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The Point As Potential Turning Point

1/1/2021

In a post from earlier this week, I explored the idea that the recognition and acknowledgement of "the point" was the point of 2020. The point refers to C.S. Lewis's concept of 'things coming to a point', a concept Bruce Charlton has referred to and continues to refer to on his notions blog to describe a process in which "Good and evil are becoming so extreme as to lose the grey areas and be starkly separated; it means that there is no neutrality and every-thing of any possible public significance is now-and-increasingly either positively/ actively/ purposively-Good or positively/ actively/ purposively-evil."

A sound metaphysical understanding of good and evil is a prerequisite to recognizing and acknowledging "the point" reached in 2020. Without this sound understanding, individuals fail to comprehend the spiritual dimension of what transpired in 2020. Not only that, but they will also likely fail to make the right choice in terms of aligning with the side of Good.

Instead, they will be more likely choose to actively affiliate with Evil, which has rolled out its own inverted version of "things coming to a point" - one that contains its own potential turning point centered around the birdemic.

In this version, the birdemic has served to lay bare the great evils of climate change, racism, and inequality once and for all. These evils are so great that they can only be addressed and, ultimately, solved by the machinations of a totalitarian, technocratic, one-world government that will doggedly work to elevate the dignity of all human beings and manifest a materialist heaven on earth.

But what about individuals who recognize and acknowledge the evil inherent in this inversion - who understand the above as part and parcel of the real "point." How can they ensure they make the right choices and align with the side of Good? And what will such an alignment hope to achieve?

At the purely individual level, an active choice to align with Good is an active choice for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. It is also a conscious choice for salvation. It signals an awareness that much of the meaning of our mortal lives resides in believing in heaven after earth rather than the illusory promise of heaven on earth.

All of this certainly counts as a turning point in the lives of individuals. As such, each one is of infinite importance, but will these individual turning points add up to anything bigger? What about communities, societies, nations, and Christianity?

I am not currently an optimist when it comes to anything at the collective level, but mass recognition of "the point", were it to occur, would contain the potential for a larger turning point, one entailing a shift in human consciousness - the emergence of a new spiritual consciousness.

And what might this shift in consciousness comprise?

In his book Freedom and the Spirit, the Russian spiritual philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev describes the potential turning point in the following manner:

We are entering an epoch of new spirituality that will correspond to the new form of mysticism. It will no longer be possible to argue against a heightened spiritual and mystical life that human nature is sinful and that sin must first be overcome. A heightened spiritual and mystical life is the road to victory over sin. And the world is entering a catastrophic period of choice and division, when these will be required by all Christians, an uplifting and intensification of their inner lives.

The external, everyday, moderate Christian is breaking up. But eternal, inward, mystical Christianity is becoming stronger and better established. And within mysticism itself, a 'paraclete' type is beginning to predominate. The epoch of new spirituality in Christianity can only be an epoch of a great and hitherto unheard of manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

And what might this potential turning point bring about? In The Divine and The Human, Berdyaev states:

The new revelation is not at all a new religion, distinct from Christianity, but rather the fulfillment and completion of Christian revelation, bringing to it a true universality. This we do not have as yet. But we cannot simply wait for the revelation of the spirit. It depends upon man's creative activity as well. It is not to be understood as only a new revelation of God to man: it is also the revelation of man to God. This means it will be divine-human revelation. In the Spirit, the divisions and contradictions of the divine and the human will be overcome, while the distinction between them will be maintained. This will be the crowning of the mystical dialectic of the divine and the human.

Do I believe the kind of turning point Berdyaev describes may be at hand? That is difficult to say. But I do believe in the potential of it, and I believe this potential greatly depends on our recognition and awareness of "things reaching the point" in 2020.

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The Dreaded "Year in Review" Post

12/31/2020

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I'm not a big fan of 'year in review' posts and have never published one, but writing a meaningful post on this last day of this most significant of years has proven to be beyond my powers.

Bearing this in mind, I offer instead my selection for "best" 2020 post, followed by the top five posts of the year in terms of views.

Thus, my choice for best 2020 post is:

An Idea Concerning God's Unresponsiveness

And in no particular order, the five most-viewed posts on my blog in 2020 were:

The Religion of Hatred

Listen All Y'All, It's a Sabotage

The Right Thing For The Wrong Reason

This Easter, Escaping Raskolnikov's Delirious Lenten Dreams Involves Coming Forth Like Lazarus

The Great Reset: The Prime Objective of the Successful Global Totalitarian Coup

Thanks to all who visited the blog this year - and special thanks to those who took the time to engage with the blog via comments.

