I easily foresee a future where students are taught about the great idiocy that people are equal, and how it set humanity back decades.

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It does seem odd, doesn't it? If homosex is such an important, world-destroying issue, you'd think he'd have at least mentioned it. And it's not like he doesn't talk about sex: he's got some pretty hardline ideas about marriage and divorce.

Moreover: there are two people he says had "more faith than I have found in Israel." One is a woman, and a Samaritan (and cf. the Good Samaritan); the other, even more oddly, is a Roman centurion.

He doesn't seem like a very typical Jew, this Jesus; he's cruising for a bruising.

Moreover, the Roman centurion is praised for seeking Jesus's help to cure his "boy" or "slave" (depending on the Gospel you read). Both are terms for the object of a pederast's attention. And why else would a Roman, a centurion at that, care so much about a slave, that he'd seek out a Jewish magician to cure him? Maybe he figured that this unmarried guy hanging out with 12 of his pals was, you know, "one of us."

To this day, Catholic boys recite the words of the centurion before a man in a dress gives them a wafer to chew. Makes you think, don't it?

https://counter-currents.com/2017/02/milo-the-miles/

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Orthodoxy is largely made up of national and ethnic churches. I’m a big fan of Orthodoxy—the eastern part of the Apostolic Church— but let’s be honest, Ss. Peter and Paul went to Rome, not Constantinople.

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Yes, but he falsified history in “Taras Bul’ba”.
 

Also, there is, as far as I know, not a single work authored by him in Ukrainian
 

Conrad is an English author because he wrote in English about the whole world (Polynesia, London, Petersburg, Geneva, Congo,… and the invented country in “Nostromo”). But, even if he had written about Poland, and in English only- he would still have been just an English author.
 

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Yet more of the psycho sickness possessed by too many is evidenced in this morally relativist lecture.

Any person who believes that a raped woman should be required to carry a baby to term is demented beyond words. A lobotomy is in order for such people who think that way. Even that may not help.

Additionally, where is your commentary about the lout who recklessly impregnated her? He is as much responsible as she and yet, you completely let him off the hook. More psycho sickness...

If there is no birth control measure for her to use at a time when sex is desired then the pregnancy prevention responsibility SHIFTS TO HIM. Are you mature enough to understand that? There is only one thing that needs to not happen in all the physical fun two people can have -- he needs TO NOT inseminate her.

Let me make it even simpler for you. Not my quote but, it is a profound and accurate one -- "All unintended pregnancies are a result of irresponsible ejaculation".

After you pick yourself up off the floor because that concept never occurred to your misogynistic self, I'm open to any honest discussion.

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OK, I'll bite.

The Covid vaccine is intended to limit the effects and the spread of a deadly disease, so that while it is not without risk to administer this to healthy 15 year olds, the benefits outweigh the risks in the judgment of public health officials (YMMV). Very few healthy unvaccinated 15 year olds become seriously ill with Covid, but for the few that do, the result can be tragic.

Vaccinating them also helps prevent them from bringing the disease home and killing their grandpas, although the rise of the Omicron variant has made it less effective for this purpose. Next year's version of the vaccine (yes, they will have new ones every year, just like flu shots) will be more effective against Omicron.

When my kids were growing up, they were given (voluntary) flu shots thru their school every year. I don't recall this being a big matter of controversy. Attempts to mandate the Covid vaccine were a big mistake but the idea that getting a vaccine for a respiratory disease once (let alone annually) is somehow shocking and terrible is ridiculous.

OTOH, there is absolutely no health justification for giving heart meds to healthy 15 year olds. This was done only to improve their medal chances and may even be bad for their health. Medically there is zero reward, only risk and so it can never be medically justified.

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But I'll grant you the winter games have more truly niche events. My favorite is the one that combines skiing with shooting.

When you think about it, pretty much every sport would be enhanced if you added guns.

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This is what the right started with its obsession with adoption. If family roles are a matter of services rendered and legal recognition
 

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Exactly right. The Bronx is not a real place either. Neither is The Hague. Serbian is just bad Russian so Serbia is not a real country. And Croatian is just Serbian written in the Roman alphabet so Croatia is not a real country either.

