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Of Course They Know What’s Coming

Posted on July 14, 2011 by ehurst

Even if there is not some shadowy Illuminati, we know there is a conspiracy among the ruling elites we do know about.

I ran into it again today: some breathless report about how we are headed for an economic disaster here in the US. The underlying assumption of this report was that somehow the folks in our government just don’t get it. A similar report contained some sort of warning aimed at these folks in Washington, DC, that there would be some revolution coming because of what they are doing to us.

Don’t you think they know that? Look, if you and I can figure this out, does it not occur to you they can, too? If Congress and the White House are as stupid as they pretend, there really will be an armed revolt. But no matter what they portray for public consumption, they do know what’s coming. They are doing it on purpose, and can’t trust us mundanes to be told the truth. We might spoil it for them.

These government figures have at least one plan they aren’t telling us, and probably several plans. They are ready to unleash heavily armed and very advanced equipped troops on any real uprising. Don’t think they would hesitate. Our lives mean nothing to them. I’m cynical about even the so-called good guys. If there was anyone up there on our side, they should have already placed themselves in leadership of a revolt. At the very least, they should be spilling the beans in a very well organized way to prevent being marginalized. No, I don’t think even Ron Paul has done 10% of what he could and should. First, because I don’t think he knows what’s really going on, and second, because if he actually believes things can be made right in the current system, he’s not smart enough to lead. Intentional or not, he and a couple of others are serving as foils, as controlled opposition.

And it’s not that the rulers want to keep this same system, it’s that they want to control how it gets replaced, and be in charge of what replaces it. So even if the US goes into official default and the Fed comes apart or is somehow crippled, it won’t change too many faces in the halls of power. They have ways of keeping this thing going as they see fit. Once again, they aren’t telling us. That’s what makes it a conspiracy. It doesn’t require some shadowy Sith Lords for this to all be true. It doesn’t require an Illuminati for the economy to be crashed intentionally, and for us all to be enslaved. If there is an Illuminati or other global shadow government group(s), they aren’t going to get in the way of all the foolish and arrogant plans of the various agendas pursued by our current visible ruling class. They might steer things in a more suitable direction, but it won’t serve their purpose for the whole thing to be take over directly too soon.

We are saddled with a batch of psychopaths who aren’t going to let this thing leave their hands. They are the ones who are raping the American population, and they are more than smart enough to have a workable means to keep it going after the dollar dies and the federal government defaults. There will not be some mass defection of troops and armed officers because their pay will not be cut off. Please don’t tell me you are silly enough to think anyone who really matters has a conscience and will refuse to go along. Those folks were exposed and removed long ago. If not, there simply aren’t enough of them to make any difference. There are some really intelligent and talented psychopaths.

Here’s an example: Where are the folks with the will and means to actually resist? Where are the guys with those Class 5 Federal arms licenses? In remote places where they can’t get in the way! They aren’t in New York City, or any other major metropolitan area; they have all been steered by their own inclinations to places where they can hold their ground — and nobody will care. It’s not about the weapons and resistance. It’s about the control of infrastructure and such. The few who were in the way have been dealt with individually, or are facing it very soon. Sometimes that dealing was pretty public, just as a warning. The independent militias were infiltrated and brought down, so all that’s left is little groups here and there in remote locations. When the time comes, if it matters, they’ll be crushed.

Only a fool imagines this wasn’t carefully planned by some truly smart people in places of power.

What we see before us as the growing crisis is not the aimless stumbling of fools, nor the mindless greed of bumbling idiots who just got lucky. Don’t forget: We didn’t find out about where the bailout money went until long afterward. We still aren’t sure. These people aren’t making it up as they go. Nor are they somehow deluded with false theories of economics and such. Keynesian Economics is not so much what they believe, nor much of how they act. That’s just for public consumption; they know how it works and are taking full advantage of it behind the scenes.

It’s not about good logic or constitutional purity; it’s about reading what these folks are actually doing and bracing ourselves for where it appears to be heading. No one who cares has the power to act, and those with the power certainly don’t care.

