royal 🂻 midwit

I was looking for a foid and then I found a foid, and heaven knows I'm miserable now

@michaeljknowles but Dante also praises monarchs for picking up the spiritual (yes, the spiritual!) slack when the Popes shirked their duty. Which should be the father?

Even Dante in his famous treatise against the notion that temporal power derives from the spiritual authority—defending, that is, the emperor against the pope—concludes with a crucial caveat: “Let Caesar honor Peter as a first-born son should honor his father, so that, refulgent with the light of paternal grace, he may illumine with greater radiance the earthly sphere over which he has been set by Him who alone is Ruler of all things spiritual and temporal.”

Despite all the sizzling hot takes on the Pope’s press statements about the President and the President’s post about the Pope, I don’t think any have summed up the situation better than Pope Gelasius did in his letter to Emperor Anastasius in AD 494: “Your Piety’s servants, my sons, the master Faustus and Irenaeus, illustrious men, and their companions who exercise the public office of legate, when they returned to the City, said that Your Clemency asked why I did not send my greeting to you in written form. Not, I confess, by my design; but since those who had been dispatched a little while ago from the regions of the East had spread [word] throughout the whole City that they had been denied permission of seeing me by your commands, I thought that I ought to refrain from [writing] letters, lest I be judged burdensome rather than dutiful. You see, therefore, that it came not from my dissembling, but rather from proper caution, lest I inflict annoyance on one minded to reject me. But when I learned that the benevolence of Your Serenity had, as indicated above, expected a word from my humility, then I truly recognized that I would not unjustly be blamed if I remained silent. For, glorious son, I as a Roman born love, honor, and accept you as the Roman Prince. And as a Christian I desire to have knowledge according to the truth with one who has zeal for God. And as the Vicar of the Apostolic See (of whatever quality), whenever I see something (however little) lacking from the fullness of the Catholic Faith, I attempt to supply it by moderate and timely suggestions. For the dispensing of the divine word has been enjoined on me: «woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel» (1 Cor 9:16). Because, if the vessel of election, blessed Paul the Apostle, is afraid and cries out, how much more urgently must I fear if in my preaching I omit anything from the ministry of preaching which has been divinely inspired and handed down by the piety of the fathers. I pray your Piety not to judge [my] duty toward the divine plan as arrogance. Far be it from the Roman Prince, I beg, that he judge the truth that he senses in his heart to be an injury. For there are two, O emperor Augustus, by which the world is principally ruled: the sacred authority of pontiffs and the royal power. Among which how much heavier is the burden of priests, such that they will have to render an account to the Lord at the time of judgment even for those very kings.”

@restoreorderusa Correct

I’m one of maybe a dozen people on this website capable of opposing foreign interventions without devolving into Jew hysteria, shilling for Islam, calling for the Dems to win, or denying all of the good Trump has done at home. It’s a small club but I’m proud to be part of it.

@tenshi_anna Balthasar goated

It is in the doctrine of TIME that the distinction between what I am here calling “the metaphysical machine” and “the divine interface” comes most clearly to light. For Jean-Luc Marion, following the scholarship of John F. Callahan and Rémi Brague, there is a consistent difference between Christian patristic and pagan metaphysical accounts of time, with the thought of the Cappadocian saints and Doctors of the Church Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa anticipating that of Saint Augustine on this score. Broadly, the patristic account separates off the immanent personal sense of time as created continuum (this being created from nothing, as the ultimate “divine interface”) from the measurement of time externally by reference to cosmic spatial discontinuity, according to what the pagan philosophers are presupposing as the final measure of a deified cosmos, with an atemporal and essentially uncreated (even if subordinately “moved”) impersonal nous already developing mechanical techniques to make itself autonomous (the “metaphysical machine”)—giving its own laws—as with the syllogistic method of logic, which is supposed to be impersonally self-checking. This depersonalizing technique of syllogism (in which time as change is explained by reference to cosmic place as supposedly unchanged, eternal, and uncreated) swallows up, through a merely finite alleviation, the horizon of human personality as the creaturely suffering of a becoming that would be, for Christians, also open to a grace strong enough to precede, through creation out of the nothing that time indexes, cosmic place itself, and furthermore to pertain to temporal personality. Here there is already a clear anticipation in antiquity of the modern debate between Bergson (himself a belated Catholic convert) and Einstein, with Saint Augustine explicitly criticizing a doctrine of time as explained out of itself in terms of ultimately atemporal cosmic order, rather than the personal sensing of the creature experienced as created, in his Confessions. Think additionally of the problem of the time-reversibility of all mechanical laws except for those pertaining to entropic thermodynamic systems. Thermodynamic measure is the point where the personal immanence of sensing cannot be separated from impersonal measurement, because what is at stake is literally a “work,” poesis. For pagan metaphysics, however, there is no similarity whatsoever between becoming and eternity, and no way for uncreated grace to reach across to creation through such an artificially set defensive barrier (though perhaps this is a barrier even ordained in some sense by God—could this be St. Paul’s “katechon”?). In what Hans Urs von Balthasar has called “the cosmological reduction,” the pagan metaphysics (and so physics) of antiquity effectively of itself threatens to submit deified cosmic order to the machine of the rational self-processing of its self-evidence, with the very creative principle of deity that this presupposes projected outside of itself into the purposiveness that governs the efficient placing of that which has a purpose in that efficiently situated place of rationally derived causal order. Modern physics is not fundamentally different from Aristotelian physics in this respect, but rather purifies the metaphysical principle of rational self-presence from the problems of personal purposiveness so as to better manifest itself impersonally to itself, in what Descartes calls “causa sui,” the self-causing, now without either cosmic or spiritual place, a mutely neutral conceptual order presupposing the selfishness it also privatizes.

