Battling Your Boys

Posted on April 10, 2012 by ehurst

Review the fundamentals: We have a huge layer of mixed cultural mythology, running against a hidden undercurrent of predation taking advantage of the buried facts. Then, off in another realm entirely is the actual truth of hard-wired human nature. The major challenge with raising children, if you start young enough, is helping them understand society is run mostly on lies.
But for parents who come too late to this truth, and their boys are somewhere near 12 or older, we have to come up with methods of holding the tension between false social expectations and what their wiring tells them. The good part regarding boys is you can more easily tell them straight out their social environment is manure. They probably know it, at least on some level, already. Hearing it from you, their parents, will come as quite a relief, and they are likely to listen.
Basic fact: American cultural mythology hates real men. It lies about what a real man is, and does it’s best to shape boys into something they cannot be, should not try to be. Even if he rebels, he’s still a sucker for yet another lie. You can probably talk straight to them about struggling against a world of lies, helping them understand the only real victory is not being sucked under.
At school, everything they face is run by the false feminist mythology. It’s meant to drive them insane, and generally works. Teach your boys Game (Game Theory of Human Socio-sexual Response). It’s all over the Net. If you’ve not encountered it before, use the built-in search engine on this blog for a long list of posts related to the term “game”. Some two-thirds of what’s listed will actually discuss the topic of Game Theory. At a minimum, you need to understand the basics of Post-Victorian Feminism.
From the first day of school, the system will try to make him a sissy, a metrosexual. The system will tell him all his natural instincts are evil or criminal. They’ll try to drug him if he acts like a normal boy. The earlier you work with him to handle this wholesale rejection of manhood, the stronger he’ll be in negotiating his own way through the system. You cannot do that for him, only equip him.
Understand the social mythology peculiar to your son and his peers. Know what they think is cool. Chances are he will not understand his single greatest need is apprenticeship to a worthy man. It might be his father, but that’s hardly necessary, and these days rather unlikely. At around age 12-14 his wiring demands daily close contact with someone he needs to emulate. It needs to capture his imagination. But if you simply let him choose according to the whims of his peers and such, there’s a high risk it will be someone unworthy. Every man should want to apprentice one or more young fellows, but most cannot. The number one issue with his behavior is the general impossibility of meeting his real need. He’ll up with a mix of distant models who can’t demonstrate for him the details of living with a badly messed up world.
So Dad or a good stand-in needs to work closely with him on some level. Pay attention to him and stay involved. If you can’t share your hobbies with him, share his. If you can’t get him under some man’s wing, he’s probably doomed.
If he starts to manifest any real manhood, the girls will be all over him. If he handles it well enough, let it go. A few guys are just naturals. Most are not. They’ll be sucked under every way imaginable, to include varying efforts and degrees of seduction. Unless you are willing to pay the price for sexually segregated education, this becomes the second hardest thing you’ll face. He’ll be distracted from what really matters. Girls his age are likely to outfox and dominate him, and sensibly younger girls are simply too young. You probably can’t force the issue. Social structures militate against the right answer.
I don’t recommend military academies. Western military social structure is simply all wrong, and if you like my writing at all you won’t like the results of sending your son to any of them. Almost anything else you can do to keep him away from girls, in the sense of keeping him too busy, etc., is worth a try if he goes along with it.
He needs a job. Since that may be pretty difficult, construct something which requires the same commitment from him as a job. Not in terms of modern workaday scheduling (another social lie) but something deeper. It needs to be consistent with his interests and aptitude, and it needs to keep him engaged. It needs to call up from his inner being all the things that makes a man manly. Some really good hobbies are out there, and some can be mixed to good results. Most school sports are actually dangerous in terms of psychology, but it’s hard to avoid it with some boys. In the long run, he really needs to steer his own course. Raise him with the expectation he should decide for himself as much as he thinks he can handle. You don’t have to like his choices; he does.
If he’s already hooked up with a gang, you need a miracle, not advice.
The one best antidote for all social lies is making him self-sufficient. Teach him not to rely on what society provides, because it will surely fail him, and perhaps sooner than anyone expects. He needs to resolve to do what real men do, facing hardship with equanimity, and making the most of bad situations. If he doesn’t understand the world is essentially hostile on many levels, he’ll be a victim looking for a predator. Naturally, you’ll color this with the emphases of your prevailing locale.
Manhood is hard enough without leaving it to chance.

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The Trauma of Teenage Daughters

