The Leviathan in Job

Posted May 16, 2025 By John C Wright

Part of an ongoing conversion:

I believe the main point in the Book of Job is stated explicitly: piety is not a calculation of self interest. The Accuser is given permission to vex Job with all fashion of evils, because the accusation is that Job is pious only because it benefits him.

All worldly goods (including children) are taken away. Job does not curse God and die.

His three so called friends console him by saying it is his fault when both he, and the poet, know explicitly it is not his fault. So much is clear.

The ending, however, is a mystery.

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 20: Reality

Posted May 14, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep. 20: Reality

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Live From The Bunker 832: Finding New Franchises – The Superversive Era

Yours truly and the inestimable Richard Paolinelli discuss the future of the future, our current book projects, what went wrong with STAR WARS what is right with STARQUEST and many other topics both shallow and profound.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXII

Posted May 13, 2025 By John C Wright

The United States is drastically overregulated.  The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can possibly read, let alone fully understand.  Worse, many carry potential criminal penalties for violations.  The situation has become so dire that no one -– likely including those charged with enforcing our criminal laws at the Department of Justice — knows how many separate criminal offenses are contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, with at least one source estimating hundreds of thousands of such crimes.  Many of these regulatory crimes are “strict liability” offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime.

This status quo is absurd and unjust.  It allows the executive branch to write the law, in addition to executing it.  That situation can lend itself to abuse and weaponization by providing Government officials tools to target unwitting individuals.  It privileges large corporations, which can afford to hire expensive legal teams to navigate complex regulatory schemes and fence out new market entrants, over average Americans.  

The purpose of this order is to ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for violating a regulation they have no reason to know exists.

My Comment: Let me repeat another man’s comment instead. This is Mr. Chris Bray:

https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/big-trump-action-goes-mostly-unnoticed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tzyp2&triedRedirect=true

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Young Danger Girls in Love

Posted May 12, 2025 By John C Wright

I ran a role playing game once set in a superhero background, and I wanted a system more rough and ready than the role playing games then commercially available.

Such rough and ready systems rely on the moderator’s discretion more than might be wise for a commercial system, but my players trusted me to be fair. If offer this to any interested fan of the genre, merely to show one way of inventing quick but playable characters.

For some reason, all the players, male and female both, wanted to play females, and insisted on Spider-Men levels of soap opera romance in the play, so I built that into the rules.

It was meant to be more of a game of intrigue, conspiracies and puzzles, so the actual power level of the supers was less important than how clever they were at talking to the NPCs, and ferreting our clues.

The game started with the players having agreed to join a special teen investigation squad of the Justice League, run by The Question, with Batgirl and Booster Gold as his lieutenants.

(Booster Gold, in my background, is 25th Century the remote descendant of John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom. Batgirl was the granddaughter of Flash Gordon, who is not on Earth, but is still alive. Steve Rogers was the son of Anthony ‘Buck’ Rogers, who disappeared in a mine cave-in in the 1930s.)

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Epistle to Ansgar: Letter 16 (The Problem of Pain)

Posted May 12, 2025 By John C Wright

04 May 2025 AD
Feast Day of St John Paine

Dear Godson,

In prior letters we examined reasons for our faith in the Lord. Let us now examine reasons for doubt, and, if possible how to answer or assuage such doubts. Let us start with the hardest question of all: the Problem of Pain.

Today is the feast day of Saint John Payne, and so perhaps apt for the topic.

Today is also the feast day for the Forty Martyrs of England, among whom St John Payne is numbered. While hiding in estate of the widowed Lady Petre, he was denounced by John “Judas” Eliot (a rapist, murderer, and thief who made a career out of denouncing Catholics for bounty), who falsely accused him of conspiring to murder Queen Elizabeth. After perjured testimony and a preordained verdict, Payne was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London for nine months, and finally condemned, hanged, drawn, and quartered. He never renounced his Catholic faith.

The histories of secular kings and conquerors boast of their victories, of armies routed, cities burned, lands looted. Our history of sacred martyrs boast instead of mild submission to those  betrayals, torments, executions, and deaths, which never separated the saints we venerate from the love of God. It is an attestation of the impossible power of the Lord.

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Christ and Self

Posted May 9, 2025 By John C Wright

I saw a list of short testimonies by souls who had converted or reverted to Catholicism. This one stood out to me, by a man named Michael:

I came from Buddhism family. Buddhism is almost entirely individualistic. For example, I’m deaf. In Buddhistic thinking, my deafness’ the result of my punishment from my bad karma. I must have done evil things in my previous life to become deaf in this current life.

But in Catholicism, my deafness’ not the result of the sin (John 9:1-3). God made me deaf so that the works of God’s power might be displayed through me. So I realize that it’s the gift of my cross that Jesus gave me in my birth, and called me to follow Him. So the world knows that I’m His disciple.

Another one is individuality. In Buddhism, I’m Michael here in this life. If I die, I may be reborn as another person with different name, or animal or even bug (imagine being reborn as dung beetle that eats feces). In short, I don’t have individuality and buddha can’t save or help me. He just left his teachings and said, “It’s your problem. But it’s just temporary. Just meditate on my teachings, and it will go away.”

But in Catholicism, God made me who I am. I’m still Michael after death. I’m still Michael when I go to Heaven and unite with God. I’m still Michael after resurrection.

