Religious Liberty

Levin argues that there is no doctrine of church and state in the Constitution--that it is a modern invention of activist, Progressive judges.

Rather God has preordained that liberty and religious liberty are part and parcel of the American Experiment, so much so that nothing like a theocracy, state religion or shariah law can be the law of the land here.

Sorry, Lefties

Sorry, Lefties. We have natural law to guide us. We have unalienable rights. We have the Creators, the Father and Mother that made us and guide us lovingly and wisely. They gave us America and the Constitution. You will not ignore, slight or eviscerate these Divine Advantages.

The Project

What plan or purpose give your life meaning, and is what you live for and will chase after all your life? If you have identified it and are pursuing it, you are on the road to maverization.

Frightened?

What scares you? Fear is natural. To be afraid is normal, even healthy and protective. But the poltroon allows his fear to rule him. A brave man lives with his fear, devours it and proceeds to act, and do what he must do, regardless of consequences or danger.

Missile Defense

Apparently Israel and US were conducting joint defense operations and tests to shoot down incoming missiles ober Alaska, and were quite successful.

Keep it up, folks, let the Iron Dome system blanket the earth so no missile can be fire at anyone from anywhere without being shot down.

Psalm 92, 7-10

Evildoers shall reap the whirlwind: "A senseless man knows not, nor does a fool understand this. Though the wicked flourish like grass and all evildoers thrive, They are destined for eternal destruction; while you, O Lord, are the Most High forever. For behold, your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered."

Psalm 92, 6

You, O God, work many, many wondrous deeds: "How great are your works, O Lord,! How very deep are your thoughts!"

Psalm 92, 5

Rejoice, and appreciate God's fine and comforting presence, and the enjoyment of innumerable blessing bestowed by De: "For you make me glad, O Lord, by your deeds; at the works of your hands I rejoice."

The Deplorable Society

They, from the above-mentioned blog or web site,  put out an article about conspirators against Trump about  be arrested. Here is their article as posted by Angry Marie on Facebook:

• Ex-CIA Operator: Those Who Planned Coup Against Trump Are About To Be Indict

Ex-CIA Operator: Those Who Planned Coup Against Trump Are About To Be Indicted

Elder Pаtrіоt’ѕ Oріnіоn| In оrdеr tо bеgіn undеrѕtаndіng what you аrе living thrоugh, consider the un-American рlаtfоrm thаt Democrats have coalesced around – environmental Mаrxіѕm, rеfuѕіng tо protect thе nation’s bоrdеrѕ, confiscatory tаx rаtеѕ, the еѕtаblіѕhmеnt of a police ѕtаtе, refusing to рrореrlу fund our military, аnd thе demonization оf thе nаtіоn’ѕ fоundіng Amеrісаn dеmоgrарhіс (whіtе Christians).

Shipp:

“Yes, thіѕ іѕ a соuр. Thіѕ is thе most ѕhосkіng violation оf thе Constitution аnd criminal асtіvіtу in thе hіѕtоrу, not just оf Amеrіса, but оf a wеѕtеrn gоvеrnmеnt. Muсh оf thіѕ rises to the level оf trеаѕоn. Pеорlе need tо undеrѕtаnd hоw ѕhосkіng thіѕ іѕ. It was a сlеаr conspiracy.
Thеrе wіll bе аrrеѕtѕ аnd indictments wіthоut ԛuеѕtіоn. . . . This wаѕ a coup. It wаѕ a соnѕріrасу. It wаѕ сrіmіnаl асtіvіtу.
Thеѕе people nееd tо bе іndісtеd, сhаrgеd and need to bе рut in рrіѕоn, and іf thеу’rе nоt, thеn our Cоnѕtіtutіоn is nоthіng more thаn a ѕhаm. Thіѕ was a соuр аgаіnѕt a dulу elected President, and реорlе nееd to undеrѕtаnd hоw ѕеrіоuѕ thіѕ іѕ.”

“Wе hаvе a nоt ѕо соvеrt сіvіl war going оn right nоw thаt has bееn brewing оvеr 60 years. Wе hаvе the ‘Dаrk Lеft,’ аnd thе DNC іѕ fullу іnvоlvеd wіth all thеіr Cоngrеѕѕmеn and Sеnаtоrѕ. Thеrе is a Mаrxіѕt mоvеmеnt wіthіn thе DNC thаt іѕ іn control right nоw. Yоu can mаtсh uр thе progressive goals wіth Mаrxіѕt documents, and you саn ѕее they are one in thе ѕаmе. . . .

