Faith and Faithfulness

 Many religious leaders emphasize FAITH, and it is all well and good that they do. However, faith is merely one aspect of something more fundamental: FAITHFULNESS.

If faith is an intellectual rational assent to a proposition, that assent can change. Reason is a slave to deeper motivations: if you want to believe something, you can find your reasons. Reason is a castrated impotent fop that is in bondage to the deeper realities of how human beings work. So if your faith is because you rationally consent to the idea that a god exists, it is fickle and useless.

FAITHFULNESS is a bond, a covenant, between one person and another. G-d, for everything else that He is, is also a person in this sense.

You COVENANT with HIM. You LOVE Him, and by love I do not mean merely an emotion. Emotions too change with the wind, human emotions are as fickle as Reason is. You are bonded with Him. You demonstrate faithfulness, not just faith, with Him and He shows His faithfulness to you. Love that is only an emotion is worthless. Love that is a bond: that is the love that matters. A mother (one would hope) does not merely love her child. She is bonded with him. She will attend to him through thick and thin, bad times and good. Her lot is cast with his.

The G-d of Sinai tells us time and time and time again, throughout the Tanakh (for Christians the Old Testament,) that faithfulness is a thing He values exceedingly highly. In fact many of his Commandments are expressions of how much He values faithfulness. Thou shalt not commit adultery: that is about faithfulness of one human being to another, their spouse. Some days you might not in fact love your spouse very much, but you must always be faithful to them. Not bearing false witness is a form of faithfulness to the community. Loyalty that goes much further than lip service. Loyalty in ACTION. The First Commandment, thou shalt have no other gods besides Me, is the ultimate expression of faithfulness to G-d. And He prefaces it by saying that He was faithful to you, Israel. He led you out of bondage in Egypt. G-d is faithful. Are you?

Faithfulness to G-d is a transcendent value that can and sometimes must overrule faithfulness to even the dearest human. The Torah states that even if your wife or brother induces you to worship other gods, you must report them immediately and at their stoning YOU must throw the first stone.

Why would G-d have you perform that wrenching act? An act that must fill your eyes with tears and your heart with agony? This is human thinking: doesn't G-d love me? Why would he make me do such a horrendously agonizing thing?

To say, that though G-d wants you to be faithful to your wife and family and community, everything comes second to faithfulness to G-d. And it has to be that way, because without faithfulness to G-d, the family and society and everything else will come apart. Keeping faith, keeping covenant, with G-d is FUNDAMENTAL. Everything whatsoever is second to it. The G-d centered society is a pyramid based on faithfulness to G-d, and if the base shatters the whole thing will shatter. First faithfulness to G-d, then faithfulness to spouse and family and faithfulness to community. If the base is right, the whole thing will be right.

G-d tells us over and over and over and over and over again that He values loyalty. Loyalties that are subjected to G-d's law and loyalty to Him first. Thank Him that He does! Can you imagine what situation we would be in if He didn't care, or changed His regard and care on a whim?

LIKE HUMANS DO?? What is more fickle than a human being?

No, He is not like that. His loyalty is constant to those who are covenanted to Him. Sometimes when adversity strikes we do not see that loyalty, but it is there, to all who keep covenant, keep faithfulness, to Him. Looking back on my life I see a constant thread of G-d's faithfulness, though I might not have seen it at the time and indeed it stretches back to a time when I was not at all faithful to Him and didn't even know Him. For the sake of my future self, He was faithful to the wretch that I was.

Even death does not break G-d's faithfulness. What is G-d's explanation for why he saved the Israelites from Egypt? Because He loved Abraham.

ABRAHAM HAD BEEN DEAD 400 YEARS! It doesn't matter. Elisha raised a man from the dead THOUGH HE HIMSELF WAS DEAD BONES! Doesn't matter. Even death does not end G-d's faithfulness. How many of G-d's people have been saved from a life of darkness because He loved one of their ancestors? G-d only knows. The prayers of those long dead have not lost their potency in His eyes.

