1. Is it possible to rebuild a biblical culture on the earth?
I wonder how many of you were aware that is precisely what I’ve been trying to do for the past 20 years of my life. We can talk about it in other terms, but I’ve been seeking to restore a biblical outlook. Of course, I’m not aping the ancient Hebrew people. I’ve been diligent to rightly divide the Word of God and to teach others how to do that for themselves, to cut down to the bone and recognize what is truly essential to such a culture for the part of the world where I live. We need the Word to sift the commitments of our hearts.
Yes, I would love to see a society arise, a people apart from the world, who resolutely refuse to assimilate into the local worldly context. Oddly enough, we could take some cues from Jews on that. We need to find that balance point between understanding the ambient society, but refusing to engage in their idolatries.
2. Through personal sources I have learned that a group of Americans were in Mexico a couple of weeks ago and the whole group came down with some kind of respiratory ailment. The local clinic diagnosed it as Delta variant of the COVID. However, one of the group was a physician from Las Vegas. He went home to his clinic and submitted samples for a lab test. It came back as a peculiar strain of gonorrhea that was not transmitted sexually, but like a common cold from micro-drops in the air. It infects the eyes, ears, nose and throat.
When the other members of the group found out and started treating themselves according to the doctor’s advice, everyone got better very quickly. While not conclusive proof, this serves to indicate that the so-called Delta variant is even more of a fraud than the initial pandemic was.
3. There’s only one way any empire could ever take and hold Afghanistan: colonize. It’s not enough to send troops. It requires creating a society with a culture and economy that eclipses whatever has been happening there for centuries. What the US military supported there was corrupt, to include actually promoting the heroine industry. The Afghan army that we built up outnumbered the Taliban and had much better equipment, but no will to fight for corrupt goons.
To be sure, the Taliban will stop the heroine trade again, as they did back the first time they took over. They’ll also stop the sex-boy trade that nobody wants to talk about in the MSM. You won’t get the real story of how things turn out in the future.
That’s the thing with colonizing, too: if it’s ever done right, you won’t hear about it in the MSM, or it will be misreported if people start really noticing it. It’s almost like you need to get rid of journalism to make anything right these days. I don’t think that’s entirely true but it sure “feels” like it.