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Posted August 24, 2018 By John C WrightThe Sin of Lucifer
Posted August 23, 2018 By John C WrightIn the ongoing and ever-losing battle with my own personal dragons of pride, I took to wondering: why is the proud man angry or peeved with the stupidity (real or imagined) of his fellows?
I ask because one would think a saint would be very patient with someone who was stupid, if it were honest stupidity, and not merely laziness in thinking. Whereas the devil (or Lex Luthor) is always in a state of haughtiest annoyance, because he is brighter than those around him. Their stupidity proves his superiority – yet it irks him. Why?
This is not a rhetorical question: I do not have a theory on the subject myself.
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Red Pill on Leave
Posted August 22, 2018 By John C WrightDear readers, I should have explained last week that Max Kolbe is taking a sabbatical from the internet, and so our weekly podcasts of Red Pill Religion will be on hold for at least a month, perhaps longer.
Maybe I will start my own podcasts, just of myself standing in an echo chamber ranting into a microphone on topics only of concern to me.
Hmmm … What are the topics over which I most obsess?
FIRST EPISODE: Where are my shoes? Honey, have you seen my good shoes?
SECOND EPISODE: Why is there a chipped red mug sitting on the landing of the stairway?
THIRD EPISODE: How do you adjust the margins in Word for Mac? Honey, I cannot seem to get this this, ugh, wait, I think I have it … darn it! Now it switched to web layout! I don’t want web layout!
FOURTH EPISODE: If reality is objective, how can mortal man, confined as each man is to his own coign of vantage, learn the objective truth even of this, namely, whether reality is objective?
FIFTH EPISODE: My rosary is missing a bead. Can I just say 49 prayers today?
SIXTH EPISODE: I need my glasses to find my glasses! I cannot look for my glasses without my glasses because I cannot see! What do you mean they are in my hand? Uh…Wait a minute…?
SEVENTH EPISODE: Honey, where did I put Episode Seven? It was around here somewhere, I am sure…
EIGHT EPISODE: No, not those shoes, my good ones! You threw them out because they were ratty? In 1992?
NINTH EPISODE: No one left any comments on my last two episodes of Lost on the Last Continent? I thought those were really good episodes. I guess not everyone has a strong emotional or critical reaction every four pages in a pulp adventure novel.
TENTH EPISODE: Honey, what am I looking for and why can’t I find it?
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 63, City of Corsairs
Posted August 22, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 63, City of Corsairs, is now posted.
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost is thrown over a waterfall, survives, and enters the Theno, City of Sudden Death, by an unexpected approach, and finds a lost treasure.
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Freestartr still stalled
Posted August 21, 2018 By John C WrightJagi, here.
Sadly, Freestartr is still unable to collect funds. We will give them until the beginning of October before we consider giving up on them. We are still hoping they will recover.
In the meantime, Freestartr patreons, you can wait, too, or send your monthly contribution through Paypay, as you wish.
To both Freestartr and Patreon folks, and those who support us directly, we are so very, very grateful for the support of all you guys !!!
On a somewhat related subject, because of carelessness by yours truly, there is no recording of this month’s live chat. John and I are going to try to make it up to Action Team Swan by recording a brainstorming period or some other conversation on book related topics between the two of us.
Thanks, all! And God bless!
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Elves on Trial — by Superversive
Posted August 20, 2018 By John C WrightAn essay by our own Tom Simon I had somehow not had the pleasure previously to read.
Please look: it is well worth your time. Maglor speaks in his own authentic voice, and unmistakable. I stumbled across it here:
https://superversive.livejournal.com/65965.html
And here is the direct link:
https://bondwine.com/2008/02/08/interview-with-the-oldest-member/
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 62, Cataract of Catastrophe
Posted August 15, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 62, Cataract of Catastrophe, is now posted.
Episode 62 Cataract of Catastrophe
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost cleverly eludes pursuit, but is swept away in the terror of an invincible current.
