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Transcend The Totalitarian Edict By The Virtue Of Living Dangerously

4/7/2021

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No one is safe until all are safe.

A week ago I suggested the saying above was the perfect slogan for our current totalitarian circumstances. Today, I'll go a step further and state that "no one is safe until all are safe" is more than a slogan, it's an edict - an official proclamation issued by the totalitarian authorities that have seized control of the material world. 

The sheer brilliance of the edict lies in its incomprehensible absurdity. Despite deceivingly noble declarations to the contrary, no force can ever manifest conditions in which all are safe. Any knee jerk reactionaries that claim God could easily manifest such conditions on earth must immediately stop and ask themselves why He hasn't done so - to say nothing of why He refuses to do so.

The matter is quite simple; God did not create this world and agree to put us in it for us to be safe; He created this world and agreed to put us in it to grant us the opportunity to be saved. 

Salvation is the only safety anyone can hope to find in this world; all other hopes of safety are misguided and delusional. 

But think of the safety salvation offers!

Consider how it pales in comparison to any and all temporal offers of welfare, security, well-being, and protection. Now consider the nature of all current offers of welfare, security, well-being, and protection being extended to us. It doesn't take much imagination to understand that the edict of "none are safe until all are safe" is little more than a prison sentence. The price of the temporal safety being peddled by those aligned against God and creation is the eternal incarceration of your soul.


Replace no one is safe until all are safe with no one is saved until you are saved and you draw a little closer to the underlying reality and purpose of your mortal existence on earth.

Accept the gift of salvation and you will be eternally safe. Moreover, you will be temporally free to explore the virtue of living "dangerously" in this mortal life.

​Freed from the false power of death, you can embark upon the "dangerous" divine-human spiritual path of answering the call of God.


No one is safe until all are safe is an entropic state of non-being. The apparent safety conceals a most grievous danger - spiritual death.

No one is saved until you are saved initiates a negentropic state of being. The apparent danger reveals a most precious safety - spiritual life. 
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Sasha Melnik
4/7/2021 23:29:02

I've found myself coming back to this repeatedly over the last year.

It's been 18 months of transition, legal grey areas (not moral) and required huge patience. A simple example, living and driving without insurance, because the state here is too slow to give me the registration paperwork to get that insurance. I've simply stopped worrying about this now. I'll get it done, at the pace the state dictates. I refuse to stop living (as normally as is possible) under such circumstances.

It goes without saying that I only put a mask on in order to cross the border into shops and restaurants - after all, if I am to be a client I will respect their 'border crossing' demands, but.. Outdoors ? I'll keep the fine money in my front pocket, ready to pay any police that ask for it. I call it the upfront cost of existence. I'll pay it with a smile should the need arise.

Anecdote time: I met an older couple who had been through the system (teacher, firefighter), had retired, and wanted to live traveling through Europe. They had the funds. They had the camper van. They decided against it because no insurance option to cover their desired lifestyle. I've never seen such willful .. stupidity ? cowardice ? I'm unsure what to call it. "Creatures" of the system ? Modernity ? Livestock.

Whatever happened to just paying for your mistakes, with your savings ? The alternative, which I believe is fully insurable, is to sit in a box for the rest of your life.

My ancestors didn't need 'cover' to live, to change country, to build something.

The words in my mind "You are under God's protection, and need fear nothing !"

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Francis Berger
4/8/2021 05:31:09

@ Sasha - Living dangerously will mean different things to different individuals. In my mind, to hold a spiritual mindset and think from this core is already living dangerously.

As for actions in the world, that will depend on individual circumstances and individual motivations. Those opposed to God love to set baited hooks, sow the seeds of conflict, and provoke passionate reactions. Having said that, there is no doubt that the world today is populated mostly by cowards and slaves. It seems modern people will put up with almost any absurdity and humiliation as long as it promises to keep them safe.

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Michelle
4/8/2021 02:54:22

The pro-life movement should hijack the "none are safe until all are safe". The global totalitarians would drop the phrase quickly enough.

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Francis Berger
4/8/2021 05:34:20

@ Michelle - Yes, I had a similar thought a while back about vaccines and "my body, my choice."

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