Dave

@WCCollier1 Doestovsky also prophesied these horrors in a post-Christian moral world. Great post I will never stop recommending Dominion

If you ever read Tom Holland’s “Dominion,” in which he makes the case that the pre-Christian human mind is so alien to any mind infected by the ideas of Christ as to be wholly unintelligible, which he does by surveying the sheer depth and breadth of ideas which we take for granted and assume are just “human” which are in fact uniquely Christian, then you might come away thinking, “Well that’s a great catalogue of all the ways we now irrevocably think like Christians, but where can I find a book that illustrates how /they/ thought? The ancient pagans? I want to see the alien.” The answer is simply to do what Holland did. Read those ancient works. Read the Greek epics. Read the Odyssey. But don’t apply your own standards to it. For instance, when the hero rapes a woman, or tortures or mutilates someone helpless and begging for mercy, or kills a small child, don’t try to figure out why it was actually justified according to your way of thinking, and don’t even think about why it needs to be condemned according to your way of thinking. Rather, just sit there and wrap your mind around the fact that no one thought it needed to be justified or condemned when it was written. It was self-evidently, to them, a heroic act, part of what it means to be a hero. Once you manage this, most of the modern controversies even over events like Oct 7 and the Holocaust will melt away. You will realize there isn’t any trouble in believing a man raped a girl with a nailgun until she died and then called his grandma to brag about it, nor that Germany and Russia created entire industrial systems of labor camps which had as their objective to ensure that no laborer survived the labor (and entire industrial systems to dispose of the bodies as the laborers died), or that Saladin’s biographer boasts—boasts, because it is a point of pride and honor for Saladin—about “miserly women forced to yield themselves, and women who had been kept hidden [nuns] stripped of their modesty … and free women occupied [meaning “penetrated”], and precious ones used for hard work, and pretty things put to the test, and virgins dishonored and proud women deflowered … and happy ones made to weep!” It will not be hard to imagine these things done, it will be easy to believe the stories of the holocaust and all the rest, because you will come to understand, by reading pre-Christian heroic stories, that all of this is just normal human behavior. It’s what you would do, would proudly participate in, but you happen to have been born in a Christian land in a Christian time, even if you yourself are not Christian. And where lands become un-Christian, “nature heals.” Human beings return to what they naturally are: the kind of thing that considers this behavior not horrific but heroic, and to be lauded.

Merry Christmas one and all

@iampiet Yeah. I think I cooked too

Hunting is a great experience if you get the chance Partake in nature, actually respect the animal you eat and its exhilarating doing something you should be doing naturally

@CatholicArena Someone tell them it’s not 2006 anymore

AUSTRIA A blasphemous exhibition mocking Christianity has opened at the Kunstlerhaus Museum for Christmas Why are Europeans tolerating this evil filth?

@MedievalScholar The King was a great movie, however I do wish we got to see a historically accurate Agincourt!

You interpreted The King wrong because it displays Henry V as very very competent and aware of the situation he is in and what he must do

@levelsio It’s nothing but propaganda. Show it enough times and the people believe this is righteous and any naysayers are heretics.

Seeing this damn 🍃 leaf anywhere I instantly get PTSD something is definitely not going to be working properly Like an AC or coffee machine or anything

Spotted a unit of a tort and a deer on my walk today

@DrJackKruse It’s amazing how modern humans have turned out to be complete pussies. A bunch of pseudo Puritans afraid of tattoos and booze and everything else, sitting in front of screens, ranting and raging as their life shrivels.

Please read Dostoevsky Wish I did before this year.

@ukhomeoffice but wasn’t this just a far right conspiracy?

For years, the victims of grooming gangs were beaten, sexually assaulted and gang raped by vile predators. They were belittled and blamed, with those in positions of power turning a blind eye, covering up these horrors. The victims are owed justice and the truth. A thread 🧵

Meet Africa’s no.1 sheep herder

survived a 12hr flight with a 1yr old btw

Gm from South Africa

@pizzaboy where are you?

10x better than SF btw

Tom > Jerry

@st_louis_stan every single time

Every SF Asian tech striver joke post is "can you believe that laptop is here??? You're not supposed to bring laptop here!!!!"

@ChivalryGuild Not available yet in the UK 🫠

In addition to a great soul, a love of heroism, and boulder shoulders, Raymond Ibrahim has a real knack for narration. The pages of his books almost turn themselves. I just started The Two Swords of Christ tonight and it is already off and running.

@heshie @ctshirts bought my wedding shirt from there 👀

@davetodream hahah, shoutout to @ctshirts

the quarter zip stays on…

@remstack fr it saves your discs

@davetodream need to be doing this more

top tip if you sit down all day do pull ups or hang from a bar to decompress your spine afterwards