God is in the business of uncovering the truth — AKA revelation.
Several times in several different places in Scripture this principle is flatly stated. How about, “There is nothing hidden which will not be brought into the light.” The context is Luke 8:16-18, where Jesus warns the ultimate truth of things is only hidden because people turn from the light. If you are willing to turn the Sword of Truth on your own soul first, you are permitted to wield it against the lies of this Shadow Realm in which we exist. In other places Jesus tells us transparency is the starting point for attacking lies. Not moral perfection, simply holding a desire to be open and honest is enough.
I’ve long been compromised; I have no cover in the virtual world or in the real world. For example, because I once enlisted in the military, and now use the Veterans Administration medical system, I have no privacy from the government. The lowest flunky bureaucrat in any government agency in the US could access my whole life in minutes. The paper trail is pretty fat.
Oddly enough, the advertisers seem completely fooled about what sort of man I am, in terms of spending habits. They continue to list me as individually earning $60K annually. Wouldn’t that be nice? (It’s more like $10K.) Check with services like Spokeo or other advertising sleuths; they have only the vaguest idea what part of the country I live in, or to whom I am related. Yet, if they used means other than my virtual online trail, they’d know better.
It really depends on what you want to know and how you go about it, but honestly, I’m wide open if you bother to ask. I try to walk my talk.
I am driven by a divine calling to share what God has given me. Lunacy that may be, but it’s the honest truth of how I operate. When you have the urge to show something to others, you have to tailor things to your audience and the means of communication. You also have to consider the context of why you are doing it. I don’t use selling techniques, such as SEO optimizations, because they aren’t consistent with my calling. For the kinds of things I’m trying to share, the credibility factor includes not using sales promotional techniques. Money isn’t part of the equation. By avoiding any hint of hucksterism, not drawing a large crowd of sycophants or a big contribution budget, I try to make it plain the only thing I have to gain is some hope of giving you the straight dope on whatever it is I write about. Yeah, I calculate a benefit from that.
Part of my calling is bringing attention to the rising Network Civilization, as I call it. This Internet stuff is a great opportunity for me to get more of the peculiar benefits I calculate. A critical element of all this is hoping I can persuade others to make maximum use of transparency on the Network, because that’s the best world we can hope for here in the Shadow Realm. Even if you are using some secretive anonymity as part of the Open Access Guerrilla movement and exposing dark secrets of government oppression to all the world, you still have to consider how to make your revelations credible.
You might have heard something about a company named Mandiant claiming to have traced some hacking back to China, and they specified the Chinese military organization and even have people posting Google Earth images of the building. Mandiant has posted videos on YouTube purporting to show how they watched the hackers do their naughty work. That’s a sales pitch. If you have any technical background at all, maybe you’ll understand some of this counterpoint to Mandiant’s claims in series called “Chinese Hackers and Security Malware Theater” —
The author provides a strong element of credibility for his report.
As with all things in the so-called “Truth Movement” online, it’s not necessary to explain how it really was done, only to debunk the official lies. Most people understand it’s unlikely we’ll ever get the whole story to anything, but if you know what it can’t be, you won’t be herded like a sheeple. In other words, one of the most important truths I can teach anyone is that there is no ultimate truth in this realm in the first place. If you learn to distrust everything you gather through your senses and are skeptical of your own human logic, you are in the right place to hear from God if that’s going to happen at all. At the very least, you’ll be in a better position to make your own decisions or intelligently choose not to decide.
Whatever it is you imagine you want in this life, I’m betting it’s easier to find if you have some justified cynicism and skepticism.