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Unworthy and Delighted

Posted on July 14, 2011 by ehurst

They beckoned to me from the side of the road. Fat black globules in clusters big as my thumb, glistening in the sun. I knew I’d have to come back.

The roads in my area generally follow the surveyed section lines, one mile apart. It’s a mostly square grid pattern, but they don’t always bridge creeks and such. This close into the city, they are almost all paved with blacktop. While some barely meet the modern definition of 8-foot lanes at a minimum, they are mostly ten-foot. Aside from a few select areas with high traffic, the asphalt simply stops at the edge. What’s beyond is typically level grass for a foot or two, then sloping down to the drainage ditch. In places it washes out regularly, requiring annual repair until the county gets tired of it and does something to make it more permanent. Other places the road cuts through the rosy sandstone hill side and you get a small rocky cliff.

It was one of these latter places where I saw them.

As these asphalt roads run at odd angles across a very wickedly hilly ridge-n-creek-bed washboard, I get lots of good hill training for my rides. I learned long ago I can’t afford to replace spokes every month, so I never ride anything except mountain bikes. I can’t remember when I was last under 200 pounds (91kg). This one is a cheap aluminum frame, but the most expensive at Wal-Mart that day. Since then I’ve slowly upgraded some of the components. Among other things, I swapped all the shifters, derailers and brake pods to Alivio stuff, changed the saddle to something which properly accommodates my wide frame, and added an aluminum rack on the back. Nobody would imagine I might race, least of all me. I ride for the sheer pleasure and some exercise.

So a sixteen mile (26km) ride is big for non-cyclists, but a warm-up for real riders. It’s just about as much as I could handle that day out in these hills, as the temperature topped 90° F (32C). At the best of times I don’t ride with any intensity, so I often scan the area just to see what’s there. That was how I spotted them on a climb. There weren’t very many, and most of them were the thin and spindly type vines, ripening way late in the season. When that sort of blackberry vine gets enough water, it makes huge clusters. Apparently this particular spot with only a few tiny patches of sandy soil between the rocky places where the road cut through a hilltop was getting just enough water. It certainly got plenty of sun, since the rock face looked south. It was a short row mixed in with other vegetation, but more productive than just about any I’ve seen this year.

That was Monday. Today I went back with my “picker-stick” — one of those extended reach devices with rubber cups on opposing fingers which squeeze together when you pull the trigger. Without looking too closely on that first pass, I figured it would offer a pint or so. Of course, I didn’t catch how many were growing behind the other bushes and tall grasses clinging to the near side of the ditch. The back wall was mostly solid sandstone, with cracks and a few standing plots of soil. The vines all grew on the back wall in these openings. It was odd seeing the majority of the berries ripened all at once. It took we quite a while to pick what I could see and reach, and I got nearly a quart.

As I turned back toward the way I had come, I spotted another patch in a more level area hidden in the tall grass. These were more mixed, in the sense some had already withered, some few still red, but most were ready. It was too many. I picked a select few of the biggest clusters and took home well more than a quart.

I matched them with the frozen berries I had meagerly plucked over the past two weeks from my usual berry haunts and dropped them in the blender. Not quite juicing them, the resulting slurry went into a sauce pan and began to simmer. Adding organic brown sugar and oatmeal, I decided to skip the lemon juice. I’ve had enough tartness for the season. The taste was pure blackberry and sweet. When it was ready, my beloved had made a fine pie crust. I added some cinnamon graham crackers to the blackberry mixture and we dumped it into the pie dish. She also made for me a crumble crust for the top, including crushed pecans (these also grow wild locally).

The result is a deep dish blackberry pie beyond describing. Thus, the title of this post: I am not worthy of such heavenly fare, but I’m delighted to have it.

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More of My Nightmare

Posted on July 13, 2011 by ehurst

We have all sorts of official and alternative sources warning of an economic collapse any day now.