See you in 2021.

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The Transition From Lockdown to Lockout

12/30/2020

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In 2020 we have lived through, and are still living through, what the fine folks at the World Economic Forum refer to as the Great Lockdown. The great thing about the Great Lockdown is that is has essentially set the stage for the Great Reset, but I get the distinct sense that the successful implementation of that comprehensive agenda to reconfigure life, the universe, and everything will depend heavily on the success one more "great" initiative - the Great Lockout.

Though my notion of the Great Lockout is mostly conjecture at this point, evidence supporting the possibility of a transition from lockdown to lockout is popping up in various places around the world through the form of proposed digital passes. So, what is the Great Lockout and what might it look like?

Understanding that question rests on the understanding that lockdowns were primarily a form of social control rather than a means through which to protect people from a horrible plague. Implemented under the guise of protective health measures, lockdowns succeeded in confining (incarcerating) the masses (prisoners) to their homes (cells) in states of relative isolation (solitary confinement; that is, punishment via anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, and psychosis) while grossly restricting access to the outside world.

This has been the state of affairs - at least intermittently - in most of the world for the better part of nine months now. It goes without saying that the vast majority of people - even those who completely support lockdowns - have developed what some wags have referred to as lockdown fatigue. More plainly, people are growing sick of lockdowns. History has shown that when people get sick of things, they tend to get restless and rebellious.

Of course our totalitarian overlords are perfectly aware of all of this, which is why they have periodically relieved the pressure by easing a restriction now and then. Though lockdowns are an authoritarian dream-come-true, the globalist tyrants currently oppressing nearly every aspect of our mortal lives know that a state of permanent lockdown is untenable. At the same time, they have clearly shown that they have no desire to yield an inch of the power and control they have achieved through lockdowns. This situation presents our totalitarian rulers with a bit of a dilemma. They know they must lift lockdowns at some point, but only appear willing to do so if the power and control they have seized can be maintained or, even better, increased.

And this is where my notion of the Great Lockout comes in. The big success of the Great Lockdown was its ability to "suspend" individuals and society in the name of health and safety. In this sense, lockdowns can be equated to a push factor. People were informed that the birdemic made the functioning of "normal" society too difficult and dangerous to allow, and that the best course of action was to suspend nearly everything and seek asylum within the refuge of one's own home until the danger passed.

The Great Lockdown has, to some degree, made refugees of us all. Though some are perfectly content to remain within the borders of their shelters, most want to return to their "homelands" - that is, to some semblance of the normal, functioning societies they were forced to flee. For its part, the Establishment frequently states that it also desires a return to "normal", but only if and when the health and welfare of every single person on the planet can be safeguarded and guaranteed.

If the Great Lockdown served to suspend society, the Great Lockout will become the proposed lifting of this suspension. Put another way, lockdowns were meant to push people out and away from a frozen society; lockouts will seek to thaw society and pull people back in. But this pull factor will come with conditions, and it is through these conditions that the Establishment will not only maintain its iron grip of control, but increase it.

At the present time it appears magical medical juice will be the linchpin that keeps the totalitarian wheel spinning. Yes, the world can be your oyster again, but only if you take the magical medical juice and adhere to all the complex and intrusive bureaucratic and surveillance mechanisms installed to support it. Do that you, and the Establishment will ensure you are "locked into" the System.

Don't want the magical medical juice? No problem, but refusal will guarantee you are "locked out" of the system. You can then proceed to live the isolated and solitary life of a clam.

Given a choice like that, how many people will choose to be locked in rather than locked out?

It does not take an ocean of imagination to realize how quickly and easily the Establishment could effectively lock individuals in or out of the System. It also does not take a great deal of perspicacity to notice that the preliminary groundwork for a lock-in/lockout system is already in place. Whether or not the Great Lockout will be fully implemented remains to be seen, but many developments in the world today point in that direction. Whatever the case, the Establishment wants to ensure the lock remains in place.

And what will our response - mine, yours - be to such developments?

Best to leave that for a future post.

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Lost To The Birdemic

12/29/2020

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Lost to the birdemic.

Commenter Michelle used a phrase very similar to the one above in a response to my post from couple of days ago. It caught my eye immediately. Michelle had not employed the phrase to refer to anyone she had physically lost to the birdemic "crisis", but rather in reference to a close friend she had socially/spiritually lost to the fear and terror of the nearly year-long totalitarian birdemic campaign.

