The Rot in Mainstream Religion

Posted on August 21, 2018 by ehurst

One symptom of the Curse of the Fall is our natural tendency to trust charisma over moral truth.

God works through His Creation. Indeed, Creation — Reality — is imbued with His moral character. In terms of human experience, there is no practical difference between saying that God blessed or cursed something/someone versus Creation itself responding characteristically to how we obey the teachings of Christ. Miracles are built into Creation. The only way you’ll know for sure that God went out of His way to do something special for you is to know it by conviction. There is no formula for discerning it mentally.

An element in God’s moral character and divine justice is living in feudal relations. We are hard-wired for it. Our fallen nature generally resists moral truth, so we fidget and fuss about feudalism; it doesn’t make logical sense to us. But it is moral truth, revealed from God. So no matter how we structure systems to avoid feudalism, everything in our unconscious nature pulls us back into it.

And because we do have such extensive systems to militate against feudal relations, we end up doing a very poor job of picking our leaders. Instead of trusting God and His plans for selection, we create elaborate guards against it and deceive ourselves that we are using logic, when our native fallen nature betrays us. We end up choosing leaders merely on the basis of charisma, or we end up with leaders who seize control by gaming the system. Sometimes it’s a mixture of both, but by no means do we end up with genuine moral shepherds appointed by God.

Nowhere do we see this more painfully acted out than we do in evangelical organized religion. I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone did a study and found that the best we can hope for is that one in five religious leader is deeply involved in sexual immorality that will harm the shalom of the operation. And of that same five, something between two and three of them are involved in financial shenanigans. Finally, virtually all of them suffer somewhat from power-tripping.

Paradoxically, when the foundation of leadership is social charisma and/or manipulative talent, you end up with a leader drawing the highest moral expectations. In other words, the people they lead is convinced they are a saint when they are more likely to be the Devil. Even when the leader strives mightily to live up to that standard, such a system actually throws far stronger temptations at them than God ever intended shepherds to face. A proper feudal system is inherently less tempting.

Of course, it would require a major shift in cultural expectations and social mythology. Western feudalism is what we have, though highly disguised. It’s based on property instead of people; our pretense of democratic institutions is quite worldly and materialistic. Thus, it breeds a very bad feudalism. It creates an idolatrous system that puts the leaders in an impossible situation of pretending to promote godly morals, but they are morals with very little connection to genuine divine moral truth. Instead, the system upholds impossible morals.

Because of God’s wrath on America, we are seeing even now a rash of scandals in religious leadership like we’ve never seen before. And it’s only going to get worse.

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Bike Upgrade Part 1

Posted on August 20, 2018 by ehurst

Sorry I didn’t post earlier in the day, but I’ve been getting this done in the midst of a lot of other obligations. I’m never busy with anything until I’m busy with everything.

Right in the middle of doing this job, my chain tool broke and I couldn’t get it all back together until I got a new one. And a new one was downtown OKC, having to wind our way past a huge construction mess where the bike shop was. So we got back home and I got the chain back on the bike. Then I had to change the routing, so I had to take it back off and put it on differently. Then I had to adjust the cable tension to match the indexing. And then I discovered that the cassette was worn on the two gears I use most.

So I’m waiting until an expected windfall arrives and I’m going to blow about $100 all at once on new parts: cassette, chain and shifters. And they will all match the new standard with Deore parts and 3×9 speed. And if I can still afford it, someday I’m going to get a Deore crankset (pedals and hanger bearings).

Gotta take care of my car, you know?

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Bits and Pieces 34

Posted on August 19, 2018 by ehurst

1. I haven’t ridden my bike much in the past week or so. Of course, it’s been raining a lot here in Central Oklahoma. But the real issue is the rear derailer is plum wore out. For you fans of bike hardware, it’s an Acera, just a grade or two above junk. I’ve had this bike now just over two years. In the past couple of months that rear derailer has gotten progressively sloppy and floppy in the joints, so that it balks shifting in both directions.

