I think that the "loss before the rediscover" paradigm is a valid one, but the opposition, those who would enslave us in a digital construct of their design, are present to avoid such a natural flow to the ebb. Would it happen naturally . . . I think, yes, except we are now in an unnatural state, where every step back from Christian norms and behaviors are quickly advanced upon and levered against it and what it effectively resists in the world. Years ago, I too had the same thought, that the reduction in Christians in the world, and US especially, is a bad thing - it allows the darkness to advance and secure position. But this is not an especially insightful epiphany; the founding fathers knew as well and spoke of it. The Constitution and the construction of the US gov requires the Christian ethic to be functional and strong. Are we strong? When was the last time something happened in the US, driven by the USG, that made you proud, that you thought "yes, well done"? We're in trouble. The world is in trouble. We are at the forefront of a decades-long attack on liberal democracy (classical definition) and the west, on the very definition and existence of the nation-state and individual sovereignty. Those who are pushing for a globalist reformulation of the world, have little regard for your personal rights. And they are the ones who have levered the current, dysfunctional conditions of the world. Many are waking, but I think it too late. I hope I am wrong and a Christian revival can enlighten, empower and drive these bastards back to the caves. But I have little hope. They have gained too much ground and are masters at their devious plans.
All nation-states are tottering but the fact we can see this and feel it, means groups of neighbours and communities are sure to rise as bulwarks against the decay.
Christian thinking is a return to more ancient traditions of hospitality lost after the bronze-age collapse. Before 4000bc, there was a moral code of conduct, codified in the "Code of Hammurabi" ppl were "required" to care, feed, bath, provide accommodation, water and feed the animals of guests, visitors, and travelers. It was considered an insult to offer compensations for hospitality and in some cases illegal to accept compensation. Later versions of those laws are targeted inns.
In the bible, Matthew 15:32-39 and Mark 8:1-13, Jesus was to said to feed and provide drinks to 4000 visitors. Under roman rule, this accommodation was only required by inns/businesses. The fact that Jesus fed and provided drinks for his visitors shows he believed in the ancient, well known and practiced lost traditions of the region. Today, we call that compassion. In the ancient world it was an expected moral code. Hospitality was so important, it was written into laws.
Claims of western christianity are exemplified only by their actions, acts of hospitality toward strangers, visitors, travelers without compensation being the oldest tradition. That is how you gauge christianity, not by churches, decorations, and claims, but by how they treat strangers with different beliefs heritages and races as long as they are not attempting to kill you and your family.
Great writing style. !!! it's a pleasure to read your blog.
It seems like you took a "red" painted "blue pill"
You got one thing very wrong, Trump's attempt to overthrow the standing government. You claim insurrectionists were unarmed, a blatantly false statement. Improvise weapons like sticks, spray mace, etc. are still weapons.
You also say "no one was injured, another blatantly false statement. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of complications from being physically beaten by multiple "peaceful protester", you know the ones breaking windows, breaking down doors. Capitol Police Officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood committed suicide for failing to effectively execute their duty.
Red-pill does not mean a return to authoritarianism by known sexual predators and pedophiles.
Red-pill does not means a return tribal territorialism and a complete lack of modern civility.
Red-pill does not mean WOKE grooming to increase the pool victims of sexual predators while simultaneously breaking down the the family unit, the major mechanism of western wealth preservation.
The red-pill does mean awareness of cherry-picked, biased information like by media outlets including Rasmussen Reports owned by Noson Lawen, a fundamental, conservative media investment firm. A third-party used shelter investors from public scrutiny. Investors like oligarchs and governments looking to social engineer western and african populations.
The objective is to disrupt society to in a way to prevent emerging "new-money" families from gaining power. A form of elitist classism surrounding family background. Opening middle-east, india and china to the western economies created the circumstances where consolidated, slow growth (nearly fixed) western wealth has diffused into those populations at a rate much greater than western economic growth. As a result, western wealth has dropped in proportion to rates of diffusion.
In 1970 the populations of india and china was 557M ppl and 807Mppl respectively. That is nearly 1.4B ppl. Conversely in the west, the population 872M pll. That means most the world's wealth was in possession by 38% of the population. As trade deficits rates and amounts grew between the west and east, the west is at risk of losing over 60% of it's wealth.
Annual, global economic growth has remained at about 2.3% since 1970. Trade deficits are in excess of 1.6% annually. Yet, the value of western currencies have dropped at a rate of 1.9% per year. Under that type of extreme economic pressure, extreme measures are enacted. It is warfare, a silent cold war.
Sicknick was perfectly healthy when he left. No injuries. Death ruled natural. An unarmed woman was shot in the neck. It was absolutely not an insurrection. What mechanism would the shaman have used?
