158 UNDENIABLE TRUTHS FROM JOLLYROGER.COM (FORMATTED BETTER)

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1. Liberals detest the Truth so much that they will often refuse to
make money off of it.  It's a matter of principle.
2. The main problem with liberal solutions to liberal problems is that
they cause more liberal problems which afford opportunities for more
liberal solutions.
3.  Venture Capitalists can't afford poetry.
4.  Cynicism and irony are the liberals' faith, and to be accepted
into their elite ranks, one must harbor lowered expectations in one's
heart.  One must believe that words shouldn't mean anything, one must
believe that character is of no import in leaders nor novels, one must
be "ironic" and do their very best to accept lies when one cannot
believe them.  One must not hope nor pray for those things only God
can give us, but with a sense of irony, one must humble themselves
before almighty Money and the State.
5. Until J.D. Salinger wins the Nobel Prize in literature, the prize
will have no credibility.
6. Until Rush Limbaugh wins the Nobel Peace Prize, it will have no
credibility either.
7. Walking through my old high school not so long ago I saw that the
liberals had taken down a sign reading "The Lord maketh and the Lord
taketh" with one reading "The Government taketh."  They had also
installed metal detectors.
8. Money and the pursuit of wealth was criticized throughout the
eighties as that was before the MBAs figured out how to put the
feminists to work in internet pyramid schemes and use them to sanctify
vulgar cultural creations.
9. Today writing is the one sport where the minor leagues get paid
more than the majors.
10. Until liberals acquire the honesty and courage to admit they're
liberals, nothing that they write, publish, edit, nor email shall
endure.
11. Because I write, I have known Truth's freedom.
12. Liberals never criticize jollyroger.com in public, for deep down
they fear the swift sword of Drake Raft's words.
13. Liberals believe that one can overcome the Truth by ignoring it.
14. When Venture Capitalists say that profits aren't important, they
mean that profits aren't important for you.  That is why it is your
duty to buy stock in their profitless companies, so they can make a
killing off their dot com ponzi schemes.
15. The internet was supposed to get rid of the middleman, but it is
the kingdom of middlemen selling themselves as entrepreneurs.
16. If creating writing teachers taught courses on entrepreneurship,
and MBA professors taught classes on poetry, it would make no
difference.
17. Liberals fear a Renaissance.
18. Many conservatives are more concerned with appearing Reaganesque
rather than defending the Permanent Things.   And so they do Reagan a
great disservice.
19. Middlemen are marked by a belief in nothing but money and
themselves.  They will not fight for poetry, they will not stand for
God, but they will strive to appear to when money or their egos are
involved.
20. The creative writing workshop is an ingenious innovation—it allows
the liberal literary establishment to rifle young postmodern critics
into positions of editorial and cultural power, from where they can
give positive reviews to their teachers' books.
21. Most modern editors are those who failed to get kicked out of
their creative writing workshops.
22. Postmodern culture is like an internet pyramid scheme, where
cultural creations possessing no inherent worth are given vast
valuations by the insider critics and cliques who profit in the short
term from the hype.
23. Feminists and VCs get along perfectly well on modern college
campuses—they both work hard to stem the tide of classical truths,
such as you get what you pay for, one cannot serve both God and Money,
and honor your husband.
24. MBA administrators fell in love with feminists when they realized
they could put them to work selling deconstruction and decline.
25. When liberals publish and promote cultural crap, they call it
postmodernism.  When you don't buy it, they call you cynical.
26. Market research for jollyroger.com is simple—everyone should read
the classics.
27. Many modernists would claim that Jesus would be too divisive to
head their organizations.  For He once said that one cannot serve both
God and Mammon.
28. Those who advocate and allow deconstruction and decline are
willingly destroying the poet's private property.
29. I have seen further into the future because I have looked further
into the past.
30. Those who spend their days studying stock quotes are oft left with
little to quote.
31. Unlike most other internet startups, jollyroger.com's primary
purpose is not money, but a renaissance.  For both reasons we are of
little interest to the media.
32. One of the prices of being ahead of yer time is that ye'll be
misunderstood and persecuted by otherwise well-meaning people.  All
moral visionaries must carry this cross.
33. The darkest element of cultural decline is that so many don't even
notice it.
34. In the dark one does not notice the fog, and thus as their souls
are eroded from an early age, they will not notice the decline.
35. Few men have beacons of Truth burning within them.
36. It is difficult to communicate the beauty of the eternal soul
while hanging out in a smoky bar with one's peers, listening to some