G-d was at one point so angry with the Israelites that he wanted to destroy them utterly. Moses prayed that He would spare them for His name sake. Because Moses asked Him, He did not destroy them.

So do not tell me of your faith in an intellectual proposition. Do not tell me of your emotion of love. Tell me of your faithfulness, your covenant, to a person who is G-d. Be faithful with all your strength and soul.

Am *I* The Crazy One?

 THIS IS A REPOST OF A FACEBOOK POST. I am copying it here because nobody knows what FB might do in the future or if I will be able to be on it. Nobody knows what Google might do in the future either, but at least now it is in two places.

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Am I the crazy one? I don't think that I am. I think I am one of very few making any sense.

Without avidly and sincerely seeking the ways of G-d and seeking to implement them, humanity is without hope. There is no hope even of the kind of consumer lifestyle that the atheist materialists want, for very long.

How are you going to have your lifestyle, or at least how are your children going to have your lifestyle, when deranged, UNNATURAL, power-hungry, neurotically-control-freakish and quite possibly genocidal leaders have no curbs, no traditions, no restrictions on the power of the idolatrous false god GOVERNMENT, no obstacles to their path to blow the whole thing up?

If it is not clear yet, THEY DON'T CARE. They sure as hell don't care about you. They don't even care about THEMSELVES! There is Nancy Pelosi, marching us all to WW3. A suicide cult. They don't even have the spiritual sight to know that is what they are doing! They are morally and spiritually completely blinded. They don't have eyes to see what they are doing anymore, if they ever did.

Why? Because they hate G-d. So like Pharoah, G-d blinded them and hardened their hearts.

Let us reason together for the moment, atheists. Is there anything less trustworthy on this Earth than human governments? Is there anything less trustworthy on this Earth than human beings and human "wisdom" PERIOD? Lets count it up.

There is the 40 MILLION DEAD in WW1

There is the 85 MILLION DEAD in WW2

There are the millions dead in the Korean, Vietnam and all the subsequent wars we were so fond of at the time.

And these deaths are 100% attributable to the power of human governments. This is human wisdom in action!

So tell me, how is it that you trust humans and their governments again? I don't see it.

Oh wait, I can answer that question for you! It is GOOD THAT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS DIED IN THE 20TH AND EARLY 21ST CENTURIES. Why? Global warming. I have literally heard liberals argue that anything that kills millions of people is good, or even that human extinction is good.

Like I said, it is a suicide cult. It will get us all killed one day.

There is ONE AND ONLY ONE RIGHT WAY, period. That way is G-D's WAY.

Which G-d? The G-d of Sinai. The G-d of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. YHWH.

I will say it again. ONE AND ONLY ONE RIGHT WAY.

I am only a man, my knowledge of that way is not perfect, but I sure am gonna try to learn it because that is our only hope.

SEEK THAT WAY WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL AND STRENGTH. SEEK HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL AND STRENGTH. Maybe, just maybe, He will give you sanctuary in the storm of absolute human wickedness and insanity and depravity.

No, *I* am not the crazy one

How I Took My "Red Pill"

 For most of my life, I was not the Conservative I am now. I was anywhere from libertarian to kinda-liberal to proper liberal. In 2015 I was liberal enough to support Bernie Sanders. What happened?

1. ABORTION
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Abortion was really the wedge that opened up everything else. I never thought abortion was morally acceptable. I thought it was something that government shouldn't involve itself in beyond certain parameters. Granted that it was logically inconsistent to believe that abortion was immoral (hence by extension actually murder) and believing that it shouldn't be illegal like other murders. But I was skeptical enough of government power to make the case to myself that even if immoral, government shouldn't be involved or at least that legislation against it should be limited to certain parameters.

I remember very vividly many years ago visiting a tiny Catholic church in Eureka Springs, Arkansas that contained on its grounds a memorial to the unborn. This moved me very deeply and planted a seed in me, I think. Never be skeptical of even the smallest act of witness that comes from the heart, and this memorial was a witness to me. 

