Why I want an elite, or the case for hierarchy

 Most people who pay attention have a profound disgust at what passes for the elite of the Western World, for good reason. I'm not going to mention the worst stuff because it is gross, but we are ruled by people who regularly sell out to the highest bidder, and who appear to have a predilection for producing blackmail material against themselves. Again, if you want to profoundly scandalize your visual palette, go Google these people. Nevertheless, I think some form of elite is absolutely necessary for a civilization worth living in.

The reason for this is that us humans do not have to understand something perfectly to do it right. For instance, most of us, this author included, could not fully explain when a car needs an oil change, and why it needs a particular kind of engine oil. Nevertheless, if we change the oil at appropriate intervals and use the correct grade of oil, our cars last longer, and they work better. We know when to change what oil into our cars because someone else told us, either in the vehicle manual or on the internet somewhere. Someone else, who knows car engines way better than we do, tells us how to make them work better. This someone would be the elite of car maintenance.

I believe that this applies to most, maybe all areas of life. The instructor or coach is the elite of the sport you do, and you do what they say for better results. David The Good is one of the elites of gardening, for instance. Ideally, our rulers would be the elites of managing countries, but they appear to not be. If they knew how to run the economy and the military and other things, we would enjoy an amazing standard of living. As a matter of fact, we still enjoy an amazing standard of living, even if the political elites worthy of the title are mostly gone now. In my estimation, because of the quality of past political elites, we are still riding on the momentum of a truly excellent civilization.

Going back to the oil change, tens of millions of cars the world over work better, because a few dozen experts have figured out the exact specifications of what a particular engine needs and when it needs replacement. An actual elite can raise the standard of living of many many more people, if those people do as the elite advises, even if they do not understand it entirely.

This argument requires that the elite are actually better than the average person in their area of expertise. Unfortunately, this is not universally a given. Nevertheless, when this is the case, many people can enjoy, and function, at a level beyond their understanding.

Therefore, I think an elite is necessary for a civilization. You do not want everyone independently figuring out their sanitary systems, for an extreme example. It is also necessary that the leaders are of an actual elite, but even an elite class with maybe half of them actually knowing stuff is better than nothing.

TL;DR: People can do stuff without fully understanding it, so they can do stuff in a way that's more intelligent than they are. Hence an elite to ideally provide more intelligent ways.

Why usury is bad, if you don't like maths

There are many arguments against usury, but most of them are highly mathematical in nature. As it happens, most people do not find inflationary pressures and exponential functions nearly as fun as I do, but usury is still bad, even if seeing a lower-case 'e' with a number in its top right-hand corner makes you sick. Hence, allow yours truly to demonstrate that usury is a sin, even when you don't like maths.

First, a definition of usury is required. Usury describes the practice of loaning money with interest. The percentage on your student loans, credit cards, or mortgages, that's usury. The percent number on your savings account is also usury, even though it is admittedly pretty fun to watch your money 'grow'.

Now onto the main point, why usury is bad. As promised, there will be no exponential functions. As a matter of fact, there will only be two numbers, ten and twelve. If you can tell ten and twelve apart, then congratulations, this proof will work for you!

Let's say there are two people, Jimmy and Alex. Jimmy has ten coins, and Alex has no money at all. Between Jimmy and Alex, there are only ten coins. Now, Alex wants to borrow those ten coins to buy stuff. Jimmy says that he can borrow the ten coins, if Alex pays him back with interest. The total with interest is twelve coins. Eventually, Alex pays Jimmy the twelve coins. All's well that ends well, right? Unfortunately not.

Here's the problem. There used to be ten coins between Jimmy and Alex. Now, due to the usury, there are twelve coins. And a coin has value, because you can buy stuff with it. This is where usury becomes sin. Jimmy and Alex just created value out of thin air. They went from the value of ten coins to the value of twelve coins. And humans cannot create anything out of thin air. Only God the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth can do that. But we sure can pretend to create value out of thin air through usury. We can pretend to be God. And you do not want to try to be God, ever, because that is what the original temptation was, see Genesis 3:5: "And ye shall be as Gods".
There it is, that's why usury is a sin. Its participants try to pretend to be God by creating value out of thin air. Creatio ex nihilo, if you want to impress someone with some Latin.
Thanks for reading, and please comment any questions that you have. Usury happens to be a bit of an obsession for me, so I'd be happy to help out.

Freedom is Control

"Freedom is when the imposition of discipline from within is substituted for the imposition of discipline from without."

That quote has been bouncing around my head for quite a while now. I could have sworn I read it somewhere, but I cannot find its original source for the life of me. If anyone knows who said that, please please please let me know in the comments, and I will rectify this post.

        I want to give whomever came up with that the proper credit, because it is frankly genius. It perfectly encapsulates what is wrong with the modern perception of freedom. It takes less than twenty words to lay waste to the idea of political libertarianism, or, as would be a more accurate description, political libertinism. Allow me to elucidate: 

        Freedom does not mean that you can simply do what you want. You can always do what you want, subject to the constraints of the laws of physics, of course. That is what free will means, not freedom. The correct meaning of freedom is that you control yourself, and that nobody has to control you. Because there will be control. There will be discipline. There will be order. 

        This is because there is a Creator, namely God the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and He has a plan. His plan will be carried out. You get freedom by following His plan. If you deliberately refuse to follow His plan, He will just drag you along, without breaking His stride by even a nanometer per second. 

        God the Father is very much like, well, a Father. Do you remember your childhood walks? You surely remember how, if you wouldn't follow along, your parents would take you by the hand. Back when you were too small to keep up, they moved you around in a pram. A good Father gives his children as much freedom as they can handle. God, being the perfect Father, does this perfectly well, even when we move out from our biological parents' house. 

        Right now, God allows you as much freedom as you can handle. He allows your nation as much freedom as it can handle. If that is not a whole lot of freedom, I would encourage a look in the mirror. Could you really handle more freedom right now? On the national scale, I would encourage a look at your community: can it control itself, or does it need the imposition of discipline from without?

