Book Review: The Last Closet by Moira Greyland

The Last Closet was not easy to read. The author said it was hard to write, and the editor (Vox Day) said the editing was hard. Even this review was hard to write. I’ve been writing it off and on since I read the book. Castalia House published The Last Closet in 2017. This story needs to be told.

Moira Greyland is the daughter of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen. Both were liberals and sexual deviants, including pedophiles. Both are long since deceased.

I’d never heard of Marion Zimmer Bradley until Vox Day started writing about her during his battle with the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America). I probably never would have heard of her if I didn’t follow Vox Day. Although I’ve always loved science fiction, I wasn’t into fantasy so I wouldn’t have come across Marion Zimmer Bradley independently. Even though people knew about Bradley’s child molestation, she was a celebrated feminist author. I notice left wing circles don’t have a problem with that.

Breen’s name never stuck in my head until reading this book.

Moira tells the story of both her parents and her own upbringing by them, including the emotional and sexual abuse she suffered under them, starting at an age where she couldn’t possibly understand what was going on. Fortunately, she spared us the technical details, but it was still horrific to read.

Both of her parents came from messed up backgrounds. Bradley’s own father repeatedly raped her. Breen’s parents abandoned him. Some hard core Catholic woman raised him. Breen was molested by priests. Both were fairly intelligent and members of Mensa, but I’ve heard little from people who have been around Mensa and its members to impress me. I’ve heard Mensa members may have high IQs , but many are messed up in the head and usually have body odor. Usually, when I hear “Mensa”, I assume something is wrong already. Most people I know who qualify for membership want nothing to do with Mensa.

Having come from messed up backgrounds, it appears Bradley and Breen passed that on to their own children.  Marion wanted Moira to provide her with sexual companionship (apparently starting at age 3), and Breen wanted her to carry his “Grand Vision” forth to the world. This “Grand Vision” involved everybody being naked and having constant sex with each other, which would somehow bring about a “utopia”.  Both parents were highly disappointed in her when she failed to live up to their twisted visions. Marion practiced some made-up “New Age” religion, and Moira became a Christian as an act of rebellion.

As an adult, when Moira was raped, upon telling her mom, the only comment Marion had was “You’re getting more action than I am.”

Moira also documents the twisted nature of Breen’s molestation, and how he operated in attracting young boys to himself. Toward the end of the book, she talks about her escape from them, and the decades of her battle with PTSD from which she will never completely heal.

Since reading this book in 2017, a lot of information has come out about child molestation and child trafficking in our society. Many prominent people have been accused of it; some with extensive documentation. While we still don’t have Jeffrey Epstein’s client list (the most secure document in Washington, DC), we have his flight logs. Many politicians, celebrities, and Fake News personalities have flown on his jet to his child molester island (Little St. James). Epstein is now long since dead (allegedly), and his collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison, but this doesn’t even scratch the surface of how deep this thing goes.

In the years before he passed away in 2021, former CIA Officer Robert David Steele commissioned 5 books extensively documenting child trafficking and molestation in this west. All five can be purchased from Amazon, or read for free online at https://pedoempire.org/contents/. The books are extensively footnoted with hyperlinks and cover Western Europe, the UK, the US, Canada, and Australia. There is a tag cloud you can use to find which chapters certain subjects and personalities are covered in.

I don’t recommend reading The Last Closet or the five Pedophilia and Empire books unless you have a very strong constitution. Unless you’re already familiar with some of this material, you will be horrified and revolted in ways you can’t imagine. You will learn people you admired and respected are involved in this horrific world.

You can purchase The Last Closet on Amazon. My affiliate link is: https://amzn.to/3pikwBa

Book Review: American Pilgrim by Roosh V

I first came across Roosh in 2012. My first marriage was on its last legs and deteriorating fast. Around that time, people I read like Vox Day and Matt Forney began writing about something called “game”. I wasn’t sure what I was reading at first, but Vox Day especially has dragged me into subjects I never thought I’d learn, like economics. Somehow, through all that, I found Roosh’s landing page for his book “Bang”.

Game has many negative connotations, although I found it helpful. It helped me to begin understanding she who is now my late ex-wife. I believe it also helped me to meet my new wife and to hold things together in a second, much better marriage.

Like me, Roosh was a shy guy who knew nothing about women. Following advice from his mom lead him to the “friend zone” curse. Roosh is a scientist by training, and as he came across “pick up artist” material, he began conducting experiments and recording his results, which resulted in “Bang”. He began a life of travel and fornication and living off the proceeds of writing books about it. If nothing else, Roosh was always interesting.

I could tell through his writing that Roosh was begining to experience what Solomon called “vanity and vexation of spirit”, and I began to call him the personification of Ecclesiastes, my favorite book of the Bible. I thought if he didn’t become a Christian eventually, he would be a shell of his former self.