band covering the Rolling Stones.
37. Have ye ever believed in something so much that ye decided to
devote yer life to it come hell or high water?  If not, it's best if
ye don't pass judgment on me.  And maybe ye shouldn't even read this.
38. Once upon a time children were children.  Today they are viewed
primarily as consumers of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll who will someday
vote for big government to clean up the mess.
39. No writer who passes righteous judgement upon the postmodern
liberals shall have their fiction published, until they die—the
postmodern liberals that is.
40. The postmodern leaders' strategy has been to deconstruct God in
the peoples' hearts and appoint all their friends and lawyers to the
committees which strive to overrule Natural Law.
41.  If George Washington had worried more about appearing Reaganesque
than winning the war, we would have lost the American Revolution.
42. Silicon Valley has no rhyming poets—the VC MBAs and communist
deconstructors all agree that there is no use for them.
43. The MBA cultural czars demand that every generation and
demographic be divided.  That is why they have no need for the
classics, which change very slowly, teach people to be content with
the enduring spiritual rather than the fleeting fashion, and unite the
community of eternal souls.
44. With their shared disregard of eternal truths and the Great Books,
the MBA cultural czars and postmodern liberal academics get along
every well.
45. While the postmodern liberal academics deconstruct the notion of
the immutable soul, the tag-team MBA cultural czars fill the vacuum
with South Park and Oprah's book club.
46. The beauty of the human soul is that sooner or later it seeks
meaning over money.
47. Wise poets learn to place their faith in Time rather than in
critics.
48. Although there hasn't been much inflation, everyone's working a
helluva lot harder because there's so much more to buy.
49. By associating itself with a conservative love of the classics and
Great Books, jollyroger.com has gained the entity every young MFA
postmodernist writer/critic/agent/editor longs for—the cutting edge of
the anti-establishment.  All we had to do was be honest and embrace
the eternal truths in the Great Books.
50. Rebellion is often nothing more than loyalty to God.
51. While young postmodern writers have their rebellious appearance
planned out by MBAs in their publishers' marketing departments, our
rebellion stems from our integrity.
52. John Updike, Thomas Wolfe, and John Irving seem to be in
disagreement as to who is the greatest author of our times.  I'm not
even sure if they'd place. Way ahead of them there's Toni Morrison,
The South Park authors, Joyce Carol Oates, Steven King, John Grisham,
David Foster Wallace, David Letterman, Ally McBeal, Jedediah Purdy,
and KISS.
53. One of the funnier things is watching David Foster Wallace try to
be a subversive rebel.  I tried to read his books, but found the media
buzz far more entertaining than his polished nihilism.
54. Cynicism is something the majority of people don't feel about
themselves, but only about the postmodern liberal media.  But the
liberal media projects their failings and frustrations upon us, all
the while doing their best to smother any hints of a renaissance.
55. If everyone believed in God, the segment of the economy driven by
South Park would shut down, and Allan Greenspan would cut interest
rates so that all the honest folks could buy a house and raise their
kids in a moral manner.
56. When Venture Capitalists ponder jollyroger.com, they think of it
in terms of risk.  Now I don't see a cultural renaissance as a risk,
but I see it as a necessity.  And I am in no rush to work for anyone
who places the bottom line over the higher ideals.  For a poet,
focusing on the bottom line would not be a risk, but it would be their
death.
57. A feminist is often someone who has lost their virginity out of
wedlock and doesn't want to regret it.
58. Many great thinkers warned us of the cruelty of both the elite and
the masses when it came to mobs pillaging the higher ideals, and many
of the great thinkers were persecuted by both the mob and the tyrant,
as they knew they would be. This then, is courage.  To serve God on
Truth's greater adventures, knowing full well that both hell and high
water shall come.
59. The greater society is very much like a small liberal arts
college. Far more people go to the basketball games than read
Shakespeare, The Federalist Papers, Moby Dick, and the Odyssey.
60. We're lucky the Founding Fathers were taught by the Greats rather
than by professors.
61.  I have attended the same schools as the Founding Fathers. I
enrolled in Jefferson's school for architecture , I went to Benjamin
Franklin's school of business, and I attended Madison's school of
government—I read the Greats.
62. For Common Things is a tale told by a liberal, full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing, other than the bankruptcy of liberalism at
Harvard and Yale, and the bankruptcy of liberalism when it comes to
dealing with the bankruptcy of liberalism.  And how ironic that
Jedediah Purdy didn't write For Common Things for the Common Man. 
Knopf Inc. published the postmodern critique of postmodernism because
