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How Do You Like That Financial Inclusion and Equity?

11/15/2022

Financial inclusion and equity. Just imagine how trustworthy all of their other agenda items are.

Earlier screenshot featuring a "partner":

And when you try to visit the page now.

How convenient.

Rest assured, the Ahrimanic agenda these people have planned for us will not pan out; however, the destruction they have unleashed will pan out -- far more than even they or their computer models could have ever envisioned.

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Some Lute for a Sunday Afternoon/Evening

11/13/2022

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A recent discovery for me -- Hans Neusidler (1508-1563).

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Spiritual Creativity? Imagine Nietzsche as a Christian

11/12/2022

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I've written about Nietzsche sporadically on this blog. Those Nietzsche posts have inevitably drawn critical comments from some Christian or other lambasting me for having the audacity to write about a philosopher who was quite obviously and quite literally an anti-Christ.

Yes, well . . . I offer the following in response: Imagine if Nietzsche had been a Christian.

This line of thinking will strike most Christians as anathema. Nietzsche a Christian? Impossible! Nietzsche ranks among the most anti-Christian philosophers the dying West has ever produced! He rejected God outright. Moreover, he pined for some kind of classical pagan revival that put man and human creativity at the center of the cosmos.

I cannot rebut these points in any meaningful way aside from mentioning that though Nietzsche's ideas may have missed the point, his approach and motivation did not.

The thunderbolt of creativity that was Nietzsche was exactly what Christianity needed in the late nineteenth century, and it is interesting to consider how Christianity may have developed had Nietzsche been an ardent Christian rather than a self-proclaimed anti-Christ.

Nikolai Berdyaev touches upon this theme in The Meaning of the Creative Act and offers the following observations:

From this tragic problem of Christianity there can be only one way out: the religious acceptance of the truth that the religious meaning of life and being is not wholly a matter of redemption from sin, that life and being have positive, creative purposes.

The higher creative, positive being, though unattainable at the time when redemption was begun, when God was still transcendent to man, is attainable in another period of religious life, after redemption, when God in man is immanent.

Salvation from sin, from perdition, is not the final purpose of religious life: salvation is always from something and life should be for something. Many things unnecessary for salvation are needed for the very purpose for which salvation is necessary -- for the creative upsurge of being.

Man's chief end is not to be saved but to mount up creatively. For this creative upsurge salvation from sin and evil is necessary. From the religious viewpoint the epoch of redemption is subordinated to the epoch of creativeness. A religion of thirst for salvation and terror of perdition is only a temporary passage through a dualistic division.

In various ways men of our modern time have felt that the sources of creativeness are to be sought neither in the New Testament religion of redemption nor in the Old Testament religion of law. Men have sought the sources of creativeness in antiquity.

In the world of antiquity, in Greece, there were creative bases for an anthropological revelation: Greece is the homeland of human creativity, of beauty and knowledge. Every new impulse of human creativeness must of necessity turn back to the world of antiquity for its nourishment.

This problem reached its acuteness in the life of Nietzsche. He burned with creative desire. Religiously, he knew only the law and redemption, neither of which contains the creative revelation of man. And so he hated God because he was possessed by an unfortunate idea that man's creativeness is impossible if God exists.

Nietzsche stands on the world divide of an epoch of creativeness but cannot recognize the indissoluble relationship of a religion of creativeness with the religion of redemption and the religion of law; He does not know that religion is one and that in man's creativeness the same God is revealed as in the law and the redemption.

Yes, but imagine if Nietzsche had recognized the indissoluble relationship Berdyaev notes. Moreover, imagine what Christianity could be if Christians began to explore beyond the religion of law and redemption.

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Inflation Games Retailers and the Government Play in Hungary

11/11/2022

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Food and energy inflation in Hungary is among the highest in Europe. Official reports peg food inflation at 20%, but my experience informs me that inflation on some food items, such as cheese, bread, butter, and beef, is closer to 100% and, in some cases, much higher.

Yes, that's right. The cost of bread and butter have doubled in the past six months or so. The government's solution? Price fixes on certain specific items - 2.8% milk, some types of bread, chicken breast, etc.

The retailers solution? Stock very little of the price fixed goods and a great deal of the inflated substitutes. This allows the price fixed goods to run out almost immediately, leaving the majority of shoppers stuck buying the more expensive alternatives, like 1.5% milk, other types of bread, whole chickens, etc.

