Churchian cucks preaching Babelism

Terrible theology + kissing the world’s unwiped backside leads to cucky Churchians preaching the gospel of Babel:

As the Senate recently passed long
awaited immigration overhaul and the bill now heads to the House, the
long-standing national discourse on the issue of immigration will likely
heat up again. As we participate in these discussions, my hope is that
we, especially as Christians tasked with peacemaking and reconciling,
will find ways to build bridges instead of erecting walls. As a first
step in this bridge building, I pray that once and for all, we will stop
using the term “illegal immigrant.”
Here’s why:

1. The term “illegal immigrant” is a misleading and dishonest term, which violates the 9th commandment.

2. The term “illegal” singles out those who committed one, specific,
federal misdemeanor, but is never applied to other violations.

3. The term “illegal immigrant” has morphed into a racial epithet.

4. The term “illegal immigrant” cultivates hostility, animosity, and mistrust against our neighbors.

5. The term “illegal immigrant” is dehumanizing.   

  1. No, it does not. In fact, the author is lying. “Illegal immigrant” is an accurate and honest term that precisely describes the status of the individual so described.
  2. Considering that my father is often described as “a tax evader”, this is obviously false. Most “murderers” are not serial killers, after all.
  3. No, it hasn’t. What race does “illegal immigrant” refer to?
  4. No, immigration, especially illegal immigration, cultivates hostility, animosity, and mistrust against our neighbors. 
  5. This is ridiculous. Only humans are described as “illegal immigrants”. I have never heard of migrating birds being described that way.

Churchians are liars and deceivers. They worship the god of Babel, not the Christian God. They serve the world, not Jesus Christ.

    Mailvox: resistance really works

    It turns out that active resistance is a considerably more effective approach than silent submission and surrender. This tweet appeared in my notifications this morning:

    a friend is under real life SJW attack, pointed him to this, he followed your advice & it’s working. Many thanks!! *hat tip*

    It may be hard to break the habits into which we are brainwashed from kindergarten, but it is necessary. It is vital! Those whispers that tell you to give up, to give in, to abandon hope are the voices of the deceivers who programmed defeatism into you at an early age through school, church, and media.

    Don’t listen to those voices. God loves the fighters. God loves the warriors. The Father loved Gideon and David. The Son loved Peter. Unless you are being murdered for your Christian faith, you are not a martyr, you’re just a coward who lacked the courage to stand up for himself and for the truth.

    If you’ve got a friend who is under attack, please note that SJWs Always Lie is now available as a free read for both KU and Prime subscribers. And last night we received the notification that it will be available in paperback within a week or so.

    Mailvox: more border closures coming

    Apparently things are about to get even more interesting in Eastern Europe in response to the ongoing invasion. A reader from Eastern Europe writes:

    Get ready for things to get interesting again at the Hungarian border/Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia.

    When Hungary closed the Serbian border, there was about a day of riots, which were all over world news, horrible hungarian policemen teargassing poor migrants. But this lasted about a day, as they immediately started going towards the Croatian border.

    Today, still thousands of refugees cross Hungary, but no one notices them, since it is all organized, basically because Germany is still receiving unlimited amounts of them daily. Croatians bus them to Hungarian border, Hungarian authorities get them on special trains straight to the Austrian border, Austrians get them on special trains straight to Germany.

    This time though, Orbán is taking his time with the Croatian border closure.

    One reason is technical, it takes time to figure out the optimal way. The border is much longer than the Serbian (164 kms to 355 kms), and for the most part two rivers form the border (Dráva and Mura in Hungarian). First they said they were not going to build any fence at the rivers, than they decided to build anyway in some spaces they considered vulnerable. They spotted croatians scouting the border looking for vulnerable places, the days before it was supposed to start, so they took their time to make sure the fence will be effective. The deadline moved, and now they not even giving exact date, they will probably make it effective by surprise, when everything falls to place.

    Second reason is political. As you may know, there is an alliance called Visegrad Group, or V4, which is made up of Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland. I’m not going to Google the whole history of this, but the alliance is formal, every now and then there are V4 summits and workshops on different levels (PMs, presidents, ministers, etc), independently of which political formations govern at given moment. 