Abortion memorial, St. Elizabeth's Church, Eureka Springs Arkansas

Then came Facebook, and on it I interacted with "Christians" (Progressive Christians) who were not only willing to have the limited abortion prohibitions that were then law, but who believed in expanded abortion "rights." They did not believe that abortion was immoral but best tolerated. They affirmed abortion as a positive good.

This blew my mind. I had always assumed that ANY Christian who tolerated abortion, tolerated it as a very bad thing that it was nevertheless not worth it for government to outlaw completely. I viewed it a bit like Prohibition: its intentions were good, alcohol destroys countless lives, but it was never going to work and was going to encourage criminality. In this case presumably, outlawing abortion encourages illegal coat hangers.

But here were these "Christians," who did not think abortion was immoral. And here I was, with my reasoned if wrong approach to the problem, and I was unintentionally supporting the positions of people who believed that what was in my view fundamentally wrong was right. Murder is okay. Abortion is good.

When I re-evaluated my position on abortion, this opened the door to re-evaluating EVERYTHING I believed to see if it matches up to the Biblical view on things. And in a great many ways it did not.

2. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS TO THE TANAKH (THE OLD TESTAMENT)

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I had first become a Christian I think in my late Thirties or maybe in my Forties. It was a very rocky relationship, characterized by a number of fits and starts. I had two main problems with Christianity: the idea that a man was G-d, and a problem with the Old Testament. The Old Testament, despite its very different outlook, is considered by Christians to also be holy writ along with the New Testament. What is relevant for the purpose of this post is the latter.

I admired the philosophy of Jesus. When I wanted to broaden my understanding though, I looked at the Old Testament and saw a dramatically different picture. Jesus said "do not resist an evil person." Here was the OT advocating the extreme opposite, that any evil MUST be resisted, violently in many cases. Jesus was a man of peace, and I liked peace.

The OT was a book of WAR. Whatever their points of connection and however often Jesus quoted it, the Old Testament and the New were fundamentally at odds.

Here was a looking glass universe, in which all my calm pacifistic expectations were upended. I actually believed for a time that the Old Testament was the product of a different religion and a different God, and that this OT God was not like my Jesus at all. I did not like the Old Testament one bit, and that was a problem, because the Jesus I did like quoted it all the time.

Nevertheless I persevered in my studies, hoping to find a resolution. In the process, I entered through the looking glass into the Old Testament and a different world, a world in conflict with the world that I and basically everybody lived in. A world of pluralism of thought. A world of tolerance.

The Tanakh is fundamentally intolerant. In the Torah (the first five books of the Tanakh,) evil is described in ways very similar to how we now think of disease. When you have gangrene in a finger, you do not spare the finger and risk the hand. You lop the finger off and pray that the infection stops there. Evil in the Tanakh is fundamentally regarded as a contagion, an infectious disease that will inevitably spread if not stopped cold. The Torah's prescient ideas about actual disease and quarantine (in an ancient world without germ theory) is telling. The Torah treats with real disease and spiritual disease both. Later prophets would not deal as much with actual disease, but spiritual disease is treated much the same way. A king of ancient Judah, Josiah, is praised in the book of Kings above all other kings, even David. Why? Because he destroyed the pagan shrines in Judah, desecrated their altars, and murdered their pagan priests. The prophet Elijah is depicted doing the same sorts of things.

In the view of the Tanakh, the thing to do with pagans is not invite them to speak at your churches as is so often the practice today. The thing to do with pagans is to kill them. Terminate, with extreme prejudice. Granted you should not take this too literally as a guide to how to behave these days, as neither Elijah nor Josiah were thrown in prison for their actions (though they certainly tried worse with Elijah.) Still, the principle is stated repeatedly: sweep out the evil amongst you. Do not let evil take root with the Jewish people. Of course it did anyway.