Posted on April 9, 2012 by ehurst

Humans are more instinctive, hard-wired, than most folks are prepared to admit.
America in particular suffers from social schizophrenia about human nature. On the surface, we have a broad cultural mythology. Since it comes in several flavors, most people see it as a mixture of competing stripes, but if you really want to, you can easily see they are more alike than different.
At the same time there is a nasty undercurrent going in another direction altogether. Most people couldn’t see it if you pointed it out to them. They mistake those flavors which aren’t their favorite for being the nasty undercurrent. The real thing is truly evil, the realm of predatory psychopaths. I’ve discussed that undercurrent enough in other posts, so I’m just reminding readers it’s there.
That predation is based largely on actual facts of human nature, but aren’t quite what we are wired for, either. So the actual truth of what we could be if we tried is buried, totally ignored by the mainstream and actively hidden by the predators.
I’ve encountered some folks with teenage daughters. Many of these folks are tormented between expectations and reality. They are discovering cracks in the false image of the cultural mythology, glimpsing the predation underneath. Because they have no idea what really is possible, they are in panic. The girls are any number of stripes of rebellious, ranging between smoldering passive-aggressive to outright wildcat pandemonium. If you feel you have a handle on things, you can stop reading now, because this is addressed to folks who feel beleaguered, and are sincerely seeking some help.
It won’t help if we attempt to strip away the cultural mythology or undercurrent in order to explain hard-wired nature. These people need something where they are. The best I can do is offer them some peace knowing what they might be able to do at this point. I’ll save my religious counsel for other posts; I’m running in clinical mode here.
Frankly, by age 12 most families have already lost their chance for setting things right. They’ll have to assess where things are now and try to negotiate what’s left. Over this and the next three years, she will demand renegotiation of just about everything. That’s because the hard-wired instinct tells her she ought to be in the final preparation for marriage by 14 and up. Folks, that’s what is in our human wiring, so try to ignore all the cultural crap.
You are not the truth police, and you are dealing with a human being who is not a mere extension of your own thoughts and feelings. The real chore at this point is changing you, not her. She’ll change if she wants to, not simply because you demand it. Do what you can to make her want it.
She can be steered only where she is open. You can maximize the openings by taking seriously the duty to back off and treat her more as adult. However childish she may be, she’s now not much worse than a great many adults. The question is not what she merits, but what will actually work. She has already demanded the right to decide a lot of things, and only by physical force can you stop that. (How the law and various government agencies view things is pretty grim for you right now, and varies with locale and too many other details I can’t account for here.) In general, restrain her only from tearing up your household stability directly, things generally regarded as juvenile delinquency. It’s not “anything goes” but “don’t make us pay too much for your idiocy.” She’s not your equal, but negotiate with her more or less on adult terms, anyway. To be honest, she’s going to act like a boarder, not a family member.
She will have swallowed a certain amount of prevailing cultural mythology of the flavor shared by her peers. Learn it; take it seriously. Understand it as mythology which she finds binding. Take her viewpoint seriously in how you treat her, even if you know it’s pure manure. You can’t help her change her ideas until you take seriously the ones she has. Adopt the status of aplomb with her crazy nonsense. Don’t react with shock and rage to her announcements she intends to do this or that. Act altogether unsurprised. Yes, there are times when this feels like crass manipulation. Get used to it.
If you have the opening, be totally objective in offering her your assessment of consequences. Do not attempt to sneak in evaluative coloring. Not according to some obscene cultural fears, but inform her the best you know from reality. Keep it simple when possible. If you’ve had trouble facing the reality of consequences from your own youthful insanity, and the years following, you’ll never be able to do this. But then, nothing I write would help you in the first place. She will pretend she doesn’t care what the world thinks because she believes she is in a position to make demands of the world. It’s the sort of crap we saw with those peculiar protests recently involving women dressing provocatively and waving signs about “slut shaming” — as if protesting with signs and risque clothing could force people to change how they think of slutty dress.
So she’s going to put on enough makeup to paint a barn and the most outrageous colors. Ignore it. This sort of thing means nothing. Showing too much skin? You’ll have to pretty savvy to win that battle, because it’s a little too late to build her sense of modesty. But you don’t have to pay for it, either. Make her pay her own way, or learn to tailor her own clothing.
In broad terms, help her explore all the same silly nonsense every teenager has passed through since before the previous century. If you hinder the exploration itself, you’ll only make things worse. Better it is to help her get through it as gracefully as possible. There is no simple list of rules here, because it really depends on how you understand what I’m suggesting here. These suggestions wouldn’t be obvious to most people, but turn out to make sense when people think about it. If she thinks you take her seriously, she’ll be less combative.
For the most part, ignore what she says. Do try to respond reasonably when she talks, but pay more attention to what she actually does. What she says she intends to do this minute may not be what she ends up actually doing. Chances are she’s lying to herself an awful lot. Get used to that and don’t be smug, if you can help it. It’s not a question of taking her highly variable feelings seriously; it’s a matter of not provoking her needlessly. It’s all too easy, as you probably know.
It takes two fools to argue, so don’t be a fool. Choke down your own feelings. Keep in mind, it doesn’t matter what our social expectations are, her hard-wired instincts know she’s supposed to be getting married soon to some very strong and manly fellow, someone who will take her in hand and make her a woman. Since our society generally forbids marrying someone a decade or more older at this age, she’s stuck with dating boys who are generally less mature in their own male tracks than she is in hers. That puts too much power in her hands when she least needs to handle it, too many choices when she needs them made for her. But they are supposed to be made by her new spouse she isn’t going to have. Unless you are exceptionally resourceful, you can’t fix this mismatch between what should be and what is likely. Accept your fate and make the most of your bad situation.
That’s all I can offer. Unless you were active in fighting the mythology when she was born, you had only the first five years to get started. Now that she’s 12 or older, it’s too late for anything less than a genuine miracle. Without being there with you and seeing all the details of your daily existence, and hers, along with your family history with her, I can’t offer much more.
You can’t change her, only yourselves, so look for your own peace.

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The Meatgrinder

Posted on April 8, 2012 by ehurst

I still bear a powerful empathy for military people. That was my world for a significant chunk of my life. Despite the very ponderous moral questions regarding involvement in such a hideous enterprise as the US military has become, they are still people and my heart longs to see better things for them.
But someone intends to make them sick or dead.