Rhetoric 101, slow learners' edition

As most things, not all rhetoricians are created equal. The God-Emperor and the Big Bear are naturals at rhetoric, whereas yours truly is a lot closer to the Supreme Dark Lord in terms of rhetorical ability. However, there are still some fundamental qualities of a good rhetorical attack. Allow me to identify and elucidate three of them. First, thre must be a modicum of truth. Second, it must be short. Third, it must fit the medium.

The first criterion is rather obvious. The best rhetoric is rooted in the truth. Not in the precise, dialectical truth as much as the general idea is correct. If it points to a truth that is uncomfortable to the target, so much the better. That is why 'racism' works so well against most white people. Deep down, they are a little bit 'racist', because everyone is and there's nothing wrong with it. But they like to think of themselves as anti-racist, so it works. Same thing with calling the Pedophile Left, well, just that. The evidence is overwhelming that they're being weird to kids, and nobody wants to be a pedophile.
Alternatively, it could be something that activates a well established spell. Think putting a star-crossed banner, the seventeenth letter of the alphabet, or WWG1WGA on your Coronu-mask. You have to wear the mask because of the mystery virus that kills nobody, so they cannot say anything.

The second criterion is that the attack must be short, and simple. This is why 'dEmS aRe tHe rEaL rAyCiSs' never worked on anyone, anywhere, in any shape or form whatsoever. It's long, complicated, and requires a detailed historical analysis. I don't care if it's dialectically true, and neither does anybody else. If you unironically used D3R in conversation even once, please run every future attempt at rhetoric past someone else before you use it in public.

Thirdly, like everything else you say or post, the rhetorical attack must fit the medium. Making fun of Creepy Uncle Joe's obvious dementia in your Boomer-laden church group will not work. Pointing out his obvious pedophilia to a single mom will work wonders though.

There it is, the three criteria for good rhetoric, from one dialectician to another. Please comment any other examples of horrible rhetoric, so we can avoid them in the future.

What is wrong with Boomers?

 Everybody knows that Boomers are lazy, selfish, and incapable of introspection. While it is extremely fun to hate on them over at VP, I am curious as to how a generation of genetically normal human beings turned out like this. What do you think? Any and all serious theories are appreciated.

The differences between physical and spiritual warfare

SocialGalactician Lord Mountebanks asked if we know anything about spiritual warfare. And when a 'Lord' asks something, a Delta is somewhat obliged to do what he can. Unfortunately, I am not (yet) a veteran of spiritual warfare. Right now I'm kind of not a threat to El Diablo, so he does not bother with me. If and when I get my spiritual house in order, the prince of this World might start to take interest in me. But that's neither here nor there. What is here is what I know about spiritual conflicts, in the hope that it helps the reader. So, in no particular order, here are the major differences between physical and spiritual warfare.

First, there is your identity in the conflict. What I mean is that, in any physical battle, from a scuffle with your brother to the Battle of Kursk and everything in between, you are a party to the hostilities. There is also the object of interest, and it's not you. For example, when scuffling with your brother, both you and your brother are parties to the conflict. The object of interest is the TV remote, or the toy car, or whatever. In physical/material warfare, there is usually a territory that is fought over. In short, there is something that gets fought over, and it's not you.
In spiritual warfare, you are the object of interest. Well, your soul is. You are the battlefield. The parties to the conflict are God the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth versus whomever the devil decided to field. To an extent, you can be a party to the conflict, through prayer. But the battle is fundamentally about you, you're not one of the fighters. Yes, you have Free Will, but what you do with that Free Will is what the spiritual conflict is about. It is kind of confusing, because confusing you is part of El Diablo's Battle Plan.

Second, there is the will to win. In a physical conflict, your will to achieve whatever you consider a victory is one hundred percent certain. Going back to the previous examples, you want the remote, or the toy car, or control of the Kursk Salient. Granted, there are all manners of decisions that have to be made over the course of the battle, but the general objective is clear and present.
In the spiritual realm, the objective is not clear. Again, this is due to the confusion that the prince of this World likes to sow, but it is also because you are the battleground. The remote, the toy car, and the Kursk Salient did not themselves pursue a particular objective, and neither do you. Yes, we all say that we want Jesus to win the spiritual battles in our souls, but some of us, such as the ticket takers, clearly do not want Jesus to win with all their heart, all their mind, and all their soul.

Third, there are the sides. In a physical/material conflict, there is one side and the other side. While there are some exceptions, it is generally the case that you are on a particular side with a particular objective. No matter the physical battle, you are on your side and you are pursuing your objective. You want the remote, the toy car, or the Kursk Salient.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the spiritual realm is very different. Being the battlefield, you are both the ally and the enemy, sometimes more of one than the other, but never entirely one. Original Sin guarantees that part of you was, is, and always will be, the enemy, while God's Grace guarantees that part of you will always be an ally.

Fourth, there is the condition of the battle. There is a clearly defined victory, and you can usually observe how close you are to victory or defeat. You can tell who has the remote, the toy car, or whether or not your tank got hit in the firefight. In other words, there are clearly defined objectives and parameters of success.
On the other hand, the spiritual war affords us no such luxury. We only know when our participation in the spiritual war ends, namely when we die. But it is only then that we find out how well we did. Before that point, the precise status of the battle for our souls is anyone's guess.

There you have it, Ladies and Gentlemen. That is what I can confidently tell you about the spiritual battles. As they say, knowing is half the battle. I pray that this adds to your understanding of the spiritual battle and helps you win!
In most ways, you are the battlefield in the spiritual war. However, you do have a choice in the matter. Either you take the ticket or you do not.

TLDR: In the spiritual war, you are the battlefield that is fought over. This makes a lot of things really confusing. Good luck!