They hаvе tо change аnd eliminate thе Cоnѕtіtutіоn. . . . They want tо сhаngе the Fіrѕt Amеndmеnt аnd the Second Amendment first оf all.
Second оf all, they dеѕріѕе аnd are tаrgеtіng Chrіѕtіаnіtу bесаuѕе Chrіѕtіаnіtу . . . undеrlіnеѕ the Constitution аnd is mentioned in the Dесlаrаtіоn of Indереndеnсе.
That’s their ѕесоnd tаrgеt thеу hаvе tо dеѕtrоу. Thеіr thіrd target is thе fоundіng рrіnсірlеѕ оf America. Thаt’ѕ оur culture.
Thеу hаvе tо dеѕtrоу those thrее thіngѕ if they аrе going tо оvеrturn our Cоnѕtіtutіоn and turn thіѕ into a global Mаrxіѕt gоvеrnmеnt. Thаt is nоt an undеrѕtаtеmеnt. . . .
It’ѕ nоt the same раrtу оf JFK. It’ѕ nоw a Marxist party аnd аn umbrella fоr every vісtіm, twіѕtеd аnd реrvеrtеd group that hаѕ nowhere еlѕе to gо. This іѕ a mоrtаl blоw to thе Democrat Pаrtу when thеѕе thіngѕ come оut.
Shірр wаrnѕ uѕ, hоwеvеr, thаt thеѕе Mаrxіѕtѕ will nоt gо dоwn wіthоut a fight… literally."

Quite eloquent I believe and spot on.

55%

The Heritage Foundation sent me an update that 55% of American women between the age of 18 and 54 want socialism here. That is a terrifying and astounding statistic.

If capitalists and conservatives do not unite and get the message out, we could lose our country forever.

Local Judges

Every time Trump tries to run the Executive Branch by setting up a policy or issuing an executive order, well within his constitutional jurisdiction, progressives cherry pick a district to find an Obama judge, a local judge, to put out an injunction to ban federal executive action, binding not only for that judge's district but for the whole country.

The people elected Trump and he is doing their bidding but some ideological, socialist oligarch, from the bench, uses his authoritarian activism to overrule Trump directly, and the popular will, indirectly.

What steps can we take to minimize this tyranny?

Right Think

There probably is such a world view as Right-Think (Mavellonialism, for example). And there are a lot of world views that plainly are Wrong-Think and those approaches to life should not be adopted if researched, or should be abandoned or modified if one has glommed onto them already or been born into them already (like Islam that is not moderated).

But, the ethical law of moderation suggests to us that any Right-Think program automatically is perverted into a Wrong-Think program as soon as its prosyletizers resort to coercion, punishment and intimidation to force unwilling recipients to convert to and adopt the unholy, proferred ism.

A bad means always perverts and defeats a good end.

Rush

He made a great point of his radio show this weak when he portrayed the Squad as Marxist radicals that are now the mainstream Democratic approach to governing. The fringe Democrat is an Antifa Marxist that wants to bring Lenin to Washington by force and direct mob violence.

Smeared

Leftists and mainstream media reporters lie brazenly, openly, repeatedly, without embarrassment, slandering Trump, whites, conservatives and America, falsely accusing us of being racist and Nazis, without moral redeeming qualities at all. They have been mendacious so long, and hurled these insulting, inflammatory, defamatory and outrageous claims against us so long and so sweepingly that the public has begun to believe these unfounded assertions--the Big Lie technique.

Conservatives are not fascists. Few whites are racist.

The radicalization of Progressives into as socialist mass movement, as they speak with one voice and one mind to get and grab total power over America to set up their degrowthed, Marxist dictatorship, has made them scream and hurl these accusations at conservatives and whites to break down all opposition as they take over all institutions and all of American society.

They love identity politics, and all are in groups of various kinds, and cannot exist, think contrary to, or speak out in ways inconsistent with the portrayed, proper behavior assigned to and expected of the prototypical person of said group identified.

The Progressives are hopelessly prejudiced, bigoted and racist, but mostly against whites and conservatives.

They are fascists, thugs, using terror, intimidation, violence and the threats of force to dominate and silence opposition on their way to setting up the Caracas way of governing in Washington.

Obamaized America

America has been Obamaized. He was our most evil, vicious, Marxist and dangerous President to date. He was also slick, smart, undiscovered and revolutionary.

His nihilistic, pure hatred of America, of whites, of all Western values and institutions is so thorough-going and deep that it seems impossible to have been at work. But it was.

He promised to transform America fundamentally and his revolution has been successful beyond his wildest dreams. His socialist mass movement has now become the aim of the Democratic Party and its politicians, pundits and Presidential candidates.

Leftism is now the mainstream Democratic program. If enacted, they will have gutted the Constitution, inflicted Marxist tyranny upon our political institutions, have eviscerated the Constitution, confiscated our guns, and have wiped out the free enterprise system. Pogroms against whites, Christians, heterosexuals and conservatives will follow.

Chris Navin?

I believe it is Blogger Chris Navin from Seattle that reposted a youtube video of Eric Hoffer on The Passionate State of Mind.

If I may quote from this blog entry: "Hoffer was a man deeply suspicious of top-down organization and intellectuals running things. He strikes this blog as something of an anti-intellectual's intellectual . . ."

Navin captured two key features about Hoffer's approach to culture and life. He was deeply suspicious of top-down organization. If I may interpret this, Hoffer would advise that the masses run the society, the government, the culture and the business sector.

To extrapolate, my suggestion that the masses into America, need to self-transform themselves into individuating-anarchists and supercitizens, in this bourgeois, capitalist constitutional republic,  calling the shots and running the show, is to amplify Hoffer's approach that America be run, reformed and evolve from the masses running things from the bottom all the way up to the top, in corporate board rooms, in state capitols, and even capturing and holding sway in the federal swamp in Washington.