I can’t imagine the Illuminati have gotten us this far to lose it all. We see a crisis approaching with fiat currencies and debt. Truth tellers see it all too clearly, with various experts wondering how much longer the system will last. On the one hand, a lot of experts simply don’t take into account the peculiar genius of the Illuminati in creating the system which has come to this point of crisis. They talk as if this is all simply the results of many independent choices with no concerted aim, that some pretty ordinary people overreached and it’s going to break and there will be chaos. That is what appears to be coming, but I believe it’s intentional, not simply basic human folly. I am convinced it’s a conspiracy, though not the way most people think of it.

The currency, as well as the debt, is all purely notional. If every debtor in the world defaults, the Illuminati will not lose anything of value to them. What they gain is the utter chaos which arises from everyone else who values the currency, and have no other system. Everything alternative has been destroyed, or is so fragile as to be easily destroyed when the time comes — let’s not forget bait-n-switch. Even precious metals are dangerous, because with such a powerful police state, it will be exceedingly risky to keep and use such means of exchange. Direct barter will be the safest, and that’s too complicated for most folks living and breathing in the West today. So they have us over a barrel, and that was the whole idea.

We can be sure there is a replacement already standing by, a system which delivers an even greater measure of control to them. Not in the absolute sense, because that’s not necessary, but a greater measure of control in the sense few will have the energy and understanding to escape it.

Personally, I envision mass chipping or something similar. It depends on whether they want to use biometrics and carried chips, or embedding. There are distinct advantages with both. There may be a mixture of things based on selection criteria, but I expect a proximity readable chip of some sort either way. No chip? No access to anything resembling money, and no access to what keeps you alive. Indeed, there will be no travel without extraordinary measures to remain out of sight of the authorities. You won’t be able to leave your neighborhood without some means of passive identification. Rationing will limit folks dealing on the black market. There will always be a black market, and the system will probably control a bunch of that, too, with only the illusion of freedom at a high cost. Think about the current dope dealer scene, and how the primary means of supply is controlled by the CIA so they can fund their operations off-budget. Then put life essentials in the same market as the dope.

Folks in rural settings will do better, of course. While I expect efforts to herd people onto the reservation, so to speak, you can’t do it totally. Some parts of the country simply don’t operate that way. Some controls won’t be implemented in rural areas because it costs too much, even for governments. Too much expense in too many machines for a population too thinly scattered for too little return. But some of the things people really want or need will be only in the controlled areas, so a lot of rural folks will be scooped in that way.

All the things tried and discussed in the past point to such things. It’s not as if they have been trying to see whether it would work, but how extensively it can be applied. They are gauging the various ways the system will need to be adjusted to deliver maximum control.

There will also be a massive purge, a slaughter or confinement of those already identified as willing and able to resist. Most of the recent losses in privacy, those they announce and those done secretly and “illegally,” were aimed at tagging folks. This is far more efficient than simply eliminating a whole class of people, since human ability is itself an economic resource to be harvested. There is no doubt in my mind I’ve been tagged, though I don’t pretend to know what the labeling includes, what measures they would be willing to use to keep me from being a problem.

I’m still convinced it’s all about the wars. While much of Europe could see a similar regime, I doubt it will be quite the same setup. The nations hurting the worst are the ones ripe for the worst exploitation, because they aren’t useful economically. I expect to see them used the same as the US, starved into submission, then enslaved. Some may require more pain than others to become submissive. Folks escaping to other parts of Europe simply means forcing them to find their place in a more productive regime. But the whole point of all this remains pounding even more independent nations of the world into submission to the Western banking system.

On the one hand, painting this in your mind with too much horror in terms of daily experience would be misleading. Forget the movies you’ve seen. As we go through this, aside from the initial chaos designed to create a high degree of pain and fear, most of it will feel rather normal, routine. The real nightmare is that it will seem so normal. You can’t paint that with movie imagery.

Nor should we expect it will all work out so well. The fundamental morality of the universe will react at some point, and it will all come tumbling down. Without a direct revelation from God, no one can guess how that would come about. What I’m blathering about here is what I believe is planned.

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We Are Not

Posted on July 12, 2011 by ehurst

Our house church is not Protestant, nor Catholic, nor Orthodox, nor do we fit any other standard associations. We have no legal charter, no corporate property, and precious little organization. We don’t consider ourselves a distinct entity at all.