Baughman began his own investigation into four American soldiers who died in their sleep, in 2008. Baughman writes: “all in their twenties … no signs of suicide or of a multi-drug ‘overdose’ … as claimed by the Inspector General of the VA… All were on the same prescribed drug cocktail, Seroquel (antipsychotic), Paxil (antidepressant) and Klonopin (benzodiazepine).”
Baughman calls on the Surgeon General to embargo the use of all antipsychotics and antidepressants in the military.
Baughman’s initial inquiry suggests as many as 247 soldiers have died from cardiac arrest after ingesting these drugs.

To get the entire picture, you have to understand there are plenty of elites who simply don’t care what happens to the cannon fodder in uniform. There’s always more where that came from, right? The US has a lot of bodies, and increasing numbers are unemployed, so sending them off to illegal wars is a good way to employ them.
A good number of them are driven mad. They are required to do things unconscionable, and do it a lot. Trying to keep their moral apprehensions down is a hard job. On top of that, the job is simply impossible in the first place. And the atmosphere is insanely artificially difficult for reasons of satisfying someone’s sick demand everyone go through what they imagined they went through some years ago, as if it were somehow sacred. A huge portion of military regulations have no justification, and much of that is justified only by evil. Been there; done that and read the history of how those regulations came into being. There is simply no good reason for most of what makes life difficult for the troops.
At some level, this is wholly intentional. It’s not just the random results of “don’t give a damn” policies for corporate profits, but someone sees this all too clearly, and promotes it. There are people actively pleased by these outcomes, or it would have already changed. Instead, it gets steadily worse.
Don’t pay any attention to what they say; look at what they do.
This is all part of the overall plan I posted yesterday to reduce the human population of the world. The troops will murder senselessly thousands just doing their job. Then they’ll come home in a box or so insane they’ll do more killing here. Pumping them full of psychosis inducing chemicals is just another way of cutting down the population.

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Ungovernable Masses

Posted on April 7, 2012 by ehurst

The NWO plans to kill off more than Stalin ever imagined possible.
Somewhere along the path, the original plan of the Illuminati took an unanticipated turn. The original intent was to invade every government and social institution and sow such widespread chaos everyone would beg for a competent world government. However, there simply is no way to do this as things stand.
Sure, the basic means of control are all pretty much in place, but there are simply too many who see all this coming. And these freethinkers who see all the history of manipulation are just influential enough to prevent a complete takeover by this elite group. The NWO simply cannot produce enough chains and shackles to go around.
And targeted assassination is simply too big of a chore. So the NWO has had to back off their plans a bit until they can reduce the threat. The only way to do that is reduce the human population of the earth … drastically. We’ve seen numbers tossed around, but the NWO’s own published plans indicate they would be happy with something between 500 million and 2 billion tops. Killing off the rest would reduce the presence of the freethinkers to a manageable level.
There are any number of plans to carry this out. We’ve heard about engineered diseases, seen some pretty nasty environmental pollution (think in terms of toxic to humans in particular, not the alleged sanctity of Mother Nature), and a general rise in military/police murder of civilians as examples of this. Aside from protecting a select few useful servants, there really hasn’t been much of a trend at selective slaughter. Okay, we see they seem intent on killing mostly darker skinned folks. Right now a popular target is Muslims, because they tend to live on land which hosts some of the most important exploitable mineral resources.
It’s pretty hard to get one’s head around all the ways they go about this. For example, there are thousands of spies, some knowing and some patsies, doing their best to provoke radical Islamic thinking and actions. This is guaranteed to bring a backlash of fear and hatred against all Muslims, so the rest of the world agrees to wiping them out. The more outrageous the Islamic behavior, the better for the ultimate plans. Thus, there is massively generous funding for radical Islamic terrorism, or at least false flag terrorism in the name of Allah.
Most of the drastic controls we see aborning right now in the West actually won’t work too well until the population is reduced quite a bit, so don’t make the mistake of thinking we are safe in our Western strongholds. The primary propaganda assertion is these controls are utterly essential to our survival, no debate permitted. Whenever and wherever they fail, for whatever reason, it becomes an excuse to provoke the restive masses even further, which in turn justifies any number of measures to kill more people. When fear doesn’t work, kill everyone who doesn’t fear.
There is a very large counter movement going on under various labels: Liberty Movement, Patriot Underground, Patriot Militia, etc. Some of this is purely false flag, as are most of what the MSM labels under various “White Power” movements. There is virtually no such thing as a genuine KKK in the US; if you know about it, it’s fake. Some of the more sincere souls in the freedom movement are being subverted by false information feeds: Rense, Makow, Infowars, etc. Too few are discerning and careful. Too many are desperate for support and kindred minds, so they tend to swallow black ops information. Right now, you can find vast troves of information which is mostly accurate, but discredited by elements of pure nonsense. It’s really hard to discern who’s a willing tool and who’s just a fool.
Even my use of the term “Illuminati” is simply symbolism, because I won’t pretend to know who they are of where they come from. All I can do is point to what it seems they do, and match it to what some have said they have planned all along. To imagine there is no conspiracy working to take over rule of all the world is pure stupidity, but most of those who claim to expose the “real secret” aren’t any better. In some cases, where they all come from is immaterial: Freemasons, various sects of the Kabbal, mainstream Zionism and the Rothschilds, Germanic Neo-Nazis, etc. I suppose you could make a reasonable stab at sifting fact from fiction if you read all the stuff out there, but it’s more important for this discussion to see what is actually being done at the high levels of current governing agencies, official or otherwise. Then, try to understand no single agency has all the cards, so there is most likely something unseen above them all.
I also rather expect those at the very top of this are entirely likely to turn on each other at some critical point, and it will all fall apart. But that’s another article.
What I’m getting at is I seriously doubt even the majority of sincere freethinkers are prepared to imagine the scale of slaughter contemplated by those at the top. I doubt there is any one single plan to carry this out. It’s more like multiple teams competing against each other on behalf of the same ownership, seeing who can win the award for best results. Nor should you imagine it would come all at once, or all in one place at once. I would suggest the NWO has patience across generations for reasons we could not comprehend. As I’ve said often, they aren’t literally space aliens, but they are entirely alien from the rest of humanity. David Icke is only half wrong, eh? But prepare your mind for death on a scale never before imagined, in all sorts of ways. Prepare your mind for efforts to top previous evil manifestations of human oppression.
The reason we bother to study these things is so nothing surprises us. Aplomb and inner tranquility is the only defense worth seeking, because that’s the only hope for keeping a handle on whatever you believe is your mission in life.