Roosh’s conversion in 2019 seemed to come on very suddenly. One week, his podcast was about normal for that stage of his life, and the next week, he had Dr. E. Michael Jones on. I sure didn’t see it coming. Roosh was baptized in the Armenian Orthodox Church, so he returned to that.

After his sister died of cancer and he realized his life in eastern Europe was not going to be fulfilling, he returned to the Washington DC suburbs to live with his mother. Then he launched a car trip around our nation, giving speeches in 23 cities. The trip took 5 months. Each week, he posted a travel log video of the places he’d been and the thoughts he’d had in the prior week. He showed clips of cities and parks and interesting places he’d been, along with commentary about his experiences. He called it “Babylon Road” and the videos are probably still on YouTube. I followed along at home.

Roosh created “American Pilgrim” as a book based on his experiences. Like the videos, the chapters are organized by weeks, beginning with leaving his last city and culminating in the next city. After making a few changes to his routine, Roosh settled into attending church on Sunday if an Orthodox church was available, the exception being attending Joel Osteen’s church in Houston, which was a let down for him. (A common practice; Barbara Ehrenreich also attended as research for her book “Bright Sided“, a very good read. (My Amazon affiliate link is included.))

I’ll include a few thoughts on the book. Roosh encountered many people. Some were open to discussing spiritual things and others were not. Some people may not follow Roosh closely as they showed up to his events expecting to hear about how to bang women, while Roosh no longer wants to encourage sin. He met several people who were happy to hear his new message and encouraged him. Roosh still writes a lot about his fornicating past, but it is part of his testimony and conversion so I don’t see how he could avoid it and remain authentic.

Roosh struggled with being new in the faith. He felt greatly under-qualified to give people spiritual advice, and mostly stuck to his conversion story or how he was able to overcome problems through faith. He stopped at many monasteries and churches and talked to as many priests and monks as he could. He told many of them his story and received advice and blessings. I think his approach is the right one. Many of us Christians get a little too caught up in trying to tell others what to do, when it should simply be “This is my experience”.

I don’t know much about the Orthodox church, but I thought we “Protestants” were bad. Roosh often experienced Greek Orthodox not letting him take communion because he’s Armenian Orthodox, and the two churches are not in communion. At one church, he got a long lecture about how he needs to convert to Eastern Orthodox because the Armenians are wrong. (I’ve been through the “You should come to my church because yours probably teaches the Bible incorrectly” talk myself.)

Roosh also struggled with substituting one idol for another, such as novelty for fornication. None of us are immune from it, but Roosh demonstrates a spiritual maturity for recognizing it. Through the tour, he began to desire living in the mountains, but due to choosing what used to be a drug house, his experience was short lived and he promptly returned to living with his mother.

I personally have given up on thoughts of leaving my area. I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it either. But where would I go? People say South Dakota is free, but I’ve also been told if I hated the insular nature of New Jersey, I would definitely not like South Dakota. I also grew up in the military and somehow got the message that I was supposed to serve in the military and settle wherever I landed, which left me far from home. I’ve begun telling my children that it’s probably time to put down roots, and since I’m stuck here, then this is where our family should settle. I figure if God wants me somewhere else, he’ll drag me there. But last year in the middle of “COVID”, we were able to sell our old house after only 7 days on the market and move into a larger house after one offer and one counter-offer. It was so effortless, God had to have been involved.

I’m surprised to find that some of Roosh’s books are still available on Amazon. I thought they were all banned. You have to buy “American Pilgrim” directly from his store though. Like all of his books, it’s a good read. I guess I could facetiously call it “Jesus and the Art of Challenger Maintenance”, although Roosh only had to pay a mechanic to put a cover back on the underside of his car.

Books I’ve Read 2020

I haven’t posted on my blog for a year and a half. I log in periodically to install updates, but I guess I haven’t had much to say. 2020 was a good and busy year. I completed my Master’s degree, my children live with me now, and we had to sell our little old house and buy a larger new one. We also had to upgrade one of our vehicles. My children are very active in the youth program at our church, and one started his first job (McDonald’s, where I started about 30 years ago.) This requires me to do a LOT of driving.

I used to write a lot of book reviews. Starting around 2008, I began tracking how much I read every year. My best year was over 70 books. My worst year was 22. For 2020, I read 35 books. Since I keep them in a table in Microsoft OneNote, I’ll just paste the table here, then going forward I’ll resume writing reviews for books and posting them. I’m going to adopt the star system Robert David Steele uses for his book reviews. I copied directly from his blog and left his links in place if you want to check out his book reviews. Steele also uses a 7th star for “Cosmic, life altering” books, which I included in my ratings.

Of course, rating books is relative. I might read my first book in a subject and give it 5 or 7 stars, but after reading more on the subject, I may come back and downgrade the first book when I understand it in context.

