on the resignation of the British PM and her refusal to stand for Brexit
My name is Steve Meikle, I am 64, single, never married, no children, live alone. I had a part time, job but lost it due to chronic illness, so have time on my hands. Hence a blog, comprising my own interests. That which most would call "religion," though Christians of my stripe do not like the term, is first and foremost. But I am interested in history, philosophy, science, Classical music and politics, a "Miscellany" as it were. I hope someone out there enjoys this
Sunday, 26 May 2019
Saturday, 11 May 2019
A First Post on nationalism and globalism
I regard globalism as a great and terrible evil.
I posted the following on a blog site which applauded nationalism as a virtue, But . .
I posted the following on a blog site which applauded nationalism as a virtue, But . .
. . . I do not agree that nationalism, touted as the remedy for such is a virtue. I am well aware that God set up the nations, but he did so as recorded in the Tower of Babel event ; to keep man in separated groups lest his energies be pooled and unspeakable evil come about.
At best nationalism is a pragmatic strategy on the part of the Living God in the face of human sin. It is a lesser evil.
Why? The nations - all of them - rage against God and devise a vain thing (Psalm 2). I have never seen a patriot who was not an idolator; and no they do not love God, not when their love for their nation still has them treat their neighbour - the poor of their nations - with contempt. Besides if the nations are so good why are they in such a state of perpetual war such that some foolish minds hope to abolish war by abolish the nations? War is in our bones, not in our political constitutions
And let us consider that the story of the so called Good Samaritan the Samaritan in question did a good deed to someone his own people loathed and despised; and the feeling between Jews and Samaritans was mutual. Such mercy is not the hallmark of a patriot.
I am not a patriot. I act as a good citizen only because God commands me not to discredit the Gospel by bad behaviour, but my home is not this earth, for I am a citizen of heaven and a sojourner on this earth
Let us also grant that the Globalists are correct on the evils nationalism has spawned. The 20th century is full of the wreckage it produced. But the Globalists, in reaction to this undeniable fact want to go lurching like a drunkard blindly into something infinitely worse.
Globalism is of the devil, but the two evils here are not equal, for globalism is much, much worse.
But as we men are all evil we can only appeal to another idolatry (nationalism) to oppose an idolatry (Globalism).
Certainly Bergoglio - i will not dignify him with the papal name he arrogated to himself - has denied the Christian faith on more than one occasion.
I will let the mad frenzy of the nations continue to rage as scripture says they do. The farce will play itself out even if and when it ends with them achieving their one world dystopia. For dystopia it is, of such horror that Christ Himself must descend to earth with his host of saints in His retinue to destroy it.
But all in due time
Friday, 22 February 2019
Are we the Last Generation
One oft cited proof that we are in the last generation is the passage in Matthew 24:32 about the fig tree. It is taken to be the nation of Israel and so its foundation in 1948, or its flourishing in 1967, are taken as proof that this generation will witness the Second Coming of Christ
The thing about the fig tree is that sometimes a fig tree is only a fig tree and nothing more, and certainly is not the nation of Israel. Why is this? Luke 21:28-30" And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand."
If the fig tree is the nation of Israel then clearly ALL THE TREES would flourish whereby we would know that summer was near and so therefore was His coming. All the nations? Clearly not. So what the mere fact of this plural, all the trees, shows is that the fig tree was not Israel. So what we are left with is that there is no biblical nor rational linking of the restoration of the Nation of Israel with the last generation. The fig tree was only a fig tree and not symbolic of Israel.
So are we in the last generation? given the current upsurge of nationalism in response to globalism my considered opinion is that the climate is not right for a one world government which is a necessary precursor for the Second Coming, for the Beast must be in place and in power before Christ come to overthrow him. And he is not at this time.
Moreover if any say that it must be in this generation end up dying of old age without it happening then they have only discredited the whole notion of the second coming in the eyes of the world. and for that, God assures us, they will pay
Context is an amazing thing. Immediately before Paul spoke of the rapture of the church he told us to live quiet lives, do our own jobs and mind our own business (I Thessalonians 4:11).
So if we are running around like mad things, carnally excited by the prospect of His coming before lunch time next Tuesday we are not in the sabbath rest of the believer spoken of in the letter to the Hebrews and so are not prepared for His coming
Certainly Christ is coming. But i am likely to be among the dead in Christ when it happens, that is to say it will not be in my lifetime.
Next issue, please! something of practical import!
How I live today is of more practical moment that obsessing over times we were not given the authority to know (Acts 1:6-8
Saturday, 19 January 2019
The Gillette ad: feminist porn
Anti feminist academic and scholar Dr Janice Fiamengo of the University of Ottawa has responded to that vicious piece of man shaming the Gillette ad.
She speaks also of the maker of the this.
Dr Fiamengo also describes this obscenity as feminist porn with perfect aptness
See why following the link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFO4xvnv_DM
Friday, 18 January 2019
A Reply to Gillette Man Shaming
No doubt everyone has seen the new Gillette ad, which is pure sexist man shaming and blaming.
