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Putin’s speech and what it means.

Read the whole thing here, direct from the Kremlin, because I would not trust a single Western Media source with telling me the sky is blue at this point.

In essence, however, Putin is doing simply what I stated Russia was and would continue to do, back in October 2022 (well, long before that, but I spelt it out on this blog for the masses then).

And that is: Using verifiable facts (aka known as truth) as their propaganda. Is EVERYTHING Russia says on the level? Maybe not. I am sure some tiny elements here and there might be actual propaganda, but by and large, what Putin says is pretty closely related to the reality of facts, events and objective observations of reality.

In the long term, especially when you are dealing with actual missiles and guns and flying bullets, that kind of “propaganda” is invincible.

Because even the retarded norms start to see it after a while.

Here is a small excerpt of his speech.

The recent Munich Conference turned into an endless stream of accusations against Russia. One gets the impression that this was done so that everyone would forget what the so-called West has been doing over the past decades. They were the ones who let the genie out of the bottle, plunging entire regions into chaos.

According to US experts, almost 900,000 people were killed during wars unleashed by the United States after 2001, and over 38 million became refugees. Please note, we did not invent these statistics; it is the Americans who are providing them. They are now simply trying to erase all this from the memory of humankind, and they are pretending that all this never happened. However, no one in the world has forgotten this or will ever forget it.

None of them cares about human casualties and tragedies because many trillions of dollars are at stake, of course. They can also continue to rob everyone under the guise of democracy and freedoms, to impose neoliberal and essentially totalitarian values, to brand entire countries and nations, to publicly insult their leaders, to suppress dissent in their own countries and to divert attention from corruption scandals by creating an enemy image. We continue to see all this on television, which highlights greater domestic economic, social and inter-ethnic problems, contradictions and disagreements.

I would like to recall that, in the 1930s, the West had virtually paved the way to power for the Nazis in Germany. In our time, they started turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia.”

Actually, this project is not new. People who are knowledgeable about history at least to some extent realise that this project dates back to the 19th century. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland had conceived it for one purpose, that is, to deprive Russia of these historical territories that are now called Ukraine. This is their goal. There is nothing new here; they are repeating everything.

He is absolutely right.

And the next piece I put here has some real zingers in it. Not because of smart word-play, or fancy rhetoric. But precisely because it is a hammer of truth on a tiny blob of gay glop, that is the GAE Western world (emphasis added) and [commentary by me].

 

We are not at war with the people of Ukraine. I have made that clear many times. The people of Ukraine have become hostages of the Kiev regime and its Western handlers, who have in fact occupied that country in the political, military and economic sense and have been destroying Ukrainian industry for decades now as they plundered its natural resources. This led to social degradation and an immeasurable increase in poverty and inequality. Recruiting resources for military operations in these circumstances was easy. Nobody was thinking about people, who were conditioned for slaughter and eventually became expendables. It is a sad and dreadful thing to say, but it is a fact.

Responsibility for inciting and escalating the Ukraine conflict as well as the sheer number of casualties lies entirely with the Western elites and, of course, today’s Kiev regime, for which the Ukrainian people are, in fact, not its own people. The current Ukrainian regime is serving not national interests, but the interests of third countries. [We know they mean the USA and NATO puppets, but I’d love to know if they add Israel to that list]

The West is using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia and as a testing range. I am not going to discuss in detail the West’s attempts to turn the war around, or their plans to ramp up military supplies, since everyone is well aware of that. However, there is one circumstance that everyone should be clear about: the longer the range of the Western systems that will be supplied to Ukraine, the further we will have to move the threat away from our borders. This is obvious.

The Western elite make no secret of their goal, which is, I quote, “Russia’s strategic defeat.” What does this mean to us? This means they plan to finish us once and for all. In other words, they plan to grow a local conflict into a global confrontation. This is how we understand it and we will respond accordingly, because this represents an existential threat to our country.

However, they too realise it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield and are conducting increasingly aggressive information attacks against us targeting primarily the younger generation. They never stop lying and distorting historical facts as they attack our culture, the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional religious organizations in our country.

Look what they are doing to their own people. It is all about the destruction of the family, of cultural and national identity, perversion and abuse of children, including pedophilia, all of which are declared normal in their life. They are forcing the priests to bless same-sex marriages. Bless their hearts, let them do as they please. Here is what I would like to say in this regard. Adult people can do as they please. We in Russia have always seen it that way and always will: no one is going to intrude into other people’s private lives, and we are not going to do it, either.

But here is what I would like to tell them: look at the holy scripture and the main books of other world religions. They say it all, including that family is the union of a man and a woman, but these sacred texts are now being questioned. Reportedly, the Anglican Church is planning, just planning, to explore the idea of a gender-neutral god. What is there to say? Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Millions of people in the West realise that they are being led to a spiritual disaster. Frankly, the elite appear to have gone crazy, and it looks like there is no cure for that. But like I said, these are their problems, while we must protect our children, which we will do. We will protect our children from degradation and degeneration.

