tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153369232024-03-10T20:21:05.028-07:00Wonderful MattersEverything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.comBlogger597125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-3502889173083880462024-03-02T11:11:00.000-08:002024-03-08T09:48:29.091-08:00The Deepest Part of the Rabbit Hole<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtDQ_nat4ynUch4OPzRK_RONzDiDn4C9OhrFR7gxsXcfukT1hhFWOzVvuXntxkCrMQlJ7uz08xGQxAzIPq1Y_nWBOFqA8WesXc90ZoX1wpsrFQktho-oqzANjqnVvfOgO8WmSaykuinK7VNX467NG9pWsFtm8mX3EDHH9Ne3GCgk1yqS5Phup/s410/Online%20doctor%20of%20information%20technology%20Walden%20University.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="410" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtDQ_nat4ynUch4OPzRK_RONzDiDn4C9OhrFR7gxsXcfukT1hhFWOzVvuXntxkCrMQlJ7uz08xGQxAzIPq1Y_nWBOFqA8WesXc90ZoX1wpsrFQktho-oqzANjqnVvfOgO8WmSaykuinK7VNX467NG9pWsFtm8mX3EDHH9Ne3GCgk1yqS5Phup/w400-h304/Online%20doctor%20of%20information%20technology%20Walden%20University.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I'm currently reading the book <i>Filterworld</i> with expansive details about a very real Truth Rule reality:<p></p><p><i>There is no such thing as "A.I."</i></p><p>One of the most sinister things anyone can spew out into the world of hearers is the term "A.I." to describe what is merely Super-Duper-Fast Processing Information Technology. Sadly I don't think people want to convince you their version of "A.I." will bring everyone the utopia you've always wanted would for two seconds want to call it S.P.I.T, but if they were honest they would. <br /></p><p>What is so phenomenally stupid is that the rollout of Google's "A.I." information generator they called Gemini was such a disaster anyone with a single brain cell should have acknowledged the Truth Rule. <i>But very few have</i>. There is simply too much money in billions of people believing in the promise of "A.I." bringing us a perfect world of gumdrop trees and flying unicorns.</p><p><i>Filterworld</i> does a much more comprehensive job of sharing that truth -- that <i>anything</i> that is THE ALGORITHM or even THE AYE-EYE is merely the input of whatever is in the minds of those who initially set it in motion. Those minds will always direct whatever SPIT items they've arranged to and from whatever it is they want it to go. What is even more sobering is that the minds that do this will always be those at the darkest, deepest levels of the World System's operational apparatus, and if things go sideways they can always get the more visible agenda blappers to simply blame the AI.</p><p>It is pure Jesuitic genius, really.</p><p>Recently <i>Epoch Times</i> columnist and general rabble-rousing pundit Jeffrey Tucker got exasperated for about the 57-millionth time about how things are out there, out in the world of general System governance. He wrote a piece asking how deep the rabbit hole is, but he'll never venture very far. He'll just turn and rage against what is going on there. Much of that stuff, however, is good to identify -- it is good to know... <i>but then what?</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuThAWy6MwjbBiPVTjyWOVlKOJyzT3KDYQciiwZVHuOpoGBBUZagjceVpB52WdpSYegx7nAa38ccpx0JjvvWYY0z95Z1NHlppfj9ROlEgGuz91blWyuyXFPxrwphg0hwmel69t8r2HWWeNflkpHqNn9R7fNxKu_caXtur7YsXBVpiZRwphcNaJ/s810/How%20far%20down%20the%20rabbit%20hole%20conspiracy%20theory%20Epoch%20Times%20masthead%20Jeffrey%20Tucker%20article%20Feb%2028%202024.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="810" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuThAWy6MwjbBiPVTjyWOVlKOJyzT3KDYQciiwZVHuOpoGBBUZagjceVpB52WdpSYegx7nAa38ccpx0JjvvWYY0z95Z1NHlppfj9ROlEgGuz91blWyuyXFPxrwphg0hwmel69t8r2HWWeNflkpHqNn9R7fNxKu_caXtur7YsXBVpiZRwphcNaJ/s320/How%20far%20down%20the%20rabbit%20hole%20conspiracy%20theory%20Epoch%20Times%20masthead%20Jeffrey%20Tucker%20article%20Feb%2028%202024.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>In another piece he wrote at his <i>Brownstone</i> webzine he really thinks a System court of some repute will rule favorably about some eeevil <i>freedom of speech</i> violation, you know, just how much government is ruining our ability to say things. In it he valiantly tries to expose the worst of the deep-state actors and how captivated they've become, the "federal agencies, universities, non-profits, shadow companies, bogus fact-checks, and every manner of spook-operated front companies," as if this is all brand new and the government he censures will come to the rescue.<p></p><p><i>Yeegh</i>. Rome has been doing this <i>for millennia</i>.</p><p>The irony is that a few of Mr. Tucker's <i>Brownstone</i> pieces earlier, in a piece titled "Intellectuals for Sale," he regales us with the supreme virtues of the centuries-ago version of the University of Salamanca in Spain, led by the finest minds of the day, you know, de Vitoria, de Soto, de Molina, Suarez, de Mariana -- <i>all Jesuits!</i> All men who devised, shaped, and arranged the critical elements of the deep state that perpetuate all the things he reviles!</p><p>The Order today is great with people like Jeffrey Tucker and the millions of Catholicists who think and behave like he does, helping keep the System wheels greased from positions of great influence. Of course with That Algorithm firmly in place, That "A.I." out and about dominating hearts and minds, and now That Hypnotic CGI streaming from it all it is all so much easier now. </p><p><i>Filterworld</i> opens with a story about the perpetual nature of Rome's performance art dominion. We are introduced to "The Mechanical Turk," from the late 1700s. Underneath a rudimentary animatronic Middle Eastern dude wearing a turban is a large box containing a machine accompanied by the claim it can compute things as well as a human being can. A chess match is held for all comers to demonstrate. Of course it holds its own, winning quite frequently.</p><p>Turns out the box can hold a very short and slender human chess master, with compartments for the man to slip into so vacated inner parts may be shown to skeptical audiences to "prove" it is all gears and wires.</p><p><i>What a marvelous metaphor for the way the World System works.</i></p><p>It is too bad the hundreds of millions of Jeffrey Tuckers simply won't look that far down into the machinery -- his is just the typically loud bleating he thinks will mean a single thing against Cain's seven-fold strength. In fact it just fuels the human sacrifice enterprise as all rebellions and remonstrations and revolutions and resistance movements do.</p><p>I must confess I don't even want to look at the deepest parts. I don't even think I can -- my Lord already knows about them. I'm always encouraging people to look as far down as they can, at what the ecclesiocratically devoted mandarins are doing only for the purpose of getting my own readers to grasp the very real horrors of what those functionaries routinely do, to repent of their part in enabling it when neglecting to address their own sinfulness, and turning around and promptly going to Christ there at the entrance to the Kingdom graciously waiting to give you sanctuary. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMB1BiVspXm0L6xCjLBLuNhWmwmutSSZhpDZHA7VZVv-z3BIIe3q5zP3r5awzZ2Puwo2XR0PFvmKH7cCv4JmEZuNaPOa6r-OVMIb2k1YJL3-T9qFFABixjwcXL1myvtoyWdf_G5Tgk1vq4JaB8FNu7y-Fy_AyFeR9X0fyY499UA38AVyqgGV73/s351/Bird%20Box%20scene.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="351" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMB1BiVspXm0L6xCjLBLuNhWmwmutSSZhpDZHA7VZVv-z3BIIe3q5zP3r5awzZ2Puwo2XR0PFvmKH7cCv4JmEZuNaPOa6r-OVMIb2k1YJL3-T9qFFABixjwcXL1myvtoyWdf_G5Tgk1vq4JaB8FNu7y-Fy_AyFeR9X0fyY499UA38AVyqgGV73/s320/Bird%20Box%20scene.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Otherwise, yes, what they do in those deepest places I could not bear to look upon. It is occultic, it is demonic, it is malevolence on an unbearable scale -- if I should gaze upon any of it what may happen to my own soul is what happened to the lives of those who looked upon the soaring demons in the film <i>Bird Box</i>. Do you remember that? Not getting into it now, look it up, go see the film -- I even wrote a <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-big-troll.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> on it a few years ago. Pointing them out to a wide audience would only bring ridicule and marginalization anyway -- Mr. Tucker even mentions there in that screenshot above that you're a crazed worthless "conspiracy theorist" however much you distinctly observe what is really happening down the rabbit hole!<p></p><p>Besides doing the most important things: spending time in prayer, immersing myself in Scripture, and enjoying fellowship with other Kingdom dwellers -- what I like to do to bring me strength and comfort is listen to music that makes my soul sing. I'm sure this is something everyone does, but of course this means I'm going to share with you one of those songs.</p><p>In a random-play set the other day I got to listen again to "Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger. Sure people can have their own interpretations of the song, but to me it is pretty clear. I do know it very much resonates with those who are earthy and sincere, who hate bullshit with a passion and just want to enjoy life in its rich meaningful reality however it comes.</p><p>The girl Bob meets in the bar is Wisdom. Not that weird esoteric gnostic thing, just righteous God-given insight. She rides with him on his bike for a while until she must go, and he is left deciding where he wants to go. Now he is equipped to <i>know</i>. He thinks he could go left, where the Ministry of Sin is, the <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/culturewar.htm" target="_blank">Radical Selfists</a> doing whatever it is they want, whatever feels good -- and he knows that leads nowhere. He could go right, where the Ministry of Condemnation is, the <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/culturewar.htm" target="_blank">Devout Romanists</a> calling out that sin with the most gruesome law enforcement enslavement, always smothered in the most spectacular religious adornments.</p><p><i>Or he could ride straight on to where the hawk soars and find what is actually right, discover who he really is the way God created him to be and redeemed him to be, and grasp that He would even ride with him on that journey.</i></p><p><i>Filterworld </i>shows us a domain that is essentially Hell dropped right in our laps, a place where most people wallow not seeking to discover who God made them to be but slavering over what the Devil wants to make them as they ravenously consume social media posts and images and sounds -- all with the benighted claim that even under the spell of it all <i>they</i> are the ones deciding who they are!</p><p>The author even shares, "[I was] anxious, the possibility that my view of my own life -- lived through the Internet -- was a fiction formed by the feeds... Those feeds were all increasingly fractured and flawed... Ultimately my sense of self was beholden to the responses I got from my invisible audiences, whose attention was algorithmically mediated, too. I wasn't sure who I would be without the algorithmic recommendations; I don't know that anyone else who has spent years of their life on digital platforms can be totally sure." (224)</p><p><i>It would be sick if it weren't so evil.</i></p><p>I just want to get on my bike and ride with Bob.</p><p>To the Kingdom.</p><p><i>To reach Him.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgOV_tHbEYxcjz5U7As1NG8l5bhjTs7cbj6lhxNpKZlZjIPihfocFU8Ax2-49aWUFtffWTFWc8aVA4XVe7XpTY8YFaXrhmNTm7RmQAqudyLMBvYdEgFAkCBBE_RZVxYu1Fh_4DoFXWrfDyyLMGVUoUbL3fa0dG6IhGuSMGwuKFAinjB-nAn_W/s763/Judah%20Ben-Hur%20recognizes%20his%20Savior.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="763" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKgOV_tHbEYxcjz5U7As1NG8l5bhjTs7cbj6lhxNpKZlZjIPihfocFU8Ax2-49aWUFtffWTFWc8aVA4XVe7XpTY8YFaXrhmNTm7RmQAqudyLMBvYdEgFAkCBBE_RZVxYu1Fh_4DoFXWrfDyyLMGVUoUbL3fa0dG6IhGuSMGwuKFAinjB-nAn_W/w400-h160/Judah%20Ben-Hur%20recognizes%20his%20Savior.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>And in a horrifically System-sustained sewage of a World, to experience what Judah Ben-Hur experienced in his brief encounter with Christ. Yes, I did come across this image in a recent web-surfing excursion. But this is a very good one, I think. That is Biker Bob right there finally getting to where he wanted to be, the place that was right. Sure he'll get back on that bike and have to take on the worst of what the world offers at times, just as Judah here must get back in line to trudge to the next slave labor job.<p></p><p><i>But it'll be with Him in the Kingdom.</i></p><p><i>__</i></p><p>Um, all of this in this particular blog post was merely to introduce <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">my latest home page piece</a>, by the way. I am always working hard to make the truths about the distinction between the World System and the Kingdom as simple as possible. But as you can see if you read this blog post, it is a challenge. You'd think it'd be simple, but so much of the World's presentation now maniacally streamed through social media channels makes things very complicated. The truth on the other hand, <i>is</i> simple. Indeed <i>the</i> Grace and <i>the</i> Truth is even simpler.</p><p>And real quick, for those who believe my take on "Roll Me Away" is still some weird gnostic ancient pagan esoteric blather, I'd ask you read the third chapter of the letter to the Philippians. It is all about a steady life lived by Him and His righteousness and joy. "I press on toward..." Also the second chapter of the letter to the Colossians. "In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge..."</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first image is from Walden University promoting their degree "Online Doctor of Information Technology." Very nice, maybe some medical attention can be directed at those pathologically addicted to the IT. The second is simply a screen shot of one of those pieces by Jeffrey Tucker. The third is from <i>Bird Box </i>and the fourth is a scene in <i>Ben-Hur </i>featuring the terrific Charlton Heston in the lead role. <i>Filterworld </i>is written by Kyle Chayka. A piece about how Rome has been so instrumental in forming the demonic nature of the filterworld is <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXV.htm#devil" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-54497322324812589032024-02-07T11:06:00.000-08:002024-02-12T19:56:24.365-08:00The Jericho War<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VEmeTZKbqyc5nLXYezcVkulVAMaQJWB8b8JX_TxdflhP5LKw52BtApMhbpds7j6kcSNYbmnhHeDtn3ammeCJQ57OB9kD5pUHZmqVzzymg1ux65rmcpHtBX8AUg3lTIvP_zkm0k3fvs8eAoolrXi6EPevrtjy4HofxSYy-rxTNk4wVMDv2aHs/s1280/idea_essay-cole_thomas_the_course_of_empire_destruction_1836.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VEmeTZKbqyc5nLXYezcVkulVAMaQJWB8b8JX_TxdflhP5LKw52BtApMhbpds7j6kcSNYbmnhHeDtn3ammeCJQ57OB9kD5pUHZmqVzzymg1ux65rmcpHtBX8AUg3lTIvP_zkm0k3fvs8eAoolrXi6EPevrtjy4HofxSYy-rxTNk4wVMDv2aHs/w400-h240/idea_essay-cole_thomas_the_course_of_empire_destruction_1836.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I'd like to put up a brief post as just a follow-up to <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-old-very-hot-world-war.html" target="_blank">my last post</a> about the millennia-long world war that wages interminably all about. In my devotional time this morning I was reading the passage that I think does the best in elucidating the ungrafted church's mentality and behavior in the face of the roiling evil that spews regularly from a <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/catholicistnation.htm" target="_blank">fully Catholicized World</a>. Here, I cannot go any further without sharing a good part of it with you:<p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry,
we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do
not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by
setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience
in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those
who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so
that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God. For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ
as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said,
“Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give
us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p>This is so profound, in light of a truth that I thought I should add after writing about how the protracted world war has been going and going and going, since the dawn of humankind, indeed most notably since Cain committed the first human sacrifice as the archetypical action of the city established to do human sacrifice as its chief prosecutorial weapon.</p><p>It is a truth that a seasoned humanist materialist would see when the "Everyone is at war all the time no matter what" claim is made, that someone who thinks <i>they</i> have the upper hand on not-having-war because they are so gol-darned tolerant and inclusive and all the rest of it. That claim:</p><p><i>"What about you Christians? What about YOUR wars? You have them too!"</i></p><p>Ahh. Touche.</p><p><i>They are right. We do war.</i></p><p>The real question is, what is the nature of that war?</p><p>The Roman Catholic Church will employ its best Thomist casuistry to rationalize the System's warring with "Just War" equivocation, trying to justify its required belligerence on a macro scale. Yet again <i>it is what the System does</i>. As the Legacy of Cain it is what it must do by God's permission.</p><p>The follower of Christ's role amidst this perpetual conflagration is described quite clearly in the passage. Our ministry is to share Christ with those who can't stand being a part of what the Ecclesiocracy is doing to them <i>and want genuine freedom from it</i>. They are tired of the institutionalized deceit leveled against them to engender their support for the warring world, and want instead, yes, set apart yet again here in this writing for emphasis...</p><p><i>The Kingdom</i>.</p><p>They want to stay in the System? Believing the System things? Living out the benighted lives they've adopted by continuing to listen to what's blapped at them in their college classrooms and then out across the airwaves? God lets them. They can if they want.</p><p>But they can also have Christ.</p><p>And yes, the follower of Christ also knows <i>there is their war too.</i></p><p>For the gospel is about warring against those evil things that make the System's war continue unabated.</p><p>When God really got started establishing a nation from which the Deliverance from self and System death would emerge, yes, there was war. It was ruthless.</p><p>Joshua was the selected leader who would lead the war effort. But it was very clearly stated, <i>the battle was the Lord's</i>. Indeed the Israelites walked around Jericho, blew some trumpets, shouted, the walls came down, and every occupant except Rahab and those in her family were killed. </p><p>Sure enough the clever humanist materialist who does not understand look at that and, again: <i>"Look at you warring Christians, you're no better!"</i></p><p>What they do not realize was as much as Jericho and much of the rest of the region suffered the same fate for the purpose of His nation, it was also because the Canaanites and other tribes were regularly practicing the most heinously evil things. Israel needed to protect their land from invasions and threats for the entirety of the Old Testament. </p><p>Here's a great example of God taking on the battle Himself. Hezekiah was facing a devastating siege by the Assyrians and knew all he had was God. He prayed, essentially, "We confess we are weak, but we do want to turn and serve you, and we do want to be a part of your vision for this nation -- making your name known as Lord God Almighty." God then took care of business, leaving thousands of Assyrians dead on the plains outside Jerusalem. Just like that.</p><p>Huh, quite sobering. And if you think these poor innocent Assyrians did not deserve such a fate, do you <i>know</i> who the Assyrians were? What they did to people? How they behaved? What is so crazy is that God still, <i>still</i> had a heart for them! Jonah knew about the Assyrians and definitely didn't want to share with them what God <i>really</i> wanted for them.</p><p><i>His mercy and forgiveness</i>.</p><p>Please know, <i>this is the same today.</i> God has every right to withdraw His very breath of life within anyone, <i>very justifiably so. </i>But His very Son gave His very life explicitly <i>so souls may be reclaimed.</i></p><p>As far as Israel goes today there are some who think it is the same as the Old Testament one, others say it is just a very prominent part of the World System network of nations, nothing more. Whatever the case, Israel as a sovereign nation today is having to go to great lengths to defend itself. I do believe much of <i>that</i>, with the present version the whole Israel-Hamas thing and the supposed Iran threat and all the rest of it all out there, it is indeed mostly <i>World System</i> warring. In a very real sense, Israel, as is Iran, as is Russia and China and even the United States are all just pawns in the World System Ops' Perpetually Waging War Games.</p><p>For the follower of Christ <i>right now</i>? What does it say there in that third chapter of the second letter to the Corinthians? How are we supposed to "wage the war"?</p><p>Shine Christ's light in that darkness.</p><p>When people are so furious as to enter the war. <i>Minister Him to them</i>. When people are victims of that warfare. <i>Minister Him to them.</i> When people are so blinded that they think the System's counterfeit "gospel" of sodomism, racialism, socialism, or any other pretend utopian policy implementations are the answer to the world war when they only make it worse...</p><p><i>Minister His Grace and His Truth and Him to them.</i></p><p>No violence involved at all.</p><p>Challenges? Yes. Addressing concerns with rigorous industry? Yes, of course. Intense forbearance standing firm in the Truth Rules but still sharing mercy and compassion all the same? Definitely.</p><p>Yeah, it does feel like being in a war, it does.</p><p>I have to add that when the Israelites took over the promised land, sadly they still did not wipe out all the visages of those evil nations. They still allowed remnants to hang around, to their detriment for centuries. Eventually Rome did take over for good, and some biblical scholars have said for quite some time that Jesus was born and lived during a time when someone like Augustus could make the most vicious war against Rome's enemies so there would be some peace and stability in a wide enough geographical expanse for enough time for Jesus to walk, preach, minister, die, rise from the dead, and send off his disciples to share the gospel with a dying world.</p><p>Thing is, I kind of liken Israel's not-completely-ridding the land of those evil influences to the church today neglecting to keep itself pure and ungrafted to the World System. Virtually every church has <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/501c3.htm" target="_blank">a contractual obligation to the Ecclesiocracy through their non-profit tax-exempt registrations</a>, in a very real sense making them just subdivisions of the Roman Catholic Church.</p><p>I don't know. Maybe that is what God is allowing for a purpose. I know many churches are good, Christ-honoring, righteousness-elevating ministers of The Light, I do. But I also see so many things pastors and ill-equipped people who think they know Christianity say the most idiotic things. <i>This makes the Culture War rage even more.</i></p><p>Final thing is this, <i>this war thing</i>, yes, we followers of Christ are in a war. Right now it isn't anything like what Joshua did with Jericho, but we must still war by judging righteous judgment against the things Joshua encountered that are the same things we encounter today, but with Christ's light front and center. This is our task for a time, right now.</p><p>When the last day comes, however, those nations wholly given over to Cain and his rule will make an attempt to extend the war against the saints and Christ Himself, and if you peek at The Revelation, 19th chapter, you may see it described in great detail.</p><p>Yeah, it is a war. Really, it is the only war that really matters at all when it is all said and done.</p><p>But ultimately it is Christ finally defeating sin, evil, deceit, dread, woundedness, death, and the Devil. Right now, however, the Kingdom is offered to anyone who wants it, Christ waits right now at the gate with open arms. By the time of the last major battle, however, it will be too late.</p><p>I should add a quick disclaimer, just something I think is biblical about those who have a job waging war in the System in some authorized capacity. Many soldiers officially employed in the service of military activity, I know many are devoted followers of Christ. I do not think for two seconds they are not firmly in the embrace of The Savior. I also think the same thing of those employed as police officers or in any kind of law enforcement role. I even extend this to those who do feel they are justified in wisely and courageously defending their homes with weapons against those who would commit unrighteous or murderous acts against them.</p><p>All of this makes this discussion a difficult one, so I don't consider myself to be the final arbitrator of what is right or wrong about any of this. I have even frequently referred to the Roman Catholic hegemony necessary for cracking heads as God set forth in the fourth chapter of Genesis! These are all very difficult truths.</p><p>With my own <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">webzine</a> and blog work I only want to do one thing, whatever happens out of it. It is that one thing any follower of Christ is asked to do, again right there in that passage above.</p><p><i>Just share Christ in the face of all of it.</i></p><p><i>__</i></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">God is renowned in Judah;<br /> in Israel His name is great.<br />His tent is in Salem,<br /> His dwelling place in Zion.<br />There He broke the flashing arrows,<br /> the shields and the swords,
the weapons of war.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>You are radiant with light,<br /> more majestic than mountains
rich with game.<br />The valiant lie plundered,<br /> they sleep their last sleep;<br />not one of the warriors<br /> can lift his hands.<br />At your rebuke, God of Jacob,<br /> both horse and chariot lie
still.<br /><o:p> </o:p>(From the 76th Psalm)</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p><i>__</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Obviously I'd posted one of Thomas Cole's best known paintings in his <i>The Course of Empire</i>. Couldn't help it. It is indeed a great depiction of what what is really happening right now even if mostly just in the hearts and minds of Americans. But it is undeniably looking more and more like this out in the real physical world.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-19437626864309409432024-02-05T10:54:00.000-08:002024-02-05T19:19:20.700-08:00The Old Very Hot World War<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V8kjj49WdlZbm4ODjpSmchCHm79tabsQOSSNgTgHX7aqi_2UUiPWCpR7bDfymGC82iRSvrDTaCBYcu-Tvc8epAcGS-pAUDaERyPMwVS0n-fkDArwWi62o4x45pV_yjeMmB9vsTPHGjLRZD0qo4bGZlHX2OGtSky9P4iKwFA4grPpiw0KMmqi/s800/All%20seeing%20eye%20monitoring%20evildoers%20current%20version%20from%20ZeroHedge%20piece%20February%203%202024%20Michael%20Snyder%20writing.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V8kjj49WdlZbm4ODjpSmchCHm79tabsQOSSNgTgHX7aqi_2UUiPWCpR7bDfymGC82iRSvrDTaCBYcu-Tvc8epAcGS-pAUDaERyPMwVS0n-fkDArwWi62o4x45pV_yjeMmB9vsTPHGjLRZD0qo4bGZlHX2OGtSky9P4iKwFA4grPpiw0KMmqi/w400-h398/All%20seeing%20eye%20monitoring%20evildoers%20current%20version%20from%20ZeroHedge%20piece%20February%203%202024%20Michael%20Snyder%20writing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>In my last post <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-new-very-hot-civil-war.html" target="_blank">"The New Very Hot Civil War"</a> I made mention of the metastasizing violence marauding across the United States, threatening to split the country apart -- literally, with secession movements and everything. I do consider serious qualifications about that whole thing that mitigate any of that actually happening, but the fear and loathing is festering and steaming all the same. As much as people try to slough off its lethality, it is resulting in people dying. I could put up an entire webzine piece just to document those ways. In fact I kind-of have, with <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/humansacrifice.htm" target="_blank">a rough sketch of the standard-practice institutionalized human sacrificing</a> that occurs on a regular basis...<p></p><p><i>Around the globe.</i></p><p>...And has been going on for, well, several millennia now. Sorry, <i>not new</i>. Sorry, but World War II was just a particularly loud manifestation of the warfare.</p><p>A couple weeks ago I was thinking about this and thinking about the <i>Twilight Zone</i> episode "The Howling Man." You may remember it, it featured a stranded gentleman coming upon a castle-fortress deep in the woods very late at night, and its caretakers let him stay after initially being firmly reticent to do so. While there he hears a baneful howling noise coming from somewhere, and after locating the source of the wailing he finds a locked cell occupied by a hapless man pleading to be let out.</p><p>After being strictly warned not to do so, the gentleman opens the cell, and sure enough out emerges the Devil himself, who escapes to wreak havoc on the world. The foolish gentleman then regales us with all the horrors he's inadvertently unleashed upon everyone: <i>This </i>war and <i>that </i>war and <i>this</i> evil and <i>that </i>evil and so forth...</p><p>Why did I think this? It is because the Devil is <i>always</i> loosed and <i>always</i> uses the most sophisticated eloquence and bracing charm to get people to do the most heinous things. Doesn't matter who, the powerful and the meek, the rich and the modest -- <i>if not in the secure embrace of The Truly Strong Shepherd all are delicious supper for those who do his bidding.</i></p><p>This perpetual dynamic has always been in play, described quite clearly in the first chapters of the book of Genesis. Take a look-see at the fourth chapter in particular. It contains the story of first sacrifice of another human in the name of working hard to prove you can be one's keeper without God. God then sends this sacrificer out away from His presence to continue exerting his lethally seven-fold strength -- even encouraging him to build a city to make the prosecution go a bit smoother.</p><p>If you are an evildoer also far away from the Shepherd's Kingdom and with an incurable itch to rebel against the sacrificer's present-day legacy, then what are you complaining about? You do what you do, and Caesar does what he does. What of it. Has to be that way. Has <i>always</i> been that way.</p><p><i>The war has never ended. It never will.</i></p><p>Just reviewing much of my favorite book in Scripture, Jeremiah, I am blown away by how much God tells His people. "Look, the real war <i>is in your own hearts and among your interactions with those near you</i>. It isn't with Babylon. Babylon is merely manifest justice. It too is wickedly evil, <i>but so are you</i>. </p><p>"Here's the crazy thing. <i>I still love you, a lot.</i> You are my very beloved, so, judgment must come in this form, <i>but I will still care for you. </i>And yeah, I'm bringing the worst judgment against Babylon, later, but that isn't your concern. You should just be following my will and instructions here, shared with you by my prophet: go set yourselves up for 70 years and let things happen as they must, and then everything will be restored in due time."</p><p>All it took was for them to listen, obey, <i>and observe</i>. One of the main parts of that observation was for them to gaze upon the horrors of their wretchedly sinful and idolatrous behavior, see it all for what it is, <i>and repent.</i></p><p>Thing is, is this happening today?