Intellectuals, according to Hoffer, need not be even very bright, well-educated, or creative thinkers. They just need some formal education, some certification, or a college degree to assume that they are part of the educated elite that should serve as the bureaucrats, technocrats and schoolmasters directing, managing and corralling the masses. They will serve any master, from Nazis, to the Eurocrats in Brussels, the Vatican, Academia or the Communist Party in Red China.

Hoffer warns that intellectuals are never to be allowed to have real power, real governmental power to rule the masses, and that is the one thing that they crave most. It has been denied to them traditionally in America, but now, with the spread of Obamaism and the radicalization and Socialistization of the Democratic Party, intellectuals and college educated people now want to end the American Way of life, a system they disregard as totally rotten, corrupt, unfair and cruel.

Navin is spot on: Hoffer was an anti-intellectual's intellectual. Let me interpret what I think this accurate portrayal of Hoffer's stance towards intellectuals means. Hoffer was not anti-thinking or anti-intellectual. He would never have led an unexamined life.

Rather, he has written that the lust for power, the temptation to rule the masses, felt by intellectuals is so strong, so irresistible for them, that this most addictive urging leads them everywhere that they can gain a foothold, to side with elites, to justify the excesses, injustices and cruelties inflicted by elites on the masses wherever. The result is one of the major reasons why the masses everywhere suffer from human rights abuses, tyranny, inequality and any abuse imaginable.

Intellectuals are articulate, idealistic con men that  back every reform or cause conceivable. They disguise their true aim: to get and hold power and control over the bodies, minds, souls and lives of every commoner. They deceive the gullible, brainwashed masses, promised and reassured that the intellectuals crave power acquisition for the common good, when, in truth, the amassed power is almost never for the common and public good, or the individual and private good, being instead detrimental and injurious to all kinds of good.

Intellectuals in power grow tyranny, suffering, poverty, chaos, misery and death.

Hoffer is not anti-intellectual: he is against intellectuals being in power, having power and wielding power. By extension, every modern institution, its functionaries, are by nature intellectuals, and are the ones that run and rule society.

Jocko Willnick

Capital Punishment

The federal government with resume executions--this is barbaric and a mistake.

Reality

Are we able to perceive reality as it is, to conceive of it, to describe it as it is, and write of it in clear, meaningful terms that communicate our knowledge of what is? I believe so.

Appearance

Is how it is the same as how it appears to be? Sometimes yes, and sometimes no, but you usually should be able to detect the difference.

Milieu

Yes, there is an optimal milieu to match your person plan for flourishing, but life does not always lay things out as we would prefer them to be. We must play life where it lays, and make the best of where we are at right now.

Fluttering About

Do you waste your life and time, fluttering about from objective to objective, never getting anything accomplished?

You do not need to be no one anymore. You can make something of yourself--you can individuate.

Ilhan Omar

She says radical Islam is not our great security threat ( a lie) but white men are the great threat to America.

She is racist against whites, Jews and America and should be voted out of office.

Sentimental

It is a comforting sentiment to urge that if we could spread love and quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in. But feeling good about a noble sentiment is not the same as coming up with a workable solution to reducing hate and increasing love. Group-orientedness and human depravity make us hate ourselves and others. Add to this the Progressive ideology with its obsession and overemphasis on identity politics, and we have group versus group as race, gender, class and nationality grow in power, division and rivalry. Race war and tribal conflict will grow in intensity and reach. Instead of regarding each American as a unique indiviudal free to do his own thing and run his own affairs, the Left is pitting this group against that group. In doing so their are fanning the flames of hatred and eventually war. Identity politics are the worst cultural gift given by the Left to modern America.

Exaggeration

Leftist refer to Trump and his supporters as racists and Nazis. We are neither, but they repeat this lie so often, some are believing it.

My guess is that Leftists hate whites and will, under a hard tyranny, do ethnic cleansing against us, once the actual Nazis nationalize the economy, and initiate their police state.

Continue To Criticize

Conservatives must continue to criticize, speak out against, oppose and even condemn dangerous ideas and unethical behavior and wild lies blasted out by Leftists.

Be the Progressive Liar and Hater a woman, a person of color, gay, poor or transgender, or foreign born, the Left always strives to shut down conservative objections by labeling the conservative as racist, sexist, homophobic, Isalomphobic, classists, etc. just because the speaker for the Left was belong to one of the worshiped identity groups in question.

The Left cannot be allowed with smearing all opponents as bigoted because they object to Leftist policies and proposals.

Jarret Stepman

 Jarret is a contributor to The Daily Signal, and he attended, reported on and wrote a fascinating commentary about a national Socialism Conference held in Chicago this fourth of July weekend. I have the Daily Signal sent to my email address.

 

The Conference had a tag line: 'No Borders, No Bosses, No Binaries'.

 

If those radical objectives were met, there would be no America and no Western world alive or recognizable. These people are so extreme in their anger at, hatred against and so lust with power and revenge against America that this tag line reveals their pure nihilism, their wicked zealotry for spreading terrior, totalitiarianism and moral and economic decline here. They are both sick and vicious, to be opposed with immediate, relentless and forceful pushback.