We are primitivists. Best we can tell, we are simply following Jesus, and don’t pretend there’s no better way to do that. This is simply how we do it. About the only thing which binds us together is our rejection of the notion we have to hold a certain minimum in common with each other beyond what’s obvious from Scripture. What makes us different is the very choice to avoid being exclusive. If you don’t exclude yourself from us, you are a member already.

Granted, there is a structure of sorts, as I wear the title “elder”. We don’t really have anyone who wears the label of “pastor” so far, so I do some of the work that entails. Those are labels in the New Testament we see applicable to our situation, words which simplify the conversations about what we will or won’t do. I’m not better; near as we can tell, this is what God appointed for me. No one has to agree to it, but if you aren’t comfortable with it, try not to get in the way of how we conduct our religion. For whatever reason, folks here tend to embrace my leadership. It gives shape and character to our shared activities. At any moment, at any step of the way, someone who can’t or won’t go along is simply prevented from harming others by their choice to do something else.

We aren’t God’s religion police, and won’t listen if you pretend to be that. If God doesn’t compel you Himself to one choice or another, and you can’t seem to figure out for yourself what you will do, we allow you to watch and work around you. It really does depend entirely on His sovereign grace.

Any one of us could probably find a comfortable place in a mainstream church. While that church might not comfortable with some of the things we teach, it’s not necessary to take over their system and program just to hang out. Most churches are an excellent social atmosphere. The people are more likely to be honest and kind within the group, more likely to help you genuinely however they can, and generally are pleasant for fellowship. That’s as much as they need to be.

What separates us is when the people there begin to assert a demand we can’t fulfill, as a condition for staying around. Even if the pressure is informal, something entirely person-to-person, if it persists, it’s a barrier to fellowship and we may have to leave. That this happens so consistently is how we came to the place of holding our own meetings in our home. It’s the paradox that our freedom constrains them; our comfort discomforts them. If they can’t simply accept us on the terms under which we serve Christ and share with them, they don’t accept us at all.

The closer a church is to a Western human government, and the farther they are from a simple family, the more foreign they are to us, and we to them. Funny how, by our being no threat at all, folks feel threatened.

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Mainstream Fantasies

Posted on July 11, 2011 by ehurst

There is a fairly rational accounting for the rabid behavior of Israel in regards to such as the Gaza Flotilla, but it’s not because Israel has good reason.

The most effective propaganda always includes at least a slice of truth. This serves to bury the truth under manure.

It’s hard to imagine someone who isn’t familiar with the modern KKK and Neo-Nazi movements. They are paraded regularly. While there is a fair portion of true believers, most of it PsyOps. Various government agencies are paying people to run these organizations, such that we can say with some certainty there is no real Neo-Nazi or KKK as portrayed. The intent is to cover up the truth, to provide an evil hook on which to hang those who dare to speak the truth.

A wide range of such truth-speakers are tarred with the Neo-Nazi brush. If you do the research and uncover the unpopular facts of the Civil War, for example, you’ll be called at the very minimum a Revisionist Neo-Confederate. If you dare to produce statistics which point out the obvious failures of the Salad Bowl Theory of integration, you are officially a racist. If you dare to ask questions regarding the official Holocaust Narrative, you are a Nazi straight out, and certainly an Anti-Semite.

It won’t matter what facts you present; the sacred civil orthodoxy has closed the door on certain issues. I will be labeled among them simply for writing this much.

Part of the wild caricature of the Neo-Nazi is a recurring them that Jews want to take over the world. Everything is blamed on the Jews. Sometimes you’ll get some careful analysis, or a more precise targeting of some portion of Jews, and maybe even a careful blame strictly on the Zionists. But the underlying theme is to paint the entire discussion with broad satire, to paste on vast layers of overkill to make sure no one dares pay any attention to the question itself. Once this caricature is established in the public mind, you can’t say a word without being pulled into that image.

So sue me — I’m going to talk about it.

