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Grain of Salt? More Like Boulders . . .

2/12/2023

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One of the most depressing aspects of the past three years has been the sudden and unwanted revelation that most of the people I have looked to for insights, discernment, interpretations, observations, cognizance, clarification, and ideas have been dead wrong about nearly everything that has transpired in the past three years.

I'm talking about incredibly intelligent, well-read people here. 

By dead wrong, I don't mean inaccurate predictions or garbled analysis. That's par for the course and is to be expected.

​After all, being wrong is a part of being human. I've been wrong about many things and will continue to be wrong about many more things. No, by dead wrong I mean wrong in the most fundamental way -- at the level of metaphysical assumptions -- at the core concept level of being, existence, and reality.

Experiencing intelligent, well-read people being consistently and predictably wrong at this level -- the level of first principles -- has been difficult to ignore and increasingly challenging to excuse.

It wouldn't be nearly so bad if the dead wrongers admitted that they should at least consider honestly re-evaluating their assumptions, but very few appear willing or able to do so.

As far as I can tell, they've made their commitments, and they're sticking to them. Fine and well, but I hope they understand that everything they continue to say about theology, spirituality, morality, ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, logic, cosmology, and all the rest of it now requires a boulder of salt.

​A mere grain is insufficient to cover dead wrong.  
   
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houska
2/13/2023 05:07:54

FYi:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/12/heads-up-state-dept-operative-and-usaid-administrator-samantha-power-is-in-hungary-seeding-another-color-revolution-deep-state-ukraine-2-0/#more-243235

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Francis Berger
2/13/2023 07:43:58

@ houska - I'm a couple of steps ahead when it comes to this issue:

https://www.francisberger.com/blog/there-is-no-globo-only-option-even-if-there-was-it-would-be-spiritually-unviable

So-called Christian conservatives like Rod Dreher and his ilk fail to understand that "globohomo" is a package deal. So-called Christian conservatives believe it is morally and spiritually acceptable to accept most or all of "globo" agenda items and resist only the "homo" issues.

Sorry. It doesn't work like that. If you sign up for globo, you also sign up for homo, and, like it or not, the demons will ensure you get the full package deal in the end.

From a wider perspective, all of this is nugatory. Orbán surrendered to the global totalitarian coup in 2020. He terrorized his population with the same enthusiasm and doggedness displayed by the worst birdemic peddlers. The demons now only want to collect on what is "rightfully" and contractually theirs -- and in many ways, they are entitled to it.

Of course, repentance could change all of that in a heartbeat, but no one in Hungarian politics has entertained doing anything of the sort.

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bruce g charlton
2/13/2023 11:43:19

I have noticed something analogous to these 'Conservatives' when investigating the escalating Fire Nation war by connecting-with (what I would call) decent and honest analysts and commentators - but who do not have a Christian perspective.

They may be interesting and helpful with respect to the current or tactical aspects; but cannot join the dots or go behind the facts to understand the 'strategic' motivations of those on the Western side - because the strategy is actually spiritual (whereas the tactics are pragmatic - albeit constrained by the spiritual).

In particular, these decent/honest voices do not account for the nature of evil - and what those who are evil may be working for in a strategic fashion; therefore, they cannot notice evil even when the trend of events is wholly consistent with it.

They get bogged down in detail - much as the Conservatives harp incessantly on today's Woke outrages.

So I can learn How but not Why - yet it is only by knowing Why that we may potentially learn the essential spiritual basis for understanding.

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Francis Berger
2/13/2023 12:48:21

@ Bruce - As you have often pointed out, motivation is key. Without the Why, we never get to the core spiritual motivations, but instead spend our time orbiting a great many Hows or half-Whys that only consider tactical, temporal, material aspects and essentially go nowhere.

The lack of a spiritual basis for understanding reveals a motivation gap. On the one hand, the obvious absence of recognizing the Why underlying the Hows. On the other hand, the lack of motivation to even begin considering such motivations.

A firm rooting in Christianity helps, but I have found that it isn't enough. More specifically, the limits some Christians impose upon their thinking leads them to all sorts of misguided and faulty notions about the Whys. And this is not confined to topical events like the Fire Nation war or the birdemic, but to apparently obvious spiritual issues like adhering to one's conscience when confronted with external pressure.

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Kevin Schumacher
2/27/2023 20:57:02

I have found that most Christians lack discernment - and the (ad hoc) definition of discernment is "knowing the difference between what is true and what is ALMOST true".

Also, and probably related, is the phenomenon of the litany of humans who have abandoned the life of the mind, and along with it, the ability to utilize conditional logic. These people literally cannot perceive any cause and effect relationships past current events (and likely events of today only).

lea
2/27/2023 08:45:47

The hedge had a good article about this, describing how all the 'experts' basically got everything wrong about the sting operation. I've been severely out of the loop but apparently some 'public YT figures' have turned a key and described how bad it all has been, and continues to be. It's encouraging to watch because public exposure, even though limited still by vice of most of our media being utterly corrupt, is the only way the aftermath of the biggest psy-op in history turns out as a net positive. And surprisingly it seems to be doing just that!

Whatever it is that makes some humans choose death over 'dishonor' in matters like these, i stopped caring a while ago. It represents the bad side of juvenile behaviours, not the exploring, joyful and curious kid that most of us once were, but the resentful tantrum-prone partial one instead.

As to why that happens?
All (recent) roads lead back to the post that made me find you; https://www.francisberger.com/blog/despiritualization-is-dehumanization

I had that exact thought on my mind for a while, and no one else seemed to have written about it, the rest is history :P

A recent family dinner lifted my mood alot, and re-affirmed that even within circles like that you simply cannot connect with everyone. Whatever the decisive mechanism is in between lifetimes, it simply provides one with opportunities to learn, but that should be all we look for. My aunt talked about energy healing with her horses as a channeling conduit, where the human vagus nerve directly connects with theirs. She described how they are far more sensitive to ailments and general conditions of other living beings, automatically mindful really, and not bothered by the enormous package of 'temporal emotions' we tend to carry around.

This is a unique perspective that i've not seen anywhere in thousands of hours around the internet. I feel blessed to have someone like that in my family and should act upon that more. We tend to take ourselves very seriously when none of it should apply and vice versa, which can probably only be fixed by being more in tune with nature, but i digress. This is still part of the 'everything topic'.

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