The "Ukraine is not a real country" folks are just looking for excuses not to be involved. Just say that you don't want the US involved but Ukraine is just as real a country as say Canada is (they've been speaking American accented English in Canada since before the Boston Tea Party too). Maybe it's not our job to save their asses but don't buy into stupid Putin propaganda about how Ukraine is not a real country. It's just as real as any other country and more real than many.

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It's you who doesn't, or made really bad choices as regards female partners and friends.

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But censoring debate is one of the worst inventions of man.

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Colds don’t kill ~1% of the people who get them. Is this seriously hard? However, were there a polyvalent rhinovirus vaccine, I would take it in a second. Having a cold is unpleasant. There is the hygiene hypothesis to contend with, but that seems to mostly apply to bacterial exposure, not viruses. If we need to be infected to be healthier, there are always live-attenuated vaccines and live enterovirus vaccination, which is cool. Japanese researchers discovered that giving people repeated sub-clinical enterovirus drinks during cold and flu season kicked up the antiviral response, significantly reducing respiratory infections.

Coronavirus is not the sort of disease that we have trouble coming up with vaccines for. It is not a eukaryote nor does it infect cells required for the immune response. It does not have a sophisticated way to evade immunity, like malaria. It is not hypervariable, like HIV.

Four coronaviruses cause colds. There are coronavirus vaccines for animals. The (correct) theory of One Medicine is that if we can vaccinate one species for something, then we can vaccinate similar species for that thing. Incidentally, we can vaccinate animals for several protozoal diseases. There are both live-attenuated vaccines and subunit/killed organisms. The live-attenuated ones are much more effective. There’s not a veterinary vaccine for malaria, but there are ones for similar organisms.

Bovilis, the cattle vaccine for a coronavirus HA helpfully linked to is live-attenuated. If we had a live-attenuated covid vaccine, especially an intranasal or oral one, we would likely get sterilizing immunity, which would even keep anti-vax freeloaders from getting sick.

Empirical attenuation is an excellent application of evolutionary biology. it was under-utilized, despite extreme effectiveness. I think it is under-used today. Certainly with modern genetic engineering to provide cells/organisms in which to attenuate with engineered defects in various cellular antiviral responses to select pathogens that have lost adaptations to escape that antiviral response can be combined with transposon-mediated deletions in viral genomes to attenuate the pathogen.

Here’s one where researchers did that to influenza. Genome-wide identification of interferon-sensitive mutations enables influenza vaccine design. They got a virus that caused a lot more interferon responses in vivo. Because attenuation was mediated by multiple deletions, it is probably difficult for the virus to revert.

Immunogenicity and reactogenicity, the tendency of a vaccine to have negative side-effects in vaccinees typically go together. We tend to try to minimize reactogenicity in vaccines for people. The seasonal flu vaccine is an excellent example. These are usually killed virus, disassembled (killed) viruses, or just a protein. In most countries, flu shots do not even contain an adjuvant, an ingredient that provides a pathogen- or damage-associated molecular pattern (PAMP and DAMP, respectively). I think we went too far in making flu vaccines less reactogenic. If you get a flu shot too early, your antibody response likely won’t last that year’s flu season! Plus, flu vaccines are pretty ineffective, something like 50% at best. Not to mention, you need to get one every year because influenza mutates.

The big problem with using empirical attenuation was the time involved. Attenuating bovine tuberculosis into the BCG vaccine took a decade. I forget how long attenuating yellow fever took, but a replication failed. But attenuation can be done much more quickly these days, as genetic engineering allows lots of variants to be produced. Deep sequencing enables researchers to identify variants that are, say, temperature-sensitive in just a few passages. Recoding genes can make reversions less likely, in addition to making viruses that more easily trigger antiviral responses.