If you want a second opinion, you might research a fellow named Michael A. Hoffman II. He approaches the question of Judaism still clinging to Aristotle, and I’m not too comfortable with his mercenary demand for money just to quote him, so I won’t even link to his sites. Many of his other writings aren’t that useful, in my opinion, chasing a lot of conspiracy mythology. But he does have a wide array of well researched facts regarding the Talmud which parallel what follows.

I have written before that the modern nation-state of Israel is the single biggest threat to peace and safety in this world. I’ve also noted Judaism today is not at all biblical Old Testament religion. Jesus condemned the Talmud, and it returns the favor. Today the orthodox rabbi hardly even knows the Scripture, but he can quote verbatim vast passages of that other “Torah” we call the Talmud. It’s a half-secret that when modern Orthodox Jews use the term “Torah,” they are referring to Torah SheBeal Peh (spellings vary), which is their term for the Talmud. The Pentateuch in the Bible is called Torah SheBichtav.

According to Jewish fables, the latter was hard to understand, so Moses himself, or his brother Aaron, issued the underlying framework of the former. Thus, the Talmud is an embellished record of oral Law, and the Scripture is the written portion. However, it’s simply too easy to trace back the existing resources and see how the Talmud arose almost entirely from the post-Hellenism exposure. The only reason they claim the written was hard to follow is because they had rejected the underlying intellectual frame of reference. If you take the time to learn enough about that ancient Hebrew mystical approach, the written Torah is pretty straightforward and easy to grasp. Scholars have proven beyond all doubt the Talmud was a Westernized perversion of the older Hebrew mystical approach to the Law of Moses.

Further, the Talmud itself says it takes precedence over even the most obvious Scripture passages. God, having once passed His revelation to the nation of Israel, must now submit all future revelation to a rabbinical committee (that’s almost a direct quote from the Talmud). Anything which contradicts their Talmud is a lie by definition. Indeed, anytime any Gentile dares to use their own Talmud, however accurately, against them, he’s lying simply because he’s a Gentile. Herein is the crux of the issue: The Talmud declares Jews must and will rule the world sooner or later. Not just the world, but reality itself is subject to whatever a proper rabbinical committee says it is.

Granted, this reflects the minority Orthodox Jews, not the Conservative or Reformed branches of Judaism. What most people want to ignore is how the Orthodox influence everyone else, including all the secular Jews. That famous rabbi who said it could not be called “murder” for any Jew to kill any Gentile for any reason was the chief rabbi in Hebron, and for all the complaints against him, the government of Israel could have fired him. His position remains approved by the government. As always, don’t listen to their words; look at their actions. The government secretly approves of his underlying message. We have plenty of quotes from government officials to back it up; Israel judges the world and each other, but no one else in the world can be permitted to judge Israel. The Orthodox position on things flavors the whole national government; the Orthodox rabbis are simply more open and honest about it.

We can find other ways the government of Israel sounds like Orthodox rabbis, such as their willingness to lie to the world and consider it normal. This accounts for the most outrageous statements. But if any tries to correct the story, they are shouted down, as it were. If Israel says it, God Himself lacks the competence to question their assertion.

Again, within the context of the slow drift of New World Order global government planning, that Israel and Orthodox Jews will rule the world is a fantasy. Israelis genuinely believe it, but the global elite permit it as simply a misdirection. What may have begun as the Rothschilds dream of a Talmudic world empire has been eclipsed by a more Satanic and secularist plan. It got as far as forcing a modern Israel down the world’s throat, but Israel is just one party in the global ruling elite. Things are somewhat confused by what appears a sick hatred for Jewish people by the most elite Jewish ruling class, and we have writings from some Illuminati expressing a rabid malice against Jews. This only serves to confirm my doubts about Israel being the key to what we can expect.

Rather, this unspeakable horror emanating from the ancient Bible lands in our modern life is just a distraction, a way of channeling human desire to fulfill the broader plans of world government. Surely America is steered by it. What happens once we clobber all of Israel’s enemies? Will the global elite and their war plans stop? It won’t be a Talmudic or even Kabbalistic world government, but a forcefully secular one. Over the vast history of humanity, there has only been one source for such secularism, and that’s Western Civilization. For this reason, I maintain the current dominant world power is fundamentally Western secularist.

