When we last left Saul, he had twice been snuck up on Metal Gear Solid style by David, just so the latter could prove he could've killed Saul at any moment and chose not to. Both times, Saul backed off for awhile.
However, David knew his luck could not be infinite. In fact, so long as he remained for any considerable length of time in Israel's borders, he was in Saul's dead sights and one day, Saul was going to have his head on a spike.
So he once again tried to set up shop in the land of the Philistines.
Now, he had tried this before and it failed, and he was even doing so before Achish, the same guy he once had to play madman in front of to keep his head attached to his neck. This time, though, it was common knowledge David had a price on his head Saul would pay for and whatever military reputation David had as an Israeli hero was chicken feed at his point, so when David asked Achish for room and board in return for his groupies serving as a Philistine mercenary force, they gave Dave and his friends a city called Ziklag to call their own.
Of course, this came with a price: They wanted David to turn his blade on his own people, and David found an ingenious way to cheat on this deal while still appearing to follow it:
[8] Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.) [9] When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish. [10] When Achish would ask, "Where did you raid today?" David would say, "The Negev of Judah" or "The Negev of Jeharmeel" or "The Negev of the Kenites." [11] Neither man nor woman would David leave alive so as to bring them back to Gath. He was thinking, "This way they can't tell on us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" Such was his practice the entire time that he lived in the country of the Philistines. [12] So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, "He is really hated among his own people in Israel! From now on he will be my servant."
(I Samuel 27:8-12 [NETfree])
Now, one might wonder why Achish fell for this ruse, but it was pretty easy to explain:
1. In terms of plunder, practically every force was pretty similar to the Israelites that he attacked in terms of material goods, so David had little reason to worry he might have his ruse uncovered by the Philistines rifling through the loot he brought back and finding non-Israeli specific goods.
2. The term "Negev" means "desert", so as long as David killed non-Israeli forces relatively near the locations he mentioned, no one would look too deeply into seeing if he was lying, since traversing deserts was arduous work and if the goods he brought back were a bit sandy, no one would find that odd.
3. David accurately believed "dead men tell no tales", and it was a commonly known practice of Israelite forces to kill everyone to the last man anyway, so his not bringing back prisoners was not seen as unusual.
4. All the people David went after were basically desert raiders, the kind of scum that was headaches to Israeli and Philistine alike. No one was likely to care if they died either way.
Unfortunately, the ruse was nearly broken when Achish tried to sign up David's forces for regular military service with the Phlistine army. David was likely happy he did this, he could backstab them behind their own lines. However, the other Philistine commanders weren't stupid, and they gave Achish a hard no, saying he could use them to do proxy raids, but they weren't fighting shoulder to shoulder with Philistine regulars.
Dave put on a good show of acting disappointed out of apparent loyalty for Achish's benefit, and he basically got the best of both worlds: he could keep the ruse going and he got removed from any situation where it might get discovered.
We now cut back to Saul, who, since Samuel died, was getting a bit desperate. The Philistines were gearing up for another major offensive against the Israelites, God made a point to ignore Saul's calls, and Saul had no way of getting a heads up from anyone affiliated with God on whether his forces would win.
So Saul, in his desperation, did the unthinkable.
Early in Saul's career, he had made a point to put to the sword mediums, sorcerers, and anyone else who might worship idols or commune with the dead, generally out of loyalty to God. Despite later getting on God's bad side, he still kept up this practice. Now, though, God had left Saul so starved for news he was about to turn to those very people he once slew to stay on God's good side.
There was a witch a place called Endor who was reputed to be good at getting dead people on the horn, and Saul figured he'd have her call up Samuel because while Samuel had been the one to break Saul ego over his knee, he was still providing primo intel to the Israelites on God's intentions until his death, and Saul decided he'd, in some literal sense, dig up Samuel's corpse for another heads up session.
However, this time it was Saul whose reputation preceded him in a bad way. The witch of Endor quickly realized who Saul was and was about to cut and run, figuring she was the target of a sting to flush her out and get her killed, but after Saul convinced her he was going to let her live because God was stiff-arming him that badly and Saul really needed some divine update on what to do, the witch did her thing.
Now, an important note before I go on. I've read numerous bible translations, and they all leave vague if the witch of Endor actually did anything for real, God let it happen, or if Saul got an evil demonic parody of what he asked for, it's one of those parts of the Bible where they leave it up in the air what happened, so I'm just going to cite how it's described in the text below as opposed to giving pithy commentary and let the reader be the judge:
[13] The king said to her, "Don't be afraid! What have you seen?" The woman replied to Saul, "I have seen one like a god coming up from the ground!" [14] He said to her, "What about his appearance?" She said, "An old man is coming up! He is wrapped in a robe!"Then Saul realized it was Samuel, and he bowed his face toward the ground and kneeled down. [15] Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul replied, "I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me - not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do." [16] Samuel said, "Why are you asking me, now that the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy? [17] The LORD has done exactly as I prophesied! The LORD has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David! [18] Since you did not obey the LORD and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this thing to you today. [19] The LORD will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will also hand the army of Israel over to the Philistines!" [20] Saul quickly fell full length on the ground and was very afraid because of Samuel's words. He was completely drained of energy, not having eaten anything all that day and night.
(I Samuel 28:13-20 [NETfree])
Regardless of whether this was real or if Saul had been duped by smoke and mirrors or a demonic parody of the real deal, it doesn't really matter, Saul was left even more terrified than he was before.
I'll cover the finale of Saul's fall and disgrace unto death in the last part, but this contains a few important lessons on why Saul fell so hard.
First off, he had been anointed by God to do as GOD wanted, and he lost God's favor by cheating on that, so why he thought doubling and tripling down on defying God's will was a good idea boggles the imagination. Second, he had sunk to the point of doing the very things he had slain others for doing as crimes before the Lord out of fear and desperation.
Granted, God had already rejected Saul and left him in the lurch as King, but Saul, being too proud to legally abdicate his throne and too arrogant to accept this, kept trying to do the job without his key backer, and he declined into a paranoid shell of himself who had resorted to becoming little better than what he was anointed to oppose evil had corroded him like acid and ate away at his integrity and decency.
It will only get worse from here, and this story will end on a sad note for Saul, but the lesson here as to how it was getting to that point I won't belabor, except to say the mistakes Saul made are ones no one should ever repeat.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
The Sad Story of Saul: Or Why One Should Not Let Evil Destroy You Part 6
When we last left Saul, he was watching as priests of God were getting killed on his orders and David was horrified to find that out sometime later.
Sometime after this incident, David heard the Philistines were assaulting a place called Keliah, and after God told him "you'll cave in their skulls left and right", David told his groupies to stow their fears and Keliah was saved by David's men.
Unfortunately, gratitude was in short supply with the Keliahites, so David had to move to a place called Horesh to avoid getting caught by Saul.
David soon had to haul tail again, cause Saul was that autistically persistent, but Johnathan and David managed a brief secret meeting where the former promised the latter that he knew David would one day take his dad's throne, and on that day, he'd be happy to step back and support him.
Tragically, he never got the chance to do that, but hey, thought that counts.
Eventually, Saul very nearly had David pinned down in the region of the Ziphites (who were spilling all they knew to Saul about exactly where to find David), but the Philistines showed up again, forcing Saul to call off the search while David found a better hidey-hole.
Unfortunately, Saul went right back to trying to hunt down David, and this time, David decided to be proactive. He snuck into Saul's own camp while Saul was sleeping after combing the deserts of En Gedi for David, and he cut off a piece of Saul's robe but made a point not to harm Saul.
However, as Dave made it back to his own camp, he felt pretty bad about cutting Saul's robe. True, he had not physically hurt Saul like he promised himself, but since one's robes often doubled as one blanket and destroying someone's clothes in a region where linen was expensive was considered a blood insult, Dave decided he needed to apologize, even if it meant putting his neck out for Saul's blade.
So he walked right into Saul's camp, woke Saul up, and held up the piece of the robe he cut off, both apologizing for doing so because it was a tasteless thing to do and swearing he still had no intentions on Saul's life, he just hoped his former boss would return the favor.
Saul had something of a conscience attack combined with utter surprise he had been so careless David got that close yet STILL refused to kill him, and Saul let David go without incident, but not before David promised Saul he would never take Saul's life or that of his family.
This was a temporary truce and both knew it, but David managed to relocate again by the time Saul broke it.
Not long after this incident, Samuel died of old age, and after everyone who knew him had a good cry over his loss, Saul's autism flared back up and he went back to hunting down David.
Ironically, this was yet again in the land of Ziphites, and yet again, David got preemptive and ganked Saul's spear and water bottle as proof he was able to tactical espionage action his way up to Saul and back without harming the guy. His buddy Abishai who tagged along urged him to plant Saul's spear in the man's skull, but David refused on the spot: He WOULD NOT be responsible for killing Saul, who had been anointed by God.
After David cleared away from Saul's camp a good bit, he called out to Saul's chief general and his former superior Abner, held up Saul's spear and water bottle and was all,
"I could've killed Saul, but all I did was take these to prove I very well might have done so but didn't. Still, security for Saul is pretty bad if you ask me."
Abner was all 0_0 at the security breach, and Saul acknowledged once again David had spared him and they both went on their way for a while until Saul's autistic obsessions flared up again.
The next part will address the beginning of the end for Saul, but I'd like to leave some closing notes.
Saul was explicitly spared two times when David could have killed him on the spot before Saul had a clue. David even felt bad enough about one of those times he admitted guilt for violating the spirit of not harming Saul if not the letter of doing so (by just cutting his robe). He even felt so bad for the first one he was willing to let Saul end him then and there if he wanted. The second time was a similar case of David having every chance to kill Saul but refusing to.
Saul had no reason to be trying to kill David at all that was worth anything before the eyes of God, while David could have made any number of excuses for doing that to Saul, but he refused to even try because David knew it would be wrong to be guilty of whatever crimes Saul intended towards him because he'd be a hypocrite for it.
IRL, it's really hard to not take a chance to lash out at one's enemy when you have a chance, and David got tempted twice but resisted because not only would it have proven he was no better, he would have broken faith with God, and like David, we should not be guilty of either, no matter who wants to do evil to us.
Sometime after this incident, David heard the Philistines were assaulting a place called Keliah, and after God told him "you'll cave in their skulls left and right", David told his groupies to stow their fears and Keliah was saved by David's men.
Unfortunately, gratitude was in short supply with the Keliahites, so David had to move to a place called Horesh to avoid getting caught by Saul.
David soon had to haul tail again, cause Saul was that autistically persistent, but Johnathan and David managed a brief secret meeting where the former promised the latter that he knew David would one day take his dad's throne, and on that day, he'd be happy to step back and support him.
Tragically, he never got the chance to do that, but hey, thought that counts.
Eventually, Saul very nearly had David pinned down in the region of the Ziphites (who were spilling all they knew to Saul about exactly where to find David), but the Philistines showed up again, forcing Saul to call off the search while David found a better hidey-hole.
Unfortunately, Saul went right back to trying to hunt down David, and this time, David decided to be proactive. He snuck into Saul's own camp while Saul was sleeping after combing the deserts of En Gedi for David, and he cut off a piece of Saul's robe but made a point not to harm Saul.
However, as Dave made it back to his own camp, he felt pretty bad about cutting Saul's robe. True, he had not physically hurt Saul like he promised himself, but since one's robes often doubled as one blanket and destroying someone's clothes in a region where linen was expensive was considered a blood insult, Dave decided he needed to apologize, even if it meant putting his neck out for Saul's blade.
So he walked right into Saul's camp, woke Saul up, and held up the piece of the robe he cut off, both apologizing for doing so because it was a tasteless thing to do and swearing he still had no intentions on Saul's life, he just hoped his former boss would return the favor.
Saul had something of a conscience attack combined with utter surprise he had been so careless David got that close yet STILL refused to kill him, and Saul let David go without incident, but not before David promised Saul he would never take Saul's life or that of his family.
This was a temporary truce and both knew it, but David managed to relocate again by the time Saul broke it.
Not long after this incident, Samuel died of old age, and after everyone who knew him had a good cry over his loss, Saul's autism flared back up and he went back to hunting down David.
Ironically, this was yet again in the land of Ziphites, and yet again, David got preemptive and ganked Saul's spear and water bottle as proof he was able to tactical espionage action his way up to Saul and back without harming the guy. His buddy Abishai who tagged along urged him to plant Saul's spear in the man's skull, but David refused on the spot: He WOULD NOT be responsible for killing Saul, who had been anointed by God.
After David cleared away from Saul's camp a good bit, he called out to Saul's chief general and his former superior Abner, held up Saul's spear and water bottle and was all,
"I could've killed Saul, but all I did was take these to prove I very well might have done so but didn't. Still, security for Saul is pretty bad if you ask me."
Abner was all 0_0 at the security breach, and Saul acknowledged once again David had spared him and they both went on their way for a while until Saul's autistic obsessions flared up again.
The next part will address the beginning of the end for Saul, but I'd like to leave some closing notes.
Saul was explicitly spared two times when David could have killed him on the spot before Saul had a clue. David even felt bad enough about one of those times he admitted guilt for violating the spirit of not harming Saul if not the letter of doing so (by just cutting his robe). He even felt so bad for the first one he was willing to let Saul end him then and there if he wanted. The second time was a similar case of David having every chance to kill Saul but refusing to.
Saul had no reason to be trying to kill David at all that was worth anything before the eyes of God, while David could have made any number of excuses for doing that to Saul, but he refused to even try because David knew it would be wrong to be guilty of whatever crimes Saul intended towards him because he'd be a hypocrite for it.
IRL, it's really hard to not take a chance to lash out at one's enemy when you have a chance, and David got tempted twice but resisted because not only would it have proven he was no better, he would have broken faith with God, and like David, we should not be guilty of either, no matter who wants to do evil to us.
Friday, April 24, 2020
The Sad Story of Saul: Or Why One Should Not Let Evil Destroy You Part 5
When we last left off, Saul made it clear David was a dead man, no ambiguity about it, cause reasons. David was forced to run and keep running until he found somewhere he couldn't be hunted down like a dog.
His first stop was a temple of the Lord at a city called Nob. The head priest, Ahimelech, was understandably confused as to why a man of David's high ranking position was by himself, no escort, no warning of his arrival.
David explained he was on a secret mission, one where he had to leave incognito on orders from the King, and the reason he was stopping by was that he had no supplies due to the haste laid on by the mission and was hoping they had some bread and maybe a spare sword lying around.
Like some bizarre parody of an RPG game, David got both for his quest. The first was the bread that God commanded be put on the altar each day for the priests to snack on, and since they were about to chuck it for new bread, David could have it, but only if he hadn't made himself unclean or sexually impure.
David obviously was too busy trying not to get killed to have spent carnal time with his wife, so he got the bread. As for the sword, the very blade he had gypped from Goliath had wound up in Nob and hung in the temple as a novelty, basically a trophy of David pwning the giant. David got the blade and decided to use it as his own since it had already proven excellent at severing an enemy head from its neck.
