Monthly Archives: October 2015

Lightning Round – 2015/10/28

Anti-Dem finishes his series on transhumanist pony masturbation.

Choice in Europe. Related.
Related: Winter-chan vs the invaders.
Related: The violence is heating up.
Related: Keeping track of those who hate their own nation.

Immigrants don’t share American values.
Related: America should be like Mexico.
Related: Increasing diversity leads to totalitarianism.
Related: Changing demographics threatens gun freedoms.

Hating your ancestors.

Strike at the root: usury.
Related: Fiat dollars explained.
Related: Debt theft.

Post-rationalism.

Virtual and real status.

Sex is not a social construct.

Eight axioms for the alt-right.

Cantwell addresses ethno-national neoreactionaries. A response.

Communism in the animal kingdom.

Tesla vs. Edison and genius and loneliness.

Lessons learned from #cuckservative.
Related: Alternative media is winning.
Related: Twitter doesn’t matter.

Murder and war.

Jim watches female porn so you don’t have to.

Weimerica: Tween hookers.

Jim on the JQ.

IQ testing across space-time.

The logic of civil rights.

White House denounces FBI for doubting the narrative.

Webb and Sanders: ghosts of Democrats past.
Related: Bernie Sander’s: the white candidate. Heh.

The out-of-touch establishment.
Related: Canada and the impracticality of pragmatism.

Smearing soda like tobacco.

A weird story.

Urbit and impatience.

10 ancient histories.

Expectations of the Synod.
Related: Nothing new.

Before there was divorce.

Radical feminism in Focus on the Family.

All men’s fault.

Sexist monkeys.

Now feminists are realizing women’s needs don’t matter in one night stands.

The worst Beta of the Month I remember seeing.

Where Neal Strauss (author of The Game) ended up.

Don’t apologize.

SJW’s Always Lie is now in paperback. Time to buy it.

The non-science of global warming. Related.

Free speech is no longer a human right.

Framing shootings.

Dialogue with a moderate.

The weird thing about vaccination.

Status – dominance and prestige. More.
Related: Leadership.

America’s top fears. Government is #1, gun control is #11.

Video of GW Bush calling for laxer scrutiny of Arabs 11 months before 9/11.

Anti-#GG bias in the media.

H/T: CC

The Wages of Aspiration

Trawling the advice columnists again, I found this gem, which I’ll quote in full:

Dear Amy: My sister lives across the country. She has been married for 33 years. They’ve raised two daughters who are now adults, but she’s been living the most boring life ever!

I don’t know how she could be happy doing nothing but cooking and cleaning for all these years. And then she has the nerve to criticize me for not having enough time in my day, when she has no clue what it’s like to work full time.

Well, OK, she did work full time once — years ago before her daughters were born. She also had a little job when her kids were in school, but it wasn’t a “real job,” just a little part-time lunch-lady position.

I can’t understand why she doesn’t want to work more and help her poor husband with their finances. Then they could travel and see the world! They hardly ever go anywhere. I want so much more for her!

She has never had to live through things like illness, job loss or divorce, as I have. She has been supportive sometimes, but not all the time. I guess I’m a bit jealous because she has so much free time.

I’ve asked her to write me a list of what she does all day. I’ve sent her lists of what I manage to accomplish in the three hours I have in my home, but she has declined to provide her list.

It’s so sad that she has never had any aspirations!

It makes me so sad to feel like she’s wasted her life; she’s only in her 50s! I told her all this in an e-mail, but now she’s mad at me for just being honest. She expects an apology, but I’m hurt now, too. How do we get past this? Do you have any advice on getting her to see my view? — Frustrated Sister in PA

Amy rightfully smacks her down.

The ressentiment here is hidden worse than a toddler’s lies. This women is alone, hurting, and busy-working herself to death, and you can tell she hates it, however much she protests otherwise. She has so little going on in her life, she spends the”three hours I have in my home” on hectoring her contented sister who lives on the other side of the country. She’s looking for validation for her misery, but her sister refuses to provide it by buying into her lies, so instead she tries to destroy her sister’s life because she wants “so much more for her!”

