Francis Berger

The Two Most Common Sacred Images in Hungarian Homes

5/24/2022

In previous generations nearly every Hungarian home featured some sort szentkép, which can be roughly translated as "sacred image".

These sacred images were usually mid-to-low-quality prints featuring Jesus, the Virgin Mary -- either separately or together -- or an iconic New Testament scene.

You can still encounter these images today, mostly in the homes of elderly people. In my experience, the two images below remain the most "popular".

The Sacred Heart of Jesus - date and artist unknown. A framed copy of this print "came with" the house I purchased in Hungary six years ago.

Jesus on the Mount of Olives - date and artist unknown

Though the tradition continues here and there, it is not nearly as prevalent as it had been in previous generations. When you are invited into anyone's home these days, you are more likely to encounter a kaleidoscopic IKEA print or a framed poster of a professional athlete or rock band.

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Render Unto Science What is Science's; Or, Why It Is an Error to Pin One's Hopes On Team Save Western Civilization

5/22/2022

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As an addendum to yesterday's post in which I argued against pinning one's hopes on Team Save Western Civilization, I would like to offer some support to back up my argument.

Before wading into it, I need to stress that these of sorts judgments do not really need to be supported in any conventional sense to be valid.

On the contrary, judgments like the one I publicized about Team Save Western Civilization yesterday are largely a matter of personal experience, intuition, and spiritual discernment, which could also be described as a "just know" position.

Things coming to a point in 2020 have made this "just know" level much easier, but it only works if you are aware of the point that was reached in 2020.

Anway, on to the support. The paragraph below is excerpted from the speech the Hungarian Prime Minister gave at the recent CPAC Conference in Budapest (bold and paragraph breaks added):

Our seventh point: do not get pushed to the extreme. I say this because extreme conspiracy theories rear their heads from time to time on the right – just as extreme utopias regularly rear their heads on the left. If we take a deeper look, we see that in fact people want neither.

But, Dear Friends, what is the difference between the denial of science by the extreme right and the denial of biology by LGBTQ movements? The answer is simple: there is no difference whatsoever. We must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, unto God the things that are God’s, and unto Science the things that are Science’s.

We may gain immense popularity on internet forums by promoting conspiracy theories – and indeed sometimes there is truth in them; but in reality we will alienate a large proportion of the electorate, find ourselves pushed to the margins, and eventually we will lose.

Render unto Science the things that are Science's.

Well, I honestly don't know where to start. To tack this statement onto Jesus's message is in and of itself profane, perhaps even blasphemous, especially when we acknowledge that the science to which Orbán refers is thoroughly corrupt, explicitly anti-Truth, anti-God, and blatantly anti-Creation -- hence, not science.

Orbán's augmentation and inversion of the sentences Jesus used to turn the tables on a Pharisee-set trap discloses much about the truths Orbán and others like him seek to avoid.

Though he parades around as one of the West's greatest defenders, Orbán fully knows that he actively, willingly, and eagerly helped kill Western Civilization and usher in the 2020 global totalitarian coup via the birdemic and its "science".

Moreover, Orbán and the rest of Team Save Western Civilization will continue to employ "the birdemic cover story as a complete explanation for sudden, instant, universal totalitarianism", all under the unquestionable, inviolable, and untouchable banner of "science" or, more correctly, lies.

Anyone who refuses to render unto science the things that are science's is guilty of a thought crime and will be deemed an extremist.

And just how sound and unchallengeable is this science through which Orbán helped usher in global totalitarianism and upon which all "science things" must be rendered?

Well, back in 2021, the Hungarian PM stated the following regarding the science's official diktat on lockdowns, social distancing, masking and birdemic peck effectiveness (code and bold added):

"In the past, we defended ourselves by closing, thereby slowing the spread of the virus. But now we are on the attack. The peck is like a bulletproof vest. The virus bounces off of it."

"Closing" did not defend anyone from anything. Closing devastated the economy and the population. Closing stripped all Hungarians of their supposed fundamental rights. The peck is anything but a bulletproof vest. All of my pecked colleagues and friends who donned the vest have caught birdemic bullets -- some repeatedly -- in spite of it.

That's some science, that.

A writer at the Gates of Vienna blog noted the following, which aligns with some of what I expressed in my post yesterday (bold added, code words added):

I guess “science” means the birdemic psy-op. And “far-right denial of science” means that the “Mi Hazánk” (Our Homeland) party has exposed the birdemic psy-op and has been voted into the Parliament.