</p><p>The Roman Catholic <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXVII.htm#Ecclesiocracy" target="_blank">Ecclesiocracy</a> is indeed the modern-day version of Cain's Legacy. It <i>must</i> be around doing its thing no matter how much "A.I." surveillance-oriented authoritarianism is employed. It is exactly like Babylon's army taking over Israel and Judah kicking everyone out for a time. And today, sadly, there are <i>still</i> people who refuse to pay attention and soberly consider the benighted state in which they live.</p><p>All that <i>sodomism, racialism, socialism</i> stuff that is so devastating the country today? All invented, installed, and sustained by Rome's top notch operatives for the expressed purpose of destabilizing things and engendering more allegiance to Rome. The message poured through the airwaves: "It's <i>good</i> to be unconventional with your sexuality, no matter how much promiscuity and bodily mutilation is involved, <i>go ahead YOU BE YOU!</i> You're no racist, <i>you're good! </i>Show it by using more racism to fight racism, <i>it's okay! </i>And hey, <i>Jesus cared about the poor more than anybody!</i> So see about forcing richer people to hand over more to the poorer ones -- <i>that's very good!"</i></p><p>The consequences of these sentiments is just more death. <i>More human sacrifice for the good of the officially institutionalized racket. </i>And I can't help but add that people's self-destructive behavior often ending in suicide is just another way this happens. These guys are good, they've used the most proficient Sun-Tzuan tactics to do the least amount of work they have to.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKKDh8ekTv8VwrncNsIE1VWhfL0agfXYpEz89W341E1mdQ4WD9csvYV1SxhHoAMg1KMPjyiWe5xzyKdzoDv9T5bAUX8DT3bdm2YcH8z2MgcdyCht_JEA5JiACQDTZmiWy7nogPOoLAliFYXvnCiClCI43pH8kjfycOq7qs01M3fzlQyYpvS5W/s478/Chick%20tract%20Mad%20Machine%20Even%20if%20it%20means%20going%20to%20war%20to%20get%20peace.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="478" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKKDh8ekTv8VwrncNsIE1VWhfL0agfXYpEz89W341E1mdQ4WD9csvYV1SxhHoAMg1KMPjyiWe5xzyKdzoDv9T5bAUX8DT3bdm2YcH8z2MgcdyCht_JEA5JiACQDTZmiWy7nogPOoLAliFYXvnCiClCI43pH8kjfycOq7qs01M3fzlQyYpvS5W/s320/Chick%20tract%20Mad%20Machine%20Even%20if%20it%20means%20going%20to%20war%20to%20get%20peace.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Some will bleat that stuff is nothing compared to the greater concerns oversees, you know, with major US and UK strikes against the Houthis for <i>their </i>attacks against commercial vessels and just irritating the West overall. And then there is the Russia-Ukraine-NATO thing and the Israel-Hamas-Iran thing and the <i>this-</i>complicated-foreign-conflagration thing and the <i>that</i>-foreign-conflagration thing and <i>the-one</i>-<i>really-</i>complicated foreign-conflagration thing about which no one truly knows what's <i>actually </i>happening but <i>someone</i> must share it -- all of it resulting in more threats against US security so then we simply <i>must</i> do more to kick ass around the globe!<p></p><p>Meanwhile I can't help but see blap after blap after blap about the police state forming within the US what with all the advanced technology and that JUST CAN'T BE! THEY'RE ASSAULTING THEIR OWN CITIZENS! THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL! THIS IS TYRANNY! THIS IS BAD BAD EE-YEW VERY BAD!!!... and on and on and on <i>ad nauseum ad nauseum ad nauseum.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCKnpZMNytaYtjS41eZFsodTBw8cbpSX6u540mWbTkpXTFyxPlo43tPZSki5ophTS1qBtFvTTuhyphenhyphenMIpHT5dGJT9weZo6y_2hVOWejtShWVBZLpSrCtfzdjJhOFJjhuO9idC1aanExi7qzQ3MvLimhW7ys_lERbO5PR48TLAA-eWxaDcBstQ3k/s598/Jesuits%20run%20the%20World%20not%20the%20Jews%20Steve%20Falconer%20Jerm%20Warfare%20Feb%202024.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="598" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCKnpZMNytaYtjS41eZFsodTBw8cbpSX6u540mWbTkpXTFyxPlo43tPZSki5ophTS1qBtFvTTuhyphenhyphenMIpHT5dGJT9weZo6y_2hVOWejtShWVBZLpSrCtfzdjJhOFJjhuO9idC1aanExi7qzQ3MvLimhW7ys_lERbO5PR48TLAA-eWxaDcBstQ3k/w320-h263/Jesuits%20run%20the%20World%20not%20the%20Jews%20Steve%20Falconer%20Jerm%20Warfare%20Feb%202024.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I will add that I do actually see a few things that do make some meaningful note about how much all of this is indeed generated by the Ecclesiocracy. One of note is <a href="https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/steve-falconer-jesuits-control-everything" target="_blank">this recent one from Jerm Warfare</a>, about how much it is actually the Jesuits who run everything. Finally, kudos to Mr. Jeremy over there at his fine webzine!<p></p><p>Thing is, <i>now what</i>? Now what, Jerm Warfare and your extraordinarily insightful guests? Register more voters? Spew more revolutionary fervor? Blither more fiercely about the latest resistance movement? Form more subsidized ingratiating interest groups? Get more ammo? Put another cabinet in the bunker for more even more ammo and more stuffed away stuff?</p><p>Or how about mentioning <i>The Kingdom?</i></p><p>I've included with this piece yet another of those amazing images the people at <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/" target="_blank">ZeroHedge</a> are putting up in their stories. Again I can't find attribution but this one was with a story by Michael Snyder on February 3rd. But it too says so much. One of the more striking elements are the birds there that could be eagles soaring about -- the eagle is a symbol of both Rome and the US, I can't believe the artist did not grasp this. Or they could also be the vultures ready to feast on the carcasses of all those futilely waging the final battle as described in The Revelation.</p><p>As long as people are in a state of worship of those in the polity symbolized by that <i>All-Seeing Eye</i>, they will live out Hell on earth. They may believe they are the most splandiferously splendid people on the planet -- with Roman Catholic operatives all about doing their duty to use religion as a weapon to convince people they are just too good for judgment, huh, kind of like those people Jeremiah spoke to 2,500 years ago -- as much as these people are doing <i>anything</i> with those gods, the Catholicist nation will flourish, and, as the title of the movie says, <i>there will be blood.</i></p><p>Frightening the image portrayal of the mesmerized masses captivated by the wonders of Cain's Glorious Legacy. That's fine, they can do that. <i>Hundreds of millions around the globe do that --</i> they must if they do not have Christ. Unless they ditch the whole thing, however, and turn completely around to the Kingdom...</p><p><i>There will be war</i>.</p><p>And they will be waging it.</p><p>They already are in the depths of their hearts and minds and the very souls God would love to reclaim.</p><p><i>But you must enter The Kingdom by His way</i>.</p><p>Ask Him. It'll be worth it much more than you think.</p><p>__</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">The Lord foils the plans of the nations;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"> He
thwarts the purposes of the peoples.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">But the plans of the Lord stand firm
forever,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
the purposes of His heart through all generations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
the people He chose for His inheritance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">From Heaven the Lord looks down<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
and sees all mankind;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">from his dwelling place He watches<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
all who live on earth—<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">He who forms the hearts of all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"> who considers everything they do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">No king is saved by the size of his army;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
no warrior escapes by his great strength.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
despite all its great strength it cannot save.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">But the eyes of the Lord are on those who
fear Him,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
on those whose hope is in His unfailing love,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">to deliver them from death<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">
and keep them alive in famine.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">We wait in hope for the Lord;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"> He
is our help and our shield.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">In Him our hearts rejoice,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"> for we trust in His holy name.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">May Your unfailing love be with us, Lord,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"> even as we put our hope in You.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;">(From the 33rd Psalm)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.0pt; margin: 2pt 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Again the posted image is unattributed but I would like to. Thanks again to the artist who made it. And no, it wasn't generated by any "A.I." If some super-fast processing program did it, the substance still had to have been input by a human being. The other image of the "peacemakers" was from an evangelical tract put out by Chick entitled "The Mad Machine." I will also add that I have not listened to the Jerm Warfare interview, but will soon. Again it would be nice if they did mention The Kingdom, but I don't have my hopes up.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-72467723068412814882024-01-25T19:53:00.000-08:002024-01-26T08:18:24.327-08:00The New Very Hot Civil War<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqGXUrBgDsFkiB9EHsfP3qnNbfASdqHcQDYAHVJDEtS2kQ68eiJshqOqmsiKHZUY46-aGPAeoBSv6-aevL7jWZIi1VJ8PLHHhIuWLjNLRS9j35K9UUKVVo_WgmixFqUZ3N4_KDpXaOfvusdGtJ46TCsfIqvoh7wDcexxLoH30Hujm4Whxq_7h/s726/V%20for%20Vendetta%20Jan%202024.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="726" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqGXUrBgDsFkiB9EHsfP3qnNbfASdqHcQDYAHVJDEtS2kQ68eiJshqOqmsiKHZUY46-aGPAeoBSv6-aevL7jWZIi1VJ8PLHHhIuWLjNLRS9j35K9UUKVVo_WgmixFqUZ3N4_KDpXaOfvusdGtJ46TCsfIqvoh7wDcexxLoH30Hujm4Whxq_7h/w400-h260/V%20for%20Vendetta%20Jan%202024.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Passions are getting very heated right now in the present civil war between the North and the South. Literally. About a week ago the Texas governor decided to erect his own "wall" to impede the flow of migrants pouring in at the southern border. The "wall" was pretty much razor wire and a prominent National Guard presence.<p></p><p>A few days ago the US Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, decided to remand the case, if I'm not mistaken, which essentially leaves it open for the federal government to prevent the governor from doing what he did.</p><p>The governor responded by doing it anyway. Now the president of the US has given the governor an ultimatum to remove the "wall," and intimating he may indeed federalize that state's law enforcement personnel at the border ordering them to stand down. Will the governor call his bluff, and will the president follow through on his threat which means, <i>which means what?...</i></p><p>It is getting hot and heavy with the civil war raging right now. It has already been raging as a more violent culture war for years, but with this an election year and an electrifyingly polarizing Donald Trump poised to get the party's nomination, the violence has escalated and will continue to do so.</p><p>The pressure on this idea of <i>federalism</i> has certainly been intense with this border issue exploding as much as it has. <i>Federalism</i> is the idea that states may do their thing and the federal government does its thing as much as the US Constitution directs those things. For years now, however, the federal government has been able to pretty much prevail over <i>anything</i> states want to do simply because of the <i>money</i>. All it has to do is wave the money in the face of any state and the state will do its bidding.</p><p>Will the Texas governor stand his ground and continue to impede the migrant flow at his part of the border? What will the feds do tomorrow? Already 25 states have issued statements in support of the Texas governor, so if the feds intervene -- militarily?... once again, <i>then what?</i></p><p>I just thought I'd note that the very idea of <i>federalism</i> was an invention of the Roman Catholic Church. A German bishop concocted the idea in the mid-1700s, and the further propagation of the idea of Gallicanism to counter the Ultramontanism movement around that time provided the pretext for the splitting up of polities so local potentates could have a bit more of a say than Rome does about its own political affairs. This ended up being a blueprint for all kinds of federal arrangements now prevalent in most industrialized nations.</p><p>Thing is, Rome still controlled everything. How sweet that so many monarchs and people like that could feel they were all that, how sweet. Gallicanism only gave the provincial powers so much. You could never do anything, however, that went against <i>anything</i> Rome wanted you to do. It was managed quite deftly by Rome's crack team of System operatives, the Jesuits, and with their very opaque power and influence the essentials of Gallicanism were implemented as needed.</p><p>With the massive proliferation of <i>fiscal federalism </i>in the United States, Rome still rules all things religious <i>and</i> secular. The reality that the feds are mostly Roman Catholic in their openly and willingly professed sentiments, and that they can, again, buy off the states any time they want means Rome does reign supreme in all things government. President Joe Biden is Roman Catholic. The two key justices at the center of the controversial Texas immigration enforcement decision, Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts, are also avowed Roman Catholics (as are five others among the nine justices).</p><p>To get an idea of just how much the Roman Catholic dynamic is woven into US governance, please read the book <i>Rulers of Evil</i>. <a href="http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/ROEpdf.pdf" target="_blank">Here, I can share it with you, it is on PDF.</a> You can't miss how much the United States is merely the present-day version of the Roman Empire, carried through today in the Roman Catholic <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXVII.htm#Ecclesiocracy" target="_blank">Ecclesiocracy</a> that administers <i>everything</i>. Sadly this includes the presently elaborate prosecution of the now viciously erupting real, live, hot, people-being-murdered civil war that will only get worse as the year progresses.</p><p>Doesn't matter if the people of one ideological obsession are shooting bullets at people of the other ideological obsession, although that is certainly happening with mass shootings and brazenly criminal acts and rebellious fervor manifest in any number of ways. The emotional and spiritual violence spewed by both sides is getting uglier and uglier, and often just plain results in the physical kind. Where it goes, huh, we'll see.</p><p>This is why it is imperative you, my good reader, truly consider asking Jesus to let you into the Kingdom. He will, He really will if you are good with entering through the gate He opens for you. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+10&version=NIV" target="_blank">Here, check this out,</a> this link, click it, it'll help you understand this concept more. I urge you to read it, and ask the Lord God Almighty to be your Shepherd.</p><p>Otherwise, what you may be doing is listening to another shepherd, kind of like the ones described in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah+23&version=NIV" target="_blank">the 23rd chapter of Jeremiah</a>. I was reading it just this morning, and wow, extraordinarily sobering. Thing is, the first part of this passage <i>is</i> about The Shepherd. The rest is about the posers. But hey, be careful. So many people out there trying to get your attention are <i>such</i> posers. But as it says in that 10th chapter of John, they are thieves and robbers, and right now they are trying to take your soul.</p><p><i>Only He has the strength and authority to keep that from happening.</i></p><p>Let Him know it.</p><p>May God protect and provide for you in the coming evil days.</p><p><i>They're going to be very evil.</i></p><p>__</p><p><span style="color: #20124d;"><a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">The most recent home page piece in my webzine</a> gets a bit more into the Jesuit involvement in the establishment of the Ecclesiocracy, in case you'd like to find out a bit more about it. <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesIII.htm#identification" target="_blank">I also wrote a bit</a> about the whole "V for Vendetta" concept, just the idea that if the good wholesome common folk rallied behind a superhuman revolutionary like the Guy Fawkes-masked character we could blow up the legislature and the government and all that and everyone would live happily ever after. How sweet.</span></p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image of the Guy Fawkes-masked character from <i>V for Vendetta</i> is a stock movie photo widely posted on the web.</span></p><p>__</p><p><br /></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-32700292108305556292024-01-15T13:34:00.000-08:002024-01-15T21:30:10.004-08:00The Racket Humming Along Very Nicely Right Now<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6v7jXnAGTkssJeUDuE0oUcXwvQOeLzphbPaC8b3Jl2yjdjEEaE-ed9vRFtX_gKwzf6u5ocUap5WreNDphaW116ATndVIMDcw9eMq9JCsVqroapIIaE6B7icwVYQjD-kAbNpwJxpGk-W9PlnjwThXrlxV_ecU39I_79YqFqjI8R3r-KE0EIWHo/s1280/Money%20machine%20glory%20from%20ZeroHedge%20piece%20January%2015%202024%20file-dCLZL1dKbZuQO19UhcpDePgx.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="1280" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6v7jXnAGTkssJeUDuE0oUcXwvQOeLzphbPaC8b3Jl2yjdjEEaE-ed9vRFtX_gKwzf6u5ocUap5WreNDphaW116ATndVIMDcw9eMq9JCsVqroapIIaE6B7icwVYQjD-kAbNpwJxpGk-W9PlnjwThXrlxV_ecU39I_79YqFqjI8R3r-KE0EIWHo/w640-h366/Money%20machine%20glory%20from%20ZeroHedge%20piece%20January%2015%202024%20file-dCLZL1dKbZuQO19UhcpDePgx.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I absolutely had to put up a post simply with the image I saw at the <i>ZeroHedge</i> piece about yet another guy blapping about how rotten all the dollar exploitation is nowadays (a very veritable truism certainly) and how much we all need to move our asses and get into gold or crypto (just as veritable a truism that this is just as rotten).<p></p><p>It doesn't matter what it is, the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy Racket will still be exactly like the image depicts. (Forgive me for not knowing who to afford attribution, but <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/massive-money-printing-will-accelerate-debt-soars" target="_blank">here is the page</a> with that story and the image there about halfway down.) As I looked at this thing in all its splendid glory, I could only think of the rule established in all Roman Catholic dominated towns in Europe through the last few centuries, as really pretty much all of them were even at the height of the Protestant Reformation. The rule stated that no building could be erected that was higher or as high as the main Roman Catholic church building or cathedral.</p><p>Really, <i>here you see the modern-day cathedral</i>.</p><p>It is the money-printing machine with the supremely ordained mandarins keeping the power knob turned up to 11. <i>This is Rome</i>. It behaves exactly the way a racket behaves, spending as much money as it can to engender the support it needs to thrive. I caught this proverb just this morning, it relates nicely:</p><p>"A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it, they think success will come at every turn." (17:8)</p><p>I love how the artist has depicted there in the heavens all the massive databases and processing units that will generate all the spectacularly beneficent "A.I." so there will be no issue with the merits of the Sikorsky-helicopter-dropped dollars, I mean, <i>"A.I."</i> Come on, that's the best! The number of television advertisements I've seen so far (and I really don't watch that much television) that have "A.I." appearing somewhere -- "Our product is <i>this and that and this</i> with the help of <i>AI! </i>That means <i>it's gotta be waaay better than ever!"</i> </p><p>I also thought I'd add a link to <a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/yes-we-are-still-going-to-win/" target="_blank">this piece by Peachy Keenan</a>. While she's still too hypnotized by the tried-and-true Catholicist machinations to truly get what Rome is really about, she does a bang-up job of pointing out how horrifically lethal the racket is. I will give her credit though! She does amazingly mention a critical arm of the racket, Catholic Charities, which are doing great work to augment the border invasion of half the destitute world desperate to leave their tyrannical hellholes.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKuLDJBUyfFwhFhZkr6dX96D-rDmWcs1h81p3gc_v6r250fDttkPM_mzJFhh28THT3-LZu6M-PfRF1EBo5mEnzl0eky75MJxrAZ3aE5ZRva_Tj7s7FaLfv9PANjuGJs4UzysJjGmzrOuhXu8xMUk5Jq2AvJ668wWtfU-pGjfLQijj6BDOpLko/s409/Ni%20Rojos%20Ni%20Azules%20Franco%20rally%20Spanish%20Civil%20War.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="409" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKuLDJBUyfFwhFhZkr6dX96D-rDmWcs1h81p3gc_v6r250fDttkPM_mzJFhh28THT3-LZu6M-PfRF1EBo5mEnzl0eky75MJxrAZ3aE5ZRva_Tj7s7FaLfv9PANjuGJs4UzysJjGmzrOuhXu8xMUk5Jq2AvJ668wWtfU-pGjfLQijj6BDOpLko/w400-h258/Ni%20Rojos%20Ni%20Azules%20Franco%20rally%20Spanish%20Civil%20War.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Her remarks about leftists working very hard to win the latest round of Darwin Awards makes for great entertainment, but I don't exactly think her side will win as she so confidently asserts. Excuse me, but <i>Rome wins</i>. It will every time. Its expert World Ops <i>make </i>these things happen to do the human sacrificing it must. You'll still see people dying all over the place even if Mrs. Keenan gets the Pyrrhic victory she anticipates. Doesn't matter if they are leftists or rightists or the Reds or the Blues or anyone favored or disfavored -- as long as the herd is culled, the Jesuits have done their job well.<p></p><p>So go ahead, as the country and its toadying world all steam headlong into the much more destructive civil war, go ahead, keep doing stuff through the System. <i>You're just being played</i>. It isn't going anywhere. Mrs. Keenan's exposition just contains all the latest absurdities. It'll get worse, you'll think you'll win but you'll lose. It is all designed that way, <i>as it should be.</i> </p><p><i>Look at the artistic rendering there.</i> You can't miss it. <i>That's not changing</i>. And as long as it isn't changing, you could be into gold, schmold, crypto, schmypto, voting and campaigning and screeching as loud as you can for <i>your guy</i> (or gal) the spiffiest looking dude (or dudette) at the 723rd Iowa town hall blapfest joining the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands who braved the cold and snow to <i>show up</i> how brave! ... <i>it isn't going anywhere.</i></p><p>Funny, Mrs. Keenan <i>even kind of intimates that</i>. </p><p>But what is the answer? She ends with pretty-much the same tailing-off blather about bucking up and sucking it up and toughing it out and and <i>and...</i></p><p><i>Nothing.</i></p><p>There is, however, </p><p><i>The Kingdom</i>.</p><p>And yes, I am still looking for someone who will mention His Name.</p><p>After the big playoff football game the other day, winning Texans quarterback CJ Stroud was asked the standard initial question about football yet he said it. He did. Several other players have done this too, but he said His Name.</p><p>"I do want to give all the glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." First thing he said. He did, of course, then go on to talk about the game and how this football thing was done and how that football play happened. That's fine. </p><p>Here's the thing.</p><p><i>When are we ever going to see a Peachy Keenan end a piece with that? </i>Say His Name <i>anywhere</i> in their exposition?</p><p><i>When</i> are we ever going to see, read, hear, <i>enjoy</i> watching, reading, listening to <i>someone</i> of this stature write articulately about all this and emphasize something as unequivocal as this:</p><p>"The Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy manipulates <i>all </i>of this.<i> </i>It is <i>supposed </i>to exploit the sinfulness of human beings in the service of Cain's Legacy of human sacrifice to administer its authoritative role in the ministry of condemnation. Messing with the value of the standard monetary unit destroying your purchasing power and the value of your savings is indeed just <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/humansacrifice.htm" target="_blank">another form of this</a>. If you want genuine freedom, it can't be from the World System's pathetic offerings. It only comes through repentance of one's own role in all of this, from one's own evildoing, and from one's own foolishness believing all the pukifyingly sweet but patently asinine things it loudly bleats, <i>and going to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom the only place where Truth and Grace reside</i>.</p><p>"The Roman Catholic Jesus <i>isn't Him</i>. In fact their operatives have invented <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/jesuses.htm" target="_blank">hundreds of different concoctions</a> that look like Him but aren't. If you read His story in the Bible you can see that. But please don't mistake Rome as being useless -- <i>it is a legitimate instrument of judgment in God's hands</i>. On the Last Day it will be summarily discarded, but for now it serves its purposes -- some of which is to generate all the ugliness you see [as described by Mrs. Keenan <a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/yes-we-are-still-going-to-win/" target="_blank">in her piece</a>] to get people to gaze upon the abject wretchedness of their condition <i>and turn to Christ and Kingdom in reality</i>, not in the fluffy performance art stuff of Rome and all its political, financial, and commercial subdivisions.</p><p>"Having a reckoning with ourselves, understanding what the World is truly about and what it regularly does, and promptly stepping onto the narrow path toward<i> The Gate</i>, the <i>Only One</i> available for entering true freedom and joy and beauty for eternity-- <i>that's</i> the answer, <i>that's</i> what we should be putting deep into our minds and hearts and souls, and then <i>into our feet</i> so we get moving. And then, wow, then <i>from there</i> can you truly fully richly rapturously love others with His love."</p><p>I'm still looking around. Still hoping to read it somewhere. To see it or hear it somewhere, bold and courageous and with some measure of reach. And in the apocalyptic revival that follows enjoy the new-found freedom ravenously enjoyed by people who are seeing and hearing and getting all that.</p><p>Oh glorious day!</p><p>___</p><p><span style="color: #20124d;">Just a plug here for</span> <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">my webzine work</a><span style="color: #20124d;">, and my latest home page piece which gets into a very small snapshot of the entrenched Jesuit dominion reigning over everything the past couple of centuries. For those who think the evangelical church is working on that revival, I am a bit cynical, yes. This is because I don't think it is happening as it would if we were fully sold-out to Christ, and that means <i><a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/decatholicized.htm" target="_blank">being ungrafted</a></i> to the World System. <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/501c3.htm" target="_blank">Here is a page</a> with one of the most significant ways many churches are contractually obligated to the World.</span></p><p>___</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Again, the posted image is from <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/massive-money-printing-will-accelerate-debt-soars" target="_blank">this Zerohedge page</a>, and thank you to whoever did it for letting me post it here. The other image was clipped from a film about Francisco Franco during what I'm pretty sure was the Spanish Civil War, in which the Roman Catholic Church was unabashedly supporting Franco's fight against Spain's leftist insurgents. The banner says "Neither Reds Nor Blues [I only see] Spanish!." An estimated half million lost their lives, half of those to systematic killings and mob violence.</span></p><p>___</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-11693847768330901902024-01-06T13:34:00.000-08:002024-01-06T17:48:55.484-08:00What It Is, 2024 Edition<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHEfjYnY_LTgeV2kCIriQnTCxaqGcmcu9DLJAMFqBCGRKTxau5_CTa6F1wXtT2V4pilOovk1NNuck2JpET-wAySpNsDYvjYkciUNzOhNBOwZxxunOb5qh94VvbqHauWQkNAUs4sU0wtdlTibLaPMujCXxxc4mGLHeiZx8PAHbZBctkI9PcCF_/s748/Non%20-PC%20characters%20hypnotized%20pic%20from%20The%20American%20Mind%20Dec%202019.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="748" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHEfjYnY_LTgeV2kCIriQnTCxaqGcmcu9DLJAMFqBCGRKTxau5_CTa6F1wXtT2V4pilOovk1NNuck2JpET-wAySpNsDYvjYkciUNzOhNBOwZxxunOb5qh94VvbqHauWQkNAUs4sU0wtdlTibLaPMujCXxxc4mGLHeiZx8PAHbZBctkI9PcCF_/w400-h183/Non%20-PC%20characters%20hypnotized%20pic%20from%20The%20American%20Mind%20Dec%202019.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>With the year 2024 looking like it will be something of an explosive one, I thought I'd just direct you to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/05/the-perfidious-unreality-of-the-new-normal/" target="_blank">a piece from <i>Off-Guardian</i></a> yesterday, a fine exposition by its editor Kit Knightly. It does a pretty decent job of sharing precisely why so many people, especially people in some positions of power, do incredibly stupid things.<p></p><p>In simple terms it is because they are so beholden to the Big Lie to which all World inhabitants and all System mandarins must give their utmost fealty. Knightly's piece had me considering it a sort-of present-day rendition of Tupper Saussy's epilogue in his book <i>Tennessee Waltz </i>called <a href="http://ereadered.blogspot.com/p/thepolitics-of-witchcraft-postscriptto.html" target="_blank">"The Politics of Witchcraft."</a> In that very real sense anyone who is in a position of authority in Cain's Legacy are bound by what he called the "lie contract."</p><p>Thing is Knightly does not do the one thing I don't think he can do without fearing some kind of repercussion -- hey, no worries, I always fear some sorts of repercussions for what I write in <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">my ministry work</a>. I've already suffered some measure of that being dismissed from a number of different education-oriented jobs, and I have never even truly shared with any striking detail the <i><a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-it-is.html" target="_blank">what it is</a></i> in the classroom. I have shared some of the critical substance of things my students should know, but as I think about it now I probably should have shared more. I had nothing to lose, didn't I.</p><p>But then, because I don't have the <i>power of reach</i> that other punditary individuals have, I don't really believe any of those mandarins consider what I share anything of a threat to their positions. This is besides the fact that what I share has nothing to do with any kind of resistance movement at all -- <i>it is just for understanding. </i>The agents of Cain are in their offices for a specifically defined, and, yes, divinely appointed reason, and my Lord prohibits me from interfering with their legitimate work.</p><p>But again, what <i>is </i>the <i>what it is?</i></p><p>Well, in this post I thought I would just direct you to <i>those</i> posts, <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/01/" target="_blank">my blog series from just last January,</a> titled, ahem, "What It Is." I'd been reviewing it and, wow, sure enough, it would be pretty much the very same thing I would have written here. Yes, I do feel sometimes I get a bit redundant about things, because those posts really just emphasize things I wrote in some previous posts, and those repeat what I wrote in some other posts... and so on and so on and so on.