Sex Addiction Is Not Our Problem

Food addiction is not our problem.

Debt addiction is not our problem.

Alcohol addiction is not our problem.

These are all but symptoms of our problem (a broken attachment system). Recovery from sex addiction does not equal a life without lust. Recovery from addiction demands abstinence from the substances and behaviors of our addictions but it does not equal such abstinence. Recovery really means that you have been restored to, at minimum, a normal level of connection with yourself, with other people and with God. That means you can be alone and feel ok. That means you can be with other people and feel ok.

Due to growing up in foster care, I have loneliness embedded in my central nervous system. Just hanging out with people does not solve this problem. Abstaining from my addictions does not solve this problem. I have a lot of recovery in my various programs but I hate to be alone in silence. My mind is a dangerous neighborhood I don’t like to visit alone. So instead of silence surrounding me when I am alone, I prefer to have music going, or chanting, or a 12-step lecture, or just something healthy playing in the background. When I lie down at night to go to sleep, I like to play something relaxing and healthy in the background. When I wake up at night, I like to listen to War and Peace or some other fine literature. If I’m awake for long in the middle of the night, and I’m restless with the book I’m listening to, I’ll sit up and watch something like the Frasier sitcom to distract my mind from wandering to dark places.

When I get up at 5:30 am, my work days are usually scheduled until 7pm.

My recovery is a work in progress.

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Power Corrupts

I study the incisive iSteve comments of Catholic poster Maj. Kong like they’re Torah from Heaven:

* A much higher % of billionaires are Jewish, than would be expected from their share of the population. The same is true with their representation in Congress, Academia, Hollywood and the News Media. That’s a lot of cultural power, and as Lord Acton said “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

It is unreasonable to expect that liberal Jews should be deferential to the conservative Chrisitianity of Middle America. But it is also unreasonable to continuously lie and subvert the interests of the latter, and not expect the latter to lash out in anger.

* Your community has moral weight, and this weight is being thrown around to support the invasion of our lands. None of the major Jewish organizations have called for an immigration moratorium, but almost all of them have called for censorship.

If a Rothschild (who runs the World Jewish Congress) called for stopping immigration, and importing PM Netanyahu’s policies to raise the birth rate for native European Christians, then it would assuage our concerns.

* “Meme magic” = White Identity Politics

Prior to the ’16 election, the GOP message was always called out by liberals as “dog whistling”, which was ineffective. The use of memes from /pol/ and others helped legitimize white identity politics via bloc voting. Without that, younger white Bernie voters from MI, WI and PA would not have shifted into the Trump column. (Trump also benefited from a gain among black males, and lower black turnout overall.)

* The power of the mainstream media is not what it once was. The number of journalists and circulations is locked into a secular decline. The censorship by the Silicon Dons is a reaction to the Overton Window shift that resulted from “meme magic”.

H. Clinton was planning on massive Islamic immigration, search the TiSA agreement, which was going to allow unlimited movement from Pakistan to the US, with other countries almost certainly added later. The number of refugees was being proposed at 1-2 millions per year.

During the run-up to the election, I posted that the first thing I would do in the event of H. Clinton stealing the election, was to form a “Conservatives for BDS” movement. I can’t be the only one to have put 2 and 2 together.

It is worth noting that most Latin American countries have minimal sympathies for Israel (pro-US Colombia is one of the exceptions). I think you are limited in imagining that anti-Jewish sentiment would remain on the left. Should even one-fifth of the right switch to an anti-Israel stance, it isn’t likely to cause the left to become more pro-Israel in response.

Note the rise Nation of Islam in the 90s under Farrakhan, the Jewish intellectuals spilled much ink on the “loss of the black-Jewish alliance”. Left-wing Zionists have a fundamental contradiction in that the most strongest supporters of Israel (right wing evangelical Protestants in the South), happen to be the most despised group in America.

You might also have not noticed the prominence of a certain Linda Sarsour.

* My guess would be the political costs of gentrification and its associated backlash. The gentrification of NYC under Giuliani and Bloomberg led to the DeBlasio backlash, and Red Billy campaigned on restraining the police (so his base could commit more crimes).

Many new development projects can be stonewalled unless enough payoffs are made and the buildings are made “mixed income”.

