My Podcast with Bronze Age Pervert
RSS
Search Text Case Sensitive Exact Words Include Comments
List of Bookmarks
I recorded a 2.5 hour podcast with Bronze Age Pervert here. First hour is free for non-subscribers.
One highlight of the paywalled last 1.5 hours is me considering BAP’s theory that the dominance of black sprinters since the mid 1960s is possibly due to blacks benefiting more from PEDs.
By the way, you can buy my book here.
Follow @steve_sailer
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Steve, have you ever commented on how it feels to be so old that you’ll soon be dead? Like mortality thoughts. You are super ancient. Just wondering.
.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Not Raul
You, too, will live on in the good deeds you've done to benefit others... assuming you have any. Which, y'know, maybe.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian
In the aftermath of my father's death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness - that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone ("The iron horse has broken down, finally" as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear - that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love - love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it's struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it's my wife's smiling face. Sometimes it's an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it's the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it's the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it's God's Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life - including death of every kind - bearable... and more.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian, @hhsiii, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
In a way, it is good for humanity that the young have SOME delusions of immortality - this leads them to take risks that older heads never would (getting in an outrigger canoe and sailing over the horizon in the hope of finding a new island). Sometime such risks lead to great discoveries.
But most of the time you just die of thirst in the middle of the ocean. The ones that win the Darwin Award get subtracted from the gene pool so that humans don't evolve toward an unlimited (and therefore foolhardy) tolerance for risk.
Probably because you are arrogant and immature, you haven't given proper thought (which is to say some consideration but no so much as it prevents you from going on with your life) to this matter and should you learn that you have some fatal condition (keeping in mind that we all have a fatal condition) it will blow your mind in a way that would not blow Steve's.
Frequently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAGyh7Lr9PU
Kuhn is ignoring Baggini’s theses that immortality, thus defined, is ineluctably boring. Kuhn was typically female at the end- I want it to be so, and I refuse to even consider it might be boring. Gimme that pill.
But- it is boring.
Yet, both of them are limited (although Baggini is much better). For instance, he could have asked: if you had schizophrenia, would you like to live forever like that? A potential answer “I would, but without schizo” means nothing: in that case, it is schizo that defines you as a personality. Or clinical depression. Or- what about multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder? Which one out of, say, 50 personalities would you like to live forever? Would you like to live forever as an idiot?
Even without these extreme questions, the point is: human personality is a flux of impressions & psychological functions (emotion, imagination, intelligence, will, intuition ..) of a body strung together by memory that constitutes identity. But, any experience has a duration & saturation. We experience life differently from dogs & lobsters. Even if we take only creatures with brains, we see that 3 things (apart from copulation, which is not necessary) characterize any life: eat, shit (exchange of energy) & sleep. Without them- what would constitute “immortality”? Do immortal beings live without eating, shitting & sleeping? If yes- what do they do? And if not- every thing comes, after some time, to naught. Every experience exhausts itself after some time. Our brains & CNS are built that way. People divorce after 20, 30, 40…years. With our speed of processing information, it is unthinkable that a couple would want to stay together for, say, million years. The same goes for any experience.
It is absolutely impossible that any person, mentally sane, given the speed of our processing of information, would want to live- even permanently strong, successful…- for a million years. One would become disgusted & bored of being himself/herself. Personality, any personality, is, after some time, a straitjacket.
What Baggini & Kuhn both got wrong is Eternity. Eternity is not endless time; it is, by all serious theologians & religious thinkers, defined as completely another mode of being, superimposed on & containing temporality. In other words, they’re both clueless.
And they are clueless re. immortality. What most serious traditions (and even some not too dumb New Agers) talk about is Higher Self, an immortal spark (metaphorically) which is somehow divine- and not the empirical psyche that eventually goes to dust (and which is the topic of Kuhn-Baggini discussion). It is the theme of all gnosis, east & west, that the essence of empirical psyche is “distilled”, transformed & preserved in the expanded individuality of the Self, living supra spatio-temporal life which is the true one, and not reduced to our empirical selves which fluctuate over time.
Individual empirical personality inevitably becomes tiresome.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Steve is younger than his bronze-age guest. Sailer is from the iron- age.
.
BAP?! Can Red Scare be far behind? There’s New York book promotion appearance on May 3 … maybe just maybe Steve will pop over to chat with Anna and Dasha!!
I meant to hit LOL but I’m on an iPhone.
A mobile peasant AND an Apple peasant.
You should be prohibited from using the internet.
Can’t wait for the rebranding to “Silicon Age Pervert”!
Silicon Age Pervert would just be a porn addict.Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @anonymous, @anon
Public school is pretty miserable for most kids. Most teachers are quite bad.
The fact that some think it’s a good idea to condemn good vulnerable White kids to misery because it “kinda sorta” helps Brown kids, tells you everything you need to know.
That is NOT being pro-social. That’s being a sick and sadistic.
Like like a lot of Christian Missionaries and White Man’s Burden types, they aren’t warmblooded and “nice”, they are actually indifferent to their own people.
Steve isn’t going to be dead any time soon: he has successfully inserted his thinking into so many other people’s minds, that he is going to be around for a long, long time. Except for the stuff about the golf courses.
You, too, will live on in the good deeds you’ve done to benefit others… assuming you have any. Which, y’know, maybe.
Memento mori.
*former Red Sox/MLB exec Larry Lucchino died yesterday at the age of 78. I used to see Lucchino at Mass at St. Ignatius on the BC campus. RIP Larry.Replies: @deep anonymous, @Dave Pinsen
It's the same thing from Gilgamesh to Faust, and Faulkner was right on this ego-driven line of thought:
You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with string only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way like five or six people all trying to make a rug on the same loom only each one wants to weave his own pattern into the rug; and it can't matter, you know that, or the Ones that set up the loom would have arranged things a little better, and yet it must matter because you keep on trying and then all of a sudden it's all over and all you have left is a block of stone with scratches on it provided there was someone to remember to have the marble scratched and set up or had time to, and it rains on it and then sun shines on it and after a while they don't even remember the name and what the scratches were trying to tell, and it doesn't matter.
In other news, The US reaches Ukrainian levels of corruption:
The NYC Judge presiding over a Trump case has issued a gag order forbidding Trump from mentioning that the Judges daughter is being paid $10 million by the Biden campaign.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/peak-corruption-jesse-watters-reveals-multi-million-dollar/?utm_source=rss
The whole point is you’re going back in time, to when men were men. RETVRN!
Silicon Age Pervert would just be a porn addict.
He has correctly called for a single-minded focus on ending immigration to the United States.
You won’t find paper Americans like the Zionist Jack D supporting that vital measure. Not for the United States at least.
Sincere American nationalists, such as AnotherDad and certain others here, should heed BAP’s advice.
Steve usually comes across in interviews as a fairly calm person. This is unlike a few of the people posting comments in his comment section, who sound like they are one step away from turning into the next Timothy McVeigh and going off to bomb some government building so they can kill a bunch of people.
But where else can you go to find a discussion by two former college professors about Ralph Waldo Emerson being a Satanist? 🤣🤣Replies: @BB753
Most of them haven't left Mom's basement in six months.Replies: @anonymous
You can change it.
Pass it on.
Paywalls are destroying the Internet.
The NYC Judge presiding over a Trump case has issued a gag order forbidding Trump from mentioning that the Judges daughter is being paid $10 million by the Biden campaign.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/peak-corruption-jesse-watters-reveals-multi-million-dollar/?utm_source=rssReplies: @J.Ross, @Inquiring Mind, @Ian M.
Yes, the adult daughter’s a professional political activist and is actively attacking Trump; this was reported by the lyingpress as Trump verbally abusing the judge’s “daughter” (implying this is like a teenager or something).
If this country were saner, Steve would be a columnist in the New York Times. But this country is not sane.
I don’t know. The system got exposed multiple times as fake (faking subscribers, lying about ad views), but nevertheless keeps itself humming along. Direct support of people like Steve, Soldo, Simplicius, Ed West, and BAP keeps them publishing, plus it’s sort of a more substantive thumb in the NYT’s eye.
You, too, will live on in the good deeds you've done to benefit others... assuming you have any. Which, y'know, maybe.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian
Life expectancy for American males is 73-years old*. I’m sure that’s even lower for males who have had cancer. Tall people have more cells which increases the risks from cancers. Taller people are also prone to more clotting because blood has to travel farther from the heart to extremities. Also, the lungs of taller people don’t function as efficiently — relative to the body’s demands— causing a lot more health issues.
Memento mori.
*former Red Sox/MLB exec Larry Lucchino died yesterday at the age of 78. I used to see Lucchino at Mass at St. Ignatius on the BC campus. RIP Larry.
Huh?? Crazy commenters can’t hold a candle to some of the crazy columnists at Unz.
But where else can you go to find a discussion by two former college professors about Ralph Waldo Emerson being a Satanist? 🤣🤣
Please, provide a link!LOL, it makes sense!Replies: @Anonymous
Memento mori.
*former Red Sox/MLB exec Larry Lucchino died yesterday at the age of 78. I used to see Lucchino at Mass at St. Ignatius on the BC campus. RIP Larry.Replies: @deep anonymous, @Dave Pinsen
But that figure probably is life expectancy at birth for an older age cohort. A more relevant figure would be life expectancy of a 65-year-old man currently in the US. I don’t know the figure, but I suspect it would be at least 15 more years of life if not more. Think of it in terms of conditional probability–the probability that a man, currently 65 years old, will die in each successive year, given that he is still alive right now.
https://www.vecernji.hr/media/img/1f/7b/af22b16f9d0cdb6bd8e2.jpegReplies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article264909989.htmlReplies: @Anonymous
How do you do that?
Jesus Lord Almighty, the stupidity of you white IQ fanatics is ever a sight to behold.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The Germ Theory of Disease
>TROLL
>D'oh!
>LOL
[Updated pafe says LOL.]
Is there a way to speed up the podcast without downloading it?
Just go back and hit the button you want, you stupid fuck-stick.
Jesus Lord Almighty, the stupidity of you white IQ fanatics is ever a sight to behold.
