The Law Written on Hearts: China’s Development and the Ethic of Care – Biblicism Institute

 China’s development path transcends the capitalist-communist binary, blending market vitality with strong public ownership and strategic state planning to forge a hybrid model that mobilizes private initiative while maintaining collective goals.

Its unprecedented achievements—lifting nearly 800 million from poverty, building world-class infrastructure, and virtually eliminating homelessness—reveal a deeper truth: the biblical law of care for one another, written on hearts rather than stone, has been fulfilled in practice by a nation the West dismisses as “godless.”

What follows explores this contrast—first, the principle of the law written on hearts; then, China’s measurable record of care; next, the failure of the “Christian” West to practice what it preaches; and finally, why Western elites malign China as “communist”—a caricature designed to keep their own publics in the dark about a miracle without precedent in recorded history..............

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https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/the-law-written-on-hearts-chinas-development-and-the-ethic-of-care/ 

Narcissist or Solipsist - by Vox Day - Sigma Game

 I noticed something odd about narcissists.

Almost all of them react in the same way when someone tells them about an achievement.

None say: “That’s great, I’m happy for you.”

They all use the same phrase:

“I did something similar too, but bigger.”

Instead of congratulating you, they turn your achievement into their own. It seems like a small detail, but it changes how you’re perceived. Sometimes, the way they react to your success reveals more about them than anything they say about themselves.

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/narcissist-or-solipsist?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2265630&post_id=222795805&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

Second, learn how to genuinely compliment others on their accomplishments. I’m not talking about a generic “oh, that’s really great” or “nice, I’m so happy for you” but a relevant comment that informs them that you genuinely understand what it is they have achieved and why they are pleased to have achieved it. Do not, under any circumstances, start talking about how their accomplishments relate to your own, except when doing so illustrates that you truly comprehend and appreciate what they’ve done.

No, I don't claim to understand all this - except one thing - most 'science' is nothing more than 'scientists' touting what they believe - but have NEVER proven to themselves - but refuse to challenge their own FAITH. - CL

 

Will’s Conclusion

Will: I want to point out to everyone what stood out to me most the last few weeks after I mentioned Vox Day and Probability Zero.

The response I received was the exact opposite of what everyone has been telling me to do from the very beginning:

• I’ve been told to focus on the data and science and not the person. Yet the vast majority of responses and comments I get are focused on Vox Day as a person and not the data and the science.
• I’ve been told that Darwin’s racism has no relevance to evolution and that Fisher—of the Wright-Fisher model—being a eugenicist doesn’t make his math wrong. But that’s all I’m hearing about Vox Day.
• I’ve been told to focus on understanding new things instead of just trying to refute them. But I see very few people trying to actually understand his arguments—just trying to refute them.
• I’ve been told not to run to creationists hoping they can refute what Erica teaches me and to study what I’m taught. But all I’ve seen is everyone say, “I’m just gonna have Erica and Zach and whoever else refute this instead of looking into it.”

I think it’s important for what it’s worth to know what I’m experiencing and what I’m seeing from my perspective.

https://voxday.net/2026/10/30/erica-and-the-evo-avengers-008/ 

Cry, Conservative, Cry - Vox Popoli

 I no longer care at all what happens to conservatives. When it comes to doing anything beyond whatever is necessary to pick up a paycheck or coach a children’s team, they are the most useless creatures on the planet.

https://voxday.net/2026/10/29/cry-conservative-cry/ 

Pandora’s Box - by William Schryver - imetatronink

 https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/pandoras-box?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1085164&post_id=222724670&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

Rumors abound this evening that the masters of empire have set in motion a plan to severely punish the Iranians for their perceived impudence in defying imperial decrees, and challenging the imperial order of things upon the earth.

Many interpret these rumors to suggest the Americans will unleash thermonuclear fire upon a nation and a people they have pronounced enemies which must be destroyed in the interest of the common good.

But it is no longer 1945. Promethean fire has proliferated upon the planet. Iran possesses this knowledge and power, and the means to exercise it.

Other more powerful countries will stand aghast and outraged if the Americans were to again release the nuclear genie from its bottle.

I remain thoroughly convinced that Russia, China, and North Korea will interpret such an action as an existential threat against all of them — for it will demonstrate that the still very dangerous but rapidly declining empire has completely lost its mind.

It is a very small step between attacking a military target with a nuclear weapon, and attacking a city wherein military activities are believed to take place. That was, of course, the path of rationalization that led to the targeting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Have the masters of fading empire arrived at the desperate state of mind where they are willing to set fire to the world with the aspiration to rule over the ashes?