As David left, some guy called Doeg the Edomite had seen this whole business. This will be important later.
Later, David decided he'd flee to the one place Saul obviously could not follow: Gath.
That's right, Goliath's hometown in what would be modern-day Syria.
Unfortunately, that reputation for being a legendary Israeli hero reared it's ugly head at the worst possible time, prompting King Achish of Gath to wonder if the new guy who showed up in town had really been the same one to have handed the Philistines so many of their backsides on platters.
David then hit upon a desperate plan to avoid exposure: He starting drooling all over himself and started making funny graffiti everywhere.
tl;dr: He decided to act utterly insane.
Achish took one look at the new guy being an obvious fruitcake missing a few strawberries and asked he kindly be shown the door, he didn't need to house any more lunatics than he already did.
And so he got booted back over the Israelite border with his neck still attached.
However, he did manage to find a decent hiding spot at the Cave of Adullam to lay low, and by this time most of his family tracked him down and decided to help him stay hidden because family looks out for each other. He wound up attracting a bunch of sympathizers to the point he had a sizable group of 400 or so groupies, which prompted him to pick up stakes before anyone noticed, this time to the neighboring territory of the Moabites. This was pretty logical since, if you read the book of Ruth, David was one of her descendants.
David asked the King of Moab to take his family in so they wouldn't get caught up in any crap Saul had planned for him, and his plan was to lie low there for a while too. A prophet of God named Gad tracked him down though and said God had a change of plans, he wanted David to head on over to the land of the tribe of Judah, where David decided to lay low in the forest of Hereth.
Now cut back over to Saul, who had been trying to track David down, finding that the tribe of Benjamin and knew nothing and most of David's family had already cleared out. As Saul was cursing them out for colluding with David, that Doeg guy showed up and decided to be the stool pigeon:
[9] But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, "I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob. [10] He inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
(I Samuel 22:9-10 [NETfree])
To say Saul was a bit mad to find this out was an understatement. In fact, by the time he got to Nob with his troops in force (with Doeg the informant tagging along), he accused the priests at Nob of harboring his enemy and providing him aid and comfort.
Ahimelech, speaking on behalf of the other priests, honestly told Saul they had no idea David, whom they knew to be an honest, high ranking officer for Saul, had done anything wrong and again honestly protested utter innocence, they had no clue David had gotten on Saul's bad side.
Saul was not buying this, even though this was 100% true. In fact, what he ordered in response was so shocking every one of Saul's men was frozen in horror.
Saul wanted them to kill every last priest in Nob for colluding with a traitor.
Now, this is entirely understandable. Without the benefit of a trial to assess guilt or innocence, their King ordered them to kill a temple of priests to the Lord.
That's when that craven weasel Doeg stepped forward and offered to do the deed. Saul not only let him, but he basically sat back and watched as 85 priests of God were murdered before the altar and Doeg even killed their wives, livestock, and even children.
One priest did manage to get away, a guy by the name of Abiathar. He managed to track David down and explain what had happened. David's blood ran cold when he heard of Doeg, put two and two together, and realized an entire temple city of innocent people were killed just to get to him.
David then told Abiathar not only did he take responsibility for the dead, he asked Abiathar to stick with him because the price on David's head was now on Abiathar's as well.
I'll cover more later on, but let's stop for a moment here and discuss just how far Saul has fallen.
He went from being chosen by God and doing His Will, and now he's sunk so far as to murder God's own priests in contravention of all legal and moral reason, simply because of his jealous hatred of David.
David, by contrast, is horrified of who died as a result being seen with him, takes the lone survivor under his protection, and takes responsibility for the circumstances that led to Saul's murder by proxy.
Worse, it all started because of one man's jealous rage not only consuming him, it also became so monstrous it started getting other people hurt, just as the target of that rage feared.
This is the outcome of jealousy, contempt, and rage corroding Saul from a noble and decent man to a callow murderer, and it should serve as a lesson:
Don't let the same corrode your own soul, the results may not result in dead people, but it's quite likely that like Saul, what you wind up seeing in the mirror when that happens will forever shame you, and more importantly, the God who you will one day have to stand before in Judgment.
His first stop was a temple of the Lord at a city called Nob. The head priest, Ahimelech, was understandably confused as to why a man of David's high ranking position was by himself, no escort, no warning of his arrival.
David explained he was on a secret mission, one where he had to leave incognito on orders from the King, and the reason he was stopping by was that he had no supplies due to the haste laid on by the mission and was hoping they had some bread and maybe a spare sword lying around.
Like some bizarre parody of an RPG game, David got both for his quest. The first was the bread that God commanded be put on the altar each day for the priests to snack on, and since they were about to chuck it for new bread, David could have it, but only if he hadn't made himself unclean or sexually impure.
David obviously was too busy trying not to get killed to have spent carnal time with his wife, so he got the bread. As for the sword, the very blade he had gypped from Goliath had wound up in Nob and hung in the temple as a novelty, basically a trophy of David pwning the giant. David got the blade and decided to use it as his own since it had already proven excellent at severing an enemy head from its neck.
As David left, some guy called Doeg the Edomite had seen this whole business. This will be important later.
Later, David decided he'd flee to the one place Saul obviously could not follow: Gath.
That's right, Goliath's hometown in what would be modern-day Syria.
Unfortunately, that reputation for being a legendary Israeli hero reared it's ugly head at the worst possible time, prompting King Achish of Gath to wonder if the new guy who showed up in town had really been the same one to have handed the Philistines so many of their backsides on platters.
David then hit upon a desperate plan to avoid exposure: He starting drooling all over himself and started making funny graffiti everywhere.
tl;dr: He decided to act utterly insane.
Achish took one look at the new guy being an obvious fruitcake missing a few strawberries and asked he kindly be shown the door, he didn't need to house any more lunatics than he already did.
And so he got booted back over the Israelite border with his neck still attached.
However, he did manage to find a decent hiding spot at the Cave of Adullam to lay low, and by this time most of his family tracked him down and decided to help him stay hidden because family looks out for each other. He wound up attracting a bunch of sympathizers to the point he had a sizable group of 400 or so groupies, which prompted him to pick up stakes before anyone noticed, this time to the neighboring territory of the Moabites. This was pretty logical since, if you read the book of Ruth, David was one of her descendants.
David asked the King of Moab to take his family in so they wouldn't get caught up in any crap Saul had planned for him, and his plan was to lie low there for a while too. A prophet of God named Gad tracked him down though and said God had a change of plans, he wanted David to head on over to the land of the tribe of Judah, where David decided to lay low in the forest of Hereth.
Now cut back over to Saul, who had been trying to track David down, finding that the tribe of Benjamin and knew nothing and most of David's family had already cleared out. As Saul was cursing them out for colluding with David, that Doeg guy showed up and decided to be the stool pigeon:
[9] But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, "I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob. [10] He inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
(I Samuel 22:9-10 [NETfree])
To say Saul was a bit mad to find this out was an understatement. In fact, by the time he got to Nob with his troops in force (with Doeg the informant tagging along), he accused the priests at Nob of harboring his enemy and providing him aid and comfort.
Ahimelech, speaking on behalf of the other priests, honestly told Saul they had no idea David, whom they knew to be an honest, high ranking officer for Saul, had done anything wrong and again honestly protested utter innocence, they had no clue David had gotten on Saul's bad side.
Saul was not buying this, even though this was 100% true. In fact, what he ordered in response was so shocking every one of Saul's men was frozen in horror.
Saul wanted them to kill every last priest in Nob for colluding with a traitor.
Now, this is entirely understandable. Without the benefit of a trial to assess guilt or innocence, their King ordered them to kill a temple of priests to the Lord.
That's when that craven weasel Doeg stepped forward and offered to do the deed. Saul not only let him, but he basically sat back and watched as 85 priests of God were murdered before the altar and Doeg even killed their wives, livestock, and even children.
One priest did manage to get away, a guy by the name of Abiathar. He managed to track David down and explain what had happened. David's blood ran cold when he heard of Doeg, put two and two together, and realized an entire temple city of innocent people were killed just to get to him.
David then told Abiathar not only did he take responsibility for the dead, he asked Abiathar to stick with him because the price on David's head was now on Abiathar's as well.
I'll cover more later on, but let's stop for a moment here and discuss just how far Saul has fallen.
He went from being chosen by God and doing His Will, and now he's sunk so far as to murder God's own priests in contravention of all legal and moral reason, simply because of his jealous hatred of David.
David, by contrast, is horrified of who died as a result being seen with him, takes the lone survivor under his protection, and takes responsibility for the circumstances that led to Saul's murder by proxy.
Worse, it all started because of one man's jealous rage not only consuming him, it also became so monstrous it started getting other people hurt, just as the target of that rage feared.
This is the outcome of jealousy, contempt, and rage corroding Saul from a noble and decent man to a callow murderer, and it should serve as a lesson:
Don't let the same corrode your own soul, the results may not result in dead people, but it's quite likely that like Saul, what you wind up seeing in the mirror when that happens will forever shame you, and more importantly, the God who you will one day have to stand before in Judgment.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
9chan and the scum trying to destroy it
Recently, Joshua "Null" Moon, he of "Kiwi Farms" fame/infamy, decided to launch 9chan, which runs using his own custom designed chan board software.
Barely three days after it hits the public internet, and it's already been targeted by the following:
1. Epik, the domain registrar, decided to weasel out of providing Moon service on utterly spurious grounds that basically amounted to "because I want to and I'll seize any cheap excuse to justify screwing you over without notice". This obstacle was overcome, but it's still galling such bad faith has gone unpunished.
2. The usual SJW types have fired up the propaganda machines at Wikipedia and various tabloid rags on the internet conflating 9chan with all the evils possible and trying to shame anyone possible into getting it choked off the internet. The owner of Epik fell for this because Wikipedia published such blatant attack articles on him Joseph Goebbels would blink in amazement at and the cowards who wrote them are cowering behind their own rules crafted to justify such slanted hit pieces in wiki format and the chief instigator at Wikipedia has a huge web footprint of every cliche you can think of when it comes "pious hypocritical moral guardianship".
3. Most disgustingly, some vile sacks of human refuse keep trying to spam CHILD PORN on 9chan despite the rules (which to my knowledge have been enforced) stating up front that depravity is NOT tolerated, and to Josh Moon's credit, he's been fighting hard to keep those sick bastards at bay.
I'm not entirely sure if this is some lunatic who thinks Josh Moon's fanatical defense of free speech includes child porn (which, bless the man, it DEFINITELY DOES NOT), or if this some false flag by someone who hates Joshua Moon so badly they will commit a heinous crime before both God and Man just to spite him.
Either way, whoever is spamming this vile material needs caught and imprisoned, and while I don't approve of vigilante justice, I can't say I'd shed tears if this pedophile (or pedophiles) wind up swinging from a tree for their evil ways.
For the record, I'm not much a chan board user, it's not my kind of frequently used forum because I prefer more traditional forums, but insofar as it's owner has every intent to obey the law, then these attacks on his right to host speech that is legal under US law (no matter how glorious or perverse) are unconscionable and utterly beyond the pale.
Barely three days after it hits the public internet, and it's already been targeted by the following:
1. Epik, the domain registrar, decided to weasel out of providing Moon service on utterly spurious grounds that basically amounted to "because I want to and I'll seize any cheap excuse to justify screwing you over without notice". This obstacle was overcome, but it's still galling such bad faith has gone unpunished.
2. The usual SJW types have fired up the propaganda machines at Wikipedia and various tabloid rags on the internet conflating 9chan with all the evils possible and trying to shame anyone possible into getting it choked off the internet. The owner of Epik fell for this because Wikipedia published such blatant attack articles on him Joseph Goebbels would blink in amazement at and the cowards who wrote them are cowering behind their own rules crafted to justify such slanted hit pieces in wiki format and the chief instigator at Wikipedia has a huge web footprint of every cliche you can think of when it comes "pious hypocritical moral guardianship".
3. Most disgustingly, some vile sacks of human refuse keep trying to spam CHILD PORN on 9chan despite the rules (which to my knowledge have been enforced) stating up front that depravity is NOT tolerated, and to Josh Moon's credit, he's been fighting hard to keep those sick bastards at bay.
I'm not entirely sure if this is some lunatic who thinks Josh Moon's fanatical defense of free speech includes child porn (which, bless the man, it DEFINITELY DOES NOT), or if this some false flag by someone who hates Joshua Moon so badly they will commit a heinous crime before both God and Man just to spite him.
Either way, whoever is spamming this vile material needs caught and imprisoned, and while I don't approve of vigilante justice, I can't say I'd shed tears if this pedophile (or pedophiles) wind up swinging from a tree for their evil ways.
For the record, I'm not much a chan board user, it's not my kind of frequently used forum because I prefer more traditional forums, but insofar as it's owner has every intent to obey the law, then these attacks on his right to host speech that is legal under US law (no matter how glorious or perverse) are unconscionable and utterly beyond the pale.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The Sad Story of Saul: Or Why One Should Not Let Evil Destroy You Part 4
When last we left Saul, he was lying naked in the street giving praise to God as opposed to committing cold-blooded murder of an innocent man, while said innocent man David was asking his friend Johnathan if he had any idea why his dad Saul wanted to have his head mounted on a wall plaque.
Johnathan was in kinda-sorta denial mode in response, which is kinda fair, we are talking about a friend being forced to choose his friend over his father here. David asked Johnathan to cover for him while he found a better place to hide, basically telling his dad "David went back to his hometown of Bethlehem for an annual feast, wanted me to pass the word along.", and depending on whether Saul shrugged his shoulders or went ballistic, that would give David a good idea whether he needed to find a really good rock and stay under it or if whatever drove Saul nuts would eventually blow over.
Johnathan was a tad reluctant to straight-up lie to his own father, so he proposed David hide nearby in the fields while he did a Gideon style "give me a sign" kind of test to get answers from God instead. The test was basically Johnathan was going to shoot near a rock at one point on the third day with a servant nearby to collect the arrow as if done for target practice. If the arrows were found on one side of the rock, then that was a sign Saul would get over himself. If they were on the other side, then David needed to keep running.
Long story short, the arrows all wound up on the other side, and Johnathan got his answer from God: David and he couldn't be seen together for however long Saul wanted his best friend dead.
Around the same time, he decided to meet David halfway and gave his dad David's cover story because he was pretty sure either way, David needed some time away from Saul until things blew over and/or needed more time to figure out where a better hiding spot would be.
This is how that played out:
[24] So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal. [25] The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him and Abner at his side. But David's place was vacant. [26] However, Saul said nothing about it that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean." [27] But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David's place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, "Why has Jesse's son not come to the meal yesterday or today?" [28] Jonathan replied to Saul, "David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem. [29] He said, 'Permit me to go, for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go to see my brothers.' For that reason he has not come to the king's table." [30] Saul became angry with Jonathan and said to him, "You stupid traitor! Don't I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother's nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse? [31] For as long as this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!" [32] Jonathan responded to his father Saul, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" [33] Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced that his father had decided to kill David. [34] Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David.
