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Re: Christianity

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tillingborn wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:56 pm
Skepdick wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:43 pmOnly a halfwit would try to explain my own position to me.
Then we agree:
tillingborn wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:55 amI have no interest in a dialogue with another halfwit who presumes to tell me what I think.
We don't agree, halfwit.

I am not explaining your position to you.

I am explaining your misunderstanding of my position to you.
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Re: Christianity

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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:34 pm
Harbal wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:26 pmYou haven't specified exactly what you consider to be sexual deviancy, and exactly why it is detrimental to society. Until you do that, I can't react against what you are saying, because you haven't said anything specific enough.
Better said that what I have said is unintelligible to you — for the reasons I described!

Sexual deviancy must be defined as sexual activity (pleasure, sport, diversion) outside of the male-female procreative relationship. The farther afield from that, the more deviant it becomes.

It is a question of consciousness, awareness and responsibility. It is ur-ethical. And best understood through a Platonic intellectual toolkit.

There you have it.
and exactly why it is detrimental to society
Because it rips apart the core matrix of a healthy society. Vice enslaves man to destructive passions. Those passions drive a man (and his mate) away from the core union, as sex-addicts and porn fiends will attest. It is a fire that burns.

This is such basic stuff Harbal.

The shape-shifting fad (sexual flip-flopping) seems deeply symptomatic of disturbed psychology.

And way too much emphasis on homosexuality as a ‘normal’ mode seems the same also. Homosexuality will always exist but it should be lightly repressed, never normalized.

These deviancies are evidences of decadence and trends that unravel social orders at the fundamental level. If you enjoy the practices you may enjoy less the results.

But a vice-driven people lose the capacity of discrimination. And we have become such a people.

Fact.
Let's run all this by Douglas Murray.
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Harbal wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:50 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:16 pm
Harbal wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:02 pm Can I get a volunteer to participate in casual, deviant, decadent, postmodern :? , none procreative sex with me?
Yes, I'm up for it Harby :shock:
Okay, but you do realise the exercise would be solely about the persuit of pleasure, don't you? Do you have any moral or ethical objections to engaging in pleasant activities that are no one's business but your own?

I should warn you, though, it would involve hurting absolutely no one; would that be a problem for you?
Pleasure,in my opinion, is the only thing worth getting out of bed for. So yeah, indulging in copious amounts of sex and food, same thing, is definitely a no brainer, certainly not a problem for me personally. :wink: :P
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iambiguous wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:06 pm Let's run all this by Douglas Murray.
You mean because he is homosexual?
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Dontaskme wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:49 pm Pleasure,in my opinion, is the only thing worth getting out of bed for. So yeah, indulging in copious amounts of sex and food, same thing, is definitely a no brainer, certainly not a problem for me personally. :wink: :P
Great. I was worried you might think my destructive passions would unravel social order at the fundamental level.

I'll get a pizza in, btw.
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Harbal wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:07 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:49 pm Pleasure,in my opinion, is the only thing worth getting out of bed for. So yeah, indulging in copious amounts of sex and food, same thing, is definitely a no brainer, certainly not a problem for me personally. :wink: :P
Great. I was worried you might think my destructive passions would unravel social order at the fundamental level.

I'll get a pizza in, btw.
Your actions have no consequences?
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Re: Christianity

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Skepdick wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:05 pmWe don't agree, halfwit.
That is a great comfort.
Skepdick wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:05 pmI am not explaining your position to you.

I am explaining your misunderstanding of my position to you.
No you are not. As I already said:
tillingborn wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:13 pm
Skepdick wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:04 am...I am not a halfwit.
If you don't appreciate that each OR you mention is an appeal to authority or revelation, yes you are.
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Re: Christianity

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iambiguous wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:16 pm :wink:
I'm glad that you notice, Iambiguous. Because I am trying to answer, somewhat indirectly, some of your queries and your *concerns*.

On the way back from the jungle yesterday I listened to this talk again. I find myself in a basic sympathy with the positions outlined here. What I would point out to you is that these positions not only were normal at one time, but they still represent an articumlatable normalcy in our present. These positions are what America actually had been. These ideas are very close to the ideas of the Founders. So the people who articulate these ideas are not lunatics and not retrogrades but are patriots of a sort that is quashed in our present with intense rhetoric very similar to yours (if not exactly the same).

What interests me is the cascade of moral opprobrium brought down upon them. But too upon people with far more mild ideas. views and opinions.

You seem to play in this arena. Though you also (disingenuously I think) say that you are just as enmeshed in uncertainty -- but you have a gymnastic way of putting this.

I am interested in why that is. Or put another way how it came about that traditional values are transvalued -- literally turned on their heads -- and replaced with other declarations of value that are enforced through usurped cultural institutions. What interests me is the ideological underpinning that operates in the new definitions, and their connection to the creation of 1) Homo americanus, and 2) a world-scale economic-ideological system engineered, as Noam Chomsky points out, by the American commercial ruling class (his terms), and which Chomsky named 'the Grand Area'.

