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Clickety-Click, Birdemic Trick

5/31/2021

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Barbapapa - a cartoon series from the 1970s featuring a family of shape-shifting blobs that could alter their forms by simply saying "clickety-click, barba trick" - was quite popular when I was a kid. I hadn't thought about Barbapapa for decades, but the seemingly magical transformations the birdemic is undergoing at the moment suddenly reminded me of the series. 

For example, a little less than ten weeks ago, Hungary was in the grips of its second hard lockdown and apparently on the brink of a national catastrophe. Birdemic deaths were among the highest in the world and birdemic cases increased on a daily basis, almost exponentially.

The peck program, which had been initiated here in January 2020, swung into full effect shortly after the second lockdown. The government presented the people with a stark choice - the peck or death. About two million chose the peck. 

A few weeks later, the government rolled out its lockout plan. Pecked people would get to go to the movies and the zoo. They would also be issued peck passports to facilitate travel to holiday destinations abroad. Another two million quickly chose the peck. Then the Hungarian authorities offered the peck to teenagers. About another million chose the peck.

As the number of pecked people inched closer to five million, the apocalyptic birdemic numbers suddenly reversed. Cases and deaths plummeted, sometimes  overnight. This coaxed a few hundred thousand more to choose the peck. Cases and deaths fell even further.

The government unceremoniously lifted most of the birdemic restrictions it had imposed on the populace for the better part of a year, maintained that the unpecked would continue to be locked out of "the return to normal", and then announced that the dreaded third wave of the birdemic had been defeated. 

Five million "perfectly safe and effective" experimental pecks and tens weeks had brought the dreaded plague to heel. 

Clickety-click, birdemic trick.

Of course, we're not out of the woods yet. There are still five million unpecked people in this country - and as everyone knows, none are safe until all are safe. 

But hang on! New birdemic varieties are flying in from Asia as we speak. It goes without saying that the pecked are perfectly protected from any and every novel variant and mutation - but the unpecked? Not so much. Regardless, most of the unpecked are choosing to remain unpecked, which is a big problem because herd immunity. 

And to top it all off, it turns out the birdemic might be a bioweapon after all - at least that's the narrative the mainstream media is now pushing. 

Clickety-click, birdemic trick.

While some parts of the world appear to be emerging from the plague, other parts are plunging into birdemic chaos, some for the very first time. 

Clickety click, birdemic trick.

Like Barbapapa, the birdemic is a changeling. Those who control it can transmogrify it, seemingly at will. Unlike the Barbapapa characters - who changed shapes mostly for good - any forthcoming transformations the birdemic undergoes will serve everything but the Good.

Clickety-click . . .   
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The Heroism of Overcoming

5/30/2021

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Fearlessness and courage are not necessarily synonymous. 

Fearlessness cannot fully respond to fear because it does not recognize fear as fear.

Courage, on the other hand, is a more active response to fear. Those who display courage recognize and feel fear, but work to overcome it. 

In terms of heroism, the courageous strike me as more heroic than the fearless. 

Then again, perhaps the fearless have simply mastered and refined the overcoming of fear to such a degree that they have transcended it altogether.    
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Shepherd and Peasant Woman

5/29/2021

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This painting by Béla Iványi-Grünwald contains nothing remarkable or special, but for some reason, I find it quite engaging.

For example, the figures in the foreground appear as if they were stuck onto the canvas after the background had been painted. They weren't, of course, but the white accents, particularly on the shepherd's face, makes it appear as if they were.

The subdued color choices blend and unify everything to the point where figures become almost indistinguishable from their surroundings (note the flock of sheep behind the two figures).

​The peasant woman's black and white striped skirt - which is a strange choice of pattern for a peasant woman to be wearing - is the only notable point of contrast in this canvas of muted earth tones.  
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Shepherd and Peasant Woman - Béla Iványi-Grünwald - 1892
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Resource Scarcity and Abundance In A Totalitarian World

5/28/2021

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A neighbor of mine - who is an independent roofing contractor - recently complained he could not purchase fiberglass anywhere in the region. He also mentioned he often struggled to procure the kinds of beams and planks he needed to properly complete the projects he had taken on. 

Another neighbor revealed he was having a difficult time locating new spare parts for his son's bicycle. 