(I Samuel 20:24-34 [NETfree])
Um, yikes, let's unpack this:
1. Saul initially writes off David being absent as ceremonial uncleanliness, which would account for at least one day of absence, shrugs his shoulders.
2. Second day is when that doesn't make sense. He asks his son if he knows, Johnathan gives David's canned excuse.
3. Saul calls his son's mother a dirty whore and calls his own son a traitor over something that in no way implicates Johnathan of anything treasonous, then tells Johnathan he will never succeed his dad as King until David's head is on a pike.
4. Johnathan understandably wants to know David's death-worthy offense.
5. Saul tries to murder his own son for asking a perfectly reasonable question of legal importance.
tl;dr: Johnathan now had more than enough proof his dad would not stop until his best friend was murdered simply because Saul hated him.
It's at this point the writing was spelled out on asbestos paper and signed in blood:
David was a dead man walking until Saul gave up his hate or died.
With this, both David and Johnathan said their final goodbyes, but not before both made a very important pledge to each other:
Neither would allow the descendants of the other to die by the other's hand, they would enjoy the protection of each other's families and God was to be witness to that.
Before I close this post out, I just want to stop for a minute so we can appreciate this: Two good friends have been torn apart because of the murderous, petty grudge the father of one of them has, but both pledge neither of them will harm the descendants of the other regardless because unlike Saul, they refused to let hatred consume them as it did Saul.
Despite all the evil Saul did, it only steeled David and Johnathan in their zeal to not fall prey to the same petty hatred that made Saul want to destroy an innocent man out of petty, depraved spite.
That's something I think we should all emulate in the face of the evil of others, no matter how monstrous.
P.S. - David did his noble best to go out of his way to keep that promise he made to Johnathan whenever possible, long after the latter died. Some examples include:
A. Some idiot once bragged he killed Saul and thought David would be pleased. David had the man executed on the spot for murdering the Lord's anointed.
B. Two more idiots later murdered a son of Saul who was a rival to David in his home, cut off his head, and tried to give it David as a gift. David had both killed in response to the crime of murdering an innocent man. He even extended the same honor to his former commander Abner, who stood by Saul's family even after David became King, and gave his former commander a state funeral and apologized on behalf of all Israel that he had been murdered by treachery by officers under David's own command during what should have been peace talks.
C. Despite most kings making a habit of killing all potential rivals from the former king's family, David refused to do so. He even took in a crippled son of Johnathan and gave him his personal protection and a seat at his table for life.
D. One time David did NOT spare the lives of Saul when he was later King in his own right, but he legally had no choice. Saul had once killed people to whom the Israelites swore an oath of protection, and since Saul was dead, someone had to pay for his crime, and the law then allowed for the family of the deceased to be killed to pay for the offense, so David allowed for that to happen because he had no legal choice to prevent it and his own oath to Johnathan did not override his greater oath to the laws of the state.
Johnathan was in kinda-sorta denial mode in response, which is kinda fair, we are talking about a friend being forced to choose his friend over his father here. David asked Johnathan to cover for him while he found a better place to hide, basically telling his dad "David went back to his hometown of Bethlehem for an annual feast, wanted me to pass the word along.", and depending on whether Saul shrugged his shoulders or went ballistic, that would give David a good idea whether he needed to find a really good rock and stay under it or if whatever drove Saul nuts would eventually blow over.
Johnathan was a tad reluctant to straight-up lie to his own father, so he proposed David hide nearby in the fields while he did a Gideon style "give me a sign" kind of test to get answers from God instead. The test was basically Johnathan was going to shoot near a rock at one point on the third day with a servant nearby to collect the arrow as if done for target practice. If the arrows were found on one side of the rock, then that was a sign Saul would get over himself. If they were on the other side, then David needed to keep running.
Long story short, the arrows all wound up on the other side, and Johnathan got his answer from God: David and he couldn't be seen together for however long Saul wanted his best friend dead.
Around the same time, he decided to meet David halfway and gave his dad David's cover story because he was pretty sure either way, David needed some time away from Saul until things blew over and/or needed more time to figure out where a better hiding spot would be.
This is how that played out:
[24] So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal. [25] The king sat down in his usual place by the wall, with Jonathan opposite him and Abner at his side. But David's place was vacant. [26] However, Saul said nothing about it that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean." [27] But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David's place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, "Why has Jesse's son not come to the meal yesterday or today?" [28] Jonathan replied to Saul, "David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem. [29] He said, 'Permit me to go, for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go to see my brothers.' For that reason he has not come to the king's table." [30] Saul became angry with Jonathan and said to him, "You stupid traitor! Don't I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother's nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse? [31] For as long as this son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established. Now, send some men and bring him to me. For he is as good as dead!" [32] Jonathan responded to his father Saul, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" [33] Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced that his father had decided to kill David. [34] Jonathan got up from the table enraged. He did not eat any food on that second day of the new moon, for he was upset that his father had humiliated David.
(I Samuel 20:24-34 [NETfree])
Um, yikes, let's unpack this:
1. Saul initially writes off David being absent as ceremonial uncleanliness, which would account for at least one day of absence, shrugs his shoulders.
2. Second day is when that doesn't make sense. He asks his son if he knows, Johnathan gives David's canned excuse.
3. Saul calls his son's mother a dirty whore and calls his own son a traitor over something that in no way implicates Johnathan of anything treasonous, then tells Johnathan he will never succeed his dad as King until David's head is on a pike.
4. Johnathan understandably wants to know David's death-worthy offense.
5. Saul tries to murder his own son for asking a perfectly reasonable question of legal importance.
tl;dr: Johnathan now had more than enough proof his dad would not stop until his best friend was murdered simply because Saul hated him.
It's at this point the writing was spelled out on asbestos paper and signed in blood:
David was a dead man walking until Saul gave up his hate or died.
With this, both David and Johnathan said their final goodbyes, but not before both made a very important pledge to each other:
Neither would allow the descendants of the other to die by the other's hand, they would enjoy the protection of each other's families and God was to be witness to that.
Before I close this post out, I just want to stop for a minute so we can appreciate this: Two good friends have been torn apart because of the murderous, petty grudge the father of one of them has, but both pledge neither of them will harm the descendants of the other regardless because unlike Saul, they refused to let hatred consume them as it did Saul.
Despite all the evil Saul did, it only steeled David and Johnathan in their zeal to not fall prey to the same petty hatred that made Saul want to destroy an innocent man out of petty, depraved spite.
That's something I think we should all emulate in the face of the evil of others, no matter how monstrous.
P.S. - David did his noble best to go out of his way to keep that promise he made to Johnathan whenever possible, long after the latter died. Some examples include:
A. Some idiot once bragged he killed Saul and thought David would be pleased. David had the man executed on the spot for murdering the Lord's anointed.
B. Two more idiots later murdered a son of Saul who was a rival to David in his home, cut off his head, and tried to give it David as a gift. David had both killed in response to the crime of murdering an innocent man. He even extended the same honor to his former commander Abner, who stood by Saul's family even after David became King, and gave his former commander a state funeral and apologized on behalf of all Israel that he had been murdered by treachery by officers under David's own command during what should have been peace talks.
C. Despite most kings making a habit of killing all potential rivals from the former king's family, David refused to do so. He even took in a crippled son of Johnathan and gave him his personal protection and a seat at his table for life.
D. One time David did NOT spare the lives of Saul when he was later King in his own right, but he legally had no choice. Saul had once killed people to whom the Israelites swore an oath of protection, and since Saul was dead, someone had to pay for his crime, and the law then allowed for the family of the deceased to be killed to pay for the offense, so David allowed for that to happen because he had no legal choice to prevent it and his own oath to Johnathan did not override his greater oath to the laws of the state.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
The Sad Story of Saul: Or Why One Should Not Let Evil Destroy You Part 3
During our last installment, King Saul's paranoia was reaching critical mass, and it got so bad his son Johnathan had to call his own dad out and basically say this.
"Dad, relax. David is no threat to you. Guy clearly prefers to serve rather than lead, has done everything you ask without fail, and I've been friends with him long enough to know he has no overweening ambition to take your job, so you can quit looking for the number for Assassins R Us concerning the guy."
Saul's response, was, and I quote:
[6] Saul accepted Jonathan's advice and took an oath, "As surely as the LORD lives, he will not be put to death." [7] Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly.
(I Samuel 19:6-7 [NETfree])
However, if you thought it was over, then I have a bridge to sell you in a desert.
One day, while David was playing music for Saul, he found himself having to dodge a spear again, and this time Saul wasn't even trying to hide the fact he was trying to ice David, prompting David to flee for his home because it was quite obvious Saul wanted him dead for keeps.
However, it was clear Saul managed to get a contract put out on David's life after all and the hitmen tracked him to his house. His wife Michal was a bit faster on the draw and helped him escape via the window while she pulled the old "switch David with a human-shaped object in the bed" trick. Saul wasn't happy his daughter covered for David, but she covered herself nicely by lying about how David had promised to shank her if she didn't cooperate.
Meanwhile, David continued running to the town of Naioth where Samuel was and told him everything. What happened next was quite literal divine intervention.
Saul heard where David was and sent guys to take him out. They no sooner reached the city limits when they immediately had the spirit of God overwhelm them, and they started preaching his good Word and forgot what they were there for aside from spreading the Will of God. Two more envoys were sent by Saul when the first didn't return, and they too were struck dumb by God's Spirit and instead prophesied about His Glory.
Eventually, Saul was all "If you want something to get done, time to do it yourself."
But no sooner did he hit the city limits, and not only did God's spirit overcome him, but he also stripped naked, lay on the ground before Samuel and basically was rendered a catatonic zombie who could do little more than giving praise to God.
While Saul was basically being forced to literally debase himself before God instead of violating His commands against the crime of murder, David continued running.
What happened next is more than understandable of David:
David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, "What have I done? What is my offense? How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!" (I Samuel 20:1 [NETfree])
Given all the grief David has gone through to this point, those are some pretty understandable questions, and we'll cover more later, but I want to address a few things before we continue:
Saul gave his word before his son and before God he'd let his obsessive hatred of David drop and he lied. His jealousy and hate consumed him and he tried more than once to outright murder someone who had literally served him without complaint. He wanted to turn friends and family against someone who had done no offense to anyone and wanted to destroy them out of sheer spite.
The only thing that stopped that madness from destroying him was God's own intervention, rendering Saul utterly unable to do more than aside from giving the King over all Kings glory.
While it's praiseworthy indeed God proved whom even earthly kings must bow to, it's sad to see how Saul's decline accelerated from such promising beginnings, and in future posts, we'll see how this continues to go downhill.
"Dad, relax. David is no threat to you. Guy clearly prefers to serve rather than lead, has done everything you ask without fail, and I've been friends with him long enough to know he has no overweening ambition to take your job, so you can quit looking for the number for Assassins R Us concerning the guy."
Saul's response, was, and I quote:
[6] Saul accepted Jonathan's advice and took an oath, "As surely as the LORD lives, he will not be put to death." [7] Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly.
(I Samuel 19:6-7 [NETfree])
However, if you thought it was over, then I have a bridge to sell you in a desert.
One day, while David was playing music for Saul, he found himself having to dodge a spear again, and this time Saul wasn't even trying to hide the fact he was trying to ice David, prompting David to flee for his home because it was quite obvious Saul wanted him dead for keeps.
However, it was clear Saul managed to get a contract put out on David's life after all and the hitmen tracked him to his house. His wife Michal was a bit faster on the draw and helped him escape via the window while she pulled the old "switch David with a human-shaped object in the bed" trick. Saul wasn't happy his daughter covered for David, but she covered herself nicely by lying about how David had promised to shank her if she didn't cooperate.
Meanwhile, David continued running to the town of Naioth where Samuel was and told him everything. What happened next was quite literal divine intervention.
Saul heard where David was and sent guys to take him out. They no sooner reached the city limits when they immediately had the spirit of God overwhelm them, and they started preaching his good Word and forgot what they were there for aside from spreading the Will of God. Two more envoys were sent by Saul when the first didn't return, and they too were struck dumb by God's Spirit and instead prophesied about His Glory.
Eventually, Saul was all "If you want something to get done, time to do it yourself."
But no sooner did he hit the city limits, and not only did God's spirit overcome him, but he also stripped naked, lay on the ground before Samuel and basically was rendered a catatonic zombie who could do little more than giving praise to God.
While Saul was basically being forced to literally debase himself before God instead of violating His commands against the crime of murder, David continued running.
What happened next is more than understandable of David:
David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, "What have I done? What is my offense? How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!" (I Samuel 20:1 [NETfree])
Given all the grief David has gone through to this point, those are some pretty understandable questions, and we'll cover more later, but I want to address a few things before we continue:
Saul gave his word before his son and before God he'd let his obsessive hatred of David drop and he lied. His jealousy and hate consumed him and he tried more than once to outright murder someone who had literally served him without complaint. He wanted to turn friends and family against someone who had done no offense to anyone and wanted to destroy them out of sheer spite.
The only thing that stopped that madness from destroying him was God's own intervention, rendering Saul utterly unable to do more than aside from giving the King over all Kings glory.
While it's praiseworthy indeed God proved whom even earthly kings must bow to, it's sad to see how Saul's decline accelerated from such promising beginnings, and in future posts, we'll see how this continues to go downhill.
Monday, April 20, 2020
The Sad Story of Saul: Or Why One Should Not Let Evil Destroy You Part 2
While we left Saul as God had rejected him as King, God told Samuel he already had a replacement in mind.
So Samuel went to Jesse of Bethlehem, and after weeding out everyone but some unassuming sheepherder named David, he anointed the boy. Unlike with Saul, there was no mention of why, and it was assumed at the time it was for something important by all present. At the very least, Saul never heard of it.
Now, around this time, Saul was being tormented by what the Bible calls "an evil spirit sent by the Lord". The description makes it tad vague in some translations whether this was literal or Saul was suffering depression, but either way, his advisers realized having an emo king was bad and advised someone should get a good musician to cheer the king up from time to time. One of them heard of a sheepherder who did some part-time music and wasn't bad at it, so they hired him.
Yep, David was now working for Saul as a result. By all accounts, he did a good job alleviating Saul's emo.
Not long after, the Philistines gathered for battle again, and they planned to challenge the Israelites to take down their champion, this literal giant named Goliath of Gath. Goliath basically dissed the encamped Israelites day in and out and dared at least one of them to have the spine and guts to face him.
Around this time, David was doing an errand for dad where he was delivering a care package for his brothers who were part of the army. While there, he heard Goliath dissing his people, and that Saul promised not only his daughter in marriage to who had the starch to take Goliath down, their father's household would be exempt from paying taxes.
Sweet deal, but David was a bit more mad Goliath was spewing all sorts of venom about God's Chosen People and despite his brothers and the nearby soldiers telling him he'd get impaled on Goliath's spear if he tried to take him on, he wasn't listening.