Way back when, like in the forties or the sixties or so, they were getting heterologous immunity, immunity to non-vaccinated strains, using a water in oil emulsion as an adjuvant. Now, I'm not suggesting using Freund's complete adjuvant, but a flu shot that had side effects but actually works seems worthwhile. Italy recently switched to using adjuvanted seasonal flu shots, I think using alum, aluminum phosphate, and/or aluminum hydroxide microparticles to kill some cells (DAMPs) and prolong local exposure to the antigens. We will see how that goes. I have my fingers crossed.

If you have a choice, I strongly suggest getting FluMist, the live-attenuated intranasal vaccine, over flu shots. Beneficial heterologous effects from live-attenuated vaccines are real. If you can swing a BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, it’ll even help with blood sugar problems.

You do bring up a good point, though. We should have a live-attenuated vaccine as a prototype for every viral family. That way, creating a live-attenuated vaccine will be fairly easy. Much like the mRNA vaccines, where the company began designing the vaccine the day the genome was published, with a prototype coronavirus vaccine, substituting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein gene could have begun immediately. In a lot of cases the “spike” protein equivalent, the viral protein that mediates attachment and entry can be traded out. This has been tried with flaviviruses and the yellow fever vaccine, for example. Pseudotyping, where a designed virus uses the “guts” of one virus and the envelope protein(s) of another sometimes works and sometimes does not.

I have heard that vaccinology does draw the best scientific and technical minds. COVID may change that. To me, vaccines tie with antibiotics for the best medical tech man has devised. The struggle is not over, though. Cancer and autoimmune disorders may call for vaccine and vaccine-adjacent tech. Given that we need to make medicine better, faster, and cheaper, vaccines show us numerous examples that it can be done.

Yeah, Alrenous, I know you don’t care about any of this.

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Do you have an arguent rooted in actual data or is it just "I feel culturally closer to some anti-vax sportsball commentator than to those scientists?"

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https://twitter.com/business/status/1479862993076826112

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We are living thru a remarkable moral panic/fit of virtue signalling. I don't think that if you looked at Soviet scientific journals from the '30s that there would be as much talk of Communism as there is talk of Blackism here. The general approach of Soviet scientists was to try to stay as far away from politics as the Party would let them and the Party (except maybe in a few areas like genetics) generally left people alone as long as they were sticking to their equations. (Of course it was easy to step over the line - tell the wrong joke and find yourself in a sharashka. )

Stalin wanted to get his hands on atomic weapons and other scientific goodies and he understood that if he made the promotion of ideology or ideologues job #1 instead of putting his best scientists to work then he would never achieve his goals. Lysenko was more the exception than the rule.

There were a few attempts to promote party hacks to unmerited scientific positions (Ceaușescu's wife in Romania) but this was fairly rare.

Likewise in Nazi Germany, the support from the Nazi Party for "Aryan Phsyics" was not as great as Lenard and Stark would have preferred because again the Party wanted Heisenberg and his atomic science more than they wanted political correctness.

I get the feeling that today, in any contest between political correctness and great men of science, PC would win so we are at a more advanced stage of totalitarianism.

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I apologize to those Boomer obsession-averse, but, obviously, the pre-Boomer Beatles were key figures in the history of the 20th Century.
 

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And it will continue to happen more and more. Question is when will people stop goofing off and wake the hell up?

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Pedophilia has been the one transgression that has definitely been losing over the decades, so, with that being left as the one thing you can safely oppose, lots of people get worked up over it as the coming danger.

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uh, that's not what lucy told us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

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"Synthetic Opioids mostly didn’t hit blacks for a long time."

The overall drug overdose death has been rising by about 6K for the last couple of years (irrespective of race/ethnicity), a rise that I believe is largely attributed to fentanyl and other cheap synthetics. The boost here is well beyond that, but seeing grandma choke out her last in some ICU, or complications from long-COVID itself, might also increase one's likelihood of dying from an overdose, however much the just-too-scared-of-the-COVID-needle bros want us to believe it's all the fault of the lockdowns.

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"No, it’s that the majority of the unvaxxed are not PCR-tested."