To put this into some sort of perspective, I suppose it would be helpful to mention that the average Hungarian takes home the equivalent of about 700-800 US dollars a month. A year ago, 200 grams of butter cost about 1.25 USD. The price now is 3.80 USD. Three-eighty for butter might not sound expensive to a Western European or a North American making a Western European or North American salary, but for a 700-800 dollar-a-month Hungarian, 3.80 USD from 1.25 USD is a death knell.

The average Hungarian used to spend around 300 USD a month on groceries. That same family now spends 600-700 USD on food a month, which is the equivalent of an entire monthly salary for most people.

What is especially striking about the inflation in this part of the world is its gratuitousness. Despite everything, prices should not be this high. Yet for some mysterious reason, they are. I did a little investigating and discovered that the prices grocery retailers pay for wholesale goods are still a fraction of what they end up selling these same goods for in stores. The markup margins are clearly criminal in some cases.

Eggs are a good example. Last year, retailers bought eggs from wholesalers for about 8-10 cents per egg, and then sold the eggs in their stores for about 11-14 cents per egg. This year, the wholesale price for an egg is around 13 cents, but the retail price is a whopping 25-31 cents per egg -- double or triple the wholesale price. In some places, that's called price gouging. Here in Hungary, it's just business in a "war inflation" environment.

In an effort to save the day -- yet again -- the government donned its Superman cape and has stepped in and extended the price fix to eggs, setting the maximum price at around 21 cents per egg, which is still nearly double last year's price. God bless them in their commitment to "protect Hungarian households". Retailers have grudgingly responded by ensuring that sudden and inexplicable egg shortages are now almost guaranteed going forward.

Thankfully, I have my hens, but I don't have a cow, which means the System gets me via dairy products like milk and cheese . . . if I can find any that I am willing to buy at these inflated prices . . .

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Hope and The System - A Repost Redux

11/9/2022

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I sense the latest installment of "vote for the System" has led to dashed hopes, yet again.

In light of this, I will repost a repost of a post on nurturing hope for the System. Something to think about next time you are tempted to "get your hopes up" about anything related to the System.
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The first sin is simply the sin of despair. For any serious Christian, the mere notion of despair should be anathema. After all, how could any serious Christian ever lose hope in the example of Christ? Above all else, the Resurrection is a testament against hopelessness. When Jesus defeated death, he proved, beyond all doubt, that we have nothing to fear or feel hopeless about, neither in this world nor in life everlasting. The trials and tribulations of this world cannot destroy the next world if we follow His example and believe on Him.

The second sin is the nurturing of hope for a System that is inherently antithetical to God - that is, diametrically opposed to Truth, Beauty, and Virtue. The System is not only anti-Good, it has been meticulously engineered to actively wage war against the Good. Any experienced beneficial side effects of the System are either remnants from an earlier time (when the System itself may have been less inherently evil) or purely material by-products that offer nothing above the level of physical comfort, convenience, or pleasure.

To lose hope over a System that was designed to generate perpetual hopelessness, a System whose sole purpose in the past century (at least) has been to deny and destroy the Truth at every possible turn is akin to a Gulag prisoner losing hope in the proper, effective functioning of the Gulag that tortures him and keeps him captive.

The manner in which the System is faltering or collapsing (take your pick) is not something we should be celebrating or embracing. By the same token, it is also not something we should be resisting or despairing over. The System should have faltered or collapsed decades, nay centuries ago, but this development should have been achieved through our own willed decision to turn away from the System and establish a new mode of Being.

Yet we resisted and rejected that much needed shift of consciousness every time the opportunity to take it up arose. Instead of committing to this much-needed and, at times, sorely overdue consciousness shift we chose instead to double-down on our hope in the System. What we are experiencing now is an epic case of reaping what we have sown. Rather than despair, we should be feeling sorrow and shame - sorrow and shame that we collectively ever allowed ourselves to become materially-enslaved to such evil.

The faltering or total collapse of the System will undoubtedly generate much discomfort, hardship, and pain . . . perhaps even death. It is difficult and unsettling to consider what may await us all - our family, friends, loved ones, and the countless people we don't know - as the System continues to crumble, but we must never forget that all hope in the System is fundamentally sinful and misguided. The System was designed to abandon us. The System was designed to work against us. Hope in the System is, at best, hope invested in totalitarian, bureaucratic tyranny; at worse, it is hope invested in something even more sinister.

Any feeling of despair over the System is a declaration of the victory of evil. Hope, faith, and love are crucial in the here and now, but we should remain vigilant about where we place our hope, faith, and love.

