I am convinced that God created dogs specifically in the Garden of Eden. I do not buy that they are domesticated wolves.

Also, as a general rule, the more Christian a society is, the more they like dogs, and vice versa.

No comment on cats.

Blackpilling is sometimes lazy, but the accounts that push it the hardest are typically trying to manipulate their readers.

"No one is coming to save you, there is no political solution" and a whole host of other thought terminating phrases have only a couple logical ends to them if the reader takes them seriously. Either one gives up and becomes politically neutered, or they end up doing senseless and ineffective violence. Tons of "black pill" accounts want the latter to happen - lots and lots of violence - but they don't want to get their hands dirty doing it themselves.

I think there's some kind of sportsball event today? Some kind of large, concave structure? In all seriousness, I don't think there's anything sinful about sports. I would question the following though:

Are sports the wisest way to redeem the time? I think the best way to tell is if they are interfering with any of your duties to God, Church, and Family. Same goes really for anything else (social media, video games).

I must say though I do find it weird to obsess about a sport one doesn't even play and men one will never meet. I do think an undue obsession with sports is a form of passivity. I'm not going to try to say where the line is drawn (I watch sports myself occasionally), but certainly there is one.

I would be slightly more amenable to the idea of exporting low-skill labor abroad if American education produced something other than low-skill workers.

Right now we are exporting low-skill work abroad, importing low-skill labor, and dumbing down our native population to low-skill levels.

All this leads me to be very bullish on the compensation of those in the top decile of intelligence in the next several decades.

Another respect in which blackpilling is lazy: They never have any kind of alternative strategy.

They will whine endlessly about the ineffectiveness of politics and basically every other strategy (intentional communities, activism, infiltration, etc.). Yet they never have an alternative beyond just waiting for "muh collapse" where they suppose victory will be as easy as picking up the crown out of the gutter and dusting it off.

In reality, as history has shown time and time again, civil war is always an extremely bloody affair and only very specific wars of succession (where the target is another person and not the population at large) manage to avoid massive civilian casualties.

Furthermore, it underestimates delicate balance of our lives. When the Civil War occurred and most people were self sufficient subsistence farmers, and when the conflict occured in an extremely limited geography, even that conflict resulted in almost 3% of the total poplation dying (about 10M in today's terms). Today, when less than 10% of the population is even close to self sufficient, the toll would be orders of magnitude higher.

Demographic white pills are out there. 3rd world fertility is cratering faster than the West, and among religious conservatives in the West, fertility is increasing.

I attended a majority Hispanic church for a while during Covid as they were one of the few open. There was a family there who would not allow their 18yo daughter to have a job, go to college, or even go to the skating rink with my sister (same age).

Such overprotectiveness seems odd, until you realize what they believe they are protecting against. I also found out it is common for kids to live at uncles' and aunts' houses for extended periods of time. You can do the math from there.

Hispanics do not have "family values." To the extent they love their families, it's usually a little too much.

What is happening with hispanics?

https://x.com/FedPoasting/status/2020914429668532728

"Helpmeet" is not a real word. Please do not embarrass yourself by saying it.

The KJV says in Genesis 2, "[God] will make a help meet for him," as in a helper fit, or suitable for him.

I cringe so freaking hard every time I hear someone say "helpmeet" trying to flex their vocabulary but actually revealing their unfortunate sub-130 IQ.

The "Founding Fathers" were all White Christian Nationalists. Sure, maybe they read a little too much Montesquieu or weren't adequately devout, but there's no doubt what they thought "our posterity" meant.

Secular dating culture posits that attraction must precede love, and that commitment is optional. Christian dating culture posits that commitment must precede love, and attraction is optional.

The Biblical model, however, is neither. Attraction precedes commitment, and love is mandatory. Attraction is also overrated by the secular culture; healthy adults of the opposite sex will have basic attraction. Similarly, commitment is overrated by the Christian culture; men will not simply fork over commitment if they aren't guaranteed love and respect in return.

What secular culture gets right is that romance cannot function without attraction. What Christian culture gets right is that the man must make the first move (and men are the gatekeepers of commitment in the same way women gatekeep sex).

The secular culture demands nothing of men, which leaves women unsatisfied; the Christian culture demands nothing of women, which leaves men unsatisfied. Obviously lopsided transactions like this are doomed to fail.

A blessed Transfiguration Sunday to all. May we be transfigured in His likeness from glory to glory. Though I know it is not relevant in terms of narrative, I think Wagner's Verwanglungsmusik (transformation music) scene from Parsifal fits the scene nicely.

The words of Wagner, "You see my son, here time becomes space," while meant for a totally different context, capture the reality: The law and the prophets of the old age pay homage to Jesus, and the age which is passing away manifests in space on Mount Tabor.

The artistry of Raphael in this painting, his final work, also depicts the awe and wonder of the infinite God breaking into the darkness of our time and space -- here God's eternal Logos redeems our time and space.

Open borders are a revolt against natural law. There are plenty of good theonomic arguments against immigration, but if St. Paul were alive today, I believe his opening statement would be, "Does not nature itself teach you that open borders are shameful?"

Just as the "gospel centeredness" idea wounded the church's ability to speak to culture, so the law centeredness of theonomy has (to a degree) harmed our ability to speak in terms of natural law.

In reality, we need both. Law AND gospel, natural AND noscriptural law.

To all blackpillers, panicans, and accelerationists:

What is your plan? I get it; you think the politics is ineffective and Trump has BeTrAyEd us. You poor muffin.

Ok, well what's your alternative?

I don't think political victory is inevitable or even likely. But I do think it's possible. Slim odds, but I'd give us a fighting chance. I think the odds of surviving a collapse as an intact society on the other side are even slimmer.

As you age, this is when your life investments should ideally be starting to mature. Your kids are entering adulthood, and get to watch them be competent and faithful. You should be consistently progressing your career and skills. You'll be getting grandchildren! And you'll have the chance to bless the next generation and your church with your accumulated wisdom and wealth.

There is a distinct reason the Bible says to stand up before the hoary head.

A woman childless at 30 is at a 50/50 chance of never having children. It is essential to prevent this from happening.

If you are a woman unmarried at 30, settle. If you're a parent, one of your primary tasks is to help your kids select a suitable partner.

An addendum to this I recently realized. At Pentecost, the pilgrims in Jerusalem...

"were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language..."

God's redemption of Babel PRESERVED the uniqueness and distinctions of the tongues and nations. God did not bring them back into speaking one tongue. This shows us that distinct nations and tongues are part of God's creational plan, and we see here that the grace of Pentecost restored, not destroyed, nature.

FL just did this at the state level for all driver's licenses.

Not sure why this isn't getting more coverage and attention. Third known attempt on Trump's life.

A good reminder to keep praying for the administration.