Fundamental also to the Tanakh is a very alien way of thinking these days: that one way, G-d's way, is right and all ways in contradiction to it are wrong. It's not just, like, your opinion man. G-d's way or the highway, and the highway is death or other very unpleasant consequences. Which, we have all in this culture subconsciously absorbed ethical relativism. The Tanakh expresses a different view: that THE ONE ONLY GOD told us what He wanted, what was right and what was wrong. And if THE ONE ONLY TRUE GOD tells you something, it is not up to debate. He is right and everyone else is wrong. And not only wrong, but actually malignant. Spiritually damaging to society.

As an American, I absorbed individualism in the cradle practically. Americans love individualism. It's a foundational ideal. What is hard to wrap your head around in the Tanakh initially is that it is not at all individualistic. As an American, thoughts and beliefs are considered morally neutral. You can be a Wiccan and be a good American; you can be a Baptist and a good American. Pluralism of thought is considered good. Do your own thing, think your own thoughts. Anyone who knows me would probably consider me the most individualistic of people. My mother used to say of me, "he marches to the beat of his own drummer."

What the Tanakh was saying was, thoughts and beliefs are not morally neutral. Your thoughts and beliefs affect everything and everyone around you. Nor are actions which superficially do not seem to affect other individuals morally neutral. From the point of view of the Tanakh, if you are committing sodomy with the same sex, you are not just affecting yourself and consenting adults. You are doing injury to the very fabric of society which depends on stable opposite-sex families to prosper. Like it or not, everyone is morally connected to everyone else, and it is this worldview that can be the hardest to assimilate. Through the looking glass, there are no victimless sins.

And believe me, I did not want to believe that this point of view was right. No less than Jacob, I fought with an angel over this. But I had to finally admit that G-d was right and I was wrong.

Something that is hard to convey to people who are not truly immersed in the worldview of the Tanakh is the deep love that is embedded in this worldview. Tremendous concern for the well being of not individuals but everyone. Excessive love for any one individual is not present; G-d is no respecter of persons. What G-d respects is the health, well-being and happiness of the whole of society. When one person detracts from that, they should be corrected or pruned from the tree. Which, if evil is like a contagious disease, is what you have to do. If your apple tree has one infected branch, you cut off the branch and save the tree.

The worldview of the Tanakh is profoundly, fundamentally different from the modern worldview and opposed to it. It can take a tremendous work of self- re-education to reorient yourself towards it, but with G-d's help you can. Today, the "modern world" is through the looking glass to me, alien and dark.

3. POLITICAL SKEPTICISM
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It is subconsciously accepted as a given that government is the answer to many problems. Despite all the problems it seems unable to solve. People as a whole do not disagree with using government as a hammer to solve whatever the ills are, they just disagree with whether the solution is good in that particular case.

Well, governments are run by humans, and what does the Tanakh tell us about humans?

"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?" ~Jeremiah 17:9


"The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God. All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one." ~Psalm 14:2-4

Humans, even the best of us, are corrupt and sinful. The more power that a human is given, the greater his temptation to evil will be. Therefore a HUMAN solution to our problems is precisely NOT what is needed. We need THE divine solution, not human solutions. No one who truly believes what the Tanakh says about human nature can ever imagine the government as the cure to all ills.

Like most Americans, I was raised on the idea of government solutions. This is the malignancy of the current order: what is allowed to pass muster in one generation is bred into the next as a fait accompli. Just as, if the Woke agenda is allowed to pass unchallenged in this generation, it will become the default philosophy of the next. Just as "communism lite" was allowed to pass muster in previous generations and schools and churches, and became the default philosophy now. Remember the mindset of the Tanakh: evil is a contagion.

What this reliance on government solutions leads to is an even worse evolution of sin: idolatry of the State on a national scale. That government is the human-made god. Previous nations tried it: Hitler tried to extend his control over every aspect of life as did Stalin. In one, the Volk is god. In the other, humans are god. In both, the State is god.

Well despite their greater body count, they got nothing on us. The current cultural and ideological regime in the West practices Stateolatry no less than they do. The modern idolaters of the State just find better ways to put it into practice without arousing suspicion.

