that White male leads must always be in the company of a competing female and a non-White? And increasingly now, the female is non-White.
I hate this shit.
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Sunday, November 08, 2015
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Bad words
I have occasionally used rude words on this blog. So do my commentors sometime.
I do not intend to interfere with that.
I never use the NewSpeak about race, etc. unless I am quoting or being ironic. As I have said, part of the great power of PC is the imprisonment of thought by the policing of speech. Breaking those rules as often as possible is necessary for actually thinking and seeing reality.
Be it polite or not, that matters not to ExC.
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I do not intend to interfere with that.
I never use the NewSpeak about race, etc. unless I am quoting or being ironic. As I have said, part of the great power of PC is the imprisonment of thought by the policing of speech. Breaking those rules as often as possible is necessary for actually thinking and seeing reality.
Be it polite or not, that matters not to ExC.
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My problem with paganism
My remarks here are not about Wicca, which is just a form of post-Christian ecofeminism in NewAge drag, but about both ancient European paganism as I understand it and especially about modern rightwing Europaganism, mostly the Nordic variety and especially the folkish non-inclusive form of that. As far as religion goes, anything that's multiculturally inclusive is of no interest to me.
Number one. Although I have found the idea of a providentially guided purpose both in creation and in history no easy sell to myself, I resist the assumption that all forms of paganism share: Impersonal Fate rules all, including the Gods. (Dharmic religions share much of this, but karma makes this impersonal fate obsessed with isomorphic justice via reincarnation.) Here is where the Christian part of my post-Christian self rears its baptized head. For me, a world ruled finally by impersonal fate is no different from the world of Richard Dawkins.
Ironically, the ancient Romans considered the Christians atheists because they rejected the Gods; I consider modern pagans atheists because they subject their Gods to an overarching and ultimate...Nothing. Although I sympathize with the cultural crises that drives or brings some men to a recreated form of ancestral paganism --be it Norse, Slavic, Celtic or GrecoRoman-- in the end I really wonder if men whose souls, like it or not, have been shaped by a thousand years of Christ can worship what amount to Godlings without finally falling into nihilism.
Second, despite the usually rightwing attitudes of Norse neo-pagans, the sacred history they tell is infected with a bitter sense of victimhood against the Church. Sore losers in the leftist mode.
And as I point out, all the ills which these Alt-Right guys hate in contemporary Western civilization are post-Christian. While Whites were Christian and in power, none of the plagues of liberalism had a toehold. Which is why Liberals hate Christianity, the religion of patriarchy and the alliance of throne and altar, of imperialism and the Crusades, etc. etc. All stuff that Alt-Right pagans love.
But really, my issue is that this rage against Christianity effectively cuts them off from the blood-ties of many generation of baptized Europeans and forces them to see all their Christian ancestors and most of Western civilization in the last 1500 years either as the realm of deluded slaves who worshipped "a kike on a stick" or traitorous collaborators with "the alien Semitic bronze age desert god." How can there be a Western tradition when a millennium and a half of it is consigned to Hell?
I have recently and dolefully come to the conclusion that western Christianity can no longer safely serve the souls of White men and so I am musing on a future alternative. It's fascinating to run up against my own assumptions and to face new ways of thinking in doing this. But the religion of the Christ once did serve us: Christendom was a great and powerful civilization full of warriors and explorers and thinkers and builders and artists, etc. So my goal, for whatever micron it's worth, is to connect rather than to amputate and to promote realistic dignity rather than disguised despair.
Modern paganism, running on the white-hot fires of resentment, gives a jolt to some of our men who need it and there is much about these guys to admire. But I don't see how in the long run it can suffice.
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Number one. Although I have found the idea of a providentially guided purpose both in creation and in history no easy sell to myself, I resist the assumption that all forms of paganism share: Impersonal Fate rules all, including the Gods. (Dharmic religions share much of this, but karma makes this impersonal fate obsessed with isomorphic justice via reincarnation.) Here is where the Christian part of my post-Christian self rears its baptized head. For me, a world ruled finally by impersonal fate is no different from the world of Richard Dawkins.
