<2023-02-11T06:18:16.000Z> norsebaptist: Hey Super,
<2023-02-11T06:20:55.000Z> norsebaptist: you member all those times when recording the Romans project when you kept saying someone out there is going to be bothered? I bet you had no idea that a college educated independent fundamentalist baptist was going to leave his home city and take a job in a meat factory in the middle of nowhere and become obsessed with your content.
<2023-02-11T06:24:29.000Z> norsebaptist: We just closed on our new house and my wife is giving birth end of March. That being said, my library is coming, and when it does, I fully intend to bite the hell out of your ankles on your VLP long form answer bit. 
<2023-02-11T06:28:20.000Z> norsebaptist: I remember enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to be a worthy sparring partner. I binge Godcast and VLP about 35 hours a week right now because it’s helping me get through the day and be a better father. When I listen to music instead, I loose control of my temper on the weekends because you can’t meditate on rock and metal all week and not be a roid rage knucklehead. Other music just doesn’t do it for me. Its just distracting and annoying.
<2023-02-11T06:38:08.000Z> norsebaptist: To me, Calvinism is a system of logical inferences that appeal to the laws of logic as the ultimate authority for truth. I’ve always accepted TULIP as logically true but in practice it can’t be true because people are illogical. There’s also something lost in the translation between the finite mind and the infinite. Just as the finite mind is incapable of understanding the trinity, it’s incapable of understanding completely the co-existence of free will with an eternally omniscient God. 
<2023-02-11T06:42:21.000Z> norsebaptist: As a fairly purebred Nord, my blood memory, if that’s a thing as I understand Myles has talked about it, is really really really attracted to fate. Thus I believe my predisposition to the acceptance of the Calvinist explanation of Romans 8
<2023-02-11T06:48:07.000Z> norsebaptist: This would explain why my Bible College was founded in a system of highly calvanistic IFB churches in the northern midwest, because that’s where the Nords and Scandinavians all settled when they immigrated to America 
<2023-02-11T07:39:52.000Z> norsebaptist: Literally never connected those dots till just now.
<2023-02-11T13:26:52.000Z> SuperLutheran: I look forward to hearing your critiques lol iron sharpens iron
<2023-02-13T05:58:51.000Z> norsebaptist: After listening to you talk to theological spergs on the internet for about 200 total hours, I think it’s hilarious that I’m just the right kind of sperg to be the physical manifestation of the anti-SuperLutheran. Almost to a t I was taught to believe everything that gets your goat. I have no problem setting myself up to be a clown for you to dunk on. 2020 broke my brain. Between the election, covid, pride month and BLM stuff, everything I thought was true about the JQ and dispensationalism has been called into question. If dispensationalism as a hermeneutic is wrong, what else was I taught that is wrong? My whole system of theology is based on dispensationalism. I was on the fast track to get an ThM from DTS before I did some stupid and life got derailed. 
<2023-02-13T06:16:52.000Z> norsebaptist: My wife thinks I’m an arrogant, judgmental jerk who does not love my neighbors. She’s not wrong. I don’t hate any individual in particular, but I do hate the world and I speak with real piss and vinegar in my voice whenever I see or hear degeneracy. I want to be a better man, but I don’t know how. I have so much unresolved anger from what the world did to me in 2020. My whole career trajectory got trashed because my convictions could not allow me to continue forward. I was so angry and bitter and mentally ill, my counselor talked me into getting hopped up on SSRIs. I got myself off of them asap because they were bad for my heart. My preacher and my mom just couldn’t understand my resolute refusal to wear a mask, they both turned their backs on me. I got priced out of my home town by foreign invaders, so I’m also dealing with being unironically racist and spiteful. My mother in law was a hoe and caused all kinds of daddy issues for my wife, so I’m judgmental of hoes. I’m just not the man I’m supposed to be and arguing with a lutheran anon seems to be where I’m at today. I don’t know what to believe anymore about a lot of stuff, so just because I’m going to make the case as soundly and genuinely as I can, that doesn’t mean I still hold to them.
<2023-02-13T13:57:56.000Z> SuperLutheran: I've been where you are - literally lol. I used to be a dispie and I even got my Bachelor's in Bible from a dispie college, so I know where you're coming from. That said, I'll answer your challenges accordingly and I hope that helps you along in a positive light.
