Decreased Inventiveness — A Symptom
As you sit in your chair and look around and take stock of the mechanical, electrical, and electronic products that you use on a daily basis and take for granted, you might realize that all of these things were a result of someone’s inventiveness. What you might not realize is that these products were invented a long time ago. The automobile, airplane, telephone, telegraph, radio, television, computer, jet propulsion, atomic power, radar, sonar, electric light, and refrigerator were all invented by 1950. In the more than half century that has elapsed since then, what has been invented? I have made a random sampling of people and not one person could name a conceptual invention that postdated 1950. Nor can I.
In the past half-century we have seen a decided drop in the influence of masculine conceptual thinking, with the result that true inventiveness has been replaced by adaptations. Eventually, we will run out of new, and adaptations won’t save the economy. That will be one of the causes of the breakdown of Western society.
Concurrent with the decline in conceptual thinking has been a decline in morality of all sorts, for morality as all else is derived from the unseen. Honor, truth, integrity, reliability, constancy, and standards of all sorts emanate from the conceptual thinking of the masculine gender. The emasculation of the male has resulted in a deterioration of standards with the result that the government has intruded into every facet of our personal lives in order to prevent complete chaos; however, it is losing that battle.
There is a natural way to live and our creator established it. Humankind has essentially two options, to understand the nature of creation and live in harmony with it, or to not understand it and live in disharmony with it. To live in harmony produces health, contentment and spiritual growth. To live in disharmony produces sickness, discontent, and spiritual stagnation. Our society has chosen the latter and devotes an increasing amount of its energies and money in attempts to “fix” the sickness and discontent it has created.
The government is going broke in attempts to “fix” our physical and mental health. According to the AMA the average person over 65 takes six to eight prescription medicines. I think the average person today at any age is on medication, if not for physical reasons then mental reasons inasmuch as the major health issue in America is mental illness. Our prisons are bursting with more waiting to get in as we attempt to “fix” our crime problem. We already have the highest incarceration rate in the world. We are out of tune with the world and universe that we were designed to live in.
This out of tune stems from not adhering to the patriarchal structure that is natural to the universe. Instead of devoting our manhood to the care of the family and the tribe, we no longer have any manhood left to devote to anything. We have legislated away our inherent power and now we are impotent. Powerless. Frustrated. Angry.
The only way we can make change is to remove the coverings, barriers, and inhibitions that prevent us from conducting ourselves in a manly way. We can individually take action to free ourselves from our immediate suppression, but it will take a collective effort to bring about social change. But we have started. At least we now know that we are men. The next step is to realize our inherent power, and then do something with that power. The thing to do is to support this viewpoint and share it with anyone who will listen to you. You might be surprised at the number of people who will listen. You did.
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July 17th, 2007 at 7:00 am
“As one loses faith, the more one requires proof?”
I guess thats one way to state it, just as “time preferences shrink towards the immediate over the long term” is another abstraction of the same thing.
it all boils down to what is an acceptable amount of time to put into something.
the religious communes, like the quaking shakers are noted to have lasted much longer than the secular ones. why? because faith increases the acceptable amount of time to put into something.
when waiting, how long do you wait? when working towards something, how long do you keep trying before you move on to something else.
the big question being what goes out of our grasp when we no longer have the faith to proceed long enough to accomplish the goal?
if one were to look through the lens of faith, one could see that many things would be different if we had more faith. both good and bad, as it also matters what you put your faith in.
the socialists put in “blind faith” as few of them have the capacity to understand and work with the arguments, they parrot mostly.
zealots also have “blind faith”, while the jihadis arent so clear cut. we would like to think that they are zealots as that would put them in the crazy bin for most, but they are too consistent to be that. so i suspect for them its a tool, insincere as that tool may be, for them its good. [if one were to analyse the situation they are getting a lot of bang for very little buck and have literally gone toe to toe with vastly superior foe (based on what we consider superior)]
faith needs no proof, for proof undoes faith
in order for one to invent, somewhere, one must make the choice that to sit and toil towards some end without any certainty of solution, in competition with unknowns, and the normal forces of economics and opinion arrayed against you, to continue on through constant failure, till you, if lucky or what ever it may be called, end up succeeding in solving the problem. to which the whole journey only begins!!! for after one solves it, one has to have enough faith in it to swim upstream, a kind of pig headedness of the most useful kind. are you certain because you know, or you dont really know and am wasting your life on a crackpot item?
