Be Ye Perfect - bionic mosquito

The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work. I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good.’

Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis

I think it is right here that those who believe themselves to be Christians and those who are Christians part ways; we part on the fork in the road that forces us to choose to kill or not kill our natural self.

I know this in me, because I was one who believed I was a Christian for many years of my life while I lived fully in my natural self. I have lived in both worlds. I hope that by the time I work through this post, my meaning about this parting of the ways will have been made clear.

It isn’t just a part of Christianity to become a real son of God; it is the whole of it. It isn’t a question of living morally or being good – those will be results, but they are not the root. We hope that when we meet all of the demands of Christ (live morally; do good), there will be room left for our natural man. But it doesn’t work this way......

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.....The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas.

It isn’t impossible. He will make us creatures who can obey that command.

The process will be long and in parts very painful, but that is what we are in for. Nothing less. He meant what He said.

So much for Lewis. The rest is me.

The hill seems too high, too massive to climb. Be ye perfect?! I will take door B:

Matthew 7: 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

What does it mean to be a Christian? There are some fundamental things which we must believe, of this there is no doubt. But even the devil believes these things. So, what is the difference?

It is the choice of gate. The Christian chooses the narrow gate. I believe the way to enter that gate is to repent. To repent does not mean we are instantaneously perfect – the way, once we enter, is difficult. It is a journey.

It is here, right here, at the choice of the gate and the decision to repent, that those who believe themselves to be Christians and those who are Christians part ways. To take the narrow gate is to kill our natural self; it is to repent.

If a “Christian” finds his way easy, knowingly or not, he has taken the wide gate and a broad way; there has been no repentance. Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord… and all that. To repent, to decide to kill our natural self, brings pain, brings difficulty, as Jesus said.

But when we enter the narrow gate…well, this opens the way for Christ to work in us, just as Lewis has described. And if Christ isn’t working in us, there is no salvation.

The Myth of India Becoming the Next China, by Hua Bin - The Unz Review

 Another delusion divorced from reality and history

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Karl Marx described India as a civilization without a history.

The statement was not a denial of India’s ancient existence or cultural achievements. Rather, it reflected his historical-materialist analysis of social development, particularly in the context of economic dynamism and class struggle.

In his 1853 article “The Future Results of British Rule in India”, Marx wrote: “Indian society has no history at all, at least no known history. What we call its history, is but the history of the successive intruders who founded their empires on the passive basis of that unresisting and unchanging society.”

This was not a claim that India lacked a past or civilization, but that its social structure—based on village communities and caste—appeared stagnant and resistant to internal change, especially in contrast to the dynamic class struggles that Marx saw as driving historical progress in Europe.

Marx viewed India’s pre-colonial society as economically static, lacking the internal contradictions (like feudalism vs. bourgeoisie) that, in his theory, propel historical change.

Marx’s views were hardly unique among historians, many of whom view India as a civilization without a history from an anthropological perspective.

Unlike other ancient civilizations such as Greece, China, Egypt or Mesopotamia where history has long been recorded in detailed, linear chronological writings, Indian history lacks written documentation and is largely transmitted orally, often blending facts with fiction and mythology.

In addition, India has historically been a geographic concept, rather than a nation state. The land was occupied by a myriad of native communal villages, tribes, and maharajahs, fragmented by hundreds of languages and an equal number of religions.

Over time, the land known as India was ruled in succession by foreign invaders such as Aryans, Persians, Tokharians, Mongols, Afghanis, Muslims, and the British.

They ruled through the Kuru Kingdom, Achaemenid Empire, Kushan Empire, Mughal Empire, Lodi Dynasty, and the British Raj.

Long term foreign colonial rule has deprived the natives off the spirit of resistance. Coupled with the Hindu religious belief of reincarnation, and the Caste system which mandates a person’s fate is tied to the social hierarchy of his birth, a cultural identity of acceptance of one’s destiny is forged.

This passive acceptance culminated in Gandhi’s quest for independence through the “non-cooperation” movement in the 1940s.

India’s path to sovereignty and independence is completely different from the Chinese, who fought against foreign invaders for over 100 years through two Opium Wars (1830s through 1860s), the first Sino-Japanese War (1894 – 1895), and the second Sino-Japanese War (1931 – 1945).

China’s path was one of violent revolution and trial by fire, with sacrifices of millions of lives. The quest to overcome the Century of Humiliation has forged a will of steel and an indomitable fighting spirit for both the ruling Communist Party and the general population.

