Didactic Mind

Merry Christmas, everyone! May the Lord's peace and blessings be upon you and your family. The Didactic Mind podcast returns for Christmas with reflections upon what the day means, and why it is so important. I talk about the reasons why this day matters, how its significance translates into our everyday lives, and where the Christmas tradition of gift-giving comes from. I also talk about how things have changed, particularly in terms of trust in institutions, since the time of Christ, and how His life and times serve as both a template and a warning for our own. I finish off by discussing the great Arian Heresy, and how St. Nicholas straight-up JAP-SLAPPED A HERETIC in the face at the Council of Nicaea, and why this matters for our present day.

• The Great Heresies by Hillair Belloc

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Here's the second of the day's Domain Query series, based on a very interesting long comment from LRFotS Kapios on my post about resilience:

It gets worse before things get better. Knowing that intellectually and feeling it to every last bone in your body is a big difference as I’ve realized.

There is one subject that I would like to see you tackle in a post sometime in the future, and that is overcoming the fear of death. Not the YOLO I’m taking cocaine and partying kind, but the one that you hear about warriors in the past who had a lot to lose, their lands, properties, families, etc. and yet they were still able to fight as if they were not attached t those things.

How do people do that? I have been thinking about this a lot with the recent trend of mandatory vaccinations.

Someone who had lived in a monastery for more than a decade told me this about a week ago: ‘The threat to lock me up and starve me to death if I don’t put the vaccine will not change my mind. I would rather die of starvation if it comes to that, because it’s my choice’.

My country has not introduced mandatory vaccination like Austria (probably because they are waiting to see what happens with other countries), but I believe the person who told me that. He is not perfect, but he and a few other people who live there have been threatened and harassed by the police, unjustly criticized by others in the past and yet, they haven’t changed their conviction.

I answer this question from the straightforward point of view of a Christian (an extremely bad one, mind you), and why Christians might fear dying - I certainly do - but not death itself. I unpack an answer rooted in Scripture, starting with Matthew 10, and drawing on references within the texts, and come to the conclusion that the way to avoid this problem of fear of death is to find something bigger than yourself, which you believe in and love enough to give your life to protect. That is the way out of this dilemma.

The Domain Query series is finally back with a new episode - two of them in one day, actually - with a very involved and interesting question from LRFotS Randale6, which I quote in full below:

In this podcast, I go over the following points:

• Red Pill 101 conditional logic that dictates which option to take - women now, versus money now (oh yeah, I finally remembered the name of the Pacino character from Scarface - TONY MONTANA);

On a related note, the Limitless Living course will, at some point, be spruced-up, re-branded, and re-released - at a MUCH lower price than it was initially. By that point, there should be enough people interested in getting out of Western hellholes to generate some actual sales, which would be nice.

The Didactic Mind podcast is back, finally, with a new episode dedicated entirely to the Coof. Yes, I know, it's kind of old hat at this point, but the emergence of the new so-called "Omicron Strain" has stretched the credibility and gullibility of the Sheeple to, and in many cases well beyond, the breaking point. The result has been protesting and anger on a massive scale across Europe, and that is glorious to see. In this week's podcast, I unpack the supposed "African" origins of the virus, ask whether a coronavirus is even responsible in the first place for the Coof, discuss the uselessness and danger of the vaccines, point out the utter ineptitude of the RT-PCR test regime, and finish with a serious broadside directed at the entire medical establishment. This is one of those righteous venom-spitting episodes that you won't want to miss.

• Virus Mania by Various Authors

• Global Research

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

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This week's podcast is all about strategic thinking and design, and is inspired by the life, work, and thought of Col. John Boyd - "40-second Boyd", the fighter pilot without a single kill to his name, who single-handedly revolutionised the art of war and changed the way that we think about warfighting. Col. Boyd used to have a standing bet with the other pilots around him - they could start on his tail in a perfect kill position, and if he did not have the tables turned on them in 40 seconds or less, he would pay them $40 on the spot.

Col. Boyd never, ever lost that bet - not once. The closest that ANYONE ever came to cashing in on that bet was a young Marine pilot, who taxed Boyd to the very edge of his immense talents. But Boyd ultimately won - and that Marine spread Boyd's gospel throughout the Corps.

Today, Boyd's work is largely forgotten, and his immense contributions to the field of warfare are dishonoured and disregarded. But the core lessons behind his work dictate everything that we see around us in both war and business - and the lessons apply in life far beyond these things as well.

This week's podcast tries to tie all of that together, to help you understand how design and strategy are inseparable, and how to leverage this insight for your own benefit. I talk about why absurdly expensive and stupid weapons systems like the F-35 "Turducken Plane" are so utterly stupid and so badly designed, and why they consistently fail at their stated purposes. And I close by discussing how to apply this philosophy of design to your life as an individual.

• The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant T. Hammond - slightly more cerebral and academic, but a brilliant contribution to understanding Boyd's way of thinking and impact upon strategy

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This week's episode of Didactic Mind is all about embracing the conflict that we find ourselves embroiled in - physically, mentally, and most importantly, spiritually. I talk about the world we are living in right now, built on lies as it is, and I walk you through the best ways to fight against it. This one is not for those who need fainting couches every time they hear something that they disagree with, so put on your big-boy (or big-girl, in the extremely unlikely event that you are a woman listening to my hour-long rants) pants, because if you haven't chosen a side yet, you WILL be required to do so in very short order. And it is far better to choose the winning side of your own free will, than to be forced to play for the losing side.

Welcome to the war. Let's get started.

• The Neo-Tsar's speech in Valdai and the consequences for Russian foreign policy;

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

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• The Big Short

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

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The Didactic Mind podcast is finally BACK - after a 3-week or so delay, much to my regret, due to various (quite pleasant, actually) circumstances in my personal and professional life. The elapsed time has, however, proven fruitful, because a number of crazy things have happened in the past few weeks that provide us with PLENTY of material for discussion.

In this week's podcast, I talk about:

• What the Fall of Kabul and the catastrophe in Afghanistan mean for the American Empire;

... and much more.

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