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We Live in a Nightmare of Falsehoods

6/30/2021

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are.

Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality . . .

To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder.
- Nikolai Berdyaev

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The System's "Think-Feel-Do" Approach

6/29/2021

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A big part of system distancing entails building resistance to the System's endless mass communications: marketing, advertising, persuasion, storytelling, and propaganda.

This is much easier said than done, partly because the System is now global and totalitarian, which means the mass communications tactics employed are also global (ubiquitous, unavoidable) and totalitarian (repressive, indoctrinating, terroristic).

The System, together with the Establishment that runs it, is evil - meaning it is anti-God, anti-spiritual, anti-Truth, anti-Beauty, and anti-Goodness. This means all of its communications have been purposefully designed and engineered to oppose God and degrade Creation, primarily by subverting the divine element within each individual person.

The fact the System's mass communications and mass media are virtually hardwired into modern people's consciousnesses doesn't make the matter any easier. This is particularly relevant within the development of human consciousness, which is meant to follow a spiritual trajectory, one that should - after a long period of autonomy and alienation from the spiritual - draw us back toward God and Creation.

The rampant despiritualization of human consciousness is a testament to how ruthlessly effective the System's mass communications campaigns against God and Creation have been - in which the birdemic/peck campaigns stand out as crowning achievements. Sadly, the effectiveness of the System's mass communications is also a testament to the spiritual weakness and cowardice of modern people, which has been on full display in the West and around the world for the better part of sixteen months.

What strikes me about the System's mass communications and media in general is how savvy we moderns proclaim ourselves to be concerning these things. Nearly everyone I I know seems to understand the tactics and ploys the System uses in its communications. People everywhere appear to be aware of advertising tricks, persuasion techniques, and media manipulation. Yet when it comes to resisting the tricks, techniques, and manipulation, the very same knowledgeable and aware people are rendered completely powerless.

I believe this has to do with the process of despiritualization mentioned above. Once people refuse to understand themselves as primarily spiritual beings, they surrender the resources required to resist the various "approaches" the System employs in its communications. Once deaf and blind to all divine communications, modern people sever their connection to reality and become defenseless against the anti-divine communications of the System.

The despiritualized consciousness of modern people appears incapable of discerning truth from lies, beauty from ugliness, and Good from evil, which is a dream come true for modern advertisers, marketers, and propagandists. Assured of a "captive and receptive" audience, the System's communications departments are increasingly emboldened to ramp up their diversions and inversions because they know nothing they produce will be ever be meaningfully scrutinized, questioned, or resisted (mostly because despiritualized people have become literally incapable of learning).

The current and ongoing mass communications campaign focusing on the peck provides some clarifying insights into the System's tactics and motivations within the overarching global campaign of "none are safe until all are safe". The following is taken from a recent WEF piece (bold added):

The decision-making process for customers - or in this case patients - is often understood using the Hierarchy of Effects Framework. It suggests that customers think first, then feel and then do. In relation to the COVID-19 vaccine, this implies that patients need to first “think” about it, that is, become aware of and knowledgeable about the vaccine. Next, patients need to “feel” positively about it, as in developing a conviction to get the vaccine. Finally, patients need to “do” it - in other words, get vaccinated.

Most policy makers have emphasised the “do” stage by focusing on distribution and convenience via a combination of mass vaccination, hospital, physician, and drug store sites. This makes sense for the population interested in getting vaccinated. For the vaccine procrastinator, hesitant, and rejector populations, however, we need to focus on the “think” and “feel” stages of decision making. Without these stages, patients are unlikely to move to the “do” stage.

Think . . . One rural parish in the US state of Louisiana, for example, enlisted African-American preachers and local leaders to directly phone members of their community. This led to a 9% increase in the parish’s vaccination rate in a week.

Feel . . . One nurse in Louisiana deployed a particularly effective tactic. She called her vaccine-hesitant patients to talk about how she had been a vaccine skeptic but changed her mind after her husband passed away due to COVID-19.

. . . Another way to improve vaccine sceptics’ feelings is to play into a fear of missing out (FOMO), both socially and economically.

Do . . . First, incentives can work. Several US states and cities provide cash incentives and free transportation, or create lotteries and large block parties to incentivise vaccinations. Businesses should also be encouraged to contribute by providing paid time-off, free products and lottery giveaways.

We believe applying the “think - feel - do” patient-centered approach to the COVID-19 vaccine communication problem will improve efforts at accelerating global herd immunity. Ensuring a safe economic reopening and recovery and overcoming this significant health and economic challenge could depend on such tactics.

Think - feel - do.

Now that's an approach to self-damnation!

Note added: System distancing is more about discernment than it is about avoidance. Thus, the goal in system distancing mass communications and media is not to cut it out completely - though that certainly wouldn't be bad! - but to see the thing for what it is.

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You Don't Have To Be A Sinless Saint To Be On God's Side

6/28/2021

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In yesterday's post I drew attention to the fact that the humans on both sides of the spiritual war are all sinners.

Those on the side against God are sinners and those on the side for God are also sinners.

