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My Body, What Choice?

2/28/2021

My body, my choice is the rallying cry feminists employ to defend bodily autonomy and the individual's right of self determination over their bodies for sexual, marriage, and reproductive choices as rights. The slogan has been used most often to support a woman's right to abortion in the face external domination or duress, most notably government legislature or religious objections.

Bodily autonomy is connected to bodily integrity, which, according to Wikipedia (slightly edited):

is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination of human being over their own bodies. In the field of human rights, the violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as either an unethical and/or possibly criminal infringement. Freedom of choice describes an individual's opportunities and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, unconstrained by external parties.

For decades, human rights lawyers and activists have been passionately utilizing bodily integrity to defend a woman's right to murder her own unborn children. I wonder if these same lawyers and activists will use similar tactics to defend people who are opposed to their governments' injecting them with potentially risky substances under the pretext of protecting everyone from the birdemic?

What about the issue of immunity certificates, which will grant the immunized certain benefits but leave those who choose to pass on immunization out in the cold?

Let's have a look . . . (bold, underlining added)

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is planning the pass as a digital certification which will allow for the revitalization of international travel by proving that those who it authorizes are safe from the virus.

Other forms of proving protection from the virus are also in the works. The World Economic Forum, the Commons Project, and a number of public and private partners are currently collaborating to create the CommonPass, an app which proves the user’s COVID-19 status, allowing them to travel abroad.

The app has been criticized by human rights activists, who say that it could be unfair, since not everyone has a smartphone.

Well, it appears the only thing human rights activists and lawyers are worried about is equity and accessibility. So much for bodily integrity.

But we still have choices, right? Sure! You could choose to forget going abroad and stay within the borders of your country. Problem solved.

Air travel is one thing, but immunity certificates are also being suggested for other activities including attending concerts, visiting museums, eating at restaurants. They could potentially be required for activities of a more essential nature like grocery shopping, accessing public health services, and being employed.

Despite these proposed restrictions, everyone can rest assured that immunization will remain purely voluntary. After all, we all possess fundamental, inalienable rights that simply cannot be violated; and we have pieces of paper somewhere in our capital cities attesting to this . . . or whatever.

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The Transition From Human Rights to Privileges and Special Benefits

2/27/2021

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In yesterday's post I argued that the era of human rights - which has its modern origins in the Enlightenment declarations and revolutions of the late eighteenth century and provided the foundations of Western secular liberalism and democracy - is over.

The concept of universal human rights is based on the belief that they are inalienable, fundamental rights to which all human beings everywhere are entitled from the moment they are born until the moment they die. Though human rights are generally considered to be inviolable, they are essentially a legal concept. As such, they can be suspended or taken away through various means - legal or otherwise - in response to due process or extraordinary circumstances.

Over the past year, the birdemic has been hysterically promoted as an example of an extraordinary circumstance requiring the suspension of many inalienable and fundamental human rights. The perceived extreme risk of the birdemic to human health and safety made the suspension of human rights a relatively easy affair for governments and corporations the world over. Most common people were only too willing to "temporarily" suspend their inalienable rights in an effort to protect their lives and the lives of others.

This willingness to sacrifice would not necessarily be a bad thing in and of itself if the societies in which we live and the powers that rule over us were aligned with good; more specifically, if they were honest, ethical, and moral; even more specifically, aligned with the primacy of the spiritual. Of course, if we lived in societies like that, the birdemic never would have developed in the manner that it has. Perhaps it wouldn't have appeared at all.

Unfortunately, the powers ruling over us are aligned with forces opposed to God, and the societies in which we live are demotivated, alienated, despairing, and severely maladaptive. Thus, the current suspension of our "inalienable and fundamental human rights" - regardless of their glaring insincerity and obviously "problematic" origin - will certainly become permanent. Whatever rights are permitted to re-enter common understanding from here forward will be termed "privileges" and "special benefits."

The real-time abolition of human rights we are experiencing stems from currently unfolding re-definitions and re-conceptualizations of what a human being actually is as well as what a human being is entitled to be and do. Although these new definitions are essentially being forced from the top, their success relies greatly on the consent and readiness of people to accept them at the bottom. If the birdemic has proved anything, it is this - modern people are ready to accept anything.

This readiness is most apparent in the aforementioned re-conceptualization of humanity. In the here and now, human beings are basically infectious bio-hazards - biological substances that pose a significant health risk to other biological substances. As such, they must be curtailed, contained, restricted, and neutralized. The only way to ensure the containment and neutralization of the threat these biological hazards pose is through a complex and intricate system of testing, tracking, and tracing leading to the establishment of safe environments, thereby offsetting the risk each bio-hazard potentially carries.