I sure hope not.

But I fear we are racing to the point in time where hope is all that’s left.

What Modern Light Bulbs Are Doing to Us

 

Decades of forgotten research show natural light is an essential nutrient, and the bill to bring back incandescent bulbs just cleared its first vote

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-modern-light-bulbs-are-doing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748806&post_id=222716752&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

A New Section - Castalia Library - A reader poll on how to handle Castalia Unlimited

 We are rapidly approaching the launch of Castalia Unlimited. More than 100 titles are already available in the system, many of which are exclusive to Unlimited and have never been available in English before. Below is a preview of the Historical Fiction catalogue shown in alphabetical order. We expect to launch sometime in mid-November with more than 150 titles available.

https://stack.castalialibrary.com/p/a-new-section?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2309592&post_id=222693048&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

How to Break Up With Your Boyfriend - by Vox Day - In which a woman discovers that boys are different than girls

 ......Women approach relationships from a position of abundance. Every single woman has her choice of a very wide variety of men, whether she realizes it or not. The fact that she ignores the vast majority of them as being beneath her doesn’t change the fact that they actually exist and they are legitimate options for her.

Men approach relationships from a position of scarcity. Every man knows the difference between his initial appeal to women in terms of initial attractiveness and his long-term appeal to women in terms of providing for her lifestyle. Moreover, he has already qualified the woman by approaching her in the first place.

So what I observe is women regularly failing to understand that by talking about her past, she is not, as she thinks, increasing her value in his eyes, but rather reducing it as well as calling into question her attraction to him. In this case, the young woman compounded the damage not only drawing attention to her past shenanigans, but outright telling him that he did not measure up to her previous standard for a sexual partner.

I see women do this far too often. For some reason probably related to their intrasex status games, women love to talk about how they weren’t initially attracted to their husbands, but eventually grew to appreciate him over time. And whether women believe it or not, this is an absolute fucking insult to those husbands, often delivered publicly right to their faces.

Because men understand, as women do not, that there is a difference between the man that women are attracted to and the man that a woman believes is willing to provide for her. Real attraction occurs within seconds, it doesn’t gradually blossom over time......

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/how-to-break-up-with-your-boyfriend?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2265630&post_id=222651863&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

 If you want to understand what Washington’s war with Iran is costing ordinary people, forget the think-tank reports. Go to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, where a few hundred mostly American retirees spent Wednesday packing their lives into suitcases on a few hours’ notice. They had bought a home on the sea. The sea, it turns out, runs on diesel.....

.....Son of the New American Revolution

Collateral Damage at Sea: How the Iran War is Sinking the Cruise Industry

Larry C Johnson

12 hours ago

Villa Vie Odyssey

If you want to understand what Washington’s war with Iran is costing ordinary people, forget the think-tank reports. Go to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, where a few hundred mostly American retirees spent Wednesday packing their lives into suitcases on a few hours’ notice. They had bought a home on the sea. The sea, it turns out, runs on diesel.

The dream

The MV Odyssey, operated by Florida-based Villa Vie Residences, set sail in October 2024 on what was billed as a continuous, never-ending voyage around the world. The pitch was irresistible to a certain kind of American retiree: sell the house, buy a cabin for several hundred thousand dollars, and live at sea, wandering from port to port, with a promised minimum residency of 15 years. Some passengers did exactly that. They sold their homes. They gave away the furniture. They traded the HOA meetings for the Mekong Delta.

The brochure, unfortunately, did not include a section on the Strait of Hormuz.

The math

Here is what happened, according to the company’s own numbers as reported by CBS News. Before the war began in late February, the ship’s fuel cost about $700 a ton. It now costs between $2,000 and $3,000 a ton. The Odyssey burns 700 to 800 tons a month. Its monthly fuel bill went from about $400,000 to roughly $2 million. Per cabin, fuel went from about $1,800 a month to between $6,000 and $8,000.

The company did what any responsible business would do when its biggest variable cost tripled or worse. It slowed down. It spent five or six days in each port, waiting for the Middle East to calm down. Let me repeat that, because it is the most poignant business strategy of 2026: a cruise company decided to wait out an American war with Iran. Many of us have been waiting since 1979.

It didn’t work. On Tuesday, October 27, the company suspended operations in Cambodia.....

https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/collateral-damage-at-sea-how-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1225061&post_id=222594929&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

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Who pays for the war

Nobody in Washington planned this, of course. Nobody in Washington plans for anything that happens below the level of a carrier strike group. When the President and his advisers decided that bombing Iran and blockading its ports was a sound idea, they did not hold a meeting on marine gasoil. Nobody asked what tripling the price of bunker fuel would do to ferries, fishing fleets, freighters and, yes, a ship full of Americans who thought they had found the perfect retirement.

