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r from neglect and abuse so are our states posted by seriouslypleasedropit november 19 2025 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on the lion king honor games vs death games two great essays and a fairy tale you should know about them there is philosophy being done love of truth it is a minor golden age for those who can recognize it cast not your pearls before swine but swine do not read this blog and it is christmas ruthless divine ambition for mortals the first is by an old and new friend of mine you must first know the lds doctrine of the fall is different we see it as more of a removal of training wheels than a great mistake to be sure wounds were and are caused as they are on bicycles and needed and need to be healed such was judged an acceptable side effect damnation is not as deep as exaltation is high zero is a paltry opposite to infinity the fall was necessary to rise the happiness and glory utterly overwhelm the shadows cast by them but those shadows are still fixed in opposition the existence of a moral law creates the capacity for its breaking do you wish for redemption from sin so do i so should we all but we have a lord who will not be anywhere near done with us at that point up brighter cleaner clearer stronger more loving more heroic kinder calmer cooler hotter ye have said it is vain to serve god and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance and that we have walked mournfully before the lord of hosts and now we call the proud happy yea they that work wickedness are set up yea they that tempt god are even delivered all pain and sorrow vanishes completely and forever once safely in the past this is a cruel and ruthless thing to say to someone in the thick of it it is nonetheless true and so the calculations were done insane horrific suffering on an unimaginable scale permitted only because it was the price for glory love light and deliverance on a scale as large compared to the suffering as the suffering is to a stubbed toe the answer to the lament malachi describes is that righteousness is simply the only thing going anywhere the only thing with a future there was no other way for christ there was no other way in the garden there is no other way for us we stood on a hill safe but stuck before us a dark desert beyond all things good we walk the desert not because we love it but because anywhere worth going takes us by that path george bailey and kingship dr bennett a friend s pseudonym recently wrote a visionary post on george bailey of it s a wonderful life i ll include some highlights here but the core i took from it is that a the problems of modernity are too big to confront alone b however we act individually in a giant prisoner s dilemma and the easiest thing for any individual is to punt or hide c a king is useful and necessary because they can command everyone at once avoiding the coordination problem the last section it s a wonderful life is a christmas movie because all stories about the good king are stories about christ george bailey has to pour himself out over a lifetime to win the trust of a skittish short sighted people bailey s personal virtue and sacrifice is what makes it possible for the people to credibly unite behind him and make their own sacrifices take up their own cross which they desperately want to do because it s the only way they can resist the malevolent inhuman powers that threaten them the christmas miracle is the return of the king who will set things right and judge us with compassion to be judged with compassion is not to be infinitely indulged it s a miracle because it is the defeat of the entropy that would otherwise be inevitable the indifferent law that would judge us to our destruction the turning point of human history is god revealing himself not as an impersonal force or energy or law but as a man with a man s heart and judgment and particular love the fairy tale g has been cooking with this one another christmas tale god possessing gravitas and wisdom our invitation to enter into fraternity with god not because we deserve it but because he wishes and allows it the reality that many will seek to sacrifice to demons rather than vanquish them and yet all will be well in the end posted by seriouslypleasedropit december 25 2024 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on two great essays and a fairy tale the aristocratic virtues my wife introduced me to the last airbender there are kinda four kingdoms one for each of the classical elements the earth kingdom however has had a silent coup and now controlled by secret police rather than the king the chief of the secret police long feng has allied with azula the young tyrannical princess of the fire nation but the alliance is short lived what are the aristocratic virtues the natural ability to command knowledge of etiquette fashion and how to throw a good party prowess in war sheer confidence the definition i ve settled on is an aristocrat is someone who left with nothing would ascend this can get clouded because we might look at aristocrats and admire their virtues a talent for music say and then label those aristocratic virtues because it is aristocrats who could afford to develop them but you don t give someone actual power just because they have a talent the reason anyone cares or did care about aristocrats is because they ascended the ascent is essential a music hobby accidental is azula right about having to be born with something what she s right about is confidence she s right that confidence is not optional if you wish to rule but she overweights it she s like a poker player who has learned that bluffing can work really really well and thinks that s the whole game it s a tall order to work your way to the top it is a tall order to then not feel like an impostor once you re there it s a hard thing i m describing it s not an insult to say someone hasn t fully achieved aristocracy any more than it is to say someone can t bench press three hundred pounds nonetheless strive to be someone who would rise and strive to help those under your care be the same much love to you reader keep plugging out there posted by seriouslypleasedropit september 6 2024 september 6 2024 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on the aristocratic virtues happy update and apology well things look very different from here and very much the same i got married and would you believe it it was because of this blog a young woman messaged me about one of the posts and well now i am typing this quietly as she sleeps next to me come august we will have been married two years i am entranced and so i must also apologize for the blog being so quiet for so long i have been occupied but even worse i have felt like i had not much to say that has changed recently and you may expect to see more here strength and honor beauty and kindness posted by seriouslypleasedropit june 4 2024 posted in uncategorized 3 comments on happy update and apology green shoots green leaves all fallen withered and dry brief sunset fading dim winter sky lengthening shadows dark closing in then through the stillness carols begin oh fallen world to you is the song death holds you fast and night tarries long jesus is born your curse to destroy sweet to your ears a carol of joy pale moon ascending solemn and slow cold barren hillside shrouded in snow deep empty valley veiled by the night hear angel music hopeful and bright oh fearful world to you is the song peace with