Not only have they bought into the feminist narrative, which is sexist by definition for it ignores the sins of women totally and blames men only for women's own evil (ie "men drove us to it") if they do sometimes acknowledge such, but the ad was heavy handed and preachifying
This is the typical method of the ideologue fanatic. Any arrogance is justified, the think, because of the real or imagined truth of their cause. This zealotry is as old as time itself. But the feminist and their allies have forgotten that the 17th century Puritans were much the same and as hated, which is why they fled to the Americas in and after 1620 there to exterminate indigenous peoples.
It is not the business of merchants selling anything to preach; and only shows the raw cynicism of that whoring in the market place which business has descended to.
Indeed to insult their customer base is imbecility. They make razors mostly for men, and think it a virtue to insult men and blamed them for everything with no peek as to the evil of women also - which is to say have adopted the feminist narrative
But a video in reply to this toxic ad points out that the boot is to be worn on both feet, in other words that women are sinners too.
And here it is
This is why feminism is nothing but man hating, the embittered utterances of a female supremacist group seeking nothing but exemptions and privileges - any group out for justice would be even handed in its denunciation of evil.
Unfortunately there is one error in this vid common to the Gillette piece, and this at the end of it, the appeal to the solution. And this is, namely the belief that we can be better people by resolving to do so . anyone who has tried this has failed. it is easy for virtue signalling hypocrites who have never seriously tried to be better to demand this. To these I say go and try, and WHEN you have failed, with a spectacular agony commensurate with the effort, then you are ready to talk, or perhaps listen. for nothing but woe will follow this, the woe of another generation of repressed hypocrites , and so the cycle goes round and round again
Not only have they bought into the feminist narrative, which is sexist by definition for it ignores the sins of women totally and blames men only for women's own evil (ie "men drove us to it") if they do sometimes acknowledge such, but the ad was heavy handed and preachifying
This is the typical method of the ideologue fanatic. Any arrogance is justified, the think, because of the real or imagined truth of their cause. This zealotry is as old as time itself. But the feminist and their allies have forgotten that the 17th century Puritans were much the same and as hated, which is why they fled to the Americas in and after 1620 there to exterminate indigenous peoples.
It is not the business of merchants selling anything to preach; and only shows the raw cynicism of that whoring in the market place which business has descended to.
Indeed to insult their customer base is imbecility. They make razors mostly for men, and think it a virtue to insult men and blamed them for everything with no peek as to the evil of women also - which is to say have adopted the feminist narrative
But a video in reply to this toxic ad points out that the boot is to be worn on both feet, in other words that women are sinners too.
And here it is
This is why feminism is nothing but man hating, the embittered utterances of a female supremacist group seeking nothing but exemptions and privileges - any group out for justice would be even handed in its denunciation of evil.
Unfortunately there is one error in this vid common to the Gillette piece, and this at the end of it, the appeal to the solution. And this is, namely the belief that we can be better people by resolving to do so . anyone who has tried this has failed. it is easy for virtue signalling hypocrites who have never seriously tried to be better to demand this. To these I say go and try, and WHEN you have failed, with a spectacular agony commensurate with the effort, then you are ready to talk, or perhaps listen. for nothing but woe will follow this, the woe of another generation of repressed hypocrites , and so the cycle goes round and round again
Friday, 16 November 2018
If cultural appropriation is real . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynfMtX0fiY
If cultural appropriation is real then it always was an atrocity. Therefore the aficionados thereof must go back through history to purge the art of the past of said vile evil.
Of course the very notion of cultural appropriation is absurd. Those who espouse this are looking for something to be angry at for in a soul so jaded as this only anger and hate can move it to any kind of heat. And how much more satisfying they think it when the cause in whose name they are angry can be identified, no matter how irrationally, as righteous
Mozart did culturally appropriate music from the Turks, namely the Ottoman Empire, whose music was all the rage in Vienna in the late 18th century.
The cross fertilisation of cultures is how cultures grow.
But it really is bizarre that they want multiculturalism, calling "Diversity" a strength when it merely corrodes the unity of a nation, yet refuse to allow the cultures to interact, screaming "appropriation!!" when they do
Truly it seems to me that liberal guilt has become liberal self hatred but with the added problem that like all missionary minds they have to inflict this self hatred on everyone else
I submit that every person who follows this link to the Turkish March by Mozart will know the piece. It is one of the few classical pieces recognizable by everyone, even if they cannot identify the work or composer
Hopefully those who listen to this rendition of the March will also recognise the arrogant absurdity of Political Correctness pushed to this degree.
That they think they should push to this degree shows how absurd they are. But if they have not that only shows how lazy and inconsistent they are.
Puritans without a religion are as dangerous as those with one. And make no mistake, the Social Justice Warrior who is none of the components of his title, being a spoiled child with a grudge looking for something to be angry at, and the rest of the PC brigades, are nothing but latter day Puritans.
And of course knowing nothing of history except where they rewrite it to justify their self hatred and oikophobia, are dangerous.
Any attempt to make a Utopia is dangerous
Sunday, 11 November 2018
On Church Creeds
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