I’ve ordered a replacement, an upgrade to Deore (RD-M531). I got a matching part for the front derailer (FD-M531). These are older products still new in the box. I’m told using a pair of 3×9 derailers will work fine with 3×8 shifters, since the indexing is in the shifters, and range of movement is the same for both. A 3×9 is simply one extra gear in the same space, requiring a tighter index on just the rear.

Should I decide the shifters aren’t good enough later on, it’s easy to switch the whole thing over to 3×9 by changing the chain and cassette along with the shifters. Those older Deore parts are still available as obsolete inventory from lots of dealers.

2. This is not the Covenant of Ed. Yes, I have very strong views on most things I write, but one of those strong views is that what’s right for me may not work for you. What makes me your elder is your voluntary association, not some imaginary status as a great man of God. Your membership in our virtual parish is your choice to tolerate my blather.

I’ll be 62 years old next month; I won’t live forever. Somewhere down the line, if this thing continues on its own, somebody else is going to have to write something under the name Radix Fidem. This is to serve notice you can start any time now. Whatever you write need not meet my personal approval; it does have to pass the smell test of those you seek to inform and guide. That’s what it means to have a heart-led audience.

3. One of things that still makes me shake my head is how mainstream churches act as if their leaders aren’t supposed to be human. This crazy notion that leadership somehow has to be superhuman is what’s killing organized religion.

It’s very hard to disentangle the mess Westerners have made of Christian religion. It’s not enough that all the fundamentals are ignored — feudal covenant community of faith with a split leadership of elders and priests — but this thing of how they treat pastors is just damned nutty.

On the one hand, leadership is supposed to be person oriented in the sense of following the man as a mere human. On the other hand, what holds you all together as a community is the ineffable faith. Most Western churches are held together by the leader who is presumed to be especially holy, and his adoration still rests on legalistic application of what was meant to be a mystical faith.

They’ve lost sight of what this whole thing is about: The church is first and foremost an outpost of the Heavenly Kingdom. Our focus is supposed to be otherworldly, so we can afford some wobble and approximation in application. What we must do is hold together in love and grace, not build barbedwire fences around ideas. The heart of conviction is what measures whether fellowship is possible, not the intellect.

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Teachings of Jesus — Matthew 21:33-46

Posted on August 18, 2018 by ehurst

The situation continues from the previous lesson. Jesus is dealing with Jewish officials in the Temple grounds and they have questioned His authority. He told them it was the same authority as John the Baptist. He gave them the parable about a vineyard owner and his two sons. The meaning was obvious to them. Here Jesus offers another parable with similar symbols they understood quite well.

This time the vineyard owner leased his property to someone while he went off to a distant land. From this far country he sent servants to collect his share of the harvest. They beat one, murdered another and stoned a third. Every servant the owner sent was treated in a similar fashion. The tenants acted like they owned the vineyard and refused to honor their terms of lease. Finally the owner sent his son, thinking they would surely treat him as they would the owner himself.

Perhaps that was true, but not in the sense the owner had in mind. They realized this was their chance to seize the son’s inheritance. They grabbed the heir, threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Jesus asked these officials what they imagined the owner would do when he finally returned himself. Obviously, he would take vengeance on the tenants and find someone else to manage the vineyard more honestly.

Jesus then quotes Psalm 118:22-23 regarding the stone that the builders felt wasn’t solid enough for their work. Yet this same stone God chose as the very founding cornerstone for His building. This refers to the practice of building on sloped ground, where a massive quarried stone is set as the base corner, and all the other foundation stones rested against this to prevent shifting on the slope. Obviously this cornerstone had to be massively heavy and without any cracks. This passage was long recognized as a reference to the Messiah, but the rabbinical scholars never imagined themselves as the builders who would reject Him.

But that was obviously what Jesus was saying. He was the Messiah and they had already rejected Him. Like the vineyard tenants in the parable, they were going to deny Him His inheritance and kill Him, but the Father would still make Him the cornerstone of the Kingdom He was building. They would be cast out and destroyed, and the vineyard would be turned over to those who were faithful to God’s intentions, a new nation that would bear the fruit God had demanded long ago.