6 Star (top ten percent across 2000+ books)
5 Star (totally satisfactory recommended without reservation)
4 Star (important contribution with some flaws)
3 Star (fragmentary contributions in a poor contextual work)
2 Star (a fractional contribution in annoyingly flawed context)
1 Star (toxic ignorance)

It turns out my table doesn’t convert to the Internet very easily. This is the best I can do. I’ll go back to writing regular reviews of some books so I don’t have to do this again. I had to set fixed width to get my Notes column to show completely, so it is a long, narrow column.

For 2021, I’m planning to add some structure to my reading. I normally stumble across a book, or I choose from my vast backlog something I feel like reading at that moment. I’m planning a goal of 10-15 books that I will read, which should give me 20 or more open slots that I can get to spontaneously. I’m picking 10 books from Steele’s recommendations, and another 3 for professional development. I especially want to get my mind around a subject Steele talks about “True Cost Economics”.

Last note regarding my “Catholic Project” mentioned in several of my notes. During the summer of 2019, I woke up one day with a strange urge. For some reason, I had a burning urge to reinvestigate Catholicism by listening to what Catholics have to say about it. I listened to some of their podcasts and read several books; mostly from Catholic Answers apologists. It was an interesting project. I discovered some of what we are told about Catholics are lies that have been repeated for hundreds of years. Then there are a lot of misconceptions. I underwent a similar “Freemason Project” in 2016.

