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		<title>Steve Ermis, Sergeant Minnicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spread their names. At about the 5 mile mark of our hike, a voice behind us asked us to stop and the officer motioned for us to approach him. He got out of his car and met us a few &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/steve-ermis-sergeant-minnicks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/cj-grisham-texas-vet-arrested-for-rudely-displaying-his-rifle-making-others-uncomfortable-child-questioned-video-10348/">Spread their names.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>At about the 5 mile mark of our hike, a voice behind us asked us to stop and the officer motioned for us to approach him. He got out of his car and met us a few feet later. He asked us what we were doing and I explained that we were hiking for my son’s merit badge. He then asked me what I’m doing with the rifle, to which I responded in a calm manner, “Does it matter, officer? Am I breaking the law?”</p>
<p>At that point, the officer grabbed my rifle without warning or indication. He didn’t ask for my rifle and he didn’t suggest he would take it from me. He simply grabbed it. This startled me and I instantly pulled back – the rifle was attached to me – and I asked what he thought he was doing because he’s not taking my rifle. He then pulled his service pistol on me and told me to take my hands off the weapon and move to his car, which I complied with. He then slammed me into the hood of his car and I remembered I had a camera on me (one of the requirements of the hiking merit badge is to document your hikes). This video is the rest of that encounter. Up to this point, I am not told why I am being stopped, why he tried to disarm me, or even that I’m under arrest.</p>
<p>We did not set out that Saturday morning to “make a point” or cause problems. Our goal was to complete a 10-mile hike and return home without incident. My son chose a route that away from populated areas but near our home.</p>
<p>The arresting officer is Officer Steve Ermis and the supervisor is Sergeant Minnicks of the Temple Police Department.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Intelligible</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GBFM is sneaky. He lozlzzzls you into inattention, then sticks the tip in: On this pretty Easter Sunday, I would like to point out that the Marxist Communist Bolsheviks destroyed religion in the Soviet Union by abolishing and banning it. &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/intelligible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1021&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GBFM is sneaky.  He lozlzzzls you into inattention, then sticks the tip in:</p>
<blockquote><p>On this pretty Easter Sunday, I would like to point out that the Marxist Communist Bolsheviks destroyed religion in the Soviet Union by abolishing and banning it.</p>
<p>Because the Soviet Union failed and exiled all the Bolsheviks after millions were murdered in the name of communism, the Bolsheviks could not do the same thing again in their new countries. And so they invented feminism, neoconservatism, and postmodernism and used them as battering rams against the souls of the churches and universities. This way, they could abolish religion while not only leaving the church and university buildings standing, but they could actually use the churches to abolish and destroy the Spirit of Christianity, and teach its very opposite from the pulpits like Driscoll at al.</p>
<p>Jesus predicted all of this, as such is the way of the world in Matthew 23, just before the Scribes and Pharisees made sure he would be crucified–imagine speaking the following words to your feminist minister and the fate you would suffer–then you would better understand the Spirit of Easter</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Well, the true meaning of Easter is the Resurrection of the True Ideals of Christianity.</p>
<p>And that belongs not to the institution–not to the church–but to the Man.</p>
<p>For Christ himself had no fancy building nor exalted altar, but only his words and honor.</p>
<p>Christ stated that he was not king of this world, but rather the King of the world of Ideals.</p>
<p>And that Kingdom has ever been the domain of Man. Man’s greatest asset, which he so often forgets these days, is not the knowledge of game to gain him asses lzzlozoz, but knowledge of the Great Books for Men–the unified symphony that begins with Homer and Moses and progresses to Socrates and Jesus–exalted by Dante et. al on down the line.</p>
<p>And Christ invites you to celebrate Easter as your Fathers did, not to man up and marry the sluts as your pastor prescribes, but to Man Up and read the King James Bible for yourself.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>And the greater salvation for all the men coming of age is not to be found in gaming deosuled, berankified, debt-laden womenz, but it is to be found in honoring the classic, epic ideals.</p>
<p>The classic, epic, exalted ideals will not make a woman’s butt nor gina tingelzozlzozo, and thus, at the end of the day, following the classic, epic exalted ideals is not only the highest form of of life, but it is the highest form of fallen game too, for it simply does not answer, respond to, nor is dictated by butt and gina tinglelzozlzzlzozlzzlzozl. And there is no greater game than that–not even wearing furry hats, negging, and wasting your invaluable time on this earth in playing texty-texty games with those incapable of exalted ideals, just to serve your baser, biological callings which so often voluntarily imprison one to the state and its small-souled dictators.</p>
<p>As Jesus died for you, so too was He reborn for you. Do not call is “teahcings” noise as so many churchians do. Do not falsely suppose that he came to abolish the law of Moses, but understand that he came to Fulfill it. Understand that Jesus saw noble pagans as his brothers and false preachers as his enemy, when he stated “there are those who are saying they do not go, who go; and there are those who say they are not going, who end up going.” For Jesus, unlike the false preachers, judges us not by the sect of our faith alone, nor the color of our church, but by our *actions*.</p>
