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‘Import The Third World and You ARE The Third World.’

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the New York Post:

Variety of mutilated animals found strewn in city parks
By Aaron Short September 6, 2015 | 3:18am
There’s magic in New York City’s parks — black magic.
More than a dozen mutilated animals have been discovered in the past 18 months, apparent victims of ritual sacrifice, records show.
New Yorkers found four severed goat heads, scores of mutilated chickens and other birds, three butchered pigs and a calf’s head, according to 311 complaint data.
The Fort George Playground in Highbridge Park in upper Manhattan was fouled by a particularly gruesome animal mutilation in January 2014 — a goat head “pinned up on one of the trees” and the body “wrapped in a red sheet and on the ground,” a 311 caller reported.
Goat heads were twice found in another kiddie park, the Lincoln Road Playground inside Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
In the same park, a passer-by noticed a dead duck and two decapitated doves placed “in possibly some sort of ritual” near a statue of Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair in June 2014.
“The bodies are forming a ring and the heads are very close to this ring,” the caller reported. …
Parks officials could not say if the animals were butchered in the public spaces or dumped, but acknowledged some could have been used in religious rituals.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Rotting entrails: this is what vibrancy smells like.

* I think Haitians could make a good case for religious discrimination. Since NYC permits Jews to do their ritual chicken choking ceremonies (Kapparot) right out on the streets of Brooklyn, where does the city get off telling Haitians they can’t sacrifice small animals, too?

* Rather than butchering animals at random locations, maybe we could offer Haitians and other Caribbeans some nice ritual sacrifice area off in some corner of the park.

Add some faucets, hoses and storm drains. Maybe an altar, stone carving of Baphomet, something like that. It would satisfy the Haitian religious desires, with the added advantage of being easy to hose down and clean up. Add a dumpster for carcasses and leftover body parts.

Put it on the park maps so Non-Pagan Americans (NPAs) would know what areas of the park to avoid. Alternatively, if NPAs wanted to watch they would know exactly where to go. Heck, it could become quite a tourist attraction: frenzied, ecstatic dancing in animal skins, painted bodies, native drumming, etc.

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The Underearning Mentality

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Over the past couple of months, I have been listening to about a hundred free Underearners Anonymous lectures on this unofficial website and Dropbox account.

In lecture 68, Jeff in LA says he’s been in the program for two years. He’s a writer in his 30s.

Here are some highlights:

* I knew I was uncomfortable asking for money, but I didn’t understand the disease. In my childhood, I was wounded… In my 30s, I had a small life. I couldn’t build a career. I wasn’t able to have a relationship. I was lonely. I’ve learned that underearning is cave dwellers disease. It’s an addiction to the cave. As an under-earner, I’m scared to get out into the world with the healthy animals because I’m wounded and bleeding. I keep my life small so I don’t have to do that.

Recovery is about going into those wounds and seeing that they are a conversation that came out of childhood. My disease manifested in my life as a sapping of vitality towards my vision and an inability to take the right steps to get larger. As I got older, I saw friends getting married, friends getting promotions and I couldn’t get off the ground. I had these fears and resentments that would sap the energy in my life.

I would attract toxic bosses and dysfunctional work situations. I was always sabotaging myself…

The tools of UA don’t amount to much unless I really work the 12 Steps. Unless I can establish a spiritual foundation and look at my fears, resentments, guilt and remorse… I’ve gotten clear on my childhood wounds that keep me from taking steps towards visibility.

Before the program, my life was about looking good. How can I fix my problems? How can I get my career to a place where I feel OK. In recovery, it is the opposite. When I get scared about work or my vision, I know that is my disease and I know I need to throw myself deeper in the program.

Symptoms of Underearning

1. Time Indifference – We put off what must be done and do not use our time to support our own vision and further our own goals.

2. Idea Deflection –We compulsively reject ideas that could expand our lives or careers, and increase our profitability.

3. Compulsive Need to Prove – Although we have demonstrated competence in our jobs or business, we are driven by a need to re-prove our worth and value.

4. Clinging to Useless Possessions – We hold onto possessions that no longer serve our needs, such as threadbare clothing or broken appliances.

5. Exertion/Exhaustion – We habitually overwork, become exhausted, then under-work or cease work completely.

6. Giving Away Our Time – We compulsively volunteer for various causes, or give away our services without charge, when there is no clear benefit.

7. Undervaluing and Under-pricing – We undervalue our abilities and services and fear asking for increases in compensation or for what the market will bear.