I recognize that you see my ideas (more properly put the ideas of those I refer to) as 'evil' and also 'retrograde' -- and I have no problem with that per se. But as it turns out resistance to the imposition of this Grand Area Model (the American régime) is resisted for moral and ethical purposes, though I doubt you'd have noticed this.
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Re: Christianity

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While I'm here, I would just like to congratulate Dontaskme and Harbal for contributing something rather lovely to this mostly benighted thread. Best wishes to both of you.
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Re: Christianity

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Dontaskme wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:49 pm
Harbal wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:50 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:16 pm

Yes, I'm up for it Harby :shock:
Okay, but you do realise the exercise would be solely about the persuit of pleasure, don't you? Do you have any moral or ethical objections to engaging in pleasant activities that are no one's business but your own?

I should warn you, though, it would involve hurting absolutely no one; would that be a problem for you?
Pleasure,in my opinion, is the only thing worth getting out of bed for. So yeah, indulging in copious amounts of sex and food, same thing, is definitely a no brainer, certainly not a problem for me personally. :wink: :P
That's what immaculate conceptions are made of even if it's only wishful thinking!
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Re: Christianity

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tillingborn wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:35 pm While I'm here, I would just like to congratulate Dontaskme and Harbal for contributing something rather lovely to this mostly benighted thread. Best wishes to both of you.
I thought the same -- but what the heck is planning with that pizza?!?

Suite à la prochaine . . .
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Re: Christianity

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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:05 pm
iambiguous wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:06 pm Let's run all this by Douglas Murray.
You mean because he is homosexual?
Yeah. He embraces what are deemed by some to be extremist right-wing views on race and gender. But what do you know, when it comes to what many right-wing extremists argue in regard to the sexual deviancy that is said to be embedded in turn in the "crisis" consuming our culture, well, that's different. For him.

But that's how these things generally unfold: existentially. As individuals thrown adventitiously at birth out into a particular world historically, culturally and experientially, we are indoctrinated as children, and then, as adults, we accumulate particular personal experiences, acquire particular personal relationships, and come into contact with particular information and knowledge relating to things like race and gender and sexual orientation.

What, like that isn't also applicable to you?
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Re: Christianity

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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:33 pm
iambiguous wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:16 pm :wink:
I'm glad that you notice, Iambiguous. Because I am trying to answer, somewhat indirectly, some of your queries and your *concerns*.

On the way back from the jungle yesterday I listened to this talk again. I find myself in a basic sympathy with the positions outlined here. What I would point out to you is that these positions not only were normal at one time, but they still represent an articumlatable normalcy in our present. These positions are what America actually had been. These ideas are very close to the ideas of the Founders. So the people who articulate these ideas are not lunatics and not retrogrades but are patriots of a sort that is quashed in our present with intense rhetoric very similar to yours (if not exactly the same).

What interests me is the cascade of moral opprobrium brought down upon them. But too upon people with far more mild ideas. views and opinions.

You seem to play in this arena. Though you also (disingenuously I think) say that you are just as enmeshed in uncertainty -- but you have a gymnastic way of putting this.

I am interested in why that is. Or put another way how it came about that traditional values are transvalued -- literally turned on their heads -- and replaced with other declarations of value that are enforced through usurped cultural institutions. What interests me is the ideological underpinning that operates in the new definitions, and their connection to the creation of 1) Homo americanus, and 2) a world-scale economic-ideological system engineered, as Noam Chomsky points out, by the American commercial ruling class (his terms), and which Chomsky named 'the Grand Area'.

I recognize that you see my ideas (more properly put the ideas of those I refer to) as 'evil' and also 'retrograde' -- and I have no problem with that per se. But as it turns out resistance to the imposition of this Grand Area Model (the American régime) is resisted for moral and ethical purposes, though I doubt you'd have noticed this.
Just more "intellectual posturing" of course. You claim to be "trying to answer, somewhat indirectly, some of your queries and your *concerns*"

Really?

Okay, in regard to yet another of your "world of words" assessments above, note the instances where you do respond to my queries and concerns here:
iambiguous wrote: Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:01 pm
...in my view, you still refuse to bring your theoretical conjectures about race and intelligence -- and morality and culture? -- down out of the intellectual clouds in regard to how you imagine those of different races interacting either in terms of full equality in an interracial community or, instead, favoring different races/nationalities interacting "somatically" among their own kind. Also, the extent to which, given your own understanding of the "demographic crisis" in America, the reality of race is or is not a factor. And, again, finally, given historical instances of those making a distinction between races in regard to intelligence [as with Hitler] are there any aspects of their policies that you construe to be worthy of consideration given a community that you would deem to reflect the best of all possible worlds.
I'm simply attempting to bring what I construe to be your pedantic "wall of words" intellectual assessment down to Earth in order "illustrate your text" pertaining to race, racism, our demographic crisis and the reaction of those people of color who might get suspicious when they hear someone suggest that "on average" the Northern European white stock race possesses a greater intelligence.
Arguments can be made here that in no way involve either race or ethnicity or Jews. Is that the argument that you are making? Japanese, Nigerians and Frenchmen of all colors and ethnic backgrounds joined together in full equality to push back Progressivism, Marxism and Egalitarianism? Is that what you are advocating?