It makes you wonder why, we in the West are apparently NOT protecting our children. How many of you are staying silent while transgenderism is being taught in elementary schools your children attend?

How many of you are not taking steps to separate yourselves from degenerate ideologies that run counter to biological reality?

How many of you are brainwashed into accepting the premise that all cultures and all ethnicities and all people are all equivalent in objective terms?

How many of you use the word “gender” when the correct word is “sex”.

Gender is used for Romantic languages that have masculine and feminine words, it is not used for people or animals to describe the sex, which, in mammals is either male or female, excepting an extremely tiny number of genetic mishaps where a few unfortunates have sexual chimeras usually known as hermaphrodites. Do you now use the repurposed word “gender” to “normalise” the utterly insane and idiotic idea that “gender (meaning the biological sex of people) is a social construct”?

Because if it were socially acceptable (give it time), and I was that way inclined (never gonna happen), I could pretty much bitchslap you in the face with my “social construct” until you change your mind.

It doesn’t matter if you like Putin or not. It doesn’t matter if you think he is part of the big plan of “the Jews”, or “the Bankers”, or “the Elite”, or aliens from outer space for that matter. Right now, Putin is demonstrably light-years closer to the truth than the entire Western World put together.

The FBI has recently admitted they consider Sedvacantists “White Supremacists” which is, of course utterly nonsensical, but since when has the truth ever got in the way of the alphabet Soup present in America (and with its tentacles very far up the backside of the entire West)?

So, hot on the heels of my last post: What are you doing Western Man.

Are you protecting your children from the lies and the demonic scourge after them?

I’ll tell you, I consider the Eastern “Orthodox” Schismatics and wrong on the theological facts, but:

  1. They are half a Galaxy closer to the truth than any of the other fake Churchian denominations, and a few full Galaxies closer than Protestantism (all 40,000+ versions) or the Satanism that currently pretends to be the “Catholic” Church.
  2. I’ll worry about converting my misguided Russian friends to proper Christianity (Sedevacantist Catholicism) after Davos Man has been made extinct by them. And if they actually do, well, I sure hope God forgives them their errors. And less so our own timidity in the face of the enemies of truth, beauty, life and innocence.

Ultimately, Putin’s speech means exactly what it says.

We told you to leave us alone. You didn’t. We warned you repeatedly. We are still doing so. Now enough. You carry on playing this game, we will hit you in your own back yard.

Kayfabe is over.

Kaliber is in.

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Internal States

The details of this point could cover an entire volume, and I don’t mean with any woo woo, new age, crystals nonsense, but on the aspects related to neurology, physics and reality.

Be that as it may, the succinct point of it is that you should have by now realised the obvious:

The ENTIRETY of the mass media machine, irrespective of brand or who owns it or whether they are on “our” side or not, is fully geared to —-by design and by nature—- causing you to be in a constant state of anxiety.

Mild but constant panic mode. Rush mode. Do this by this time or else. Short breaths as if in fear, because you are. No time for yourself to read a book for fun, or play with your kids, or hear them say their thoughts, or teach them something, or learn what nonsense they are being told at school. And on, and on, and on, and on.

The only place where I saw relaxation being forced on you was Systema classes. And it is good. If you can learn to be calm internally when another guy is trying to hit you with a whip, or a stick, or a punch, or a training knife, it certainly develops you as a human being.

However, the low-level constant drip-drip of anxiety inducing information is far more subtle and insidious. You need to ward it off by a conscious act of rebellion.

They are gonna nuke my city!

Breathe deep. Relax. The bomb is not here now. Now I am here and I will breathe and watch the leaves on that tree for a few minutes as I let my mind rest.

Fuck! I don’t have money! I am not sure how I will buy groceries for my children this week!

Breathe. Sit down. Watch the river flow or the clouds move slowly. Or an ant in the grass. Let it all go. 5 or 10 minutes of calm and peace will not make things worse. Then, after, take a step, and another, find some work. Any work. After, find a way. And work it. The same way you fight a war. Calmly. Consciously. Control the chaos inside you. Hold the line. Everyone dies. No one gets out alive eventually, so walk. Stand. And walk on, towards what comes.

These attitudes that no one has taught you. These ways that used to be the mainstay of Catholic education for any man of faith, be he peasant or even more so warring knight or justiceering crusader or just curious explorer.

These ways, that the martyrs of the Catholic Church had above all men, walking calmly in joy to their death by lions at the circus in Rome, because they knew it would increase the spread of the gospels. Or tortured to death for becoming a Catholic there and then, like the Saint whose name I took at Baptism. Or walking on without food or water, their horses dying, to take Antioch under impossible conditions.

These ways are the ways of men.

These ways are the ways, of all kinds of men, from the noble savage to the eternally wrong atheist that doesn’t recognise his sense of honour as a divine spark, but especially, historically, overwhelmingly, they are the way of Catholic men. And as far as I can tell from all the Sedevacantists I have met, whether militant like me, or milder in nature, in either case, they do not lack the rhythm of an army marching without fear towards the places to be conquered.