The local plumber has had to postpone several jobs because he cannot find the appropriate pipes and fittings at any of his usual supply stores. The odd time he does, he ends up paying double or triple the usual prices for them.

Shortages of all sorts are apparently popping up all over the place at the macro level. Gasoline. Microchips. Automobile tires. Appliances. You name it.

Some of this is to be expected, I suppose. After all, the entire world was more or less shut down for the better part of a year. A wrench was thrown into the well-lubricated machine the world had come to know as global trade. Intricate supply chains and logistics networks intermittently ran on glue and tar - if they ran at all. Supply and demand gyrated left and right. Everything was thrown out of kilter.

All the same, it's incorrect to attribute current shortages and scarcity solely to "market forces". If 2020 has shown us anything, it is this - the so-called "free market" is little more than a massive control and scam mechanism calibrated to accelerate and finalize the biggest wealth transfer in the history of the world - preparing the ground for an aimed for Ahrimanic technocratic globalist vision of life in which "you will own nothing and be happy."

Whatever. 

I don't want to blather on about economics. Suffice it to say that world run by a global Satanic elite will use every material weapon at its disposal to achieve its spiritual aims of damnation - and for the time being, every material weapon literally means practically every and any material thing in the world.

Since the Establishment now control nearly every material thing via their expansive and interconnected System, they can use almost any material thing to pursue their aims. And the Establishment will use every material weapon at its disposal to achieve their aims - primarily because they have no spiritual weapons at their disposal. 

Let me reiterate that. 

The Satanic elite now possesses the power to fully weaponize anything and everything in the material world, and over the past year or so, they have fully weaponized practically everything - politics, economics, society, law, media, and so forth. They can inflict vast amounts of discomfort and suffering, varying the degrees of both to suit their needs and objectives.  

More specifically, the demonic forces can unleash all sorts of material hell on us. They can inconvenience us, confine us, restrict us, mistreat us, torment us, persecute us, hound us, abuse us, impoverish us, starve us, and - yes - they can even kill us . . . seemingly at their leisure. 

Yet despite this palpable and real worldly totalitarian power, there is one thing the Satanic Establishment cannot do - they cannot damn us. 

Only we have the power to do that - and that is exactly where we are more powerful than them.

If we are properly aligned with God and Creation, are fully aware of our own spiritual natures, and freely accept Christ's gift of everlasting life, then we possess the spiritual resources needed to withstand and conquer any temporal hell the Establishment raises. 

If we are not aligned with God and Creation, reject the reality of our own spiritual natures, and refuse Christ's gift of everlasting life, we forfeit the spiritual resources needed to withstand and conquer any and every temporal hell the Establishment raises - and we will, inevitably, secure our own damnation. 

There may be many more material shortages in the offing, but the only resources that matter now are spiritual resources. Unfortunately, these resources appear very scarce at the moment, but this scarcity has nothing to do with supply and everything to do with demand.

Spirit is always in abundance, but the despiritualized consciousness of modern man is unable or unwilling to access it. Cut off from the Divine, the vast majority of modern men are wholly occupied with and only respond to external forces. Alienated from God and his own spiritual nature, modern man no longer recognizes or understands Creation he is in and chooses instead to react solely to the deterministic material forces of the "given world", which is largely external to himself. As a result, he offers no resistance to damnation, mostly because he has allowed himself to be convinced that such a thing cannot exist.  

In one of his more recent posts, William Wildblood addressed this problem lucidly and succinctly:

We have been too spiritually weak to control the forces unleashed and they are, quite simply, destroying us.

We must not return to the past but we must return to basics. That means the fundamental realities of life. These are spiritual and nothing can be understood from a non-spiritual perspective. The further we are from that, the more we will fall into darkness and chaos. This is happening now. We have no roots in anything and so drift wherever the dominant forces in the world with to take us. We must find the strength to resist this within ourselves and the only reliable and lasting place is in God, the Creator whose spiritual purpose is for us to become like him. 


Understanding that the fundamental realities of life are spiritual will not save us from material resource scarcity, but it will ensure that we never experience the sort of resource scarcity that matters most.
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Common Blackbird; Remarkable Singing

5/26/2021

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The abysmal weather northwestern Hungary has experienced over the past six weeks has kept me indoors far more than I usually am at this time of year. It hasn't been pleasant, but I'm not complaining. The rainy, windy days have been conducive to slogging through the endless avalanche of work under which I've been buried, but they have also hindered my enjoyment of the birdsong wafting through the air outside.