</p><p>It'd be nice if people really started to get it, irrespective of anything I myself write or say.</p><p>It doesn't mean I don't try to <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">write something new</a> about the latest imaginative ways the System mandarins try to pass off some other stupid thing they must do to keep stupid people in the fold.</p><p>In fact I've been re-reading the book of Jeremiah, again, and again I do so because I see so much of what he tried to say in what my vision is for sharing what I share. Anyway, this thing with calling people "stupid"? Well, it is biblical. Jeremiah does it a number of times in his book. And he is sharing <i>God's</i> words. He's just sharing what is real out there, and really, we should just look at reality as reality is. God pulls no punches in sharing reality. Yeah, it is often brutal, but, there you go.</p><p>Sorry, but the reality is if people are not following the wisdom so profusely expressed in the book of Proverbs, they are indeed being stupid. <i>Murderously </i>stupid. Those proverbs even mention this distinction many times!</p><p>And that is precisely the thing so many of these kinds of <i>Off-Guardian </i>things will not add, because, well, they've been so indoctrinated with Epicurean thinking. It is <i>safe</i> to be an Epicurean, it is <i>safe</i> to settle into waddling about in some secular materialist folderol, it is safe to be "tolerant" and "polite" and "inoffensive" -- you never have to be ridiculed for actually believing in any of that "God" stuff...</p><p><i>Don't mention Jesus Christ as the absolute only way to break the chains of one's own stupidity and Cain's ruthless administrative grip it has on you. Don't say anything like that or the System mandarins will definitely make you look stupid, really, very painfully in fact...</i></p><p>Anyway, check out <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/05/the-perfidious-unreality-of-the-new-normal/" target="_blank">the Knightly piece</a>. just get a nice description of the vicious stupidity that has energized the Big Lie. Check out <a href="http://ereadered.blogspot.com/p/thepolitics-of-witchcraft-postscriptto.html" target="_blank">Tupper's epilogue</a>, and also his <a href="http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/ROEpdf.pdf" target="_blank"><i>magnum opus</i>, here on PDF</a>, to get an idea of how proficiently the Big Lie was propelled though history. Tour through <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-it-is.html" target="_blank">that blog series I put up</a>, still a fine pretext for understanding the present civil war that will likely become much more lethally virulent this year. </p><p>And above all, <i><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1&version=NIV" target="_blank">read this</a></i>. Find true deliverance in The Deliverer. Be in His secure embrace no matter what sublimely elevated stupidity makes the world a madhouse all around you.</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image of the NPC audience being indoctrinated with the spiffiest virtual tech was clipped from a piece in <i>The American Mind </i>from December 2019. I know I'd used this image for my post <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2020/08/trotskys-pathodicy.html" target="_blank">"Trotsky's Pathodicy"</a> from a few years ago, but it is just such a fine image of a very impressionable Catholicist populace schlurping up the very trendiest System instruction.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-54620980191695641642023-12-29T11:27:00.000-08:002023-12-30T09:43:36.084-08:00Suffering the Stupid Person, Part II<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidg4gzCO7HhJGfQmLypqQx6u3LClf9NG_gVaoF6KiXxlLYRYXPT9NUNWEPZxtGkLS1X4nT_5qK__WXoecSbpTNw7IqAcEc3u6hyJeyUOqlcOdB6QXWe0GARxTyVM6pf3VW3idrWRj2koVrILGwbP4PTbiHZ3ppR-MW_0t4wA48Ze18a7YL7Bqt/s804/Die%20Hard%20Hans%20and%20Holly.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="804" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidg4gzCO7HhJGfQmLypqQx6u3LClf9NG_gVaoF6KiXxlLYRYXPT9NUNWEPZxtGkLS1X4nT_5qK__WXoecSbpTNw7IqAcEc3u6hyJeyUOqlcOdB6QXWe0GARxTyVM6pf3VW3idrWRj2koVrILGwbP4PTbiHZ3ppR-MW_0t4wA48Ze18a7YL7Bqt/w400-h220/Die%20Hard%20Hans%20and%20Holly.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I really thought I should add some more thoughts to <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/12/suffering-stupid-person.html" target="_blank">a post I put up a couple days ago</a> that could easily be called "The <i>Die Hard</i> Factor." I'd mentioned the movie <i>Die Hard </i>was so compelling because the filmmaker did a fine job of showcasing some phenomenally stupid people, and I believe a big part of that was their skill in portraying them in all their self-absorbed exhibitionist glory.<p></p><p><i>"Look at how danged smart I am while I go full bore into something mindbogglingly stupid that will likely end in my demise!..."</i></p><p>Ouch. Makes me think of the Darwin Awards, you know, those stories about people doing exceptionally stupid things that only end in something very, very painful for them. Hate to say it, but this makes me think too of that quote, you may have seen it before too:</p><p><i>Death and stupid people who don't know they're stupid are the same. It is only painful for everyone else.</i></p><p>That's really the essence of this "Part II" post. Other people's chronic stupidity, especially among the rich and powerful, is extraordinarily painful for everyone else. Even in the <i>Die Hard</i> films everyone else but John McClane and a few other cohorts are insanely stupid, and sadly they do take any number of other people down with them.</p><p>As I've shared before it is actually hard to blog about the stupid things all around that happen right now. It just never stops. I've realized there is so much stupidity and it is metastasizing at exponential rates and, when you think about it, <i>it has been going strong for quite some time... </i>I mean you'd think after some 6,000 years or so since humankind really started using their noggins with <i>some</i> reasonable success that they'd get it, but I guess not...</p><p>Anyway, I've realized that with all that it is really impossible to get rid of the stupidity, it just is. This is a depressing notion, but really, it is a key component of the <i>Catholicist Nation</i> premise, that the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy through its deep-state operatives mostly embodied in the Jesuit Order must do its job of provoking the stupidity among the populace -- virtually institutionalizing it, so it may do its job of legitimizing its rule as an authorized ministry of condemnation.</p><p>Please don't get me wrong, there is hope. God does make a footstool of that for anyone who wants to turn to the Kingdom and find liberating deliverance from there. More in a moment, but first just a taste of the stupidity.</p><p>I saw <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/theyre-openly-telling-us-theyre-going-brainwash-next-generation-americans" target="_blank">this article</a> in my <i>ZeroHedge</i> look yesterday, a report from a journalist who went over to the big climate change shindig, something called the "COP28 Conference," and you can easily glean from that report a couple of tremendously stupid things that happened there.</p><p>The first is that the United States is being ridiculed by other countries who are watching it self-immolate with the ludicrous leftist policies that are the wildly sprouting seeds of the nation's own destruction. The sodomy stuff otherwise known as LGBTQ, the climate change hysteria, the massive numbers of migrants putting enormous pressure on the social infrastructure, the horrifically deceitful public health demands, the wrecking ball that is being wielded against the dollar and the entire US economy because of the brazenly ravaging socialist policies.</p><p>Oh, and the stultifying lie that THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS <i>ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE</i> WILL FIX ANY PROBLEMS AND SAVE US ALLLL!!!</p><p>You can read the article, get the idea, but the other thing of note is this idea that our young people are being brainwashed into pushing all this, and that the conference big-shots are boasting about it. That's true for sure, but the reality is</p><p><i>Our young people have been being brainwashed with all this for decades</i>.</p><p>In fact, a point I've made before, young adults' <i>parents</i> have <i>already</i> been brainwashed with all of this, so their children are just getting the very best indoctrination at home.</p><p>I know, because as I've also already shared, I was cancelled in the classroom because of my principled and somewhat outspoken pushback against it all. Sorry, but I could not teach a group of students with richly impressionable minds and hearts without teaching them truthful things no matter how sobering, I couldn't do it. This means, yes, there were times when I shared things like, "I'm with you, let's work to stop pollution, I'm all in, but trying to change the climate with policies like 'Net Zero' and insisting every energy source is green, forgive me, with all due respect, <i>these things are just stupid.</i>"</p><p>Of course, teaching to classes <i>filled</i> with young people <i>already</i> browbeat with the idea that human breathing contributes to excessive CO2 levels is going to get you assaulted. Not physically assaulted, of course, but really? What is going to happen as this stupidity just gets worse?</p><p>It's already happening! It is already physical assault in the sense that well-organized climate alarmists, most likely paid by those well-funded 501c3 non-profits, are blocking reasonable vehicle movement on highways -- movement that could mean life or death for emergency personnel to get where they need to go. This is just one example. And this is just one related to the climate change hysteria -- hundreds of millions more will die if they are actually successful at eliminating fossil fuels. </p><p>We're not even talking about all the other violence in store for 2024 from all the other stupidity. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQk-SGrfotSpUY_AlchzQA1EkrsqNw_KVbmVot8KCngPGE64GjN6HAxV2jiwULIHXpV-f-gKb0WneRYWdjTIsm1fezSxYrzR2mAPuCn1GbQvWaKHmowCxm7B-3piw2cbTkYEsndhI_NaIn4ucM0QUt_8y-HNo-ue-PsuLkhfgUACf5qDJEr9LP/s598/ZeroHedge%20screenshot%20of%20climate%20change%20stupidity%20piece%20right%20next%20to%20if%20you%20commit%20a%20crime%20you%20will%20be%20shot%20piece%20Dec%2028%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="598" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQk-SGrfotSpUY_AlchzQA1EkrsqNw_KVbmVot8KCngPGE64GjN6HAxV2jiwULIHXpV-f-gKb0WneRYWdjTIsm1fezSxYrzR2mAPuCn1GbQvWaKHmowCxm7B-3piw2cbTkYEsndhI_NaIn4ucM0QUt_8y-HNo-ue-PsuLkhfgUACf5qDJEr9LP/w320-h294/ZeroHedge%20screenshot%20of%20climate%20change%20stupidity%20piece%20right%20next%20to%20if%20you%20commit%20a%20crime%20you%20will%20be%20shot%20piece%20Dec%2028%202023.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I posted the accompanying screenshot from the menu of <i>ZeroHedge</i> stories to show you the link right next to the referenced story. Huh, some official law enforcement agent is promising that the law will start being carried out -- huh, what a novel idea!<p></p><p>See, the biblical position on all of this is simple if you'd only read it. It is.</p><p>All over Scripture are stories of the stupidest people you could imagine. Yes, they either get theirs, or they actually find God and call on His Name. <i>Not hard.</i> You want to know Jesus' response to stupid people? Two things.</p><p>First, <i>exasperation</i>. Go ahead, just look at the gospel of Mark, and look in chapters three, six, and eight. He confronted stupid people all over the place. <i>And He felt it</i>. And people <i>saw</i> how He felt about it.</p><p>Second, <i>self-sacrifice.</i> The most incredible thing of all is <i>He still dies for them</i>. Sorry but willful stupidity is a patently sinful thing. Jesus died to take that out and for people to put their faith on Him and get them very very far into being <i>not-stupid</i>.</p><p>Want to get a good idea about what <i>not-stupid </i>is? Read the book of Proverbs. You don't have to read it all at once, but pretty much every single word is something about what you should know about being not-stupid. Really. </p><p>Here's a good one. I'll share it with you, from the second chapter.</p><p>"Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse [in a very real sense that means weirdly stupid], who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in doing the perverseness of evil [they can't help but boast about how smart they are at being stupid], whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways."</p><p>Out of all this you really only have three choices in life. Really, tell me if there is another, I'd be happy to hear of it. There are only three:</p><p>One, you can viciously insist on living by your own wretched concupiscence and think you're all that, but it will inevitably lead to death. Someway, somehow, somewhere down the line it is just plain death. And of course a long stay in Hell follows. For many this does involve a rich, robust, and desperate engagement with the crusading (and fully manufactured) rebellion against <i>The Man.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcOUYApD79i-h-Ew3H-FKe1pIZaIeOlT4LoVtTz0vhUJ8Naga2LF3u8V6l35SlN1ZZROOHqESZbV33RDLWtl2bBTnTfC-SVfDUGQq-rqns73i-zooScY5eO2bGXotCyMdDjSAXXuyKM-sJSPacx3SuPkOQAMqmwIo_Y8gAoDSUnsa-xwJXT0Yx/s2000/adobe-stock-future-city-2000x900.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="2000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcOUYApD79i-h-Ew3H-FKe1pIZaIeOlT4LoVtTz0vhUJ8Naga2LF3u8V6l35SlN1ZZROOHqESZbV33RDLWtl2bBTnTfC-SVfDUGQq-rqns73i-zooScY5eO2bGXotCyMdDjSAXXuyKM-sJSPacx3SuPkOQAMqmwIo_Y8gAoDSUnsa-xwJXT0Yx/w400-h180/adobe-stock-future-city-2000x900.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>Two, you can still do all that but work really hard to wallow about in the "City of God" Augustine talked about, that place Rome has firmly established and continues to sustain, a splendidly wholesome and righteous and upright place -- the World System itself administered by showcased mandarins who smile at you a lot lobbying for your vote and your tribute but much more by brilliant opaque operatives who make sure all the racketeering window dressing looks spectacular. The advantage is you can <i>feel</i> like your stupidity is not having <i>that</i> much of a lethal impact on things, you know, because fluffy words like DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM and INCLUSIVE are incessantly bleated through the airwaves. There have been some eight thousand formulations of this thing throughout the ages, I dunno, maybe nine thousand, I think I've lost count.<p></p><p>Three, <i>you can dwell joyfully in the Kingdom</i>. It is there where your Savior resides, the Real One who died for you and saved your soul -- <i>not</i> <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/jesuses.htm" target="_blank">one of the counterfeit ones</a> widely marketed in the System. This is the place where genuine, authentic, charitable, meaningful, thoughtful, and (from the Economics instructor in me) <i>productive </i>love prevails.</p><p>And really, let's face it, if the stupidity is just <i>not -- going -- to -- ever -- end, </i>then why not go to the one place where it simply cannot afflict you since you are securely in His embrace?</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image from <i>Die Hard</i> with Hans Gruber threatening Holly McClane was taken from the photo catalog at imdb.com. The one of The City was simply in my stock file, thank you to whoever created it.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-11877522811544939532023-12-27T16:15:00.000-08:002023-12-27T19:15:33.932-08:00Suffering the Stupid Person<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8tYyKTKgQVCC1PqiKxw6hlMCRaJKRTlDV38YclGsNQwkAgrU0htfVdxws26kUttYJ5Y9tqaFDQJ3w3acjkZecqJMYNh7cY9InijvaVU1w78ZqNKtOPIEhldYLb5kolzC6yHeM6HhpJ1yhP0CVWSn8djnqUY6BX3fr5aEpMupVlouXXOpOkNv/s754/Bruce%20Willis%20in%20Die%20Hard.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="754" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8tYyKTKgQVCC1PqiKxw6hlMCRaJKRTlDV38YclGsNQwkAgrU0htfVdxws26kUttYJ5Y9tqaFDQJ3w3acjkZecqJMYNh7cY9InijvaVU1w78ZqNKtOPIEhldYLb5kolzC6yHeM6HhpJ1yhP0CVWSn8djnqUY6BX3fr5aEpMupVlouXXOpOkNv/w400-h226/Bruce%20Willis%20in%20Die%20Hard.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>We enjoyed one of the best Christmas movies ever the other night, <i>Die Hard</i> with Bruce Willis, from 1988. I know, I know, everyone's arguing about whether it is really a Christmas movie or not, but it is. It happens at Christmas time, there are Christmas songs in it, and the most important reason is that John McClane is, in a very profound sense, a messiah character almost giving his life to rescue people.<p></p><p>I know, I know, lots of movies feature their action heroes kick-boxing and blowing away bad guys to save others, but this is just different. For one thing he does walk across broken glass causing his feet to bleed badly. In everything he does he is a sort of living sacrifice and employs great courage and tenacity to give of himself to get the job done.</p><p>Plus he uses tremendous insight, knowledge, and wisdom to make the things happen he must make happen to do that job.</p><p>Just amazingness from an action hero throughout.</p><p>But this is not the only reason the movie so thoroughly enjoyable.</p><p><i>It is because it is filled with phenomenally stupid people who get theirs at some point in some delightfully gratifying way.</i></p><p>And I'm sorry, but if you're paying attention you cannot help but know of these people all around you and how much this film's stupid people remind you of those stupid people. For the most part you can't really do anything about the stupid people you're around because you're supposed to be nice and all, and I get that.</p><p>But when you watch a movie like this, you just know every stupid person on that screen should be getting what they get.</p><p><i>And you cheer</i>.</p><p><i>Very justifiably and quite reasonably so.</i></p><p>The stupid people in the film, let's just talk about them for a moment.</p><p>The first one, really, is Hans Gruber himself (played exquisitely by Alan Rickman), the main villain who seems to be very very smart. but really, when you look at him and what he does, is very very stupid. The movie does a fantastic job of pulling us into his sophisticated criminality, but he makes so many stupid mistakes throughout, capped off by (spoiler alert!) standing too close to the window before McClane shoots him with such force that he falls out of the building to his death. Before moving on you could include all of Gruber's henchmen who are simply too stupid to keep from getting blown away by McClane.</p><p>Secondly we are introduced to a boneheaded hostage who fancies himself quite the negotiator. He is smooth, debonair, and dressed to the nines, but foolishly attempts to play the part resulting in contemptible failure when Gruber just gets tired of his schtick and shoots him dead.</p><p>Next we get the law enforcement personnel, both local and federal. The local guys pretend to be all that and try negotiation as well as a pathetic attempt at a coordinated assault on the terrorists-- both fail miserably.</p><p>The feds who come in a bit later looking like the baddest-ass dudes do even worse, which again makes the movie. Watching people like this think they're hot shit but you know they aren't and divine justice is well on the way-- if a movie can carry this off well it is wonderful to behold. Needless to say they are dusted when their helicopter explodes in a stultifyingly stupid attempt at a rescue.</p><p>Then there is the television reporter whose idiotic grandstanding actually further endangers the lives of everybody. He is so obviously contemptible that, while not dying in the end still gets summarily slugged by McClane's wife.</p><p>Stupid person after stupid person after stupid person. A splendidly rapturous conga line of stupid people.</p><p>I will admit I feel I have to call them "stupid people" because Jesus warned us of calling them fools. It'd be easier to do so, certainly, but I believe He told us this because we must keep in mind <i>we can be the worst kinds of fools too</i>. I would get into all the theology of this but I'm just not going to now.</p><p>I am going to touch a bit on another movie, a brand new one, <i>American Fiction --</i> kind of why I put up this post here today. I saw it was getting a bit of attention much because from what I can tell it goes at least some measurable way to dialing back the <i>woke</i> wretchedness that is rampaging through everything these days.</p><p>From what I can tell a black writer is tired of being patronized by being considered some literary genius because he is black, instead of being respected just because he is a good writer. He sees the way black people are treated in this way -- merely as objects of other people's virtue signaling about how much they are <i>not racist, </i>and decides to write a book making fun of all that.</p><p>It seems the book is taken seriously by people as a paean to the all the <i>woke</i> stuff we're all supposed to embrace in order to prove to everyone how much we can use racism to be anti-racist. In one very brief part of the trailer, after a reader up on a stage shares a section of it -- remember, this is from a book that was written expressly for making fun of the idiocy of the <i>anti-racist</i> tropes -- an older white woman is the only one in the audience who stands up and cheers.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBLXhFgYxlkMCFLd4X2bbGAn0PWKqITBFEOIHJ-JM_PnVpnd8v9Cseoor3VLCsk2tM644B_nWCDWue7QWnlvvfeTfTF9Ss4IyL4Ce88yroI5OouLvTU-wG38EHMbDYDqD3ecV4VEuvZVpxXaiUxvRkGwFGH4wOqWb_5YsecbNHcfZb16-p60z/s631/Single%20old%20leftist%20white%20woman%20applauds%20stupid%20thing%20written%20in%20book%20to%20make%20a%20point%20about%20how%20stupid%20wokeism%20is%20from%20American%20Fiction%20trailer%20Dec%202023.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="631" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBLXhFgYxlkMCFLd4X2bbGAn0PWKqITBFEOIHJ-JM_PnVpnd8v9Cseoor3VLCsk2tM644B_nWCDWue7QWnlvvfeTfTF9Ss4IyL4Ce88yroI5OouLvTU-wG38EHMbDYDqD3ecV4VEuvZVpxXaiUxvRkGwFGH4wOqWb_5YsecbNHcfZb16-p60z/s320/Single%20old%20leftist%20white%20woman%20applauds%20stupid%20thing%20written%20in%20book%20to%20make%20a%20point%20about%20how%20stupid%20wokeism%20is%20from%20American%20Fiction%20trailer%20Dec%202023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>An older white <i>radically feminist leftist progressive scholastically-minded activist-type very very smart but very very stupid</i> woman stands up and applauds because she's been trained exceptionally well by the World Ops who have seduced her into believing she can cover for her massive insecurities by boasting loudly about how <i>not-mean</i> she is and how <i>not-bigoted</i> she is and how <i>not-intolerant</i> she is and how<i> not-uninclusive</i> she is and how <i>not-uncaring-of-the-downtrodden-masses</i> she is and the <i>only</i> reason she is there or <i>anywhere</i> like this is so everyone can see what a splantastically splendiforous individual she is "<i>EVERYONE LOOK AT HOW NOT RACIST I AM DAMMIT!"</i><p></p><p>Thing is, will Hollywood really disabuse itself of -- really, in a very real sense -- of being the full embodiment of that kind of a person?</p><p>I'm not so sure. I've seen some people say this film could be something of a start for Hollywood and much of the rest of the power-brokers who shape sentiments of World inhabitants to distance themselves from the truly ugly <i>wokeism</i> all about.</p><p>I've also seen a lot of people say it ain't happening, it has simply gone too far, it has embedded itself too deeply in the mainstream. I mean, really, loud exhibitionist self-absorption is as old as... well... as old as Cain and Abel.</p><p>For you must remember, Cain was really the very first loud exhibitionist self-absorbed individual there was. Murderously so. And if you further remember, God sent him out of His presence for that, but He knew people would look at how stupid Cain was and want to murder him for it, so to protect him God gave him a mark for easy identification and allowed him, after he wanders a bit, to build a city to administer justice from a System established for the very necessary purpose of managing the evildoing of people who would refuse to call on the name of the Lord.</p><p>So yeah. I just don't think all the elements of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy, responsible for today's administration of Cain's divinely authorized duties, are going to dismiss the tremendous advantages of wokeism any time soon. It is too good for propagation, <i>and too good for riling up everyone about how stupid it is.</i> It works both ways -- hey, a raging culture war is precisely what the ordained mandarins of World System governance have established and continue to foment.</p><p>Hollywood, the mainstream mass news media, the university system, the federal government, the banking system, the megacorporations, and definitely the non-profit tax-exempt organizations including all the churches registered as such -- no matter how much they say they'll back away from DEI and SEL and ESG and any other <i>woke-a-cratic</i> thing, they won't because it compromises their ability to virtue-signal at the behest of the World Ops who insist upon it.</p><p>And if they <i>do</i> sometime in some way slither away from the presently marketed ones, those World Ops will invent some other imaginative ruses to keep their charges mobilized.</p><p>Oh, and yeah, the only way out of it all? In fact the only way out of your own distressing insecurities and destructive proclivities and difficult circumstances and debilitating woundedness and just plain diabolical evildoing -- that would be</p><p><i>The Kingdom.</i></p><p>You know That Guy with the nail-scarred hands is still there, just waiting for you to answer the door. He's there. For every stupid person there is, me, you, that other guy so annoyingly stupid -- He's there.</p><p>Always will be.</p><p>At least until the world melts. Might be sooner if your physical death is just around the corner...</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first picture is a screen shot of the film <i>Die Hard.</i> It is a 20th Century Fox promotional image taken from <i>Nerdist</i> in a web story about, yes, whether or not <i>Die Hard</i> is a Christmas movie. The second is a screenshot from that trailer for the film <i>American Fiction.</i></span></p><p><i>__</i></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-30728681579745629922023-12-03T12:49:00.000-08:002023-12-05T09:01:08.871-08:00The Rationale of an Excommunication<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1jUjUCh-wX_7Jlu9DwzJephGCEBc-S8rSzP2e54sfq60mSdrt3OHDFL-QwgY01F5t2SUN3pKOn7mHni1e62V88LvVbZJ1eF_91bAJtPinhMHR9kC7GoEsYRCcYYsx3pisSdG2LAbHjyeJ338SKzOileK3LT1iQJ9HJbyxmrbK15uTF42vlsC/s748/Child%20reading%20books%20from%20Hell%20Jerm%20Warfare%20Sept%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="748" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1jUjUCh-wX_7Jlu9DwzJephGCEBc-S8rSzP2e54sfq60mSdrt3OHDFL-QwgY01F5t2SUN3pKOn7mHni1e62V88LvVbZJ1eF_91bAJtPinhMHR9kC7GoEsYRCcYYsx3pisSdG2LAbHjyeJ338SKzOileK3LT1iQJ9HJbyxmrbK15uTF42vlsC/w400-h213/Child%20reading%20books%20from%20Hell%20Jerm%20Warfare%20Sept%202023.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>My <a href="http://yourownjesus.net" target="_blank">recent home page piece</a> gets a bit into my own professional life, and the experiences I have had with the now entrenched <i>woke</i> hegemony. I have been an experienced and reasonably decorated school teacher for now about 35 years. Most of that time was spent teaching high school Civics and Economics in the public school system, and certainly being a devout follower of Christ I have wondered if readers of my webzine and blog might wonder, "How could you be situated in such a System institution like that?"<p></p><p>I have indeed thought about assembling something of a comprehensive polemic to answer that question, and I'm afraid I cannot do that now. It is simply because there is so much to it, including my consideration that people like Joseph and Daniel were in the service of Caesar in some high office yet still served Christ and loved others where they were.</p><p>I have also had the opportunity to share Christ's love with thousands of students, some hundred of whom actively and volitionally took the time to share their appreciation for what they were taught and who I was for them in the classroom. That has meant so much to me -- in my view a confirmation of God's use of me to serve Him by loving them with my hard work as a teacher.</p><p>But yes, as <a href="http://yourownjesus.net" target="_blank">my webzine monograph</a> details a bit, there is so much of the World System filth that permeates the public school system -- <i>indeed the private Christian school system too. </i>That was one of the most striking things about teaching in three different Christian high schools -- not parochial Catholic schools mind you, but schools that appeared to be somewhat given over to Jesus and respect for Scriptural truths.</p><p>While the people in those places did in some measure expressively comport themselves as Christians, there were so many things so many of them said that made me wonder about their convictions. Those things they said did convince me that these supposedly Christian institutions were, indeed, quite <i>Catholicized</i>. These were bodies that were so given over to the World System's direction and constraints, much because they received tax-exemption and grant money benefits that to be too much <i>The Kingdom</i> would compromise their access to those privileges.</p><p>As for my own convictions related to my own professional conduct, I spent an entire year teaching at a private Christian school during quite a bit of still-festering Covid hysteria. I actually thought they were over that, but they weren't. A month into the school year the county highly recommended mask-wearing again, and the school strongly suggested all the teachers wear masks again. For students it was optional, and while about two-thirds of them did not wear masks, the others were pretty ferocious about sticking them to their face, I mean really sticking them on -- I never saw the faces of about a dozen of my students the entire year, <i>never</i>.</p><p>Needless to say, I was firmly against <i>any</i> of the Covid protocols, not just because they were completely unnecessary but actually dangerous and lethal. I respectfully told each of the key administrative personnel about my convictions, as extensively but as succinctly as I could including just a few key points related to the <i>actual</i> science. I told them that I would not wear a mask or get tested or show I was vaccinated or any of that. They initially were very gracious and abstaining from any of it I was allowed to finish out the school year. I will add briefly that I never said anything averse about any of it to anyone who chose to comply, not a single time, to any student, colleague, or anyone.</p><p>The problem was every other teacher wore a mask. If you didn't show proof of vaccination you were required to get tested in the health office once a week. I quietly refused to do <i>any</i> of that. While they never said anything against my position, I can't believe it didn't affect what they thought of me -- that I was some carelessly dismissive science-denier who didn't love his neighbor enough to keep them from getting my disease. And I am certain the school heard from a few parents who were told by students that I was one of <i>those</i> kinds of people.</p><p>So many things happened that school year that just showed me how misled, uninformed, and hypocritical many of these people were. I saw the devastating effects on the students themselves in specific instances I just don't have time to get into now. These were people I'd truly respected, befriended, appreciated for giving me an opportunity to teach in what was really a beautiful little school that openly claimed to be truly Christian.</p><p><i>But when you look deeper inside</i>.