Many men of my generation did not leave Christianity because they studied themselves out of it. They left because the version of Christianity handed to them was too small to command their lives.
It was sentimental, embarrassed, therapeutic, worldly, and weak. It asked nothing great of them. It gave them no banner to fight under, no fathers to imitate, no civilization to inherit, no enemies to name, no duties to shoulder, and no King to obey in public.
The church had Christ on the sign, but the world in the pulpit. It spoke in Christian vocabulary while repeating the same moral assumptions that came from the television, the university, the HR department, the algorithm, and the regime.
The Maxim of Impotent Rage: The more successful a man becomes, the greater the density of weak and pathetic men who will be obsessively consumed with him. Highly secure, successful, and confident men are never threatened by other men's accomplishments. But the Sneaky F**kers are driven into unhinged mad hysteria. It is the ultimate form of impotent projection. "Why is this a**hole successful whilst I languish in obscurity with my brilliance yet to be discovered"?"
My advice: Stop focusing on the success of others to fuel your cosmic envy-based hate. Build. Create. Innovate. If you become successful, you won't have to obsess about the success of others.
Have a great day! Off to the beach.
You will notice how it's never the beautiful bugs that are trying to sneak into your house, the butterflies etc. It's always the ugly. The desperate ones.
YouTubers be like “wake up at 4am and run, that’s alpha!” No, it’s not. Look at apex predators; they’re all lazy. Bears hibernate, lions sleep all day. You know who wakes up at 4am and runs? Squirrels.
I'm Sorry, but Thomas Crooks being in a BlackRock Commercial, Ryan Routh being in an Associated Press B-roll and Cole Allen being in an ABC News segment is more than just a coincidence.
That 30 minutes in a corporate hotel room between the last conference session and dinner with your colleagues will have you questioning your entire existence
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani:
“The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession”
“I think that annoys the fuck out of these people”
OTD,1775. Samuel Whittemore,aged 80 becomes a legend.
Whittemore working in his fields spotted an approaching British relief brigade, sent to assist the retreat from Concord. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces, trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98. -wiki.