “fire all unmarried priests”. Saint Paul said to recruit new priests from men who are successful at patriarchy.
An awful lot of celibates have some terrible and unspeakable sexual deviation. Some of them, quite a lot of them are, despite that, very holy men who manage to keep the monster inside. But you do not know in advance which ones are going to keep the monster inside. Or even have any real intention of keeping the monster inside.
Paul gave us this instruction, and then gave his main reason for that instruction, which reason today remains as relevant as ever it did. The priest is supposed to perform the social role of father, or a social role akin to that of a father. Therefore, recruit people with demonstrated capability to perform that role.
Nothing has changed that affects the reason that he gave for his instruction. The priesthood should be recruited from married men with demonstrated success at patriarchy, in order to give us a Church successful at patriarchy. At which task our current churches are spectacularly unsuccessful, and Roman Catholicism has been failing since the tenth or eleventh century.
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Christian are you? If so, affirm the test that restitutor_orbis just passed.
When St. Paul told Timothy (1 Timothy 2):
Did he somehow imply that a sexless, childless marriage is superior to a normal marriage?
If “saved through childbearing” doesn’t mean what it says, what does it mean? Did St. Paul give any permission to husbands to sexually neglect their wives?
(But before you answer these questions, answer Jim’s)
@shaman
“Did he somehow imply that a sexless, childless marriage is superior to a normal marriage?”
This is what the Catholic church calls a “Josephine marriage”. Where each vow to not have sex for the rest of their lives.
And this is used to explain the ever-virginity of Mary.
“Josephite Marriage” actually.
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