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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is.

Socrates (via liftingsteel)

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@walterwhitesupremacy is a thoughtful and interesting guy; you should follow him. Don’t let his name scare you off.

My writing style and criticism

I was writing a piece earlier that was sure to stir up a hornets nest but the Gods of the internet decided to shit-out on me 90% of the way through. I’ll leave it for a day or two, write it in Word and publish it.

I don’t write to antagonise or to bait people into overreactions (though that does make it more amusing for me) but to wake people up to the problems we face as Men and Women of the West. If it angers people, this is often part of the path to enlightenment. My current views would have enraged or terrified my 16 year old atheist-liberal self but over time and with reading, I have come to very different conclusions…

I like to think and argue outside the box. tbh, I much prefer reasoned criticism to verbal slugging-matches as these do not enlighten anyone, least of all myself, but there is a barrage of the latter and not much of the former. This is usually because my critics don’t have good arguments and can only resort to verbal abuse and staw-manning. However, these slanderous tactics do not convince anyone of reason or intelligence. In fact, my enemies are my biggest promoters and de-facto supporters! Thanks for all the re-blogs, folks!

Liars are a dime-a-dozen but people who tell the truth as they see it, regardless of social or legal consequences, are in very short supply. In my interactions with people I consider my allies or at least sharing many common goals, I always act in good faith. I’m aware that this will antagonise many people but my blog is not for everyone. if you can’t accept the fact that people will interpret facts differently or form separate opinions based on their interests, do not follow me.

For those who appreciate my style of thinking and argument (and there are many of you) feel free to stick around and to criticise me when you think i’m in the wrong. Even if I disagree with your argument and you disagree with mine, there is often something to be gained in both sides, and both of us are better for it.

I apologise for the spam last week but that was part-and-parcel of my crusade against the “white genocide porn accounts”, which has been effective. I’ll provide my reasons for it in a later post, although most of you who are sympathetic to my actions already understand…

Truth rises though struggle!

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Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska

Prints//Instagram

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You know what would raise your birth rate 57th Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe? Imperialist ambitions

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The issues with Western Christendom are mostly theological. Everything else, like low attendance at Liturgy on Sundays or pervasive apathy towards religion—which is distinct from, and far worse than atheism—stems from this.

Various modern theologians who have drawn extensively on the Platonistic tradition of the Patristic era, like Hans Boersma, think that the malaise afflicting Western Christianity is a metaphysical one. Metaphysics of course is our understanding of Being, reality, and the Universe, and prior to the Age of Enlightenment, men and women viewed the world through a profoundly sacred lens, as they had for thousands upon thousands of years.

The Incarnation is the wondrous paradox that Christianity is founded upon. The obscuring of this mystery under the weight of classical theism, I’d argue, is largely to blame for Western Christendom’s ills. In Christ, the Divine and human are united, “unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably,” as the Chalcedonian Definition states. And with the two inextricably linked, men and women may participate in the Divine essence, as St. Peter says in his Second Epistle. For, as St. Athanasius says, “God became man that man might become God.”

Classical theism, in a rather contradictory fashion, arbitrarily reinstates the Creator-creature (or, Categorical) distinction. God is not the Universe, the Universe is not God, et cetera, et cetera: things that are, in a limited sense, true. However, God is not merely the highest being, but Being itself. He is the Ground of Being, the Absolute that gives credence to all other things. As God the Son, The Logos, He orders the cosmos themselves. When the Blessed Virgin bore Christ at the Incarnation and became the Theotokos, the Categorical Distinction was rendered a mere convenience of language.

This is where Boersma comes into play. In Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry, he says, that prior to the Age of Reason, the Universe was seen through “sacramental eyes”. While God is not the Universe and vice-versa, for Christians in the Patristic through late Mediaeval world:

The supernatural was not a distinct or separate realm of being that superimposed itself onto an independent and autonomous realm of nature. Instead, the supernatural was simply the divine means to bring created realities of time and space to their appointed end in Christ. Therefore, created realities participated in the heavenly mystery of Christ as their sacramental reality. (emphasis mine)

Read the entire article in The American Conservative.

When this is lost, we have serious problems. Unintentionally, classical theism lays the foundation for what amounts to a chasm between the human and the Divine. If the two are in different realms, breached only by the Incarnation (the concept of the Beatific Vision seems to be lost in all but mystical Western theology by the Reformation), then for a Deist, they are now separate spheres. You can see where I’m going with this: a world that’s lost sight of what Boersma calls a “sacramental ontology” quickly becomes atheistic and materialistic.