Catholicism, despite being slandered, lied about and fooling millions by the Satanists currently usurping the Vatican, is a faith for adults.

And it is not a passive or defensive faith. There is a reason Catholicism is called the Church Militant. (No relation to the fake, gay, freemason filled “Church” of “ex” gay Gary Voris who also usurps the name).

Sedevacantist congregations continue to grow and they increase with young people, young couples who bear numerous children. Their places of worship are often overflowing and standing room only.

Oh but you’re few.

We don’t care. And watch. And wait.

Oh but you don’t have a Pope.

We don’t care. Eventually there will be one or it will be end times. Either one is fine with us.

Oh but you don’t have any valid priests or bishops.

Lie. We do. And will continue to do so.

Oh but what can you do, anyway.

Save our souls. And those of others we show the truth to and see. And obey God.

Oh but…

We don’t care. You can’t stop us. You can’t turn us. We will continue on and outbreed you, out reason you, and we have no need for fear or doubt, or even hope, because we know. We know.

You go ahead and complain, or criticise, or laugh, or persecute us, it makes no difference to us.

And above all, you know what we have inside?

Peace.

Calm.

Joy.

Discipline.

And nothing of the clown world out there gets us down. All the depressed and depressing and hopeless people? We just see that as a target rich environment for our message, the gospels. Our faith. The truth.

We are not surrounded by despair, we are lighting fires of faith everywhere around us.

That is our inner state.

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Tranny Narrative not Going Well in Italy

This were the stencils painted on the doors of the toilets at a pretty upscale bar/cafe we went to today.

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Be ashamed

Look at this video. Faced with the mildest of questions see how Billy nearly has a fit.

These are the overlords who are going to decide how we live, what we eat, if we have children, and what fake transgender bullshit they will be subjected to?

These are the masters of the Universe?

Karl Schwab who runs away from a basic interview question, Billy who nearly shits himself, and who? Soros with, if memory serves, some bisexual or anyway freaky degenerate son?

Billy, according to people that would know back in the day, never had anything to do with the “suck-cess” that was Microsoft, because apparently he spent all his time masturbating to porn.

This is what happens when the people who used to get stuffed in lockers and head-first in toilet bowls when I was in high-school instead have their life pre-paid by the Jewish financiers that want us to eat bugs and don’t get the benefit of some old-style bullying.

How much adversity do you think Billy has ever faced when he almost goes apoplectic at a simple softball question?

Why is anyone letting these miserable incel fucks tell us anything? Anything at all?

Because I tell you, I’m sure as shit not going along with ANYTHING Billy or his kind have planned for us all. Not one fucking millimetre of one thing.

What about you? And if you are, if you did, if you do, if you will, shame on you and all your progeny, if you’ll even have any.

UPDATE: Thanks to ChadBH from SG.

UPDATE 2: From a friend who shall remain nameless but that I know personally is not one to make things up:

“Just read the latest post. Many times, [REDACTED] (elite Jewish friend) tried to tell me what other elites had told him about BIlly. That he was mentally-deranged fool. Not his words, but the nutcase tantrums Billy would throw in boardroom meetings was relayed to him by a Microsoft board member.

I thought Bill Gates was a genius and he couldn’t be bonkers so I refused to believe it. My retort was, “How could he have built Microsoft then, outwitting competitors???”. [REDACTED] would always stare at me. Then try again a few weeks later.”

It is pretty clear if you watch that little mini documentary about him I posted earlier, that he is not neurotypical. And not in a good way. See how he rocks back and forth like some brain-damaged lemur?

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Alternative 3 for the Lone Wolves or Young Couples – James Warren Designs

PLEASE NOTE: I have ZERO commission, or any kind of business relationship with Wharram Designs. I bought a few of their study plans and wrote them a somewhat crazy email, thanking them for their work and Mr. Wharram for his designs. I received back a lovely letter and they posted me a gift of their two books and some articles. I highly recommend them and have links at the bottom for everything.

I have covered the big picture, (Part 1 of 4 is here) including many of the details that you need to shift to if you want to eventually be rid of the Globohomo Davos Trannies and their incel “elite” plans for you.

Alternative 1 is to just have a go-bag and weapons, whatever you can carry, a vehicle, that you can ideally sleep in, and have no family, friends of attachments, which I would assume is a very small number of people, and most of these are probably not of the healthiest frame of mind.

My Alternative 3 is not the famous one, though, if you have a spaceship, do come and see me we certainly need to talk!

My alternative 3 is the poor man’s version of the one where you jump into your anti-g spaceship and sail off to a better Galaxy.

I have been interested in yachts since I was a teenager. At age 16, I would have loved to have a yacht I could travel the world in, trading in odds and ends, like a merchant ship of old. I knew the world was already too filled with giant cargo ships to make that viable, but I also knew the world is a big place and someone always needs something somewhere, and if my upkeep was just my boat and myself, even “small” profit margins were probably ok for me to survive on. I read through a bunch of yachting magazines and even did a sailing course in Durban, while I kept trying to figure out how to get one. Yachts are expensive and normally not anything you can afford as a young guy who even almost ten years later was making ends meet by teaching karate, or working as a bodyguard, or even selling my first book, The Face on Mars (since updated). As it turns out I bought property with the proceeds of the book, and it was a better decision.