The bicoastal municipal pols face the choice between going full-dope on gentrification, which means the abandonment of their core egalitarian ideology. Or, they can resist it, but at the risk of becoming like Baltimore. For how long will the Silicon Dons tolerate open defecation on the streets of San Francisco?

Our bicoastal elite cities are based on exclusivity, not broad based prosperity. But, they need a monolithic underclass voting bloc to outvote the rural Republican hinterlands. That is the core contradiction that will define the politics of the next several decades.

* Google is rumored to be interested in taking over Walmart, thereby becoming a direct threat to the House of Bezos.

* Silicon Valley is still a major donor to the congressional GOP. Any attempt to get the DOJ to use antitrust and/or public accommodation law against the Silicon Dons will incur wrath from the corrupt in Congress. A mutiny among State Department bureaucrats ended the attempt to remove the sanctions on Russia. Career DOJ lawyers could easily do the same thing, with the promise of a seven figure in-house counsel position at the Big 5.

They already spent more than a billion dollars lobbying for amnesty since 2013. I’ve no doubt they can spend thirty times that much to defeat a push for regulation.

* The right needs to be working on a de-platforming of the SPLC from its “advisory” roles to the police. We also need coordinated boycotts against its leading sponsors.

* Leftists of the 20th Century Progressive Era were well aware of innate biological differences that cause racial disparities. But, they still supported socialism as a way to eliminate them. It is not hard to imagine future black radicals demanding state-funded genetic engineering to improve their circumstances.

* Just wait until WMD is unleashed in a major Western city. A military junta and internment camps will be right around the corner. A power struggle would ensue just like Erdogan/Gulen in Turkey.

* White identity politics are the foundation of this country. Even the citizenist rulers of Singapore would not allow a Malay Muslim majority.

* If the GOP returns to its trust-busting roots of the TR era, a substantial portion of the Bernie voters might be permanently realigned in partisan affiliation. We also need to invoke the environmentalist argument against immigration.

* This is a runaway train we are on right now. The traitorous GOP in Congress has openly glorified communist violence. If peaceful revolution is blocked, violent revolution is inevitable (a famous liberal once said this).

The left believed it was “this” close to wiping out the Real America with an H. Clinton regime. If they retake Congress in 2018, we are headed for war. If the right gets 60 Senators in 2018, we must implement mass deportations, a total immigration moratorium, and the defunding of all institutions of Cultural Marxism.

This is a street fight. No rules.

* Anglo policy since 1588 has been the refusal to accept a hegemon on the Continent. For good or ill, this explains nearly every single war up to the present including Brexit and the rampant “Russian interference” claims.

Germany was outcompeting Britain economically prior to 1914, the British ruling class despised them as noveau riche. Germany made two errrors, ending the Three Emperors Alliance, and embarking on a naval arms race they could not win (The UK maintained a minimal Army). Germany could have instead become the first mechanized army, as they started the auto industry, not Detroit. The 1914 invasion of France failed due to logistics failures, trucks would have solved this.

The EU is not a hard-left project, witness their insistence on privatization of state owned industries. When Greece elected a hard left government, the EU turned the screws. “Free movement of peoples” is not an inherently left/right issue. It is a globalist/nationalist issue. The USSR, and the PRC today, have something called “internal passports”.

* “Experts” can lie over and over, but unless its quite egregious, they almost never face being thrown out of their tenured sinecures.

Academia is our “deep state”, and it needs civilian control just as much as the military does.

* I also suspect a knock-on effect if white identity politics and bloc voting goes mainstream, it may generate more respect from some nonwhite voters than the WF Buckley crap of the last generation.

* The average white liberal Protestant, and white non-religious, are still less D voters than non-orthodox Jews.

Their community has achieved a tremendous amount of cultural capital in this country, and their politics on immigration has been ruinous to my community. The evidence has piled up that this was a deliberate plot of revenge, and these very legitimate grievances form the fuel of the alt-right’s fires.

They are always talking about being the “outsider” when they are the very pinnacle of the insider.

* GOP appointed justices are historically not as loyal as Dem appointed justices. The Dems haven’t had a nominee go the other way since JFK appointed Byron White.

* Like the Union Army at the 3rd day of Gettysburg, 8 Senate Dems are all that stands in the way of bringing Budapest to Washington.