Link? Or am I supposed to believe unsourced claims from an anti-vaxxer? As I understand it, if you come into a hospital insisting that you don't have COVID and just have "trouble breathing, or maybe pneumonia" they're gong to tell you to get that PCR test to verify your claim or else you get sent to the COVID ward anyway. If the "majority of the unvaxxed" are refusing to get a test to verify their status, that's on them.

And anyway, if that's the way they feel, they should skip the hospital and drive to their local witch doctor, or homeopath, or feed store that dispenses Ivermectin. This wouldn't be a problem if the "won't trust the doctors" crowd didn't decide to cave in to the medical establishment and Big Pharma (because you'd better believe you'll get dosed up with plenty of their wares when they haul you into that ICU bed) once their breathing stops, their "we're not hurting anyone" schtick wouldn't sound as ridiculous. As it is, they keep clogging up those ICU's and emergency wards for people who are far more deserving of medical attention.

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Spot on.

I bypass all the movie reviews, especially the Trevor Lynch stuff, but half-hearted started reading this to only run out of steam two thirds the way through through the promo.

The events of the world right now are all the dystopian sci-fi novels of the 20th century come to life. Who has the need or desire to watch a fantasy film, isn't reality enough?

I think what astounds me the most is the lack of urgency, or even feigned interest, by some of the finest minds on the internet. Here we have a deadset bonus gift of statistics in covid-19 for the statistically minded to feast upon, yet all we get are movie reviews?

If one wants to get all film literate I'd like to discuss why the South Koreans are pumping out the best movies and serial TV at the moment. From Parasite, to Train to Busan, the brilliant Kingdom and now their latest in Squid Game. Some of the best examinations of modern life you'll find, far and away superior to Judeo-American dross. I'd hazard a guess and say it's because the South Koreans are still a people largely in control of their own ethnic destiny, whereas our movies are spawned from an alien race who hates us.

They have Kia and Hyundai, a national sense of self based on their own ethnic image which they portray and examine in their art, we get re-makes and mulligans on old work done badly with heaping helpings of Woke horseshit.

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"It makes no difference to vax 90% or 100% or 10 % of the population for that matter."

It evidently does if you want to reduce the number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID, given that the overwhelming majority of those who are doing the dying from COVID are unvaxxed. To the extent you want to keep acting as if their dying and clogging up the ICU's for everyone else who might need them "makes no difference", that sociopathic charade is on you.

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There is absolutely no scientific or medical justification for vaccinating children with this experimental vaccine for a virus that has a fatality rate of 0.02% for kids under the age of 17. These vaccines are non-sterilizing, thus do not prevent coronavirus infections. The risks far out way any benefit. They do not prevent kids from getting infected and spreading the virus and they will still force the vaccinated kids to wear masks in school.

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Alright, that's about all of this maudlin astronaut worship I can take. The moon landings were a brazen fake as anyone with a brain should realize. The fastest path to reality is to watch the Apollo 11 press conference on Youtube. Collins says in answer to a question, "I don't remember ever seeing stars." Think about this. Space station astronauts rave about how bright and colorful the stars are in space, but these guys couldn't even see them on the dark side of the moon. They had to say this to cover for not taking a single photo of stars from the moon or deep space. That's because the technology to fake a stellar view didn't exist.
And look at the astronauts body language during this press conference. The conquering heros were looking down, staring at their hands and generally looking like schoolboys caught peeking at the girls' bathroom. Don't take my word for, watch the video. For the rest of his life, on the few times Armstrong could be persuaded to talk publicly, he could barely keep from crying. I'd cry too if I knew I'd go down in history as the world's greatest liar. 200 billion in today's money, most of it stolen. Just like Vietnam, just like Afghanistan, a "great and shining lie".

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Or even questions like, how has the rise of the Jews, the only bunch of intelligent whites who treat each other as an in group...
 

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what type of timber in the Azores? could the Vikings work with it ? One would expect so…..
 

