I’m an arrow in the quiver.
I know what I can do when the time comes, in a general sense. However, I have not yet seen the target, so I have no idea what the specifics might be.
No, there is no rational explanation. But as surely as I live and breathe, I know the parable is accurate: I’m an arrow in the quiver. I’m waiting to be launched, but the battle is not yet begun.
“That depends on whether you want to actually try understanding me, or if you are satisfied with simply characterizing me. From what I’ve seen so far, you’re having enough trouble with the latter.”
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“Let me save you some time. Start with the premise I’m an alien being. Throw away all your types and norms and just wait to see what happens.”
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A: “Shall we add movies to the weird list of stuff you don’t like?”
B: “In the long run, it might be shorter to make a list of ordinary things I do like.”
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A: “Is it because you think she’s the only one who understands you?”
B: “I’m loyal because she’s the only one who signed onto my mission in life. All the others want something else, stuff for which I have no interest.”
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“Don’t trust me. I don’t.”
The Otherworldly Warrior has no real loyalties anywhere in this realm of existence.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I finished with an addenda attesting the one who operates from the Spirit Realm is not necessarily bound under the Laws of God, nor any prophecies based on those Laws. Those Laws may apply at times, but can’t possibly fit every person in all contexts. That’s the way it is with any law, and it applies to any Laws God revealed in any human language. The Laws were all revealed within a specific context, and God reserves the right to direct His servants any way He likes.
That means you may be driven to a course of action which sees you working within a system you despise. Not even so much as an infiltrator, but honestly offering a reasonable commitment on the human level to something simply because it puts where you have to be for truth to have best use of you.
The Otherworldly Warrior isn’t fighting people: they are the victims. He isn’t fighting systems because they are simply a mistaken understanding of reality. He is fighting the lies which keep such things alive. Sometimes that means you have to stand in the middle of that system and prove your point by demonstrating a much higher moral commitment, such that people understand all too well when you have to refuse to do certain things. You aren’t working toward a credibility, but harvesting that credibility because you have no doubt it will grow from your service of truth.
While it’s possible you may have to explain yourself to your associates as crazy or alien, most of the time they’ll recognize the symptoms of a truth-seeker. You don’t have to be annoying or troublesome, as one who puts on a faker persona, but you don’t worry too much either way how you appear to others. On the other hand, you’ll need to be aware of that appearance, because that’s part of truth.
Seldom does anyone completely disrespect a moral conscience. You aren’t likely to encounter too many like that. Even psychopaths, those who work within the system, will grasp how that moves you and will merely test the limits so they’ll know what they can get from you. Truly evil people are either wacko or too busy with more important things than noticing you and I. It’s one of those highly reliable paradoxes. You’ll tend to make friends with a lot of folks who never understand, never quite know what to make of you, because your commitment to truth makes you sometimes who may betray systems, but not people.
It will appear we are fighting deception over the people bound under it. Not so. We are actually fighting deception in ourselves, and people are watching and making their own decisions. Our biggest struggle is breaking our own personal bondage to this false realm, which is why the Christian Mystic avoids entanglement, yet operates with empathy. We are so committed to truth, we’ll pay any price personally to make it shine like the sun.
We have to be ready to follow the call of truth wherever it wants to use us.
For a Christian Mystic, not every question is so easily answered.
I’m one who takes the Bible very seriously as a record of God’s revelation. It’s as much as anyone can really know intellectually about God, and all we are going to know in a written form. Yet I am not a literalist as the mainstream Christians tend to be here in the West, largely because those who wrote the Scriptures were not literalists themselves. Still, I hold myself accountable to the Bible in seeking to ensure I know what the authors tried to tell us.
There are contexts and situations not addressed in Scripture. Those are reserved for the utter necessity of communing with God personally. With all my blather about God’s Laws and how so much can be known on the level of human intellect, there are some things left up in the air, in the sense you have to make your own decision based on all the factors of which you may be aware.
I’ve said the Laws clearly state you are justified in resisting evil, even with deadly force in some situations. From the spiritual side of things, it may be still wrong, but if you lack any strong spiritual sense, the Laws do permit armed resistance in some contexts. Even where I claim to be a prophet, writing a warning from God about some particular thing, I remain aware it simply may not apply to you. Don’t expect an easy answer from me on some things.
Perhaps you are aware of some of the wickedness in our US government of late, or the various state and local agencies. These are bad times, and it won’t be brief. My instinct is to avoid contact with any government agent, or to flee to some safer haven. Right now, there’s no safer place than where I am, so it’s mostly a matter of staying out of the government’s focus. That’s getting harder and harder.