* Bret is in America because he can make far more money here than he could in Israel. His politics is rooted in a deep animus against the native ethnoreligious peoples of the West. If he truly liked the Israeli way so much, he would have never left.

* The journalist is a dog that won’t go off the leash of their owners. Almost no Old Media outlets are profitable anymore, they need the ongoing largesse of globalist billionaires like Slim and Bezos among many others.

Get one journolist fired, there will be no shortage of replacements. But get one billionaire imprisoned, like Putin did to the Yukos boss, and it will be much harder to find a replacement.

* It is hard to tell where the State Department ends, and Soros begins. The Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations are also major players for over a century.

* With whites, we have a partisan spectrum of Liberals/Moderates/Conservatives, with blacks you have Extremists/Socialists/Blue Dogs/Self-hating.

Extremists-Louis Farrakhan, Communists, the leaders of Black Lives Matter, etc. They despise great amounts of black mainstream culture, are frequently overeducated and homosexual. Julius Malema in South Africa is a good parallel.

Socialists-Most black politicians are here, TNC is a good example, he pretends to be the first group, but he is a mainstream grifter. Not the Bernie Sanders “democratic socialists”, they are the old undemocratic ones, but are hitchiking on the Democrats to deliver largesse. The ANC in South Africa is what they’d look like if they had power.

Blue Dogs-Basically this is the largest group, but no longer a majority, of black opinion. They don’t really organize as this group, and stupidly follow the Socialists.

Self-Hating- The 10% or so of blacks that vote Republican because they don’t like black culture. They have almost no ability to attract followers on the basis of shared social conservatism because they support slashing the government (a disproportionate employer of blacks).

* DACA proves more popular than refugees. Its evidence of an elaborate con game. Somehow “children” are not “illegals”, but while some are clueing into “refugees” meaning “terrorists”, no one has remembered that refugees are supposed to be temporary, they were supposed to return to their home nations when the wars were over.

* Much of evangelical preaching style is a direct influence from the black church. Neither group wants to acknowledge such influence.

After Prohibition was repealed, what we call the “Religious Right” was almost entirely inactive in politics. When they returned in the 1970s, supporting Jimmy Carter, their style was influenced by MLK and the SCLC. Jesse Jackson even used to be a social conservative.

Most of the socon movement has been trying for years to pander to blacks, they only criticize certain black pop culture figures like JayZ, who incedentally despise Christianity.

Blacks have no real “guilt” concept, as their culture is shame-based. The only kind of guilt you see is amongst middle class blacks that feel they aren’t doing enough for the “struggle”.

* From the liberal POV, seemingly random terrorist attacks are acceptable losses rather the presumed tens of millions of deaths that would happen if anti-immigration (literally Hitler) policies were enacted.

Islamists have never pulled off a WMD attack resulting in Somme level death tolls, there are no shortage of people that will not reconsider their views until a major Black Swan happens.

* The battle was lost back in 1914, when Edward Grey signed the British Empire’s execution warrant.

* Liberals fear the far-right to a much greater degree than they fear Islamist terrorism.

The great project of our elites, the Kalergi Plan of demographic displacement, must not be allowed to be stopped by mere voters.

* Alerting people that Islam is bad isn’t enough, a compelling counter must be created, which explains the whole pan-European paganism ‘revival’.

Bin Laden was always wanting to target the ‘far enemy’ of the West, and then go after the ‘near enemy’ of Arab monarchies and secular dictators. ISIS is the reversal of that position, which is why they split.

For us, the Muslim horde is the far enemy. The near enemy is the corporate elite that are running the invade/invite paradigm. We should pay more attention to stopping the ongoing ‘refugee resettlement’ and give Russian an equal share in being the Middle East hegemon.

* BLM owes its origins to NBC doctoring the Zimmerman 911 call, and the Democrats noticed how black turnout spiked in 2012, especially amongst middle-aged women. A logical progression might be the solution to their chronic midterm turnout deficits.

The Democrats weren’t able to run the “War on Women” narrative in ’16, which we can credit to the prominent presence of Ivanka. (Romney should have relied on one of his daughters-in-law, his sons were a PR disaster)

The Russia angle is smarter than it looks to us. Most mainstream conservatives have a residual Cold War dislike of Russia, and neocons tribally hate it. It’s a good way to split the GOP camp, and it unifies the D base by creating a far more compelling social conservative threat than could ever have been envisaged by Pat Robertson &co.