Those who cling to Western Civilization, or Aristotelian epistemology, are willing participants in the great mass of global evil we face right now, whether they know it or not. When you understand that, you are in a better position to decide how you need to act and react to whatever comes in the future. This is our reality.

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Just Guessing

Posted on July 10, 2011 by ehurst

Adding my brain spew to the background muttering of conspiracy theorists and pajama bloggers.

So we had Paneta preaching as head of the CIA about pulling more military operations under CIA command. We all know this would make them black ops, not open to very much review, and certainly with secret budgets. Then he moves to Defense and a most compliant Army General Petraeus takes his place at the CIA. Does anyone doubt this is a big setup? Voting in Congress to stop arming the Libyan rebels is simply Congress’s way of saying take it off the books if you’re going to do that. Besides, the CIA has numerous proxies for that sort of thing.

Meanwhile, nobody wants to talk about how the “peaceful demonstrations” in Syria always seem to include police and troops getting shot by either folks hiding in the crowds or snipers in elevated positions. Granted, Assad is a thug, but let’s be honest and report the whole story, please. You expect a thug to react with force against murderers. If they hide in the crowd, the crowd needs to stop protecting them. Don’t think crowds aren’t capable of it. They’ve stopped police agents provocateur in other places in the past, so it’s not that hard. The whole thing is a hideous ploy to create a civil war.

Iran is actually being quite restrained, if you ask me. Shooting two missiles into the Indian Ocean, far away from the ships of their erstwhile enemies, is a reasonable way to send a message. We know the US and Israel are just looking for an excuse to attack. That’s because their decades of agitation such as we see in Libya and Syria, with extensive training and funding to these faux democracy activists, hasn’t worked too well in Iran. Iranians have seen it all before, and won’t be easy victims again. Since the cloak and dagger isn’t working well enough, everyone knows it will come to open hostilities.

The attack will come all too soon.

So I’m wondering how they’ll stage it. Yes, the debate is currently active within the military leadership. On the one hand, we have an awful lot of new, hi-tech toys that reduce the need for direct manpower involvement. But that won’t be enough to execute a mass destruction on the scale of our actions in Iraq. Iran has a much bigger military, and lots more stuff, including some nifty toys of their own. They could close the Straits of Hormuz with some mobile small missile launchers and it would hold for a very long time, since they aren’t defenseless against the drones. Thus, on the other hand, we have to send in the boots or it won’t accomplish much.

That is, I and hundreds of other commentators don’t see how the US could be satisfied with just picking and poking, since Iran won’t lie quietly and take it. You have to pity their position. Based on numbers and realistic military calculations, Iran isn’t likely to win, but they can’t just bow down to the West. That cost them too much the last time (look up the Shah of Iran). They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. I doubt they hold out any real hope everyone will grow up and leave them alone.

I’m wondering how the Neocons plan to get enough bodies for an invasion? We don’t have anywhere near enough right now, unless they execute a general mobilization. I just don’t see us scraping up enough mercenaries to do it. This would have to be a really big operation. That means anyone who possibly could go would have to pack up and go. Without the proper emotional provocation, the “Pearl Harbor 2.0” we keep hearing about, there would be riots. That’s why we keep talking about a false flag, something which plausibly blames Iran for being stupid. So far, Iran has been really smart. Somebody in the secret councils of government, and not ours only, is pulling out all the stops in plotting this one. It has to look real, be hard to debunk quickly, and will be such an emotionally devastating thing you’ll have thousands crowding into the military recruiting offices.

You see, I recall from my military training days — this is not a secret — that we could do a crush and hold for a short time, probably just long enough to mobilize and train up some recruits. It would pay well to keep an eye on when and whether the US military expands their training facilities and the staffing. I’m guessing the larger strategy itself aims to hit all the targets they can with the automated systems and slow down the Iranian response. Iran’s resources are too well distributed to blow them all up at once, but their biggest and best toys are plotted on a map already. We could just possibly keep them from hitting back too quickly and easily, but that doesn’t solve anything long term. Everyone knows the Russians and Chinese would be eager to extend credit and rearm them with nice toys. We just can’t control all the air routes, and we can’t bully those two. But moving that stuff takes time, even when it’s all pre-staged. If we don’t send in the boys and girls to occupy, we won’t have accomplished much, but the planners believe they could wait for a massing of troops for a little while.