Again, Hungary is playing the antagonist in the NWO theater, against the more overt “woke” part of the global Communist revolution, along with the invited US Republican party and the whole “conservative idea”. And the more covert part of the Communist revolution is the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” within the “Great Reset”, which Hungary is heavily invested in.

The Powers That Be are playing both sides.

Sound points, but they miss the spiritual aspect entirely. The larger point is this - the two sides the Establishment are playing are both on the wrong side of God and Creation, which is why it is pointless for anyone to pin their hopes on the side of Team Save Western Civilization.

All politics now is System politics, which means all politics here and now belong to Satan, the Father of Lies.

Which leads to the ultimate point. Despite its declarations to the contrary, Team Save Western Civilization is "in on" the global totalitarian coup, and its main mission within the machinations of System politics has to do with keeping people psychologically and spiritually attuned to the System and its lies to prevent the manifestation of spiritual creativity and divine, creation-sustaining, Christian thinking.

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Don't Pin Your Hopes on Team Save Western Civilization

5/21/2022

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A triple-pecked colleague of mine recently lauded the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Budapest over the past couple of days. The event attracted conservatives from all over the world to the Hungarian capital where they outlined how they would to protect “God, homeland, family” from the insanity of leftist ideology.

My triple-pecked colleague declared the conference to be a good omen – a sign that a turning point had been reached. As far as he was concerned, the conference proved that Western Civilization could and would be saved after all.

This triple-pecked colleague of mine is – as Dr. Charlton has so memorably put it – married to the Psycho Hose Beast; he has zero awareness of the 2020 satanic global totalitarian coup:

. . . it is clear that most people did not recognize the 2020 coup at the time - but instead wholly accepted the birdemic cover story as a complete explanation for sudden, instant, universal totalitarianism.

And having failed to notice the biggest event in world history (i.e. the silent international coup to install a world government) - these people naturally do not take any significant action to disengage psychologically and spiritually; they fail even to remember 'what it was like'.

And indeed they have ended-up married to the Psycho Hose Beast that is The System.

People like my birdemic “immunity”-card carrying, Fidesz-voting, conservative-minded colleague are blind to the obvious – after decades of terminal decline, Western civilization has died. It died in 2020 when nearly everyone in the world “accepted the birdemic cover story as a complete explanation for sudden, instant, universal totalitarianism.”

I offhandedly mentioned this to my colleague, citing the Orbán government’s oppressive policies during the height of the birdemic, policies which trampled all over “God, Homeland, Family” and other supposed essential characteristics of Western civilization. My colleague looked at me as if I had suddenly begun speaking a different language, and it was at that moment that I realized how utterly irrational and pointless it was to speak of such things with people who are remain firmly committed to remaining married to the Psycho Hose Beast.

True to System form, people like my colleague continue to pin their hopes on Team Save Western Civilization. They truly believe that “conservative” politicians and organizations will ultimately right the ship while at the same time remaining ignorant of the reality that the ship has already sunk to the bottom of a deep, dark, and cold ocean.

More bluntly, people like colleague continue to invest hope into the hopeless.

Western Civilization ended in 2020. We have entered System Civilization. The peculiar thing about System Civilization is that it does not qualify as a civilization at all. Sure, it possesses the external characteristics of civilization – large population centers, written language, systems for administering territories, monumental architectural and “unique” art styles, social classes – but unlike conventional civilizations, System Civilization is steadfastly committed to using these external civilizational characteristics to destroy itself and inflict mass death and damnation upon its population.

During the course of our informal conversation, I happened to vaguely point this out to my triple-pecked conservative colleague. He responded by falling back upon the cui bono position. Who, he wondered, could possibly benefit from mass, civilizational-level destruction and death?

Who could benefit? I didn’t bother to provide an explanation because the explanation would not have made sense to him, and I very much doubt that the explanation would make sense to most people in the West, which is precisely why the West has died.

So, let’s forget about pinning our hopes on Team Save Western Civilization for the simple reason that Western Civilization is dead. What parades around as Team Save Western Civilization is merely an appendage of System Civilization, and despite all rhetoric to the contrary, System Civilization is anti-God, anti-Creation, and, ironically, anti-civilization.

On the one hand, the death of Western Civilization could be interpreted as an unsettling reality. On the other hand, it also offers the only real worldly hope we can nurture during these times – the possibility of resurrection.

However, physical resurrection must begin as a fundamentally spiritual act – raising a civilization from death requires raising the spirit of the civilization from death first.

Since the spirit of any civilization comprises individuals, the resurrection of individuals must precede the spiritual and physical resurrection of a dead civilization -- and this is where the focus should be.

