Friday, 20 March 2026

Catching up with Vincent Bruno

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Why Muslims find the TLC hostile territory even if its members are not mostly Islamophobes



I suppose a gift of mine is reading people really well. In Claire’s case, I think she’s seeking fatherly authority. It's likely a reason she’s Muslim, because she perceives a strength in its rigidity and character. Her untamability I feel serves to highlights the lack of masculine authority in TLC. I’ve tried to point this out explicitly and even model it as much as a measly comment section allows, but she still participates in that lack in a more implicit, visceral way by joining livestreams.

TLC clearly operates as maternal containment. I think PVK is incapable of leading in a holy masculine way, as a pastor should, either because he had a overtly toxic relationship with masculinity in his upbringing (and just doesn't talk about it) or a very enabling one that modeled conflict avoidance over confrontation. Either way, his leadership style shows a clear affinity for the maternal, which then filters down and spreads throughout the entire community.

It reminds me of your conversation with Sam about him considering stepping back from TLC. Throughout that talk, Luke, it felt like you were only entertaining Sam’s doctrinal disputes because, deep down, you view that drive for clarity as a sort of "tantrum" that just needs to be let out of the system. You seem to think that sort of thing just stands in the way of relationships, that if you just let Sam "vent," he’ll be fine and come back into the fold.

Thats classic maternal containment. You aren’t guiding him toward proper understanding or growth; you’re operating from an unhealthy motherly relational attachment. My voiew is: To hide from the fact that your own relationship to conviction and clarity is unhealthy and points to a deeper lack, I feel you attempt to "dunk" by flexing your mystical muscles (as both of you did in this livestream). To me, that’s an obvious projection of insecurity.

In the end, I believe the collective lack of masculine direction is just the same as Claire’s. You are all the same; you’re just afraid to admit that. Until then, you’ll just go in circles with endless conversations and give into the vice of that. That’s what TLC is at its very core: a distraction from accountability and a way to avoid confronting a deep spiritual lack. You are all just using each other for that. That's the tragedy.

Another thought on Claire.

I recall the question circulating in TLC: why are no Muslims here? Well, Claire is your answer.

The only Muslim willing to entertain this space is a western female convert*. Islam has what TLC avoids: doctrinal clarity, dominant masculine authority, strong accountability. Claire comes in with that rigidity, yet retains enough western socialization to tolerate the maternal containment. She's a mirror and a bridge, but notice which direction she's moving.

A born Muslim (particularly a man) doesn't need TLC's relational warmth. They have the community. What he'd demand is strength and clarity this space doesn't provide. Absence of Muslim presence isn't closed-mindedness. It's structural mismatch.


*  Claire Khaw is not Muslim.  


EmJay2022:
In a catharsis-driven culture, the shadow doesn’t get confronted, it gets distributed. TLC ends up circulating tension instead of resolving it, where talking about the good replaces doing it. When the foundation is disordered, the space built on it will mirror that.

CK:
Neal didn't want to discuss politics. He wanted to read me the New Testament to me. This is something Christians do for comfort, defence, distraction or malice. "Ha! I got that dumb non-Christian to listen to me quote huge chunks of the New Testament at them that was not even peripherally relevant to what we were  discussing - they will never get back the time they lost again!"  They are not really interested in discussing whether the Trinity is really idolatry because they are not interested in examining their beliefs to fix their problems.

EmJay2022:
I don’t think what’s happening here is Christian at all. They may believe they’re proselytizing you, but in reality they’re trying to assimilate you. Convincing a critic becomes a kind of symbolic victory. Winsome zero-sum.

CK:
If they were being properly Christian, they would be threatening to burn me at the stake!
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The divine contract - prayer is the act bargaining with God



7:00  Prayer as a display of virtue signalling by a Jewish Jesus freak refusing to come to terms with the corruption and violence of America's naked imperialism 

2:00  Richard III: "My Kingdom for a Horse!"
4:00  Accelerationism
5:00  Trump turned out to be the accelerationist candidate after all, not Kamala Harris.
6:00  What should we pray for as regards Western foreign policy?
7:00  Questioning the efficacy of representative democracy
8:00  Praying for a better system
Prayer is therapeutic and focuses the mind.
11:00  People who mistakenly think that God is a genie in a lamp would think that rubbing the lamp is an act of faith and an expression of prayer that something good will happen. 

The divine contract - prayer is the act bargaining with God

12:00  Richard III

20:00  Right thought, right speech, right action.

The appeal of mass murder and serial killing to atheists and nihilists

22:00  Western civilisation as we know it

23:00  Fixing America's morals

24:00  The rules of the group

25:00  The Name of the Game is Risk and Monopoly

Trump, the failure of representative democracy and the liberal order

27:00  The rules and their enforcement

28:00  Lying is denialism.