If so, then, sure, I misconstrued your points above.
iambiguous wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:29 am Right. And what does this have to do with race and ethnicity? And are all Swedes of the opinion that "somatically" they should avoid interaction with those who are not like them? Or are there right-wing racists political factions there [as there are in America] who are stirring up the pot politically?
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:26 amRace, national origin, cultural affiliation, and also existential tendency — all of these things together unquestionably operate together. Your mistake is to deny that totality and reduce concerns about the make up of a society to concerns you define as racist. That term is ideological. Its function is to undermine and invalidate the larger range of concerns just outlined.
Unless, of course, your mistake is to assume that -- genetically? biologically? -- human beings are naturally predisposed to be prefer being around those of the same "somatic" makeup. And, sure, that might make sense if, say, Japanese, Nigerians and Frenchmen were literally unable to reproduce other than among their own kind.

Uh, what was nature thinking in allowing them to reproduce with those across board ethnically?!!

But there are any number of communities in which people of all races and ethnic backgrounds interact without basing their relationships on the color of their skin. Or in assuming that some of the races among them are "on average" smarter than others.

You can have situations where a Japanese family can raise a Nigerian baby or a French family can raise a Japanese baby and, through childhood indoctrination, they grow up to think and to feel just like their parents, just like others in any particular culture or community.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:26 amCertainly Swedes and Swedish culture — intensely ‘progressive’ — are not in agreement with those who seek to preserve Swedish culture. And it is that faction which opened the door to mass immigration and bringing in refugees. The plan was noble in that sense, but the result seems to have been negative. And this has strengthened a reactive Right faction taking a more traditionally nationalist perspective.
And of course this is all predicated on your own strictly objective assessment. Though, sure, to the extent that immigrants are not willing to embrace the cultural mores and traditions of Sweden there is going to be conflict. But that pertains to the behaviors themselves and not the fact that those behaving differently do so because they are of a different color or ethnicity. It's not like those people of color and of different ethnicities can't choose to accept the Swedish culture as their own.
Look, to the extent that those who come to Sweden and become citizens, they are expected to obey the laws of the land just like everyone else. And if they pursue traditions that break the laws, arrest them. And if they are in the country illegally, stop that. But to make it all about Northern European stock sticking together and rejecting all those who are not of "our kind", that's racism. And the science I've come into contact with rejects that as a basis for either de jure or de facto keeping communities "separate but equal". And, of course, they are never really equal. It's just that some take the so-called inherent inequality all the way to the gas chambers.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:26 amI don’t think you have much or any background in the actual social problems in Sweden that have resulted from recent immigration policy shifts.
Okay, let's assume that you do. So, given the "demographic crisis" in Sweden what is to be done? In terms of government policy pertaining to reproduction, education, employment, culture, morality, social interaction and the like, what should be done given that, in your view, the non-Swedes are likely to be less intelligent and, on the outside, "somatically" different.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:26 amCulture and society and citizenship are much more than just the laws and obedience to them. Sweden, according to critics of recent policy changes, took steps that are undermining national identity. A nation is more than an ideological proposition and citizenship based on that alone is described as problematic to the foundation of nationhood.
Look, what you appear to argue is that "national identity", race and ethnicity are one and the same. As though Swedes of all colors and ethnicities can't interact equally in a community that shares the same cultural values. That, in other words, if there is a "demographic crisis" in Sweden today it's because the Northern European white stock has been infiltrated --"infected" -- by the lesser intelligent races.

And let's not forget the role that capitalism plays in all of this. From America to Qatar to Europe, immigrants are welcome into nations precisely because corporations exploit them as a source of cheap labor. Then when enough of them are there the ruling class can rile up the white workers to see them as the enemy and not the bosses.

And, sure, there will be those in Sweden who are in fact racists. Like you, they believe that the Northern European white stock must sustain their own culture as the Northern European white stock.

Of course, whether you are in fact a racist too, you wish to keep up in the theoretical clouds. But, again, I suspect that black, brown and red folks -- and Jews? -- will be more interested to learn exactly what their fate might be when you do come down out of the didactic/pedantic stratosphere and, walking the talk, join those intent on stemming the "demographic crisis".
Even indirectly.
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Re: Christianity

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tillingborn wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:31 pm No you are not.
Yes, I am.
tillingborn wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:31 pm As I already said.
You don't need to say anything. Those are my words you are talking about.

You are supposed to shut the fuck up and listen so you can grok your misunderstanding of what I said.
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Alexis Jacobi wrote:
Because it rips apart the core matrix of a healthy society. Vice enslaves man to destructive passions. Those passions drive a man (and his mate) away from the core union, as sex-addicts and porn fiends will attest. It is a fire that burns.
You rather Apollo than Dionysus. Jesus was Apollonian too as were other champions of law and order. But let's not a priori human nature.
Without "passions" man would be emotionally flat, Is that what you want? Or do you want men to be simply emotionally flat enough to obey orders from superior men?

(I say "Jesus was---" I mean Jesus as usually reported by the synoptic Gospels. There was the exception when J's passion was enraged by the sellers of Roman coins in the Temple.)
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