This concept of participation—the unity of the infinite and finite in Christ, originating in the language of forms—is afforded to us by Platonism. Aristotle is not the Philosopher. That title properly belongs to Plato, the Attic Moses. Platonism should always, always be the basis for sacramentology and theism.  St. Thomas Aquinas, by shifting the emphasis to Aristotle, sets in motion a rather problematic series of events, amplified by the Protestant Reformation.

And essentially, Protestantism is extremely un-sacramental, if not Gnostic in its ontology, is it not? Icons, statues, sacred images: they are all “idolatrous,” rather than a visual sign of a higher reality, a Platonic form of God or the Saint in question, confusing the Creator and creature. The veneration of the Saints is wrong: Saints are merely human, they cannot participate in the intercessory power of Christ or participate in his Divine nature. And with Calvinism, there is total depravity. Rather than being redeemed by the Cross, the cosmos are fundamentally fallen and broken, devoid of the illumination of Divine grace save but to the elect. It’s a straight line from this to secularism, rationalism, and nihilism.

The High Middle Ages are most notable for their rich hagiographic tradition. There were so many legendary saints, tales of miracles, and genuine piety amongst common people, even if it did not take the form of formal prayer, like the Liturgy of the Hours. Much of this owes to their conception of the Divine. Not only did God become fully present at the Mass, but He limned their everyday lives. The Mediaeval world is profoundly enchanted, one of angels, saints, demons, fairies, and spirits done away with by Rationalism. As modern people, we have forgotten the profundity of the Incarnation: that the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, rendering the Categorical Distinction a mere cavil.

Like Calvinism, classical theism is fascinated with intellectual comprehending the Divine (“reason,” a fixation on God’s attributes—a strange and pointless affair), rather than using philosophical or theological exercises as a means of re-orientation, or shifting our focus from the intellectual to contemplation of God in the Beatific Vision, a far more profound level of understanding: that which is revealed and beholden, not teased out. Our theological language, as the via negativa states, is ultimately inadequate.

Again, Boersma:

Whereas the earlier sacramental symbolism had regarded truth as participation in divine mystery, the new rationalist dialectics maintained that truth meant complete rational comprehension of propositional statements.

What I think Western Christendom needs is a ressourcement of its theology from the thinkers of the Patristic epoch: men like St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Athanasius, and St. Irenaeus. There are also many from the West, like St. Bonaventure and St. Anselm of Canterbury who also share an appreciation for the Beatific Vision and see the world as fallen, but imbued with a fundamental holiness emanating from the Triune Himself.

The cancer that was the Protestant Reformation, Rationalism, and the Enlightenment came into the Church Catholic long before they came to pass, which is why the early Church Fathers and their Mediaeval heirs merit a second look.

The dismal state of Western Christianity can be solely explained by the fact that most don’t read their bibles enough, if at all.

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Gone With The Wind (1939).

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Hans und Lieschen ein Buch für Kinder und Junge Mütter zum vorlesen von Ottomar Wasmuth Leipzig, C. Grumbach 1908

Artist : Hanns Anker

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“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” - Yukio Mishima

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Currently streamlining and updating my FAQ/About page. My handle is now my name. My former handle was rather obscure and disconnected from my wider aims: this is a space for metapolitical discourse and aesthetic posting, not a theology blog.

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Ph. Karl Lagerfeld.  

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FARMLANDS (2018) Official Documentary:

Please watch and share this harrowing video on the genocide of white South Africans, Afrikaner and Anglo alike, that is getting absolutely no coverage in the Western progressive media. This is disgusting and a crime against humanity.

May God protect these poor people, and may he bring wrath and judgement upon their oppressors.

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Said Compline again today. Very meditative. I think I’ll be adding “Lighten our darkness” to my praying of this Office every night now.

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Progressives don't care about people's voting rights and individual voice, they care about votes so they can enforce their policies. Lovely that we're seeing this clearly now.

Assuming we split them evenly, Manchik votes literally would not have made a difference in the outcome, with 563.5 going to each side. For the sake of fairness (and not having to split some poor guy in half) we’ll assume that 564 went to the Dems. This would give them 100,384 votes in the final calculation, far below of what Balderson received.

Even supposing 2/3 of Green voters would have been Democrats otherwise, it only adds about 751 voters to their count for a total of 100,571, which, while closer, still isn’t enough to make a difference.

EVEN GIVING THEM 100% OF GREEN VOTERS STILL DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE FINAL OUTCOME. Giving the Democrats 100% of Green voters only boosts them to 100,947, which is still over six-hundred votes short.

It’s not Manchik’s fault they lost, they are just lashing out because they don’t want to accept their own failure.

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I love the Smiths.

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