29:00  Christianity is not the religion of the West, but liberalism. 

The utility of feeling pain

31:00  Christians because of their absurd beliefs lie to themselves that they believe in Christianity. While they retain military supremacy, they will continue to deny the absurdity and heresy of their beliefs and use unjust means against those who deny their beliefs. 

32:00  We all want to live in a society that uses facts and logic as a survival strategy instead of lies and nonsense.  
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Thursday, 19 March 2026

Facts and logic by principled people should trump the emotions and false beliefs of unprincipled people

 

A surprisingly peaceful Jordan

Palestinians are sanguine about being bombarded.

1:00  Energy concerns




4:00  What should we pray for?
6:00  Representative democracy
7:00  Lie-joke
8:00  People deserve the government they get.
9:00  Statutory rape and licensed brothels

10:00  Most of the female suppliers of sex to heterosexual men are neither wives nor prostitutes.

Cottaging
11:00  A burden of proof 
12:00 Teen parties and sleepovers


14:00  Smartphone
15:00  How to choose better people
17:00  Not allowed to canvas
18:00  Liberal democracy: the choice of the plutocracy
19:00  Are principled people extremists and fundamentalists?
20:00  Honesty and reasonableness
21:00  Facts and logic used by principled people should trump the emotions and false beliefs of unprincipled people.
22:00  Disruptive protests
23:00  Military industrial complex
BRICS
24:00  Viktor Orban


27:00  Trump
Tertiary syphilis
29:00  Hungarian birth rate
The majority of parents in the West are married parents.
30:00  Environmentalism and the Green Party
31:00  LGBT and  the Green Party
32:00  White low birth rates
33:00  China's failed  one child policy 
34:00  Working mothers
35:00  Sharia threatens the Western culture of casual sex.
36:00  Feminism and equal pay
37:00  Jobs for the boys and jobs for the girls
39:00  Energy costs
40:00  Privatisation

Mr Bates v The Post Office 

Dirty Business

46:00  Encouraging earlier marriage
47:00  Usury in Jordan
43:00  Only Fans
50:00  The benefits of losing the argument when our beliefs are false and our reasoning is logical
51:00  Submitting to Truth, Logic and Morality and trying to obey God's laws automatically create  a better self within ourselves.
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Talking to Neal Daedulus


1:00  TLC
3:00  The subconscious
4:00  Jungian archetypes and Freud's structural model of the psyche
6:00  The Dragon as an archetype
The Elephant in the Room
7:00  Chris Howard




8:00  Politics
Jonathan Pageau
9:00  Zeitgeist
Therapy
11:00  Our understanding of ourselves and our environment
History and psychology
12:00  Jesus said most choices are bad choices, apparently.
13:00  The problem of having too much choice
14:00  The feeling that we had chosen the wrong path
15:00  Transgenderism
19:00  We are more likely to forgive ourselves once we take responsibility.
20:00  Our attitude towards suffering
23:00  Anorexia and bulimia
Cause and effect
Isaiah 45:7
24:00  The meaning of suffering
25:00  The raising of Lazarus
34:00  Redemption
35:00  Heresy
36:00  Egotism
Regrets
39:00  Communications
41:00  When we are conflicted we become neurotic. 
42:00  Reconciliation and retribution
43:00  Free speech
Unacknowledged trauma
45:00  History
46:00  Video games
47:00  Reincarnation
50:00  Heaven
51:00  Hell
52:00  Moral dilemma
54:00  The Prodigal Son
1:00:00  Moral dilemma
The difference between Jews, Christians and Muslims
1:01:00  Ideals and principles
1:04:00  The ideal and the pass mark
1:05:00  Doubt is more destructive than loss.
1:06:00  The line in the middle of the road


1:08:00  The Wars of the Reformation
Enforcing a minimum standard of morality
1:09:00  Evolution
1:11:00  Subsidiarity?
1:12:00  Christendom
1:13:00   The Wars of the Reformation
Survival of the fittest
1:15:00  Technology
1:18:00  AI and ancient technocracies
1:19:00  Patriarchy is a survival strategy.
1:20:00  Amish and Jews
1:21:00  Shakers and gays
1:22:00  A rising average age
1:23:00  "The end of Western civilisation as we know it"
1:24:00  Demographic differences between rich and poor
1:25:00  Marriage is a sacrifice.
1:26:00  Minimum standards of sexual morality
1:27:00  The marriage license
1:28:00  Uncontrolled mass immigration
1:29:00  Labour relations
1:30:00  Gender relations
Israel
1:31:00  Potholes in New Orleans
1:33:00  Anti-immigration parties
1:35:00  America does not have an official moral system.
1:36:00  The normalisaiton of illegitimacy
1:37:00  The end of the culture of casual sex
1:38:00  Haredim > secularim
1:39:00  Chinese Ancestor Worship
1:41:00  Demographics is destiny.
Monogamy > pederasty
1:42:00  The beginning of the end of the Roman Empire was when they hired mercenaries. 
1:43:00  Survival of the fittest of the best organised religion
1:45:00  The Abrahamic God has given humanity the "unalienable right" of freedom of belief and expression.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2026

I wish more people would question my beliefs


Hierarchy is necessary for transparency, authority, efficiency and status.