They might try to provoke an internal uprising once things are wrecked, a sort of fifth column thing, but last time I looked at it, there didn’t seem to be enough dissidents with the credibility of taking over the government and making it stick. I think the military is too big and too loyal. I believe our own government sees it that way. Even with a regime change, we still have to remove the military, and that’s not a small task. The alternative is hoping enough armed folks will oppose them, and we can foment a civil war as in Libya. It’s possible, but I am one who doubts it will happen that way. The folks most likely to oppose the regime in Iran don’t like us any better. They want reform, not revolution. We get away with things in Egypt because the military is still a Western client, but Iran still has a powerful Islamic revolutionary element — with guns.

So far as I can determine, there would almost have to be a false flag operation to blame Iran for something, then a very intense mobilization, probably including something resembling conscription. And I seriously doubt there are any scenarios calling for a demobilization in the US later. Once the massive military is built again, they’ll simply move on to the next target. Don’t forget, we still have plenty of smaller Asian countries, North Korea and China, and possibly Russia. The Western Warlords will never be satisfied.

The key element for me, and precious few others, is the moral question. No, not angels of light dancing in the streets in Iran, just better than the US. If you examine Iran’s record in light of genuine biblical morality, they are light years ahead of the West. Almost every case trumpeted by the Human Rights folks conveniently forgets biblical morality, and ignores the context of most prosecutions. That woman supposed to die by stoning for adultery? She was charged with conspiring to murder her husband, and the case was pretty strong by even Western standards. The MSM never mentioned that, but the Human Rights folks typically downplayed it when they mentioned it. Keep in mind the Human Rights movement is seldom operating honestly, either; they can be bought. The point is, Iranian courts have been rather merciful even when a case wasn’t drawing international attention, simply because that’s their culture. Western morality is practically non-existent, and everything we see in the news serves some obvious political agenda, with only the thinnest pretense of promoting genuine morals.

Thus, if by God’s own revealed standards anyone deserves to win this fight, it’s Iran. That’s entirely separate from my prophecy Iran will win anyway. On this, I’m not guessing.

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Legalism and Religion

Posted on July 9, 2011 by ehurst

It’s not about semantics, per se, but clear thinking.

Legalism is not simply a matter of hide-bound about rules. It’s not being a stickler for pointless details, not wrangling over endless permutations of application. Those are symptoms. Legalism is making the laws your god, and presuming overconfidence in understanding and executing them.

It’s a fine shade of difference which arises from intellectual culture and epistemology.

The only thing you can know of God is His requirements for you. That’s what Scripture means when it refers to “knowing God.” You are expected to extrapolate the unknown from the known, but you never presume to really understand. So it’s okay to talk about God’s character and personality, as long as you keep in mind you really can’t explain it. You can only indicate it.

In the Ancient Near Eastern world, they were aware of inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning, and how to combine them on things which can be known. But no one had ever challenged the notion these only applied to lesser things. No one had ever challenged the necessity of divine revelation to understand things that really mattered. No one ever presumed to figure it out without the inclusion of mystical inputs arising from the subconscious portion of the mind. At the same time, the ancients had an awful lot more of that territory mapped out than we do today. For them, it was an necessary part of operating in this world to include symbolic logic and parabolic expression.

When the string of philosophers in Greece, reaching their zenith with Aristotle, discarded the mystical input to knowledge, it was almost too shocking. Eastern philosophers found such a crippled approach incomprehensible, but their immature and weak-minded students were enthralled by it. Little by little, the whole Eastern legacy of intellect was eroded by each successive generation of students becoming trapped in the emotional thrill of claiming to become masters of their emotions, all by discarding what was most difficult and most essential to understanding the universe. Today, if you try to explain to any Christian scholar the Fall was pushing aside the spirit in favor of the intellect, you’d be met with incomprehension in most cases, and with ridicule too often. If you exchange the word “spirit” with “mystical” in that statement, you’d probably get hostility. If not, chances are you are dealing with someone who is hiding a lust for rejecting God’s limits on human behavior. What passes for mysticism in the West is just fuzzy logic, in a attempt to claim a better brand of logic on the same level.