<2023-03-05T10:04:12.000Z> norsebaptist: I think I’ve seen the bottom of the pit that is the dissident right. It’s mostly just a bunch of white, alcoholic gnostic men trying to find identity and purpose apart from Christ in a world that has decided to lift them up as the whipping boy for all the sins of the modern world.
<2023-03-05T10:08:39.000Z> norsebaptist: I don’t know what else to call it but murder porn. I can sense if you let go and stare at those gore videos they will drive you completely insane. 
<2023-03-05T10:10:37.000Z> norsebaptist: I only went through one hell thread on pol last Saturday and it was enough to completely devastate my psyche all week. 
<2023-03-05T10:12:13.000Z> norsebaptist: My boomer ifb dispy mom is mortified that I unironically believe segregation is biblical, wise, and soon to be necessary for our survival.
<2023-03-05T10:16:03.000Z> norsebaptist: She’s like, but what about these 4 black people I know that are people. I’m like, is it fair for you to throw out my complaint about how the nigger hoards have completely destroyed blank part of our city because you know a handful of black people who are decent people?
<2023-03-05T10:18:10.000Z> norsebaptist: She’s also mortified that I’m 85% convinced baptism is for the remission of sins and there’s something more to communion than just the optic. 
<2023-03-05T10:19:54.000Z> norsebaptist: I can’t bring myself to get past the whole John the Baptist public profession of faith bit yet, which means I’m not ready to accept pedo baptism yet.
<2023-03-05T10:21:09.000Z> norsebaptist: But I’m also terrified of the whole age of accountability bit not really being explained clearly anywhere in scripture. That is a logic thing you have to read into the text
<2023-03-05T10:25:22.000Z> norsebaptist: I do still subscribe to once saved, always saved, and apostasy can only be committed by people who never truly believed in Christ to begin with. For the proof text on that is when Jesus said you have to eat my flesh and a bunch of his followers left but Peter said, where else are we to go, you are the truth.
<2023-03-05T10:30:15.000Z> norsebaptist: Honestly, John 6 is the entire proof text on which I’ll rest my case that TULIP is just a Scandinavian way of explaining the sovereignty of God in salvation. IDC that calvin was french, he found his audience in Scandinavia. 
<2023-03-05T10:32:35.000Z> norsebaptist: The masochism of the independent fundamental baptist church explained.In the 60s, with free love, no fault divorce, pornography, desegregation and drugs gaining massive ground everywhere you looked, the IFB church created an ultra legalistic culture as an instinctual self defense mechanism. They told themselves it was all in obedience to scripture, but where in scripture does it say, “I don’t drink, I don’t chew, I don’t go with girls who do.” Attend church twice on Sunday and minimum once mid-week or question your salvation filthy casual.What the IFB created was essentially an impenetrable fortress of weaponized autism to keep kikes, dykes and niggers out.Here’s where the masochism really strikes home. While doing that, they preached fervently #IStandWithIsrael and spent the ENTIRE missions budget on attempting to build their white autism churches in Africa, Asia and South America and then couldn’t fathom why non-whites said no thanks around the globe.
<2023-03-05T10:37:25.000Z> norsebaptist: lol my new pastor got up on stage and thanked his congregation for being easy to council, little did he know a closeted obsessed racist sperg was sitting in audience with mental problems that are going to hit his pre-mill dispy baptist bubble like an absolute freight train.
<2023-03-05T10:41:36.000Z> norsebaptist: I got so worked up over the black on white murder videos I didn’t sleep right all week. There also seems to be another genre of baby killing in China that also severely disturbed me. I watched a toddler get his brains smashed all over the sidewalk in front of his mother by some random guy that was just passing by.
<2023-03-05T10:44:59.000Z> norsebaptist: A thought occurred to me, damn, why would anyone want to be God? Having to bear witness to so much murder? I only got a small taste, and even then I only saw it because I was looking around places on the internet I should not be. But for God, He bears witness to every murder around the globe every day. That’s horrifying. It would drive me mad.
<2023-03-05T10:50:29.000Z> norsebaptist: A new thought occurred to me today. Just as we name the Jews, so too we should start referring to clown world and globohomo exclusively as the death cult.