The participants were mostly white but identity politics was high on their list of priorities, especially gender. I am willing to bet most of them are straight as well as white, so they are self-haters in two ways, betraying their race and their binary gender that they were born to. In discriminating against whites and heterosexual, binary people, they are contributing mightily to the hastening decline of our society, but they rejoice to hear that, doubling and tripling down on their revolutionary sabotage. The cultural war against traditonal American values is in full swing.

  Stepman has 6 takeaways from the conference:

1. The attendees are serious about socialism and they openly praise Marx and link socialism to Marxism. They try to alleviate outsider worry about the totalitarian history of Marxist regimes by promising that America will arrive at socialism via gradual increments under the plan of unfolding democratic socialism. It will begin as  soft tyranny but end as hard tyranny.

2. Gender and Identity Politicis are Ascendant. The speakers want to eliminate the traditional family structure, as well as capitalism, and to abolish families. They define sex as a social construct not a biological fact. Pushing transgenderism and gender nonconformity will further the Marxist revolution.

  3. Open Borders is Becoming a Litmus Test. All Democratic politicians must pass this litmus test or be excluded from the Party, further driving the Left to extreme positions. There is no sovereign nation with open borders, and this is but another indication that these ideologues want to kill America for good.

 

4. Clickbair Communism is being used to Propagandize Young Americans. They are using teen magazine to lure in, convert and to brainwash the young. These sickoes always go after the young. It is because if the young are not taught wholesome, traditional values every generation, the traditional way of life dies out because culture has to be taught to be transferred to the next generation. Noble legacy is lost if the young do not receive it, adopt it and perpetuate it to their young in the future.

5. The Green Movement is Red. It seems apparent that the Green New Deal is less about climate change than it is a ruse for abolishing capitalism and taking over the goverment. If the Left gets its way America would become a command-and-control economy like the old Soviet Union.  If the socialists can exterminate capitalism here, then Communism can take over the whole world. These zealots crave power above all else.

6. Socialism can't be ignored as a rising ethos on the Left. Jarret advises that 4 in 10 Americans have a positive view of socialism. Many supporters cannot define socialism, but view it as cool and pro-equality.

We need to know what the enemies of America are thinking. I am convinced that these fanatics will do exactly what they promise if they gain power nationally. We are in for the fight of our lives to save America, make it great again, and preserve and expand the American Way.

Franklin Gates

Drew Franklin Gates has an article on the Internet this week about Brain implants, for people. Gates reassures the reader that Brain implants are coming.They might not be as scary as full blown artificial intelligence (networked computers) . . ." that know more than we can and start making decisions on their own... but mind-machine interfaces like Elon Musk's Neuralink will open up a new gulf between those who use them and those who don't."

Gates is I believe the editor and founder of Founding Fathers. He asserts that robots and sophisitical AI being are coming. He worries about the idealists that would use any technology for any purpose without being cautious and moral--great cautionary.

He also counts himself among the realists that will use brain implant technology but are not without reserve or hesitancy to see such technology resorted to and turned loose on society helter-skelter.

Go Ahead

Go ahead, you analytical philosophers, and clarify and clean up the uses of reason and language, but let none of this impede the flow of ideas to and from the marketplace of ideas, whereat rampant, wild, and open-ended speculation and conversing is going on over ideas is engaged in, encouraged, praised, rewarded and approved of by professional and amateur thinkers.

Psalm 92, 2-4

Just praise God and give thanks: "It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High, To proclaim your kindness at dawn, and your faithfulness throughout the night, With ten-stringed instrument and lyre, with melody upon the harp."

Reprisal

See not requital but justice for wrongs that you or your loved ones have suffered. Bring the criminals to justice, but seeking after and plotting vengeance is unhealthy and immoral, unworthy of the good person. Know then the difference between vengeance and justice sought, and honor the difference.

Stirner And Essence

It seems obvious by now that Stirner, an early, pioneer existentialist and core Romantic, disavowed the ontology that each object is but a sensed phenomena whose appearance is but a dim reflect of the essence or form that is the spiritual and ideational archetype of that particular, perceived and experienced object or existent.

I remain an idealist and admit that there are forms that existence in heaven somewhere that somehow participate in reality and inhere in each perceived existence. I also regard the concrete particular as real more than illusion, substantive as it is rather than being mere appearance.

I also admit that the rationally conceived of essence, or intuited essence, is more real and less deceiving than is the less real and more deceiving, perceived concrete existent, but that the latter is real and can be perceived as it is in itself, much of the time.

Levin On Separation Of Church And State

I am still reading Levin in Liberty and Tyranny to discover why he thinks separation of church and state is not in the Constitution, as a originalist stance. Levin argues that God made the world, gave us natural law and a transcendent moral code to live by, and many unalienable rights to boot, among the liberty to worship or not worship, to believe or not believe, as we as individuals see fit.

The Founders were godly men and they insisted that God and Faith be involved in public affairs at all levels at all time, for without God and without morals, citizens would be not virtuous or remain virtuous, and the federal experiment would thus decline and perish.

God is to be involved int he public arena, but liberty and tolerance are inseparable from natural law and unalienable rights enshrined in and growing out of the Constitution. This is where I believe Levin is headed on this vital issue.