</p><p>It was heart-breaking to be told my services were no longer needed, and just as much never to hear from them ever again after the school year ended. But again I know why God had it happen. Part of that is so I could find other teaching oriented opportunities for people who do respect what I do and what I have to offer as a teacher. But as I shared in the webzine piece some of it was for me to see the gruesome ugliness of World System activity.</p><p>There is more, so much more. The Covid stuff is just part of it. </p><p>Again, for my readers who may still be wondering, "What other <i>bad thing</i> could you have done to make them dislike you so?" Again, I did share truthful things in the classroom that were just too controversial. "Marriage is only between a man and a woman." Remember, I'm teaching Civics and Economics, so open discussion points like this should be perfectly fine.</p><p>But that one subject in particular. The entire sexual integrity issue has become strictly verboten. The principal of the Christian school I'd just mentioned told me, "Maybe we'd best avoid the hot-topic issues." <i>Guh?</i> Of course she doesn't know -- she couldn't understand and trust that I only shared those things at the appropriate times, that I was gracious and respectful to every student in the class even if they disagreed, that I never belabored the subject, and again that there were so many students who would tell me how much they appreciated that I spoke truthfully, articulately, and courageously about those things <i>that they know themselves are good and true.</i></p><p>But then...</p><p><i>There's that World System infection for you.</i></p><p>So much more to address in all of this, but for now, <a href="http://yourownjesus.net" target="_blank">my home page piece</a> gets into the reasons why it is that way, why the <i>woke</i> dominion has simply metastasized as monstrously as it has.</p><p>__</p><p><a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-tyranny-of-oppressed.html" target="_blank">Here's a blog post </a><span style="color: #20124d;">that was one of many I made right when the Covid hysteria started in spring of 2020. It will give you an idea of my position which, as you will read, is the one that is the most truthful -- scientifically, economically, and most important biblically. It is good to know there are indeed quite a few people who do concur. I can't help but add the following Twitter post I just saw. I could include a whole encyclopedia of these...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-etcnESZilsjfYJWgtv5aYhRvcQAFAQ5-jfGF_DbYk5sGp76zb3ZkM3yLPkTj5g92IrTcxkJCWVsdzCtlLX1KEI5cbjaQtDC-YkgYh6bgfQcyuK-xseRD6IgrenJZ6CzdHGj0wBU5N3XGrN0li2GiIK64vGwpdaXvzJbUhpMfn63THxE4QGF/s579/Massive%20learning%20loss%20from%20Covid%20lockdowns%20Bloomberg%20Steve%20Hanke%20Dec%202023.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="579" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-etcnESZilsjfYJWgtv5aYhRvcQAFAQ5-jfGF_DbYk5sGp76zb3ZkM3yLPkTj5g92IrTcxkJCWVsdzCtlLX1KEI5cbjaQtDC-YkgYh6bgfQcyuK-xseRD6IgrenJZ6CzdHGj0wBU5N3XGrN0li2GiIK64vGwpdaXvzJbUhpMfn63THxE4QGF/w400-h345/Massive%20learning%20loss%20from%20Covid%20lockdowns%20Bloomberg%20Steve%20Hanke%20Dec%202023.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>__<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image at the beginning of this post is from a page at the <i>Jerm Warfare </i>website. Thank you.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-76800012422181859962023-11-16T08:54:00.000-08:002023-11-16T13:23:47.565-08:00What Modernism Hath Wrought, Addendum<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigv7R29ywTJOOlODLkfJhe4r2VyyAnrC7GfgKeHmUMzJoqrTwzZm1ArBjuq0aYdZmlRySpGR_dIQBZXAexcsEqeCEUz-ttOeWhBi0iFtrboD2LZZ0eyAkjanNkrCNhpJYyriSKGCQnQKSnluUNxmg8_tfagBD8jff9co06Lr7owjsRaizOaXrT/s1366/02579_calmandsorrowful_1366x768.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigv7R29ywTJOOlODLkfJhe4r2VyyAnrC7GfgKeHmUMzJoqrTwzZm1ArBjuq0aYdZmlRySpGR_dIQBZXAexcsEqeCEUz-ttOeWhBi0iFtrboD2LZZ0eyAkjanNkrCNhpJYyriSKGCQnQKSnluUNxmg8_tfagBD8jff9co06Lr7owjsRaizOaXrT/s320/02579_calmandsorrowful_1366x768.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Yesterday <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/11/what-modernism-hath-wrought.html" target="_blank">I put up a post</a> to share some thoughts about the thing <i>imagination</i>. Afterwards I did some pondering about my words, and my soul convicted me that many would very likely read those words and think I'm into some kind of weird unbiblical mysticism. <p></p><p>Often the thing <i>mysticism</i> is bound by the World's definition, just to get Christians to be judgmental about things. Sometimes they are right, true, but sometimes the World consumes their thinking. The Kingdom truth is the Bible clearly tells us about the beauty and wonders of God's mystery, and it is perfectly okay to commune with Him in ways only the heart can understand. Indeed that's much of the thrust of this blog ministry, precisely that His wonderful matters should not include any of our pathetic assumptions about them.</p><p>Let them be mysteries yet settle in with the assurance that He loves us, cares for us, walks with us, teaches us. The Bible is also clear that He made each of our imaginations to grasp the meaning of all that in profoundly visceral ways, the meaning that we <i>can</i> understand and embrace -- and feel His joy in doing so. Yes our imaginations can create idols, I get that. And yes we do need a deep immersion in Scripture and prayer-filled fellowship with other followers of Christ in a rich ungrafted worship community to be sure our imaginations are dwelling among the things of Heaven.</p><p>The article I referenced yesterday is merely an eloquent elucidation of the truth that people do yearn for the supernatural. Was it in a webzine that publishes questionable articles? Yes, I've read some of them to learn what others are thinking -- I'm always doing that. Did the author neglect to include any mention of Jesus? Yes, she didn't, but that's exactly why I blogged about it yesterday.</p><p><i>Jesus is Who people are looking for when their souls yearn for the not-so-modernist</i>.</p><p>On a personal note I do have a passion for the things modernism sought to abolish, those things that belong in the realm of <i>romanticism</i>. Do many think of romanticism as the worthless folderol of unserious people? Indeed it can be if it connects to the occult or divination -- I agree those things are part of Hell's domain! Thing is the Bible is filled with stories that easily fit into the perfectly legitimate contemplations of those who are attracted to romanticism's call to awaken the imagination.</p><p>I'm starting to read a book, <i>Nature's God </i>by Matthew Stewart, that gets deep into modernism's influence on the founding of the United States. He writes of the powerful philosophy that <i>deism</i> was, coming right out of the enlightenment's modernist perspective which itself was overwrought with, yes, <i>Epicureanism</i>. <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXV.htm#devil" target="_blank">something I'd written about</a> a while back and even mentioned in <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/11/what-modernism-hath-wrought.html" target="_blank">my last blog post</a>.</p><p>I'm just getting into it, and eagerly looking forward to discovering how much Epicurean thought was so prominently injected into the American mainstream. It isn't hard to see! How many good wholesome Americans today go about their lives with the heinously lethal consideration front-and-center: "There is only matter but if you want to believe in something beyond that you just go ahead and do that and we'll all politely humor you no matter how much of a fool you are."</p><p>Combine that with what Stephen Greenblatt shared with us in his book <i>Swerve</i> and Tupper Saussy shared in <i>Rulers of Evil </i>and it isn't hard to see the Roman Catholic ecclesiocracy's role in shaping a whole new brand of Americanist thought from the very beginning of its inception -- which, by the way, is really not that new. Indeed, as these books and Scripture itself confirms, it is <i>really</i> not-new.</p><p>Of course, that is yet another of the thrusts of this ministry, and it fits with the whole thread of this post. It is simply that Rome does anything and everything it can to keep us in our benighted states for the purpose of appearing as the ones with the strength and wherewithal to rescue us. This strategy definitely includes keeping people from identifying the supernatural as real -- thus you get Epicureanism or any of its novel and, yes, imaginative forms. It also includes making sure whatever they discover in the supernatural is only about the occult and divination and rationalizing the latest trendiest neatest form of evildoing -- and as a bonus ensuring they believe it is all good and healthy. "Hey, it's a lifestyle choice!" There are thousands of ways Rome does this.</p><p>Yes, one of them is to detract from the objective reality that our imaginations can be used to better do precisely what God wants us to be doing, to more joyfully interact with one another observing and confirming and sharing the things of His Kingdom -- as He says Himself in the ninth chapter of Jeremiah.</p><p><i>"If one boasts let him boast about one thing, that he understands and knows Me."</i></p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image is another download I made from <i>Interfacelift.</i></span></p><p>__</p><p><br /></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-16060098339367449872023-11-15T17:10:00.000-08:002023-11-16T13:26:15.336-08:00What Modernism Hath Wrought<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRjgoXu5PpUB1Vhn8-clhBn_X9oSJwVmZ9fvbxqEtKEirLqs2U2OBEa79u7pSbt33W4zOsLfH_-kjhTQfGrryyvY-6p0FwtPdC_Xhex4IiomzWnitJJ29WycEcqweM_HgV-RGrXevHM4IjoeZ787yRjQFbRFMq0UghVCiyrGiQfqHkcye66Geb/s1366/02834_canopy_1366x768.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRjgoXu5PpUB1Vhn8-clhBn_X9oSJwVmZ9fvbxqEtKEirLqs2U2OBEa79u7pSbt33W4zOsLfH_-kjhTQfGrryyvY-6p0FwtPdC_Xhex4IiomzWnitJJ29WycEcqweM_HgV-RGrXevHM4IjoeZ787yRjQFbRFMq0UghVCiyrGiQfqHkcye66Geb/s320/02834_canopy_1366x768.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Just wanted to blog a bit to offer a heads-up to <a href="https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-the-fairies-disappeared/" target="_blank">an article by Mary Harrington</a> over at <i>Unherd</i>. I've liked the few things I've read from her, and this one gets a bit into the desire for something beyond the "atoms, void, and nothing else" mentality that has exploded in modern society.<p></p><p>See, the "atoms-void-&-nothing-else" philosophy that is most prominent today is really just Epicureanism, an exceedingly pervasive mentality that is nothing but materialism but with the added twist of being nice to people who believe what they sneer are fairy tales. Well, um, ahem, if the reality of things is merely materialism then upon what basis does one have to be nice to anyone? Really, isn't it just best if I murder you and take your nice home to enjoy? After all your atoms spewed about are no different than those sown together right now, right?</p><p>Yet this is the lifestyle philosophy so many hold so tightly.</p><p>No wonder.</p><p>Our schools are teaching garbage to so many students, and yes, I could get a ton into all of that too, I know, what, being a school teacher in the public and private Christian secondary school system for over 30 years and being a first-hand observer of the horrors. Critical thinking? <i>Ha.</i> Much more significantly: <i>Wisdom? LMAO.</i></p><p>And much less enlivening the imagination and guiding it toward Kingdom things. That is <i>waaay</i> out. I say this because as fine as Harrington's work is, it is just as likely a light shone on the recesses of one's cranium for the best pondering and dreaming and reveling in things originating from the heart could be an enchanting beam of a halogen lamp from Hell. When Jesus spoke He almost always wanted listeners to use their imagination to see the things of Heaven for the beauty and glory and rapture that they were, but sometimes also to see the things of Hell for what they were too.</p><p>Anyway, as a teacher November is a very busy month. It has always been understood by teachers who do work hard at their craft that November is the month that is the most grueling. I've realized this because when looking back on my blogging I have the fewest posts from Novembers. I think I know why.</p><p>I share this because I have so many things banging around in my noggin to write about. So many things I'd like to add a bit of my own take that I hope includes a very small bit of His wisdom injected into a world that is filled with so much stupidity it can, yes sorry for the cliche, make your head spin. It isn't that there is a dearth of those things to address -- it is that there is so much of it.</p><p><i>::Whew::</i></p><p>___</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image is simply a download I made several years ago from <i>Interfacelift</i>.</span></p><p>___</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-44716269992407877472023-10-18T12:31:00.005-07:002023-10-18T19:51:50.523-07:00...You Will Not Remove Their Folly From Them --- Unless the A.I. Does It<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicuc9BfUJ52CXd81XdNyIvl31syYmB-TBGscVfqOKshpw589C59CZn-IAJqtUtuMBmjdEsQALCI2JO0ANPt33EfAOVXUezOh3sQ7BtksP31SFTKqukvc81nSsYVL479boYS2yQ_sfCGvRBNjNmof9nSoRqCNKEZh8tcSlhiPAUi_KI-WAvVvrj/s590/Margin%20Call%20moment%20ZeroHedge%20Oct%206%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="590" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicuc9BfUJ52CXd81XdNyIvl31syYmB-TBGscVfqOKshpw589C59CZn-IAJqtUtuMBmjdEsQALCI2JO0ANPt33EfAOVXUezOh3sQ7BtksP31SFTKqukvc81nSsYVL479boYS2yQ_sfCGvRBNjNmof9nSoRqCNKEZh8tcSlhiPAUi_KI-WAvVvrj/w400-h268/Margin%20Call%20moment%20ZeroHedge%20Oct%206%202023.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I caught <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/secs-gensler-warns-nearly-unvoidable-financial-crisis-without-ai-regulation" target="_blank">this very interesting piece over at ZeroHedge</a>, one that highlights remarks by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. He points out that of all the bountiful benefits that this thing most people call "A.I." does, there is indeed one major item that may very well not be so desired after all.<p></p><p><i>Makes perfect sense</i>. Might want to take that Bible off your shelf for further reference. Seriously.</p><p>Gensler points out that with the "A.I," or what-should-be-called SPIT for SuperDuperReallySuperDuper-Fast Processing Information Technology being used to <i>reeeeeeeally</i> do a spit-shine job of peeking around at everyone's financial affairs --</p><p><i>-- And finding out how absolutely & thoroughly, wickedly & deceitfully arranged they really are</i>...</p><p>...That when the SPIT shit hits the fan and all of it gets uncovered, well, you know. It's easy.</p><p>That would be very very very bad for everyone.</p><p>It'll be that contagion that everyone fears, that thing that will just do the worst at... at... what do all the news blowholes call it to make it seem like it is something like some random tornado that wrecks a few homes here and there?...</p><p>Oh yeah.</p><p><i>It will bring down the economy.</i></p><p>No. Ahem. Excuse me. "Economies" are not brought down. I guess they could be in an academic sense, not saying that won't happen.</p><p><i>People's lives are destroyed because of the exploitive deceit of powerful people who know they can get away with it.</i></p><p>Well, get away with it <i>until the SPIT starts poking around and sharing things that a lotta lotta people don't want shared.</i></p><p>Ouch.</p><p>A week or so ago I caught this posted item, shared there in the posted image above, from the ZeroHedge people. It struck me because it had that indelible image of the Zachary Quinto character in the film <i>Margin Call</i> the moment he finds out that, well, <i>that everyone's been lying</i>. And not just everyone, but all the top, trusted, reputable, polite, neat, cool, smart, really-good-at-handling-my-money, very very very top people.</p><p>And with the image is the message. Very simply. "Soon $70 trillion will evaporate." Or something like it.</p><p><i>::Ha::</i></p><p>$70 trillion?</p><p>Try <i>$700 trillion</i>.</p><p>See, from what I gather from a few sources who are committed to seeing and sharing truthful things (no "A.I." required!), the estimated value of everything on the planet is a cool $250 trillion. Maybe it's a bit more with inflation being such a bastard right now. On the other hand it will be a lot less after it all starts getting bombed should sillier heads prevail with this Gaza thing.</p><p>So $250 trillion worth of stuff. The total value of all derivatives claims, however? That comes in at around a quadrillion. If you do the math, that is four times the value of the stuff this figure is supposed to represent. Um, is there <i>stuff</i> that I am not aware of? Is there some accounting magic that I don't know is being employed to either establish those numbers or adjust for the discrepancy?</p><p>Or is it much simpler than that, that a <i>whole bunch of people</i> believe they have their hands in the wealth pot when they really don't?</p><p><i>Wait until the "A.I."'s eyes see it all</i>.</p><p>And <i>it </i>spills the beans. Or excuse me, pries open the books and shows us all the beans that aren't really there after all.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i7tgq0GQvZsZioQBm707dP11PjsXToeLit1NHbpkFqRvOLEJ2Qkk7qBdEVGNFsDGQ1DZo60UMQrQq22Ol-QEK0peN7fX0o8y2Ju6bdK4DctVSNdaZMD1tUJLZV1_aGoDKMZt8D11W92EYvip4zA3oomZhy60Z6Qq69WyO2cmhfCwoy4oU0xb/s626/Gary%20Gensler.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="626" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i7tgq0GQvZsZioQBm707dP11PjsXToeLit1NHbpkFqRvOLEJ2Qkk7qBdEVGNFsDGQ1DZo60UMQrQq22Ol-QEK0peN7fX0o8y2Ju6bdK4DctVSNdaZMD1tUJLZV1_aGoDKMZt8D11W92EYvip4zA3oomZhy60Z6Qq69WyO2cmhfCwoy4oU0xb/s320/Gary%20Gensler.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>The totally goofy thing is what Gensler suggests. Wow, what contemptible folly. He says the "A.I." needs to be more regulated. <i>Ahh. </i>You know, so it doesn't expose all the lies too soon you know, you know, <i>that would be bad for the economy</i>, you know. <p></p><p>Not only that, but this will be yet another instance when the "fall guy" will be the eeevil "A.I." instead of the people who are doing what the "A.I." may uncover. These guys are good. The grand Americanist mythology can have no holes.</p><p>I can't emphasize this enough. It'd be nice if more people saw it, but sadly I just don't see it. All I see are people who refuse to pay attention, enjoy the System no matter how smiley and religious its mandarins try to look, stridently insist their money manager guys arrange things for them who cares about anyone else, and simply don't give the tiniest shit that the System pretends to be their salvation but is really just the priesthood doing its standard human sacrifice operation throwing as many people as it can on its altar.</p><p>The only deliverance is The Deliverance, Jesus Christ. He is The One, and sorry, He is not <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/jesuses.htm" target="_blank">the fake one</a> that is showcased by System devoted people in any number of hundreds of different World edifices erected to keep people enslaved. And please, as I've shared many times before -- I do so desire to see others seeing this and sharing it (maybe "A.I." will?... <i>:yheee::</i>) this is what the World System does. </p><p>All this authorized institutionalized deceit stuff? It is what it does. It must, and that is the key thing your Bible tells you, if you should happen to crack it open. We are all destined for Hell because of our sin -- something that "A.I." is apparently about to show us in bright, brilliant colors. The Ministry of Condemnation should do its work quite proficiently, and the World has its ordained deep state ops to make sure that happens.</p><p>Doesn't mean it all won't be exposed some day, some time. The ultimate end of it will be when Christ returns, and until then, it might be good to be His where you may dwell richly (<i>truly </i>richly) in the Kingdom and sow into others' lives with a bountiful self-sacrificial love that produces a crop a hundred times what you thought it would be. That whole hundred-fold thing, that's right there in Scripture too. I believe look at the tenth chapter of Mark, it's there. Pretty amazing.</p><p>Otherwise, you've got squat, no matter how much of one quadrillion some hifalutin fancy dude says you have.</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The ZeroHedge tweet was from October 6. It was a screenshot. The image of Gary Gensler is a screenshot from a CNBC article about Gensler once being offered work at crypto exchange Binance, presently the subject of his regulatory attention. Whew, at least there's that.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-84621227091611099612023-10-04T16:11:00.004-07:002023-10-04T17:42:30.646-07:00Though You Grind a Fool in a Mortar...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixypH4q29wH5YjYtnArjUMSfFLlLxAgX2vrw6NIx1VKZS_T835WWdAsnnJR8D2VRO9Wz0eytogyAsIccqustfY1bxXc4rqI34982azd38tYBAqunigkv5D-Vw_1Gmo4N1x87Krr_nQ9j7VTQ2KRdvoWzafWQjW80vw993HE1WxI6krDZWSqF6/s754/Men%20and%20women%20at%20job%20fair%20Oct%202023%20in%20Wired%20from%20Getty.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="754" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhixypH4q29wH5YjYtnArjUMSfFLlLxAgX2vrw6NIx1VKZS_T835WWdAsnnJR8D2VRO9Wz0eytogyAsIccqustfY1bxXc4rqI34982azd38tYBAqunigkv5D-Vw_1Gmo4N1x87Krr_nQ9j7VTQ2KRdvoWzafWQjW80vw993HE1WxI6krDZWSqF6/w400-h224/Men%20and%20women%20at%20job%20fair%20Oct%202023%20in%20Wired%20from%20Getty.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>There is another striking Proverb, this one the 22nd in the 27th chapter, that says it doesn't matter how much you shake a fool's head and tell him or her "Stop it," the folly still remains.<p></p><p><i>Bam</i>.</p><p>The only deliverance is <i>The</i> Deliverance, Jesus Christ. To see with His eyes and understand with His mind. That's it. </p><p>Otherwise, fools are going to do folly.</p><p>I can't help but share the latest of the World idiocy out there, these just some of the most shining examples. There are so many, but these are pretty rich.</p><p>One, some large presumably well-respected athletic organization established a competitive event of some kind as "open enrollment." The idea I am sure is to avoid all the ruckus about men-pretending-to-be-women competing in women's events, just make it so anyone who wants can join up: men, women, non-binary, anyone free-to-be-who-they-want-to-be-hey-we're-all-extra-tolerant-here -- and then it will all be fair and open and wonderful.</p><p>Umm...</p><p><i>No one signed up</i>.</p><p>And no wonder. It is so simple.</p><p><i>It is still too ridiculously foolish</i>. Even everyone who saw it knew it would be, and even those who thought they were all that with all the DEI sentiments didn't show up because there actually are so few of them and they'd be competing against, ahem, <i>no one.</i></p><p>Two, yes, here's another one, there was some kind of job fair, a pretty large one for tech work somewhere somehow -- again apologies I don't know the details but it was a place where a whole bunch of people could go to try to get jobs. That's a pretty good thing, young adults still want to genuinely work and be authentically productive -- there is a bit of hope for this wretched little country of ours.</p><p>But the idea was the real focus was on <i>women, </i>the invitation was really <i>only </i>for women and, yes (remember the institutionalized folly we're talking about here) <i>the non-binary</i>. The idea: <i>"Let's really get out here those marginalized populations, you know, women and transwomen and all those oppressed peoples who would not otherwise have this kind of opportunity YAY LOOKIT HOW TOLERANT AND INCLUSIVE AND ANTI-RACIST AND ANTI-BAAAD-MAGA-PEOPLE WE ARE!!!"</i></p><p>Well, guess what happened.</p><p>A gazillion men showed up. And they showed up claiming they were non-binary or trans or schlans or something else for which they can "self-identity" to get in the door. And they went. And they showed they were qualified to do the jobs they were asking about <i>but you're not really women</i> and your point is?...</p><p>And sure enough, the event organizers responded with the following. It would be comical if it weren't so reflective of this agenda's demonic folly destroying the lives and livelihoods of good, principled people. They said:</p><p>"Those men lied about who they were."</p><p>Guh.</p><p>You know, maybe, just maybe this gargantuan expanse of the most pukifying folly will get so fetid that it may actually bring down the whole thing. I'm not betting on it -- again I'm just waiting until July 1 2027, that time when the ensuing four-year period will conclude, that time period when I wonder if it'll just keep ludicrously steamrolling everything or it'll be put back into the little tiny never-should-have-been-opened Pandora-like box where it belongs. Again I have no idea what it will look like, but I'm sure we'll find out.</p><p>One thing that is a symptom of the ugliness of this metastasized idiocy is what happened in the US House of Representatives yesterday. For, like, the first time ever I believe, a Speaker of the House was removed -- mostly at the behest of a young firebrand of a Congressman who got sick and tired of the status quo. Much of that was the Speaker just going along to get along feeding at the trough of the lobbyists and special interests who regularly exploit the American people.</p><p>And yes, much of that is those interests snuggling up to all that sodomist crap that has so wickedly bilged into the mainstream. It is indeed also the migrant crisis at the border and spilling into our communities. The Ukraine codependency that could lead to WWIII. The exploding national debt and the accompanying crushing inflation and rising interest rates. The massive illicit drug infestation. The grotesque increase in looting and pillaging of the honest and legitimate commercial activity in the name of some twisted idea of reparations. The abject loss of respect by other countries around the world and as such increased possibility of some kind of attack, particularly with advanced tech cyber threats. The increased concerns that "A.I." will be used in nefarious ways by American hegemons <i>against Americans</i>. The refusal to back off on any Covid related lockdown even-<i>remote </i>possibilities. The continued absurdity of "climate change" rhetoric that translates into the most destructive policy decisions. And so much more.</p><p>The Speaker of the House could easily, <i>easily</i> just say, in the most categorically unmistakable terms, "If there is <i>any</i> bill that comes to this floor that has <i>any</i> of that crap in it or does anything to enable any of this crap, it will not get a vote."</p><p><i>Thuh end</i>.</p><p>Those people who kicked out the Speaker simply want someone with enough courage to do just that.</p><p>Now I don't think it will happen. Why? It is because there are simply too many powerful people at the New York Times and their mass media blowholes to make anyone they don't like appear to be the most evil Nazi Klansman bunny-licking puppy-smearing Hitler <i>Hitler </i>HITLER TIMES INFINITY<i> </i>there ever was. That voice is just too powerful.</p><p>The World System does what the World System will do, and yes, I struggle with that whole dynamic. I've shared this a number of times before. I read what God tells us in the book of Revelation. The more people do the folly just cited -- oh my there is so much of it -- the more people will die as God says they will when the angels open those scrolls. Look, it is right there in the 8th and 9th chapters.</p><p>So I do wrestle with those truths. Do all those things you say you want to "fight climate change"? You'll be murdering a third of the earth's population. It is just what will happen when you do foolish foolish <i>foolish </i>things.</p><p>So please don't. Don't do that. Don't do that foolish thing. Please.</p><p>Except...</p><p>Again, it hurts to know so many simply won't listen. You grind a fool in the mortar <i>but the folly still remains.</i></p><p>So the only deliverance is still The Deliverance. I don't think for two seconds a new Speaker of the House is the answer, or a new US president next year, <i>or any of those still-wholly-World-System things. </i>I only share what I share here to point out how stultifying evil it all is, both the folly and the attempted responses to fix it.</p><p>The only thing I can do of any value is to share Christ with readers who come across these words, however many that is. I pray for that, for them, for these words to go into the ears and minds of those who truly want That Freedom. That's all. It is a humble prayer, but I make it all the time, hoping and praying for a big result -- apocalyptic revival especially among those young adults who've been so seduced particularly by all the sodomist folly that contemptibly wrecks the bodies and lives and worst of all <i>souls</i> of those who imbibe it.</p><p><i>The Kingdom</i>.</p><p>Oh how much more wonderful that place is.</p><p>Think about going there, where there is fully assured deliverance from the lethal folly. </p><p>It is so very very good.</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The posted image was from Gorodenkoff/Getty and clipped from the Wired webzine story on this job fair situation. <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/grace-hopper-celebration-career-fair-men/" target="_blank">Here is a link to that story</a>. And <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">here is a link</a> to my webzine for more of my take on it all. And above all <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=NIV" target="_blank">here is a link</a> to <i>The Deliverance</i>. Talk to Him there.</span></p><p>__</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-2496415255925079062023-09-23T13:36:00.005-07:002023-09-23T17:02:59.927-07:00The Real Prison Block Housing, Addendum<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE1H5mJiO96agp7X9phh48nHlW2IEMTFAA8kiLRhnxG2lc3gQDhVfGOwHAraUjQxOc4Ve-64P_TTyKhOvrDAh5ydv_gT_YWGGxLvwgplBQYpWHcuXJjZwg5XAX7snVtGHrV0jzerEGbc3HKU7gHHbnuoUpvqwEDuSXQqTm9X2xrq16qQ5Su_qR/s2643/Prison%20block%20housing%20II%20(2).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1701" data-original-width="2643" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE1H5mJiO96agp7X9phh48nHlW2IEMTFAA8kiLRhnxG2lc3gQDhVfGOwHAraUjQxOc4Ve-64P_TTyKhOvrDAh5ydv_gT_YWGGxLvwgplBQYpWHcuXJjZwg5XAX7snVtGHrV0jzerEGbc3HKU7gHHbnuoUpvqwEDuSXQqTm9X2xrq16qQ5Su_qR/w400-h258/Prison%20block%20housing%20II%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div>It is funny, a social media thread that got quite a bit of traction recently related to the question, "How often do men think about the Roman Empire?' All kinds of responses went into the interactive cybersphere, most of them whimsical, you know, "No wonder my husband doesn't think about bringing me flowers any more," you know, those kinds of things.</div><p></p><p>Well, in actual reality where our own personal identities and professional purposes and eternal destinies are quite relevant to every element of our thinking, the Roman Empire <i>should</i> be something every one of us should be seriously contemplating at least a little bit. It is simple.</p><p><i>The Roman Empire exists today quite prominently</i>.</p><p>As I emphasized <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-real-prison-block-housing.html" target="_blank">in my last post</a>, you can see the progression of this truth first in Scripture, then in incisive observation of what's really behind historical events and current affairs, and finally in perusing <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">my own webzine work</a> and there seeing more of the Kingdom/World contrast. Please, this last suggestion is a quite humble one, I don't have any grand insight into anything. I just post some things I see, things that many others see too but you'd have to really look around to find their work because their freedom of reach is somewhat constricted too.</p><p>That constriction, by the way, is not so much in what government entities do but what very good Catholicists do in the most strident reaction based on their very thorough indoctrination of modern-day Inquisition protocols. The things of the Kingdom are often considered the worst swearing in the ugliest foreign language, so it is suppressed simply by widespread dismissal.