A judge ruled a portion of the NDAA 2012 unconstitutional, the portion referring to indefinite detention by military forces without warrant or any other particular reason. Over the past couple of days, the House of Representatives has reaffirmed that provision against the judge’s decision. In essence, our representatives have said the military can simply walk in and confiscate anything they please, and kidnap anyone they please, at any time and under any conditions, and not have to explain it to anyone for quite some time.
We’ve seen where the military has done similar things in other countries. Too often it’s been the most depraved and senseless acts against people who were wholly innocent of any wrong against the military. Our government wants to bring that home. Wait, they already have — protesters in Chicago were “disappeared” the other day. The Chicago PD without warrant invaded a residence and arrested about nine organizers, and denied even having them in custody. A bunch of lawyers went looking for them, bugging the PD and were stonewalled completely. After they finally found the protesters, the PD did allow them to meet, but refused to perform any of the lawfully required accountability actions. In other words, it’s an unwarranted arrest and indefinite detention, bluntly refusing to perform legally required actions to offer these people one shred of their constitutional rights.
This is the new normal, folks. And if there is any false flag action in Chicago at the NATO meeting, or we somehow simply go to war with Iran lacking such a weak justification, you can be sure we’ll see this kind of stuff all over the country. It’s been coming on for quite some time, so no one should be surprised. No one is safe any more. Whatever was once meant by the phrase “rule of law” is all gone and won’t be back under the current system.
The Bible does not address such a situation. We know what some Christians did when Rome got that way for them during the persecution which arose around the end of the First Century, but not all of them by any means. There is no justification for asserting none of the believers got involved in violence, nor assert those who did were wrong. We have no grounds for saying that in the sense we cannot decide what God wants for every breathing follower of Christ on this planet beyond certain generalities. You can only decide that for yourself.
Obviously it depends on your best understanding of why bad things happen. If some government agent seems to make clear your Christian faith is the reason for being in trouble, we would expect to face it gracefully, or at the worst, to hide out as they did in the catacombs in Rome. So long as the particular reason for the oppression is not directly tied to expressions of Christian faith, it’s not so simple.
It only complicates things when the mainstream Christian organizations are the ones pressing for government zeal in prosecuting any warfare on any country Israel doesn’t like. That zealous hatred is extended to anyone here in the US who dares to suggest we might not be doing a good thing. In other words, most American Christians regard folks like me as evil enemies of Christ.
Should you resist? That’s between you and God.
Addenda: Offline question was asked how this affects my prophetic warning not to resist the coming oppression of the US government. My warning was this police state was God’s wrath on our sin as a nation. That prophetic message was aimed at mainstream Christians who support modern Israel or the Neocon agenda. It was also aimed at everyone else, except the few Christians who have been seeking genuine purity through the leading of the Spirit. Not necessarily people who agree with me completely, but people who were already objecting to the system before it was so obviously evil. We all have blood on our hands in one sense or another, but those who have not put their hands into the vast pool of blood washing out from the warfare-welfare state, who have striven to separate themselves by living a holy life defined by a higher spiritual standard, who have denounced the mainstream politics of the US — these folks have standing to consider whether they will resist.
The moral ideal of a warrior is the shepherd.
Continuing from the previous post yesterday, I’m exploring a better way to view things. I tried to portray the moral character of a shepherd in light of romantic relations already. There is a huge overlap, of course, with just about everything else.
Attempts in recent history to use troops for disaster relief have ranged between comical and sick. Without a fundamental cultural bias in favor of actually helping folks, troops are really the worst at this job. They are trained night and day to think of killing people and destroying things, even to the point of mandatory marching chants about the likes of “napalm sticks to kids.” This is not simply dark humor, but is a well-known method of desensitizing civilized folks to uncivilized behavior necessary for modern warfare.
The only reason troops are ever used for emergencies this way is because they are used to jumping into the unknown, and will hit the ground running. Change the objective just a little, and they can open access, move people and stuff, sometimes actually do something good. Their primary virtue here is readiness for moving and doing really difficult stuff, not any actual fitness for the task. They are very much better prepared for a wide range of unexpected challenges.
It should be obvious this is a primary virtue which should be cultivated in everyone who is mission driven from the Spirit Realm. All the more so since we reject the importance of this realm. Our existence here on this plane is a demonstration of why you might be in a hurry to find some other universe, some other reality. Because the mystical mind does not take too seriously the concerns of this realm, we should have no trouble with packing light.