She has refused to tend her own garden, she has leaned in, and now she seethes with resentment towards her sister who is “wasting her life” on creating a loving family. Instead of a family, she chose divorce and a job, and you can feel the pain and betrayal she experienced with her job loss. You can also feel it from her mention of illness; I do not think many people were there to care for her.

Notice how in her miserable ressentiment, she frames her choices as compared to her sisters. “Aspirations!” “So much more!” “Boring”

Having a quiet, happy family life is not an aspiration, but working for a job which would abandon you any time the profit margins were right is? Working your ass off, so you only have 3 hours of free time a day, so that you can go on a vacation once a year is more? Having a contented home life is less? Having a happy family is boring, but working in a cubicle for 13 hours a day is not?

What kind of mutilated soul thinks that way?

This women is in her 50’s, or thereabouts. Retirement looms in a decade. What will her life be when she doesn’t even have her job to distract her from her loneliness? How much of this rage towards her sister is because she knows that horror awaits her soon and she needs to justify the dear she feels to herself?

Dear young lady who may read this, reread that letter and decide carefully which of these sisters you want to be.

Male Physical Intimacy

In their continuing efforts to destroy itself, Cracked has an article up on being in the closet while in other countries. It’s a low effort post consisting of 5 “facts” that are mostly blindingly obvious (Some geographic spaces have people more accepting of homosexuality than people from other geographic spaces! Surprising!) and a complete absence of humour. But there was one thing in it I wanted to comment on (aside from it being just another note on Cracked’s continued decline).

In Botswana, it’s customary for men to hold hands while chatting and walking. (No, the irony of such a homophobic country being filled with men skipping down the street holding hands was not lost on me.)

This is not irony. It is in fact the definitional opposite of irony, it is exactly what you’d expect.

These men are friends, engaging in male bonding. Touch is and always has been and important part of bonding and there is absolutely nothing implicitly homoerotic about men engaging in physical male bonding. In past, intimate physical contact between men was normal, and in other parts of the world that have not been homoeroticized it still is.

Take a look at this picture (one of a hundred similar ones from Art of Manliness):

Are these guys gay? Probably not. Yet it probably looks gay to you. In a healthy culture, intimate physical contact between men is normal and healthy. There would be nothing untoward or sexual about this, it’s just some friends hanging out. In our homoeroticized culture, this  kind of intimate contact between males is gay. We can see this difference from the Cracked article:

I didn’t even have to hide my boyfriend, whom I met at the gay underground party. He came to visit me for a weekend in my tiny village, and no one seemed to notice or suspect anything unusual about two dudes quietly holing up in a house together and sweating a lot. They must be great friends who love to work out!

As was pointed out in the Way of Men, men want to be recognized as masculine, as men within their gang who have attained the masculine virtues. Gays are effeminate, not masculine, and exist outside the gang. Normal men don’t want to be seen as effeminate or gay as this represents a failure to attain manhood and puts one outside of the gang.

In a “homophobic” society were homosexuality is proscribed, men can be physically and emotionally intimate with each other without being gay, because this intimacy is simply a normal, close friendship. So King David can say of his best friend:

“Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
very pleasant have you been to me;
your love to me was extraordinary,
surpassing the love of women.

And it’s not gay, because it isn’t gay. A man can have and signal intimacy with other men without it signalling gayness, because homosexuality doesn’t exist outside the occasional condemnation in a religious sermon. Male intimacy is normalized.

But, in a society where homosexuality is normalized as an accepted alternative lifestyle, and homosexuals publicly display their sexual proclivities through displays of intimacy, you can no longer safely display intimacy. If you do, there is a significant chance that other men around you will think you are signalling gayness, you will lose your masculinity. Through this, homoeroticism colonizes male intimacy. When homosexuality becomes normalized, male intimacy becomes denormalized.

In a gay society, you can not be homosocially intimate without being gay.

There are some modern attempts to bring non-sexual male intimacy back into normalcy. Both bromance and no homo try to explicitly counter-signal hetorosexuality and masculinity while engaging in male intimacy. But even then, our society is so gay that bromance is seen as “an increasing openness of society in the twenty-first century to reconsider gender, sexuality, and exclusivity constraints” rather than an attempt by young men to close the gaping spiritual and emotional wound that the lack of intimate male friendship has left in their hearts. These attempts have mostly failed.