Living is overrated.
I’m noticing that BAP is a Jew.
“Ending immigration should be number one priority..."
- BAP
"It's a mistake and hubris to think you can extend American identity beyond peoples of northwest Europe and a few others who can readily assimilate to Anglo Protestant culture."
- BAPReplies: @JimDandy, @Frau Katze
October 7th: Paragliding Hamas warriors flying into a rave to capture Israeli women hostages.
BAP: "No! Not like that!"
The Right Stuff dot biz
Justice Report dot news
Antelope Hill Publishing dot com
Hyphen dash Report dot com
Holocaust dot claims
Substack dot com slash at whitepapersinstitute
Substack dot com slash at borzoi
Substack dot com slash at LITTORIA
Odysee dot com slash at modernpolitics
Odysee dot com slash at WarStrike
Odysee dot com slash at MarkCollett
Click one option, and if you want another, click that one.
Jesus Lord Almighty, the stupidity of you white IQ fanatics is ever a sight to behold.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The Germ Theory of Disease
Pleasant, aren’t you?
Or as I would say: Were you reared by wolves?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Nonetheless, I hope he (finally) finds some solace in God's Grace and realize that his Catholic faith isn't just about the finer points of dogma, but love of his neighbors.
Yeah, we know he goes walking, not more than that, but he seems mentally quite sound at least. Let’s hope he’s around long enough to finally get the credit he deserves.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/harvard-study-high-olive-oil-consumption-associated-with-longevityReplies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Maybe he could be the subject of one of the offbeat obituaries in The Economist. Steve, you should get your publicist on this.
The NYC Judge presiding over a Trump case has issued a gag order forbidding Trump from mentioning that the Judges daughter is being paid $10 million by the Biden campaign.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/peak-corruption-jesse-watters-reveals-multi-million-dollar/?utm_source=rssReplies: @J.Ross, @Inquiring Mind, @Ian M.
So much for the judge avoiding the appearance of conflict-of-interest?
I gave this long time ago.
Kuhn is ignoring Baggini’s theses that immortality, thus defined, is ineluctably boring. Kuhn was typically female at the end- I want it to be so, and I refuse to even consider it might be boring. Gimme that pill.
But- it is boring.
Yet, both of them are limited (although Baggini is much better). For instance, he could have asked: if you had schizophrenia, would you like to live forever like that? A potential answer “I would, but without schizo” means nothing: in that case, it is schizo that defines you as a personality. Or clinical depression. Or- what about multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder? Which one out of, say, 50 personalities would you like to live forever? Would you like to live forever as an idiot?
Even without these extreme questions, the point is: human personality is a flux of impressions & psychological functions (emotion, imagination, intelligence, will, intuition ..) of a body strung together by memory that constitutes identity. But, any experience has a duration & saturation. We experience life differently from dogs & lobsters. Even if we take only creatures with brains, we see that 3 things (apart from copulation, which is not necessary) characterize any life: eat, shit (exchange of energy) & sleep. Without them- what would constitute “immortality”? Do immortal beings live without eating, shitting & sleeping? If yes- what do they do? And if not- every thing comes, after some time, to naught. Every experience exhausts itself after some time. Our brains & CNS are built that way. People divorce after 20, 30, 40…years. With our speed of processing information, it is unthinkable that a couple would want to stay together for, say, million years. The same goes for any experience.
It is absolutely impossible that any person, mentally sane, given the speed of our processing of information, would want to live- even permanently strong, successful…- for a million years. One would become disgusted & bored of being himself/herself. Personality, any personality, is, after some time, a straitjacket.
What Baggini & Kuhn both got wrong is Eternity. Eternity is not endless time; it is, by all serious theologians & religious thinkers, defined as completely another mode of being, superimposed on & containing temporality. In other words, they’re both clueless.
And they are clueless re. immortality. What most serious traditions (and even some not too dumb New Agers) talk about is Higher Self, an immortal spark (metaphorically) which is somehow divine- and not the empirical psyche that eventually goes to dust (and which is the topic of Kuhn-Baggini discussion). It is the theme of all gnosis, east & west, that the essence of empirical psyche is “distilled”, transformed & preserved in the expanded individuality of the Self, living supra spatio-temporal life which is the true one, and not reduced to our empirical selves which fluctuate over time.
Individual empirical personality inevitably becomes tiresome.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/In_the_Court_of_the_Crimson_King_-_40th_Anniversary_Box_Set_-_Front_cover.jpegReplies: @Bardon Kaldian
That isn’t BAP’s theory. It was first propounded many years ago by a commenter on Steve’s blog.
But where else can you go to find a discussion by two former college professors about Ralph Waldo Emerson being a Satanist? 🤣🤣Replies: @BB753
“But where else can you go to find a discussion by two former college professors about Ralph Waldo Emerson being a Satanist?”
Please, provide a link!LOL, it makes sense!
To fight against cognitive decline— and other health issues— things like 140+ BPM cardio, reading, doing math, and extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) should be part of an elderly person’s lifestyle.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/are-olives-good-for-you
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/harvard-study-high-olive-oil-consumption-associated-with-longevity
Please reply ASAP—I’m at the Whole Foods salad bar and an elderly couple is approaching!
Public schools, like so many other institutions, are necessary for civilized life. The point is to make them better, and to not force people to attend them who don’t need to be there.
No Bronze Age Perversion, please. I’d rather not live in Robert Howard’s fantasies.
Legalism with social credit monitoring and public executions of criminals and vandals, and a state-affiliated, Autocephalic Church with the best ideas taken from Catholicism and Orthodoxy, thanks. It’s not hard. It isn’t “epic”, but it is a workable system if managed by grown men. And by grown men, I don’t mean most midwit normiecons.
Jesus Lord Almighty, the stupidity of you white IQ fanatics is ever a sight to behold.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @The Germ Theory of Disease
“the stupidity of you white IQ fanatics is ever a sight to behold.”
I really don’t think there are very many “IQ fanatics” haunting these parts. I think people are more concerned, not with IQ in its essence (if there even is one), but rather with the notion that very important policy decisions, ones which gravely affect the future of this country and its people, are being made based on an inaccurate view of reality. Moreover, a wrong view of reality which is deliberately wrong, even maliciously so, and based on certain malignant self-interests.
Imagine a theory of human anatomy and medicine in which, for weird fanatical religious reasons, it is absolutely forbidden to mention or acknowledge that kidneys exist. Now try running a blood panel based on this theory.
Here you have Gene Hackman, 94.
==
https://jillanazdruci.pages.dev/jumyu-william-shatner-tour-2024-pwnwm/ (scroll down)
==
Robert Wagner
==
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13071655/Robert-Wagner-Hart-Hart-fame-seen-RARE-public-outing-celebrates-94th-birthday-wife-Jill-St-John-83-Santa-Monica.html
=
The plastic surgeons they've used are much subtler than the crew who worked on Joan Rivers.Replies: @Frau Katze
(Albeit that picture was from way back in 2021.)Cf. "The Deacon's Masterpiece", O.W. Holmes, Sr.:
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay,
I'll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits--
Have you ever heard of that, I say?Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, —
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down..
It was on the terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay...First of November, [Eighteen] 'Fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys, get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay...
At half past nine by the meet'n-house clock, —
Just the hour* of the Earthquake shock!
What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you're not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, —
All at once, and nothing first, —
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deacon%27s_Masterpiece
*That was a quarter-century, two weeks, and three days before time zones were introduced.Replies: @Bill P
Silicon Age Pervert would just be a porn addict.Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @anonymous, @anon
Damn, you’re right.
You, too, will live on in the good deeds you've done to benefit others... assuming you have any. Which, y'know, maybe.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian
I could never get that non omnis moriar stuff. It just shows limitation of human imagination. Of course we know some stuff from people 2000 years ago, even more (Aristotle etc.) but would it matter in the next 500,000 years? Or 5 billion?
It’s the same thing from Gilgamesh to Faust, and Faulkner was right on this ego-driven line of thought:
You get born and you try this and you don’t know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with string only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way like five or six people all trying to make a rug on the same loom only each one wants to weave his own pattern into the rug; and it can’t matter, you know that, or the Ones that set up the loom would have arranged things a little better, and yet it must matter because you keep on trying and then all of a sudden it’s all over and all you have left is a block of stone with scratches on it provided there was someone to remember to have the marble scratched and set up or had time to, and it rains on it and then sun shines on it and after a while they don’t even remember the name and what the scratches were trying to tell, and it doesn’t matter.
Oy, how Continental!
.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Not Raul
So you’re saying he was being groomed?
and a homosexual.
From experience, I’ve never believed that blacks are as much faster than others as they seem, though I never competed at the highest levels. I read an article once from one of the doctors who helped Canseco, and he said something to the effect that they chose who they wanted to help. Black dominance in sports has been a huge part of the leftist machine, so I wouldn’t be surprised if steroids weren’t used to help things along.
castefootball.com has spent the last couple decades illustrating the obvious bias in college and pro sports that favors negro athletes.
Around here, a lot of people like to think that steroids were magically 100% absent from pro baseball until those eeeevil Bash Brothers started poking each other in the booty with needles in the late 1980's, but steroids and other PED's have been widely used by pro athletes since at least the 1960's. It's likely that the messianic Reggie Jackson was using roids in the 70's, but because he wasn't stacking at levels of Canseco and McGuire, then we just pretend like he didn't at all. Also because he's black, and we've all been taught that blacks are the greatest athletes ever. Then it bleeds into more ridiculous contentions like he had a 160 IQ. Yeah ok. He also crapped golden eggs and shot literacy inducing laser beams from his green eyes.Replies: @OilcanFloyd
Well, if you had appreciated the Weltshmertz inherent in Dasein, you too would have little time for pleasantries.
Timing thing. If you catch yourself and hit a clearly contradictory button right away, after having hit the wrong button, the later one conquers.
>TROLL
>D’oh!
>LOL
[Updated pafe says LOL.]
Transcripts, transcripts, there has got to be a way to make transcripts. Steve’s own position after all is that video is a waste of time compared to text (recall the famous old comparison of one half-hour of TV news to one column of a newspaper).