This means the spiritual war must not be conceptualized as an army of sinless human saints engaging an army of human sinners, but rather as two armies of sinners clashing together.

But this doesn't mean the sinners on the one side are the same as the sinners on the other side. The key differences between these two armies of sinners are motivation, discernment, belief, and repentance.

Those on the side against God are motivated to oppose the primacy of the spiritual, particularly spiritual freedom. If they are able to discern Good from evil at all, they inevitably choose evil. The vast majority do not believe in God and Creation, but the few that do reject both. Most significantly, those on the side against God refuse to acknowledge let alone repent sin.

Those on the side for God are motivated to live and create via the primacy of the spiritual and to increase spiritual freedom. They are able to discern Good from evil most of the time, and actively strive to choose the Good. All of those who are for God believe in Creation and work toward adding something unique to Creation. Most meaningfully, those on the side for God acknowledge and repent sin. This includes errors in discernment that may have led to bad choices.

So being against God or for God is not a matter of being a sinner or saint; it is a matter of the heart - of where the heart is oriented - of what the heart believes and thinks.

Thus, people whose hearts are oriented toward God and Creation, who have freely and lovingly chosen to align themselves with both, can remain on God's side even when they succumb to sin, provided they acknowledge the sin and repent it.

In this sense, the heart remains greater than the sin, and the individual remains aligned with God and Creation.

The clip below is taken from the latest episode of The Chosen. I believe the short scene does an excellent job illustrating some of what I have explored above. Pay particular attention to what Jesus says about the heart as Mary Magdalene repents her waywardness and sin.

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Siders Rather Than Sinners. Why It Matters After Things Have Come To a Point

6/27/2021

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Over on his Notions blog, Bruce Charlton has been noting the phenomenon of things coming to a point for many years. Dr. Charlton takes the term from C.S. Lewis's novel That Hideous Strength and uses it to describe the process in which the difference between Good and evil become so extreme that potential gray areas separating them dissolve into nothingness. In this sense, things coming to a point is a clarifying phenomenon. As the distinction between Good and evil becomes increasingly stark, crisp, and obvious, choices made between the two become increasingly clear, noticeable, and revelatory.

Last December I wrote a post in which I posited that 2020 marked the year in which things essentially came to a point - that the successful birdemic global totalitarian coup had obliterated all gray areas separating Good and evil, rendering neutrality impossible. The year 2020 has made the active choice between Good and evil unavoidable.

Another way of conceptualizing the implications of things coming to a point in 2020 is the acknowledgement of the full and undeniable unveiling of the spiritual war. As things came to a point in 2020, the two sides of the spiritual war - the side that is for God and the side that is anti-God - became incontestably visible.

In my post from December I noted the following:

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 of Good or evil - must become the overarching point of 2021 and beyond.

But what exactly does the active, conscious, and committed choosing of a side entail?

To answer this question, perhaps it would be best to briefly cover what an active, conscious, and committed choice does not involve.

First, choosing to be for God or against God does not presuppose physically extracting oneself from the System (which is thoroughly and actively anti-God). Like it or not, we are all enmeshed in the System in one or other, and contrary to what some hardcore preppers or survivalists proclaim, almost no one can effectively isolate himself or herself completely from the System.

Like it or not, we are dependent on the System to varying degrees. Not only does it provide the bulk of what we need to ensure our physical survival, but it also demands or, more commonly these days, enforces our subservience to its anti-God agenda. If the war we are waging now were purely a physical war, barely anyone on the side of God would stand a chance against the System.

Thankfully, the war we are waging is not physical, but spiritual. That means we can remain active on the side of God and Creation despite being trapped behind enemy lines.

Being trapped behind enemy lines is not the same as joining the enemy; and in a spiritual war, joining the enemy involves spiritual, not physical surrender.

This does not suggest that an individual should simply throw up his or her hands and choose expediency when it comes to his or her physical and material complicity with the System.

On the contrary, individuals should and must do everything they can to oppose the evil, material machinations of the System, primarily because evil, material machinations are among the only weapons the System has to wield.

Thus, if individuals on the side of God feel they must make a stand, they should. Whether that stand entails something simple and pain-free like refusing to vote, or openly challenging someone who supports a lie, or not engaging in media, or whether the stand involves something more significant such as refusing to abide by some enforced legal measure, directly opposing some form of agenda coercion, or resigning from a job, all individuals on the side of God and Creation should make the concerted effort to oppose the System at the material level.

At the same time, those who have chosen to be on the side Good must remember that battles fought at the material level, though important and meaningful, are of secondary importance. Also, material battles also run the risk of backfiring and being utilized by evil (think about the recent face mask agenda and the countless well-motivated people who ended up becoming embroiled in public rage-filled altercations with store clerks, fellow passengers, and others who insisted on the face mask. Yes, the mask-resisters were certainly on the right side of the issue, but it is unlikely that their behavior and course of action led to anything spiritually positive).

As stated above, it is nearly impossible for anyone on the side of God and Creation to be totally separated from the System physically, but it is imperative that those on the side of God and Creation separate himself or herself from the System spiritually.