He even had Saul try to tell him to just walk away while his head was attached, but David was all "My liege, I may be a humble sheepherder, but I've fought off wild animals attacking the flocks and the fiercest bears and lions don't scare me. More importantly, this Philistine mocks God's people, and in the Lord's name, this will be the last day he gets the chance."
Saul had to admire the fact David had more brass than his entire army, and hoping God really was smiling on the kid, he even offered David his arms and armor to make it a possibly fair fight. However, David wasn't used to it, and instead just stuck to what he knew.
A sling (with five large smooth stones) and his shepherd's staff.
When both sides saw this, David got a "is this kid insane?" look from both sides. Goliath in particular thought it was hilarious, but David got a good slung stone right in the forehead, and Goliath got knocked out cold.
As everyone was all 0-0 over this, David grabbed Goliath's sword out of his own sheath and decapitated him right there.
The Philistines crapped bricks seeing some kid hack off the head of their champion, and the Israelites found their spines watching this, and they chased after the fleeing Philistines and made a curb stomp battle of taking them down.
Meanwhile, Saul later had his chief general Abner hunt down David later to officially thank the kid for doing Israel a solid, and not only did David become part of Sauls' forces, but his son Johnathan also hit it off with David then and there.
David's star was on the rise.
Not long after, David was basically Saul's champion, did a great job in every campaign Saul sent him on. Unfortunately, his track record of success started eclipsing Saul's, Saul noticed, and Saul started getting paranoid David might want to bump him off and take the job of King from him.
Ironically, God wanted David to do just that, but David had no clue, had no higher ambitions and was content to serve, not lead. However, Saul at this point was getting paranoid to the point he figured it was time for David to die.
He first tried to kill the guy during his music sessions at the court. Both times it was chalked up to Saul's emo episodes as he was apparently violent on occasion and David dodged a spear in the head twice. After this failed, Saul decided to be a bit more subtle, and, making good on his promise to marry David off to his daughter, told the guy:
"Kill a hundred Philistines on your own and bring back proof, and my daughter Merab is yours."
It's worth noting David made it clear he appreciated the gesture of marrying Saul's daughter, but he was mostly doing things because he was fighting his lord's enemies, not because he had designs on being Saul's son-in-law.
With that in mind, Saul had Merab marry someone else and his other daughter Michel made clear she'd be more interested, leading Saul to figure:
"Well, so much the better. Maybe she'll be a snare to the guy in case he's got ambitions against me."
Despite having some court people secretly feel David out and them coming back that David had no designs on higher rank, and even though David doubled what Saul asked of him for his daughter's hand, simply out of loyalty, Saul's paranoia just got worse.
I'll continue another time, but as mentioned in the first part, Saul was brought down low by his own arrogance and fear. As one can see, pride and jealousy were also the ropes that would drag Saul down in the long run.
So Samuel went to Jesse of Bethlehem, and after weeding out everyone but some unassuming sheepherder named David, he anointed the boy. Unlike with Saul, there was no mention of why, and it was assumed at the time it was for something important by all present. At the very least, Saul never heard of it.
Now, around this time, Saul was being tormented by what the Bible calls "an evil spirit sent by the Lord". The description makes it tad vague in some translations whether this was literal or Saul was suffering depression, but either way, his advisers realized having an emo king was bad and advised someone should get a good musician to cheer the king up from time to time. One of them heard of a sheepherder who did some part-time music and wasn't bad at it, so they hired him.
Yep, David was now working for Saul as a result. By all accounts, he did a good job alleviating Saul's emo.
Not long after, the Philistines gathered for battle again, and they planned to challenge the Israelites to take down their champion, this literal giant named Goliath of Gath. Goliath basically dissed the encamped Israelites day in and out and dared at least one of them to have the spine and guts to face him.
Around this time, David was doing an errand for dad where he was delivering a care package for his brothers who were part of the army. While there, he heard Goliath dissing his people, and that Saul promised not only his daughter in marriage to who had the starch to take Goliath down, their father's household would be exempt from paying taxes.
Sweet deal, but David was a bit more mad Goliath was spewing all sorts of venom about God's Chosen People and despite his brothers and the nearby soldiers telling him he'd get impaled on Goliath's spear if he tried to take him on, he wasn't listening.
He even had Saul try to tell him to just walk away while his head was attached, but David was all "My liege, I may be a humble sheepherder, but I've fought off wild animals attacking the flocks and the fiercest bears and lions don't scare me. More importantly, this Philistine mocks God's people, and in the Lord's name, this will be the last day he gets the chance."
Saul had to admire the fact David had more brass than his entire army, and hoping God really was smiling on the kid, he even offered David his arms and armor to make it a possibly fair fight. However, David wasn't used to it, and instead just stuck to what he knew.
A sling (with five large smooth stones) and his shepherd's staff.
When both sides saw this, David got a "is this kid insane?" look from both sides. Goliath in particular thought it was hilarious, but David got a good slung stone right in the forehead, and Goliath got knocked out cold.
As everyone was all 0-0 over this, David grabbed Goliath's sword out of his own sheath and decapitated him right there.
The Philistines crapped bricks seeing some kid hack off the head of their champion, and the Israelites found their spines watching this, and they chased after the fleeing Philistines and made a curb stomp battle of taking them down.
Meanwhile, Saul later had his chief general Abner hunt down David later to officially thank the kid for doing Israel a solid, and not only did David become part of Sauls' forces, but his son Johnathan also hit it off with David then and there.
David's star was on the rise.
Not long after, David was basically Saul's champion, did a great job in every campaign Saul sent him on. Unfortunately, his track record of success started eclipsing Saul's, Saul noticed, and Saul started getting paranoid David might want to bump him off and take the job of King from him.
Ironically, God wanted David to do just that, but David had no clue, had no higher ambitions and was content to serve, not lead. However, Saul at this point was getting paranoid to the point he figured it was time for David to die.
He first tried to kill the guy during his music sessions at the court. Both times it was chalked up to Saul's emo episodes as he was apparently violent on occasion and David dodged a spear in the head twice. After this failed, Saul decided to be a bit more subtle, and, making good on his promise to marry David off to his daughter, told the guy:
"Kill a hundred Philistines on your own and bring back proof, and my daughter Merab is yours."
It's worth noting David made it clear he appreciated the gesture of marrying Saul's daughter, but he was mostly doing things because he was fighting his lord's enemies, not because he had designs on being Saul's son-in-law.
With that in mind, Saul had Merab marry someone else and his other daughter Michel made clear she'd be more interested, leading Saul to figure:
"Well, so much the better. Maybe she'll be a snare to the guy in case he's got ambitions against me."
Despite having some court people secretly feel David out and them coming back that David had no designs on higher rank, and even though David doubled what Saul asked of him for his daughter's hand, simply out of loyalty, Saul's paranoia just got worse.
I'll continue another time, but as mentioned in the first part, Saul was brought down low by his own arrogance and fear. As one can see, pride and jealousy were also the ropes that would drag Saul down in the long run.
The Sad Story of Saul: Or Why One Should Not Let Evil Destroy You
Few stories in the Bible are more tragic than the story of Saul, the first King over all of Israel, but the saddest aspect of his story is that the worst parts of what ended a life that was so filled with potential in such sadness and tragedy were all because Saul allowed himself to be consumed by the evils of fear, paranoia, bitterness, and hatred. He was so consumed by all these things he became a wretched shell of his former self, dying by committing suicide and nearly destroying the people he was supposed to lead in the process.
The Books of Samuel describe Saul's life rather innocently. In fact, when Saul is first introduced, he seemed the most unlikely candidate for being King. Not only is he on a very unassuming quest to hunt down some lost donkeys for his father, when he's anointed by the prophet Samuel and told he will be the one to rule all of Israel, he's basically so in shock it's like he has a hard time believing it, not even telling his dad when he gets back.
Later, he's so humble that at the ceremony where Saul is supposed to be announced as King officially before all of Israel, he's still so humble he hides off in a storeroom out of embarrassment and they basically have to get him on the stage to accept the title due to stage fright.
This is the beginning of his rise to glory.
While some people at the time were all "this guy is supposed to be King?", and scorned him, Saul paid no attention. Not long after, the men of the province of Jabesh-Gilead were threatened by an Ammonite warlord named Nahash.
As soon as Saul heard they were doomed if no one came to their aid, the qualities that made him worthy of being able to lead the people came to the fore, and he chopped up a bunch of livestock, had messengers send the pieces to the leading men of Israel, and delivered a simple but awesome message:
"I'm delivering the people of Jabesh-Gilead from their oppressors alongside the prophet who anointed me as your King. If you do not help me liberate them, your livestock will meet this end as well."
Not only did this display of solid brass cojones overcome any doubt Saul was indeed their King, but the resulting lopsided battle was also a curb stomp victory for Saul, proving he could lead his people in war as their defender. He even showed true restraint and refused to punish those who earlier doubted him.
Saul would reign over Israel for forty years since this, but he'd eventually screw up and let his darker qualities overtake him until his initial good was destroyed and consumed.
His first major screwup was sometime later when a campaign against the Philistine people started going down the tubes because Samuel was supposed to show up and offer sacrifices to the Lord on behalf of Saul's forces. Samuel was a bit late to arrive, his army started breaking up, and Saul let panic win out and started doing Samuel's job and did the offerings himself. Samuel showed up as he was doing this and basically warned him he had just earned a huge black mark in God's good books for being faithful to the Lord's commands.
The Israelites won anyway, but Saul later made another blunder, making a really stupid oath for his army to follow to basically not eat anything until they won, and as a result, his army suffered due to hunger. His son Johnathan was unaware and didn't follow this, and he pointed out when he was told his dad has made his army do something really stupid.
Later, while Saul partially redeemed himself before God when his starving troops started eating slaughtered animals without cooking out all the blood (a big sin in God's eyes) and offered a sacrifice to God in forgiveness on their behalf as their leader, he tried to crawl his own son for breaking his stupid promise, but he was basically told off by his entire army because Saul's stupid oath to starve everyone had nearly screwed everything up in the first place.
It was sometime later in a campaign against the Amalekites (a raiding band of thugs who had menaced Israel since their days wandering in the desert) that Saul finally wore out God's patience with him.
Samuel gave him strict instructions from God:
Then Samuel said to Saul, "I was the one the LORD sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the LORD says. Here is what the LORD of hosts says: 'I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt. So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don't spare them. Put them to death - man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.'"
(I Samuel 15:1-3 [NETfree])
Now, this sounds pretty brutal, but the Amalekites had made a point throughout their history to make the life of the Israelites as terrible as possible, so this was God's way of instructing Saul to return the favor.
Saul then pulled the same stunts he did during that Philistine battle and let his own way of thinking overcome his instructions, and so they spared Agag (the Amalekite ruler) and the best animals for sacrifices but did everything else.
When God saw this, he was NOT happy, and this was the result:
[10] Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: [11] "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do." Samuel became angry and he cried out to the LORD all that night. [12] Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, "Saul has gone to Carmel where he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left and went down to Gilgal." [13] When Samuel came to him, Saul said to him, "May the LORD bless you! I have done what the LORD said." [14] Samuel replied, "If that is the case, then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?" [15] Saul said, "They were brought from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD our God. But everything else we slaughtered." [16] Then Samuel said to Saul, "Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." Saul said to him, "Tell me." [17] Samuel said, "Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD chose you as king over Israel. [18] The LORD sent you on a campaign saying, 'Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.' [19] Why haven't you obeyed the LORD? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the LORD's estimation." [20] Then Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the LORD! I went on the campaign the LORD sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites. [21] But the army took from the plunder some of the sheep and cattle - the best of what was to be slaughtered - to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal." [22] Then Samuel said,"Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams. [23] For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king." [24] Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the LORD commanded and what you said as well. For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. [25] Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the LORD." [26] Samuel said to Saul, "I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel!" [27] When Samuel turned to leave, Saul grabbed the edge of his robe and it tore. [28] Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you! [29] The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind."
(I Samuel 15:10-29 [NETfree])
Short version, Saul screwed up big time. He was given a big warning the first time he screwed up he was crossing the line ignoring God's instructions, but the second time was the last time God was going to put up with it.
Not only did Saul get told his sanction as King of Israel was no longer valid in the eyes of God, but he was also told someone else God considered better would get those rights because God was mad someone who initially did the right thing decided he thought he could do whatever he wanted, despite knowing that even a mortal king was subject to the dictates of the Heavenly one.
For Saul's arrogance and defiance, he lost God's favor. His blunders would no longer be forgiven and smoothed over, and this was the beginning of everything going downhill since for him.
The Books of Samuel describe Saul's life rather innocently. In fact, when Saul is first introduced, he seemed the most unlikely candidate for being King. Not only is he on a very unassuming quest to hunt down some lost donkeys for his father, when he's anointed by the prophet Samuel and told he will be the one to rule all of Israel, he's basically so in shock it's like he has a hard time believing it, not even telling his dad when he gets back.
Later, he's so humble that at the ceremony where Saul is supposed to be announced as King officially before all of Israel, he's still so humble he hides off in a storeroom out of embarrassment and they basically have to get him on the stage to accept the title due to stage fright.
This is the beginning of his rise to glory.
While some people at the time were all "this guy is supposed to be King?", and scorned him, Saul paid no attention. Not long after, the men of the province of Jabesh-Gilead were threatened by an Ammonite warlord named Nahash.
As soon as Saul heard they were doomed if no one came to their aid, the qualities that made him worthy of being able to lead the people came to the fore, and he chopped up a bunch of livestock, had messengers send the pieces to the leading men of Israel, and delivered a simple but awesome message:
"I'm delivering the people of Jabesh-Gilead from their oppressors alongside the prophet who anointed me as your King. If you do not help me liberate them, your livestock will meet this end as well."
Not only did this display of solid brass cojones overcome any doubt Saul was indeed their King, but the resulting lopsided battle was also a curb stomp victory for Saul, proving he could lead his people in war as their defender. He even showed true restraint and refused to punish those who earlier doubted him.
Saul would reign over Israel for forty years since this, but he'd eventually screw up and let his darker qualities overtake him until his initial good was destroyed and consumed.
His first major screwup was sometime later when a campaign against the Philistine people started going down the tubes because Samuel was supposed to show up and offer sacrifices to the Lord on behalf of Saul's forces. Samuel was a bit late to arrive, his army started breaking up, and Saul let panic win out and started doing Samuel's job and did the offerings himself. Samuel showed up as he was doing this and basically warned him he had just earned a huge black mark in God's good books for being faithful to the Lord's commands.
The Israelites won anyway, but Saul later made another blunder, making a really stupid oath for his army to follow to basically not eat anything until they won, and as a result, his army suffered due to hunger. His son Johnathan was unaware and didn't follow this, and he pointed out when he was told his dad has made his army do something really stupid.
Later, while Saul partially redeemed himself before God when his starving troops started eating slaughtered animals without cooking out all the blood (a big sin in God's eyes) and offered a sacrifice to God in forgiveness on their behalf as their leader, he tried to crawl his own son for breaking his stupid promise, but he was basically told off by his entire army because Saul's stupid oath to starve everyone had nearly screwed everything up in the first place.