NumberAuthorTitleDateNotes
1 Ghost Fleet3 FebRecommended by a Marine Col at an event I went to. I do not concur with his recommendation. Red Storm Rising was better. 3 Stars for a decent story in the context of a war with China with 2015 technology and a flawed (well, “Official Narrative”) understanding of geopolitics. I liked the privateer though. Very busy story with a LOT of threads to keep track of. It both jumped around too fast and not fast enough depending on the story.
2Trent HornCounterfeit Christs1 Mar4 stars. Read as part of my Catholic project. Easy read, not very memorable.
3Tim StaplesBehold Your Mother6 Mar5 Stars. Part of my Catholic project; really did help me understand the Catholic perspective on Mary. Very comprehensive; covers topics like “the new Arc of the Covenant”, which I’d never heard before.
4Michael S. TyrrellThe Sound of Healing18 Apr5 stars. Bought with Wholetones. Comprehensive understanding of music and frequencies. Not the world’s best written book, but very good in its niche. The “Key of David” is tuning A to 444hz.
5Jimmy AkinThe Fathers Know Best Part 130 MayFree from Catholic Answers
6Fr. Hugh BarbourPrayer 20 Answers2 JuneFree from Catholic Answers
7Roger StoneJeb! And The Bush Crime Family13 June5 Stars. Contains a LOT of information about the family going back to Samuel, the CIA, drugs, the Franklin Scandal, etc.
8Roger Stone Robert MorrowThe Clintons’ War on Women17 June5 Stars. Overlaps with Jeb! And The Bush Crime Family a little bit.
9Tony DungyUncommon17 June4 stars. Read as part of men’s group. Good read on being an “uncommon” man i.e. living Christian virtues in a non-Christian world. Heavy football focus written by a retired coach.
10Dr. Edward SriPraying the Rosary Like Never Before17 June4 stars. Part of my Catholic project. Good information. I got bogged down and came back to the book several months later.
11Gary MichutaWhy Catholic Bibles Are Bigger20 June5 stars. Comprehensive coverage of the history and issues surrounding the deuterocanonical or apocryphal books. Part of my Catholic project. I told a Catholic friend about it, and summarized it as “Catholics give you more Bible for your money”. She said she was going to use that.
12Dr. William DavisUndoctored25 June5 stars. Lots of rehash from Wheat Belly, but the program is good (if I could only get my wife on board…)
13David WilcockThe Synchronicity Key26 JuneI’ll give Wilcock 5 stars for this. I bought the book because he said it explained “The Hero’s Journey”. He covers lots of other topics, such as reincarnation, which I’m trying to give a fair hearing to. Also gave some of his own story, at least, how he ended up in California.   One comment about Wilcock is that he needs to respect his own ignorance of the Bible. I think he said in 2019, he read the Gospels for the first time. Yet throughout his career, he’s thrown out Bible verses badly misinterpreted. He needs to respect where his knowledge lies and be honest in areas where he’s ignorant, such as the Bible and Christianity. He pontificates here as if he’s studied it as well as the “Law of One” or the alternative science he writes about, and he does not know what he’s talking about. And if he’s going to claim Jesus taught reincarnation, he needs better references. He claims  one of the Church Fathers taught it (I think he says Origen), but I’m willing to bet he’s as ignorant of them as he is of the Bible itself. He also claims Constantine held the counsel of Nicaea to lock up Christian teachings and create the Catholic church as a system of religious control, but gives no reference. I think he’s just passing on bullshit he read somewhere that he takes as true, but he is out of his area of expertise here. I’m not saying it couldn’t have happened, but it should be documented somewhere if it did.
14Christopher HitchensThe Missionary Position27 June5 stars. Acerbic wit, and a contrary position on “St. Theresa”, who had shitloads of money but operated her orphanages in poverty. She also associated with a LOT of unsavory people, including Robert Maxwell. Also took a lot of money from those people. She is NOT the saint everybody thinks she was. I also suspect she was involved in human trafficking, but can’t back that up yet. But she was in the perfect position and had contacts who were.
15Devin RoseThe Protestant’s Dilemma29 June5 stars. Part of my Catholic project.
16Michael MaliceDear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il4 July5 stars. Very amusing and fascinating look into Kim Jong Il’s life. It actually humanized him.
17Brian GodawaEnoch Primordial18 Jul4 stars. Great fictional account of Enoch’s times. Gets a little repetitive from his Noah book though.
18Philip Delves BroughtonAhead of the Curve23 Jul5 stars. A journalist attends HBS
19Peter TheilZero to One2 Aug4 stars. Bought it years ago through a recommendation. It gives a little insight into Theil’s career and a few things you can do and should consider in yours.
20Fr. Gabriel AmorthMemoirs of an Exorcist4 Aug4 stars. English translation of the Italian transcripts of an interview with the Vatican’s late Chief Exorcist. Good understanding of Exorcism in Catholicism.
21Mark DiceThe True Story of Fake News9 Aug5 stars. Solid research by Mark Dice, as always. His recent books overlap somewhat, but so does the Fake News and Tech Tyranny, which Robert David Steele calls #GoogleGestapo
22Mark DiceThe Liberal Media Industrial Complex15 Aug5 stars. Solid research by Mark Dice, as always. His recent books overlap somewhat, but so does the Fake News and Tech Tyranny, which Robert David Steele calls #GoogleGestapo
23Mark DiceBilderberg: Facts and Fiction16 Aug4 stars. Great work as Mark always does, but I don’t actually remember reading it. I was trying to plan out reading for 2021, saw this, thought “I’ve had that for years; I better read it”, then found it on my record of books I’ve read. This was during one of my spurts where I read several books in a short time frame before going a month or more between finishing a book.
24Brian NeimierDon’t Give Money to People Who Hate You20 Aug5 stars. Short read. Summarizes the “Death Cult” and the “witches”, who they are, and how and why you should avoid them and their products. How to support independent creators who don’t want to destroy you.
25Dr. Steve TurkeyThe Return of Christendom22Aug4 stars; short read. Summarizes how Christendom is coming back worldwide.
26Robert KaplanAsia’s Cauldron20 Sep2 stars. I bought it several years ago when I trusted Stratfor and finally got around to reading it this year. It is a decent high-level overview of the players, issues, and histories of Asian countries. I’ll recommend a better work when I come across one.
27H.A. IronsideThe Four Hundred Silent Years26 Sep4 stars. Somewhat dry, but an attempt at a history of what happened during the so called 400 “silent years”, which Catholics don’t consider silent (see “Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger”). Having read that book first, I found this author’s discussion of the deuterocanonical/apocryphal books to be argumentative and somewhat uninformed.
28Randolph Richards Brandon O’BrienMisreading Scripture With Western Eyes9 Oct7 stars. Should be required reading for all Christians. Both authors have lived and been missionaries overseas. We tend to interpret the Bible through 21st century American eyes, and that is not how it was written or understood throughout history. The authors discuss this, discuss how the cultures they’ve lived in see things, discuss how the ancient Israelites saw things, and explain several passages and the differences between the ancient culture and how our culture sees them.
29Anonymous ConservativeThe Complete QAnon25 Oct5 stars. AC covers the mysterious backchannel Military Intelligence source “Q” from his own unique perspective. He starts with his story; how after he published his first book, two neighbors moved out and an entire surveillance network moved in. He explains what he’s seen of this surveillance network and how it operates.   At the end of the book, AC covers Q’s first 400 posts and exposits on them from his unique viewpoint.   AC himself is about as mysterious as Q. I’ve read everything he’s written since about 2013, and all I really know about him is I *think* he has a daughter named Amy, he loves guns, he’s a patriot, he’s trained in martial arts, and he lives within a two hour drive of Baltimore. And I think he accidentally dropped that point. I used to think he lived in the mid-west but I had nothing to base that on. He also was apparently some kind of scientist. I don’t even know how old he is. Sometimes I think he’s the same age I am; sometimes I think he’s in his 60’s.
30Dr. Michael HeiserThe Unseen Realm20 Nov7 stars. The definitive work on the subject; best I’ve ever read. Dr. Heiser covers the supernatural understanding of the Bible we should all have, including God’s Divine Council, who all these other “gods” mentioned were, the Nephilim, angels, demons, and so on. I don’t read many books that are life and worldview altering, but this is one.
31Joachim HagopianDon’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down3 Dechttp://www.redredsea.net/westpointhagopian/index.html Author successfully sued West Point and forced them to abide by Due Process. 5 stars. Free online at the link above. West Point may have once been a great institution, but now it turns out lying, treasonous scumbag Generals who lose wars. It keeps cadets busy on mickey mouse bullshit that has never been proven to produce good officers or leaders. It covers up scandals, such as the West Point childcare pedo scandal in the 1980’s (See Satanism & Pedophilia Book 4), which will be on my 2021 books.)   For more on West Point, look up John T Reed, another West Point grad with a lot to say on the subject.
32Joachim HagopianBook 1: A Quarter Million Millenia of Human Enslavement, Child Rape and Blood Sacrifice from Antiquity to the Modern Catholic Church6 DecBook 1 of 5 (four more coming) https://pedoempire.org/contents/ 7 stars. While this should be common knowledge, it is VERY dark material and not for the faint of heart. But if you don’t already know the world is run from the shadows by Satanic pedohiles who drink adrenochrome, you’re better off staying away. I can’t really send you to a 101 level material for this subject. Maybe there should be one. Look for “Fall of the Cabal” on YouTube. But this book series is an exhaustive documentation of people and organizations behind it all, and their methods of operation including blackmail, assassination, brainwashing, gaslighting, and so on. The series traces this network up to the UK as the center with Lord Rothschild as the head. I don’t know if there is anybody above Rothschild. This author did not document, but I suspect there are people or forces above him. The author was a therapist who has worked with children affected by pedophiles and has expertise in the subject.   Book 1 introduces the subject, gives some background (Annunaki) and covers high level organizations. Book 2 covers the Royal Family and Jimmy Savile, also the BBC, Parliament, and so on. Book 3 covers Rothschilds and more pedo scandals from around the UK. Book 4 comes back to the US. Book 5 will be about Australia and the rest of the world. All books are available from Amazon or can be read free at the link above, which is how I read them. Book 4 should be out this month (physical) and Book 5 in March.
I am currently reading book 4.
33Joachim HagopianBook 2 The United Kingdom – The World’s Pedophilia Epicenter22 DecBook 2 of 5 (planned)
34Joachim HagopianBook 3:The Rothschild Illuminati Bloodline and Ties to More British Scandals29 DecBook 3 of 5 (planned
35Robert David Steele Dr. Cynthia McKinney#Unrig Election Reform Act30 Dechttps://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-UNRIG-Guide-1.2.pdf 5 stars. More of a white paper than a book, but is a comprehensive reform badly needed in US laws. We need to destroy the bifactional ruling party tyranny. I disagree with the section on unions because I view them as corrupt as any other method of Cabal’s control over us. Nice theory; terrible implementation. Hitler had a proposal in Mein Kampf for state unions that in theory were supposed to bring businesses and employees together as citizens. I like that particular idea better than I do the Teamsters and the rest of the system we have.

