When East Meets West with Kenaz Filan and Ahnaf Ibn-Qais

Welcome to the seventh episode of Notes From The End of Time: The Quotients of IntelligenceToday children around the world are ranked and measured by standardized intelligence tests: their data is weighed, sifted and measured by innumerable algorithms and parceled out into neat charts and reports. Yet over and over the computers keep repeating blasphemy: some groups score lower than others? How do we address this problem? How do we solve this problem? And what preconceptions and misconceptions lead us to conclude this is a problem?Kenaz Filan, “The Quotients of Intelligence”https://europaschildren.com/2020/08/22/the-quotients-of-intelligence/ E-mail: kenazfilan@gmail.comWebsite: http://www.europaschildren.com Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/kenaz-filan Gab: https://gab.com/KenazFilan Telegram: @KenazFilan--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

As our government teeters and our populace becomes increasingly polarized, many fear war is on the horizon. Some of us have realized it is already here. How can we wage a just war? How can we work for a just peace? And how can we fight monsters without becoming monsters ourselves?Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (Prima Secundae Partis)https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2.htmKenaz Filan, "Toward the Unknown Shore"https://europaschildren.com/2020/08/09/toward-the-unknown-shore/"What We Know of the Ring"https://europaschildren.com/2020/08/10/what-we-know-of-the-ring/Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Just War Theory”https://iep.utm.edu/justwar/Eric Patterson, "Just War Theory and Terrorism" in Providence Magazine (Summer 2016)https://providencemag.com/2016/11/just-war-theory-terrorism/"St. Joan of Arc" at Catholic Onlinehttp://catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=295Gene Wolfe, "The Best Introduction to the Mountains"http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20040113063643/http%3A//home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

H.P. Lovecraft''s writings have become famous for their "cosmic horror." He showed us our place in the Universe: dust-specks living atop a bigger dust-speck for what barely counts as an Elder God's eye-blink. But were the vast empty demon-haunted vistas he created fiction -- or was he drawing from life?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

In September 1931 C.S. Lewis accepted Christ after a lengthy conversation with his friend and fellow Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien. Both would go on to become two of the greatest Fantasy writers of the 20th century. Today their work is seen by many as quaint, outmoded, even reactionary. But can their halting voyage toward Truth help us set our course in a world drugged on lies?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

Today many scientists are wondering if we are living inside a computer simulation: Elon Musk famously claimed that the odds we are living in "base reality" are a billion to one. But what does it mean to live in a simulation -- and where do we find that base reality?References:Nick Bostrom, "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?"https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html G.K. Chesterton, *Heresies*https://www.gutenberg.org/files/470/470-h/470-h.htm Kenaz Filan, "Infinity in the Palm of your Hand"https://europaschildren.com/2020/07/25/infinity-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/ Martin Heidegger, "Only a God Can Save Us"http://www.ditext.com/heidegger/interview.html Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"https://simondon.ocular-witness.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/question_concerning_technology.pdf Joshua Rothman, "What are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?"New Yorker, June 9, 2016https://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/what-are-the-odds-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

In 1240 King Louis IX (better known as St. Louis) ordered every Talmud in France burned. This episode explores why he made that decision, and what we can learn from that tragedy.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

Pontius Pilate asked “What is Truth?” Today we are told that Truth is contextual, Truth is shifting, Truth is a tool used by the strong to hold power over the weak. Like Pilate, we have turned away from inconvenient Truths. And today our nation, and the Truths we once held to be self-evident, are burning. Our only hope is to return to the Truth which Pilate washed off his hands.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

My fifth podcast. If you're new to White Identity politics and don't know where to begin, here's some advice from a grizzled old ex-liberal.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

A discussion about my friend Tom Kawczynski, one of the Dissident Right's leading thinkers and the troubles he has faced as a result of his beliefs.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

Our third podcast, featuring further discussion of San Francisco's Fecal Flood and its ramifications for Western Civilization.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe