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Upon assuming the thrown in 568 AD, the Visigoth king Reccared converted from Arian to Chalcedonian Christianity. This led to some unrest in the kingdom, as the Visigoths had always been Arian. The Arians were mostly tolerant of other religions, including paganism, but the Chalcedonians were not so charitable. Reccared put down the unrest and then oversaw the Third Council of Toledo in 589, where he announced his faith in the Nicene creed and denounced Arianism.
The spiritual differences between Arians and Catholics may be of interest to those with an interest in theology, but what matters to us today is that the trinitarians were the winners in the theological debates within the early church. From that point forward, there was one true faith in the Visigoth kingdom. The people were expected to convert to the new faith. Those who refused could expect some form of repression, ranging from extra taxes to expulsion from the kingdom.
Why Reccared converted to Catholicism is not all that clear. The material benefits, if they existed, have been lost over the centuries. His conversion brought with it new conflicts, especially with the Jews of his kingdom. The Arian kings had been disinterested in the faith of their subjects, which meant they could get along with the Jews, who were quite powerful in parts of the kingdom. That ended with the conversion of Reccared, as the Catholics were not tolerant of Jews.
What happened in Spain under the Visigoths would be repeated many times over the centuries in Europe. The ruling class would convert, and the people were expected to convert along with them. In England, which was controlled by many different kings, the Church converted one at time, the same way they converted Reccared. Of course, the same pattern would remerge in the Reformation. The rulers would change religion and the people would be forced to change their religion as well.
If you wanted to pinpoint the birth of universalism and universal intolerance in the West, the early Middle Ages is probably a good place to start. The Romans persecuted a lot of Christians and Jews, but it was mostly because they saw these movements as a direct threat to their power. By the middle ages, persecution of heretics was no longer about threats to power, but about violation of a universal truth. The mere existence of doubters or skeptics was seen as a threat to the one true faith.
The thing is, from the perspective of the common people, these changes at the top probably made little sense. Imagine you are a proud Goth who has served in the king’s army and then one day you are told you have to change religions. The reason is that the old religion was all wrong. In the case of the Visigoths, this happened twice. Once when some guy created a bunch of squiggles he claimed was your language and everyone became Arians. Then again when Reccared renounced Arianism.
People today should be able to relate to this. Within living memory, the rulers made a point of showing they were faithful Christians. Jimmy Carter was an Evangelical who spoke openly about his faith. Reagan salted his language with Christian references and Bill Clinton carried a Bible around with him. Today our rulers worship black people and think men in dresses are the fullest expression of womanhood. The schools now teach us the evils of whiteness and white privilege.
As with the Christian era in the West, this new religion brings with it an extreme intolerance of skepticism and doubt. Men are being fired from their jobs because they are not enthusiastic enough for the new faith. Those who challenge the faith are anathematized in the same way the early Church would anathematize those who challenged them. Our rulers have not started breaking heretics on the wheel or decorating the streets with the crucified, but it is still early.
We also see the universalism of the new faith. The rulers who embrace this new religion are sure it is the only way any human society can live. All of those in the past, the people that made the present possible, we monstrous sinners. Those in the present, clinging to alternative faiths, are monsters that must be destroyed. The ruling class of America wants to have a nuclear war with Russia over homosexuality. The Crusaders were insanely tolerant compared to today’s crusaders.
There are differences obviously. The universal faith that emerged in the early middle ages provided a social structure in which the West could begin to advance materially and intellectually. Whatever its faults, the Church provided a complex moral and social order that eventually resulted in what we think of as Western Civilization. The faith emerging today among our rulers is a step back into barbarism. It is a reversion to some pre-modern mean, corresponding with the collapse of the West.
The other big difference is the rulers converting to or from the Church in the past did so mostly out of conviction. There were material interests, for sure, but most genuinely believed in what they were doing. They thought what they were doing was in the best interest of their people. Today the rulers are guided by what they imagine is in the worst interest of their people. This new religion is not about elevating them or their people, but about harming the people who make their rule possible.
The other big difference between now and past conversions is the people did not have much to lose by going along with the king’s new religion. Life in the early middle ages was not easy, so giving up the old gods for this new thing or changing from one form of Christ worship to another slightly different form was not a huge risk. The conversion we are seeing today threatens the very existence of the West. If our rulers are wrong, the ape historians of the future will puzzle over why we went along with it.
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When Nietzsche declared that “God is dead” it wasn’t the joyous cry of an edgy 13 year old. He was merely pointing out that Christianity had run its course and something new would be developed. He had been thinking about it for a long time. The first thing Nietzsche studied as a professor was pre-socratic philosophers.
Two centuries later, we’re seeing that Nietzsche was on to something. Every advancement we’ve made out of the muck is being sabotaged and Christian civilization is being up rooted. Its an obsession of the ruling class. The clock is being forcibly reset.
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Western christianity is going to shit, vatican is a mess, the other christian denominations are just nonsensical, meaning they have a short expiry date compared to the original christian church that was formed in the byzantine empire.
It only makes sense for christianity to go away, this was the religion of the old european royal families, after ww1 got rid of the royals there’s no one left to protect the chuch. Current rulers have made a mockery out of christianity, you can’t even look at it without vomiting, these modern churches have been turned into migrant centers that spew some bibical crap from time to time.
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I’m sorry you feel that way. I agree that there are alot of shitty churches.
But there are still millions of people attending Bible-believing churches. Some of it is BS, yes, but its the social fabric for millions of white families who are the only white group with an above replacement fertility. Drug rate, divorce rate, etc. is sky high among whites in general but low among religious whites.
You can find one you just have to look a bit harder. No church is perfect; but I’ve realized that it’s the best we can have in terms of benefits for our people.. for now…
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the thing about badly practiced religions is that if the church is trash the kids will become atheists.
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A teacher at my parish school was fired for correctly stating the Church’s teaching in transgenderism.
Our Catholic Colleges are just as bad as our Secular Colleges.
