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The Wages of Sin are Paid in Marriage
A history of Sexperience corrodes marriage from the inside out.
Readership: Christians; Those who are Married or Marriage minded;
Theme: Feminine Submission
Sexual Submission (2022-10-14) brought up the question of whether the model of Attraction / Arousal described therein was truly applicable in multiple contexts. Derek identified the model as pertaining fairly accurately to the experience of long-time married couples, while Deti argued that Attraction and Arousal are concomitant for women (similar to how they are for men) and that the model is a desperate attempt to deflect, explain, and excuse wives' lack of Arousal.
This post will go over some dynamics that affect the context and then answer some questions that were brought up.
Comparing Models of Feminine Submission
I'll offer some concise descriptions of the models of feminine submission that have been put forth.
Biblical Model: Good marriages last because the wife is chaste, and is regularly submissive and respectful to her husband. Bad marriages fail because the wife does not do these things. (Among other things.)
Jack's Model (as given in Sexual Submission): Good marriages last because the wife is humble and trusting. Husbands play a role in keeping her that way. Bad marriages fail because the wife does not respect, submit, and help / cooperate with the husband. (Among other things.)
Derek's Model: Good marriages last because the wife is focused on family life, including being a helper to and getting along well with her husband. Bad marriages fail because the wife is immature or selfish. (Among other things.)
Deti's Model: Good marriages last because the wife regularly wants to have sex with her husband. Bad marriages fail because the wife is not genuinely attracted to / aroused by her husband. (That's it!)
These models fit the biblical model in the following ways.
Jack's Model: The wife surrenders to the Headship authority of the husband.
Derek's Model: The wife conforms to her role as a wife and mother.
Detis Model: The wife is submissive to the husband in the bedroom.
These models are valid in the following contexts.
Jack's Model: Generally works in successful marriages, but the specific reasons for that success vary from case to case.
Derek's Model: Hearkens back to traditional norms for marriage and family and is therefore time tested.
Deti's Model: Stands true in a sex centric culture where wimmin are ruled by Desires / Feeelz / Feminism / hypergamy / Immaturity and not by God nor husband.
These models proscribe a failure of the biblical model in the following ways.
Jack's Model: The marriage will fail if husbands do not take the initiative to impose Headship or if wives are uncooperative or unsubmissive.
Derek's Model: The marriage will fail if the wife is immature, selfish, or screwed up for whatever reason.
Deti's Model: The marriage will fail if the wife is not perpetually aroused (wanting to have sex with her husband all the time) and the husband cannot regularly and sufficiently gin up his Game (e.g. Dread, et al.).
It is clearly evident that if a marriage is to succeed over the long haul, then husband and wife will have to stick to the biblical model, or make the transition to the biblical model at some point, or else be doomed to dysfunction.
Sin Introduces Weaknesses to the Models
Deep Strength did a nice job describing how promiscuous women are disappointed with a husband because they subconsciously compare his qualities to all the best qualities of the men she's had before.
"…the higher the number of sexual partners [a woman has had] the more comparisons she has to make toward her husband. Thus, if her husband doesn't measure up in some way to partner #1, 2, 3, 4, etc., up to say 10 (n count = 10) in various different areas then she is more likely to be dissatisfied and start disrespecting and/or rebelling. For instance, if #2 made 6 figures, #5 had an athletes muscular physique, and #7 had his own house, even though all of these are different people she will generally expect that her husband should have most if not all of those qualities.
This is why expectations seem to be sky high with women nowadays. They're taking aggregate comparisons of lots of men they slept with and expect the next one (e.g. their potential husband) to have all of the best qualities of all of those men put together."
Christianity and Masculinity: Why expectations of men and women are out of control (2022-10-14)
Women who can't get aroused by their husband in marriage on an ongoing basis are almost certainly guilty of past sexual sins, or else they experienced some sort of psychological trauma, or maybe both. Men who married a virgin don't really have this problem, or if they do, then they don't really consider it to be a problem. Men who didn't marry a virgin are frequently faced with this problem and because of the prevalence of fornication I would say it is now the norm. Scott and Mychael are an exception, by God's grace.
Likewise, the same thing happens with men too.
"A similar thing tends to happen in men with the desensitizing nature of airbrushed women on social media, advertising, and porn. Once a man has seen so much "beauty" per se, he becomes more desensitized toward normal looking women in everyday life (not counting overweight/obesity type stuff). Hence, normal women can't meet his unrealistic standards anymore."
Deep Strength didn't go far enough in describing the effects on men. Promiscuous men become disappointed with a wife because they compare her general level of respect and bedroom performance to all the best T&A he's had before, i.e. swinging from the chandeliers at Niagara falls, and so on.
If his wife doesn't measure up in some way to partner #1, 2, 3, 4, etc., up to say 10 (n count = 10) in various different areas then he is more likely to be dissatisfied and fail to truly love, cherish, and appreciate her for who she is. For instance, if #1 laughed at all his jokes, #3 came running to his door in the middle of the night for every single booty call, #5 could suck a golf ball through a garden hose and swallow every drop for four hours straight until her neck gave out, #7 had a "perfect 10" body, and #9 was a multiple orgasm squirter, even though all of these are different women he will generally expect that his wife should have most if not all of these qualities.
Imagine his disappointment then, after he gets married, his wife locks up in the bedroom because she's comparing him to all the men that she's cuff linked before. He's stuck with a contentious nag who won't put out, and regrets ever getting married. He will feel dissatisfied and curse women and marriage (maybe even God too), no matter that his wife may have many positive qualities.
Moreover, both Men and Women are taking aggregate comparisons of lots of media images / portrayals and past lovers and expect the next one (e.g. their actual or potential husband or wife) to have all of the best qualities of all of those images / portrayals / men or women put together.
Case Study — Jack and Jill
Neither my wife nor I were virgins when we married. So it can be expected that we will experience the frustrations and disappointments I described above.
Even though I am a Ph.D. / professor, SMV = ~8, she still wants more attention, confidence, game, income, status, achievement, and so on out of me.
Even though she is a sex bunny with an hourglass figure, I still want more respect, sexual enthusiasm, passion, and playfulness out of her.
There is still love and sexual attraction between us, but the sexual arousal is cluttered with emotional triggers and subconscious expectations and so it doesn't occur spontaneously. However, becoming aware of these issues helps immensely, as I described in Riding the Raging Rivulet (2022-10-13). Learning the Erotic Blueprints and Personality of one's spouse also helps streamline the festivities with fewer false starts and less frustration. These things would be difficult even without any past antipathetic experiences, but it can be overcome by God's grace.
The point is, even the best of relationships are difficult to navigate, but having a history of hangups and hiccups introduces many more obstreperous obstacles to be overcome in attaining the ideal.
Difficult Questions
All of the above discussion brings me to a place where I can address some questions that were raised by Derek and Deti. But I'm afraid the answers will be quite disappointing.
Deti wrote,
"Why should I do all this work for lackluster response and a little dampness, when what I should be getting is great sex and Niagara Falls? And what work is she going to do for me? What do I get out of this? What's in this for me?"
Pardon me for being so blunt, but this statement perfectly represents the male perspective of a marriage suffering from a history of premarital sexual promiscuity, as I described above.
"If you're married to a slow cooker or a steam engine who requires that much work and maintenance to get going, she's not sexually attracted to you. If you have to do this much work and go through all this rigmarole and procedure just to get her to notice you want sex, she's not sexually attracted to you and any arousal you get out of that will be purely mechanical."
The answer is… Yes! That's what a debased marriage is like.
As Feeriker said,
"Painful, unpleasant truths are always difficult to accept."
Closing Statements
Deti's viewpoint is typical for men who have been psychologically abused by sexually promiscuous women and denied respect and natural affections in marriage. I understand this because I've experienced the same. However, because of the prevalence of feminism and sexual rebellion, even men who married virgins have to deal with dead bedroom syndrome, like Red Pill Apostle.
In addition to the challenges of being imperfect humans trapped in a mortal body, sexual sins introduce more emotional and spiritual obstacles that must be overcome, perhaps on a daily basis.
