Dec 19, 2023·edited Dec 19, 2023Liked by Frank Wright
Excellent as usual. I wish I could have articulated it this well.
I was an atheist once. Then I grew up.
It's silly to pretend you have an answer to everything. The real world is a very mysterious place and there will always be things we simply can't know ... at least now. Scripture even speaks about this.
This need to pretend to be smarter than you really are or will ever be opens a Pandora's Box of Madness and tends to lead men to their own destruction. You have to know your unknowns. A real sign of higher native intelligence is a strong tolerance for ambiguity in your epistemology of known things.
The subtraction of God places an unbearable burden on man, offering a supremacy in reason. It doesn't enlighten - it "enheavies". In fact, it crushes you.
The fetish for cleverness is to do with this, I think. Related to credentialism and science worship, it is at base a powerful appeal to human vanity, which is the means of making up the deficit between man and God. This explains some of the appeal of evil.
Well that’s very kind of you. I don’t know how this comes across sometimes and had the typo horrors too - due to recent crayon related mishaps. Thank you.
I think I would have more respect for those that reject God if more of them came to that conclusion through deep consideration of the matter. What galls me is the regularity with which I hear people dismiss the concept of God for reasons which tell me they’ve put almost no thought into it at all. I can’t wrap my head around the question of greatest importance being treated as an afterthought.
The British public made their pact with the Devil in 1945 - Socialism sold to them as cradle-to-grave welfare by the Devil’s servant, Labour. In return the people signed away their freedom for bondage as serfs to the State. And so here we are.
You said part 2 will deal with the 'vid. However, I had two sobering and sad, heartbreaking, really, conversations today. I was talking to a coworker (who is a relative by marriage) whose husband died this past January...a week before my father. He died of "turbo cancer", as my father did, the result of the " vaccine "...same as my father (he blamed the shot himself before he passed). Then I called my health insurance company to find out why the premiums skyrocketed almost $400 month. The response? Shot-related complications (it just so happens the serious illnesses reported were from previously healthy individuals who got the shot. A deal with the devil indeed.
This is a very good description of the modernist crisis that destroyed European elites from about 1850 to 1950. I think people make the mistake of treating it as our current crisis, which is postmodernist and, despite its roots in modernism, is a very different species of animal. There are a few hangers-on who still profess ideals from 1900, but ascribing current events to those people is, at best, a waste of time. Comparable to blaming Puritannical WASPs for ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The great hereditary sin of modernism was to idealize unironic Nietzscheanism, which had the expected effect of turning the try-hard WASP elite into doormats for an unironically Nietzschean, postmodernist Jewish elite.
If an enterprising author wanted to explicate this idea, I'd suggest drawing from the real-life case of Leopold and Loeb. It's a perfect microcosm. Mix in a bit of Masochisia for flavor (warning: that game is extremely disturbing).
One thing you will notice Frank is that when folks take the "Satan" pill, so to speak, everything inevitably merges into a form of universal oneness. The self is completely destroyed.
This is a Luciferian ideology masked with enlightenment ideals. This "Omega Point" (Arthur C. Clarke), "Singularity" (Ray Kurzweil) or "Brahman" (H. P. Blavatsky) is the satanic inversion of the "new heavens & earth" of The Biblical Apocalypse (Revelation 21:1).
C. S. Lewis picked up on this in his sci-fi novel "That Hideous Strength":
"The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs. In the new age, what has hitherto been merely the intellectual nucleus of the race is to become, by gradual stages, the race itself. You are to conceive the species as an animal which has discovered how to simplify nutrition and locomotion to such a point that the old complex organs and the large body which contained them are no longer necessary. That large body is therefor to disappear. Only a tenth part of it will now be needed to support the brain. The individual is to become all head. The human race is to become all Technocracy."
What is interesting is that, Orwell reviewed That Hideous Strength which clearly impacted his later work of 1983.
Anyway, I would highly recommend that you read That Hideous Strength alongside "Game of Gods" by Carl Teichrib that does a deep dive into this theme.
Excellent as usual. I wish I could have articulated it this well.
I was an atheist once. Then I grew up.
It's silly to pretend you have an answer to everything. The real world is a very mysterious place and there will always be things we simply can't know ... at least now. Scripture even speaks about this.