It was sometime later in a campaign against the Amalekites (a raiding band of thugs who had menaced Israel since their days wandering in the desert) that Saul finally wore out God's patience with him.
Samuel gave him strict instructions from God:
Then Samuel said to Saul, "I was the one the LORD sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the LORD says. Here is what the LORD of hosts says: 'I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt. So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don't spare them. Put them to death - man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.'"
(I Samuel 15:1-3 [NETfree])
Now, this sounds pretty brutal, but the Amalekites had made a point throughout their history to make the life of the Israelites as terrible as possible, so this was God's way of instructing Saul to return the favor.
Saul then pulled the same stunts he did during that Philistine battle and let his own way of thinking overcome his instructions, and so they spared Agag (the Amalekite ruler) and the best animals for sacrifices but did everything else.
When God saw this, he was NOT happy, and this was the result:
[10] Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: [11] "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do." Samuel became angry and he cried out to the LORD all that night. [12] Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, "Saul has gone to Carmel where he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left and went down to Gilgal." [13] When Samuel came to him, Saul said to him, "May the LORD bless you! I have done what the LORD said." [14] Samuel replied, "If that is the case, then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?" [15] Saul said, "They were brought from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD our God. But everything else we slaughtered." [16] Then Samuel said to Saul, "Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." Saul said to him, "Tell me." [17] Samuel said, "Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD chose you as king over Israel. [18] The LORD sent you on a campaign saying, 'Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.' [19] Why haven't you obeyed the LORD? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the LORD's estimation." [20] Then Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the LORD! I went on the campaign the LORD sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites. [21] But the army took from the plunder some of the sheep and cattle - the best of what was to be slaughtered - to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal." [22] Then Samuel said,"Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams. [23] For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king." [24] Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the LORD commanded and what you said as well. For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. [25] Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the LORD." [26] Samuel said to Saul, "I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel!" [27] When Samuel turned to leave, Saul grabbed the edge of his robe and it tore. [28] Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you! [29] The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind."
(I Samuel 15:10-29 [NETfree])
Short version, Saul screwed up big time. He was given a big warning the first time he screwed up he was crossing the line ignoring God's instructions, but the second time was the last time God was going to put up with it.
Not only did Saul get told his sanction as King of Israel was no longer valid in the eyes of God, but he was also told someone else God considered better would get those rights because God was mad someone who initially did the right thing decided he thought he could do whatever he wanted, despite knowing that even a mortal king was subject to the dictates of the Heavenly one.
For Saul's arrogance and defiance, he lost God's favor. His blunders would no longer be forgiven and smoothed over, and this was the beginning of everything going downhill since for him.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Let's Mock Racists: A sporking of the White Resistance Manual
One of my hobbies is to trawl the internet for crazy stuff to read, mostly because I have a fascination with the ramblings of utter loons and degenerates and I must admit I find them very funny. I recently stumbled across a copy of edgelord nonsense on archive.org written for a defunct white supremacy forum and it's so retarded I thought I'd share with the world my pointing and laughing at it.
Here's the original if you want to follow along.
In this post, I'm going to mock the intro to this tl;dr manual for the wannabe race warrior (the rest is garbage stolen from anarchists manuals, military stuff, and lots of instructions for building shoddy and dangerous homemade weapons. I'm skipping that due to length and not wanting to encourage their idiocy). Since this has a lot of racist language and cringey nonsense in general, please be advised what I'm gonna comment on will be peak facepalm worthy.
(original text in italics, my comments in bold)
As we witness the dawn of a the new millenium so to have we witnessed the birth of a new era of Leaderless Resistance in the struggle for White survival. No longer do we look to politicians and law-makers for a solution, they have been bought, their lips are sealed with green paper; they have grown rich and powerful through sucking the life-blood of the crumbling ruin that Western Civilization has become. However their power has come at a price; greed, corruption and sloth are the adornments of their wealth. This leaves western society in a position ripe for upheaval and revolution. We will cast off our wishful belief in democratic salvation, our votes will now be cast with bullets and bombs.
OW, THE EDGE. Sounds like every crazy screed ever written about da evil gubmint ever penned so far.
The cringe is real. On top blaming der Juden for everything, decrying Abrahamaic faith legitimacy (a common theme amount Odin worshippers and other racists who advocate pre-Christian paganism), they immediately flog those age-old tropes about how white people are being genocided by racial intermixture and how liberal ideology is evil.
OY, what edge. Did this guy walk in on some black guy making a cuckold of him with his wife one day? Otherwise, typical tough-guy rhetoric espoused behind a keyboard and an internet persona about how they plan to finish what Hitler started.
The purpose of this document is not to explain the Whys? of armed struggle, any White person with a pair of eyes can appreciate the desperate situation we are in as a Race. Anyone can see that this situation cannot be turned around at the ballot box or through negotiation and compromise, it will end in tears and bloodshed. Of this there is really no doubt. Western civilization will fall in a similar way and for the same reasons as ancient Egypt, Aryan India, ancient Greece, Rome and every other nation which failed to protect its blood from the poisoning effects of race-mongrelization. The situation is simple, a violent struggle will come about and if it happens soon we will win. If we are unable to coalesce our movement into a fighting force capable of initiating and seizing victory in this conflict within the next decade or so we will lose. To lose in this struggle means that the White race will be butchered by the sub-humans who have colonized our lands and our women and children will be brutally raped and murdered in the streets.
There is a reason the whys of this campaign to purge anyone who is darker than a tanned white person aren't explained: The logic is really very simple: WHITE GOOD, NON WHITE BAD, CAUSE REASONS! Sure, they'll dress it up with all sorts of rationalizations about why this is true, but when you cut through all the rhetoric, these types inherently believe white people are the only people who can be considered civilized and thus worthy to inherit the Earth, the rest need to die because whitey deserves the whole world and always has, even though that logic begs the question: "If that's true, how come these people existed for thousands of years before white people discovered them and no one was butthurt about it until they crossed paths with each other?"
My purpose here is to provide information on the Hows? of armed struggle. How to select or fabricate weapons useful in an armed struggle, how to manufacture, handle and employ explosives as part of an armed struggle, how to conduct a guerilla campaign and how to select targets according to their value to our movement.
In plain English: How to make crappy garage tooled guns and improvised bombs out of rusty pipes and crap from a hardware store that's more likely to kill the maker than anyone else, how to become a racist serial killer, and how to decide who to murder based on how badly they think anyone who isn't them will get upset over it.
"Out of the closet" Racialists, Cells and the Lone Wolf
There are two paths to choose from for those of us who take up the struggle. The first option is what I term the "out of the closet" activist. These individuals fight to the best of their abilities to spread the message of White survival and rebirth to as many of our racial kin as possible. These White activists use printed material, newspapers, radio, television and most notably the Internet to this end. These courageous individuals walk a dangerous line because the more effective they are the more attention they draw to themselves from law enforcement and from various other enemy organizations.
Just about every major city in the western world has a "Hate Crimes Unit" or a similar apparatus which works as a liaison between Jewish interests and the police. These agencies work to identify and build dossiers on White activists who are at work in the area. Their ultimate aim is to infiltrate any White activist group in order to:
- Gather incriminating evidence against its members
- Discover connections to other groups for further investigation
- Undermine, discredit and destroy these groups
This right here is the rationale separating the average poster on places like Stormfront from those lunatics like Dylan Roof. One LARPs about how much black people need to be riddled with bullets, the latter is the idiot who actually does the deed and is apprehended because they thought they were a holy warrior when all they were was a callow murderer who gunned down people in a church who were no threat to anyone. Somehow, though, just because the people these types killing most cowardly ways were not white, they think they are heroes for craven murder.
The second half is a pure delusion as to why white supremacists fail to do anything right. Groups like this generally undermine themselves by advocating crime because their own logic is toothless even to themselves if they don't. They can't resist the temptation to leave evidence and a trail because these types must prove to their peers they are not just a KKK cosplayer, they really do intend to shoot up synagogues and hang blacks from trees. Finally, all these groups offer is a utopian vision that is vaguely defined aside from requiring seas of blood to be shed to get to it.
These groups discredit themselves by coming off as bloodthirsty madmen who are bound by the negativity of hate, nothing more, no one else needs finish the job of destroying them that they do themselves just fine.
Undercover agents of these units will attend meetings and rallies held by racial activists and information such as names and descriptions of individual members will be obtained. The Hate Crimes Unit will also collect literature, posters and other materials distributed by activists. These materials will be analyzed for fingerprint evidence in order to begin to identify the members of the group. These fingerprints will be added to the files which law enforcement keeps on those involved in racial activism.
The next step in the work of the Hate Crimes Unit is to infiltrate the group in order to gather evidence of the commission of any crimes or any conspiracy to commit crimes by the group. This work is usually done by a lone agent but the use of two or even more infiltrators is not unheard of.
If no evidence of criminality is at first obtained the infiltrator will begin to try to push the group to commit a serious or violent crime of some sort or to provide him or her with the means to commit some violent crime and to help plan it. If members of the group are foolish enough to trust the infiltrator they will soon find themselves in jail. This type of activity by law enforcement is well documented. The "Forth Reich Skinheads" case in Los Angeles, the infiltration of "Combat 18" in England and the Grant Bristoe affair involving the "Heritage Front" in Canada are good examples of the use of an "agent-provocateur" to destroy White Nationalist movements and to imprison White men and women.
How is this process of law enforcement infiltration and sabotage to be prevented? It can be summed up with one simple rule… No one who is an open activist, known to the media and to police, should ever even entertain the idea of involving themselves in armed struggle. A real separation must exist between those who wage a war of words and those who let actions speak for them. Whenever the open White activist is approached about the idea of armed struggle, he must explain that it is his own personal choice to reject violence but that he also does not condemn those who take up armed struggle in defense of their people. In this way we can neutralize law enforcement use of infiltrators against us.
The last paragraph in particular sums up the mindset behind this decentralized approach to being a killer. Basically, the author is arguing for the people who commit murders to separate themselves from open association from the edgelords who simply masturbate to the concept and to lie like rugs to make it hard for cops to arrest anyone.
The problem with this logic is two-fold:
1. This type of ideology proves toothless if you never act on it, and it's an ideology where prestige is earned by actually soiling your hands with blood. To be taken seriously in this community of murder based on racial hatred based killing, you need actual blood on your hands to prove you AREN'T a cop.
2. Because the first problem exists, that's why the divide between the edgelords advocating the murder of anyone they hate and the people who actually do it is nonexistent. To get anything significant done on anything more than a lone wolf scale, as these types ultimately want to do, they must coordinate their actions. Even the genuine lone wolves were at some point in touch with those who spewed racial murder rhetoric to some degree, and while they may not have put guns in the killer's hand, they all averted their eyes to knowledge of the party they egged on into committing murder.
Just as the "out of the closet" White Nationalist must be strictly non-violent, those who choose violent struggle must keep their identities and beliefs secret from all except those directly involved in the movement. This will be a difficult task, made increasingly difficult the more people are involved. For this reason we must employ an organizational structure of small "cells". Each of these cells will have only a few members and will be capable of taking action independently of the others. Only long time acquaintances, with history of trustworthiness, should make up a cell. A handful of dedicated soldiers (no more than 4 or 5) can create an impenetrable, cohesive and effective weapon against the tyranny we face. A single, highly motivated, individual or "Lone Wolf" can also take action on his own. This one-person cell will obviously be impenetrable to law enforcement, however the Lone Wolf may by limited in the scale of attacks he can mount.
It is precisely this type of cell structured resistance movement which the traitorous, power-whores who sit in the seat of government fear most. They have no idea how to deal with this type of movement, it has no hierarchical power structure so it cannot be toppled and its cells are too small and too may to infiltrate.
Every person who enters this movement must understand that we are a nation in exile, waiting to assume power in the vacuum which will be created by the fall of Western civilization.
Again, the last paragraph is key. These maniacs all have this delusion that William Luther Pierce's racist fanfic "The Turner Diaries" will end in white people triumphant, and all people who aren't white will be killed while their superiors run the world.
Thing is, no movement of this sort ever succeeded without an army ever. Actual armed forces capable of effecting this kind of demographic change cannot occur under this pipe dream of a command structure described above, so this is just pure fantasy that they are "nation in exile".
Citizens of this nation in exile are obligated to be:
Aware - The citizenry must educate themselves to a reasonable level on all the issues of concern to White survival. Our enemies must never be able to ask "Why?" without response.
Get a load of this crap. As I explained, their logic boils down to their skin making them somehow better than someone of another skin color.
Armed - The citizenry must posses weapons suitable for guerilla warfare and understand and how to use them with reasonable proficiency. In some circumstances this will be difficult but it is absolutely imperative that the citizenry of our nation be capable of seizing power when the time comes.
One thing these loons like to do is masquerade their intentions by cozying up to people afraid the government will take their guns, even though their admitted fantasy of one day giving the government utterly legal cause to take those weapons proves they have no business with them in the first place.
Prepared - The citizenry must be both physically and psychologically fit for the coming conflict. It is essential that the citizenry train themselves, like soldiers, and be physically able to fight, perform heavy work and resist exhaustion. Also, like soldiers, it is essential for the citizenry to purge any feelings of sympathy toward our enemies or guilt over the actions which we must take. Feeling of this nature are a symptom of the greatest evil possible in nature's design …weakness.
One hilarious canard these morons hold to like a life raft is that they are peak humanity and that to stay that way they must remain pinnacles of human ability and prowess in all fields of endeavor.
Hitler said the same thing, and he was a short, meth-addicted loser with a bad case of Parkinson's he tried to conceal who looked nothing like what he described as the ideal race warrior. You can bet the average person who reads this crap unironically is likely fat, out of shape, or in some way less than ideal as a physical representation of the ideal of the human race.
Control of Information
Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Lt. Colombo are fictional characters, equally fictional is the concept that police detectives solve crimes by applying deductive reasoning to the clues of the case. Certainly crime-scene evidence and eye-witnesses are of great importance in police work but when one examines the reality of criminal investigations it becomes apparent that without informants, "rats", and confessions the vast majority of crimes would go unsolved.
Another cliche of these racial purity loons is that while they don't discount forensic evidence, they believe first and foremost it's people not keeping their mouths shut that screws them over the most. Ironically, they happen to be right, but it's a flaw built into their ideology. Believing in your innate superiority to another being means the urge to make that known to some extent is inevitable.
Essentially, their own ideology forces them to abandon stealth because it encourages their egos to grow unchecked, as they believe themselves gods among animals in regards to anyone who isn't white.
Police routinely offer cash rewards and set up "hotlines" to entice the acquaintances of criminals to come forward. Once police have a suspect in mind they will attempt to interrogate everyone around him, friends, co-workers, family members. With the use of threats, lies and deceit the police are usually successful in extracting information from these sources. Friends and co-workers will be told that they have been implicated in the crime by the suspect and will be charged along with him unless they tell their side of the story. Family member will be told that the suspect has confessed or that evidence proving his guilt exists and that the police want to act in his "best interests" and the testimony of family members would allow him to "get the help he needs". The suspect’s spouse or intimate partner will be told that during the course of their investigation the police have discovered evidence of the suspect’s infidelity in an attempt to break the unique protective feelings developed in an intimate relationship.