This is no longer about stopping the destruction. It’s too late for that. The death has already occurred. The most Team Save Western Civilization can do at this point is protect the corpse from further mutilation.

As far as I can tell, that is all they aim to do because the “team” lacks the spiritual motivations needed to raise the civilizational “body” from death.

And that is why it is pointless and misguided to pin any hopes on Team Save Western Civilization.

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I Confess -- My Heart Skipped a Beat

5/16/2022

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Scanning the news yesterday, I happened to stumble upon this alarming headline:

Stalin likely to head TN delegation to World Economic Forum Meet in Davos

I confess -- my heart skipped a beat. My first thought was that they had freeze-dried the ruthless Soviet dictator in the fifties and had somehow brought him back to life for the upcoming meeting. Luckily, it won't be Joseph attending the WEF powwow but Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.

Just a thought, but if I were the Chief Minister, I would seriously consider changing my name. Then again, Stalin is most fitting for a WEF event. It also appears that the minister is doing his best to look like old Joseph. The WEF is bound to approve.

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A Few Thoughts About the Inflation Situation

5/14/2022

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Whenever I visit the grocery store these days, I’m reminded of a tweet William James Tychonievich featured on his blog:

William had to following to say about the tweet: "I swear this is an honest-to-God tweet from the White House, not a parody. They're literally boasting about how their "economic plan" is saving you 16 cents."

As ridiculous as that tweet was, saving that 16 cents would certainly be welcome now.

I don't personally know how the situation is in other parts of the world, but inflation here in Hungary is tearing through the country like a category five hurricane.

I did the math the other day and ruefully determined that the recent price hikes at the grocery store will gobble up about one extra month's worth of my gross salary over the course of the year if -- big if -- prices remain where they are and do not increase any further. Put simply, I'm a month's worth of pay poorer now.

When I add that to the birdemic-peck induced job loss I incurred back in October, I come to the realization that I’m actually about three or four months’ worth of salary poorer than I was at this time last year.

Before going on, I would like to stress that I share this personal information here purely for illustrative purposes, not to evoke worry or pity. Rest assured, my family is very far from being in dire straits, but that has little to do with the overall point I wish to make in this post.

Anyway, it goes without saying the rampant price increases here in Hungary are not limited to food. Everything else has also gone up. Some products have seen moderate ten or twenty percent hikes; others have literally doubled or tripled overnight. Every time I purchase something, I end up spending more on it and end up having less to save or to spend on something else.

You don't need a degree in economics to figure out where all of this is headed. You also don't need a degree in philosophy or political science to understand that this sort of financial pressure is part and parcel of the totalitarian demonic agenda that it went into full force after the 2020 global coup.

It is critical to remember that the demonic powers have re-calibrated the System into war mode. They will use every material means at their disposal to ramp up the demonic pressure, and they will not stop until they reach their double goal of destruction and damnation.

We as individuals may not be able to do much about the first demonic goal. The demons may very well succeed in bringing everything down and making life "materially" miserable for all. In the meantime, they will continue to ratchet up their material weapons to make life increasingly uncomfortable and difficult. With this in mind, it is imperative to remember where our focus should be.

As I mentioned above, the demonic agenda relies primarily on material weapons to attain spiritual ends. The material weapons are designed to instill worry, fear, hatred, desperation, depression, apathy, despair (etc.) to tug people toward the personal choice for damnation.

Only spiritual means can overcome the fear, hatred, desperation, depression, apathy, despair (etc.) the demonic agenda feverishly works to instill, which brings me to the larger point of this post: Concentrate on these spiritual means.

Here's one that is particularly pertinent to what we are facing today:

Don’t worry over earthly bread; focus on the bread of life.

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Cuckoo Music

5/12/2022

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Earlier this week in my post about tourist attractions, I contemplated what kind of tourist attraction I would build were I ever to get into the attraction business. The first idea that popped into my mind was "the world's largest cuckoo", which inspired me to immediately abandon my tourist attraction "dreams".

On the topic of cuckoos, they have returned to this part of the world. I heard the first cuckoo call on April 14. Since it's May now, the cuckoos remain loyal to the old nursery rhyme and dutifully sing all day, which continues to fill my heart with joy for reasons I cannot explain.

Thankfully, I am not the first person in the history of the world the cuckoos have charmed. Hat tip to "houska" for leaving the following musical link on my post about tourist attractions.