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Spiritual Depth HOWTO

Posted on April 7, 2012 by ehurst

Good morning, Readers. In honor of the season:

The primary element of spiritual depth is less of the flesh.

In order to dampen the striving of the flesh, we have to understand what it is and how it works. Specifically, we have to understand how that striving is different from that of the spiritual hungering and thirsting, and how the appetites of the flesh are directly contrary to those of the Spirit. Spiritual growth, by definition, means dragging the flesh along behind, training the flesh to serve the Spirit, and not to lead.

Thus, simply gaining a deeper intellectual understanding by itself is actually contrary to the Spirit. We find ourselves in the sad state in Western Christianity where "spiritual growth" is anything but spiritual. It means better theology and better behavior, but not arising from a deeper commitment to the ineffable. It’s always clothed in some cultural mythology drawn from a background different from that of Scripture.

So the second critical distinction is purity. The worst thing we could do is propose to offer spiritual exercises built on pagan religion. God raised up one and only one intellectual and cultural background against which to project and display His revelation, and that is the ancient Hebrew. Very pointedly God warned His chosen people against mixing in other sources for religious activities. The Laws of Moses are replete with specific prohibitions rooted in the broad command of not being like the pagan nations which Israel had encountered. That difference singles out any and all pagan ritual echoes, even while the specific Mosaic rituals and imagery were so very similar in some ways to common pagan religions of that time and place.

We further refine the distinction, then, by noting God gets to choose what matters and what does not. This is not wholly mysterious. A substantial element in the Law of Moses was the invitation to abstract from it applications not specifically stated. See the whole through Hebrew eyes and you’ll discern the patterns God intended. They will surely give rise to debate among sincere believers, but holiness is in the determination to seek properly, not so much in the answers.

The secondary element of spiritual depth is committing accurately to the revelation of God as a whole, including the intellectual and cultural background, as the means to understanding what is required to carry out the primary element.

If you need a full explanation of what that Hebrew outlook is like, the best I can offer is in the following links in order:

[edit: The original list of materials are all gone, incorporated into my books sometime after this post. Start with A Course in Biblical Mysticism.]

Again, it is not necessary to discard your Western analytical approach, but to remember its limits. You still have to understand how people without spiritual awareness operate. Aristotelian logic is good for its designed purpose, which is handling what our five senses can tell us. When it comes to ultimate truth, we rely in revelation and a mystical approach.

Building on this foundation, the primary means to advancement is studying the Bible. It usually works best to simultaneously study the Bible while reading books about manners, customs, and daily life in Bible times. Be particularly conscious modern Judaism bears only a superficial resemblance to the ancient Hebrew ways, so take Jewish sources with a grain of salt (see Edersheim’s Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, starting with Chapter II and reading through the next two chapters.)

Every human on earth serves God’s purpose. Only a few are taken into the divine household as adopted family members. They can know God intimately and be taken into His counsel. Most humans are not aware of Him, and so never get to know Him any better than a slave purchased by some great Eastern Potentate. All the slave knows is his job and his immediate supervisor. So those without a spiritual awareness are steered through life by all sorts of concerns and desires, never really understanding the deeper issues.

A great many people involved in Christian religion are mere believers in the flesh. We can’t pretend to know or even estimate proportions, but the Parable of the Tares (Matthew 13:14-30) indicates some portion of those claiming to follow Christ will never bear any spiritual fruit. The question is not their eternal status, but whether you can see the right fruit. You can’t simply toss them out, because that would destroy the very operation itself. But even those who indicate an interest in spiritual depth will include folks with dead spirits. They are seeking more knowledge, more personal discipline, and even some greater emotional involvement, perhaps hoping these things will by some sort of magic change them.

It’s fine to explain clinical symptoms of spiritual change, because even if they are learned artificially, the world becomes a slightly better place. We cannot avoid that, but it is not our goal. It’s merely a side effect. Our goal is to weaken the flesh and strengthen the spirit.