<2023-03-05T10:52:33.000Z> norsebaptist: I think it’s important for my spiritual health, and also for men like me, to be constantly reminded that the death cult is reaching its fever pitch and it will soon die out.
<2023-03-05T10:54:26.000Z> norsebaptist: When I learned of gay conversion parties, where POS gays throw a party to give NEG gays aids, that’s when the death cult bit clicked for me.
<2023-03-05T10:55:44.000Z> norsebaptist: The proper reaction to the death cult is not to be insulted or threatened by it, but to mock it and feel pity for the poor souls trapped in it.
<2023-03-05T10:56:17.000Z> norsebaptist: It’s a house on fire and it can’t burn forever.
<2023-03-05T10:58:11.000Z> norsebaptist: The nigger hoard though, that’s a real problem. Those people aren’t just going to quietly starve to death if/when people start going hungry. They are going to do a genocide Rwanda style on their way out. 
<2023-03-05T11:00:34.000Z> norsebaptist: I don’t carry a rock in my pocket  as a member of rock gang because I fear messing up. I moved to the country to attempt to prevent myself from needing to be a member of rock gang in the first place.
<2023-03-05T11:02:15.000Z> norsebaptist: That being said, I read this book when I was in college and it convinced me that I still need to be a member of rock gang in case it happens where I live.
<2023-03-05T11:02:19.000Z> norsebaptist: hayhouse.com/left-to-tell-7
<2023-03-05T11:04:05.000Z> norsebaptist: My mom thinks I’m crazy for being level headed that the blacks are being stirred up to do genocide against white people and that we need to be preparing to defend ourselves because the Jews in the fed sure as hell are not coming to our rescue.
<2023-03-05T11:07:43.000Z> norsebaptist: My dad would come home from work and veg on tv while doing paperwork for his business, and that’s if he wasn’t having to work a pt job of business was slow, so I don’t really have an intellectual relationship with my dad. We just do stuff together but we don’t really talk much. I need to call him more often before he’s dead and gone or I’ll regret that I think.
<2023-03-05T11:10:49.000Z> norsebaptist: I guess the main reason I’m stream of conscious posting to your dm is because I finished swallowing the red pill this week and it drove me feverishly mad that everyone who’s opinion of me I care about save my brother who gave me the red pill called me crazy and sinful. I felt big gaslighted and freaked out.
<2023-03-05T11:12:37.000Z> norsebaptist: The segregation pill is a real trip that’s not easy to swallow without apostasy levels of sin.
<2023-03-05T11:16:53.000Z> norsebaptist: After watching GypsyCrusader’s return to life out of prison, my conclusion on the white power bit is that a bunch of alcoholic white men choose to spaz out instead of painting the wall with their brain material, but that’s not a great idea to build your life around.
<2023-03-05T11:20:15.000Z> norsebaptist: The hypocrisy of my mother is driving me a bit mad, but I need to let that go. Homeschooling is the most basic form of segregation, and she acts like its some big sin that grew up to believe in it and apply it to a bigger scale.
<2023-03-05T15:36:41.000Z> SuperLutheran: I find it funny that dispensationalists say that they hate segregation or whatever, whole believing that jews should have their own country all to themselves and complete racial purity. It's total self hatred 
<2023-03-05T15:38:06.000Z> SuperLutheran: I hear you though, there is a certain subset of Whites that, when they really understand how things are, just go nuts. When your mind gets blown that hard, it's difficult to be mature and steady about it. That said, you're certainly not helping if you're watching a bunch of violent video clips.
<2023-03-05T15:38:55.000Z> SuperLutheran: It's better to simply recognize the dangers, get plugged into a group, and start training to be ready. Ready for hard times and ready to inflict violence to protect your family.
<2023-03-05T15:40:50.000Z> SuperLutheran: Theologically it sounds like you've arrived at the classic anglican positions, you'd probably be pretty happy with an ACNA church if you found one. But I believe Scripture is going to vindicate Lutheranism every time.
<2023-03-05T19:55:38.000Z> norsebaptist: I can remember when I was a kid my IFB pastor would only let church members who have been baptized participate in communion. Somewhere along the way the IFB church got really gay about that.