It’s this preparation to live nobly in the most ignoble conditions which distinguishes the warrior in our popular mythology. That precious few of our military actually rise to such heights is why we give out medals. There are medals for simply doing most of what you are supposed to do, and not causing any real trouble. That’s because there is really so very little we can do on this plane of existence to make each other care about what matters. We can offer incentives for external performance, but actual personal morality is simply not that malleable with the tools available. If it’s not already there, your best hope is to persuade someone to fake it, ironically by appealing to their lower motivations. Actually being internally noble can come only as a gift from Above.
We as seekers of truth, who represent something far above this plane of existence, should strive to embrace the essence of the fantasy without the silliness. We are the shepherds of those willing to participate in the upward drawing of truth, until they become shepherds in their own right. It’s the method, the ethic of the warrior ideal, which we adopt. We can afford to see our lives here below consumed in the fire of devotion, and let it end under any circumstances and at any time, because the truth demands it. So it shouldn’t be too much to ask that we endure deprivation with a serious commitment to keep trying until something inside us — connected to the Spirit Realm — knows it’s time to move on to something else.
The one thing I cannot do is make these words anything more than nice thoughts for you.
The hardest thing we do is radically challenge our thinking on anything.
As a Christian Mystic, ever day I’m waking up in a fight against a pervasive system of falsehood. The entire tangible world around me is based on lies, and more especially the whole infrastructure on which life itself depends. That’s not to say the every item in the physical realm I confront is inherently evil, but the system as a whole is misleading. The things themselves are not the problem so much as how and why they came to be. I strive hourly, every moment, to raise fundamental questions against the background of what I claim to believe, and what I claim has taken over my existence.
What would we associate with the term “warrior” if we came at it from that otherworldly perspective? I’m thinking out loud here, so take it with a grain of salt.
It seems to me a fundamental item is zero aggression. There is no need to attack evil because it crumbles under the passage of truth. If there are folks who don’t see that collapse of fantasy, that’s not my problem. Yes, I have to deal with it, but they are not my mission. My mission is the truth, not the people. To apply that here below in this realm, I don’t go looking for fights. I proceed with my mission — what I simply must do — and if anything interferes, I defend. Not in the sense of ideas, though I’m always willing to offer an explanation, but in the sense of evaluating what truth in the context requires. Sometimes the strongest defense in letting folks hang themselves. At other times, I may literally have to bust some heads to keep someone vulnerable and dependent on me from getting needlessly hurt. But always it’s a matter of defending, not offending.
This presumes a divine right, as it were, to proceed with the mission. Not so much to succeed, but to proceed. The issue is not what gets done, but the demonstration of truth. I’m going at things with a will to reduce falsehood primarily by doing truth. I’m driven to use what I have to manifest that truth. I am not permitted to desist; I must do it, and it’s whatever I am capable of doing. The truth itself calls to me, beckoning me to move through this big lie with some means of passage which contradicts the lie. Often I’m simply trying to make my way and mind my own business. One of the biggest ways to reveal truth is showing the power to adapt to changes in the situation without making demands on others. Sometimes I need all the talent and human power I can muster, but whether much or little, truth itself supports and enables its own manifestation.
But the only real difference, in this case, between a warrior and a mere worker is what each is prepared to do. Soldiers may work as hard as anyone else, but the range of capability is what’s different. In our day and time, a warrior is ready for more and different kinds of challenge. Mentally and physically both, a warrior is primed for a wider range of action in response to changes. But for someone centered in the Other Realm, that means a fundamental reliance on truth as a force itself. I don’t wait for certain requirements to be supplied by other humans, because I am not under a limited contract, but an open-ended mission calling. Nor is it a matter of what gets done, but a duty to try. The only reward which matters is the realization I couldn’t have done more.
Meanwhile, I always maintain a suspicion first about whether I did give it all. Then I might have room to help someone else working with me evaluate their performance in terms of duty and commitment. People know instinctively when they should take the lead and when they need to be led. They might suffer from all sorts of conditioning which confuses that instinct, but it’s there. I’ve always been willing to let someone else lead, but I’ve seldom had trouble getting anyone else to follow. Something about the way truth works, it resolves all that silly jockeying for position. I’ve got your back; if you see a move before I do, make it. If I have to go in another direction, we’ll each be on our own. There is no compulsion to keep it together artificially.
The outcome is never in doubt, because the whole thing centers on revealing truth, and letting truth change things or not. Death itself is just a circumstance.
Globalism in all its manifestations can only fail.