First and foremost, spiritually separating oneself from the System requires the full acknowledgement that the System in its current form is evil - more specifically, that it is actively, willingly, purposefully, and consciously aligned against God and Creation. Once this acknowledgement is made, individuals must focus on Truth, Beauty, and Virtue and spiritually oppose any and all attacks against these.

Individuals must also become ruthlessly honest about their complicity with the System and willingly repent any and every act of collaboration with the System, no matter how trivial, coerced, or unavoidable the collaboration is. And yes, this means even something as seemingly inevitable as paying taxes requires repentance.

The keys to spiritual separation from the System - which I have referred to as system distancing in earlier posts on this blog - are attitude, thinking, motivation, discernment, and belief.

Thus, people who recognize the System's evil agenda and its infinite lies and refuse to spiritually surrender to the agenda and its lies are on the side of Good.

Conversely, people who deny the existence of an evil agenda, or worse, actively endorse the System's evil agenda or any one of its evil lies as "good" are on the side against God.

The Litmus Tests of Serious Christianity are one way to determine which side an individual or group has chosen.

Sin is another factor that does not necessarily determine which side of the spiritual war an individual has chosen. Many mistakenly believe the spiritual war is primarily about sin, with the sinful making up the anti-God side and the sinless making up the side that is for God. Within this conceptualization, anyone who commits sin has automatically chosen to be on the side against God.

Not quite.

First of all, every human in the spiritual war (and that's everyone, whether he or she accepts it or not) is a sinner, regardless of which side he or she is on.

Every. Single. Person. Including me.

If the spiritual war necessitated that all on the side of God and Creation be sinless, the war would have been over yesterday if not nearly two thousand years earlier.

Hence, all "siders" are sinners, and all sinners are "siders."

The only meaningful distinction between the two is this: sinners on the side of God and Creation are repentant sinners, while those on the side of Satan are not.

Those on the side of Good only acknowledge and repent real sin, not System-fabricated sin.

Those on the side of Good acknowledge sin, repent it, and utilize repentance to further align themselves with God and Creation.

Those on the side Satan only acknowledge and repent System-fabricated sins, not real sin.

Those on the side of Satan embrace sin, relish in it, and utilize their un-repentance to further align themselves against God and Creation.

Separating sinners from non-sinners was not "the point" of things coming to a point in 2020. "The point" of things coming to a point in 2020 was determining which side the sinners would ultimately take.

Therefore, the key to the spiritual war of 2021 and beyond is to remain focused on siders rather than sinners.

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The Catholic Church and System Christianity

6/26/2021

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The title of this post comes from the blog of a contemplative Catholic blogger named Ann who composed an insightful response to my criticism of an American bishop's appeal for Catholics to return to Mass following the birdemic church closures.

I have excerpted this response in full below because I believe it touches upon a crucial challenge facing all serious Catholics and other serious Christians.

My intent here is not to disparage or disprove Ann's assertion regarding the essential role of the Roman Catholic Church in salvation, but rather to focus attention on Ann's understanding that attaining salvation within the Roman Catholic Church is now dependent upon a high and unprecedented level of individual discernment.

The overarching point in my criticism of the bishop's appeal to return to Mass was pegged to my observation that any Roman Catholic who blindly obeys church authority in this time and place is setting himself or herself for self-damnation. In her post, Ann basically agrees discernment is necessary, but posits that this fact does not negate the essential-ness of the Church in salvation.

I believe countless souls have attained salvation through the Church, and I believe individuals can still attain salvation through the Church today - but as Ann points out, attaining salvation within the Church today requires an immense amount of personal discernment:

Dear Francis Berger,

Today you took exception to Bishop Robert Brown's appeal for Catholic's to return to Mass. I can see that you are very angry and some of that is indeed righteous anger. Our shepherds have let us down. They closed down the churches to all but a few for several months and thus relinquished the "last" of their authority to the System.

They were already in the process of abdicating to the System before the Covids hit through allowing the System to dictate what is taught in Catholic schools, allowing non-Catholic procedures in what were once Catholic hospitals and giving only token resistance to System sanctioned sins such as abortion and same sex "marriage".

Added to this we have the sexual abuse scandals within the Church. This helped to whittle away the Church's moral authority in the world. It stopped the Church from insisting upon that moral authority. She had to remove the plank from her own eye.

We have also been suffering under 2 Popes. One is virtually silent and the other makes ambiguous statements hoping to mollify the System.

Most of these things were already happening prior to the Covid and it made me think that because the prophecies of the End Times predicted the cessation of the Mass then the End Times were a long way off since who would persecute such an innocuous institution. It rolls over for every command of the System. Little did I realise that it was the rolling over that would cause the Mass to stop.