But this is how wars actually reach people. Not through the evening news, but through the price of diesel at the pump, the surcharge on the cruise bill, the bakery that can’t afford deliveries, the farmer who can’t afford to run his tractor. The passengers of the Odyssey are simply the most photogenic victims of a policy that is quietly taxing everyone who moves anything by sea, which is to say everyone.

And now Washington is reportedly preparing to strike Iran again after the midterms. If you’re thinking of booking a cruise for next year, here is some advice. Read the fuel clause. Check whether the line hedges. And maybe hold on to the house.

Saudi Propaganda Satellites Converge Over AP‘s Office

 There is always a tendency to blame the big bad enemy de-jour for a loss of a war against some relatively minor enemy.

Thus it was Iranian EFP’s (made in Iraq) which were to blame for the defeat of U.S. forces in Iraq. It likewise was Soviet support that let the U.S. lose its pants in Vietnam.

Now it is Russia’s fault that Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure gets hit by Yemeni weapons.

That is at least what this shoddy AP piece implies:

Russian satellites help Iran’s allies strike Saudi Arabia, data and officials say – AP, Oct 27 2026

Iranian-backed militias carried out a precision strike last month, hitting the pumping stations of Saudi Arabia’s most important oil pipeline. Days later, another attack hit a Saudi military air base, damaging an Italian fighter jet inside a hangar.

Crucial to the strikes’ success was what was happening in the skies overhead: For days beforehand, a constellation of Russian spy satellites converged over the pipeline and the air base to gather intelligence.

Anyone even slightly versed in orbital mechanics will easily recognize that claim as bullshit.

For one: The pumping stations on Saudi Arabia’s pipelines, as well as its military air bases, are stationary targets.

There is zero need for current satellite pictures to identify their coordinates. Any map of the local areas will be sufficient. Whoever wants pictures of them can easily get them on Google Earth. Additionally there are about ten commercial satellite services which will, against a fee, deliver more detailed photography.

For two: Satellites ‘converging’ over some place on earth is not a thing.

Satellites in geostationary orbit are flying at a height of 36,000 kilometer (22,000 miles) above the earth. They always point to the same point on earth and are useful for weather observations and telecommunication services. But their distance is too large to make them useful for espionage.

The usual spy satellites are flying lower and are faster than the earth’s rotation. They circulate the earth in predictable timing patterns. Diverging from their once achieved orbit, which would cost all the little fuel they have on board, is a end-of-life one-time measure.

There are of course Russian satellites which regularly pass over the Middle East. As do Chinese, European, Indian, Iranian and U.S. satellites. But none of those will ever ‘converge’ over anything.

Why the AP editors gave this nonsense a pass is way beyond me. But a view on the sources might give some hint:

Cont. reading: Saudi Propaganda Satellites Converge Over AP‘s Office

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European Leaders Pick Up the Phone and Call Putin - LewRockwell

 Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre have finally done something that should have been happening throughout this entire war. They picked up the telephone and spoke directly with Vladimir Putin. On October 27, the two leaders initiated a conversation with the Russian president to discuss ending the war in Ukraine and restoring some degree of stability to Europe. What makes this development particularly significant is that Finland and Norway stated explicitly that they were acting as leaders of their own nations, rather than claiming to represent Europe as a whole. Imagine that. Two national leaders recognizing that they have a responsibility to protect their own people rather than waiting for Brussels to tell them whether they are permitted to speak to Moscow.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/martin-armstrong/european-leaders-pick-up-the-phone-and-call-putin/ 

A Matter of Time - by JD Breen - Pretium Insights

 

Each Spring, an hour is stolen. The last few years, we've been threatened with not getting it back. This weekend we will. It’s time to keep it.

https://www.pretiuminsights.com/p/a-matter-of-time-429 

File 770 Discriminates Against Hispanics - Vox Popoli

 It’s so terrible to see the way that the science fiction community is full of hatred and discriminates against Hispanics. Mike Glyer of File 770 actually apologized for running a basic convention report about the recent World Fantasy Convention that just happened to be written by a gentleman of Hispanic descent......

https://voxday.net/2026/10/29/file-770-discriminates-against-hispanics/ 

In America 2.0, Nothing Works, and No one Cares

 

Holding for the next available representative........

https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/in-america-20-nothing-works-and-no