In a non-gay society, you could slap your friend on the ass after the game, and walk to the showers with your arms around him. In our gay society, this sounds gay to you (and to me) because male intimacy has been colonized by homosexuality. This is one vague, virtually invisible, unquantifiable harm the homosexual movement has done to the majority.

Lightning Round – 2015/10/21

5 ways to be a better man.

The social module.

Building fealty.

Engineered brain damage.

Donald Trump, Middle American Radicals, and the next step.

Pyrrhic economics.
Related: Reference points.
Related: Strangling the golden goose.
Related: Why are economists so stupid on immigration.

On the counter-jihad.

Comments on Dampier’s WN posts.
Related: California’s white power.
Related: A response on WN.

Why a coup is impossible.

On exile.

How spree killers differ from normal murderers.
Related: Where rampage killers come from.
Related: Paganism and masculinity.

The US’ progressive pu-pu platter.
Related: The European cuddle pile.

Putin stabilizing Syria.

How the Morning After described 2015.

Republican Party funds the sale of baby meat.

Clinton: By any means necessary.
Related: A functioning nation: system requirements.

Communism’s death toll: a feature.
Related: Venezuelans urged to eat fried rocks.

On Columbus Day.

The analytical failure of critical race theory.
Related: The #BLM narrative is bogus.

Jewish genetic differences.

Millennials and technology.

Anti-Dem’s review of Friendship is Optimal continues.

Perfect democratic pandering.

An apology is a confession.
Related: Conservative strategy is a failure.
Related: Charles Gannon’s failing strategy.

On early reform Christianity.

On the government budget.

The decline of civic life.

Scientific cosmology.
Related: Sanity for sociality.

This is a religious war.

Cucked churchians.
Related: SJW’s in the Church of Scotland.
Related: Churchian cucks preaching babalism.

The wake-up call: Never let a marriage crisis go to waste.

Punishing with her presence.

Gender dimorphism as a luxury good.

Women’s bodies.

Good guys don’t exist.

Don’t marry the prettiest girl you can.

Many women did not want the vote.

Bloomberg: Utah needs lower wages and more expensive mortgages.

Tales from the feminized utopia.

What really keeps women out of tech.

“It will be amusing when the new evidence of societal sexism cited is the number of young women in heavy debt with useless degrees.”

On ad hominem.

Michael Shermer’s lack of skepticism on gun control.

The ignorance of journalists.

Cracked gets whacked.
Related: David Wong shadowbanned from Reddit.

Thucydides trap: US/China war.

The second generation of rich Chinese.

Why Section 230 is important.

Thoughts for homeschooling parents.

Most kids are in school, but not learning.
Related: Roosh’s education was a complete waste of time.

The border reavers (descendants of the Southern Scots-Irish).

Conclusions from reading AD&D’s Appendix N.

On autism.

H/T: SSC, Isegoria

The Vampire

A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I!)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
(We called her the woman who did not care),
But the fool he called her his lady fair
(Even as you and I!)

Oh the years we waste and the tears we waste
And the work of our head and hand,
Belong to the woman who did not know
(And now we know that she never could know)
And did not understand.

A fool there was and his goods he spent
(Even as you and I!)
Honor and faith and a sure intent
But a fool must follow his natural bent
(And it wasn’t the least what the lady meant),
(Even as you and I!)

Oh the toil we lost and the spoil we lost
And the excellent things we planned,
Belong to the woman who didn’t know why
(And now we know she never knew why)
And did not understand.

The fool we stripped to his foolish hide
(Even as you and I!)
Which she might have seen when she threw him aside —
(But it isn’t on record the lady tried)
So some of him lived but the most of him died —
(Even as you and I!)

And it isn’t the shame and it isn’t the blame
That stings like a white hot brand.
It’s coming to know that she never knew why
(Seeing at last she could never know why)
And never could understand.