Perhaps, also, my having moved countries so much and relatively cheap flights making the long journeys at sea unnecessary to get where I wanted to go helped make me sort of forget my original dream, of sailing the world, probably around the equator, as I hate the cold, visiting remote tropical islands with their friendly suntanned females.

Whether by luck or providence, bad or good is hard to say, I did not come across the work of James Wharram. Then again, back then the internet did not exist and what yachting magazines I could get my hands on did not mention him. I know, because if I had come across a guy who was selling do it yourself designs of working, ocean capable catamarans, I definitely would have remembered.

I briefly toyed with possibly getting a dragonfly 25′ but even that was completely out of my reach financially in my mid 20s.

Well, James Wharram was a man after my own heart. He recently passed away, but he left an enduring legacy of catamaran designs that embody perfectly the spirit of adventure I had (and still have, despite 2 failed marriages, one awesome one I am currently living, and now 5 children).

If I was in my mid 20s now, I would almost certainly try and secure a place where to build it, then purchase one of the plans, selecting one depending on whether I had friends to help or not. Ideally, if I was just thinking of myself and my girlfriend/wife (and in today’s climate you really want it to be wife rather than girlfriend) I would probably go for the Tiki 30′ or Tiki 31′ design. Assuming I could afford the materials to build it. But if it’s just you or two of you and you’re willing to go at it even a bit rough and hard, even a tiki 21, design is good enough to escape the rat-race.

Now, make no mistake, building one of these is NOT a walk in the park. And sailing is NOT a joke. The ocean is like one of the old Gods of Ancient Greece. Read the Illiad and the Odyssey. Then read of how many die a watery death for being unprepared, untrained, or maybe just unlucky.

BUT. Think about it. A Tiki 21′ was successfully sailed across the Atlantic in 34 days. A Tiki 26′ sleeps 2 in the hulls with a chart table and galley, perfect for a young couple. And a deck tent would extend it to another 2, though your range would be limited.

If you stuck to the tropics, a Tiki 31′ could not only be a working boat, but also a cruiser for a couple.

The most versatile of the smaller designs, I think is the Tiki 30′ and also, comparatively easier to build, at only 900 hours, it almost makes no sense to build a Tiki 26′ which is about 700 hours.

Now… it is an absolute fact that many who start never finish, and even those who do can take years, but, gentle reader, whenever have I written for the average normie?

No, no, I write for the crazies, the fundamentalist Catholics, the zealots, the explorers and adventurers that have the blood of the old Venetian spice traders, or the Genoese discoverer of America, aptly named Cristoforo, or the Spanish conquistadors, and all other great adventuring tribes and people. I write for those determined enough that they would study the build plans of a Tiki 30′, which only cost £1035, after they first got the study plans, for a mere £19.50, obsessively. And calculate the costs and trips to get all the relevant materials, then beg, borrow or find a way to have a place to build it, and the tools for it, and then… figure out that 900 hours is a mere 90 days without breaks of ten hour shifts. A mere flirtation with Death and Father Time, really.

Of course, I am partial to the Tiki designs for some aesthetic reason, but there are numerous alternatives, and of course, if you have the funds, you could buy pre-built ones, or second hand ones and so on.

In my folly, at the age of 26, I actually called up a guy in Ireland that was selling a 70′ trimaran about 20-25 years old, pretty much only a year or so younger than I was. He was selling it very cheaply and also had the building plans. When I called him he told me he had already sold it, but he asked what experience I had on the sea. I said none. He was incredulous and laughed, telling me this was no boat for complete greenhorns. I told him that the prospect of learning how to skipper such a boat, even with the chance it might kill me if I screwed up, didn’t worry me. Not following my dreams was scarier. He then spent a good half an hour talking with me. Being an Irishman he probably could relate to the partially insane.

Anyway, the point is, if you’re tired of all the bullshit, of all the fakeness and gayness in life, and long for the few prospects of a meaningful and adventurous life, if you are healthy enough and determined enough, there is no reason you couldn’t build one of these boats and sail to warmer climates. Island hop and find other ways to live.

I also very strongly recommend James’ books, I have already read Two Girls Two Catamarans, which is a pretty amazing story. Mr. Wharram was obviously a bit of a libertine, but the way he faced life and the level of adventure and sheer determination he showed is quite astonishing. It is also inspiring, not so much for his having achieved every 16 year old’s dream of sailing an all-female crewed boat where you are on intimate terms with the whole crew, but, more importantly, showed what could be done, and still can be done if you adapt, and what will be possible to do again once we overcome the Davos Transgender, Transhumanist, “eat bugs and be happy” scum. The will and dreams of one man can achieve the seemingly impossible.

You can purchase both books and more at his site here.

I am now 53, as I said, with a non-working olive tree farm and natural truffle farm, very little money, and five children, the older two being 11 and 7 and the rest all under 4 years old, the latest one not even 3 months old.