Lost to the birdemic. The expression made me pause and reflect for a moment. Limiting the loss of life has been the supposed motivation behind every birdemic measure our technocratic totalitarian overlords have implemented since spring.

Yet, this apparently noble goal to minimize the loss of human life hides within it a pretext - the overarching demonic goal of maximum soul damnation.

The apocalyptic loss of life to the birdemic the Establishment forecast to tyrannize the world into submission has not materialized (and likely never will). Unfortunately, the devastating loss of souls has likely surpassed the Father of Lies' wildest estimations.

And the campaign is nowhere near finished yet.

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Recognizing and Acknowledging "The Point" Was The Point of 2020

12/27/2020

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"Things coming to a point" has been a central theme of Bruce Charlton's superb and insightful blogging over the past decade. Dr. Charlton draws the phrase from C.S Lewis's That Hideous Strength, in which the concept is described in the following manner:

"If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family--anything you like--at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow-room and contrasts weren't quite so sharp; and that there's going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder."

As I mentioned above, Dr. Charlton has been blogging about things coming to a point - about the line separating good and evil becoming increasingly clearer and the space of neutrality between them increasingly diminishing - for years, but his recent observations on the subject suggest the process has ended in 2020.

Put another way, 2020 obliterated the gray area between good and evil. The sharp, hard point that had been building for decades, if not centuries, has finally materialized. Things are no longer coming to a point. In 2020, things have come to a point.

I fully agree with Dr. Charlton's lucid observation. Even a cursory glance at the events of 2020 (the birdemic, lockdowns, the global totalitarian coup, election fraud, faux Brexit) reveals that evil did indeed become undeniably direct, clear, simple, and obvious over the course of the year.

Thus, the overall point of 2020 is the understanding that we have reached the point; but what does this entail? Dr. Charlton summarizes the meaning of things having come to a point in the following manner:

In sum, when things have come to a point - life-choices will be substantially (this can never be absolute, due to our mixed-nature and mixed-motives) simple, dichotomous and direct. The choices will be between God, Love, Beauty, Truth, Virtue, Harmony... and the negation of these.

Once we have people choosing against-Good, against God, consciously and with their eyes wide-open; then that will also be the situation when people will choose eternal damnation in preference to the gift of salvation and eternal life as Sons and Daughters of God - they will reject Heaven and choose to reign in their own personal Hell.

This is the end game; yet we can see that this must be carefully prepared if the situation is not to 'backfire' from the perspective of evil...

The clearer that choices become, the more likely that the mass of distracted, cloudy-minded, muddled, partly conscious and not-yet-fully-corrupted people will perceive the situation and choose Good.

So - a world of things coming to a point is also a world in which it is easier to discern Good. Much easier...

The iron fist has emerged from its velvet glove; the wolf has shrugged of his sheep's clothing. Strategic deception becomes a thing of the past.

For Men of Good intent - life becomes clear and simple - right choices are easy to recognise.

After that - it is up-to-us, each as individuals.

Dr. Charlton further clarifies the matter in the following:

The Good side are those who support the goals of God's creation, and who hope to join with God in the eternal work of creation - the evil side are those who oppose this.

Things coming to a point mean that it is becoming ever-more clear cut whether we choose the Good side or the evil. There is less blurring, less chance of confusion. Our choices, therefore, cluster - since the Goodness and evil are so clear and separated; when we choose, therefore, we know what we are doing.

Our choices are more conscious, more deliberate - more significant.

It is worth noting that the ease of recognizing good and right choices does not imply that mortal life will become easier or better for those who choose to side with good. On the contrary:

This creates all kinds of problems, suffering, hardship, But in a world such as this one, coming to a point is a Good-thing. By 'Good' I mean in a spiritual and eternal sense - not a materialist and this-worldly sense. The process is Good for our souls, even when it is bad for our minds and bodies.

If we take full awareness of "the point" to be the point of 2020, then the active, conscious, and committed choosing of a side - that is, the active and conscious commitment good or evil - must become the overarching point of 2021 and beyond. As Dr. Charlton notes:

People have agency, people can choose evil, and they are apparently doing so in very large numbers. If so, they have made their choice and Will live with that choice (unless or until they repent it, which usually gets harder with time).

This is a test for everyone: it is a test for Christians. Christians are confronted with worldly-expediency versus spiritual virtue again and again, every day and in multiple situations; and their response (I mean their response in their own thinking) will necessarily go one way, or the other way.

