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On the Plato-Bible-Bolshevik front, you might be interested in The Magic Mountain, or at least the second half. Mann introduces a new character, Naphta, an orphan Jew who became a Jesuit. He starts out seeming to defend mediaeval mysticism and irrationality, versus his opponent, Settembrini, who promotes reason, Enlightenment, and globalism. Eventually he reveals that his endgame is Terror (in caps), dictatorship of the proletariat, and the withering away of the State. The easy transition from Catholic dogma to Marxist terror , united against "bourgeois society" is supposed to be "ironic" and "paradoxical" but we know better.

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that does sound interesting. fiction?

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Well, the book is fiction, although the book is based on Mann’s visit to his wife at a TB sanitarium — in Davos! — and his sense that the doctors were trying to convince him to stay. Also, Mann had a tendency to base “fictional” characters on acquaintances.

In Doktor Faustus, there’s one based on Adorno, and the avantgarde musical technique the protagonist invents was stolen from Schonberg; neither were happy about it.

There’s another character, whose schtick is being a Jew who reduces conservatives to confusion since his theories are more conservative than they are. I thought that was Evola but eventually found out it was Oskar Goldberg, now unknown but then he was the Jordan Peterson of Weimar. You might find him interesting; Wikipedia says

“For Goldberg each race has a magical connection to a deity and each god is the "biological centre" of a race. A people can only maintain this magical connection by performing the appropriate rituals on territory controlled by its god(s), Taking the Jewish example, Goldberg argues that before Solomon built his temple the god of the ancient Hebrews walked with his people and had his dwelling place among them. But Solomon transformed the Jews from a cultic community into members of a state and thereby severed their organic connection to god by replacing concrete ritual with abstract theological monotheism. Goldberg's ideas confirmed metaphysically his opposition to the formation of all nation-states, including the state of Israel.” There’s one, but very recent, book on him in English but I never finished it: Transfinite Life

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Thanks for the interesting nuggets of info! I’m very close to picking up your book again.

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Cool. You might find the stuff on Wilson or Neville of interest re visualization.

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Bang up conversation. I concur with Mr. Melkonyan's assertion that these fools won't ever get their global agenda past the pilot episode stage. They will kill a few billion of us, first, however; so it will for damn sure feel like we peasants have lost the battle.

As far as whether or not adopting a playful attitude with children is a sure-fire mark of pederasty: I'm old to enough(48) to remember a time when every single person alive wasn't so goddamned cynical all the fucking time and it wasn't automatically assumed that an adult who played a tickle game with a kid, even if these two were complete strangers to each other, that this meant the adult was some kind of diddler. I'm not rising to Putin's defense, at all. Public figures ought to be held to higher standards and lifting up a boy's shirt to give him a zerbert on the belly in front of all those cameras is straight up weird. But all of this dark and brooding myopia is just sucking what little light-heartedness which is left in this world, and that itself is fleeting fast. It would be a welcome development if part of the rebellion against this sickening materialist culture were for the common folk to stop adopting such a tough, jaded, street-wise know-it-all attitude and just observe some phenomena without having to assign its ultimate meaning to it all.

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Bullshit, Putin is no child molester. I have a dozen nephews and nieces and hugging, kissing, and blowing on their tummy to tickle them is the norm, not the exception and has absolutely nothing to do with any sexual agenda. I interact with children at church as well, playing games with them, picking them up when the fall, holding them when they get hurt and cry, etc. I refuse to be intimidated by pretending my actions are "suspicious" especially in the eyes of the demon-possessed Jews who set the agenda of double standards.

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i would think that the rules of conduct differ between family members and strangers in public.

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Yes, that is why in order to show he was close to the boy, Putin behaved like a boy's relative.

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Idk my guest brought it up not me. But many Russians agree with Archie on that one and also got weirded out

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Putin is a paedo? Oh so disappointing.

Rurik, you're always dismissing Christianity and I totally get that. But imperfect though it may be, it does serve a need. People need something to a) give moral and ethical guidance b) encourage spiritual development c) rescue people in spiritual crises. What alternative do you recommend?

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Trump.

Kidding.