Our house still needs some painting and additional work on it to have all the wardrobes and things we will need as the children get older. Tomorrow is the first day of creche for the two little ones.

And oh yeah, I am trying to build a community of like minded zealots.

And my wife, though some would (and have) describe her as “trying to achieve Sanctification” I assume, of course, for her need to keep up with such a great catholic as myself eh… I can’t even bring myself to say it as a joke, but anyway, let’s say that being the party girl she was, and me being the savage I still am, and likely always will be, life has been interesting since we got together, and pretty much non-stop. I mean, our wedding anniversary will come up in a few months and it will then be 5 years.

In that time, we have:

  • Moved 3 times
  • Including moving all our stuff from the last home to a new country
  • Had one miscarriage…
  • …and three children
  • Spent the last 2 years so far, getting the house and farm in some kind of liveable order
  • We have travelled to Southern Africa to see my brother and my dad (each in a different country)
  • Went to Switzerland for a friend’s wedding, while my wife had a broken foot, on which, with an air-boot type thing on, she danced with me at the wedding reception of my friend, because, eh…broken foot is one thing, but you know…music! The woman can’t help herself when music comes on.
  • Driven through Europe from Venice to London, in my little convertible Mercedes I had bought when I was single and living in Venice.
  • Done it the other way too and then a bit more, in two cars, she with 3 children in the car, including our then 4 month old, and she did a 16 hour stretch, arriving to our place that didn’t even have a working sink in the kitchen, just a tap out the wall.
  • Had my daughter come and live with us too.

And that’s just the stuff I remember off the top of my head. To say it’s been easy would be a hilarious joke. Especially to her, since she was pretty much a city girl and had no real intention of being some kind of farm woman from the 1800s.

I do tease her from time to time, by telling her:

“See, it’s all you dreamed of. If they’d told you ten years ago that you’d be living with a tall, handsome, olivine skinned stranger, with our five children, in an idyllic olive grove farm with truffles and a forest you would have swooned.”

Her grumbling replies range from “I told you I used to be really stupid!” to “I’d tell myself to run! Run!”

They do say that couples who stay together to the end of their lives tend to tease each other with little barbs regularly. If that’s true, we’re going to the grave together in advanced old age.

But anyway, I tell you all this, because I wanted to give you a sense of why I haven’t yet told her that I am kinda thinking about, eventually, you know, one day, before we’re too old or anything like that, to maybe, like, possibly, build a Tiki boat from James Wharram Designs. I really am only looking at the Tiki 30’… sort of. Mostly because right now, even the plans are an expense we would be absolutely insane to make, never mind the building of it. But then again… with all the kids, we really should be looking at a Tiki 46′. I think maybe I can sell her on it. I mean, it’s only an estimated 4000 hours build! That’s just a couple of months more than a year working 10 hours a day on it non-stop. Weekends included and no matter the weather.

Maybe I should mention the importance of Sainthood more. I mean, it’s a good story…

From club promo girl…

To Sainthood.

You know, nice anchor, sword, weapon-stuff… thematic.

I may have to skip the part about how that particular Saint ended up though.

Then again, I have had a good life. If I end up murdered in my sleep I can’t complain too much.

And for those of you that missed it, my point is simply this:

Live, young man, LIVE! If a crazy bastard like me can still think about this stuff (and do it in a heartbeat if I scrounge up the money, somehow), what’s your excuse?

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A Clarification on Lent

My take on Lent is that while one might argue about Fish on Fridays, and so on, ultimately, the point of Lent is three-fold.

  1. Giving a correct sense of reverence, respect, remembrance and proper honouring of our Lord’s harsh path through this Earth.
  2. Fasting, as with most mortifications of the flesh, inspires a deeper sense of the numinous, a better understanding of prayer and so on. A chosen “hardship” invariably is one that produces results easier and in a better fashion, generally speaking than a God-sent one (especially if you’ve ignored all signs he may have sent before).
  3. It teaches you discipline, over a period that is more than a day or two.

These are all useful things, however, I am also very aware of the passage in Romans 14:14

“I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”

I have not followed Lent pretty much at all, with some small temporary exceptions, however, throughout my life, I have taken periods where I would not touch a specific thing. Like no sugar, or no alcohol, or no coffee, or whatever. Sometimes these were related to food/drink as a general health boost, although I never really suffered from anything that would need me to make such choices. It was primarily a result of my martial arts training and me wanting to discipline my mind in things other than mere training and fighting, and since eating and drinking are pretty instinctual, I decided to take time to experiment. I at times went up to six months without drinking any alcoholic drink, or touching anything sugary, and so on. It is a good practice to do.

I have also done water only fasts for several days and complete fasts for up to 48 hours (no water or anything else) while going about my day in a normal manner. All these practices make you more aware of the spiritual in some way or other, though they might be difficult for some people who are not used to it and obviously, as always, you are responsible for your own actions. Don’t go doing some weird fast that ruins your health and blame it on me or having read this blog.

