Bad Brahmin

cowboy preacher

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

A good society is one in which all its people are spiritually upwardly mobile.

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

Not a Christian, and Narnia still shaped my whole childhood moral imagination. I have a distinct memory of trying to get a friend to playact Peter and Edmund vs the White Witch with me in the third grade. The stories carry something that lands well before and beyond the theology.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

It is really remarkable how well CS Lewis was able to write for children given that he had none of his own

The Narnia series is a masterpiece of children's fiction. The chapters are just the right length to read out loud, the tone is perfect for kids, it balances danger with wonder and whimsy

In Narnia, the children sometimes drink alcohol and people occasionally swear, but always with purpose behind it. There is genuine danger and the threat of death is real.

But there are also childhood fantasies of beating up the bully, escaping the evil step-father, and sacrificing for the greater good. The Narnia stories have temptation, transgression, repentance, and absolution in terms that small children can understand.

I'm a father of 3 and I don't think I understand the minds of children as well as CS Lewis did. Even if I weren't a Christian, these are top-tier stories. I'm not sure there is any series that can compare.

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

I read Atlas Shrugged on a plane*. I was flying to Newark for a big pitch meeting. We merged with a company in New Jersey. We were the bitch of the merger, we took the other company’s name. But the new people liked me. I kept getting promoted. I had an equity stake, I thought. It turns out when a private equity place buys you and gives you equity it’s all horseshit. It never pays off no matter what. If they sell you just get a stake in the new company and the payout’s deferred, just a few more years until you sell again, forever. Now I have an equity stake in a startup that’s real stock options. Surely this time. Surely I’ll get the bag and have time at last to write as my career. And if not, some other financial instrument will save me. Surely my investments will go up and up while prices don’t also go up the exact same amount. Maybe The Pussy audiobook- there’s a publisher, we’ll see if they pay me...

I read Atlas Shrugged on a plane. I was ready to hate it. I hated Ayn Rand readers. I hated tech. If I could have created a virus that only killed people with Aspergers I’d have done it. But then if I had the mind to do that it’d take me out as well. Ayn Rand readers should be gassed in camps, Peter Thiel (REDACTED) and (REDACTED) in oil on TV, etc. No one talks about Ayn Rand in anything but the Bill Gates programmer voice. I was ready to hate it. I thought it was the Silmarillion of worshiping rich nerds.

But it’s about creativity. Ayn’s only concept of a big hard project is writing a novel. So when she describes Hank Rearden’s long nights of Promethean metallurgy they sound exactly how it feels to struggle with a novel- the false leads, the oh my God I’ve got it this time and when you execute it’s a complete piece of shit. But you try some stupid throwaway idea and it blossoms into a bridge of gleaming blue steel, ingots glowing hot, molten gold flowing…

If I could only get this chapter... if I could just get everybody off my back... God damn this book really spoke to me, and the plane landed, and the Uber drove me through New Jersey in my nice suit nice haircut, out the window in the green rolling hills I saw the Bell Labs campus. The legend, the Great Pyramid of American industry, where Randian heroes took up the hammer of the gods and forged the transistor, the laser, true miracles were made there, and I felt the genius of those men, and it was a sign. My God I was gonna kill at this meeting. I was gonna take charge and drive this beautiful shining machine with a billion gears bringing (REDACTED product) to America. At the Embassy Suites by Hilton I scripted my pitch. I wrote the entire two hour meeting instead of winging it. I made it with my skill and passion. And I Ubered to the office. And I got there, I had the Powerpoint with embedded videos perfect. And I got to the conference room ready for the well-moneyed 10 years worth of potential business client to come in and took out my Microsoft Surface Pro to hook it to the monitor.

The right cable wasn’t in the drawer. I asked the receptionist who said call the IT guy. Called the IT guy, introduced myself, hey we’re colleagues now this is DT from the West Coast branch. We have a big, big meeting and I need to get my Surface on the big screen. Can you help me get a cable. And he said I don’t know. I said can you help me get another computer to run the presentation. He said I don’t know. I said this is a ten million dollar contract man and he said something like I’m busy fixing the copier. His mouth full of something, maybe Little Caesar’s. I asked some other executive. They said I don’t know. I asked the fuckin CEO, I don’t know.

I don’t remember what happened after that. We got the contract or we didn’t.

The company was shit. In real life rich people buy everything to seek rent through weird financial tricks and make life worse, services worse, everything worse. Promise retards like me we’ll get rich too to channel us into overpromising sales and underdelivering product. There are a million of these for every two Randian titans and most businesspeople should be gassed in camps, dragged behind pickup trucks.

But the book’s not bad.

* Not all of it

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

how do we "work toward living in a high trust society", I wonder

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

something something Baudrillard

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

People don’t take Watergate seriously at this point because they have no respect for the media. Watergate was a media myth about themselves as fearless guardians of ‘our democracy.’ Robert Redford played Bob Woodward ffs.

Really it was a sordid palace coup, and ‘deep throat’ was just an angry FBI agent who got passed over for promotion. You can’t prop up a myth like that when we can all see that journalists, working with dishonest federal employees, are more prone to lies and setting up fake conspiracies than just about anyone else.

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

the faculty that lets one say this with full moral certitude is the exact same one that gives rise to leftism. important to note that Christian institutions encourage things like mass immigration, diversity, the devolution of the patriarchy...

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

For the record:

I love black people. I want them to come to Christ, reduce their crime rates, and for black fathers to stay married.