this is why people steal ideas… they are actually hard to come by in the good way. ideas themselves are a dime a dozen, like flowers… but only saffron is saffron, which is a flower unto itself.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
artfldgr – Thanks very much for your comments.
Could you also add that, “As one loses faith, the more one requires proof?”
July 16th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
here is a bit more…
I guess what I am getting to is more a crisis of faith.
Feminism ultimately is born from a crisis in faith of the family, in faith of their husbands, and more.
Inventions are a process in which perseverance is required, and in order to have that one must have faith in oneself, faith in what one knows, faith in the ability to be first, and faith to carry it through.
One has to have faith in the patents… and faith that the system will allow it, or that it will make it to end.
Faith, is not just the cornerstone of religion… it’s a cornerstone of much that we hold and think are natural without help.
Religion gives one practice in faith, which is why those who practice are less likely to divorce. And why, behind every great man is a woman… a woman who was celebrated for having the faith in her husband!
Today… we don’t have faith in much… and so women got on this wheel AFTER faith was destroyed with god, and so they don’t invent. They don’t have faith in their husbands, or themselves, or their abilities.
Those that do, invent, and we don’t hear much about most inventions… those that don’t, don’t invent and we hear even less of that.
the more we lose faith… the practice of faith… the more materialistic we become.
the more we only have faith in what our eyes see, our tongue tastes, and more..
the less faith we have the less we wish to put money down on a bet in which the end result cant be known before you start.
the less faith we have the less we wish to put ourselves down on a bet in which the end result cant be known.
it doesnt matter if its invention, a business, a journey, etc… all fall as soon as the faith of the people involved ends.
and by definition, faith is the belief in somethign in which you have no proof.
faith is the cornerstone of religion AND society…
after all… business on a handshake, is faith…
after all… trusting what someone sells you is faith…
you can see that many chinese dont have faith as they cheat their own and and poision their own, and such.
in the absence of religious and social faith, its the faith in the states punisment that gets us to move… nothing else except maybe selfishness… but even selfishness needs a certain amount of faith, whithout that, you dont even get that motivation.
July 16th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
infidel — “It’s goofy for a lot of reasons…”
How dodgy is that sort of comment?
How dodgy is it to accuse someone of being a Martha Stewaart clone, without evidence, and refusing to either acknolwedge or apologize for it?
How dodgy is it to say something is SUBJECTIVE (because you SAY it’s subjective), when I’ve stated how one can use Nature to evaluate approaches. If one approach is objectively better than another, then how is that subjective?
“And Mike was right, it’s silly but it just goes on and on.
How dodgy is it to demand something that doesn’t work, and then get mad when the non-working thing isn’t provided? Would you go up to a KKK rally and demand that they start treating minorities better? Would you go up to a feminist and demand that she drop the whole “oppression” thing?
I can understand how you feel Elder and I are guilty, but I don’t understand how the Objectors can believe they’re so utterly innocent?
July 16th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
MMX said: “Why is it goofy? …. And why is it a religion?”
It’s goofy for a lot of reasons. I think this whole thread shows that already.
Why is it a religion? See my post above. It’s anti-scientific and it’s irrational (i.e. not a philosophy in the Western tradition). What else is left? Eastern religion.
I think wtexas is right. It’s subjective. That makes it contrary to Western religion, Western science and Western philosophy. In other words, it’s contrary to progress and therefore, if we were to put a gender label on it, it would have to be feminine.
It’s also touchy-feely. I.E. feminine.
EG has some good points, but his dodges are childish.
And Mike was right, it’s silly but it just goes on and on.
At least EG and I agree it’s not worth arguing about.