When in doubt… start writing.
I got nothing. I don’t particularly want to write about the System or hypocrisy. I was dozing at the koi pond area and before total sleep I kept hearing words in English but in no particular order. Like hearing sentences but jumbled: “dozing sleep English no total particular kept write System got….” It made no sense. And then sleep would claim me. As if I was swimming in a sea of words in no particular order. Later I concluded that it was either how AI first got trained - being fed imbecilic soup - that they had to find patterns within or someone was eavesdropping on someone else in a foreign language but the translation was being done literally without accounting for meaning, grammar, conventions and so on. Like saying: Hey this what doing you? It had to be one of those two options. The third option seemed unlikely but I made a video about it anyway. The third possibility was I was inside a newly born child and I was hearing things the way they might while retaining my comprehension of English. Then I would jolt awake and I would see the koi pond area but right before I geolocated myself there was this moment of incredible wonder. Wow… what am I seeing? Everything was incredibly beautiful and utterly incomprehensible. That must be how a very young child looks at the world.
Here’s my conclusion I mused finally. The fact that this world exists is beyond any doubt whatsoever proof of creation. I mean, it’s one things to say it, it’s another to experience it. Like getting a phenomenological proof stronger than a mathematical proof. The jumbled words preceding and the ordered world after you see.. The creator could have jumbled up everything … time running haphazardly, Newton’s laws not working, etc etc … I don’t wish to give aliens any ideas so I won’t elaborate any further, I am simply trying to convey to the reader the essence of what I felt. It all works, it’s all interconnected, it’s all a damn symphony and it’s glorious…. proof positive. Can’t deny it. Hitchens be damned. Wait he was… shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
Anyway, the FT wishes to point out that Platner wasn’t an average working man like his ads and the Democratic Party made it out to be. They then lazily reference an older New York Times article about it. It’s not truly damning, the guy doesn’t have a lot of money that’s true. He is on paid disability that’s also true due to war wounds. It’s his upper class and privileged background they were questioning. Now don’t get me wrong but for the FT, the newspaper of the Establishment, to criticize upper class backgrounds is like… God singing a Shaggy song saying “It wasn’t me”. As Pierre keeps insisting, they’re all the same. The System breeds them, raises them in both childhood and rituals and then sees them off to their eventual graves. It’s a closed loop and - we - the average people that George Carlin kept claiming to represent are “not in it”. Nothing new FT… boooooo.
Speaking of mathematics I found out the other day, dear FT, that addition and multiplication have two different algorithms. Actually 3 different algorithms, the last one is when things get truly gigantic and multiplications start going towards truly massive numbers. Some Russian mathematician whose name I have promptly forgotten. Beside the readers probably don’t care. Some guy who name is in all mathematical calculations done by AI. I mention that only because if you compare the ordinary way of multiplication they teach in schools, with the faster way of multiplication he derived using simple algebra, you notice that you’re adding the digits. Now that genuinely funny. It’s not actual addition like 5+5 is 10, it’s like 55 × 22 can best be derived by adding 5+ 5 and 2+2 or something like that. Look it up, it’s fascinating stuff. Like the Creator saying, you could derive it the longer way, but if you want a shorter and faster answer to multiplication, do addition. A nod and a wink from up above. Proof of creation. If that doesn’t make you believe in creation, I don't know what will.
Isn’t this far more interesting than talking about the usual stuff they talk about on news media? By the time you’ve pondered everything I have written and then re-read it backwards or forwards, you’ve gotten yourself an intelligent boost. That’s probably why I don’t mind people spending an inordinate amount of time on this website. There are other techniques to have a better time with newspaper websites and search functions. I’ll disclose them some other time. Okay the guy’s name is Karatsuba. Anatoly Karatsuba. For what it’s worth, you may have noticed that I’ve been pushing the idea that Western Civilization doesn’t have anything to worry about in terms of being diminished. The achievements are extraordinary. I am hoping however, to at some point, also start providing introductions to other great men and women from all civilizations. The story of mankind is worth blogging about.
My video today is less than 5 minutes. There was one other topic I wanted to discuss but it shall have to wait. It was about Christian slavery. I was listening to a lecture on Spotify and she was discussing how the Quakers had to come up with some interesting justifications to override the basic Christian law: do unto others…. so they could buy and use slaves. Imagine their meeting eh? Okay my dear gathered Quakers, the problem before us today is how to justify to God that we can buy slaves. Can you think of any way to do it? And they did. They somehow figured out an away to become slaveowners. That too is the story of Western Civilization. What I am saying is … well you can figure it out for yourself. The video of the lecture on substack is at the bottom.
If you want the short version here it is from AI.
Several major Christian denominations in the United States actively justified slavery and participated in slave ownership, particularly in the antebellum South. While Christian abolitionists also existed, the institutional churches overwhelmingly supported the practice, leading to significant schisms by the mid-19th century. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The primary Christian sects that justified slavery and bought slaves include:
Southern Baptists: Formed in 1845 specifically after splitting from northern Baptists over the issue of slaveholders being appointed as missionaries. Southern Baptist leaders widely defended the institution, arguing it was a benevolent system that allowed for the Christianization of Africans. [1, 2]
Methodists: In 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church split over whether a bishop could own slaves. The Southern faction—the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—became a major proponent of proslavery theology, and many Methodist clergy and congregants owned enslaved people. [1, 2]
Presbyterians: The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America also split into Northern and Southern branches (1857) over the slavery issue. Southern Presbyterians vigorously defended slavery as divinely ordained and held slaves within their congregations. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Episcopalians (Anglicans): The Episcopal Church in the American South had deep ties to the planter class. Many prominent clergy and wealthy parishioners, particularly in states like Virginia and South Carolina, were slaveholders. [1]
Roman Catholics: Particularly in heavily Catholic regions like Louisiana, the Catholic Church included many slave-owning members. While some early popes condemned the transatlantic slave trade, American bishops and religious orders (like the Jesuits) held enslaved people to support their institutions and missions. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
How They Justified It
Christian defenders of slavery used a combination of theological, economic, and social arguments: [1]
Biblical Literalism: Ministers frequently cited the "Curse of Ham" from the Book of Genesis, arguing that Africans were the descendants of Canaan and ordained by God to be "servants of servants." [1, 2, 3]
New Testament Subordination: They pointed to passages like Ephesians 6:5, which instruct slaves to obey their masters, using this to argue that the Bible sanctioned and regulated the institution. [1]
Paternalism: Many argued that slavery was a benevolent institution that rescued enslaved people from "barbarism" and provided them with Christian salvation and care. [1, 2]
If you're interested in learning more, I can provide details on:
Specific historical documents or resolutions where these churches apologized for their past
How enslaved Christians reinterpreted the Bible to create their own "invisible church"
The timeline of how and when these denominations eventually repudiated slavery
Let me know what you'd like to explore next.