<2023-05-01T02:06:02.000Z> norsebaptist: What does it mean when some one asks if you can rotate the apple?
<2023-05-01T03:14:03.000Z> SuperLutheran: It's asking if you have the mental capacity to actually imagine something 
<2023-05-01T03:14:11.000Z> SuperLutheran: In essence, asking if you are an npc
<2023-05-01T18:33:48.000Z> norsebaptist: Why don’t you guys just go all in on Popcorn and Soda and only do email episodes for Godcast until you’ve completely mined up all that content?
<2023-05-01T18:35:31.000Z> norsebaptist: I’ve got a couple movies I’d like to pay for, but with the new born and all I haven’t been able to pull the trigger just yet. I don’t want to send in my popcorn and soda requests unless I can pay for them.
<2023-05-01T18:37:32.000Z> norsebaptist: I’ve been chewing on that article you sent me with the most common objections to infant baptism. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on building the infrastructure to start my own show and baptism is going to be the first subject material. 
<2023-05-01T18:39:27.000Z> norsebaptist: Right now I’m leaning towards using the 5th commandment to honor your father and mother to build a case for “it’s okay to be Baptist.” I’m going to admit that believers baptism as both a theology and practice now relies as much on church tradition as the infant baptism which predates the position.
<2023-05-01T18:40:41.000Z> norsebaptist: I’m thinking about the verses on causing a little one to sin it shall be better for the millstone tied around the neck and thrown into the sea.
<2023-05-01T18:41:47.000Z> norsebaptist: If a child born into a christian home is not baptized, dies and goes to hell, would not God require the parents who did not baptize the child to also go to hell for their sin of condemning their child to hell? 
<2023-05-01T18:42:44.000Z> norsebaptist: At that point you’re making the faith transactional and removing the moral agency from parent and child. 
<2023-05-01T18:43:53.000Z> norsebaptist: I’m never going to condemn baptismal regeneration or infant baptism as heretical, but I don’t see a case from scripture that it’s heretical to believe and practice believers baptism. 
<2023-05-01T18:45:20.000Z> norsebaptist: Because, there’s just too much history of God’s protection and blessing of fruitfulness for the Baptist church, thus I go with appealing to the tradition of my church fathers and honoring my upbringing.
<2023-05-01T18:48:49.000Z> norsebaptist: Well what about the mormons? They seem to be protected and fruitful. To me, the main difference is the Baptist church does not exist for sake of justifying sexual deviancy. Sure it’s history is riddled with sexual deviants, but the institution itself was not born for that purpose.
<2023-05-01T18:53:25.000Z> norsebaptist: My position is not be baptist or else. My position is it’s okay to be baptist. God’s not going to send you to hell for not baptizing your infant. Drawing a little bit from my Calvinist roots, I was born into a Baptist home, therefore God wanted me to be a baptist. I’m a fith generation independent fundamental baptist. My great great grandfather was an IFB preacher. My ancestors put in a lot of work and obedience to Christ to secure my faith. I think that deserves some accreditation.
<2023-05-01T18:56:21.000Z> norsebaptist: I’ve also changed from seeing myself as a disavowed ifb, to an ifb thought leader for the future. The congregational method of rulership lends itself to being effective against the pos. It’s irl federated content and community. There’s no institution to infiltrate, except the seminary, but when that happens they just quite sending their kids and money and start a new one.
<2023-05-01T19:24:58.000Z> SuperLutheran: So if, as Scripture teaches, Baptism confers great blessing, why would a Godly parent withhold that from his child?
<2023-05-02T07:54:49.000Z> norsebaptist: That question presumes baptism can be valid before a public profession of faith. How can I withhold something that is not mine to give?
<2023-05-02T07:55:48.000Z> norsebaptist: The order is always believe and then be baptized in scripture. It is never be baptized and then believe.
<2023-05-02T07:58:05.000Z> norsebaptist: Note I’m not arguing that Lutheran baptisms are invalid for Lutherans. If that’s how God leads you, fine whatever. What I am arguing is that the Baptist Church fathers ought to be considered with equal regard to any other church father and thus its okay to be baptist.
