Didactic Mind

Domain Query: Fear of the Long Dark

Here's the second of the day's Domain Query series, based on a very interesting long comment from LRFotS Kapios on my post about resilience:
It gets worse before things get better. Knowing that intellectually and feeling it to every last bone in your body is a big difference as I’ve realized.
There is one subject that I would like to see you tackle in a post sometime in the future, and that is overcoming the fear of death. Not the YOLO I’m taking cocaine and partying kind, but the one that you hear about warriors in the past who had a lot to lose, their lands, properties, families, etc. and yet they were still able to fight as if they were not attached t those things.
How do people do that? I have been thinking about this a lot with the recent trend of mandatory vaccinations.
Someone who had lived in a monastery for more than a decade told me this about a week ago: ‘The threat to lock me up and starve me to death if I don’t put the vaccine will not change my mind. I would rather die of starvation if it comes to that, because it’s my choice’.
My country has not introduced mandatory vaccination like Austria (probably because they are waiting to see what happens with other countries), but I believe the person who told me that. He is not perfect, but he and a few other people who live there have been threatened and harassed by the police, unjustly criticized by others in the past and yet, they haven’t changed their conviction.
I answer this question from the straightforward point of view of a Christian (an extremely bad one, mind you), and why Christians might fear dying - I certainly do - but not death itself. I unpack an answer rooted in Scripture, starting with Matthew 10, and drawing on references within the texts, and come to the conclusion that the way to avoid this problem of fear of death is to find something bigger than yourself, which you believe in and love enough to give your life to protect. That is the way out of this dilemma.

Domain Query: To Settle or To Grind

The Domain Query series is finally back with a new episode - two of them in one day, actually - with a very involved and interesting question from LRFotS Randale6, which I quote in full below:
A request for one of your next episodes, I suppose you could call it "hope for a hailmary woman or just grind on". I was walking in the park one day and noticed something, all the couples walking the paths had muscular men...and half the women were fat, another quarter overweight and only the remaining quarter was thin.Simply put, even if I achieve the body of Adonis all I'm going to get is a fat, worthless whore. This makes me wonder, is it a better idea to simply grind onto an early retirement via stock market investment (Nikolai Vladivostok's The Poor Man's guide to building wealth is my bible for this)?I know that in latin america a gringo with even just 1 million (equating to 40k at a 4% withdrawal rate per year) would be living at the minimum a middle class lifestyle if not a fully upper middle class one. I would live well...and courtesy of latin america's poor social safety net for women I would have a fairly wide selection of mujeres. If I go that route though...how do I keep myself functioning in the meantime? I have to live long enough to enjoy the benefits of early retirement after all. What do I do to keep my body from aging into a broken, dottering corpse?  Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
In this podcast, I go over the following points:
Red Pill 101 conditional logic that dictates which option to take - women now, versus money now (oh yeah, I finally remembered the name of the Pacino character from Scarface - TONY MONTANA);
What to do about the scarcity of attractive women in one's area, and where to go to get past the issue;
Why the "poon/payola" dichotomy is actually a false, and indeed dangerous, one from a Christian perspective;
How to avoid boredom and dissipation as a man in a foreign country;
Potential dangers and issues with moving overseas, and emphasis on fitting in and acculturating;
On a related note, the Limitless Living course will, at some point, be spruced-up, re-branded, and re-released - at a MUCH lower price than it was initially. By that point, there should be enough people interested in getting out of Western hellholes to generate some actual sales, which would be nice.

Didactic Mind, Ep 89: The Moronica Strain

The Didactic Mind podcast is back, finally, with a new episode dedicated entirely to the Coof. Yes, I know, it's kind of old hat at this point, but the emergence of the new so-called "Omicron Strain" has stretched the credibility and gullibility of the Sheeple to, and in many cases well beyond, the breaking point. The result has been protesting and anger on a massive scale across Europe, and that is glorious to see. In this week's podcast, I unpack the supposed "African" origins of the virus, ask whether a coronavirus is even responsible in the first place for the Coof, discuss the uselessness and danger of the vaccines, point out the utter ineptitude of the RT-PCR test regime, and finish with a serious broadside directed at the entire medical establishment. This is one of those righteous venom-spitting episodes that you won't want to miss.
Book References
Virus Mania by Various Authors
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Further Reading
Global Research
Paul Craig Roberts
Mike Whitney
Dr. Sam Bailey's interview with Dr. Tom Cowan
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Didactic Mind, Ep 88: The Church Militant

This week's podcast is undoubtedly going to be a tad... controversial, because I go over a very wide range of subjects, ranging from Catholic doctrine and how some of it doesn't make sense, to recent events, to eschatology and the End Times, and finally the corrupted nature of the Word-Faith and NAR movements. I start by talking about the Catholic doctrines of Purgatory and the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, wherein she is presumed to be sinless herself. I then talk about what it means to be part of the Church Militant, and why it is such a difficult burden. Moving on to the Great Enemy's strategy, I talk about what Jesus's resurrection meant in terms of significance to Satan, and reference Dr. Michael Heiser's videos unpacking Satan's temptations of Christ. After looking at the strategies involved on both sides, I provide some tips and hints on how to endure the Long War, and how to take heart and hope from the little victories that we win - such as with the NOT GUILTY verdict rendered upon The Hero Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Didactic Mind, Ep 87: The Mind of War