Married life brings to the surface all the best and the worst in people.
When things are going well (like the humdrum of married life), people fall into habits and get complacent and lazy.
When things fall apart, it's time to do some inventory and take stock of what you're dealing with, and what can reasonably be done to fit into the biblical model.
Men can be very aggressive at establishing Headship authority. But only when circumstances demand it. Sexual sin removes the incentives of positive reward.
Women can be very proactive about being submissive, including sexual submission. But only when circumstances motivate it. Sexual sin (among other things) erodes such circumstances.
No offense is intended to anyone mentioned here as an example.
Σ Frame (Scott): We Marry Our Own Cross (2020-5-18)
Σ Frame (Jack): Only God can grant a successful marriage (2020-5-20)
Σ Frame (NovaSeeker): The Cross of Our Age (2021-5-3)
Σ Frame (Thedeti, Red Pill Apostle): 2 Old Farts Talking About Their Wives (2021-12-20)
Σ Frame (Thedeti): What can a husband do in response to a rebellious wife? (2022-1-31)
Σ Frame (Jack): Why you will marry the wrong person (2022-3-2)
Σ Frame (Jack): Epilogue: Counting the Cost (2022-3-30)
Σ Frame (Jack): Validation (2022-10-11)
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60 Responses to The Wages of Sin are Paid in Marriage
There is no such thing as a wife who is perpetually aroused.
A wife can be "always willing" to meet her husband's needs, and usually more than happy for the blessing of being able to do so. She can enjoy doing so more often than not.
But "perpetually aroused" is not a thing.
thedeti says:
Except of course for you.
You write about SAM as if you're perpetually aroused.
I am certainly frequently impressed with my man. He has earned the honor.
It's not the same thing as being perpetually aroused.
I am asserting, and strongly so, that any wife who practices looking at her husband through eyes of gratitude and with a heart determined to recount his good qualities could be equally impressed.
Liz once said of her husband, "He is beyond beautiful to me now.^
I can relate and can tell you that's not perpetual arousal. That is eyes wide open love.
Grown up stuff,
In my first marriage, the numbers were
Me: N=6
Her: N=0
Using the red pill, this would seem to create an advantage in my case, because although I was no virgin, I was as committed as they come. Totally smitten and crazy about her.
One of the (primary of many) reasons hamsterbations given was
"I saved myself for you so I didn't get to have fun and play the field."
Um. Stuff that would have been good to know BEFORE we got married, I am thinking.
Chaste girl, raised Christian
Strong family unit
"Conservative" church tradition/denominational preference
Discussions prior to marriage about roles, submission, etc.
…and on and on for vetting purposes.
Still fail. So you never really know. There are no guarantees.
Scott, in the case of your first marriage, the problem was not a past history of sexperience on her part, but the effects of growing up in a liberal progressive feminist culture. The inherent emphasis on individual liberty and self-exploration sets the stage for women to enter into promiscuity with fewer reservations — even after marriage. I don't see how this can be avoided or changed without the fabled drastic cultural reset.
No. The problem was that Scott did things that caused his first wife to lose attraction for him. He was kind, he was nice, he was devoted to her, he did what she asked/screeched/demanded. Then there was what he did not do – he did not tell her "no" when that needed to be done; he did not stand up for himself; he did not lay down hard boundaries and guardrails for her conduct; he did not make it clear what he would and would not tolerate.
Lastmod says:
Maybe Scott's current wife actually, really loves him. Actually enjoys his company and actually likes being married to him. When he was "dating" her, I am sure Scott wasnt going through all the Manosphere stuff "Okay on the 5th date make sure I say this or that; and "vett" properly and "oh, there is a book(s) by real men telling me how to get a wife, better pick those up and read, practice and apply…."
No, he had a few tons of option TO meet a woman like he married in his current wife. Hard to believe in these forums at times that women can actually be more than a doormat to a husband
Revolutionary indeed.
My situation is very similar to yours Scott, right down to the body count figures. My marriage lasted, however it could have easily failed within the first ten years as stuff surfaced that was not completely hidden before marriage, however it was obscured a bit (in the background). Obscured in that I (and to a degree her as well) did not know how to vet beyond surface level red flags, i.e. obvious indicators of issues that might give pause to one as far as proceeding toward an LTR.
In my case, as I've mentioned before, my wife had issues with her mother. They weren't my wife's fault, as they were her mother's issues, however they had an impact on her daughter that she (my wife) carried over into our marriage. To be completely fair, I had some issues with my parents that I too carried over into our marriage. So we both showed up with parental issues that surfaced during the early years.
So you're right, there are no guarantees. We live in a fallen world with fallen human beings, some having been redeemed by Christ; but all affected by sin in some way, shape or form. Add to this the current culture which has done everything in it's power to rid itself of any and all guardrails put in place by previous generations to try to give some semblance of relational work-ability, and we now have the resulting sh!t show all over the place out there.
Deep Strength says:
@ Scott
That is a yellow/red flag itself though. If someone is looking at sin as the grass is greener scenario, that usually means she is a nominal Christian.
I think this can be parsed out if you have the sex conversations. At least I knew my then girlfriend and now wife had the right attitude toward her virginity.
"I saved myself because I want to obey God and honor my husband" is clearly more indicative of a humble mindset and Christ follower.
Oh, she said all the right things when we were dating.
This was a revelation she apparently received much later.
It's one of the reasons "vetting" is so weak as a predictor. What is said today is of zero value as an accountability tool 5 seconds (or 8 years in this case) later.
She was actually quite explicit about this. When I asked her if she really meant things like "death do us part" she said, "I meant it at the time."
That's how it works now. Without the external enforcement through family stigma, law, church ostracizing you can just disregard whatever promises a potential wife makes.
@ Scott,
Vetting by itself works OK.
Generally, a woman being teachable and you discipling her tends to be the best indicator of future behavior:
"Yes. This is more or less what happened
I was in a band.
I smoked and partied.
I was a backsliding "carnal" Christian.
I wasn't doing anything serious.
Her parents were begging her to find another boyfriend, even setting her up with safe bet Christian nerds from church.
I was not a virgin.
I cussed.
She loved sticking it to her parents.
Once I started getting my act together the passion went in the toilet."
This seems to be the major issue.
She said the right things, but probably more had to be done to identify she was a Churchian and not a Christian.
The problem for many men I think is that if they're smitten they tend to overlook or justify yellow and red flags.
My favorite was "I no longer believe that saying yes at the altar should mean a life prison sentence."
Imagine your wife, several years from now, after all the bonding and intimacy you have shared telling you that marriage to you is roughly analogous to life in prison.
It was awesome.
Those were some good times. I'd like to sell tickets to it.
locustsplease says:
@Scott,
Her: "I don't want to have sex anymore and I never do the rest of my life."
I'm 29 years old and found her cheating on me — this isn't what I signed up for.
Red Pill Apostle says:
She was actually quite explicit about this. When I asked her if she really meant things like "death do us part" she said "I meant it at the time.""
Scott's experience with the volatility of women's feelings is why I now have a zero tolerance stance for crossing specific marriage boundaries. That last statement would mean I'd file divorce papers, no questions asked. And I have already been emotionally eviscerated and mourned the brokenness of the relationship so now it's much easier to apply logic to my boundaries.
Yep. Been there, more or less.
"You know I love you, but sometimes I'm just not physically attracted to you."
(after sex) "It feels like you raped me."
(Jumps up immediately after sex to run to the bathroom to squat over the toilet to expel the semen just ejaculated into her)
Yeah. Not fun. Which is why I've told her, explicitly: You say or do anything like that to me ever again, we're done. Papers will be on file the next day.
Maniac says:
Scott's post brings about a question: What if someone "saves themselves" for marriage and then realizes afterward that they don't really enjoy sex?
Maniac,
It's hard to imagine anyone with N = 1 would not like sex but I'm sure there are some rare cases out there.
After my father's divorce, he once told me, "It's impossible to know how good your marriage is because you don't have anything to compare it to." His assumption was that if he had a harem of wives, then it would be much easier to assess which women are more worthy. However, PUAs have said that women are all different, all having some positives and some negatives, but overall, no one woman is better than others. So I think my father's statement would also apply for N = 1. For some people, this ignorance is a satisfying bliss, but for others like Scott's first wife, it raises the FOMO.