</p><p>Make no mistake when I mention things like <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/20/the-hidden-agenda-behind-lockdowns/" target="_blank">Edward Ring's excellent piece</a> about that Inquisition. I don't share it to move people to reprove or resist or rebel or any of that. There are a million good Catholicists who do that work.</p><p>I only share it to my reader <i>to understand</i>. </p><p>And yes, perhaps turn around and go to Christ and Kingdom.</p><p>Tupper Saussy was a extraordinary <i>explainer</i>, much like Philip was to the eunuch as described in the eighth chapter of Acts. He took much of what many already knew about the way the World System works as the Legacy of Cain (Genesis 4) through the proficient activity of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy (the true history of deep background political intrigue), and encapsulated it perfectly in his book <i><a href="http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/ROEpdf.pdf" target="_blank">Rulers of Evil</a></i> and web piece <i><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020408103221/http:/tuppersaussy.com/HTMFILES/attackonamerica2.htm" target="_blank">Abiding in Religious War.</a></i></p><p>I don't hold to such stature. I am just a modest evangelist, but I do have aspirations to draw people to Christ by sharing some things about that World System.</p><p>When I speak about this thing <i>prison block housing</i>, I simply see it as the eventual end game for what the World System must do as Cain's Legacy, by divine appointment yet fully out of the presence of God, keeping evildoing people in check in an admittedly quite efficient way. That image of yet another slab of prison block housing? One of thousands Caesar demands as Cain's chief minion to construct high density residential units in the name of "equity" or "inclusion" or whatever really super good sounding thing they must blap to rationalize their human sacrifice practices.</p><p>The good Catholicist listening to the detractors screeching "Lookit what GOVERNMENT is doing to us. <i>Let's get 'em!" </i>will only be sucked into that World maelstrom. Doesn't matter if they like it or loathe it, <i>they are the meat slabs thrown on Cain's altar.</i></p><p>I'd like to get deep a bit into what I know about the history of this phenomena, but I'd have to dig deeper, much like Tupper did so well. One of those telling items is the Spanish Civil War, back in the 1930s, and from what I've seen it was apparent that Franco looked upon his country being overrun by leftist ideological dogma -- <i>huh, sounds a lot like what is happening here right now</i> -- and needed to use his military to defeat it. Do you know his rationale for doing so?</p><p><i>He was defending the honor of the Roman Catholic Church</i>. He not only felt he was doing Rome's work, he <i>knew</i> he was, as an authorized commission. In that sense, he felt he was elevating the noble, righteous, respected Romanist religious legacy, upholding its honor and glory, <i>crushing the evil thing</i> as Voltaire once put it. Please, look it up, tell me I'm wrong.</p><p><i>Huh, kind of sounds a lot like how the Culture War is progressing today...</i></p><p>I could mention any number of items in this horrifically violent conflagration throughout history --</p><p><i>Just look.</i></p><p>Today it is no different. Still going. Still enflamed. </p><p><a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-real-prison-block-housing.html" target="_blank">In my last post</a> I'd directed your attention to some amazingly clever memes from Stephanie Winn. They are wonderfully profound, penetrating all the abjectly inane thinking done by the now thoroughly metastasized leftist voice, but then, then...</p><p><i>Then what</i>?</p><p>I know little else about Stephanie Winn, <a href="https://www.sometherapist.com/" target="_blank">here is her webpage</a> just now located to I can link it. You can see for yourself. I've heard none of her podcasts or know much of her take on things. I only know of those wonderful memes. </p><p>Thing is, will anything Stephanie Winn says or does or anything any influencer like her says or does result in <i>more</i> System activity, you know, for the 57-trazillionth time: more remonstrating or raging or rioting or even simply voting and campaigning and petitioning and running for political office and seething in anger at school board meetings?</p><p><i>Or will people turn to Christ? Dwell in the Kingdom? Fellowship with one another in vibrantly ungrafted worship communities? Richly minister to people ravaged by both their own evildoing and the ruthless condemnation that comes against them in whatever leftist or rightist form?</i></p><p>Please know, <i>that</i> is what <i>any</i> of this webzine and blog ministry is about. Any and all of it.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWXqZzRwMibuTpddgbqrSMiTndwQcWKflLOwY3ZHvg0ovHhcwJT6BlBjAEi4mJj2Q4gOV1_Bu53fh-7s26CfXKsxVw8_tnZkNlgYa7Wg-tPgBGZ9b27CVq2i3T6st07ocxkQI1MOnsAbDJQeLOSdodyvE_kbGGGLx1vkSsA_0RnN1qRJBjS3m/s564/Panopticon_prison-1.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="564" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWXqZzRwMibuTpddgbqrSMiTndwQcWKflLOwY3ZHvg0ovHhcwJT6BlBjAEi4mJj2Q4gOV1_Bu53fh-7s26CfXKsxVw8_tnZkNlgYa7Wg-tPgBGZ9b27CVq2i3T6st07ocxkQI1MOnsAbDJQeLOSdodyvE_kbGGGLx1vkSsA_0RnN1qRJBjS3m/s320/Panopticon_prison-1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>I have to add that I did indeed stick another image of the worst prison block housing there at the beginning of this post, but I'm adding this one too, an image of what was once called the "panopticon." A fascinating object, it was indeed designed to be the perfect prison. The idea was that you could put all your inmates there and just be in an ideal position to watch them at all times, you know, keep them in line, keep them from doing the bad things they'd be doing otherwise.<p></p><p>I can't help but think that the World is turning into one big panopticon. I'd shared in my last post how much we don't even need a physical constraint to get that -- we already have it in our addiction to our mobile devices and the System-generated content to keep us mesmerized. </p><p>But that image of the prison block housing and the panopticon, are they really any different? Is it today really any different from how much the super-fast processing information technology (that should be called "SPIT" but most call "AI") is being used for Caesar to fulfill his duty to watch what every single one of us is doing? Indeed even more importantly to more comprehensively manage our affairs -- really, so that life is nothing other than lying around in a comfy concrete cell looking at spiffy images listening to spiffy sounds with our spiffy pocket video/audio machines all provided quite nicely by the very best living arrangement arrangers?</p><p>Ah. The Inquisition is alive and well, it really is.</p><p><i>But you can be enjoying the Kingdom instead.</i></p><p>___</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The stock image of the prison block housing was actually from an article on the delightful benefits of high density residential zoning. I believe this one was from somewhere in Austria. Again, they are everywhere which speaks to the obvious globalist nature of the Catholicist nation.</span></p><p>___</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-40645305141242509852023-09-22T14:22:00.004-07:002023-09-22T14:39:46.302-07:00The Real Prison Block Housing <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGPcSBD65kThofdAC4W6PW6YEgBFLReMVlIVVj0CIXR6KiDHGXwgyoei4ay9WdLxRhLYclAnFsGkA0E09q3vB70vFIXyh0VKHaX96-6IWFLGrsp_HfCyShsOJ71xnztH_9ZfRifiHjSySwoQ9WYkfSJwb_yBx71dQBk7XIN43Qf_vODiUwoar/s720/Prison%20block%20housing.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="720" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGPcSBD65kThofdAC4W6PW6YEgBFLReMVlIVVj0CIXR6KiDHGXwgyoei4ay9WdLxRhLYclAnFsGkA0E09q3vB70vFIXyh0VKHaX96-6IWFLGrsp_HfCyShsOJ71xnztH_9ZfRifiHjSySwoQ9WYkfSJwb_yBx71dQBk7XIN43Qf_vODiUwoar/w400-h276/Prison%20block%20housing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Just a quick post to update you a bit on some of the things I've been seeing and pondering. This'd be pretty long if I touched on all of it, but just a few things here for now.<p></p><p>Yesterday picked up <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/20/the-hidden-agenda-behind-lockdowns/" target="_blank">Edward Ring's latest piece</a>. I've shared before I think he is one of the best at illuminating things out there, though again like most he'll never get to the truth that all of it is generated by Rome at the behest of every human's request that it crack heads for the mitigation of his/her evildoing.</p><p>Anyway, you can get those truths in Scripture and maybe a bit more in my own <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">writing ministry work</a> which is only designed to direct you to Scripture and to understanding the evil the System routinely does <i>and only then</i> to Christ and Kingdom and the only freedom that is worth anything.</p><p><i>Anyway</i> (sorry I digress too much), Ring does do a phenomenal job of describing the effects of the System's head-cracking operation. Like having a nice home to raise a family? First that family is a brazenly offensive product of the oppressive white heteropatriarchy, so that's on the way out, and second, that big fat ugly house and yard you have is <i>suuuch</i> a climate messer-upper so that has to go too. Oh, and never mind skirting any of this because the new god "A.I." now can't keep from processing everything about you and your intentions.</p><p><i>Into the prison block housing with you then</i>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpZ4D8W37f3F2lOjG_Fm-tQn5SOwq6Rb5UnCxnA0mh5m-B_cuGLWSNDrY7WD1HX93CLEd5KzAF4j0xHKSS2dSfBd3y__XrFL5DHgZ1n1twDgwuEPQfcUHUQQgQKHytgcZvl-M4yjCS2812NSp50-Byce9IP6sKauIBAPsuHuHtjtfBmgKMK-L/s742/Are%20you%20lost%20in%20the%20world%20video%20cell%20phones%20Moby.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="742" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpZ4D8W37f3F2lOjG_Fm-tQn5SOwq6Rb5UnCxnA0mh5m-B_cuGLWSNDrY7WD1HX93CLEd5KzAF4j0xHKSS2dSfBd3y__XrFL5DHgZ1n1twDgwuEPQfcUHUQQgQKHytgcZvl-M4yjCS2812NSp50-Byce9IP6sKauIBAPsuHuHtjtfBmgKMK-L/w320-h178/Are%20you%20lost%20in%20the%20world%20video%20cell%20phones%20Moby.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>What a profound metaphor for the prisons each of our souls <i>have already</i> established as their residences. I can't help but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yBrW0zG8y8" target="_blank">share another link to this video</a> put out a few years ago making this point so poignantly. Big tech has already made a nice comfy temporal place for each of our turgid wretched dark souls to dwell, 24/7, 365 days of the year.<p></p><p>I've also come across the amazing meme work of Stephanie Winn. In some recent posts and home page pieces <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXIX.htm#Chocolate%20Orchid" target="_blank">I'd made mention</a> of the idea of abandoning the commentator business, since any "freedom of reach" is really just provided by the big World interests anyway. I'd sympathized with such an assessment, but recalled that Tupper Saussy did say that he was interested in doing a bit more cinematography type things shortly before he passed away in March 2007.</p><p>Huh. Yeah.</p><p><i>Share the Kingdom/World contrast more graphically and much more cleverly</i>.</p><p>I'd written a number of years ago about the <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesVIII.htm#social%20cure" target="_blank">"Social Cure,"</a> the idea that you can effect change by cutting to people's hearts through humor, satire, ridicule -- with insightful clarity and concise brevity.</p><p>Mrs. Winn has done just that with her meme series, absolutely eviscerating the lethal idiocy that comes from the woke sodomist voice. May I just share a sample?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfMdWVMGl1TZFqRmgUbbsGfFZkPLzDcBOphWVxV0jG60DxAF5kgDkMmWDLZyIhCyhTNcmzPHzkmldK6N2fQtrboi9fKuh_43LO06PWtkuHAZz3dA5W8AeWVKiEsE1-dEvyg2HowjGLGyxJk7LkbHnzVrolkQ58Yg0_i3zgdz1bBQo08m-na6a/s1053/Signs%20your%20child%20might%20be%20a%20mermaid%20Stephanie%20Winn%20Sept%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1053" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfMdWVMGl1TZFqRmgUbbsGfFZkPLzDcBOphWVxV0jG60DxAF5kgDkMmWDLZyIhCyhTNcmzPHzkmldK6N2fQtrboi9fKuh_43LO06PWtkuHAZz3dA5W8AeWVKiEsE1-dEvyg2HowjGLGyxJk7LkbHnzVrolkQ58Yg0_i3zgdz1bBQo08m-na6a/s320/Signs%20your%20child%20might%20be%20a%20mermaid%20Stephanie%20Winn%20Sept%202023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL745-u3IXbQFBPrhqPyvAQV33dNc8eMsEdWS7IhevcRW6sGnows2Nr3mkCv07diaFCgSwQx2minHNtnV1iLoi6wImh76sT2alG7lO_I9cKkGeEBqbHPSfpVIytvZk1qbN-ss4RXtbg0_54tIjiCSgkftjT-Q4etTpOAmTEzdnC1bR1qJAbVeM/s1053/Bird%20kids%20murdered%20by%20bigotry%20Stephanie%20Winn%20meme%20Sept%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1053" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL745-u3IXbQFBPrhqPyvAQV33dNc8eMsEdWS7IhevcRW6sGnows2Nr3mkCv07diaFCgSwQx2minHNtnV1iLoi6wImh76sT2alG7lO_I9cKkGeEBqbHPSfpVIytvZk1qbN-ss4RXtbg0_54tIjiCSgkftjT-Q4etTpOAmTEzdnC1bR1qJAbVeM/s320/Bird%20kids%20murdered%20by%20bigotry%20Stephanie%20Winn%20meme%20Sept%202023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbmQxqbaQnNEVpIFudmjBC54vF6WbyIqsahcANWhIGK_dGOBr7gEj8A9opieR5lFfsVBrzJN-l7i-i3NB5oAHmumvZU3wLixcS2OQHIWe2sE-V8I8qeLrW-VBfcB-ZpYfjgdn1VDMcZPfqvym-8eatuCgDkKz-bNSVo-MhkjDYTUyjdz4UyHTk/s590/Strawmanning%20-%20opponent%20too%20strong%20build%20a%20fake%20one%20and%20argue%20with%20it%20instead%20-%20Stephanie%20Winn%20meme%20Sept%202023.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="589" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbmQxqbaQnNEVpIFudmjBC54vF6WbyIqsahcANWhIGK_dGOBr7gEj8A9opieR5lFfsVBrzJN-l7i-i3NB5oAHmumvZU3wLixcS2OQHIWe2sE-V8I8qeLrW-VBfcB-ZpYfjgdn1VDMcZPfqvym-8eatuCgDkKz-bNSVo-MhkjDYTUyjdz4UyHTk/s320/Strawmanning%20-%20opponent%20too%20strong%20build%20a%20fake%20one%20and%20argue%20with%20it%20instead%20-%20Stephanie%20Winn%20meme%20Sept%202023.JPG" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The Kingdom needs more "commenting" in this vein. That third meme there, though, is particularly relevant to this webzine ministry. How many <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/jesuses.htm" target="_blank">"straw-man Jesuses"</a> are there out there? Virtually every instance a detractor screeches something objectionable about "Jesus," it is because the "Jesus" they're addressing is one of these.</div></div><p>I'd wondered though, is there any of this meme action that can move people to understand more about how Cain's Legacy works through the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy? Share Christ in the most striking ways by highlighting that profound distinction between World and Kingdom? Really, do all the things Jesus did when He spoke particularly in parables?</p><p>Indeed, praying for more Stephanie Winn's out there, for sure.</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first image is of a now all-too-typical prison block housing complex, this one I believe is in San Francisco. The "These Systems Are Failing" video link is to the version without the music from Moby, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8" target="_blank">that one is here</a>.</span></p><p>__</p><p><br /></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-41931594472367311032023-09-11T19:04:00.016-07:002023-09-12T15:47:43.390-07:00The Capernaum Reality<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxAwTxAGj9VwLd9EcXycAhTcyPgMjBJayVcld9hvpAwEAC6o3lB4SBVoQtMsFg3ceKiemxKGTlPzHWPKYuBV_15ZB5eHZM7uMv8z1VhjJAACALj_Ka7Xdvyta1rP-xoRQTEWtFv4ApWqHbo-qs1P0mi6oLpu_HNRxGVIPoDmd30Xifttvxkma/s688/Small%20city%20like%20Capernaum%20Montpelier%20Vermont%20Sept%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="688" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxAwTxAGj9VwLd9EcXycAhTcyPgMjBJayVcld9hvpAwEAC6o3lB4SBVoQtMsFg3ceKiemxKGTlPzHWPKYuBV_15ZB5eHZM7uMv8z1VhjJAACALj_Ka7Xdvyta1rP-xoRQTEWtFv4ApWqHbo-qs1P0mi6oLpu_HNRxGVIPoDmd30Xifttvxkma/s320/Small%20city%20like%20Capernaum%20Montpelier%20Vermont%20Sept%202023.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Today is the day everyone is supposed to indulge deeply in the 9/11 mythology, and with it the fantasy that with the good-hands team of the happy wholesome ecclesiocratic hegemony you are really actually truly a very good person, while those other guys over there -- see them, if you don't we'll point them out to you -- they are <i>verry baaad</i>. Let's all seethe about them together, shall we?</div><p></p><p>I think of this day, however, as another anniversary, the 35th, this one of the day when I heard arguably the most sobering message from the pulpit I'd ever heard. Yes, it happened to be on September 11 too. I'd written about it in some length with <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2013/09/capernaum.html" target="_blank">this blog post from ten years ago</a>, but here's just a bit about it and why I'm augmenting it with a brief post here.</p><p>The first half of the message was about how wonderful Jesus' home small city was. Capernaum was the name of the place, nestled nicely right there on the northern shore of an idyllic sea, Galilee. There Jesus was doing His healing thing, His delivering thing, and His preaching thing -- and please, I do not mean to make light of any of that. But that is part of the point. <i>Everyone was thrilled.</i></p><p>My silly little young-adult mind was racing with a funky ebullience. I'd never known about any of this. Capernaum was like an extraordinarily delightful Christian theme park. Lots of cool rides, shows, food, fun, graphically arranged mythologies upon which to marvel.</p><p><i>But there was no repentance</i>.</p><p>There was no reckoning with reality, no grasping the magnitude of one's imminent journey on a fully greased slide to Hell, no understanding of one's abjectly filthy iniquitous condition and then from that gobsmacked by the mercy and grace and lovingkindness of a God who gave everything even in light of those horrors affecting not only your eternal destiny but that of every single individual who ever lived.</p><p>That was the second half of the message.</p><p><i>Just coming upon the middle the eleventh chapter of Matthew.</i></p><p>Oh my.</p><p>Jesus starts with Chorazin, then moves to Bethsaida, and finally comes to his own home small city Capernaum. All beautiful small cities with beautiful buildings and roads and landscaping and shopping. Annnd worship assemblies and conferences and concerts with the very best Christiany kinds of songs being sung for the very best good-feels. I'm sure there were those kinds of things too, and the pastor who shared his Capernaum message mentioned this as well.</p><p>In that sense, <i>it wasn't much different from our small cities.</i></p><p>Ahem. Then verse 20 in that 11th chapter.</p><p>I can't believe that several people didn't just take off after that, after Jesus said such heinously judgmental things like that. I have to think it was like what happened when Jesus sounded just a biiiit too judgmental in the sixth chapter of John -- you remember, "Eat my flesh, drink my blood," I mean that's just gross! Lots of His best friends had just had enough. But let's face it, Jesus does say pretty clearly that on that last day when we are all standing before the judgment seat of God, it will be more bearable for Sodom than it will be for Capernaum.</p><p><i>Ouch.</i></p><p>I mean, it is almost comical to use the word "Ouch," because the judgment on these places -- <i>and its people</i> -- will be so severe and final.</p><p>Note too the reference to Sodom, which we all know was judged for its sexual immorality <i>most notably </i>related to anything people today call LGBTQ. Today some high-minded Christian-like individuals try to dissemble all of that and say it really wasn't that and it was really something else...</p><p><i>So we can still all boast about how good and wholesome and righteous we all are!</i></p><p><i>So that even if we don't participate in the "pride" parade we can loudly virtue-signal about how tolerant and inclusive and splendidly wonderful we all are to these poor people!</i></p><p>I'll confess, that posted graphic is of a very nice small city in Vermont, and I love cities like that. I want to live and work and play and vibrantly interact with others there. I'm not making any judgment about the people there, I can't, that is God's job. <i>It is the law's</i> <i>job. </i>That picture is just there as a stock photo of <i>any</i> place that may very well be a modern-day Capernaum.</p><p>The more I read, the more I see how much Rome is indeed doing the work of Cain's Legacy and has done so through the ages. So few people realize that what is happening in our world all around us was done in some form eons ago, it just looked different. I am overwhelmed by the evidences of how much people revel in the ministry of sin and how much people use the ministry of condemnation against them and how much both of those things are all about Rome's legitimate business -- and how much all of it is made to look like a wholesomely good diversion or a grand Walt Disney distraction or nowadays an "A.I." generated simulacrum that let's-face-it is just that much better than anything that is actually real.</p><p>It's always has been this way, for millennia.</p><p>I have note after note after note to make mention of so much of it, but it is overwhelming. I don't have time. My ministry is in so many other places. But with this blog -- <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">and over in my webzine</a> -- I hope my readers will see the Capernaum reality. That Christ's massive Kingdom-full mercy outdistances any judgment that justifiably comes against any evildoer.</p><p>But you've got to see it and want it.</p><p>I like this ministry I have here -- I want to share more. I will. I just say that because I don't want to be seen as cutting out because I had intended to share this and that and this and that. But <i>::whew!:: </i>Then again, I so wrestle with this! As I shared <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/09/sometimes-wickedly-metastasized-folly.html" target="_blank">in my last post</a>, and in other places recently: what is the point when none of it penetrates the soul? I want to be a good insightful commentator, but I'm afraid I do join Tupper Saussy being discouraged when dismissed as a titillating circus barker. The former moves the worst of us like those in Nineveh listening to Jonah to genuinely repent and desire vibrant Kingdom dwelling...</p><p>The latter is just considered one of the many spectacularly spiffy blappers in Capernaum.</p><p>For now I invite you to first above all, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/" target="_blank">read His words</a>. Read them more. Read them again and again and again and never stop. Then there is my humble work at <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">my modest webzine</a>, only to point the reader to those words and to His Kingdom. Go there. Ask Him to lead you out of the benighted comforts of that small city. Not physically mind you! Stay there with your good strong body to minister Him and Kingdom to those who also may want out of the World!</p><p>But hand your soul to Him, and store <i>anything</i> you think is valuable in Heaven.</p><p>So much I wanted to add here, but it is a lot. Just for next time. Thank you for your readership.</p><p>___</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-29143950981061891592023-09-05T11:45:00.007-07:002023-09-05T16:50:48.594-07:00Sometimes the Wickedly Metastasized Folly is Hard to Bear<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAt9BkfXRdLbWXId4BuhXgzVq5Bldv7IjH-O0CLmkDR1GJHBfgJ64rUD2O79gM31qmfod7tPnglp1eFq-6udaWQuseodG0Qk8kQDaNcAigFyFXsHNSzu_0YGbujQF6bQ9fn27MlTlIoRQtuGvAXelqggTzz6Rbe-wJXVxk6Y9T9Rqqe5YNPN-/s437/More%20than%20conquerors.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="437" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPAt9BkfXRdLbWXId4BuhXgzVq5Bldv7IjH-O0CLmkDR1GJHBfgJ64rUD2O79gM31qmfod7tPnglp1eFq-6udaWQuseodG0Qk8kQDaNcAigFyFXsHNSzu_0YGbujQF6bQ9fn27MlTlIoRQtuGvAXelqggTzz6Rbe-wJXVxk6Y9T9Rqqe5YNPN-/s320/More%20than%20conquerors.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Another fine word from the Proverbs that I'd like to share. May I?<p></p><p>"The human spirit can endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?"</p><p>I will confess last night I pulled an entire post from my blog, one I'd written just that afternoon, and I'm not sure exactly why. The substance was still good, but my spirit just compelled me to do so. I've never done that before.</p><p>I could say this or that, but I do believe there was something that told me I was just being a troller. Or a trollee, doesn't matter. Even if I write something quite reasonable, in today's world in some real sense I'm just trolling. Or even responding to trolls and enabling their folly. An entrenched fool brashly spouting the System line isn't worth it.</p><p>I think of what my good friend Tupper Saussy said at the tail end of his ministry, just before he passed away in March 2007. <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXIX.htm#Chocolate%20Orchid" target="_blank">I wrote about it in this home page piece</a>, and it was about his dialing back his writing because he felt he was just being a commentator. He so wanted to get people to understand how wretchedly evil the System was, and was required to be -- and to summarily turn to Christ as The Deliverance from all that. Thing is when you say the same things over and over and over again and no one is really getting it -- well... I get it.</p><p>I think that's how I was feeling yesterday. I'd just pounded out a post with some more about the abject folly that doesn't just weave its way into destructively marauding public policy, <i>it is that policy</i>. The World System will do its thing based on the massive lie that people living richly in darkness choose to abide. Unless they come to Christ and dwell meaningfully in the Kingdom that is nowhere near the System, anything said to challenge the lie network is pointless.</p><p>Indeed I do feel a bit of despair about it all right now -- the reason for the Proverb mention. It'd be nice to see many churches becoming ungrafted as worship assemblies and exploding with the vibrancy they should be exhibiting. Maybe some are and I just don't know about it -- that's very possible because truly ungrafted communities worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth will never be showcased in any way by thoroughly constricted mainstream media as they would have no idea how to interpret it. </p><p>As it is it is my humble consideration that all the wicked ugliness that is spreading into the social mainstream like the lethal fungi in that HBO show <i>The Last of Us</i> -- huh, not a bad metaphor for what is happening to the souls of people now in this woefully benighted world -- that all of this is the incipient manifestation of the stunning things recorded in The Revelation.</p><p>Read that book after peeking at this folly-obsessed world and it is not hard to wonder how all the could happen. It could, easily, if the obsession with "A.I." gets going even more, <i>and it will</i>. If the climate change alarmists have their way and the inevitable result is catastrophic ecological turmoil. If the central banking cartels and crypto racketeers keep making foolish decisions stirring up the anger of the fixed-income savers and the like, eventually bringing economic calamity...</p><p>Then you've got The Book of Revelation, right there.</p><p>This is where everything is going. God would never want any of that to happen, but He knows it will happen for one reason: People want it because they abjectly refuse to not be such vicious fools. God has said over and over and over again, "What part of 'Don't do that lethally foolish thing' don't you understand?"</p><p>And people don't listen. You can see them not listening all around, and as it even says in Scripture written two thousand years ago it will get worse and worse and worse. In fact, yet again, He knew several millennia ago when He sent Cain out to build a city to prosecute those fools with seven-fold force. Since that time every single one of us has been tempted to roil or rebel or resist the duly ordained authorities, and those who succumb become an intricate component of the System.</p><p>While my spirit may despair observing the folly get bigger and badder and beastlier, God shares life words that are hope. While we see in Revelation Jesus returning in glory some time, the simple promises we can hold deep in our hearts do encourage today. The one I keep thinking about is that beatitude in the fifth chapter of Matthew. You know it.</p><p>"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."</p><p>That one keeps ringing in my heart, bless the Lord for that.</p><p>It is a difficult thing, something that can crush the spirit indeed, to look at the world all about and see the effects of the World and its destructive words.</p><p>Just need to turn around and just revel in dwelling by the beauty and glory of The Kingdom.</p><p><i>That's Him.</i></p><p>___</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The posted image is a nice biblical meme I clipped from a Facebook post by my friend Ben Bush.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-21740877506422069472023-09-02T13:24:00.007-07:002023-09-02T23:02:28.079-07:00There is No Such Thing as Freedom of Speech, Only Trolling Fields<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-10C4XFMwNQEwnZv8K0PU8m4OrF_-w8FORPaM1cv3r8YhvVCL2kQA1RuTtDIa3_0QBIG1eRjajKNb9NK5xL8fccWjg2Ap1zeDIUr9-FWu_WCrdKNxUxojUOjeZyaZiIb3jKq__-SS9dbRkYdNKcXtpdBEl60xg9yF6Ws9ILHNdt2bRTHnA-p/s453/Norman%20Rockwell%20print%20on%20freedom%20of%20speech.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="453" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-10C4XFMwNQEwnZv8K0PU8m4OrF_-w8FORPaM1cv3r8YhvVCL2kQA1RuTtDIa3_0QBIG1eRjajKNb9NK5xL8fccWjg2Ap1zeDIUr9-FWu_WCrdKNxUxojUOjeZyaZiIb3jKq__-SS9dbRkYdNKcXtpdBEl60xg9yF6Ws9ILHNdt2bRTHnA-p/w400-h381/Norman%20Rockwell%20print%20on%20freedom%20of%20speech.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I've come across an amazing proverb in the Bible that lends biblical weight to the idea that words murder. Wow do so many screech about how much they should be able to say ANYTHING THEY WANT DAMMIT, but the reality is different. That proverb, it is the ninth in the eleventh chapter:</div><p></p><p>"With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape."</p><p>People are going to say stuff no matter what any schnazzy founding document says about prohibitions against government suppression of expression. And no matter what stout proclamations are made or how many blap loudly JUST HOW MUCH FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER!!! -- words are life or they are death irrespective of any perceived <i>freedom</i> to do any given thing. As much as words are indeed death, they are human sacrifice if employed by Cain's duly authorized mandarins or those given over to their designs. (That, by the way, is mentioned in the 21st verse of the 18th chapter of Proverbs.)</p><p>They could very well be your neighbors, and they may certainly murder others with their words<i>. </i>We look at Norman Rockwell's iconic image of the dude standing proudly at the school board meeting courageously bellowing astoundingly righteous things, we can just hear it all ringing in our ears! Just look at him, he <i>must</i> be so wise and thoughtful and articulate, just sooo... <i>American.</i></p><p>What if that dude in the print is proudly spewing things like:</p><p>"All children should be allowed to undergo surgeries to match their perceived gender identity! You know, <i>for freedom of sexual expression!</i>"</p><p>"Tomorrow I'm launching my new invention to finally reach 'Net-Zero,' the one that will fully block the sun for the purpose of cutting down on all that rotten carbon dioxide! You know, <i>for freedom from bad weather!</i>"</p><p>"As the main financial support of every government official, I'm telling them they must get the pharmaceutical companies to apply some kind physical augmentation to everyone. You know, <i>for freedom from killing grandma!"</i></p><p>"I am also expressly requiring those officials to make sure everything is so equal in the community that everyone's homes and properties will be expropriated and the confiscated wealth be redistributed to even things out (except for me because I'm so smart and noble to put all this in motion)! You know, <i>for freedom from past injustices so we can have a perfectly wonderful world where no one will ever have anything less than anyone else!"