<p>So Man Up, pick up a couple translations of the Bible, of Homer, and Virgil, and read all Your Fathers and Brothers today, and exalt in a Renaissance of the Great Books for Men.</p></blockquote>
<p>Then the &#8220;real&#8221; GBFM kicks back in.</p>
<blockquote><p>dis has been a GBFM sunday sermon which i delivered herein as if i had stated thusly in a church i would have been flogged to death by the minister and his harem of buteteocockeked bernieifkfied womenz (and som of their bastard kidz too who are now getting old enough to listen to their slutty momz about how the reaosn the y have no fatherz is becaseu menz are bad bard bad bad zllzlzlzolzolozzlozozlzzzlzll)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Tremble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Good Friday to Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Age of Treason kisses Lawrence Auster goodbye. The &#8220;movement&#8221; around Auster will dissolve without its Energizer Bunny guru. True to his jewish heritage, Auster was a totalitarian bolshevist control freak. This was evident in the meticulous editing and pasting required &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/a-good-friday-to-die/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1015&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://age-of-treason.blogspot.com/2013/03/lawrence-auster-is-finally-dead.html">Age of Treason kisses Lawrence Auster goodbye</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The &#8220;movement&#8221; around Auster will dissolve without its Energizer Bunny guru. True to his jewish heritage, Auster was a totalitarian bolshevist control freak. This was evident in the meticulous editing and pasting required to fit each individual comment from private email into the public, micromanaged &#8220;debate&#8221; on his blog. It was also evident in the way he would regularly inform other bloggers which commenters or topics were anathema.</p>
<p>The essence of Auster&#8217;s project, his &#8220;View from the Right&#8221;, was to inform others how to see the world, the &#8220;right&#8221; way to think about it. His two most frequent themes were &#8220;anti-semitism&#8221; and &#8220;liberalism&#8221; &#8211; with the underlying connection between these, and most of his other topics, being his and his sycophants&#8217; overriding concern for the best interests of the jews.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Today the White race lost a self-professed jewish fifth columnist. Hallelujah!</p></blockquote>
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		<title>A Polar Bear Fell on Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So. Roadhouse, huh? Is this some kind of secret all the WNs have been keeping from me?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1013&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So.  <em>Roadhouse</em>, huh?  Is this some kind of secret all the WNs have been keeping from me?</p>
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		<title>Homesteader Porn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Safe for work.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1007&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Safe for work.</p>
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		<title>The lifecycle of Adria Richards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s for the nerds.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1003&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This one&#8217;s for the nerds.</p>
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		<title>Mindweapons is dead.  Long live Mindweapons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mindweapons in Ragnarok has succumbed to the feminine imperative. Its gracious host (no sarcasm intended) today notified all male commenters that they must treat female commenters as more equal than others. http://mindweaponsinragnarok.com/2013/03/18/commenting-etiquette-take-note-hipster-and-liberators/ I challenged: Mindweapons now has its own Overton &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/mindweapons-is-dead-long-live-mindweapons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=1000&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mindweapons in Ragnarok has succumbed to the feminine imperative.  Its gracious host (no sarcasm intended) today notified all male commenters that they must treat female commenters as more equal than others.</p>
<p><a href="http://mindweaponsinragnarok.com/2013/03/18/commenting-etiquette-take-note-hipster-and-liberators/" rel="nofollow">http://mindweaponsinragnarok.com/2013/03/18/commenting-etiquette-take-note-hipster-and-liberators/</a></p>
<p>I challenged:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mindweapons now has its own Overton Window, calibrated to female sensitivities. This is not a win.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mindweapons responded:</p>
<blockquote><p>Do you allow men to make sexually insulting remarks to women in your household?</p></blockquote>
<p>I replied to Mindweapons and to a few other commenters, but my replies have gone down the memory hole.  It seems I am banned. </p>
<p>Here is a reconstruction of what I said to MW:</p>
<blockquote><p>You are equating women you don&#8217;t know in real life who comment on your blog to women in my household.  This helps my case, not yours.</p>
<p>Your blog, your rules.  I do think you are right to ban anyone whose speech you find foul; I worry that this is a dangerous path, that by allowing women to define polite discourse, we invite microaggressions.com.  Your goddesses will smother the invaluable discussion on this invaluable blog.</p></blockquote>
<p>In response to my first comment, Trainspotter said:</p>
<blockquote><p>We’re here to secure the existence of our people. MW’s actions are entirely consistent with that.
