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Exploring the Ghost Town of Seebe, Alberta

My friend Andy aka Based Jew and I explore a ghost town.

Music: I Feel You by Kevin McLeod www.incompetech.com

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Glitches in the Matrix: Overcoming Deterministic Systems

Growing up I used to wonder if a perfect game of Mario or Zelda were possible; one without any deaths, completed with perfect efficiency.   It turns out I wasnt the only one, and in the past couple of decades a community has grown up around the concept, men who compete to complete video games in record times, developing new tricks and techniques to shave off seconds from their run and set a new world record.  They call it speedrunning.

I find this hobby fascinating.  Not just for the...

Martin Luther in his Own Words

Modernity ignores theology. It snubs its nose at ontology. Your modern man thinks that the mental landscape he inhabits is something objective and obvious, which becomes readily apparent once the phantasms of faith are removed. He views faith and reason as enemies, believing that God is somehow incompatible with science, computers, and evolution. If only the rest of the world could abandon God, then surely his war-free paradise will be the result. He spouts these ideas as if they’re first...

The Importance of Forgiving Gammas

I suppose that using terms from the Social/Sexual Hierarchy is a bit passé these days. Over the past few years they’ve filtered down to the general vernacular, and in the process they’ve lost their distinctive meanings. It’s the same thing that happened to the word ‘Retarded’. Originally a medical term denoting developmental delays (lit. “Mentally Retarded”) it became a put-down used by the hoi polloi. Similarly terms like ‘Alpha’ and ‘Beta’ (and less commonly ‘Gamma’) have lost their...

Why the Political Left is Losing its Mind

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The political divide between the Left and the Right in America (as well as all other Western nations) is growing wider by the day.  This should be a major concern to everybody; first of all, because an inability to communicate makes violence inevitable (and we’ve certainly been seeing a growth in intra-American violence lately) and second, because an inability to communicate means an inability to coordinate.  The Democrats and the Republicans are not the only actors on the stage: while these...

What is the Nature of Social Media?

Ever since the Barrack Obama era we’ve been immersed in Social Media.  Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram – these sites aren’t simply the online distractions they once were, they’ve become the staging ground where all social, cultural, and political behaviour occurs.  The bulk of online activity is filtered through their paradigm, and yet we have no idea what this paradigm is.  On the surface they sell themselves as simple and straightforward services: chat with friends on Facebook, read t...

The Tide is Returning: Logos is Rising

Ever since Charlottesville ended in disaster, things have been anemic in these parts of the Internet.  Little of significance has been happening with “the right”, and the left have been mustering their forces, pushing increasing levels of insanity and sowing seeds of misery that will bloom over the decades to come.  As of late things have even begun to accelerate – an ephemeral observation, based upon too many vague data points to specifically point to, but nonetheless an observation made by...

An Open Letter to “Porsalin” Regarding False Claims in His Documentary

A YouTuber called “Porsalin” recently made a documentary on Sargon of Akkad, in which I am mentioned.  This is an open letter to him regarding false and inaccurate claims he made about me in his video.  Though not the first time I’ve suffered libellous claims, this merits a rebuttal, because, as Winston Churchill said – “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its pants on.”

I have occasionally touched on issues of race-relations in the United States; it’s hardly been my...

Gnosticism in Contemporary Culture

Gnostic.

It’s one of those words that many people know, but few can define.  It has the whiff of mystery to it; of secrets kept in old tomes, and wizened scholars – perhaps of a dubious moral bent – who guard their secrets from the unwashed masses, those who’d rather enjoy the vulgar hoots of a carnival horn than the rarefied strands of an Elysium melody.  It appears as a ‘technobabble’ adjective in fantasy works (“The Hammer of Gnostic Strength”), and is used by psychonauts who promise perso...

Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age by Fr. Seraphim

Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

by Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose

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This will not be a typical book review.  Were it a normal review, I’d tell you what the book was about, I’d select a few quotations from it, and then recommend that you purchase it for yourself.  This will be far more extensive than that; in fact, what you’re about to read are my edited notes on the work.  Were I to write this way about a self-help book, I could justly be accused of plagiarism – of giving aw...