Defining Justice

 SocialGalactician 'Bigfoot' posted a seemingly obvious question:

"Why is justice needed? Is justice part of the good/beautiful/truth?"

My first reaction was to scoff at the mere thought. Of course Justice is good! How can anyone not understand this? Then it slowly dawned on me. Like everything to do with Christianity, the wizards and their boss, the prince of this World, have had their crooked little hands all over the concept of Justice. Allow me to elaborate on two things: first, what Justice is, ie what God the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth made it to be, this will be capital J Justice. Second, I will investigate some of the perversions of God's Justice, and how they warp our minds into confusing fake justice for proper Justice. The perverted justice will be accordingly denoted with a small j.

Alright, let's look at Justice the way it should be. Zechariah 7:9 commands us to 'judge ye true judgment'. A translation into less Victorian English reads 'judge with true justice'. A short read of the context tells us that these are words that God Himself spoke to Zechariah.
Similarly, Psalm 105:3 reads as follows: 'Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times'.
So what is this 'Justice'? It is, in short, the way things should be. It is Justice that that God be loved with all our heart, mind, and soul. It is Justice that we love our neighbor as ourselves. It is justice that a child abuser goes for a swim with a millstone for a necklace.
Specifically addressing Bigfoot's question, this does relate to the Good, the Beatiful, and the True. If we more closely examine the Millstone Pool Party, we read our Blessed Lord making the connection to the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. He says that it 'would be better' for the child abuser to never make landfall again. This is how it ties in. Increasing Justice and fighting Injustice creates more Good. Justice is what is best for everyone. For example: it is justice for a starving person to be fed through voluntary charity. It is justice for those of us with surplus to give to those in need. Not only is the person in need better off ( I hear not starving is one heck of a time ), but the person with surplus receives proof of their surplus ( they gave something away without suffering themselves ), which helps with the temptations of greed/avarice.
I would go so far as to argue that any amount of Goodness necessitates that Justice be restored and maintained with respect to the subject at hand.

Now for the annoying fake justice that confuses us, especially if we do not watch out for it. This comes in many forms, some more obvious than others. Nevertheless, all of them are sown by the prince of this world to prevent Justice from happening.
One of the most obvious examples of fake justice is the concept of social/racial justice. This idea of justice is nothing but institutional envy. This form of justice revolves around the idea that if someone else has more than you, that somehow makes them evil. If this sounds Marxist, that's because it is. Proponents of this perversion of morality will argue that we are all equal, and that, if someone somewhere somehow manages to be above this mythical equality, they must have gone there by being evil. Granted, it is possible to have more than your neighbor by being evil, namely by comitting theft. But it is the action of the theft that goes against Justice, whereas the having more stuff only goes against social justice.
Another, more insidious form of worldly justice is that of the state. For example, all law enforcement in the US goes through the Department of justice. Similarly, it goes through the Justizministerium in Germany. Similarly, the highest instance of the judiciary in the European Union is the European Court of justice. All of these institutions have justice in their name, even though they have increasingly little to do with Justice. Granted, they make a perfunctory effort to enforce Justice, with laws against theft, murder, and some other obvious ones. But then they also start enacting random laws that are at best external to Justice, such as divorce law, affirmative action, et cetera.
This perversion is really hard to detect, because it is not entirely a perversion. A large amount of the most basic laws are entirely in line with what Jesus preached. Most of the rest are fundamentally good ideas as well. Sure, nowhere in the Bible does anyone talk about running red lights, but anarchy on the roads is in nobody's best interest. If in doubt, I would encourage the reader to go for a drive in Rio De Janeiro, Istanbul, Mumbai, or another large city where traffic laws are mostly opinions.
All of this stuff is smoke and mirrors though. The same state that gave us safe high-speed travel with the DMV and FAA also gives us Churchianity, by bribing religious leaders with the golden carrot of 501c3 tax exemptions.

Those are the only two I can think of right now. Thanks to BigFoot for the prompt, and thanks to Cyrus for the Scripture references.

TLDR: Justice is necessary to Goodness, but there is a lot of fake justice out there.

Some excellent commentary

Just a quick one, addressing some excellent comments on my post from earlier today.

First up, we have an anon, who posted the following insight:

Good post. You said:

"...you, being a simple man, often do not know that you are communicating these things..."

I would add that we often are not communicating anything at all beyond what we say, but regardless, a woman will "feel" that we did. As JLP says, "not all not all not all" but some.

This is, in my opinion, the female equivalent of men who think that women mean only what they say and would never play games. Women will assume that men communicate with their words plus everything else, because that is what they are used to from communicating with other women. The problem here is that men simply do not consciously control anything except their literal words and maybe their general facial expression. Maybe it is possible that men sub-consciously and unknowingly telegraph more through various other parts of their communicative output, but this tends to be rather unreliable. Sort of like how men can misinterpret a woman's words, women can and often do misinterpret a man's extraverbal communication.

Overall, thanks for the input!

The second, and second really good, comment comes to us from a 'Jasper':

All true.

And there is a weird (a?)symmetry:
Men also speak with a "multi-modal communication" that women do not understand. Most men have a better understanding of hunting games, including geometry, time, what it feels like to do something physically demanding, and big-picture history.

That Swiss army knife is a powerful tool, and most women are ignorant about it. They might admire a man who has mastered it, but they don't hope to understand it themselves.

This is definitely true, and only present in men. Specifically, it is present in groups of men who are extremely familiar and experienced with one another, such as a military unit or a really good sports team. There is a point where men form a sort of 'group chemistry'.

To illustrate this, allow me to describe an example from my high school basketball team. I practiced with this team twice a week, but I played with my friend Henni considerably more often than that. As such, I was extremely familiar with Henni's style of play and vice versa. This lead to somewhat ridiculous antics, such as myself turning around for no reason, right in time to catch one of Henni's long passes, despite him not calling anything. Similarly, I would screen players for no apparent reason, only to have Henni use the opportunity to get clear and score. My then-girlfriend asked if Henni and I had some manner of telepathic connection, which we obviously did not. It was just male extraverbal/multimodal communication. A 'masculine intuition', if you will.

