The Medicine That Shall Not Be Named

Ancient Chinese medicine often works because of centuries of practical experience that has honed it. And that’s in spite of the quasi-religious, mystical mumbo jumbo about energy blocks and what have you. Same thing with Indian medicine. Modern Western doctors will prescribe medicine you don’t need for things you didn’t go into the office for, for ridiculously exaggerated prices. They’ll cut things off of people that shouldn’t be cut off. And that’s because their god is money. Am I worried if one of these doctors recommending hydroxichloroquine holds to some bizarre views about how the world works? No, I’m not.

Tattoos

Tattoos are a fleshly and worldly effort of self-atonement. They are an implicit admission of one’s own guilt and shame, and are a way of trying to deal with them. Tattoos are an attempt at covering oneself, at hiding, at putting one’s nakedness away from the view of others, of providing oneself with a new righteousness in the light of one’s lost innocence. They are a reflection of one’s conscience above anything else.

“And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.” The shame is not always as a result of that person’s actions. The defilement might not come from that person’s choice. “She used to be so happy and good natured, but then everything changed. She became angry and depressed, and started arguing back all time. She started wearing all black clothes and black makeup. And then we found out she was secretly cutting herself.” Every parent that’s been through it recognizes it.

Tattoos, the multiplication of piercings, self-cutting - they’re all on the same continuum with each other. 

A nation covered in tattoos is a nation covered in shame, a nation that has refused the only real way of dealing with that shame.

God’s way of dealing with shame is through the washing of baptism and being clothed in the righteousness of Christ. The bathing of ourselves and the wearing of clothes reflect that physically, and point to our eternal purification and the white robes of Christ’s righteousness. Tattoos are poor substitutes. They are fig leaves.

How To Destroy A Country

Unrestrained immigration inevitably produces great poverty. It’s a shock to the existing system that’s too great for it to handle. The poverty is unavoidable, but when you take a Socialist approach to caring for those immigrants the results are worse. Not only do you hamstring your attempts at caring for those immigrants, you produce poverty that didn’t exist among the people already living in that system/country. Then allow a virus to come in, shut down the economy, and widespread suffering and death are the only possible results.

Goya Buycott

Buy Goya? I guess that’s fine. But it will be as effective in the long run as all that standing in line for an hour for a chicken sandwich that everybody did a few years back. Corporations tend to sway with the blowing of the monetary winds. When money is their god, all other standards tend to give way to it. Better to trust in God’s ordained means of prayer and ask Him to turn the hearts of the wicked to Him, thereby changing all things, including the corporations. We turn to feeble substitutes for God’s means when we don’t believe He will hear our prayers, substitutes like buying products from companies that seem to support righteous things. But if you believe God won’t answer your prayer, then neither prayer nor selective shopping is worth your time. Neither will bear any fruit.

Thanks, Obama

In 2008 honest to goodness white supremacy was almost non-existent in the U.S., its subscribers so few in number. Now it’s alive and well and rising in numbers, especially among younger people.

If ever the term “thanks Obama” was appropriate, it’s right here.

Your First Business in Society and Culture

Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the world right, by waging war on the evils around him, while he neglects that integral part of the world where lies his business, his first business—namely, his own character and conduct. Were it possible—an absurd supposition—that the world should thus be righted from the outside, it would yet be impossible for the man who had contributed to the work, remaining what he was, ever to enjoy the perfection of the result; himself not in tune with the organ he had tuned, he must imagine it still a distracted, jarring instrument. - George MacDonald

Peter’s Love For Jesus and the Fear Of Abandonment

“Simon Peter said to him, ‘Lord, where are you going?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.’”

There’s a haunting loneliness in this passage, especially on Peter’s part. And I think it’s a mistake to not hear an ache in his heart here. His response was one of fear, the fear of being faced with losing a person you love and rely on, one around whom your whole life revolves.