5:00  Jew blaming antisemites

6:00  An antisemite of mature years is less likely to change his or her views.

7:00  Aztecs and US foreign policy

9:00  Americans refuse to read George Washington's farewell speech.

10:00  Kent State shootings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

11:00  Misunderstood

13:00  Just one lawyer who has read the Koran

18:00  Referendum

24:00  I wish more people would question my beliefs.

26:00  Mary Harrington

27:00  Christianity was a religion imposed on the subjects of Christian absolute monarchs. 

28:00  Magna Carta, Habeas corpus and the English Republic

29:00  Tarquin Superbus

30:00  From monarchy to republic back to monarchy again

31:00  First Amongst Equals

Empires can be republics, republics can be empires.  

37:00   "Niche"

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Caleb Maupin finally attempts to discuss Christianity

 

42:00  The easiest way to understand the history of Western political ideologies is to understand liberalism as an attempt to replace Christianity and Nationalism Socialism as an attempt to replace liberalism when the Weimar Republic was imposed on the German people after the abdication of the Kaiser, when Christendom ended in 1918.

43:00  Marx would have rejected monarchy and supported republicanism.

46:00  It is tedious how some socialists keep trying to pretend that Jesus was a promoter of socialism just because of what he said about it being harder for the rich man to get to heaven than it would be for a camel to go through the eye of the needle as well as telling the rich young man to sell everything he owned to become one of his apostles.  Unfortunately, there are parties and people calling themselves Christian Socialists just as there are people calling themselves Christian Nationalists whom we all know are really White Nationalists who have decided to use the cloak of Christianity to give themselves respectability. Many people who say "Christian" and "Jesus" a lot are only doing so because it has the effect of making others think they are stupid and kind ie as a way of saying they are nice and harmless. 

In fact, Jesus is also known for saying "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" which arguably suggests that he was both a monarchist and imperialist.  

Using Jesus to pretend he is on your side is frankly lame-brained. A political associate of mine who refuses to define himself properly was complaining about to me the other day that his other political associates were always claiming that he supported their view. They only do that because he has consistently refused to take a strong and consistent position on anything.

54:00  To be fair to Nietzsche, he seemed upset about God having been killed by unspecified persons.

Friedrich Nietzsche – The Gay Science, Book III, Aphorism #125 (The Parable of the Madman):

Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly: 'I seek God! I seek God!'? As there were many people standing about who did not believe in God, he caused a great deal of amusement. Why! is he lost? said one. Has he strayed away like a child? said another. Or does he keep himself hidden? Is he afraid of us? Has he taken a sea-voyage? Has he emigrated? - the people cried out laughingly, all in a hubbub. The insane man jumped into their midst and transfixed them with his glances. 'Where is God gone?' he called out. 'I mean to tell you! We have killed him, - you and I! We are all his murderers! But how have we done it? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the whole horizon? What did we do when we loosened this earth from its sun? Whither does it now move? Whither do we move? Away from all suns? Do we not dash on unceasingly? Backwards, sideways, forewards, in all directions? Is there still an above and below? Do we not stray, as through infinite nothingness? Does not empty space breathe upon us? Has it not become colder? Does not night come on continually, darker and darker? Shall we not have to light lanterns in the morning? Do we not hear the noise of the grave-diggers who are burying God? Do we not smell the divine putrefaction? - for even Gods putrefy! God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him! How shall we console ourselves, the most murderous of all murderers? The holiest and the mightiest that the world has hitherto possessed, has bled to death under our knife, - who will wipe the blood from us? With what water could we cleanse ourselves? What lustrums, what sacred games shall we have to devise? Is not the magnitude of this deed too great for us? Shall we not ourselves have to become Gods, merely to seem worthy of it? There never was a greater event, - and on account of it, all who are born after us belong to a higher history than any history hitherto!'" 

Here the madman was silent and looked again at his hearers; they also were silent and looked at him in surprise. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, so that it broke in pieces and was extinguished. 'I come too early,' he then said, 'I am not yet at the right time. This prodigious event is still on its way, and is travelling, - it has not yet reached men’s ears. Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard. This deed is as yet further from them than the furthest star, - and yet they have done it!' It is further stated that the madman made his way into different churches on the same day, and there intoned his Requiem aeternam deo. When led out and called to account, he always gave the reply: 'What are these churches now, if they are not the tombs and monuments of God?

