Dirty Democrats Defeated At Great Cost

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/kavanaugh-confirmed.php

America was a Christian nation with values like the Golden Rule, and some attempt to treat even those who "hate you" with comity. (loving them being a command for which Christ died to save us, as our ability to follow it is pitiful)

It was a nation where huge super-majoirities understood and supported principles like "innocent until proven guilty", "the burden of PROOF is on the accuser", the redemptive effects of time with life well lived, and even the concept of "redemption and forgivnness" -- even for criminals.

Today, not being 100% in lock step with the dogma of "The Party" (TP-D) is the "unforgiveable sin" for the left. Abortion on demand in all 50 states is their greatest sacrament, and thou shalt not make believe that people in states should be able to decide which states and how late a baby may be murdered! As we see with Kavenaugh, their "morality" is a throw back to the 30 years war in Europe or the Salem Witch Trials -- being ACCUSED by there cabal means certain guilt and you must pay for not kneeling before their power!

So Kavenaugh has been confirmed, as Thomas was before him, and Bork was not -- no left wing nominee, not matter how in your fact political and far left has suffered the treatment of the now triumvirate of Kavenaugh, Thomas and Bork. As Kavenaugh correctly stated, most likely, "what goes around will at least EVENTUALLY come around". It hasn't yet, it would be wonderful if it didn't , but the "standard", slimey though it may be, has been absolutely set!

Pure unsubstantiated calumny against a nominee not far to the left is that standard at this point. Will the right now march to that standard? Human nature says they eventually will -- holding on to morality when your opposition makes it clear they have none is a very high bar.

Yes, we are all Tribal now, but as I pointed out after the Trump rally in Rochester, the Tribes are not yet equivalent, and the behavior of the Democrats in the Senate and the anti-Trump protestors this past Thursday night proves it.

Being: The Rashomon Effect

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-of-theory-of-everything

Being is a slippery yet important thing.

The Rashomon Effect is how things look different from different perspectives -- often REALLY different when the things are complex, people with different perspectives are looking at them, etc. A simple way to get an idea of it is to stare at this Necker cube and Rubin vase a bit.  Both the interpretations of each are "real".

We might think of physics as "cut and dried", however there are many mysteries, one of which is this.

“One of the amazing characteristics of nature is this variety of interpretational schemes,”  ( Feynman). What’s more, this multifariousness applies only to the true laws of nature—it doesn’t work if the laws are misstated. “If you modify the laws much, you find you can only write them in fewer ways,”. Feynman again: . “I always found that mysterious, and I do not know the reason why it is that the correct laws of physics are expressible in such a tremendous variety of ways. They seem to be able to get through several wickets at the same time.”

Even as physicists work to understand the material content of the universe—the properties of particles, the nature of the big bang, the origins of dark matter and dark energy—their work is shadowed by this Rashomon effect, which raises metaphysical questions about the meaning of physics and the nature of reality. Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, is one of today’s leading theoreticians. “The miraculous shape-shifting property of the laws is the single most amazing thing I know about them,” he told me, this past fall. It “must be a huge clue to the nature of the ultimate truth.”

"They seem to be able to get through several wickets at the same time" where "wicket" is a small gate. One of my favorite ways of thinking about this is the "Many Worlds" interpretation. In this view, each "observation" results in a "fork" of the universe the observation is made in where that universe now takes two paths that have the same history up to the observation, but in one (in the common wave/particle example) a wave is observed, in the other a particle is observed. This is one way to get to the 10¹⁰ universes.

The two universes vary by only that observation to begin the "fork" -- however the level of "observation", or "decision" that might cause a fork is unknown.

Dreher -- Christians Still Losing

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/drowning-cultural-conservatism-benedict-option/

A good article that also links to other good articles .. largely just "keeping it around", well worth the time to read! 

Note well: normalizing homosexuality is not causing this, exactly, but normalizing homosexuality does require institutionalizing the Sexual Revolution, which negates what traditional Christianity teaches about sexual morality. People who think they can have Christianity and the Sexual Revolution are surrendering Christianity, whether they realize it or not. 

"Trads" are traditional Christians: "So, to return to the point of this post: not only are we Trads losing ground, the culture in which we are embedded both actively and passively trains young people to reject their religion," 

Lots of Christians, (sometimes including me) want to believe that "the courts will save us if we just get a conservative majority". There is always hope ... however:

In a society in which we cannot agree on what is good, how can we agree on what is a compelling interest?

