I had an email overnight asking about a post linked to by Dalrock back in 2011. Well, it is gone. I have checked the Wayback machine: it does not exist. The old blog fell over in March 2012, and this version of it was built from new then. The first post I had contains this: over the last four years not that much has changed.

The Gnostics are clearly wrong. The body is not merely a means for letting our genes survive into the next generation. It is not dross, that we can safely ignore. It is not evil, that we should punish it.

It is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We are not to drag it through the mud. Nor are we allowed to wantonly destroy it, by self harm in times of despair, or by the perpetuation of a poor diet, poor exercise. (Ain’t poverty. You only need body weight and shoes to be fit, and low carb diets can be quite cheap).

The body matters. And those who say it does not are not only in error, they are fools.

Not much has changed. The core of this blog is the lectionary. In this year I have begun to put more science notes up, primarily from the journal reading I do. (The educationalists would like one to keep a diary of reflections on what you read. The idea of giving them a link of blog posts would be amusing, but unwise). There is less politics, and less “red pill” because that is now well-known, and right now the issues we have relate to being shunned from jobs and employment because we follow not the narrative of this world.

And there are more cat photos.

But we cannot agree with the spirit of this world. We must obey God. Because in this we show our love of Christ. If your love is frozen — and I speak as a Presbyterian, one of God’s frozen people — your obedience will be a duty, and not a joy. For it is no burden to make the person whom you love happy.

And our God is alive, risen, active. We ought to want to make him happy, and bring him joy. Our disobedience reflects poorly on us. For this is not a post rational world, where the Gnostic mythos, ignoring the natural laws or the consequences of actions, is a way of virtue, as if those around us and the land we live in matters not. It does. What we do has eternal significance, and not merely for us alone.

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for

“All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

(1 Peter 1:13-25 ESV)

What we need to do is love: but the term love has been weaponized and turned into tolerance. They are not the same. For love has to be confrontational. You want the best from those you love: you want to correct them. You want them to not make the mistakes you made.

And this is where we get it wrong. We say we must accept, but accept what? There are consequences, in this life, for our actions. If you steal, you may get caught: if you deal drugs, you may die, in a gang battle. But these things do not happen that often: it is akin to base jumping, an acceptable risk for those who lack the geek genes. But these things rot society, and they corrupt society.

If we allow multiple fluidities in sexuality we increase the rate of sexually transmitted diseases, female infertility, and manufacture unhappy, cynical people. Roosh here is an example of what not to do, and he will be the first to admit it.

For to love is to guide, and not accede, and to seek righteousness: to aim at the standard of perfection. Knowing you will not reach it. You can judge by the fruit or consequences of your policies and actions, unless you are projecting from your Queer Gnosticism, and wishing you were an Orc.

When it comes to the best methods of child-rearing, the proof is in the pudding, but this pudding takes a long time to prepare. That is to say, you won’t know until your child is an adult whether your methods were right. So if a new “trend” in parenting or education comes along, it’s going to take about 15 or 20 years before you can look at the final product and evaluate the effects of the child’s upbringing.

When we saw the outbreak of student radicalism on university campuses during the 1960s, it became obvious that something had gone badly wrong during those seemingly placid years of the Eisenhower administration. Somehow, a number of spoiled brats (radical leaders of the SDS, for example) had developed ideas of “democracy” that were at odds with what most American adults believed. What caused this so-called “generation gap”? Two words: Public education.

During the great post-WWII economic boom, an enormous hubris characterized the leadership of the American education system. And a desire to instill patriotic idealism in these Future Citizens led to children being taught to celebrate democracy as the summum bonum.

The only way to judge whether something was good or bad, right or wrong, was to have a vote about it, many children were led to believe. To someone who has been taught this kind of mindless devotion to egalitarian democracy, it is enough to condemn anything to say it is “undemocratic.” The traditional family is condemned by this standard.

Let me state this plainly: I am not going to debate my teenage son over whether he should clean up his room and mow the yard.

If children are granted a veto over parental authority, then our society will be overrun by feral youth who have no respect for anything, e.g., “Occupy Wall Street.” Furthermore, the child who is allowed to mope around all day, watching TV and playing video games — which is what children will do, if they are allowed a democratic “right” to decide how to spend their time — will never develop the habits necessary to success.

We are adults. We care for the brothers and sisters in Christ. We provide and care for our family: our parents, our children. To not do so, Paul noted, was to be accounted as if an idolator or pervert. Then the church, which is under continual attack, from within and without. Then our neighbours.

Let the elite have their holiness spirals and deny the consequences of their actions. They can afford not to grow up in this life (though I note that they do not live as they preach. They live as Peter preaches). We need to raise our children and brothers and sisters to a firm faith, not shaken by daily controversies, and to live as adults.

And you can tell our faith by how we affect those around us.

Not by what the elite preaches. Do no be the elite. Do not be like them.