55:00  If you're a nihilist, you would only be interested in getting as much sex, money and power to make your life meaningful and pleasurable before death comes as the end. Nietzsche was an existentialist wondering what how atheists should lead their lives.

Nietzsche diagnosed nihilism as the central crisis of modern Western culture — the belief that life has no inherent meaning, value, or purpose — he did not advocate for it. Instead, he saw nihilism as a dangerous and destructive condition that results from the collapse of traditional values, especially the death of God. 

Nietzsche viewed nihilism as a problem to be overcome, not embraced.  He argued that the loss of objective meaning creates a crisis, but also an opportunity. His philosophy was a call to "revalue all values" and create new, life-affirming values through the Will to Power, the Übermensch (Overman), and the Eternal Recurrence — concepts designed to inspire individuals to live meaningfully despite the absence of inherent purpose. 

In short, Nietzsche was a critic of nihilism, not a proponent.  He used the term "nihilist" to describe those who deny life’s value, but he positioned himself as someone who sought to transcend nihilism through creativity, strength, and authenticity.

57:00  There would have been no Roman Catholic Church without Constantine the Great deciding to Christianise the Roman Empire.

59:00  The phrase originates from the Bible, specifically Galatians 6:7 (King James Version): "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." This verse uses farming as a metaphor—planting seeds (actions) leads to a harvest (consequences). It's also echoed in Proverbs 22:8, Hosea 8:7, and 2 Corinthians 9:6, reinforcing the idea that moral and spiritual choices have inevitable results.

This is pretty generic. Hindus and Buddhists call it karma and atheists say to each other "What goes around comes around." 

59:15  Marxism is just a modern ideology at the service of workers who want to rebel against bad working conditions. When you think about it, Jews began their existence because they left Egypt as a rejection of their working conditions under Pharaoh. Plebeians in Rome also withdrew their labour when their working conditions were not what they should have been. 

1:04:00  Judaism and Islam are lawyers' morality but Christianity is indeed a slave morality because its believers are forbidden to question and inevitably reject the Trinity after realising its absurdity. Questioning, challenging and ejecting the Trinity is heresy attracting the death penalty of being burned at the stake. The Founding Fathers, being Unitarian, were therefore heretical Christians. Interestingly, America has had four Unitarian American Presidents. It is necessary to consider the problem of the Trinity to understand the series of republican revolutions that ended Christendom in 1918. 

1:10:00  Did you know that there is a Koranic rate of taxation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khums

1:12:0  We all live in a mixed economy anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy The problem is usury. 

1:13:00  Wallace Wattles was excommunicated by the Methodist Church for heresy.

1:26:00  To be killed by Israel is to be killed by America.

What are you going to do about US foreign policy when US elections are rigged and your ruling classes are proud that they kill the leaders of countries they dislike?

1:30:42
@GavinLockard
​​"And I'm not saying that Islam is OK. Islam has problems too: most notably that it doesn't give everlasting life."

How would you know that any religion - including your own - gives everlasting life?

1:33:26
@hueylongeverymanaking3399
"​​Christianity is fundamentally anti-imperialist"

How can this be true when the last three global empires have been Christian and it was a Roman Emperor that adopted Christianity to protect his divine to rule as an absolute monarch?

1:34:32
@GavinLockard
​​@KevinTrudeauJunior People have been claiming for two-thousand years that Christianity is dying and almost gone. I looked that quote up and apparently it's from Hitler. Not surprised. His "Table Talk"

Hitler was Roman Catholic, was he not? He had to be because Austrians had to adopt the religion of their absolute monarch. It is not surprising therefore that most traumatised Europeans who think Christianity is the religion of the Stupid People who have not noticed that Christendom ended in 1918. As for Americans, they lack the historical awareness to blame the Founding Fathers for the death of Christianity.

1:34:52
@GavinLockard
​​book sounds just like a modern liberal, blaming the world's problems on "Russians" and tranditional Christianity.

Westerners do have a problem if they do not have a functioning moral system.

1:37:00   The risk you continue to refuse to take is to engage with me publicly.

1:40:26
@GavinLockard
​​Not saying that correlation is causation. There are a lot of reasons that the USA is no longer innovative. But I think one of them is the increase in belief in Darwinian Evolution

The problem is the degeneracy caused by widespread illegitimacy, actually.

1:41:49
@Niswander
​​I think egomania seems to be a big reason for the USA no longer being innovative

Actually, it is the degeneracy caused by widespread illegitimacy. 

2:03:00  Are you prepared to be a guest on my channel?

1:33:26
@hueylongeverymanaking3399
"​​Christianity is fundamentally anti-imperialist"

How can this be true when the last three global empires have been Christian and it was a Roman Emperor that adopted Christianity to protect his divine to rule as an absolute monarch?
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Catching up with Vincent Bruno

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