8. Isolation – We choose to work alone when it might serve us much better to have co-workers, associates, or employees.

9. Physical Ailments – Sometimes, out of fear of being larger or exposed, we experience physical ailments.

10. Misplaced Guilt or Shame – We feel uneasy when asking for or being given what we need or what we are owed.

11. Not Following Up – We do not follow up on opportunities, leads, or jobs that could be profitable. We begin many projects and tasks but often do not complete them.

12. Stability Boredom – We create unnecessary conflict with co-workers, supervisors and clients, generating problems that result in financial distress.

In talk 69, Mike says: Every time I chased the money problem, I got sicker. Every time I chased recovery, I made more money. There is no linear path to the money. The money comes as a result of you being a healthier human being. The problem for the under-earner is that he can’t develop intimacy with others because he is out of touch with himself and God. The program will give you tools to fix your relationship with yourself and with God.

UA has made me feel whole. I’m not scared of people anymore. I can sit with relationships.

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The Fear Inventory

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Here are some of my notes from HerbK’s Tuesday night 12-step workshop:

* When we wrote out our fourth column (where were we to blame in our conflicts with others) in the Fourth Step, we had the experience of feeling the damage we have done to other people around us.

* Do I take on other people’s fears? Understanding the base of my fears will reduce my fears. Am I praying daily for removal of my needless fear and resentment? Prager can be a great way of procrastinating.

* Anger and resentment are about the past. Fear is about the future. They all prevent us from living in the present. Going to 12-step meetings and doing 12-step work is energizing because it brings you into the present.

* My greatest fear is that I haven’t lived, that I haven’t used my gifts. Step one is about admitting powerlessness. It lasts four months in this workshop. Step four is evidence of my powerlessness in writing.

* If I am having consistent problems with women and with bosses, it is not the women and the bosses.

* What would my life look like if I didn’t have this fear?

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I Grew Up Seventh-Day Adventist In Australia At Avondale College

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

With a young Russell Crowe:

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Jews & Power

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jeff the Jew* emails: Dear Luke,

You really have been posting up a storm since Shabbat ended.

I do think that you are in error about Jewish history. Jews have not always for 2600 years been a reviled minority. After Christ but before Constantine, Judaism was widespread throughout the Roman world. Jews were not discriminated against. It was only with the widespread adoption of Christianity (which many of the Jews also embraced) that Jews began to be mistreated. With the rise of Islam, although Jews were driven from Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, Jews continued their places of prominence without discrimination (despite efforts today to suggest that the Jews were reduced to dhimmitude) in such places as Tehran, Bagdad, Damascus, Alexandria and Jerusalem. Furthermore as Islam spread to conquer much of Iberia, Jews were a very large minority and were not discriminated against throughout the Iberian Peninsula. It was only when Ferdinand and Isabella (Los Reyes Catolicos) drove the Moors from Spain and then expelled the Jews who wouldn’t convert and then instituted the inquisition that Jews first faced discrimination. The Jews that emigrated to Turkish held areas (such as Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and Rhodes) and North Africa, in particular Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt had no problems, until WWII and after.

The problem is that much of the Jewish perspective is based on anti Semitism in Western Europe (as you know from Albert S. Lindeman’s work) which didn’t really materialize until the mid 17th century. Even then Napoleon welcomed them and unlocked the ghettos at the beginning of the 19th Century. People look at the expulsion of the Jews from England, the Dreyfus affair, pogroms under the Tsar, and the rise of the Nazis as things that can be tied together as some sort of overarching anti semitic strain from Gentiles towards Jews in their midst.

The fact is that Jews probably had a higher standard of living than Russian or Polish peasants, despite being confined to the Pale of the Settlement. Within the Pale, Jews were not a minority, at least not in certain areas. When you read the memoirs of Czeslaw Milocz who was born in Vilna, Lithuania in 1911, you will see that the population was almost equally divided among Jews, Poles, and Lithuanians with a smattering of Ukranians. As you know Vilna was the capital of Jewish learning, the center of Haskalah (as opposed to the ignorant Hasids) and the home of Litvaks (as opposed to the cruder, earthier Galitzianers).

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Stepping Back Into Church

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’m a preacher’s kid. I grew up in Seventh-Day Adventist churches. Then I left all that at age 18 and became an atheist for a few years and then converted to Orthodox Judaism.

For the past four years, I’ve been going to various 12-step programs dealing with emotional addictions and many of them meet in churches.