Catholicism in the United States is going to collapse at a level even more terrifying than the previous generation. There’s a good chance the Latin Mass will become the most prevalent simply because every other Ordinary Form parish shuts its doors and only the most unapologetically Catholic will survive.
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When Nietzsche declared that “God is dead” it was a cry of despair: The West, since Greece had been focused on those aspects of humanity that separated man from animals.The pursuit of those virtues that brought one closer to God. This was the crede of the ruling elite: It is what led the elites to have an honor based system. The death of God led, as Nietzsche foresaw, inevitably led to the collapse of that civilization. The central tenet: that all humanity contains a spark of the divine, is now as Z says, Anathema.
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Obviously those here do not go along with the Cult of Anti-Racism, but the heretics also are found in much larger swathes of the population. Do a majority reject the New Faith? Quite possibly. The question is whether it matters in the short term. Egypt and the Levant remained Christian a long time after the Islamic conquests, but eventually conversion became too attractive due to the financial and societal benefits. The Christian population of Egypt today is roughly 10 percent and in the Levant in the single digits with higher numbers in Lebanon and Syria.
But will the incentives to convert to Anti-Racism remain, as happened with Islam? As you pointed out, the clergy threatens nuclear war with Russia over gay marriage. Cities and livelihoods burn to honor patron saints such as George Floyd. Inflation and economic collapse have arrived.
Recent converts are not adverse to change because their faith oftenis a matter of convenience. As our new faith starts to deliver more and more misery, it may follow past arcs and find its high priests and their temples put to the torch. As a matter of fact, this appears likely, and the new new faith may be one I can get behind
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The main problem with this new religion is it lacks a limiting principle. Christianity had a hard limit on piety, because it imposed a binary state of grace. You were either in the cub or not in the club. The competition to be the most pious had quickly diminishing returns. Even Islam had natural limits to piety. This new religion is really just a malformed ideology filling the void where religion once existed. There is no limit to piety, so it will continue to rocket off into more extreme expressions. At some point it runs out of road. The question is whether we will live through it.
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The new religion is scientism enabled by its correlative numerology. It has invaded every aspect of life and is visible everywhere. Many aspects of the universe can’t be defined with numbers yet scientism acolytes insist that science is all about numbers, when it’s actually about prediction. If the numbers don’t enable prediction it’s not science, it’s just fooling around with numbers.
The social “sciences” have had an inferiority complex for many decades over the fact that their studies are unable to use numerology to the same extent as chemistry and physics in predictive analysis. Some things are just too complex for numbers, even when shoveled into a computer. That will probably always be the case. The religion of scientism has a shaky foundation.
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The drive of the Woke to destroy everything comes largely from their own self loathing and feelings of inadequacy. Instead of trying to bring themselves up, they want to tear everything down in a blind fit of rage. The wokesters (including their vibrant pets – particularly their kids, the hyphen Americans) are generally miserable and nothing upsets them more than seeing happy, healthy, normal white folks, especially those with families.
They don’t care that they die or that they are being demographically replaced. They just want to stick around long enough to make sure it happens to us, too.
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I think there is much truth to this. I once thought the limiting principle for the Ruling Class was its wealth but noonger am certain. That’s actually a bad thing because it means no brakes. They are going down, too, and as you pointed out are determined to take us with them
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I ran across this ditty which I found interesting and in a way profound. Unfortunately, I can’t get the link to work without going to bitchute and directly to the song. Try it, it’s worth the chase.
“JESUS… WHAT HAPPENED TO US?” BY FIVE TIMES AUGUST
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https://www.bitchute.com/vi…
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Exactly. There’s Woke Bible to let people know the rules, so we have a never-end competition to prove who is the most woke.
It’s why why every woke victory leads to a new campaign. You can’t be more moral that others if they agree with your stance. For example, as soon as gay marriage was generally accepted, progressives started talking about transgender. It was a way to prove they were MORE pious than the masses.
Same with race and diversity and inclusion. They’ll never stop pushing because they have to stay in front of the unholy masses.
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Progs are like sharks.
They die if they stop swimming Left.
Cons are just the remoras along for the ride.
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Woker than thou
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Would add that along with lack of a limiting principle, it is an “all in one” theology. Politics, economy and religion co-existed, often uneasily with each other, but provided checks against the “worst angels” of each. Roll them into one and bingo, no limiting principle.
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I have often questioned how much of this insanity the Ruling Class actually believes. More and more I think “all of it ” They truly have no limiting principle. The heretics and soft believers do have the limiting principles of hunger, want, and security.
While the hip Wokesters in their terrorized enclaves, and the Ruling Class in their secure castlrs, have an infinite amount of patience to achieve niverna, the masses do not. That is where the rubber will meet the road. Will we survive it? I don’t know.
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The real problem with the new religion is that it denies the possibility of god and an afterlife.
Ultimately, religion is true to believers because God says so, and will reward or punish them accordingly.
But, since there’s no god, who says the tenets of Woke are true or sacrosanct. Anyone can make assertions – even us – which have the same validity as what they believe today. It’s all just the ver shifting whims of a mob.
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“They thought what they were doing was in the best interest of their people. Today the rulers are guided by what they imagine is in the worst interest of their people.”
How did we get here!? That is THE question!
” If our rulers are wrong, the ape historians of the future will puzzle over why we went along with it.”
This is something I always bring up in conversation. Imagine the dust has settled on our empire, and people 200 years hence read about the dissolution in history books. You read about “Self-loathing to the point of civilizational suicide” and “Tranny story hour” ; you see pictures of St. George Floyd and other such “martyrs”, etc. etc.
And all this just 50 years since we stepped on the moon!
You would have a hard time believing it. A rational person almost shouldn’t believe it. Maybe this is just some fabled morality tale, mere propaganda, a warning for our times, you might think. Because surely things couldn’t have AKSHUALLY occurred like this…
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“How did we get here!? That is THE question”
It is easy. The bourgeois wanted to replace the aristocrats as a ruling class. So they invented EQUALITY as a propaganda concept. Of course, they didn’t belief this: some of them had slaves and they ruled that only people with wealth could vote.
