Speaking Forcefully and Carrying an Even Bigger Stick

7/15/2021

I had a hunch that Delta Force was coming, but I hadn't anticipated that it would appear this quickly.

Oddly enough, what the French are currently up against is already old news in Hungary where discrimination against the unpecked had been official government policy for the better part of a month. That policy has been suspended here for the time being, but I'm sure it will make a comeback soon.

Anyway, the latest developments in France have made it clear that the Establishment are looking to ramp up their Big Stick Diplomacy when it comes to the peck.

Up to now, I would say the Establishment had spoken loudly and carried a big stick concerning the peck. The approach got them far, but not far enough.

So they are beginning to speak more forcefully and carry an even bigger stick in the hope that this intensified approach will get them even further - perhaps as far as their stated objective of pecking every individual in the world because, you know, none are safe until all are safe.

Today it could entail being locked out of pleasures, recreations, and amusements. Tomorrow it might involve being barred from "necessities" like employment, health care, public transport, banking, etc.

And if that isn't enough, then you count on the Establishment speaking more forcefully and carrying an even bigger stick . . .

I'm no fortune teller, but I get the sense that we are nearing an inflection point.

Remain on the right side if or when the inflection point hits - especially if you find yourself asking, "Why not?"

8 Comments

Hari Seldon

7/16/2021 04:55:31

We do seem to be approaching an inflection point. The pressure in the US to get the injection is relentless. Virtually everyone I know has already received the injection a while ago and I am no longer being badgered about it. But the pro-vax rhetoric and demonization of the "unclean" in public discourse continues at full blast, and indeed seems to be intensifying. Many people in my circle or one degree removed are also being coerced to take it by their employers (and in one case, by her school).

At the same time, and without getting into details, the evidence is rapidly emerging that the injections don't work very well. This is going to become increasingly difficult to hide in the US in the coming weeks, I think. Team Birdemic will therefore be faced with a choice of admitting said fact, or scapegoating the "unclean" for the failure of the injections. It's not hard to guess which option they will choose.

For me, the hardest part of this isn't saying no to the injections - I simply cannot imagine taking the peck under any realistic amount of coercion (physical force or deprivation of life-saving healthcare might do it) - but rather suppressing my feelings of contempt and vengeful hatred for the people who are forcing this experimental treatment upon us, the people who are lying about it, and perhaps most of all, the great mass of people who are mutely going along with this evil in a kind of trance and who react with puzzlement and disdain when I express concerns about where this is all going.

The temptation to indulge in spiteful and unchristian feelings towards those people is frequently overwhelming, I must admit.

Francis Berger

7/16/2021 20:18:47

@ Hari - "The temptation to indulge in spiteful and unchristian feelings towards those people is frequently overwhelming, I must admit."

You've touched on something very important here. The temptation is strong one. On the other hand, there's also the trap of passive tolerance, which many Christians appear to have adopted. Neither approach is good.

For me, evil is rooted in freedom. As such, I think we have to accept that people are free to make wrong choices. By the same token, we are free to make right choices and/or repent when we cannot.

I find myself thinking about loving your enemies quite a bit these days. Many Christians interpret this as openly tolerating everything and submitting to everything your enemy does. I don't see it that way.

Wm Jas Tychonievich once noted that the injunction to love your enemies establishes that we do indeed have enemies; more specifically, people and forces who are working against God and Creation and who are also working to harm and damn us.

With this in mind, we would be fools and sinners to love our enemies in the same way we love our trusted family, friends, and God. No, loving one's enemies must include acknowledgement and resistance, but this acknowledgement and resistance must not sink down to the enemy's level of lies, manipulations, and dishonesty.

7/16/2021 23:30:03

I agree entirely. Of course, part of the difficulty is that some of "those people" who are acquiescing to this evil *are* my own (once-) trusted family and friends! Well, maybe not so trusted anymore. Naturally I don't hate them, but it is hard to see them in quite the same light as before.

Jana Gatien

7/16/2021 22:23:54

Hate is underrated and misunderstood. If we are aligned (or trying to align) w God's aims and good principles, we will likely hate the same things God does. These things are things though, not souls. Such things largely entail behaviors, orientations (against Him/Creation) and ideas.

