More of the Reality and a Bit of Trolleeing, as Usual
18 years ago the best explainer of World System activity against the beauty and glory and wonder of the Kingdom passed away. Tupper Saussy and his seminal work Rulers of Evil brought together much of the history of System machinations and clearly exposited its real meaning: That God has allowed it all for the expressed purpose of highlighting the evil that it and normal human beings do so people would call on the name of the Lord.
None of this is hidden or new or esoteric or unfathomable or the exclusive purview of those who are insightful enough to see what "secret societies" do. The history is there to read and understand. The current events happening today are right there for anyone to see and hear. Above all Scripture is very clear about the distinction between the World and the Kingdom.
But yeah, it is my firm belief the only way anyone can see and hear and understand -- and yeah not be blind and deaf and dumb -- is to ask Christ to make them see. Otherwise just as Jesus Himself said there at the end of the ninth chapter of John: "If you were blind you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains." Essentially, if you confess you are blind and need His healing of your eyesight so you may understand, then you will be able to see. Otherwise you are just a slab of meat the System Ops are duty-bound to throw on the altar of Cain's massive prosecutorial human sacrifice operation.
Towards the end of his ministry days Mr. Saussy wrote some more about this distinction, most notably Abiding in Religious War, but as he wrote and as he noticed there were just not a whole lot of people seeing the reality, he became discouraged. Understandably. He just felt he was repeating what he'd already shared in great and quite succinctly eloquent detail.
I share this because I am indeed feeling the same way. I've been given to calling it being a trollee, meaning all I'm doing is blapping about some World Op injected thing out there designed to get good wholesome Catholicists to get viciously enraged about so there would be greater allegiance to their god, the Roman Catholic Hegemony of potentates, priests, and prophets.
There are dozens upon dozens of things I see every day out there that I'd love to point out to a rage-hungry world but only so they may see its horrificness and then turn to Christ and desire residence in the Kingdom. That's it. But watching the horrificness continue unabated and all the trolleeing that follows, it can lead to great resignation.
Where are the churches with Jesus' name on their lips? Where is the desire to be ungrafted from all that and explode with God's restoration and healing and deliverance and understanding and salvation? Where is His word boldly and brilliantly going forth and people graciously refusing to pay unnecessary tribute to a Caesar who stunts the impact of the gospel? Where is the apocalyptic revival where people are now seeing and hearing and understanding with an insight and wisdom and knowledge of Him and His ways that is overwhelmingly joyous?
I guess I get a bit discouraged, much like Mr. Saussy did. I say this in part because I just finished my latest home page piece, finally, and I always like to blog at the beginning of the month following its posting to just let people who read my blog know about it. Thing is I looked over both last season's (Winter 2025) and this season's (Spring 2025), and realized that both are very much the same. There are some differences, that's fine, one may resonate more than the other with some, that's cool. But again I thought about Mr. Saussy and the idea that sharing the same thing over and over and over again trying to do it in different ways over and over and over again can get a bit tiresome.
For instance, both home page pieces have something to do with the very new-ish god, A.I. I've written quite a bit about it, and yes I realize that anybody with any power of reach to influence people out there -- technocrats, plutocrats, journalists, pundits, podcasters, pontificators of any stripe... any of them who even use the term "AI" are doing a tremendously evil thing, simply because it is giving people the idea that the "AI" will be the thing that will save them, rescue them, cure them, deliver them from their benighted existence.
That is only the purview of God Himself.
As such, anything that is "A.I." is an idol. I'm not saying superduper fast processing information technology is not a good thing. My point is calling anything "AI" is evil, because it isn't. It is a lie. I know it is now a convention, I get that. I know it is just a term people have become accustomed to using, I get that.
It doesn't change the reality of the idolatry. The superduper fast processing information technology is only whatever people put into it, and those people are taking the role of God in doing creation things that are reserved only for God. Yes there is art, and yes there is performative make-believe, and yes there is inventiveness and imagination and ingenuity and many, many times that translates into something put on some kind of canvas we frequently call creative.
This goes beyond that, and here is why. I actually had a thought, something that was confirmed by someone who posted on social media the very real idea that actual human web video content creators and influencers may become obsolete after putting up a video of people who looked real saying things as real humans would, but were actually just "AI" concoctions. Watching them made me ill because there is still a very pronounced uncanny valley quality to them. But when will that be rectified?
When will it get to the point when you really, really can't tell the difference?
The first of the clips in that video was of Marilyn Monroe, moving and talking but completely "AI" assembled. Even before seeing this clip I had this thought -- one I'm sure many others have had for some time.
It's been considered for some time they could make an entirely new Bogart movie with him starring but just "AI" generated. They've already made small pieces with his image and likeness and voice, completely CGI, but then Bogart's estate had to have been involved. Those entangling legalities may be what is keeping the latest Bogart hit from being made.
Which leads to the question.
Will Hollywood simply create any given brand new Bogart-like character, or Monroe-like character, or Elvis or James Dean or even the best actors like Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn and all the rest of them, but just brand new Somebodies that they think will catch on and have the gravity that those people did?
Could they get away with it?
We can only see. But really, what would it be like if a brand new movie star comes on the scene and we all love and adore him or her and their new fabulous new films and we all discover...
They're AI.
Which makes the whole thing that much more demonic. Already the "AI" is being used to introduce all kinds of new web and social media sexual activity kinds of things, it is frightening. It is just another instance of the harrowing destiny for those not dwelling with Christ in Kingdom, instead permanently giving oneself to the World and its prince of dominion over souls and minds who just want their stomach filled.
I always think of that part of The Revelation that speaks of the "image of the beast." People will worship that image. Why not just the beast? No they will worship his image.
Wow.
That is the one thing that keeps me blogging and laboring in my webzine ministry. God is faithful no matter what -- it is presumptuous to think what I see are the only things out there. God is indeed working in whatever way that is, and I pray people would see and hear and know Him irrespective of anything I do with this web ministry. I just need to settle in and do what I can do to share Him with those who may just want to ask Christ to let them see the reality.
Or a million times more important, that they'd come to
The One Reality.
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The artwork of Marilyn Monroe here was authorized for general use. I did want to be careful in putting up other's artwork even with attribution. I wanted to put up a caricature of Humphrey Bogart, but all of the good ones required permission, and I just wanted to be respectful of that, even though I'm sure I've used protected images before without that. Again, I make no money from this effort, and I hope anything I post will be considered as being used respectfully.
I will add that adherent to a possibility mentioned in my latest home page piece, I'd thought about putting together a blog that was a response to those Christians who don't like CS Lewis because he had too many pagan elements in his stories, or worse, did not disavow Roman Catholicism as robustly as he should have. I do sympathize a bit more with the latter concern, but a polemic about that would require more attention and I just don't have the wherewithal to do that right now. Maybe another time. Again, however, that concern still does not take away from Lewis' impact sharing the basic principles of true biblical Christianity in powerful ways.
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