I love Jewish people. I want them to come to Christ, to call their people out of usury, pornography, and political manipulation.

I love Muslims. I want them to come to Christ, to reject Mohammad, stop colonizing Christian lands, and to reject polygamy and child marriage.

I love Hindus. I want them to come to Christ, to tear down their demon temples, and to stop destroying God’s earth, rivers, and lakes.

I love homosexuals. I want them to come to Christ, to repent of their sexual perversion, and to stop adopting and grooming children.

I love feminists. I want them to come to Christ, to repent of their rebellion and disorder, and joyfully submit to male leadership.

I love white people. I want them to come to Christ, to repent of their liberalism, abortion, and cowardice and to restore their Christian lands by raising their children in Christ.

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

now it's Korn, can I still bhangra?

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

@ the gym and Naal Nachna from Dhurandar shuffles on and I JUST WANNA BHANGRA MAAAN

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

in the middle of leg day, happily blasting death metal and out of nowhere comes amjad ali khan playing raga Todi. emotional whiplash man

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

I would never trust a yoga teacher who can't pronounce the names of the poses correctly. If you didn't bother to learn that, why should I trust that you bothered to learn the poses or the principles or the point of yoga properly?

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

This is either Vedic wisdom or a masturbation joke and I can't tell which

[miss worm @missus_wormy]

All that man can know of god is what he knows in himself, through himself, and by himself

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

Just ordered this, cheers!

[Joshua Christopher Ruebl @JRuebl47185]

An author that I highly recommend is Alain Danielou, particularly his book "Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus". In this book Danielou does a detailed comparison between the Hindu godforms and those of the Greco-Roman religion. He takes godforms such as Vishnu and Apollo and details their similarities and specific attributes depending on the cultural locale and historical development.

One of the things that is missing in this discourse about immigration, work visas, and Hinduism in the states, especially amongst my Pagan followers is the similarities between the Hindu and European Pagan religions. Thomas Karlsson asserts that the Nordic-Germanic religion and the Vedic religion were once the same religion in a remote prehistoric past but branched off into the two Traditions.

In "Gods of Love and Ecstacy" we are provided a detailed description and history of the different Hindu and Greek gods. Danielou compares the worship of the Linga of Shiva with the phallus worship of Dionysus, and asserts that this is the same godform. Both Dionysus and Shiva are associated with creation and destruction, along with the sexual mysteries. Danielou also associates Vishnu with Apollo. He writes that "in Indian cosmology, the explosive centrifugal force which gave birth to the universe is called Shiva; the contrary cohesive force, a centripetal force permitting the formation of the solar systems and stars, is called Shakti (Energy.) This opposition is found in all aspects of existence, either in matter or life. In Aryanized Indian or Mycenaean Shivaism, Vishnu-Apollo gradually took the place of the goddess in a relatively ancient period. He is a masculine representation of the principle Shivaite cosmology considers as feminine. He is often represented under a graceful and youthful form, and sometimes transforms himself into a woman." (Danielou, pg 67.)

In Greek mythology, Apollo balances the twin currents of the Universe in his golden lyre. He is the masculine solar principle and divine order while Vishnu, like Dionysus, preserves the creative current of the universe. "In the Greek world, Apollo appears as the brother and counterpart of Dionysus...The contrasts and affinities between Apollo and Dionysus recall those of Vishnu and Shiva. In rites, Apollo replaces the goddess. The serpent Python, which guarded the Delphic sanctuary, was killed by Apollo, who appropriated the oracle of the earth-goddess." (Danielou, pgs. 67-68.)

This may be controversial, but I consider Hinduism to be an Indo-European religion. Utilizing the concept of Interpretatio Romana, we can see how godforms such as Hermes and Ganesha are similar. We can also see that the Indo-European religions and Hinduism have a much more positive relationship to modern scientific discoveries about the universe and creation, unlike the dogmas of Christianity and Islam. The study of Hinduism is very important for the European Pagan revival.

I highly recommend Alain Danielou's books. He was one of the foremost Western scholars on Hinduism and Traditionalism. His work is indispensable for the practitioners of the Indo-European Pagan Traditions.

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is the little death that brings total obliteration

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

@LordIxabert I'm more concerned about the deployment of the word, which almost unilaterally seems to be in bad taste, except when Krishna does it

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

@LordIxabert If your intuition is correct, I wonder how the metaphysical correction will manifest in your life. If it is wrong, I wonder how the dissynchronicity will manifest. Please report back!

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

@LordIxabert Ehre has a different transmission altogether (related to Sanskrit इष्ट, ishta)

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

@LordIxabert Lat. Arianus, Ariana are via Greek, I think - Arier in German is a post-hoc rationalization of French translations of Sanskrit - methinks the Brit doth protest too much

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

Barber, Symphony #1: emotionally cohesive, moving, grand in scope

Symphony #2: "let me take all the garbage that didn't work for the first one and just throw it in a blender"

am I wrong?

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

Congrats to the Wallis and the Colburn School on an engaging and excellent performance!

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

First time hearing Má Vlast live, fantastic job by the Colburn School. Thoughts -

Cinematic movement 1, truly picturesque
Movement 2 - interesting, not as river-y as expected
Movement 4 seemed a bit sluggish - like it should have had more precise forward push

[Bad Brahmin @badbrahmin]

6 was stunning. Thematic renewal and reinvigoration, bangin French horn, big sexy finish, chef's kiss