Debt Forgiveness?

Every now and again, something bubbles up in the Zeitgeist that can cause us to wonder why we never saw it before. All the talk about writing off student loan debt has some of us pissed off, although as long as the banks, not the taxpayers absorb it, I’m fine with the concept. Screw the banks as they have been screwing us.

The Bible calls for the forgiveness of debts periodically, and it’s even in the Lord’s Prayer (non Catholic version) “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”. I knew about it in the Bible, which I’ve read several times, but I gloss over it. I’ve never lived in a society that forgives debts, and I’d rather focus on the fun stuff like stoning adulterers and other sexual deviants.

I heard about this book yesterday while I was listening to one of Vox Day’s Darkstreams. Once I finish the book I’m reading on J Edgar Hoover, I’ll probably read this one. It’s available on Kindle Unlimited.

https://amzn.to/2J9DQt8

Book Review: God Hates Me by Richard Cain

You can buy God Hates Me here.

This is a very unique and interesting book. The basis of the story is this: a demon has a story he wants to tell. He begins by possessing a teenager and speaking to the youth pastor. 4 chapters later, he is cast out by the pastor and goes off in search of others to tell his story to until he finishes. Most chapters are with one person, although I think he gets another two chapters out of one more person. Some of these are hilarious in their own right. In one case, he crashes a sleepover of girls playing with an Ouija board.

The demon’s name is Malach. He doesn’t consider himself evil. Sure, he was part of the rebellion, but he was there because of some really cool music the “Choir Director” was playing. He tries not to be too evil, although he keeps getting roped in. But he wants to get back into Heaven, so he keeps looking for ways to get their attention by doing good. But, he keeps messing things up.

