If you stand in the watchtower and call disaster you will be told to be silent. The narrative must continue. I’m heading back to NZ, where you do not watch a twenty story building being made from you apartment window, nor is there much talk of development.
Queensland property has always been boom and bust: this time there is one difference — those buying apartments do not have security as they have to continue to pay body corporate fees.
Yesterday I made an accurate but blunt comparison in parallel to Cam Slater just posting the text. This was the first overtly political post since the wedding — and it felt risky.
For the enemy hates us, and will persecute us. We don’t have to do anything but not fall into hell with them to be hated. They will demand we join them. And the churches are burning.
“It’s hard to believe. We’re gutted, really gutted,” Mr Masters said.
An inferno engulfed the church on Wednesday night in a blaze police are treating as suspicious.
“I got down here just before 6 o’clock and police and fire people were wonderful. You’re pretty powerless and there’s not a lot you can do except stand and watch,” Mr Masters said.
Mr Thomas said one of the biggest losses were the historical stained glass windows from the original St John’s Church.
“It’s not the end of the church or the work we do … nobody has been hurt, it’s overwhelming but life plays out.”
We will be opposed. The theology of the church triumphant is not biblical: the theology of the church opposed from without and corrupted from within is.
1 With my voice I cry to the LORD; with my voice I make supplication to the LORD.
2 I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.
3 When my spirit is faint, you know my way In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
4 Look on my right hand and see — there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.
5 I cry to you, O LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
6 Give heed to my cry, for I am brought very low. Save me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
7 Bring me out of prison, so that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.2 Timothy 3:1-17
1You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. 2For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them! 6For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires, 7who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth. 9But they will not make much progress, because, as in the case of those two men, their folly will become plain to everyone.
10Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11my persecutions and suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived. 14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, 15and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
It is some years ago and before this blog that I first ran into HR. I was informed by a minion of the university that she would not have hired me because I was politically correct. Not her decision: I was hired despite being politically incorrect and having a reputation of confronting management due to my research record. I had been confirmed early.
My main worry, indeed nightmare, is the antifa deciding that white males are to be destroyed, and letting health sciences (which is a third of the university income) fall with them. But I know that Human Resources are aligned with the antifa.
The example here is Apple not allowing Gab to have an app akin to Twitter, but the principle is there.
The modern day Stalinists use the same tactic, in which they accuse enemies of fostering a hostile environment or promoting objectionable material. Apple is not saying they object to the material. They are claiming to speak for those unnamed people who do object, because Apple is just looking out for them, whoever they may be. Since these alleged victims are a mystery, there’s no way for Gab to confront them or argue that they are complying with Apple’s terms of service. It’s just modern show trial in which the verdict is known in advance. The only question is how long before the accused breaks.
Those who confessed quickly in Stalin’s trials did so hoping for leniency, but that never came. Just as the verdict was known in advance, so was the punishment. The same system applies today. Gab could ban all of its users and just have pics of Hillary and Obama and they would still not get on the Apple store. They have been found guilty of blasphemy and heresy. That will be the verdict of the trial and the punishment will be banishment. The only mystery is whether Apple can make them grovel.
The guy running Gab is not going to grovel. He knows the deal. In fact, more and more people are figuring out that there is no dealing with the Left. There’s no accommodation to be made, no compromise to be found. In fact, that was true thirty years ago when I was just getting started. The company gossip was not a person with whom you could strike a bargain. She was a Torquemada, who existed to find the guilty.
One of the things we have to, as men, consider is how to ensure that we can continue to live righteously and not be enslaved by the narrative that has taken over the regulatory bodies of our professions, driven all too frequently by the Canadians. CANMEDS, as an example, has very little to do with being a competent doctor and a lot to do with having a supportive environment for the elite: it has been adopted by the Australian and NZ medical councils, as they are now politically appointed, converged, bodies.
This makes the professions risky. Decent people already avoid teaching, and will soon avoid nursing and medicine. The corporations are worse.
I recommend plumbing. You always need a plumber, electrician or gas man. Farming is good.
The universities are now very hard to get tenure in unless you accept the narrative: this is a tragedy for those parents, like me, who have academically gifted kids (who are bored at University).
I’d suggest that the young have a horizontal profile. Do not have a Facebook page, twitter profile. Keep their blog anonymous. Use private messaging to communicate. The enemy will look for you in obscure places. Let those of us who have reached the point where we don’t need to care troll the narrative.
I predict that the current academic bubble will fail, and with it a large amount of research output. The true scholars and scientists and practitioners of the learned professions will remain. We don’t do the job for the money: we do it because we are driven.
And the Babylon of Administration will fall last, after the janitors are sacked.