So while I hold to the view of the Tanakh, that ONE way is right, I do not view human governments as a worthy tool to putting that into practice. The best government then is the one that extends its hand the least and intrudes, robs, controls, steals and kills in our name the least. The problem is that while limited government works exceedingly well for a moral, spiritual and righteous population, in one that is not it turns into "nothing is true, everything is permitted." Because unrighteous people still look to government for their guide and their father. So if their guide and father allows it, it must be okay.

So I cannot countenance an activist government and I cannot say that a laissez-faire government will have beneficial results in an immoral population, because it won't. Ultimately the spiritual commitment of the population to covenant with the G-d of Sinai is fundamental, and that spiritual commitment does not exist today on any widespread level.

THE PROCESS
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I did not snap immediately from a Bernie Sanders liberal to what I am now. I was indeed dragged kicking and screaming every step of the way. The force doing the dragging was my desire for intellectual consistency and truth and the spirit of G-d leading me. The dead weight was the whole inherited thought that I, as the child of liberal parents, had absorbed wholesale from my parents and society. So I will sometimes see my posts from 2017 or 2018 and go, "jeez, how could I have ever thought that?" However, and I am generally allergic to self-congratulation, but not everyone could have made the journey. Without a deep commitment to intellectual consistency and truth and simply thinking hard and long about things, I could not have made it.

However I think now my life journey as an intellectual Transformers action figure has now stabilized quite a lot. I am unlikely to make such drastic changes in direction in the future. What's true is true, and fundamental truth doesn't change.

Of Men and Tomatoes

 (This post is coming from someone who had a yield of exactly zero ripe tomatoes last year. I had big beautiful plants. I had flowers. No tomatoes. This post is actually not much about the care and feeding of tomatoes, and if I ever offer such please take it with a grain of salt. ;) )

Image by cogdogblog - https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/5073842069/

 

There is, in essence, one right way to grow a tomato and all others are wrong. You either get a good harvest of tomatoes from what you are doing or you do not, so nature tells you when you are not following this one right way.

Now, that one right way may require different applications in variations of soil, nutrients, light and temperature, to achieve that one set of optimal conditions. No human being has ever read the secret user manual on tomatoes, revealing everything that the tomato needs to be happy and productive, but on the whole the science of tomato growing is fairly well known. The limits in OUR KNOWLEDGE (not the truth of the matter) are in the variability of conditions and genetics rendering experimental confirmation uncertain. I do not know whether it is known for a fact whether planting an aspirin tablet with your tomatoes increases yield. Some do it, some don't.

Tomatoes, as far as we know, do not have a social life. They do not chat with, love, or curse other tomatoes. If they did, then there would also be ONE TRUTH of the matter as to which social relations and rules were most constructive to tomato life and which more destructive. Our knowledge of that one truth would also be limited, just as our knowledge of their growth and productivity exists but is limited. On the whole however, the contents of the Tomato Social User's Manual could be approximated by science, if such social relations existed. Which, as far as we know, they don't.

HUMAN BEINGS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. There is one set of optimal conditions for human development, growth, strength, and intellectual improvement. Human beings, if you will, have a secret unseen instruction manual, and if you were able to read it and then followed it, what would result would be optimal human development and progress. Since humans are also social creatures, there is also ONE TRUTH of the matter of which social arrangements are most beneficial and which are not. The unseen Users Manual would include information on the most biologically beneficial conditions for humans, but also the most beneficial social rules and laws for them.

If you act contrary to the ONE TRUTH of how to grow good humans, there is no point in saying that your way is right for you. Your way is wrong, period, no equivocation about it. In this society you are free to be wrong, you are even free to cut your nads off and pretend to be a different sex, but this does not mean that your actions are not fundamentally destructive. They are destructive to YOU at a minimum, and to lots of other people and the social fabric potentially.