The author limits Malach’s attendance at Biblical events. I figure it would have been too self-serving to have him there at the crucifixion. Malach keeps himself busy with plant taxonomy and loves Florida for some reason. When he’s not cataloging plants, he gets involved with pixies (it ends badly), and tries to raise a little boy as his “guardian angel”. That ends badly too.

The author’s imagination is good. The demon explains what the world was like pre-fall (Noah laser-leveled the deck of the ark), the Nephilim, and the change in strategy after the flood. While I would never base theology on this book, it is a work of fiction and should be enjoyed as such.

I’m not sure what the deal with the cover is. The first time I saw it, I thought it was the story of a boxer or MMA fighter or something.

OK, I won’t give spoilers. I don’t know if this is the author’s intent or just my own mind. While Malach’s story appears to have a happy ending, demons lie. It’s a great and entertaining read.

Book Review: The Heretics of St. Possenti by Rolf Nelson

About 3 or 4 years ago, Rolf Nelson published “The Stars Came Back.” It was originally written like a screenplay. He has since published half of it as a novel. I believe it’s called “Back From The Dead.” In TCSB, Rolf included as part of the background of the smartship AI a group of warrior monks.

The Heretics of St. Possenti is about how the order got started.

The book starts with a Catholic bishop being robbed. He goes to jail, where he is subjected to mocking for how useless the church is in the lives of the imprisoned men. This sends him on an exploration to find answers for how the church can attract younger men and meet their needs. This lays the groundwork for starting a new kind of monastic order, beginning with troubled and forgotten veterans.

All in all, it’s a really good story. And I want to state right up front, this is a positive review from one of Nelson’s fans. I highly recommend the book.

Thinking over this book, one thought I had was “Atlas Shrugged for the alt-right.” By that, I mean similar to Ayn Rand, Nelson writes his characters with pretty much the same voice and uses dialog to lay out his philosophy. I also agree pretty much entirely with his philosophy. As a Castalia House author, I’m sure Nelson reads books by other Castalia House authors, and I saw quite a few of them in Heretics. He touches on “Cuckservative” by Vox Day and John Red Eagle, 4th Generation Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind, and of course, Vox Day’s 2 SJWs Always… books.

In fact, if you’re not a big reader, but you want to get a good overview of CH, reading Heretics is an efficient way to do it. It touches on enough to help you follow along with the discussion.

I don’t think Nelson is Catholic, but where else would a monastic order come from? Nelson apparently spent a lot of time researching Catholicism and monastic orders, and I believe did a great job of putting together a story based around the necessary technical, logistical, and doctrinal details that would be necessary for a new order to come into existence and thrive. He did such a great job, I’d convert to Catholicism if this order existed to join it. And I don’t state this lightly. And Nelson rendered the story in a way that is palatable to evangelical Christians, and possibly even non-believers who are friendly to Christianity but not considering participating.

Nelson addresses many issues in the church (which includes all denominations.) Churches are generally not friendly to men. I’ve commented several times on the contrast between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. On Mother’s Day, the sermon is invariably about Mary or Hannah, and full of praise for the heroic, hard-working moms. On Father’s Day, the best you can hope for in the average church is the pastor will forget it. Otherwise, you’ll have a sermon about how you’re not doing enough, and screwing up. The pastor never stops to think that it’s the men who work hard to provide for their families and attend church who are sitting in the pews, getting bitched out in front of their wives and children. I started skipping church on Father’s Day because of this.

Many churches have bought into the secular world. Rather than preaching Christian virtue, they preach virtue signaling. Many families now forgo protecting their children and invite strangers into their homes, putting their own children at risk of rape and attack. How is this sane? There are also classic mistranslations of the Bible that have become mainstream doctrine, such as “turn the other cheek” is taken to mean “roll over and play dead for those who seek to victimize you and your family.” And don’t even get me started on how forgiveness is abused in Christian doctrine…

This was a good book. Someday, Nelson will grow into a great writer, able to create different characters who face difficult challenges. I look forward to more from him. Like, how did the St. Possenti order grow through hundreds of years to become involved with a smartship AI?

A Few Books To Help You Develop A Framework To Understand The Times

With America’s worst mass shooting in our recent past, a media that is entirely run by subversives who hate Americans (especially “conservatives”), many people wonder just what the hell is going on?

I don’t know if we’re entering “The Apocolypse”. I think we’re definitely in the 4th Turning crisis foretold by prophets Straus and Howe.

There are a few books I can recommend to help you understand the psychology of the people you’re likely to encounter in our times. Many of them I haven’t formally reviewed, although I should. You can start with The Fourth Turning, linked above.

The first book I recommend you read (after 4th Turning) is The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics by Anonymous Conservative. He wrote his second book under the name “Michael Trust.” He truly is anonymous beyond the point of paranoia. When Red Ice wanted to interview him, he sent Matt Forney instead. You can find AC’s blog here. I read his book in 2013, and have been reading his blog ever since. His work is truly valuable and should be archived for future generations.