Despite being inside most of the time, I can still hear the twittering of the sparrows that have nested under my neighbor's roof, the calls of the cuckoo that keeps close to poplar grove near the derelict mill behind my house, and the charming song of the common blackbird that loves to perch in the large plum tree in my backyard.

Last year the common cuckoo won my much-coveted "Best Singing By A Songbird In My Backward" award. This year, however, I feel it will be the common blackbird that takes the prize.

Perched high upon the plum tree shortly after sunset, my own Turdus merula strings together some of the most charming and delightful notes I have ever had the pleasure of hearing; sometimes for up to twenty or thirty minutes at a stretch.

​A true virtuoso! 
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After This Video, I Welcome Being Locked Out Of The System

5/25/2021

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The Great Reset Is Not Safe Until All Are Safe

5/24/2021

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I'm not going to read too much into the World Economic Forum cancelling its planned August 2021 pow-wow in Singapore, which it had already delayed once since moving it from its traditional venue in Davos, Switzerland.

I don't think the cancellation will have much of an effect on the continuing implementation of the Great Reset agenda, but canning the Establishment meeting over birdemic safety concerns is rather sweet, albeit from a purely symbolic perspective.

At the purely symbolic level one could argue that the Great Resetters have become victims of their own tyrannical machinations.

Another angle could be the Davos Crew's global commitment to making the world a better place for everyone might not be as deep or strong as they profess it to be.

Or it could just be the WEF's demonic overlords having a laugh at the expense of their minions.

Whatever the case, one thing is certain: postponing Singa-Davos, not once but twice, is certainly not great PR.

All in all, the WEF's global conferences are merely window dressing; the meetings are inessential to the successful functioning of the relatively new but largely unnoticed one world totalitarian government.

I suspect this totalitarian government will continue to unveil and enforce its tyrannical control and scam schemes largely unimpeded and unnoticed until -- and this is key -- the schemes themselves spin out of control tyrannize the totalitarian government itself. 

The Ahrimanic technocratic forces behind the global totalitarian government are doggedly working to establish hell on earth. They will likely succeed, but the hell they end up with will be very different from the hell they aimed for.

And in that hell none will be safe . . . not even them.  
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The Holy Spirit Is Outside The System

5/23/2021

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A big part of system-distancing rests in the understanding that the comfort and guidance the Holy Spirit offers is outside the System.

More specifically, the comfort and guidance Christ offers his followers via the Holy Spirit is not reliant upon the System, which is evilly-motivated and wholly opposed to God and Creation. 

How could it be otherwise? 

We are all locked into the System to varying degrees. In this sense, none of us is truly free -- at least not in a worldly sense -- but this does not render the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit inaccessible.

Although we are locked into the System, we can still be spiritually free, mainly through repentance and thinking outwith the System. 

When we repent our sins and learn to think beyond the System, we create the conditions needed to fully experience the comfort and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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System Christianity: Worse Than A Bad Joke

5/22/2021

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What is System Christianity?

Generally speaking, System Christians adhere to the fundamental necessity of the System in fulfilling and promoting the establishment of heaven on earth, which they believe to be Christianity's primary goal. The focus on this-worldliness tends to render the afterlife as little more than an afterthought in the minds of most System Christians.

System Christians aim to work within the institutional, organizational, and bureaucratic frameworks the System offers because they are convinced "good works" can only be achieved through such means.

System Christians believe the divine mission of Christianity is somehow wedded to the System and that Christianity possesses the power to transform the System into an earthly kingdom of God. System Christians yearn to secure a place at the global governing table of public-private partnership in order to help manifest this vision (presuming they honestly believe in the vision).

System Christians outsource their thinking entirely to the System and its latest flavor of leftism. Thus, any input they offer the System rarely, if ever, rises above the level of echoing or parroting the System's output; more specifically, the trending and topical talking points, platitudes, and plans surrounding issues such as climate change, anti-racism, equity/equality, reformed capitalism, mass migration, etc.



Want an example of System Christianity in action? Read this article about a recent Vatican-sponsored health conference to find out more; (commentary added by me):


An eclectic mix of participants are taking part in a unique three-day Vatican conference on COVID-19, other global health threats and how science, solidarity and spirituality can address them.