And if (when) they come up with nothing, the Dems have easy rebuttal by referring to the Benghazi hearings.

There aren’t enough of Russian descent in America* to create an ethnic lobby, but the Russians could buy the existing Armenian/Irish lobbyists, and split the Jewish lobby by creating a American cousin to Avigdor Lieberman’s Russian-speaker party in Israel. That is the only long term way they can head this off.

*A larger number of this are “Old Believers” that don’t get along with the Russian Orthodox Church.

* Blacks are allowed, arguably encouraged (note the commemoration of James Baldwin), to despise YT. The only time it stops is when there is a backlash that imperils the electoral fortunes of the Democrats. That’s why you aren’t hearing about BLM anymore. Soros lost confidence in them.

* The major papers of this country haven’t been profitable for years, since Craigslist came along and wiped out classified advertising. But the uber-wealthy, like Buffet, Slim and Bezos, need to keep journalists on the payroll to curry favor in the corridors of power. And unlike lobbying, losing money in news media is tax deductible.

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What Is Wrong With The Third World? An Indian Perspective

Jayant Bhandari writes:

For those who have not traveled and immersed themselves in formerly colonized countries, it is hard to understand that although there was piping for water and sewage in Roman days, it still isn’t available for a very large segment of the world’s population. The wheel has existed for more than 5,000 years, but a very large number of people continue to carry water in pots on their heads.

There are easily a billion or more people today, who have no concept of either the pipe or the wheel, even if they went to school. It is not the absence of technology or money that is stopping these people from starting to use some basic forms of technology. It is something else.

Sir Winston Churchill, the war-time Prime Minister of Britain, talking about the future of Palestine said:

“I do not admit… that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race… has come in and taken their place.”

On Islam, he said:

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist…”

Talking about India he famously said:

“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

A remark often attributed to Churchill, although this remains unverified, has certainly stood the test of time so far.

“If independence is granted to India, power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low caliber and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day will come when even air and water will be taxed in India.”

Europeans of that time clearly knew that there was something fundamentally different between the West and the rest, and that the colonies would not survive without the pillars and the cement European management provided.

With the rise of political correctness this wisdom was erased from our common understanding – but it is something that may well return to haunt us in the near future, as the third world fails to fulfill expectations, while people who immigrate to Europe, Canada, Australia and the US from there fail to assimilate.

The Missing Underpinnings: Reason And All That Depends On It

Until now, the hope among people in the World Bank, the IMF, and other armchair intellectuals was that once the correct incentives were in place and institutions were organized, these structures imposed from on high would put the third world on a path to perpetual growth. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

The cart has been put in front of the horse. It is institutions that emerge from the underlying culture, not the other way around. And cultural change is a process taking millennia, perhaps even longer. As soon as Europeans quit their colonies, the institutional structures they left started to crumble.

Alas, it takes a Ph.D. from an Ivy League college and a quarter of a million dollar salary at the World Bank or the IMF to not understand what the key issue with development economics and institutional failures is: the missing ingredient in the third world was and is the concept of objective, impartial reason – the basis of laws and institutions that protect individual rights.

This concept of reason took 2,500 years to develop and get infused into the culture, memes, and genes of Europeans — a difficult process that, even in Europe, was never fully completed. European institutions were at their root products of this concept.

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The Summer Of Monumental Madness

Robert Weissberg writes:

I’m sure, but let me add a less obvious but ultimately more important hypothesis: the sudden hysteria is a result of decades of pent up exasperation over failure at achieving racial equality. In a nutshell, for at least a half-century, perhaps longer, America has struggled with its “race problem” and while proposed solutions exceed dozens, and expenditures in the trillions, progress has been scant. In fact, on at least some indicators, for example, illegitimacy and crime, race-related matters where better off in the 1950s. Not even electing a black President has cured America’s race strife despite all the assurances that Obama would be a “post-racial” President that would, once and for all, bring everybody together. What we have gotten for all our efforts is Black Lives Matter and yet even more black condemnation of whites.