The Vampire by Philip Burne-Jones

 

Dear Pagan Reactionaries

The perpetual discussion between Christians and atheists/pagans on the hard right has once again come to the fore. Now I have nothing against you pagans, and am willing to work with you to remove the leftist virus. If you do work together with us, I am fine with the restored society allowing you all to drink mead and sacrifice goats to Odin, or whatever made-up rituals you guys invent for yourselves, as long as it’s not too degenerative. I have no problems with virtuous pagans, I respect them and endorse a live and let live attitude. I even have taken some shine to certain aesthetic aspects of paganism.

I also have no problems with reasoned discussions if Christianity is pozzed (it is and has been for a few decades at least). Although, paganism (and atheism for that matter) is far more feminized and pozzed than Christianity, so you don’t exactly have the high ground here. We can discuss history, and you can pretend it was Christians who destroyed Rome, even though Rome was already dying well before Constantine and Christians saved and preserved what was left to save in the Eastern Empire for another millennia. You can brag about how Odin and Thor are superior gods and complain about how Christians were evil destroyers of germanic paganism, even though everything you know about the Norse gods comes from manuscripts written and preserved by Christians. You can pretend your made-up rituals and religion represent authentic germanic culture and religion, while you reject the religion of your ancestors for the last thousand years to try to resurrect long dead gods. You can brag about the superiority of Western civilization while ignoring that there was no germanic civilization prior to Christianization.  That’s all fine. I have no problems with that.

But please don’t pick a fight with us. All the “cuckstains”, “dead Jew on a stick” and other silly attacks on Christianity add nothing to the discussion and have no purpose but to drive your allies away. I would prefer not to have in-fighting amongst us. Even so, while focusing on eliminating leftism would be preferable, we will fight you if you force us to. Christians outnumber you and every time Christians and pagans have gone against each other, the final result has been the same. If you force a conflict this time, it will be no different.

Instead, of fighting against each other and insulting each other, let’s work together to bring about the restoration. There’s no need for us to quarrel amongst each other. Then when all is set right, we can share a pint of mead.

 

Lightning Round – 2015/10/14

Persuading people in politics.

The alienation of middle American radicals.

Vulgar racialism.
Related: Against IQ reductionism.

A doctor’s take on Germany’s mass immigration.
Related: Multicultural success in Sweden.

Importing rape culture.
Related: No borders activist gang-raped, pressured into silence.

Organic order.
Related: What we have lost.

Freud the fraud.

On body integrity identity disorder.

The Sentinelese people.

Was Chris Harper-Mercer a Muslim terrorist?

Ponies and the matrix. Related.

Why are Japanese kids so independent?

Is the unbeliever your enemy?

A reactionary policy on marriage.

The secret to staying married

How and when to self-depreciate. Related.

Delta: Supply and demand.
Related: The over-supply of single moms.

Credit scores and relationships.

#PissforEquality.

#KillallWhiteMen girl going to court.

The birth of anti-SJW advertising.

Open source software stands against the SJW’s.
Related: There is no diversity crisis in tech.

On capitalism.

One of the best abstracts ever.

“I’ve never been so disgusted with my own data.”

On experts and forecasting.

Global warming models were wrong.

H/T: Malcolm, CC, Land, SDA

Gun Deaths

David Auerbacher has a piece where he argues that stats are on the side of freedom haters. He is right if you think having many studies of rigged studies by lying ideologues using false measures and ignoring confounding variables (ie. race) are ‘the stats’. But rather than addressing the usual idiocy that has been addressed to death elsewhere, I would like to comment on one specific phrase used by him and other freedom haters.

“Gun deaths”.

The use of the phrase ‘gun deaths’ is a sure sign that the person making the argument is arguing in bad faith (if not outright lying with statistics) and has absolutely nothing worthwhile to say on the topic of guns and violence.

What this phrase ignores, and what gun control advocates scramble to hide is that guns have substitute goods.

The large majority of gun deaths are suicides, another thing liberals try to hide with the phrase ‘gun deaths’ by trying to lump suicides in with murders and mass shootings. Substitute goods for guns in relation to suicide include: drugs, poison, rope, plastic bags, carbon monoxide, water, electricity, high places, and knives, to name some of the more common suicide goods. Guns have the advantage of being quick, relatively painless, and mostly effective, but the other suicide goods are all adequate substitutes.