Robert Kraft, Why Are There Prostitutes In The Bible?

https://nypost.com/2019/04/21/why-bob-krafts-ordeal-should-alarm-us-all/

The NY Post is not my usual sort of source, however, in this case, they might be the only one that will touch this sort of story.

Clearly the MSM elite desires Robert Kraft to be crucified -- He has remained friendly to Trump just because Trump was kind to him when his wife died. That kind of "misplaced loyalty"  is naturally something that needs to be purged from society! Thou shalt be loyal ONLY to "The Party" (D) and the elites which it serves!

So Kraft appears to have been paying for sex -- and apparently NOT paying for sex from some sort of "sex slaves" as we have been told. In these days of complete lack of "prudishness" relative to sexual urges in the case of out of wedlock sex (unless the person is a Republican), gay sex, or various confusions on gender, what is the "appropriate attitude" relative to the ancient practice of males paying for sex?

As a Christian, the list of prohibitions relative to sex is quite long, however the Bible is WAY SHORT of being "prudish" in the least. We aren't going to give chapter and verse here, but incest, bestiality, sending your daughters out for gang rape, rape unto death, taking a prostitute as a wife, father and son "sharing" a woman ... all are covered, including some rather beautiful "near porn" in Song of Solomon. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies."

Prostitution is almost certainly the oldest profession, a basic exchange of quid quo pro. Certainly it is a Biblical sin, however it is merely one form of "lust/act", of which there are MANY, given:

1 John 2:15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever."

The left has declared Biblical sin to be not be sin at all, but in fact to be admired -- consumerism, envy, pride, homosexuality, infant sacrifice to the god of convenience, adultery, etc are all generally to be celebrated as long as they are committed by liberals. 

For the left, those who refuse to bow at the altar of "progressivism" (whatever the left declares right TODAY) have  committed their original sin, and are therefore "condemned sinners" -- any act by those so condemned is judged as "filthy rags" -- clearly, including such formerly natural acts as seeking sexual gratification from a prostitute. 

There are prostitutes in the Bible because they are real -- reality is in the Bible. In the universe of "progressivism", reality is exactly what they say it is at any moment, and there is absolutely no requirement for it to be universally applied, or consistent in any manner.  

Impeachment Farce

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/the-impeachment-farce-limps-along-to-its-anticlimax/?sfns=mo

Good article on how foolish and dangerous this coup attempt is.

Fauxahontis On "Marriage"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/warrens-same-sex-marriage-quip-captures-what-some-find-exciting--and-others-distressing--about-her/2019/10/11/f3e15a14-ec34-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Much like Hillary (irredeemable deploreables), Fauxahontis seems determined to give up the moderate vote in order to cater to the bulk of what the Democrat party has become.

At least she and Beto are being honest ... collect all the guns, drop tax exempt status to organizations that don't bow at the altar of gay "marriage" (soon / currently? to be any combination of 57 "genders")  ... and then? Well "progress" would require the next step because it is ALWAYS moving "forward" ... my guess us legalization of sex with minors. If they are mature enough to change their sex, how can they not be mature enough to consent to sex?

How long before anyone that doesn't follow their agenda must be "re-educated"?

Gays For Biology

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/andrew-sullivan-the-nature-of-sex.html

The level of confusion engendered by the insistence that gayness is immutable and gender is fluid is impossible to overstate. The linked article really just expands on the confusion.

If this sounds like a massive overreach, consider the fact that the proposed Equality Act — with 201 co-sponsors in the last Congress — isn’t simply a ban on discriminating against trans people in employment, housing, and public accommodations (an idea with a lot of support in the American public). It includes and rests upon a critical redefinition of what is known as “sex.” We usually think of this as simply male or female, on biological grounds (as opposed to a more cultural notion of gender). But the Equality Act would define “sex” as including “gender identity,” and defines “gender identity” thus: “gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or characteristics, regardless of the individual’s designated sex at birth.”

Under the sought after definition, apparently "sex" as in Male or Female would essentially cease to exist -- "nature" as in what sexual parts you happen to have is not a factor. It is ALL about how you "identify".  Needless to say, this offends homosexuals -- they are really attached to immutably being attracted to their own biological sex! 

So, here we see a gay man defending biology.