God is a loving Creator. He will never abandon you. He will never work against you. He will arrange the material world in such a way that it becomes what each of us needs to nurture our continued spiritual growth and development. Our continued spiritual growth and development may not necessarily entail our continued material growth and development. This is a difficult pill to swallow for some Christians, but swallowed it must be.

God will never abandon us. God will never work against us. We must remember not to abandon or work against Him. In fact, the time has come to take up the cause our ancestors neglected to take up and begin working with Him creatively. That requires a total shift in consciousness, but that is what is needed, now more than ever.

Note added: Any feeling of despair, especially despair for the System, must be repented. We are all bound to taste despair in the weeks and months ahead. Having said that, it is one thing to taste despair and repent it; it is quite another thing to taste despair and then voluntarily feast on it.

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Music to Accompany the End Credits in The Film About Your Life

11/8/2022

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Imagine your life as a movie; then imagine the end credits rolling to this tune -- appropriately called "End Credits". From the latest album of one of my favorite bands, The Sadies.

Following the tragic loss of Dallas Good nearly a year ago, The Sadies are carrying on as a trio (see clip below). Much respect.

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Sporadic Blogging in the Short Term - Blame Ahriman

11/7/2022

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The Ahrimanic Citadel of Darkness from which I draw my paycheck has been inundating me with obscene amounts of mind-numbing work lately, which has had a detrimental effect on my blogging consistency. Expect posts to be a bit sporadic over the next week or so.

In the meantime, allow me to share a snippet of the sort of Litmus Test agenda material that lands on my desk for proofreading and/or translation.

Long story short - the Ahrimanics still believe they will win the "long game" against Sorath.

Yeah, good luck with that!

Anyway, snippet below.

Bold and snark in brackets added.

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In a presentation entitled "The Status and Development of Digital Central Bank Currencies (CBDC)", Prof. Dr. Krauty Von Krautface - Dean of Some Evil Citadel of Darkness in Germany - highlighted the many questions that will arise in 2022 regarding economic sustainability, one of which is the intensive research and possible introduction of digital central bank currencies.

The topic is vital and is a core project of many central banks today. A central bank digital currency is a currency controlled by a country's central bank

(You don't say?).

Several countries have already introduced it, and more than a hundred other countries are researching and developing the possibility of introducing digital currencies via central banks.

(Hey, everybody's doing it! Let's join the fun! These guys really think they're going to survive what they have helped unleash. On top of that, they honestly think they will be able to capitalize on it. How cute!)

Dr. Von Krautface stressed that this topic receives little publicity, even though introducing digital currencies will be crucial for the EU economy.

(Yeah, I wonder why it doesn't get much publicity. Must be because of Putin or something.)

He analysed the function of money, with particular reference to digital money, the medium of exchange, the accumulation instrument and the unit of account.

He also mentioned the possible "competitors" of the euro as a digital central bank currency.

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Now, if you'll excuse me, I am going to wash my hands á la Mr. Jaggers and then repent my involvement in this bureaucratic malevolence.

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Permacrisis or Permacreation - The Choice is Ours

11/4/2022

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A few days ago, UK-based Harper Collins -- publisher of the Collins English Dictionary -- declared the noun permacrisis to be its "Word of the Year" for 2022.

Defined as "an extended period of insecurity and instability", permacrisis apparently epitomizes the "dizzying sense of lurching from one unprecedented event to another as people wonder what new horrors might be around the corner."

In my opinion, permacrisis is the perfect word to describe the post-2020 "given world"-- that heavy, burdensome, stifling, un-creative, impersonal, stultifying, terrorizing, oppressive, objectified world that demands unconditional obedience and submission to its obscuring of Reality.

The word fits because crisis has become the default setting of the given world, which will intentionally remain in crisis mode until it is eventually overwhelmed by the perma-crises it willfully generates, implements, and foments.

Those who remain obedient and submissive to the dictates and machinations of the given world will experience and live the "reality" of permacrisis in the same way they experienced and lived the "reality" of the one of the given world's Words of 2021 -- vax.

While permacrisis suits the "reality" of the given world, it is not an accurate definition of Reality -- more precisely, God's Creation.

Permacrisis does not and cannot exist in Creation. What exists in Creation is creation itself -- the acts, thoughts, and processes of ongoing and open creativity inspired and motivated by love, hope, and freedom between and among Beings.

Permacrisis may be the given world's Word of the Year for 2022, but it does not apply and cannot be applied to God's Creation. To do so would be a category error.

The only way to overcome the given world and its Words of the Year is to become aware of Creation and begin to think and "live" the reality of permacreation.