Strokes can occur immediately or up to 2 weeks after injury. It's often an unfortunate side effect of vein or arterial wall injury from blunt force trauma while being beaten.
The woman that was shot during the attempted overthrow of the US government. She was shot in the shoulder, not the neck, normally a non-lethal wound. The arrival of medical transport and care was delayed by the violent revolutionaries which resulted in her death. Second, the officers involved had setup two (2) barricades when a mob of violent revolutionaries, calling for the death of the police, breached both barricades. I think the police showed extreme restraint. If an attacking mob of violent revolutionaries were calling for my death, I can guarantee I would not have been so forgiving.
Shamans ? ‘Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God’
Matthew 22:15-21
Shamans have little to do with political processes in the US. The process codified in the US Constitution with an operating tempo of 8-12 year cycles. Military budgets on 2 year cycles. The reason for the cycles are to "average out" shifts in temperaments and prevent knee-jerk reaction to situations.
The mechanism for changing government in the US is via the electoral process. If you want to change quicker than the cycle designed in, like a spoiled child who can't wait, there are many other countries in the world to immigrate with political systems better aligned with their expectations. Forcing the process, like spoiled children do, often results in frustration and violence, akin to a temper tantrum.
From my perspective, Trump is forcing change to develop personal, short term growth opportunity at the risk of destabilizing the global economy. He doesn't seem to care and even appears to support authoritarian rule, like Putin's imperialism born out of Stalin's, Khrushchev , Brezhnev elitist structured communism which was more like a middle-ages autocracy. An example was USSR's Khrushchev threats to use nuclear weapons if he didn't get his way. Putin is attempting to the same military imperialism of his 20th century predecessors.
One reason for the US's global economic prosperity is the government's tempo of change. It's tempo provides sufficient stability while providing adequate variation to create opportunity, innovation and financial risk aversion. Any disruption to the balance will result in economic ruin. Change too slow, and the economy becomes stagnant. Change too quickly, the economy becomes short term and unstable. There is a balance that must be maintained between short term opportunity (bubbles) and long term stability (stagnation).
Some Trump lover in the FBI doesn't want him found, so he keeps moving files from agent to agent. Again you are talking about the FBI, you know the guys who couldn't catch the Unabomber for 20 years. And, I think his brother turned him in.
As for Tucker Carlson, I would not believe a single word that comes out of his mouth. Why ? look at this video, where he calls Bill O'Reilly's "Shtick" phony because O'Reilly got caught "out of character". Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_G4t70qCIE Both O'Reilly and Carlson personas are no more than fictions. When the reality is doubt and disruption, as a means to distract from the real issues, we need to ask " did I take the blue pill believing it was red ? "
‘Does God not meet us by grace in the natural order’. And is the natural order to know from within, from the very deepest part of ourselves, that our soul is that which is eternal and will endure. Isn’t our failing as individuals to see our salvation as something external to us. And the Christian tradition has colluded in this concept. Is it not prayer to which we must return - so that we unearth that which is holy within us.
We have become so extremely disembodied, disconnected and alienated from ourselves and the other through digital consumption and materialism - but like everything that moves to an extreme - it too will change - and the knowing that we are not merely the drop in the ocean - that we are the mighty ocean in a drop (paraphrasing Rumi) will become a more prevalent paradigm. I sense that and the light ahead.
st Paul, Acts 17: “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.'
Correct if I'm wrong but aren't the so called "Christians" responsible for the most horrific and brutal wars, beginning with the Holy Roman Empire, through the crusades, the Inquisition and the modern day wars that killed hundreds of millions people between Christian nations?
Many historians agree, had the the Concordat not been signed with the Pope in July 1933 that allowed Hitler to increase his power in Germany without opposition from the Catholic Church, the II World War could have been avoided.
The current world empires USA, Britain and Russia are predominantly Christian, with Putin getting exclusive support from the Christian Orthodox Church in exchange for the prosecution of other Christian Faiths.
Is disillusion a possible way to revelation? Yes, but without confirmation bias....
False. Inquisition was not nearly as bad as people claimed. The Crusades were a counter-attack against an invading Islamic force. Twentieth century wars happened after secularisation, and the secular faith of communism is by far the bloodiest ideology of all time. No state is Christian today.
Christian moralities quelled some base human instincts. Communism, a radical refinement of industrialism, dehumanized populations. Soviet and Chinese communism shows nearly 100years of forced secularism was not enough time to alter encultured spiritual beliefs. That fact leads to a conjecture that spiritualism is possibly an unrecognized, intrinsic property of the human condition.
