Author: Mr Nobody
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In defense of my criticism of WAP
I was wondering recently what would happen if I ever ran for political office, and what might come up when people inevitably connected me to my writings. I can imagine people criticizing me for my stance as a pro-family, pro-decency politician and pointing out my own tendency to talk about sex, and particularly quoting some…
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Control vs license
Since authoritarianism tracks with disgust sensitivity, anything that is viewed as a disease will essentially predict authoritarianism. The degree to which something is viewed as a contagion (not only the degree to which it literally is a contagion) will determine the balance between authoritarianism and libertarianism. It all comes down to a matrix of control…
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On making other happy and meaning
I find that trying to make yourself happy is often far more difficult and less effective than trying to make someone else happy. Somehow, when you focus on yourself, it just doesn’t have the same effect. It’s very hard to do things for yourself and have them be very meaningful. For one thing, there is…
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Forbidden territory: polygamy
-Warning, all forbidden territory discussions are meant to be open, unfiltered, speculative explorations. They don’t represent a position, a suggestion, or a value to be embraced. They are an attempt to figure out what the arguments are for something that may be controversial, a sort of steelman exercise. Sometimes it’s helpful to think through questions…
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Reading racial animus into life
It’s strange how much the internet distorts things. If I listened to the internet, black people hate and resent me and want me to be put in my place for my crimes. But as a churchgoer and neighbor and parent and employer and owner of an ice cream store, black people are just people like…
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The value and problems with psychological theism
I think the value of Jordan Peterson’s theological outlook is that it let’s you appreciate the Bible from a perspective outside Christianity. His position is essentially is that it is right and good and useful to live as if the Bible were true. That it is metaphorically true, or true in some transcendent sense, some…
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A letter to my representatives
Hello, I just wanted to register a concern about Bill SB-182. I think it’s worth remembering that part of what caused people to lose faith in and stop feeling safe in institutions like the catholic church (as well as some workplaces) was the tendency to have a different system of law inside them. So crimes…
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Appreciate the good times
People used to tell me to treasure the precious moments of my children’s young lives, because before I knew it they would be gone. And I nodded, because I knew, and I did appreciate it. And I don’t think I could have done more or been more present. But there was still a lesson to…
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Why not swear?
Why not swear? Possibly, merely as a discipline. If you can control your tongue, you can control your speech. If you can control your speech, you can control yourself. If you can control yourself, you can control the present moment. If you can control the present moment, you can control the future. If you can…
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In response to Ibrim X Kendi
By his arguments there really isn’t such a thing as anti-racism. It’s just the opposing racism. It’s just labeling to justify a particular type of racism. Which, if you believe in a very relativistic worldview that’s only defined by power dynamics, what other alternatives are there? I’ll give him this, his position follows from his…
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