your god and pardon for wrong tidings for sinners burdened and bound a carol of joy a saviour is found earth wrapped in sorrow lift up your eyes thrill to the chorus filling the skies look up sad hearted witness god s love join in the carol swelling above oh friendless world to you is the song all heaven s joy to you may belong you who are lonely laden forlorn now unto you a saviour is born it looks bad it is bad everywhere is under siege past siege in many places in full surrender or betrayal but try as they might christmas endures and never ends time will pass and all their folly will crash down but christmas will endure a giant rolicking party of laughter sometimes temporarily paused or attenuated but never extinguished it s the same as ever they push too hard and wake some up more than they expected we are in for saints again there are green shoots beyond your sight there are groups some earthly some heavenly organizing working preparing in secret to arrive to the rescue at the last minute remember if you re reading this you are the resistance p s if you need help contact me posted by seriouslypleasedropit december 26 2022 december 26 2022 posted in uncategorized 1 comment on green shoots the friend of god i have been greatly enjoying angel studios the chosen a show depicting a heavily dramatized fictionalized version of the life of christ it has had quite an effect on me i have tried on this blog and in my life to raise myself and others from the prosaic to the mythic i think on a mythic plane but the show has reminded me that the mythic made himself accessible on the prosaic level the kind of everyday companionship that can lead to genuine friendship it is one thing when the god of the universe dies for everyone s sins it s certainly nice and very dramatic and all but it s sort of like hearing about a war hero sacrificing himself on some distant battlefield you push yourself into being thankful thank them for their service etc but it s done over in the past not much you can do about it either way it doesn t invite your participation but it s another thing when he shows some interest in you not mankind or the children of men or the seed of adam but you and then the invitation to well to what follow me why partly to learn partly because you have some work to do and partly because it will save your soul no one of these aspects the personal touch the miracles the teaching is compelling by itself it s the combination the juxtaposition what are we to make of a god that refers to mortals as my friends have been thinking of late that i have been a true believer but could be a better friend obedience is good but we do not worship allah our god demands obedience in service of ultimately friendship the greatest thing christ modeled for us was how he related to his father acknowledging his power yes but also his mercy wisdom and general good will christ asks us to trust him and showed us what that looks like in how he trusted the father the first step in becoming a friend of god is wanting to and trusting christ when he says it is possible posted by seriouslypleasedropit may 7 2022 may 7 2022 posted in uncategorized 1 comment on the friend of god glory refracted what exactly is glory excellence appreciation must we all become martyrs olympic gymnasts or spectators of such the thing is excellence is relative appreciation is subjective so could you just start giving and asking for them this came on the playlist recently suggested the reason high school and college are remembered so fondly by so many is because they are small and small minded they are an audience you get to be seen the trick is once you start respecting somebody suddenly their respect means more to you and presto if the gods invited you to feast with them they would celebrate you that s what they do posted by seriouslypleasedropit october 28 2021 october 28 2021 posted in uncategorized leave a comment on glory refracted on pills blue and red here is an analogy i don t think i ve ever seen made though it must have been the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil the matrix s red pill both involve learning both involve exiting one world and entering another both have effects that are morally ambiguous the effects are not uniformly good and in a certain light are generally bad when adam and eve left the garden their eyes were opened and they were empowered by their new knowledge but also sin and death entered the world you don t even have to be simply evil like cain the knowledge itself is dangerous cypher and denethor are some of the worst examples as their new knowledge drove them to despair but even among the successes damage is done i quoted this before but it bears repeating but said sam and tears started in his eyes i thought you were going to enjoy the shire too for years and years after all you have done frodo replied so i thought too once but i have been too deeply hurt sam i tried to save the shire and it has been saved but not for me it must often be so sam when things are in danger some one has to give them up lose them so that others may keep them something is lost when you start chowing down on red pills you gain knowledge but you lose innocence sometimes i feel like i m writing too dramatically and i want to write this isn t a big deal this is the opposite of that this is a really big deal adapting yourself to the world is by definition a utilitarian endeavor we can become uglier even as we become more successful scott alexander gave a good description of this in meditations on moloch yes it s been seven years it s still relevant the malthusian trap at least at its extremely pure theoretical limits suppose you are one of the first rats introduced onto a pristine island it is full of yummy plants and you live an idyllic life lounging about eating and composing great works of art you re one of those rats from the rats of nimh you live a long life mate and have a dozen children all of them have a dozen children and so on in a couple generations the island has ten thousand rats and has reached its carrying capacity now there s not enough food and space to go around and a certain percent of each new generation dies in order to keep the population steady at ten thousand a certain sect of rats abandons art in order to devote more of their time to scrounging for survival each generation a bit less of this sect dies than members of the mainstream until after a while no rat composes any art at all and any sect of rats who try to bring it back will go extinct within a few generations in fact it s not just art any sect at all that is leaner meaner and more survivalist than the mainstream will eventually take over if one sect of rats altruistically decides to limit its offspring to two per couple in order to decrease overpopulation that sect will die out swarmed out of existence by its more numerous enemies if one sect of rats starts practicing cannibalism and finds it gives them an advantage over their fellows it will eventually take over and reach fixation if some rat scientists predict that depletion of the island s nut stores is accelerating at a dangerous rate and they will soon be exhausted completely a few sects of rats might try to limit their nut consumption to a sustainable level those rats will be outcompeted by their more selfish cousins eventually the nuts will be exhausted most of the rats will die off and the cycle will begin again any sect of rats advocating some action to stop the cycle will be outcompeted by their cou...