Jesus noted that it’s one thing to wander along through life with no clue where you are going, and stumble over this cornerstone of the Kingdom. You’ll fall, be broken, but you can be remade into something God can use. But those who spitefully resist God’s truth are willfully pulling that stone down upon their own heads — it will pulverize them, never to rise again.

Yes, they knew He was talking about them as the ones who were courting God’s wrath, and so did the crowd gathered around them. But the officials would not dare to arrest Him, because it would cause a riot. This was a much larger group than usual, including a great many visitors from out of town.

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The Mission: Restoring Heritage

Posted on August 18, 2018 by ehurst

What are we actually doing with Radix Fidem?

We could characterize it in many ways, but one thing we cannot say is that we are “trying to get folks saved.” I’ve tried to explain in the past how we as humans have nothing to do with that. Scripture makes clear that spiritual birth is entirely in the hands of God, and the fancy theological term for this doctrine is “mongergism.” There is no synergism between us and God when it comes to spiritual birth until after the fact. Scripture says we are chosen before we are ever born.

Yet this business of trying to get folks born-again has been the primary objective of evangelical religion in the US since the beginning. This is chasing the wrong objective according to Scripture. The Bible makes a big deal of that feudal covenant nation business. Since Israel refused to be that, Christ opened it up to all humanity. And instead of a political nation, we are meant to be a virtual nation. It was always the Covenant, not DNA, that made Israel what God said she should be. And in Christ, it is still the Covenant in His Blood that makes His heavenly Kingdom what it should be.

So whatever it is we might do toward spiritual birth has to come through this matter of joining the Covenant of Christ. But it’s still a feudal covenant that binds together a nation. It’s still a matter of obeying the Law of Christ. All the complaints about how “the Law” has failed in the New Testament were complaints about the fake law, the Talmud, the so-called Jewish oral law based on human reason. The real Law of God from the beginning was a covenant feudal relationship, a mystical thing, and that has not changed.

Thus, we say that Christ is the Living Law of God, the revelation as a Person, the sum total of all Biblical Law. It’s alive, it is Christ, it is the gospel message.

Yet, it is hardly a mere matter of binding believers under Biblical Law as Western thinking might have it. A critical element in understanding what Biblical Law means is the blessing of shalom that is an integral part of it. Thus, it’s just as accurate to say that we are setting people free from the clutches of Satan so that they can enjoy their divine privileges.

Once again, Satan is not God’s enemy; he is our enemy. He is also an obedient servant of God, the jailer and lictor of our Heavenly Father. Lucifer is the left hand of God, His agent of wrath. It has nothing to do with whether you are spiritually born; it’s a matter of how you live in this world. If you walk in the Father’s ways, you have the blessings of shalom. If you fall short of that blessing, then Satan is consuming your share of shalom. The issue for us is seeking to increase the share of shalom God’s people can win back from Satan.

Thus, we seek to restore the inheritance of God’s children. We are trying to get folks through the Flaming Sword and back into Eden. We present the truth of that Flaming Sword of divine revelation — Biblical Law, Christ, the gospel — so that folks can gain entrance to their heritage of faith.

If it should be that someone we work with isn’t spirit-born, that’s not our problem. They can’t inherit something that isn’t theirs. We can do nothing about that either way, but what little we can do is get people lined up with Biblical Law just in case they belong inside Eden. The actual requirements of all this will naturally exclude someone who doesn’t belong. There’s no way to fake it when you confront that Flaming Sword. So whether or not they genuinely belong isn’t a matter for us to consider; God will separate out His own and doesn’t want us messing with that.

Thus, we are quite fundamentally different from all other American Christian religions. Yes, Catholic and Orthodox are also different, but they aren’t American; they are simply in America doing their thing. We have no part in their thing, either. But the bulk of Christian religion as it developed here is fundamentally bogus for us. We aren’t trying to “get people saved.”

What we do is restore the heritage of the Children of Light.

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Babylon Disguised

Posted on August 17, 2018 by ehurst

An offline query triggered a train of thought, suggesting I need to explain something a little further.