The original etymology of "hate" meant: anger and sorrow arising from great care. We all feel it, this long-buried sentiment that lost its proper articulation. One can't love and have great affinity for someone/thing unless they are on the same odometer that registers aversion and dissonance (aka hate). I don't think hate needs to be thrown out. In fact, to throw it out, demonize or avoid it means one is off the scale, into inauthenticity, where they can no longer gauge the goodness, true-ness of a thing.

The woke Retardia that HATES hate doesn't want us to hate evil. But I think that the more attuned one is to God, the more one will naturally find the dystopia abhorrent. They will HATE it because they care about God's aims and about the souls suckered into acting like retards in Retardia, thereby squandering their chance for immortal life. (Seriously, they run like lemmings to their own damnation. I hate it.)

7/16/2021 22:54:45

@ Jana - Good points. It's true. As is the case with so many other words and concepts, the meaning of hatred in the modern world has become hazy and imprecise.

Thus, in our leftist, materialist, atheist world, hatred is regarded both the gravest of sins and the highest of virtues. A typical modern is deeply concerned with and repulsed by those who "hate" the atheistic, materialist world. At the same time, they relish in hating those who "hate" and are considered virtuous if they do so.

I get the sense that hate becomes a poison the moment one begins to take pleasure in it. The hallmark of leftist, atheist, materialist hatred is the pleasure it instills in the hater. Hence, a real "hater" is an individual who "loves" to hate.

I think it's acceptable for Christians to hate things that are opposed to God and Creation, but Christians should derive no pleasure or satisfaction from this hatred because that essentially plays into the enemy's hands. Put another way, unlike our enemy, we should not make a virtue of hatred or "love" our hatred of evil, but instead use it to guide us ever closer to God's aims.

7/17/2021 09:53:12

@ Hari - "part of the difficulty is that some of "those people" who are acquiescing to this evil *are* my own (once-) trusted family and friends!"

This is indeed difficult. I am in a similar situation myself. I think many people are.

Dr. Charlton often refers to spiritual learning, and it would appear that your point about family and friends is a big part of this spiritual learning, particularly after things have essentially come to a point.

If things coming to a point has taught me anything, it is this - first things must come first regardless of the difficulty or disappointment this entails.

Having said that, we must have faith and hope in the reality of God arranging things in a way that offers the potential for good choices in every individual life. Some among those we love may decide to choose differently in the near future - and they may do so partly due to our influence. Nevertheless, in the end, it's solely up to them.

7/20/2021 03:25:54

Great point about not taking pleasure in hatred, which admittedly, I may do on occasion when dealing w bone-heads. But generally, the dissonance or aversion is about as pleasurable as a heinous sound or putrid smell, etc.--sickening, deathly & dissonant. I think that, much like judgment, hate arises naturally as part of an innate & divinely-affiliated GPS. Plus, I'm also leary of anything the leftists demonize ad infinitum, as they do with hate. It means there must be some legitimacy/right purpose to hate. The demonization of hate is about making evil equal (and ultimately superior) to good and about shutting down spiritual discernment between the two.

7/20/2021 07:52:42

@ Jana - "The demonization of hate is about making evil equal (and ultimately superior) to good and about shutting down spiritual discernment between the two."

Yes - that's a good example of the inversion involved. As I said before, it is certainly not evil or sinful to hate that which is opposed to God. Most Christians don't seem to understand and go out of their way to be nice to and accommodate evil, as if such accommodation were some kind of virtue (it isn't; quite the contrary). No, hating evil is fine. Resisting and confronting evil. Both fine. The challenge is not to let our justified hatred of evil lead us into committing or thinking evil (that which leads to sin).

But by evil, I am talking about REAL evil, not leftist notions of evil. All leftists would interpret Jesus's cleansing of the temple as evil (He used violence; He damaged private property; He interfered with business; He disturbed the peace; He was intolerant, etc). But any Christian worth his or her salt knows Jesus's cleansing of the temple was neither sinful nor evil.

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