Ironically, the ancient Romans considered the Christians atheists because they rejected the Gods; I consider modern pagans atheists because they subject their Gods to an overarching and ultimate...Nothing. Although I sympathize with the cultural crises that drives or brings some men to a recreated form of ancestral paganism --be it Norse, Slavic, Celtic or GrecoRoman-- in the end I really wonder if men whose souls, like it or not, have been shaped by a thousand years of Christ can worship what amount to Godlings without finally falling into nihilism.
Second, despite the usually rightwing attitudes of Norse neo-pagans, the sacred history they tell is infected with a bitter sense of victimhood against the Church. Sore losers in the leftist mode.
And as I point out, all the ills which these Alt-Right guys hate in contemporary Western civilization are post-Christian. While Whites were Christian and in power, none of the plagues of liberalism had a toehold. Which is why Liberals hate Christianity, the religion of patriarchy and the alliance of throne and altar, of imperialism and the Crusades, etc. etc. All stuff that Alt-Right pagans love.
But really, my issue is that this rage against Christianity effectively cuts them off from the blood-ties of many generation of baptized Europeans and forces them to see all their Christian ancestors and most of Western civilization in the last 1500 years either as the realm of deluded slaves who worshipped "a kike on a stick" or traitorous collaborators with "the alien Semitic bronze age desert god." How can there be a Western tradition when a millennium and a half of it is consigned to Hell?
I have recently and dolefully come to the conclusion that western Christianity can no longer safely serve the souls of White men and so I am musing on a future alternative. It's fascinating to run up against my own assumptions and to face new ways of thinking in doing this. But the religion of the Christ once did serve us: Christendom was a great and powerful civilization full of warriors and explorers and thinkers and builders and artists, etc. So my goal, for whatever micron it's worth, is to connect rather than to amputate and to promote realistic dignity rather than disguised despair.
Modern paganism, running on the white-hot fires of resentment, gives a jolt to some of our men who need it and there is much about these guys to admire. But I don't see how in the long run it can suffice.
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Western Image
I am putting a section from Raphael's School of Athens as the image on my cellphone cover. It sums up a good deal of the dynamism and the destructiveness in Western culture:
Plato and Aristotle. You can make a case that all of Western philosophy is connected to the two dominant tendencies in these two men.
Plato stands for mystical universalism and a thirst for utopia. Aristotle stands for rationalist empiricism and a tendency toward nihilism. (Although Nietzsche and Heidegger might say I've gotten the symptoms right but the outcomes reversed...)
In both cases, you end up with nothing. That is, u-topia means no-place in Greek. And nihil-ism
is entrancement with no-thing, in Latin. Enantiodromia, as Heraclitus and Jung would say.
Our history can be read, on one level, as a fluctuation between these two extremes.
Gautama described his system as The Middle Way, avoiding both attachment to pleasures and attachment to asceticism. Not a bad idea, steering clear of both utopianism and nihilism.
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*Its companion piece is The Dispute over the Sacrament, which images the overtly religious side of the Athens-and-Jerusalem dialectic in the West since the 4th century. Not to be underestimated.
Plato and Aristotle. You can make a case that all of Western philosophy is connected to the two dominant tendencies in these two men.
Plato stands for mystical universalism and a thirst for utopia. Aristotle stands for rationalist empiricism and a tendency toward nihilism. (Although Nietzsche and Heidegger might say I've gotten the symptoms right but the outcomes reversed...)
In both cases, you end up with nothing. That is, u-topia means no-place in Greek. And nihil-ism
is entrancement with no-thing, in Latin. Enantiodromia, as Heraclitus and Jung would say.
Our history can be read, on one level, as a fluctuation between these two extremes.
Gautama described his system as The Middle Way, avoiding both attachment to pleasures and attachment to asceticism. Not a bad idea, steering clear of both utopianism and nihilism.
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*Its companion piece is The Dispute over the Sacrament, which images the overtly religious side of the Athens-and-Jerusalem dialectic in the West since the 4th century. Not to be underestimated.