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Are They In On It? Good Question

5/11/2022

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AnteB left the following comment on the blog yesterday:

I wonder if the leaders of the Vodka Land/Fire Nation are in on the Global Establishments plans. I just find it remarkable that a large and destructive war is unleashed in Europe just as the birdemic is losing steam.

That's a good question -- a question for which I don't have a concrete answer. Nevertheless, I did leave the following thoughts in response to AnteB's comment:

I've considered both sides of the argument, and I have come to the conclusion that lesser evil is not Good. And as of now, Vodka Land is merely lesser evil. I don't know how "in" the war is to the Global Establishment's plans, but it certainly isn't hindering the overarching demonic goals in any way.

Furthermore, I think it's important to remember that all nations were in on the birdemic and are still "in" on it despite loosening measures. The Fire Nation is no exception here. They locked down, mandated to a certain degree, and even created their own peck. All nations, including the Fire Nation, are also in on the UN goals and other globalist agendas.

In addition, I think it is a mistake to assume that the birdemic is losing steam. They haven't been featuring it as prominently, true -- but this shouldn't be taken as a sign that the birdemic is over. It isn't over in the Middle Kingdom where they have locked down cities with populations that exceed some American states and European countries (which is also helping the Global Establishment's plans). It isn't over in Canada where they are not allowing anyone to get on a plane unless they are pecked.

At the end of the day, our discernment at this high level of geopolitics is mostly facile, but this doesn't negate the fact that nothing truly Good has happened at the geopolitical level. The agenda of destruction continues unabated.

We must make our assessments and then turn back to our own personal circumstances and concentrate on doing Good at the personal level by working from the inner toward the outer beyond the System.

I think the Fire Nation is lesser evil, and the forces opposing it are greater evil. Is lesser evil actively cooperating with greater evil? Perhaps it is. At the same time, it doesn't appear to be the case. Either way, that in and of itself does not make lesser evil "Good". As I noted above, the demonic agenda of destruction continues unabated, and our main task is to remain on the side of God and Creation.

In connection to the question, Dr. Charlton noted the following in an earlier post on the subject, which he suggested may be another litmus test:

With our experience of wave after wave of propaganda for evil over the past two years; one might have supposed that this astonishing rapidity, uniformity and extremity of the Mass Media response to the Fire Nation would have made it very obvious which was the greater, and which the lesser, evil.

And maybe that is exactly what it did...

Maybe this new Fire Nation Litmus Test is just that; I mean, not of-itself a cause of transferring Men's allegiance from God to the demonic; but instead simply a 'test' or indicator that reveals the truth about each Man.

Because anyone who knows that the world is ruled by evil Men in league with Satan (and if they don't recognize this fact by-now, then no proof will ever be sufficient) - who then sees in the Mass Media all of these evil Men (without exception) advocating a particular narrative - then knows that that view, that agenda must itself be evil by motivation. And more evil than the views which they oppose, suppress, demonize and punish (in a characteristically demonic frenzy - without limit or restraint).

Therefore we should not strive for neutrality - which is, anyway, impossible; but may quickly and simply make a choice to reject the greater evil. And indifference may also be impossible; in face of a expansile totalitarian (thus pan-social-system) campaign to make this Litmus Test issue unavoidable in public discourse and life.

But we should not, in our hearts, lose our grip upon what is, in fact, a facile discrimination.

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Quiet Parts Out Loud; Loud Parts Not at All

5/10/2022

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The Hungarian government has recently declared that it will veto the latest package of sanctions the EU wants to implement against Vodka Land claiming that the sanctions -- which include a total or near total embargo on oil -- would be tantamount to a nuclear bomb hitting the Hungarian economy.

Declarations such as these are described as "saying the quiet part out loud" in the sense that they reveal an ulterior motive. The EU promulgates its sanctions packages as "good and moral" things lobbed against an evil aggressor that must be hindered and stopped at all costs. At the same time, the EU carefully obfuscates the obvious: The sanctions will end up damaging Europe far more than the Land of the Balalaika. Moreover, that this is precisely what the sanctions are intended to do.

Thus, the Hungarian government is correct in its assessment of consequences as it states the quiet part out loud -- the sanctions really will be akin to a self-inflicted nuclear strike. Yet the Hungarian government fails to mention the "loud" part at all, which is that EU sanctions have been crafted to intentionally serve the cause of destroying worst first.

As usual, the Hungarian government has taken great pains to present itself as a voice of reason and sanity. In reality, Orbán et al. do not really oppose the cause of destroying worst first. Although they protest economic nuclear bombs, they have no qualms at all about the spiritual, psychological, and economic carpet bombing they inflicted upon Hungary for the better part of two years following the outbreak of the birdemic.