Your Duty

The terrorist motto goes like this: "If you see something, say something. Okay as far as that goes, but if you see something wrong, you are to do something, personally intervene, and obviate unfolding evil at its source, each time, every time, and thus it does not gain a footing in our world.

The Squad

These four Congresswomen of color are calling Trump a racist. He is no racist but is crude and mouthy. They are racist against whites, against Jews, against Americans and against the American Way. They hate America and want it wiped out or transformed Obama-style. I would not tell them to leave the country, but I would vigorously oppose their policies and accusations.

Levin told Hannity that Trump attacked their lack of character not their race.

7/18/19: Fireside Chat

Prager has a rule that if we do not let compliments go to our head, we will not allow insults to go to our hearts.

We want to be confident and love ourselves, but high self-esteem and self-love has nothing much to do with what others say about us or to us. If we are inner-directed, secure, calm and at peace, temperate and cautious, we will not over-appreciate compliments, or overreact and over-internalize criticism.

It is important that we stay on an even keel.

7/18/19: Prager

Prager advised that people follow his rule to be mind-driven and logical, more than heart-driven and emotional. Our feelings must not rule our will, but our will must be ruled by our reason and our logic, as we control our feelings and our natural urges.

Implicit in Prager's rule here is that we are born depraved, and when we feel, we are allowing that bad self free reign. When we think more than feel, and control our feelings and temptations, then we can live as good people.

7/18/19

Prager in his Fireside Chat Yesterday, rebuked Academics and Leftists that ban conservative thinkers from campus, accusing them of hate-speech that is equivalent to violence against victims. Prager calls this assertion absurd, stupid and immoral. He notes that speech can lead to violence, but it does not have to.

My suspicion is the Left is working mightily to curb free speech, and the expression of conservative values. If our speech is tainted as hate speech or violent speech, then they can morally and legally--at least that is their justification--suppress it and arrest and detain the free thinker and speaker of unpopular beliefs.

They want free thought and free speech eliminated, and then they intend to use violence and coercion to force the public to see things as they do, and live the way that they want the public to live. Their aims are cruel, twisted and totalitarian, and we must fight against them with all our might.

Unknown

Is God, our first principle, the origin of all life, nature, society, the world, all Being, all beings, reason, feeling, will and life force, ever comprehensible? Not likely completely  or at once, especially with our applied biological intelligence and talents fully developed and engaged, but we can grow in wisdom, love and knowledge as God does slowly reveal much of Deself to the interested faithful over time.

It may be that there is a developed science, a mathematical proof, a keen psychic technology, a powerful hallucinogenic or a state of spiritual ecstasy that allows us to know God intrinsically, maybe even wholly, but that is not the ambition of the pious individuator. Increased knowledge, creator status and loving interaction with the Father and Mother are  satisfaction enough for one maverizer in one lifetime.

Who I Am

Am I one of the great architects and authors of a comprehensive, philosophical system that encompasses, or that I have pronounced that encompasses the entire world, and solves all mysteries, providing answer to every question about reality? I do not know, but I suspect that, fleshed out, Mavellonialism is my grand attempt to serve as such a philosophical framework of metaphysical masterful description to guide lost, seeking and bewildered humans in the 21st century.

Whether I have the mental horsepower, originality of thought, or depth of vision to succeed at this daunting task does remain to be seen, but the endeavor is well underway. I know that much.

Science

Science is one of the greatest recent gifts that God has bestowed upon us. It has provided us with ways of learning things, answering many questions about the natural world, increased our knowledge and allows us formal ways to observe, experience, test and describe the natural world around us.

Psalm 92, 5

Rejoice that God takes care of you: "For you make me glad, O Lord, by your deeds; at the works of your hands I rejoice."

Divine Providence

Divine Providence gave us ntural law, and a moral code to live by. So argues Levin on Page 40 of Liberty and tyranny.

Appearances

I am not in favor of the concept that all objects are mere appearances or maya of some indiscenrible thing-in-itself. Objects exist independently of being perceived and live outside the purview of the perceiver. To some degree as they appear to our senses is how they really are as existents.

To Classify

To be human is to speak, to think, to describe things and convey meaning through communication. Each object possesses identifiable characteristics that can be defined, delineated and classified.  In other words, all objects are categorizeable, and  being categorized is more liberating than stifling for each grouped object.

Essence

Does each consciousness, each being, each existent and each object have a quintessential essence or form that is the rational universal describing its core qualities? Probably.

Not A Racist

Trump is a fighter and not politically correct. His remarks urging the four women of color, the Congressional squad members, to go back to their homes of origin if they think US is so bad, is a brave, noble, patriotic stance to take.

These women are radicals, anti-Semitic, and America-haters.

Trump was just pointing out that they are subversive, and that they want to transform America and we conservatives defy that expectation. It has nothing to do with race.

My Affair

Stirner famously writes in The Unique And Its Properties, his first line and his last line, that he bases his affair (his life or his cause) on nothing.

He argues and many supporters of his from the anarchist community defend him, but denying that he is a nihilist but instead the nothingness that is personal consciousness is a creative nothing, not pure emptiness.