This is one of a handful of arguments in favor of serial monogamy. The rationale of course is that you sample sex partners until you find the right one.
Then, if things go south, you just jump to the next one.
It's not compatible with Christian teaching about sexuality obviously but it is the secular alternative view point, or it was until very recently.
Now that everything is hook up / virtual / OnlyFans / trans / poly / whatever all bets are off.
Jack, this is interesting:
"However, PUAs have said that women are all different, all having some positives and some negatives, but overall, no one woman is better than others."
I'll take your word for it (that PUAs say this) because I don't pay attention to PUAs. I am woefully ignorant of their stuff.
But with my experience, I would totally disagree. I can rank order from best to worst sex, every one of them.
There are some variables in play there. The "best" ones are not always the hottest because the chemistry and enthusiasm very often trumps that.
And the "worst" are not always the ugliest. It's complicated.
But I would never make the "all great just different" argument. There is definitely a hierarchy.
The starting point is a hormone panel to check and see if anything is off. Then it's addressing whether she's been lying to you about what works for her. I was personally told sex felt good but what was withheld from me was what forms of stimulation were necessary for her, nor did she take any action to make sex what she wanted. This is something to look out for if you are one of the rare men to marry a virgin.
God made both men and women to enjoy sex, albeit not necessarily with the same urgency. My wife, in the 5 ish or so years she was engaging in the power play of limiting me to 3-4 times per year, was weekly taking matters into her own hands when she felt the need. Bottom line, women like sex so figure out what is wrong before you let her create a wake of damage that will have long term repercussions.
It is not normal for a young woman to not like sex. It is not normal for a young woman even to be indifferent toward sex.
Anyone who tells you that women don't really like sex, they do it only because men want to do it, is out and out lying to you. Anyone who says women aren't really all that into sex is a liar. Women love sex with men they're sexually attracted to/aroused by (same thing, anything said here to the contrary notwithstanding). Women seek out sex with men they're sexually attracted to/aroused by (same thing).
There are only two things wrong with women who "don't like sex". It's always either (1) not attracted to the men around them; or (2) serious/severe mental/emotional illness. That's it. Almost all the time when a woman professes to "not like sex", it's because she's not sexually attracted to you or to the other men she sees. "I don't like sex" is a euphemism for "I don't want to have sex with you." She wants to have sex. It's just that she doesn't want sex with you.
There is no such thing as "vaginismus". That's in reality a woman with serious mental health problems and a case of I'mnotattractedtohimitis. Avoid these women.
thedeti,
I wonder if vaginismus is a self-fulfilling prophecy in that someone tells a woman sex will be uncomfortable the first time so she tenses up in anticipation? After the first uncomfortable experience the fear builds. The therapy for this condition is to massage the muscles until they relax, much like using a lacrosse ball to roll out the knots in your back prior to a workout. This is more proof that there is no such thing as a woman who is less than 4 crazy on the hot/crazy curve.
My question was just a conversation starter. Thanks to major self-esteem issues caused by bullies — most of them young women — and the psychosexual damage caused by Matthew 5:27-28, the times I've actually wanted to have sex have been extremely few and extremely far between.
It's a shame — when I was 13, I was pretty much the only one of my male peers who wasn't exactly put off by the idea of going down on a woman. I really could've been something.
There are no guarantees.
Of course not, but a lower probability of divorce is better than a higher probability of divorce.
info says:
If sexuality is like fire. And there is a limited energy budget for sexuality. Promiscuity burns it outside the proper place where the fire will be useful.
Hence leaving their Husbands cold and in the dark as her best is given to other Men.
The inversion as Satan wants it. Frigidity where fire is meant to be and a wildfire wherein fire doesn't belong. Both equal rebellions against God even if they are outwardly opposed.
But in the inversion both equally guilty.
Jack, you may actually find this interesting using your insight for a retrospective analysis.
I don't want to write a post about it, but you offer some interesting perspectives on stuff like this. Here's how it went:
1 = HS Sweetheart, Junior year. Lasted about 5 months. She said she always wanted to know what it was like dating a high-profile football player, and once that was conquered, she got bored. Jettisoned me.
2 = ONS with a 22 year old college girl at a party (between my junior and senior year, I was 17). She thought I was like 25. This is because I developed my physique and facial features very early. The next morning (the party was at my house) when she found out, she STILL wanted to try a relationship. I said no, citing that my parents would never be OK with having a 22-year-old girlfriend.
3 = 2nd HS sweetheart, senior year, moved in together after graduation, stayed together almost 2 years total. Fizzled out.
4 = This was someone who I knew from HS, was 2 years younger and said, "I always had a crush on you back then but was too shy plus you had a girlfriend." Lasted about a year, said I was too serious.
5 = Rebound from #4. Super cute and everything but kind of clingy and annoying. This was my drummer in a band/smoking, "he's so complex and hurt from his break up" phase. I broke up because of guilt over the fact that I was just using her to get over the previous one.
6 = First wife. Married my "best friend." Re-committed myself to church, finished my bachelor's, and started preparing myself for seminary and ministry as a music director/church counselor/youth guy. Lot of good it did me.
After that, things got weird. I had about 7 years of ONSs, FB/FWBs and a few LTRs scattered in there. I maximized everything I had learned about women to get what I wanted, and had a lot of it. I felt bad about it, but obviously not bad enough not to do it. I call this "sub optimal sexual situations" phase. I figured, I swung and missed on marriage, so fvck it.
Truth is, at first I figured Mychael would be just another hot girlfriend that wouldn't work out but here I am, married almost 16 years with 4 kids. And we are crazy about each other.
feeriker says:
Looking at your descriptions of your past relationships, it seems that Marriage #1, the one that from all outward appearances should have been the one that endured, was the one that ultimately caused you the most pain and suffering when it imploded. Do you believe this was this the case? If so, it serves a damning indictment (and more sadly still, a stereotype) of the contemporary church's inability (or more likely unwillingness) to do what a true family does and intervene for the sake of the family's health and stability. In other words, a spiritually healthy church would have gone to the ends of the earth and beyond to have tried to help the two of you save your marriage. Instead it appears that they either stood back and did nothing, or worse, actively aided and abetted its destruction. The result was to not only cause you to stumble, but to alienate you from the faith for a long time. I recall the Apostle Paul having some severe words for church bodies that did this sort of thing.
Oh yes, its been discussed here by me before, and I was open about with Adam Pigott when he interviewed me.
I have never claimed to be a perfect husband. I was working some serious sh!t out about my character in my 20s, like most men. I was not drunk, I did not abuse, was not mean. I did not yell. I had a job. I loved my wife with everything I had.
The elders failed to even try to help us.
I do have to be precise. There was one elder (of 5) who heard her complaints about me and said to her,
"So you have a standard nice guy American husband. All guys are like that. What you are describing is common marital stuff. What's the problem?"
But he was the anomaly. He voted to pressure her to stay and work it out, the other 4 washes their hands if it.
"6 = first wife. Married my "best friend." Re committed myself to church, finished my bachelor's, started preparing myself for seminary and ministry as a music director/church counselor/youth guy. Lot of good it did me."
I think you might be underselling this.
If I remember correctly (and I may be wrong) didn't you get the garbage choreplay and other bad marital advice instead of actually leading/heading the marriage? Nominal Christian wife who wanted to play the field also probably played a role, but this didn't help.
Any "Chad" has the capacity for a relationship or marriage to collapse if they start acting like a SIMP.
There's dozens if not hundreds of pastors who have their marriages collapse because even if they have the celebrity status of pastors they are white knights to their wife's queen. All women almost inevitably get tired of a man with no backbone or leadership skills.
I've never really seen myself as a Chad
I'm a strong seven, weak 8 on a good hair day
Eh, doesn't matter what you think. It matters how women treat you.
By all accounts (appearance, experience, etc.) you're a Chad. Get good responses from most women. No trouble getting dates. Normies and sub5 don't really get ONS either so another indicator.