Control of information thus becomes the most vital element in the security of our movement. Information is more valuable than any material resource, it can make you rich or it can send you to the gallows. Even the slightest leak can provide investigators a new lead and they are tenacious especially when confronted with a difficult case. We must assure that no piece of information, no matter how seemingly irrelevant, is transformed from our secret into a law-enforcement resource. How can secrets be kept? How can information be controlled? Ben Franklin once said "Three men can keep a secret, if two of them are dead!"… this is a realistic assessment. We all have our own secrets, a dark deed committed alone, a childhood indiscretion, or a act of foolishness in our past which we shall never reveal to the world. These personal secrets are given a level of protection by us that can never be equaled by the swearing and blood-oaths which protect communal secrets. The truth will come out eventually in nearly every case, the best we can do for our communal secrets is to prolong their revelation for as long as possible.
This section is both realistic to some extent and to some extent wishful thinking. While covering how police can acquire information on a suspect with a fair degree of accuracy, they have this naive belief they can keep secrets.
The problem is, they can't, they must share how they feel with someone or they are regarded as powerless in their communities and not to be taken seriously as someone willing to shed blood for the cause.
The author of this screed broke their own rule by distributing a document detailing their thoughts and actions and provided an alias and distinctive style of writing that can be analyzed for evidence as a starting point.
Basically, people cannot shut up about shameful things that could incriminate them, and these racist types are the absolute worst at keeping silent.
Here are some points to consider in the control of information.
- Share no secret which does not have to be shared. In military terminology this is referred to as the "need to know" and is applied so that each individual is given only enough information to perform the mission required.
- When confronted by law enforcement offer absolutely no information. Remember these five words: "I have nothing to say". Know your rights. Make no statement either written or verbal. Demand to see a lawyer immediately. Do not submit to any voluntary search of your person, property, vehicle or residence. Do not waive any of your rights or voluntarily allow them to be violated. The decisions you make when dealing with law enforcement are deadly serious, make no mistakes.
- Do not discuss any aspect of your guerrilla activities on communication systems which are not secure. Such systems include, telephones, cellular phones, faxes and e-mail. Even secure systems, such as digitally encrypted cellular phones and e-mail, should be used with great caution. Who knows what encryption Big Brother really can or can’t break.
- Employ the best encryption possible for computer files (including this one) which deal with racialist ideas, revolutionary struggle, firearms and explosives etc.
- Use "disinformation" in order to confuse and deceive law enforcement.
- Don't discuss your belief in violent action with anyone who is not directly involved in our struggle. Profess adherence to non-violence in public.
These are all common sense tips, and I must concede they are wise to follow. The problem is, as I mentioned, the ideology they follow is a constant goad to attention whore to be taken seriously by their buddies, they will violate these tips with abandon as a result.
The Goals Of Our Struggle
We can identify four short and long term goals of our revolutionary struggle: To exacerbate existing racial tensions to the point where a situation of open conflict exists between Whites and non-Whites. We must also encourage violent racial conflict among the various non-White races within our borders. We can place no goal higher because none of the others can be completed without it. Only the violence and life-or-death imperative of an open racial conflict, a Race War, will rouse the majority of our racial kin from their sleep. Only racial conflict at this level will drive home the fact that the idea of a peaceful and prosperous multi-racial state is lunacy and only with the civil breakdown during a violent racial conflict will we gain the opportunity to proceed with the rest of our program. Our strategy must be to make all of the emerging multi-racial states as ungovernable as possible. Life must become quite a bit more miserable before "Joe six-pack" and "Jane tax-payer" will get off the fence. Our goal is to shake that fence so hard that the issues become quite clear to all of our racial kin. We must immediately begin to make it clear to the world that non-Whites are not welcome in our territory and will eventually face forced deportation or death at the hands of our growing movement. Our lands must no longer be seen as safe havens for the excrement of the world but as places of great danger for non-White colonizers.
Translation: None of us are going to quit fantasizing about killing non-white people in droves until one of us somehow commits mass murder and gets away with it. When that happens, it will inspire the rest of us to quit playing the tough guys and do it for real. We'll eventually form a mighty army ready to slaughter anyone and everyone we deem an enemy, all it takes is for one of us to actually succeed in live-action roleplaying a successful murderer. None of us actually can because we are either utter cowards or keep screwing up because we are loudmouths who think we can take on uniformed police and soldiers with bravado and a belief being white makes us innately invincible.
The use selective assassination, arson attacks, bombings, sabotage and vandalism against non-Whites must be employed with the goal of creating a maximum amount of animosity, outrage and fear within the hearts of our enemies. High profile targets, such as non-White entertainers, sports figures, religious and political leaders must be targeted for selective assassination. Non-Whites must also be attacked anywhere they can be stuck in large numbers, such as in high-rise apartments, subways, shopping malls or packed nightclubs in order to produce maximum causalities. The symbols of the non-White presence on our land; churches, temples, Mosques, businesses and political institutions must be considered valuable targets as well. The idea is to drive them into the streets in outrage, to force them to retaliate. Because our movement is underground and leaderless they will be unable to strike back against us directly so their rage will be leveled against White society in general and law enforcement and authority figures in particular.
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It will also be necessary to do our best to exploit the tribal resentments and ethnic hatreds which the various non-White groups within our borders harbor for each other.
LOL. As if you guys can quit calling them racial slurs long enough to pull that off.
Some good examples where violence has occurred in western nations involving rival non-White groups include the conflicts between Hindus and Muslims (especially strong between Pakistanis and Indians), Sikhs and Muslims, Somalis and Ethiopians, Blacks and Koreans (U.S.), Blacks and Hispanics (U.S.) Koreans and Chinese, Japanese and most other Asians and of course the Jews and just about everybody else. In order to successfully use these issues to our advantage the operative must research and understand the origins and issues at hand in the various conflicts. I will make no attempt here to try to explain any of these conflicts as that would be far beyond the scope of this work.
Please. None of these mentioned conflicts is going to help an utterly decentralized terror network accomplish anything because stage-managing racial pogroms on that scale would require actual coordination between a much more organized group capable exerting mass influence. This is a fart-huffing fantasy to think otherwise.
To smash Jewish power and influence both in our own respective nations and worldwide. The Jews are now, always have been and always will be the enemies of the White race and jealous murderers of anything beautiful and healthy in this world. Any individual, organization or movement which fights for the future of the White race will be doomed to failure without a clear understanding of this fact. No movement for social reform has any hope of success unless it is specifically and overtly anti-Jewish. It is essential to understand that all of our goals are anti-Jewish in nature.
HITLER DID EXACTLY WHAT YOU IDIOTS ARE ADVOCATING! Of course, you guys ironically try to deny it even though he came closest to succeeding, but you guys need to do better than someone who had physical control of a nation-state and political influence over many others before your fantasies have a prayer of being more than that.
We must attack Jewish power wherever it exists and at all levels. Our focus must be placed upon high-profile Jewish influence in government, big-business, the mass-media and entertainment. Destruction of high level Jewish targets will have a great propaganda effect and will be a boost to the morale of our fighters. It is of great importance to demonstrate to our movement that it is possible to attack and crush high level Jewish power. Of secondary importance will be low level Jewish targets such as individuals of only local importance, Synagogues, Jewish owned small business and other symbols of Jewish power. Remember that, because of their power and influence, any attack upon a Jewish target will receive national if not international media attention. This is exactly the propaganda effect we need and we will use the media power of the Jews against them in order to achieve it. There is no undeserving Jewish target!
I get it, you actually took Hitler's Mein Kampf seriously. Don't you morons realize by making the Jews such targets, you perpetuate the seriousness of your pogroms of hate against them. Oh, who am I kidding, you guys know that perfectly well, hate is the only chain binding you together, of course, you need to legitimize your enemy so you can play the victim to the rubes you sucker in buying you're the ones who are being persecuted.
To destroy the legitimacy of current government and to offer legitimate government in its place. We must strike at the heart of the traitorous, Jew-controlled governments which have done their best to murder and pollute our race. The apparatus, infrastructure and property of government must be placed high on our target list. This would include any and all individuals involved in forming policy, the services provided by government and any buildings or other physical property. All of the present day governments of White nations must be discredited and toppled. In most cases even the constitutional documents which give them legitimacy must be rejected.
Individuals in decision making positions in government should be targeted for selective assassination. Those most outspoken in the campaign to rob our children of a future should be placed at the top of the list, however, just about any high ranking official in government will make a deserving target. Only those tiny fraction of government officials who have fought against our destruction should be exempted. Any successes in this campaign will have a positive propaganda effect in favor of our movement.
Striking the symbols and services of government which the average citizen associates with legitimacy and power is part of our campaign to break down the rule of present government. Buildings and monuments symbolic of our present governments or the sick ideologies which they serve must be defaced, vandalized or destroyed. The services we will target include, the military, law enforcement, electrical power generation and delivery, food supplies, fuel supplies, electronic communications, tax collection, postal services, roads, railways, airports, shipping etc. Disruption and denial of these services will both discredit the effectiveness of present government and hinder them in their war against the White race. When conducting attacks against government every effort must be made to avoid casualties among low-level White employees.
I called it, these madmen actually think "The Turner Diaries" can happen IRL despite operating in such a fashion they cannot, by their own logic, do enough damage to count without being noticed, whereupon they can be destroyed for being too obvious.
To punish those Whites who have committed treasonous acts against their own people. A heavy emphasis must be placed upon those, high profile, individuals in government, the media, entertainment, clergy and academia who have presented lies as truth, promoted race-mixing, drug abuse and degeneracy, encouraged non-White immigration or have schemed to profit from policies which damage the health of our race and rob White children of a future. We can never really hope to taken seriously as a Nation if we are unwilling to punish traitors in the way any healthy Nation would, by death. A campaign of attacks targeting these individuals and their property will have a significant propaganda effect, both discouraging traitorous behavior and, with high profile targets being struck, boosting the morale of our movement.
This is sheer idiocy. Like with how you make Jews look like victims by your actions, you also make these people the victims, not the victimizers. This is logic so asinine it's no wonder these loons mostly act like tough guys but never accomplish much without getting caught,
Other targets will include businesses or institutions which, through their advertising, employment policies, business or political activities, have promoted our racial destruction.
This will include nearly all large corporations and big businesses. Of greater importance are institutions which provide foreign aid, arrange for the adoption of non-Whites into our Nations, assist non-White immigrants, do research into diseases that inflict mostly non-Whites, such as AIDS or Malaria, or engage in any other activity which damages the health and security of the White race. The property, capital and those in decision making positions of these businesses and institutions should be targeted with every effort made to ensure that low-ranking White employees are not injured or killed in our attacks.
This contains two stupid premises for the price of one. First off, destroying all corporations and businesses will leave you NOTHING to economically sustain your notional white nation economically, so smooth thinking here. Second, by ruining these businesses, you ruin the livelihoods of those that work for them. How are you going to prevent taking paychecks away from the people you deem innocent while trying to hurt everyone else? You guys are supposedly too decentralized to plan on an effective scale on how to kill only those specific targets while planning in advance who you want to spare without blowing your own cover due to the potential for blown secrecy required for such planning and coordination.
Of secondary importance will be targets such as low level individuals involved in race-mixing, degeneracy and drug abuse. There is no propaganda effect to be gained by attacking low profile homosexuals, degenerates, drug dealers etc. Only those who have committed crimes against the White race, such as race-mixers, rapists, child molesters etc. should be attacked. Selective assassination, arson or bomb attacks should be used against these low-level targets.
And we round off the intro to this lunacy with their Walter Mitty fantasies of being a racist version of The Punisher.
As I think you ladies and gentlemen can see, the people who believe in this garbage unironically lack serious critical thinking skills and would prefer to believe life will be good, all they have to do kill everyone who disagrees with their creed that they pretend they can have some represent nonviolently when it's an inherent call for genocide even at it's most innocent-sounding.
TL;DR: These people are insane.
Here's the original if you want to follow along.
In this post, I'm going to mock the intro to this tl;dr manual for the wannabe race warrior (the rest is garbage stolen from anarchists manuals, military stuff, and lots of instructions for building shoddy and dangerous homemade weapons. I'm skipping that due to length and not wanting to encourage their idiocy). Since this has a lot of racist language and cringey nonsense in general, please be advised what I'm gonna comment on will be peak facepalm worthy.
(original text in italics, my comments in bold)
As we witness the dawn of a the new millenium so to have we witnessed the birth of a new era of Leaderless Resistance in the struggle for White survival. No longer do we look to politicians and law-makers for a solution, they have been bought, their lips are sealed with green paper; they have grown rich and powerful through sucking the life-blood of the crumbling ruin that Western Civilization has become. However their power has come at a price; greed, corruption and sloth are the adornments of their wealth. This leaves western society in a position ripe for upheaval and revolution. We will cast off our wishful belief in democratic salvation, our votes will now be cast with bullets and bombs.
No longer will the yoke of race-denying, religious systems restrain us. As in the past we must rekindle a faith not in false, alien gods but in ourselves and our ability to struggle and overcome without prostrations before any Kosher world-deity. No longer will we allow the Jews to live like parasites upon the body of our race. No longer will we tolerate any Jewish influence in our political system, our legal system or our mass-media. No longer will our children be taught the suicidal and baseless dogma of egalitarianism and racial equality. No longer will we allow dysgenic breeding to damage the health of our race. No longer will we tolerate any non-White colonizers living and breeding among us.
The cringe is real. On top blaming der Juden for everything, decrying Abrahamaic faith legitimacy (a common theme amount Odin worshippers and other racists who advocate pre-Christian paganism), they immediately flog those age-old tropes about how white people are being genocided by racial intermixture and how liberal ideology is evil.
In this new era we fight for nothing less than the absolute physical separation of the White race from all Jews and non-Whites. Along with this we will purge from our midst the traitorous and degenerate elements of our race. We demand swift and brutal justice for those who assisted in, or profited from, the murder of our Race and the colonization of our lands by non-Whites. May their time be short upon the earth.
OY, what edge. Did this guy walk in on some black guy making a cuckold of him with his wife one day? Otherwise, typical tough-guy rhetoric espoused behind a keyboard and an internet persona about how they plan to finish what Hitler started.
The purpose of this document is not to explain the Whys? of armed struggle, any White person with a pair of eyes can appreciate the desperate situation we are in as a Race. Anyone can see that this situation cannot be turned around at the ballot box or through negotiation and compromise, it will end in tears and bloodshed. Of this there is really no doubt. Western civilization will fall in a similar way and for the same reasons as ancient Egypt, Aryan India, ancient Greece, Rome and every other nation which failed to protect its blood from the poisoning effects of race-mongrelization. The situation is simple, a violent struggle will come about and if it happens soon we will win. If we are unable to coalesce our movement into a fighting force capable of initiating and seizing victory in this conflict within the next decade or so we will lose. To lose in this struggle means that the White race will be butchered by the sub-humans who have colonized our lands and our women and children will be brutally raped and murdered in the streets.