So I take Lent in that spirit. My last post might not be perfect from a Lent point of view, especially of a priest of a layman that knows his stuff, but it is a first approach for me, and given that generally I tend to favour meat, since grains and so on often are not ideal for me, it should be an interesting test for me to undergo.

I posted the Idiot’s Guide to Lent precisely so that people who are not familiar with it can maybe tag along and try it in a similar fashion.

Anyway, that’s my take.

Enjoy the next 40 days of tiny, self-chosen, privation.

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The Idiot’s Guide to Lent

As I have explained many times, I am an earnest Catholic, but not a particularly good one.

I tend to focus on the big picture: Who is and is not valid clergy, who is and is not part of the actual real Catholic Church (Sedevacantists) and who is not (all the Novus Orco), but one should really try to live and act as per proper Catholic principles.

WARNING: I am not a priest and this idiot’s guide is primarily for myself.

Lent this year runs from Ash Wednesday 22nd February 2023 and ends on Thursday, April 6 with evening mass on Holy Thursday.

Consulting the Code of Canon Law of 1917 then, we have codes 1250 to 1254 which in essence state the following:

Abstinence = no meat or soups made of meat but eggs, milk and other condiments, even if made from animals are ok.

Fasting = only one meal a day but also allows a little bit of food in the morning and evening but in essence it is traditional that these two smaller meals combined do not comprise enough food to form a full meal.

Every Friday = Abstinence

Ash Wednesday (22nd February 2023) = Abstinence and Fast

Every Friday and Saturday in Lent = Abstinence and Fast

All other days of Lent = Fast only

If you can eat meat on a day, you can also eat fish on the same meal/day

These rules do not apply strictly to labourers that work physically during the day (farmers, stonemasons and so on), or Pregnant or breastfeeding women or children under the age of 7 or people over 60 years of age.

Personally, I am not altogether clear if fish is allowed on Fridays or not. I believe it was allowed for many years before Vatican II, and I do have farm-work to do, so the rules I am going to follow are as follows:

Ash Wednesday – 22nd February 2023: No meat or soups made of it. One meal with possibly small amounts morning and evening

23-24/2/2023: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

Friday 25/2/2023: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Saturday 25/2/2023: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Sunday 26/2/2023: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

27 Feb to Mar 2: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

Mar 3-4: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Mar 5-9: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

Mar 10-11: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Mar 12-16: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

Mar 17-18: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Mar 19-23: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

Mar 24-25: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Mar 26-30: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

Mar 31 to Apr 1: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening, no meat, but I will allow fish if I worked in the field

Apr 2-6: One Meal with possibly small meals morning and evening

I am also going to:

  • Learn the Lord’s Prayer in Latin
  • Learn the Credo in Latin
  • Recite them both daily
  • Do my best to do some Rosary daily

That’s about it.

I am sure this list is missing out a lot of important things, but if I can stick to it it will be a first attempt for me at keeping Lent “properly” so I am putting it out there for all the other wild donkeys (see BELIEVE! for the reference to wild donkeys.)

For those who want to follow along, feel free to post a comment or let me know how you get on.

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“Warriors” oh so SERIOUS!

I recently had a quite pleasant email exchange with a reader that reminded me of an important point that so many would-be tough guys “forget”. Or to be more accurate, never learn, because often they are not actually as tough as they would like, and sometimes, even if they are actually talented at violence, they still have some deep insecurities that make them far from happy people.

Samurais were certainly excellent at performing and facing violence at a moment’s notice, with little qualms about the cost to themselves, but they also were taught to master art, painting, poetry and music. A man who can only do violence without the ability to appreciate and enjoy beauty is little more than a humourless soldier, or a thug.

The word Samurai means servant, because it was understood that their purpose (ideally) was the protection of the House of their Damyo, and as such the protection of his lands and peasants and villagers.

It is true, that a constantly laughing “samurai” or one that is happy only when he is well into his sake cups is undignified, because after all, if your business is violence, it is only right that you be of generally sober mind. Aware, alert, yet relaxed. Which certainly means you should be able to appreciate a clear, sunny day, the singing of a bird, the floating of a butterfly or of falling snow, and be able to smile at the running of a child, the squeal of delight or laughter of of their games, the appreciation of the character of a well behaved pet, like a dog, or of a wild one, for that matter.

To be able to smile, or laugh when called for, and be able to see the lighter side of life even when in a difficult, or even life-threatening situation, need not be a loss of focus from the task at hand, and certainly shouldn’t distract you from what is important. But if you are unable to be joyful and kind because you have this idea of being a grim, man’s man, then, chances are, you’re just an internally weak blowhard.

I believe a man should be complete, and while able to control his emotions and impulses, also able to laugh, cry, be happy or sad, as the situation calls for it, without it ever let it overbalance him one way or the other. This part of the poem should be the guiding light:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same; 

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The House of Christ

Indeed.

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The Curse of Gamma

The latest post about PUAs made me reflect more specifically on my interactions with women in my pre-Catholic past and with the benefit of more than 30 years of reflective hindsight, several things have come to light that I believe are useful for a younger man to know.