Side note: Isn’t it odd that liberals, who support euthanasia and the right-to-die, suddenly hate the right-to-die if it bolsters the emotional case for gun control.

There are also many substitute goods for guns in relation to murder, including: knives, fists, feet, bats, hammers, carbon monoxide, matches, drugs, water, and explosives, to name of the most common.

By only measuring ‘gun deaths’ the deceptive liberal is ignoring that someone without a gun can easily obtain other methods of killing themselves or other people if they should choose. To say gun deaths rise or fall in relation to gun availability or gun control measures is to say nothing of any value at all. If the gun is not available, the gun death will likely become a knife death or an OD or a drowning, etc.

“Nearly 75% of the cases involving firearms are actually gang related.” Does anyone honestly think that gangs will stop murdering each other if law-abiding citizens are restricted from owning firearms? Leaving aside that what makes criminals criminals is that don’t follow laws, such as gun control laws, is there anyone that could possibly believe a gangbanger would say to himself, “I really wanna ice that bitch nigga, but I ain’t got no gat. It therefore behooves me to refrain from committing violence upon his person, however much  distress his continued existence upon this mortal plane causes me.”

No, if a gangbanger wants to ice a bitch nigga, and he ain’t got a gat, he gonna get himself a knife and stab that bitch nigga.

Guns deaths is used specifically to hide the substitution effect for murder (and to conflate murder and suicide) so that deceitful freedom-haters can paint gun freedoms in a negative light.

There is nothing special about a gun death that separates it from a knife death, a hanging, a drowning, or an OD. A person is no less dead if they are killed with a knife than with a gun. There is no reason to make this distinction other than rhetorical or statistical manipulation.

If anybody uses the phrase ‘gun deaths’ you can ignore their arguments because they are, at best, full of shit and not worth listening to.

On Theonomy

A few theonomists read my blogs, so theonomy comes up in the comments on occasion. Last week, Mycroft Jones asked me why I wasn’t a theonomist. So, here’s a response.

First, for those who don’t know much about it, theonomy is the political idea held by Christian reconstructionists, an offshoot group of Reformed calvinist fundamentalists (not those calvinists) who believe in theocracy, that the Mosaic law should be observed by modern societies.

The main reason I’m not a theonomist is that it is made clear in the New Testament that the law has been fulfilled, we are under a new covenant and are not longer beholden to the rituals and laws of the Mosaic covenant.

The symbol of belonging to the Mosaic and Abrahamic covenants was circumcision. The Mosaic covenant was memorialized through the ritual of passover and enacted through the blood of sacrifice. Those not of the covenant, ie. the uncircumcized, could not participate in passover and could not enter the temple to participate in sacrifice rituals. Jesus was the final, ultimate sacrifice and his death created a new covenant, the ritual of sacrifice was fulfilled in him and the ritual of passover was replaced by communion.

In the Jerusalem Council, Paul, Peter, Barnabas, and the other disciples, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit decided that circumcision was not required of Christians.

The Jerusalem Council

But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”

Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

(Acts 15:1-29 ESV, selected)

From this it is clear that Christians are not under the Mosaic covenant. This reaffirms Peter’s earlier vision:

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.

Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there. And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you. Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them.” And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?” And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.” So he invited them in to be his guests.

The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.” And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered. And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean. So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.”

(Acts 10:9-29 ESV)

Here is made clear that once was unclean was made clean. As Paul wrote in Galatians, we are no longer under the law:

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

(Galatians 3:10-29 ESV)
http://www.esvbible.org/Galatians+3/

We are no longer under the law but under faith. He continues, specifically linking this to circumcision:

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

(Galatians 5:2-12 ESV)

We are not under the law, we are under grace. We are no longer to be circumcised as we are no longer in the Mosaic covenant, so we are not under the Mosaic laws. Christ has fulfilled the law. Theonomists are trying to bring the whole of the law upon themselves, to be justified by law, which leads to a falling from grace.

