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Be Wary of Media Acknowledgments, Confessions, Reversals, and Rollbacks

2/4/2023

I think it is safe to say that the none are safe until all are safe global totalitarian technocracy the Ahrimanics wanted to install after their successful but ultimately short-lived 2020 global coup has fallen well short of its declared expectations and objectives.

At the same, the increasing noise about the end of Davos Man and the ultimate defeat of the Ahrimanic bureaucratic model strikes me as overhasty and premature, particularly in the West where the Ahrimanics are still in power and still pull the strings, albeit with far less cohesion and increasing chaos and destruction.

Moreover, though the awareness of and resistance to the 2020 global coup and its agenda has increased in the general population over the past three years, it is extremely hyperbolic to claim that the West is experiencing or undergoing a mass awakening or some such thing.

An authentic mass awakening would have to begin at the individual level first, and the source of the awakening would have to emanate from within the hearts of individuals before it could be externally perceptible or knowable on a mass scale.

What might an authentic mass awakening look like? Picture the mass of humanity as a sea of unlit candles. Then imagine the candles coming to life, one by one as an inner spark lights the wick. At first, it would only be a few disparate flames flickering here and there. Over time, more candles would ignite; then, one day, in place of darkness, you would see a tranquil ocean of light pushing against the darkness.

An authentic mass awakening requires the candles to light themselves with the aid and guidance of the Holy Spirit. This process most definitely starts internally before it is ever perceptible externally. Also, because it is an internal process happening first at the level of individuals, it does not rely upon externals for momentum, sustenance, or validation.

Awakening implies a new state of being that leaves a former state of being behind, not the externally-imposed alteration of a current state of masquerading as a new state of being.

As mentioned above, authentic awakening requires the candles to light themselves. Inauthentic externally-imposed awakening provides that illusion. At the very least, such an awakening makes it seem as if the candles were lit by something from the outside, but in actuality, no candles light up during inauthentic mass awakenings. Everything remains dark.

Inauthentic mass awakenings provide no inner or outer spark with which to ignite a flame. What externally-induced mass awakenings provide instead is heat. A relentless, blasting heat that melts the candles instead of lighting them. The end goal of all faux mass awakenings is a massive, formless pool of cooling and congealing wax that can never again provide light of any kind.

The supposed mass awakening I see around me now is little more than that external heat melting the candles. It depends almost entirely on external sources, most notably the media and its sudden need to confess, acknowledge, reverse, and roll back “apparent” lies, mistakes, errors, fallacies, lapses, omissions, missteps, and misapplications.

All externally-induced mass awakenings are demonic operations aiming at damnation. As such, they demand spiritual vigilance and discernment.

For example, the acknowledgment that the “safe and effective” peck may not be as “safe and effective” as previously promoted has the potential to serve many negative spiritual aims. On the one hand, it can activate rage, despondency, or despair in the pecked. On the other hand, it can also generate contemptuousness, hubris, and abusiveness in the unpecked.

The same applies to all other media communication that supposedly seeks to redress or rectify the events that have transpired since 2020.

To sum up, any mass awakening the media produces or reports upon is not a mass awakening; it is simply the continuation of a campaign aiming for mass damnation.

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The Un-Listened Voice and Silent Knowing

2/3/2023

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There are many types and levels of thinking, but I imagine for most people, thinking is listening to a voice. I suppose everyone has at least one thinking voice.

I suspect most thinking voices are dull and dry. Monotone drones; no beginning or end. Coming from somewhere, going nowhere. Endless round-and-rounds. Too oblivious of the mark to pretend to miss it. Or maybe stones skipping perpetually on glassy water, for-ever skimming the surface . . . never penetrating.

Never sinking. Capable of surface, incapable of depth.

But most find even this superficial murmuring unbearable. Better to dissolve the drone in a kaleidoscopic cacophony of unthinking and let the graceless voices lull and tug until nothing remains but the sound of their lulling and tugging.

Much in-between, I'm sure, but even there it is voices – whispering, cajoling, threatening, enticing, obliterating – and it is to these voices that people have listened. It is these voices, people have followed. They are the voices that have brought nearly everyone to where they are now.