Maybe this is what makes men's sports so much more interesting to watch than women's sports. Men's teams can co-ordinate a lot faster, as this 'masculine intuition' does the communication for them, whereas women have to stop, turn around, and look at everyone to get a consensus of what to do. That, and the fact that men are physically faster/stronger etc.

These differences make sense on a historical scale as well. Some manner of real-time non-verbal group communication makes a much more efficient hunting party, and reading faces allows you to communicate with people who cannot verbalize their needs ( cough small children cough ).

All in all, I'm very grateful for this excellent commentary, and I will keep advertising my blog exclusively on SocialGalactic, as I do not have to moderate at all right now.

Female communication

Preface: This post does not apply to sigmas, lambdas, or women. Lambdas talk like women already, and sigmas are wild cards. Sucks to be you, VD et al, but I can't understand or help you. The rest of you, strap in and take notes, for the Holzkind is about to explain women to you.

Are you saying that you, a humble Delta with a big mouth and no filter, figured out women?
No, I did not figure out women, and neither can you. Not even women understand women. Matter of fact, most of them hardly understand themselves, let alone women in general.

That being said, there is something that most lower-SSH men need to understand: women do not talk like you or I do. Sure, they say words that sometimes mean exactly what they'd mean when a guy says them, but they say a lot more as well. This is where the concept of 'womanese' comes from. Same thing when you talk to a woman. She will hear what you say, and understand some of what you meant to communicate. She will also 'pick up' on all manner of other things that you 'communicated' through other means. 'Communicated' is in air quotes because you, being a simple man, often do not know that you are communicating these things, and you do not choose to communicate these things.

There are many people who have picked up on this before me. Rollo Tomassi describes it as a content versus context distinction, with men prioritizing content, and women prioritizing context. He also talks about how women prefer covert to overt communication. Here I have to disagree with Rollo, because, to women, there is nothing covert about this 'covert communication'. They see it is brightly as a man sees the headlights on an oncoming car. It only appears covert because we men are a little bit on the slow side in these matters.

That's all fine and dandy, but how do I pick up on all this covert female communication and learn to understand it?
You don't, because you can't. Your pathetic man-brain trying to keep up with female communication is like bringing a knife to a tank battle. Consider yourself fortunate if your mangled remains are afforded a dignified burial. Anyhow, let us get to the useful takeaway. How does the communicatively underqualified male deal with female communication? By not dealing with it.

Here's the deal: you can't understand women, but they can understand you. So force them onto your level. If you ever hear a woman complaining how men "don't get it" or are "stupid brutes", then there's an eleven in ten chance that she just had to simplify her multimodal communication into man-speak. Women hate to do this, but it's honestly their problem, not yours.

Similarly, do not engage in gossip or drama or social intrigues. Again, you're trying to take on an M1A2 Abrams with your trusted Victorinox. Not going to work, pal. Speak plainly and truthfully, or not at all. If you don't believe me, ask this weird Jewish carpenter kid from two millenia ago who turned a bunch of water into booze and flipped some tables at the temple. He told you to 'let your yes mean yes and your no mean no'. Additionally, both Him and His Father really don't approve of gossiping. 

TLDR: Women hear more than you say, and they certainly mean more than they say. So avoid their games and speak plainly.

Note to the gammas: Yes, I generalized. Yes, you're an extra special boy to whom the normal rules do not apply. Now ask yourselves why nobody likes you. Goodbye.

Possible cure for gamma

 In today's good news, I believe that the very real and very harmful mind virus called gammatude can be cured! Granted, the cure involves some minor injuries and does not always work, but that still makes it more beneficial than Bill Gates' Coronnu vaccine. Are you ready? Here it comes:

Work in food service for at least six months.

That's the whole cure. Don't worry about health insurance deductibles, you get paid to take this cure. Most affordable healthcare ever!

Here's how it works: you work in food service. Preferably in a smaller enterprise, but a chain should do the trick too. All your delusion bubbles will burst very quickly. You're not special in rush hour. Either you can perform, or you cannot. If you do not own your mistakes and fix them, everyone hates your guts, and rightfully so. You will reach your very narrow limits. If you're honest about your many shortcomings, you will improve, as will your standing with the colleagues and the boss.

There is no posturing on the shift. Every ticket, every ingredient that ran out, every dish in the sink is another moment of truth. Ironically enough, the more you admit failure, the less painful it is. That's how all of life works, but it's a lot more obvious in food service. Unfortunately, this makes it even harder for the gamma to bear. In academia, the gamma can survive for decades, because everything is fake and nothing actually matters. Food service does not run like that. Margins are low, time is short, and you can be replaced at the drop of a pan. Literally.

Now why, I hear you ask, does it take six months? Six months is long enough to guarantee that our gamma patient experiences very busy, understaffed nights, where nobody gets a break and everything goes wrong. Our last gamma lasted about eight shifts, none of which were particularly awful. All three managers hate him, as does the entire workforce. He quit, because we 'bullied' him. Admittedly, I did yell at him once, right after he sprayed hot water in my face and almost broke the dishwasher. He had it coming. He may have failed the cure, but I guarantee that it will work for you, if you can not quit and not get fired for six months.

Product disclaimer: there will be minor injuries. Mostly cuts, scratches, burns, and combinations thereof. Nothing that will kill you, and you get Teflon palms by the end of it. 800F is not actually that hot. 120F is certainly comfortable. Plus, chicks dig the calluses.

Heck, even the side effects are a net benefit! Big Pharma got nothing on me! Try the gamma cure today! Find a food joint and sign up!

PS if you want to comment that this is technically a therapy, rather than a cure, then you're a gamma. Get the cure.

