tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post2151292304642002770..comments2024-03-22T17:43:18.211-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: They Can’t Stop bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-50880983177487733392022-06-01T05:46:10.280-07:002022-06-01T05:46:10.280-07:00When the status quo is a relentless "progress...When the status quo is a relentless "progressivism" and "self-destruction" to stop and return to a prior state of non-progressivism is the revolutionary act.<br /><br />---<br /><br />“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.”<br /><br />― G.K. ChestertonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-19762097355062123232022-05-28T08:25:56.003-07:002022-05-28T08:25:56.003-07:00"We've been here before and will be here ..."We've been here before and will be here again. Take care of yourselves. "<br /><br />Yes.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-14296746463273488842022-05-28T08:25:09.436-07:002022-05-28T08:25:09.436-07:00Excellent, ATLExcellent, ATLbionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-77288567848401562492022-05-28T08:23:02.605-07:002022-05-28T08:23:02.605-07:00" Conventional weapons? Hollow point bullets?..." Conventional weapons? Hollow point bullets? "<br /><br />If the demon is manifest in a body threatening me or those I love or other innocents and defenseless in clear self-defense? Yes.<br /><br />Beyond this, prayer, speaking truth, speaking against falsities, being prepared to suffer for it.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-4891525813014676082022-05-28T08:20:06.152-07:002022-05-28T08:20:06.152-07:00Yes, probably. I have to explore in order to work...Yes, probably. I have to explore in order to work things out. But I think one nuance is "progress toward what?", as a progressive will always shoot back: "what? You don't like progress?bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-3860821425552646342022-05-28T08:18:50.395-07:002022-05-28T08:18:50.395-07:00Homeschooling remains legal in all 50 states, to m...Homeschooling remains legal in all 50 states, to my understanding. In some states, the process is very simple, with little or no state oversight.<br /><br />It might be one of the most impactful decisions an individual can make, to home school.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-64374904256284376182022-05-27T18:01:51.724-07:002022-05-27T18:01:51.724-07:00" Any organization not explicitly and constit..." Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing." -- Robert Conquest<br /><br />Chances are that even if they start out explicitly and constitutionally right-wing, they will drift leftward. Unless they are either extremely well-controlled and stay small OR die out first. It only takes a very small issue to create the first movement, after which it becomes easier and easier to allow the push. <br /><br />Eventually, however, if they do not stop on their own accord, they will stop when the leftward movement has reached its maximum limit. Cosmic Dwarf referred to this above. A pendulum can only swing so far before it reverses direction. Unfortunately for societies, the end of leftism can be likened to an automobile hitting an immovable wall at high speed, destroying the auto and all its passengers, leaving the mess for someone else to clean up. At that point, the system starts all over again from a more conservative, perhaps even extremely conservative, position and begins to move leftward. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Baby steps at first, then toddling, then running, then racing...<br /><br />We've been here before and will be here again. Take care of yourselves. Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-48399546040595922262022-05-26T09:45:25.067-07:002022-05-26T09:45:25.067-07:00RMB,
It depends on who owns the library. Since th...RMB,<br /><br />It depends on who owns the library. Since the state "owns" it, the ethical waters are muddied. <br /><br />But since your children are forced to go to public school (truancy laws, etc.), or you are forced to pay for it (and this may make it impossible to pay for an alternative), I think this sort of coercive action may be justified on the grounds of the NAP.<br /><br />Society will probably not see it this way unfortunately.<br /><br />The most tactical and immediate solution is to withdraw your kids from public school and have one parent home-school them. All conservatives should recognize the idea of public school as their enemy and advocate for its abolition or at least a true opting out of the current system where you no longer have to pay for it.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29805741611978750772022-05-26T09:38:26.404-07:002022-05-26T09:38:26.404-07:00Here are a few more reasons why revolutionaries wo...Here are a few more reasons why revolutionaries won't stop in their political advances, and why conservatives don't fight back with equal vigor, apart from your excellent Biblical exegesis.<br /><br />Conservatives tend to have meaning in their lives, and if they are Christian, this meaning extends beyond death. They have wives (or husbands), they have children, they provide for their families, care for and raise up the kids, go to church, feel a strong connection to deceased relatives and ancestors. They are rooted in the past and they have branches that will extend into the future. This rootedness provides a sense of serenity, even in the face of a radical political advance. They have a generally low time preference.<br /><br />Radicals do not have real meaning and have rejected their relatives and ancestors and the traditions they held, and so they try desperately to squeeze meaning out of political victories, but these are always hollow victories for them that yield no personal serenity to their souls, which are innately searching for the truth they continually reject. They have no real connection to their ancestors or the generation they bring up. They are rootless and have no branches that will remain connected to them when they die. They are tumbleweeds completely at the mercy of the prevailing winds of opinion they are subjected to. This rootlessness creates in them a permanent sense of unease and insecurity. They have a generally high time preference.<br /><br />Now, you can have rootless people who still want liberty and rooted people who would readily yield more power to the state, but I think by and large, the above is generally true.<br /><br />Also consider this:<br /><br />"...one must bear in mind that only leftists produce movements, whereas, at best, the right can "organize" in a relatively hierarchic fashion. It has been well said by Spengler that the concept of the "party" in itself is leftish. Yet if movements and parties have no affinities for a genuinely rightist outlook, we must come to the conclusion that the principles of the right within the parliamentary-democratic framework can only prevail after a catastrophic default or collapse of leftism. The right cannot normally win by its own virtue, its truth, its values because it will never fascinate the masses. It will attract extraordinary and superior people but hardly ever the average man." - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, LeftismA Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-69455969175740426392022-05-25T17:30:38.511-07:002022-05-25T17:30:38.511-07:00@RMB I completely agree. I have a lot of Libertari...