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Third Debate

Posted October 19, 2016 By John C Wright

I just saw the third presidential debate.

The press did not do as fierce a job mugging Trump as before, indeed, when I actually heard a question from the moderator about the Wikileaks revelations, I thought perhaps I had stumbled through a dimensional gateway into a mirror universe where Spock has a goatee or Superman is a crime boss. Her reply was to say that the Russians were behind it, and that Putin was a puppet of the Russians.

This is the woman who took a massive bribe from Russia and made the Uranium One deal with them, giving them control of one fifth of the Uranium production in the US.

I am reminded of the story of Pygmalion. You perhaps have heard the second half of the tale, where he sculpts the perfect woman out of ivpry, and falls so deeply in love with his own creation that the love-goddess Aphrodite grants soul and life to the figure, whom he weds. But the first half is usually forgotten:

There was once a sculptor in Cyprus, the island sacred to Aphrodite, goddess of love, named Pygmalion. On this same island lived the daughters of Propoetus, who scorned love and declared Aphrodite to be no goddess at all, merely another name for the passions we have in common with animals. In retaliation, Aphrodite cursed them. The Propoetides lost the power to blush, and the blood hardened in their cheeks. They became the first prostitutes in the world, as shameless with their bodies as with their reputations. So hardhearted became these women that they turned into statues of flint. Pygmalion, revolted at the sight of them, scorned the company of all women. 

Listening to Mrs. Clinton, I just kept thinking of a daughters of Propoetus, flint hearted and flint skinned, a creature incapable of blushing.

The sheer effrontery of blaming Donald for the violence at his rallies when that violence was staged and caused by mentally ill people her campaign hired just for that purpose, when the fact that her campaign was caught on tape admitting the same had just been discussed, makes her a Propoetide.

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Best News I’ve Heard Since…

Posted October 19, 2016 By John C Wright

 

Actually, I cannot think of the last time I have heard something this good. Whether this means the End Times are upon us, or by this act of noble grace, may be delayed for a decade, I leave to theologians to decide. But the matter is unusual, and, to me, unheard-of.

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Scandal in the Church

Posted October 19, 2016 By John C Wright

A story not unrelated to recent leaked revelations that the Democrats are rigging the election and subverting democracy in America. America is not the only thing the reds hate.

Keep this in mind next time you hear about some scandal in the Church. These people have been at this since the 1930’s and before.

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-podesta-left-wing-activist-plot-catholic-spring/

A newly leaked email shows Hillary Clinton’s current campaign chairman John Podesta and a Left-wing activist casually discussing fomenting “revolution” in the Catholic Church.

“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic Church,” Sandy Newman, president and founder of the progressive nonprofit Voices for Progress, writes to Podesta in an email titled “opening for a Catholic Spring? just musing.”

The emails were leaked in the third round of releases of Podesta’s emails by WikiLeaks.

Newman, who is Jewish, admits he does not know much about the Catholic Church and isn’t volunteering personally to subvert Catholic teachings. “Even if the idea isn’t crazy, I don’t qualify to be involved and I have not thought at all about how one would ‘plant the seeds of the revolution,’ or who would plant them.”

In response, Podesta assures Newman to rest easy for he and his progressive pals have already created organizations explicitly designed to infiltrate the Catholic Church with progressive ideology, though he cautions that the time may not be right for full revolution — just yet.

“We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up,” Podesta writes.

The conversation further reveals the contempt with which radical progressives view Catholics and the Catholic Church. On Monday, WikiLeaks published an email showing Democratic operatives mocking conservative Catholics.

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Rigging the Election II

Posted October 19, 2016 By John C Wright

Another exhibit in the ongoing trial in the public mind of the Democrat Party. They are accused of sedition and treason.

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Superluminary, Episode 23 Hatred for all Life

Posted October 19, 2016 By John C Wright

Superluminary, Episode 23 HATRED FOR ALL LIFE, is posted on Patreon:

Episode 23 Hatred for All Life

In this exciting episode, Aeneas hurls a neutron star into the path of the oncoming singularity aimed at Sol. The death toll mounts. The darkness rises.
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The Suicide of Thought (Part Eight)

Posted October 19, 2016 By John C Wright
Part Eight:  The Matter of  Materialism

Please note that the endless and silly debate about determinism and reductionist materialism is nothing but the crudest possible form of science worship as I have here defined it: the materialist takes the intuitive axiom of scientific reasoning, that all bodies act without free will, and applies it to the thoughts and deeds of human beings, and comes to a conclusion that renders all law and punishment simply meaningless.

But the two methods of reasoning cannot apply to the subjects proper to the other.

No one thanks the sun for having the fidelity to hold the beloved Earth in orbit, never letting it slip out into cold interstellar darkness.  It is gravity, not fidelity, that is the cause identified. Efficient cause.

Likewise chastity in a young and pretty wife allured by a dangerous Don Juan is of no account if it is merely the outcome of brain chemical actions beyond her awareness or control.  It is fidelity, not chemistry, that is the cause identified. Final cause.

The reductionist materialist, of course, cuts off the branch on which he sits, just as all modern simpletons do.

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Last Day! Free Rachel!

Posted October 18, 2016 By John C Wright

This is the last day to get the first book of Unexpected Enlightenment free of charge. There is no fee, consideration, tariff, toll, bill, or mulct!

In honor of the day, here is a linkfest of festive links to articles and meditations on all things Rachel Griffinine:

Here for your reading edification is Sigfried in his consummate Siggish Sigtrastical Sigfriedery:

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The Suicide of Thought (Part Seven)

Posted October 18, 2016 By John C Wright
Part Seven: Black Robes and White Labcoats

The second source of prestige for the physical sciences was that no judgment calls were allegedly involved. Let me digress to mention that in most languages there is a distinction between two types of knowledge that English does not distinguish: in French savoir and connaître are distinct, and in German kennen, is distinct from wissen.

Kennen or connaître means personal acquaintance. Wissen or savoir is book learning.

The closest we have in English is the difference between knowledge, a matter of memorizing facts, and wisdom, a matter of getting to know someone or something. One is brainwork, the other is familiarity won through experience.

The best way to explain the distinction is to use the example of a debate between scientists over a scientific issue, and a judge on the bench debating a legal issue, a matter of guilt or innocence, a judgment of which witnesses are lying, what evidence is admissible, what case is relevant as precedent.

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Rigging the Election

Posted October 17, 2016 By John C Wright

High placed Democrat operatives making damning admissions. The news is fake, the system is rigged, the Dems are fomenting violence.

 

Watch this, spread the word. Tell a Dem. Watch to see what excuse or justification they invent to explain away the evidence of their eyes.

Vote Democrat, if you want a whiny but incompetent government, armed with ever increasing and ever more intrusive powers, to call you a racist bigot for the next four to eight years.

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Brave New World and the Body of Christ

Posted October 17, 2016 By John C Wright

Some reflections on the nature of dystopia and the communion of the faithful by an aspiring young writer who has read Orwell and Aldous Huxley for the first time. Well worth reading and pondering:

http://superversivesf.com/2016/10/15/the-perfect-society-and-the-body-of-christ/

 

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