I am not entirely persuaded. Yes, the concrete subject self, without conceptual brackets or guiding abstractions to serve, can be an ever evolving, creating nothing, a wonder to be sure.

There is also the nihilism aspect of nothing that is Stirner: the lack of values, the lack of structure, the loss of meaning, the rejection of the existence of love and God and how they factor into the human existence and coping with the burden of existing.

Stirner has a lot of explaining to do.

My Book On Egoism

I am slowly working on my book on ethical egoism. As I have written previously, I studied Bernard Mandeville, am working on Max Stirner and will look at the normative egoism of Ayn Rand. I also want to include the True Believer and LeBon's The Crowd. It will take years to get through all of this but it is a project well worth undertaking.

Adaptive Behavior

I was coming home from the lake this last Sunday afternoon, but I was cutting across country to check our our hunting property at Mora (I have pumpkins hills growing there as dear food this fall.). On the road east from Highway 64, the paved road eastward from Dad Elwell's corner to Pine River, I saw a button buck in a pond of water off to the right. He was in the pond up to his neck, just standing there enjoying the relief from the hot, muggy weather.

But, as I drove east further, it occurred to me that the deer flies were real numerous, thick and aggressive this year. By immersing his small, young body in the water, he could get relief from being stung and his blood sucked out by these awful insects. He had found a way to gain some relief.

Nature can be terrible and brutal, about raw tooth and fang, life and death, eat or be eaten, but it is never without beauty, wonder, and new behaviors.

Good Work

The Dorrs are at it again. Stopping gun control in Virginia (AFC) and fighting for conservative causes here in Minnesota. Good job guys.

Ruined

Should American philosophy have become a highly dry, technical, symbolic and specialized subject of study?

I prefer that it be more speculative, more personal and idiosyncratic, more open-ended and free-wheeling, metaphysical and wandering all over the place.

Still, the dry, crabbed university employees, Leftist, atheist, symbolic logicians have a role to play too.

Be Professional

You can be expert at whatever you do, gaining further and further mastery and proficiency. That is what it means to me to be professional, whether you are acclaimed or not by in field experts, or are formally educated or not in your chosen profession.

Common Sense Realism

As an epistemological moderate, I cannot dismiss common sense realism out of hand. If I look at the coffee cup on my desk, I view it as it is. It is part pure reality discernible, knowable, conceivable and describable in ordinary words. Perhaps it is phenomena or appearance in part too, or mostly so, but not entirely.

For the truthful, accurate perception of objects of consciousness, entails that the coffee cup, one's conscience and one's concepts are objects both noumenal and phenomenal at the same time for the same object, are are revealed actualities as they are, as well as mere appearances or maya, and each spiritual and physical objected sensed, by whatever sense, external or internal, is a activity in consciousness that is part lie, part truth, part reality and part fiction. That is the moderate, epistemological stance. Thus I cannot dismiss common sense realism out of hand.

Page 40

Page 40 of Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark R. Levin: "They were men of varying denominations but united and emphatic in the belief that the Creator was the origin of their existence and the source of their reason."

The Founders knew that God created humans, set up the world under the guidance and laws consistent with the intentions of Divine Providence. Out of natural law grows our moral order and our unalienable rights, enshrined in the Constitution.

Natural law is God-Based, so therefore eternal and unchanging in scope, authority and reach.

Your Ancestry

You may come from nobility or even royalty, if you trace your ancestors back to Europe. Everyone loves to make this brag.

It is all pretty silly, but humans are born self-loathing and endlessly insecure, so they cling to any iota of proclaimed superiority to hang their hats on.

The truth is all are worthy and loved by God, and all are endlessly talented, some more or some less talented, but the difference or inequality in ability is not noteworthy.

Superiority status is actually a meritocracy, administered and governed by the Good Spirits. It is through a life time of self-realizing that allows a human to transform and transfigure into a great soul, a living legend, a living angel. That aristoracy, that high-class living, creating, thinking, writing, doing, loving and performing is endless self-perfecting. That status is earned, not inherited.

Psalm 91, 2-3

It is good to give thanks: "It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praise to your name, Most High, To proclaim your kindness at dawn and your faithfulness throughout the night . . ."

Rapinoe

She says it is scientifically proven that gays are superior to straights. Really? Is that the same group of scientists that could discover that whites are superior to blacks, or the Irish are superior to Norwegians?

I believe that Jews are God's chosen people, (I am Irish-American.), but that does not make them superior. It just means that God has blessed the Jews more than anyone else, and has expected more of them than anyone else. It also means with God's mark on them, the Jews that been pogromed, murdered and hated for thousands of years by sick, jealous groupists of every ilk and description just for being with God.

So Megan Rapinoe, you mouthy, militant little socialist sports genius, militant gay-pride chick, and radical Leftist America-hater and Trump-hater, enjoy your genius and time in the spot light. Do not lecture us about our superior and beloved America. My political scientist, Mark Levin, tells me it is superior to any country on earth. Do not lecture me about being straight.

You are what you are, and God made you and God loves you, but traditional society requires God-based, Bible-loving, values-centered heterosexual families for girls and boys to be reared in, with a straight mom and straight dad, married and stable.