@5Solas2 who's that kid she's holding?

Play all the word games you want, it's idolatry.

@cloneristic good tweet

Sexual interest for males begins around 12-13 and puberty growth spurts complete at 17. Waiting till 23 to have sex is too long and inhumane. It will cause mental illness. A minor forced incel phase is good to amplify anticipation and desire. To enhance pair bonding and avoid the brain scrambling effect of repeated heartbreak. In the liberal secular world, what happens is most people end up as bitterly divorced spiritually as this guy is now by age 23. So it's not avoided. They just start their whorelord crash out early before they hit rock bottom and tap out somewhere in 30's, right before they become genetic dead ends living and dying in coomhound squalor. So this guy is wrongly blaming religion when he should be blaming his bitch ex wife and dopey community that thought blue pilling alone would suffice in a chaotic sexual marketplace with no guardrails on female behavior at all. In today's sick, sad world, if you want to sidestep forfeiting to the Total Cuck State you have to earn your right to be blue pilled by being the most red pilled man alive up to and past the point of violent insanity. Monogamy existed long before religion as an equilibrium state of mate guarding intramale competition. Liberal license has returned us to the muck from whence we came, so only jungle law is relevant. If your bitch does not feel real mortal terror in her heart at the prospect of being caught cheating that is already not your bitch. So her leaving you is just a formality. It may seem like an impossible gauntlet has been thrown up due to bureaucratic feminist legalism, but one also must realize that everyone else has been reduced to a much softer target than they would otherwise be due to the prevalence of law abiding docility. If that wasn't the case then Ghengis Khan warlorded rapemaxxing would be much more relevant. The people surviving in modernity are mostly domestic animals, like helpless baby quokkas. So even being moderately less so gives you an artificial advantage, much like the TCS subsidizes bull's rights. The cops will actually substantially protect YOU as a criminal. Something to keep in mind. This guy's advice is probably perfectly fine to keep divorcees from roping, but it's immature and misguided as recruitment to folly for the young and unsullied. I say this as a literal whore and someone who enjoyed degeneracy immensely and prolifically. If you are liferafting the fallen with this stuff fine. If you are poisoning the innocent with it you are evil. Each new lifetime is another chance, and not everyone has to succumb to this. Some people do get married young and have nice, happy families, or at least have that for a while and get a few new people out of it, which is worth it despite how it ends. 1 of those is worth 50 retarded whores who never even had a chance because they got catastrophic boomerist advice like this that guaranteed their outcome. There is no reason to repeat this cycle yet again. It's just more spinning wheels on a trash train to nowhere.

@CSandbatch @AuronMacintyre cmon brah

In the real world and in real history, the construct of "nation state" is Protestant. Catholic conceptions of it are a direct response to the Reformation and a tacit admittance that certain aspects of the Reformers claims were legitimate. The nation state comes from the idea that the King is the sovereign body & further revolutions of Reformation pushed that sovereignty down into the body politic. Nationalism is Protestantism.

never pour boiling cum down your kitchen sink

@m4dder4ll i'm sorry you fell for the meme

Being a 29 year old woman is so crazy because you can explain how work is good, getting your masters part time, volunteer, have great friendships, and traveling a lot & you’ll still be asked if you’re dating anyone. Like why is the concept of me not wanting a boyfriend so insane

@0xradagon @art_is_found Poland, Hungary, Latvia

@art_is_found what countries are even left bro

you don’t truly understand how badly the United States fucked itself with mass immigration until you go spend some time in a homogeneous country that kept a lid on it.

@RachelXReads Damn, your husband catching strays

My husband wrote a book that sells close to 250 copies a year, and it sells more every year. He gets less than a dollar per book. Writers don't write for money. They write because they believe in what they put on the page. Buying a book is one small way you can show appreciation for the effort it takes to create something they hope will make your life just a little bit better.

@huriataj @catrachiana so good you can count them on a hand

@catrachiana denver has some of the best food spots. downtown: el five, sushi den, mezcalaria alma, etc.

everyone is skinny in Colorado because the food is so fucking bad

@benedict_kiely geographical idolatry?

This is one of the most important books in any library. The best, as its title says, history of the first 1000 years of Christianity. Almost the last line of the book, which we need to hear in the West “Christianity is an Eastern religion, & its homeland is in the Middle East.”

She Pitt on my Peel till I Gladstone

"looping in a senior partner for visibility" ahh romantic gesture

low commitment, plausible deniability, letter of intent, never-ending legal redlining email thread ahh tattoos

@nekosattva_chan @Benthamsbulldog de Gaulle of course

@Benthamsbulldog "Continental philosophy, for those unaware, is a distinct kind of philosophy that grew out of Europe, especially France and Germany. Key thinkers in the tradition include Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger, etc." yeah man i think you're missing one

@napoleonpajeet it simulates being in heat

Something about making a girl cry is so arousing. It's like breaking her emotional hymen.

@DudeWhoInvests they're not failing, they're just waiting out the storm for their inheritance

I think about this often

@___mithrandir_ dazzlingly unimaginative

A reminder that the Roman Catholic church literally has a saint - Joan of Arc - whose whole thing was that God was telling her to go to war to save France. I mean, they did try her in a kangaroo court and murder her, but still.

@Unashamed_Chuck it's autism without guardrails

What’s up with Calvinists refusing to believe that God genuinely desires the salvation of all people? It’s just weird