Yet somewhere within that vocal whirlpool sucking everyone into nowhere is a voice not listened. Not unheard, but not listened. Un-listened to.

A discernible, audible, distinct, and recognizable thinking voice -- shunned, ignored, exiled, cast aside. The drone and the cacophony have brought people to where they are. Where might they be if they had listened to the un-listened voice?

Chances are they would not be where they are. Chances are they would be in another place entirely. Chances are they would catch snippets of themselves – their true selves.

Chances are they would learn to think; and when they had learned to think well enough, the voice would fade into a silent knowing much louder than any thinking voice could ever be.

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A Little Music to Support the War Effort

2/2/2023

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Russian guitar music? I had no idea such a thing existed. Very new territory for me. And quite pleasing.

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Most Recent New World Island Audio Posts

2/2/2023

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New audio recordings of blog posts from Romantic Christian blogs are now up at New World Island's YouTube channel (see sidebar or link below).

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The Fire - Cormac McCarthy's Faint Vision of Hope in the Sorath-Eclipsed World of "The Road"

2/1/2023

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Post-apocalyptic novels have become a genre all to themselves, but few capture the desolate aftermath of Sorathic destruction as hauntingly and oppressively as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which some have described as one of the bleakest and most agonizing novels ever written.

Set in the wake of an unspecified apocalypse – most likely a nuclear war, even though the film adaptation of the novel widened the scope to include the trendy warnings of climate-induced catastrophe – The Road tells the stark story of a man and his son desperately struggling to stay alive and reach some unknown destination in a world in which there is essentially nowhere to go and fundamentally nothing left to live for.

McCarthy is a strange writer; a breed all to himself. Dark poetic flourishes that shrivel into the unpoetic beauty lace the foundation of his terse and Hemingwayesque style. Thematically, he stands within that small, select group of storytellers that recognizes and understands the devastating evil that is Sorathic destruction. In his other novels, McCarthy confines Sorath to senseless, savage upsurges that erupt onto the façade of real-world tranquility like volcanic explosions; in The Road, McCarthy gives destruction free reign over God and Creation, depicting a world in which Sorath reigns triumphant:

It took two days to cross that ashen scabland. The road beyond ran along the crest of the ridge where the barren woodland fell away on every side. It’s snowing, the boy said. He looked at the sky. A single gray flake sifting down. He caught it in his hand and watched it expire there like the last host of christendom.

On the surface, The Road is a story of physical survival – a narrative focused on the instinct to stay alive in a world where there is nothing for which to live. Beneath the surface, McCarthy’s post-Armageddon tale explores the apparent impossibility of remaining spiritually aligned with God and Creation when both God and Creation appear to be no more.

The central motif that attests to this spiritual theme is “the fire”. Invisible and only referred to, the fire becomes the sole motivation and hope through which the story and its characters cling to meaning. At the most obvious level, the fire represents the love between the man and his son – one of the only examples of human love left in the world.

The man and the boy both guard the fire as they stumble ceaselessly through senseless landscapes of death and despair. They remind each other that they are “carrying the fire” and use this designation to distinguish themselves from the bad guys who -- to paraphrase a line from Charles Bukowski’s Dinosauria, We -- are radiated men eating the flesh of other radiated men.

There are certain boundaries the man will not cross as he struggles to keep his son alive in the ravaged world of The Road, yet his focused love and fixation often reduce his behavior to the animal level of ruthless survival. Here McCarthy utilizes the boy and transforms him into the barely audible whisperings of God – survival, yes, but not at any cost.

Within the borders of this dark world gone to hell, the fire the boy safeguards glows like a muted beacon, a soft reminder of the reality of life beyond survival. A soft reminder that Sorath’s destruction can only be countered by love, faith, hope, and creativity, and that as long as these exist, God exists, as does Creation.

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The Spiritual War Is Lost Because of Unrepentance, Not Sin

1/31/2023

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Dr. Charlton has published an excellent piece in which he calls upon Christians to become "Martyrs of Repentance":

We are all sinners; and sin over and again all through our lives - because sin is whatever is Not aligned-with God's creation.