As I stated almost 15 years ago, my success with women came as somewhat of a surprise to me too, because I grew up in a location where in my teens, the amount of available girls was few and far between, and the ones I was attracted to was an even smaller number. In fact, I can recall really only one girl that interested me a bit and she was surrounded by guys. Nevertheless, when I approached her in a rare moment we were alone, I was extremely direct. She said she had a boyfriend and couldn’t do anything with me but was appreciative of my honesty. Which was true because some 20 years later she still remembered it and decided to act on it. By then, however, I had evolved well beyond what I was like at age 16 and I was no longer interested.

But the point here is another. Despite my general lack of experience with girls in my formative years, my approach to them was invariably direct. Probably too much so initially, but in any case there wasn’t a lot of small talk. In fact, when they tried to make some of it I didn’t see the point. It usually was not more than a minute or three before I’d say something like: “I like you. Do you want to…(fill in the blank)”. In my teens the blank might have been “go see a film”, and later in life it might have been “go to dinner with me”, and later still “go to your place or mine?” But the basic approach only evolved in the sense of being situationally aware.

I distinctly recall one example that will show just how different my attitude was from most guys, and which might reveal a few things to those who have eyes to see, but may explain nothing to the usual gammas and in fact make them become even more creepily radioactive to women.

See if you can differentiate as to why the same information reported below will make a very few men nod knowingly, recognising something innate within themselves too, make a larger number reflect with consideration on it and perhaps give them some aspect of a “lightbulb” moment, and the eternal gammas, understand nothing, assume putting their egomania on display is the answer, try to ape the behaviour I describe below and come off as absolute stalker/weirdos.

I had gone to a seminar that lasted a couple of days and in the group was an Eurasian woman in her mid twenties that was stunningly beautiful. During the lunch break, before I could get near her I was intercepted by a petite blonde woman who directly asked me if we could have lunch together as she wanted to pick my brains about the seminar and have my take on it. I didn’t want to be rude and said ok, and it was clear that if I wanted to take it further I could do so but I wasn’t interested and I kept things at a polite/professional level.

In the evening, the Eurasian girl had left before I got a chance to see her.

The next day at lunch she went off with a group before I extricated myself from a few people, and by evening when it ended and people were saying their goodbyes and so on, she was literally surrounded by about five or six men, all enthralled and trying to get some indication of how to find a way to see her again.

It was winter, I don’t like the cold and wanted to get home. Normally I might have waited a bit for the crowd to thin so as not to appear brashly rude, but as I said, unlike most British people, I don’t like the cold. But I did want to see that girl again. So I did the only logical thing. I walked up to the group, interrupted their talking and hers, by saying, “Sorry. (Gently move a guy out the way), excuse me, (stepping around another guy)”

By this time the girl has also stopped talking and is looking at me when I get directly in front of her.

“Sorry to interrupt, I don’t mean to be rude, but I have a train to catch to get home and it’s cold. I’d like to see you again, so I wrote my number here (hand her a piece of paper). If you’d like to, will you give me a call?”

She looked a bit like a stunned deer in headlights. Looked at the paper with my number on it, looked back up and in a slightly shell-shocked way said: “uh… oh… okay.”

“Cool. Speak to you soon then. Bye.” Then turning to the small crowd of orbiters, “thanks guys, carry on.” And I left, feeling the wreckage of male dreams like so much flotsam in my destroyer’s wake. And sure enough, I got to experience some of those fantasies they only dreamed of with that girl.

But here is the key point to understand. I did that, in that way, primarily because I was cold and wanted to get out of there. If she’d been alone, I would essentially have done the same thing. The fact she was surrounded by a small crowd of men I literally had to push my way through to get to speak to her only made it more likely she would call me, because, in essence, by doing what I did, in that instant, from a social perspective, I had suddenly stepped all over their status like some Titan of obviously higher rank. But that was not a consideration I had when I made my way to her, merely an observation I noted/sensed immediately after I had said “Bye.”

And this is the quintessential difference between what I call a scout and what Vox Day has labelled the gamma.

I had come up with my own classification of hierarchy between men many years before I had ever had any interaction with Vox or read any of his blogs or knew he existed. My classification was more brutal and utilitarian than his philosophical and nuanced version.

I only had three classes of men:

Alphas, which I defined as the natural leaders of a group, they could be dangerous, at the primitive and instinctual level I generally operate. They can turn a crowd of their followers on you (physically) and I had experienced some of this when in school. Or generally make life unpleasant if their status is threatened (real or perceived) or if they are defending territory or property or anything else they deem “belongs to them” (again, real or imagined). Because of their position within the group, they also usually have access to more resources than most.

Betas, which had many sub-varieties, but they did not concern me until required. They could be anything from the useful geek, or the skilled artist, to the annoying traitor, in essence though, they were not relevant threats. Even at their most vicious, direct confrontation with these types inevitably led to their going belly up like a weaker dog and begging for mercy.