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 19: The Truth

Posted May 7, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep.19: The Truth

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The Rule of Names

Posted May 6, 2025 By John C Wright

A reader with the cautious by luminous name of Check Light is discussing the Left, and observes: “Sudden thought: their use of this lying magic means that they are witches.”

As a child, I read the book A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA. The author, Le Guin, daughter of an anthropologist, was well aware of primitive tribal lore holding that a witchdoctor who knew the true name of a man held power to curse that man, and so the custom was to hide the true name. In Le Guin’s fantasy rules of magic, to change the name of a thing changed the thing, transmogrified it, and a prince turned into a frog. It is called the Rule of True Names.

Leftists routinely act as if changing the name of a thing changes the thing itself. Calling sodomy “gay” or pedophilia “minor-attracted” suddenly makes sexual perversion a matter of personal taste, like preferring blondes to brunettes. Likewise when they coin new terms to make normal and decent things sound horrid and indecent: heteronormative, capitalist, reactionary to refer to romance, free trade.

So, yes, the Leftists are witches.

Specifically, they follow the Esoteric tradition of Hegel, Boehme, the Theosophists, Gnostics, and so on.

They differ from other esoteric by being a secular version.

The Left are materialist magicians who worship the powers of Libido, History, and Evolution without calling these Powers and Principalities by their right names: Ashtaroth, Moloch, Baal.

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Key to the Left

Posted May 5, 2025 By John C Wright

The sad thing is that the thought-experiment of asking how a Leftist, if being consistent with his worldview, would frame an argument is that modern Leftists abandoned any pretense of having a worldview during the Obama administration.

In debate, a Leftist will say and unsay that same thing and its opposite in the space of a sentence. In quarrels between various factions of their hierarchy of oppression, as when a lesbian trans-men quarrels with a crippled Muslim, the only constant factor deciding which policies they support or oppose is this: The Left will support whatever causes the most harm to Christian civilization and likewise will oppose whatever most is needed to help it: whatever most degrades the social fabric, whatever spreads vulgarity and ugliness, whatever promotes vice and crime),.

During Obama’s years, socialist plutocrats sided with totalitarian anarchists and atheist jihadis. Leftist peace protestors supported the military industrial complex scheme of endless pointless wars in the Middle East, with the USA funding both sides. Leftist Free Speech absolutists supported Orwellian censorship and cancel culture. Occupy Wall Street sided with Wall Street. Antiracists preached racism.

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Age of Benightenment

Posted May 4, 2025 By John C Wright

‘Nothing comes from nothing’ is an axiom without which scientific reasoning, or any reasoning, is impossible.

If entropy is irreversible, the cosmos has an origin point: the Big Bang.

The options are:

  1. Creation came from nothing for no cause.
    or
  2. Creation was created by the Creator.

Option one violates the axiom of all reason.

The only counterargument I know is from Stephen Hawking, who speculates that time and space both come into existence at the Big Bang, and therefore there is no “before” before creation, any more than there is “further north” from the North Pole. This argument, however, merely produces the same problem at one remove.

If no natural event can “cause” time to begin on the grounds that cause and effect only exist within time, the only options are:

  1. Creation came from nothing for no cause.
    or
  2. Creation came from nothing for no natural cause; therefore the cause was supernatural.

And this all men know to be God.

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Reviewer Praise for SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY

Posted May 4, 2025 By John C Wright

Our own Declan Finn posts a review of STARQUEST volume II: SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY.

Read here.

Cue John Williams music…

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Argument from Argumentation

Posted May 3, 2025 By John C Wright

“Prove God exists”

To prove a proposition means to provide evidence in logical sequence sufficient to convince a rational judge freely to assent to the truth of the proposition.

This is impossible in a cosmos without free will. All things in nature are determined by necessity. Therefore free will is supernatural.

All natural biological process are determined by mechanical molecular motions, including brain processes. Therefore rational thought is supernatural.

Rational thought operates by laws of logic, which are purely formal, and exist without duration, location or extension. All things in nature have duration, location, extension. Therefore the laws of logic are supernatural.

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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCXXXI

Posted May 2, 2025 By John C Wright

I would have voted and supported Trump just for this, regardless of the two hundred thirty some odd other triumphs listed in these columns. No more of my tax money to pay NPR and PBS to lie their filthy and insupportable lies.

How long I have dreamed of this day I cannot now recall. I first grew aware of the abominable bias of NPR and PBS in 1990

I here quote the White House Press release in full. I note the White House does not hesitate to use the word “Trash” were needed.


 

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The Golden Transcendence Ep. 18: Fire and Death

Posted April 30, 2025 By John C Wright

From THE GOLDEN TRANSCENDENCE, vol. III of my debut trilogy.

In the far future, the Golden Oecumene has elevated the immortals of the solar system to untrammeled triumphs of abundance, liberty, and splendor. But, hidden by masquerade, a sinister threat arises from the dark star Cygnus X1, man’s sole exosolar colony, the long-lost Silent Oecumene.

Phaethon of Rhadamanth, bedeviled and beguiled by agents of the Lords of the Silent Oecumene, returns from exile to confront them. He must battle them in the core of the Sun, the core of his mind and memory, and at the apex of all abstraction, when the Golden Transcendence gathers all minds in the solar system into one communion, and all truths are laid bare.

The Golden Transcendence Ep.18: Fire and Death

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