Build Your Own Platform versus Reconquista

A few days ago, the one and only Wranglerstar put up a video about his church kicking out his homeschooling co-op for the sake of the precious 501C Magik Squares. Excuse me while I regurtitate my breakfast at the mere thought this bastardization of the Faith.

Anyhow, he brings up an interesting point, when he says that he will build his own church if he has to. This sounds a lot like Build Your Own Platforms, which I don't necessarily disagree with, especially as it pertains to zombie corporations. However, I believe that the church is different. Allow me explaing why.

PSA for the drama queens: this is not a dig at Wranglerstar himself. I've never interacted with the guy, and he's obviously a good man. Doesn't mean I can't disagree with him. Take your desire for gossip and internet beefs to Twitter where it belongs. Thanks!

Build your own platforms does not work for churches. It has been the modus operandi for Protestantism and its various offshoots for a few hundred years, to a point where we now have forty thousand denominations. As the principle of non-contradiction dictates, a maximum of one denomination can be the correct church, but they all get to call themselves Christians. This muddying of the waters is not a problem for zombie corporations, but it is horrible for the salvation of souls.

Contrary to the 501C-3 status of most churches, Christianity is not about the Magik Squares. Christianity is about saving souls, and more immediately about being a moral authority, because Jesus Christ of Nazareth commanded all mankind to behave a certain way. One cannot simply leave a church and just do ones own thing. Even in the case of corporate convergence, the Rubble Must Bounce. If a church is obviously no longer interested in preaching the Gospel, take them down.

I have no idea which church is the correct one, but we can make Christ's work a lot easier by closing down false preachers. It is possible that Wranglerstar has plans to deal with this false church, but I am not aware of them.

Furthermore, most church bodies are filled with good people. It is not always necessary to destroy the church. Sometimes, one can clean house from the inside. Call it a modern Reconquista. The Prometheans are not the only ones who can start a long march through an institution. Either path will be hard, but that's part of the fun.

Fail harder next time

We humans are failures, every last one of us. Each of us has failed, is failing, and will continue to fail. Yet we somehow fear failure, and avoid it. This is fairly odd, considering how intrisic failure is to the human condition. Fearing failure is about as silly as fearing hunger or exhaustion.

If you do not believe me, here are some examples from the past few weeks alone. We discovered that 

Webtoons was not going to be a useful platform, college sports got cancelled, and the US military hegemony is also over. There are plenty of black pills to go around. Failure is everywhere. Yet it is still a good thing. Here are some of the many reasons why you want to fail:

1) It means that you have reached your limits. You are the hard out, since you did not give up, you were forced out. This allows you to know your limits, and ultimately expand them.

2) Every failure contains a lesson. If you learn this lesson, you are a lot closer to success. The 'why didn't they laugh' podcast is how Big Bear became such a phenomenal comedian: he took all his failures as opportunities to learn. There is always something to gain from failure.

3) It breaks any delusion bubbles. If you accept failure, you cannot delude yourself. If you do not accept failure, there will be the next failure, and the next, until they become impossible to deny. Failure to accept failure is the common denominator across all gamma spirals.

There are many other benefits to failure, especially if they are dealt with properly, but these three should suffice to make the point: Failure is good for you. You want to push yourself until you fail. And then you want to learn from it, and fail harder next time.

Don't take the Wrath Tickets

Content warning: This post will invariably discuss some rather uncomfortable topics. I am attempting to stay as safe-for-work as I can, but exposing something necessitates exposing its ugly aspects.

If you are still reading at this point, I trust that you are in a situation where some rather unsavoury content will not embarass or otherwise scandalize you. It is not my intention to do either, but this topic does not lend itself to being sanitized for public consumption.

As the Big Bear and many others have pointed out, the past decades have been a major taking of every available Lust-ticket. Some of this was enabled by technological discoveries, such as reliable contraception and video streaming. Other things were due to social movements, however engineered they may have been, such as the push for divorce and various LGBetc causes. Either way, it is fair to say that practically everyone now has the ability to indulge his or her lust in all of its forms. So what is the next ticket?

Again, the Big Bear was comfortably ahead of schedule on this one, but I am going to write it up anyway: Wrath. That is the next ticket that we are offered. With 3d-printed guns right around the corner, this one will be almost as widely accessible as the pornos. Before I delve into ways to resist the Wrath-ticket, allow me to provide additional evidence that this is, in fact, the new ticket.

Jeffrey Epstein is now a household name in most of the West. More specifically, court documents just got unsealed, and they are not redacted particularly well. People are about to discover very unsavoury things about most public figures. So we have a motive, ie a Wrath-ticket. The means to act on it have been discussed above. Much as I do not wish to disparage Qanon, some of the information there is also Wrath-tickets. Something being true does not protect it from being used as a ticket. As a matter of fact, spells can be interwoven. For instance, taking the Jew-Hate Wrath-ticket leads one to feeding the Jews' own Fear-Spell.

Now onto the useful stuff, namely how to resist taking various Wrath-tickets on offer:

1) Jesus, part I: Everyone is made in the image and glory of a God who loves them so much that He went and died for them. That includes Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine ( conveniently pronounced Jizz-Lane ) Maxwell, and their entire operation. Torturing and / or killing any one of these people out of wrath is an offense against God. The obvious exemption is the death penalty after a court trial. That does not involve wrath, as there is considerable deliberation, and an effort to prevent unnecessary suffering.

2) Your mental health: Killing people, however justified, is not an easy thing on your conscience, and for good reason. Ask anyone who has taken a human life, even by accident. There is a reason for the considerable efforts to dehumanize anyone that the powers-that-be want you to kill. Taking human life, especially by well-informed choice, is ideally avoided. I fully understand that it cannot, and should not, be avoided at all costs, but I can confidently say that I would rather not kill anyone, ever.