However, since the burgeois won, EQUALITY was incorporated into the Enlightenment religion that replaced Christianity, first in the law, then in the people.
Being equality the supreme good, there is not difference between natives and foreigners. And, since all men are equal, if some men have more (say, Americans) is because they oppress others. So trying to take from the Americans to give to the foreigners is only justice, restoring what is theirs to foreigners or blacks
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Take a bow, Judeo-Puritans. You did your work well.
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” The universal faith that emerged in the early middle ages provided a social structure in which the West could begin to advance materially and intellectually. ”
Nobody can prove that. First, the faith wasn’t universal, there were major differences and power struggles in the universal church itself, the split with the Eastern Orthodox and the dual papacy among them. A social structure already existed in Europe during the Roman dominance and it wasn’t extinguished by the universal church. In fact much of it remains to this day. Medieval thinkers were more sophisticated than any current western frauds. Finally, material advances were, for good or ill, products of scientific advances tied to the Protestant Reformation and its focus on productivity and wealth accumulation. If anything, the universal church was a brake on this.
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Hilare Belloc addresses much of this in detail in The Servile State which makes the strong case for the Church as a moderating factor in preventing the return of pagan slavery (which is where wealth accumulation leads).
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Causation/correlation? When the Church took over the justification for hereditary monarchies in Europe did slavery cease to exist? Was Christian slavery somehow superior to pagan slavery or Roman slavery? If wealth accumulation leads to slavery we better get ready to don our shackles because there’s more wealth accumulation in suburban San Francisco than there was in the whole of the Roman empire.
How about the fact that the areas of the former Roman Empire that became Christian developed scientifically and materially while the areas that adopted Islam regressed and didn’t develop until they were colonized in the 19th century by Christian Europe?
In 300ad “the East” meaning Syria, Anatolia and Egypt were the wealthiest, most densely populated and intellectually vigorous part of the Roman World. Follow shortly behind by Italy and Roman North Africa.
That situation intensified over the next three centuries as the west and balkans were overwhelmed by the migration and conquest of non Christian “barbarians” who were brought into Christendom slowly.
And then began to change with the Arabs defeating Byzantium at Yarmuk in 636.
Three hundred years on from that the East was poor and depopulated and intellectually stunted. Roman North Africa was a wasteland and remained so for more than a millennia. And the Christianizing west was rebuilding.
Further, the development of Eastern Europe lagged that as the west as did its adoption of Christianity. Which only began in the tenth century and became universal a couple centuries after that.
Finally, Anatolia, long the wealthiest part of the Mediterranean basin sunk into poverty with conquest by the Islamic Turks in the eleventh century – long after Christian Europe was redeveloping.
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The Visigothic arrival from the North and their bloody conflicts with the Orthodox Byzantine Empire alienated the native peninsular native population to such an extent that when in the first half of the 8th century AD an Arab-Berber detachment crossed into Iberia from North Africa, they found little or no resistance from the inhabitants. It was not because the Hispanic Christians of the Celtic stock were weak or submissive. They were/are tough people. However, they also had long memories. They had some old scores to settle. And, hence, they let the Visigothic elite be humiliated by the invading armies of the south.
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No ruling class survives without the loyalty of at least a capable portion of the ruled class. Multiculturalism among the ruled is bad for any civilization, but among the rulers it is a civilizational death sentence.
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The new religion of the ruling class isn’t a “religion” though. I don’t know much about Goths but I’m assuming it involved some kind of religion and coherent worldview. Christianity provides a book, a saviour, and a coherent worldview. So too does Islam, Buddhism, Greek religions, etc.
It’s some kind of bizarre polytheism with constantly changing gods – George Floyd, Nipsey Hussle, Dr. Fauci, Barack Obama, etc. Its only worldview is one of constant chaos and destruction of white people, white social norms and Christian morality.
Are the elites (real elites) actually true believers? I feel that this is being pushed from above by people who want a blank slate world over which they can rule. White, Christian society is what stands in their way. The true believers are lower down on the food chain, 110IQ managerial class white midwits who think they are too smart for the Bible and desperately search for “authenticity” – which explains their love for the foreign.
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The motivating spring is some combination of:
Self Loathing
Stupidity
Immaturity
Boredom
Social Conformity
Purposelessness
All of those factors effect the “elites” at least as much as non elites.
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It is *very tempting* to ascribe some grand conspiracy of powerful sociopaths at the top running things. But the wealthy and powerful sometimes are the most fooled by crazy.
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Yeah that’s very possible too. There is clearly movement going on at the upper echelons, ie. Soros, Gates, IMF, vaxxine pass, etc. Hard to say if they actually believe the BS or not.
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Some of them believe the BS. Some others don’t
Theranos was an example. Kissinger putting his money in this company reveals the belief that there is an untapped potential of female genius oppressed by the patriarchy and ready to replace the White men, improving the outcome.
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It was the magic Black turtleneck. Holmes discovered “Holy shit! I just dress like female Steve Jobs and say vague inspirational smart-sou ding stuff and these guys will do literally anything for me!”
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“It’s some kind of bizarre polytheism with constantly changing gods – George Floyd, Nipsey Hussle, Dr. Fauci, Barack Obama, etc. Its only worldview is one of constant chaos and destruction of white people, white social norms and Christian morality.”
In my opinion today’s burgeoning religion shares a similar mono-polytheism as Catholicism. You have the triumvirate Goddess Lady Justice and her threefold nature Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (in its former masculine form: liberty, equality, and fraternity).
What you deem to be “gods” can actually be considered saints or demigods.
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“The new religion of the ruling class isn’t a “religion” though.”
True, it’s more of a cult atm.
But any cult can become a religion, you just have to invent some rituals and build a temple and now you have a religion.