The paragraph above not only encapsulates the official re-definition of humanity, but also reflects the manner in which most individual human beings have redefined themselves. This re-definition renders all previous perceptions and declarations of human rights moot. Bio-hazards possess no inalienable, fundamental rights; at best, they can be granted privileges and special benefits.

Hence, mundane activities such as eating in a restaurant, attending a concert, or traveling to another country will no longer be listed as rights, but rather as privileges and special benefits. Bio-hazards that refuse to be neutralized, monitored, tracked, and traced, will be barred from most, if not all, privileges and benefits, which may eventually be expanded to include other seemingly mundane activities such as using public transportation, attending school, accessing public health services, and, yes, being employed.

People who agree to be neutralized, tracked, monitored, and traced are generally motivated by the hope that submitting to such measures will help everything return to normal. At the same time, the possibility that eager submission to the neutralization measures actually decreases the likelihood of a return to normal are rarely, if ever, considered.

But they should be. After all, submission amounts to confirmation. By agreeing to be neutralized, people are agreeing with their new classifications as bio-hazards. They are basically declaring that they need to be controlled, contained, tracked, traced and so forth. Sadly, all of this also paves the way for potential expansions in the definition of humans as hazards.

Today we are merely bio-hazards, but tomorrow we will identified as eco-hazards. The day after that, psycho-social hazards. Each expansion of the newly adopted hazard definition will, inevitably, necessitate further restrictions and curtailments, all in the cause of implementing safe environments.

As is the case now, rights will not enter into the equation, but the promise of privileges and special benefits will surely be offered to those who enthusiastically get with the program.

Note added: This post does not advocate for a return to the "normal" world of human rights, but is rather an attempt to draw an attention to the underlying spiritual implications of the current shift away from human rights.

Further note added: Just for the sake of clarity, I do not believe in the concept of universal human rights, neither the conventional ones enshrined in the fundamental documents of Western democracies, nor in the more contemporary ones that vociferously defend the various profane rights of perceived victim groups the Establishment champions.

Human rights have been an absolute disaster right from the start. Privileges and special benefits are merely extensions of that absolute disaster in a severely restricted form with the clear potential for even greater levels of disaster in the offing. All of it is evil abstraction.

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The Era of Human Rights is Over

2/26/2021

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A couple of days ago, I took a peak at the UN's Declaration of Human Rights and discovered - surprise, surprise - that the vast majority of those coveted rights have already been thoroughly trampled upon during the first year of the dreaded birdemic. These sorts of things tend to happen after global totalitarian coups . . . I mean, global birdemics.

Aw, come on, this has never been and still is not about the birdemic.

Anyway, the UN's Declaration of Human Rights is essentially little more than an expanded, global version of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which was issued by the National Constituent Assembly of France in 1789. If the date seems somewhat familiar, it might because it also marked the beginning of the French Revolution. This fundamental document, which was composed under the auspices of "the Supreme Being", begins in the following manner:

The representative of the French people, constituted into a National Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of governments, are resolved to expose, in a solemn declaration, the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man . . .

. . . and so on and so forth.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen drew much of its inspiration from the ideals of the American Revolution - secular natural law, human rights, civic rights, and personal freedoms, all modeled upon the sanctity of the individual. These ideals were summarily declared to be universal and valid in all times and places. Thus began the reign of libertas, which ruled the West mostly unfettered until the birdemic coup of 2020.

The eighteenth century has long been a target of traditionalists and reactionaries, most of whom regard the late 1700s as an enormous wrong turn. I tend to agree with them, but the bulk of my agreement is not fixed upon political or social concerns.

When I think about the late eighteenth century, I tend to think about the wrong turn primarily as the culmination of a missed opportunity in the development of human consciousness. Over the course of previous centuries Man had positioned himself to attain a viable shot at spiritual libertas, but in the late 1700s ultimately missed the mark and chose material libertas instead.

Though the enlightened revolutions and declarations professed to be inspired by and aligned with the divine, they were not based upon the primacy of the spiritual, but rather on the primacy of the material. As a result, the rights and freedoms the enlightened revolutions and declarations secured ultimately failed to fully address the true nature of Man.

Since they were not firmly rooted in God and Creation, the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man eventually devolved into the unnatural, alienable, and profane.

