A couple people have already jumped on this, but I see a very interesting detail here:

“100% corrupt”

Why do I find this detail interesting? “The reason why it’s hard to conquer a country like Turkey is that there are no barons to invite you in and you can’t expect anyone to make your invasion easier by rebelling against the king. This follows naturally from the situation as described above; since all subjects are the king’s servants and indebted to him it’s hard to corrupt them, and even assuming you do manage to bribe someone he’s not likely to be much help because he can’t bring any local people along with him, this again for the reasons I’ve explained. So, anyone attacking this kind of country has to reckon that he will find it united against him and hence has to rely on his own armed forces rather than on any mutiny in enemy ranks.”


To take the inverse, an empire can only be 100% corrupt in one point in time, specifically immediately before it collapses.

https://t.me/BertieBassett4Life/8010

Why did I care so much about the evangelical streams that I did, and why did I focus on the details that we spent hours on? So that hopefully someone in our audience doesn’t go on to believe this hogwash.

If you thought that last excerpt from my homework was outrageous

From G

Hey guys. Got a temporary suspension on Twitter for defending white people. I've appealed but when I've done that in the past they simply don't respond. If anyone can raise a ruckus with Twitter support about it, I'd appreciate it. Here's the 'violation' – which is particularly insidious, as they've shut me down for defending whites under color of the claim I'm attacking them.

Tomorrow, Saturday, September 3 at 8:00 a.m. CST I will be joined once again by Panama Hat to discuss the Gunpowder Plot.

https://youtu.be/-xYLxrgARos

Miscegenation is wrong

Africans had the richest continent with more than enough land and resources and manpower and favorable geographic features and a head start, and they still ended up like they are today.

But I’m sure the next trillion dollars/better families/whatever else will fix the problem

I’ve had the misfortune of being dragged along to watch a new movie from this year meant for younger audiences, and in the first thirty minutes it’s prominently featured:

Miscegenation
Black music
Youth rebelling against parents and proper governance
Whites portrayed as backwards and unfit and incompetent
Blacks portrayed as strong and “cool”
Love of the alien over the local


It’s ubiquitous.

We’re at the point where Soviet cinema had better propaganda, jokes, plot, and reality

We shall be going live in five!

Make sure to catch today’s PERFECTLY TIMED STREAM at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYLxrgARos&ab_channel=RyanTurnipseed

Modern Christian evangelism is based on the liberal presupposition of a marketplace of ideas, where good ideas supplant bad ideas regardless of how much power is behind them. Obviously throughout most of church history, people had no choice as to what denomination or sect they followed.

I wrote a piece on the fundamental difference between different protestants

https://calvinspader.substack.com/p/the-two-paths-of-protestantism?r=1dwftr&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I was raised on stories from both of these. They were in storage for years, and I finally found them.

Ecclesiastes seems to be one giant refutation of Perennialism

“I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”

“I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.”

“The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.”

“So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”

All the perennial wisdoms and practices on their own are vanity and merely last till death, useless on their own.

Sometimes you gotta do it

Reading through the Grimm’s Fairytales book and there’s one titled “The Turnip”

Considering streaming a reading and discussion of it this week