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Anybody can create a religion. The problem is that religion lasting millennia. Wokism won’t make it
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I agree that cult would be a better term. I also agree that a cult can become a religion. But:
“But any cult can become a religion, you just have to invent some rituals and build a temple and now you have a religion.”
I think rather than just these things, and more importantly, one must let a large period of time elapse, preferably from a time when records where scarce – it adds to the mystery. It is for this reason that Scientology will probably always be considered a cult; it’s origins will never be mysterious. It’s books not yielding their original authors without great hardship of study.
To be honest, you probably really know you’ve made it as a religion of great consequence when people start creating false parchments and claiming they are thousands of years old.
But yes, the term ‘cult’ is a good one that I believe should displace that of ‘religion’.
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Someone went to effort and expense to build and maintain the Georgia Guidestones and enscribe their plans for humanity on tons of granite. Given what has occurred over the decades since they were erected, I see no reason to doubt their sincerity.
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Christians thought they were getting eternal salvation- a perfect unending 2nd life in heaven out of their beliefs.
What do the woke think they’re going to get?
That is the question..
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And a great question it is. For the White Woke, a couple of images popped into my mind. One is the young urban Whites in the second story apartment cheering on the BLM/antifa marching below, as a brick was hurled through their window. Another is the storefront with the “hate has no home here” sign prominently displayed along with every window shattered. That’s just two of many….
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The sad, even demented, part to videos and pictures like that is that they are variations on a theme going back to the 60’s.
White guilt and empty moral posturing around race have been around for more than two generations.
The last time our elites went soft on crime and implemented the welfare state, the late 60’s, crime exploded in urban areas around the country and initiated white flight on a massive scale.
There has never been a true reckoning with the mass internal migration of whites out of cities and older, working class suburbs that took place in the late 60’s/early 70’s.
Our elites are currently engaged in the same madness, except this time the hysteria is amplified by social media and a 24/7 news cycle, as well as the fact that many of our institutions are hollowed out and filled with incompetents after 2 generations of Affirmative Action.
No where to go but down for most of this society.
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The Woke believe they are making heaven on earth. What is more righteous, more honorable than that?
And really who can be against that goal? We are assured by the woke that only evil people would be against using state and corporate power to perfect humanity. And that is convenient for them because opposing the betterment of humanity by the woke must be stopped at all costs.
Personally, watching all of what is coming to pass, it has strengthened my Christian faith. Humans are too in love with themselves, too confident in their competence and ability to change human nature.
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“Personally, watching all of what is coming to pass, it has strengthened my Christian faith. ”
Yes. I find this in myself too, and my wife also. It’s also worth pointing out that throughout history, life has pretty much, for most people most of the time, been a struggle. And that was on a good day. The saddest thing, particularly for the US, is that it probably was the grandest nation to exist, yet it has fallen far and fast. That’s the thing… we had it. We’ve known it. Now we don’t got and we have to get used to it.
“Humans are too in love with themselves, too confident in their competence and ability to change human nature.”
This is actually now, for me, one of the most distressing things to witness. The absurdity of thinking life really will get any better than it was – I doubt it will. The daftness of tinkering with large system not easily understood. And above all, the compleat wont to avoid all lessons that reality teaches.
I have a young family and my faith. When I was younger I thought about all the great things that may await me and any children I had. No, I spend my nights drawing up plans for homeschooling my kids, reminding my wife about the usefulness of a claw hammer in the event of a home invasion, coming to the realization that there is a strong possibility I will come into conflict with state actors over a matter of principle. It is terrifying; but it is faith solidifying and resolve strengthening.
Yet, life still contains so much beauty all around. There are still so many places one can feel at ease, with the like minded. Trouble is, they know something is wrong but do not want to act on it – so I preach to the ones I care about. That’s the least I could do. But there is always more… always.
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Judging by the crowds in the park where I trail jog, YTs are rediscovering the great outdoors.
Plenty of superspreader gatherings with a few dozen people, no masks or social distancing.
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Yeah, things have opened up again here in the UK. Pubs can only do outdoors service, and you may have to ‘book’ (I cannot fathom ‘booking’ to have a pint at my local pub) a table – but people were out in their multitudes. And yes, no distancing, no masks.
In a way, travelling around The Isles during lockdown was something I shall miss. Empty motorways. Empty footpaths. The airports quiet.
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You know? I hadn’t thought about the utility of a claw hammer as a tool of self defense. The blunt side could.some serious damage to both hard and soft tissue alike and the claw side would make amwicked close-in melee weapon. I, for one, would not want to be on the receiving end of a well swung attack with the sharp (sharpened?) end of a claw hammer! I.would, want to have whomever was going to employ the thing to get in some time practicing with it to ensure maximum effectiveness. Swords into plowshares, indeed.
Bill;
Big screwdriver might work well too. Carrying a 4 cell Maglight in your car might not be a bad idea either.
They believe, truly believe, in that Coke commercial from the late 60s. The one about teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony. I know because I have asked them this question and received variations on this basic childish, starry-eyed response. Modern life makes relatively stupid people seem more competent than they actually are.
When reality comes a knockin these people will lose what’s left of their minds. I see a Naturopath who lives in the belly of the leftard beast in Portland and he told me the tale of a “very liberal” acquaintance of his who was accused of being a White Supremacist at the school she worked at. She and her husband were so confused (and probably shamed even though they had no idea what she’d done wrong) they moved to Ecuador! Having helped to make an entire country incoherent they are giving a new hemisphere a try. That’s not nuts at all.
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> he told me the tale of a “very liberal” acquaintance of his who was accused of being a White Supremacist at the school she worked at. She and her husband were so confused (and probably shamed even though they had no idea what she’d done wrong) they moved to Ecuador!
Sounds like we have a winning strategy going forward.
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I’m sure the people of Ecuador are overjoyed at the arrival of such wonderful GoodWhites.
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‘ a “very liberal” acquaintance of his who was accused of being a White Supremacist’
Classic. Never learn. Always thinking if they just ‘Anti-Racist’ that bit harder, then they’ll be delivered. And where better place to AR harder than a foreign land.
