"Who are you to judge my God?" The bench on the stand Who am I to judge your God? I’m the insignificant human from whom your God desperately needs validation, in the form of compulsive love and ego-feeding worship… https://sotiris.substack.com/p/holding-god-accountable …so much so that, to get our forced Stockholm-Syndrome faux-affection, he is willing to threaten us with eternal, cruel, sadistic torture, or bribe us with a meaningless, hedonistic, and selfish paradise. A…
Own the Frame: Be mindful of interrogative questions that set you up for submission Strangers often initiate an unsolicited interaction with you, talking vaguely without stating intent, or asking questions that aren’t clear as to what they want from you. You assume that, if you obediently keep responding to them, politely answering their line of questioning, you will get to the bottom of what they want from you. You aren’t suspicious about why they avoid revealing upfront…
Why Islam Is the Smartest Religion Of All The undeniable superiority of Islam's messaging & communication You’ve read that right: I, the critic of religions and political ideologies alike, concede that Islam is the smartest religion of all — by far. Before you rage-hit that unsubscribe button (or before you enthusiastically share this to validate your faith), hear me out… Islam is smart because it is pragmatic, and it understands its audience. For any brand to gain a…
How to Be Alone Without Being Lonely: Better in Solitude Than With the Wrong People Often, you find yourself settling with people who are less than ideal for you; not necessarily beneath you, just misaligned with your values, principles, and virtues. They are incompatible with everything that makes you ‘you’. **Why we sell out** You reluctantly (and resentfully) make this concession — settling for the wrong people — so that you feel accepted and likeable, or at least receive…
The dumbest objections against statelessness #13 "What would happen if government disappeared right now?" I love this loaded question, “*What would happen if government disappeared right now?*” It slyly infers that the only thing keeping chaos at bay is the presence of the state. Yet, the only “order” a state brings is the relative and unsustainable hegemonic “stability” of tyranny, servitude, slavery, and oppression. Sure, hell is pretty orderly, too. And still, there is…
The Narcissism of "Free Will" Claiming false credit is the equivalent of rejecting due accountability The miserable man wants to believe that all misfortune must be fully attributed to factors outside of his control, a coping mechanism to relieve him of self-blame on top of suffering failure. The successful man wants to attribute all his accomplishments to himself and his alleged “free will”, thus claiming full credit for all his blessings as if it were all up to him and him…
The State is the Devil: You made the whip with which you are flogged For all their suffering in the 20th century, Germans have learned nothing. It should have been blindingly obvious that the source of wars, famine, genocide, forced labour, forced conscription, psychological warfare, and systemic mass rape that these people endured were not due to a specific brand of centralised government, but the very existence of centralised government itself. Why? Because war and tyranny…
Be Hard to Impress: Respect others, but don't supplicate at the expense of your dignity There’s a type of person who tends to hold you verbally hostage, never pausing to take a breath lest you take the chance to speak. They have no interest in listening to you as they go on and on detailing the simplest story about them (a story they probably made up or grossly exaggerated), or as they keep finding ways to insert into the conversation their overhyped achievements. They…
Free Will Revisited: Accountability does not require 'free will'. Blame does. Think of the butterfly-effect nudges of fate, the smallest, most randomly fallen pebbles in the river of time, slightly bending the current of your life, navigating you to — given time — completely different outcomes than where you could have ended had you not collided with those tiny influences. Even if you row against the current, you are still forced to respond; *your will “to will”* is…
How to Do Sales 1: Who owns the decision? The problem with sales is that the majority of salespeople don’t know and don’t understand sales at all. Especially in high-ticket sales and B2B sales, I’ve seen salespeople who don’t know what the hell they’re doing — no strategy, no plan, no workflow, no connection, just a generic aim “to sell more”. The only reason they manage to make a few sales in their workweek is that they are instinctively good with people, or they somehow…
Why the World Is F*cked Up: The lack of two fundamental virtues I’ll say it right off the bat: the reason this world is f*cked up is the hopeless scarcity of two VITAL virtues that are prerequisites for civilised societies (no, humanity has not yet achieved civilisation; we’re just monkeys with iPhones). These two missing virtues are **humility** and its derivative, **accountability**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/redefining-civilisation…
The Source of All Evil: Entitlement to burdening the innocent This is a follow-up to Why the World Is F*cked Up. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/why-the-world-is-fcked-up The source of (perhaps) all evil is **the lack of humility to own accountability**. But it doesn’t end there… **Most people blame themselves for things that aren’t their fault while they deny accountability for the things they are truly responsible for**. This twisted mentality is why the world seems…
The Loudest Moralists Tend to Be the Quietest Degenerates How shame-based cultures promote depravity What do pedophile priests and Muslim sexual deviants have in common? How is it that those who presume to lecture us the most about decency tend to be the sickest degenerates? **Despicable moralists** Witness the hypocritical moralists, those with a presumed superiority in their pretentious piousness, who **create taboos for others to uphold and for themselves to break**.…
When Success Is Failure and Failure Is Success Wear a golden mask long enough and you lose sight of what you look like beneath it He was the starchild, the firstborn, the solace of a frustrated father and a miserable mother who hated being together. The parents? They had married out of perceived necessity, of shaming and social pressure, enough to compel them both to reluctantly settle with each other — a severe compromise, a watering of wine to the point of absolute disgust…
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