As the West steps up its effort to contain China, it has actively recruited India to the cause and attempted to prop up India as a replacement for China, both as a manufacturing base and as a market.

After a decade-old effort through QUAD, US India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, and renaming Asia Pacific to Indo-Pacific (much like the newly minted Gulf of USA and Department of War – which are keys to recover national greatness), how far has India gone to achieve such a goal? Will it ever reach the “potential” promoted by western propaganda?......

......As discussed earlier, there was no written history for the Indian civilization. Instead, stories have been passed down the generations orally in a mix of facts and fantasy.

Failures and defeat are not part of the package. The Indians always prevail. Despite repeated conquest by foreigners in its long history, there is no equivalent of China’s Century of Humiliation to motivate the Indians to strive for rejuvenation.

After all, they have always won in their version of history. The India Pakistan air war, known in India as Operation Sindoor, will no doubt be recorded as another “win” in the official chronicle for posterity.

Modi sent 7 “victory delegations” to share its “success” with over 40 foreign governments and declared a 10-day national celebrations.

Such self-deception goes beyond military defeats. In May, the IMF published a forecast predicting the Indian economy could overtake Japan by 2026/2027. On May 27, 2025, Modi called for national celebration and announced to the world “India is the world’s 4th largest economy” in bold letters.

Such “popping champaign ahead of time” for an economic forecast may seem bizarre to the rest of the world. But for India, this is the manifestation of the “winner mentality”.

Similarly, Indians celebrate their joining various “clubs”, a term much abused by the hyperbolic Indian media – the “nuclear weapon club”, the “space power club”, the “supersonic missile club”, on and on.

Too bad, it is still denied admission to the ultimate “club” – the Permanent Security Members of the United Nations. A national shame no doubt.

With no common language or shared history, the “Bharat Triumphalogy” is the glue holding the fragmented country together.

In the end, “India as replacement for China” is just another farce that is fed to the Indians and devoured eagerly by a desperate west that either doesn’t know better or is equally delusional.

American Pravda: Twelve Unknown Books and Their Suppressed Racial Truths, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review

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• The Near Universal Racialism of a Century Ago
• Carl Degler and In Search of Human Nature
• Carleton Putnam and Race and Reason
• William H. Tucker and The Funding of Scientific Racism
• Nathaniel Weyl and The Negro in American Civilization
• Carleton Coon and The Origin of Races
• Pat Shipman and The Evolution of Racism
• John R. Baker and Race
• Hans Eysenck and Race, Intelligence and Education
• Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen, and IQ and the Wealth of Nations
• J. Philippe Rushton and Race, Evolution, and Behavior
• Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending, and The 10,000 Year Explosion
• Richard D. Fuerle and Erectus Walks Amongst Us
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  Few if any scientists in modern world history have enjoyed as long and celebrated a career as James Watson, who died earlier this month at the age of 97.

  Our leading media outlets gave his passing the coverage that it warranted, with his obituary in the New York Times running well over 4,000 words and the Wall Street Journal also being lavish in its treatment.

  As all these media stories explained, Watson had rocketed to worldwide fame more than seventy years ago at the age of 25 when together with Francis Crick, he had discovered DNA in 1953, then shared a Nobel Prize for that achievement a decade later. DNA constitutes the mechanism of heredity for nearly all earthly lifeforms, so his scientific triumph was one of the most important biological advances in all of human history.

  During the remaining seven decades of his extremely long professional career, he enjoyed other achievements that might easily have represented the crowning success for almost any other scientist.

  In 1968 Watson told the story of his DNA research work in The Double Helix, a huge international bestseller that became one of the most popular scientific books ever published. That same year he was appointed director of the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory in New York State, a small research facility that had fallen on hard times, and he soon lifted it into the front ranks of American scientific establishments. In the early 1990s, he played a central role in launching and leading the Human Genome Project, an undertaking that eventually mapped the entire genetic structure of the human species, a colossal scientific breakthrough.

  Indeed, throughout most of the last half-century or more, Watson was often regarded as the world’s most important living scientist.

  Yet as his obituaries and other media coverage emphasized, his very long and towering scientific reputation was severely blighted in 2007 when he was engulfed in a terrible public scandal. At the age of 79, he had published his autobiography Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science and when interviewed by a journalist on his international book tour, he casually suggested the possibility that black Africans might be less intelligent than other groups. That racialist remark immediately ignited a gigantic media firestorm, leading to waves of vilification. A dozen years later, a television documentary was broadcast that included clips of the 90-year-old scientist repeating some of those same ideas regarding race and genetics, thereby reigniting and greatly amplifying that same bitter controversy.