So much for bombs; so much for quiet and loud parts.

Look, the System is fully engaged in an acute phase of sabotage and destruction. Whatever happens, don't let it sabotage and destroy your soul.

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In Which I Consider Getting Into The Tourist Attraction Business

5/6/2022

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Since the ongoing birdemic restrictions continue to limit international travel options, my family and I have decided to make the best of it and explore Hungary. This focus on domestic "tourism" has revealed my ten-year-old son's fondness of off-the-beaten path tourist attractions.

For example, about six weeks ago, he asked to visit the world's largest toy hussar. Who was I to say no?

As the photo above shows, this wonder of the modern world stands in the middle of nowhere. The attraction was the brainchild of two locals who -- during a night of excessive drinking -- thought it would be fun to erect the world's largest toy hussar in a small Hungarian town in the middle of nowhere. The photo below gives you some idea of how big "Misi Hussar" is.

On the same outing, my son also pined to pay a visit to a "castle park" that featured scale replica models of most of the castles and fortresses that had stood in Greater Hungary.

The "park" is really just a family's backyard. The family constructed all the models from materials found at the original sites and positioned the mini-castles "geographically" in the "park" -- a large part of which is essentially a map of Greater Hungary -- to illustrate where the structures stood or still stand in terms of place.

I must admit, I found this particular site as interesting as my son did.

On the drive home I spent some time thinking about how I could get into the tourist attraction business. I would need a good idea. After that, it would simply be a matter of pulling it all together.

I began to brainstorm.

The first thing that popped into my mind was "World's Largest Cuckoo Statue."

I cleared my throat and let the attraction business evaporate from my mind.

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Let's Practice System Distancing: The Abortion Edition

5/4/2022

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So, the System has released it's latest current thing communication . . . ahem, manipulation . . . which just happens to focus on everyone's favorite "hot-button issue" -- abortion.

Let's get the obvious out of the way first. Abortion is evil. It is among the most grievous of sins. That is all.

Now that we've cleared that up, let's concentrate on the System's latest current thing, which happens to be a leaked Supreme Court "opinion" draft that challenges the current abortion legislation in the United States.

News of the leak has, predictably, "lit up" the Christian/conservative blog world. Everywhere I look I see Christians and conservative revving themselves up for the next hot battle in the spiritual war. Some are vowing to take the fight to the streets. Others insist the leaked document is a sign of divine providence. A few have even suggested that the document represents a turning point in the spiritual war.

I don't want to add any commentary to the "issue" itself. What I want to do is make people aware of this latest current thing provides the perfect opportunity for Christians to practice system distancing. (The opportunity does not exist for those who identify purely as conservatives because conservatism is wedded to the System by default and cannot exist without it.)

The first thing to keep in mind is this -- the System issued the communication and made sure news of it was widespread. This implies that the Establishment very much wants everyone to be acutely aware of the "issue" and to participate in the issue via the System in some way by thinking about it, writing about it, arguing about it, raising hopes about it, fighting about it, etc. Moreover, the Establishment wants everyone to "have a position" on the issue. They want people to become personally invested in this latest communication on terms the System dictates. This applies especially to Christians, for whom abortion is a big concern.

Secondly, this newest current thing is a clear example of the System wanting people to listen to what it is saying about this issue here and now and to forget about what it is not saying here and now. And there are many things the System is not talking about these days -- the very same things it could not stop talking about mere weeks or months ago.

Thirdly, these sorts of communications are usually released to foster hope in the System. The overall aim is to coax Christians and conservatives into thinking that the System still contains vestiges of real good, that it is capable of self-correction, that it can address "issues" that are important to Christians, that it has the potential to redeem itself and turn a corner.

Fourthly, communications of this nature are meant to keep everyone fixated on external forces that are entirely out of our control. Instead of investing time and energy on aligning with God and Creation outwith the System, Christians are being lured into investing time and energy aligning with the external forces of System manipulation within the System.

Finally, the primary objective of the System is mass damnation, and it will employ the most nefarious and deceptive means to assure this.

I could go on, but I think I've made my point. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't care about abortion or that we shouldn't pay some attention to developments around this "issue".

At the same time, I think it is a mistake to become too invested in this latest "current thing". Moreover, I believe this latest piece of System manipulation offers an excellent opportunity to practice the spiritual imperative of system distancing, which I have briefly outlined here.

To sum up, the best way to help the cause of the issue the System is currently promulgating is too keep your actions and thoughts about the issue largely outside of the System itself.

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