Scouts, these were the small number of men that from an evolutionary standpoint could infiltrate and succeed in tribes not their own. This is a rare skill, because in primitive societies strangers are most likely to become dead. For a member of a different tribe to be able to become accepted, marry into and reproduce with a tribe not his own, requires a peculiar mix of traits. An ability to modify their own behaviour so as to fit in wherever required and play the role well enough to pass for a professional of it. They could act as any number of betas, but also replace alphas at least momentarily when or if required, though they were more interested in exploration than ruling. Whether made by necessity or curiosity, scouts had to be sexually successful, because otherwise, their exploratory genes would have died out quickly. In fact, they probably had the ability to impregnate multiple women in different tribes. They also had the potential to be a threat to alphas. Unlike most men, who when faced with Alpha wrath would cower or flee, scouts could reply in kind, assassinate the king and then take over their throne.

In Vox’s hierarchy, what I call scout is most closely described as sigma.

To get back to it, the scout/sigma and the gamma, are diametrically opposed facets of human male behaviour.

The pushing through a crowd to tell a woman he wants to see her romantically/sexually, done by a scout/sigma type is done with the internal sensations mostly as described, that is:

I’m cold. I want to get the fuck out of here now, and don’t want to wait for that gaggle of fools to run out of steam while I wait in the cold.

While the girl might be the target, the motivator to action is not her, but his own internal reasons.

A gamma would try to ape the behaviour above while internally running a script of pages worth of contingencies, and reasonings, and excuses, and fall-back positions, and movie quotes, and one-liners they think are so cool and funny (to them only), all the while measuring each man in the orbital cloud of the girl and judging them and comparing them against his own perception of himself, scornfully, and they would go into a panicked depressive spiral if they noted, say, a mildly famous actor in the crowd. Probably preventing them from approaching her at all and instead going home in an internal rage of bitterness.

Meanwhile, I couldn’t even tell you if it was six or eight guys hanging around her, and I would not have cared less if one of them was Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, assuming I would even notice or recognise him, with Jason Statham and Bratt Pitt next to him. It honestly would have made zero impact on me, because their actor status means nothing to me within the context of approaching a girl I am attracted to. And if it turns out she were to find one of them more interesting because of their fame, well, quite frankly I’d look at that as a self-sorting issue that worked to my advantage, since the poor girl obviously has no ability to see beyond a facet of life that has zero content as to being an indicator of internal strength of character, which is what counts in my book.

That level of self-awareness, is a mainstay of self-confidence. And it is not faked self-confidence, because it is deeply rooted in fact, that fact being yourself and your knowledge of yourself.

A scout might be ignorant of the ways of women, or of the skill of fishing with a net, but he is supremely clear about who he is, what he knows and does not know, what he cares and does not care about, what he wants or dislikes and so on. And if he gets it into his head he wants to learn to fish with a net, he will approach that with the same intention and intensity he does anything that interest him.

That level of self-awareness is absolutely anathema to the gamma. His primary mode of existence is self-delusion. He has imaginary abilities and hidden talents that exist only in his mind and nowhere in his body and reality.

This is why a scout can approach a woman in a way that would get most men slapped in the face and instead she responds positively to him. It’s not so much what he does or says, but his being deeply self-aware. It transmits to a woman as genuine confidence. And it is. Because the scout is above all a man that is perfectly aware of his strengths and weaknesses. To borrow from the celluloid philosopher Harry Callahan: a scout knows his limitations. He really does. And in that sense he is supremely confident on the facts. It is not bluster, or ego, or false self-importance. It is genuine, real, hard, knowledge.

And women instinctively, innately, and mostly unconsciously, respond to that level of inner confidence. And it is not a thing that can be faked. Certainly not beyond a very temporary fooling at best. I have seen, and so have you, if you pay attention, wealthy, powerful men have their wives of girlfriends cheat on them with financial nobodies that didn’t own their own car. And conversely, women be loyal to men of very modest means even when courted by absolutely powerful and wealthy suitors.

In Italian vernacular, and most latin languages, the short-hand for an alpha/scout type is known simply as “having balls”. A poor man with honour and courage is worth always more than a supremely wealthy one who is a lying coward.

The gammas, even when they become supremely wealthy and powerful, remain mostly radioactive creeps to most women. See Scott Adams and Jeff Bezos and their trajectory with women. They never understand that for all their wealth and power, all they will get from women is at most a grudging respect for their achievements and more likely the gold-digger’s talons of interest, but never the truly hormonal squirting orgasms that makes them release enough oxytocin to want to bear your children every time she thinks about you, or sees you, or smells you.

The curse of the gamma is their supreme self-delusions. They are incomprehensible to a scout, which is why there is usually a mutual and instant deep dislike, between gammas and scouts. Usually direct contempt from scouts towards gammas, and ulcer-forming envy, vindictiveness, and rage from the gamma towards the scouts.

As I explained in my book Systema, the highest form of knowledge a man should have, is knowledge of self. As the ancient Greeks had it carved at Delphi, which I saw with my own eyes:

Man, know yourself.

If only gammas could, it would be a better world. Especially for them, but also for us.

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