A critical problem for most Westerners is mistaking emotion for the move of the Spirit. Escaping this is usually a long term discipline. While spiritual stirrings can produce emotions, the two are not chained together. There is no shortcut to learning this. However, a critical element in discernment is control. The Spirit gives us more control, while the flesh takes it away. Scripture says the spirit of the prophets is subject to the will of the prophets. The Lord will not compel you to serve Him, but will build a fire of desire. The difference between an emotional desire and spiritual desire is whether you can turn it off.

A move of the Spirit will persist across contexts, but will go quiet if you decide you cannot act immediately. Emotions tend to run away with us, impossible to control because they arise from the fallen nature. It’s rather like a haunting melody you can’t get out of your head. The Spirit of God does not work that way. He is quiet and patient, waiting for us to work our way to Him. If you question the source of a particular impulse, your emotions will demand immediate satisfaction, and likely fade over time or change objects. Those of the Spirit will fade with the context as you move away from the moment. It will not haunt you so very much, except perhaps as mild regret. His drawing will persist over time, arising again and again when the opportunity for acting comes around. This movement will often come in contradiction to your emotions, or your intellectual inclinations.

Do we have to explain this will mean nothing to someone not yet spiritually awakened? Much more than this requires you simply proceed in good conscience. Trial and error will teach you the rest. Desire to please God is more important than your performance, because the desire is what pleases Him.

The final issue in spiritual depth is moral purity. This is a desire to know and understand organically what His Laws intend to tell us. This is why Bible study is central to growth, because it lays out the Laws. You begin to discern the biblical narrative, and the world around you, in light of what God demands. We grasp intellectually how His Laws symbolize higher truth. More specifically, His Laws indicate what holiness of commitment produces. If you truly desire to please Him, your actions will tend to look like His Laws. Nothing substitutes for a good understanding of the Laws of Noah. These are a frame of reference I generally refer to as God’s Laws (always with an “s” on the end, to differentiate from the singular “Law” used for Moses’ Law). Abstracting Noah with the intent to see the heart of God is your mission here.

There is a snowball effect, and progressive amplification of these factors feeding into each other. Your only concern for this world is not to make it better, though that will happen to some degree as a side effect, but the emphasis is revealing God. The primary revelation of God is via His commandments and requirements for the human race under the Fall. We show His will by living it, by how we change as our self-denial grows stronger. His glory arises from people seeing that self-death.
All creation is a tool for His glory.

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Where Will You Go?

Posted on April 6, 2012 by ehurst

Lots of articles about expatriating, fleeing to other countries, particularly from the US.
Naturally, it requires money I don’t have. That’s a package deal, though. In order to become the kind of person who struggles so hard for a high income, I’d have to become the kind of person who fears enough to want to flee.
Think about it for a moment. Where in the world would it be safe from the rising NWO global takeover? It’s pretty hard to find a place you can’t be found and made miserable. Most of the examples offered in the MSM are fake. Kony’s jungle hideout? He’s a goon paid by the CIA; they have no intention of catching him. Would you want to live in the jungles in the first place? It’s not too bad for Kony, but I wonder how many of my readers could adapt as comfortably as one who grew up there.
Just about anything the MSM promotes is fake. That suicide in Syntagma Square in Greece played into the hands of the NWO. I’m not suggesting it’s a fake suicide, or even that they produced it, but probably counted on any number of crazy things like that because they want people to see the riots. Something in the fallout is useful and valuable to the NWO; they’ve got big plans for Greece. Who would consider fleeing to Greece from the US?
Some part of my scrambled brain says the NWO puts a high value on the Mediterranean Basin. Not simply because of oil in or near it, but something more fundamental. We can understand how Kony is all about natural resources, because unrest too big to handle by locals gets them ready to beg for help from Big Brother, who then can go in and secure access to the resources. That is already happening. But the pattern isn’t the same in Club Med, except superficially. The real difference is, without political unrest, the Med would be the nicest place on earth to live as most people measure such things. Everything is close, unlike the South Pacific. And most equatorial regions come with too many nasty critters and diseases, but the Med is pretty safe, almost optimal for human life. Still, I think there’s something else going on there with so very much loving attention to keeping it stirred up.
I’m willing to bet there’s some evil plot which involves decimating a lot of human population from the earth, particularly in places they want for themselves. Not that they won’t extend it to the whole earth, but I suspect there’s more interest in the Med than anywhere else. And I’m willing to bet what the NWO plans to do in larger terms will show up first there. They want it all for themselves. This is what makes them totally different creatures from you and I.
It is the same thing which keeps most of us from really hiding in isolation. Mankind wasn’t designed for serious isolation, though things improve dramatically even in thin populations. Something in the ferment of mixed humanity is refreshing when it’s not stupid or hostile. Right now, the best places to flee depend entirely too much on having lots of money for life support, but in places which would offer too little of what we really crave. Very few of us could stand to hide out in some quiet little nowhere. Again, this is what makes the NWO conspirators so very different from the rest of us, as they seem quite certain they would like a highly depopulated planet.
For myself, I know it’s worn thin as gauze. For the past decade I’ve lived where I had all the time in the world to play on the Internet, read books, ride or walk as much as I like, eat decent food, and still within reach of the big city when I really need it. The one thing I don’t have, and dearly miss, is a significant community of like-minded Christian believers to share it all with. Even if they didn’t share all my weirdness, but simply tolerated me and let me do my best work, I’d be much happier. I’d sacrifice a lot of what I have now for that. I’ve been in that position a couple of times, and it was like paradise on earth.
But you can’t buy that at any price. It was a confluence of uncontrollable factors coming together serendipitously. It was people, not circumstances. I’m doing what I can to recreate some elements of that wherever I go; it’s burned within me. But it’s not easy. By no means does it require bucolic stability. It’s more about a congregating of people who want something more than simply fleeing to a nice place on earth, because they sense there is really no such thing. All it takes is just a handful in a crowd, a surprisingly small critical mass, and the whole crowd starts paying attention, wanting what I have to share, and sharing what they have in the same vein.
Unlike frantic expatriation, it’s not in vain. Peace is not in the circumstance, but in the soul.