Nevertheless, the veneration for universal human rights continued unabated. Shortly after the Second World War it morphed into idolatry. It has maintained this status ever since and - despite the steady obliteration of nearly all basic and fundamental human rights over the past year - continues to maintain this status even now.

When the birdemic broke in the West, the vast majority of people were only too happy to surrender their natural, inalienable, and sacred rights. A year later, people continue to believe the suspension of their most basic and fundamental human rights is temporary - that their natural, inalienable, and sacred rights will be restored to them after the birdemic subsides and things return to normal.

I'm no fortune teller, but I believe things will never return to normal. A return to normal would entail a return to Western liberalism, democracy, human rights, individual freedoms - more succinctly, the world of material libertas that began in the late 1700s.

For all intents and purposes, the world of material libertas has ended. What we are in now are the initial stages of material servitus.

The only meaningful way forward is spiritual libertas through Christ.

We need to stop obsessing about the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man and begin focusing on our divine-human responsibilities instead.

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The Apparent Absence of Transcendent Help Is No Reason To Feel Powerless

2/25/2021

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As the birdemic closes in on its first year in the West, many Christians appear to be sinking into a deep pit of perceived powerlessness.

Nearly all Christian churches abandoned their congregations in early 2020 and nearly all continue to abide by the incoherent birdemic measures imposed upon them.

All, or nearly all, Christian churches have willingly aligned themselves with the global technocratic totalitarian agenda.

Not only have many modern Christians decidedly failed litmus tests like climate change, anti-racism, and equity/equality, but most happily sport these failures as badges of honor.

A great many more are eagerly lining up to get pecked with anti-birdemic juice in the hope of protecting themselves and their "neighbor" so things can get "back to normal", a decision most major Christian churches have endorsed and promoted as a sacred moral and spiritual duty.

In the midst of this seemingly endless parade of blatant evil, there remain some Christians who have not spiritually surrendered to the birdemic coup. I imagine a great many of these Christians are praying and waiting for the arrival of transcendent help. This is, after all, in a spiritual war; and in a spiritual war, one can use all the transcendent assistance one can obtain.

Though I firmly believe that transcendent forces are fully active, I am also convinced that much of this activity is currently and appropriately inaccessible to us. Many Christians who remain committed to the side of God and Creation interpret this inaccessibility as absence and are beginning to feel helpless as the demonic pressure continues to ratchet up all around them.

I imagine a great many of these Christians maintain solid faith in God, but sometimes wonder why God has not responded to this faith. To these Christians I offer the following - perhaps it's time to start wondering why we haven't responded to the faith God has in us.

In a recent post detailing the encroaching danger of mass despair in the West in the complete absence of conceivable worldly solutions to the birdemic, Bruce Charlton noted:

The choice is stark: despair or Christ.

And Christ is necessary, but not sufficient - because each must work actively for his own destiny in this world; and for his salvation in the next.

For most Christians - converged and un-converged alike - the idea that Christ is necessary, but not sufficient immediately raises red flags. But this reaction stems from what I would define as a constricted assumption about the nature of Christ's mission, which is limited to Christ's offer of salvation.

Salvation makes Christ necessary, but our willing acceptance of the salvation Christ offers is also necessary. Those who actively embrace salvation achieve freedom from, but salvation alone does not provide freedom for. Freedom for is the neglected part of Christ's mission - and that neglected part is theosis.

Dr. Charlton's observations regarding the active work required to attain one's destiny in this world and salvation in the next suggests that our destiny and salvation are not dependent solely on the transcendent, but also involve something immanent within us.

When we consider the apparent absence of the transcendent in the world today, it should not inspire feelings of powerlessness and helplessness. On the contrary, the apparent absence of the transcendent should instead motivate us to develop the daring and courage to look within rather than continually look above.

Such suggestions will sound misguided, risky, perhaps even heretical to some Christians who remain entrenched on the side of God and Creation, but I ask these Christians to - at the very least - consider the possibility that the current (apparent) absent of the transcendent is embedded in Divine wisdom and love. Transcendent absence could also be a testament to the tremendous faith God has in Man's latent creative power, as suggested by Nikolai Berdyaev in The Meaning of the Creative Act:

Doubt of man's creative power is a self-conceited reflexion, a morbid egotism. Humility and doubting modesty in places where there should be daring confidence and decision are always disguised metaphysical pride, reflective retrospection, and egoistic isolation, born of fear and terror.

Times are coming in the life of humanity when it must help itself, conscious that the absence of transcendent aid is not helplessness; because man can discover limitless aid immanent within himself if he dares to reveal in himself, by the creative act, all the power of God and the world, the true world, freed from the illusory world.