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I think it’s all just a way to keep us off balance
Sure, some mid wits buy into the religion. Blacks of course.
But ultimately it’s to keep us guessing and off balance. It is tactical. Not literal.
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One of the internal contradictions of this new pseudo religion is that it constantly preaches the virtues of diversity even as it aggressively pushes uniformity of thought and crushes heresy.
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Unfortunately, pointing out this contradiction yields no advantage. Sean Hannity’s whole career can summarized by saying, “Can you imagine if a Republican said that?” and his trophy case is empty.
The reason that the left is untroubled by accusations of suppressing diversity is because their real motivation in anti-white. From the anti-white perspective, there is no contradiction.
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The trophy case is barren, the trophy wife is fruitful.
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“This new religion is not about elevating them or their people, but about harming the people who make their rule possible.”
It’s unclear to me why the current rulers are taking this path. Since they don’t really believe in the new religion, as the Visigoth rulers did, and it will lead to the downfall of civilization, what is the benefit for them? They already have control of all the commanding heights. It would seem forced conversion to this wacky new faith could only undermine their power.
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“It’s unclear to me why the current rulers are taking this path.”
a session of random kabbalah videos should make it very clear.
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They don’t really believe in their new religion? They could have fooled me. As Zman has pointed out, they’re firmly in the “feelings don’t care about your facts” camp.
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It’s like a snowball that’s rolled down a hill. At a certain point it has so much momentum that it can’t be stopped until it hits the bottom and shatters. The ruling regime can’t stop things, so they figure they’ll ride it out in their hermetically sealed pods in the big cities and in the Hamptons. Since most are old and wealthy, it’s not like it’ll hurt them personally, so what do they care? It’s not like they really care anything for this nation’s culture or its people anyway. America is a shopping mall to them. If it goes out of business, they’ll just go elsewhere because they have no skin in the game. They don’t care if one particular business-nation survives because hedonism and novelty seeking is all they have left to define themselves.
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Unless things change soon, this will be the end of the White/black dynamic and dominance in this (former) country. Neither libs nor blacks can apparently see the end game. As more power and influence is ceded to the orc cabal, the more our society spins out of control. In the meantime, the growing hoards of mocha colored pocs are not going to stand aside while everything implodes under black “leadership”. blacks will be tossed aside as the growing majority has no use for or sympathy for them.
I guess it’s not a real surprise that they can’t see the writing on the wall – you know, future time orientation, impulse control, looks at muh, etc.
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mexicanos aren’t a threat to the ruling class, they’re good at keeping joggers away though.
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That’s what happened in alot of the Toronto area. The white fags keep doing their fag marches, blacks keep doing ooga booga, conservatives keep clinging muh guns. White upper middle class kids keep traveling to “find themselves” rather than get a job.
Meanwhile the Chinese/Indian suburbs are growing rapidly. Indians are taking over corporations. Punjabis are taking over all the organized crime gangs and trucking industry. Chinese are spurring a massive construction spree. They don’t really care about culture war or whatever they just further their own group interests here.
The sad part is that none of these people are particularly special – they just decide to work instead of follow self destructive paths. And that alone puts you above 60% of young blacks and young whites. The “old” north america was whites, blacks, Joos, and Natives. All of these are being pushed out by people from various parts of the Asian continent. All the “old” people’s fates are intertwined whether we like it, or even care to admit it, or not.
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Here’s a clip of vibrants having a vibrant fight in the Miami airport:
https://mobile.twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/1386411450676039680
I love all the idiots tweeting how bystanders should be jumping in to break things up. The thousands of likes on those tweets are even more disturbing.
Yeah, that’s the quickest way to have both sides turn on you for a one way ticket to the big dirt nap.
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>Shoots jogger to prevent other jogger from being stabbed
*murderer! she was just a 250lb 16 year old kid looking to turn her life around!*
>Doesn’t intervene
*Do something! Don’t you know this is an airport??*
As usual the modern woke mindset is totally a woman’s. The sucker tries to argue his way out of the trap. The smart one tells her to shut up and does something productive with his time
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There are only two paths to victory:
1) Remove oneself.
2) Remove all opponents.
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We already tried 1) in the 60s onward with white flight. Asians are taking over every outer suburb now and Joe/Kamala are going to pump Section 8 refugees into every small town.
So… I’ll leave the reader to draw the conclusion
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I guess LeBron was unavailable to advise the proper procedure as to how to handle a fist fight in an airport.
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Anyone stupid enough to jump in to something like that gets what they deserve.
If they do end up getting killed in the process, they will have inadvertently performed humanity a great service by improving the gene pool.
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Meh, merely Blacks being Black.
Propensity towards violence – check!
Poor impulse control – check!
Total lack of regard for future rewards or consequences – check!
Anti-social/sociopathic behavior – check!
As I wrote earlier. Merely Blacks being Black! Joggers gonna jog after all.
Hopefully this is pertinent. I watched the 1965 film with Cornell Wilde, The Naked Prey last night. I recommend it highly. It is about a white man in Africa who is a Safari leader who due to the stupidity of his client is hunted down throughout the plains. Very well done and it pits two disparate men of different cultures against each other. The white man’s intellect and cunning do him well in this.
The point I want to make is this. Going to IMDB’s reviews if you look at most from over 10 or 15 years ago they see it as beautifully shot with an excellent survival plot to be enjoyed and thought out. Newer ones invariably start with the racism and arrogance of the white man.
For me it illustrates the cultural decline, indoctrination and brain washing of a good portion of our people. How easily they were manipulated. Negros have been sanctified and western white man demonized.
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Yep: a great dumbing-down is occurring:
Anytime you get people looking at the world through a lens that doesn’t comport with reality, they’re gonna be led to coming up with stupid conclusions.
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I saw that flick back when it first came out and (like, I suspect, most of the audience of the time) cheered for Wilde’s character. That film.could not even be MADE in this day and time. The story could simply not be twisted sufficiently to fit current sensibilities.