    Orbán this time does not want to play the bad guy alone, so he got the V4 to back him up with political support, and by sending policemen or military personnel/equipment to help patrol the Serbian and Croatian borders, which are the Schengen borders of Europe. He is also organizing a two-month military exercise, called “Balaton 2015”, aimed at practicing different logistical scenarios that could unfold at a migrant crisis. Today the first 20 Czech soldiers arrived for the exercise. Slovakian defence minister just announced that they will send soldiers also.

    Apart from that, Slovakia will send 50 policemen for the Schengen border patrol, they will be arriving until the 20th of October.The Poles didn’t do much yet, but they will probably help with something.

    So another border closure is coming in the next few weeks. I really don’t know what the hell are the Croatians and Serbs waiting for, I would be building my own fence like mad.

    So much for the idea of European “union”. It’s creating more walls than the Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe did. If this insanity is allowed to continue by the German elite, the walls will eventually be constructed of impaled migrants.

    Mass migration is war.

    A history lesson

    John Wright helps the history-impaired:

    Within twenty-five years after the death of Mohammed, the southern and eastern reaches of the Byzantine Empire, all Christian lands, and all fertile, were reduced by terror and sword to a wasteland. Te Jewish colonies of Yemen were conquered. Libya and much of Egypt to this day retains this character. All seven of the Churches mentioned by name in the Book of Revelation were conquered.

    The Mohammedanism, like the Stalinism who came later, demand history be abolished, and are responsible for the burning and loss of nine tenth of the known lost ancient manuscripts of history. The destruction of the Stone Buddha statues in Afghanistan, or the famous museum in Babylon, was not a mistake or the act of some odd extremists: it is a central part of mainstream Sharia. Christian churches and relics are destroyed whenever they fall into Mohammedan hands: to this day, the Church of Saint Sophia in Constantinople is used as a mosque, in triumphant mockery of the defeated Christians.

    You have no doubt heard that there was a Golden Age of Islam, where Muslim scholars preserved the works of Aristotle and the ancients, invented the zero, or made great strides in astronomy and mathematics. This is all an outrageous lie, the precise opposite of the truth. There were certain Spanish scholars, mostly Jews and Christians, conquered by Muslims, but who preserved the ancient texts despite the Muslim program of destroying them. The Byzantine Empire preserved what we have of ancient learning, and scholars fleeing the downfall of one Byzantine theme, province, or city after another in the relentless onslaught of Mohammed reintroduced them into the West. The Moslems not only were not the preservers of the knowledge of the ancient literature, they were the main force destroying it.

    As I have already predicted, the 1st Amendment is over. One way or another.

    Mailvox: We didn’t destroy your dream

    Remper, if your dream is destroyed, the only individual responsible will be the only one with the power to do so, Chris Roberts:

    1) Don’t give a damn about Star Citizen for about 2 years
    2) Poorly-written article in the Escapist appears
    3) Don’t research anything or catch up on what is happening in Star Citizen right now
    4) Write a post full of concerns about Star Citizen future
    5) ???
    6) PROFIT

    Guys, Star Citizen has the most open development process ever done for a AAA-game. Everything they did so far is perfectly reasonable and what they promise is doable. No one had a single concern about game’s eventual completion before Derek Smart’s posts and the Escapist article. Not because we (backers) are stupid zealots, but because every week we are given a detailed explanation on how things are going.

    Keep in mind: most of the Star Citizen backers doesn’t give a shit when the game will be released. This is the project that has to be done right. For now, we trust Chris Roberts with taking as much time as he needs to create the game we asked for. And for the last 2 years he hasn’t done anything to cast any doubt on his decisions.

    What I’m really afraid of is that baseless allegations in the game press will scare potential partnerships with other companies and the constant intake from the new backers, which will make Chris to downsize the project – that would be really a shame. So until you have actual facts about Star Citizen development going south, I would kindly ask you not to generate any additional shitstorm. Don’t try to destroy our dream.

    A few things. First, Star Citizen is shaping up to be the one of the most epic events in game development history one way or another. To expect professional game developers to ignore their decades of experience as well as their personal knowledge of the various parties involved and keep their mouths shut until events play out is simply not reasonable. We have observations, we have opinions, and we have platforms. Deal with it.

