I feel like I hit a bit of milestone with this one, not because of the content, although it was another great book, but because it has shown how far I have come in my newfound reading journey.
If you go all the way back to the beginning of this thread of reposts, you’ll see I started reading again with the goal of not just learning, but also with rebuilding my habits. I hadn’t read any books since I was in grade school and I felt that my mind was rotting away. Like I said in my post four months ago, my attention span was shot and I needed constant stimulation to just operate throughout the day. The task of just sitting down and focusing entirely on a book was actually quite difficult at first—I wasn’t illiterate, but at the beginning of my little literary journey I constantly had to go back to reread pages and paragraphs because my mind would wander in the middle of them. Because of this it would take me weeks just to finish the shortest of books.
However, with my last book, about 300~ pages, I finished it in just two days. For people who have read constantly for their whole lives this may not seem like much, but for me this is quite the milestone. I intentionally sat down with the goal of finishing it within two days and I did it. I don’t how many hours exactly I spent reading, but probably around 7-8 hours in total? So, I still have work to do in regard to my speed and efficiency—I still have to reread a few paragraphs here and there, just not even close to how much I used to four months ago—but I am quite proud of my progress. (I may also go back to reread some of the books I began with because I doubt I internalized everything properly.)
It’s amazing, I can genuinely feel my mind working better in practically every aspect.
However, on “Sword and Scimitar”, it truly shows how evil Islam is as a religion. Everyone needs to be educated on the doctrines of this religion. How any sin can be forgiven by going on Jihad; how the Islamic doctrine of “loyalty and enmity” literally engraves tribalism into the religion itself, and so much more that I get uncomfortable thinking about.
Regardless, onto my next book. This time about Medieval Architecture.
I finished “Defenders of The West” a few days ago, but had to wait a few days for my next book to come in the mail before I posted it.
Anyways, my next one is by the same author: Raymond Ibrahim!
Casual sex is one of those things you think you want until you have it, after which you realize it’s unpleasant and annoying and that really what you wanted was to feel like you “made it” and just used this as a proxy for that
flip the genders.
if i had a crush on a man who ignored me for years, then he called me up and he was suddenly interested in me because i could help take care of his child?
i wouldn't. why? because at that point, i wouldn't think it's about him even liking me, i would think it's a matter of convenience after 10 years.
Men often can’t “just be friends” with women because women will not accept the treatment men give to their guy friends: casual hazing, disinterest in personal life, no preferential treatment, etc
Still blows me away that millennials (my generation) grew up in a time where almost every social taboo had been extinguished and you could make jokes about literally anything (the 90s/2000s). And then the second they became adults, they immediately proceeded to built a system of even more rigorous “woke” social taboos and brought back public shaming for off color jokes.
Michael Knowles today on Mormon controversy:
"But I have to come out here in defense of the Mormons, because if trinitarian theology is the criterion [to be Christian], why are the Jehovah's Witnesses listed as Christian? Why are the Christian Scientists who deny the Trinity?
I'm not changing my views about the Trinity or the essential aspects of the Creed, but it does seem to me that the Mormons are being unfairly singled out here.
Everybody beats up on the Mormons all the time. Mormons are very reliable Republican voters. They live very, very good family lives. They're model citizens in many, many ways. And I do think this would be an example of them being unfairly singled out."
@michaeljknowles@BasedMikeLee
My grandfather stormed the beaches of Normandy. I once asked him what kept them pushing uphill and into the meat grinder, what kept them fighting? His answer absolutely floored me.
“We wanted Hatians to sell fake Gucci at the train station.”
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a woman is to keep your dating life private.
The moment you tell other women you’re happy about a man, you’ll get a hundred reasons why he’s not good enough, why you’re settling, or why you’re being a pick me. Example below:
Hating reality — innate sex differences, innate ability differences, group differences, heritability — and then seeking to make taboo discussion of these differences is the beating heart of contemporary progressivism.
Stated differently: The blank slate is its beating heart.
Everyone wants a goonette gf until it’s time to snap her the fourth nut video of the day and she’s mad because you didn’t scream loud enough in the last one