When did you piss in McFeels’ Cheerios?
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I can’t recall the last time I listened to those guys. It was before the Covid when I stopped listening, so I really can’t say.
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I’m a regular listener of McFeels and Allsup, but I’ve been re-thinking whether I should continue. They’re throwing a lot of guys under the bus. Yesterday I shut it off with an hour to go. Also, whatever happened to Ethnarch?
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I have not heard from Ethnark in a while. I know he was a listener and reader, but I don’t know what he is doing now.
Whatever happened to Halberstram? He abruptly disappeared without an explanation and without a trace.
While our leaders still see the need to give lip-service to their supposed Christian faith, it’s clear that’s all it is. Jimmy Carter May have been the last one who really believed what he was professing.
And while I’m sure there are plenty of cynics among those espousing and mandating the New Religion of Anti-racist Egalitarianism, it’s my impression that there are also plenty of true believers: people who genuinely do feel righteous indignation at how poorly Sacred Blacks have been treated.
There are emotions that are empowering: anger is one of them, and righteous indignation is another.
And while Anti-racist Egalitarianism is the new religion which all GoodWhites must affirm— and virtue-signal the strength of their commitment by their fervent righteous indignation— witness Crazy-Nancy Pelosi directing a prayer upwards to the Egalitarian Jesus George Floyd, thanking him for dying for White peoples’ sins— the “Racial Reckoning” which accompanies it— our modern-day equivalent of the Crusades— seems— for Blacks at least— to be primarily about revenge: yet another empowering emotion.
It’s clear that Blacks don’t simply want equality, or a level playing field; they want to get back at Whites, to get even with them— and, it would seem by the number of Black attacks on them, at Asians as well— to make them suffer all the indignities they feel they themselves suffered, in the bad old days of overt and legalized “prejudice” and “discrimination”.
Understanding Black motivation as a seeking-after revenge rather than equality helps us understand why Blacks are never satisfied; why, no matter how much progress they’ve made— no matter how many laws guarantee them equal treatment, no matter how much they’re elevated and exalted in the media, no matter how many affirmative-action plans are put in place that guarantee them preferential treatment, no matter how often GoodWhites kneel and kowtow— they always want more. They won’t be satisfied until Whites have been completely subjugated, marginalized, and demonized. That’s their version of Heaven on Earth: not a place where all people are equal, but a 180-degree reversal, to a world where Blacks dominate while Whites cower and submit.
Maybe all religions— in addition to having a set of mandatory beliefs— need an enemy to hate, and a narrative explaining why hating them is an act of righteousness. In the Middle Ages it was religious heretics whose doctrines concerning Christianity were not in sync with what the Church believed.
Today, the heretics are those who refuse to affirm the doctrines of Anti-racist Egalitarianism, which tell us that since all groups are equal in every way, any disparity of outcome has got to be the result of “discrimination”, “systemic racism”, and “White privilege”. Blacks are gods, and the “White supremacists” who refuse to worship them are devils.
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> Understanding Black motivation as a seeking-after revenge rather than equality helps us understand why Blacks are never satisfied;
Getting tempted to just spam WorldStar HipHop videos of blacks beating the crap out of whites to colorblind normies instad of well-thought arguments. They need their lizard survival brain activated more than anything.
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Blacks do not want a level playing field because they damned well KNOW in their heart of hearts that a “level playing field” will do them no good. They know that they CANNOT COMPETE with Eurasians on a level playing playing field because in almost all ways except the purely physical they are INFERIOR to Eurasians! Compared to Blacks, Eurasians are more intelligent, more creative, more artistic, more compassionate and even more rapacious/conquering. Deep in their heart of hearts Blacks are aware of their own primitive inferiority to Eurasians and for that they FEAR us. And what people fear they HATE! And what people hate they, inevitably, seek to destroy. It is as simple as that.
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I think you guys are over estimating the complexity of their thought process.
More like:
“sheeit, whitey hav nice stuff. gibsmedat”
They are told that whitey has nice stuff because hes racist and stole it from blacks. So then they think “ayo, whitey hav my stuff. gibsmedate. ooga booga [chimpout]”.
Remember their average IQ is only 80 which is basically a child.
People have evolved to follow the leader, that’s why they went along with it. Otherwise, their ancestors would have been excluded from the gene pool. Those personality types that have survived have done so by going along with the flow, keeping their heads down and saying “yes” to the next dear leader and his cult.
Western populations foolishly let foreign populations become the ruling class of their countries — Americans & their obsession with diversity and a certain ethnocentric ethnic group — through finance and mass media, and that ruling class then told the masses what to think so as to make it easier to control them. They told them to think things that would harm their interests: mass immigration, wage slavery, diversity cults, worshiping foreigners, denigrating the past and culture of the native populations. & things that would benefit the ruling class: population replacement, low taxes, corporate monopolies, Middle Eastern Wars, social liberalism, democracy.
How many derogatory jokes were told by the ruling class about –ists and –phobes over the years? How many movies featured Whites as the bad guys? Or portrayed rural people as cannibals or inbred monsters? How many movies like Mississippi Burning, Driving Miss Daisy, and A Time to Kill were made deriding “racist Whites”? But how many movies ever featured a bad guy who liked diversity or loved Israel? Lots of WASP bad guys. Few bad guys named Silver or Sha’Naquah, that’s for sure. Do you see the pattern?
All of those efforts were aimed at destroying the solidarity and will of the subject population. The ruling class wanted them to feel like bad people for resisting. Instead of resisting, normies fell for the enemy’s propaganda. Things like “free speech.” The Left never believed any of that stuff. They promoted it because it benefited them on the whole. 9 out of 10 jokes were made at the expense of the ruling class’s enemies, and almost no truly conservative movie or television show ever got made (by the big studios) while “free speech” allowed conservatives’ enemies to run up the score on them.