Note added: I have used the term transcendence rather loosely and vaguely here. For the purposes of this post, I am referring mostly to concept of transcendent help - that is supernatural assistance manifesting in the "natural" mortal world in the form of perceptible signs, communications, miracles and the like.

The apparent lack of such perceivable signs has left many Christians feeling helpless and powerless. My main point here is that this apparent lack of "signs from above" suggests Christians are either not looking in the right places for these signs or have not developed the means to recognize and acknowledge them when they appear.

Rather than inspire feelings of powerlessness and helplessness, I suggest a lack of signs from above should be regarded as a positive sign of God's faith in us. Rather than feel powerless, the apparent lack of transcendent aid should empower Christians to embrace new ways of thinking and understanding and become wholly active in nurturing a divine form of consciousness. Thus, the aid we seek (and the aid we need) needs to originate from what is divine within us.

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Albrecht Dürer's Saint Eustace

2/23/2021

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Readers occasionally inquire about the image in the blog header above. Though some have recognized the stag with the crucifix between its antlers as belonging to some saintly legend or other (or to the Jagermeister logo!), only a few have been able to correctly place the story or the artwork thus far.

So, the image in the blog header above is a detail close-up taken from Albrecht Dürer's engraving of Saint Eustace, which was completed some time around 1501. The piece depicts the conversion of Placidus, a second-century Roman general who experienced a vision of a crucifix between the antlers of a stag he had been pursuing during a hunt.

Legend has it that the stag turned to the Roman and spoke to him in Christ's voice, instructing Placidus to go and be baptized by the Bishop of Rome and take on the name Eustace. Dürer's engraving captures the essential moment of Placidus's spiritual conversion to Christianity.

I have a personal affinity for the Saint Eustace story and stags - and the story of Saint Hubertus as well! - because it is analogous to a spiritual experience of my own. That experience did not involve any stags with crucifixes betwixt their antlers, but it still served as a conversion all the same, or, in my specific case, a re-conversion.

Note added: Click on the image to view a larger, more detailed image of the engraving. Well worth it.

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So, How's the UN's Declaration of Human Rights Holding Up?

2/22/2021

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Remember the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights? So, how's that holding up as we approach the one year anniversary of the birdemic in the West?

I'm not a human rights lawyer, but I thought it might be a good idea to peruse this "sacred" document from a layman's perspective in an effort to decipher just where the UN's sacrosanct human rights declaration stands today.

I have emphasized "problematic" areas in bold.

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Well, I have to say, I am very thankful for the UN's declaration. Goodness only knows where we might be if it didn't exist.

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Don't Get Excited Or Hopeful About The System Hanging Its Own Out to Dry

2/20/2021

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We live in an atmosphere of intense demonic pressure. Every now and then the pressure appears to ease somewhat, which leads to a brief period of relief. These periods of pressure relief should not be interpreted as signs of hope; nor should they be viewed as potential turning points. Instead, a period of "pressure relief" should be recognized as a tactic - a brief, apparent retreat that precedes the next level of pressure intensification. Put another way, every relief in demonic pressure should be recognized as a step back that serves to set the stage for two steps forward.

This is particularly relevant to any "step back" the System disseminates and promotes through its media. Any sudden media blitz that overtly criticizes, scrutinizes, re-evaluates, or condemns a System apparatchik should be treated with caution and suspicion. More often than not, all such media campaigns do is offer false beacons of hope.

When the System hangs one of its own out to dry, it does so primarily to maintain or rebuild the public's trust in the System itself. When the System puts one of its own in a difficult or vulnerable situation, it is working to persuade the public that, despite everything, the System remains a force for good - that it is and will actively deal with its corrupt and reprehensible elements whenever and wherever it happens to find them. These sorts of campaigns - broadcast far and wide and splashed across the System's ubiquitous media - are meant to instill a sense of justice being served. They are meant to comfort. They are meant to re-cajole complacency.

In reality, the apparatchiks the System publicly hangs out to dry - be they CEOs, politicians, academics, celebrities, royalty, artists, or whatever - may be nothing more than voluntary or involuntary scapegoats and fall guys.

If they are voluntary scapegoats, they are rewarded handsomely for the manufactured ordeals to which they agree to subject themselves. If they are involuntary scapegoats, the System will simply and unceremoniously throw them under the bus. Either way, the System's fall guys serve the same purpose all fall guys do - they deflect blame, become focal points for pent up anger and outrage, and grant the protected party - in this case the System itself - an immense advantage.