</i></p><p>Well, ahem.<i> These contemptibly foolish things are already being said,</i> loudly, clearly, boldly, incessantly -- through the authoritative communication channels the Frankfurt School sought to commandeer a hundred years ago so the revolution against the oppressive could finally succeed. They are evil as all get out, as one prominent Christian podcaster said of some guy boasting that he self-identified as an eight year-old girl -- they are truly "Silence-of-the-Lambs level evil." "Abortion is health care." "All whites are racist." "Made-up computer numbers can be a legitimate form of currency." How many other things people say are, quite frankly...</p><p><i>Things said that destroy people.</i></p><p>Proverbs interlude. There is this one too, fourth chapter, 16th & 17th verses:</p><p>"For [the wicked] cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep <i>until they make someone stumble.</i> They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence." (Emphasis mine.)</p><p>Sorry, but it very much reminds me of the words Jesus shared with those who may have been a bit careless with their words. That whoever causes a child to stumble into sin should prefer to have a millstone tied to his or her neck and thrown into the sea. Yes, I confess it brutally hurts my heart to hear people screech like banshees that words do not murder. <i>They do.</i></p><p>I'm an educator and I'm out and about in the education world, and at a public high school district administrative office I was visiting I happened to come across a large basket of wrist bands. It was right there on the counter, the first thing you see when entering. All the wrist bands had different colors and combinations of colors, and all had the same message.</p><p>"Suicide Prevention."</p><p>These people just can't get that the message this sends is not a good one. Right away, whether one consciously thinks it or not, the words that instantly go right deep into the psyche of the observer are, "Huh, are there a lot of kids in this particular educational organization committing suicide? I mean, hmm, is it so much of a concern for them to have such a thing so prominently here? And what is behind this sentiment?"</p><p>Certainly there could any number of answers to those questions, but the reality is broached in the most striking way possible, with the statement, <i>with the words, </i>"Hey kid, killing yourself is there in your mind for whatever reason. If by chance it wasn't in there <i>it is now</i>. Don't do that or we'll all be really upset." It is very well-intended, but the message students get is no one at that place really gives a single shit about them (well, except to make a lot of nifty wrist bands, I guess there is that). Really it is just about the hifalutin older people feeling like there is something they can do to virtue-signal about how much they're trying to stop kids from killing themselves <i>how splendid for them! </i></p><p>Even worse is the thought, put right there into their brains because of the wrist bands, is that there are things happening at that place wherever those things are that are causing kids to think about killing themselves. Wow, what kind of place <i>is</i> this then?</p><p><i>It is a place where the words shared destroy lives, even souls. </i></p><p>These young people don't need to do anything except listen to all the words richly spewed there and on into the mainstream and it just isn't hard to see how much some young people may very well want to kill themselves. It isn't hard looking at those things our Norman Rockwell character could be saying that I cited there just above. </p><p>What makes these young people so much more vulnerable is the communication technology environment in which they live. Today's world is really just what I call a <i>trolling field, </i>everyone saying anything just to get someone else to respond, and so much of it is just puke to get people to puke back in anger. There are so many levels and shapes of cyberbullying now it is ghastly. The entire social media world is just one big cyberbullying conflagration, and young people are being incinerated in it.</p><p><i>Their souls -- oh my, they are just being destroyed by it all.</i></p><p>And just a quick note, as an educator I see all of this happening all over the young-people's world, this thing with the suicide prevention notice is just a concrete example I can share to make the point. It's been happening with greater intensity for years. There are dozens of different messages being "streamed" into that young-people's world that are just plain lethal.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8y5xhEykulC3ecokVk4IRng7sQAzk4NBefEV-3Fhugi1Q2oayxCNqYCTIyitHSZIRkMQsq3mcgRwzQzjRS6upkxrI8nASzEVyhqSQVqIsvZGngetMm8uFqC4kEExWayfqlQbLDC9xBRjmQLTa5q28ua10ffz3fEZRBgxC0FkmIvcA2ciS8KjU/s1068/Devil%20in%20our%20phones%20NYT%20Oct%202018.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="1068" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8y5xhEykulC3ecokVk4IRng7sQAzk4NBefEV-3Fhugi1Q2oayxCNqYCTIyitHSZIRkMQsq3mcgRwzQzjRS6upkxrI8nASzEVyhqSQVqIsvZGngetMm8uFqC4kEExWayfqlQbLDC9xBRjmQLTa5q28ua10ffz3fEZRBgxC0FkmIvcA2ciS8KjU/s320/Devil%20in%20our%20phones%20NYT%20Oct%202018.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A while back I saw a New York Times piece, many of you did too -- <i>a New York Times piece of all things</i>, the Times is one of the absolute worst violence gushers there is.<p></p><p>Anyway, the Times did a piece on Facebook ops admitting behind the scenes that all the cell phone and social media stuff is really not very good, especially for children. It was said this way...</p><p>"The devil is in our phones."</p><p>That was a number of years ago. I even <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXV.htm#devil" target="_blank">wrote a home page piece about it, it is here</a>. It might be added that it is even worse with the things people call "A.I," you know, the reality augmentation and information exploitation and all the rest of it. Yeah, it is bad, but it just isn't the technology. It is as simple as it has been for millennia and millennia.</p><p>Humans are evil -- every one of us, prone to the most insidious "Silence-of-the-Lambs" type evils. No, I'm not being misanthropic, most people with decent observation skills know this. The humanist materialist atheist agnostic Frankfurt School graduate simply cannot get that, however. "Everyone is good at heart <i>it is just the oppressive hegemony is bad.</i>"<i> </i>Indeed the Roman Catholic Eccesiocratically injected philosophy of Epicureanism, one that just about every one of those acolytes holds dearly, proficiently sanitizes those destructive evils.</p><p>Yes, with words. That is a huge part of the program. Never allow young people to see the truth of their predicament. They can do no wrong -- it is someone else's fault. Don't make them feel bad about themselves, instead lie to them so in spite of our benighted conditions we can at least <i>feel</i> like things are okay. Sweet frosting vanilla slathered over our sick burnt-charcoal hearts is really best, and if you still feel so bad that you want to off yourself just come over so we can try to tell you better lies.</p><p>Again, it is simple. The thing "freedom of speech" is just social saber-rattling, nothing more. Things get said and heard no matter what, so "freedom of speech" is meaningless. In fact the World System has always fastidiously managed the Overton Window because it needs people to hear the things they think need to be said. And yes, forgive me for being redundant here, <i>words kill</i>, and words emanating from the System do fulfill Cain's duty to carry out human sacrifice -- an operation far, far away from God's presence but still industriously managing the city as he must to prosecute evildoing.</p><p>Even if young people don't commit suicide, they are steeped in those words and are primed to go into their lives and livelihoods repeated in their psyches as if on autoplay. Again they think the things I put in the Norman Rockwell characters mouth up there are not only perfectly fine but should be shouted from the rooftops!</p><p>...Or promoted widely and interminably across the mainstream media airwaves so again, as they're convinced, the world will be a delightfully utopian place for everyone. It is indeed the <i>duty</i> of the new hegemony which, I hate to say, <i>is the exact same as the old one</i>. It just looks so spiffy with all its talk (ahh, those words again) of some kind of real liberation from the racist and sexist and whateverist oppression.</p><div>On the other hand, God in His phenomenal mercy made it so a number of people would write down His words, in a real sense words that comprise God's extraordinarily gracious invitation to His Kingdom. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+11&version=NIV" target="_blank">Many of His faithful servants</a> sharing those words were killed or imprisoned for doing so. Huh, they didn't have freedom of speech in <i>any</i> Americanist sense, but<i> they still got those words into the minds and hearts of people who want to live by the Kingdom instead.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Those words -- huh, they <i>are </i>very different from the thousands of imaginatively different kinds of words the World blares.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately anyone is either saying things that are Kingdom things, Jesus' things, biblical truths or principles that are actually about redemption and restoration and resurrection and healing and saving and <i>actual true living.</i> Or they are saying things that are World things, bilging from one's own iniquity and rage and rebellion, the things Cain's minions speak at the devil's behest. They are one or the other, however much "freedom of speech" is prattled about.</div><div><br /></div><div>All of this blog post is merely to add a few thoughts related to my <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">latest home page piece, over at the webzine</a>. Enjoy, and I only pray the words shared there, the words shared <i>here</i>, would move you to follow Christ more joyfully, to worship God more richly -- or perhaps if you do not know Him that you turn and ask Him to let you into the Kingdom to begin with. He will, but you've got to enter by Him, He's the Gate.</div><div><br /></div><div>A true wonderful matter, though, that He does that.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Oh the wonderful words He shares so we may...</i></div><div><i>__</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-6309056923555261512023-08-12T20:17:00.014-07:002023-08-15T11:34:20.099-07:00The Barbie Movie and the Finer Things, Epicurean Delight!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVRIPCiTPg0vBoEkIJ19tK9s-ifGoKi470qbcfqhsUgzWhrx5cXWqg6YSKXKQf_NGaCQJtuzeyrFmWWd8IgHD91lH2HAyi5PX9oCtFQPmpdhPfU6D1wemM6wRjBRWUXtXGtg6JCBegYrXhTGiBlGDxERCfurG1QrpXOQqISahJac78URHewGrc/s575/Metalhead%20robotic%20killer%20dog.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="575" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVRIPCiTPg0vBoEkIJ19tK9s-ifGoKi470qbcfqhsUgzWhrx5cXWqg6YSKXKQf_NGaCQJtuzeyrFmWWd8IgHD91lH2HAyi5PX9oCtFQPmpdhPfU6D1wemM6wRjBRWUXtXGtg6JCBegYrXhTGiBlGDxERCfurG1QrpXOQqISahJac78URHewGrc/s320/Metalhead%20robotic%20killer%20dog.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>A <i>Black Mirror</i> episode titled "Metalhead" is a standard cat and mouse tale with the relentlessly pursuing beast a weaponized robotic dog. Throughout you're rooting for the gal on the run, hoping she can ultimately find some way to get away, somehow stop the marauding advancement, perhaps even "kill" the robot to ensure its complete incapacitation -- just do <i>something</i> to be able to finally settle down and not fear this thing reaching her and killing her.<p></p><p>As with every <i>Black Mirror </i>episode, you can't help but think deeply about the story's implications. Here was the thought from me.</p><p><i>What if the pursued woman was actually the villain? </i></p><p>Meaning, what if the robotic killer dog was simply doing its duty to stop criminal behavior at the behest of a government charged with such prosecution in the name of keeping social order and decency?</p><p><i>Kind of what we all want from law enforcement?</i></p><p>I say this because in a world that seems to go madder and madder, there is always the commensurate call for someone with enough <i>ganas</i> to step up to the plate and get things back in order already. Well, with the super-duper advanced information processing technology getting exponentially more sophisticated every second, enforcers are on the job!</p><p>In fact, <i>why not have a legion of weaponized robotic thingies to hit the streets to stop all bad things? </i>What of it?</p><p>Here's a link to a <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/algorithm" target="_blank">recent piece by Caitlin Johnstone</a> about <i>The Algorithm</i>. I'd written a <a href="http://www.yourownjesus.net/archivesXII.htm#Financial%20Singularity" target="_blank">home page piece</a> years ago about this new god, the one so many now are worshipping -- now frequently calling it the "A.I." as if someone will some time invent the perfect thinking contraption and after they do, <i>ZOWWIE</i>! Perfect nirvana-quality utopia all around! It'll be able to figure everything out perfectly and nothing will be bad anymore!...</p><p><i>Except for one thing</i>...</p><p>What about <i>me?</i> I'm a pretty nasty evildoer, only rescued by the saving grace of my Lord, the only begotten Son of God. Even clothed in His righteousness I'm sure they'll still come after me, after all I do make these horrific kinds of claims that Jesus is the Only Way to any blissful existence after death. Jesus even told those of us who say intolerant things like that will be dragged before the magistrates and likely something not-very-nice will happen. </p><p>Thing is, really, it is biblical by the way: <i>we all deserve to be dragged before the magistrates.</i> Thank goodness now there are such things as extraordinarily adroit robot something-er-others to take care of that business.</p><p><i>Excepppt...</i></p><p>No one wants that.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGENYGxzG2Hr3rKdiNzZoUKL_GJJXurSpe3Mb_76Fi01YkUj7Q8SMcwnc-kJP2XFbfQhV7If06jj_KIEDoXqmpFNhxpB8S-PJ05dvarjmihxUXznDTEyiCJRUsvHobSJ_iReX5A-ajd1_D10NpYMNYF6PqBB76hOKs_m10ijlEegkmfJeFO6pM/s557/Klaus%20Schwab%20and%20total%20transparency%20in%20new%20world%20in%20interview%20Aug%202023.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="494" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGENYGxzG2Hr3rKdiNzZoUKL_GJJXurSpe3Mb_76Fi01YkUj7Q8SMcwnc-kJP2XFbfQhV7If06jj_KIEDoXqmpFNhxpB8S-PJ05dvarjmihxUXznDTEyiCJRUsvHobSJ_iReX5A-ajd1_D10NpYMNYF6PqBB76hOKs_m10ijlEegkmfJeFO6pM/s320/Klaus%20Schwab%20and%20total%20transparency%20in%20new%20world%20in%20interview%20Aug%202023.jpg" width="284" /></a></div>So, how about full transparency, just like Klaus Schwab promises. Let's all stick our lives and livelihoods out in the open for all to see so there won't be any worries any more. And really, the Bible does say everything done in secret will be shouted from the rooftops. Why can't the "New World Order" do that business for us?<p></p><p><i>The Algorithm's already doing it</i>. It cracks me up to see so many screech and scream about this biometric identification system and that social credit scoring apparatus and <i>::rawr:: ::rawr:: ::rawr:: </i>It's already happening. In fact it's been happening for centuries and centuries, it just hasn't been so technologically sophisticated.</p><p>What is so perverse is that there is now some critical mass of insecure exhibitionist-minded people out there doing the spouting themselves regarding their newfound sexual immorality. "Look at me and how much of a <i>new kind of person I am! </i>Celebrate me and my new identity! Tell me how courageous I am so I can feel virtuous when I know deep within I am not!"</p><p>The peeping Algorithm God? <i>::Pshaw::</i> The raging concupiscence has not only metastasized, <i>it's institutionalized.</i> But then again, much <i>much</i> better for the vast overarching sin management operation that is indeed the Great Grand World System and all its spectacularly fun Barbie-movie propaganda blitherings.</p><p>It is going to get worse and there is nothing you can do about it. Read The Revelation at the back of your Bible for goodness sake. Literally, for <i>your</i> goodness' sake because it is pretty ruthless, how the virulent evildoing of humankind comes to an end.</p><p>Jesus in your heart mightily gripping your soul right now is the only thing -- that's it, period.</p><p>I share all this in relation to that Barbie movie because I was thinking about <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-barbie-movie-people-are-actually.html" target="_blank">my post from last time</a>, just a couple days ago, and thought about the men who should be out being men and what that means. I put down, essentially, being a man means praying. Yep, that's really what I put down. Praying. I thought, huh, I don't think that is going to seem very manly to the genuinely masculine-expressive men out there. It just doesn't seem to have a whole lot of kick-ass opportunities in there anywhere.</p><p><i>But it does</i>. </p><p>It is just not the things the World System wants you to do, and has been sloshing about for eons to try to convince men that's the way they should behave.</p><p>To be clear, the Kingdom has exceptionally kick-ass ways for men to be the best Kingdom-bringers they could be. They can be earthmovers and builders and warriors and just plain good compelling leaders in the service of Christ -- <i>but againnnn... </i>just not the way the World does.</p><p>That Barbie movie? Really just a tool of the World to mold and shape and form the Ecclesiocratic mythology to keep both men and women viciously engaged in the Culture War, indeed as a proficient way to keep them and their sinful behavior corralled without doing too much to keep it from manifesting itself in the most lethal ways.</p><p>Make both women and men feel so impotent that they end up destroying themselves, much by keeping them fully sold out to one of the most effective philosophies for World devotees to clutch: <i>Epicureanism</i>. You could see it just explode off the screen, and it is woven into pretty much now every single motion picture that gushes into our craniums.</p><p>It is the idea that there is really nothing but matter, nothing beyond what you can physically perceive, but in the name of tolerance it is a good thing to be nice to the religious folk who hold to superstitions like this Jesus fellow. Be ferocious about your devout materialism -- after all that is really what all the truly smart people think, but be exceedingly polite and very smiley so your rabid commitment to the most tyrannical humanism can come shining through -- everyone can see how spifftastically not-mean you are and that you truly believe every human being is good at his/her/their/zher core.</p><p>The Barbie movie was exploding with this -- there is nothing but atoms and void, and as such, each of us can make our own world. I dunno, do I want to be a man? Do I want to be a woman? Can we all just reform and reshape and even just plain destroy the old stodgy social constructs and rebuild new ones in bright pleasant rainbow colors so I can have everyone accept me for my own chosen self-identification?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmNcILQaeL56OkXHH-iQYo8_BlpPkSXXzn_3cMGOaU-wu_PsUFrkK5C3Zbpqonbvu54N0ctCo3aUeKQNz_33QBzBbKoui6KWQ3t66LvxRYqGg4GXfThALrhM_MEvHgrYd5At6biWT_wV_ZPysYFI62_qb1ruXqlrbSRnqCoKf5-0WXxloWb4Y/s791/Angry%20Barbie.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="791" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmNcILQaeL56OkXHH-iQYo8_BlpPkSXXzn_3cMGOaU-wu_PsUFrkK5C3Zbpqonbvu54N0ctCo3aUeKQNz_33QBzBbKoui6KWQ3t66LvxRYqGg4GXfThALrhM_MEvHgrYd5At6biWT_wV_ZPysYFI62_qb1ruXqlrbSRnqCoKf5-0WXxloWb4Y/s320/Angry%20Barbie.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Wow, how much the Frankfurt School dogma has infected the psyche of the body politic. I too fear for the young people so taken in by all this, encouraged by all the adults too many of whom are just children themselves just in grown-up bodies, <i>who themselves</i> were raised by big-people children who never left the 1960s. I don't know about you but teenagers and young adults today are the most insolent, rude, disrespectful, arrogant, defiant, whiny, self-absorbed people on the planet. Not all of them, I don't want to generalize too much, forgive me... but waaay too many are.<p></p><p><i>And they are dying from it.</i></p><p>So what can men, indeed women too, do to truly be mature adults who may indeed fancy themselves followers of Christ? Besides praying like maniacs, they can absorb Scripture like maniacs too, and labor fastidiously to get His words deep into their souls. They can meet with others who are like-minded and want nothing else but to be the men and women Christ made them to be -- worshipping Him in Spirit and in Truth then speaking with one another with conviction about all these things that are ravaging the world around them and then...</p><p><i>And then...</i></p><p>Making themselves available.</p><p>Making themselves available as Christ with His healing and saving words to those who may just see the awfulness of this world overrun by Frankfurt School ideologues on one hand and a law enforcement operation that is getting much meaner and badder with more and more "A.I." enabled prosecution horrors.</p><p><i>All of it very there, very not-going-anywhere...</i></p><p>All of it there so that those with Christ on their lips can share Him with those who want out.</p><p>And yes, I do believe part of the manliness of authentically Christian men can be vibrantly expressed in seriously working to be ungrafted to all of that. It takes a great deal of godly courage to abjure the realm. Yes, get your worship assemblies <i>out</i> of the filthy morass of World System drudgery. Men, you want to be men who want some kick-ass action? Gather together in prayer and then <i>work out getting your families and worship communities ungrafted</i>. <a href="http://www.yourownjesus.net/ungrafted.htm" target="_blank">Here's a page</a> I put together regarding churches, and <a href="http://www.yourownjesus.net/ungraftedbusiness.htm" target="_blank">here's a page</a> I put together regarding businesses. <a href="http://www.yourownjesus.net/acts2church.htm" target="_blank">Here's another one</a> with some thoughts about what an ungrafted church should look like.</p><p>If you're fully in Christ genuinely loving anyone with whom you have to do. what do you have to do with such contractual obligations? They <i>are </i>terrific for those who need them! This is precisely why all the Barbie mythology stuff and sodomist stuff and racialist stuff and "A.I." stuff with all its super-advanced algorithms and biometric surveillances and weaponized drones and <i>all of it</i> is so all-over-the-place -- it is made that way because people ask for it and they behave in ways where it is very necessary!</p><p><i>Otherwise...</i></p><p><i>__</i></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image of the robotic killer dog from <i>Black Mirror</i> is a standard photo posted everywhere on the web. The Klaus Schwab take was assembled from a video posted on Twitter. The screenshot of the angry Barbie was taken from the cosmicbook.news website, thank you.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-41132363530088040952023-08-10T18:01:00.009-07:002023-08-12T08:43:03.511-07:00The Barbie Movie People Are Actually Doing Us All a Big Favor<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhawd_CklPoadao_cucE2L_nCrlnWxVSYKBZy5S06BJSB-jcJxmUeKJ10FnF5--8V56tIfi0NXzSDbr-iQwunVyxe2BkpMHycqTzKjEVouXVzlbOuIP0dXcZKNFVlIsjVUyco3qgIlu5z_o_b0YimOvLmGCr-A-1FSodXer7HxOSCAKzlazqC-s/s747/Barbie%20in%20charge%20Ken%20being%20the%20way%20Barbie%20wants%20him%20to%20be%20in%20the%20back%20seat%20taken%20from%20the%20Jerm%20Warfare%20site%20Aug%202023.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="747" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhawd_CklPoadao_cucE2L_nCrlnWxVSYKBZy5S06BJSB-jcJxmUeKJ10FnF5--8V56tIfi0NXzSDbr-iQwunVyxe2BkpMHycqTzKjEVouXVzlbOuIP0dXcZKNFVlIsjVUyco3qgIlu5z_o_b0YimOvLmGCr-A-1FSodXer7HxOSCAKzlazqC-s/w400-h224/Barbie%20in%20charge%20Ken%20being%20the%20way%20Barbie%20wants%20him%20to%20be%20in%20the%20back%20seat%20taken%20from%20the%20Jerm%20Warfare%20site%20Aug%202023.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Hey how about this anniversary! Another one! 100 years too! If we traditionally count the beginning of the school year as officially end of August, beginning of September, then juuust abouuut riiight abouuut now is the 100th anniversary to the <i>day</i> of the opening of the Frankfurt School, back then in 1923. The <i>Frankfurter Schule</i>, or sometimes Institute of Social Research, acclaimed for their robust promotion of Critical Theory All-Kinds-of-Things-Related-to-Establishing-Spiffy-Ways-to-Destroy-the-Evil-Oppressive-Hegemony-and-at-the-Same-Time-Sending-Millions-of-Souls-to-Hell-in-Doing-So, is indeed 100 years old right about now. Yay!<p></p><p>You can see much of the Frankfurt School's product in this massively popular movie that came out a couple weeks ago, <i>Barbie,</i> all about a Frankfurt School acolyte's vision of a real-life Barbie fantasy world -- really to make the point. The point is <i>men need to turn it around and submit to the nicer kinder women running things for a while</i>, and then things will be splendid. Not quite there yet because so much of the evil patriarchy is still in the way, but this movie'll help make it clear.</p><p><i>Give the matriarchy a chance!</i></p><p>To be honest we've kind of been doing that for a while, again thanks to the now marauding precepts of the Frankfurt School's curriculum, that anyone considered a victim of the older white male hegemonist has legitimate recourse now. And trust me, I do get it -- precisely why the <i>Barbie</i> movie is doing us a favor. It exposes this desire for freedom from the hegemony, which is actually a reality as embodied in the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy. The problem is <i>you can only do three things with that hegemony.</i></p><p>One, be a card-carrying member and as such be an obsequiously servile part of the tyranny. You are more than welcome to kick ass from within the Ecclesiocracy against whatever bad things there are because Cain's Legacy is thriving today as much as it was the first day several millennia ago when it was put into motion as described in the fourth chapter of Genesis.</p><p>Two: <i>Resist! Rebel! Revolt! Rage and rant and rail and reprove and remonstrate and do anything else mean and ferocious that starts with an "R"!</i> The Frankfurt School people must be proud of the work <i>Barbie</i> does to showcase the success they've had to commandeer the channels of media to take the valiant rebellion right into the living room where kids are playing with their toys -- especially those horrifically victimized young ladies and their play dolls. Che Guevara Barbie! Wonder if they have any of those on the Toys 'R Us shelves?</p><p>Three, the one so few adopt. It is simple. <i>Accept.</i> The Roman Catholic Ecclesiocratic hegemony does what it does, it must -- leave it be. The only way <i>that</i> approach is meaningful is if men -- and women! -- are <i>first</i> on their knees praying, <i>then </i>standing up and getting out and speaking with conviction to those ravaged by this stuff, but doing so with inviting souls so they know they are about healing and salvation and fellowship and the most vibrant deliverance from the devil's grip.</p><p>The seething people leading the revolution against the hegemony-- oh my, how many have there been in history? What is this, the 89,219th I think it is? -- crusading for that special emotional high that <i>you're doing something dammit! </i>Over and over and over again, the provocation by the Ecclesiocracy in some new imaginative way -- gotta admit the Barbie movie is quite the spectacle -- then the expected enraged uprising, then the vicious pushback by a salivating horde of enforcers authorized to respond in kind.</p><p>It's all there, quite virulently rational -- look at a couple of pieces I'd like to direct your attention to in this blog post.</p><p><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/08/10/angry-young-men-are-going-to-disrupt-the-garbage-paradigm-n2626783" target="_blank">One is from Kurt Schlichter</a>, one of the very best rabble-rousing pundits there is. This piece though hits the mark, and he sees the culture war for what it is. Society today has simply become, forgive me, but it is true, it has become <i>too wussified</i>. Too many Lysistrata-minded women have taken the controls of social policy and it is wreaking havoc on everything. What happens when profoundly afflicted young men start to really gather what is happening with all of it?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Av_cXjOhyB5x2xNXa4t_fx5LZULJEI5kg3E0R1QGVyKbXulg37OuiPGFUq9Bbtp-phjORcx4To_k3HjaTTy8Hc82QZHJPG3CgeRNGkcGgtDGDz5fFux8ximaoHPpEXGyjcySjWsRF3sBJJlZSYB-oRWdcWxMA3UxuwqSryQwy4YSNbYmn45Y/s503/Allow%20migrants%20into%20your%20homes%20-%20note%20how%20the%20men%20are%20in%20the%20back%20and%20at%20the%20side%20with%204%20women%20prominent%20up%20front%20-%20Courage%20Is%20A%20Habit%20Aug%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="466" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Av_cXjOhyB5x2xNXa4t_fx5LZULJEI5kg3E0R1QGVyKbXulg37OuiPGFUq9Bbtp-phjORcx4To_k3HjaTTy8Hc82QZHJPG3CgeRNGkcGgtDGDz5fFux8ximaoHPpEXGyjcySjWsRF3sBJJlZSYB-oRWdcWxMA3UxuwqSryQwy4YSNbYmn45Y/w370-h400/Allow%20migrants%20into%20your%20homes%20-%20note%20how%20the%20men%20are%20in%20the%20back%20and%20at%20the%20side%20with%204%20women%20prominent%20up%20front%20-%20Courage%20Is%20A%20Habit%20Aug%202023.JPG" width="370" /></a></div>I caught this news item from Massachusetts this morning, public officials asking people to step it up and start taking care of the migrants. Didn't these people know this was going to happen, like, <i>years</i> ago? That unchecked, mismanaged immigration would blast a hole in the country's social infrastructure? Sorry, but a woman's compulsion to be compassionate and nurturing (a really very good thing when employed properly) cannot be wisely applied to the billion or so people who really want to make their way into our country. Hey, no one denies that it'd be nice if people in other benighted countries had better lives! But <i>this</i>... <p></p><p>Thing is look at the image from the Twitter post. Four women front and center, with the few men marginalized -- off to the side, in the back. It is a perfect picture of today's world -- emasculated men ceding their moral authority to women who simply do not have the -- excuse me again -- <i>the balls</i> to think carefully about what they are doing in leadership roles they simply should not be holding.</p><p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/next-generation-being-groomed-destruction-heres-why-they-are-vulnerable" target="_blank">Another piece is from Brandon Smith</a> over at <i>Alt-Market</i>, posted at the ZeroHedge site. He too gets into it, very articulately describing the idiotic world in which we all find ourselves. I'd like to transcribe just one paragraph that shares a lot, quite exquisitely, about this whole wretched ill-feminized and sodomized hellscape.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px;">Masculinity is now admonished as predatory and women are encouraged to treat male advances as a threat. The left is systematically de-sexualizing straight people. At the same time, they are hyper-sexualizing LGBT people to the point that Pride Parades are applauded for grotesque displays in the streets in front of children. Young straight men are entering into a dating world which tells them that if they have no interest in “trans women” they are bigoted and evil.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p>I have always wondered, really, how many men would really have even a thought of enjoying even one single minute of any kind of romantic interaction with a trans woman, a man who tries to be a woman? How many men really want to have any real interaction at all with Hedwig and his angry inch? How many men want to even remotely be in the situation Stephen Rea character's found himself in <i>The Crying Game</i> when he discovers the girl he thought he liked was really a guy? I'd say 99.999% of men would run a million MPH away from that. And the 0.001% who'd say they'd be okay with it are simply virtue-signaling about how much they don't want to be thought transphobic or homophobic or some other ugly epithet that keep all these people from acknowledging reality.