    Second, everything they have done so far is not perfectly reasonable. Everything they are promising is not doable. Saying that “it’s done when it’s done” sounds great and all, but there is this little problem called “burn rate” that means Chris cannot take as much time as he needs. That’s precisely why Derek Smart believes Chris is going to run out of both time and money long before the dream is realized.

    Third, the allegations are far from baseless. There is a considerable amount of information that has not yet been made available to the public to which many of us in the industry are privy. It’s not a massive industry and everyone is, at the very least, a friend of a friend of a friend. Unfortunately, none of it tends to indicate the Star Citizen project is in any better than the coverage by The Escapist tends to indicate.

    It is important to understand that NO ONE wants to see Chris fail. That would be a bad thing for everyone, including Derek Smart. Hell, if Chris wanted my help, I would donate it pro bono. But I very much doubt that insufficient or inept design is the problem, but rather, altogether too much of it and not enough production focus.

    An apology is a confession

    Lest you needed another reminder of why you NEVER APOLOGIZE for anything after being attacked by SJWs.

    A new dispute has erupted over the fate of Sir Tim Hunt, the Nobel prizewinner accused of making sexist remarks at an international conference earlier this year. Sir Colin Blakemore, one of Britain’s leading scientists, has resigned as honorary president of the country’s science writers association over its support for the journalist whose reports led to Hunt’s dismissal.

    Blakemore said he had been frustrated by the decision of the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) to continue to give unconditional support to Connie St Louis, who first claimed Hunt had made sexist remarks.

    Subsequent evidence has since suggested that St Louis’s account was “unbalanced, exaggerated, and selective”, Blakemore told the Observer.

    “Yet the ABSW refuses to investigate the issue, despite the fact that its standing orders explicitly state that ‘wilful or frequent misrepresentation or inaccuracy’ shall be considered a breach of its standards,” he said.

    “Given the very serious consequences of St Louis’s reports, and the ABSW’s refusal to act, I have decided to resign. I have been honorary president of the association for 11 years but feel that I have no alternative.”

    However, Martin Ince, the president of the ABSW, rejected the idea that the association had a role to play in assuring journalistic standards. “Our statement simply supports her right to report a story without fear of personal attack. We note that Sir Tim Hunt has acknowledged the accuracy of St Louis’s reporting and has apologised for his remarks,” he said.

    Notice how Hunt’s apology wasn’t only used against him, it is being used as a defense against Connie St. Louis’s misbehavior which long predates the actions for which he apologized. And it’s also being used against those who are willing to take public stands and make personal sacrifices in support of Hunt.

    When you apologize to an SJW, you are not only handing them ammunition that will be used against you, it will be used against your friends, family, and allies in support of your most vicious enemies.

    Never apologize in response to SJWs. Is that not clear? NEVER PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE, period.

    Brainstorm: Gorilla Mindset


    Since mindset is so important, it has always baffled me that many
    people gloss over its significance. You’ll see guys who want to be rich,
    yet talk themselves out of ever starting a company. Or grown men want
    to get better at dating, but spend all their time complaining that it’s
    impossible to attract women.


    In reality the only thing holding these people back is themselves.
    It’s impossible to become a winner if you constantly think like a loser.

    Mike Cernovich’s book, Gorilla Mindset, is a good “mental reset” book that is likely to be useful to any man who is struggling with negativity, laziness, or burnout. I’ve read it myself and gleaned some useful performance tricks from it, and I’ve even given it to my son to read.

    On Tuesday evening at 6 PM Eastern, Mike Cernovich will be my Brainstorm guest, where we will be discussing Gorilla Mindset and other topics of interest for 90 minutes, including Q&A. It’s a free event, so you can register here. Please note that registration will NOT guarantee a seat; only 500 can be seated at a time. If you haven’t read the book yet, I’d encourage you to do so before the event. I wouldn’t call it “life-changing”, but I have no doubt at all that there are others who would. Mike’s personal story is inspirational; he is an impressive guy.

