School vs. school

Listening to this Reformed Forum podcast (http://reformedforum.org/ctc422/), or as much of it as I did listen to before realizing how dead it is, I came to thinking about why Christians such as the ones on this podcast are so shallow and perhaps spiritually catatonic, if not dead.

The contrast that came to me was of school. Not school as most know of school but school as a higher reality. It's not a foreign notion to Christianity, even church level Christianity (the Reformation had the school of Geneva), but it's definitely a rare notion.

One element that separates school as a higher reality than anything church level Christians know of is the manner of teaching in the former. It's very different. There's no privileged position. You either have understanding or you don't, and you either are able to transfer it or you're not. Teachers rarely call themselves teachers. It's kind of a pure market environment. People just start talking, and someone gets singled out as just seeming to know more. But it's a testing both ways, with self-interest both ways, as-well-as mutual need. The teacher consolidates understanding in the act, or necessity of having to articulate it to others.

And people talk to whoever has interest. That's a very big difference I experienced when I crossed the threshold from occult realm school activity to the Christian realm. And I should say not just Christian realm but mainstream Christian realm, where you find the on-the-mark doctrine, i.e. five solas, doctrines of grace, covenant (federal) theology. In the occult realm people talked. In the mainstream Christian realm there don't seem to be individuals but establishment, guilds, groups, who when they see an outsider say, "Who are you? Go away!" (I remember the very first comment I wrote on a Christian blog. I was enthusiastic, and it was a longish comment. You know the response I got? "Why don't you get your own blog." And that was it. Interestingly - always I find it interesting - with nobody else there saying, "That's not a very nice greeting.")

In the dead-zone realm where seminaries and their products (pastors, scholars, whatever) exist there's no sense of mutual need or self-interest in the imparting of knowledge and understanding, nor is there a natural, pure market sifting of the wheat from the chaff. Guild mentalities develop, and there is no more ignorant ass than a person belonging to a privileged guild appropriating knowledge to themselves and making that knowledge what Latin phrases and contractese is to lawyers, something to be protected and used for worldly ends, with all the inane vanity attending such a use of what they never developed or discovered themselves.

Cucks in the Christian world just as cucks in the political world just want to suck jihadi ass

Ex-Jihadist Comes Forward With Stunning Statement About Donald Trump That America Needs to Hear

"They also know that Trump doesn’t care about political correctness and is unafraid to call them out for what they really are, savage and sadistic murderers stuck in the seventh century, bent on world domination and subverting the U.S. under Shariah law.

Hamid bluntly stated, “Trump gets it,” and went on to point out that Trump understands the mentality and motivations of the jihadists, as well as the most effective methods to confront and defeat them."

Sympathy for the Devil

All unregenerate human beings have sympathy for the Devil. All. Each just justifies it in different ways, mixed with more or less consciousness of their evil choices. This very much includes the unregenerate in the churches. I.e. the churchians. The first to give their dhimmi virginity to the Devil in whatever guise. This is why you don't find God's elect in the churches. We know the stench of Satan when we smell it.

"Speaking for myself, if Trump is the nominee, I won't vote for either one."

This dhimmi to the Devil churchian is looking for any reason to keep the Kingdom of Satan alive and well in the nation's capital. God, please, to hell with these churchians once and for all. Churchians are the Christian version of what cucks are in the media/political realm. When Jesus returns the Devil's religion will be hit (Marxism, Islamism), but there will be special attention paid to the cucks. The cucks in many ways are the worst of the worst.

The big brains at Triablogue turn out to be rather soft-brained in their political analysis

It's hard to describe how naive and off-the-mark this political analysis is:

http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-republicans-self-inflicted-wounds.html

It reads like somebody who is either very new to American politics or somebody who is a sort of extreme caricature of an establishment dhimmi.

Notice the denial in the post and comments of the very existence of an establishment (I'm not a fan of the French Revolution, but that's like Marie Antoinette denying there's a governing problem in 18th century France). There is also a similar establishment in Christian environments with all the similar traits as the political. Deep shallowness, comical incompetence, fear and reverence of the world, comical lack of self-awareness, condescending and smug attitudes backed up with nothing (if you are going to self-identfy as elite you should be, like, maybe elite at something, as Glenn Reynolds has said).

Donald Trump has called the establishment stupid, and establishment types and their dhimmis really don't like being called stupid. Especially in these times when their stupidity is on such wide display.

This is real, and it has nothing to do with Christianity

Want to know what 80 plus years of Marxist influence has done to establishment Christianity? Listen to these two dopes and the lunatic, narcissist, shallow bankruptcy of their discussion. One guy's an establishment historian, the other is a Protestant cleric who specializes in liberal Roman Catholic doctrine. They name-drop Ted Fickleburg who apparently was the associate professor of medieval Christian monastic use of different types of table settings and designated enforcer for Machen in his heroic push to expose his great enemy Pastor Wilbur Millburn as a liar and destroyer of the noble 14th General Assembly of greater west Pennsylvania evangelical society's reform measures regarding the placement of keyboard instruments with respect to pews in the commonly smaller church environments of the aforesaid western Pennsylvania region. Oh, my God. Don't hold a hammer while you're listening to this, it might end up in your cranium.

http://reformedforum.org/rmr99/

The devil's in the churches

Read this, establishment churchian dhimmis. May you rot in hell.

http://conservativetribune.com/ex-jihadist-donald-trump/

Experimental Christianity again

An example of the definition of experimental Christianity found at this link:

http://electofgod.blogspot.com/2015/12/what-experimental-means-vis-vis.html

is reading a book like Boston's Human Nature In its Fourfold State and coming to actually see what the wrath of God is and means. Prior you knew of 'the wrath of God', but as a doctrine, a fact. Boston gets you to see it as direct and present reality, here and now where the life blood pulses. Not merely at an intellectual or philosophical level.

And seeing our own sin in the same way.

I've tried to bug the people at Reformed Forum to dedicate shows to books like Human Nature In its Fourfold State, but they seem to be more interested in being seminary philosophers.

Here's something interesting: when the seminary types look to 'go beyond' the basics they tend to merely veer left into pseudo original, liberal theology territory; when what they need to realize is to go beyond the basics is to become more experimental, or experiential with the basics. Reduce to practice, and reduce to direct, present experiential being of the basic doctrinal truths.