We have been looking at self-control as the foundation of all civic and political liberty. Living as we do in a time when such liberty is eroding at alarming rates, we need to make sure that when we run our spiritual inventories we do not do what sinners always love to do, which is to blame someone else.
Douglas Wilson
June 2016 Monthly Archive
On George Grant, Plagiarism, and Omnibus
“blame someone else”
@KirkCEO: #GreyfriarsHall
Well, and then there are the Greyfriars who get arrested for DUI. I’ve bailed them out a bunch, too. #GreyfriarsHall
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) March 26, 2015
And the attempted strangulation guy. So I guess I go to prison a lot. But it’s not like I’m, you know, IN prison.
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) March 26, 2015
#randomthought If you can get laid in a prison cell, is it still considered penetrating, conquering, colonizing, and planting?
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) March 26, 2015
It had better not be receiving, surrendering, accepting; that’s for damn sure.
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) March 26, 2015
See “you can get high and get laid in a 6′ × 8′ prison cell” & “A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”
On Hubris III: “shaming”
“The cause of the pleasure for those committing hubris is that they think that, by doing an ill turn, they themselves rise above.” — Aristotle Continue reading
From the combox on Blog & Mablog
I added the hyperlink in the word “mangina” because, having never heard it, I made the mistake of looking it up. Apart from that, the text is original. Here’s the original source:
jeers1215 says:
Monday, January 19, 2015 at 4:13 pmI can just hear the gynocentric delusions starting to melt. You can’t imagine what it’s like to be a man. No one’s asking you. Regardless of what your supplicating mangina tells you, he is alone with you. And you will never be able to understand or satisfy his desires in the way that he is apparently bending over backwards to do for you. Pastor Wilson is presenting some brave truths here, painful truths that most poor idiots are going to miss. Romance is a story we tell ourselves, but it doesn’t move the gears. Your happy little home was bought at the price of a man’s freedom.
Pastor Wilson is offering the true pretense of marriage, finally with the fraudulent language of idealism stripped away. If a man marries without being convinced of these things, he enslaves himself to a falsehood. This is the world that men must live in and no other.
“It is not necessary to take someone aside privately after they have just done something publicly.”
This is as good a place as any to make note of the fact that public controversy is not bound by the rules of confrontation laid out for us in Matthew 18. When Peter sinned at Antioch, Paul rebuked him publicly, face to face (Gal. 2:11), and he did this on the spot. It is not necessary to take someone aside privately after they have just done something publicly. I do not know how many times I have been asked about this. Let’s say I have written critically of a recently published book — ‘Did you contact Tony Campolo privately before you wrote the book review?’
Douglas Wilson
Stuart P. Green: “The Psychology of Plagiarism”
“Finally, there is undoubtedly a significant amount of plagiarism that is conscious and deliberate, the result of rational, if perverse, cost-benefit calculation.” — Stuart P. Green Continue reading
“a certain kind of mind”
This is an obvious point, but a certain kind of mind still misses it. This is because a certain kind of mind couldn’t hit a bull on the ass with a banjo.
Douglas Wilson
Memo to the CREC from KirkCEO
“a fundamental condition of cluelessness”
Pastors who voted for Obama should resign. Pastors who wed pedophiles should be the heads of their denominations.
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) June 6, 2016
See Doug Wilson Says Ministers Who Voted for Obama Should Resign
“the importance of breaking some arms”
We learn here the importance of breaking some arms. Are there no arms today which need breaking? Is there no insolence in our halls of justice? Are there no enthroned criminals who make life wretched for the humble of the earth? And is it not true that our authorities refuse to heed what God has told them to do?
Douglas Wilson
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Zedong
“Christ Church isn’t ‘a “strong” cult,’ he [Doug Wilson] said. ‘I don’t control people or anything like that.’” — Moscow-Pullman Daily News Continue reading
Moscow Pullman Daily News Obituary
“Arrangements have been entrusted to Short’s Funeral Chapel of Moscow.” Continue reading