</p><p>All this <i>Barbie</i> movie stuff is again absolutely destroying society, yet it is precisely designed to be doing that very thing for exactly the reason we see metastasizing before our very eyes. The culture war is getting hotter and hotter and there have already been legions of casualties -- real actual lives lost because of it. The drug overdoses, the suicides, racialist street murders, not to mention deaths from the pharma culture that includes the Covid vaccines -- and just wait until the green energy stuff gets <i>really</i> entrenched. I like how the left likes to talk about this genocide <i>here</i> and that genocide <i>there -- </i>just wait until the hifalutin climate change alarmists get <i>their </i>way.</p><p>The crazy thing about all this is that it is all <i>biblical</i>. You can read about every single thing here happening in Scripture. God tells people to live lives of faithfulness and righteousness and obedience to the very things <i>He already said was good for good living and good things happening among all of us.</i> But He was also very, <i>very</i> clear: If you don't, then okay, that's your choice, in fact, if you continue to believe a lie, you'll become so calcified in believing that lie that you'll never see the truth, the reality.</p><p>Wow, do those believing the leftist stuff -- are they true believers. Are they so given over to their lie it just seems like, as one of those pundits put it, arguing against them is like arguing against a brain tumor. Sadly it is the same for the true believer Catholicists. They're just as ferocious! Are <i>they</i> so given over to the power of Caesar to somehow wave a magic wand of institutional constitutional legalistical hegemonic smack-a-whack-a-dacka to put the baaad things back into their little hole-in-the-ground.</p><p>Hate to say it, but none of it is coming back. The big lie is out there, and really it has been out there sucking people into it's voracious maw since the beginning of humankind. We just see different apparitions of it right now -- those World Ops are so very clever. It's their job to make different blazing scenarios for us to leap into the conflagration.</p><p><i>Thank God Almighty for the Kingdom</i>.</p><p>There is freedom from all that there, in Christ, with His nail-scarred hands and feet reaching out.</p><p><i>Wow.</i> That there is that.</p><p>Thank you <i>Barbie </i>movie people for showing us the abject wickedness of a pukifying <i>Barbie</i> matriarchy. It is as heinously ugly as any parts of the hegemonic slugfest that accelerates all around us, and it is excruciatingly sad that it has to be this idea that the masculine must wage war against the feminine. When you destroy all the healthy social constructs that enable us to righteously grasp real "manness" and real "womanness" among the human beings with whom we must do for everyone's benefit, when you destroy those things in the name of zealously following whatever the Frankfurt School has told us so no one will call us mean or anything...</p><p><i>You get death</i>.</p><p>That's really it.</p><p>In the Kingdom there is life.</p><p>He is Life. Leave that hellscape and go to Him.</p><p>Really.</p><p>In reality.</p><p>And live beautifully and joyfully and wonderfully as He made you to be --</p><p><i>And redeemed you to be with His own life.</i></p><p>__</p><p><br /></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-65936116970582062023-07-14T17:15:00.020-07:002023-07-15T10:55:46.399-07:00The July 14th Celebration of the Pretend Freedom Everyone Thinks They Have<p>Today is July 14th and you know what that means. We all get to think deeply and longingly about all those who heroically STORMED THE BASTILLE! We can contemplate what it means to FIGHT THE MAN! We can labor maniacally to keep any misled potentate from infringing on MY PERSONAL FREEDOM DAMMIT! Except that over 100,000 French law enforcement agents have been mobilized for today's festivities... you know, because the last few weeks have been a riot of freedom in France, <i>literally</i>, and... you know, having law enforcement breathing down your necks at every corner is the very definition of freedom.</p><p>No, really, <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/07/july-14-1523-birth-of-modern-world.html" target="_blank">the red-letter date July 14</a> should be celebrated for the launching of the ship <i>Negrona</i> from Venice <i>en route</i> to Cyprus then Haifa to bestow upon the newly emerging brilliant militant operative, recently blessed with the authority to govern the World by Pontifex Maximus, all the iconographic insignia handed down from Cain when he was first awarded the duty of managing the planet's vast evildoing network.</p><p>It is a duty that is still carried out today by the same group of militant ops, as it must by divine appointment on behalf of all those without Christ clothed in His righteousness that is the thing that governs their behavior. Without it, there is the law, and the law enforcement apparatus itself including all the ruses designed to elicit, encourage, energize, and expose the sin of every reprobate human being yet to come to repentance, believe on Christ, and dwell securely in The Kingdom. </p><p>One of those ruses is a simple one, but sobering to grasp because so many of every ideological stripe hold firmly to it.</p><p><i>I am free and freedom is the best thing to fight for!</i></p><p>Oh the number of times I hear that, almost every time spewed in a tone that would make Patrick Henry proud. There is, however, a Truth Rule this sentiment is violating, and I'll share it with you now.</p><p>The Truth Rule:</p><p><i>No one is free, no one. Every single individual is enslaved, every one of us, enslaved.</i></p><p>Period. Full stop. Mic drop. End of Truth Rule. That's it.</p><p><i>That's the Truth Rule.</i></p><p>And yes, it is biblical. You can look it up, particularly in the sixth chapter of Romans. <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-romans-6-factor.html" target="_blank">I blogged a bit</a> about that too, earlier, but I don't think too many people got it. I know not many people are getting it when they go to church and happen to come across that passage, because if they did actually respect that truth there'd be way more Kingdom people getting it and responding as the Kingdom-bringers God seeks.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlsfdQevlB85TfkpYjyHAQG998r3PK5rUa7DCjHJOl6rmStD6KpHXnWnoi6GqAiM-C_kFu8AbBrfHOOtAzgS1AR20C9SLbse_J2VS7sn7NCgkv--DpLVmuYDyatny9vJb2qvY_pNnCxjuI_u4vmdse7Q0Lk_NwCDs1yC9VrYTz6X52bHueLi64/s503/Free%20in%20USA%20Today%20with%20Kesha%20II.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="309" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlsfdQevlB85TfkpYjyHAQG998r3PK5rUa7DCjHJOl6rmStD6KpHXnWnoi6GqAiM-C_kFu8AbBrfHOOtAzgS1AR20C9SLbse_J2VS7sn7NCgkv--DpLVmuYDyatny9vJb2qvY_pNnCxjuI_u4vmdse7Q0Lk_NwCDs1yC9VrYTz6X52bHueLi64/w394-h640/Free%20in%20USA%20Today%20with%20Kesha%20II.JPG" width="394" /></a></div>I thought I'd add this photograph, one taken of a newspaper advertisement I pulled out of an old stack of papers I'd been going through. It is from some USA Today issue, and I imagine the individual in the ad is someone named "Ke$ha," I absolutely have no idea who she is, forgive me Ke$ha fans.</div><p></p><p>What I do know is the word "free" is in pretty gargantuan font so you don't miss it -- guess it's pretty important -- and in the image she does seem to be lobbying loudly for this thing FREEDOM. It has to be good, she's got red-white-&-blue sequins on her shorts and she looks so ferocious.</p><p>What has captured my attention lately is how much more ferocious everyone seems to continue to be about this thing. Again, it doesn't matter if you are liberal or conservative, radical or reactionary, left or right, socialist or capitalist, atheist or God-fearer, <i>everyone seems to feel freedom is the most important thing and we can all agree on that and all of us fighting together for it is worth it.</i></p><p>Now I get why they think this, I do. In fact <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/07/7127.html" target="_blank">I also recently blogged</a> on the now pretty widely acclaimed film, <i>Sound of Freedom</i> about children who are definitely not free when they are kidnapped and forced into interminably long participation in sex cult or labor camp activity. Anyone with a smidgen of heart would rail against that. I also get that most of the freedom things people rage in favor of are the US Constitution-type things -- mostly the ability to live one's life without too much interference from government when you object about things, especially when a lot of people hear you or read your objections or gather with you to shake your fist at anything <i>government</i>.</p><p>Economic freedom means if you've been able to learn a trade and hold a job and care for a home and family <i>of your choice</i> then you, <i>::ahem::,</i> have a certain amount of freedom -- whereas in other countries... well, most people <i>don't</i> have those freedoms.</p><p><i>So take a hike with yer "There is no freedom!" talk you filthy commie!</i></p><p>Ouch.</p><p>In fact I will briefly add this. While I don't very often respond to anything on Twitter, mostly because I always feel I'm just enabling trollers, one time last week I did respond to a tweet from a pastor who wrote he didn't celebrate this new thing, "Juneteenth." I added the following comment, I'll post it here for you:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqHoLY6G2voNSHwZxe8kQvDkSImQXiI5pIi7iBHwXQwJPHWq73XxXbVHZnDjPiaFxIlAtWFVQQbpOsXPkwllQzD-ZAPUd9-lbMBFq_OgEe-pntQwPOq7a3zfpSwVSmP0ibRHxwlwOzJjMXSDAZ1Z1qsGsY6WT8CEBycseQCThGBObYllDo-PQU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="119" data-original-width="520" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqHoLY6G2voNSHwZxe8kQvDkSImQXiI5pIi7iBHwXQwJPHWq73XxXbVHZnDjPiaFxIlAtWFVQQbpOsXPkwllQzD-ZAPUd9-lbMBFq_OgEe-pntQwPOq7a3zfpSwVSmP0ibRHxwlwOzJjMXSDAZ1Z1qsGsY6WT8CEBycseQCThGBObYllDo-PQU=w640-h146" width="640" /></a></div><p>See those eight comments there? I could share a few of those here too, but I won't. I will say every one of them was the worst seething against this truth you could ever see. I could feel the vitriol fired at this idea, one of which was "What does this have to do with 'Juneteenth'?" A few others referenced how much they feel the Bible makes the kind of American antebellum slavery happen, others questioned my credentials as a real Christian.</p><p>How much the World System has hypnotized so many. You can see the fruit of that seduction with what is shared at the very bottom of the Ke$ha ad, the idea that we can be whoever and whatever we want. Sorry, <i>you can't</i>. This benighted trope is the very thing that has moved so many young people to destroy their beautiful lives and their good, whole, God-given sexuality by even thinking of "transitioning."</p><p>It really isn't even the sexuality thing that is the important element here. It is the idea that someone should be "free" to turn themselves into anything they want, in essence, <i>that they can be their own god and create themselves how they want to be created</i>. It is the idea that if you don't show yourself to be your own god with the power to declare yourself some kind of radically different kind of human being then you are weak, impotent, and worst of all foolishly subject to the oppressive heteropatriarchy. Sorry, but this is a mental and emotional activity that is completely divorced from reality and is actually conditioned by demonic forces who commission those ordained World ops to inject those things into the mainstream.</p><p>Talk about enslavement.</p><p>What about the freedom we have in Christ? Doesn't Scripture speak several times about the freedom we have in Him, that "the truth will set you free"?</p><p>Well, <i>::ahem:: </i>again, <i>that's exactly the point.</i></p><p>You can never truly be free until you accept your enslavement to one of those potentates, Christ or Caesar. When you choose Caesar, you'll either continue being strapped in on the roller coaster ride of sin, prosecution (in some form), sin, prosecution, sin, prosecution -- maybe agonizing bouts of remorse thrown in -- or you'll see the futility of all that and turn to Christ where there is true freedom <i>but only in your enslavement to the Holy Spirit and His righteousness. </i>It is only there where you will find your true self, given back to you by Christ because you desire your identity and your destiny rest in Him, not in any of the idols you worshipped in your previous life.</p><p>Giving all that up and finding your permanent home with Him brings the joyfully ongoing discovery of Him, His Kingdom, and all that He has for you -- yes, you yourself as He has now redeemed you and your soul. <i>This</i> <i>is the true freedom</i>. Look at what He says in the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Mark: "[You will] receive a hundred times as much in the present age: homes, brothers, sisters..." Read the entire chapter, indeed all of Mark to get a terrific idea of what The Kingdom is about and what genuine freedom is about.</p><p>Finally, what is still lost on so many is that the World System that does the work of Caesar is an authoritative, legitimate operation that has been humming along perfectly fine for millennia. It is near comical to think all the people hitting the streets will do anything about their pretend freedom. In fact all that marching and protesting and sign-waving and rioting and raping and pillaging and just plain sneering into the camera yelling into the microphones has not only been done for thousands of years over the course of every epoch -- really, read your history books, fascinating reading until it just gets boring because it is the same every time, really. Over and over and over people railing and roiling over the ivory tower bad guys in worship of their idol <i>Libera</i>...</p><p>But it is also the very best rocket fuel to power Cain's Legacy. What is good to know is God has insisted Caesar declare his intentions, purposes, and ministrations with that Mark Cain was assigned so people will know who they are addressing. This is precisely why Kingdom dwellers might just take note of the magnitude of <i>Negrona</i>'s voyage launch exactly 500 years ago today, it was carrying that Mark and ensuring the present-day World Ops have it and use it for full identification. If World devotees do their raging and rebelling against the authoritative sin manager, that's on them, and woe to them should they face that seven-fold vengeance force.</p><p>And wow do so many go right on into all of that. All the time. How often I hear someone say that Thomas Jefferson once said, something like, "A good revolution once in a while is a healthy thing." Music to the ears of the current rabidly infuriated activist! And yes, I do believe the Culture War conflagration <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/07/7127.html" target="_blank">will get worse</a>.</p><p>Thing is, are there Kingdom-bringers out and about who are rapturously enslaved to Christ to let others know that bondage to the Kingdom is the one they actually want whenever they think they're seeking freedom? If they get Christ they have actual freedom, if they don't they just have more distressing bondage to the World System.</p><p>Not sure about the distinction? Here, take a look-see at the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+25&version=NIV" target="_blank">25th chapter of Matthew</a>. Praying God speaks to you in an extraordinarily powerful way after that.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM89eYuJNcZFeh9BOD8-4VSa1IP9fsOKTKi72g_carPX4YoMuT0-Wid80aZdprcXJBMyjGH8ixS4WlcrQkth3ZiracyNjfqm_cc5E8DDhLj0R84VMNn7ciVrSDAeZrcdM_WuqKAI693n-v11YKmu_uNMKMA1SNFOHt_XgBFDwXJ8__EgIKZJT2/s568/Depart%20from%20me%20I%20never%20knew%20you%20is%20the%20scariest%20thing%20ever%20meme%20July%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="568" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM89eYuJNcZFeh9BOD8-4VSa1IP9fsOKTKi72g_carPX4YoMuT0-Wid80aZdprcXJBMyjGH8ixS4WlcrQkth3ZiracyNjfqm_cc5E8DDhLj0R84VMNn7ciVrSDAeZrcdM_WuqKAI693n-v11YKmu_uNMKMA1SNFOHt_XgBFDwXJ8__EgIKZJT2/w400-h346/Depart%20from%20me%20I%20never%20knew%20you%20is%20the%20scariest%20thing%20ever%20meme%20July%202023.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>__</p><p></p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-43198873629560826472023-07-07T15:07:00.012-07:002023-07-08T18:50:57.353-07:00July 14 1523: The Birth of the Modern World System<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9bNkumLfq7Y5ACZy3JS3iM2GsFJ043koWEDYKRdmPGWsuC-nOne6KjlWozmXxYWZx_aGgr7wMacGXAjJ-LuQnsKujbucuvDLaBDBsFYokYvUX1Tu2zyEdhHoijuW4zKIecxU1a5X48DDIrwmdkObcvoROGf5eTrnoqBTIEHsZXKCigQ9mELXj/s766/NBC%20News%20July%204%202017%20Michael%20Dwyer%20AP%20from%20story%20about%20Independence%20Day%20facts%20Boston%20Pops%20concert%20celebration%20July%203%202016.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="766" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9bNkumLfq7Y5ACZy3JS3iM2GsFJ043koWEDYKRdmPGWsuC-nOne6KjlWozmXxYWZx_aGgr7wMacGXAjJ-LuQnsKujbucuvDLaBDBsFYokYvUX1Tu2zyEdhHoijuW4zKIecxU1a5X48DDIrwmdkObcvoROGf5eTrnoqBTIEHsZXKCigQ9mELXj/w400-h260/NBC%20News%20July%204%202017%20Michael%20Dwyer%20AP%20from%20story%20about%20Independence%20Day%20facts%20Boston%20Pops%20concert%20celebration%20July%203%202016.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>It seems like anniversaries are the thing now, more vivid showcasing of them as ever. Just the other day July 4th featured the grandest exhibition I've ever seen of the power of all sorts of mortar, ordnance, munitions -- blinding and deafening in some instances, to the rapturous glee of all participants. Earlier last month it seemed lots of people liked to give some cred to "Juneteenth," you know, so they can viciously spout about how splendid their pretend "freedom" is. Even July 14th coming up in a week is celebrated a bit as the day when the common folk have the <i>ganas</i> to pushback against the evil privileged hegemony by raiding the armory of a prison and commencing a period of wonton slaughter when everyone would <i>really</i> see the meaning of <i>Liberté, égalité,
fraternité!...</i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p>..."<i>Ou la mort!"</i></p><p>Huh. <i>"Or death." </i>Okay then...</p><p>I'd like to think there are grand preparations all about for the <i>actually </i>significant anniversary, the one from 1523, the one that is now the <i>500th</i>. That's pretty major. You see it there. 500 YEARS TO THE DAY!</p><p>So yeah, <i>1523</i>, 500 years ago to the day from next Friday. All this other Americanist stuff is fine pretext for getting together with family and having some barbeque and sodas, maybe waving some flags around of some type, all that sort of stuff -- all perfectly reasonably to propel the magnificent mythology to keep a reprobate populace mesmerized and more docile than it'd otherwise be. Though with things happening the way they are I'm not sure they are going to stay that way -- I did blog a bit about it <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/07/7127.html" target="_blank">in my last post</a>.</p><p>No, on July 14, 1523, an event occurred that I'd say is much, <i>much</i> less considered, but which had much, <i>much</i> more of an impact. It truly was the thing that happened that signified the birth of the modern World System, essentially the practical establishment of the currently hegemonic Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy. The very same authoritative governing entity that manages the evildoing of a citizenry that stridently requests its services. It did back in 1523, it does so today.</p><p>So yeah, not really sure there will be much inspiring bunting hung or colorful decorations displayed or extraordinarily professional videos produced to augment the affair -- what, with the "A.I." now able to do all of that for you, how hard can it be? I mean! <i>500-year anniversary! Come on!</i></p><p>Anyway, here is the event, straight from the screenshot passage from the place it is detailed best, the book <i><a href="http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/ROEpdf.pdf" target="_blank">Rulers of Evil</a></i> by F. Tupper Saussy. </p><p>Some context.</p><p>The one given the charge to advance the World System hegemony, Ignatius Loyola, had just been blessed a few months before by the pope to do his thing -- precisely <i>be</i> Caesar's primary deep state operative influencer. So yeah, the year 1523 has that eminent instance to celebrate as well. Ignatius had already gathered a cohort of these operatives and sketched out the practices of personal devotion to the cause better known as the <i>Spiritual Exercises. </i>He's now immersed in forming the "Society" from which he would veritably assume the mantle of governor of the World's affairs, but he needed the ordination based on all the iconographic legitimacy handed down since the progenitor of this office, Cain himself.</p><p>Then:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPPzkKvreX1xUkonuw-s_qS7LLvsIONHTe5qkUu9upfi-47TkM2pOuYTNF5gEJj1ib2bZ7F071MJQTaygMW21bJgo-sMbczEpofnsBGQoqs-hxw5C3sMo5qJ1rw6ssTa_Wv4CCNgJ3U1Fl-KO7jkb_b7rRz3Ga6eK9yYgVX-vagd46ZR0N1Sl/s491/Appointment%20at%20Cyprus%20from%20ROE%20Ignatius%20receives%20authorization%20to%20administer%20World%20System.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="461" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPPzkKvreX1xUkonuw-s_qS7LLvsIONHTe5qkUu9upfi-47TkM2pOuYTNF5gEJj1ib2bZ7F071MJQTaygMW21bJgo-sMbczEpofnsBGQoqs-hxw5C3sMo5qJ1rw6ssTa_Wv4CCNgJ3U1Fl-KO7jkb_b7rRz3Ga6eK9yYgVX-vagd46ZR0N1Sl/w600-h640/Appointment%20at%20Cyprus%20from%20ROE%20Ignatius%20receives%20authorization%20to%20administer%20World%20System.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><p>Remember, Martin Luther had barely a few years before posted his protestations about Rome on the church doors in Wittenberg, scandalously calling for reform of the institution. Everything about the "Protestant" (calling for protest by vehement objection) "Reformation" (seeking reform of a body that cannot be reformed) in this manner was really just the greatest challenge to the divinely bestowed privilege of Cain's Legacy, now handed to Ignatius. You think the Culture War today is bad? Just look at the hundreds of instances through history of Protestants fighting Catholics, Catholics fighting Protestants -- far more bloody and gruesome than they are today!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimMtevy99y_YZb4T1OHFN7syxcjretR9denvwu-RHUkUHApR529dXd_ART0a5tz9lCBNhMQoP10UDjaI_9sNRjekjChz9go-XraSx3sIneDgUHzhrmFAH8iFBBd6FXbmx2MVvEqAM7uiCg3li92SvW-8z9reKOYsTMxhRDXBs9n6DUpbMEwLrW/s598/Claudio_coello-san_ignacio_de_loyola.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="388" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimMtevy99y_YZb4T1OHFN7syxcjretR9denvwu-RHUkUHApR529dXd_ART0a5tz9lCBNhMQoP10UDjaI_9sNRjekjChz9go-XraSx3sIneDgUHzhrmFAH8iFBBd6FXbmx2MVvEqAM7uiCg3li92SvW-8z9reKOYsTMxhRDXBs9n6DUpbMEwLrW/s320/Claudio_coello-san_ignacio_de_loyola.jpg" width="208" /></a></div>Even today all the things <i>anyone</i> or <i>any organization</i> does to try to interact, engage, challenge, remonstrate, enable, empower, support, condone, condemn, approve, reprove anything Rome-related, <i>any of that</i> related to the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy is making oneself a full participant in what it does as a matter of principle, practice, and purpose.<p></p><p>Every single thing out there that people revile about the things that destroy men's lives and souls is provoked by Rome. Rome never really creates any of it, but it does a truly professional job of provoking the evil in men's hearts to do what it already does for the purpose of enlivening it and exposing it so Rome may execute its judgment against it. That provocation affords Rome its legitimacy, and as a very cushy added benefit keeps the income stream going.</p><p>This blog effort, indeed my <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">entire webzine effort</a>, is to share some thoughts about what to do with that reality. Much of it is simple: <i>Leave the Ecclesiocracy be</i>. It <i>must </i>be ruthlessly efficient at prosecuting those who love the darkness more than the light. If you want out, the very first thing anyone must do is to have a belief on Jesus Christ -- any of the pathetically impotent <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/jesuses.htm" target="_blank">counterfeit Jesuses</a> will not do, many of whom are invented by Rome's militant officers to aid in fulfilling their charge. Those gentlemen are Ignatius' present-day minions, and they are brilliant, skilled, and oath-bound-by-death to do the job they do. Those not prayerfully given over to Christ and His divine protection are slabs-of-meat on the altar to these guys.</p><p>The next part is to seriously consider abjuring the realm. Divest yourself from all the enticements Rome offers. It is true there are instances where are tribute payments are just and approved by God, after all He does want you to fulfill any parts of contractual obligations you have with anyone. But far too often many of them are merely ways to keep you enslaved to the System and in a state of protracted rebellion against it. </p><p>My prayer always is that people with Jesus' name on their lips would become <i>ungrafted</i> to that System and as such abandon the Culture War. It does involve relinquishing those things that look so viscerally compelling. With Jesus ruling in one's heart, what good are all the law enforcement items -- the thousands and thousands of them arranged merely to keep sinful people in check? "The power of sin is the law"! (I Corinthians 15:56) </p><p>What is the very thing you owe to your neighbor? "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law" and "For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended." (Both from the 13th chapter of Romans)</p><p>Everything Ignatius was handed by the Hospitallers at the conclusion of the <i>Negrona's</i> voyage applies to today. Rome has full authority to crack heads with all due process and it does it through all avenues at its disposal: the federal government and all its technocracies, the banking and finance network, the mainstream mass media, the notoriously entrenched academia, the incorporated commercial interests which very much include any church or ministry enterprise that registers itself as a non-profit tax-exempt organization -- all of them required by God to clearly identify themselves and their efforts by Cain's approved iconographic signatures so no one is without excuse for recognizing their temporal authority.</p><p>In this sense please do not mistake any of this as any kind of censure against the legacy and agency Ignatius was handed. It is merely shared for understanding, for grasping the very profound distinction between the World System as initiated in its modern form so expertly by Ignatius back in the mid-16th century, and the Kingdom which is ruled by Christ and is the spiritual equivalent of a million light years from any of that. The former is manifest is hundreds of different forms, shapes, concoctions, adornments, storefronts, window-dressings -- all of which are spectacularly fine-looking yet proficiently serve the Society's purposes perfectly well for those who simply will not believe on the One and Only Savior and live richly and joyfully and charitably from the Kingdom.</p><p>I wholeheartedly encourage you to read all of <i><a href="http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/ROEpdf.pdf" target="_blank">Rulers of Evil</a></i> to enjoy the fascinating progression of Ignatius' quite noble enterprise. My <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">latest home page piece</a> even shares the conclusion of the story, but I'd wait until you've been introduced to all the ways the World System has metastasized through history to get the full context for that. When you look at current events today I promise you'll have a bright new perspective as to why things happen the way they do.</p><p>Above all, by that metaphorical light-years distance above anything else, including <i>Rulers of Evil</i> and my own web work: <i>read Scripture.</i> Find out who Jesus really is, and spend time with Him every single day, not for some scholastic purpose to get some official affirmation from some hifalutin individual somewhere <i>but because you want to know your beloved Savior more. </i>Find out more about Him outside of what the World tries to tell you about Him, which is far too much folderol much of it spewed by those World ops.</p><p>And do it with others who have a heart for Him and who may actually themselves see this very clear distinction between the World System and the Kingdom where they do want to dwell -- they know deep in their souls that's the place they really want to be. Pray with them, interact with them, share the Word with them, sing praises to Him with them, open up with them about what you're wrestling with that relates to the insanities presented by the World.</p><p>And yeah, maybe see what happened on July 14 1523 for its significance, maybe not with a lot of loud celebratory revelry but just for that deep gentle understanding.</p><p>That is always very good.</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image of the July 4th activity was from a Boston Pops Independence Day concert and celebration that actually occurred on July 3 2016. It was clipped from an NBC News website story from July 4 2017 about facts related to July 4th, and was taken by the AP's Michael Dwyer. The image of Ignatius is titled "San Ignatius de Loyola" by Claudio Coello, painted sometime between 1680 and 1683.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-53567329081147658102023-07-05T14:18:00.018-07:002023-07-08T18:49:25.952-07:007/1/27<p>There it is. The date I'm posting for the day when we'll actually see what this present cultural hellscape will bring. This is not any prediction of Jesus' return or anything like. It is just I've been thinking about the horrific woke sewer that is bilging into everything and wondering -- what precisely is this all going to look like, three, four years from now?</p><p>So this past Saturday, July 1 2023, I thought I'd put a firm date to it. Exactly four years to the day from that date. That date itself is insignificant, but again the thought, what is our country going to look like when we arrive at that date? What will our <i>planet</i> look like? Will something have happened over that time period that on that date everything will look violently different than it does today?</p><p>It is indeed my consideration that it will. The things I'm thinking...</p><p>One, God's wrath will be poured out on a increasingly wicked populace, and yes, upon so many good wholesome Catholicists who enable it all however unwittingly they do. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59rUBTYoxEDEb8wAFpFOYf7Jv7YRLzw0EwR0HJaAK0ELpbz8ShLQTCsmVzbfQuetbX4ikPhiaUH33PbCe3I35uyzvph3loJd1FemydoRsPXwjQsVh0ywvHiCoPY2tFcWnZ_we0LKCjAIFwoI5154M2NlpFxHzSokmGyVbNenEC0_V851-njRW/s822/Sound%20of%20Freedom%20July%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="822" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59rUBTYoxEDEb8wAFpFOYf7Jv7YRLzw0EwR0HJaAK0ELpbz8ShLQTCsmVzbfQuetbX4ikPhiaUH33PbCe3I35uyzvph3loJd1FemydoRsPXwjQsVh0ywvHiCoPY2tFcWnZ_we0LKCjAIFwoI5154M2NlpFxHzSokmGyVbNenEC0_V851-njRW/s320/Sound%20of%20Freedom%20July%202023.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>We had the privilege of attending the pre-release premiere showing of this motion picture <i>Sound of Freedom,</i> one that is getting quite a bit of buzz in social media. It was a phenomenally well-made film, but it was a real-life horror story. It is merely the depiction of the reality of child trafficking out there in the world, as seen through the actions of a law enforcement agent who sacrificed much to rescue some of its victims.<p></p><p>There are a dozen different remarks that could be made about this feature, but one of the most significant is the fact that as ghastly as this all is to many good, principled people, all of this will not stop until a critical mass of those people get off this trip of "I don't care what people do in the privacy of ___..." </p><p><i>That very prominent attitude is part of the enabling of the child sex trafficking.