</p></blockquote>
<p>I replied &#8220;Presuming you reject the premise that Women Ruin Everything&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Liberators&#8221;, one of the men targeted by the original post, responded to Trainspotter as well, accusing Mindweapons of AMOGing the rest of us.  He signed off with &#8220;Fuck you/ban me.&#8221;  Wish granted.  Mindweapons had <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amindweaponsinragnarok.com+liberators">previously lauded</a> this commenter for his mindweaponry.  Alas, it appears the feminine imperative sweeps all before it.  The efficacy of white men is nullified by the offense they give to aryan goddesses.</p>
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		<title>The Female Life Cycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<title>Decriminalizing rape is the best way to prevent rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of it as privatizing the police. You get 24/7 protection from the only people who actually care if you get raped.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=993&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think of it as privatizing the police.  You get 24/7 protection from the only people who actually care if you get raped.</p>
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		<title>Women oppose patriarchy because it prevents rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://freenortherner.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/obliviousness-incivility-and-the-destruction-of-the-old-order/ Men’s sexuality, absent civilizational constraint, is naturally aggressive and promiscuous. These men laughing at a woman’s “taco”, grabbing ass, and doing pelvic-thrusts, are acting out their natural sexuality. At one point in our society, this would have been unacceptable &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/women-oppose-patriarchy-because-it-prevents-rape/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=989&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Men’s sexuality, absent civilizational constraint, is naturally aggressive and promiscuous. These men laughing at a woman’s “taco”, grabbing ass, and doing pelvic-thrusts, are acting out their natural sexuality.</p>
<p>At one point in our society, this would have been unacceptable behaviour. Under the old order, lovingly referred to as the patriarchy, but probably more accurately referred to as civilization, civility towards woman was standard; it was called chivalry.</p>
<p>Men raised under this order would have been loath to issue even a mild oath in the presence of a woman, let alone crassly harass a woman over her “tacos”. Had a man been uncivilized enough to harass a woman in such a way, he would have suffered immediate consequences in the form of violence from other honourable men, and more permanent consequences from a loss of social status.</p></blockquote>
<p>The particular form of pornography marketed to women celebrates rape, or even better, rape transfigured into unrape because the heroine secretly longed for the anti-hero.  In contrast, patriarchy is boring and predictable.  There are potatoes and diapers and funerals.  What honest woman wants to deal with that?</p>
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		<title>Women are threatened by my bold spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here, for your amusement, I present some envious old harpy responding to my old post about how I psychologically abused my wife into losing weight and being happy. This has got to be one of the funniest, most egotistical things &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/women-are-threatened-by-my-bold-spot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=983&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here, for your amusement, I present some envious old harpy responding to my old post about how I psychologically abused my wife into losing weight and being happy.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/visual-proof-of-how-game-restores-wives/#comment-876">This has got to be one of the funniest, most egotistical things I have read in a long time</a>. Thank you for the laugh!<br />
For the record I am not for obesity as it is unhealthy, but to be so vain about it is just a testament to how small you are as a man. To try and perfect her physical looks, when you are clearly not sexy yourself… LMAO. You should rename this thread “Narcissistic Proof, you can dominate your wife back to the 1950′s!”</p>
<p>All I get from this thread (other than a hearty laugh) is a bunch of Narcissistic men who are brainwashing their wives into being spineless twigs, so that they may have something to brag about. Usually this type of male behavior stems from “Tiny member syndrome” .</p>
<p>Since we are perfecting your wife for your own benefit how about we fix you up for her? I see you have a bold spot, can we get some hair club for men going on? How about a better job? I can see by the house behind you that you live in a somewhat run down area. We need to set up some muscle building exercises for you as well, the stick man look is not attractive, but I am sure your wife loves you enough to tell you it is.</p>
<p>I totally need to make my own Husband perfecting rules to live by…</p>
<p>I hope some day your wife regains her brain and uses her new sexy body to find an equally attractive male who really appreciates her.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>&#8220;This is what she does. She manipulates people.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Hump has made a huge decision. He explains: My parents don’t love me they way they want me to believe they love me. They are toxic. They demand I live they way they want me to. Their love &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/this-is-what-she-does-she-manipulates-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=980&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My friend Hump has made a huge decision.  <a href="http://humphreyvanweyden.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/lies-toxic-manipulation-i-cut-my-family-off-im-not-in-the-business-of-fixing-my-family-im-in-the-business-of-fixing-me/">He explains</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>My parents don’t love me they way they want me to believe they love me. They are toxic. They demand I live they way they want me to. Their love has always been conditional. I’m broken in part because of my relationship with them. Since cutting them off I’ve been able to identify some thoughts as “being theirs” and “not being mine”. I’m not fixed but I see some things more clearly.</p>
