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By: leftism as cancer « Jim’s Blog

leftism as cancer « Jim’s Blog — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:52:07 +0000

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By: fotrkd

fotrkd — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:17:54 +0000

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, ‘What shall I do?’

In this plight therefore he went home, and restrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased: wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began to talk to them: ‘O my dear wife,’ said he, ‘and you the children of my bowels, I your dear friend am in myself undone, by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me: moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from Heaven, in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee, my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin; except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered.
– Opening of The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:39:01 +0000

“Leftism as cancer”: required reading.

By: Leftism as cancer « Jim’s Blog

Leftism as cancer « Jim’s Blog — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 07:20:59 +0000

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By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 04:18:18 +0000

But we aren’t inventing the term gnostic. It has a history, and in that history the actual gnostics rejected materiality and basic experience as a delusion, in favor of something ineffable and beyond. The demiurge was supernatural, the Cathedral isn’t. In gnosticism your very senses deceive you.

Replacing progressive gnosticism with some other kind of gnosticism would just be a swap between Mr. Jones and the pig Napoleon. To gnostics the noose.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 03:18:59 +0000

@ Igitur — I’m restating Hegelian dialectics only insofar as Hegel gets cybernetics right, which he generally doesn’t.

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 02:59:25 +0000

I’m not sure I understood that. It sounds like Ducharme’s Axiom:

“If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize
yourself as part of the problem.”

By: admin

admin — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 02:31:42 +0000

There is a whole skein of motivation, with many obscure and yet-to-be isolated threads. Main strand, though, can probably be summarized as dealing with Milton — or, in other words, getting beyond crude condescension viz Puritanism. This dispels the fake (cheap) detachment of the Neoreactionary critique. Outsideness has to be earned.

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 01:59:37 +0000

Refresh my memory. What is the motivation behind cladistics? I see the propaganda angle. What would you do differently if you viewed religions as ecosystems rather than species?