Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. Notably religious authority remained with the emperor for a long time, in the person of the holy Roman emperor's in the west and the Tsars in the east. This was upset by personal ambitions during the reformation, though interestingly only Henry made himself an emperor, many of the continental protestants continued to acknowledge the emperor even if they were hostile to the pope and politically it didn't mean much (Bismarck was annoyed to find that the Prussian royal family considered themselves still bond by feudal oath to the emperors of Austria (who were the successors to the holy Roman emperor. And as late as the early 20th century Austrian emperors could and did veto candidates for pope. It might also be mentioned that a certain group was exiled from their homeland by the Romans and have a pathological obsession with destroying it's legacy, being very aware of the religious continuation through the church. They are probably more than 90% the reason why people don't know the basic self-perception of Christendom for the last 1900 years or something ridiculous. A core competent of secularism has been deconstructing Rome. To be honest I don't think the liberals have any motivation in the direction things have gone, they like to larp as Rome, not desecrate it (or rather not intentionally).
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  2. It is up to a male member of the community to step in an permanently solve the problem for the sake of his own, bearing the cost of doing so as a necessary sacrifice.
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  3. It's been happening right across YouTube of late, they still turn up in notifications and are usually totally mundane so I have no clue what the bots are up to. The amount of disappearing comments is quite something, I would estimate that maybe as high as 30% of replies to comments have been going missing but I've seen much higher, often inexplicably.
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  4. You need organisation and strategic positioning, which hasn't happened at all and really should have started last century.
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  5. "He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices, it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong." - John Chrysostom 340-407 AD Archbishop of Constantinople.
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  6. Their duty.
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  7. May the spirit of Christ be with him.
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  8. Take the log out from your own eye first.
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  9. Our duty to change that.
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  10. No he understands the necessity of conservatism being transformative force based on it's own moral principals and not a rearguard action against the new religions. The thing he doesn't understand is that Carl has probably been more transformative in outlining that than he has been, he simply hasn't engaged and realised that Carl is not the trollish internet atheist he started out as but instead has developed considerable philosophical depth and is active in developing it further.
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  11. It was a good move to have her meet with Trump as his mother was a devout royalist and as a result the Queen is one of the few world statesmen that Trump has nothing but praise and respect for. She was probably the only person he was in awe of while President and seems to have had a similar reaction to that his wife had to meeting the pope (as she's Catholic).
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  12. You might want to look into their theology, they have prophecies to fulfil, one in which people's other than them converge into one through mixing.
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  13. British Liberation Army.
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  14. Hard to say, they have a very stable political system, it's basically a one party state, that and they are deeply reverent towards ideas coming out of the preeminent power, that being America, but in the past very much China. There isn't really a ready counter-elite, but the existing elite is much more loyal to its people and more aristocratic in character, so things could radically change.
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  15. I was just looking at a Japanese mansion on a Japanese real estate webpage, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a professional level kitchen, a woodburner and unlike the stereotypes massive rooms, £60,000. No seriously, £60,000 and it's near schools, £60,000 and I don't have to worry about my daughters going outside and that if something happened to them the perpetrator would get a slap on the wrist and sent on their way. £60,000 and I would be living in a functioning country with decent living standards. My only reason to stay would be to fight for regime change.
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  16. Meanwhile grocery shopping: Husband: 'What would the kids like?' Wife: 'I need ten buckets of yogurt.'
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  17. On one hand your cost of living is worse, on the other Europe is in the process of being conquered, and if you are say a woman, the results of that might well be felt rather directly.
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  18. Great another 'no true liberalism' segment. Carl has become more sophisticated in understanding that the liberal appeal is basically a magic hat trick which supplants the values underlying Christian/traditional views of hierarchy and morality with those concocted to support the power and moral sensibilities of liberal oligarchs instead. Instead of a discussion about such an interesting topic and further development of such ideas we get the same conversation that's been repeated for years at that point, I cancelled my subscription to lotus eaters for this very reason.
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  19. This issue stems back to the glorious revolution at least, and arguably the reformation. For centuries the King has been subject to parliament, and thus no King at all.
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  20. That wouldn't destroy the country though.
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  21. The Muslims aren't right but what you are seeing is the shared ground they hold on morality with Christianity (that being the bits that Mohammed plagiarized rather than made up). Morality and the shared understanding of what reality is needs foundations of belief, otherwise other beliefs systems will be able to undermine ideas based on nothing but precedence, in the way dead wood will make way for living roots. In the west foundation is Christianity and it's roots run right to the heart of our civilisation as it was once a vigorous tree which shaped institutions and social norms which are to this day utterly unique and cannot live outside of it's shade.
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  22. What the hell do you expect us to do with the Islamists here, ask them nicely to leave. Showing mercy to existential enemies is the strategy of fools, losing and being wiped out isn't moral. Letting innocents be the victims of your sense of moral superiority is deeply immoral.
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  23. It's still harmful to you.
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  24. He's scared of the Labour party coming after his business and has been trying to lay the groundwork for a political career with that apology to Phillips.
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  25. Josh seems to think that Balkanisation is a solution. It might be for individual groups but it will sunder the national body. We don't need a rise in sectarianism to accompany descent into crisis, we need large scale reform from the top down, libertarians either must support factions sympathetic to their end goals or be fall divided to the simple willingness of totalitarians to organise on the necessary scale. Libertarians are basically doomed if the continue to view their ideals as doctrine. Even Marxist historical theory doesn't stop them from making practical political efforts, don't throw out the toys you have just because you don't have all the one's you want.