So there you are, many reasons for righteous anger. If only we were Jesus and could stay on anger's righteous side. For mixed up in the righteousness is also spite. You say, to leave the Church and follow to a new unprecedented form of Christianity for this is where salvation lies. I say that salvation still lies within the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church unlike the American constitution does not need virtuous citizens to be effective, she was designed by God for sinners, which is lucky for us. Jesus said that she would last until the end of time and the gates of Hell would not prevail against her. (Matt 16:18.) and it is Jesus who gives her her authority. It is also within the Church that we find the sacraments, including the Eucharist and these are for our benefit; a gift from God. We do not need to follow the Bishops who push the vaccine or agree with the Pope's view on climate change. We do need to follow the Magisterium, the truths that the Church has held since the beginning. This includes that the Mass and the Eucharist are essential. The Church was wrong when she prevented us from going and receiving. She is right when she asks us to come back. As Fr Clovis said back in 2017, "It is self-evident that the Catholic Church and the anti-Church currently co-exist in the same sacramental, liturgical and juridical space." It is our job to discern the way the truth and the life and to stay in the Catholic Church and stay out of the anti-Church.

I left the following comment in response:

Thanks for this thoughtful response to my post. Our only real point of disagreement is the role of the Church in salvation. You believe the church is essential to salvation. I, on the other hand, do not.

Contrary to what you allege, this belief does not emanate from spite, but from the conviction that God would not arrange things in such a way as to make staying in the Church essential to salvation. And I say this as someone who still attends Mass regularly and whose son serves as an altar boy every Sunday.

We appear to agree on the importance of personal discernment within the RCC, but very few Catholics I know seem to understand the deeper implications of what this individual discernment within the RCC means and where it leads. A recent comment by Bruce Charlton provides some clarifying insight on the matter:

"Catholics such as yourself claim to be obedient to 'the church' yet everything you do shows that you personally are discerning, picking-and-choosing, within the RC church - even to the level of disobeying the Pope and obeying only a small, selected-by-you minority of Bishops and priests within the church.

This seems to be In Fact a very different way of behaving than a Catholic of 400, 200, 100 years ago. Indeed, I think it is impossible to be a Catholic in the old sense - probably because the RCC (top to bottom, everywhere) is so incoherent and changeable that traditional simple obedience is unattainable.

My point is that you (and all serious Roman Catholics in 2021) apparently Just Are discerning (picking-and-choosing), on personal grounds, all the time, within the RCC; and that this practice invalidates your 'timeless' arguments concerning the nature of the RCC and its place in the scheme of salvation."

Dr. Charlton's observations concerning discernment among Roman Catholics touches upon the larger issue of consciousness. Like it or not, Roman Catholics do not think about, understand, or relate to the Church in the same manner Roman Catholics did in the past. This in itself poses a serious challenge to the "timeless" concept of the Church being sole avenue to the way, the truth, and the life.

And this does not even address the concept of the anti-Church within the Church - that the RCC itself has changed decisively in the past century, which once again poses a serious challenge to the "timeless" arguments concerning the nature of the Church and its necessary role in salvation.

Like Ann, I believe Catholics can attain salvation through the Church, and I am confident Catholics like Ann can still achieve salvation with the Church.

Unlike Ann, I am convinced that salvation is also attainable outwith the Church. Moreover, that the increased level of personal discernment required to attain salvation within the Church is a testament to this reality.

And yes, I still believe that any Christian who blindly obeys church authority in this time and place is setting himself or herself up for trouble.

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Despiritualization is Dehumanization

6/24/2021

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How people think about, understand, and relate to God, others, and themselves. That is my basic definition of human consciousness. And I believe how people have thought about, understood, and related to God, others, and themselves has changed dramatically over the course of linear time, which implies that I believe human consciousness to be evolutionary and dynamic rather than fixed and inert.

Throughout most of history, human consciousness remained a spiritualized consciousness. More specifically, past humans were aware of and believed in the existence of the supernatural. Moreover, they thought about, understood, and related to others and the world around them through the primacy of the spiritual. The spiritual, not the material, underpinned the very fabric of reality for the vast bulk of human history.

Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once observed that "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." I suspect this observation would ring true for most historical humans right up until the beginning of the modern era, in which the primacy of the human gradually replaced the primacy of the spiritual.

Yet early belief in the primacy of the human still depended on viewing humans as spiritual beings living in a world that was at once both natural and supernatural, but over the course of time the belief in humans as spiritual beings began to fade, taking with it the innate, spontaneous, and "natural" belief in the spiritual world and the supernatural. The primacy of the human eventually became the primacy of the material in which humans were mere and accidental participants.

Contemporary human consciousness is generally a despiritualized consciousness. Modern people do not think about, understand, or relate to God at all. Furthermore, they do not believe in the spiritual nature of anything, including themselves.

If pressed, I suspect most moderns would cite a worldview laced with humanist remnants of a bygone era: the individual and collective potential of human beings to establish and promote values, dignity, and purpose via human agency supported by experience, rational thinking, reason, and compassion that does not rely upon and is completely independent of any belief in the supernatural.

I believe the early humanists, be they Christian or secular, helped human consciousness evolve beyond the obedience mode of consciousness that had dominated the West for about 1500 years. This was the path of viewing humans as being capable of spiritual experiences. The late humanists harmed human consciousness by locking human consciousness into a mode of autonomy that was meant to be a transitional phase rather than a final destination. Eventually, humans became nothing more than humans having human experiences, which set off a series of ongoing crises over what human even means.

