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The Writing On The Wall; Or, Why I Should Have Been a Bricklayer Even Though It Probably Wouldn't Have Made a Difference

10/10/2021

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I currently hold jobs at two separate universities, both of which are firmly on board with the UN 2030 Global Sustainability Goals agenda. Luckily, I am not on the front lines in terms of promoting the agenda. That is, I am squarely against the agenda and my work does not depend on actively proclaiming allegiance to the agenda, teaching the agenda, or researching the agenda. All the same, the agenda is ubiquitous at both of my places of employment. As such, it is virtually impossible for me to avoid the agenda altogether.

For example, I work primarily as a proofreader and "text manager" at one of the universities, which means I spend hours every week proofreading and revising academic articles that are all inevitably funded by and connected to the agenda. When you consider all the typos and errors I make in blog posts, the very notion that I get paid to proofread is funny in and of itself - but that aside, it is more than a little discomfiting to know that the work I do actually helps advance the agenda in some small way or other. 

My work provides an endless source of repentance. On most days I find myself wishing I were a bricklayer, but then I realize that if I were a bricklayer my work would probably consist of constructing buildings that were also connected to the agenda in some small way or other, be it through "green" innovations or, more directly, by actually working on buildings that would house the agenda pushers - town halls, universities, political office buildings, etc.

The same could be said for practically all professions, which makes me believe that current employment circumstances are a substantial part of the spiritual discernment and learning people alive today must undergo.  

Anyway, this past weekend I taught in-presence classes at one of the universities for the first time in over a year. During the year I had been locked out of the building and forced to conduct online classes, the university somehow found the time and tradesmen required to completely redecorate the campus lecture halls and classrooms. Every educational space on campus is now dedicated to one of the UN 2030 sustainability goals.

I taught in a room dedicated to goal number one - no poverty - and spent the bulk of my time being assaulted by a giant Mahatma Ghandi quote - Poverty is the worst kind of violence - painted on the rear wall. I'm not sure about how Ghandi would feel about his words being incorporated into the global Satanic agenda, but I - for one - can think of many worse forms of violence than poverty.

This line of thinking inevitably led to silent questions regarding the future of my current employment situation, which is itself increasingly becoming a form of violence.

Praise be a little poverty? 
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bruce charlton
10/10/2021 20:55:48

It is a consequence of the global totalitarian coup that complicity with the evil agenda has become essentially inescapable - and those who suppose they are not complicit are almost certain to be deluding themselves (or lying).

The analogy I have used is that we are in the position of slaves who must do whatever evil that their masters command - or else die. Obedience or death are (sooner or later, if things continue) the options. Yet slaves can be, often have been, real Christians.

So for Christians the point is not really not-to-sin, because sin is unavoidable, but to acknowledge and repent our sins.

Also, I think there is a real distinction between sinning oneself, and promoting sin in others.

Managers, bureaucrats, politicians, intellectuals, writers, artists, academics, teachers, doctors, lawyers, advertising and PR people, journalists... these are among those whose inevitable personal sins are often compounded by their encouraging sin in others - which is a far worse matter.

It is this kind of 'amplification' of sin that I think we should strive particularly assiduously to avoid.

Also dishonesty - but if we do lie, then we really need to acknowledge the fact and repent it - and not double down on it by adding further layers of defensive lies.

I've rather drifted from the point! But what I was saying is that we may be compelled to sin in order to live nowadays - but we need to pay close attention to the fact, and not get used to it - not let it become casual or an unconscious habit.

We can also try to keep an eye on the number of sins - to keep them as low as possible; and of course their severity - since otherwise people will become unsensitized to degrees of sinning, and may find themselves doing terrible things.

But it is worth remembering that God does not want us to be guilt-ridden and miserable though our lives - but to be of good cheer and striving. The great thing about real repentance is that it potentially allows us spiritually to be freed from the potentially-disabling burden of guilt.

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Francis Berger
10/10/2021 21:16:56

@ Bruce - Great comment. Very helpful.

"It is a consequence of the global totalitarian coup that complicity with the evil agenda has become essentially inescapable"

That's pretty much it, isn't it?

I think the Christian/slave analogy is a good one, and it certainly applies to most Christians here and now.

I don't feel guilt-ridden or miserable about my circumstances - more annoyed than anything. It would be nice to avoid the global totalitarian evil altogether, but as you say, that is virtually impossible in most, if not all, lines of work.

On the other hand, I do enjoy a great deal of independence in my positions, which means I am able to teach or engage in material and themes of my own choosing most of the time. This means I am able to do "good" some of the time (or believe I am doing good!). At the very least, I am able to avoid the agenda most of the time despite being literally engulfed by it.

In the end, I have a great deal to be thankful for and some things to be positive about.

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Sasha Melnik link
10/11/2021 00:00:17

Being a 'computer/internet technologist' .. invariably my skills are in demand with most private or public bodies involved in one totalitarian/globalist/panopticon type agenda or another. It didn't start that way though, the world changed beneath our feet.

In some sense my work on the aggregator is a way of putting my skills towards the cause. I hope to find more opportunities doing that sort of thing.

Ultimately .. I am making changes where possible, and habituating spiritual acknowledgement and repentance where not.

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Francis Berger
10/11/2021 07:58:08

@ Sasha - Thanks for sharing that. I agree. It doesn't really matter what your work is. Invariably you are connected to the totalitarian agenda in some manner or other (which is the essence of totalitarianism). That's why my bricklayer fantasies ultimately fall short.

Still, what matters most is in the heart, and the ability to resist creatively when needed. And repentance, of course.

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D
10/11/2021 02:31:54

Mr Bricklayer,

Have you any new photos of the your shed. Is it finished?

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Francis Berger
10/11/2021 07:54:54

@ D - Thanks for asking. Not quite done yet, but I should have some photos of my progress up in about a week.

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Michelle
10/12/2021 02:47:26

Interesting that you would call it violence because I've been calling my husband's company's Vax mandate economic violence against him. All because they care don't ya know!

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Francis Berger
10/12/2021 11:28:32

@ Michelle - In my mind, threatening to sever employment over the peck is a definitely a form of violence.

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Jonathan
10/14/2021 15:51:33

This is very interesting, because I constantly see people in the West talk about how they are going to run to places like Hungary to escape the decline and moral corruption of the West. I imagine though that Academia is unfortunately more aligned with Evil than the average.

In general grass is always greener etc etc. I used to think that nobody would fire a plumber for saying that there are only two genders. Now, however, I really have a lot of doubts about it...

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