</i></p><p>It is conceding the idea that people can do their own sodomist things without consequences. No, sorry, <i>they can't. </i>In fact Heather MacDonald <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-battle-for-cultural-survival" target="_blank">wrote a terrific piece</a> about the horrific dangers of what she calls the "trans default," the idea that whatever it is the sodomist voice says, that is the default truth about things, and if you disagree not only are you a bigoted Nazi but you should be subject to some kind of prosecution.</p><p>What is so amazing about what she wrote is in her last paragraph she says these exact words: "Conservatives may even have to reject the longstanding safe harbor of breezy indifference to what people 'do in the privacy of their own bedrooms.' At some point it may become necessary to re-moralize sex."</p><p>I never hear people seriously suggest that, and maybe now people will start doing something about it. The Frankfurt School acolytes have indeed been successful, for quite some time now, in reaching their goal of commandeering the media and the means of spewing their cultural garbage into the hearts and minds of so many ill-equipped to see it for what it is. </p><p>Films like <i>La Cage Aux Folles,</i> or the American version <i>The Birdcage </i>(just two of many, many examples) have viciously poisoned society with the idea that sexual immorality must be embraced because those engaging in it are such nice people, and after all the perpetrators do consent, and according to Critical Theory they are so unjustly oppressed; anyone objecting are just stuffy, ugly, moralistic, __, __, __ Nazis (insert in blanks whatever other name-calling epithets the New York Times says is okay to blare quite loudly). The heroes in all of these blitherings -- there really are a lot of them -- are the ones who in the end perform the required struggle session about how wrong they were about what is still the most destructive sexual immorality.</p><p>Sorry, but <i>all</i> the LGBTQ+++ stuff should be robustly rejected, because if it isn't, then -- well, let's see what it looks like on July 1 2027. Already the sodomist community is doubling down on its efforts to gain further widespread acceptance and affirmation, yet there does now seem to be some kind of substantially increased pushback. I understand many will screech, "You just want to put us back in the closet!" </p><p>Not exactly. As a follower of Christ what I want is what Jesus said about <i>any</i> sinful behavior. Confess it. Repent of it. Turn to Him and believe on Him. Seek to be sanctified by Him as you live your life being tempted (as we all are!) but not succumbing by interacting with others who also know Christ and praying with them and worshipping with them and having deep abiding community with them and just plain talking talking talking with those who genuinely love you with God's eternal love.</p><p>But this does require a firm, truthful, courageous understanding and acceptance of what <i>any</i> LGBTQ thing actually does to people.</p><p>And that's the point of the date, the July of 2027 date. There it is, indeed it is a day right after they may try to celebrate another "Pride Month." This one that just passed was one of the most gruesome of all, I knew it would be. Just the most grotesque exhibitions of the most wretched sexualized dysfunctions you could possibly ever see. Continuing now into this summer are the most disturbing violations of logic and common sense to rationalize all kinds of perversions -- I mean really it could get even worse <i>after</i> June ends because they now no longer have their permissive feeling of "Pride Month" license to go all out ramming their agenda down everyone's throat.</p><p>So there, the first thing that could happen is there could be some major kind of meaningful judgment against it all and it will be significantly brought down -- yes to the extent that everyone then sees it for what it all really is, including what many merely consider harmless homosexual stuff -- and it is treated as a woefully regrettable blotch on our history. Doesn't mean true followers of Christ can't keep ministering to them, in fact I believe that would be a critical component of this possibility, that those followers are deeply and passionately ministering to them and watching them move into sexual restoration and wholeness.</p><p>So that whole scenario is one eventuality.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjauMe7ngbRf0COZLqddY9zG_rIwReYvWcHtdk5cWFYF7FO2-MSaHhVRsUBQRAa2pckG9GBYJQfsEamCKy2XVHtwFwzOsqCk5aguL6pHRauTzVag-wK9y8UDIUSjbgm9B8W-IAaR3NzQKHLKyXgiFahZPgrvjl7gP93jNwHMeie5vRX32DiE5f6/s588/Polarization%20national%20divorce%20Jesse%20Kelly%20AP%20News%20July%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="588" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjauMe7ngbRf0COZLqddY9zG_rIwReYvWcHtdk5cWFYF7FO2-MSaHhVRsUBQRAa2pckG9GBYJQfsEamCKy2XVHtwFwzOsqCk5aguL6pHRauTzVag-wK9y8UDIUSjbgm9B8W-IAaR3NzQKHLKyXgiFahZPgrvjl7gP93jNwHMeie5vRX32DiE5f6/w400-h268/Polarization%20national%20divorce%20Jesse%20Kelly%20AP%20News%20July%202023.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Two, all the woke stuff keeps going and it is even worse. Nothing is really any different, but it is even uglier albeit sanitized a bit for those communities who are still cool with it in spite of all the people who are still being killed or devastated by it all. Thing is, I can't see how some kind of meaningful secessionist movement can't emerge from this development. <p></p><p>Last night we attended a family member's fireworks-enjoying gathering, and the fireworks extravaganza was the largest I've ever seen, by far. Everyone there agreed. It is my considered opinion that much of the expanse of fireworks displays today is a result of people wanting to blast incendiary devices as a statement about what they think about the direction of this country. Remember, fireworks are just symbols of military artillery items, you know, rockets and bombs and so forth. I mean, last night it was all blinding and deafening, going deep into the evening, <i>everywhere.</i></p><p>I honestly believe the vast majority of people loathe all the woke stuff, and by doing what they did last night they were doing the one thing they could do to make that statement. In a sense, with that Independence Day inspiration, "We want to be free from all your pervasive woke insanity." They certainly aren't given a voice in any of the mainstream mass media. If any of them are even the most boldly articulate about any of it they're just called names or even censored all together.</p><p>But such is the Catholicist nation. There simply aren't enough people who aren't tied to the World System and obligated to its designs to have the impact they should have. Churches should be the best at speaking "truth to power" as the leftist hegemonists say, but they can't because <i>they're</i> just subdivisions of Caesar's domain. In fact there was a <a href="https://newswithviews.com/pulpits-promoting-critical-theory-destroy-hope/" target="_blank">terrific article</a> titled "Pulpits Promoting Critical Theory Destroy Hope." It was indeed fantastic at describing the horrific dangers of Critical Theory, but alas...</p><p><i>It didn't get into what the title promised</i>.</p><p>It simply did not get into why precisely we don't hear the blessed word of the gospel preached with the authority to bring the apocalyptic revival that is so needed today. Why aren't preachers speaking with conviction about the Critical Theory hellscape? About the sodomist threat? About what we should be doing to minister to those horribly wounded people? And about the role of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy in making it all happen to begin with?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDAnUlZ9E2k45w6hBqpqN0wXrkz7Xph4JI-ZrfSnsl-Y4_Qm206dOLmmfl2ySnK-Nc5RNJhg6ad3pwSbHVKeB3Ob9RfsRmnmnV-G4bPsuxYQNhpcOf8ygYkcc0FmXTUqtCSpp3_CXQihU-QvjGjyqtnRZCe6qgeE0_nKjDGiOr4hkI8kiE9XV/s752/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-05%20at%201.54.52%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="752" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDAnUlZ9E2k45w6hBqpqN0wXrkz7Xph4JI-ZrfSnsl-Y4_Qm206dOLmmfl2ySnK-Nc5RNJhg6ad3pwSbHVKeB3Ob9RfsRmnmnV-G4bPsuxYQNhpcOf8ygYkcc0FmXTUqtCSpp3_CXQihU-QvjGjyqtnRZCe6qgeE0_nKjDGiOr4hkI8kiE9XV/w400-h297/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-05%20at%201.54.52%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div>That last one? Preachers back in the 19th century in truly committed Protestant churches did speak about it, with eloquence and authority, <i>with truth and grace</i>. Today most of those places have rainbow banners draped over their entrances with all kinds of pitiful concessions to the sodomist cultural powers. I can't help but share this photograph I took of a typical sodomy-enabling church, and lamenting the irony of the sign right next to their virtue-signaling plap, along with the typical dry neglected lawn adorned with bits of trash you can't really see in the image.<p></p><p>So which one is it going to be?</p><p>It may be a third one, really, and that is something so dramatically catastrophic may happen that just messes with all of this. Right now powerful political mandarins are devising ways to destroy the planet with their climate change hysteria that we may not even make it to July 1 2027 -- I'd heard some want to somehow block the sunlight to cool the planet. There are truly few things more stunningly idiotic than even suggesting that kind of thing. Then there's the Ukraine thing that continues to fester -- and if it isn't Ukraine it could be something else that brings a nuclear holocaust or some kind of modern weaponry conflagration.</p><p>This is not even to mention all the insane "A.I." stuff that is metastasizing at breakneck speed. These technocrats are on the verge of reaching their Holy Grail: deepfake imagery and sound replication that is totally indistinguishable from the real thing, making it virtually impossible to tell what is real when presented "evidence" of something significant, in news reports, on social media -- and it will have to do with <i>something </i>about which people must address with some severity.</p><p>Of course next year in this country there is a presidential election that could be the craziest of all, and if people don't have the result they want then the Culture War could really explode, <i>into a real war, </i>with real Civil-War-of-1861-1865 type violence -- especially if some actually succeed in getting their polities to secede from the United States in some way. </p><p>No matter what, there still need to be Kingdom people out inviting people to tightly grasp Jesus' nail-scarred hands and take that narrow road to His domain. Right now. I think that can only happen best when people see what Rome's role is in all of it, abjure that realm, and minister from a position of real joy, peace, and freedom.</p><p>Oh, that thing "freedom." I'd love to riff on that for a while, because I've become convinced so few really know what it means -- especially after this whole July 4th thing and seeing this <i>Sound of Freedom</i> film. That's for another time. Hope I have the energy to pound that one out -- as I've shared before I don't as much simply because there is so much to share.</p><p>The main thing, though, is The Main One. In anything I blog about, write about, blap about in any way, I can only hope and pray Jesus is introduced to however many should happen to come upon these words. That's all.</p><p>And yeah, no matter what happens at any point over the next four years, be sure to <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/whyjesus.htm" target="_blank">have Him</a> gripping you.</p><p>___</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The image from <i>Sound of Freedom</i> was clipped from the imdb.com site. The photograph of the church marquee, banner, and sign was my own. The Jesse Kelly tweet was a screenshot.</span></p><p>___</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-62263034580607251162023-06-22T18:52:00.022-07:002023-06-23T07:49:00.433-07:00The Second Chronicles 20 to 24 Factor<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWx5PaQuFOUmjPhsexacWVnhlgor1_TPXUSxByzJFg6DP5hf8POfLjaOtMt_6xJcJtUh8kjepQYDzzvR95qAOXj5mqdm6SY3UhF2935tjofu2GmjHRASK4cZzadoZ8J9uVUjKzV_f1ZX9FZDVZsDGFFA9vR2NNG5KtLTRK8tg9_rqiWF6ZUVlf/s665/Jehoiada%20II.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="665" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWx5PaQuFOUmjPhsexacWVnhlgor1_TPXUSxByzJFg6DP5hf8POfLjaOtMt_6xJcJtUh8kjepQYDzzvR95qAOXj5mqdm6SY3UhF2935tjofu2GmjHRASK4cZzadoZ8J9uVUjKzV_f1ZX9FZDVZsDGFFA9vR2NNG5KtLTRK8tg9_rqiWF6ZUVlf/w400-h270/Jehoiada%20II.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I've been hoping to have enough impetus to put together more blog posts related to why the interminably marauding insanity out there out and about in our world. It is really hard because, as I've been sharing a bit lately, <i>it is all so overwhelming</i>. There is so much of it. </div><p></p><p>Aside from all those notes I've been jotting down to translate into a few more decent blog posts related to the <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-jeremiah-50-factor.html" target="_blank">Jeremiah 50 Factor</a> and the <a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-romans-6-factor.html" target="_blank">Romans 6 Factor</a>, I just now came across <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/15-questions-are-more-useful-what-presidential-candidate-should-americans-vote" target="_blank">this interesting page from ZeroHedge</a> a brief piece written by Caitlin Johnstone at Medium.com. It has 15 questions kind-of asking about all the instances preeminent political activity is observed to be so impotent.</p><p>Indeed, let's face it, <i>these questions have been asked for millennia</i>. They are really nothing new. Even when people lived in contemptible squalor, death, and despair, while trudging through life under some vassal in some benighted fiefdom back in 1300 or whenever --</p><p><i>These questions were asked</i>.</p><p>In whatever form they were asked, they were asked. </p><p>One of the most significant is that one Mr. Johnstone has there at No. 7:</p><p>"If the above is the case [that government behavior doesn't change no matter who is elected], then who is it [the ones in positions of influence]? Who's really calling the shots in this country?"</p><p>I've spent nearly 20 years writing about the answer to that very question, <a href="http://yourownjesus.net" target="_blank">in my webzine</a> and in this blog effort. It is <i>the</i> answer, but I write that here with great humility because I'm not spouting about how smart I am or more observant I am. I'm not. I just pay a little bit of attention, and always pray that I am seeing what I see with the eyes Christ gave me. Anyone can see it if they just ask Him to.</p><p>To find out, first and foremost look at Scripture. Read your Bible every day. You'll see the answer there. Excuse me, <i>you'll see Him there </i>to give you the answers<i>.</i> I've been getting deep in the two books of Chronicles in my devotional time, and I'm at the part where Jehoram and Athaliah have been ruling over Judah, and they've been pretty ruthless. Even in what-should-be a pretty nice place for God's chosen people to live, they've made it a hellscape. Go ahead, read about it.</p><p>The key thing they did was allow pagan religious practices to thrive, as many of those potentates did, and those practices involved human sacrifice. These practices are <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/humansacrifice.htm" target="_blank">happening still today</a>, but they are because God has allowed Cain's Legacy to legitimately operate in order to manage the sinfulness of a populace that requests it. God brought severe judgments against Jehoram and Athaliah, and at least the priest Jehoiada had a heart for hoping to see some reason and justice for Judah in the highest levels of government. Alas, the instrument of judgment that was Babylon would still impact all of Judah a couple hundred years later.</p><p>What does all that look like today? It isn't much different, with God using the same World System as an instrument of judgment against a reprobate populace -- one of the reasons it really doesn't mean a lick of difference who you vote for in this so-called democracy.</p><p>Want more answers to those questions? Head over to <a href="https://www.yourownjesus.net/" target="_blank">my latest home page piece</a>, and please read the very last part of it, the part where I share the conclusion to Tupper Saussy's <i>Rulers of Evil. </i>In fact, even better, <a href="http://www.granddesignexposed.com/pdf/ROEpdf.pdf" target="_blank">read the entire book, it is right here in PDF.</a> Please, take some time and read the whole thing. Even if you don't like history, skim through all that and focus on what he shares it all means.</p><p>You'll get your answers. They're there. And those answers have been available to see all these millennia. The writers inspired by God to put His words in Scripture, Tupper Saussy, Caitlin Johnstone, the ZeroHedge guy who likes to be called Tyler Durden, hundreds of others who are seeking. looking, and passionately wondering about it all and then sharing it with so many others -- it's all there for anyone to see. It always has been.</p><p>The question is, do you truly have a heart for the truth? Will you take off the World's blinders that have been tightly screwed into the sides of the heads of so many? If by chance you can tear them off you'll discover who put them there -- and perhaps even gain a deep sense of lasting contentment <i>understanding </i><i>it all as you may</i>.</p><p>Otherwise, I was going to get deep into so many other things, especially related to these two other pieces I recently found. Check out Todd Hayen's piece <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/17/killing-us-softly/" target="_blank">"Killing US Softly" over at </a><i><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/17/killing-us-softly/" target="_blank">Off-Guardian</a>. </i>He gets a bit deep into the institutionalized human sacrifice practices all around, and he is getting closer and closer himself to the answers to Mr. Johnstone's questions. Would love to delve into this more, but again there are so many ramifications.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgridLUZ1FDzbf9UuSAwLtlVK9Zc2CIjifw8btD8Z3C08hglFw3H1uXq78DwrU0c-H9w-wkcp2oRPSO-LYKUThtNrlRukx3wtHzM1OEKAzYPpFrTHp8GTaot3SzXYHEjE94Z0t8Z72-ooE-sjIqjhiX6WBMwbYgd-Q9FymoyQH4sXQfSoFTEaDN/s528/Doctor%20speaks%20out%20being%20cancelled%20if%20you%20oppose%20sodomist%20mutilation%20Nancy%20Pearcey%20June%202023.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="528" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgridLUZ1FDzbf9UuSAwLtlVK9Zc2CIjifw8btD8Z3C08hglFw3H1uXq78DwrU0c-H9w-wkcp2oRPSO-LYKUThtNrlRukx3wtHzM1OEKAzYPpFrTHp8GTaot3SzXYHEjE94Z0t8Z72-ooE-sjIqjhiX6WBMwbYgd-Q9FymoyQH4sXQfSoFTEaDN/w400-h356/Doctor%20speaks%20out%20being%20cancelled%20if%20you%20oppose%20sodomist%20mutilation%20Nancy%20Pearcey%20June%202023.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Then there is <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/17/conservatives-and-our-queer-constitution/" target="_blank">this piece, an excerpt from </a>a book by Scott Yenor, an excellent exposition of what is going on with, essentially, the <i>queering</i> of America. A lot has been written about this, but his description is extraordinarily insightful regarding what has been happening in contrast to the way reasonable social constructs and norms have been instrumental in keeping American society relatively healthy over the past 100 years or so. Now it is imploding and Mr. Yenor does a fantastic job of elucidating why.</div><p></p><p>He even offers up suggestions related to the pushback necessary to stem the implosion, but the key problem is the typical lack of identification of the ways that pushback can happen.</p><p>There are only two.</p><p>It comes either from <i>the World</i>, or from <i>the Kingdom</i>.</p><p>Those are only the two ways. Always have been. There will never be any other no matter how much people think all the ways in this first one are really that much different from one another.</p><p>The World has its myriad ways -- voting, petitioning, lobbying, marketing, boycotting, rent seeking, tribute paying, indicting, impeaching, rebelling, insurrecting, seceding, bribing, assassinating, looting and pillaging, shrieking like rabid banshees with a whole bunch of other rabid banshees -- I don't know, a bunch of other ways industriously encouraged by those who like it when people do that stuff because it just feeds their power.</p><p>The Kingdom has one way, only one -- Jesus Christ. Those who follow Him do nothing else but ask Him what ways they can see His Kingdom come in the lives of those with whom they have to do. Ways that demonstrate not just His power to overcome any of the effects of a wicked World gone even more maniacally haywire, but the mercy and grace and forgiveness and healing and deliverance and strength and wisdom and salvation and peace and restoration and renewal and resurrection and joy in the lives of those who <i>finally</i> want out of the harrowing maelstrom Caitlin Johnstone and others like him see so very astutely.</p><p>Maybe they'll see Him. Right there. And grab His outstretched nail-scarred hand.</p><p>I can't neglect to mention what happened before and after the whole Jehoiada and Athaliah incident. Before Jehoshaphat saw his nation surrounded by the enemy, and he realized he and his nation could do nothing against the threat. So he did the one thing he knew he could do.</p><p>He prayed, acknowledging that the battle was the Lord's, not his.</p><p>This didn't mean his people did nothing. They went out to face that enemy, all the while simply singing praises to God, and sure enough the opposing armies started fighting amongst themselves, thrown into such a lethal state of confusion that they defeated themselves in an almost comical fashion.</p><p>God was faithful to Judah, keeping His promise of preserving it and protecting it even though it didn't necessarily deserve it.</p><p>Afterwards when the evil queen Athaliah was removed from her unauthorized position, there was rejoicing and calm. The good priest Jehoiada had significant influence to do things to draw the people to God by renewing their commitment to God through restoring the temple. This didn't mean after <i>that</i> not-so-good things didn't happen, but it did mean when people genuinely turn to the Lord in repentance and obedience they will truly experience God's blessings.</p><p>Today I am convinced that means perceptively seeing what the World System is and what it does, leaving it do those things as it must, and ministering to those who want to live richly by the Kingdom from the Kingdom.</p><p>Would love to know there're a lot of people fervently praying Jehoshaphat's prayer, today...</p><p>"Lord, the God of our ancestors, are You not the God Who is in Heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can withstand You..."</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nancy Pearcey has a new book out, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-War-Masculinity-Christianity-Reconciles/dp/0801075734/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D24CF8JZSS0E&keywords=nancy+pearcey+the+toxic+war+on+masculinity&qid=1687497549&sprefix=toxic+war+on+%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Toxic War on Masculinity</a>.</i> The tweet screenshot refers to an article in <i>City Journal</i> about the raging cancel culture, and I added it here because I could relate. Over the past five years I was dismissed from a number of full-time teaching jobs, a couple at supposedly Christian schools, because I shared hard truths with my students, respectfully and graciously in every instance. But still. Cancel culture is an ugly thing, so I get it. The painting is <i>Proclaiming Joash King</i> (1815) by Edward Bird RA, the "RA" for Royal Academy of Arts of which he was an official member.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15336923.post-73598149622139714222023-06-17T20:18:00.022-07:002023-06-23T10:39:54.228-07:00The Romans 6 Factor, Addendum<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgII18oD2ILr72mxfxi3ps_3AMD6bHqCEbt__0oOuWiRaWLXrY4pXNPP6rUt45yYCoawRSrja2UXDFjAkroxzVw_sOz8AH9VGtrLL53-IltPzxpEAw8GOS-vZSSbmxFUyH99jtlyKD1msWE5ZAMskQJF6JlMQHynvfQ6ZKmaIahb4_mLyZNVJVS/s1200/Dodger%20Stadium%20entrance.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgII18oD2ILr72mxfxi3ps_3AMD6bHqCEbt__0oOuWiRaWLXrY4pXNPP6rUt45yYCoawRSrja2UXDFjAkroxzVw_sOz8AH9VGtrLL53-IltPzxpEAw8GOS-vZSSbmxFUyH99jtlyKD1msWE5ZAMskQJF6JlMQHynvfQ6ZKmaIahb4_mLyZNVJVS/s320/Dodger%20Stadium%20entrance.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Last night the Dodgers and Giants played their baseball game, there at the Los Angeles stadium where the Dodgers regularly play. As you may know it was "Pride Night" for the Dodgers, and this month every single major league baseball team is having one except one, the Texas Rangers. I mean, what is <i>wrong</i> with them those bigoted Nazi homophobic Neanderthal evil EVIL <b>EVIL!!!</b> Texas Rangers! We should all remember to incessantly call them names and insist that the New York Times writes most disdainfully of them.</div></div><p></p><p>Anyway, out front of the stadium were a few hundred protesters, I think it was about that many, who blocked roads and entrances to the stadium. They were holding up signs along the lines of how much the grotesquely nun-attired sodomist-oriented PR group is ruining the idea of the Roman Catholic faith, by ridiculing it with such insensitivity and all the rest of it. Good job good crusading Christians! Make that statement!</p><p><i>Except </i>that the Dodgers and this nun-dressed group actually pretty much wiggled out of their predicament when the Dodgers meekly and quickly gave them their awards and recognition close to the fencing behind home plate -- as opposed to out right on top of home plate. They also did it about an hour before game time when the stadium was especially sparse, unusually so, and there were only a handful of people even close to the ceremony. Unsurprisingly a few of them did boo the whole thing.</p><p>The only thing about <i>that</i> was that for duration of the evening the entire stadium, field area, television broadcast, and players themselves were still <i>steeped</i> in all the LGBTQ stuff. Hey! <i>It's Pride Night!</i> Come on, we get that you maaay be a bit uptight about the whole men-dressed-as-nuns thing, <i>okaaay</i>, but please, <i>don't be a bigoted Nazi homophobic Neanderthal evil EVIL <b>EVIL</b> person</i>, puhlease. Be tolerant and inclusive and nice and NOT MEAN AND JUDGMENTAL AND MEAN.</p><p>Annnd you're not ferociously judging <i>me </i>in <i>what way now?</i></p><p>Anyway anyway, later watching the video of the game I noticed all the players had their team's insignias in the sodomist color-stripes, you know the ones, the ones that essentially bastardize the true meaning of the rainbow and boy-girl distinction. They were on their caps, on their shoulders, even on the insignias where the television broadcast showed the score. They could have been in several other places but I didn't notice -- it was hard for me to watch much of it.</p><p>As far as I could tell <i>not a single player refused to play in this game</i>. In fact, I am seeing very few players or any other stakeholders (managers, coaches, executives, stadium workers, et al) step away with any principled objections -- indeed they are refusing to do so at <i>any</i> of the major league venues, or in <i>any</i> of the instances when a major North American professional sports enterprise holds these "Pride Night" events. I've seen a couple others who have been excoriated for their expressed objections, but they've either been forced into a struggle session-type apology or they are given a slight break if they can declare their reservations are because of their religious beliefs.</p><p>One of those players was one who plays for, I believe the Washington Nationals. And he objects because -- yes, you got it -- <i>it violates his Catholic faith.</i></p><p>So now we can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that it is <i>merely</i> this dude's intense religious convictions are on the line, that's all. Good thing it's <i>just</i> that. No, not millions of young adults who irrespective of whatever religious stature excuse is waved about are still being utterly shredded emotionally and spiritually by being convinced that they can be this gender or that gender or non-binary or multi-binary or they can even mutilate their bodies in ghastly ways to try to prove to an wickedly uncaring world that they are somebody. Or all of those things.</p><p>Remember the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+6&version=NIV" target="_blank">Romans 6</a> factor: The very real, very harrowing reality is that these poor souls are mindlessly enslaved to their own concupiscence and to the System they think is providing them this thing <i>freedom</i>. And again, doesn't matter, really. <i>Each of us is enslaved to someone</i>. Our pretend freedom may feel nice and comfy, but our master is either our own evildoing and by default the one who is charged with administering its mitigation; or it is the Spirit of God <i>Who in Christ affords us the extraordinarily joyful privilege to find who He made us to be, and do, and live, and love, and flourish richly in the Kingdom</i>.</p><p>What's really been happening is Rome provoked this spiffy little Culture War battle at Dodger Stadium last night precisely to get people to believe that the Roman Catholic utopia is under attack and even if you aren't Catholic or even think much about what it really is, you should be supporting Rome and standing beside her in this noble cause.</p><p><a href="http://wonderfulmatters.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-romans-6-factor.html" target="_blank">In yesterday's post</a> -- and in a real sense it is continuing in this post, I admit -- I did the Victor Davis Hanson thing. I got into it detailing the reasons the sodomist agenda marauding through everything leaves a swath of the most gruesome destruction. It isn't that what I shared wasn't meaningful, or that I neglected to extend some words about <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1&version=NIV" target="_blank">The Only Deliverance</a>.</p><p>But I did not emphasize this key point. That the whole thing last night was merely a setup, drawing people into a more fervent commitment to the System faith. It was all just part of the provocative nature of Cain's Legacy embodied in the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy. It is indeed sad there are so many Bible-acquainted Christians joining this modern-day crusade and doing it so pugilistically. It is my firm consideration they simply can't figure what is happening to them because they have been taught so well by the World System Ops the World System ways of the Ecclesiocracy.</p><p>This is only of Christ to the extent that people see how ugly the whole enterprise is <i>and they turn to Him.</i> I'm convinced He allows it because sometimes it is the only way people can actually do something about the horrific condition of their own sin. Take a look-see at the sixth chapter of Isaiah to get a better idea of that. God would heal and save them <i>but they aren't really looking at why</i>. Maybe they need to do that first, and look <i>within themselves</i>, and not so much at some excessively goofy cartoon character-type people poking fun at religious sentiments.</p><p>After last night's affair I thought of a hundred things I could put down in this post. I may get to more of it later, that's cool. For now, I simply could not fail to get down at least this, some kind of a follow-up to last night's affair. More will come, and as I mentioned before...</p><p>I so pray I can share a few more posts with events related to God's apocalyptic revival. </p><p>So looking forward to that.</p><p>__</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">I will add that I did adjust the stock photograph of the entrance to Dodger Stadium to conceal certain advertisements I cannot endorse on my blog. I will also add that some news reports put the number of protesters at the stadium Friday night at a few thousand.</span></p><p>__</p>David Beckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468326481408337797noreply@blogger.com0