When Cortez conquered Mexico, when he landed on the shores, he famously had all the boats of the expedition dragged a shore and burned. Later they needed boats to subdue the Aztec on the lake ( of course they wouldn't have dragged the sea ships 500 miles in/upland to the lake, but you get the idea), no problem. Castilian carpenters easily and efficiently constructed worthy boats that did the job. I would expect no less from the Vikings.

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The cluelessness of Tradcons when it comes to women is astonishing

They simply lack the requisite experience to understand the topic and still seem to think we live in a pre-sexual revolution society

This is a foreign language to them

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Russian "soul" is one of those fake BS that used to annoy me. Freud was, basically, right about it -unusual for him, because Freud was generally wrong about most things.

The moralist in Dostoevsky is the most readily assailable. If we seek to rank him high as a moralist on the plea that only a man who has gone through the depths of sin can reach the highest summit of morality, we are neglecting a doubt that arises. A moral man is one who reacts to temptation as soon as he feels it in his heart, without yielding to it. A man who alternately sins and then in his remorse erects high moral standards lays himself open to the reproach that he has made things too easy for himself. He has not achieved the essence of morality, renunciation, for the moral conduct of life is a practical human interest. He reminds one of the barbarians of the great migrations, who murdered and did penance for it, till penance became an actual technique for enabling murder to be done. Ivan the Terrible behaved in exactly this way; indeed this compromise with morality is a characteristic Russian trait. Nor was the final outcome of Dostoevsky’s moral strivings anything very glorious. After the most violent struggles to reconcile the instinctual demands of the individual with the claims of the community, he landed in the retrograde position of submission both to temporal and spiritual authority, of veneration both for the Tsar and for the God of the Christians, and of a narrow Russian nationalism – a position which lesser minds have reached with smaller effort. This is the weak point in that great personality. Dostoevsky threw away the chance of becoming a teacher and liberator of humanity and made himself one with their gaolers. The future of human civilization will have little to thank him for. It seems probable that he was condemned to this failure by his neurosis. The greatness of his intelligence and the strength of his love for humanity might have opened to him another, an apostolic, way of life.
 

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Government officials, he added, should ban or tax unhealthy food.
 

This is never the solution. Allowing government to manipulate you into behaviors deemed preferable by government is always a mistake. Yes, sometimes it is a necessary evil, which is why we have laws against things commonly known to be bad, like murder, whereas eating a Snickers bar should not be punishable by extra tax...

... just because some purveyor of overpriced greens says so. BTW, he is in the carbohydrate business.

There are plenty of skinny people who drink Coke, munch snacks and never get fat. There is a lot more to this story than "Eat salads or pay tax, prole!" If anything, it was the government's idiotic food pyramid that made America fat by emphasizing carb consumption over protein...

... and completely ignoring the superior effects EXERCISE has on health and body fat content.

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Now, nuclear power isn’t well suited for countries that can’t safely operate say, the 737 Max,
 

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The Left is dead. All of the energy -- simmering, bubbling -- is on the Right. I have no doubt you clowns will squander this opportunity with the same old bromides: tax-cuts and Jesus. Lefties tend to be neurotics, but creative. Righties sacrifice creativity for Judeo-Christian wisdom. Therein lies your failure. Personally, I'm done with the left-right paradigm, but it facilitates conversation.

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb expects coronavirus to be an ‘endemic’ virus in U.S. after delta surge


https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/13/dr-scott-gottlieb-expects-coronavirus-to-be-an-endemic-virus-in-us-after-delta-surge.html

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Also, we’ve got things backwards because in a normal society it’s what affects children that takes priority. But covid overwhelmingly hits people over 50 the hardest. A normal flu season is quite a bit more dangerous to kids than covid is, but pre-covid we never shut down all that many pre-schools and elementary schools to protect kids from the flu.
 

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And that doesn’t include the absolutely massive education and scientific infrastructure that was developed, a key factor in national strength since you have to have highly educated scientists and engineers to have world-leading armaments.

LOL and where does Lysenko fit into that belief?

That quadrupling of GDP in the ten years of 1928 to 1937 equals an annual growth rate of 15 percent. No country has accomplished that since, not even China.