Just like with the tomatoes, there is ONE TRUTH of the matter of how to create biologically, intellectually, morally and socially prosperous humans. And all other ways are wrong. Period. There may not be agreement on what this one truth of the matter is, but if you deny that it even exists, you deny the evidence of your senses and indeed science that all living things have a set of needs and that some things are productive towards those needs and some things are not. You can argue all day long that pouring whiskey on tomato plants is good for them, but the evidence says otherwise. 

There exists an instruction manual for humans. It's called the TORAH: the first five books of the Bible. Now the Torah has instructions for other things too that are not currently relevant, like Tabernacle/Temple procedures, and instructions for things that were done in the past, like building the Ark of the Covenant. It also, interestingly, contains some environmental instructions. Instructions on how to deal with the natural world in ways that are constructive. However, among the instructions it contains are instructions on human biology (don't eat things that are bad for you or diseased,) human immunology (avoiding causes of disease,) and laws on human social relations. And these are laws that absolutely are the right ones, and any laws or instructions which contravene them are wrong, regardless of what anyone thinks about it.

Now back then they couldn't just have people sitting at computers for long periods of time typing and then print out all 6000 or whatever pages of a more complete instruction manual, but the existing instruction manual contains by implication enough information to reasonably piece out the whole thing. And the social instructions are pretty complete as is. Do not lie. Do not steal. Do not commit adultery. Do not covet what does not belong to you. Honor G-d. Honor parents.

If people did follow the instructions we have, this would be a drastically different world. They don't want to, and they really never wanted to, but the instructions are there.

They could be followed, if people wanted to.

Babel

 

 As is always the case, the stories of the Bible repeat themselves in history. They resonate like echoes in history. I don't think that there is any story in the Bible that doesn't. Cain and Abel isn't just a story about two brothers with bad blood. It is telling itself today. The stories keep telling themselves over and over.

This is the Time of Babel. Now you may say, I don't notice a bunch of people suddenly speaking different languages. Well you might not be paying attention. They are, even if the language roots are the same. But what does everyone suddenly speaking different tongues signify?

Their MINDS are different. Their mentality is different. Their very souls have become different. And suddenly we have gone from one country, to everyone is their own separate territory. Some as little akin to me as a space alien would be.

The Time of Babel is a time of confusion. That is the core idea of it. And what have the last three years been, but confusion? For me, the vaccine is a piece of performance art whose technology is powered by the stolen flesh of murdered children. You do not take the product of the stolen flesh of murdered babies into yourself. For someone else perhaps, it is pragmatism and "science" and how dare you not take it. For me, the quarantines and social distancing and shutting down social meeting spaces is tyranny. For others, it is safe and pragmatic and how dare you not mask?

Which of course, is not required anymore because confusion is nothing if not inconsistent.

Tyranny in Canada. How messed up is that? CANADA! Yet they are doing the things that tyrants do: freezing bank accounts, throwing people in jail on trumped up charges, making people unpersons. That is what we have been made, unpersons. To the people at CNN and NBC, the problem is people like me. Not them, no no no. Not the elites who actually rule and have been destroying this country with their corruption and their wickedness, their absolute sickness.

And those who cancel words and "unperson" people will sooner or later throw them in camps and burn people too. And we are back to the WWII era all over again, when scapegoats were approved for the masses and then ritualistically butchered. The colossal burnt offering to science and human materialist ideology in the 1930's becomes the colossal burnt offering to science and human materialist ideology in 2030, potentially. Demon worship and madness.

We cannot even agree that men are men and women are women anymore, that your biological reality is in fact reality. We cannot agree that math is math and not colonialism. We cannot agree that children should not be taught that it is okay to cut their genitals off and become a figment of imagination. We are living in the time of Babel.

However, reality has not changed. There is One G-d and one truth of the matter, and it does not matter how many people recognize it or not. That is how you survive Babel, you hold on to the one truth, truth which has never changed.

People in cities are cut off from nature so they think it does not apply to them anymore. They are living in "Meta-verses," man-made fictitious realities, both literal in terms of Facebook's Meta and metaphorically. But the only truth of matters is not abolished thereby, and sooner or later it snaps back.

