The problem is you, and the solution is repentance
July 2, 2014 § 34 Comments
44 Then [the demon] saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation. — Matthew 12:44-45
Suppose you are someone who has taken the red pill and realized that feminism is false and women are not attracted to obsequious nice guys. Or you’ve realized that there are differences between the races that cannot be managed out of existence by an ever-escalating regime of mandatory tolerance. All your life you thought otherwise, but now you realize that you were wrong about something that was manifest right in front of you. The emperor was parading around naked but you actually believed he was wearing clothes.
You’ve obviously learned some things. But what is the most important thing you have learned?
You have learned that you can be deceived your entire life about something extraordinarily unsubtle: that you can be taken in for years or decades by a naked emperor paraded right in front of your lying eyes.
Zippy Catholic 
Very good, and also a reminder that only a constant state of personal humility and dependence upon the mercy of God will do, no matter how much one knows.
Zippy,
I think you’re confused as to what HBD is:
http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com
Any true form of Christianity is going to align itself with Nature / Reality, and thus be pro-HBD.
Your anti-HBD bit is straight out of the Cultural Marxist playbook.
Doug:
No I’m not.
Just left a comment but it went to spam filter.
Doug:
That’s because you linked to an actual spammer, prowesternchristianity dot blogspot dot com, a site which, along with Occams Razor Magazine, has hit my blog with trackback SPAM.
Yes, I’ve noticed that about the very common formulation, “I used to believe X, but now I realize that Y is true,” where people use their abandonment of X as further proof of Y’s veracity. But in fact, all this truly shows is that you have a propensity to be wrong about the subject at hand, whether that was when you held to X, Y, or both. The only definitive thing we know is that you’re wrong at least half the time.
Hail Mary, free from hypergamy, the fictional, but sometimes useful anti-concept known as “God” is with you. Blessed are thou among women for having been born a Jew and hence in all likelihood having an above average IQ and blessed is the fruit of your womb, the wise, but definitely not supernatural man, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of the “competitor” to evolution, pray for us eugenicists, now, and at the hour of our deaths (not that it really matters…wink, wink)
In the name of Darwin, Dawkins, and the Holy Science, Amen.
Doug, you’re right that’s catchy as heck.
You have learned that you can be deceived your entire life about something extraordinarily unsubtle: that you can be taken in for years or decades by a naked emperor paraded right in front of your lying eyes.
True, but this realization can easily lead into some of Zippy’s favorite(?) modernist traps. Positivism (I need to devise an easy-to-apply truth test to avoid being taken in again) and postmodernism: how can I know that anything is true?
CJ:
Right on.
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Question: The references to “Equality” that Zippy and neo-reactionaries both talk so much about without ever defining what they mean, these references in the documents of the American and the French revolution, were they ever meant to pronounce on the equality of the races of the mankind?
Or were they merely a political argument against the privileges of aristocracy and clergy?
vishmehr24:
I haven’t ever explained what I mean?
What about here, here, here, here, here, here; and as “Matt” at VFR here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, as a non-comprehensive sampling of places where I’ve explained what I mean?
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A creditable backpedal from your previous position, though I’ll take some issue with it:
Repentance is simply the first step, and is by definition an individual event.
The solution is discipleship and sanctification, or the working out your own salvation in fear and trembling, with your brothers, as iron sharpens iron. Making general and exacting accusations against your closest allies may aid the few in dodging the various subtle deceptions, but tend to irreparably harm the latter, because there is not a single Christian in history who has ever repented for his entire raft of sins and realized all his deceptions in a single event.
And considering the manifold temporal deceptions and protections arrayed around the things you speak about, I don’t think ‘extraordinarily unsubtle’ is precisely the word I would use to describe the challenges facing men today, unless I were someone who wasn’t particularly interested in understanding or empathizing with them in the first place. When at war with someone, constant deception and mendacity in the service of that war’s goals (exterminating all white people and Western Civilization) is to be expected. Why haven’t you characterized that deception that way?
We all have a long way to go, especially those of us who presume to be teachers, and shrink away in terror at possibly having to be soldiers.
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