The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics takes an old evolutionary theory commonly called r/K Theory and applies it to politics. He explains it better than I can, but the concept is simple. Different environments select for different factors. If your ancestors came from a warm climate where food was everywhere, you likely wouldn’t need a high IQ or a long time preference. If your ancestors came from a colder climate, you’d have to have a higher IQ and you’d have to adapt to be able to plan ahead; to grow and store up food for winter. A/C divides people into r (rabbits) and K (Wolves). This isn’t like the Biblical sheep and wolves; the wolves (if you are one) are the good guys in this theory.

Rabbits have no or little in-group loyalty, are conflict-averse, breed prolifically, and have little investment in child rearing. Wolves, on the other hand, have strong in-group loyalty, are bred for a world of conflict, and have high investment in breeding and offspring.

Contrast that with the difference between the average liberal and conservative in the world and you’ll see where this fits in.

As a bonus, read his second book: How To Deal With Narcissists. In it, he explains what a narcissist is, why they are that way, and how to avoid them or deal with them if you must. This also explains a lot about how our world works and how the people who run it operate. Chances are, you know a few narcissists. This may help you a lot. It definitely helped me understand a few people I’ve been around.

Next up is SJWs Always Lie by Vox Day. He explains what an SJW is, what “The Narrative” is, how they operate, how they attack, and how to fight back. He also explains the difference between rhetoric and dialectic, and how you need to be able to operate in both. He also shows (much from personal experience) how if you are attacked by SJWs, you’re pretty much screwed as few if any will come to your aid. But never apologize, and never back down. That is blood in the water to them. His next book in the series, SJWs Always Double Down, should be out Oct 9. I pre-ordered it. SJW’s Always Lie, if read in the order I present, builds on Evolutionary Psychology and Narcissists.

Another book to aid in your understanding of our current times is Cuckservative: How “Conservatives” Betrayed America by Vox Day and John Red Eagle. If you’re a conservative and/or a Republican, and you wonder why Republican and conservative politicians always puss out and surrender, this book will explain it to you.

A few more I’ll add as sort of honorable mentions are Mike Cernovich’s Gorilla Mindset and Ivan Throne’s 9 Laws. You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond to it. Mindset is a powerful tool. Say what you will about some other aspects of Cernovich, but his book is very powerful and practical. I haven’t finished 9 Laws yet. I’m about halfway through. In the first part of the book, Throne lays out what his nine laws are, and what the dark triad is. These are mindset tools you can use to operate in and understand the world around you.

I could go back through my list of books and find some more academic, longer, harder to read ones. All of these books are easy to read, yet highly comprehensive. If you want to know more about why the people in the world are the way they are, and how to respond to or avoid them, read the books on this list.

There Will Be War, Vol 1

There Will Be War Vol I was published in 1983 and edited by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. It was republished in 2015 by Castalia House. I wish I had known about this series growing up. I probably would have been all over it. Jerry Pournelle recently passed away, and I’m sorry to say I haven’t read any of his work during his actual lifetime.

I wish I had known about this series growing up. I probably would have been all over it. I grew up as an Air Force brat during the Cold War. From 1980 to 1985, my dad was stationed at Ramstein Air Base in what used to be West Germany. We lived with the fact that Soviet bombers could be overhead before they could get the air raid sirens lit off.

Hell, I was walking to school in 1983 when some terrorists somehow got a truckload of explosives onto Ramstein and detonated them at Headquarters. I felt the shockwave from the blast. My mom was freaking out all day, since my dad didn’t have a chance to call.

I’m somewhat sympathetic to Cold War literature. I also greatly enjoy military science fiction, having spent most of my life in or around the military in some capacity, from dependent to active duty to reservist to defense contractor and direct civilian employee.

The There Will Be War series involves military science fiction short stories, essays, and articles collected and edited by Jerry Pournelle. He writes of science fiction conventions attended by serious military and science fiction writers, not a bunch of SJW degenerates like those of today.

Growing up, I knew of the doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction” or MAD. In this book, I learned of another doctrine called “Assured Survival”. MAD didn’t like the concept of civil defense, while Assured Survival depended on it. I’d also never heard of the THOR system either.

I think my favorite story was the satirical “The Battle”, by Robert Sheckly. This story could easily have been part of a South Park episode.

The original novella for “Ender’s Game” is included. That story has evolved quite a bit. I reviewed it on my Blogspot blog, and I’ve been meaning to repost it here. Orson Scott Card is an amazing writer.

While I’ve seen several movies based on Philip K. Dick’s books, the first story of his I’ve actually read is in There Will Be War Vol 1, “The Defenders”. Very interesting concept.

I’m going to have to make my way through the rest of the series.