<2023-05-02T08:01:48.000Z> norsebaptist: Scripture nowhere explicitly teaches that newborns should be baptized. Children yes, I have no problem baptizing a young child who can make a coherent public profession of faith. I do however wish for my children to be old enough to remember their baptisms and not have to take someone else’s word for it that they were baptized.
<2023-05-02T08:05:09.000Z> norsebaptist: Why would a godly parent rob their children of having the memory of being baptized? 
<2023-05-02T08:05:45.000Z> norsebaptist: That question does not lend itself to ecumenicalism. 
<2023-05-02T08:06:42.000Z> norsebaptist: The argument I want to make is not be baptist or else. The argument is it’s okay to be baptist. 
<2023-05-02T08:08:10.000Z> norsebaptist: After munching on the article you sent me in prayer, I just can’t bring myself to disagree with Baptist Church fathers strongly enough to leave the Baptist ideology. 
<2023-05-02T08:11:05.000Z> norsebaptist: Someday I’d like to come on the show and do a blood sports on the Baptist distinctives, but I want to get back in public speaking shape first by recording a few episodes first and seeing if they’re good enough content for Gordon to publish. 
<2023-05-02T08:13:33.000Z> norsebaptist: I am basically a less intelligent, more boring version of Miles but with a higher degree of Baptist theological training. I’m not a seminarian and I probably never will be, but I possess enough rope to hang myself with so here goes.
<2023-05-05T07:56:14.000Z> norsebaptist: The Spirit has really been convicting me hard and fat shaming me for the last couple weeks. I really believe now that if I don’t break my addiction to sweets and start eating vegetables I’m going to die before I’m 40 and I’m going to leave my children penniless and fatherless.
<2023-05-05T08:00:35.000Z> norsebaptist: I want to get into body weight training like you post about. I work a really physically demanding and I still weigh 335lbs. I can do pushups but I’m afraid of situps causing a hernia. I also am afraid of overdoing it and being injured and missing work. Honestly my job is probably hard enough physically for me to lose quite a bit of weight if I can manage to control my diet better. I’m severely addicted to sugar and I know now I cannot stop whenever I want.
<2023-05-05T13:15:36.000Z> SuperLutheran: First of all, situps are not going to help you at this point even if you could do them injury free. 
<2023-05-05T13:16:50.000Z> SuperLutheran: Second, second to prayer, addictions like this are best solved with baby steps. Rome wasn't built in a day: small changes over time should be your battle cry.
<2023-05-05T13:18:15.000Z> SuperLutheran: You could calculate just how much sugar you're consuming in a day, and have a little bit less the next day. Or you could make yourself eat a carrot for each candy bar, drink a glass of water for each soda, etc.
<2023-05-05T13:20:00.000Z> SuperLutheran: Once you're comfortable with a small change, then you make another small change. Instead of eating a celery stick each time you chow down on a Snickers bar, skip the candy and substitute in a piece of fruit - or having a tootsie roll instead of a whole candy bar. 
<2023-05-05T13:20:43.000Z> SuperLutheran: When I was overweight, that's literally all I did for about 2 years, and I lost 50 pounds in the first year before going through body recomp.
<2023-05-05T13:22:00.000Z> SuperLutheran: As for bodyweight, if you have a physically demanding job *and* you're overweight, then your bodyweight focus should be on mobility, flexibility, and balance uber alles. 
<2023-05-05T13:23:25.000Z> SuperLutheran: If you go at calisthenics trying to learn the planche or muscle ups or pistol squats, focusing on strength alone, then your job is going to interfere with your recovery and produce a big risk of injury. This is especially the case if you're overweight, since your joints are under a great deal of stress already. 
<2023-05-05T13:27:20.000Z> SuperLutheran: To START, I recommend taking up a discipline that will mobilize your joints, work on your flexibility, and give you a sense of balance. For six months, practiced five or six days a week in 30-40 minute sessions.
<2023-05-05T13:28:56.000Z> SuperLutheran: This could be Pilates, tai chi, yoga, any number of them really. But the point is to pick one and get good at it. After six months of dedicated practice while making small changes to your diet, I guarantee you'll be feeling and operating much better.
<2023-05-05T13:32:54.000Z> SuperLutheran: After six months, then you could start looking at harder disciplines, or continue improving on a softer discipline - which would include various strength movements as well.