The despiritualization caused by humanism should have eventually led to a period of acute respiritualization. By turning away from God and focusing on solely on themselves humans should have eventually recognized the dead end of "material humanity" and rediscovered themselves as true spiritual beings with an innate divine center that was directly, lovingly, and personally aligned with God and others. But it never happened - not on a large-scale anyway. Instead, humans became grounded in the human-and-only-human.

As the connection to the spiritual continued to dissolve, the perception of what a human is became perverted and distorted. By denying the spiritual nature of humanity, the "humanization" of humanity rapidly degenerated into dehumanization.

Dehumanization is often defined as the denial of full humanness of others via the stripping of dignity and positive human qualities. It is sometimes contrasted with personification in which non-human things or creatures are assigned human qualities. Unlike conventional dehumanization, which is usually perpetrated by one individual against another individual or group of people against another group of people, contemporary dehumanization via despiritualization is perpetrated by the individual against himself or herself.

By denying the existence of the spiritual, contemporary people deny the existence of their own spiritual nature - a spiritual nature that is utterly inseparable from and indispensable to what it means to be human. By rejecting the reality of God and their own divine selves, modern people basically reject the sources from which all positive human qualities, values, and dignity emanate.

Humans who deny that they are spiritual beings also deny the meaning, purpose, and ultimately, reality of the human experience in which they are immersed.

Their core reality as spiritual beings cannot fully engage in the human experience they are having because the "human" aspect of the experience has been overly-distorted, inverted, and muddied.

Rather than participate in a genuine human experience, the spiritual beings embedded within hearts of all contemporary humans are subjugated to a dehumanized experience in which the potential for spiritual learning is severely obstructed.

Thus, moderns are not humans having spiritual experiences. Nor are they spiritual beings having human experiences. Instead, they are spiritual beings having dehumanized experiences.

They are having dehumanized experiences because human personality has been solidified and objectified.

We, as spiritual beings, use or should use the human experience to establish a personal relationship with God, others, and ourselves.

Despiritualization hinders this by stripping away the personal aspects of the human experience. In other words, the spiritual beings immersed in the human experience attempt to connect with other spiritual beings in mortal life but cannot.

The only solution is respiritualization. Without respiritualization, whatever is human about humanity will continue to erode until the very notion of humanity is pushed beyond the brink of spiritual viability.

Identity lies at the core of the kind of conventional dehumanization practiced by resentful and murderous regimes of the past. Fittingly enough, identity also lies at the core of dehumanization via despiritualization.

People who reject their identities as spiritual beings risk losing the very essence that makes them truly human.

Note added: I firmly believe all human beings are spiritual beings - and this applies even when the human beings in question deny their own reality as a spiritual beings. Thus, at the most fundamental level, I continue to think "highly" of despiritualized people even when they themselves do not.

Further note added: I am inclined to believe that this process of self-dehumanization among moderns is a big part of things coming to a point - that the souls having human experiences at the present time have been given an unprecedented opportunity to discern good from evil in order to begin the process of respiritualization.

Nevertheless, modern humans have thus far remained extremely committed to the choice of despiritualization, which entails the process of dehumanization noted above could have much more time and space to run.

More simply, the seemingly endless degeneration of the human experience should trigger some kind of collective spiritual awakening. The fact that it hasn't yet reveals just how despiritualized human consciousness has become, which begs the question as to how much more dehumanized the human experience can become.

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If You Don't Believe in the Spiritual War, You Are Already On The Wrong Side

6/22/2021

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There are two sides in the spiritual war. On the one side are those who have chosen to be for God and Creation. On the other, those who have chosen to be against God and Creation.

But what about those who choose not to believe in the reality of the spiritual war?

This is a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned.

People who choose not believe in the reality of the spiritual war choose not believe in the reality of the spiritual.

People who choose not believe in the reality of the spiritual, choose not believe in God.

People who choose not to believe in God also choose not to believe in Satan.

Unbelievers believe their unbelief has allowed them to transcend all spiritual considerations.

Unbelievers believe their despiritualization is liberty.

This is a delusion. Though their consciousness may be despiritualized, they are still spiritual beings, but they are spiritual beings who have forfeited the spiritual resources needed the resist the Satanic forces of objectification in the given world.

Put another way, unbelievers have surrendered all of their internal (spiritual) power and are completely at the mercy of external (material) power.

And what about those who think they have chosen to be on the side of God and Creation but are actually on the side against God and Creation?

Best leave that for another day.

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Prayer Over The Grave

6/21/2021

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Prayer Over the Grave - László Mednyanszky - 1895

Mednyánszky was most noted for his landscapes, but this study of a woman kneeling in prayer before a grave captures the mood of the moment most strikingly.

Note the wispy angelic and ghostly apparitions emerging from the somber wood.

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What We Should Know and Not Know About The Birdemic

6/20/2021

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The following collection of observations about the birdemic is taken from this source. I have decided to share the entire text here because I believe the writer, Edward Curtin, does a commendable job in recording and outlining his discernment of evil and conclusions about the birdemic.

