THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SPRING CLEANING | 2015-01-02

The main reason we do not have thousand-year lifespans is because evolution has given us the one we have.   Birth, sex, growing up, all these are very difficult and complex processes, and in each step of this process, birth, competition for mates, and maturation, the mortality rate has been enormous.

But evolution stops prolonging each kind of life at some point.

With machines it is necessary to do the same thing: We have to take it apart, check each part, and correct.   And the time comes when we replace them completely.

The lesson is that out in the real world, every functioning being and thing is torn down and rebuilt new by nature.

We ourselves age and take that into account.

That being which is not from time to time started anew and afresh becomes a disease and becomes decrepit.

Examples are endless.   Academia had gone far beyond the comic in its pointless Scholasticism, and it took centuries for Occam's Razor to sink in even partially.

Medicine was a tragic comedy until it was simply totally abandoned and rebuilt in the nineteenth century and Galen's bumbling sorcery totally forgotten.

And Western academe is steadily falling back to the Guru Age India had reached when we got there, with a little brown man dispensing Wisdom with a begging cup while children starve around him.

None of us has ever seen an explanation as to why nature always kills us and renews us.

But it tells us loudly that institutions that go on become rotten and diseased.

Academic, law enforcement, bureaucracy, every one of them rots until it we analyze it from the bottom, and clean it out TOTALLY.

REMINDER: THE ONLY REAL FIGHT IS HERE | 2012-01-15

No matter how endlessly the paper hats get others to praise their bravery and modestly deny it, not one of the endless number I have met ever said that he had anything to do with the OUTCOME of the conflict he was part of.

Someone who walks around with a paper hat saying World War II Veteran is saying that he fought in a war whose only real result was turning one third of the human race over to the Communists.

To repeat, this is true of ALL paper hats. Korea ended up exactly where it started, Vietnam was lost as soon as the left turned to back their fellow Marxists. Vietnam was a replay of World War II, because it was decided at the desks of leftists.

And so on.

Even the old text on world military history at West Point made it a major point that one side is defeated when it DECIDES it is defeated. All the slaughters and artillery and medals are devoted to the same thing other propaganda is aimed at: CONVINCING.

All real wars are decided before the first shot is fired.

Paper hats are concerned only about themselves, how brave they were and how they can't be cowards because the government said so. But not ONE of the paper hats claims he had anything to do with historical, human RESULTS.,

Paper hats are useful -- to those who know how to use them -- as hostages. So Hitler was really really bad and Comrade Stalin had his points, if you don't agree you are condemning all those brave men and women who fought against Hitler, and, incidentally, as allies of Stalin.

But when it comes to the real war, it is fought here, in convincing people.

No ten thousand medal winners even claim to have the effect that well-placed and disciplined words have on the real world

WHAT MAKES GODZILLA LOOK LIKE A LAME KITTEN? | 2016-06-15

From the first moment of the movie, Godzilla is titanic, a force of nature one never even imagines.

And he's dead meat.

Ferocious Godzilla's life span as the Monster of the Universe is limited by another factor.

We call it "chatter."

We call it "just talk."

His death is not dependent on the action of Great Heroes.

He will live until some guy who can't fly because he wears glasses gets a report through to HQ. They will then chatter a command to some other guy sitting at a desk. Soon Godzilla, and Godzilla's big brother, are strictly past tense.

When I worked on Capitol Hill one of  the best stories, which could have been true, was about an office manager who had worked at the Defense Department.

Until she misplaced a regiment. She put an entire combat regiment into the wrong base in the wrong state.

That regiment could have had a nuclear weapon. That regiment would have taken out Godzilla.

She mixed up the communications and misplaced it.

BUGS is group dedicated to bringing chatter to a professional level.

We have made things go viral and we may have discovered a new rule that groups who fund raise under the present system have to cripple themselves in terms of the power that would vaporize Godzilla.

PAIN IN GC | 2008-11-26

Bob,

I've gone to seminary. (This will give me lots of opportunity to stay up with BUGS.) Much of the decision, oddly(?), is because of you, so either you borrow more from your Christian boyhood than you thought, or you are somehow a closet Christian that needs to let go and let his faith blossom. But either way, it's between you and your Maker. Anyway thanks for your clear thinking which has helped me out in more ways than you would have thought.

You are the best online. Any true leader recognizes that, and since there are always fewer chiefs than Injuns, it may be that your audience appeal has reached the ones it should, whether every reader comments here or not.

By the way, the book that led me to racial thinking is the Bible, especially the Old Testament, when I was in middle school.

Given my reputation as a bomb-thrower it is fun to be called a "closet" anything. I have made it very clear where I think of myself as Christian. My whole family was studded with preachers back to Alexander Whitaker and he was merely a continuation.

It is far easier for me to be a Christian than it is for any professional clergyman because he must satisfy some version of the Wordist institutions that have used his name. It is a hell of lot easier to be sincere in politics if you aren't working for anybody.

Of necessity I was a political pimp. Any professional clergyman has to make the same kind of deal, "all things to all men." If I had not made that deal in my field I would not have had access to the audience. A clergyman must do the same to have access to that group. "IN the world but not OF the world."

It is not accidental that I quote the most obvious and basic statements. Jesus' last instruction puzzled the Apostles: "Feed my sheep." To me this is plain enough. As one who is charged with the care of his people, your job is to do what is best for them.

I have never believed that "The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions" because Satan has none of that building material. I tend to believe that the road to hell is paved with something Satan has PLENTY of: Complexity.

".. for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." He was not talking about Gnostics and theologians – much the same thing – but about children. How many light years are there between a Pope or a Calvin and childhood as a virtue?

"Feed my sheep" was very puzzling to Disciples who had had the truth spoon fed to them. But they were now apostles, and the decisions were THEIRS. This involves moral courage.

You are going into seminary as I went into politics, as way to do the right thing IN THIS WORLD. That careful distinction was stated long ago. As CS Lewis said, Christianity is no danger to Screwtape so long as the person doesn't DO anything about it.

But the doing has to be dedicated to the simple rules laid by Jesus and not to satisfying the rules of a Wordist institution. This is so simple it is hard to understand. I USED politics. You must USE the church. So as not to get obsessed with self-righteousness, I just all it "pimping" and proceed on. We must operate IN the world. To a rigid conscience this involves pimping.

So Pure Religion became isolation and self-torture, as one writer put it,"Taking heaven by storm." It was a very painful way of avoiding feeding the sheep. It was a way to do nothing. Self-immolation fed no sheep.

You must feed his sheep, and you must do it in this world.

As you say, I find no problem with this because I was raised with it.

These distinctions are simple. They are NOT easy.