    Brainstorm note: I didn’t realize it until two days ago, but 2,395 people tried to register for the Brainstorm Hugo Party. The registration limit was set to 500, of whom 395 actually attended at some point. Since a lot of people will be interested in what Mike has to say, I’m going to bump up the limit to 750, of whom 500 will be able to simultaneously attend.

    When we reach 100 annual Brainstorm members, I will bump up the maximum limit to 1,000 simultaneous attendees. For those who want to know how they can help boost the signal, that’s one way to do it.

    In related news, I’ve been working with the institute and the Game Dev course is finally coming together and I anticipate it starting in January. It will be free for all annual Brainstorm members. The full price for the 10 sessions will be $199, but it will be initially priced at $150 for VP readers, #GamerGate members, and subscribers to the two Castalia House mailing lists.

    UPDATE: Mike contacted me to let me know that he will be providing PDF versions of Gorilla Mindset and Juicing for Men to all Brainstorm Annual members on Monday.

    Freedom

    I do so enjoy having no credibility, as I have been reliably informed is the case for many years now. It’s just another word for having absolutely no external limits upon one’s behavior:

    Vox has 430-odd (so far) Vile Faceless Minions who have pledged to vote as he instructs them. This gives some people heartburn. On the other hand, the VFM support Vox voluntarily, so it’s not really anyone else’s business.

    By the next Worldcon, he’ll have even more Minions; a nontrivial voting bloc he can use as he sees fit.

    The current “Vox Day” is a creation of the SJWs. They vilified him so thoroughly nothing he can do can alter public opinion one way or the other, so he’s free to say and do anything he wants without concern for repercussion.

    “What part of ‘Supreme Dark Lord’ did you not understand? Don’t you get it? I am not the good guy. I am the very bad guy.”

    They literally have no idea what to do when you agree and amplify their accusations. I mean, don’t you grasp that they are POINTING and SHRIEKING at you? That is supposed to be your cue to stammer, cringe, and apologize!

    So now he’s the dark monster living rent-free in their heads. Which suits him just fine, as far as I can tell.

    I had dinner with Mike Cernovich tonight. Two fearsome monsters of the Internet… and yes, we were most definitely plotting dastardly and nefarious deeds.

    The challenge of SJW entryism

    Brian Niemeier points out the fundamental flaw in the conservative strategy of permanent retreat:

    We also agree that the opposition’s numbers are small relative to greater fandom and the general population. Yet despite being vastly outnumbered, look what they’ve achieved.

    They halved the Big Five’s SFF sales, took over SFWA, and dominated Worldcon–all in 20 years.

    You correctly argue that these institutions are irrelevant. But they weren’t prior to that 20-year march. I’m all for discussing which hills we’re ready to die on, but before we can have that discussion, everyone needs to understand how the enemy operates.

    They’re experts at infiltrating and subverting organizations–especially when they’re at a numeric disadvantage. San Diego, SLCCC, and Gen Con have lots of thankless scut jobs that Morlocks will gladly take to get their feet in the door and multiply.

    How many of those cons have codes of conduct? All it takes is one infiltrator on a committee and the other members’ complacency to weaponize the rules against normal fans.

    Larry posted a while back about a guy who complained that Gen Con isn’t safe for minorities. That’s how it starts.

    I’m all for starting new awards and moving on to greener convention pastures. But unless the unequivocal message is sent that entryism will not be tolerated, anything we build will look just like Worldcon and trad publishing inside of 2 decades.

    Conservative strategy is guaranteed failure. Conservatism is the prevent defense of politics. It doesn’t always fail, but it fails often enough that anyone who advocates it as a strategy should be assumed to be inept and incompetent.

    I am working on developing a proper Code of Conduct designed to not only keep out entryists, but eject them as soon as they reveal themselves. If you want peace, prepare for war. If you want freedom of thought and speech, prepare to police the would be policemen.