This conference is crucial because it adheres to the System's edict that none are safe until all are safe!


Along with Pope Francis, the event includes Dr. Anthony Fauci, soprano Renee Fleming, the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna and the lead guitarist of Aerosmith.

It's like the beginning of a bad joke . . . Pope Francis, Dr. Fauci, the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna, and the lead guitarist of Aerosmith walk into a bar . . . 


The conference, which begins Thursday and ends Saturday with a virtual audience with the pope, was planned well before the pandemic erupted last year. Organizers say it has only taken on more relevance amid a growing appreciation of the need for global access to health care, new advances in vaccine technology and greater understanding of the mental health cost of loneliness.

Nothing says repentance for closing churches and turning your back on your spiritual obligations during the birdemic more than organizing a conference about health care and vaccine technology. 


Fauci, who is leading the U.S. pandemic response, told the online conference in recorded remarks Thursday that the pandemic had confirmed to him that faith and science are constantly evolving — and that scientists in particular must humbly admit they don’t have all the answers all the time.

The only answers scientists have today are System answers, which are wholly aligned against God and Creation. 

One answer Fauci said he did have was that the key to overcoming current vaccine hesitancy is pairing the right medical message with the right messenger.

“You have someone who’s a deeply religious person who will listen to their clergy. That’s different than me with a suit going into an area telling people to do something,” he said.

Yes, what we need is an Antichrist figure! Someone who can present the System's machinations as divinely-inspired in order to break through that darned discernment espoused by serious Christians.


He was referring to the religiously inspired resistance to taking COVID-19 vaccines that were indirectly developed using lines of cells derived from aborted fetuses. The Vatican has declared that all COVID-19 vaccines are not only morally licit, but that people have a moral responsibility to get the jabs to protect others.

Being injected with experimental treatments containing the cells of aborted fetuses to protect against a faux pandemic is now a moral imperative because 'health'. Any resistance to such an agenda is considered immoral by both the System and System Christianity. Let that sink in for a few minutes.


Fauci is opening the multidisciplinary conference, which was originally scheduled to take place at the Vatican in May 2020 but was postponed a year and eventually put online due to the pandemic.

The virtual format, though, has allowed for an even greater variety of participants.

You see? Virtual world is way better and far more diverse than in-person world.


A Harvard neuroscientist is leading a conversation about brain health and rock stars with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry.

Pairing brain health with rock stars strikes me as rather oxymoronic, but whatever. On a side note, I wonder if Joe Perry performed an acoustic version of "Dude Looks Like a Lady" at some point during the conference . . . you know, to sneak some of the trans agenda into the mix, just for laughs. 

Soprano Fleming is participating in a panel discussion on the role of music in treating cardiac patients. Supermodel Cindy Crawford has a slot to talk about “beauty from the inside out,” and Chelsea Clinton is teaming up with an Italian public health official to promote equal access to health care.

Cindy Crawford? Chelsea Clinton? Could this conference have been any more cringe-worthy?


Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel is speaking about the mRNA technology behind Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, while his counterpart at Pfizer, Albert Bourla, is heading up a discussion on preparedness for future global health crises.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be plenty of global health crises in the future, all requiring rigorous peck programs.


The conference, which features prominent U.S. journalists as moderators and academics in a variety of fields, also has a religious component. Rabbis, cardinals, imams and representatives of Christian denominations are discussing the role of religion and spirituality in health.

You see that? Lots of experts; even a few religious ones just for kicks. And since all religions are pretty much the same, why not have a veritable smorgasbord of religious figures show up to talk about health.

And what is the role of religion and spirituality in health? Well, that's a no-brainer. The role of religion and spirituality is to shut up, take a knee, and do whatever System health tells them to do.  


It’s the fifth time the Vatican’s culture ministry has teamed up with the Cura Foundation to mount a conference that aims to pair advances in science and technology with ideas about how to deliver them effectively, efficiently and at a lower cost.

Fifth time? How efficient-sounding.

Look, I could do a post like this every single day. That's how utterly ridiculous System Christianity has become.  


“People are very focused on the pandemic. It’s changed our lives in many, many ways. But there are also other areas of our health that are impacted,” said Dr. Robin Smith, founder and president of the Cura Foundation.  