Any update on the audiobook version of Noticing?
please & thank you
I know that tastes differ, but I cannot imagine a worse way of spending 2 and a half hours of my life than listening to Steve “Sailor” Sailer and some gay Jewish freak aptly named “Bronze Age Pervert” talking about… why Africans run fast…
I can’t think of anyone who cares, either, except maybe the two or three usual sycophants.
Meanwhile, Israel just killed seven aid workers in Gaza, including three Brits and an American. All working for some sort of celebrity chef.
I understand that foreign policy is not Steve’s forte, but then again, I can’t see what his “forte” is — except for “why Africans runs fast”. Something I personally don’t care or think about — at all.
https://youtu.be/SyowDlx6-dI?si=OEXWIklfxrr1t4kgReplies: @Dumbo
Good estimate. According to this article life expectancy for 65 year old males in CA is 18 years (21 years for women).
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article264909989.html
O/T: it’s sad and sobering to read Derb’s plight (in VDare demise). For the first time Derb hints— in the title— at the cast of characters behind VDare’s exection (“Hanging On the Cross”). Good thing he kept the comments closed, he doesn’t need to read the “E.S.T.” comments at this time.
https://www.unz.com/item/march-diary-11-items-hanging-on-the-cross-our-one-party-state-and-have-i-been-canceled-etc/
sudden prominence of west african sprinters was simply down to african population explosion in anglo nations. and to a lesser extent, improved access to sports science developed by other people. also mainly anglos, and to a lesser extent slavs. even today, most Crossfit workouts are based on old Soviet track & field and olympic lifting workouts.
before the late 60s to late 70s time period, africans were always known to be good at running, but they were ‘merely’ additional good participants at the world class level. 100 meters wasn’t a west africans only affair until the late 80s, early 90s, when that post 1945 population boom really kicked in. you just need to do the math, like the rule of 27 for musicians and the 1991 music explosion and all time music peak. sprinter peak is around…23 i think? need to crunch the numbers. Jim Hines: 1946 + 22 = 1968. what people don’t realize, even people who follow this stuff, is that Bolt peaked at 22. he never got any faster than that and steadily got slower from 23 on. runners and jumpers and throwers in other events peak later.
francophone africans were a lesser factor. they were around, but like in all fields, they do less than anglo nation africans, as anglos are better nation creators and managers than the French. Spanish colony west africans figured in even less than that, as anything run by Spain was even less well run than stuff run by France. note that anglo nations took in 10 to 100 times fewer west africans than French and Spanish ones, yet produced far more results, as is always the national rank order for results.
Looking forward to listening to Steve on BAP’s podcast.
BTW, BAP’s podcast is well worth the $5 per month. Like Steve, he’s often very funny, and he’s very well read. The episode below on Homer was great, and in the episode before his interview with Steve, he interviews Edward Luttwak. I haven’t finished that one yet, but Luttwak goes on a riff about Kazakh history, politics, ethnography, and religion off the top of his head that’s pretty interesting and informative. Great content.
Silicon Age Pervert would just be a porn addict.Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @anonymous, @anon
To anyone who doubts BAP’s bona fides as an American nationalist:
He has correctly called for a single-minded focus on ending immigration to the United States.
You won’t find paper Americans like the Zionist Jack D supporting that vital measure. Not for the United States at least.
Sincere American nationalists, such as AnotherDad and certain others here, should heed BAP’s advice.
I, for one, would welcome a collection of your essays.
improvements in training deep dive:
anglo africans already got some of the benefits of all the STEM put into sports by other people, but it wasn’t until they got the full blown total access to university track & field programs that they got maximum benefit. fartlek, interval training, plyometrics, lifting of any kind, periodization, Prelipin’s table. a similar thing happened with african football players in the 70s, who started the decade significantly relegated to HBCUs, until Chuck Noll began scouting them there and drafting them to the NFL, after which they began to get recruited a lot more to Power conference teams, starting the next decade, the 80s, becoming more prominent.
long term of course, this was to the great detriment of the anglo track & fielders themselves, as i’ve posted about many times. today good pale person prospects are almost totally ignored and the entire apparatus of 100 years of program development and billions of dollars in funding is turned over to developing even completely marginal africans. no stone left unturned, lest there be a small amount of talent to be squeezed out of every last single african recruit. turn ’em upside and shake vigorously, some coins might fall out, like a search of your couch cushions. most track & field coaches being paid 6 figures would rather recruit total scrub no hoper africans than ‘take a chance’ on an obviously talented pale kid coming out of high school.
hence international level competitors from europe versus the coal black US national team. “How can a white guy from a small nation in europe even be competitive here? Huh? Only blacks can even do this stuff.” track & field in the US has gone the same direction as football in this regard. there is little to no attempt to even develop pale competitors. all resources were diverted to promoting africans a while ago.
other than being athletes themselves, africans developed or contributed nothing to the sports science here. there are a few good african coaches who understand the state of training and drugs well, and can run their own programs effectively to some degree. but they always have to get updates periodically from others, or they’ll get behind over time as with any field. and obviously, without funding from other people, the athletic programs which they have completely taken over, almost instantly disappear. recent african anger about a few great pale person basketball players is rather humorous, especially their justification that ‘we built basketball’ so why should any white people be allowed to outplay us, we should just ban them from ‘our’ sport. the recent Steelers Mendenhall-Watt kerfuffle shows a similar discrepancy in attitudes and perspectives on a sport.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/London_2012_Olympic_100m_final_start.jpgYour view is just the white mirror image of all the blacks who say that there are all these incredibly talented math geniuses in the ghetto and we are just to racist to find them.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article264909989.htmlReplies: @Anonymous
Yeah right, now find me the data on the life expectancy of a 6’ 5” male who previously had cancer and chemo.
O/T: it’s sad and sobering to read Derb’s plight (in VDare demise). For the first time Derb hints— in the title— at the cast of characters behind VDare’s exection (“Hanging On the Cross”). Good thing he kept the comments closed, he doesn’t need to read the “E.S.T.” comments at this time.
https://www.unz.com/item/march-diary-11-items-hanging-on-the-cross-our-one-party-state-and-have-i-been-canceled-etc/
A peasant twice over.
A mobile peasant AND an Apple peasant.
You should be prohibited from using the internet.
“One highlight of the paywalled last 1.5 hours is me considering BAP’s theory that dominance of black sprinters since the mid-1960s is possibly due to blacks benefiting more from PEDS.”
And here’s me with no shekels in my pocket.
Whilst Steve discusses black sprinters with a Pervert I’d be glad to ship you the first volume of my collected ruminations on life, love, and all the in-betweens. 782 mimeographed double-sided pages with two meaty columns of text on both sides. I provide my insights *gratis*
deep dive on drugs:
nah, the late 60s to late 70s surge of west african sprinters wasn’t mainly or even partly due to drugs. Steve is on the right track with regard to the concept that all humans vary in how much they respond to the same exact dose of any particular steroid. some people barely react, others can turn into total monsters. it varies by their genetic biology, exactly like…any other HBD topic. but the concept of ‘responders’ – people who react powerfully to sports drugs and get way more out of them than the average user – is not even that well appreciated even among many sports industry people. so kudos to Steve for arriving at that concept on his own. but, he’s wrong on the dates and timeline.
from like the 1920s to the 1940s, researchers and athletes in olympic lifting and bodybuilding ONLY, were using testosterone (collected from urine) and to a lesser extent, human growth hormone (collected from dead bodies) to try to juice themselves. this stuff was NOT happening in any other sport – the guys in other sports literally had no idea AT ALL this stuff was even happening. the strength sport people were on the cutting edge here, at the time, and the entire way in general. and there was no deliberate information sharing – it was all considered secret, proprietary development, not to mention illegal in most cases. they didn’t even publish in journals. there was definitely no internet for secrets to get out.
at the time, it was mainly Axis scientists doing all the work, Soviet scientists to the lesser extent, and US bodybuilding researchers (some of the original methamphetamine users like John Grimek). those were the 3 main groups. after the fall of the Axis in 1945 and the rush by the US and Soviets to take their scientists and researchers, the US got most of the rocket scientists, the Soviets captured the Axis guys working on sports drugs (in addition to capturing V2 missiles, but almost none of the researchers).
continued in part 2.
This is total nonsense. You give any individual 500 mg's of testosterone cypionate per week, you are going to witness a significant physical change in any person, within a few months, even if they don't lift a single weight.
Further, the dose of steroid is only one variable, 2 individuals that take the same dose per week but 1 of them consumes 2000 calories per day is going to have a different outcome as someone who consumes 4000 calories per day.
due to this post 1945 research division situation:
Dianabol, the first (and still one of the best) real steroids showed up around 1958, in europe, and only olympic lifters in east europe knew about it and took it. then, bodybuilders world wide became aware of it (as they are often first to become aware of, use, and develop new stuff) and began taking it in the mid 60s. which, if you look at photos of bodybuilders, you can plainly see, the big difference in physiques from before Diababol (Steve Reeves) to moderate Dianabol (Bill Pearl), to max Dianabol and some of the other steroids first coming out of labs like Primobolan (Arnold, Serge Oliva). some people say Arnold’s tooth gap was due to cadaver HGH, although i’m not too convinced. Arnold was the first super responder. his body absorbed androgens like a sponge. a basic steroids regimen turned him into a superhuman in 3 months. prime Arnold’s physique in the mid 70s was ludicrous at the time. he could gain or lose 30 pounds of muscle in less than 1 year at 6-1 or so.