    Appendix N: conclusions

    Jeffro has completed the initial pass of his quixotic masterpiece. Some of his conclusions:

    • Tolkien’s ascendancy was not inevitable. It’s really a fluke that he even became the template for the modern fantasy epic.
    • A half dozen authors would have easily been considered on par with Tolkien in the seventies.
    • Our concept of “Tolkienesque” fantasy has little to do with Tolkien’s actual work. Likewise, the “Lovecraftian” stories and games of today have little to do with what Lovecraft actually wrote. Our concepts of swords and sorcery have had the “weird” elements removed from them for the most part. Next to the giants of the thirties, just about everything looks tamed and watered down.
    • Entire genres have been all but eliminated. The majority of the Appendix N list falls under either planetary romance, science fantasy, or weird fiction. Most people’s readings of AD&D and OD&D are done without a familiarity of these genres.
    • Science fiction and fantasy were much more related up through the seventies. Several Appendix N authors did top notch work in both genres. Some did work that could be classified as neither.
    • It used to be normal for science fiction and fantasy fans to read books that were published between 1910 and 1977. There was a sense of canon in the seventies that has since been obliterated.
    • Modern fandom is now divorced from its past in a way that would be completely alien to game designers in the seventies. They had no problem synthesizing elements from classics, grandmasters of the thirties, and new wave authors.
    • Ideological diversity in science fiction and fantasy was a given in the seventies. We are hopelessly homogenistic in comparison to them.
    • The program of political correctness of the past several decades has made even writers like Ray Bradbury and C. L. Moore all but unreadable to an entire generation. The conditioning is so strong, some people have almost physical reactions to the older stories now.

    And at Castalia House, Jeffro has posted a not-unrelated retrospective on the topic of Tolkien’s influence on Dungeons & Dragons:

    This list has been held up as conclusive evidence of Tolkien’s
    influence on the formation of original D&D.² Taking all of the
    game’s influences into account it’s just not that convincing, however.
    Certainly, players of this rule set would have been able to recreate The
    Battle of Five Armies and The Battle of the Morannon. And unlike
    anything you’d see in the coming D&D rule sets, Bard the Hunter’s
    ability to take out a flying dragon with a single shot is accounted for
    here. But while wraiths here are clearly inspired by the Nazgul, raising
    the morale of their allies, causing their foes to make morale checks,
    and paralyzing men with fear, these special abilities also failed
    to survive the transition from miniatures supplement to role-playing
    game.

    Other staples of the D&D zeitgeist are in evidence even at this
    early juncture: the chromatic dragons are out in force, along with the
    chlorine gas breathing variety from the de Camp and Pratt’s The Roaring Trumpet.
    The clearest example of Tolkien’s diluted authority in Gygax’s views
    would be in the matter of Trolls. “What are generally referred to as
    Trolls are more properly Ogres,” he explains. To Gygax, “true Trolls”
    are more in line with the one in Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions.
     
    Similarly, the wizards of the Chainmail Fantasy Supplement are unlike
    anything from Tolkien’s corpus; they unleash “Cloudkill” on enemy
    armies, create hallucinatory terrain, “haste” friendly units while
    “slowing” enemies, and disrupt the opposing force’s command and control
    with “confuse”. Tolkien’s stark contrasts between good and evil are
    replaced with Poul Anderson’s and Michael Moorcock’s Law to Chaos
    alignment spectrum, with the most surprising implication of this
    system being that the question of whether Elves will come in on the side
    of Halflings or Wraiths is determined entirely by the roll of the dice!

    It’s very easy for wargamers to see the wargaming roots that underlie all role-playing games, but rather less easy for non-wargamers to recognize them. This is actually something I cover in my game development course; the students tend to be very fascinated to see how one can trace the developmental lineage of some of today’s biggest games all the way back to the arcade games of the 1980s. As for literature, I always find it amusing when people assert that Warhammer was an influence on Selenoth because I don’t play Warhammer or any miniatures games nor have I ever read even a single book from the Black Library. The influences they think they are seeing actually stem from board-and-counter games that influenced both Games Workshop and me.

    Selenoth began life as a wargame called “Warleader” which was my attempt to write rules for Fantasy Advanced Squad Leader. Perhaps one day I’ll return to it.

    Speaking of Castalia House, we are looking for some more high-quality writers to join Jeffro, Morgan, and Daniel there, but we are only interested in potential contributors who already have a blog and a track record. If you’re a book reviewer or a game writer interested in expanding your audience, touch base.