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Yet, no matter how deep in corruption and no matter the societal pressure towards evil; if a Man can recognize, acknowledge, and repent his sins and accept whatever the consequences - then, at that moment (and for eternity, if martyrdom is his fate), he becomes a light to dazzle The Enemy and push-back the darkness in this world.

The one thing that has perplexed me more than anything else over these past three years is the open and vehement resistance Christians put up when it comes to repentance.

I'm under the impression that Christians have begun to regard repentance as a sign of stupidity or weakness or, worse, as something that is somehow inherently un-Christian or ant-Christian.

I can't -- for the life of me -- wrap my head around this palpable resistance to repentance.

At times, I think the resistance may stem from the discomfort of having to acknowledge that one has sinned.

At other times, I feel it must emanate from diluted conceptualizations of what qualifies as sin.

Overall, I sense it emerges from the misguided notion that to acknowledge sin is to lose a decisive battle in the spiritual war; that the spiritual war can only be won by avoiding and overcoming sin.

Perhaps repentance makes Christians feel like losers rather than winners.

Let's set something straight - the two sides of the spiritual war do not consist of a side of sinners versus a side of sinless saints.

Sinners comprise both sides of the spiritual war!

The only meaningful difference between the two is that the side that is for God and Creation consists of repentant sinners, while the ranks opposed to God and Creation teem with unrepentant sinners!

What many decent, church-going, Bible-thumping, obedient, humble, intelligent Christians fail to understand is that unrepentance is how decent, church-going, Bible-thumping, obedient, humble, intelligent Christians like them end up on the wrong side of the spiritual war.

What seems to have gotten lost in the mix is the simple reality that repentance is one of the best possible ways to overcome sin and win the spiritual war. As such, it is something Christians should embrace rather than resist.

Every opportunity to repent should fill our hearts with a surge of fire and life, and we should welcome it with open arms. We don't win the spiritual war by trying to be or pretending to be sinless, but by repenting sin. By sincerely acknowledging and repenting sin.

It really is that simple.

So, the only remaining question for me is: Why the massive resistance to repentance among Christians?

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The Inflation and Deflation of Thinking and Action in this World

1/29/2023

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Christianity is a religion in the world, but it is not a worldly religion. With this in mind, it should be clear that our thinking and actions are not limited to the confines of this world but extend well beyond its temporal boundaries. Of course, this in no way reduces the temporal significance of our thinking and actions.

What we think and do during mortal life directly impacts the world and our mortal lives – yet our thinking and action must transcend these immediate limits and include eternal considerations. What we think and do in this world affects the world and eternity.

As Dr. Charlton has noted many times on his Notions blog, our mortal lives in this world are temporary, but the thinking and doing in which we engage in this temporary state is eternally significant. Moreover, it also affects and shapes eternity.

From this perspective, our thinking and actions in this world are inevitably inflated and amplified within the context of eternity. Contrary to popular belief, our thinking and actions in this world do not merely echo in eternity – they are “picked up” and amplified. But this only applies to thinking and action that aligns with God’s eternal creative purposes.

Thinking and action that does not align with these eternal purposes are not inflated or amplified in eternity. Instead, they are deflated and confined to the limits of this world, replete with its temporariness and its entropy. Within this “quarantine”, the forces of evil can harness these deflated thoughts and actions and amplify them to suit their objectives of ensuring individual and mass damnation. Thus, deflated thoughts and actions are also of eternal significance. They cannot diminish or weaken Heaven; however, they can render Heaven inaccessible.

Thinking and action in this world that aligns with God’s creative purposes usually appear weaker than thinking and action that oppose God’s creative purposes. From a purely worldly perspective, temporal thinking is far more powerful than spiritual thinking. Temporal thinking utilizes fear, force, and entropy to attack the temporal body that houses and generates spiritual thinking and action.

The aim is simple – assault the spirit through the body. Confine the spirit to this-worldly thinking. Poison the eternal significance of thoughts and actions. Provide eternity with nothing to inflate or amplify. Keep all thinking and action “deflated” in the temporary, entropic world.