There is a reason the whys of this campaign to purge anyone who is darker than a tanned white person aren't explained: The logic is really very simple: WHITE GOOD, NON WHITE BAD, CAUSE REASONS! Sure, they'll dress it up with all sorts of rationalizations about why this is true, but when you cut through all the rhetoric, these types inherently believe white people are the only people who can be considered civilized and thus worthy to inherit the Earth, the rest need to die because whitey deserves the whole world and always has, even though that logic begs the question: "If that's true, how come these people existed for thousands of years before white people discovered them and no one was butthurt about it until they crossed paths with each other?"
In plain English: How to make crappy garage tooled guns and improvised bombs out of rusty pipes and crap from a hardware store that's more likely to kill the maker than anyone else, how to become a racist serial killer, and how to decide who to murder based on how badly they think anyone who isn't them will get upset over it.
"Out of the closet" Racialists, Cells and the Lone Wolf
There are two paths to choose from for those of us who take up the struggle. The first option is what I term the "out of the closet" activist. These individuals fight to the best of their abilities to spread the message of White survival and rebirth to as many of our racial kin as possible. These White activists use printed material, newspapers, radio, television and most notably the Internet to this end. These courageous individuals walk a dangerous line because the more effective they are the more attention they draw to themselves from law enforcement and from various other enemy organizations.
Just about every major city in the western world has a "Hate Crimes Unit" or a similar apparatus which works as a liaison between Jewish interests and the police. These agencies work to identify and build dossiers on White activists who are at work in the area. Their ultimate aim is to infiltrate any White activist group in order to:
- Gather incriminating evidence against its members
- Discover connections to other groups for further investigation
- Undermine, discredit and destroy these groups
This right here is the rationale separating the average poster on places like Stormfront from those lunatics like Dylan Roof. One LARPs about how much black people need to be riddled with bullets, the latter is the idiot who actually does the deed and is apprehended because they thought they were a holy warrior when all they were was a callow murderer who gunned down people in a church who were no threat to anyone. Somehow, though, just because the people these types killing most cowardly ways were not white, they think they are heroes for craven murder.
The second half is a pure delusion as to why white supremacists fail to do anything right. Groups like this generally undermine themselves by advocating crime because their own logic is toothless even to themselves if they don't. They can't resist the temptation to leave evidence and a trail because these types must prove to their peers they are not just a KKK cosplayer, they really do intend to shoot up synagogues and hang blacks from trees. Finally, all these groups offer is a utopian vision that is vaguely defined aside from requiring seas of blood to be shed to get to it.
These groups discredit themselves by coming off as bloodthirsty madmen who are bound by the negativity of hate, nothing more, no one else needs finish the job of destroying them that they do themselves just fine.
Undercover agents of these units will attend meetings and rallies held by racial activists and information such as names and descriptions of individual members will be obtained. The Hate Crimes Unit will also collect literature, posters and other materials distributed by activists. These materials will be analyzed for fingerprint evidence in order to begin to identify the members of the group. These fingerprints will be added to the files which law enforcement keeps on those involved in racial activism.
The next step in the work of the Hate Crimes Unit is to infiltrate the group in order to gather evidence of the commission of any crimes or any conspiracy to commit crimes by the group. This work is usually done by a lone agent but the use of two or even more infiltrators is not unheard of.
If no evidence of criminality is at first obtained the infiltrator will begin to try to push the group to commit a serious or violent crime of some sort or to provide him or her with the means to commit some violent crime and to help plan it. If members of the group are foolish enough to trust the infiltrator they will soon find themselves in jail. This type of activity by law enforcement is well documented. The "Forth Reich Skinheads" case in Los Angeles, the infiltration of "Combat 18" in England and the Grant Bristoe affair involving the "Heritage Front" in Canada are good examples of the use of an "agent-provocateur" to destroy White Nationalist movements and to imprison White men and women.
How is this process of law enforcement infiltration and sabotage to be prevented? It can be summed up with one simple rule… No one who is an open activist, known to the media and to police, should ever even entertain the idea of involving themselves in armed struggle. A real separation must exist between those who wage a war of words and those who let actions speak for them. Whenever the open White activist is approached about the idea of armed struggle, he must explain that it is his own personal choice to reject violence but that he also does not condemn those who take up armed struggle in defense of their people. In this way we can neutralize law enforcement use of infiltrators against us.
The last paragraph in particular sums up the mindset behind this decentralized approach to being a killer. Basically, the author is arguing for the people who commit murders to separate themselves from open association from the edgelords who simply masturbate to the concept and to lie like rugs to make it hard for cops to arrest anyone.
The problem with this logic is two-fold:
1. This type of ideology proves toothless if you never act on it, and it's an ideology where prestige is earned by actually soiling your hands with blood. To be taken seriously in this community of murder based on racial hatred based killing, you need actual blood on your hands to prove you AREN'T a cop.
2. Because the first problem exists, that's why the divide between the edgelords advocating the murder of anyone they hate and the people who actually do it is nonexistent. To get anything significant done on anything more than a lone wolf scale, as these types ultimately want to do, they must coordinate their actions. Even the genuine lone wolves were at some point in touch with those who spewed racial murder rhetoric to some degree, and while they may not have put guns in the killer's hand, they all averted their eyes to knowledge of the party they egged on into committing murder.
Just as the "out of the closet" White Nationalist must be strictly non-violent, those who choose violent struggle must keep their identities and beliefs secret from all except those directly involved in the movement. This will be a difficult task, made increasingly difficult the more people are involved. For this reason we must employ an organizational structure of small "cells". Each of these cells will have only a few members and will be capable of taking action independently of the others. Only long time acquaintances, with history of trustworthiness, should make up a cell. A handful of dedicated soldiers (no more than 4 or 5) can create an impenetrable, cohesive and effective weapon against the tyranny we face. A single, highly motivated, individual or "Lone Wolf" can also take action on his own. This one-person cell will obviously be impenetrable to law enforcement, however the Lone Wolf may by limited in the scale of attacks he can mount.
It is precisely this type of cell structured resistance movement which the traitorous, power-whores who sit in the seat of government fear most. They have no idea how to deal with this type of movement, it has no hierarchical power structure so it cannot be toppled and its cells are too small and too may to infiltrate.
Every person who enters this movement must understand that we are a nation in exile, waiting to assume power in the vacuum which will be created by the fall of Western civilization.
Again, the last paragraph is key. These maniacs all have this delusion that William Luther Pierce's racist fanfic "The Turner Diaries" will end in white people triumphant, and all people who aren't white will be killed while their superiors run the world.
Thing is, no movement of this sort ever succeeded without an army ever. Actual armed forces capable of effecting this kind of demographic change cannot occur under this pipe dream of a command structure described above, so this is just pure fantasy that they are "nation in exile".
Citizens of this nation in exile are obligated to be:
Aware - The citizenry must educate themselves to a reasonable level on all the issues of concern to White survival. Our enemies must never be able to ask "Why?" without response.
Get a load of this crap. As I explained, their logic boils down to their skin making them somehow better than someone of another skin color.
Armed - The citizenry must posses weapons suitable for guerilla warfare and understand and how to use them with reasonable proficiency. In some circumstances this will be difficult but it is absolutely imperative that the citizenry of our nation be capable of seizing power when the time comes.
One thing these loons like to do is masquerade their intentions by cozying up to people afraid the government will take their guns, even though their admitted fantasy of one day giving the government utterly legal cause to take those weapons proves they have no business with them in the first place.
Prepared - The citizenry must be both physically and psychologically fit for the coming conflict. It is essential that the citizenry train themselves, like soldiers, and be physically able to fight, perform heavy work and resist exhaustion. Also, like soldiers, it is essential for the citizenry to purge any feelings of sympathy toward our enemies or guilt over the actions which we must take. Feeling of this nature are a symptom of the greatest evil possible in nature's design …weakness.
One hilarious canard these morons hold to like a life raft is that they are peak humanity and that to stay that way they must remain pinnacles of human ability and prowess in all fields of endeavor.
Hitler said the same thing, and he was a short, meth-addicted loser with a bad case of Parkinson's he tried to conceal who looked nothing like what he described as the ideal race warrior. You can bet the average person who reads this crap unironically is likely fat, out of shape, or in some way less than ideal as a physical representation of the ideal of the human race.
Control of Information
Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Lt. Colombo are fictional characters, equally fictional is the concept that police detectives solve crimes by applying deductive reasoning to the clues of the case. Certainly crime-scene evidence and eye-witnesses are of great importance in police work but when one examines the reality of criminal investigations it becomes apparent that without informants, "rats", and confessions the vast majority of crimes would go unsolved.
Another cliche of these racial purity loons is that while they don't discount forensic evidence, they believe first and foremost it's people not keeping their mouths shut that screws them over the most. Ironically, they happen to be right, but it's a flaw built into their ideology. Believing in your innate superiority to another being means the urge to make that known to some extent is inevitable.
Essentially, their own ideology forces them to abandon stealth because it encourages their egos to grow unchecked, as they believe themselves gods among animals in regards to anyone who isn't white.
Police routinely offer cash rewards and set up "hotlines" to entice the acquaintances of criminals to come forward. Once police have a suspect in mind they will attempt to interrogate everyone around him, friends, co-workers, family members. With the use of threats, lies and deceit the police are usually successful in extracting information from these sources. Friends and co-workers will be told that they have been implicated in the crime by the suspect and will be charged along with him unless they tell their side of the story. Family member will be told that the suspect has confessed or that evidence proving his guilt exists and that the police want to act in his "best interests" and the testimony of family members would allow him to "get the help he needs". The suspect’s spouse or intimate partner will be told that during the course of their investigation the police have discovered evidence of the suspect’s infidelity in an attempt to break the unique protective feelings developed in an intimate relationship.
Control of information thus becomes the most vital element in the security of our movement. Information is more valuable than any material resource, it can make you rich or it can send you to the gallows. Even the slightest leak can provide investigators a new lead and they are tenacious especially when confronted with a difficult case. We must assure that no piece of information, no matter how seemingly irrelevant, is transformed from our secret into a law-enforcement resource. How can secrets be kept? How can information be controlled? Ben Franklin once said "Three men can keep a secret, if two of them are dead!"… this is a realistic assessment. We all have our own secrets, a dark deed committed alone, a childhood indiscretion, or a act of foolishness in our past which we shall never reveal to the world. These personal secrets are given a level of protection by us that can never be equaled by the swearing and blood-oaths which protect communal secrets. The truth will come out eventually in nearly every case, the best we can do for our communal secrets is to prolong their revelation for as long as possible.
This section is both realistic to some extent and to some extent wishful thinking. While covering how police can acquire information on a suspect with a fair degree of accuracy, they have this naive belief they can keep secrets.
The problem is, they can't, they must share how they feel with someone or they are regarded as powerless in their communities and not to be taken seriously as someone willing to shed blood for the cause.
The author of this screed broke their own rule by distributing a document detailing their thoughts and actions and provided an alias and distinctive style of writing that can be analyzed for evidence as a starting point.
Basically, people cannot shut up about shameful things that could incriminate them, and these racist types are the absolute worst at keeping silent.
Here are some points to consider in the control of information.
- Share no secret which does not have to be shared. In military terminology this is referred to as the "need to know" and is applied so that each individual is given only enough information to perform the mission required.
- When confronted by law enforcement offer absolutely no information. Remember these five words: "I have nothing to say". Know your rights. Make no statement either written or verbal. Demand to see a lawyer immediately. Do not submit to any voluntary search of your person, property, vehicle or residence. Do not waive any of your rights or voluntarily allow them to be violated. The decisions you make when dealing with law enforcement are deadly serious, make no mistakes.
- Do not discuss any aspect of your guerrilla activities on communication systems which are not secure. Such systems include, telephones, cellular phones, faxes and e-mail. Even secure systems, such as digitally encrypted cellular phones and e-mail, should be used with great caution. Who knows what encryption Big Brother really can or can’t break.
- Employ the best encryption possible for computer files (including this one) which deal with racialist ideas, revolutionary struggle, firearms and explosives etc.
- Use "disinformation" in order to confuse and deceive law enforcement.
- Don't discuss your belief in violent action with anyone who is not directly involved in our struggle. Profess adherence to non-violence in public.
These are all common sense tips, and I must concede they are wise to follow. The problem is, as I mentioned, the ideology they follow is a constant goad to attention whore to be taken seriously by their buddies, they will violate these tips with abandon as a result.
The Goals Of Our Struggle
We can identify four short and long term goals of our revolutionary struggle: To exacerbate existing racial tensions to the point where a situation of open conflict exists between Whites and non-Whites. We must also encourage violent racial conflict among the various non-White races within our borders. We can place no goal higher because none of the others can be completed without it. Only the violence and life-or-death imperative of an open racial conflict, a Race War, will rouse the majority of our racial kin from their sleep. Only racial conflict at this level will drive home the fact that the idea of a peaceful and prosperous multi-racial state is lunacy and only with the civil breakdown during a violent racial conflict will we gain the opportunity to proceed with the rest of our program. Our strategy must be to make all of the emerging multi-racial states as ungovernable as possible. Life must become quite a bit more miserable before "Joe six-pack" and "Jane tax-payer" will get off the fence. Our goal is to shake that fence so hard that the issues become quite clear to all of our racial kin. We must immediately begin to make it clear to the world that non-Whites are not welcome in our territory and will eventually face forced deportation or death at the hands of our growing movement. Our lands must no longer be seen as safe havens for the excrement of the world but as places of great danger for non-White colonizers.
Translation: None of us are going to quit fantasizing about killing non-white people in droves until one of us somehow commits mass murder and gets away with it. When that happens, it will inspire the rest of us to quit playing the tough guys and do it for real. We'll eventually form a mighty army ready to slaughter anyone and everyone we deem an enemy, all it takes is for one of us to actually succeed in live-action roleplaying a successful murderer. None of us actually can because we are either utter cowards or keep screwing up because we are loudmouths who think we can take on uniformed police and soldiers with bravado and a belief being white makes us innately invincible.
The use selective assassination, arson attacks, bombings, sabotage and vandalism against non-Whites must be employed with the goal of creating a maximum amount of animosity, outrage and fear within the hearts of our enemies. High profile targets, such as non-White entertainers, sports figures, religious and political leaders must be targeted for selective assassination. Non-Whites must also be attacked anywhere they can be stuck in large numbers, such as in high-rise apartments, subways, shopping malls or packed nightclubs in order to produce maximum causalities. The symbols of the non-White presence on our land; churches, temples, Mosques, businesses and political institutions must be considered valuable targets as well. The idea is to drive them into the streets in outrage, to force them to retaliate. Because our movement is underground and leaderless they will be unable to strike back against us directly so their rage will be leveled against White society in general and law enforcement and authority figures in particular.