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  26. This. I would resubscribe for this.
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  27. A state without justice is without legitimacy.
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  28. Non-Japanese have largely not integrated at all, even Japanese who have lived abroad have extreme trouble fitting in, and those born abroad have been told to go home rather than stay in Japan. Taiwanese have fit in relatively well, but that is with active efforts by the community and friendly relations between the countries, Chinese and Koreans are not integrated any more that gypsies are in the west even after multiple generations, unless they intermarry into non-existance. Europeans are seen as glamourous but other people's are only welcome through considerable arm twisting. It won't end well, the newcomers are not human in many important senses and the Japanese like all East Asians are passive until the decide not to be, and after that they are nothing if not thorough.
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  29. Children preferably.
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  30. I disagree with a lot of their segments and so far they have responded reasonably. I suggest not coming in with leftist or poorly argued criticisms.
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  31. The French revolution was caused by liberalism, liberalism by the English civil war and the English civil war by the reformation. Prior to that people genuinely thought they were still living in the Roman Empire, just with a German Emperor vested with the authority of the Pope (unless you were in the East, in which case you were Rome's rightful successor, the third and last Rome on a holy mission to liberate Byzantium right up to 1917, like it was literally their main war aim to take back Constantinople in the peace without the British intervening for about the 20th time in return for them having fought the rest of the Great War, unfortunately not to be, and the British were almost certainly involved in the first revolution by the liberals just as Germany was in the second).
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  32. Yes, and correct.
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  33. Aye, there is no better way of creating both community cohesion and contemplating the values of western civilisation than in church.
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  34. Unless you are in Tokyo the living costs are significantly lower and houses are affordable. The average European would chew their own arm off for the standard of living they have, also Britain has the highest taxes since WW2 plus an inheritance tax of 40%, the economic depression in Japan is as psychological as anything, they aren't even being invaded, but they are isolated enough not to get that even their worst problems are like 10% of same problem in literally every other developed country. Even the suicide and fertility rates are within European averages.
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  35. It was the key transport link of the eastern front, the Soviets very much wanted it targeted. Of course after they took it there was a decent opportunity for stocking some East German nationalism in the right direction, of course the previous regime had laid the groundwork by also using it for propaganda but the Soviets kept it coming.
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  36. In the bible it's heavily implied that Adam was not the only human on earth, he was the only one with made in God's image (so with a soul). His descendents were heads of clans and Noahs sons set up bloodlines across the world, notably in Ethiopia, but not South of it, likewise one went to where our ancestors lived.
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  37. Wolves are clever and Americans have guns.
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  38. In Victorian times the police were told that if they wanted to carry a gun they should carry their personal one under the uniform. There were occasions when they had to chase armed suspects and members of the public turned over revolvers to be used in the firefight. The traditional right to bear arms was an English liberty long before it was an American one, like all the other liberties it was enacted by a King and suspended by a parliament that claimed legitimacy off of responsibility for the protection of said liberties. In other words the legitimacy of our democratic regime is all dried up, they created a desert out of England and expect your praise.
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  39. Power decides the exception, in this case they pushed through what they wanted and just stuck him on top as a thin veneer of legal and moral consideration to justify the pure politics of power.
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  40. I wouldn't characterise the history with the Crown as being an attempt to move back to the ango-saxon monarchy, the anglo-saxons had slavery on a mass scale, were internally weak and the nobility held too much power. The Norman's were in many respects nothing like the French, they were highly centralised while at the same time not being tyrannical, aggressive in foreign ventures while maintaining order at home and really allowing England to gain the identity it has now, they had a stable system of succession relative to the time which in its design also allowed for a constant stream of talented people who had to carve a place out for themselves due to being younger sons. Compared to Anglo-Saxon rule Norman rule was practically a utopia as instead of being Northern Europe's punching bag they were a regional power which maintained both a powerful monarchy and a content population, though it's weakness throughout was the unreliable loyalty of the nobility who would attempt to redistribute power to themselves during any crisis, their was also the reliance on the success of the French territories in the politics of England, other than that they were in many respects better off than we are in our current predicament.
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  41. Terrible idea, it's a great deal harder to gain land than to lose it. If the 20th had a lesson to Britain it was that you should never give up land for expectancies sake.
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  42. There is considerable foreign (which is to say American) pressure.
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  43. The power of Christ compels you.
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  44. Apostolic Majesty did a good video both on this and the late queen.
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  45. Average 4channer.
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  46. Gen Z is basically split male female, the men socially isolated guys who are walking philosophy, history and theology majors trying to rebuild a civilisation out of the ashes, the females it is generous to refer to as human.
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  47. We don't know that, we now hardly anything about him, there is a decent chance he wasn't African, many groups in South Asia are also very dark skinned and the Portuguese also had contact and brought slaves from them.
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  48. 100 million dead due to the decline in Christianity and the battle of ideologies in the power vacuum left. I won't go so far as to blame the jews and many of those involved managed to be both Jewish and rabidly anti-Semitic. However it would be nice if Israel actively supported the European right rather than facilitating their own eventual envelopment by Islamic invaders.
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  49. You should become religious, as you are living under God's wrath.
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  50. The traditional attitude towards child rearing probably has a part to play but the ministry of education has been found to have been preferentially allocating funding and promoting less 'inclusive' but more effective teaching methods in certain favoured London schools in effect creating state private quality schools with a direct track to elite universities which cater pretty much exclusively to minorities and are most likely meant to groom them for positions of power in the civil service and government.
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