This need to pretend to be smarter than you really are or will ever be opens a Pandora's Box of Madness and tends to lead men to their own destruction. You have to know your unknowns. A real sign of higher native intelligence is a strong tolerance for ambiguity in your epistemology of known things.
The subtraction of God places an unbearable burden on man, offering a supremacy in reason. It doesn't enlighten - it "enheavies". In fact, it crushes you.
The fetish for cleverness is to do with this, I think. Related to credentialism and science worship, it is at base a powerful appeal to human vanity, which is the means of making up the deficit between man and God. This explains some of the appeal of evil.
This is banging, Frank!
Well that’s very kind of you. I don’t know how this comes across sometimes and had the typo horrors too - due to recent crayon related mishaps. Thank you.
Stop using crayons, too hard to handle. Colored pencils are a bit more elegant
But they taste so delicious...
Maybe they will not let him have anything sharper than crayons (whomever they may be).
It’s incredible how you synthesise all this information and draw from it such powerful insights and wisdom.
The voices haven't failed me yet.
My wife is always getting onto me about talking to myself. I tell her that whenever I am in need of intelligent conversation I talk to myself.
I think I would have more respect for those that reject God if more of them came to that conclusion through deep consideration of the matter. What galls me is the regularity with which I hear people dismiss the concept of God for reasons which tell me they’ve put almost no thought into it at all. I can’t wrap my head around the question of greatest importance being treated as an afterthought.
The British public made their pact with the Devil in 1945 - Socialism sold to them as cradle-to-grave welfare by the Devil’s servant, Labour. In return the people signed away their freedom for bondage as serfs to the State. And so here we are.
You said part 2 will deal with the 'vid. However, I had two sobering and sad, heartbreaking, really, conversations today. I was talking to a coworker (who is a relative by marriage) whose husband died this past January...a week before my father. He died of "turbo cancer", as my father did, the result of the " vaccine "...same as my father (he blamed the shot himself before he passed). Then I called my health insurance company to find out why the premiums skyrocketed almost $400 month. The response? Shot-related complications (it just so happens the serious illnesses reported were from previously healthy individuals who got the shot. A deal with the devil indeed.
God rest your father's soul Aaron.
I’m sorry for your loss Aaron.
This is a very good description of the modernist crisis that destroyed European elites from about 1850 to 1950. I think people make the mistake of treating it as our current crisis, which is postmodernist and, despite its roots in modernism, is a very different species of animal. There are a few hangers-on who still profess ideals from 1900, but ascribing current events to those people is, at best, a waste of time. Comparable to blaming Puritannical WASPs for ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The great hereditary sin of modernism was to idealize unironic Nietzscheanism, which had the expected effect of turning the try-hard WASP elite into doormats for an unironically Nietzschean, postmodernist Jewish elite.
If an enterprising author wanted to explicate this idea, I'd suggest drawing from the real-life case of Leopold and Loeb. It's a perfect microcosm. Mix in a bit of Masochisia for flavor (warning: that game is extremely disturbing).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb
One thing you will notice Frank is that when folks take the "Satan" pill, so to speak, everything inevitably merges into a form of universal oneness. The self is completely destroyed.
This is a Luciferian ideology masked with enlightenment ideals. This "Omega Point" (Arthur C. Clarke), "Singularity" (Ray Kurzweil) or "Brahman" (H. P. Blavatsky) is the satanic inversion of the "new heavens & earth" of The Biblical Apocalypse (Revelation 21:1).
C. S. Lewis picked up on this in his sci-fi novel "That Hideous Strength":
"The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs. In the new age, what has hitherto been merely the intellectual nucleus of the race is to become, by gradual stages, the race itself. You are to conceive the species as an animal which has discovered how to simplify nutrition and locomotion to such a point that the old complex organs and the large body which contained them are no longer necessary. That large body is therefor to disappear. Only a tenth part of it will now be needed to support the brain. The individual is to become all head. The human race is to become all Technocracy."
What is interesting is that, Orwell reviewed That Hideous Strength which clearly impacted his later work of 1983.
Anyway, I would highly recommend that you read That Hideous Strength alongside "Game of Gods" by Carl Teichrib that does a deep dive into this theme.
God bless