Soviet lifter Vasily Alekseyev was the first major olympic lifter to grow up during steroids, take them from the start, become 350 pounds, and set all records in the 70s. even American lifters weren’t on steroids in the 70s, in fact, this era of the Soviets pulling far away from the Americans in olympic lifting is probably why Americans gave up on the sport. Ken Patera, who could press 500 over his head in the late 70s, was the last notable American probably. the US used to win medals in olympic lifting, now they don’t even send a team. though they are doing other strength stuff now.
during this time, sports guys in general had no idea WTF was going on in olympic lifting and bodybuilding, except for Soviets, who may or may not have been taking lower doses of Dianabol for track & field. but probably not, based on their physiques and performances, which were very good but still in the upper limit of normal human ranges. it wasn’t until the late 70s, early 80s that NFL people outside the Soviet Union started to realize what steroids and HGH even were, leading to the NFL player size explosion in the early 80s. the biggest guys on the Steelers 70s dynasty teams were around 280, which was the average lineman size 10 years later.
track & field and baseball people were even later. culminating in the late 80s Ben Johnson fiasco in track and creating the late 80s, early 90s Jose Canseco steroids and size home run hitting era in MLB. by the early 90s, Lyle Alzado had killed himself taking cadaver HGH, looking for that last edge over everybody else. that’s how far things had gotten in football by then. synthesized, vastly safer HGH was just around the corner. human rated Trenbolone and insulin injections were next in the mid 90s, leading to the 90s mass explosion. and the ultimate responders, Ron Coleman, Dorian Yates, and the greatest human responder to steroids of all time, Kevin Levrone, who looked like he didn’t even lift weights when he was off drugs. at this time, west african sprinter drug use exploded and we were well into the “Tested positive later on, disqualified” era of track & field.
It's been going on since forever, for over a century.
"Henri Pélissier, Francis Pélissier, and Charles Pélissier of France – In 1924, following their abandoning of the Tour de France, the first real drug scandal arose when the Pélissier brothers gave an extraordinary interview to journalist Albert Londres. They said that they used strychnine, cocaine, chloroform, aspirin, "horse ointment" and other drugs to keep going. ".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling
Total falsehood. Lyle Alzado died of a brain tumor, that he attributed to the use of steroids. There is absolutely no correlation between the use of steroids and cancer, let alone brain cancer. But steroid fearmongering was at its highest in the late 80's and early 90's, and Alzedo, ever the attention seeker, jumped on the bandwagon. Alzedo was an unlucky soul just like most other cancer victims, but even on his deathbed the guy had to be "special."
Anabolic steroids are often prescribed to chemotherapy patients because of its ability to reverse the wasting effects that chemo produces.
anglo africans already got some of the benefits of all the STEM put into sports by other people, but it wasn't until they got the full blown total access to university track & field programs that they got maximum benefit. fartlek, interval training, plyometrics, lifting of any kind, periodization, Prelipin's table. a similar thing happened with african football players in the 70s, who started the decade significantly relegated to HBCUs, until Chuck Noll began scouting them there and drafting them to the NFL, after which they began to get recruited a lot more to Power conference teams, starting the next decade, the 80s, becoming more prominent.
long term of course, this was to the great detriment of the anglo track & fielders themselves, as i've posted about many times. today good pale person prospects are almost totally ignored and the entire apparatus of 100 years of program development and billions of dollars in funding is turned over to developing even completely marginal africans. no stone left unturned, lest there be a small amount of talent to be squeezed out of every last single african recruit. turn 'em upside and shake vigorously, some coins might fall out, like a search of your couch cushions. most track & field coaches being paid 6 figures would rather recruit total scrub no hoper africans than 'take a chance' on an obviously talented pale kid coming out of high school.
hence international level competitors from europe versus the coal black US national team. "How can a white guy from a small nation in europe even be competitive here? Huh? Only blacks can even do this stuff." track & field in the US has gone the same direction as football in this regard. there is little to no attempt to even develop pale competitors. all resources were diverted to promoting africans a while ago.
other than being athletes themselves, africans developed or contributed nothing to the sports science here. there are a few good african coaches who understand the state of training and drugs well, and can run their own programs effectively to some degree. but they always have to get updates periodically from others, or they'll get behind over time as with any field. and obviously, without funding from other people, the athletic programs which they have completely taken over, almost instantly disappear. recent african anger about a few great pale person basketball players is rather humorous, especially their justification that 'we built basketball' so why should any white people be allowed to outplay us, we should just ban them from 'our' sport. the recent Steelers Mendenhall-Watt kerfuffle shows a similar discrepancy in attitudes and perspectives on a sport.Replies: @Jack D
I don’t buy this. There would be some “Money Ball” coach who would want to pick up all the white $1,000 bills that are strewn on the sidewalk.
Also, how do you explain THIS in the Olympics, where there are plenty of white countries competing?
Your view is just the white mirror image of all the blacks who say that there are all these incredibly talented math geniuses in the ghetto and we are just to racist to find them.
Dianabol, the first (and still one of the best) real steroids showed up around 1958, in europe, and only olympic lifters in east europe knew about it and took it. then, bodybuilders world wide became aware of it (as they are often first to become aware of, use, and develop new stuff) and began taking it in the mid 60s. which, if you look at photos of bodybuilders, you can plainly see, the big difference in physiques from before Diababol (Steve Reeves) to moderate Dianabol (Bill Pearl), to max Dianabol and some of the other steroids first coming out of labs like Primobolan (Arnold, Serge Oliva). some people say Arnold's tooth gap was due to cadaver HGH, although i'm not too convinced. Arnold was the first super responder. his body absorbed androgens like a sponge. a basic steroids regimen turned him into a superhuman in 3 months. prime Arnold's physique in the mid 70s was ludicrous at the time. he could gain or lose 30 pounds of muscle in less than 1 year at 6-1 or so.
Soviet lifter Vasily Alekseyev was the first major olympic lifter to grow up during steroids, take them from the start, become 350 pounds, and set all records in the 70s. even American lifters weren't on steroids in the 70s, in fact, this era of the Soviets pulling far away from the Americans in olympic lifting is probably why Americans gave up on the sport. Ken Patera, who could press 500 over his head in the late 70s, was the last notable American probably. the US used to win medals in olympic lifting, now they don't even send a team. though they are doing other strength stuff now.
during this time, sports guys in general had no idea WTF was going on in olympic lifting and bodybuilding, except for Soviets, who may or may not have been taking lower doses of Dianabol for track & field. but probably not, based on their physiques and performances, which were very good but still in the upper limit of normal human ranges. it wasn't until the late 70s, early 80s that NFL people outside the Soviet Union started to realize what steroids and HGH even were, leading to the NFL player size explosion in the early 80s. the biggest guys on the Steelers 70s dynasty teams were around 280, which was the average lineman size 10 years later.
track & field and baseball people were even later. culminating in the late 80s Ben Johnson fiasco in track and creating the late 80s, early 90s Jose Canseco steroids and size home run hitting era in MLB. by the early 90s, Lyle Alzado had killed himself taking cadaver HGH, looking for that last edge over everybody else. that's how far things had gotten in football by then. synthesized, vastly safer HGH was just around the corner. human rated Trenbolone and insulin injections were next in the mid 90s, leading to the 90s mass explosion. and the ultimate responders, Ron Coleman, Dorian Yates, and the greatest human responder to steroids of all time, Kevin Levrone, who looked like he didn't even lift weights when he was off drugs. at this time, west african sprinter drug use exploded and we were well into the "Tested positive later on, disqualified" era of track & field.Replies: @BB753, @Mike Tre
Thanks! Do you have any inside info about doping in cycling?
It’s been going on since forever, for over a century.
“Henri Pélissier, Francis Pélissier, and Charles Pélissier of France – In 1924, following their abandoning of the Tour de France, the first real drug scandal arose when the Pélissier brothers gave an extraordinary interview to journalist Albert Londres. They said that they used strychnine, cocaine, chloroform, aspirin, “horse ointment” and other drugs to keep going. “.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling
Steve might have a mere 30-40 years left, at which point he might well have outlived you. Have another toke of healing weed and deeply explore your emotions on full transitioning to become who you really are. Then he might outlive you in just 10 years.
Pleasant, and . . . intelligible.
Steve usually comes across in interviews as a fairly calm person. This is unlike a few of the people posting comments in his comment section, who sound like they are one step away from turning into the next Timothy McVeigh and going off to bomb some government building so they can kill a bunch of people.
Most of them haven’t left Mom’s basement in six months.
The Social Security Administration puts the life expectancy of a 65 year old male at 16.9 years and a 65 year old female at 19.6 years.
They’re not necessary for civilized life. They’re service providers which can be replaced by alternatives in most situations. You might want to keep them for specialty clientele and for exurban, small town, and rural areas.
https://www.vecernji.hr/media/img/1f/7b/af22b16f9d0cdb6bd8e2.jpegReplies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar
William Shatner:
==
https://jillanazdruci.pages.dev/jumyu-william-shatner-tour-2024-pwnwm/ (scroll down)
==
Robert Wagner
==
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13071655/Robert-Wagner-Hart-Hart-fame-seen-RARE-public-outing-celebrates-94th-birthday-wife-Jill-St-John-83-Santa-Monica.html
=
The plastic surgeons they’ve used are much subtler than the crew who worked on Joan Rivers.
Steve is seven years younger than me, according to Wikipedia. He’s a mere 65.
*In the summer that gave us Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince. Steve made this list:
https://www.onthisday.com/birthdays/date/1958/decemberReplies: @Frau Katze
Promoting the superior negro athlete has absolute been a strategy of anti whiteness going back to the start of integrated pro sports.
castefootball.com has spent the last couple decades illustrating the obvious bias in college and pro sports that favors negro athletes.
Around here, a lot of people like to think that steroids were magically 100% absent from pro baseball until those eeeevil Bash Brothers started poking each other in the booty with needles in the late 1980’s, but steroids and other PED’s have been widely used by pro athletes since at least the 1960’s. It’s likely that the messianic Reggie Jackson was using roids in the 70’s, but because he wasn’t stacking at levels of Canseco and McGuire, then we just pretend like he didn’t at all. Also because he’s black, and we’ve all been taught that blacks are the greatest athletes ever. Then it bleeds into more ridiculous contentions like he had a 160 IQ. Yeah ok. He also crapped golden eggs and shot literacy inducing laser beams from his green eyes.