Scott is a Chad in denial because of the implicit incongruency with his faith. Coming to Christ required him to own up to his Chadhood.
Have you ever played a sport with a natural athlete who can't understand why you can't do what he makes look easy? Yeah. It's like that.
"Normies and sub5 don't really get ONS either so another indicator."
True. DJ'd a show this past Saturday down in the Silver Lake are of Los Angeles. Older crowd. 30's thru 50's. Maybe 100 people. I was one of three DJ's for the night. Mod (British sixties RnB), Soul, rare Motown….
Crowd was mostly men. The women that were there either came with a guy, and the few men that dared approach them to chat, ask to dance were all shot down except for that 20% or so.
I even saw one dude move in on a gal who came with another guy. Poor guy. He didn't stand a chance with the one who moved in on his date.
When I did spin a slow one, it was "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?" from 1966 by Jimmy Ruffin. Fifty or so guys just out there singing along. Raising pints, lighters, singing along. Quite a sight……..
These guys could dance. They all were not mouth breathers. It was Mod, so it wasnt a flip-flop and shorts attired crowd. Between sets, most talking to me about their scooters, thanking me for this track or that track…. asking me about some shows, cracking jokes….. hardly talk about "Star Wars" and 'Star Trek" and "science"…..
One guy saw me spin up in Santa Rosa back in 2020. He said "came out when I saw your name on the flyer as one of the DJ's".
These men looks wise, all sub 5. Well, according to women…. and most women today consider most men "ugly".
All your numbers DS don't speak to reality. It might look good for a grad school paper, or "study" but in the real world, and very real life…… the numbers speak differently. Why? Well self reporting numbers always are skewed…..
This is the crux. Probably "always has been." Insert meme here.
You have to have a husband and wife both committed to God and making it work.
Yes, it can sometimes work if the husband is a strong head and the wife a nominal Christian or non-Christian (e.g. 1 Cor 7 on sanctifying the wife). Yeah, it can sometimes work if the wife is a Christian and the husband is nominal or not (e.g 1 Pet 3 unbelieving husband, 1 Cor 7 on sanctifying the wife). But you don't want either scenario.
Husbands and wives have some influence, but the influence can't make someone do what is right. It can only influence.
Women's Messiah complex like they are Jesus when trying to fix a "bad boy" but they can't admit that its said "badness" that attracted them in the first place. And their conception of Goodness actually is anti-Masculine, contrary to the Saints in Scripture who were Good Manly Men like David's Mighty Men. Hence when they successfully change their "bad boy" they stop being attracted to him.
I was in a band
I smoked and partied
I was a backsliding "carnal" Christian
I wasn't doing anything serious
Her parents were begging her to find another boyfriend, even setting her up with safe bet Christian nerds from church
I was not a virgin
I cussed
Once I started getting my act together the passion went in the toilet
@Scott
And also losing your manliness too. Because of said flawed perception of good.
If you haven't seen it, "Father Stu" (streaming now on Netflix) is fantastic
The story begins and ends right here in Helena, too. Fr Stu was raised here and died while assigned to the Helena diocese in 2014, the year before I came here and bought my property.
He was 50.
With the benefit of hindsight it's clear what God had in store for him. But I doubt he had such clarevoyance while he suffered through it at the time. To persevere like that even when your own hierarchy doubted your ability is incredible.
Great story.
I concur. Father Stu was an excellent film. Writing a review of it right now in fact.
We even let the kids see it (youngest is 14) because the message was more powerful than a few f words.
Hi Elspeth!
Hi Scott! 😊
This basically sounds like…
"You didn't vet right."
Which is understandable because it is a defense mechanism. "I vetted right so this won't happen to me."
Everyone reading here hopes your wife doesn't change her mind and go off the rails crazy. But she might.
And no one hopes for that more than me, since I lived through it and came out the other side with scars and wounds that will not heal while I am on this earth.
I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Re: Vetting as a defense mechanism.
Sometimes, I think vetting has more value as a psychological buffer than it does as a quality control inventory. If a wife goes berzerk, it will be that one thing that you overlooked, or were totally ignorant of, or that she lied about, or you thought, "Ahh… that won't be too much of a problem…"
I'll buy that.
I went through so many dark phases after my divorce, so many maladaptive and endlessly painful psychological processes, I generally try not to think about it anymore.
There was "I drove her into the arms of another man" phase.
"I cannot picture growing old without her" phase.
"She's a crazy b!tch who ruined my life" phase.
And many more. Then when you think "It's all gone", it just starts again.
But one thing I know now. It had nothing to do with not vetting properly. In another society my guess is she wouldn't have done it. She really was genuinely sweet and committed in the beginning. I think Dalrock's "the whispers" got to her.
Vetting is obviously not foolproof. It's more a way for mitigating relational risk, but not eliminating it. People are not the same five-ten-fifteen years down the line.
Vetting is for eliminating obvious past and/or present negative behaviors or situations that can potentially indicate issues. It mitigates some risk, not all of it. Obviously, there are still 20% of virgin women who divorce… but this is in comparison to 30-50+% divorce rates for N count 2-10+.
We're looking at statistical probabilities here.
There's men who stop being leaders of their own families and get obese and their wives will never divorce them. But we would also expect that a greater percentage of women would divorce those types of husbands than if said husband had stayed a strong leader and fit.
I don't think anyone has every tried to paint vetting as 100% foolproof method, but if they did they were wrong. FAST/Teachable has always been one of the primary indicators going forward.
"I think Dalrock's "the whispers" got to her."
It disturbing to think about how much of "the whispers" probably originated from "Christian" women.
With the appearance of Godliness yet vulnerability to Spiritual threats. Demons can whisper in their ears. Feminist friends are the wormtongue of many women.
Hey Catacomb Heretic says:
To Catacomb Resident who said in his most recent blog post "Jack's blog is not the only place where I read about the dynamics of human sexual relationships. Rather, it's just one of the best sources I've found."
And also "I'm a total alien, apparently." Open your combox. Not allowing comments makes you an alien. It makes you live in a bubble like the Left, like all the politicians in their ivory towers who never talk to a blue collar person. That's why you are so filled with Judaizing heresy, because you never talk to real Christians who don't worship Jews as mini-gods.
This certainly seems like a reasonable, healthy way to disagree with a complete stranger on the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
A good bit of well placed sarcasm can go a long, long way. 🙂
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Argumentum ex fitque
Climate-Debate.com > Discussion Forum > Climate debate in general > Argumentum ex fitque > Page 3
jwoodward48
(1537) I don't get how that relates.
jwoodward48 wrote: I don't get how that relates.
It's that the flow in one direction is so many orders of magnitude greater than any flow in the opposite direction.
When you turn on the light switch, electricity flows to get the job done. There are many countless electrons flowing in one direction (at any given point in time) but there are also simultaneously a few that are flowing in the opposite direction. Does it matter? Is the electron flow somehow interrupted by the few electrons moving against the flow? Not at all. It is like a fast moving car being hit head-on with a few grains of sand.
(1537) But that's not how light works. Light can't collide with light... And besides, you're now arguing that AGW would have minuscule effects if it existed. I'm not quite as well-read on that. But I think that optical depth might play a part?
jwoodward48 wrote: But that's not how light works. Light can't collide with light...
Are you sure? What is electromagnetic wave cancellation? Can guitarists use this principle to cancel noise through double pickups?
(1537) Well, yes, light can interfere with light, and even a single photon can interfere with itself, but that's quite different from the scenarios we're discussing. If incoming light cancelled out outgoing light, that would be WEIRD.
jwoodward48 wrote: If incoming light cancelled out outgoing light, that would be WEIRD.
Would it be weird or would it be natural and expected?
(1537) It's really not expected. If I shine one flashlight into another, the two beams don't cancel. That only happens if they're exactly out of phase with each other. And besides, since they're traveling in different directions, they'd just continue on - imagine two waves "colliding" in the ocean. Maybe if I sit my boat in JUST the right spot, I won't feel the waves - but once they're past that point, they'll keep traveling like nothing happened.
jwoodward48 wrote:
It's really not expected. If I shine one flashlight into another, the two beams don't cancel. That only happens if they're exactly out of phase with each other. And besides, since they're traveling in different directions, they'd just continue on - imagine two waves "colliding" in the ocean. Maybe if I sit my boat in JUST the right spot, I won't feel the waves - but once they're past that point, they'll keep traveling like nothing happened.