Unlike conventional fall guys, the System's scapegoats are hardly innocent or blameless, but their part in the System's actual corruption is often far smaller than the blame the System eventually heaps on them.

Hence, a state governor's stupid and evil birdemic decisions within the confines of his own little part of the world becomes a dumping ground for all national outrage and anger about the birdemic. The governor takes some heat, perhaps resigns, and the public feels a sense of relief at justice being served.

In the meantime, the System ramps up and implements its newest birdemic measures - or whatever else it has in store to ensure the continued advancement of evil, slavery, and soul damnation - and takes two steps forward, leaving the public in a much worse situation than it was before the "scandal" broke and "justice" was served.

The System can afford to throw any of its "assets" under the bus at any given time, and I'm sure we'll see many individuals or entities being steamrolled by buses in the coming weeks/months/years.

As detailed above, some of this will be simple fall guy stuff, be it voluntary or involuntary. At other times, the "victims" might be casualties of infighting, position-jockeying, or in-System, low-level warfare. Ultimately, the demonic intelligence behind the System aims to throw everyone under the bus, including its own servants.

Whatever the case, we should not be surprised by any of it. And we certainly must not regard such things as signs that the System is inherently good; nor should we believe such actions to be proof systemic reform.

All such hopes must be abandoned. The only hope the System can offer now is false hope.

Real hope exists solely outside of and beyond the System, which is why system-distancing is so important.

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What If Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve Really Had Been Only Two Weeks?

2/19/2021

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Instead of . . . what is it now? Nearly a year? Who da thunk it?

Man, if I was one of those conspiracy nut jobs, I'd be convinced the global elite used the "two weeks to flatten the curve" mantra to usher in a worldwide totalitarian coup . . .

Anyway, here's a funny look at what might have been if two weeks had really been two weeks. Courtesy of the Babylon Bee, one of the only news sources worth reading these days. Highly recommended.

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Winter Sunrise Over My Nondescript Village; Or, The Lockout Phase Has Been Initiated

2/17/2021

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Photo by Attila Csigó

I have often described the village in which I live as nondescript, but the more time I spend in this little settlement, the more I realize how beautiful and distinctive it truly is.

This is all good and timely because the Hungarian government's most recent birdemic initiatives suggest that the boundaries of this small village may serve as the physical limits of my earthly existence in the foreseeable future.*

*Note added: The Hungarian government aims to inject the vast majority of the country's population in the coming months and issue immunity certificates to determine who can and who cannot fully re-enter society and return to "normal". It appears the lockout phase I explored in an earlier post has begun - at least here in Hungary.

How far the government will push these measures or whether they will work or not remains to be seen, but one thing is certain - the birdemic has become the Hungarian government's monomania.

As is the case with every other government, the regime here has been blatantly dishonest and repressive right from the start. What it is attempting to achieve now - assuming its communications are not just more lies - could have been achieved last spring/summer if it had simply left everything alone and allowed the populace to gain herd immunity (assuming what was happening then was also not just more lies).

Instead the government will now attempt to reach the same goal artificially by injecting the population with potentially dangerous substances that probably won't offer much in the way of immunity anyway. And the government appears intent on controlling the population via immunity certificates or passports of some kind or other after the jabbing is all done.

I think it may be time to get some chickens for that chicken coop I fixed up last year . . .

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Evil Versus Dehumanization

2/16/2021

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This is interesting.

The first Google graph below depicts the use over time "mentions" trend line for the word evil.

The second one shows the same for the word dehumanization.

The search above was partly inspired by comments someone called "Unknown" recently left on William Wildblood's blog in response to another comment (errors and typos edited by me):

"The bifurcation of humanity continues apace, ultimately leading to the separation of the good and the evil portions into two distinct races - the latter far more numerous."

That kind of dehumanizing us vs them mentality has the potential to lead to great evil - I would be cautious there.

I much prefer the Buddhist view that bad people are merely ignorant and deluded - this keeps us compassionate towards them.

I understand Christianity is the great religion of dualism and inheritor of Zoroastrianism - of the ultimate fight between good and evil, the belief that evil is completely real, and the ultimate separation of total good from evil.

I understand Christianity cannot accept the Buddhist idea that there are no evil men just deluded and mind-fettered men, and I respect that.

But latent in Christianity and all dualistic philosophies is the potential to utterly dehumanize those who disagree with you and become the evil you fear.

Just a word of caution.

Talk among yourselves.

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