Are you familiar with the Jefferson Bible? I'm told it leaves out the miracles and supernatural stuff. Something like that is needed: an distilled version of Christianity stripped of superstition, mysticism, and worship of a psychopathic human with cosmic powers.

This new version will acknowledge a creator, but its motives will be unknown, and it will not be a personal God that meddles in the affairs of men; a charlatan can't come along a credibly declare he knows what God wants, dreams and visions of this God telling its adherents to do or believe specific things can be dismissed as the manipulations they are.

Something like that.

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I'd go the complete opposite route and focus only on the mysticism and get rid of all the moralizing and social engineering.

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Yeah exactly. Mystical experience should be primary. There are plenty of ways to induce mystical experiences - psychedelics, breath work, fasting, meditation, etc. But mysticism without a framework is anarchy.

Recalling your analogous thesis that morality should be based primarily on identity ('what is good for OUR tribe?'), I wish to ask: which reality map is best for us?

Christianity is spiritual dhimmitude, Islam has effectively the same outcome, and modern Indian philosophies teach subservience and subjugation.

So we need something better. What should it be based on? Reformed Christianity? Pre-Christian paganism? Ancient vedic philosophy?

What are your thoughts, Rurik? This is a potentially huge topic, but the cat is already out of the bag so let's go with it.

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To be quite honest, I don't really have a reality map. I'm so focused on the praxis - the techniques themselves and how to democratize and weaponize them. I think that a metaphysics of the ethnos would basically solve all these questions. Conceptually speaking, in neoplatonism they talk about the ethnos being a god and the ethnos coming from god and the ascent of a hero to become an ethno-god. This was taken over lock stock and barrel by Kabballah and only one ethnos was elevated above all others.

It seems as simple conceptually speaking to me as restoring a metaphysics of ethnos. Learning to commune with the ethnic oversoul. Striving for ethnic spiritual elevation. And obviously creating a society around those principles, not on feeding infinity pot-bellied browns or on infinity hall of cost reparations or on efficient widget production, etc.

Lots of details to be filled in though.

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Jul 6Liked by Rurik Skywalker

Hi Rurik,

I'm sorry for my slow reply - it's taken me a while to think & digest.

If we're talking about the same thing, then I disagree about the importance of specific religious practice. Especially nowadays, we have access to such a wide range of techniques from all of human history including recent rediscoveries/inventions like psychedelics, which honestly have the potential to accelerate spiritual development an order of magnitude beyond conventional techniques. This area hasn't advanced at all since Timothy Leary was making straight line extrapolations in the 60's, but it certainly could if there was enough demand.

But using a high powered spiritual practice without an extremely excellent metaphysical framework would be like jumping on a turbo hayabusa without having mastered steering. It's not going to end well.

> It seems as simple conceptually speaking to me as restoring a metaphysics of ethnos.

Exactly! But what is the metaphysics of our ethnos? I'm guessing it would be rooted in Greek philosophy, perhaps with pre-Greek or regional paganisms thrown in. It doesn't matter what it is, it just matters that it resonates with our souls (and accommodates regional variations - a Slavic soul will never be exactly the same as a Germanic soul).

> Learning to commune with the ethnic oversoul.

How do we do this?

Do you see the ethnic oversoul as encompassing the whole of Europa, and all it's diaspora? Or do you see specific regional oversouls? Who is European and who is not? Hungarians? Albanians?

> Lots of details to be filled in though.

Oh yes! But at least we're getting closer to a starting point!

And thank you for the heads up on Neoplatonism - this was not on my radar.

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Jul 13·edited Jul 19

Christianity is not "social engineering." It is the perfect expression of how man can enjoy life to his full potential doing useful work rather than spending his life on projects that do not glorify God. An engineer designing a bridge to last indefinitely, a geologist understanding the substrata for bridge abutments, a foundry worker smelting iron and adding alloys to make the best steel, etc., are examples of useful work that glorifies God who gifted the workers with the ability to think, discover, and work.

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I agree with this. Ancient technologies served their inventors well and left no damage. It's a shame modern technologists are so ungodly.

I think a major challenge for our time is to make technology godly again.

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The whole object of the Bible was the coming advent of Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, who has redeemed God's elect from the eternal wrath of God. Jefferson sought to remove all reference to Jesus from the Bible. What is left is pointless, missing the fact that history is a continuum leading up to the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.

