I talk about Blankslatism a lot because there is massive resistance to the idea that politically right-wing (like Republicans) and far-right groups (like the Manosphere) can’t be blankslatists because blankslatism is a politically leftist. It has been quite difficult for me to convince anyone that the Manosphere is deeply leftist, …
Tomorrow is 9/11 in America. Today—9/10—the following events dominated: The senseless murder of Iryna Karutska on a train in Charlotte, NC by a crazed black man. The assassination of Charlie Kirk Another school shooting in Colorado. And there are some major events in the rest of the world: Russian drones …
It’s funny that men in the Manosphere will complain about divisions and a lack of unity and then silently and uncritically put up with—or, far worse, approve of—spurious and unbiblical judgmental attacks like this: This is simply a moral inversion. Deep Strength would have a man give publicly while keeping …
This is part of a series. See the index here. Remember when I said that hypergamy is an illusion based in part on the Male Variability Hypothesis and the corresponding fact that there are too many smart men to be assortatively paired with similarly smart women? Remember also when I …
The Manosphere really does not like single mothers and has, over time, laid all sorts of social ills at their feet. Manosphere men are certain that if only women would stop being unfaithful, whorish single mothers, things would get so much better for the men of the Manosphere. This is …
In “Hellenization,” we discussed Jack at Sigma Frame’s embrace of Radix Fidem and Greek-inspired (Hellenistic) pagan mysticism. We contrasted this with Jesus’ mind-focused teaching in the Shema, the Greatest Commandment. We also pointed out that sola scriptura—the ultimate and final authority of the written Word of God—is mutually incompatible with any …
I received a pingback to my article “Logic, Mysticism, and Metaphysics.” I went to check it out and found a rather astonishing bit of commentary. Let’s dive in. That “Example” mentioned above was a link to my article “Logic, Mysticism, and Metaphysics,” where I noted that Jesus obligated his followers …
Channeling the spirit of McNamara’s Folly:
I’ve written a lot about the non-Greek Hebrew way of thinking. In this post from last year, I evaluated one mystic’s claim… …and determined that this was completely inverted from reality. The fact of the matter is that the Hebrews were very good at abstract thinking and often preferred to think …
Article Summary: In the greatest commandment, Jesus singled out and emphasized the explicit use of the mind and critical thinking as an act of loving God. He did not emphasize emotions and mentioned nothing of ethics, mysticism, metaphysics, philosophy, or epistemology. Aristotelian Philosophy Three of the “elements of persuasion”—Logos, Ethos, …