Looks like we're going to have some new folks around here. Here's what you can expect:. 1) general disapproval of modernity.2) endearing vignettes of bickering w/ my 17yo son about Napoleon .3) love of Appalachia.4) deeply protective of working class .5) probably too ecumenical.

Going to see The Matrix w/ my 19yo tonight which, if redpillers are to be believed, will initiate a glitch that will bring the whole thing crashing down b/c a young man is willingly hanging out with his mom.

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*Stay-At-Home-Novelist.

Anybody seen the graph that shows high value men who are looking to retire a wife as a SAHN*? I have a friend who would be interested.

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It is not the reader's job to clarify the writer's argument or figure out what you're "trying to say." It is the writer's job to write w/ the clarity that come from the work of thinking well.

People can absolutely misread a written argument, but IME a lot of authorial complaint about being misunderstood can be traced back to poor writing & the thinking that backs it. Clarity is hard work because thinking is hard work.

This is why bad writing is often more than a problem with aesthetics. It often signals a more fundamental issue w/ the argument itself & one's ability to communicate that argument to another person--a skill which also requires creative, flexible thought.

Yep. If you can’t write clearly about it yet, you haven’t thought clearly about it yet.

This is why bad writing is more than an aesthetics problem. It often signals a more fundamental issue w/ the argument itself & one’s ability to communicate that argument to another person which also involves flexible, creative thought.

“Sir, could I recommend a lovely little selection called a sabbath?”.

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Douthat’s approach to interviewing seems to be “no, please, tell us what you really think, take all the time you need” and it is uh-maz-ing.

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In that sense, I guess sanctification could be more about restored imaginative capacity that encompasses the whole of the person, renewing logic, emotion, etc. To have the "mind of Christ" is to have Christ's imagination & disposition.

So again, rationality itself is not holiness. Our minds must be transformed as much as any other part of us & that transformation is not just becoming more logical or downloading new data points. It's about having God's disposition toward things: valuing & loving what God loves.