it turned a blind eye towards modern liberalism's dark uses of
postmodernism.  They thanked Purdy by branding the Harvard/Exeter/Yale
yuppie child a backwoodsman, which should serve him well as a liberal
lawyer who must pretend to be for the people, and against
entrepreneurial freedom, technological innovation, and crass
marketing.  The irony was too much for even the critics.  Though they
advertise them as opposites, both Purdy and Eggers work for the same
postmodern corporations and philosophies.
63. Liberals like the pretense of postmodernism because it allows them
to be liberals while denying it.
64. The honest spirit, like Einstein's, Hamlet's, Socrates' or Jesus'
could never be satisfied with postmodernism, as it allows its
adherents to exalt in hypocrisy, jealousy, vulgarity, cynicism, and
mediocrity.
65. Those who criticize Seinfeld for being too ironic are weird.
66. Until conservatives begin paying more attention to poetry than
politics, more attention to prose than policy, and more attention to
building the popular culture rather than criticizing it, they will
miss the opportunity to serve the community of eternal souls and
inspire a renaissance.
67. Via the superficial values communicated by the mass media,
liberals have been highly successful in getting women to sleep around
with them from their teens through their thirties and then foregoing
the raising of a family to work long hours for raising the Dow.  And
everybody wins.
68. Every now and then the liberal literary industry has to make
someone like David Foster Wallace famous to bolster the credibility of
their friends' tax-subsidized MFA programs, and give all the graduates
jobs as critics.
69. Until these Truths have an IPO, it is safe to bet that nobody on
TV will ever talk about them.
70. There is justice—the talking heads on television are fated to
forever talk about the superficial celebrities they relentlessly
create.
71. The rise of women in the publishing industry was accompanied by
the crassification and corsening of the culture in the name of
commercial interests.  The publishing MBAs sanctify decline with
diversity.
72. Big government liberalism would work great except for one
thing—they can never vote God out of the highest office.
73. I've been to enough faculty meetings to know that they aren't
planning any renaissances anytime soon.
74. Great are the men who can communicate optimism so effectively that
it comes to be.
75. One of postmodernism's supreme advantages is that it caters to
idiots.
76. Creative writing workshops blossomed in the same period that
knitting groups declined.
77. Most liberals can't fully explain why they hate the idea of God so
much. They just feel it.
78. When a feminist engages in a vice that men were criticized for
just yesterday, she sanctifies it.
79. Liberals are rarely punished for sexual harassment, because they
have humbled themselves before Freud, repented before Darwin, and
confessed before Nietzsche.
80.  Sexual harassment legislation is a political tool to be used
against conservatives for the most part.  Just like gun legislation.
81. Postmodernism, multiculturalism, and secularism all find common
ground in money.
82. When the Founding Fathers spoke of the separation of the church
and state, they never conceived of liberals who would see their
government as God.
83. Liberals don't believe in the separation of church and state, for
government is their religion.  They believe in the separation of state
and morality.
84. The classics and great books tend not to care what the politicians
and pundits say—only the poets are accepted amongst their ranks.
85. Jollyroger.com—where the popular culture is the classics.
86. The liberal publishing industry will always embrace a
conservative, as long as they are a liberal.
87. It's an arrogant mind that thinks that where there is no equation,
there is no higher truth.
88. Just because a precept cannot be put into a scientific formula
does not mean that it does not exist.  There is no mathematical
equation for the Golden rule.
89. There's nothing ironic about decline.
90. Sure politics can be reduced to a science; it's just that the
empirical evidence takes years to collect, entire generations are
subject to the shortcomings of any theories, and all personal
measurements of good and bad are irrevocably tied to opinions. For all
these reasons the Godless enjoy treating politics as a science.
91. The bane of our present age is not irony, but it is postmodern
irony, which is not ironic, for there is nothing ironic about
nihilism.
92. Irony is a movement in the direction pointed to by fundamental
precepts which takes one towards entities which counter the precepts.
93. If one has no fundamental precepts, everything and nothing is
ironic.
94. Intellectuals and anti-intellectuals are always looking down on
one another because they are one and the same.  Common sense knows
this to be true.
95. Contemporary intellects and authors come and go—their clever
opinions and thesaurus-weighted sentences shall be little noted nor
long remembered, whereas jollyroger.com is eternal.
96. Popular culture which is soon forgotten is not all that popular. 
Not as popular as Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, and Jefferson.