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BYOC

Posted on April 5, 2012 by ehurst

Bring your own conclusions.
All I have are questions and some tentative answers, plus plenty of additional information folks try to hide. To me it’s more important we dig up the stuff everyone is trying to hide.
Claim and counterclaim: ML King said the US political system was stacked unfairly against a whole range of people, most prominently the black citizens. He sought to highlight an institutionalized prejudice which made things unfairly difficult for them to participate in everything life had to offer in the US.
The US Government says ML King was a bad man with subversive plans against the political stability of the US, some of it plainly illegal. Implied is the idea his agenda is bad for the people, and the elected and appointed servants of the people only did their jobs.
King was killed in Memphis, TN, on the threshold of a truly significant moment of national decision on several issues. Why it matters is no one has managed to match his ability to rally public opinion, so his death was highly significant, a serious blow to the movement.
On one side, we have a civil trial which concludes the US Government did assassinate ML King. The claimants do a nice job of pulling up all the stuff the government tried to hide. The ultimate hide was government officials refusing to execute their duty to bring it to a criminal trial. Painfully obvious is how hiding all this stuff prevented any kind of accountability. Claims to representing the will of the people are manifestly false. If your curiosity is piqued, you’ll need to read at least the blog post linked above. So far as anyone was permitted to prove it in a court of law, the US Government is guilty.
There are also any number of websites, with varying degrees of credibility, offering various collections of some of the same evidence and perhaps some not used in the civil trial.
Meanwhile, there are roughly an equal number of sites which point out facts which do tend to back some of the government’s claims to King’s agenda being a serious threat. The evidence includes photos of the young King at communist training seminars. This is linked with well known, but largely ignored, published plans and manifestos by communists to use racial tensions in the US to create political instability. The plans are also directly linked to the schools such as King attended. I would also note some of this communist activity was most certainly infiltrated by government spies, and some of it we know for certain was actually sponsored under false flags by government black ops. Often unasked is whether the communists were simply taking advantage of the inevitable, or as implied, it was all their doing.
If you are of a religious bent, you might be interested to know King himself wrote several books attesting his own very liberal theology. Among theologians the scandal is he openly rejected the Virgin Birth and the Deity of Christ. Matching this is a wealth of evidence indicating King was morally reprobate in many ways, as a philanderer, serious plagiarist, and assorted other charges of moral turpitude.
Finally, if anyone believes the current popular claimants to King’s agenda are actually promoting the same agenda, it’s too easy to prove them wrong. You may not read it very often, but the same people who funded and supported the above noted civil lawsuit regarding King’s assassination are the very same people who decry these “race hustlers” making so much noise in the press. If you don’t see the sharp division here, you aren’t paying attention.
But who is right? None of them, necessarily. You’d be a fool if you allowed the government’s perfidy regarding King to bury his flaws. He’s not a saint by any common definition. Nor is this a question whether it’s justified to name public fixtures after him in every city across the land, or have a holiday renamed in his honor (formerly, Columbus Day). Those things are settled by politics and we are right cynical of all politics. King was part of the movement which brought us the Delphi Method, and his people used it generously. Many who claim his legacy still use it generously. Indeed, most of what we hear about politics from the MSM is a portion of that method writ large.
The worst thing any of us could do is allow someone else to write the whole story for us, because there are no saints in this story. Bad enough are the lying assertions, but worst of all is the vast cover-up on both sides of this question. Make up your own mind.

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Management: Delphi Politics (Updated)