One problem I’m finding with short stories though, and I’ve only read a handful of anthologies, is that you’re dropped into the middle of a story with no context. Then you’re trying to figure out the answers to questions such as “Who the hell are these people?” “Why are they using horses if this is science fiction?” And by the time you finally figure out what the hell is going on, identify with the characters and want them to succeed, it’s over.

Book Review: Hitler In Hell by Martin Van Creveld

Nazis are becoming all the rage lately. From the left calling anybody to the right of Karl Marx “Nazi” or “fascist” to a group of people commonly referred to as the “alt-reich” or alt-retards, you see and hear it all over the place. President Trump, since the early days of his campaign, has been called “literally Hitler”.

In light of that, I’ve been doing my own research into the subject. I’ve read Mein Kampf (Ford translation) and several other books trying to get a handle on what actually happened so I don’t become one of these historically illiterate idiots running around.

Back in June, Castalia House released Martin Van Creveld’s latest book, Hitler In Hell. I got a free copy as a member of their book club (joining is as easy as submitting your email address.) It took me a while to read it since I had an ePub on my phone. I finally finished.

As I read the book, I kept wondering “why would an Israeli Jew write a book that seems to come out favorable to the Fuhrer?” The answer is at the back. Van Creveld has studied the subject his entire life. He had family that both survived and perished during the events of WWII and the concentration camps (commonly called “The Holocaust.”) He has read many of the biographies and done plenty of archival research, and as a military historian, has done plenty of his own reading and writing on German military tactics in both wars.

Van Creveld has always thought about writing a biography on the man but didn’t know what to add that others hadn’t already covered. Then it hit him, to write the book autobiographical. So although this book is fiction, it is written as if in Hitler’s own words and voice.

The premise of the book is: Hitler is in Hell. He’s totally conscious of the events since he ate a bullet in his bunker (he has an Internet connection), and is writing both his side of the story and responding to his critics.

I enjoyed the book and learned a lot in the process. In some ways, it agrees with “alternative historians” such is Mike King. In a few other ways, it differs. Some claim Hitler let the British escape at Dunkirk. Van Creveld’s Hitler says it was flawed intelligence and ground that prevented his army from moving quickly enough.

All in all, Hitler in Hell is a great read and a valuable addition to this historical discussion. The story of Hitler is not one as simple as “evil man!” or “demon possessed”. He was a real man with real motivations at a real point in history with real influences, both positive and negative. He was a combat soldier, serving at the front for almost four years, wounded in action twice, then watched helplessly as his nation was humiliated and raped with the Treaty of Versailles. He was also an intelligent man and a scholar, who read a lot, often a book a day. What would you do?

Book Review: Derelict: Marines Saga by Paul Cooley

I think I came across and bought Derelict: Marines from a BookBub newsletter. The story sounded interesting, so I bought it. And it was so good, I bought the second book, Derelict: Tomb. Now I’m stuck and left hanging until the 3rd book comes out later this year.

This series is military science fiction. The premise of the series is that a ship sent on a mission about 50 years go that lost contact suddenly shows up near Pluto mysteriously. This has sort of an “Event Horizon” vibe. A group of search and rescue Marines stationed near Neptune is dispatched to check it out. Their orders are to board the ship, recover any logs they can, and tow it back.

But the AIs they’re dealing with start giving them conflicting information. Their ship’s AI starts acting strange. While they were ordered to tow the ship back, the AIs suggest destroying it.

Then they find some strange objects on the ship that look like pinecones, as well as some liquid that kills a Marine who steps in it. While mounting thrusters to stabilize the ship’s spin, a fireteam’s skiff is disabled, forcing them to take refuge inside the ship. Low on air and with an injured Marine in serious need of medical care, they are forced to find a way to survive and defend against the strange objects, which turn out to be some form of extra-solar life, which certainly isn’t looking to share their wisdom and technology with residents of the Sol system.

These are fast paced, action packed books that will keep you on the edge of your seat. And damn it, I have to wait until at least October before the 3rd book comes out.

While it’s really hard to capture life in space without taking some artistic license (the author uses “grav plating” for artificial gravity), the military aspects are fairly realistic. I assumed when I started reading the books that the author had been a Marine, but nothing in his bio indicates military service. Still, he did a decent job.

One hint as to how well an author renders Marines is how their rank is described. While it’s perfectly acceptable to call ANY NCO in the Army or Chair Force a “sergeant”, that doesn’t fly in the Marines. Their mentality is that you earned it, and you deserve to be addressed by it. There is only one sergeant in the Marines, which is E-5. Once you make E-6, you are a Staff Sergeant, and can expect to be addressed by it. Gunnery Sergeants (E-7s) are often addressed as “Gunny”, which is acceptable. But NOBODY calls a Gunny a sergeant. That doesn’t fly.

I’m not even sure if it’s acceptable to call a Private First Class a Private.

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