Impressive numbers comrade. Must be from Stalin himself.

Let's not mention that over 5 million people starved in 1932-33. But I'm sure the people that starved to death would have been thrilled to learn that the GDP was doing well.

The Soviets never figured out farming. They were importing grain from the evil capitalists up until their collapse. They actually lucked out by the increase in the price of oil. So they were just shipping oil to the West for food.

The harsh reality is that they were dependent on imports from the beginning. Stalin would have lost if he hadn't been able to import war supplies on loan from the US and Britain.

Marxism is a load of crap. It never worked and never will. Marx didn't have a clue as to what he was talking about when it came to economics or even basic agriculture.

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Bicycling saved my life. When I was on a downward spiral, I took up competitive cycling and my entire life turned around. The body is the key. You must begin with a healthy body. Our organisms are pyramids, with physical soundness as the base. Both Bobby Fisher and Vincent Van Gogh argued that real creativity was based upon physical strength. Fisher swam regularly. He had big shoulders and an inverted triangle torso. Van Gogh claimed that painting was so demanding of physical energy and stamina that only the really strong could put out the necessary effort to become great.

The purple-hair sect has made a fetish of minimizing the role of physical robustness. The whole transgender thing is espoused by those who have no connection with their core strength, as it is called today. Transgenderism is the repudiation of one's love and respect for one's own body and as such, a literal and metaphorical dead end. Ironic, isn't it? These sad Ghouls have made it plain that to lose touch with one's body is to lose one's Soul.

And all this is in direct contrast to the teachings of the Judeo/Christian school. In contrast with the body-beautiful Greek civilization, the Judeo/Christian tradition has always taught that the body is a burden, a shell, a husk. That this is not just ancient history is proven by that article by David Brooks in the NYTwitTimes in which he belittled strength, beauty and grace. But Brooks is right, for the wrong reasons (as usual). Between the Classical World and Judeo/Christian world there is an unbridgeable gulf.

While it is not necessarily true that a healthy body houses a healthy mind, it is generally true that a healthy mind cannot exist apart from a healthy body. And since a healthy mind in a healthy body is the best outcome, then we should aim for that. And to do that, the body must be conditioned first; it is the base of the pyramid.

If we were to look at things this way, then much that is diseased would wither and fall away--which is precisely why those factions in our society who benefit from and push this stuff resist this tendency so vehemently. Obviously, they benefit from exploiting the weak and vulnerable. And Brooks senses that a rebirth of Classicism would spell the end of the dominance of the Judeo/Christian racket, hence his vituperation.

Ask yourself, why is it that the first thing the military does, before it begins formal training, is to whip the men into physical shape? Is it because they know that a healthy person learns more quickly?

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Anyone who understands traditional Christianity knows how inimical the celebration of Pride is to anything remotely Godly.
 

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How did they ever manage to genocide all the people that were in their way of ancient Palestine?

Did slavery in Persia change them for the worse?

I suppose these are just not the same guys.

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Coast Guard needs to patrol the old shipyards in San Francisco where the container ships unload the illegals. $40,000 debt for a trip in a container with a hundred other people and a chemical toilet and slavery in a Chinese restaurant for the next 8 years. Or the Japanese crab boats that sail thousands of miles to steal crab and abalone 20 yards off American beaches.

If China’s so great, why? Why? Please explain Mr Godfree Roberts.

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Transport by sea is always cheaper than transport by big ol’ jet airliners. Has anyone bothered to investigate how these Africans are crossing the ocean?
 

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"If the US military couldn’t defeat Afghans in 20 years..."

We could have beat them. It's called scorched earth. But politicians do not have the stomach for it.

"how would a US military purged of its best troops beat core Americans?"

What makes you believe core Americans--however you define it--even stand a chance? Are YOU going to lead them?

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searching for roots and bugs to eat and occasionally preying on an antelope or some small game.
 

And the thought occurred to me that mayhaps the incredible leaps in technology and theoretical knowledge over the last two centuries may have been made possible by the meat-protein rich diet that the American pioneers ate. The brain needs plenty of high quality protein for its development.