I’m pretty sure that’s self evident, but you wouldn’t know that by the frantic activism of some. It’s one of the major issues separating me from most of my fellow Christians in the West. There are those who see no harm, nor any real plot toward global government. They are blind to the facts staring them in the face. But the it seems everyone else is all wrapped up in fear and dread of every step along the path. We are constantly hit with all manner of detailed warnings: “They are planning to do this awful thing!”
Yes, there is a global conspiracy to take over all human government. Indeed, from what I can tell, there are several competing conspiracies, and some of the same people seem hedging their bets by involving themselves in several different schemes. Or maybe it’s really all one thing, after all?
Won’t matter, because it will fail.
What matters is all the vast and senseless human misery along the way. This is what’s truly evil. Hey, this world sucks enough already when things are going well.
Examples? There are plutocrats in Japan who feel it’s utterly essential some million or so Japanese people fry in radiation because those plutocrats don’t want to lose too much on their investments. Medical science is going to learn about mass radiation poisoning and related cancers.
How about the vaccine fascists? And those who want to restrict any unregulated source of nutrition, by shutting down private gardening and raising so much as a single food animal outside the commercial system. Yes, people are facing fines and jail for that right now, here in the US. And the EPA insists the various iterations of Corexit are all quite safe, and if whole stretches of the Gulf Coast suffer major toxic shock, too bad.
And it goes on and on. None of these are simple mishaps. There might be a sloppy accident in there on some of it, but how it was handled was overtly evil and wicked. There can be no good motives deduced in any part of this. And this is the part which really stinks about the whole thing. It’s not taking control that bothers me, but the complete inability to do it right. Whoever these nasty NWO Globalists might be, they aren’t so smart as they like to believe.
It’s this bumbling stupidity which guarantees they won’t succeed in the long run. Instead of massive rule, all they’ll accomplish is a new level of massive human misery. It won’t do any good to discuss possible motives, because by whatever means, they eventually become so hopelessly evil, they aren’t human any more. I realize most of the human race isn’t any better, but most of those who will pass through this hell on earth didn’t do anything in particular to deserve it. (Christians, will you please stop confusing the Two Realms? The Laws of God and His mercy are what apply here.)
Unfortunately, we live in interesting times.
She was provocative.
There are ways of being flirty and cute without going too far. Plenty of young ladies manage it. She didn’t get that. But ask her, and she would have insisted she was a good girl.
Perhaps she wasn’t fully aware of it, but the overall affect of her dress and mannerisms was provocative. As an attractive slender teen in a Texas public high school, which happened to boast a high male teacher count, this was simply dangerous. The tension went on for quite some time, always just below the surface in the sense few wanted to talk about it. As was common among typical feminist-controlled public education nationwide, these men weren’t willing to say what was obvious. The male students were less restrained, but no one was really surprised, and boys certainly didn’t criticize it.
Then one day a substitute teacher showed up. He didn’t last long, of course, because he was morally honest, and he had Game. He was fully conscious, and spoke the truth. When she acted in her normal provocative fashion in his presence, he warned the young lady in question. Not telling her she was wrong, but simply informing her the consequences of her choices. She burst into tears and cried on the shoulder of at least one female teacher. It so happened, the woman had at least a partial grasp on reality.
After a buildup of similar incidents, the school simply stopped calling this particular substitute teacher. Meanwhile, through the inner turmoil and passage of time, the girl toned things down a bit. Some tried to make the fellow feel guilty, but he was having none of it. He spoke the truth, feelings be damned.
This is the way of it. You speak the truth and pay the price. When society demands some bowing and scraping over feelings, and you know it’s wrong, don’t. The world is wrong, and until we start breaking things, like fragile silly emotional structures and fantasies born of feminist mythology, things won’t improve. Sometimes you’ll crush a girl’s heart, but the alternative is promoting lies, because her feelings are built on deception. It doesn’t require hostility, nor activism. It requires speaking the truth when confronted with anything which amounts to a question. Typically I’ll simply absorb things without comment, unless something in the encounter strikes my mission consciousness. I’m not the truth police, just honest as much as possible.
Don’t apologize to anyone, nor even that false condemning voice in your head, planted there by a lying culture.
We do right because we can’t do otherwise, regardless of what it costs.
I’m not whining; this is simply my commitment, my mission in life. My neighbor across the street doesn’t have a man or a working lawnmower. A few weeks ago, I got tired of looking at her yard, and during the day when on one was home, mowed it myself. She eventually found out and thanked me.