I think that the "loss before the rediscover" paradigm is a valid one, but the opposition, those who would enslave us in a digital construct of their design, are present to avoid such a natural flow to the ebb. Would it happen naturally . . . I think, yes, except we are now in an unnatural state, where every step back from Christian norms and behaviors are quickly advanced upon and levered against it and what it effectively resists in the world. Years ago, I too had the same thought, that the reduction in Christians in the world, and US especially, is a bad thing - it allows the darkness to advance and secure position. But this is not an especially insightful epiphany; the founding fathers knew as well and spoke of it. The Constitution and the construction of the US gov requires the Christian ethic to be functional and strong. Are we strong? When was the last time something happened in the US, driven by the USG, that made you proud, that you thought "yes, well done"? We're in trouble. The world is in trouble. We are at the forefront of a decades-long attack on liberal democracy (classical definition) and the west, on the very definition and existence of the nation-state and individual sovereignty. Those who are pushing for a globalist reformulation of the world, have little regard for your personal rights. And they are the ones who have levered the current, dysfunctional conditions of the world. Many are waking, but I think it too late. I hope I am wrong and a Christian revival can enlighten, empower and drive these bastards back to the caves. But I have little hope. They have gained too much ground and are masters at their devious plans.
All nation-states are tottering but the fact we can see this and feel it, means groups of neighbours and communities are sure to rise as bulwarks against the decay.
Christian thinking is a return to more ancient traditions of hospitality lost after the bronze-age collapse. Before 4000bc, there was a moral code of conduct, codified in the "Code of Hammurabi" ppl were "required" to care, feed, bath, provide accommodation, water and feed the animals of guests, visitors, and travelers. It was considered an insult to offer compensations for hospitality and in some cases illegal to accept compensation. Later versions of those laws are targeted inns.
In the bible, Matthew 15:32-39 and Mark 8:1-13, Jesus was to said to feed and provide drinks to 4000 visitors. Under roman rule, this accommodation was only required by inns/businesses. The fact that Jesus fed and provided drinks for his visitors shows he believed in the ancient, well known and practiced lost traditions of the region. Today, we call that compassion. In the ancient world it was an expected moral code. Hospitality was so important, it was written into laws.
Claims of western christianity are exemplified only by their actions, acts of hospitality toward strangers, visitors, travelers without compensation being the oldest tradition. That is how you gauge christianity, not by churches, decorations, and claims, but by how they treat strangers with different beliefs heritages and races as long as they are not attempting to kill you and your family.
He provided for them after calling for conversion in his preaching first.
Great writing style. !!! it's a pleasure to read your blog.
It seems like you took a "red" painted "blue pill"
You got one thing very wrong, Trump's attempt to overthrow the standing government. You claim insurrectionists were unarmed, a blatantly false statement. Improvise weapons like sticks, spray mace, etc. are still weapons.
You also say "no one was injured, another blatantly false statement. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of complications from being physically beaten by multiple "peaceful protester", you know the ones breaking windows, breaking down doors. Capitol Police Officers Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood committed suicide for failing to effectively execute their duty.
Red-pill does not mean a return to authoritarianism by known sexual predators and pedophiles.
Red-pill does not means a return tribal territorialism and a complete lack of modern civility.
Red-pill does not mean WOKE grooming to increase the pool victims of sexual predators while simultaneously breaking down the the family unit, the major mechanism of western wealth preservation.
The red-pill does mean awareness of cherry-picked, biased information like by media outlets including Rasmussen Reports owned by Noson Lawen, a fundamental, conservative media investment firm. A third-party used shelter investors from public scrutiny. Investors like oligarchs and governments looking to social engineer western and african populations.
The objective is to disrupt society to in a way to prevent emerging "new-money" families from gaining power. A form of elitist classism surrounding family background. Opening middle-east, india and china to the western economies created the circumstances where consolidated, slow growth (nearly fixed) western wealth has diffused into those populations at a rate much greater than western economic growth. As a result, western wealth has dropped in proportion to rates of diffusion.
In 1970 the populations of india and china was 557M ppl and 807Mppl respectively. That is nearly 1.4B ppl. Conversely in the west, the population 872M pll. That means most the world's wealth was in possession by 38% of the population. As trade deficits rates and amounts grew between the west and east, the west is at risk of losing over 60% of it's wealth.
Annual, global economic growth has remained at about 2.3% since 1970. Trade deficits are in excess of 1.6% annually. Yet, the value of western currencies have dropped at a rate of 1.9% per year. Under that type of extreme economic pressure, extreme measures are enacted. It is warfare, a silent cold war.
Did you really know which pill you took ?
Sicknick was perfectly healthy when he left. No injuries. Death ruled natural. An unarmed woman was shot in the neck. It was absolutely not an insurrection. What mechanism would the shaman have used?