Stepping back into a church makes me feel, at times, as though my whole Jewish journey was pointless. I must have done it wrong.

I grew up in church. Church feels so familiar to me. It is disturbing to be back in church.

A major reason I converted to Judaism was to get my wild destructive impulses under control. That didn’t work. I had to enter a 12-step program for that.

So now I’m back in church, looking for help for my character defects that block me from the sunlight of the spirit. Perhaps if I had done my Judaism more properly I wouldn’t need to be back in church. Something is terribly wrong.

I went on this great big journey to Orthodox Judaism and here I am.

What’s that quote from the Father Brown detective story “The Queer Feet“? “I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.”

I admit that for the first part of my journey into Judaism, I felt superior to my benighted Christian friends and family from childhood. Then I made such a big mess of things that I had go give up that illusion. Now I’m back in church and I’m shattered. Will they say I’m shattered at the foot of the Cross? Oy vey! What will the Jews think?

We talk in 12-step programs about doing a “geographic,” meaning to move to a new place, hoping that will fix your addiction. It doesn’t work.

I didn’t just do geographics for my addictions, I also did a massive religious change, and it made no difference to my addictions and to my fundamental character defects that block me from God, from other people, and from my best self. Only 12-step work, with meetings often held in a church basement or library or rec room, has done the trick, somewhat, a day at a time.

I’ve always looked for the easy way out but that rarely works.

It’s sobering to be back in church. It’s humbling. It’s shattering. I alienated myself from family and friends! I gave up everything to make Orthodox Judaism my life and here I am, despite my best efforts, I’m back in church. My own best thinking got me here. My own best efforts simply returned me to the starting line.

A life run on self-will doesn’t work. External changes may not shift your heart. You can’t run from who you are.

It’s a bit like going back to Australia where all the people I grew up with have created much better lives than I did — they’ve all married and have kids, own homes, have saved for retirement. If I had never left Australia at age 18, I probably would never have destroyed my health at 21 and spent the next six years in bed. I was making more money per hour cleaning a shopping center in Boyne Island, QLD, at age 18 than I make now. Australia is the best place in the world to be an average bloke but I couldn’t be satisfied with being an average bloke. I reached for the prize and fell here.

I have to face that I am delusional. I swing between delusions. I substitute one delusion for another. Everything I have sacrificed for, devoted myself to, has simply revealed new delusions in my thinking. I march from failure to failure.

My life would have been easier and more productive if I hadn’t been so enraged and rebellious.

This feeling of self-annihilation isn’t horrible. It gives me some peace.

I feel like the Australian diggers preparing — to the tune of Albinoni’s Adagio — to run into Turkish machine gun fire at the end of the 1981 Mel Gibson movie Gallipoli.

What are your legs?
Springs. Steel springs.
What are they going to do?
Hurl me down the track.
How fast can you run?
As fast as a leopard.
How fast are you going to run?
As fast as a leopard!
Then let’s see you do it!

PS. I was looking forward this afternoon to having a good wallow with my feelings of loss and unlovability, but I got interrupted by my weekly Skype call with my brother and now I feel too chipper to wallow to sufficient depth. If I were to try to wallow right now, I don’t think I’d feel my darkness with sufficient hopelessness, but that’s not going to stop me from trying.

PPS. Chaim Amalek: “I mean you no offense or hurt, but at this stage in your life, being an average bloke would be a huge, vast step up in life for you. You really should rethink your sojourn in America.”

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What Does Sports Mean To Me?

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Luke: “Jarryd Hayne is doing amazing.”
Therapist: “What does that mean to you?”
Luke: “Nothing. It’s just a distraction from the misery of my life.”

* Luke: “I’m feeling unloved.”
Therapist: “What about other people? Do you love anyone?”
Luke: “Whoa.”

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The Goy’s Dilemma

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Goy: “I had lunch last week with a friend of mine, our resident faculty cuckservative in Political Science. Like, his hero is George Will. I managed to hold the line a little, to call him out when he tried to get me to laugh at how much of a blow-hard Trump is. Or, to ask him why Syrian refugees aren’t heading for China? I even said I think “culture is more important than policy,” which was code for “race is determinative.” But you should’ve been there: it was like he couldn’t understand me. But here’s the key: he showed no signs of second guessing himself or his very measured opinion that Kasich is better than Bush, but Jeb is better than Hillary (who cares!?). So… I couldn’t take my questions to the next level. How are we–and here I’m addressing you recessive blue eye gene–bring this rhetoric up to a level where it’s “speakable?” If I say what I think, I probably risk losing my job. So I don’t. That’s doom, right? What a jam we’re in! If the nominal “conservative” faculty member won’t or can’t see that Europe is being invaded and America is probably next, I mean… How will this idea gain influence? Did you see Jonah Goldberg’s break up letter to Trump supporters? The conservative goyish intelligentsia sound exactly like him. And don’t show this to Chaim. I don’t care what he thinks.”