3) Jesus, Part II: "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord." That phrase is so biblical that other parts of the Bible quote it. While it is a straightforward instruction to not engage in the Wrath-ticket of revenge, it is also a beautiful reassurance to the believer. You are under no obligation whatsoever to avenge anyone. God has given us His Word that he gets the last say anyway, so he will sort things out. There is no reason to believe for one second that Jeffrey Epstein will get his due, whatever that may be. Not killing yourself is no escape from the Creator of Justice.

4) Jesus, Part III: This is not a particularly strong one, especially for people you hate, but it deserves a mention: Repentance. Jesus Christ of Nazareth forgives sins. He does not forgive certain sins at the exclusion of others. He forgives anything and everything, if you can prove to Him that you understand the error of your ways and attempt to rectify what you have done, whatever shape that may take. This forgiveness is also independent of time or any other constraint. Five minutes before not killing himself, Jeffrey Epstein had ample opportunity to repent and save his soul. For all we know, he may have done that. Unlikely as it may be, I hope that he did. The reason this goes into not taking Wrath-tickets is fairly simple: if you kill someone, you are denying them that opportunity. Maybe Ghislaine Maxwell or Prince Andrew or whoever was going to come clean and fix the situation five minutes after you blew their head off. Congratulations, you just eliminated that option. How do you think God will feel about your doing that when you meet Him?

5) Collateral Damage: As most other temptations, Wrath does not lend itself to particularly precise, judicious, or careful application. Attempting to take your anger out on guilty people will harm innocent people, one way or another. Not a good look for your mental health, or your salvation.

It does not take a genius to figure out that we are about to be on the receiving end of a cacophony of Wrath-tickets. It will, however, be difficult to resist the temptation to take them. I hope that I can reduce the amount of Wrath-tickets being taken with this writing.

How Satan makes fun of Jews

Yes, I'm going to write about ze Juden. Mostly because I love them, but also because they provide an excellent example of how fear spells work. The self-described Chosen People have indeed been chosen, by Satan, for the biggest fear spell that I have ever seen.
Like every decent spell, this one is multi-faceted. Satan and his many underpaid minions have installed a number of trauma cycles, a culture of reliving these instead of getting over them, and a good old-fashioned persecution complex. There are also a ton of very easy triggers, just to make sure that the trauma keeps being relived, and that no Jew can ever escape the fear plantation.

For starters, allow me to list some of the trauma cycles. We have the Spanish Reconquista, the well-known Shoah, and the understandable Arab animosity to the State of Israel. There are many others, but these three are relatively famous.
The Spanish Reconquista trauma is mostly confined to academia, where Jewish scholars are taught that every time Christians get a strong leader to be politically successful, they will immediately go after the Jews, just like Isabella I of Castile allegedly did.
The Shoah is the biggest and most famous trauma event. Whatever it was that actually happened is entirely irrelevant, because everyone is scared of the concept. Best of all, the Third Reich had a lot in common with modern governments, so it is extremely easy to draw parallels to any given political situation.
Finally, we have the thousand-year old Jew-Muslim hostilities over the Holy Land. Since most countries with sizeable Jewish populations have recently allowed some manner of Muslim immigration, this ancient tribal feud is now played out in Western political theaters, replete with anti-Semitic slurs and calls for Jihad.

Additionally, they have a culture of remembering every time that the Jews got persecuted. Every location that may or may not have had anything to do with anything remotely Shoah-related has to have some manner of memorial on it. They keep saying 'Never Again', but every conceivable location gets a reminder. Maybe that's the strategy: Can't have another Shoah if the first one is still happening inside the collective consciousness. Cruel as that sounds, that is exactly what is happening. The countless number of movies about the Shoah only add to this. And every year, there are more movies made. The trauma cycle must continue.
Contrast this with the culture in Christianity. There is an active persecution of the Faith happening in parts of Asia right now, and nobody really cares. Certainly nobody remembers the Red Terror in Spain in the thirties, or the Purges following the Russian Revolution. Christ preached forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as converting one's oppressors by keeping steadfast through persecution.

Finally, there is the vast number of 'Hate Symbols' that are all conveniently publicly listed. Mind you, this list has nothing whatsoever to do with preventing hate. The way you prevent hate is talking to people. This list is there so that anyone can look it up and be scared. All it takes to terrify and re-traumatize a Jew is for some fatherless fourteen-year-old with documented behaviour issues to scrawl 109/110 on a wall in the public school bathroom. And convincing a directionless teenage boy to be 'edgy' is the easiest thing in El Diablo's playbook.

The 21st-Century Jew is actively targeted by the biggest and most convoluted fear spell that I have ever come across. Most of the events used to underpin this fear spell have some truth to them, and they are all twisted and mixed into the perfect Cocktail of Terror.
But enough with the problem. There has to be a solution. The only thing that I can think of is that we should not be edgy, because of the way that is used to terrify the Jew for Satan's amusement. Furthermore, we would be well advised to make Jews feel safe, at an individual level. Invite them to your martial arts gym, make them strong and confident, that kind of thing. Are there any other proven methods? Feel encouraged to let me know in the comments.

Have an authoritarian personality

In 1950, a bunch of pathetic gamma weasels got together and published a book entitled "The Authoritarian Personality". I have not read this book, since nobody reads a gamma's walls of text if they can avoid it. Lucky for my mental health, the Glorious Defenders of the Good, the Beatiful, and the True over at InfoGalactic have a summary of the book. Allow me to demonstrate why every man should strive to develop an authoritarian personality.

Specifically, Adorno and his pals from the Frankfurt Gamma Hive found nine personality traits that the gamma fails to achieve, hence they demonised them on the 'f-scale', where the 'f' stands for 'fascism'.

The first of these doubleplusungood traits is 'conventionalism'. For all intents and purposes, this means that you do things a certain way because that happens to be the way that they were always done. For instance, when I use the toilet, I flush it, just because that is what my father and his father before him did / continue to do. I do not have any sophisticated opinions on sanitary practices, but I press the flush anyway. I suppose that, to be a good non-authoritarian, I have to be open to the perspective that toilets do not actually have to be flushed. Similarly, women are being awfully conventionalistic by preferring well-groomed, healthy men, as opposed to appreciating the gamma weasel for having all of those Call Of Duty ribbons.