More crimethink
What sense does it make for a society to accept as the dominant group in its financial, legal, cultural, educational, media and governmental fields a tiny minority which defines itself as both superior to and as alienated from --and hence covertly hostile to and overtly anxious about- the vast majority of the population?
All large societies are eventually run by oligarchies. But the question is, Which oligarchs?
All large societies are eventually run by oligarchies. But the question is, Which oligarchs?
Friday, November 06, 2015
Painful realities
The Mormon Church has just declared that Latter Day Saints who contract a same-sex marriage are considered excommunicate and apostate, and any children they are raising may not be baptized in the church until they are 18.
My gay Mormon friend is wounded, of course. And the high-minded believers in the Liberal Faith are outraged.
But it makes sense.
Consider how the Roman Church responds to women to attempt priestly ordination. Excommunication. Why this act and not others? Murderers are not excommunicated. Well, the priesthood is at the heart of Catholicism. To violate it is to aim for the center.
Similarly with the Mormons. For them, marriage is the centerpiece of the whole plan of salvation, the irreplaceable mechanism by which godhood is continued. So, to violate it is to aim for the center.
Although the LDS church holds homosexual acts to be gravely sinful, it is the contracting of a same-sex marriage which ups the ante and leads to this exclusion.
And withholding baptism from the children of gay-married parents until they are adults only makes sense as well. If your parents are excommunicate and apostate, they can hardly be expected to raise you in the faith.
All this is not nice, but it is both rational and, for this group, necessary to its identity and survival.
No religious bodies who capitulate to the demands of the Liberal Faith --which fully intends to destroy and replace them-- by ordaining women and marrying gays have thrived. On the contrary, they all collapse and are dying. Put another way, only religions that are dying will be desperate enough to ordain women and marry gays.
Although Christianity is dying in the North, it is migrating to the South. But neither the Roman Church* nor the Mormon Church intend to fade away.
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*If Pope Francis admits remarried Catholics to communion, though, that will start the death spiral.
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My gay Mormon friend is wounded, of course. And the high-minded believers in the Liberal Faith are outraged.
But it makes sense.
Consider how the Roman Church responds to women to attempt priestly ordination. Excommunication. Why this act and not others? Murderers are not excommunicated. Well, the priesthood is at the heart of Catholicism. To violate it is to aim for the center.
Similarly with the Mormons. For them, marriage is the centerpiece of the whole plan of salvation, the irreplaceable mechanism by which godhood is continued. So, to violate it is to aim for the center.
Although the LDS church holds homosexual acts to be gravely sinful, it is the contracting of a same-sex marriage which ups the ante and leads to this exclusion.
And withholding baptism from the children of gay-married parents until they are adults only makes sense as well. If your parents are excommunicate and apostate, they can hardly be expected to raise you in the faith.
All this is not nice, but it is both rational and, for this group, necessary to its identity and survival.
No religious bodies who capitulate to the demands of the Liberal Faith --which fully intends to destroy and replace them-- by ordaining women and marrying gays have thrived. On the contrary, they all collapse and are dying. Put another way, only religions that are dying will be desperate enough to ordain women and marry gays.
Although Christianity is dying in the North, it is migrating to the South. But neither the Roman Church* nor the Mormon Church intend to fade away.
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*If Pope Francis admits remarried Catholics to communion, though, that will start the death spiral.
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Thursday, November 05, 2015
Perfectly hateful
I assume that whatever Progressives declare taboo and abominable must be very importantly valuable to their enemies. Aka, guys like me.
Take H8, for instance. The absolute moral consensus is now that "hate" is absolutely forbidden. If you are a "hater," then you are dismissed and condemned. No H8!
Cuckservatives often include disavowals of hatred in their attempts to defend their sinking ship, as in "I don't hate anyone, but..." Zzzzz. Accept your enemy's frame and you've lost. BTW, if you don't realize that they hate you, cucky, you need your brain transplanted. To remark as I have before, in all my years in San Francisco, I have never heard one passionate denunciation of Islam for its grossly violent attitude toward homosexuals, but venomous diatribes against Christians and Republicans are a dime a dozen.