We know that Satan tricked us into getting ourselves kicked out of Eden. He convinced us that we could trust our own senses and reason to handle Creation. Instead, that choice placed a barrier between us and Creation, and forced into a mortal physical existence. Now we are bound by time and space, quite unlike our existence before the Fall. The only thing that changed was human nature; Creation remains just as before. Except now it lacks our guidance, so it seems chaotic, and in our moral blindness we have treated it badly.

Satan profits from our deception. He would naturally build up systems that keep us enslaved to his lies. It won’t matter whether we slavishly wallow in our lower appetites, or if we invest our trust in great logical order, or some combination of both. As long as we don’t anchor our conscious awareness in the heart and walk by faith, he’s got us. He consumes all our shalom for himself, as it were.

That’s his job. Our job is to restore the primacy of the heart and commit ourselves unreservedly to the revelation, the Covenant of Jesus Christ, the feudal Biblical Law. Once we restore ourselves to that truth, the glory of God shines through our shalom. He speaks through that glory to the rest of mankind, making them culpable for following our example of faith.

We care about Eden, not this world. This world is slated for destruction, and there’s not a damned thing any human can do to change the schedule, nor the outcome of That Day. What we can do is restore divine justice in our own lives to bring Him glory.

Over the centuries since our expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Satan has established several major deceptions to keep us under his thumb and away from the Flaming Sword. There are themes we can discern. If you understand the Tower of Babel narrative, then you can see how the pattern repeats throughout history. Make people materialistic, worried about living long in this material world and worried about conquering and controlling the situation so that they can defeat death. It’s a lie; it cannot possibly work that way. Nothing accomplished in this world matters. But the obsession of Babylon is to gain control over humanity and the human context.

Again, it cannot work and the Devil keeps doing this until God says it’s time for a reset so the whole thing can be started over again. It’s an act of mercy, because letting humanity go on and on in the wrong direction takes them away from God’s revelation. So the occasional collapse of a civilization helps remind folks Who is really in charge.

Right now, the big lie of Babylon has been divided into two camps. Both are equally evil, but it’s a different flavor of evil so that it can attract the majority of humanity, a sort of “something for everyone.” Now that the time is ripe for another round of destruction, God has decreed that one will go down first, then the other. He has appointed Trump as His scourge to destroy the globalists.

As a part of his strategy, Trump has chosen to take advantage of the Internet and cultivate a cult following among the growing population of nerds (notice that “cult” and “cultivate” have the same etymology). Please understand that Trump is part figurehead, in some ways manipulated by unseen influences using his charisma for their agenda.

Part of their game is to stir up a little conspiracy theory. It works because there are very real conspiracies, but it’s far more entertaining to add a bunch of extra drama. His opponents comprise a very real conspiracy, and they believe some godawful nonsense about themselves as somewhere above the rest of the human race. Trump’s Zionist backers also believe the same thing about themselves, but it’s just slightly less bizarre than what the globalists believe.

Because the globalists tend to make things happen to bolster their assurance of their superiority and their wild plot to rule the world, it should surprise no one that any attempt to dig into their mythology will run into vast layers of cloaking bullshit. Unless you are on the inside, you cannot know what’s nonsense and what is true doctrine. Granted, these people are hideously depraved followers of Satan, but a lot things researchers have seized upon are misleading. In the resulting confusion, the globalist worshipers of the Devil can blow it all off simply because some of the accusations are manifestly false.

It doesn’t help that the researchers offer conflicting versions of the story based on their own personal deceptions. Some of them are in collusion with the globalists to keep it all confused. That way, a whole lot of truth leaks out — it inevitably does — but it’s mixed with nonsense. They aren’t stupid.

Thus, the fans of Trump and Q are insisting on spouting a lot of nonsense. But all this does is deflect attention away from their own secret plots. They use the same tricks to hide their plots — layers of bullshit and hired guns to promote perverted versions of their true agenda.

I’ll grant you it can be a lot of fun watching Trump’s smart tactics ripping apart the globalist conspiracy and exposing all their tricks. It’s hard not to find somewhat endearing the enthusiasm of the nerd herd following all these carefully structured leaks from Q. But you should never lose sight of the end result. When the globalists are out of the way, the military and their “God Emperor” will crush us all under the iron yoke of Zionism. This is still Babylon in another disguise.