97. Nihilist bureaucrats take great pride in their humility, because
they have naught else to be proud about.  Their humility is their
pretension.
98. The proud villain is never in danger of hypocrisy.
99. The reformed man, who preaches what he wishes he would have
practiced, is not a hypocrite, but a wizened teacher.
100. It is far easier to chronicle injustices than it is to right
them.
101. Those who would wish to rid the world of irony would also wish to
rid the world of Truth's beautiful, ineffable, mysteriousness.
102. I'll take Linux and Microsoft Word over a literary agent and
editor any day.
103. Facelifts and Viagra will not add potency to the boomer's fading
literature.
104. Those who humble themselves before God shall have authority
before men.
105. Postmodernism is the corruption of democracy.
106. Deconstruction is the violence of the weak.
107. Venture capitalists have little appreciation for poetry because
it's never needed their money to endure and thrive.
108. Pedants have a disdain for the commercial because they are
jealous of utility.
109. Remember—if they didn't make you, they can't break you.
110. Sex sells and corruption pays, but honor, duty, and truth cost a
lot more, and thus art created in honor of the latter is more
valuable.
111. Liberals talk and write about perverse sex not because they have
opportunity enjoy it, so much as they enjoy defiling God.
112. As long as sad little girls are brown-nosing the feminist gentry
en route to occupying the higher editorial positions in this land,
this renaissance shall encounter violent opposition.
113. Those who value their leaders for putting dollars in their
pockets, rather than appealing to the higher ideals in their hearts
and souls, deserve the leaders they elect.
114. Liberalism works well in the age of TV, because TV amplifies the
superficial Dionysian.
115. Liberal men are pro-abortion because it makes liberal women think
they're sensitive.  Liberal men might not call you the next day, but
they won't care if you go ahead and kill it.
116. Feminists have sought to and succeeded in demonstrating their
superiority to men by becoming the cruelest war-mongers this earth has
ever known. Over 20,000,000 innocent men, women, and children have
been sent to their death via abortion.
117. Liberalism can be defined as that which counters God's freedom
and bolsters the State.
118. Liberals never age well—without souls, as their bodies and
appetites wane, so do they.
119. The majority of professors are indifferent to cultural decline,
as long as they get summers off and a sabbatical now and then.
120. Blind is the man who has never at one time or another disdained
Big Government.  Small is the man who has never spoken out against it.
 And evil is the man who joins it.
121. When the economy is good, thou shall not pass judgment on
cultural decline. Thou shall not care that your leaders lie, nor who
your children fornicate with.
122. When teachers no longer honor God, students shall no longer honor
teachers.
123. Liberal literary types tend to be dull-witted, and they tend to
travel in herds.  And thus on the internet jollyroger.com had a huge
head start—many of them are just starting to check their email.
124. Arrogance and bureaucracy have never thrived for long in America,
and this is inspiring the liberals to try rewrite the Constitution.
125. This renaissance is the WWW Renaissance, because the liberals
would never allow it to take root nor grow in the realms of academia
and popular culture wherein they so actively seek to extinguish any
traces of God's grace.
126. Until they begin teaching Linux in creative writing workshops,
the workshops will be utterly useless.
127. God has a way of springing from the void.  Post tenebras lux.
128. The freedom of speech would be worth nothing without the right to
bare arms.
129.  The first and second amendments are but the freedom to defend
God's voice.
130.  Bureaucrats rarely understand that the greatest innovation
occurs within the individual spirit.  Having never known an original
thought, they often think that all wealth comes from inheritance or
corruption.  Thus through their eyes, the righteous powerful and
innovative entrepreneurs appear every bit as sinister as they
themselves are.
131.  Perhaps very few will understand these truths today,  and that
marks the difference between the popular and the classical.   Those
who understood them over time shall eventually outnumber those who do
not at any given moment.
132. Liberals enjoy chronicling decadence far more than they enjoy
righting it.  It is more scientific to stand by and observe, as all
else goes to hell.
133. Faith is the father of patience.
134. Postmodern feminist authors rarely criticize postmodern MBAs and
postmodern MBAs rarely criticize feminist authors, as they're both
benefiting from the same type of postmodern pyramid schemes.
135. Those who chronicle decadence without seeking to right it are
usually in on it.
136.  Liberals encourage and sanctify lawlessness so they can put more
laws on the books with which they can harass conservatives and
law-abiding citizens.
137.  In Benjamin Franklin's day, wisdom begat wealth, whereas today
wealth begets wisdom.
138.  Mandatory charity and welfare are big businesses which the