  As a result of those brief and speculative remarks, the man hitherto often ranked as the world’s greatest living scientist was massively demonized and stripped of many of his accumulated honors and positions, even including his honorary emeritus status at the scientific laboratory whose national reputation he himself had almost singlehandedly created. Watson was widely presented as a vile, even depraved individual, and although he was not physically burned at the stake, in many other respects his fate resembled what would have befallen anyone expressing sympathy for Lucifer in the Old Salem of our 17th century Massachusetts Bay colony.

  In a sign of his desperation, at one point Watson publicly auctioned off his Nobel Prize medal, whether seeking to raise money or merely attract sympathetic attention, with a Russian oligarch buying it for $4.5 million and then returning it to the great scientist.

  I suspect that the reason that so elderly and distinguished a public figure was subjected to such extreme waves of media vilification was mostly as a warning to others. If the reputation of the world’s greatest biological scientist, the discoverer of the basis of human heredity, could be totally destroyed for his casual racialist speculations, every other scientist and non-scientist in the world was put on notice that they must avoid considering any such similar ideas........

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  Unknown Books That Would Restore the Reality of Race

  According to a slightly reworked quote widely attributed to the famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, “Reality is what remains when you stop believing in it.”

  For nearly the last one hundred years, the overwhelming majority of our intellectual and political elites have refused to accept this crucial principle. Instead, they have seemed to believe that the reality of important racial matters must conform to their ideological framework rather than the other way round. Exactly this same sort of stubbornly dogmatic refusal to accept reality eventually led to the decay and collapse of the Soviet Union some three generations after it was founded.

  Back in 2017 I was interviewed for an hour or two over the phone by a New York Times journalist focused on the racially related political topics that had suddenly begun dominating the national headlines. She seemed very skeptical that race was a scientifically valid concept, and quite surprised when I told her that saying “race does not exist” was roughly equivalent to asserting that “gravity does not exist.”

  I pointed out that her longtime colleague Nicholas Wade, an award-winning science journalist, had published an entire book a couple of years earlier on the science of race. Furthermore, just a few weeks before our conversation her own newspaper had devoted the entire front section of its prestigious Week in Review to a lengthy exposition of the undeniable scientific reality of race by David Reich, a prominent professor of Genetics at Harvard University and the Broad Institute.

  But despite these points, she still seemed quite unconvinced, presumably reflecting the uniformly contrary opinions of her own journalistic peer-group. Then three years later during the Black Lives Matter upheavals of 2020, James Bennet, the highly regarded Opinion Editor of the Times, was suddenly purged for insufficient “wokeness.” So I suspect that henceforth her beliefs will no longer be disturbed by any such discordant scientific information appearing in her own newspaper.

  The dozen almost unknown books that I have featured above differ in many respects. Some were written by journalists or researchers deeply committed to the cause of anti-racism. Others were by renowned scholars at some of our most prestigious academic institutions who sought to dispassionately present the scientific facts as they were best understood. And a few were by committed laymen, seeking to inform the world about issues and ideas that they regarded as important.

  Some of these works were released by leading publishers and attracted a great deal of initial attention, while others were essentially self-published and greeted with near absolute silence. But today all these important works are almost equally unknown.

  

  Three years ago I self-published Race and Ethnicity in America, my own hefty collection of essays on those topics. Although I thought that many of my pieces were quite good, few involved the sort of original research that was found in all those other twelve books. My current Amazon sales ranking is quite low, around 500,000, which hardly surprises me.

  But although the current sales rank for my own book is low, nearly all those other books have lower ones, generally far, far lower. There seem to be few if any current sales of those important volumes written by leading scholars and journalists on an absolutely crucial topic, and in some cases no copies are even available.

  For a country whose reigning ideology seems obsessed with race, it is a great tragedy that so many of the important books able to properly reveal and clarify those underlying issues today remain almost totally unknown.

  Related Reading:

  • Bibliography
  • White Racialism in America, Then and Now
  • American Pravda: Six Unknown Books Against a Century of Falsehoods
  • American Pravda: A Dozen Unknown Books and the World War II History They Reveal
  • American Pravda: Six Unknown Books and Their Dangerous Jewish Secrets
  • Race, IQ, and Wealth
  • How Social Darwinism Made Modern China