Flashlights are not a source of single phased light. Flashlights put out a mess.
jwoodward48 wrote: It's really not expected. If I shine one flashlight into another, the two beams don't cancel.
Correct. If you are talking about visible light it gets difficult. It can still happen but under "weird" conditions as you mentioned.
The guitar example I mentioned is not weird. In fact, it ends up sounding much better.
Well, neither are stars.
"Heads on a science
Apart" - Coldplay, The Scientist
No, science doesn't insist that, ergo I don't insist that.
I am the Ninja Scientist! Beware!
Yeah, you're right. Thanks. Interference is fun to learn about.
The "weird" would be if any light could "bump into" any other light, which would mean that they were matter, and that would have so many effects.
If you take a tank of water, generate waves in it from a single source, and send those waves through two narrow slits, the waves after those slits combine on the other side. In some places they add together, in some places they cancel each other out completely.
The same is true with light.
ALL moving waves generate interference patterns. Nothing weird about it.
(1537) Well, yes, but the energy doesn't just disappear. Right? The waves continue past the site of interference like normal? It's only when they're "on top of each other" that they completely cancel.
Well, yes, but the energy doesn't just disappear. Right? The waves continue past the site of interference like normal? It's only when they're "on top of each other" that they completely cancel.
No, they disappear and don't come back.
Energy doesn't disappear, but the wave does completely. The energy is simply directed elsewhere.
(1537) Hmm. This is an interesting topic, and one that I'm not particularly knowledgeable about. (Interference specifically, and I still probably know more than the average person on the topic; I speak relative to my individual knowledge, and what I aim for.)
Hmm. This is an interesting topic, and one that I'm not particularly knowledgeable about. (Interference specifically, and I still probably know more than the average person on the topic; I speak relative to my individual knowledge, and what I aim for.)
Some science museums have a demonstration of this in their displays. Not all of them do of course. It tends to be a bulky display.
However, it's fairly easy to build the apparatus yourself and observe it.
(1537) I get the basic interference. I am referring to the energy - where does it go?
I get the basic interference. I am referring to the energy - where does it go?
It is redirected. Anywhere you see the wave, there is still energy.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War
Doug West
I am a retired engineer and small business owner who has authored over 60 books on history and various topics.
President John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Chrushchev
Since the end of World War II, conflict had been building between the Western powers led by the United States and the communist Soviet Union. The Cold War tensions between the United States and the communist Soviet Union came to a head in October 1962. Cuba's radical government, led by Fidel Castro, alarmed the United States as they advocated revolution throughout Latin America and had established close ties with the Soviet Union. Since 1959, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations had sought to overthrow Castro through covert operations, including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Adding to the air of mistrust between the USSR and Western powers was the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to physically divide the city of Berlin. The wall violated the agreements of the 1945 Potsdam Conference, which allowed free movement within the city of the peoples of the four governing nations. The Soviet action angered the three Western powers in the city: the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Hostilities would escalate to a standoff between U.S. and Soviet tanks over the newly erected wall. President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to end the crisis by removal of the tanks from the proximity of the East-West Wall. Kennedy stated, regarding the wall: "It's not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." Thus, the stage was set for the most dangerous act in the Cold War.
In the summer of 1962, Cuba and the Soviet Union secretly agreed to deploy an arsenal of missiles on Cuban soil, which included: forty-eight SS-4 ballistic missiles, thirty-two SS-5 ballistic missiles, twenty-four surface-to-air missiles, antiaircraft batteries with 144 launchers, and forty-two bombers. The Soviet arsenal could have easily targeted much of the mainland United States with only 90 miles separating Cuba and Florida. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wanted to gain a foothold in the Americas and counter the American Jupiter missiles in Turkey that were targeted at the Soviet Union. The Soviets were also trying to bolster their position in the Communist world, which was currently being challenged by Mao Zedong's leadership in China. Khrushchev admitted later that the Soviet missile deployment in Cuba "would have equalized what the West likes to call the balance of power."
The United States was becoming very concerned at the arms buildup in Cuba and in September, President Kennedy publicly warned that if weapons designed for offensive use were detected in Cuba, "the gravest of consequences would arise." The U.S. was monitoring the situation with the high-flying U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. On October 14, the spy plane photographed active missile sites in Cuba. Analysis of the photos by the CIA led them to believe the missiles were near operational and could possibly even carry nuclear warheads. An alarmed President Kennedy assembled key advisors, designating them the Executive Committee or ExComm, and the group debated how to respond to the growing threat. The president's charge to the group of top advisers was to "set aside all other tasks to make a prompt and intensive survey of the dangers and all possible courses of action."
One of the first images of missile bases under construction shown to President Kennedy on the morning of October 16.
Kennedy's Resolve
The Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, a member of ExComm, believed that the Soviet missiles, while reducing the warning time before American cities could be hit, did not significantly alter the Soviet-American balance of nuclear power. McNamara argued, "It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba." His stance was that the U.S. should simply ignore the nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy was not going to ignore the missiles in Cuba, perhaps because of the recent humiliation his administration had suffered in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, or maybe as a result of the tank standoff at the Berlin Wall with Khrushchev. Whatever the reason, Kennedy came to view the Cuban Missile Crisis as a test of his leadership of the nation and the free world. He felt that even though the balance of power might not shift with the missiles in Cuba, the "appearance" created an advantage for the Soviets. Therefore, his decision was that the missiles in Cuba would have to go.
U-2 aircraft similar to the ones that flew airborne photo reconnaissance missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
Finding a Solution
The ExComm believed an airstrike against the missile locations was not plausible because it might leave missiles untouched, thus allowing for a retaliatory strike on the U.S. Kennedy put the military on alert for a possible invasion. The stakes were high as the U.S. believed there were 10,000 Soviet troops guarding the island, and there would be significant American casualties if open warfare broke out. Unknown to the Americans, there were actually 42,000 Soviet troops in place instead of the 10,000 estimated. The United Nations ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, recommended a diplomatic approach to the crisis. He suggested the U.S. should offer to dismantle its obsolete Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey in exchange for the withdrawal of the missiles from Cuba. Kennedy rejected Stevenson's recommendation, stating he "felt strongly that the thought of negotiations at this point would be taken as an admission of moral weakness of our case and the military weakness of our posture." The negotiations option was not practical, as discussions with Castro would legitimize his government and Khrushchev would simply stall the negotiations to give time for the missiles to become operational. To remedy the situation, ExComm called for a naval blockade of the island to stop further Soviet military shipments and to force Khrushchev to retreat in the face of superior U.S. forces in the region. Kennedy agreed with the idea of a blockade combined with an effort to get Khrushchev to back down. The blockade was to be officially called a "quarantine" to avoid being charged with an act of war under international law.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Explained
The Blockade
President Kennedy announced the blockade on October 22 in a nationwide television address when he called upon Khrushchev "to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace." The speech had a chilling effect at home and around the world. For many it became near panic as financial markets fell and the price of gold reached a record high. There was a run on grocery stores as people stocked up on supplies for their makeshift shelters. One Columbia University professor described his students as "literally scared for their lives." But most people continued with their day-to-day lives—watchful and waiting.
Kennedy backed up his words when he sent U.S. warships to the Caribbean waters to intercept Soviet ships. On October 24, U.S. strategic nuclear forces were placed on DEFCON 2, the highest alert status below actual nuclear war, and the world waited anxiously for the Soviet response to the ultimatum. In Florida, 140,000 troops prepared for an assault against Cuba. To show the Soviets the U.S. was deadly serious, twenty-three nuclear armed B-52 bombers were sent to orbit points within striking distance of the Soviet Union. The medium range B-47 bombers were dispersed to various military and civilian airfields, made ready for action at a moment's notice. Kennedy received widespread support for this action while Moscow denounced the blockade as a violation of international law and an interference in their relationship with Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev were exchanging telegrams to end the crisis and on October 26, Khrushchev proposed to remove the "defensive" Soviet missile if the United States would not invade Cuba. The next day, Khrushchev asked that the U.S. remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey. As part of the negotiations, the brother of president Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, met privately with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to explore the possibility of the missile swap agreement.