In the New Faith of the Sons of Europa, however, precisely because our enemies forbid us to hate, hatred will be a virtue, a habit of soul and action to be cultivated.
As with all human emotions, it is pre-moral --in St Thomas's words, primo primi-- and certainly not inherently bad. One of Mother Nature's survival tools. It all depends on how you use it.
So part of the teaching of The Scribe will be to nourish hatred only
a. for what is a worthy object and
b. insofar as it serves your people and does not destroy you or them.
The sin here --the foolishness--would not be hating, but squandering or wasting it on what is not important enough to deserve it, as well as letting it rule you rather than serve you, so that, like every human passion out of control, it eats you up and becomes your master.
"Hate well and wisely," would be a moral maxim.
After all, in the Psalms does not God inspire King David in the beautiful Psalm 139 to sing, I hate them with a perfect hate? And if we are to seek after God-likeness, then that's a good model...
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Take H8, for instance. The absolute moral consensus is now that "hate" is absolutely forbidden. If you are a "hater," then you are dismissed and condemned. No H8!
Cuckservatives often include disavowals of hatred in their attempts to defend their sinking ship, as in "I don't hate anyone, but..." Zzzzz. Accept your enemy's frame and you've lost. BTW, if you don't realize that they hate you, cucky, you need your brain transplanted. To remark as I have before, in all my years in San Francisco, I have never heard one passionate denunciation of Islam for its grossly violent attitude toward homosexuals, but venomous diatribes against Christians and Republicans are a dime a dozen.
In the New Faith of the Sons of Europa, however, precisely because our enemies forbid us to hate, hatred will be a virtue, a habit of soul and action to be cultivated.
As with all human emotions, it is pre-moral --in St Thomas's words, primo primi-- and certainly not inherently bad. One of Mother Nature's survival tools. It all depends on how you use it.
So part of the teaching of The Scribe will be to nourish hatred only
a. for what is a worthy object and
b. insofar as it serves your people and does not destroy you or them.
The sin here --the foolishness--would not be hating, but squandering or wasting it on what is not important enough to deserve it, as well as letting it rule you rather than serve you, so that, like every human passion out of control, it eats you up and becomes your master.
"Hate well and wisely," would be a moral maxim.
After all, in the Psalms does not God inspire King David in the beautiful Psalm 139 to sing, I hate them with a perfect hate? And if we are to seek after God-likeness, then that's a good model...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Growing in the Lord
Longtime geek and groovy Baptist mega-church pastor Steven Furtick as he used to be just a mere 3 years ago
and as Daddy is now...
Can I get an Amen? Praise the Lord!
I confess. The dude is very watchable. As long as you pay no attention whatever to the words that come out of his mouth. Just turn down the sound and watch him move. Evangelicalism is --Unitarianism excepted-- the most narcoleptic religion I have ever run across. It seems like one endless high school pep rally.
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and as Daddy is now...
Can I get an Amen? Praise the Lord!
I confess. The dude is very watchable. As long as you pay no attention whatever to the words that come out of his mouth. Just turn down the sound and watch him move. Evangelicalism is --Unitarianism excepted-- the most narcoleptic religion I have ever run across. It seems like one endless high school pep rally.
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Killing time
I use the title phrase in its usual sense of passing time rather pointlessly. I realize that, given the tenor of my persona as ExCathedra and the elasticities of the English tongue, it might be read as "time for killing." I do feel that way a lot of late.
The deleterious effects of the liberation of women are more far-reaching (and deleterious) than most anyone outside the Alt-Right can even conceive. The current unnatural dominance of female interests is taken as a simple normality by almost everyone. Without the power, wealth and influence of post-feminist women, our culture would not be nearly as degenerate and neurotic.