Anyone who has been around steroids and PEDs knows that they can turn someone you could compete with or beat into someone you don't belong on the same field or track with. If there were a way to artificially enhance black coaches, I'm sure it would be done.
please & thank youReplies: @Mike Tre
Fran Drescher is currently in the studio recording it. She laughs authentically throughout at all the dry humor.
https://youtu.be/LDxOZ6cv-DU?si=4-G3q1n8O6ujg412&t=22Replies: @Mike Tre
I have never read or listened to anything by BAP and have no opinion on him but Wikipedia says he’s of Romanian and Jewish descent and was baptized Romanian Orthodox Christian.
What about inner cities? Those are the largest and most labor intensive schools of all. They are mostly a waste of time and money, but I don’t see anyone cutting them out. Covid proved the online learning is a dud.
nah, the late 60s to late 70s surge of west african sprinters wasn't mainly or even partly due to drugs. Steve is on the right track with regard to the concept that all humans vary in how much they respond to the same exact dose of any particular steroid. some people barely react, others can turn into total monsters. it varies by their genetic biology, exactly like...any other HBD topic. but the concept of 'responders' - people who react powerfully to sports drugs and get way more out of them than the average user - is not even that well appreciated even among many sports industry people. so kudos to Steve for arriving at that concept on his own. but, he's wrong on the dates and timeline.
from like the 1920s to the 1940s, researchers and athletes in olympic lifting and bodybuilding ONLY, were using testosterone (collected from urine) and to a lesser extent, human growth hormone (collected from dead bodies) to try to juice themselves. this stuff was NOT happening in any other sport - the guys in other sports literally had no idea AT ALL this stuff was even happening. the strength sport people were on the cutting edge here, at the time, and the entire way in general. and there was no deliberate information sharing - it was all considered secret, proprietary development, not to mention illegal in most cases. they didn't even publish in journals. there was definitely no internet for secrets to get out.
at the time, it was mainly Axis scientists doing all the work, Soviet scientists to the lesser extent, and US bodybuilding researchers (some of the original methamphetamine users like John Grimek). those were the 3 main groups. after the fall of the Axis in 1945 and the rush by the US and Soviets to take their scientists and researchers, the US got most of the rocket scientists, the Soviets captured the Axis guys working on sports drugs (in addition to capturing V2 missiles, but almost none of the researchers).
continued in part 2.Replies: @Mike Tre
“Steve is on the right track with regard to the concept that all humans vary in how much they respond to the same exact dose of any particular steroid. some people barely react, others can turn into total monsters. ”
This is total nonsense. You give any individual 500 mg’s of testosterone cypionate per week, you are going to witness a significant physical change in any person, within a few months, even if they don’t lift a single weight.
Further, the dose of steroid is only one variable, 2 individuals that take the same dose per week but 1 of them consumes 2000 calories per day is going to have a different outcome as someone who consumes 4000 calories per day.
https://www.vecernji.hr/media/img/1f/7b/af22b16f9d0cdb6bd8e2.jpegReplies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar
Don’t forget Gene’s big brother’s Danville High classmate and buddy, 98:
(Albeit that picture was from way back in 2021.)
Cf. “The Deacon’s Masterpiece”, O.W. Holmes, Sr.:
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay,
I’ll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits–
Have you ever heard of that, I say?
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, —
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down..
It was on the terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay…
First of November, [Eighteen] ‘Fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys, get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay…
At half past nine by the meet’n-house clock, —
Just the hour* of the Earthquake shock!
What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you’re not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, —
All at once, and nothing first, —
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deacon%27s_Masterpiece
*That was a quarter-century, two weeks, and three days before time zones were introduced.
My mother-in-law, born a few months before Steve*, came by for Easter. Her coffee container said “21, with 44 years experience”.
*In the summer that gave us Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince. Steve made this list:
https://www.onthisday.com/birthdays/date/1958/december
==
https://jillanazdruci.pages.dev/jumyu-william-shatner-tour-2024-pwnwm/ (scroll down)
==
Robert Wagner
==
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13071655/Robert-Wagner-Hart-Hart-fame-seen-RARE-public-outing-celebrates-94th-birthday-wife-Jill-St-John-83-Santa-Monica.html
=
The plastic surgeons they've used are much subtler than the crew who worked on Joan Rivers.Replies: @Frau Katze
That first link leads to a crap page trying to tell me my phone has been infected by something. It only does it when you try to scroll down.
*In the summer that gave us Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince. Steve made this list:
https://www.onthisday.com/birthdays/date/1958/decemberReplies: @Frau Katze
Thanks for the “On This Day” link. Wikipedia also lets you look up a date. But Steve isn’t on their list even though his birthday is given in his Wiki entry.
(Dec. 28: The Feast of the Holy Innocents!)Replies: @Frau Katze
Oh I like this. BAP is one of my favorite people online, and so is Steve.
Memento mori.
*former Red Sox/MLB exec Larry Lucchino died yesterday at the age of 78. I used to see Lucchino at Mass at St. Ignatius on the BC campus. RIP Larry.Replies: @deep anonymous, @Dave Pinsen
Steve’s father lived to age 95, and IIRC from Steve’s occasional posts about him, remained mentally sharp into his 90s. If we’re lucky, we’ll have Steve around for a long time.
(Albeit that picture was from way back in 2021.)Cf. "The Deacon's Masterpiece", O.W. Holmes, Sr.:
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay,
I'll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits--
Have you ever heard of that, I say?Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, —
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down..
It was on the terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay...First of November, [Eighteen] 'Fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys, get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay...
At half past nine by the meet'n-house clock, —
Just the hour* of the Earthquake shock!
What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you're not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, —
All at once, and nothing first, —
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deacon%27s_Masterpiece
*That was a quarter-century, two weeks, and three days before time zones were introduced.Replies: @Bill P
And Dick Van Dyke is a former alcoholic and chain smoker. Talk about genetic luck of the draw…
A truck driving lesbo named Spike
Hauled dildos up and down the pike.
When asked by the fuzz,
What it was that she does,
She replied, "I'm a fake dick van dyke."Replies: @Frau Katze
The coincidences pile up: Cassidy and Jerry Van Dyke were both married to women named Shirley Jones. And, speaking of 1958 births, Tzipi Livni was born on the same day as Kevin Bacon. How many degrees of separation there?
My father was a chain smoker and alcoholic who never did change his habits. He died at age 85, in his driveway, getting out of his Lincoln Continental after driving to the store to buy cigarettes.
He taught me how to grill steaks.
Dianabol, the first (and still one of the best) real steroids showed up around 1958, in europe, and only olympic lifters in east europe knew about it and took it. then, bodybuilders world wide became aware of it (as they are often first to become aware of, use, and develop new stuff) and began taking it in the mid 60s. which, if you look at photos of bodybuilders, you can plainly see, the big difference in physiques from before Diababol (Steve Reeves) to moderate Dianabol (Bill Pearl), to max Dianabol and some of the other steroids first coming out of labs like Primobolan (Arnold, Serge Oliva). some people say Arnold's tooth gap was due to cadaver HGH, although i'm not too convinced. Arnold was the first super responder. his body absorbed androgens like a sponge. a basic steroids regimen turned him into a superhuman in 3 months. prime Arnold's physique in the mid 70s was ludicrous at the time. he could gain or lose 30 pounds of muscle in less than 1 year at 6-1 or so.
Soviet lifter Vasily Alekseyev was the first major olympic lifter to grow up during steroids, take them from the start, become 350 pounds, and set all records in the 70s. even American lifters weren't on steroids in the 70s, in fact, this era of the Soviets pulling far away from the Americans in olympic lifting is probably why Americans gave up on the sport. Ken Patera, who could press 500 over his head in the late 70s, was the last notable American probably. the US used to win medals in olympic lifting, now they don't even send a team. though they are doing other strength stuff now.
during this time, sports guys in general had no idea WTF was going on in olympic lifting and bodybuilding, except for Soviets, who may or may not have been taking lower doses of Dianabol for track & field. but probably not, based on their physiques and performances, which were very good but still in the upper limit of normal human ranges. it wasn't until the late 70s, early 80s that NFL people outside the Soviet Union started to realize what steroids and HGH even were, leading to the NFL player size explosion in the early 80s. the biggest guys on the Steelers 70s dynasty teams were around 280, which was the average lineman size 10 years later.
track & field and baseball people were even later. culminating in the late 80s Ben Johnson fiasco in track and creating the late 80s, early 90s Jose Canseco steroids and size home run hitting era in MLB. by the early 90s, Lyle Alzado had killed himself taking cadaver HGH, looking for that last edge over everybody else. that's how far things had gotten in football by then. synthesized, vastly safer HGH was just around the corner. human rated Trenbolone and insulin injections were next in the mid 90s, leading to the 90s mass explosion. and the ultimate responders, Ron Coleman, Dorian Yates, and the greatest human responder to steroids of all time, Kevin Levrone, who looked like he didn't even lift weights when he was off drugs. at this time, west african sprinter drug use exploded and we were well into the "Tested positive later on, disqualified" era of track & field.Replies: @BB753, @Mike Tre
” by the early 90s, Lyle Alzado had killed himself taking cadaver HGH,”
Total falsehood. Lyle Alzado died of a brain tumor, that he attributed to the use of steroids. There is absolutely no correlation between the use of steroids and cancer, let alone brain cancer. But steroid fearmongering was at its highest in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and Alzedo, ever the attention seeker, jumped on the bandwagon. Alzedo was an unlucky soul just like most other cancer victims, but even on his deathbed the guy had to be “special.”
Anabolic steroids are often prescribed to chemotherapy patients because of its ability to reverse the wasting effects that chemo produces.
Silicon Age Pervert would just be a porn addict.Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @anonymous, @anon
It’s ironic that BAP waxes poetic about the masculine virtues of a bygone era but balks when authentic dissidents suggest that the time has come for White men to take action and reclaim their lands before all is lost to the aPOCalypse.
I guess that’s why Steve likes BAP; two inert lumps who think Noticing is as far as it should go. But not *that* Noticing, goyium!
“Pleasant, aren’t you?”
Or as I would say: Were you reared by wolves?
And what really happened to your brother?
https://www.mediastorehouse.com/p/690/roman-mythology-romulus-remus-foundation-rome-25340518.jpg.webp
I know you are trolling and I do not speak for Mr. Sailer. However, I can offer an insight.