Notice how the Left turned on “free speech” the moment the Right learned to meme at their expense in 2016. The Left then banned their opposition, which is what the Right should have done to the Left back when they had the chance. Instead, like a person who doesn’t take all of her antibiotic, the disease multiplied until it overwhelmed the body’s immune system.
Christians were taught by the ruling class not to pursue politics and smart Whites were taught not to foster group solidarity, so they adopted extreme individualism, which manifested in cults like Libertarianism and Compassionate Conservatism, which only further reduced the native population’s ability to fight back. Or diversity worship or various fringe cults or sportsball. Anything to distract them. It was done deliberately. The ruling class didn’t want competition.
Now, native White Caucasians are the targets of a conquering force which tells them to convert or be destroyed. They’ll convert. Just like conservative normies converted over diversity back in the 1960s, it will happen again. These days, conservatives spend their time cheering on the based blacks of Faux News, assured any day now the ghost of St. Martin Luther King jr (real name: Michael King) will make blacks see the light about how the democrats are the real racists. Just one more Candace Owens video will do it; just one more segment defending Tim Scott, the black guy senator who cheered on Trump’s black outreach to predictably disastrous results. Meanwhile, the Left has moved beyond the equality propaganda they promoted back in the day, but never truly accepted, and have moved onto more oppressive “equity” dogma.
Ten years from now, conservatives will be complaining that the Left has abandoned equity, which all good people support, in favor of something that violates equity — like simply stealing things from some and giving all of it to others so that they have none left for themselves. Conservatives in the year 2030:
“Hey, you’re not being true to the spirit of George Floyd, liberals. Here, watch this Faux News video where this based black guy talks about how St. Floyd would have been a republican if he were alive today.”
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
Keep them dancing.
A healthy species teaches its young ancient wisdom so that they may be better able to survive & thrive in the environment of their birth. This is the primary benefit of religious practice, and it works because of message consistency & repetition. Spirituality is a necessary element because it effectively restrains the skepticism that would otherwise diminish adoption & commitment.
None of this ancient functionality exists in the current & arbitrary lurching about by Elite Inc. with newfangled civic religions every few years. It is not, and was never intended to be, an actual transcendent moral philosophy. It’s purpose is far more insidious & debilitating. To conquer the masses, you must first break their spirit and then drive them down into chaos & dependency. And when they are broken & weak & spent, then throw them some alms and use their misery to gain leverage. That is the future if we do nothing to stop them.
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And what, precisely, is it that you think we CAN do to stop them??? Illumine me, oh fount of wisdom. From where I sit we are well and truly screwed, blued and tattooed.
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He can write inane comments.
Someone has already used Jaquarius on this blog but I am gonna steal it. It’s a great term.
Our rulers thought that they were giving us the age of Aquarius when in actuality we are getting the age of Jaquarius.
No better example than last nights Oscars
Some ignorant low IQ black guy in a yellow outfit is lecturing us about the police that with all their faults we depend on the police as an institution for enforcing stability in western civilization.
We now get Jaquarius on TV spouting nonsense.
Welcome to the new religion of our elites.
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We laugh at the foolishness, but that stuff gets through to the young. The media and the university system is poisoning the youth.
Not a new story to anyone, but my neighbor, good guy, sent his daughter to a small, private Catholic college. Three years later she’s all about the climate and the racism. All I could tell him was there’s no point in arguing, simply tell her she’s been indoctrinated, and that you hope she will one day realize it.
I don’t know the way out of this. When the ruling class commands the cultural high ground, I won’t says it’s a losing battle but it will be a long and difficult one. Alternate media is one way forward, but how you replace the educational system is tough.
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Our own slow march through the institutions will take 100 years to restore any semblance of balance to the system. Any serious effort by the DR to build separate institutions will not be tolerated by the DS and will likely result in a hot civil war.
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Homeschool. Contrary to the mass media and Globohomo, there is tons of support for homeschooling now – especially in church groups. They have more field trips, more intramural sport, and more special programs than public schools. And the students will wipe the academic mat with publicly schooled kids.
If you have kids in public school get them out NOW.
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we will give the benefit of the doubt and will assume you watched the Oscars in the same spirit one would slow down to check out a wreck scene on the highway, attending a recent school board meeting, or even looking on in wonder as someone drives by alone in their car with a mask on.
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If there is no limiting principle and if the ruling classes are true believers, then the most likely outcome is total war, to annihilate or to be annihilated.
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“The ruling class of America wants to have a nuclear war with Russia over homosexuality.”
Yeah scary isn’t it? And over Jewish hatred of Russia.
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I mentioned awhile back that Globohomo preferentially hires their people into positions of wealth and power, now that they are free to identify themselves.
That the Globohomo flag now flies beneath the American flag across the world at foreign embassies is the clearest symbol yet that we have been conquered from within.
Russia is their enemy, as is anyone who has not accepted the true faith.
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Yes, the alphabet soup crowd is yet another highly problematic faction.
I’d also note that faction has significant overlap with the people who shall remain unnamed.
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To this comment’s disliker which I’ll guess is one of our semitic friends. I would mention that Jewish dislike for Russia isn’t the only or even dominant force in American anti-Russianism. Plenty of decrepit cold-warriors left (plenty of gentile ones) and my best guess is Jewish anti-Russianism is fading, as is/will cold warrior anti-Russianism. Globohomo is probably the main reason we’ll be driven to nuclear war – humanity ends over the defense of fudgepackers marrying each other.
And the size of our ruler’s egos. Their heads are the size of an Alaska pumpkin but most of that is bone.
Now how many dislikes will this get for sucking up to semites.
The Zman wrote
I disagree. I do not see the effects of their rule upon the people who make their rule.possible as even entering into the calculus. They believe what they believe (although “feel” might be a more apt description) and that belief justifies any and all actions they may take.
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Their religion is chaos. The order that is emerging from the chaos they created will destroy them. Don’t get entangled in their chaos.
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Materialism, unchecked by religion, doing its best to fill the spiritual void and failing as it must.
Women, unsupported by men, doing their best to be the men they need and failing as they must.