The crisis escalated even further when a surface-to-air missile shot down an American U-2 plane over Cuba. President Kennedy decided to strike a deal and publicly agreed to the no-invasion pledge and privately, through his brother, assured the Soviets that the American Jupiter missiles would be removed from Turkey. Khrushchev accepted the U.S. terms as he feared the situation would lead to war and he knew that Castro was an unpredictable ally. It wasn't until mid-November that the Soviets agreed to pull out the bombers. Castro resented the settlement and did not cooperate with the United Nations on-site inspection to confirm the removal of the missiles. Although the missiles and the bombers did leave Cuba, an official agreement between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union was never signed.
The successful resolution of the crisis bolstered Kennedy's leadership position within the country and abroad. The crisis had been a close brush with nuclear oblivion, and Kennedy himself during the height of the crisis placed the likelihood of disaster at "somewhere between one out of three and even." The crisis led to Khrushchev being deposed in 1964 as his actions were deemed reckless. The outcome of the crisis did have the effect of slowing the escalation of the Cold War. To soothe tensions between Moscow and Washington, a "hotline," or teletype, was installed that would allow direct and immediate communications between the two governments to stop any hostilities before they could escalate. Additionally, the Soviet Union and the United States entered into a Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. The U.S. policy remained hard-lined with Cuba, with assassination attempts against Castro and CIA sabotage missions to continue. To put the Soviet nuclear arsenal on par with that of the United States, they began a rapid buildup of nuclear weapons. As a sad twist of fate, the enhanced short-term prestige that the Kennedy administration experienced in the wake of the crisis translated into a greater long-term insecurity for the United states. Khrushchev's successor, Leonid Brezhnev, was determined to avoid the humiliation Khrushchev experienced. Starting in early 1965, the Kremlin embarked on a massive expansion of the Soviet nuclear weapon arsenal. By the end of the decade the Soviet Union achieved nuclear parity with the United States. Now the entire world would be held hostage by two nuclear superpowers capable of destroying the very planet the human race calls home.
Boyer, Paul S. (editor) The Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. 2001.
Brinkley, Alan. John F. Kennedy. Time Books. 2012.
Clifton, Daniel (Chief Editor). 20th Century Day by Day. Dorling Kindersley. 2000.
Powaski, Ronald E. March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present. Oxford University Press. 1987.
Reeves, Thomas C. Twentieth-Century America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press. 2000.
© 2018 Doug West
Raja Adnan Afzal from Rawalpindi, Pakistan on May 02, 2020:
Ohh! nice one. I will be waiting for it. I know it will help me a lot in understanding new facts about the Great Depression in 1929.
Doug West (author) from Missouri on May 01, 2020:
Raga:
Thanks for the idea, however, my next writing project is the stock market crash of 1929.
Doug also write on some other historical events of the cold war.
It will be great in reading such articles in your style.
Raja:
Thanks for the read. Glad you enjoyed the article. It was a perilous time the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Raja Adnan Afzal from Rawalpindi, Pakistan on April 30, 2020:
Doug, I like your Articles.
Especially the way you write, every time I read it makes me feel like I am the part of every event you describe.
Cuban Missile Crisis turned back safely right from the edge of star war. It teaches a great lesson that whatever happens, try to find a corner for negotiations to turn the conflict into peace for future generations.
Doug West (author) from Missouri on October 10, 2018:
Rochelle:
Thanks for the comment. I was alive when the crisis occurred but was too young to remember.It is always good to hear how people reacted.
Rochelle Frank from California Gold Country on October 09, 2018:
Yes, it was a scary time, but President Kennedy's response was very reassuring... especially when Russia backed off. I was in college and remember it well.
Readmikenow:
Interesting comment. I like to write about events in the recent past because there is always someone that has an actual experience to share. I bet it was a scary time, one I hope we don't repeat.
Readmikenow on October 09, 2018:
Excellent article. Well done. I once spoke with someone once who was on one of the ships part of the blockade. He told me everybody thought this was it, war with the Soviet Union was going to happen. When the Soviet Union backed down they were permitted to celebrate, but only below deck. I enjoyed reading this.
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Ireland's crazy government thinks that lowering the minimum wage is going to encourage more jobs and reduce unemployment.
Reducing the minimum wage in a Ireland within the EU, is going to have the exact opposite effect.
Who unemployed and sane, is going to leave the security of social welfare for a full time job that pays out less. Not many Irish and none of the thousands of unemployed foreign immigrants already here for a certainty. Foreign immigrants who already make up 20% of the unemployed and who soak up over a third of all rent allowances.
But some will take a job at any wage! even for 4 euro a hour.
Even more new unskilled immigrants will come and take a job at any wage at zero risks for them.
Coming from Eastern European countries that the EU allow to pay low to no welfare, so these economic chancers come to soft Ireland where they know they can't go wrong, at least not until Ireland literally bursts.
Or thousands of Asian so called 'language students' will come and take any wage, because most are really here to stay long term at zero risk. Maybe one of the Thousands of sham marriages, modern slave trade that Shatter does not care about to act. Shatter is far too busy making laws for Irish deserters.
None of these economic chancers are brave new emigrants taking any economic risks what so ever.
But who can blame them when Ireland is such a soft touch, compared to their own.
Remember all the Dell jobs lost in Limerick to Poland!
The full time rate at the new Polish factory pays less than Irish dole. None of the thousands of unemployed Polish on welfare in Ireland will be rushing home.
Immigrants will only take any wage when it suits, knowing there is zero risk for them.
How can there be any risk in a Ireland that provides welfare to immigrants who just have to turn up.
Ireland offers welfare to immigrants at rates higher than full time employment typically offers in their own nations, nations that provide little or no welfare.
Zero risk, these are not brave new world immigrants, most are economic chancers.
In a recent documentary about the Dell factory closure. A Polish economic immigrant who was working at Dell Limerick, who is now redundant and living off Irish social welfare, was interviewed.
The Polish economic migrant said that she had thought about going back to her home town in Poland, where the new Dell plant now operates.
The Polish economic migrant said that she was not going to go home and work for the 3 to 4 hundred euro p month for a full time job in the Poland Dell plant. So she actively chooses to remain in Ireland on state welfare, and is now on some free training scheme from the Irish state, all paid for by the Irish.
Zero risk again for these supposed hard working immigrants.
The Polish economic migrant said that she missed Poland because her aged Father still lived there, and she was trying to convince her elderly father to come to Ireland as well.
The documentary closed with captions, one of which stated that the Polish economic migrant's father was now also living in Ireland.
We were left to guess who was now paying for his welfare.
Economic immigrants good for the economy or society?
Sure planned immigration can be good for any economy, immigrants that are genuinely needed in a nations economic plan, immigrants that add value to the economy. Can potentially be a plus to society.
But how can unplanned unregulated immigration ever possibly lead to anything but chaos and social divisions?
The USA is not a melting pot, it is like London full of dangerous distinct ethnic areas and ghettos.
Was immigration on this scale (a % unprecedented in the world), planned in Ireland?
The once many extremely naive - who claimed it is was only racists who questioned the number of immigrants coming in Ireland! Even most of them now agree that - the Irish Government had no immigration plan what so ever! they did not even have a economic plan.
What we had was blind greed being driven on by opportunists, who made money from unprecedented % numbers of economic migrants.
Developers made millions selling property in a false and obscene supposed property boom. We can now all see this property price bubble was insanity and a disaster for Ireland. We know this insanity was allowed and actively encouraged by Irish politicians.
Politicians who care mostly for themselves, who act in short term self interest more than the public well being.
Greedy business owners are the other big winners, they now have a never ending supply of naive and servile workers that can be replaced as soon as any complains or seeks any real job security.
When the naive now conclude that there was no immigration plan, they also agree by default, that what we experienced in Ireland was not a planned beneficial or natural inflow of immigrants.