Coming in second, we have 'authoritarian submission', which is when you do something because whoever is in charge said so. If you want to research it, you notice two things. First, you notice that the gammas always talk about the person in charge being a perceived authority ( page 2 of the introduction ). To the gamma, every authority is always perceived, because he's the secret king. The shift manager can't really be in charge, because the gamma is actually the one running the show. Secondly, those with a supernatural outlook will readily observe that one should develop an attitude of 'authoritarian submission' to God the Father of Jesus Christ, and that this extends to any legitimate authority, as all legitimate authority derives from God.

At number three, there is 'authoritarian aggression'. The gammas define this as "a general aggressiveness [...], that is perceived to be sanctioned by the authorities" ( Again, page 2 ). Again, two observations. First, this perfectly describes how normal, well-adjusted men act around gammas. As a matter of fact, women would act the same way around gammas, if they were anywhere near as aggressive as men. Second, notice the words 'general aggressiveness'. They do not restrict this 'aggression' to, ya know, literal violence, or even to yelling for no reason. They mean an attitude towards people. Yes, they are policing attitudes. Can you hope to get more gamma than that?

Additionally, one sees the same snarky use of 'perceived' that was already explored in the 'authoritarian submission' section. Furthermore, the biblically literate recall that there is such a thing as sanctioned agression, such as when Jesus flips some tables in the Temple, or when St. Paul the Apostle strikes down two liars in Acts Five.

One of my personal favourites is the fourth one on the long list of gamma gripes: anti-intellectualism. Per the definition, this describes "hostility and mistrust" towards various castes of the intelligentsia. In practice, it is another instance of the gamma being insufficiently appreciated for being a smart boy, especially when all the hot girls go for the 'dumb jocks' instead him. For the dialectically inclined, his Voxness is living proof that jocks are not necessarily dumb, and that smart guys are not necessarily misshapen little goblins who can't do a single pushup. Additionally, one needs but to read a single Gospel account to realize how anti-intellectual Jesus of Nazareth was towards the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Numero Cinque is something called 'anti-intraception', defined as a 'dislike of subjectivity and imagination'. To the surprise of exactly no-one, the gamma has a problem with this attitude, as he subjectively imagines himself the secret king, and generally operates in a delusion bubble. Anyone sufficiently anti-intraceptive will rapidly poke through this delusion bubble, causing another painful gamma meltdown. The virtuous man, on the other hand, strives to maintain an anti-intraceptive attitude, because the first step to solving a problem is not imagining that it is already solved. Similarly, subjectivity clouds judgment, leading to error.

For number six, we get a quick one: superstition. Rather straightforward really: if the supernatural exists, then the gamma weasel cannot be the Secret King of the Universe, so faith has to be Magic Sky Daddy superstition. Some sources also mention something called 'stereotypy', defining it as a repetitive, or ritualistic, movement or utterance. I suppose that saying 'Thanks be to God' rather often makes me a proto-fascist. Oh well.

Seventhly, the gammas decry "Power and Toughness" as evil. Failing to achieve either in the real world, the gamma demonizes both. As to why you should have these traits: being powerful and tough allows you to protect loved ones a lot more effectively. Additionally, power is necessary for the virtue of mercy, as you can only show mercy to those you have power over. You cannot be merciful to the guy shoving you into a locker, but you can be merciful by not shoving some scrawny gamma weasel into a locker. Similarly, being tough allows you to suffer tribulations for the kingdom. The non-tough would be the rootless seeds in the parable of the sower, for example.

The penultimate traits of the non-gamma are 'destructiveness and cynicism'. The first of these describes the action of doing real damage, 'making the rubble bounce', as it were. The second, contemporary cynicism, describes a 'disbelief in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and actions'. Again, the gamma has ample reason to hate both. Every time the glorious ban-hammer treatment is administered to a well-deserving gamma, that is an example of destructiveness. Similarly, the eternally dishonest gamma cannot deceive the sufficiently cynical, leading to the destruction of his precious and fragile delusion bubble. When called for, destructiveness is a good thing. Just ask the Rabid Puppies. Similarly, disbelief in the goodness of human motives is more than justified, since our human nature is corrupted by Original Sin.

Last but not least, the gamma complains about 'excessive concerns over sex'. Presumably, telling him to wait for marriage is too much to ask, and makes one a prude. In his defense, who would marry a gamma, given the choice? You see, the gamma wants to be left alone to pursue his perversions in peace, and the slippery slope is definitely a fallacy. Three drag queen story hours later, well, you get the idea. Anyhow, Jesus Christ talks about commiting adultery with one's eyes, if you are looking for an appropriate level of concern.

In conclusion, an authoritarian personality is good for you and your soul. As an added bonus, it allows you to torture gammas simply by existing.

You can afford to have kids

This post was inspired by @Bigfoot on SG

A lot of couples in the Western World appear to be refraining from having children because they 'cannot afford' it. In other words, they claim to be afraid of the financial repercussions. Allow me to lay out why they have no reason to be afraid.
First, kids take forever. In biology class, we are taught that a pregnancy lasts nine months or forty weeks. If we account for early births and the time it takes for a pregnancy test to be reliable, we are left with seven months, or thirty weeks, as a conservative estimate. This gives the expecting couple a lot of time to move house and/or find a job.
In terms of jobs, seven months is enough time to complete some vocational training programs, thereby getting a decent job by the time Junior comes into the world. Alternatively, basic training at the United States Army takes ten weeks, so you could be done with a specialization training before the child is born. The general training time is similar in most armies. If you don't feel like getting your brains blown out for the military-industrial complex / Deep State / whomever, then pick a specialization that doesn't involve combat. Every Army also has mechanics, medics, cooks, supply clerks, et cetera ad nauseam. As a bonus, these specializations tend to translate to private sector skills. Heck, you could just get an entry-level position flipping burgers somewhere. If you show up on time, sober, and you do your job properly, you will get promoted within seven months. I talk to shift managers all the time, and people with their act together are worth their weight in gold.
But what about finding a place to live? That's also doable. Because you have a lot more than seven months to sort this one out. Children don't really remember anything from the first three years of their life. I do not know much of anything about homesteading and that sort of stuff, and it varies by country, but you got three years and seven months for research. Ditto homeschooling.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. You can afford kids. Do not be afraid. The reason our blessed Lord always said to not be afraid is not because we should be reckless, but because worldly fears are fake and pathetic. If I missed any major concerns, please let me know.