Posted on April 4, 2012 by ehurst

Good evening, readers. Tonight’s lesson falls under the headings of Organizational Theory and Systems Analysis. (I offer a Christian spiritual version of this same material on my other blog. Edit: that blog has been shut down.)
Every collection of humans involves politics. Politics can be defined as the leverage to persuade others toward an objective. That objective invariably means power and/or wealth for some favored person or group within the larger body. Fundamental to human nature is every group will always manifest certain trends, in that a tiny minority will be leaders, with a coterie of supporters, then a larger group of followers, and a few outliers on the fringe.
This is immutable. It makes no difference what personality types are involved under any other frame of reference. Bring a bunch of bridge engineers together and they will manifest that structure after a short time.
The Delphi Method builds on this basic principle of human social interaction. It is designed to leverage whatever constitutes political power in any given setting to reach a predetermined end. That end inevitably means power and wealth for whomever is pulling this lever.
Absolutely essential is the secrecy of the group. All politics is conspiracy, and every government is by definition a conspiracy to rule. In all cases, the Delphi Method is a conspiracy, even in the more popular sense. The objective is to hijack something before the others involved realize it.
The second most essential ingredient is training for the members of the conspiracy. This is the most expensive part of the whole thing. Even when the knowledge is free, the investment of man hours is necessarily high. We assume the members are committed, as is usually the case with socialist/communist activists. The primary figure in pressing this agenda is called a facilitator in current manifestations.
The methods vary with the leverage sought. The original Delphi method was aimed at leading a panel of experts to consensus in a foregone conclusion. Essential was keeping them isolated so that no one of them felt strong enough to object against the threat of marginalization. Where the subjects actually know the issues involved, it’s essential to make them dependent on the false sense of inclusion. Only a tiny minority of this panel is likely to stand firm in resisting, and they can be discounted by weight of numbers.
If the target is any broader population, there is a strong reliance on the same principle that only a few really understand what’s going on, and the rest are fodder for manipulation. The political momentum of majority rule shuts down the handful of experts. Critical to the effort is identifying them first. Most people can be cajoled into revealing entirely too much about themselves in the presence of a skilled facilitator.
From here, there are two tracks. If the conspiracy is small, herd the resistors into a single group and marginalize them as a whole. This is risky, but can be done. Less risky is a method requiring more trained facilitators. Then the larger group is broken into committees, with each being led by a facilitator, and opponents scattered out thinly among the small groups. Each one becomes isolated and marginalized by the facilitator manipulating the small group.
Within any small group, the method is a mix various ways of disabling and discrediting the strong opposition leader. The facilitator does their best to make the opposing leader seem flaky, weird, an outsider. Everything of substance is challenged according to a prepared script of talking points. There is a heavy reliance on drawing false distinctions, using loaded phrases and emotional appeals. If at all possible, the opposing leader will be forced into any number of impossible corners using semantic games, false dichotomies which exclude real answers, and hopefully getting the opposition flustered or otherwise agitated.
It’s a rare leader who can withstand this sort of thing. It requires the opponent be smarter and better trained than the facilitator. It also requires a powerful sense of structure regarding the agenda under discussion and some debate experience to prevent letting the facilitator dodge any critical items. It requires pointing out the head games, yet remaining clearly in charge, so the rest of the group realizes what’s happening.
But if only one small group is rescued, the whole thing is lost. When the forum is a large town hall type setting, you’ll need near parity of leadership in opposition to the facilitators, carefully working together in secret with even better planning to counter a good Delphi operation. You’ll need several very astute and reasonable sounding leaders each seeming to rise individually in opposition with their own particular issue, not accepting any form of dodging the question. Each one has to be a debate champion and a good actor, with a pleasant voice and demeanor. In other words, effective opposition is pretty rare.
The best defense is mysticism. That is, never have anything which can be hijacked in the first place. This is why leaderless resistance is encouraged, because all it needs for effectiveness is a unity of purpose and commitment. There is no objective or target, per se, but something rooted in human nature itself. Everything else is left to the individual, as to tactics and methods. Even the target of opposition is soft and conceptual, so that there is never a repeating pattern which can be analyzed for infiltration and interdiction. When what you care about most is something fundamental to life itself, no one can stop you. Resistance to evil must be organic in the self.
Mysticism does not require ignoring all the tactics of politics, but requires not being trapped by politics and political concerns. Indeed, I highly encourage a full course of study in logic, rhetoric, history, and all the social sciences. We should know what makes other people tick because that’s the only way we can set them free to pursue things which really matter.
Addenda: I left out the bare bones outline of Delphi procedure:
1. Identify strong opposition to the agenda. (Hint: This is where you play reserved and avoid self-disclosure.)
2. Dilute their leverage by isolating and marginalizing them.
3. Overwhelm residual resistance in others by incrementally creating a wholly, fundamentally different perspective on the questions at hand. Create in their minds an entirely new narrative and background using propaganda methods. (Hint: If working alone, and you see this coming, here is the best point to shut down a Delphi maneuver by pointing out unspoken assumptions, what the propaganda hides, particularly in terms of philosophical shift. They’ll probably escort you out under some pretense of being unruly and disruptive, and you’ll be marked forever afterward.)
4. Once the majority have embraced the new understanding of things, play the two sides off against each other, where the opposition can’t get a fair hearing. (Hint: If you have a good organized resistance, this is where you all rip it to shreds.)
Obviously the single most important objective is political fracturing. Recently, with political consensus so hard to gain, the Delphi method has expanded to introducing multiple fractures into numerous small parties in the opposition bloc.
Update: The original author of the article on the Delphi Technique, Lynn Stuter, has closed her old site. In case the other copies around the Net disappear, I have archived a snapshot of the link above in PDF format. I can share if you need it.