“Haha I assume you’re saving all these exchanges and won’t do anything with them unless I some day come close enough to having meaningful public influence. It’s one thing to say to my cuckservative Poly Sci faculty that Germans shouldn’t have to shoulder more of this than the Saudis… But it’s another level to try to get him to read KM’s CoC. That would shock him. I bet he wouldn’t even try it, and I bet he’d soon try to wiggle out of our friendship.”

Luke: If you are ever caught, just say you were trying to understand how bigots think. One possible opening is to say, “I’m really disturbed by what I’m reading in this book…”

Or, “I was just trying to better understand the enemy so we can fight him more effectively.” It’s like stroking a guy’s leg to see if he’s a poofter.

Goy: Yes exactly. I love that trick. “Gee, gosh, what are we decent citizens supposed to say to these claims that there’s a white genocide taking place before our eyes?”

What we need is water-cooler nationalism.

People will never understand anything when their job depends upon not understanding.

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The Settler: A Chat With Orit Arfa

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Varda Epstein writes: It’s ten years since Israel, under late prime minister Ariel Sharon, expelled over 11,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and parts of Samaria. The government called this plan the “Disengagement.” But for those forcibly ejected from their homes (and their supporters), the Disengagement will forever be known as the “Expulsion.”

More than 11,000 rockets have been shot into Israel from Gaza, since that time, more than one rocket per every Jew expelled as a result of Sharon’s unilateral gesture of peace. By all accounts, “Disengagement” is an absolute, and utter failure, proving the point that “Land for Peace” is a nonsensical idea that does not work. Not to mention the fact that over 300 Jews are still homeless as the result of the Disengagement/Expulsion, with no solution in sight.

It is rare to read or hear about the 11,000 expellees; but now, ten years on, Orit Arfa has written a work of historical fiction cum romance that makes Disengagement/Expulsion come alive for the reader. Arfa’s writing voice is bright and sassy, much like the book’s heroine, Sarah, AKA “Shachar” Dakar. For the first time, we have an English language depiction of what it is like to be a Jew being thrown out of her home by Jews in the Jewish State.

Youtube Published on Aug 10, 2015:

In August 2005, author, journalist and singer-songwriter Orit Arfa experienced an event that changed her life. She witnessed the forced evacuation of 9,000 Jews from theirs home in Gaza, by their own army, in what is known as the “Disengagement.” Political opinions swirled around the event, but for Orit, what hurt most was the heartbreak and suffering inflicted on these good people, and the lack of empathy people felt towards their loss.

She set out to write a novel, “The Settler”, about the crisis of faith this event triggered among the youth – a novel about love, about the search for one’s self, and ultimately about the power of music.

Throughout “The Settler”, the heroine discovers the healing power of music, and writes “Home (Lives in My Song)” to share her loss, and her certainty that her home will never die. This is the first single to be released off the upcoming album inspired by this musical novel.

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Cries About Israel, Backs Iran Deal

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

REPORT:

The head of the Democratic Party, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., choked up while discussing her “gut wrenching” decision to vote in favor of the Iran nuclear deal.
“There’s nothing that’s more important to me, as a Jew, than to ensure Israel’s existence is there throughout our generations,” she said Sunday, choking back tears. Wasserman Schultz announced her vote for the deal, which will ease economic sanctions in return for Iran scaling back its nuclear program, on CNN’s “State of the Union” and in an op-ed for the Miami Herald.
Holding back tears, Wasserman Schultz said that in her op-ed, she talks about her “Jewish heart and how important this [decision] was to me … as a Jewish mother.”
“In weighing everything, all the information, I’ve concluded the best thing to do is vote in support of the Iran deal and put Iran years away from being a nuclear state,” she said

A goy friend says: “Debbie wasserman Schultz just cried (!) expressing her love for Israel on a CNN interview with Jake Tapper. Can’t recall ever hearing her cry while expressing her love for America.”

Tribes have a different relationship than Anglos do to the nation state.

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