The birdemic has been cornerstone content on my own blog over the past fifteen or sixteen months. The bloggers within my blogging circle have also expended a great deal of time and energy focusing on the topic because they recognize and understand the massive spiritual implications of what has unfolded over the past year-and-a-half.

In my mind, the birdemic is the mother of all Litmus Tests for Serious Christianity. Any self-professed Christian who believes any of the measures, propaganda, lies, half-truths, manipulations, and machinations associated with the birdemic stemmed from "good" motivations and/or supports and endorses any of the above as "good" actions has chosen to be on the side of Satan against God and has, consequently, chosen to follow a path to self-damnation.

The author of the article below states that he conducted extensive research to arrive at his conclusions. This is all fine and well, but the evil motivations of the birdemic are so obvious that serious Christians should have been able to or should be able to discern the evil intuitively - from the heart - without the need for copious hard facts and research.

Anyway, the article below provides some honest and penetrating insights into the evil motivations fueling the birdemic. Moreover, the writer also recognizes the spiritual dimension behind it all, without which any accurate assessment of the birdemic is left wanting.

As far as I can tell, Edward Curtin - the author of the article - is a Christian, which helps explain why he has been able to discern and understand the birdemic as "a spiritual war for the soul of the world" (a discernment of evil too many so-called serious Christians have utterly failed to make).

The article begins below. Bold for emphasis added by me:

After fifteen months of assiduous reading, study, observation, and research, I have come to some conclusions about what is called COVID-19.
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I would like to emphasize that I have done this work obsessively since it seemed so important. I have consulted information and arguments across all media, corporate and alternative, academic, medical, books, etc.
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I have consulted with researchers around the world. I have read the websites of the CDC, the World Health Organization, and government and non-government health organizations. In other words, I have left no stone unturned, despite the overt or covert political leanings of the sources. I have done this as a sociologist and writer, not as a medical doctor, although many of my sources have been medical doctors and medical studies.

My succinct conclusions follow without links to sources since I am not trying to persuade anyone of anything but just stating for the public record what I have concluded. Life is short. I am going to say it now.

I know that vast numbers of people have been hypnotized by fear, threats, and bribes to accept the corporate mainstream media’s version of COVID-19. I have concluded that many millions are moving in a trance state and do not know this. They have been induced into this state by a well-organized, very sophisticated propaganda campaign that has drawn on the human fear of death and disease. Those behind this have no doubt studied the high incidence of hypochondriasis in the general population and the fear of an invisible “virus” in societies where belief in God and the spiritual invisible has been replaced by faith in science. Knowing their audience well, they have concocted a campaign of fear and confusion to induce obedience.
I do not know but suspect that those who have been so hypnotized tend to be mainly members of the middle to the upper classes, those who have invested so much belief in the system. This includes the highly schooled.
I know that to lockdown hundreds of millions of healthy people, to insist they wear useless masks, to tell them to avoid human contacts, to destroy the economic lives of regular people have created vast suffering that was meant to teach people a lesson about who was in control and that they better revise their understanding of human relations to adjust to the new digital unreality that the producers of this masquerade are trying to put in place of flesh and blood, face to face human reality.
I know that the PCR test invented by Kary Mullis cannot test for the alleged virus or any virus and therefore all the numbers of cases and deaths are based on nothing. They are conjured out of thin air in a massive act of magic. I know that the belief that it can so test began with the unscientific PCR Corona protocol created by Christian Drosten in Germany in January 2020 that became the standard method for testing for SARS-CoV-2 worldwide. I am sure this was preplanned and part of a high-level conspiracy. This protocol set the cycle threshold (amplification) at 45 which could only result in false positive results. These were then called cases: An act of fraud on a massive scale.
I do not know if the alleged virus has ever been isolated in the sense of being purified or detached from everything else aside from being cultured in a lab. Therefore I do not know if the virus exists.
I know that the experimental mRNA “vaccines” that are being pushed on everyone are not traditional vaccines but dangerous experiments whose long-term consequences are unknown. And I know that Moderna says its messenger RNA (mRNA) non-vaccine “vaccine” functions “like an operating system on a computer” and that Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, says that the lipid nanoparticles from the injections travel throughout the body and settle in large quantities in multiple organs where the spike protein, being biologically active, can cause massive damage and that the FDA has known this. Additionally, I know that tens of thousands of people have suffered adverse effects from these injections and many thousands have died from them and that these figures are greatly underestimated due to the reporting systems. I know that with this number of casualties in the past these experimental shots would have been stopped long ago or never started. That they have not, therefore, convinces me that a radically evil agenda is under way whose goal is harm not health because those in charge know what I know and much more.
I do not know where this alleged virus originated, if it exists.
I know that from the start of this crisis, there was a concerted effort across the world to deny access to proven effective treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, steroids, ivermectin in a planned effort to vaccinate as many people as possible. This alone reveals an agenda centered not on health but on getting as many people as possible to submit to being vaccinated and controlled. Social control is the name of this deadly game.
I know that those pushing these vaccines – The World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, etc. – have a long history of wanting to drastically reduce the world’s population and that their promotion of eugenics under various names is very well known. I am convinced that the totally untested mRNA-type “gene therapy” is the key to their plan for population reduction.
I do not know if they will succeed.
I do not know why so many good people cannot see through this evil. I can only attribute it to having been seduced by a massive hypnotic propaganda campaign that has appealed to their deepest fears and will result in those fears being realized because they thought they were free. It is a great tragedy.
I know that all the statistics about cases and deaths “from” COVID-19 have been manipulated to create a fake pandemic. One of the most obvious proofs of this is the alleged disappearance of the flu and deaths from influenza. Only someone in a trance could fail to understand the absurd logic in the argument that this was the result of mask wearing when at the same time the air-born COVID-19 spread like wildfire until that stopped precipitously in January 2021 when a tiny number of people had been vaccinated.
I know there has been barely any excess mortality throughout all this.
I do not know where it will all end but hope against hope the growing opposition to this fraud will grow and defeat it despite the organized censorship that is underway against dissenting opinions. I know that when organized censorship on this scale takes place those behind it are afraid of the revelation of the truth. A simple understanding of history confirms this.
I know that the temporary reprieve the authorities have granted to their subjects will be followed by further restrictions on fundamental freedoms, the corona virus lockdowns will likely return, “vaccine” boosters will be promoted, and the World Economic Forum’s push for a Great Reset with a Fourth Industrial Revolution will lead to the marriage of artificial intelligence, cyborgs, digital technology, and biology with the USA and other countries continuing to slip into a new form of fascist control unless people across the world stand up and resist in great numbers. I am heartened by signs that this resistance is growing.
Finally, I know if the authoritarian forces win the immediate battle, someone will write a book with a title like that of Milton Mayer’s classic, They Thought They Were Free. It will be censored. Perhaps it will first be shared via samizdat. But in the end, after much suffering and death, the truth about this evil agenda will prevail and there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
We are in a spiritual war for the soul of the world.