In the aftermath of my father’s death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness – that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone (“The iron horse has broken down, finally” as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear – that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love – love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it’s struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it’s my wife’s smiling face. Sometimes it’s an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it’s the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it’s the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it’s God’s Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life – including death of every kind – bearable… and more.
C.G. JungReplies: @BB753
I was a little miffed the priest said if you are Catholic you can receive communion. If not cross your arms for a blessing. I was raised Episcopalian. I almost took the host anyway but decided it would be disrespectful.
Anyway, during the service the earthquake hit. Right after a member of the choir sang I Will Raise Them Up.
On another note, RIP Joe “Count Floyd” Flaherty.Replies: @BB753, @MEH 0910
But keep in mind that death is universal in all ages and among all peoples and religions. Humans have been confronting death from the moment that they gained consciousness and every society has found some way of coping with it. In the past it was much more common and would strike not just mainly the elderly but people of all ages at any time.
So while this path works for you, there are many other roads that take other people to the same place.
Not long ago, my mother in law passed away at a very advanced age. On the night that she breathed her last, 3 of the women who had been helping her (she remained at home the whole time) happened to be present. When it was all done, one of the women, who was a church going lady from Jamaica (a fine person BTW) asked that we gather in a circle so that she could say a prayer in which she evoked her Lord. Needless to say, I didn't stop her. Even though this was not my Lord or my mother-in-law's, or even the Lord of the other women, it was hers and if this brought her comfort and closure, I was not going to argue with her. And who knows - maybe Jesus really is up there and having this lady put in a good word for the departed couldn't hurt. But most importantly, this was her way of dealing with the loss and this was not the right time or place to be arguing about theology.
And Dick Van Dyke is a former alcoholic and chain smoker. Talk about genetic luck of the draw…
A truck driving lesbo named Spike
Hauled dildos up and down the pike.
When asked by the fuzz,
What it was that she does,
She replied, “I’m a fake dick van dyke.”
Since Steve was adopted, his father’s longevity has no bearing on his lifespan. But I hope that he continues to inform and entertain us for a long time.
A truck driving lesbo named Spike
Hauled dildos up and down the pike.
When asked by the fuzz,
What it was that she does,
She replied, "I'm a fake dick van dyke."Replies: @Frau Katze
That’s pretty funny! (I’m out of response buttons).
Youtube videos can now I think be made to auto-generate transcripts, which aren’t perfect but are better than nowt.
It may be only that the video maker can ask for a transcript to be generated. Not sure.
In the aftermath of my father's death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness - that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone ("The iron horse has broken down, finally" as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear - that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love - love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it's struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it's my wife's smiling face. Sometimes it's an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it's the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it's the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it's God's Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life - including death of every kind - bearable... and more.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian, @hhsiii, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
That’s beautiful. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAGyh7Lr9PU
Kuhn is ignoring Baggini’s theses that immortality, thus defined, is ineluctably boring. Kuhn was typically female at the end- I want it to be so, and I refuse to even consider it might be boring. Gimme that pill.
But- it is boring.
Yet, both of them are limited (although Baggini is much better). For instance, he could have asked: if you had schizophrenia, would you like to live forever like that? A potential answer “I would, but without schizo” means nothing: in that case, it is schizo that defines you as a personality. Or clinical depression. Or- what about multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder? Which one out of, say, 50 personalities would you like to live forever? Would you like to live forever as an idiot?
Even without these extreme questions, the point is: human personality is a flux of impressions & psychological functions (emotion, imagination, intelligence, will, intuition ..) of a body strung together by memory that constitutes identity. But, any experience has a duration & saturation. We experience life differently from dogs & lobsters. Even if we take only creatures with brains, we see that 3 things (apart from copulation, which is not necessary) characterize any life: eat, shit (exchange of energy) & sleep. Without them- what would constitute “immortality”? Do immortal beings live without eating, shitting & sleeping? If yes- what do they do? And if not- every thing comes, after some time, to naught. Every experience exhausts itself after some time. Our brains & CNS are built that way. People divorce after 20, 30, 40…years. With our speed of processing information, it is unthinkable that a couple would want to stay together for, say, million years. The same goes for any experience.
It is absolutely impossible that any person, mentally sane, given the speed of our processing of information, would want to live- even permanently strong, successful…- for a million years. One would become disgusted & bored of being himself/herself. Personality, any personality, is, after some time, a straitjacket.
What Baggini & Kuhn both got wrong is Eternity. Eternity is not endless time; it is, by all serious theologians & religious thinkers, defined as completely another mode of being, superimposed on & containing temporality. In other words, they’re both clueless.
And they are clueless re. immortality. What most serious traditions (and even some not too dumb New Agers) talk about is Higher Self, an immortal spark (metaphorically) which is somehow divine- and not the empirical psyche that eventually goes to dust (and which is the topic of Kuhn-Baggini discussion). It is the theme of all gnosis, east & west, that the essence of empirical psyche is “distilled”, transformed & preserved in the expanded individuality of the Self, living supra spatio-temporal life which is the true one, and not reduced to our empirical selves which fluctuate over time.
Individual empirical personality inevitably becomes tiresome.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
“22nd Century Schizoid Man”?
It's just so evident to a critical mind they reflect the state of mind, culture & epoch they are situated in.
In the aftermath of my father's death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness - that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone ("The iron horse has broken down, finally" as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear - that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love - love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it's struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it's my wife's smiling face. Sometimes it's an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it's the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it's the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it's God's Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life - including death of every kind - bearable... and more.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian, @hhsiii, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
I thank God every day that I have been permitted to experience the reality of the image of God in me. Had that not been so, I would be a bitter enemy of Christianity and of the church. Thanks to this act of grace, my life has meaning and my inner eye was opened to the beauty and grandeur of dogma. No matter what the world thinks of religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind. He has a living faith.
C.G. Jung
Yes, they work quite well out here. We are ninety-something percent white, after all.
There was a time when much of America was like us…
Little brother Jerry only made it to 86. His slightly older teen neighbor, Gene Hackman, lost his chain-smoking mother in 1962 not to cancer, but to a fire she started. Fourteen years later, Jack Cassidy lost his life in the same manner.
The coincidences pile up: Cassidy and Jerry Van Dyke were both married to women named Shirley Jones. And, speaking of 1958 births, Tzipi Livni was born on the same day as Kevin Bacon. How many degrees of separation there?
Or as I would say: Were you reared by wolves?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
And what really happened to your brother?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/In_the_Court_of_the_Crimson_King_-_40th_Anniversary_Box_Set_-_Front_cover.jpegReplies: @Bardon Kaldian
Slightly OT- it’s kind of disappointing when one studies the afterlife (I had a few strong “spiritual” experiences, but they don’t have anything to do with the profile of the afterlife). Having read tons of works on the topic, any angle & culture, high & low, esoterica, occultism, religion literature…. everything is all too human.
It’s just so evident to a critical mind they reflect the state of mind, culture & epoch they are situated in.
Life imitates art imitates life, or is it the other way around?
https://youtu.be/-O29ZA24Jao?si=Tk3J1N43R6HiJH1m
A lot of outcomes are the result of genetics. That’s kind of the original thesis of this blog.
My father was a chain smoker and alcoholic who never did change his habits. He died at age 85, in his driveway, getting out of his Lincoln Continental after driving to the store to buy cigarettes.
He taught me how to grill steaks.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/harvard-study-high-olive-oil-consumption-associated-with-longevityReplies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
Applied topically, or through a particular orifice?
Please reply ASAP—I’m at the Whole Foods salad bar and an elderly couple is approaching!
>ha ha ha I know right but like for real did you buy the fertilizer?
BAP’s bona fides as an American nationalist include:
1. Describing Heartiste and Ricky Vaughn as the true leaders of the alt right. This, in the middle of the nationalist revolution of 2014-17. I am fairly confident he intended the statement to praise and to boost, rather than to direct trolls and antiwhites toward them.
2. Calling for Americans to focus single-mindedly on ending immigration.
What and who can beat the above in terms of insight, selflessness, loyalty, strategy, and advocacy of real and lasting change?
Steve was “assigned” the wrong birthday at first by Wikipedia. It was eventually corrected. But check Dec. 28th, too– the correction might not have transferred to other pages.
(Dec. 28: The Feast of the Holy Innocents!)
(Dec. 28: The Feast of the Holy Innocents!)Replies: @Frau Katze
He’s not on the Dec 28 page either. It’s possible to edit Wiki pages but I don’t know how to and I’m not really interested in going there. All I have is an iPhone.
Now wait a minute. You’re saying lifespan is 100% genetic? Steve got nothing, not good habits, not even good advice, from Ernie? How much of Dad’s long life is the result of his good decisions, decisions which Steve can make himself?
Let’s say identical twins are adopted by two separate families, one secular and academic, the other staunchly Catholic but compassionately so. The twins have the same inborn propensity to homoerotic desires. But one is encouraged to “be true to himself”, to “do his own thing”, especially after his parents divorce, and takes off for the Castro at 17. The other is encouraged to the same ideals of chastity as his adoptive siblings, and chooses to live out a spiritual life in accordance with his beliefs.
Are you telling me they have the exact same chances of contracting AIDS, with the resultant effects on their lifespans?
One is adopted by chain smokers, and picks up the habit, the other by Mormons. They have the same odds of lung cancer? One goes to a coal mining family, the other to ski instructors, and enter those respective fields themselves. They then have the same odds of black lung disease?
The answer to “genes mean nothing” isn’t “genes mean everything”.
Ah, well. Nevertheless. Here’s hoping Steve’s own good genes and healthy habits keep him around for a long while.
He appears to be deeply unhappy with himself and takes it out on others he deems unworthy of his company. The problem is, he keeps coming back and imposing his company on others.
Nonetheless, I hope he (finally) finds some solace in God’s Grace and realize that his Catholic faith isn’t just about the finer points of dogma, but love of his neighbors.
https://youtu.be/LDxOZ6cv-DU?si=4-G3q1n8O6ujg412&t=22Replies: @Mike Tre
Why can’t it be both?