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It will also be necessary to do our best to exploit the tribal resentments and ethnic hatreds which the various non-White groups within our borders harbor for each other.
LOL. As if you guys can quit calling them racial slurs long enough to pull that off.
Some good examples where violence has occurred in western nations involving rival non-White groups include the conflicts between Hindus and Muslims (especially strong between Pakistanis and Indians), Sikhs and Muslims, Somalis and Ethiopians, Blacks and Koreans (U.S.), Blacks and Hispanics (U.S.) Koreans and Chinese, Japanese and most other Asians and of course the Jews and just about everybody else. In order to successfully use these issues to our advantage the operative must research and understand the origins and issues at hand in the various conflicts. I will make no attempt here to try to explain any of these conflicts as that would be far beyond the scope of this work.
Please. None of these mentioned conflicts is going to help an utterly decentralized terror network accomplish anything because stage-managing racial pogroms on that scale would require actual coordination between a much more organized group capable exerting mass influence. This is a fart-huffing fantasy to think otherwise.
To smash Jewish power and influence both in our own respective nations and worldwide. The Jews are now, always have been and always will be the enemies of the White race and jealous murderers of anything beautiful and healthy in this world. Any individual, organization or movement which fights for the future of the White race will be doomed to failure without a clear understanding of this fact. No movement for social reform has any hope of success unless it is specifically and overtly anti-Jewish. It is essential to understand that all of our goals are anti-Jewish in nature.
HITLER DID EXACTLY WHAT YOU IDIOTS ARE ADVOCATING! Of course, you guys ironically try to deny it even though he came closest to succeeding, but you guys need to do better than someone who had physical control of a nation-state and political influence over many others before your fantasies have a prayer of being more than that.
We must attack Jewish power wherever it exists and at all levels. Our focus must be placed upon high-profile Jewish influence in government, big-business, the mass-media and entertainment. Destruction of high level Jewish targets will have a great propaganda effect and will be a boost to the morale of our fighters. It is of great importance to demonstrate to our movement that it is possible to attack and crush high level Jewish power. Of secondary importance will be low level Jewish targets such as individuals of only local importance, Synagogues, Jewish owned small business and other symbols of Jewish power. Remember that, because of their power and influence, any attack upon a Jewish target will receive national if not international media attention. This is exactly the propaganda effect we need and we will use the media power of the Jews against them in order to achieve it. There is no undeserving Jewish target!
I get it, you actually took Hitler's Mein Kampf seriously. Don't you morons realize by making the Jews such targets, you perpetuate the seriousness of your pogroms of hate against them. Oh, who am I kidding, you guys know that perfectly well, hate is the only chain binding you together, of course, you need to legitimize your enemy so you can play the victim to the rubes you sucker in buying you're the ones who are being persecuted.
To destroy the legitimacy of current government and to offer legitimate government in its place. We must strike at the heart of the traitorous, Jew-controlled governments which have done their best to murder and pollute our race. The apparatus, infrastructure and property of government must be placed high on our target list. This would include any and all individuals involved in forming policy, the services provided by government and any buildings or other physical property. All of the present day governments of White nations must be discredited and toppled. In most cases even the constitutional documents which give them legitimacy must be rejected.
Individuals in decision making positions in government should be targeted for selective assassination. Those most outspoken in the campaign to rob our children of a future should be placed at the top of the list, however, just about any high ranking official in government will make a deserving target. Only those tiny fraction of government officials who have fought against our destruction should be exempted. Any successes in this campaign will have a positive propaganda effect in favor of our movement.
Striking the symbols and services of government which the average citizen associates with legitimacy and power is part of our campaign to break down the rule of present government. Buildings and monuments symbolic of our present governments or the sick ideologies which they serve must be defaced, vandalized or destroyed. The services we will target include, the military, law enforcement, electrical power generation and delivery, food supplies, fuel supplies, electronic communications, tax collection, postal services, roads, railways, airports, shipping etc. Disruption and denial of these services will both discredit the effectiveness of present government and hinder them in their war against the White race. When conducting attacks against government every effort must be made to avoid casualties among low-level White employees.
I called it, these madmen actually think "The Turner Diaries" can happen IRL despite operating in such a fashion they cannot, by their own logic, do enough damage to count without being noticed, whereupon they can be destroyed for being too obvious.
To punish those Whites who have committed treasonous acts against their own people. A heavy emphasis must be placed upon those, high profile, individuals in government, the media, entertainment, clergy and academia who have presented lies as truth, promoted race-mixing, drug abuse and degeneracy, encouraged non-White immigration or have schemed to profit from policies which damage the health of our race and rob White children of a future. We can never really hope to taken seriously as a Nation if we are unwilling to punish traitors in the way any healthy Nation would, by death. A campaign of attacks targeting these individuals and their property will have a significant propaganda effect, both discouraging traitorous behavior and, with high profile targets being struck, boosting the morale of our movement.
This is sheer idiocy. Like with how you make Jews look like victims by your actions, you also make these people the victims, not the victimizers. This is logic so asinine it's no wonder these loons mostly act like tough guys but never accomplish much without getting caught,
Other targets will include businesses or institutions which, through their advertising, employment policies, business or political activities, have promoted our racial destruction.
This will include nearly all large corporations and big businesses. Of greater importance are institutions which provide foreign aid, arrange for the adoption of non-Whites into our Nations, assist non-White immigrants, do research into diseases that inflict mostly non-Whites, such as AIDS or Malaria, or engage in any other activity which damages the health and security of the White race. The property, capital and those in decision making positions of these businesses and institutions should be targeted with every effort made to ensure that low-ranking White employees are not injured or killed in our attacks.
This contains two stupid premises for the price of one. First off, destroying all corporations and businesses will leave you NOTHING to economically sustain your notional white nation economically, so smooth thinking here. Second, by ruining these businesses, you ruin the livelihoods of those that work for them. How are you going to prevent taking paychecks away from the people you deem innocent while trying to hurt everyone else? You guys are supposedly too decentralized to plan on an effective scale on how to kill only those specific targets while planning in advance who you want to spare without blowing your own cover due to the potential for blown secrecy required for such planning and coordination.
Of secondary importance will be targets such as low level individuals involved in race-mixing, degeneracy and drug abuse. There is no propaganda effect to be gained by attacking low profile homosexuals, degenerates, drug dealers etc. Only those who have committed crimes against the White race, such as race-mixers, rapists, child molesters etc. should be attacked. Selective assassination, arson or bomb attacks should be used against these low-level targets.
And we round off the intro to this lunacy with their Walter Mitty fantasies of being a racist version of The Punisher.
As I think you ladies and gentlemen can see, the people who believe in this garbage unironically lack serious critical thinking skills and would prefer to believe life will be good, all they have to do kill everyone who disagrees with their creed that they pretend they can have some represent nonviolently when it's an inherent call for genocide even at it's most innocent-sounding.
TL;DR: These people are insane.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Someone made Windows 95 a plug and play cross-platform application
As the title says, some enterprising soul made Windows 95 an application that runs in it's own window and runs Windows 95 natively, without the hassle of setting up a virtual machine.
It can be found here if you're interested.
Now, compared to a VM version, this one has some limitations. This is based on a pre-integrated Internet Explorer copy of Windows 95C, meaning it has the classic interface, no IE stuff. It cannot detect USB drives despite larval support for that being possible in the 95C version (admittedly, they are fluky on VMs too), and while a decent amount of pre-included software is added, you basically have to mount ISO images to add anything else.
Regardless, it's impressive all the basics of Windows 95 work out of the box with no special tweaks.
It does have some issues. It does not handle restarting the application well, and changing display settings can lock up the program. It's preconfigured to selected values, essentially a locked VM sandbox, which can be frustrating if you want to customize the hard drive size, memory limit, and so on. I prefer a virtual machine for actually doing anything at this juncture, as even the creator of this app admits it's pretty rough in spots and meant mostly as a proof of concept educational project.
Windows 95 is basically abandonware at this point, though the legality of this is definitely up in the air regardless. I doubt Microsoft will do more than issue a takedown if they really get up in arms over it.
Still, this is a nice project, and proof Windows can be run anywhere without complicated virtual machine setups done by hand, and if fixed up some more, it could be a good way to enjoy good retro Windows and old games and programs.
It can be found here if you're interested.
Now, compared to a VM version, this one has some limitations. This is based on a pre-integrated Internet Explorer copy of Windows 95C, meaning it has the classic interface, no IE stuff. It cannot detect USB drives despite larval support for that being possible in the 95C version (admittedly, they are fluky on VMs too), and while a decent amount of pre-included software is added, you basically have to mount ISO images to add anything else.
Regardless, it's impressive all the basics of Windows 95 work out of the box with no special tweaks.
It does have some issues. It does not handle restarting the application well, and changing display settings can lock up the program. It's preconfigured to selected values, essentially a locked VM sandbox, which can be frustrating if you want to customize the hard drive size, memory limit, and so on. I prefer a virtual machine for actually doing anything at this juncture, as even the creator of this app admits it's pretty rough in spots and meant mostly as a proof of concept educational project.
Windows 95 is basically abandonware at this point, though the legality of this is definitely up in the air regardless. I doubt Microsoft will do more than issue a takedown if they really get up in arms over it.
Still, this is a nice project, and proof Windows can be run anywhere without complicated virtual machine setups done by hand, and if fixed up some more, it could be a good way to enjoy good retro Windows and old games and programs.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Ego and why it's a bad thing
If there is one bad behavior that can screw anyone up worse than anything, it's having an ego problem. When you deem yourself above others and free to cast scorn upon them while not allowing you too could be at fault, that's when you need to remind yourself you're not any less human than they are.
Unwarranted ego leads a belief you can do no wrong. This is both emotionally stupid to assume of yourself, not to mention the most rudimentary amount of rational thinking should tell you "I'm a flawed being who is not omniscient and immortal, I'm not perfect by extension".
Unwarranted ego has led to all sorts of historical facepalm worthy nonsense. Things like the Divine Right of Kings was born of this sort of hubris. Practically all forms of racism and bigotry have this sort of foolish thinking as their key pillar, and everyone who tells themselves they have a right to treat other people like dirt, in general, is Exhibit A of this very flaw.
One of the things Christians like myself are forced to remind ourselves by the creed we follow is that we are all, by ourselves, utterly pathetic and unable to save ourselves. On our own, we are a pathetic lump of flesh that will one day die and without external assistance, the grave is final. Our existence ends when we die, and a mortal life where constant pain and suffering attends our existence alongside any fleeting temporal pleasure is the best thing we can hope for,
Having an unwarranted ego means we have NOTHING better to look forward to. However, being willing to put that ego aside for the glory of someone greater is supposed to do us a favor, like how Jesus put it:
12 Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,” he said, “don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward. 13 Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you.”
Now, even if you toss out the spiritual implications, there is a lot of basic common sense in this. Attention whoring for recognition tends to backfire IRL, and like Jesus put it, those who can't repay your kindness immediately will be a lot more grateful to you for giving to them without expecting anything in return as opposed to those that can and will mean a lot more.
Of course, being egotistical comes with it God's contempt on sheer principle too:
Proverbs 16:5 ESV
Proverbs 8:13
Basically, having an unwarranted ego is a great way to offend the last entity you ever want to offend.
Instead, we are advised to act like this:
Even Jesus followed his own advice on this:
John 5:19 ESV
And this is the outcome of being a devout follower of the same creed to avoid the sin of pride that attends unwarranted ego:
Isaiah 11:2-5 ESV
tl;dr: Those who act with humility of God will be blessed and have the discernment to show mercy and charity to those who deserve it.
Besides, here's a good reason why we should do so
Romans 12:16 ESV
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
After all, if it's considered really dumb in professions like medicine and the law to be your own client, then in matters of knowing whether your head is swelled or you really do have reason to toot your own horn, it's better to have a second opinion, like so:
Galatians 6:3-4 ESV
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
So, with that all in mind, my advice to fellow Christians is the same Jesus gave concerning who is the only one who has any reason to have an ego:
Luke 18:18-19 ESV
And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
So, with that in mind, keep this verse with you as a guide against the pitfalls of ego:
Proverbs 16:18 ESV
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Unwarranted ego leads a belief you can do no wrong. This is both emotionally stupid to assume of yourself, not to mention the most rudimentary amount of rational thinking should tell you "I'm a flawed being who is not omniscient and immortal, I'm not perfect by extension".
Unwarranted ego has led to all sorts of historical facepalm worthy nonsense. Things like the Divine Right of Kings was born of this sort of hubris. Practically all forms of racism and bigotry have this sort of foolish thinking as their key pillar, and everyone who tells themselves they have a right to treat other people like dirt, in general, is Exhibit A of this very flaw.
One of the things Christians like myself are forced to remind ourselves by the creed we follow is that we are all, by ourselves, utterly pathetic and unable to save ourselves. On our own, we are a pathetic lump of flesh that will one day die and without external assistance, the grave is final. Our existence ends when we die, and a mortal life where constant pain and suffering attends our existence alongside any fleeting temporal pleasure is the best thing we can hope for,
Having an unwarranted ego means we have NOTHING better to look forward to. However, being willing to put that ego aside for the glory of someone greater is supposed to do us a favor, like how Jesus put it:
Luke 14:7-35 New Living Translation (NLT)
Jesus Teaches about Humility
10 “Instead, take the lowest place at the foot of the table. Then when your host sees you, he will come and say, ‘Friend, we have a better place for you!’ Then you will be honored in front of all the other guests. 11 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”12 Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,” he said, “don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward. 13 Instead, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you.”
Now, even if you toss out the spiritual implications, there is a lot of basic common sense in this. Attention whoring for recognition tends to backfire IRL, and like Jesus put it, those who can't repay your kindness immediately will be a lot more grateful to you for giving to them without expecting anything in return as opposed to those that can and will mean a lot more.
Of course, being egotistical comes with it God's contempt on sheer principle too:
Proverbs 16:5 ESV
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Basically, having an unwarranted ego is a great way to offend the last entity you ever want to offend.
Instead, we are advised to act like this:
Philippians 2:3
ESV
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves
Even Jesus followed his own advice on this:
John 5:19 ESV
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
And this is the outcome of being a devout follower of the same creed to avoid the sin of pride that attends unwarranted ego:
Isaiah 11:2-5 ESV
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.
tl;dr: Those who act with humility of God will be blessed and have the discernment to show mercy and charity to those who deserve it.
Besides, here's a good reason why we should do so
Romans 12:16 ESV
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
After all, if it's considered really dumb in professions like medicine and the law to be your own client, then in matters of knowing whether your head is swelled or you really do have reason to toot your own horn, it's better to have a second opinion, like so:
Galatians 6:3-4 ESV
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
So, with that all in mind, my advice to fellow Christians is the same Jesus gave concerning who is the only one who has any reason to have an ego:
Luke 18:18-19 ESV
And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
So, with that in mind, keep this verse with you as a guide against the pitfalls of ego:
Proverbs 16:18 ESV
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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