<p>My parents have enlisted their friends in telling me stories about how much I will regret cutting my parents off. People I don’t know are friending me on facebook telling me stories and giving me advice. People who don’t like me are texting me and calling me wanting to catch up and see how I’m doing. Bullshit. This is my mother’s work. This is what she does. She manipulates people.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Intrinsic, extrinsic, idiosyncratic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found an old self-comment that deserves promotion: The ALPHA/BETA axis [Vox Day's capitalization], a.k.a. masculine/emasculated, a.k.a. attractiveness-to-women, can be broken down into three further factors: the intrinsic, the extrinsic, and the idiosyncratic. The third factor, idiosyncratic, concerns an individual &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/976/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=976&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found an old self-comment that deserves promotion:</p>
<p>The ALPHA/BETA axis [Vox Day's capitalization], a.k.a. masculine/emasculated, a.k.a. attractiveness-to-women, can be broken down into three further factors: the intrinsic, the extrinsic, and the idiosyncratic.</p>
<p>The third factor, idiosyncratic, concerns an individual woman’s particular taste in men. It does not work in isolation, rather acting as an intensifier of attraction for which the ground work is already laid. E.g. blond hair, muscle-men.</p>
<p>The extrinsic factor refers to attraction generated by circumstance external to the man’s character and appearance. E.g. fame, wealth, “social proof”.</p>
<p>The intrinsic factor concerns the masculine virtues of the man himself. E.g. “inner game”, confidence, self-sufficiency, violent tendencies.</p>
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		<title>Five Little Swineherds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swineherdess Number 2 came early Christmas Eve morning. The midwife barely made it in time. It was such a close thing that I roused Swineherdess Number 1 to serve as an extra pair of hands in case I had to &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/five-little-swineherds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=974&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Swineherdess Number 2 came early Christmas Eve morning.  The midwife barely made it in time.  It was such a close thing that I roused Swineherdess Number 1 to serve as an extra pair of hands in case I had to catch the babe.  She was fascinated, giggly, and completely undisturbed by her mother&#8217;s travails.  I take this as a sign that the female lack of empathy has some utility.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t a silent night, but it was mostly calm, and all looks bright for mother and child.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments from this post. I wonder if the man comments anywhere other than Vox Popoli. Don&#8217;t you just love how &#8220;diversity&#8221; has appeared literally out of nowhere conceptually in the past few decades, and has been magically grandfathered in to &#8230; <a href="http://eumaios.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/more-scoobius-dubious/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eumaios.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9359059&#038;post=970&#038;subd=eumaios&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comments from <a href="http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/11/wnd-column_26.html">this post</a>.  I wonder if the man comments anywhere other than Vox Popoli.</p>
<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t you just love how &#8220;diversity&#8221; has appeared literally out of nowhere conceptually in the past few decades, and has been magically grandfathered in to our founding principles, as if it had been there all along? Why, it&#8217;s almost as if a bunch of ideologically committed subversive destructive Bolshevists had plotted a devious scheme to destroy America from within, worming their way into all our major institutions under the guise of being loyal, and then working tirelessly, day and night, to deceive the people, aggrandize themselves, and achieve their goals of destroying everything that made America good.
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<blockquote><p>I do not insist on this, since it&#8217;s an idiosyncratic view and the scholarship is so massively wide, but I take a rather peculiar reading of Republic.</p>
<p>In my view, it is obvious that the central question is not &#8220;what is an ideal society/form of goverment?&#8221; it is literally, &#8220;what is justice?&#8221;</p>
<p>The question is initially answered on personal, not political terms, all of which Socrates finds unsatisfactory. It is only at that moment that he proposes to expand the question to anatomize it in more detail, in the famous proposition that &#8220;the polis is Man writ large&#8221; &#8212; which the others accept, but which is of course subject to a thousand legitimate objections.</p>
<p>The fact is that the main body of Republic is a sort of blown-up Power-Point presentation on the articulated nature of Man. I therefore propose that it is not a document of pure political philosophy, but an early form of psychology; that is, if we accept that Justice is a sort of balance but we cannot say with certainty what sort of things are being balanced, Republic is an enquiry into what,metaphorically, the balanced (and therefore just) individual might be composed of.</p>
<p>Hence I don&#8217;t find all his crazy suggestions about Guardians and education policies and banning poetry to be genuine political suggestions; I view them as metaphorical attempts to suggest what the just man, or maybe the sane man, thinks about the world. The fact that the whole thing culminates in the parable of the cave, which is about an individual&#8217;s ability to perceive the truth rather than about a society&#8217;s ability to function justly, would appear to support my point.</p></blockquote>
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