Don’t trust them.

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The Care and Feeding of Our Testimony

Posted on August 17, 2018 by ehurst

1. We owe it to Christ to be ready to answer questions in the sense of explaining how our faith works. We should not hesitate to talk about being Christian Mystics and what that means. Even if you aren’t eloquent about it, you should take the time to prepare some kind of answer about your faith.

I noted in yesterday’s post how helpful it is to, in Jay’s words, get used to being thought of as a loon among nonbelievers. You don’t have to justify your faith, just be ready to talk about how it steers your actions.

Among those who also claim to follow Christ, you are not obliged to jump through their hoops, either. Don’t let someone try to back you into a corner as if they were some kind of inquisitor. Your faith is not subject to any man’s tests of orthodoxy. We would prefer to find ways to do this gently, but you shouldn’t fear to use more direct and even harsh words to deal with Pharisees who falsely claim Christ.

2. Anglin’s Daily Stormer was the first to fall to Big Tech’s censorship. Then there were a few more lesser known pariahs who were banned from various services. But with Alex Jones it was far more noticeable, and closer to the mainstream. The case of Jones was outright collusion between multiple services, leaving him no outlet but his own sites. I wonder how long he can keep those, too.

I had hoped that WordPress (WP) would not join in this tragic idiocy; they have stoutly promised not to in the past. But I noted yesterday that someone writing under the nickname Dr. Eowyn lost his/her primary WP blog. They lost their second WP blog the next day. Today it’s someone named Jay Dyer, who actually pays for service.

These victims range across the right-wing spectrum of politics and philosophy. We aren’t a part of their world politically, nor in terms of traffic volume. Dyer’s blog was registering between 3000 and 10,000 visitors daily. They’ve all been told they have broken some rule, but WP refuses to explain to any of their censored clients how they have transgressed the terms of use.

This matters to our virtual parish because there’s no way I can guess when they might shut the door on me. Consider that Jay Dyer was paying WP a whole lot more money than I do. If this blog becomes inaccessible, please check with the forum. You don’t have to join to read the kind of notices we would post there, just bookmark it for now.

3. That forum is not a substitute for a blog. Granted, part of what I’m paying for every year with an email account handled by Google is the option to use their blogging service, Blogger. The fee covers all services offered by Google. But then we have to wonder when Google’s clamp down on their YouTube video service — with a growing number of “conservative” users kicked off or restricted — would extend to Google’s Blogger service. Would we be safe there? For how long?

Pray with us that we can know how to prepare for this virtual war. I’m trying to keep track of this stuff and estimate how it might affect our operations here. To the degree this blog matters to your faith, it’s worth taking it before the Lord.

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Disentangle from This World

Posted on August 16, 2018 by ehurst

The only thing you can trust are the convictions in your heart.

We should never be surprised when fools act foolish. You should have no reason at all to expect them to ever do anything else. It should never shock you just how awful they can be. All the more so when you realize that your shock and dismay is one of their primary weapons. Your greatest defense in the face of their attack is aplomb.

The fallen realm is a lie. It is the curse of blindness that comes from trusting reason and senses. These people live in a false reality, a world of their own making. They make up a wild story about how their viewpoint is hard-edged reality. They want to debate only so they can steal away your sense of mission and calling from God. They want to drag you back into the prison of lies, the dominion of Satan.

Do you understand that I am talking about most of the world around you? The majority of the US is blind to the truth and on their way to Hell. Debate is not an evangelistic technique, except perhaps for them. When you agree to debate, you have already surrendered the ground of faith.

We are going to face a constant barrage of accusations about being nuts, living in our own little world. What they do not understand is that your “own little world” is more valid than their mythological “objective reality.” Don’t fall for the propaganda. Don’t meet them on their own turf. Do invade their world with your truth, with the shalom of God’s revelation. But realize that they are seeing something in their world that you reject. Their brains are wired for delusion.