In reality, thinking and action in this world that aligns with God’s creative purposes are always stronger because it has the potential to affect not only this world but eternity. Thought and action that aligns with God’s creative purposes provide the spiritual forces for Good with usable “material”. It beckons them toward co-create with the individual who generates such thoughts and actions. It inspires them to inflate and amplify the individual's thoughts and actions in ways the individual himself can barely imagine.

Evidence of this can be seen in the example of people like Vendel Enrédy, who escaped the communists in Hungary for a brief time after the Second World War but quickly chose to return to his native soil well aware that doing so would lead to his arrest, torture, imprisonment and, possibly, death.

From a purely temporal perspective, Endrédy’s thinking and actions make absolutely no sense whatsoever and appeared to have accomplished nothing. He was arrested shortly after his return, tortured, put on trial, found guilty, and imprisoned in the worst conditions imaginable.

After six years, he was liberated by freedom fighters participating in the short-lived Hungarian Revolution. Following the failed rebellion, the communists decided against re-imprisoning him and instead placed him in a seniors’ facility for aged and retired clergy, where he lived out the remainder of his days until he died in 1981.

Did Endrédy’s thinking and action have any positive effect on the world? Arguments can go either way. On the one hand, you could say his thinking and actions had no positive effect on the world at all, and that his thoughts and actions has nothing to do with positive developments like the rebellion against the communists or the dilution of hardline communism after 1956 or the eventual collapse of communism eight years after his death. On the other hand, you could also argue the opposite.

Either way, the eternal significance of Endrédy’s thinking and actions in the temporal world is real and undeniable, and I am certain that his thinking and actions in the temporal world have been amplified in eternity.

Furthermore, I firmly believe Endrédy's thoughts and actions in this world added something to eternity, something that God alone could not have added on his own.

This does not imply that only heroic thinking and action is amplified and inflated. On the contrary, I believe seemingly mundane thinking and action have the potential to be inflated and amplified in ways we cannot conceptualize -- as long as the thinking and action aligns with God and Creation.

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Regret and Repentance Are Not Synonymous; Or, I'm a Christian, So I Don't Need to Repent

1/28/2023

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Earlier this week, William Wildblood published an incisive post on the peck and regret. I highly recommend it.

The post started me thinking about regret and repentance. In particular, about the misguided notion that regret and repentance are essentially synonymous -- to the point that the mere feeling or expression of regret automatically qualifies as repentance.

Regret and repentance do shadow the same ground in many ways, but they are not necessarily the same. Not by a long shot.

Although repentance necessarily involves regret, regret does not necessarily need to involve repentance.

A good example of the latter is a restaurant patron who forgoes his trusted choice at his favorite restaurant in favor of sampling a new dish on the menu. After he tries it, he finds it bland and regrets not sticking to his usual menu choice.

The restaurant patron's regret may be authentic and deeply felt, but it does not require repentance because he has committed no wrongdoing. Nor has he engaged in sin. He simply made a bad personal choice. Though the choice certainly affected his enjoyment of the evening, it did not oppose or work against God and Creation.

The same applies to other mistakes and poor choices that lead to negative consequences. A married couple who purchase their first home at the peak of a housing bubble may regret their decision later when prices crater, but they do not need to repent it.

A man who chose to study law rather than medicine may regret his choice if he finds legal work unfulfilling. However, the regret he experiences regarding his choice of vocation requires no repentance (unless the work he engages in directly opposes God and Creation, but that’s a separate issue).

Simply put, feelings of disappointment or sadness over the unfavorable consequences of past decisions that did not oppose God and Creation require no repentance. Past decisions that opposed God and Creation do require repentance.

These feelings of disappointment or sadness should help us to distinguish when repentance is needed and when it is not. Unfortunately, regret often does more to hinder than aid repentance.

Things start to get tricky when decisions that oppose God and Creation instill no sense of regret, which is almost always a sign of deep spiritual disconnect.

Most individuals who feel no regret over their opposition to God and Creation are either willfully unaware of God or directly opposed to God. But what about individuals who profess to believe in God and claim to understand the reality of sin and the need for repentance?