This accumulated frustration can be likened to a situation where a patient with a grim prognosis grows ever more desperate as one standard treatment after the next fails to reverse the illness. These frantic patients often gravitate to quacks despite the low odds of a cure. Nevertheless, the very act of visiting a faith healer or drinking a magical herbal concoction outshines passivity. And who knows, the world abounds with testimonials to quack cures and “doing something” calms the despair.

Think of the Monumental Madness as social engineering quackery—it probably will accomplish little if anything but it feels better than doing nothing. What encourages this desperate quest for today’s “miracle” is that so many past solutions, at least according to all the learned experts, were “guaranteed” to perform as advertised and all failed. Recall when the surefire cure was improved education—ending segregation, equalizing school expenditures, hiring more black teachers and administrators, altering textbooks to make it more relevant to black youngsters, intensive pre-school (Head Start, Sesame Street) and, more recently, eradicating unconscious teacher bias and no longer disproportionately disciplining blacks. We’ve had Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Obama’s Race to the Top and countless other expensive remedies.

A similar guaranteed cure was political empowerment, that is, the Department of Justice would ensure that blacks would live in cities run by black elected officials and self-government would cure everything from crime to joblessness. The upshot, of course, have been urban disasters like Detroit and Selma, AL. And let’s not forget tough anti-discrimination laws that would ban employers from using racist job descriptions, and affirmative action programs that would temporarily give a leg up to those who began the race a few steps behind.

All and all, genuine successes are rare, typically only cosmetic, and if there were a Museum of Failed Cures for America’s Racial Problems, it would be the size of Washington’s Smithsonian.

In other words, by the summer of 2017, the frustration over repeated failures plus the lack of any more “guaranteed” solutions on the agenda had created a perfect setting for quackery. Now, as with all serious but likely intractable problems, the marketplace supplies something to meet these needs, and to continue our parallel with those suffering from incurable cancer, taking down statutes of Confederate soldiers or re-naming buildings is the equivalent of using Laetrile among countless other bogus cures. Yes, there is no scientific evidence that past crusade against “hate” has even helped African Americans, but given the sorry record of past efforts, why not give it a try? Hard to resist anything that feels so good.

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Parasha Ki Tavo

This week’s Torah portion covers Deuteronomy 26:1–29:8. Listen here.

* The eternal lament of my goy cohosts: “I should have been more prepared.” I’m amazed when they simply show up sober.

* The Puritans who came to America saw themselves as following in the footsteps of the Israelites.

* 26: “When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it…Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. 6 But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor. 7 Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression. 8 So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. 9 He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey; 10 and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, Lord, have given me.”

In this ritual, there’s the recapitulation of suffering at the hands of the goyim and then rejoicing that Jews have their own state. Any group can do this. They can remember their suffering at the hands of outsiders, and then rejoin at their autonomy. All victimologies contain a nationalism and all nationalisms contain the capacity for genocide. Imagine if white America regain controlled of their nation. They could recount the thousands of white victims raped and murdered by blacks, they could remember how vast swathes of the land they created became unfriendly to them, they could remember how low IQ immigrants debased everything they touched, they could remember how high IQ non-white immigrants ruled over them, they could remember the trillions of dollars of tax dollars transferred from whites to help low-achieving black and latinos, and they could rejoice that things have changed.

* 27:14 The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

15 “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

16 “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

18 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

20 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

21 “Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

22 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

23 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

24 “Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

25 “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

26 “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

* KC writes: “Sorry I can’t join today. Boy, Deuteronomy 28 is a light unto the gentiles… My contribution would be to ask what is more likely: that Hashem sees American Jews as keeping the law and staying faithful, or that’s he sees them as idol worshippers under the spell of another culture? If the latter, we can expect destruction very soon, a reversal of power & servitude… I hope that doesn’t happen because I’m cheering for the Jews.”

If a goy wrote these curses, they’d be called anti-semitic. Which anti-semites in history were more anti-semitic than the Torah?

28:15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

* This seems to be the position of many whites in the West today: “You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.” Women want a strong man. They’re sexually attracted to refugees who seem stronger than the domestic men they’ve known.

* Most of the curses in Deut. 28 seem like the consequences of multiculturalism. There’s confusion, attrition and worry. There will be strange diseases. “The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.”

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