We had a politically inspired race to the bottom and complete lack of care for people, Irish or foreign.
We had unprecedented levels of immigrants, the vast majority going into low skilled jobs.
In the case of construction, the immigrants very often got jobs they were not properly qualified to do.
It was a completely false jobs market, created by politicians for the benefit of greedy business owner and property speculators! Greedy people who proved that they had no plan for Ireland, for the Irish, or any genuine care for immigrants!
Paying little or no tax in this false market, the immigrants knew it was zero risk for them. Plus they heard that the crazy Irish would pick up the tab, when the false job was gone.
Most welfare fraudsters are foreign immigrants.
Over 20% on the Dole are foreign immigrants.
Over 30% collecting rent welfare are foreign immigrants.
These figures are indisputable facts from the government offices involved.
These figures show that immigrants are not always good for a nations health.
Foreign immigrants are not more prepared to do the jobs natives will supposedly not do.
The figures prove lies of all the usual arguments for more and more immigrants.
Immigrants are used by greedy employers, the only people to benefit by the open door. Foreign Immigrants in Ireland's case, was at unprecedented levels compared to anywhere else in the world. The open door policy for foreign immigrants has proven a total disaster for Ireland.
Who is going to come for low paid jobs, even at 4 euro a hour?
A new supply of Foreign Immigrants, from the Eastern European states and their never ending supply of low skilled and unemployed. The EU will encourage these economic migrants from Eastern Europe to take every job Ireland is able and stupid enough to create for their so called free market.
The young Irish with ambition and pride will leave Ireland for Australia and Canada. They will leave behind a Ireland destined to be a nation populated by a extremely high percentage (if not a majority) of immigrants.
Unless Ireland gets out of the EU, Ireland a nation primarily managed by the Irish, will soon be over.
If Ireland does nothing, just sits back in the crazed PC EU, the Irish can expect more and more immigrants to come. People from third world nations will come to escape their hell holes, and in such numbers to make Ireland itself a hell hole to live in.
Ireland has only seen the start, more and more immigrants will come.
Just in the wider EU, there are literally tens of millions of Romanians, Bulgarians and Turks waiting for the green light. Economic migrants will come and bleed what is left of Ireland dry. Make our state systems third world, unable to cope.
Unprecedented % Economic migrants will turn Ireland - a small distinct culture, a friendly nation for visitors, into another multi-cultural dysfunctional society.
If we stay in the EU, that is Ireland's future, not possibly or likely! it will be Ireland's future.
The Irish will be a ethnic minority in their own land. How is that fair or sensible.
A ancient people who suffered for centuries under colonial oppression, will give away everything, hand over their freedom and culture to faceless bureaucrats in Brussels, who do not care about the Irish or Ireland.
This is Ireland's future - unless we get out of the EU. In the EU we can not make our own common sense and fair laws.
It does not have to be this way, we can change our future. The examples are there - Iceland, Norway & Switzerland are members of the European Economic Area (EEA), but not the common policy. They have preferential trading arrangements with the EU. They each export more into the EU than Ireland does!
Today we heard news that Ireland's education system is suffering. The standards are now much lower than a decade ago. Of course RTE will not dare even ask is this because of unprecedented levels of economic foreign immigrants.
Ireland goes from 5th place among 39 countries ten years ago to 17th place now, inside ten years. The same decade that masses of non English speaking economic migrants flooded into Ireland.
The price of the EU open door policy for Ireland is so high, not only in pure financial terms.
This education cost is just the first of the obvious costs, more will become apparent even to the Liberal NIMBY.
Eastern Europeans immigrants to Ireland or the UK, know that they can not go wrong, it is a risk free move. They get any job in Ireland, take it for a year and then if you get unemployed, simply apply for Irish social welfare. In most instances Irish social welfare, designed for the native population, pays more than working full time in their own Eastern European nations.
That is why so many foreign immigrants, in unprecedented numbers in Ireland, are staying here in Ireland.
This is why the Irish who want to work, the brightest are now leaving Ireland, but the unskilled immigrants are staying and more are coming.
Why are unemployed foreign immigrants not going home? Why are foreign immigrants still coming.
Because Ireland acts like a benefactor for foreign immigrants.
The vast majority of foreign immigrants come to Ireland for economic reasons.
Reports show that Poland has more than 2 million unemployed.
Since January 1 2010 the benefit is 717PLN gross monthly.
About 80 per cent of the unemployed aren�t even eligible.
What a naive social system Ireland now has, the unskilled jobs taken up by economic foreign immigrants who could not care less about Irish people or Ireland.
On minimum wage economic foreign immigrants have to date, not paid a cent in tax, they have just taken from the Irish welfare system.
And they are still coming. More and more immigrants are going to come until the system crashes, or the law is changed.
Ireland should not pay for any foreign immigrants welfare, or unemployment benefit, their own home nation state should pay. Ireland should pay for our own citizens, even the ones the government has betrayed and forced to emigrate.
If Ireland did this, and started caring for Irish citizens only, Lenihan would not be able to cynically use Irish emigration to claim reductions in jobless numbers. Lenihan smiled today as he quoted the falling unemployment numbers. How can he possibly conclude that jobs are being created. The man has no shame.
These are new PPS numbers issued this year.
A group of Polish MEPs have made an unprecedented attack on Irish civil servants by accusing them of acting illegally.
The three MEPs said that Irish welfare authorities were discriminating against Poles by refusing welfare claims made by Polish people living in Ireland.
The claims have been dismissed by both the EU�s employment and social affairs commissioner, Laszlow Andor, and the Department of Social Protection in Ireland.
In a series of written complaints to the European Commission, Konrad Szymanski MEP said that a large number of Polish citizens who had been living in Ireland for more than two years were being ��denied access to the social benefits and services to which they are entitled��, because they ��allegedly�� failed to meet the �habitual resident� requirement.
Under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, a �habitual resident� is someone who has been in Ireland for a continuous period of two years.
Szymanski said that appeals lodged with the Social Welfare appeals office had proved fruitless.
��This issue is increasing in scope, and the commission therefore needs to be made aware of it," he said. Marek Henryk Migalski, another Polish MEP, said that there was increasing evidence of Poles living in Ireland who had reported the ��illegal treatment which this group of citizens has endured��.
��Denying Polish immigrants their right to benefits is not only discrimination, but above all deprives them of the wherewithal to live if they lose their jobs or are seeking employment," he said.
A third MEP, Malgorzata Handzlik, also wrote a similar letter to the European Commission last month, expressing her ��concern to learn of the widespread refusal to grant social security benefits to Polish nationals living in Ireland on the grounds that they do not meet the condition of permanent residence in that country, even though any person staying in Ireland for more than 24 months automatically fulfils that condition��.
She said that she feared that the practice could lead to a violation of the freedom of movement and discourage citizens of other member states from settling in Ireland. Such practices are contrary to EU legislation.
A spokesman for the Department of Social Protection said that all schemes administered by it had qualifying conditions, including, in some cases, PRSI contributions, in others, a means test and, in a number of schemes, the habitual residence condition (HRC).
��These conditions are to maintain the integrity of the system and ensure that income support is provided to those most in need," the spokesman told The Sunday Business Post.
��As stated in the European Commission reply, Ireland is fully compliant with the requirements of EU legislation in this regard."
There has been a significant decline in literacy standards among Irish 15-year-olds over the past ten years, according to a highly regarded international education survey.
The OECD's latest PISA study ranked the reading ability of Irish 15-year-olds in 17th place out of 39 countries, compared to 5th place in 2000.
T�naiste and Minister for Education Mary Coughlan has said she is disappointed with the outcome.
Every three years the OECD measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, maths and science across dozens of countries.
In its latest survey, Irish students fared well in science, once again significantly above average. Achievement has fallen in maths, from average to below average.
However, the really significant decline is in reading - from 5th place among 39 countries ten years ago to 17th place now.
The Department of Education commissioned Irish and Canadian researchers to find out why. Their research says changes in the school-going population may have had some influence.
There are more migrant children, fewer early school leavers and a greater inclusion of students with Special Education Needs.
