Category Archives: Society

Your Situation & Everybody’s Situation

Posted on November 27, 2016 by JC

Vox Day recently made a post titled “It’s not about you” where he discusses the irrelevance of ones personal situation to the truth. I’ll quote him in his endearing frankness here: Communism is either correct or incorrect. It doesn’t matter if it … Continue reading →

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Trump Wins but Black Pill Time

Posted on November 12, 2016 by JC

Part of me really wants to gloat (and I already have a whole lot) but it would be better if rather than getting complacent that we got serious. As the title suggests, what I want to do here is focus … Continue reading →

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Mexican Flags

Posted on October 23, 2016 by JC

In 2006 I was in the United States on university exchange. This was my first and to date my only visit to the USA unless I count a trip to Guam a few years ago. There are many things I … Continue reading →

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Believing in Anything

Posted on October 16, 2016 by JC

It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense. -G.K. Chesterton This quote is usually rendered as something like “When you cease to believe in God, you believe in anything” but this appears to be misquoted and … Continue reading →

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Immigration & Absolutes

Posted on October 8, 2016 by JC

I would argue (and I don’t think I’d get much disagreement), that if you were to bring 1,000,000 Anglo-Celtic Australians into Japan, you would get an increase in violent crime, theft and public drunkenness. I’ve said this before and may have … Continue reading →

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Hilarity & Hitler

Posted on October 1, 2016 by JC

The last few weeks I have been following what has turned out to be a bit of a storm in a tea cup amongst the alternative right. This post in particular prompted this but it isn’t the first time it … Continue reading →

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The Decline of The Simpsons

Posted on September 25, 2016 by JC

Earlier this year for whatever reason I started thinking about the way me and my peers would quote or reference episodes of The Simpsons. To this day, I have never heard a reference or quote that I did not recognise … Continue reading →

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Jesus and the Jews

Posted on September 24, 2016 by JC

This post began more as a thought experiment at first but some recent commentary on the subject and further thinking will make it more than that. What had originally got me thinking about Jesus and the Jews was the obsession Evangelical … Continue reading →

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Libertarianism & Reality

Posted on September 17, 2016 by JC

I’ve noticed a lot of commentary over the past few years about those who left the libertarian movement, most recently this which gives an interesting insight into the movement by a former participant. My sympathies with the movement were mostly intellectual … Continue reading →

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Politics & Christianity

Posted on September 4, 2016 by JC

Earlier this year I bought a Trump t-shirt and had it delivered via an acquaintance to me since I needed a United States address to get it. It occurred to me that this was the first time I had ever directly financially … Continue reading →

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