Justin Trudeau, the Shiny Pony Prime Minister of Canada, has appointed half his cabinet female ("because it's 2015") and a foreign-born Sikh as Minister of Defense. White men are the only fools on the planet who think it's virtuous to erase themselves. As for the females --Sweden has similar structures-- I think of Jack Donovan's line: A society run by women and effeminate men cannot survive.
One of the very transgressive Alt-Right AngryYoungWhiteMales sites I read, with this take on framing. Very good. Matches my belief that see "racism" or "homophobia" or "antisemitism" ertc. as anything other than a rhetorical trick dooms you to lose. Never accept your enemy's frame.
Maybe Pope Francis really is the Anti-Christ. That would sadden me, since I was hoping for that role myself. Mr B sent me a photo of Satan whispering into the ear of the AntiChrist, from some northern Italian cathedral fresco. I now use it as the wallpaper on my iphone.
When I asked him which of us he thought was in which role, he gave his canonical answer. "It's obvious." I do love that man.
The invasion of Europe and the US literally gives me nightmares. The last three nights my dreams have been connected to this disaster. I was trying to organize a choir to sing Tomas Luis de Victoria's Good Friday Lamentations for the anniversary of the Muslim depradations of 9/11...
I am very American. A nicely done cheeseburger makes me feel that the world is still worth saving.
Technology continues to impress. My Backblaze online backup program neatly and rather quickly downloaded 40G of my favorite movies to my new Macbook:
I watched a video yesterday of a feral young Ebonic thug playing the knockout game on an elderly white woman who was just sitting in a park. None of the other Whites nearby reacted. Jim Crow, segregation and lynching were not groundless expressions of evil, but understandable modes of defense against savages. The equality and dignity of all humans is a lie.
PS. Next time some anocranial White liberal tries to status-signal by proclaiming how open-minded they are and how "good" and "evil" are just relative cultural labels, run by them the last two sentences of the previous paragraph. Hilarity will ensue.
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The deleterious effects of the liberation of women are more far-reaching (and deleterious) than most anyone outside the Alt-Right can even conceive. The current unnatural dominance of female interests is taken as a simple normality by almost everyone. Without the power, wealth and influence of post-feminist women, our culture would not be nearly as degenerate and neurotic.
Justin Trudeau, the Shiny Pony Prime Minister of Canada, has appointed half his cabinet female ("because it's 2015") and a foreign-born Sikh as Minister of Defense. White men are the only fools on the planet who think it's virtuous to erase themselves. As for the females --Sweden has similar structures-- I think of Jack Donovan's line: A society run by women and effeminate men cannot survive.
One of the very transgressive Alt-Right AngryYoungWhiteMales sites I read, with this take on framing. Very good. Matches my belief that see "racism" or "homophobia" or "antisemitism" ertc. as anything other than a rhetorical trick dooms you to lose. Never accept your enemy's frame.
Maybe Pope Francis really is the Anti-Christ. That would sadden me, since I was hoping for that role myself. Mr B sent me a photo of Satan whispering into the ear of the AntiChrist, from some northern Italian cathedral fresco. I now use it as the wallpaper on my iphone.
When I asked him which of us he thought was in which role, he gave his canonical answer. "It's obvious." I do love that man.
The invasion of Europe and the US literally gives me nightmares. The last three nights my dreams have been connected to this disaster. I was trying to organize a choir to sing Tomas Luis de Victoria's Good Friday Lamentations for the anniversary of the Muslim depradations of 9/11...
I am very American. A nicely done cheeseburger makes me feel that the world is still worth saving.
Technology continues to impress. My Backblaze online backup program neatly and rather quickly downloaded 40G of my favorite movies to my new Macbook:
I watched a video yesterday of a feral young Ebonic thug playing the knockout game on an elderly white woman who was just sitting in a park. None of the other Whites nearby reacted. Jim Crow, segregation and lynching were not groundless expressions of evil, but understandable modes of defense against savages. The equality and dignity of all humans is a lie.
PS. Next time some anocranial White liberal tries to status-signal by proclaiming how open-minded they are and how "good" and "evil" are just relative cultural labels, run by them the last two sentences of the previous paragraph. Hilarity will ensue.
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