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Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s In Charge, And You’re Not

Previous post. It will come as no surprise that if God is God, then He's in charge. THAT GOD GOVERNS THINGS BY HIS PROVIDENCE 1 From the points that have…

Culture

This Week In Doom — Celebrity Meat Edition

Item Abortion until birth in New York State. In a democracy, what is voted yes on becomes both true and moral. Maranatha. Item Everyone Stop Everything. What Is This? A…

Culture

Conservative Conserve Nothing — The Man Who Saw It All Coming In 1871

This excerpt is from Robert Lewis Dabney's 1871 essay "Women's Rights Women." Dabey was a Reb, and therefore he and his views are now anathema. If he ever had a…

Culture

Female Claims 0s and 1s Are Patriarchal, Biased

Men swim in idiocy, and always have. It is only when a culture enters its declining phase that it becomes incurably decadent. Decadence can last some time, but not forever.…

Culture Statistics

What’s With The Sudden Push Against Meat?

Lots of animals eat nothing but or nearly all meat and suffer no ill effects because of it. Man, an animal, eats a lot of it, too, and the evidence…

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Equality Is False — In Aptitude, Intelligence, Ability. What Are The Consequences?

Listen to this: Brothers and sisters: There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different…

Culture

The Smirk — Open Thread

They want a civil war. https://twitter.com/MrWyattEarpLA/status/1086953724352835585 https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1086806539552284672 https://twitter.com/SujanaChandrase/status/1086988872939126785 https://twitter.com/1renist/status/1087151297357328386 https://twitter.com/PikePlaceTechie/status/1087117202749378560 Even "conservatives", or some of them, can see it. https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1087151396863045634 https://twitter.com/NFrankovich/status/1086969802437156865 The last tweet is in danger of deletion. It…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: You Have No Idea Of The Coming Good

Previous post. It's going to be better than you can think. HOW MAN'S EVERY DESIRE IS FULFILLED IN THAT ULTIMATE FELICITY 1 From the foregoing it is quite apparent that,…

hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 20, 2024
All correct. Slavery had to be specially justified and strictly limited because nobody was inherently worthy of slavery. Therefore, all…
TFBW on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 20, 2024
If nothing else, this lecture is giving me pause to reconsider some of my presuppositions. I'm not too satisfied with…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 20, 2024
Johnno: "It’s like a panacea, but in reverse." Good one.
Johnno on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 19, 2024
Have the reporters asked the White House if perhaps another booster might help the Biden? A certain someone said it…
Johnno on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 19, 2024
Technically, the Church had and used slaves. And even the Old Testament allowed for slavery under certain conditions. For example,…