As Jack says, Africans weren't really that good at procuring meat protein. That's why there are so many types of big game on the continent today. Until they traded with the British in the 19th century for muskets, Africans could not consistently bag big game and therefore lacked sufficient high quality protein for brain development. Nature conserves. What protein the African harvested went into their bodies, the brains atrophied compared to we Europeans who were more proficient at harvesting big game (going back 40,000 years when we moved up into Europe and exploited the abundant game there). A positive feedback cycle developed.

The upshot being that Gates, in promoting grasshoppers and grubs as tomorrow's substitute for red meat may inadvertently be reversing the course of evolution. Future generations will have less high quality protein for higher brain development and therefore be less capable of high powered cognition.

Ironic, huh? The guy who rode the wave of high intelligence software to riches and fame shall be responsible for cretinizing the human race. Ironic but typical in a sense. Blinded by hubris, Gates blunders forward into fields where we all see through a glass darkly and into which he, with his aspergery myopia, sees not at all.

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A bit like, but not much like. Creation science was the last gasp of a dying Christianity (as a serious institution, that is - obviously the religion itself is still around), and under progressivism it has always been not only acceptable but encouraged to relentlessly attack non-converged Christians. Creation science was a desperate attempt to keep public schools nominally Christian and avoid turning them 100% secular and progressive, by trying to make Christianity look secular and progressive, which unsurprisingly did not work. All of the machinery of the state, media, NGOs, entertainment and judiciary were arrayed against it, with just a few local officials resisting, and it's amazing that they were able to hold on as long as they did.

With tranny "science" the polarity is exactly reversed. All of the machinery of the state, media, NGOs, entertainment and judiciary are relentlessly pushing trannyism, with a few holdouts in the scientific and legal professions crying for sanity and having their careers and lives destroyed as a result.

Trannyism is really more like Coronatarianism - pointless, destructive, hazardous to children and adolescents, and anyone who dares criticize or even express skepticism in the public sphere is quickly silenced. Lysenkoism is also a good analogy, for those dumb boomers who still think the rona is the world's most serious problem.

Anyway, the only thing that any of it really has in common with creation science is that it's being pushed through children and teenagers. As the Woke Capital Twitter account always says: Globohomo is interested in your kids.

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Growing up in Dixie, every few years a Billy Graham crusade would come to the state and for a few weeks a "praise Jesus" fever would run through town and intrude into our lives. You could ignore it and just not take part, and after a while it went away and people were back to normal. Back to normal meant going to the Methodist or Baptist church on Sunday, following the formalities, and forgetting about it the rest of the week.
I think that's the value of traditional religion. It allows a little bit of evangelical fever but also contains it. People go to church on Sunday and forget about it Mon-Sat. It allows for a lot of normal life.
This Woke cult is raw, new and unrestrained. They are feeling their rising power. There is no limit to their evangelical fervor. Like early Christian fanatics, like Jonestown, like Rajneeshees in Oregon, there will be no cooling off. They will increase their frenzy until they are stopped by a self-made disaster.

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"Post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy.

Now if he had a blod clot, the probability of it being due to a vaccination would be larger. But a heart attack?

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I was brought up in the Middle East to believe that dogs and pigs were considered to be unclean because they sometimes eat feces.

At Saint Catherine's Monastery near Mount Sinai, the monks crapped in a place where their shit dropped into the pigsty. Well, that is what my Dad told me. Maybe he was pulling my leg. He had a weird sense of humour that I have inherited.

I have never been to the Monastery to check it out. But I doubt if this still goes on. It always seemed to me to be an excellent version of recycling. Bill Gates and co. would doubtless approve. :)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Saint_Catherine_Sinai.jpg/1280px-Saint_Catherine_Sinai.jpg

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Gold and silver and weapons and ammo. And land and other durable assets. Borrow money to be paid back with next decade’s mini-dollars. Do anything but hold cash or pay off debt.
 