@RMB I completely agree. I have a lot of Libertarian in my thinking and values but it doesn’t answer everything and it is definitely short on practical action in the face of encroaching evil. I think any kind of sociopolitical ideological purity is a mistake to even attempt. And if Antifa thugs are robbing you and raping your wife you don’t just hand them a Rothbard book and give a lecture about it later. I also don’t like this convenient pincer many conservatives find themselves in between the notion of private companies and government intervention. They are all the same thing now. Some organized intervention and even violence will be necessary at some point. To put it plainly, there are some Libertarians who are just intellectually snobby pussies. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-55793638791372273702022-05-25T12:31:13.680-07:002022-05-25T12:31:13.680-07:00I'm not so sure about this. "The Devil kn...I'm not so sure about this. "The Devil knows his time is short" evokes the final judgment, and insofar as the final judgment will come about eventually, and "short" means only "finite", then fair enough. That's not how it works, though. Mentioning the approach of Judgment Day is one of the surest of ways of making the crazies come running out of the woodwork, demanding repentance or else. Historically, those haven't been the best of people. Once you stop worrying about the future, evil surely follows.<br /><br />Moreover, if I've learned anything from the covid debacle (beyond how wrak-minded most people are), it's that this, too, shall pass. Whether it passes into a rebirth of Christian values, or death & decay, or something else entirely is still in flux and worth worrying about, but pass it will. Mankind is no stranger to debauchery, and even if ours goes beyond anything that came before (questionable, there's been some pretty bad stuff), who's to say there isn't something even worse still to come far in the future? In many ways, the efforts of today's civilization destroyers are quite clumsy, pathetic even.<br /><br />They won't ever stop because they're satisfied, but they WILL stop because they've run short of self-destroying fools to do their work, or goods to sustain their spree. I think we're already seeing that happen.cosmic dwarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562864681773374828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-24718391837648956422022-05-25T11:40:45.779-07:002022-05-25T11:40:45.779-07:00Paul usefully observes that God himself has given ...Paul usefully observes that God himself has given up on those who are lost in their perverse ways. There really is no point in bothering to oppose them because there literally is nothing worse you could do to them that they aren't already doing to themselves. I used to tell people that the CIA really should hire the masochistic homosexuals because there isn't any torture a foreign government could come up with that they're not already paying for just to get their rocks off.shnarklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085426871631417354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-85240588891677765142022-05-25T11:29:43.701-07:002022-05-25T11:29:43.701-07:00To know where the limits of sexual perversion are ...To know where the limits of sexual perversion are heading, one need look no further than what Hollywood has been pumping out over the last few decades. Necrophilia anyone? <br /> Elvis and Annabelle is about a guy working in a mortuary who decides to take pictures of the corpses. One image captures him kissing a corpse.<br /><br />How about incest? August: Osage County take a rather cavalier stance by pointing out that using birth control solves the only real reproductive problems. Then there's Rumor Has It where Ms. Aniston along with the audience discovers that her romp in the sack with Kevin Costner may have been incestual. But what's the real problem? After all they're sexually attracted to each other. <br /><br />Avatar and The Shape of Water both make subtle moves into bestiality.<br /><br />As far as fighting goes, Christ himself points out that if his kingdom was of this world his servants would fight. The problem is that his kingdom is NOT of this world which kinda presents a problem for those of this fallen world who think they're supposed to fight demons using what? Conventional weapons? Hollow point bullets? shnarklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085426871631417354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-59103137915546629182022-05-25T03:49:23.872-07:002022-05-25T03:49:23.872-07:00Are you not simply illustrating the term "pro...Are you not simply illustrating the term "progressivism"? Everything you have said in this article is exemplary of a progressive mindset. Peter Twiggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-71326362959270830932022-05-23T21:03:56.625-07:002022-05-23T21:03:56.625-07:00This, exactly. Liberalism has no limiting principl...This, exactly. Liberalism has no limiting principle. Liberals will not stop until somebody stops them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-46123453521882094982022-05-23T09:06:14.676-07:002022-05-23T09:06:14.676-07:00I think it also includes political action. I know...I think it also includes political action. I know that is a taboo statement in libertarian circles. But we need to vote, run for office, attend local government meetings if possible.<br /><br />I personally don't like protests. But I think counter protests against Leftist protests could be helpful in pushing back. I think even as much as physically pushing back.<br /><br />What if a group of 20 Christians went to a drag queen story hour at a public library and demanded that it stop even to the point of physically removing the person from the premises? That violates the NAP. Things like this are ugly and would get tons of negative press. But I think it may be necessary to do things like this in order to turn the culture back around.<br /><br />I'm open to criticisms of that approach, but while we sit in our living rooms sons of disobedience just can't stop pushing Left.<br /><br />https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-67157313443616851082022-05-23T01:53:36.443-07:002022-05-23T01:53:36.443-07:00"The unnatural separation of "sex" ..."The unnatural separation of "sex" from "fruitfulness" was a perversion analogous to thinking of property only in the sense of money, in the sense of something which is immediately consumed, enjoyed, and expended; something which gives momentary pleasure and disappears" [G K Chesterton] Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com