“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.”

Domain Query: Good call

RJ made the right bet about good old George Clooney: Rumor is that Clooney wants to run for office and needs a wife to look the part. Well hey, look what just turned up: George Clooney is planning a move in to politics, sources claim.  The actor, a noted...

The shadow soldiers

“… The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself- ultimate cost for perfect value.” — Lt. Colonel Jean V....

The will to win

“No, no, no. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can destroyed, or locked up. But, if you become MORE than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal… and if they can’t stop you… Then, you...

“A nation of sociopaths”

Dr. Helen has a rather good take on an idea that Heartiste has been promoting for some time: We as a society do not want to encourage sociopathy, but that is what we are doing and as Chateau Heartiste points out, it is beneficial to the individual in sexual terms...

Domain Query: No bullshido allowed

Carey from speakeasy(X) emailed me on the back of my post about sparring with some good questions: I want to take some form of martial art. I haven’t the slightest interest in being a badass for the sake of itself in any capacity. I could, however, use the...

Domain Query: Writing advice

A reader emailed recently and essentially asked two questions: Do you ever re-read your own writing? How do you avoid sounding like a massive tool when you write? I answered his queries privately in an email, but I think these questions are important enough to answer...

Sliding rapidly down that slippery slope

I stand before you. Accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to… recede… We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own… Think of my acts as you will, but do...

Humility and humiliation

I am hardly the world’s foremost theological scholar. I have no doubt that older and wiser men like Vox and Carey could make me look like seven different degrees of idiot when it comes to understanding what the Bible (and the Talmud, for that matter) has to say...

Accountability

Matt Forney’s latest featured post opened up a can of weapons-grade whoop-ass on a number of topics and people: Yesterday morning, I had a realization: I don’t want to be part of the manosphere anymore.  I remember the exact moment when it happened. I...

Hitting The Wall at 100mph

There was an article over at RoK a while back talking about how it is small-minded and venal to root for a beautiful but bitchy woman to get her comeuppance in the form of “hitting the wall”: In today’s world, The Wall can generally be summed up as the...