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J.K. Rowling’s sensible, and savagely attacked, comments on the matter can be read at https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/j-k-rowling-vs-woke-supremacy/

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John Bradley's Behind the Veil of Vice details modern sexual mores in the Arab world, with one chapter on homosexuality/pederasty, which he finds alive and well.

Once you get past the gov. officials and other "elites" the Arab street is quite OK about such things, as they always have been. Colonialism brought the attempt to impose Victorian mores -- no more Oscar Wilde's! As you say, this was viewed as part of "modernizing".

In "traditional" societies -- are you listening, all you "back to religion and hierarchy" guys? -- women are sequestered, and boys are expected to, um, relieve themselves with each other, or perhaps, if lucky, a wealthy "sponsor". Eventually, everyone is expected to marry and have children; once that's out of the way, how you amuse yourself is your own affair.

You might applaud those Victorian mores but "modernization" continues and now involves not colonialism but Obama-style demands for legalization, gay marriage, drag queen story hour, parades, etc., all of which are anathema to the Arabs, of whatever orientation (pun).

The problem with the various "traditionalists" is that they want "traditional" societies but believe all the hypocritical blather (or rather, discretion) about how "moral" they were. Hence their obsession with loudly denouncing homosexuality and pederasty. "Not us! No sirree, look how loudly we condemn it!" E.g., the Catholic Church, a worldwide pederasty network that last week reaffirmed its opposition to homosexuality even among consenting adults. The lady doth protest.

A real "traditional" society would be like black America, where things are on the down low; neither Mormon purity nor gay lib outrageousness.

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Oh please, Kamala would give up being Vice President if it meant she looked like Meghan Markle. Harry is an idiot but he's also a red-blooded man. She's gorgeous.

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No kidding Sherlock? Do you know that there was usury underlying those wars?

So you are saying that the 721 year Roman and Persian conflict was caused by Jewish bankers?

The Romans weren't even interacting with Jews when that conflict started.

What about the sacking of Carthage? Jews again? How far do you take this insanity? Peloponnesian Wars? Were Spartans actually motivated by the spirits of Jewish bankers? It's not possible for a Western society to go to war without a Jewish motivation?

“Thou shalt not lend upon usury to they brother.” Deu. 23:19

So you are complaining about the Jews and then quoting them? You do realize that Deuteronomy was written by Jews, right?

I have no problem if you are against usury and in fact I am against letting Wall St dictate consumer interest rates. But I think it is totally insane to try and blame all Western wars on Jews. Man has been warring since he picked up a club. Just look at how many wars the Chinese and Japanese have been in and without a single Jew involved.

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"What explains why the Christian West has progressed beyond all other cultures"

Continence. Especially male continence.

Continence, founded on the particular moral ideals vis-a-vis sex that Europeans projected into their constructed religion. European religion was the container/repository for the race's moral instincts. Everything to do with sex was placed into the realm of the sacred in various ways, once explicitly, later only implicitly. This meant there was such a thing as the "abuse" of sex, which was frowned upon (even outright condemned) in our older Christian religion.

We became a great culture because of male continence. (Which incidentally goes along with strong families and a high birth rate.)

Thus why pornographers are so destructive to us.

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Here's how little children learn to read now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnQM-6NzyIU

"B is for bi
You can shout it out loud
I like boys and girls
And that makes me proud."

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Also,

The legacy of James Webb is so far from the freedom dreaming that is possible through the lens of a telescope, and it is time for NASA to change the name to something better.
...

Before she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a disabled and enslaved Harriet Tubman likely used the North Star ...

Naming “the next Hubble” the Harriet Tubman Space Telescope (HTST) would ensure that her memory lives always in the heavens that gave her and so many others hope. The HTST could also serve as a reminder that the night sky is a shared heritage that belongs to all of humanity, including LGBTQIA+ people.
 

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Russia, along with Eastern European countries and India, is actually a very natural ally for the USA. Putin wants to rule his Kingdom, he doesn’t want war. He’d rather be a partner of the West, which would put him in a stronger position to deal with the dragon to the south that drools over the living space and resources in eastern Russia.

 

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