The only Truth in this life is your mission and calling from God. That is the foundation of all your assumptions about what you experience. It is just you and the Lord together living His truth. We touch a tree and know it lives; we can feel the tingle of the Creator’s love in that contact. We can hear the song of praise in the leaves. The grass and flowers at your feet sing their own unique songs of joy, celebrating that your heart is alive and recognizes their personhood. The fools around us cannot perceive any of this.

Granted, some few of you are called by God and endowed with the mental weapons to engage them with their own logic. I assure you, it’s not a privilege. It’s a nasty job wallowing in that crap. When that’s the case, you use their logic against them to eviscerate their positions. You aren’t showing that faith is reasonable, but that it doesn’t have to meet their tests of reason. Your mission is to explain in terms they might be able to understand.

But most of you have no reason to mess with it. Say nothing unless you have a talent from God for expressing things. Mostly it’s a matter of simply living your faith and dismissing their concerns. “Sorry, but I don’t live by your rules. I don’t care how you feel about it.” You aren’t required to listen when they insist that our Savior is a delusion; they are the ones who cannot see. Just smile and shake it off. The same goes if they hold to a different brand of cerebral religion.

At the same time, you will insist on caring about what really matters for their welfare as the Bible defines it. You’ll pray for them and bless them according to your own mission and calling. You’ll do what’s right merely because it’s right. Faith and obedience to Christ is its own reward.

We are Christian Mystics and no defense of truth is necessary.

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Just a Silly Story 01

Posted on August 15, 2018 by ehurst

Story time, folks! Hey, it might even be partly true, for all I know. I’m retelling the story I got from someone else. It’s almost like a dime-store spy comic book.

Remember Edward Snowden? He worked for the CIA first. He was a globalist. Then he eventually quit and and went to work for a contractor, which in turn sent him to the NSA. Except, he was still a globalist and still working for the CIA undercover. Keep in mind that the NSA is generally friendly with the military and imperialists, and more or less unfriendly with the CIA and globalists.

Now, the NSA is a specialist agency commissioned to snoop on communications. Snowden’s leaks revealed what kind of snooping they could do. While many rejoiced at the leaks, the real intent was to make sure his fellow globalists in government knew how to avoid the eavesdropping of the NSA.

So enter Google, which was born from CIA money. Apparently the executives at Google are still very loyal globalists. They placed some of their servers in North Korea, and then shielded them with their own highest internal security clearances. Next, they invited their globalist allies in government (Obama Administration officials) to grab some accounts on that server. They were shared accounts. The idea was to let one user type up a message and leave it in the “Drafts” folder. Then another user could log in and read the message, respond, delete, etc. As long as nothing ever got sent, the NSA weren’t supposed to be able to snoop on it.

Some of the messages had to do with globalist officials colluding to keep track of things like ICE raids that were scheduled in advance. Also the movements of the Border Patrol. That way they could then make sure their minions in the child trafficking business could know when and where to cross our southern border to bring in fresh meat for the filthy appetites of the globalist community.

But that was just a sample. All their nefarious plotting was carried out on this Google mail server in North Korea, including assassinations. Do you suppose that might have something to do with their desperate desire to go to war with North Korea, once our current president took office? If POTUS becomes friends with North Korea, he might get easier access to that server.

Oops; it looks like he did. Do you reckon he might be collecting this evidence so he can put some of his opponents in jail? Tune in next time; we’ll see if any of this connects with the facts. I can’t predict when the next episode will appear, but I can assure you this is not the end.

Color me skeptical, but it was just too entertaining to keep from you.

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Just got word late last night that WordPress shut down the blog of a right-wing commentator for “violating terms of service.” This is the first I’ve heard of WordPress doing something like that. I hope it doesn’t signal the start of a trend on this platform, as plenty of big tech outfits are globalist allies. The current campaign to silence anyone who opposes the globalist agenda could affect us on this blog, even though we belong to neither side in this conflict.

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Ubuntu 18.04 Hibernate and Suspend Fix

Posted on August 14, 2018 by ehurst

This tutorial assumes a limited familiarity with using Linux already. Most of this will be performed in a terminal emulator window. I recommend you maximize the window size and open two tabs or terminal windows for this. With one we will query the system, and the other we will use to edit files.