Edward Curtin is prominent author, researcher and sociologist based in Western Massachusetts.

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Litmus Tests: Fail One and You Fail Them All

6/18/2021

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Above all else, this is a learning blog. More specifically, this is a blog about spiritual learning, which I believe is the core purpose of our mortal lives in this world. In the following, I would like to briefly outline a bit of spiritual learning I have experienced concerning politics over the course of the past two or three years.

Conservatives, the alt-right, neo-reactionaries, and Christians the world are once again showering the prime minister of Hungary with approval and applause for apparently opposing the System - this time, for passing a law that makes the dissemination of alphabet-people material to children illegal in Hungary.

I get where they're coming from. I have lived in Hungary for a little over six years, and before the birdemic I often entertained notions that the Hungarian prime minister may indeed be on the right side of the spiritual war. I even wrote a few blog posts exploring this possibility - see here, here, and here.

After all, the prime minister vehemently opposes mass migration (and actually built a fence to stop it), expelled a George Soros-founded university from Budapest, funded schemes to bolster families, spoke of the importance of Christian values, and so on.

Having spent the bulk of my adult life marinating in the self-despising, value-inverted political sauce of the Anglo world, I began to view the Hungarian prime minister and his government as a potential beacon of political hope.

But then the birdemic happened - and the birdemic brought things to a point. The line separating Good from evil became clear and undeniable. The gray area/middle ground dissolved. Things became undeniably obvious.

The catalyst for things having come to a point was the largely unnoticed and unacknowledged Satanic global totalitarian coup of 2020, which the Establishment succeeded in pulling off via the birdemic hysteria it fomented early in the year.

The Satanic global totalitarian coup is exactly that. It is Satanic, that is anti-God, anti-Christianity, anti-Good; it is global, that is it is in place everywhere around the world; and it is totalitarian, that is it is dictatorial, enslaving, and anti-freedom.

Shortly after the coup, Bruce Charlton came up with his Litmus Tests of Serious Christianity, an efficient and effective means through which to discern which side of the spiritual war a self-identified Christian individual or organization has chosen to be on following the coup.

Dr. Charlton's Litmus Tests are primarily about attitudes towards the following Satanic secular/materialist agenda items:

The birdemic
Climate change/global warming
Anti-racism
And of course the ongoing theme of the sexual revolution, with special emphasis on the trans agenda.

Dr. Charlton surmises that any self-professed Christian who endorses and supports one or more of the items above has chosen - be it actively or passively - to be on the side against God and Creation.

I agree wholeheartedly and have found the tests to be a useful and accurate framework for discernment.

For example, let's apply the Litmus Tests to the Hungarian prime minister.