I might have been unclear. Schools are necessary, universal education is not. With a population as large as ours, government is necessary to provide the oversight and resources consistently. I also don’t trust locals to effectively allocate resources, witness Texas spending on athletics, or God only knows what those hippies in the Northwest would spend on if given a completely free reign.
Schools, like other government functions, are hated by the right for the wrong reasons. The state is fine, it has provided the basis for civilized life since the Neolithic. It isn’t fulfilling its function because our culture is perverse which is reflected in our leadership which affects our laws which affects our culture, a horrible cycle which probably can’t be fixed
==
The utility of public schools begins and ends with demand constraints which do not allow for competing providers within the range of the good. That's an issue with dispersed populations and small clientele. You have about 70% of the population living in metropolitan urban settlements or nearby. Of these, maybe 15% of the youths aren't suitable for common-and-garden schooling. For the rest of the population, voucher distribution to parents will suffice.
==
Note the paraphenalia surrounding the use of public agency as a delivery vehicle - the unions and the idiot teachers' colleges as an occupational entry portal.
Please, provide a link!LOL, it makes sense!Replies: @Anonymous
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/was-ralph-waldo-emerson-a-satanist/
Slightly OT – Since you highlight the word “forte” I’ll add that in my long lifetime the pronunciation of that word has changed. How many of you youngsters know that it used to be pronounced “fort”? Nowadays it is pronounced almost exclusively “fortay” which sounds too affected for my taste. As an example of the old way I’ve provided a link to an episode of What’s My Line where Arlene Francis uses the old pronunciation that I learned. It’s at about the 4 minute 53 second portion of the video.
Interesting. Merriam-Webster lists both pronunciations. Although "fort" would perhaps be more correct, to my mind.
Well I guess the original word comes from French, however even in French it would not be pronounced "fortay" -- that is closer to Italian. It appears that people are confusing it with the Italian musical term "forte" (strong), which is a different thing and NOT the original use of the word in French and later English.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forte
https://grammarist.com/words/forte/
Regents examinations are useful for quality control, provided that you don’t have school employees administering them and provided they aren’t laden with nonsense content.
==
The utility of public schools begins and ends with demand constraints which do not allow for competing providers within the range of the good. That’s an issue with dispersed populations and small clientele. You have about 70% of the population living in metropolitan urban settlements or nearby. Of these, maybe 15% of the youths aren’t suitable for common-and-garden schooling. For the rest of the population, voucher distribution to parents will suffice.
==
Note the paraphenalia surrounding the use of public agency as a delivery vehicle – the unions and the idiot teachers’ colleges as an occupational entry portal.
https://youtu.be/SyowDlx6-dI?si=OEXWIklfxrr1t4kgReplies: @Dumbo
Hi,
Interesting. Merriam-Webster lists both pronunciations. Although “fort” would perhaps be more correct, to my mind.
Well I guess the original word comes from French, however even in French it would not be pronounced “fortay” — that is closer to Italian. It appears that people are confusing it with the Italian musical term “forte” (strong), which is a different thing and NOT the original use of the word in French and later English.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forte
https://grammarist.com/words/forte/
Most of them haven't left Mom's basement in six months.Replies: @anonymous
Why is it always the basement? Wouldn’t Mom have at least a 2-bedroom house? Mom wouldn’t allow her kid upstairs?
.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Not Raul
He’s even younger than that. He’s from the Polystyrene Age.
Operation Wetback required fertilizer?
Now go on Red Scare. And let them get you drunk.
It worked for Razib.
Dasha’s career is already “nuked” and she is doing fine.
(sailer staggering out of a lower east side apartment, lipstick on collar, trying to find a cab).
In the aftermath of my father's death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness - that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone ("The iron horse has broken down, finally" as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear - that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love - love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it's struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it's my wife's smiling face. Sometimes it's an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it's the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it's the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it's God's Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life - including death of every kind - bearable... and more.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian, @hhsiii, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
I was at a Catholic Church in New Jersey today for a memorial service for a friend who died of cancer at 59. I hadn’t seen her in almost 40 years.
I was a little miffed the priest said if you are Catholic you can receive communion. If not cross your arms for a blessing. I was raised Episcopalian. I almost took the host anyway but decided it would be disrespectful.
Anyway, during the service the earthquake hit. Right after a member of the choir sang I Will Raise Them Up.
On another note, RIP Joe “Count Floyd” Flaherty.
So where will Steve get an obituary? Not the MSM (if the country and institutions like the New York Times exist in 15-25 years). Perhaps National Review though they probably hold him in too much contempt.
Maybe he could be the subject of one of the offbeat obituaries in The Economist. Steve, you should get your publicist on this.
I don’t really buy the ‘blacks benefit more from PEDs’ argument, of course Jessie Owens was famously fast before the ‘PEDs era’. Probably they started taking over certain types of sport as many more opportunities opened up to them in America after the 60s (which is when the ‘PEDs era’ coincidentally also started taking off).
also a personal anecdote: at school we had the national junior 100meters champion in my class (a white guy), but despite being ‘national champion’ he was unable to win our school sports day 100 meters, being soundly thrashed by a black kid (of Nigerian extraction I believe). ‘Black kid’ was scouted by some football clubs (that’s ‘soccer football’ 4 u yanqis) but he wasn’t terribly disciplined (he was a smoker etc; never saw him around school much either) so ultimately didn’t amount to anything sports-wise. However, I recently found out he became a martial arts instructor and credited martial arts with instilling discipline in his life. To the point; neither of those guys were on PEDs at that time…
lot of androgen receptors in the traps, so visually one of the first things to look for when you suspect somebody is on a steroids cycle, is disproportionate trap development. during max hypertrophy in bodybuilders on max steroids they have giant ridiculous traps. other athletes in other sports get this to a lesser degree.
traps don’t have much to do with running. total upper body contribution to the gait propelling you forward is about 10%. of course sprinters have more type 2A fibers than other runners so they have more muscle size, even in the upper body, than other runners.
but i don’t really see that telltale sign of trap development on any track & field guys in the 70s. that’s why i know they weren’t users. at absolute most, some Soviets were on lower doses, well below what the Soviet lifters were taking. i don’t really see any physiques similar to bodybuilder pattern response until the early 90s.
one specific beneficial random thing – calves don’t respond that much to steroids, have lower androgen receptors, and are hard to develop. but that’s exactly what you would want if you were a runner, since high attachment calves with less hypertrophy is mechanically best. so sprinters can really juice to the max with minimal downsides short term. all the gains will be in the quads, hams, and glutes, to a lesser extent, the upper body. squat and bench will go up 50%. target numbers for international sprinting are like 1.5x bodyweight bench, 2x bodyweight squat. on drugs you get there fast.
Ben Johnson:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/G6DJ0R/olympics-athletics-mens-100m-heats-seoul-ben-johnson-during-the-100m-G6DJ0R.jpg
Jesse Owens:
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/race.jpeg
Carl Lewis:
https://www.tolo.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/RTXGQ6U.jpg
Usain Bolt:
https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201805/541621430.jpg
Michael Johnson:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/92/82/20928264435fc9ad28880f99de9a843b.jpg
Steroids or not, all of these guys have thick calves, because plantar flexion is extremely important in acceleration and overall speed.
And Sailer's citation of OJ (LOL) is absurd. Sprinters don't need "the rest of their musculature" which I take to mean upper body musculature, built up in order to run fast. Which seems like a bigger hindrance to sprinting, big arms and a wide back, or big strong calves? Which muscle actually contributes to overall speed and acceleration.
"hey can build up the rest of their musculature without much building up the amount of weight they must move around to run fast?"
This doesn't make any sense. So heavier calves (that contribute directly to generating the force required for speed) are bad because they weight more, but heavier musculature in the rest of the body (muscles that don't contribute to generating force for speed) doesn't weight more somehow, and is good.
So, blacks, as OJ Simpson pointed out in the 1970s, tend to have thin calves relative to the rest of the musculature, like a race horse, they can build up the rest of their musculature without much building up the amount of weight they must move around to run fast?
That sounds like a plausible argument for this theory.
Do you ever reply to the refutations to your nonsense? Do you ever provide citations? Do you even understand that “steroids” aren’t the only PED’s that were available in the 70’s?
Ben Johnson:
Jesse Owens:
Carl Lewis:
Usain Bolt:
Michael Johnson:
Steroids or not, all of these guys have thick calves, because plantar flexion is extremely important in acceleration and overall speed.
And Sailer’s citation of OJ (LOL) is absurd. Sprinters don’t need “the rest of their musculature” which I take to mean upper body musculature, built up in order to run fast. Which seems like a bigger hindrance to sprinting, big arms and a wide back, or big strong calves? Which muscle actually contributes to overall speed and acceleration.
“hey can build up the rest of their musculature without much building up the amount of weight they must move around to run fast?”
This doesn’t make any sense. So heavier calves (that contribute directly to generating the force required for speed) are bad because they weight more, but heavier musculature in the rest of the body (muscles that don’t contribute to generating force for speed) doesn’t weight more somehow, and is good.
C.G. JungReplies: @BB753
Jung’s god is that of the masons, i.e. either the Aristotelian Prime Mover, or Lucifer.
I was a little miffed the priest said if you are Catholic you can receive communion. If not cross your arms for a blessing. I was raised Episcopalian. I almost took the host anyway but decided it would be disrespectful.
Anyway, during the service the earthquake hit. Right after a member of the choir sang I Will Raise Them Up.
On another note, RIP Joe “Count Floyd” Flaherty.Replies: @BB753, @MEH 0910
Back in the old days, you had to be Catholic AND gone to confession before communion. BTW, I think now Anglicans and Catholics are in communion.
In the aftermath of my father's death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness - that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone ("The iron horse has broken down, finally" as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear - that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love - love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it's struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it's my wife's smiling face. Sometimes it's an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it's the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it's the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it's God's Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life - including death of every kind - bearable... and more.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian, @hhsiii, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
Beautiful stuff.