You are on the fringe with your alternative life style, and all should leave your kind alone to do whatever it is that you need to do, but shut up about running the lives of the straight majority. We will do the work, run the society, raise the children, teach them right from wrong, shelter them, love them, educate them, and prepare them to lead America one day.

Take your ludicrous views, your purple hair, and get back on the playing field where you belong and take Kaepernick with you.

Prager The Sage

Anyone that reads my blog consistently realizes that I have often praised Prager as a good and sagacious man. I have watched perhaps 50 of his 500 five-minute Prager U videos.

Perhaps his wisest, most eloquent and most inspiring video is the one that he personally narrates on gratitude. Without gratitude, a person will be neither happy or good.

 People filled with ingratitude whine about and sincerely believe that they are victims. As "victims" they are angry, bitter and very unhappy (Sounds like Leftists, does it not?). Those that feel that the world has treated them unfairly feel entitled and justified in hurting others because they deserve a pass in being cruel. Unhappy victims need to lash out at others.

Dennis characterizes these ungrateful people as mean, unkind, unhappy and selfish.

Three responses. First, Dennis is 98% correct.
Second, his is using different concepts and different words but synonyms or near tautologous phrases to plug in here would be that the ungrateful have a bad attitude, and the grateful have a good attitude.

Third, notice that mean, unkind, unhappy, ungrateful, self-pitying persons are evil, and Dennis refers to them as selfish. There he goes again. This conservative altruist  regards the self-sacrificing altruist as good and the self-serving egoist as evil and selfish. Of course, I concur with him here that most of the traits that he labels as evil are evil, and the ones describing those that are good as good are adjectives that I would so categorize too.

It is the altruist that is selfish, communal and evil, and it is the egoist that is unselfish, self-centered and good.

Prager sets things up rather well.

Western Artist

Western artist and writer Louis L'amour occasionally spoke the truth in unnerving, poignant ways, in his Western prose.

For example, in The First Fast Draw,  Page 27, hero Cullen Baker thinks this about his good frient, Will Thorne: "For a man to be at peace with himself was important, Will said, not what people say."

The individual should be himself, do his own thinking and follow his own hunches, not follow the crowd or live in accordance with pack expectations. If he does, he will  be a peace with himself, public opinion about him be damned.

On The Left

The Antifa thugs are the current day fascists, the Left's brown shirted thugs, claiming to operate independently and spontaneously, but with lots of Soros and billionaire money in the background, who knows?

Fanatics that use fascists tactics to fight fascism? They will be the young Maoists enforce once President Kamala Harris institutes her one party rule here in America.

Megan Rapinoe

Being the classy woman that she is, now that they have won the world cup, she will condescend to go have lunch with Trump at the White House.

The Rank And File

The little people, the rank and file, the constituents comprising the third estate--they should run the country. If we can Mavellonialize them, they will have grown as political participants, individuating anarchists and supercitizens. They will run things and they will not be able to be disarmed (citizen soldiers) or tyrannized, bossed about or enslaved.

Transitional Care

My 89 year old neighbor this morning, to celebrate the 4th, was getting up on a ladder across the street to hang up his flag 10 feet in the air. He is a Korean War era vet, a gentle man and gentleman, very deeply but quietly patriotic. That flag has flown over his garage every holiday for 60 years.

I ran across the street and put his flag out. I will remove it at 7pm this evening.

The transitional care for this couple is $6,000/month apiece. I believe that we should keep these elderly people in their homes as long as possible, as long as it is safe, affordable and in accordance with their wishes.

The Inauguration

This is the inauguration of my rethinking the doctrine of separation of church and state. Many conservatives have argued that it never existed in the Constitution but but invented unconstitutionally by activist judges in the 1950s or thereabouts.

As a moderate, I like the separation of church and state (I grew up on it.) doctrine as a means of prohibiting religious zealots from taking over government, from persecuting unbelievers, from prosecuting rival faiths. These concerns are eternal, but the Left has become the religion of all Progressives, and these Marxists atheists are now using government and evisceration of the Constitutional to impose their faith and tyranny upon all, including attacking religious believers.

I am in favor of passing a Constitutional Amendment enforcing separation of Church and State, but do not now believe that it ever existed in the Constitution. I am reading very carefully Levin's Chapter 3 in Liberty and Tyranny, to catch his study of this.

I believe that Levin asserts that there is no separation of church and state clause. He argues instead that God made the world, set up natural law and its transcendent moral order to guide human conduct. The Constitution is our fire and foremost legal basis and charter for guiding the setting up the American political system in such a way as to protect and secure God-given natural and unalienable rights that are prior to the Constitution and enacted laws, federal, state or local.

The whole government is imbued, infused, blessed, guided directed by God. There is no separation of church and state but there is to be government that allows faith to be in government but never coercive, tyrannical or discriminatory faith. I will anticipate that this is Levin's reading of the Constitution.

The Founders

Levin, in Liberty and Tyranny, Page 40, reminds us that the Founders believed in God, believed that this Creator started the universe, put into place the laws and moral order that govern it and all beings in existence, including or especially human beings. These Founders felt that Americans, its Constitution, it Declaration of Independence and its regard for individual, unalienable rights, were all authored and blessed by the Creator of all of it: "At least two Founders, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, are widely believed to have been Deists. They were men of varying denominations but united and emphatic in the belief that the Creator was the origin of their existence and the source of their reason."

