Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)
Marcus Follin (The Golden One)
Demigod Mentality
Legio Gloria, 2023
If someone truly believes himself to be blessed by the Gods, it eventually becomes true — this is the power of faith. — The Golden One (more…)
Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)
Marcus Follin (The Golden One)
Demigod Mentality
Legio Gloria, 2023
If someone truly believes himself to be blessed by the Gods, it eventually becomes true — this is the power of faith. — The Golden One (more…)
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The following is the text of a talk that was given at the recent Counter-Currents Spring Retreat. The video can be seen here, or below.
Cyan asked me to speak on this topic, and before I begin, I just want to clarify something, because when it comes to these matters I’m overly pedantic. But historically speaking, ethnonationalism and religion don’t go together. This is because the nation-state itself, which was born out of either the French Revolution or the Second English Civil War, depending on who you ask, has always been secular and opposed to any mixing of politics and religion. (more…)
Jonathan Bowden
ed. by Alex Kurtagić
Right
London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016
To commemorate the late Jonathan Bowden on what would have been his 61st birthday, Greg Johnson provided a thoughtful tribute essay, accompanied by a comprehensive aggregation of links to articles, speech transcripts, reviews, and more. Although so many of us never had the privilege of meeting him or attending his speeches in person, Bowden nonetheless remains an inspiration. (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Strepsiades Flunks Out
It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces. Socrates then rants about a particularly bad student who is “rustic . . . resourceless . . . dull . . . and forgetful.” Then he calls this student to come out. And out comes Strepsiades.
Socrates then quizzes Strepsiades on what he has learned. (more…)
The people of the ancient Mediterranean had a peculiar belief. They believed that malodorous air, or bad air, was a cause of a particular disease which, owing to its origins, they named malaria. This was called the miasma theory of disease. Guided by this theory, they sought to build their cities away from sources of bad air, such as swamps and other bodies of stagnant, foul-smelling water. (more…)
The late British novelist Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) was mainly known for his Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, of which one of the most popular, Hogfather, was made into a BBC miniseries in 2006. Pratchett was a secular humanist, but did not share the unfortunate belief of some atheists that there is something shameful about faith itself. Instead, with Hogfather, he valorizes the struggle between belief and fantasy – which he casts as necessary parts of being human – and a cold, mechanical, and unimaginative worldview. (more…)
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A video made to accompany some excerpts from talks by Jonathan Bowden on the subject of the power of belief. We are hardwired for philosophical and religious belief, but as a society, many white people have a severe lack of it. Bowden talks about Nietzsche, nature, mental strengthening, and the absence of belief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRL32-JPuQ
A few years ago I realized I did not know what I believed. A great deal of this had to do with the fact that I was a philosophy major. If you ask a philosopher if he believes in X he mentally translates that question into “can I prove that X is true?” And then he answers that question rather than the one you actually asked. (more…)