Have you noticed that no one has uttered a peep about Christ, redemption, salvation, heaven, everlasting life, etc. Not a word. 


The aim of the conference, she said, is to put aside political, religious and ideological differences and focus on improving health care around the globe.

That's it. The aim of the conference is ensure all the supposed political, religious, and ideological differences in the world focus on advancing the totalitarian, evilly-aligned System.


“We really want to sort of check all that at the door and say, ‘How can you make a difference? How can we help?’”

Well, helping is really simple. Just turn off your brain, ignore your spiritual intuition, cast aside all doubt, turn your back on God, and  gladly do whatever the godless System asks you to do.

​Moreover, promote everything the godless System does as good, necessary, useful, and moral.

Natch! 
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Every Godless "Freedom" Leads To Slavery and Destruction

5/22/2021

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As far as I'm concerned, things effectively came to a point in 2020. The dividing line separating good and evil became obvious and undeniable. Choices became unavoidable. What we are experiencing now are the consequences of those choices unfolding in real time.

This does not imply that the choice to be on the side of God and Creation can no longer be made; that it is too late for people to repent and align themselves with the side of Good.

At the same time, the cascade of consequences we are currently experiencing reveals that, despite everything, a great many people have decided to stick with the choices they made in 2020. As is readily observable, the vast majority of those choices were not positive choices to align with God and Creation. 

Choosing not to side with Good in light of everything that transpired in 2020 is more than a declaration against God - it is the active and willing acceptance to be on the side against God, to be on the side of slavery and destruction.

In terms of consciousness - how people think about, understand, and relate to God, themselves, and others - modern people have chosen to remain "free from" God rather than attempt to free themselves from the enforced and coerced material objectification of the System and its "given" world and become "free for" God. 

And they have made this choice actively, consciously, and en masse. More specifically, modern people have opted to remain alienated from God, themselves, and others because modern people are convinced that choosing otherwise will precipitate a loss of freedom - that a belief in God amounts to nothing more than a foolish acceptance of restrictions and curtailments that do nothing more than hinder and obstruct the 'proper' ordering and organization of life. 

Rather than protect freedom, the choice to remain alienated from God not only invites but also ensures un-freedom and, consequently, destruction - foremost because such a choice denies the fundamental spiritual nature of humanity.

When people choose to remain alienated from God, they effectively choose un-freedom because every freedom they aspire to and mange to attain remains locked within the clearly defined limits of the given world and its inevitable and unstoppable entropy.

The development of consciousness necessitated a period of autonomy - a period of existential material liberty during which people were able to reassess how they thought about, understood, and related to God, themselves, and others.

People were free to act and think in self-determined ways and reject a great deal of what could previously not be rejected.

Yet this period of autonomy should have lead to the realization that life cannot be based on solely on selfish, atomized, material self-determination and indiscriminate spiritual rejection, foremost because people are not merely atomized, material things - that this sort of "freedom" has very definite limits because it blocks out all aspects of the immanent and the transcendent.

To live only for oneself and to be able to refuse anything and everything does not constitute true freedom, but un-freedom and slavery.

Freedom is only authentic if it finds a 'yes' that is greater than its 'no'.

The development of consciousness necessitated a reevaluation of how we think about, understand, and relate to God, ourselves, and others. This reevaluation entailed a period of alienation from God that should have led to a deeper understanding of God, ourselves, and others. 

Put another way, the relative despiritualization of consciousness during the state of autonomy should have led to an active respiritualization of consciousness that would have drawn out our spiritual natures and, subsequently, have drawn God closer to us. 

Instead, the mass of humanity has decided that it is pointless to think about, understand, and relate to God, which means the mass of humanity has consciously and actively chosen despiritualized consciousness over respiritualized consciousness. 

The only freedom despiritualized consciousness is able to detect is the godless freedom of nihilism, purposelessness, and meaninglessness.

Since it has no real 'yes', despiritualized consciousness will concentrate exclusively on 'no'.

Despiritualized consciousness will do everything it can to defend the nihilistic, purposeless, meaningless 'freedom' to which it has dedicated itself, even if it means enslaving and, ultimately, destroying itself.

Nevertheless, the path of respiritualization remains open to anyone and everyone who yearns to be truly free.   
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