So it got too tall again, and still no mowing, despite my offer to loan my mower without charge. So I mowed it again today … and cut the Cox cable running into her house. Granted, it’s not supposed to be exposed that way, but it was. Since I use the same service, I notified them and told them to bill me for the repair.
Cox has a cable up to every lot here, and most trailers have a cable attached somewhere, even if the residents aren’t using the service. It’s possible my neighbor isn’t but that’s not important. She didn’t ask me to cut her yard, and frankly I broke at least one park rule doing it. I did it for myself, and I’ll eat the costs.
Since we had such a terribly light winter, the ticks and chiggers are just awful. All the other bugs are at least as bad. I’m working extra hard to control the ants this year, and they are normally pretty bad. Now they are worse than ever. So by mowing her yard, I’m reducing the pest population, because ticks and chiggers don’t like mowed yards. The old “nuisance abatement” doesn’t apply here.
I’m betting she’ll be glad I did again, probably a little embarrassed. She’ll know it was me, and if she misses her Cox cable, I’ll fess up. If not, they’ll fix it on general principle and tell me later. I’m hoping they refer to it as a quality control issue, since the cables are supposed to be buried. (Turns out later Cox did simply fix and hide the cable better.)
Jesus said to take up our cross. The meaning was be ready to sacrifice as much of this life as it takes to follow Him. I doubt I’ll be literally crucified, but I’m supposed to embrace it anyway, voluntarily. Getting a splinter while carrying it is the least of my concerns. It’s not something to crow about, but boasting on behalf of some Higher Power, since my own human nature is petty, whiny and selfish.
Truth changes people. I’d have no peace in myself if I didn’t take the small risks to do these things.
When I can, I’ll always set the captives free.
But doing so is very hard work. It’s a subtle art, getting people to realize they are in a prison, then pointing out the exit. Game itself is a means to setting people free. Yes, it could be called manipulation, but the end product is making people less dependent on me. It’s actually more about speaking a language they understand.
Toddlers are extra hard work, in one sense. You can’t simply explain anything. Instead, you have to establish right away the proper roles. I have a rather wild niece, and I have to Game her pretty hard. If I don’t, her sexual identity will be confused, since she has no daddy at home. So regardless how she relates to other men, I have to play the precise Alpha Male with her so she sees it right in at least one place. I’ll play with her, and give her a very exciting and rowdy time, but only on my terms. I’m very strict about those terms, unvarying every time, making sure she pays attention when I inform her she has crossed the line. When I visit, she’s all over me, but is respectful.
She’s adorable, exceedingly cute and even flirty, but otherwise wild and rough. I’m setting her free from the delusions of feminist culture, showing her she can’t manipulate every man. I don’t cater to her.
With older children, things get a little simpler. You can soften at times, provided you are consistent and careful. I always make it clear they get the goodies when I say so, and it’s always contingent on how they respond to me. Not so I control them, but get what I have to have from the encounter. The context decides what it will be, and I always declare the context in terms they can understand. To retain influence, I always make time for them, even in the context, taking them seriously. I let them express their feelings before I respond.
With adults you can talk much more, but you have to decide what they are ready to hear. There is a set of neutral actions I can take which are simple civility, and see how they respond. Few people are complex enough to make it challenging. When they are complex, they make good friends. Others take a little longer, because you can’t afford to let someone still in the mind prison get too close. They’ll simply incorporate you into their false world and you’ll never have a chance to help them.
Notice how the thread is aloofness here. Not disengaged, but not entangled, either. It’s not about me, so I keep myself out of it except so much as it takes to let them see what’s required to deal with me. They really should be free to break it off. No one who doesn’t want to should have to put up with me.
So I’ll accept suggestions of things I might do differently, but I simply don’t listen to messages which attack my character. It’s easy to dismiss the defensive posture, and simply keep myself out of it. If someone insists on trying to label and characterize me, I break off the contact as much as possible. Being wrong about me is no crime, but I don’t have to tolerate pushing it in my face. I let them be wrong, unless explaining things serves a bigger purpose.
In my own mind, it works like this: What difference does your opinion of me make? If you are quick to run the wrong way, trusting you enough to let you inside is folly. It’s like using a filter in an email or newsgroup. When someone annoys you too much, you put some part of their idea in a filter. Folks who were placed in such filters were notified via the word, “PLONK!” It’s pretty much the same in meatspace. Folks who refuse to see the free path, accuse me of causing trouble for them, I just plonk them. That’s not to say I can simply stop dealing with them — they might be the boss. But that means I don’t engage them personally. They are handled like balky machinery.
Really, you get to choose.