The portions of text in code blocks below are what you type or paste into either the commandline queries or the editor. The simplest way to handle this is using mouse-paste feature on Linux. Highlight the text you need by dragging your mouse across it; this puts it into the mouse buffer. At the appropriate place, point your mouse and click the middle mouse button to paste it into the terminal window (or anywhere else you need to use it).

If you don’t understand the use of ‘sudo’ in Ubuntu Linux, you’ll need to look that up. However, the instructions here should be simple enough that even a complete newbie can get it done.

Part 1

When you issue the command to hibernate, the system takes a snapshot of what’s in your active system RAM and packs into a file. This file is saved to your system swap. When you reboot, the system then checks for this hibernation snapshot, which it reloads if it finds one. We have to tell the system very specifically where to look for it.

1. Determine if your swap is a separate partition or a file in your primary partition.

grep swap /etc/fstab

You’ll most likely see one of two things displayed in response (a or b below).

a. If you see something about “/swapfile” then it’s a swap file on your primary partition. Get the UUID code from your primary partition.

grep UUID /etc/fstab

You’ll see something like this in one of the lines displayed:

UUID=0b3e8d9b-a63e-4bdd-8f47-8a9a764fe7ed /

Be sure to use whatever long code shows up on your system, not this one. That “/” at the end tells you this is your “root” or primary partition.

b. If the initial grep command above returns a line with a long UUID code, then you have a swap partition. Use the UUID code for your swap partition.

2. Modify your grub configuration file to include the UUID code so the system knows where to find your hibernate snapshot. We are going to use the Nano editor:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

When the editor opens, look for a line like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

We are going to append the UUID code to end of this line, but between the quotation marks. First, add a space before that last quotation mark. Then insert your UUID with the format you see here so that it’s all between the quotation marks (use your own UUID):

resume=UUID=0b3e8d9b-a63e-4bdd-8f47-8a9a764fe7ed

The line should resemble this (all on one line):

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=09e601cd-5bac-491a-9115-fda1b2eb4664"

This tells the system where to check for the presence of a hibernation snapshot file.

3. If your swap is a partition (1b above), then you are done. Save the file using the commands at the bottom of the editor window (CTRL+O and CTRL+X).

If your swap is a file (1a above), then you need to determine an additional “resume_offset” parameter and add it to that to that same line in your grub config.

sudo filefrag -v /swapfile

You should get something that looks like this:

ext:     logical_offset:        physical_offset: length:   expected: flags:
   0:        0..   32767:      34816..     67583:  32768:            
   1:    32768..   63487:      67584..     98303:  30720:            
   2:    63488..   96255:     100352..    133119:  32768:      98304:
   3:    96256..  126975:     133120..    163839:  30720:   
etc...

You want the first number, in the first line that’s under the ‘physical_offset’ heading (in this case ‘34816’). Append this to your grub config on the same line where you added the UUID:

resume_offset=34816

The line should resemble this (all on one line):

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=09e601cd-5bac-491a-9115-fda1b2eb4664 resume_offset=34816"

Save the file using the commands at the bottom of the editor window (CTRL+O and CTRL+X).

Run sudo update-grub and reboot; after that hibernate should work correctly.

sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

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Part 2

We need to modify the system configuration so that hibernate is offered as an option in your power settings and in the shutdown menu. The next command is all on one line:

sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla

Paste the following lines as they are into the editor window:

[Re-enable hibernate by default in upower]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

[Re-enable hibernate by default in logind]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.handle-hibernate-key;org.freedesktop.login1;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-ignore-inhibit
ResultActive=yes

Save as before and reboot the computer. Now you should see the option in your power settings to use hibernate as a valid option for things like pressing your system power button.

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Part 3

How to disable screenlock: If you find it annoying to have to log back into your system after suspend or hibernate, and you perceive there is no significant security risk of other people messing with your computer, take the following steps.

1. Check settings:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen

2. If it comes back “false” change to “true”.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'true'

3. Check again to be sure:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen

Restore by reversing #2 above to ‘false’. This should work immediately without having to logout or reboot.

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