Sooner or later truth destroys fiction.

 

 

The New Religion: Right and Truth as the Will to Power

 Once upon a time, even most thieves knew the answer as to whether it was right to steal. No, it isn't and they didn't care that it wasn't right. Or at least they didn't think it was virtuous. What's the point of being a criminal if you have to be virtuous in doing it?

But now stealing can be a virtue. Or not. Entirely depending, not on the action itself, but on the PERSON WHO COMMITS IT. Are you a rich white capitalist? Stealing is wrong for you. Black man in the 'hood looting a Target? Then stealing is not simply okay but it is REDISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. It is not the act itself that matters, but the presumed power position of the one who commits it. Black man in the 'hood is presumed to be a helpless victim of forces beyond his control.

Is murder wrong, according to the New Religion? Depends. Are you bombing Palestinians? Bad. Mother murdering the little freeloader in her womb that is trying to keep her from getting ahead in life? Good. It is not mother's fault she has a womb, this cancer on her body that is trying to keep her oppressed. She needs to keep that crap cleaned out.

Spray painting grafitti all over everything? The righteous cry of the have-nots against the haves. Even if the haves only have because they worked for it and were thrifty and avoided personal vices like drug addiction. If they worked hard and didn't have a crack habit, it is clearly because they started out higher on the power pyramid.

The New Religion is atheistic and deterministic. If you loot stores and spray paint walls, or even rape and murder, it is not because of your lack of virtue but because of your environment. You are a simple input-output system. Input privileged environment, output "good" behavior. Input underprivileged environment, output looting and vandalism.

In the New Religion, all things are right and wrong depending on the PERSON who commits those acts. And what is important about that person, that determines if their actions are right or wrong? Their position in the "power structure." White man? Everything you do is wrong, white man, because you are a white man. Black tranny? You are virtuous no matter what you do, because you are at the bottom of the power structure. Because of who you are, not what you do. This is how violent drug addict and counterfeiter George Floyd, who once held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly, is now Saint Floyd. Someone who, in terms of their behavior was the lowest scum of the Earth, is now a holy saint of the New Religion.

It is not merely morality that has undergone a change in the New Order. And make no mistake, this is the order that is going to be at least trying to run our lives in the years to come. TRUTH itself is merely a manifestation of the Will to Power. How can a man be a woman and a woman be a man? Because we say so, oppressor. The fact that there is an actual objective fact of the matter is not only irrelevant, it is in fact oppression. Facts are oppression. Men can be women and women can be men IF WE SAY SO. And they do say so. Your objective truth focus is a weapon of white cisgender supremacy.

Do you say that communism is, fairly objectively, a bad way of doing things? Crushes individual initiative, innovation and indeed freedom and individual rights? Well, you don't say that because it's true, you say that because you are currently benefiting from a higher position on the power structure. You, sir, are a White Supremacist, even if you are black or brown or red or yellow.

Again, it is not a matter of WHAT IS TRUE, it is a matter of WHO YOU ARE.

It may seem strange at first that the major corporations are not just playing along with this whole thing, but fervent boosters of it. There are two possible explanations. One is that the people who run these corporations went to liberal universities and drank the truth relativity, cultural relativity, and moral relativity Kool Aid. In other words, they are sincerely deluded. In place of White Superiority, they embraced Intellectual Superiority: the idea that if you believe in moral relativism, cultural relativism, evolution solely and only as the explanation of life, materialism and atheism, you are as a consequence SMARTER than those rubes who believe in absolute morality and G-d. You can feel better about yourself that you are not one of them. You may secretly look down on the blacks and the gays and the trannies, while assuring them that you are firmly in "ally" status. You have the luxury of bending the knee to Woke because you know you are superior. You think Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, thinks of himself as having anything whatsoever in common with a black tranny from the ghetto? No, but they have all his sympathy, and that's what matters.

The other, more sinister explanation is that they know EXACTLY what they are doing and it has everything to do with corporate power and nothing to do with social justice. Eliminating competition is the name of the game.