Strokes can occur immediately or up to 2 weeks after injury. It's often an unfortunate side effect of vein or arterial wall injury from blunt force trauma while being beaten.
The woman that was shot during the attempted overthrow of the US government. She was shot in the shoulder, not the neck, normally a non-lethal wound. The arrival of medical transport and care was delayed by the violent revolutionaries which resulted in her death. Second, the officers involved had setup two (2) barricades when a mob of violent revolutionaries, calling for the death of the police, breached both barricades. I think the police showed extreme restraint. If an attacking mob of violent revolutionaries were calling for my death, I can guarantee I would not have been so forgiving.
Shamans ? ‘Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God’
Matthew 22:15-21
Shamans have little to do with political processes in the US. The process codified in the US Constitution with an operating tempo of 8-12 year cycles. Military budgets on 2 year cycles. The reason for the cycles are to "average out" shifts in temperaments and prevent knee-jerk reaction to situations.
The mechanism for changing government in the US is via the electoral process. If you want to change quicker than the cycle designed in, like a spoiled child who can't wait, there are many other countries in the world to immigrate with political systems better aligned with their expectations. Forcing the process, like spoiled children do, often results in frustration and violence, akin to a temper tantrum.
From my perspective, Trump is forcing change to develop personal, short term growth opportunity at the risk of destabilizing the global economy. He doesn't seem to care and even appears to support authoritarian rule, like Putin's imperialism born out of Stalin's, Khrushchev , Brezhnev elitist structured communism which was more like a middle-ages autocracy. An example was USSR's Khrushchev threats to use nuclear weapons if he didn't get his way. Putin is attempting to the same military imperialism of his 20th century predecessors.
One reason for the US's global economic prosperity is the government's tempo of change. It's tempo provides sufficient stability while providing adequate variation to create opportunity, innovation and financial risk aversion. Any disruption to the balance will result in economic ruin. Change too slow, and the economy becomes stagnant. Change too quickly, the economy becomes short term and unstable. There is a balance that must be maintained between short term opportunity (bubbles) and long term stability (stagnation).
Are you sure you know what pill you took ?
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1743223892389265721?t=YKw1uhFSB6KJJ0zWIPmTnQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1743744595257614503?t=icrLgj-UzBmgeSUsivLebw&s=19
Some Trump lover in the FBI doesn't want him found, so he keeps moving files from agent to agent. Again you are talking about the FBI, you know the guys who couldn't catch the Unabomber for 20 years. And, I think his brother turned him in.
As for Tucker Carlson, I would not believe a single word that comes out of his mouth. Why ? look at this video, where he calls Bill O'Reilly's "Shtick" phony because O'Reilly got caught "out of character". Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_G4t70qCIE Both O'Reilly and Carlson personas are no more than fictions. When the reality is doubt and disruption, as a means to distract from the real issues, we need to ask " did I take the blue pill believing it was red ? "
‘Does God not meet us by grace in the natural order’. And is the natural order to know from within, from the very deepest part of ourselves, that our soul is that which is eternal and will endure. Isn’t our failing as individuals to see our salvation as something external to us. And the Christian tradition has colluded in this concept. Is it not prayer to which we must return - so that we unearth that which is holy within us.
We have become so extremely disembodied, disconnected and alienated from ourselves and the other through digital consumption and materialism - but like everything that moves to an extreme - it too will change - and the knowing that we are not merely the drop in the ocean - that we are the mighty ocean in a drop (paraphrasing Rumi) will become a more prevalent paradigm. I sense that and the light ahead.
st Paul, Acts 17: “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.'
Correct if I'm wrong but aren't the so called "Christians" responsible for the most horrific and brutal wars, beginning with the Holy Roman Empire, through the crusades, the Inquisition and the modern day wars that killed hundreds of millions people between Christian nations?
Many historians agree, had the the Concordat not been signed with the Pope in July 1933 that allowed Hitler to increase his power in Germany without opposition from the Catholic Church, the II World War could have been avoided.
The current world empires USA, Britain and Russia are predominantly Christian, with Putin getting exclusive support from the Christian Orthodox Church in exchange for the prosecution of other Christian Faiths.
Is disillusion a possible way to revelation? Yes, but without confirmation bias....
False. Inquisition was not nearly as bad as people claimed. The Crusades were a counter-attack against an invading Islamic force. Twentieth century wars happened after secularisation, and the secular faith of communism is by far the bloodiest ideology of all time. No state is Christian today.
Christian moralities quelled some base human instincts. Communism, a radical refinement of industrialism, dehumanized populations. Soviet and Chinese communism shows nearly 100years of forced secularism was not enough time to alter encultured spiritual beliefs. That fact leads to a conjecture that spiritualism is possibly an unrecognized, intrinsic property of the human condition.