This week's podcast is all about strategic thinking and design, and is inspired by the life, work, and thought of Col. John Boyd - "40-second Boyd", the fighter pilot without a single kill to his name, who single-handedly revolutionised the art of war and changed the way that we think about warfighting. Col. Boyd used to have a standing bet with the other pilots around him - they could start on his tail in a perfect kill position, and if he did not have the tables turned on them in 40 seconds or less, he would pay them $40 on the spot.
Col. Boyd never, ever lost that bet - not once. The closest that ANYONE ever came to cashing in on that bet was a young Marine pilot, who taxed Boyd to the very edge of his immense talents. But Boyd ultimately won - and that Marine spread Boyd's gospel throughout the Corps.
Today, Boyd's work is largely forgotten, and his immense contributions to the field of warfare are dishonoured and disregarded. But the core lessons behind his work dictate everything that we see around us in both war and business - and the lessons apply in life far beyond these things as well.
This week's podcast tries to tie all of that together, to help you understand how design and strategy are inseparable, and how to leverage this insight for your own benefit. I talk about why absurdly expensive and stupid weapons systems like the F-35 "Turducken Plane" are so utterly stupid and so badly designed, and why they consistently fail at their stated purposes. And I close by discussing how to apply this philosophy of design to your life as an individual.
Book References
The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant T. Hammond - slightly more cerebral and academic, but a brilliant contribution to understanding Boyd's way of thinking and impact upon strategy
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram - superb biography of John Boyd
On War (Vom Kriege) by Karl von Clausewitz - probably the second most important text on military strategy ever written
The Art of War by Sun Tzu - probably the most important text on military strategy ever written
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Didactic Mind, Ep 86: A Call to Arms

This week's episode of Didactic Mind is all about embracing the conflict that we find ourselves embroiled in - physically, mentally, and most importantly, spiritually. I talk about the world we are living in right now, built on lies as it is, and I walk you through the best ways to fight against it. This one is not for those who need fainting couches every time they hear something that they disagree with, so put on your big-boy (or big-girl, in the extremely unlikely event that you are a woman listening to my hour-long rants) pants, because if you haven't chosen a side yet, you WILL be required to do so in very short order. And it is far better to choose the winning side of your own free will, than to be forced to play for the losing side.
Welcome to the war. Let's get started.
References
The Neo-Tsar's speech in Valdai and the consequences for Russian foreign policy;
Dr. Steve Turley's hypothesis about the return of Christendom, starting in Eastern Europe, with which I strongly agree;
The coffee machine that I referenced earlier;
My favourite brand of coffee;
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Didactic Mind, Ep 85: Going Galt

At long last, the Didactic Mind podcast returns! This week is all about the parallels between Ayn Rand's (in)famous magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, and the daily realities of life under governments that hate us and want to see us persecuted and destroyed. I talk about "Going Galt" in terms of the way that Rand herself looked at the idea, and in terms of how it can be done in a proper Christian context. My conclusion here is that simply walking away from it all is not a solution, at all, and is certainly not in line with what we are called to do as Christians. Instead, I offer alternatives and solutions to help you get away from governments that clearly want you ground down, and which lie to you on a daily basis, just like the government bureaucrats in the novel do.
Books Referenced
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Films Referenced
The Big Short
Margin Call
Atlas Shrugged - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3
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Didactic Mind, Ep 84: The Lungs of Hell

This week's podcast about the current mess we find ourselves in with respect to governments around the world arrogating to themselves powers that they were never supposed to have in the first place. I look at the core reasons as to why this is happening, and I provide you with some ideas about how to fight back, in a wide-ranging discussion that covers a number of different topics. I specifically spend a lot of time looking at Romans 1, which explains rather well exactly where and how this long series of disasters has come from.
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Didactic Mind, Ep 83: The Scattering of the Ashes

The Didactic Mind podcast is finally BACK - after a 3-week or so delay, much to my regret, due to various (quite pleasant, actually) circumstances in my personal and professional life. The elapsed time has, however, proven fruitful, because a number of crazy things have happened in the past few weeks that provide us with PLENTY of material for discussion.
In this week's podcast, I talk about:
What the Fall of Kabul and the catastrophe in Afghanistan mean for the American Empire;
Why the USA is now essentially an empire at odds with a nation, with a Jewish-dominated ruling class that does not represent the core interests of the people of the nation;
How the Scamdemic and fake Coof Crisis may well have been manufactured to cover up a massive economic collapse;
Roughly how the American economic collapse might occur;
What the future holds as the world splinters into different factions;
Where Russia's and China's different interests lie;
... and much more.
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Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

The Didactic Mind podcast is back to something approaching a sort-of-regular schedule again, and this week's episode is all about the sudden and quite dramatic collapse of America's failed Syracuse Expedition in Afghanistan. I talk about the roots of its failure, the lessons to be learned (which of course the American military will utterly fail to heed), the folly and stupidity and arrogance of Wilsonian interventionism, and the likely consequences for the Pax Americana. This episode is a bit shorter than usual, due to time constraints on my part, but hopefully by next week we will be back up to a full-length episode.
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