How do they keep some innovative upstart from overturning their business model? Tell everybody they are weak victims of the system. Weaken them. Make people passive and dependent. Damage their thinking power. Make them chattel of the corporations.

Don't want to lose your valuable chattel to pregnancy? Pro-abortion all the way baby. Don't want any competing interests for your chattel's time and energies? No families. Do not want competing deities? The corporation is your deity. Your synthetic god. No G-d. Anti-religion.

In order to OWN you, they must first make you weak. Physically weak, morally weak, and they must make your mind weak. Public school education helps. They must keep your animosities directed at something besides them, besides their real power. They don't care if they will destroy civilization, they are the only civilization that matters now.

And moral and truth relativism WILL destroy society and make life more violent, more depressing, and increase mental illnesses to epidemic levels.

Quite aside from theological concerns (that there is a G-d and He does command things,) there are two power-related perils for any society: the tyranny of one or a few men over the mass of men, and the tyranny of the individual. In other words, kings and criminals. A powerful arbitrary ruler, or a tyrannical individual who rapes and pillages and does whatever he wants to. Evil tyrannical order or evil arbitrary anarchy. King makes right or might makes right.

There is one and only one third road between those two evils. That people come together and covenant, that they will submit themselves to something higher than themselves. To a Law that no human king created and no human king or arbitrary will can change. They covenant to submit themselves, internally in their heart and externally in their behavior, to the will of G-d as expressed in G-d's Law.

This, internal and external submission to G-d's Law, empowers human beings to transcend themselves. To transcend the lusts and wills and desires that might otherwise consume and control them. In G-d's Law, in contrast to the New Religion, who you are matters not at all. All human beings are equal. What is right is what matters: if you do what is right you are justified, and if you do what is wrong you are guilty, quite aside from who you are. King or pauper, it makes no difference. As it says in the Tanakh, G-d is no respecter of persons. If you do what is right and love G-d, you have His approval and not otherwise.

This path not only helps us to transcends ourselves and our limitations, but it leads to a peaceful and prosperous society. It leads to uplift and good, not selfishness madness and destruction. It replaces the Tyranny of Man (either the State or the individual selfish agent, or the tyranny of our own selfish impulses over ourselves) with the Kingdom of G-d (in which we all adhere to and swear absolute loyalty, internally and externally, to just rules that existed long before us and which none of us can change through arbitrary will.)


The road we are on, is a road that leads to violence, illness, despair, madness and death.



"All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.

The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.

The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.

Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.

A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.

The sights you see will drive you mad.

The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the LORD will drive you.

You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.

They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.

Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

The most gentle and sensitive woman among you--so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot--will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name--the LORD your God--

the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods--gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.

In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"--because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

~Deuteronomy 28:2-68

The Danger of Being Happy

 When times are rough, when our backs are against the wall; yes sir, we believers are wearing out the rug talking to G-d about it. If G-d's halls had floor wax on the floors, we would be rubbing those floors straight down to the marble. We would be eroding holes in the marble with our tears.

When times are good, when we are happy, maybe not so much.

This is a dangerous paradox that is woven all through the Tanakh, what Christians call the Old Testament: G-d wants us to be happy and prosperous. He is delighted in our delight. But being happy and successful tends to make the mind wander to other things besides G-d. Being interested and involved in stuff is not itself the problem, but if this tends to make us neglect our relationship with G-d, that's where the problem lies.

This is a warning that is repeated throughout the Tanakh. Be mindful after you are happy and prosperous and G-d has blessed you, that you do not forget Him and His Laws. Especially do not imagine that it is because of any special merit in yourself that you are doing so well: you are doing well because G-d has blessed you and made you prosperous and for no other reason.

So do be happy. G-d loves a joyful heart. But don't forget where that came from.

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land
he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
to give you — a land with large, flourishing cities
you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of
good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig,
and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—
then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that
you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt,
out of the land of slavery."

~Deuteronomy 6:10-12