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Nah.

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Jefferson set out to rewrite the Holy Bible by removing all references to Jesus the Christ. There wasn't much left because the Holy Bible is all about Jesus either prophesied in the future, living as a man, reigning in heaven, and reigning over the Kingdom of God on earth future.

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Serve a need? God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days, the day one rotation of the earth before he finished the earth. It was all created for mankind and to show to mankind in no uncertain terms the meaning of omnipotence. God is not the least bit off balance by what his creatures do, all Jews, all Muslims, all eastern mystics, gnostics, et al., go to hell, the eternal burning wrath of God the Father. All Christians - by definition those elect by God to be spared the eternal wrath of God - spend eternity future in the presence of God doing useful and fulfilling work. The proper function of mankind is to worship God with all their heart, mind, and soul and to love their neighbor as themselves.

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Why would non Christians go to hell? God cares about substance not form.

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Because they are non-Christians and there is no such thing as neutrality. Jesus, very God and very man, said if you are not with me you are against me.

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Exactly, it would be much worse without Christianity.

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Putin may be working for Eastern and Western oligarchs, but he is not a paedo. Kissing a small child's belly or forehead is what older people used to do in Eastern European villages. It was done to me by my relatives in the country when I arrived after a long absence. I was a city kid and felt a bit uncomfortable but understood it was an expression of love.

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Your relatives is fine. Strangers is never fine.

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Super excited to listen to this, I sure am glad this all panned out and looking forward to seconds :)

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Very interesting interview. I do have a few observations.

I think the emphasis on "white" is too broad to be useful. For example, people from Chechnya are very white and also Muslim https://buzzly.info/en/photo/583/pictures-of-beautiful-chechen-girls/p/5. In my opinion, you should break identity groupings into more distinct ethnicities: Norwegian, Estonian, Polish, Russian rather than simply "white". My reasoning is purely practical: it is unlikely you'd get people with a strong French background to work closely with people from a strong German background. I think the most desirable outcome is to have ethnically distinct neighborhoods, where the children can naturally learn the culture of their parents. Incidentally, an ethnically-coherent neighborhood can be a powerful political force. This is one reason why housing discrimination laws are so onerous. They wish to break up any kind of cultural identity.

My second issue is when Melkonyan said there are a lot of guns in the US and the people will get very angry when they find out Trump is less than he is made out to be. My own thought is that any armed resistance to the government will end in disaster. Guns are very effective in personal protection and guns allow the civilians to protect themselves from the street criminals. Street criminals are a deniable tool used by the elites to justify harsh control measures. But it is exactly the deniability they must maintain that allows guns in civilian hands to be so valuable. But when you start talking about an armed resistance, the government armies will always win. That's why agent provocateurs are always trying to radicalize home militias.

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'White' is not just skin color. It's adherence to our philosophical lineage. Chechens and Albanians are distinctly non white as they are a committed part of the Muhammadean lineage. Very occasionally you also meet adopted or mixed race children in foreign countries who appear pure white from the outside yet whose inner world is distinctly non white.

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You're defining "white" as "whoever I think I approve of".

In my opinion, you want to distinguish people on the basis of their cultural group or background. In other words, people who feel comfortable together. Do you think fair-skinned Estonians and swarthy southern Italians would have very much in common? Do Ango-Americans from Britain and Irish or southern Germans have much in common? Their cultures are quite different. I'm arguing that people should be able to self-segregate at the neighborhood level. I also think a country should be able to discriminate concerning potential or actual immigrants. But, you'd get into trouble if you tried to say "all whites may enter, except those with Muslim or other types of backgrounds".

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His surname says it all Putin that is Put In. The Tribe controls all sides.

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Fuck is this creature ?

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Himler didn't like Christianity are you we should go in his direction Rurik? Check the recent Mark Felton about all the symbols he borrowed.

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thanks

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That first video is weird AF. Wth?

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97 minutes ?

97 seconds.

Edward Slavsquat & Rurik Skywalker. Both Substack.

Bonus track:

David Nixon et al. Substack.

The Microscope Does Not Lie.

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That is the most cryptic useless post yet. Did you mean to say something?

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No. Go back to sleep.

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Wake up.

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