Blacks, set radically free, doing their best to spur the white man into reassuming his burden and making a huge mess of it.
Foreigners, walking free into our territory and doing whatever they’re doing. That situation is just a free for all.
This is the madness you get when your society is left to people who didn’t create it and consequently are competent to run it.
The whole world hates white men especially, because we’ve abrogated our moral and material responsibilities. Turn off the porn, sportsball, and video games; put down the joystick, controller, and spatula; get to work.
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The first step is the have the support system you need. your wife , (get one if you don’t have one, and no bitching , she will follow if you really lead.) your children (Fuck the money have the kids), friends(IRL , not on the TV, and in addition to any you have on the interwebz) . Faith – SPXX catholic , trad catholic, orthodox , trad evangelical. Your family need it . long hard road , but there is no other that doesn’t end in dissolution
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DO NOT assume that if you lead, your wife will follow. Not in this day and age. Once the hooks of wokeness or social justice are in her… she’s gone. The best you can do is walk away. Even if she takes everything, walk away and be thankful for your escape.
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*aren’t* competent to run it. 🙂
100 thumbs up!
There will be no “going along” with these new zealots. They are going to destroy themselves. The only question is whether we will be taken with them.
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Joe Sobran quipped, “Bill Clinton carries a Bible because he’s looking for loopholes.”
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Once again In my eighties with no grandchildren why should I care?
Après moi, le déluge.
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please care for my gandkids. And I am sorry for your situation , it is very common. we were all deluded in the 60’s and 70’s . I just got lucky
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Disagree with parts of this.
The Hispano-Romans over whom the Visigoths took rulership were Catholic, orthodox Christians. All of the barbarian tribes that ran over the Western Empire were Arians, having been converted by Arian bishops in the 4th century or thereabouts. So, the Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Burgundians were all Arians. In effect, all these cases were Arian Christians ruling over Trinitarian Christians. This is why the conversion of Clovis to Catholicism was such a big deal – he was the first barbarian king to do so.
As for the relations between these groups, it’s tough to say. Theoderic got along famously with the Papacy, despite the theological difference. Meanwhile, according to St. Gregory of Tours, when a granddaughter of Clovis’ was sent to be the wife of Hermengild, heir to the Visigoth kingship, her mother-in-law beat the hell out of her in an attempt to get her to renounce Catholicism and convert to Arianism. So, I’m not sure the generalization is apt.
Finally, this idea that, in the Middle Ages, “persecution of heretics was no longer about threats to power, but about violation of a universal truth,” seems just mistaken. Sure, it’s a violation of universal truth, but the problem was always that everyone knew this sort of diversity was a problem for the unity of the people. More to the point, the mere existence of skeptics was never a real problem, so long as they did not preach it. The idea being that doubts are fine, it’s the division that’s the problem.
If you’re looking for where to place the idea of genuine intolerance, I’d suggest Henry VIII, who didn’t merely insist that you keep your mouth shut about to whom he was or was not married. Instead, he insisted, under threat of a charge of treason, that you confess you agree wholeheartedly with the king’s assertion of truth. And that’s a hell of an innovation.
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BTP;
Re Henry Viii, there’s the small matter of the church lands. He seized them all to sell/gift them to his supporters when his treasury was dry and he was hock to the moneylenders. So if you denied his right to be head of the Church of England, you were also saying he was a thief and should repay the Pope, et al: True re thievery, but obviously highly dangerous politically. Such sentiments couldn’t be allowed to gain any traction.
BTW, seizing the foundations’ and Big U endowments is my proposed solution for liquidating the US national debt. Wouldn’t have to do it outright, just make them pay out, say, 15% annually, taxable at corporate rates..
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The Universities are the home of the cathedral of the modern religion, I’m informed. Since this is a religious war, I say we hit ’em where it hurts!
Do not send your daughter away to college under any circumstances. sorry to say it . AVE Maria university may be OK . https://www.avemaria.edu/ . sent my daughter away to cath college over 10 yrs ago and it was a very different place when she left . the change was coming in then. If they go to college, commute. and start with community college. I know this sounds arrogant but I have sent 3 to college, and I have experience . the stakes couldn’t be higher.
To paraphrase god , ” what good does it do her to gain the whole world if she loses her soul?”
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Maryland Wokists going after medical expert who testified in the Chauvin trial:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/maryland-probe-chauvin-defense-witness-tenure-states-chief-medical-examiner
Should be plain as day what this means.
Prep accordingly.
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“By the middle ages, persecution of heretics was no longer about threats to power, but about violation of a universal truth. The mere existence of doubters or skeptics was seen as a threat to the one true faith.”
A half-truth which trivializes the role that belief plays in holding societies together. Medieval Europe’s whole feudal social and political structure was based on oath-taking relationships. People outside the Faith could not be trusted to keep their oaths since they did not share the same sacred basis for commitment. Much as in non-insane 1950’s America, neither could Communists.
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Isn’t it odd that in AINO, where professing fealty to diversity is a holy sacrament, toleration of dissent is nowhere to be found? The whole object is boundless cultural (racial, ethnic) diversity, but every single person is expect to adhere slavishly to orthodox dogma. This strikes me as ever so slightly antinomian.
Just a few thoughts. First, there were sometimes material advantages to conversion: “Paris vaut une messe” (Paris is worth a mass), attributed to French King Henri IV, who converted from protestantism to catholicism in order to become king of France. One of the results of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was that a protestant could be considered to be the loyal subject of a catholic monarch, and a catholic could be considered to be the loyal subject of a protestant monarch. Heresy was considered especially dangerous in the Middle Ages; worse than murder. A murderer could only deprive a victim of his life in the world, but a prosletyzing heretic could lead someone to a belief that condemned their immortal soul to eternal damnation and torment. Tolerating such a person was itself considered a serious sin.
Z-man is right: the present national religion of the United States is the veneration of Negroes. Given the dysfunction of the black community, that is a recipe for disaster.
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