We are to follow the commandments of the new Covenant, those that are (re-)affirmed in the New Testament. The civil laws of the Mosaic covenant are nowhere reaffirmed.

That being said, I’m not necessarily opposed to theocracy, if it were a Christian theocracy and not a Mosaic theocracy.

None of this is to say that Mosaic law is to be ignored. It can and should still be used as guide and reference, but we are not bound by it.

****

Also, Jacob asked:

When you say “your people”, do you mean God’s people (Christians), or whites?

Both are my people.

Lightning Round – 2015/10/07

A simple plan for improvement.

Setting your agenda.
Related: The media hall of mirrors.

On small work groups.

Salvaging America.

Levels of agency in society.
Related: Time preference and the hippocampus.

America’s most egalitarian ZIP code.

Reaction and technology.

On bikers and exit.

Smarts are a scarce natural resource.

The new blacklist.
Related: The comrades would like to confess.
Related:The state and homosexuals still attacking Christian businesses.

Interview with the German identitarian movement.

Urbit white paper. Related.

The Awl on neoreaction, focusing mainly on Land.

Star Wars mythology as political allegory.

Economists and political structure.
Related: Pre-mercantile economics.

ZIRP and youth unemployment.

Interesting times.

30,000 infiltrators.
Related: Germany expects 1.5M immigrants in 2015.
Related: Still think they’re not invaders?
Related: Immigration: Gradually, then suddenly.

Asymmetrical multiculturalism.

America’s market dominant minority.

Genes mirror geography, nations, and culture.
Related: Study: Genetic diversity leads to social unrest and conflict.

Refuting 11 arguments against race.
Related: Racism in the Atlantic.

Zuckerberg’s $100-million donation to public schooling failed miserably.

Social mobility and discount mates.

A roadmap for cheap private education.

Hitlers everywhere. A Hitler they missed.

Sulla is worth admiring.

Mixed-race non-religious shooter singled out Christians in a gun-free zone. Muh narrative.
Related: Mass murderers profile.
Related: The curious case of the Oregon shooter.

Women in the military.

The wedding: a rebellion against modernity.

Book review: True History of the American Revolution.

A real rape culture in South Africa. Can’t wait ‘til the feminists get on this.

Arab Spring.
Related: Insanity in Syria.
Related: Russia has a plan in Syria, the US doesn’t.

The mind of Mr. Putin.
Related: Putin’s tight game.

 On conspiracy theories and endogenous problems.

Opting out of the Benedict Option.

A Chinese tale on male culture.

On cuckolding.

Rise of the soulmate.

Peak fake rape.

The sound of a rebellious woman.

RPing the white knight.

Women primarily to blame for collapse of Western civilization.

Please ignore women in public.
Related: The horrors of sweat-shaming.

Gamma humour.

The one sentence persuasion course.

Mangan has a new book: Muscle Up.

27 ways to be a fag.

In SSC news: Steve Johnson capriciously banned at SSC for triggering folks. The camel’s straw is an amusing thread; Steve talks in cold logical arguments and the others erupt in emotional outbursts, and Steve is the one banned. Rationalists are a funny bunch, they seem to have a hard time sticking to their purported beliefs.
Related comment: “Why is it that whenever we want to build a functional community, we always find ourselves using the neo’s system instead of the one we claim to believe in?”
Related comment: “Scott has decided that NRx is essentially the correct way to see the world but is not willing to pay the social cost required to say so publicly.”

Linux SJW fended off.

Is Milo the last responsible tech journalist?
Related: UN citations.

Crime, other than homicide, is more prevalent in Europe than the US.

Vox discovers anarcho-tyranny, only decades behind Sam Francis.

I don’t believe a word of what I am saying, it doesn’t reflect my current beliefs.

The real cause of global warming.

Ocala Post shows some spine.

Lesbian bishop calls churches to remove crosses, install Muslim prayer space.

Trump would revive Operation Wetback.
Related: Cracked going full Godwin on Trump.

Todd Nickerson, pedophile, writes another article.

Medieval fighting guide.

H/T: NBS, SDA, Isegoria, Roissy, SCC