Why more screenshots? well people delete stuff, but a screen grab preserves it forever. The stupid and the snarky can then be commented upon without link rot. Besides, a lot of the graphics one sees are worth recycling.
With the move to a more simple theme, All posts are appearing in full. The links still exist — if you click on the box in the top right of any page you will see them. The cost in navigation is offset by readability: to help with finding stuff I have added a search bar and archives drop down on the link page.
OK. Around the blogs; Free Northerner has had a debate over a his blog (read the entire thing, it is good) with an atheist blogger on Christianity. As an aside he gives one of the best descriptions of why the genealogy of Christ is different in Matthew and Luke. Emphasis mine.
The most common belief is that the two different genealogies are due to one being Joseph’s
and the other Mary’s (even though it is claimed as Joseph’s due to cultural factors) . Another belief is that one was Joseph’s direct line, while the other was the royal line. Another thing to consider is that Jewish genealogy is not always direct, generations are sometimes skipped depending on the purpose of the genealogy.Whatever the exact reason for the discrepancy, the more important thing to note is that many early Christians were Jews and would have been knowledgeable of Jewish genealogical traditions, yet they did not reject the Gospels due to the discrepancies between the two genealogies, so the differences were something that would have made sense to and been accepted by Jews of that time.
Matt Walsh comments that it is best to start families young: I would add that having kids in your late 30s is bloody exhausting, and here I speak from experience
These days we tell people that their twenties ought to be a decade entirely devoted to yourself. Spend money on yourself, live for yourself, entertain yourself, and try to put yourself in a better position so that you can make yourself more comfortable. It’s no coincidence that this strategy has increased in popularity at the exact rate that maturity and self-sufficiency have declined in this country.
The truth is, for many of us, our youth is supposed to be spent on something greater than keeping ourselves entertained. In many cases — probably in most cases — people should start thinking about marriage and kids when they’re still young and energetic. All of the reasons why we say young people shouldn’t start families are the precise reasons why we should.
Now is the time. Now is probably the best time.
Within the Kirk, it is always the best time. We are the last shelter in a storm, the last library, the vestige of civilization when the light is going out. Not the state. The imperial state has been dying for 100 years: the first large empires did not survive WWI, and the last one is the USA, which could be unwinding.
Alert citizens began culling silver coins as soon as the bogus ones were issued, and so began the stockpiling of junk silver—coins whose intrinsic value exceeded their collector’s value. Intrinsic value means the melt value of the silver, silver coins being 90% silver. Dealers in junk silver use its fluctuating value in fiat money to make their profit—in fiat money. Survivalists, preppers and the merely prudent consider silver’s value to be the constant about which the putative value of fiat money fluctuates. By fits and starts, silver, especially junk silver, is emerging as the shadow currency for a nascent parallel economy. Finally, junk silver is the default currency in doomsday scenarios.So, the question. Should a catastrophic economic collapse actually occur, wouldn’t a forced redemption of all silver coinage be decreed, at a discount if not outright confiscation? Consider: if the value of silver rose to the heights imagined by many, it could constitute one of the the last stores of ready liquidity available to a desperate central government. It seems unlikely that a government willing to confiscate retirement accounts would overlook billions in privately held silver coins.
For instance, an Obama-like regime may declare that silver coinage is government property, and is marked as such, that the well being of the nation—meaning the regime natch—supersedes any conceivable private interest, including survival, that mere possession of silver coins is proof of very regrettable civics and evidence of worse, perhaps that hoarding or trafficking in the last reserve of our common wealth amounts to sedition or terrorism, and so forth.
It’s not different in kind than the ongoing highway robberies by law enforcement, called Civil Forfeiture. SWAT teams working with NSA surveillance records would make targeted home invasions feasible and profitable. As Ayn Rand said, “I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built.” Criminalization of ownership and confiscation by force is the principle.
I commented (on Wed, and the previous post, this has taken two days to get together) that I see the end of this current liberal cycle and liberal ideology. The liberals are now so easy to mock that mocking them is now banned. There will a wind change coming: you cannot disenfranchise the bigger stronger and more aggressive half of humanity and not require fascist control, and the English speaking world is fairly allergic to that degree of regulation.
But that may not bring back righteousness. Unless the Kirk revives itself now, and the Lord is merciful. Otherwise, we will be judged, and we will fail.