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Some Difference

11/2/2022

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Tell me, what's the difference between the modern, mainstream, conventional Christian submission to comfort, security, safety, pleasure, and physical well-being and the modern, mainstream, conventional leftist/atheist submission to the same?

The Christian will insist that the comfort, security, safety, pleasure, and physical well-being to which he submits is virtuous and wholesome.

And that's about as far the Christian will take it. He rarely stops to consider that the real problem may lie in the submission itself.

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"Amnesty" Does Not Want You To Learn From Experience

11/1/2022

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So, the "Amnesty" piece recently featured in The Atlantic -- a particularly egregious example of System communication if there ever was one -- has achieved its assumed secondary aim of triggering knee-jerk reactions around the internet, which got me wondering about what the article's primary aim might be.

My gut instinct tells me the System is working to get ahead of the rising swell of birdemic disillusionment, but at a deeper level I sense that the System is aiming for a more profound spiritual goal -- encouraging people to not learn from experience.

Because evil utterly abhors people who are capable of learning from experience.

The remainder of this piece is a re-post of a post I wrote back in February, 2020. I have also included the excellent audio version of the post featured on New World Island's YouTube channel:

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Evil Does Not Want You To Learn From Experience

I am of the conviction that the primary purpose of our mortal lives is to learn, more specifically, to learn from experience. Our time in this world is fundamentally about the choices and decisions we make and the subsequent actions and thinking these choices and decisions inspire. Our ability to discern the benefits or consequences of our choices, decisions, and actions determines the quality and effectiveness of our thinking and our ability to learn from experience. Learning from experience entails a conscious aspiration toward good consequences and a determined avoidance of further bad consequences.

From a spiritual perspective, learning from experience can be boiled down to choosing Good over Evil. Good is everything that is aligned with God and Creation; Evil is everything aligned with Satan who works to undermine God and Creation. At its most basic level, a choice, decision, or action that is not aligned with God or Creation will generate bad consequences. The first step in learning from experience at the spiritual level involves recognizing and understanding bad consequences. The second step is repentance of the choice, decision, or action that led to the bad consequences. The third step involves ensuring this repentance positively influences future choices, decision, and actions in an effort to avoid further bad consequences.

But spiritual learning from experience is not exclusively about the negative, but also involves recognizing and understanding when choices, decisions, and actions are aligned with the positive, with God and Creation - that is, when we are aligned with the Good. It is also about being able to discern the benefits that derive from this alignment.

These benefits are not always explicitly clear, in the same way that the bad in bad consequences stemming from dis-alignment with God and Creation are not always explicitly clear. On the surface, bad consequences might appear good, and good consequences might appear bad. This suggests learning from experience is not always straightforward and that some lessons might have to be repeated many times or might take up great expanses of time.

Learning from experience is often painful. It often involves swallowing our pride - the humble understanding and acceptance that we were wrong coupled with the desire to turn the wrong into a right. At its core, the essence of learning from experience at the spiritual level is remaining open to and accepting of the reality that the main purpose of our mortal lives is to align ourselves with God and Creation. And this openness and the effort that should follow is paramount to our continued journey after our mortal life ends.

If learning is the primary purpose of our mortal lives, then it is only logical to assume that the forces opposing God and Creation work diligently to hinder and obstruct learning at every possible turn in an sustained effort to undermine God and Creation. The ideal world for evil is one in which learning - learning from experience in particular - is considered undesirable and unsavory - not worth the effort. But the world evil really strives to bring about is one in which learning for the purpose of aligning oneself with God and Creation is not only considered undesirable, but is made increasingly uncomfortable, and, in some cases virtually impossible.

This kind of world would first motivate individuals to callously dismiss all notions of God and Creation, thereby severing all true sense of the distinction between good and evil. It would then work to invert all notions of good and evil by presenting evil as good and good as evil. It would also reduce all semblances of good and evil to the hedonic level of pleasure and pain whereby all bad choices that create immediate, short term pleasure would be regarded as good, and all good choices that created immediate, short term 'pain' or discomfort would be regarded as bad. Any 'real' pain resulting from a 'real' bad consequence would be met with pride instead of humility, and defiance instead of acceptance, thereby negating any chance at true learning.

Evil does not want us to learn from experience because it wants to lock us in darkness and prevent us from approaching the light. Evil does not want us to continue our journey - and it accomplishes this rather effectively by obstructing our ability to learn from experience.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isiah 5:20)

And greater woe unto them who fall into this trap and refuse to learn from experience because they are allowing themselves to be misled from the very purpose of mortal life itself.

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