How to be attractive as a Delta

Most men are deltas. And, contrary to gamma wisdom, one does not simply move up in the SSH. But deltas can make themselves more attractive to women. Here are some basic tricks to do just that:

Stop it with the vidya and p0rnos:

They're fun. I get it. It's a near-zero effort way to live the life of a higher status man, while the screen is on. Don't fall for it. Sure, being an alpha badass with a virtual rifle beats the nine-to-five, but it's also a ticket to gammatown as the fictional worlds take over from the real world.

Get a hobby:

Do something with your life. Preferably with other men and outdoors. Ask yourself which one of the following is more attractive to women:

a) Jimmy from accounting who's a Level 33 supermagic in World of Warlord

OR

b) Jimmy from accounting who works at a community garden and plays the guitar

Hit the gym:

Yes, women are that superficial. Use it to your advantage. While you're at the gym, do something for your cardio and your back, makes middle age much more fun.

Draw a line in the sand:

This can be anything, doesn't even need to be controversial. Examples include that you don't go to Starbucks, or that you shoot recreationally. The trick is to be firm and reasonable. Firm, because women will try to cross the line. It's a sh!t test, and you must pass it. Being reasonable is to make the line easier to hold. And hold the line you must. Prove to her that you are capable of making a stand.

Personal grooming is legal:

If a woman dates you, she will be seen in public with you. Dress like you have your act together. Even if you're single, you're better than that ill-fitting t-shirt with the pizza stains that should be in the hamper right now.

These are all the ones that I can think of right now. If I missed a big one, please leave a comment. I'm trying to help people with this list, so it's got to be good.

How to fight without fighting

As Lord Voxemort so elegantly puts it, conflict is the air we breathe, the water we swim in, et cetera. However, not all of us are warriors. That is not a bad thing. If someone is above average in their conflict tolerance, someone else has to be below average, to make the average work.
The 'non-warriors', for lack of a better term, can help the fight as well. Here's an incomplete list of non-confrontational, yet absolutely essential components of the fight:

Passive non-compliance:
Don't help with the local SJW causes. Don't bend the knee. If everyone does the Black Looting Matters filter on Facebook, then don't. This intimidates the enemy, because most people are instinctively on our side. All the cries of "wHiTe SiLeNcE iS vIoLeNcE" were precisely to counter this effect of passive non-compliance.

Create stuff:
This is an amalgamation of Build Your Own Platforms, Beartaria, etc. There is so much to do that doesn't involve conflict. I hear InfoGalactic is always looking for volunteers. If you're creatively gifted, then create. Examples include the legendary Mountain Bear, Amatopia, among many others. When the warriors are done ransacking the SJW hives, people will want somewhere to go. Be that somewhere.

Support the front lines:
The warriors need your help! When someone gets deplatformed, you can usually support them anonymously, at negligible risk to yourself. When someone wants to fundraise something, you can chip in. The warriors can take a lot more heat if you have their back. There's nothing stopping you from subscribing to UATV, pledging some money for the next comic, and/or sending some grabble for BB's babble.

That concludes the list, to the extent of my knowledge. Not all of us have to engage in Lawfare or expose ourselves, but all of us can make a difference.

List of gamma tells

Disclaimer: This list is neither authoritative nor exhaustive. It will continually be updated, as lists tend to be. Use wisely.

The gamma male. An annoying creature that is hated by most people, especially by women and other gammas. They're not intrinsically evil, but they can be extremely destructive, and should thusly be avoided and cast out. It is preferable to cast them out before their inevitable meltdowns do a lot of damage, but gammas are hard to spot before they melt down, especially in cyberspace, where their neckbeards, protruding guts, and fedora hats are not seen. Hence this list of proven gamma tells:

'Well, ackshually':
This is a favourite argument tactic of the gamma. It can be valid dialectic, if it is factually correct. The gamma however uses it to posture. Often found when nobody was asking for the gamma's input.

Assuming stuff about the other person, especially their feelings:
99% of the time, this is pure projection. Excellent example to be found here.

Posting about their leaving:
Smarter, savvier gammas can tell when they're unwelcome. If they choose to leave, they cannot help posting about how disappointed they are, and how much the forum is beneath them, even though everyone hates them and wants them gone. Either that, or they think that they were wronged and definitely haven't gotten over it. Excellent example of the latter to be found here.

Wall of text:
While other gamma tells are specific patterns, this one tends to be extremely obvious. Gammas have not mastered the art of brevity at all. They will go on and on, forever and ever. Some even claim that the stage of a gamma spiral can be determined by the length of the wall of text.

Special boy usernames:
If someone styles their online monicker after a famous thinker, he's a gamma. It's a form of posturing, and a fairly reliable early warning sign.

Failure to tell macro and micro apart:
Granted, many people are not intelligent enough to separate the individual from the statistic. That being said, gammas do this because their feelings are hurt, while they are perfectly able to differentiate macro and micro when it is not about them.

Additional resources:
https://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2011/03/socio-sexual-hierarchy.html
https://voxday.blogspot.com/search/label/Gamma