This is where the birdemic and the peck become "problematic", especially for Christians.

Many Christians have begun expressing regret for their decision to take the peck. The vast majority of this regret stems from the apparent ineffectiveness of the peck and/or its reported adverse health effects, which leads me to wonder – would that regret exist if the peck had been “safe and effective” as advertised?

Would the Christians who now lament taking the peck show any sign of regret if the peck had protected them from transmission and not presented any potential side effects?

I hate to say this, but I don’t think many of them would.

Moreover, I firmly believe that most would feel immensely good about themselves and their decision.

Furthermore, I posit that few of them would be all that troubled about the totalitarian technocratic surveillance society the Ahramanic bureaucrats so passionately wanted – and still want -- to make permanent via a peck program or some similar demonic configuration.

I have encountered very few pecked Christians whose regret for having taken the peck extends beyond “safe and effective” concerns.

I have encountered very few pecked Christians who recognize and understand that the decision to take the peck, even under the sway of ruthless coercion, was in direct opposition to God and Creation.

I have encountered very few pecked Christians who have comprehended, let alone expressed, the need to repent the thoughts, actions, and behavior they exhibited during the birdemic and its peck campaign.

Barely any of the pecked Christians I know have regretted, let alone repented, their direct or indirect involvement in the peck program’s extended totalitarian atrocities, wicked coercion, dehumanizing measures, demonizing tactics, and degrading practices.

On the contrary, most are under the impression that their peck-related thoughts and actions require no repentance at all. Regret? Sure. But repentance? Nah!

As far as they are concerned, the peck-related decisions they made are akin to the example of the restaurant patron’s decision described above – a regrettable choice, but not wrong and certainly not against God and Creation; hence, no need to repent.

I ask the following of Christians who hold such views: Was anything related to the birdemic and its peck campaign even remotely True, Beautiful, Virtuous, or Good? I realize that all of it was vehemently promoted as such, even by most church authorities and leaders, but was it so?

The prerequisite for repentance is the acknowledgment of sin. Without the acknowledgment of sin, there can be no repentance – only regret -- maybe.

Although I sympathize with all the regret pecked Christians are feeling at the moment, I sincerely believe such regret to be insufficient, primarily because it works against the acknowledgment of sin and the very real need for repentance.

I say this not as some holier-than-thou authority on sin and repentance whose thoughts and actions are sinless and pure, but as a fellow sinner who understands that the problem for Christians is not sinning, so much as the refusal to repent.

The spiritual disconnect between birdemic/peck sin and the refusal to repent is too massive to ignore, refute, or dismiss. Christians who continue to ignore, refute, or dismiss the need for such repentance are inevitably on the wrong side and will remain there until the need for repentance is acknowledged.

Note added: This will likely be my last post on the birdemic/peck and repentance. Christians who still don't get it are intentionally refusing to "get it", and there's not much that can be done about that.

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No Cure For Stupidity, Save One

1/25/2023

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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

The quote above is one of Stephen Vizinczey’s most memorable quips, and it rings more true today than it did decades ago. Vizinczey’s observation directly challenges the progressive sacred cow trumpeting education as the miracle solution for all idiocy, particularly for behavior lacking good sense or judgment. The insight requires no explanation or elaboration; its truth is on display everywhere. Positively fortified stupidity via education is the engine of the world’s modus operandi.

With that in mind, it is worth noting that Vizinczey was an even-tempered atheist. Thus, his perspective on stupidity and education is limited because it fails to consider the spiritual. He confines stupidity to the material realm, within which learning can offer no cure. A rather bleak prognosis, to say the least.

Stupidity takes on a different quality once the primacy of the spiritual is acknowledged. On the one hand, all sin is stupidity. On the other hand, not all stupidity is sin.

The Christian perspective includes possibilities and opportunities for spiritual learning and offers a cure for the stupidity that is sin.

Christ redeems sinners and forgives virtually every single stupid thought and action that opposes God and Creation, but only if sin -- the reality of that particular and curable form of stupidity -- is acknowledged and repented as sin and not merely as sinless stupidity.

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Latest New World Island Audio is Up

1/25/2023

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