Our true motivation is recurrently being tested, hence refined and strengthened.

This is Good and we ought to be grateful; because this is exactly theosis; it is how we grow in divinity (or the opposite).

A crucial item to remember as we confront "the point" of 2020 and move toward 2021 is that failing to be "a saint in all virtues" does not disqualify one from being on the side of good. Conversely, possessing considerable virtues does not render one immune to working for the side of evil. Motivation and repentance are key in determining which side an individual ultimately chooses:

Individuals are always a dynamic and evolving mixture of virtues and vices, good behaviours and bad; and modern fighters on the side of Good may well be notably flawed in terms of feebleness of virtue, proneness to sin, and selfish short-termism of behaviour... yet (thanks to the 'infinite' power of repentance) they may still be on the side of Good.

While, on the other side - the side of evil; individuals may have considerable virtues, and display considerable altruism and steadiness of purpose... yet these positive factors serve, in the end, merely to increase their dangerousness to the cause of Good.

To sum up, the point of 2020 was the recognition that things "have come to a point". The point of 2021 will be the choice individuals make in light of this recognition.

No one will be spared this choice going forward.

Failing to recognize the point as "the point" or attempting to maintain some semblance of neutrality after acknowledging "the point" will also count as choices in 2021. Needless to say, neither of these "non-choices" will count as a choice for good.

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Masking the Divine

12/26/2020

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Back in April I suggested the face mask would become the lasting symbol of the birdemic global totalitarian takeover. Though face masking was still voluntary in most places around the world at that time, I was concerned the practice would eventually become mandatory in the same manner social distancing and lockdown measures had become mandatory. While the latter two measures have triggered well-justified unease in some segments of the general population, the former has been mostly regarded as a minor and pointless inconvenience. Yes, many have very astutely pointed out that face-masking is an infringement of personal rights and freedoms, but only a handful of people appear to be aware of the deeper spiritual implications behind the masking mandates.

In my April post I proposed coerced face masking contained an intentionally and intrinsically dehumanizing element:

There is something inherently dehumanizing about masking the human face. A crucial channel of communication and existence is denied when the human face is hidden. True, eyes are the windows to souls, but faces are windows to human personality.

I then went on to equate the masking of the human face with the masking of God. Though the notion struck me as somewhat histrionic at the time, I felt the need to communicate it all the same. Since then I have come to understand that - far from being exaggerated or stilted - my intuitive assumptions about the pernicious implications of face masking strike at the very core of the current spiritual onslaught that has been unleashed upon us. Face masking is certainly an attack on individual rights and freedoms, but many fail to see that it has also morphed into a direct and prolonged siege against the Divine - that the prime objective of masking the human face is the total removal of God from the public sphere.

Of course, this only makes sense if one considers the human face to be conduit of the Divine - as a potent spiritual force through which the Divine continuously communicates - rather than simply a material component of the human anatomy. One thinker who recognized the divine implication of the human face was Nikolai Berdyaev, who noted the following in his Slavery and Freedom:

The face of man is the summit of the cosmic process, the greatest of its offspring, but it cannot be the offspring of cosmic forces only, it presupposes the action of a spiritual force, which raises it above the sphere of the forces of nature. The face of man is the most amazing thing in the life of the world: another world shines out through it. It is the entrance of personality into the world process, with its uniqueness, its singleness, it unrepeatability. Through the face we apprehend, not the bodily life of man, but the life of his soul.

This "action of a spiritual force", this "other world" that shines through the face of man, this "entry of the personality into the world process" are exactly what mandatory face masking conspires to obscure and deny.

Even worse, masking has inimically inverted the very sight of an unmasked face in public. Rather than perceiving the life of a soul in the human face, many now regard the sight of the mask-less human face with trepidation and terror. The unmasked face is now viewed as source of potential harm and danger. Many go out of their way to avoid encountering it all costs, and in situations where they are forced to confront it, they react to it with fear and scorn. Nowhere is this more true than within the walls of Christian churches, where the very act of mandating face masking during services borders on outright blasphemy.

Berdyaev once noted that the elimination of the perception of God in the world would signify the end of the human being on earth. I propose the reverse holds true as well.

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Merry Christmas To My Readers

12/25/2020

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I wish everyone who stops and spends time on these pages a Merry Christmas! The relative silence into which I retreated over the Advent season has now ended, and I will resume regular blogging tomorrow.