Think this a exaggeration, that Ireland has nothing to learn?
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By Jim Squires | 11 years ago
New screens and trailer prove that God of Blades is dripping with style
It's been awhile since we last checked in on God of Blades, but as these latest screens (and the first trailer!) show, the team at White Whale Games hasn't been resting on their laurels.
For the first time we're introduced to the game's playable character, "The Nameless King" as he'll appear in the actual game. Likewise, the trailer gives us a first glimpse of the actual gameplay, and does a fantastic job of setting the mood with an amazing soundtrack and top notch visuals.
In case you haven't caught on yet, God of Blades is pretty high on our watch list – and it should be on yours too! Be sure to click "follow" at the top of this page to be notified the moment it's released.
God of Blades aims to bring pulp fantasy to life on iOS in 2012
by Kevin Alexander
Nostalgia isn't worth much these days. It's easy to wax poetic about things you barely remember, especially when the world wide web can so easily give you an instant refresher course on that thing you want so badly to remember so you can tell people that you remember it. The team that makes up White Whale Games knows a thing or two about how to mine your past to create something good for the present. With some of the team having previously worked for BioWare, they're bringing that expertise to iOS devices next year with their first release, God of Blades.
Everything about God of Blades seems like it's trying to tell you that it came from another time. The logo, the 70's-ish sci-fi/fantasy art design and the Vangelis meets Brian Eno score all seem like they were taken from a long lost television serial. In fact, the developers cite "classic paperback novel covers, old Dungeons and Dragons modules, and 1970s rock" as inspirations for the look of the game. Being that God of Blades "asks players to think about memory, culture, and loss in terms of stories, books, and the communities that love them," this is all almost too appropriate.
In terms of story, White Whale says "the game is conceived of as a re-interpretation of a series lost 1940s-1970s paperpack novels that once formed a rich fantasy universe but have been erased from our collective memory." The covers for these novels (which never really existed) are being presented on the developer's website slowly but surely as they count down to launch. The first two, pictured below, are said to contain clues about the game's story.
God of Blades is said to be a 2.5D sidescrolling action RPG with physics-driven swordplay, persistent character development and enemies that are generated based on circumstance. It's a long way out from being released but a stunning interactive preview of the first stage makes a great first impression of what you'll be looking at with the developers promising that what you see there is what it will look like on your iPhone.
2012 can't get here fast enough.
Jim Squires
Published on 27, January 2012 | 11 years ago
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Linden Woods is a neighbourhood in the Fort Garry area of southwest Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The first phase of the neighbourhood was designed by IDE (Interdisciplinary Engineering Company) in 1980 and the construction of houses began in 1982. The centrepiece of the neighbourhood is a lake that adjoins Van Walleghem and Muys Parks. Around 2,400 homes, set up in a curvilinear-style typical of new suburbs revolve around the lake. Wilkes Avenue and the Sterling Lyon Parkway form the northern border, McGillivray Boulevard forms the southern border, Waverley Street forms the eastern border and Kenaston Boulevard forms the western border.

Demographics
In 2011, the population of Linden Woods was 10,210. The racial makeup was 74% White, 1.3% Aboriginal and 24.7% being a visible minority; 10% South Asian, 8.3% East Asian, 4.3% Southeast Asian, and the rest fall into another group. Linden Woods is 3.6 km squared, which has a population density of 2,826.2 people per square kilometre.

Linden Woods is one of Winnipeg's wealthier neighbourhoods, with a median household income of $165,000, which is more than double the city's, at $72,000. There are 3,150 dwellings in Linden Woods, worth an average of $460,000. Only 1.1% of dwellings are in need of major repairs, which is about 8 times lower than the city average. 91% of dwellings are owned.

Crime
Linden Woods is a quieter neighbourhood with low crime rates. In 2012, there was only 1 robbery (10.5 per 100,000 residents), 3 motor vehicle thefts (31.4) and 21 break-ins (219.9). All of these rates were significantly lower than the national average; the robbery rate was 8 times lower, the auto-theft rate is 7 times lower, and the break-in rate is half that national rate.

Points of interest and amenities
Schools

Public schools in Linden Woods are operated by the Pembina Trails School Division. In total, there are 3 schools located in Linden Woods:
Van Walleghem School, an elementary and junior high school
Linden Meadows School, an elementary and junior high school
Linden Christian School, a private K-12 Christian school
Parks
 Muys Park
 Van Walleghem Park
 Kleysen Park
Churches
 Grant Memorial Baptist Church
 St. Gianna Roman Catholic Church
Public transportation

The 2006 census reported that 3.4% of the population uses the bus as their primary mode of transportation, which is lower compared to the citywide rate at 14.2%.

, bus routes travelling through Linden Woods include:
 74 - Kenaston
641 - Lindenwoods West
642 - Lindenwoods East
650 - McGillivray
677 - Wilkes

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REITs are hot
The folks at NAREIT tell us that there are three reasons to invest in REITs: performance, dividends, and diversification. Apparently a great number of investors have taken note.
Nicholas Yulico at TheStreet.com reports that the wave of REIT privatizations has driven prices up enough to close the gap between public and private owners of real estate.
The REIT privatization wave has helped send the sector's share prices sharply higher, but that rally could cause the deal spigot to dry up.
A few months ago, the argument could be made that REITs' real estate portfolios were undervalued in the public markets based on where stocks were trading. That explained why private equity groups and other institutional investors were able to pay lofty premiums to take real estate investment trusts private and gain attractive real estate properties that could either be repositioned for the long term or flipped immediately for a nice profit….
Year to date, the MSCI U.S. REIT Index is up about 13% on a total return basis — much of it due to the privatization surge.
But the gap is now closing between the private market value of REIT assets and the public market value (as reflected in the stock price), says Matthew Lustig, who heads the real estate investment banking group at Lazard.
The REIT movement has now taken hold in Asia as well. Chris Prystay at WSJ.com reports that the burgeoning Asian REIT sector is spreading its wings.
Asian real-estate investment trusts are spreading, offering investors a wider opportunity to cash in on a regionwide property boom.
REITs are a relatively new investment vehicle in Asia, but during the past three years they have proliferated in Japan and Singapore and popped up in a few other markets, including Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia. Increasingly, many are crossing borders to hold properties in several different countries.
Singapore, which has seven listed REITs, is Asia's largest market for the property trusts outside Japan. But in Hong Kong, which currently has just three listed REITs, a slew of new REIT listings is expected this year. Analysts expect the number of REITs in Singapore and Hong Kong combined to reach two dozen by the end of 2006.
The global REIT rally has run higher and longer than most analyst expected. As the old saying goes, "they do not ring a bell at the top." This might not be the top, but this kind of news should give the unmitigated bulls some pause.
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Last week in SCORES, we started our discussion of perspective taking. Being able to see things from another person's perspective is a life skill that takes constant practice. In my opinion, it's the most important skill we can have in life! Please check out more information under here and look under Perspective Taking.
Recently, I got to thinking that Superflex really needed some sidekicks. I mean, don't all superheroes have a sidekick?! I created two friends for Superflex. Perspective Pete gets in your brain and helps you to think about how someone else might think or feel in a situation. Positive Polly helps you to do positive self-talk when you are feeling anxious, upset or stressed. When a child is struggling with either of these things, you can remind them to put these characters in their brains to defeat the Unthinkables. Using Superflex and his team, we can all feel successful! Click here and scroll to Perspective Pete and Positive Polly to learn more.
In Lunch Bunch, we played a teamwork game called Clean Up Crew. Students had a partner and had to work together on scooters to pick up various things around the room. The kids had a lot of fun and were working together well! Practicing their social skills in a fun environment is my main goal of Lunch Bunch.
This week, we are continuing our perspective taking studies in social group. Students will be practicing putting themselves in others' shoes. In Lunch Bunch, we are working as a team to play games with the parachute. The kids always have great fun when the parachute comes out to play!
Track and Field day is this Friday, October 19. This is a fun day filled with lots of activities. I will be checking in with students throughout the day and will be available to offer breaks or help. See you there!