Boethius in “The Consolation of Philosophy” shows us this tidy little proof. 1. God is omnipotent. 2. God cannot do evil. 3. Evil does not exist. In other words, God can do anything. If he can’t do evil, it must not exist. Perfect. What we call evil is just the privation of the good. Read …
I’m so tired of the whole “reasonable and moderate” response. Moderateness is an affectation. It’s an aesthetic. Dumb people and normies (same thing) love this affectation. In their eyes, it’s reasonable, it’s evidence that they are careful, conscientious people. We know better. The “reasonable” stance is the one they deep down believe will keep the …
Your clothes are filthy. In the name of “environmentalism” your government has made it nigh to impossible to get your clothes clean. “High-efficiency” washing machines aren’t efficient at cleaning clothes, they are efficient at rationing water. Detergents require lots of water. The hydrophilic end of the detergent molecule forms an ion-dipole interaction with water, the …
In my article from a few days ago, I make the argument that monarchy is the best form of government. I left out the very best reason for this. In democracies and republics the people vote and by proxy they are making policy. Voting is how things get done. Your peers vote. Rightly or wrongly, …
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An online fren sent this to me: Scott, you and your fam is invited to our first pig roast after we move to our property. If you like roast pig. I WILL have busch light there just for you. To which I replied: Thanks much. Interstate travel will be impossible by then. Gasoline will be …
1. The reformation is the beginning of the reader parsing texts (bible) on his own, in a silo, in order to find “true meaning.” This is amok now. CRT and Identity politics is the natural conclusion of this. 2. Men like Bacon ridicule and reject the schoolmen and Aristotle and their approach to using sense …
I figure we are playing musical chairs. YOu know the game. Chairs are arranged int he middle of the room and music plays. We circle the chairs together until the music suddenly stops. Everyone scrambles for a chair. The catch is that there is n-1 chairs. There aren’t enough. If you don’t get a chair …
Of his Veriphysics Vox day writes: The fullness of the truth cannot be conclusively and comprehensively established from any human perspective or by any human method. Every partial truth is perceived on a gradiant that depends upon both the perspective and the method utilized to determine it. Boethius agrees. In “Consolation of Philosophy” book V,iv: …
My favorite blogger, Vox Day, recently published an outline for a new philosophy to rebuild the west upon. The Tree of Woe contemplates the West’s need for new philosophical foundations in the aftermath of the complete failure of the Enlightenment and classical liberalism. We need to do better than our great ancestors did. To defend …
The Monarch:1. Has a property right in proper government2. Has a long term view in management in order to pass it to his children3. Over time tends to see citizens as extension of kinship group. You’ll see no open borders.4. Governance becomes family business with apprenticeship and training from birth for for children.5. Allows maximum …