government has a monopoly on.
139.  Never trust a man who wants to make money off your poetry while
never writing any of his own.
140.  The contemporary publishing industry and elite academic club of
critics, agents, and editors are naturally sympathetic to communistic
ideologies, as they are in the business of being the middlemen in the
redistribution of other people's wealth.
141.  Perhaps the greatest sin is not believing in yourself.
142.  Many in the publishing industry look down upon all the wondrous
new technologies for publishing and promoting literature, often
considering it vanity publishing.  But I say, if you wrote it
yourself, you might as well publish it yourself.
143.  Creative writing workshops generally promote people who are
attracted to the pomp and circumstance of literature, but who have no
appreciation nor understanding of the rugged individualism that all
enduring literature requires.  Such people band together as agents and
experts, as critics and editors, and try to influence that which they
cannot create.  And so the critics become the authors, the authors
become the characters, and the books become irrelevant.
144.  Because bureaucrats rarely understand the nature of the
innovation and creativity from which wealth derives, they are apt to
believe that it is corruption by which all mavericks and entrepreneurs
gain their fortunes.  Thus they learn to consider themselves
mavericks, entrepreneurs, and refined statesmen, while surrounding
themselves with fellow politicians of decline, as they lay the
foundations in relativism and build a lie.
145.  If one secures other people's money via the State to publish
one's poetry, that is noble, but if one publishes one's poetry
oneself, that is lowly vanity publishing.
146.  The internet empowers the independent thinker and poet, whereby
an author can leverage millions of man hours of labor—the technology
within the software, hardware, and networks—so as to publish and
disseminate one's original thoughts and literature.  This is why the
first thing that the majority of entrepreneurs do is raise a lot of
money and hire a bureaucracy.
147. Always be yourself—it is easier to learn from your own mistakes
than from others'.
148. The postmodern poets and authors are all pitch-polling for last
place.
149. Wall Street does not care if the culture is desecrated, as long
as their money is not touched.  They are too short-sighted to see that
culture and money are one and the same.
150.  Somebody has to win the Pulitzer Prize every year, or the Nobel;
somebody has to win the presidency every four years, or a senate seat
every six, but nobody ever has to voyage away out here.
151.  The greatness of a book is not proportional to its length, but
it is proportional to the size of the context it is written in.
152.  Thank the Lord that the founding documents were written before
the invention of law schools and schools of government.
153.  If you want other people to work for you, begin by hiring
yourself.  If you wish to lead, begin by following yourself.  If you
want others to believe in you, begin by always saying what you
believe.
154.  Liberals enjoy making young authors who are too dumb to be
offended by postmodernism famous.
155.  Liberals politicized God's traditions in the culture and upon
the campus, and now when one writes poetry about God, they accuse them
of being a politicized zealot.
156.  If liberals had been present at the founding, enforcing their
twisted concept of the separation of church and state, which in
reality is nothing more than the promotion of a state-subsidized
religion known as secular humanism, the Declaration of Independence
would have never been written.  Instead it would have been called the
Declaration of Dependence.
157.  Ignorance and wisdom both breed certainty.  But only wisdom's
certainty endures, because only wisdom's certainty is humble.
158.  Young liberal writers always take great pride in their "self
awareness," which is pretty ironic, because they don't even know
they're liberals.  They're always self-deprecating, which is also
ironic, because they have no talents worthy of humility's exertion. 
They consider themselves ironic, which is also pretty ironic, because
they're blind to their own paradox, blind to their own dishonesty, and
blind to the Permanent Things by which all true comedy and tragedy are
born, by which all enduring poetry is written, by which all deep,
unfathomable irony is immortalized in art.  They are ironic in their
existence, but incapable of the same irony in their art, and their
sense of humor is limited to finding new words for socialism.

[Howie66]

"1. Liberals detest the Truth so much that they will often refuse to
make money off of it. It's a matter of principle."

This can't be right. Liberals have NO principles.

[prognostigaator]

six of one, half dozen of the other

[Pietro]

Very interesting and very insightful.

Thanks.

[boris]

"A liberal is someone who will believe anything...twice."--W.F. Buckley

"The history of liberalism is the history of substuting what sounds good for what works."--I forget...P.J. O'Rourke?

[IncPen]

Wisdom ping

[glock rocks]

128. The freedom of speech would be worth nothing without the right to bare arms.

is that...

...bare arms?

Or...

...bear arms?