“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Jingoism cannot replace competence

Jingoism cannot replace competence

Former Task Unit Bruiser commander Jocko Willink put out a video recently in which he pretended to be the Commander in Chief of America, and framed a hypothetical correct and proper response to the catastrophe in Afghanistan: View this post on Instagram A post shared...
Home truths about the daemonic realm

Home truths about the daemonic realm

I am not a fan of horror films in general, and I am especially not a fan of horror films involving daemons, possession, and exorcism. In fact, before I became a Christian, I remember listening to my 6th-grade homeroom teacher – this was approximately 300 years...
Monday morning Kabul kar krash

Monday morning Kabul kar krash

Mondays. Don’t you just love ’em? Mine has been quite rough already, mostly due to the, uh, “joys” of dealing with a wide variety of government- and corporate-related stupidity. But I’m happy to report that this will not be quite so big a...
Sunday Scripture: Final Instructions

Sunday Scripture: Final Instructions

Don’t worry, lads, this is not some sort of goodbye post or anything. If I have anything to say about it, Didactic Mind is going to be around for a LONG time to come. This is simply a chunk of Scripture from 1st Corinthians right at the end of the book. 12 Now...
Friday T&A: Broken Dreams Edition

Friday T&A: Broken Dreams Edition

Boys, as I have pointed out MANY times before, sometimes, no matter how hard you work, no matter how smart you are, and no matter how well you present yourself, sometimes (quite often, actually) it simply isn’t enough. You will not get what you want. The...
Wolf law

Wolf law

No, I’m not here to talk about Wolff’s Law, which basically says that if you put the human body under stress in specific ways, the body will react and adapt to it and become stronger. (That, incidentally, is how powerlifters put on vast amounts of muscle...
Monday morning with Father Wasson

Monday morning with Father Wasson

Tell me why I hate Mondays? Actually, don’t bother – I don’t care much for Bob Geldof and his Left-wing luvvie politics and so on. That said, I don’t much care for Mondays either. They STINK, no matter how you want to look at it. But that, of...
Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

The Didactic Mind podcast is back to something approaching a sort-of-regular schedule again, and this week’s episode is all about the sudden and quite dramatic collapse of America’s failed Syracuse Expedition in Afghanistan. I talk about the roots of its...
Sunday Scripture: Final Instructions

Sunday Scripture: The Coming of the Son of Man

25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens...
Friday T&A: Empire’s End Edition

Friday T&A: Empire’s End Edition

To pretty much nobody’s surprise, America’s retreat from Afghanistan was nothing short of a disaster. The Taliban has advanced into the big cities much faster and with far greater success than the American top brass anticipated. And, again, to anyone who...