The birdemic - massive fail. The prime minister broadcast his belief in the birdemic as a deadly plague and subsequently implemented one of the most draconian sets of birdemic measures in the world - measures that continue to this day. Moreover, he willingly and actively dove headlong into the peck program and succeeded in pecking nearly two-thirds of the adult population. Unpecked people - like me - are currently locked out of most pleasures and amusements such as cinemas, pools, theaters, concerts, sporting events, etc.
Climate change/global warming - another massive fail. The prime minister and his government have fully embraced the Big Lie backing the Establishment's drive to fully enslave the world. The president of Hungary recently announced the country's total commitment to the UN's 2030 sustainability goals. He also added that "the lifestyles we have grown accustomed to following the Second World War have become unsustainable and must be drastically changed."
Anti-racism - pass! The prime minister and his government have resisted all anti-racism pressures (for now).
Sexual revolution - pass, sort of. The prime minister has opposed QWERTY propaganda. The constitution only recognizes marriage between a man and woman. The government has officially rejected the trans agenda. Of course, some of the government's ministers have been caught in various scandals, the most notable of which involved a Fidesz EU representative shimmying down a drain pipe while attempting to escape a 25-man gay orgy the police in Brussels busted for defying birdemic social distancing measures.

Two tests passed; two failed. Unfortunately, the Litmus Tests don't follow the logic of a line from a Meatloaf song where two-out-of-three ain't bad; when it comes to the Litmus Tests of Serious Christianity, two-out-four is bad. Even one-out-of-four is bad. Put another way, the Litmus Tests require a 100% to pass.

Anything less requires repentance. Major repentance. And the prime minister hasn't uttered a word of regret or repentance about his support of the climate change agenda. Even worse, he presents himself as a veritable hero for the action he took during the birdemic.

That alone reveals which side the prime minister is on - and it isn't the side of Good.

Interestingly, the anti-QWERTY law the prime minister and his government recently legislated also contained an anti-pedophilia clause. In a nutshell, the law is all about protecting children.

This, in and of itself, is a Good thing. Ironically, the same concern for protecting children's welfare is utterly absent when it comes the birdemic and its peck. For example, the prime minister vocally supports the pecking of all children and has already encouraged hundreds of thousands of youngsters between the ages of 16-18 to receive the experimental gene therapy. The prime minister has publicly expressed that he would like to have children as young as twelve pecked in the future to ensure Hungary abides by the global diktat of none are safe until all are safe.

Thus, I have a simply message for all the conservatives, alt-righters, neo-reactionaries, and Christians who believe the prime minister of Hungary is "based" and on the side of Good:

He isn't.

And Christians must be especially vigilant when discerning. Remember, the anti-Christ will not come in the form of a demon, but in the form a someone who appears to be a friend of Christ.

Note added: The most prominent of Orbán's cheerleaders at the moment is the American, Orthodox Christian writer Rod "Please Don't Let The Birdemic Kill Me and Leave My Children Orphaned" Dreher.

Further note added: Poor discernment and judgement happens. I have discerned poorly many times in the past (I thought Orbán might be a force for good; I admired Jordan Peterson's stance against the trans agenda; etc.) and will likely do so many more times in the future. The key is repentance. Acknowledge your error in judgement, forgive yourself, and ask Christ to forgive you. That is a big part of how spiritual learning happens.

And one more note: The following comment left by Bruce Charlton on WmJas's From the Narrow Desert does an excellent job detailing the mechanisms of what I have covered in the post above. Worth reading!

I am not attempting to answer your primary query, nor am I competent to do so - but I'd like to draw attention to this instance of the way that convergence works.

Like most/ all the Mormon leadership, DHO is leftist on 3/4 of my Litmus Test issues (birdemic, antiracism, climate emergency) but conservative and traditionalist on the Big Issue for progressive/ apostatizing Mormons - i.e. the sexual revolution.

Therefore he is both objectively pro-leftist/ converged (and by implication anti-Christian in tendency); and yet also able to serve (for reasons of his rhetorical style I would guess, more than substance) as a 'hardline reactionary' bugbear for the QERTY ex-Mormons.

In microcosm, this is an instance of how convergence works/ why conservatives Always lose. To the mainstream leftist, anyone who holds-out against even a Single aspect of Leftism is excoriated without restraint as a 'fascist'. Nearly all victims of the most vicious Politically Correct witch hunts have been leftists. Donald Trump was/is, of course, objectively leftist.

But the Christians/ conservatives adopt an attitude that if a person supports any single one of their agenda items (eg is pro-life) then they are OK and welcome 'on the team'.

Thus Jordan Peterson was wildly popular with conservative Christians, even though he is not a Christian and objectively and strongly leftist; simply because he favoured a couple of Conservative Christian talking points (albeit for the wrong reasons!). But at the same time he also served as a bugaboo for progressives, because he held back from endorsing the *full* leftist programme.

Christian conservatives tend to be insistent on traditionalism with respect to the sexual revolution; but are very accommodating of leftism when it is economic (socialistic), political (e.g. pro world government/ UN/ WHO, 'free trade', open borders etc), or takes the form of antiracism, environmentalism etc.

The main problem is not so much that Christian conservative lose in the sense of losing control of Western Civilization - maybe this was inevitable in an increasingly evil world. The serious problem is that they lose discernment.

This is what we have seen with the birdemic; as with the other Litmus Test issues.

By failing to discern evil; they become complicit with systemic lying. By endorsing lies their views become incoherent hence ineffectual.

In sum; by failing to discern leftism where is explicitly exists (i.e. in church leadership) and that leftism is against God; they pick the wrong side in the spiritual war, and start down the path to self-chosen damnation.

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