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Cascade of Choices

Posted on April 4, 2012 by ehurst

How far do you go chasing truth? One thing leads to another, as the old rock song says.
The title of my blog indicates I want to do what’s right for myself, and I write to give others a chance to consider what it might mean for themselves. Sometimes I can be downright practical, but most of the time it’s not even exactly theoretical, but calling you to reach above your own intellect.
In the land of Linux and Open Source software, one of my primary complaints is too few developers understand users. Part of that disconnect leads to problems when someone feels a need to upgrade one item, which is probably broken, only to discover doing that requires upgrading almost everything else, or adding lots of new stuff which demands more upgrades, on and on into infinite loops of destructive replacement. This happens when the developers so narrowly interpret what is required for this or that package, according to their own whims and damn everyone else with the differing Linux setups. And God forbid they should ever go back and simply fix the previous version. But it seems generic coding is a lost art, an art based on consciously trying to address human need.
If you don’t write code yourself, you are stuck, and they just can’t be made to care about that. The vast majority of people can’t write code because the learning curve is huge, and precious few are willing to teach. The barriers are massive. The saints are those who take a moment to share a bit of code to fix particular mismatches, or who actually rewrite something to be more accommodating to the wide differences in various Linux systems. I rather hope I’m not throwing out spiritual code too difficult to reach from where you are. Writing the code to your daily life is something I honestly believe is already hard-wired into your soul, even as I consciously consider the vast array of human individuality.
When I suggest Western Civilization as a whole is a failure, I’m presuming you are smart enough to realize you can’t just pretend you will walk out of it today. What I’m hoping you’ll do is think about it enough to find ways to get a little closer to something better than the West, even as you are stuck in it. Part of that “something better” should include living a message which confronts the West, at least in some small ways. The underlying issue with truth is not keeping it all to yourself, but a commitment to removing obfuscations. Sometimes I can offer some examples of how that plays out.
For example, I was recently confronted with some really aging and ragged discussions of race relations and sexism. Most of such discussions are handed to us in obfuscated code, set afloat in the world on a giant raft of false assumptions. You aren’t permitted to enter their conversation without climbing on that raft. All I can say is, don’t do it. Your little rowboat of truth is far safer. Don’t engage them until you can draw attention to the junk raft itself. You can go a lot farther toward solutions when you choose a boat designed according to the waters you intend to sail.
Sexism? Yes, by definition I’m a sexist. That is, I assert you cannot sanely create uniform outcomes under any useful measure. The system is already broken, and pushing through something with badly damaged assumptions about what it should look like coming out the other end only breaks more things. So I use Game, clinical observations about human behavior in relation to sexual identity, and the resulting theoretical explanations, to prove sexism is frankly necessary to understand humans and get along in this world. I reject equal outcomes because I reject the whole stinking system in the first place. Use Game and you’ll find far more peace, and ignore the screamers (which tactic is part of Game anyway).
Racism? When someone offers a consistent definition of “race” on which everyone else agrees, we can talk. Is it about certain physical differences? Sure, I can ignore that. I do it all the time. Is it about complex cultural baggage correlated with those physical differences? It is almost with violence I reject the notion I can’t pass judgment on cultural expressions, because I do it with my own native culture. You have a problem with that? Argue with God; I’m using His standards and His chosen culture as the baseline. I refuse to debate whether it’s right. My rejection is not based on pure matters of taste, which is yet another thing I won’t surrender, but for an entirely different reason. That’s not to say I’m going out of my way to make everyone conform to my tastes nor my cultural judgments, but it’s damned (literally) nonsense to suggest I have to swallow and “enjoy” something I find unbearable. So while I won’t destroy your car if your stereo plays rap music loud enough to rattle the windows on my Jeep, I will probably laugh when someone else does, or when random events do it. Meanwhile, I’ll keep my radio tuned to Classical music, thank you.
It’s the same reason I don’t take my own life, though I am longing to leave this world. Not everything we wish for is properly addressed by active pursuit. I assert there is a God in Heaven who steers certain events He claims for Himself as His prerogatives. I didn’t make all these messes, and all I can do with them is what I understand He requires of me.
This world is not what it was designed to be. It’s broken, and from that follows a certain amount of breakage in every human life. Some of our human discomforts are simply par for the course, the random results of bigger things no one here can control. That would be issues such as which sex you are and other physical characteristics. DNA is like that; it doesn’t ask your permission. So is an awful lot of what we experience as human choices. Malice is too easily imputed where it doesn’t exist. Worse, it’s often imputed to individuals who were handed a lot assumptions about life by the same people who gave them their DNA. I believe one of the worst forms of malice is assuming someone close to you in time and space should be blamed for not having chosen some other DNA and heritage. That sort of thinking is itself a matter of heritage, and becomes a sorry excuse for attacking someone in easy reach.
You want justice? I rather think you can’t afford to pay the price for real justice. Too many people have chosen one narrowly defined bit of justice over all others, and that is injustice in itself. Given what we are all up against, perhaps the only hope we have is first discovering what justice means, then work out what it looks like, and try to make it happen in what little you actually can choose. No justice will come from leveraging the current system, because it is inherently unjust from the very roots.
I reject the whole system in the first place, and I’ll do everything I can to escape it’s clutches.

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On Accountability

Posted on April 3, 2012 by ehurst

Dear Readers, I hold myself accountable to you. My life is an open book; my mission requires I leave myself open to inspection far greater than required by civility. Ask what you dare, what you believe is of significance in helping you evaluate whether it’s worth your time to read anything on this blog.
A while back, I wrote a review of Life Church based on my experience plus a bit of background research from what is available on the Net. I read comments made by others who had been involved in Life Church, plus some news articles. I took the time to read pros and cons.
If you click the link to my post, you’ll see a rather long comment was posted. I replied. The reason I raise the issue is because my readers need to see how I operate on this blog. I rather hope the commenter comes back and finishes the job. I am eager to stand behind what I write, and retract where I am shown wrong.
Let me state again for the record: You should make up your own mind. I’m not appealing for defense and won’t shrink from you taking me to task.

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