My father in his later years, before he slipped into a sort of non-lucid state, gave me one final piece of clear advice. He told me, “A man is not made by macho posing, or by strength, or by getting his way — a real man is made by daring. A man is a person who makes things HAPPEN, who lays the ground for things to HAPPEN. And if he’s guided by right religion, then a man is a person who makes GOOD things happen.”
I was a little miffed the priest said if you are Catholic you can receive communion. If not cross your arms for a blessing. I was raised Episcopalian. I almost took the host anyway but decided it would be disrespectful.
Anyway, during the service the earthquake hit. Right after a member of the choir sang I Will Raise Them Up.
On another note, RIP Joe “Count Floyd” Flaherty.Replies: @BB753, @MEH 0910
https://deadline.com/2024/04/joe-flaherty-dead-1235873973/
Probably not. Being “a Jew” and jewishness is a choice, a state of mind. Being of Jewish descent is different thing. A couple of reported statements from BAP that may be revealing of his state of mind and of his loyalty:
“Ending immigration should be number one priority…”
– BAP
“It’s a mistake and hubris to think you can extend American identity beyond peoples of northwest Europe and a few others who can readily assimilate to Anglo Protestant culture.”
– BAP
castefootball.com has spent the last couple decades illustrating the obvious bias in college and pro sports that favors negro athletes.
Around here, a lot of people like to think that steroids were magically 100% absent from pro baseball until those eeeevil Bash Brothers started poking each other in the booty with needles in the late 1980's, but steroids and other PED's have been widely used by pro athletes since at least the 1960's. It's likely that the messianic Reggie Jackson was using roids in the 70's, but because he wasn't stacking at levels of Canseco and McGuire, then we just pretend like he didn't at all. Also because he's black, and we've all been taught that blacks are the greatest athletes ever. Then it bleeds into more ridiculous contentions like he had a 160 IQ. Yeah ok. He also crapped golden eggs and shot literacy inducing laser beams from his green eyes.Replies: @OilcanFloyd
Promoting black athletes is a definite strategy, and the same goes for black coaches, announcers, and front office people. Outside of athletics, most of that is demanded with no history of success.
Anyone who has been around steroids and PEDs knows that they can turn someone you could compete with or beat into someone you don’t belong on the same field or track with. If there were a way to artificially enhance black coaches, I’m sure it would be done.
“Ending immigration should be number one priority..."
- BAP
"It's a mistake and hubris to think you can extend American identity beyond peoples of northwest Europe and a few others who can readily assimilate to Anglo Protestant culture."
- BAPReplies: @JimDandy, @Frau Katze
Nice try, Costin. Gaza is the Somme. Got it. “War is a universal part of life that has some unpleasant aspects. “Genocide” is an incoherent concept under which some parts of war are wrongly bundled. It’s also morally bankrupt as the lives of civilians are worth less, not more than soldiers. Was the Somme “genocide”? –BAP
You achieved to be completely wrong.
“Ending immigration should be number one priority..."
- BAP
"It's a mistake and hubris to think you can extend American identity beyond peoples of northwest Europe and a few others who can readily assimilate to Anglo Protestant culture."
- BAPReplies: @JimDandy, @Frau Katze
Wikipedia says he’s of Romanian and Jewish descent and was baptized Romanian Orthodox.
I don’t know anything else about him.
How so?
Too calm. I think Steve has said himself he tends to be a little too thoughtful and careful in speaking, amending and hedging here and there. John Kerry, if John Kerry had an original thought in his head.
It’s depressing but what works now is speaking at a faster clip and with more abandon. I don’t understand the appeal myself. Ben Shapiro talks in 1.5 speed like a high school debate competitor and I find it unbearable, aside from the lame content.
I actually read BAP’s book and thought about half of it worked as tongue-in-cheek parody, though I’m not sure that’s what he intended. I haven’t paid much attention to him since and have the impression he’s not a friend of white advocacy. The exchange re Malaysia–his fears the Malays will act to limit dominance by hustling high-IQ Chinese for the benefits of Malays tells me all I need to know about him. Thank you Steve for your thoughtful response to that.
And speaking of speaking–how is BAP so successful? I find nothing compelling or charismatic about his voice and thoughts. I give up. I have no idea what people are looking for.
People read, listen, and watch not to be informed or to think, but to confirm prejudice. Sailer’s ongoing popularity is owed entirely to him providing a platform for disaffected white people to complain about American racial politics, as I’ve pointed out before. It certainly isn’t due to his accurate takes on contemporary issues.
Gay Zionist BAP gaslighting gullible right-wingers with faux Nietzschean morality: “You should be like bronze age tribes riding down their enemies on chariots and stealing their women!”
October 7th: Paragliding Hamas warriors flying into a rave to capture Israeli women hostages.
BAP: “No! Not like that!”
The Right Stuff dot biz
Justice Report dot news
Antelope Hill Publishing dot com
Hyphen dash Report dot com
Holocaust dot claims
Substack dot com slash at whitepapersinstitute
Substack dot com slash at borzoi
Substack dot com slash at LITTORIA
Odysee dot com slash at modernpolitics
Odysee dot com slash at WarStrike
Odysee dot com slash at MarkCollett
None of us knows the hour of our passing. Steve could still be around in 30 years and you could be dead tomorrow. So the fact that you are (I am guessing) young does not mean that Steve needs to consider his mortality any more than you do.
In a way, it is good for humanity that the young have SOME delusions of immortality – this leads them to take risks that older heads never would (getting in an outrigger canoe and sailing over the horizon in the hope of finding a new island). Sometime such risks lead to great discoveries.
But most of the time you just die of thirst in the middle of the ocean. The ones that win the Darwin Award get subtracted from the gene pool so that humans don’t evolve toward an unlimited (and therefore foolhardy) tolerance for risk.
Probably because you are arrogant and immature, you haven’t given proper thought (which is to say some consideration but no so much as it prevents you from going on with your life) to this matter and should you learn that you have some fatal condition (keeping in mind that we all have a fatal condition) it will blow your mind in a way that would not blow Steve’s.
In the aftermath of my father's death earlier in my life, I felt a juxtaposition of different emotions. I felt relief, both that a large, oppressive presence looming over my life was no more and that his lengthy suffering from illness, was mercifully over. I felt sadness - that I would never see this giant figure of my youth, who had towered over me, sheltered me and raised me, sacrificed for me and given me so much, was gone ("The iron horse has broken down, finally" as I said to my wife once). I also felt an enormous regret that, in my self-concern and bitterness, I had robbed him of the opportunity to meet his yet-to-be-born grandchildren, to the great loss to both parties. I also experienced fear - that his turn had come and gone and that mine was next, more specifically that I would be the next generation man in my family to die.
Yet, in the aftermath of my anguish and grief, I eventually arrived at two personal transformations. First, I regained my Christian faith (specifically I converted and became a Catholic) that dulled any fear of death as I gained a small foretaste of Heaven. Second, I became a father (more than once) and came to an understand that I was in this life to give, to sacrifice, rather than to take. This has led to the fully-realized comprehension that my purpose in life was to love - love God, love my family, love my friends and neighbors, and love my community and country, that is to say, to give myself to others without the expectation of receiving anything in return. And this understanding has made it possible for me to overcome any trepidation of death (even of my own beloved children), any bitterness over failures or bad turn of events, and to realize that any time I have had in this life has been a great gift.
Life is, of course, not a bed of roses. Often it's struggle and suffering. But even in depths of despair and darkness, I see the light. Sometimes it's my wife's smiling face. Sometimes it's an affectionate hug from a friend. Sometimes it's the delight of my children (so rare in their sullen and moody teenage years!). And yet other times, it's the appreciative handshake of someone I helped. And sometimes, even under the most trying and harrowing circumstances, it's God's Grace revealed at an unexpected and surprising moment. And that makes all the ugly and sad things in life - including death of every kind - bearable... and more.Replies: @Anonymous, @Bardon Kaldian, @hhsiii, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D
First of all, thank you for sharing. I am glad for you that you have found a path that brings you comfort.
But keep in mind that death is universal in all ages and among all peoples and religions. Humans have been confronting death from the moment that they gained consciousness and every society has found some way of coping with it. In the past it was much more common and would strike not just mainly the elderly but people of all ages at any time.
So while this path works for you, there are many other roads that take other people to the same place.
Not long ago, my mother in law passed away at a very advanced age. On the night that she breathed her last, 3 of the women who had been helping her (she remained at home the whole time) happened to be present. When it was all done, one of the women, who was a church going lady from Jamaica (a fine person BTW) asked that we gather in a circle so that she could say a prayer in which she evoked her Lord. Needless to say, I didn’t stop her. Even though this was not my Lord or my mother-in-law’s, or even the Lord of the other women, it was hers and if this brought her comfort and closure, I was not going to argue with her. And who knows – maybe Jesus really is up there and having this lady put in a good word for the departed couldn’t hurt. But most importantly, this was her way of dealing with the loss and this was not the right time or place to be arguing about theology.
The NYC Judge presiding over a Trump case has issued a gag order forbidding Trump from mentioning that the Judges daughter is being paid $10 million by the Biden campaign.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/peak-corruption-jesse-watters-reveals-multi-million-dollar/?utm_source=rssReplies: @J.Ross, @Inquiring Mind, @Ian M.
So corruption levels in the U.S. are decreasing?
did we figure out the putative mechanism? probably DHT receptors on type 2A muscle fibers. and guess who has the most.
so they would get the most synthetic androgen molecules to bind per dose.
No. Steve gets it right nearly 100 percent when he’s analyzing things in his area of expertise. But good analysis is like good ideas–useless without action. The putative praise of “he’d rather be right than win” should be considered a backhanded compliment. After decades of being right while losing the world to monsters one has to ask: what has this all been about? Making ourselves feel better while things go to hell? (so I guess you do have a point)
The problem is we are deluded into thinking the debates are simply about determining the truth of reality–if we just establish that people will have to adopt sanity! Ha! When in fact the big questions are about what kind of world do we want. What kind of world do we want to strive toward? What tradeoffs do we want to make? Our enemies understand this; to them winning is being right.
There needs to be a moral component to a worldview. There needs to be anger where anger is due. There needs to be some fire behind the illuminating light.