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On Vacation
Posted August 10, 2018 By John C WrightExpect less activity here over the next week, as I am on vacation. I have the next episode of my ever lengthening diatribe and anathema against THE LAST JEDI scheduled to publish automatically. I will interrupted my vacation, sacrificing precious hours of leisure and joy with my family, to write and post the next episode of LOST ON THE LAST CONTINENT because I love you, dear readers.
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New Libertarian / Conservative Fiction
Posted August 10, 2018 By John C WrightNew fiction from Hartley Kane. Guy is a friend and ally, so give him a try:
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Alex Jones and the Communications Decency Act
Posted August 9, 2018 By John C WrightAlex Jones of Info Wars has been banned from all social platforms except for Twitter in a single afternoon, showing that the tech giants are acting in concert for what are obviously political reasons, to suppress the speech of enemies of the Left.
In the myriad discussions surrounding this, one might hear the topic framed as a First Amendment issue, or an issue of whether private property owners may use their property as they like. I humbly suggest that neither of these grasps the basic legal issue involved.
It is not a First Amendment issue because the First Amendment is a constitutional restriction barring the Federal Government (and, by the legal fiction of the Doctrine of Incorporation, state and local governments) from passing laws and regulations restricting the natural right of freedom of speech. For obvious reasons, this analysis does not apply to private companies acting in concert.
Nor is this conspiracy in restraint of trade, so Antitrust Law, which this seems at first to violate, is also beside the point. The companies acted in collusion to prevent a widely-known public speaker from reaching his audience, because they objected to his anti-Left politics, which they call hate speech.
It is collusion, by the way, but not conspiracy. Technically, conspiracy requires an agreement to commit an unlawful act. An agreement secretly to commit a lawful but dishonorable act, such as stifling a man for his politics and pretending it is because he violated a vaguely-worded community guideline on courtesy, is collusion. It is wrong, and, in this case, may rise to the level of being sinister and threatening to the rest of us, but it is not illegal.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 61, The Deadly Gastropods
Posted August 9, 2018 By John C WrightLost on the Last Continent, Episode 61, The Deadly Gastropods, is now posted.
Episode 61 The Deadly Gastropods
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost spies out the lay of the land, unravels an ancient riddle, and forms a desperate plan.
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The Dragon Speaks by CS Lewis — Poetry Discussion
Posted August 7, 2018 By John C WrightI will be joining Zaklog the Great friends to discuss C.S. Lewis’s “The Dragon Speaks” at 9:30 Eastern. Please watch.
Here is the event link:
And there is the poem:
Once the worm-laid egg shattered in the wood.
I came forth shining into the trembling world;
The sun was on my scales, dew upon the grasses,
The cold, sweet grasses and the sticky leaves.
I loved my speckled mate. We played at druery
and sucked warm milk dropping from the ewes’ teats.
Now I keep watch on the gold in my rock cave
In a country of stones: old, deplorable dragon,
Watching my hoard. In winter night the gold
Freezes through tough scales my cold belly;
Jagged crowns, cruelly twisted rings,
Icy and knobb’d, are the old dragon’s bed.
Often I wish I had not eaten my wife
(Though worm grows not to dragon till he eats worm).
She could have helped me, watch and watch about,
Guarding the gold; the gold would have been safer.
I could uncoil my tired body and take
Sometimes a little sleep when she was watching.
Last night under the moonset a fox barked,
Startled me; then I knew I had been sleeping.
Often an owl flying over the country of stones
Startles me; then I think that I must have slept,
Only a moment. That very moment a Man
Might have come from the towns to steal my gold.
They make plots in the towns to take my gold,
They whisper of me in the houses, making plans,
Merciless men. Have they not ale upon the benches,
Warm wives in bed, and song, and sleep the whole night?
I leave my cave once only in the winter
To drink at the rock pool; in summer twice.
They have no pity for the old, lugubrious dragon.
Lord that made the dragon, grant me thy peace,
But say not that I should give up the gold,
Nor move, nor die. Others would have the gold.
Kill rather, Lord, the Men and the other dragons;
Then I can sleep; go when I will to drink.
~C.S. Lewis, Poems (1964)
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