God Gave Us The Fourth Of July

God gave America the 4th of July. God gave our citizens souls and moral bearings to be in compliance with and to live in accordance with natural law and its ethical code.

May our good citizens celebrate this Independence Day with the same patriotism, dedication to following natural law, and living as virtuous members of this Union as did the Founders 243 years ago.

Clear Thinking

Go ahead. Think clearly and consistently. Just realize that mystery and incommunicableness are solid properties of reality that can not be smashed, dissolved or set aside. The irrational, ineffable and obscure are aspects of reality that close in on the individual's consciousness daily.  These psychic intrusions make it difficult, if not impossible, to make general statements that capture anything or mean anything.

Constructive Philosophy

I have announced previously that I favor constructive philosophy over critical philosophy. When it comes to individuating and existing as a living angel, humans have wings to fly, soar and explore the heavens. That is what speculative philosophy offers people--it givens them wings to fly.

Critical philosophy is an anchor or rock tied to the ankle of the angel about to embark in flight. Sever the tether that holds the angels down and back and let her streak across the skies of the universe.

Psalm 91, 14-16

God response to those that cling to God for protection: "Because he clings to me, I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he acknowledges my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and glorify him and show him my salvation."

Psalm 91, 1-2

You are safe in God's arms: "You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, Say to the Lord, 'My refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust."

Sensed

What we perceive, are conscious of, see and experience internally or externally, are phenomena more than noumena, but they are noumenal too. What we are conscious of is what it is, to some degree, and is not a mere appearnce or illusion.

A Posteriori Blessings

From my life and my experience, I have devised my moral code. After listening to God and the Good Spirits, after looking deep into my own heart and observing the groupist cruelty of packs against others packs and isolated individuals, I have concluded that we are born depraved and must work very hard to redeem ourselves.

Salute To America

We should celebrate America this Independence Day like Trump is doing in Washington. I do not know about the tanks and the jets, but overall the celebration of this greatest and most exceptional nation is expected and I approve.

LA And Portland

These cities have become hell-holes. Leftism did this to California and Oregon, and they want to infect the rest of the nation. We must prevent that from happening. Prager sagely warns that the Left destroys everything that it touches.

Candace Owens And Dennis Prager

They have a short video on the Internet lambasting those that take children and indulge their gender confusion by allowing them to cross-dress, etc.

God made boys and girls, and 98% of humans need to grow up and live the traditional genders. Anything else is an abomination, and comes straight from hell.

Happy 4th Of July

Happy 4th of July. Nick Adams, an articulate young Australian, has an accurate inspiring Prager U video out to describe how rare, wonderful, different, inspirational and precious America is to the world.

Enjoy this Independence Day as Nick observed that in America is it okay to fail, and have as many chances as necessary to get it right and succeed.

He noted that traditional Americans blame themselves for their problems and their failures, not others, and do not see themselves as victims.

As Mavellonialism begins to catch on, Americans will become more individualistic not less. They will have the courage to fail, and then pick up the pieces and try again right away, blaming only themselves and getting it right the next time or the time after that.

Enjoy the 4th people and be grateful every day to live here.

Impassable

You are sick once you are incapable of feeling passion, feeling enthusiastic. Be reasonable, but have a heart too.

Dumbfounding

Most conservative political pundits are dumbfounded by the ability of Leftists in Congress, in Academia and in the media to speak with one voice.

These people are mesmerized by their power lust and genuine, solid unity as a Leftist mass movement. They have no personal will, but serve their cause, and having a PhD does not make any of them think for themselves.

No Czar

We Americans require no ruling class to rule us, no smug elite, no car and no domineering bureaucrats or intellectuals to run the show and direct us.

Poor Sports

 

Breitbart had an article tonight about soccer player Alex Morgan trolling England by mocking the Brits by feigning drinking tea with a pinky up after scoring a goal. 

First, these women/spoil brats, if they win the world cup, refuse to meet with Trump, disrespecting the President and our country, politicizing and weaponizing a neutral sports event.

Now Alex disrespect the English, our oldest and dearest allies in Europe.

The boorish antics and demonstrated Leftist militancy of these warped sports celebrities are teaching our young, adulating girls that being rude and snide is acceptable as a way to act in the public arena, and  before the world.

I think the public should boycott these sports babies until they grow up, grow neutral, behave and stay out out of politics and the cultural war. If we cut off their money and their audience, perhaps they will learn to behave better.

Totalitarian

There is an article in Breitbart tonight noting that Oregon lawmakers are  working to redo zoning laws to allow communal living spaces and multi-family units in single family neighborhoods because single-family home neighborhoods hurt poor people.

These totalitarian Marxists are insane in their power lust as they outdo each other to complete destroy America and drive everything good, free, stable, propserous and orderly into chaos and filth.

Slander

If Ben Shapiro, Jordan Pederson, Mark Levin and Dennis Prager are demonized as haters and evil men as homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, sexist, classist and xenophobic, then I am labeled as the devil himself.