Without the genuine mystical approach, you can’t get law and justice in the right place. You either dismiss law, or you make it god. Then you can pretend to mix and match the various points of detailed analysis, but you are still working from a false dichotomy. Under mysticism, law is simply the necessary method, a flexible outline of where to start.

Moses warned his congregation the Law was not out of reach, that it was not incomprehensible, that it did not require impossible demands. Jesus said outright the Law of Moses had been intended as a pretty light-weight standard compared to the higher Laws of God. It was eminently reasonable on the human level, and the history of Israel is loaded with examples of how it could be done. There were periods when the obedience was pretty good, and the results were miraculous. It never was about hide-bound stickling over minute details. The very existence of the ritual system is loaded with examples of recognizing you can’t ever really be compliant by performance. Thus, you live by the system presuming you most certainly will make mistakes, including many you just don’t recognize.

The Talmud was a vast pile of manure compared to the soaring moral expectations of the Law of Moses. It arose from a long trend away from the moral sensitivity of early Hebrew history. Leading up the Exile, the national leadership had decided they were the Chosen, and it really didn’t matter how sincere they were. Simply go through the motions and God was trapped by His own promises, required to take care of things and not fuss. A generation or two in Exile exposed them to the gross religious materialism of Zoroastrianism, and the Jews came to believe material wealth was the primary mark of God’s favor. If you were rich, you must be holy. So when the Greeks came along evangelizing their Hellenistic rationalism, it was an easy sale. In just a few more generations, the Jewish intellectual elite became hostile to mysticism. By the time Jesus came along, His ancient mystical approach was rejected out of hand, and it was no longer the Law which was god, but the perversion we now call the Talmud was god. They simply called it “the Law.”

As for the word “religion,” it has become unfashionable with modern Christian Pharisees. Religion is merely the system by which you comply with demands of grace. You can’t pretend faith is ideas; orthodoxy is not “true religion” as the New Testament terms it. True religion is moral conduct drawn from something beyond explanation. Faith defies reason. Religion is law, in the sense that law was intended to provide a frame of reference, and this is what we are required to build and maintain.

You as an individual under grace, fully alive spiritually, are required to craft a religion which reflects the justice of God in an unjust world. Yes, there are a range of issues already settled so long ago in ancient times, you would be hard pressed to justify departing from them. Human sexuality is an obvious area which remains unchanged from Genesis to Revelation, covering tens of thousands of years of history. There are other issues which haven’t changed much, and we do well to discern them. But there is a whole range of things which simply cannot be codified except in the broadest generalizations. It’s not hard to understand the difference between an act of violence which is questionable, and a violent soul which is always wrong. It’s neither a matter of being nor doing, but of commitment.

When we build a faith community, law is all we have. I am not in a position to discern much more than whether we can get along well enough to do religion together. All the fancy language about being, as if I could pretend to know what I am, much less what you are in God’s eyes, is a violation of Christ’s teaching and intent. We join fellowship based on common assumptions about how we shall conduct our rituals and our lives in general. We formulate some laws in an attempt to give a usable structure to things on which we can agree. We recognize most of it merely symbolizes a desire to please God, and we don’t become cranky about minor variations. If a woman can explain why we teach she should wear a physical veil on her head in worship, we aren’t going to pick over her choice of fashion colors, and she can wear a baseball cap if she likes, even backwards. If the baseball cap advertises a filthy movie, she doesn’t get it. The symbol is far less important than the ineffable truth to which it points.

Such was the proper understanding of the Law of Moses among ancient Hebrews. If you simply don’t have enough intellectual energy to pursue the flexibility of it, ask and someone in leadership will make simplified rules for you. That’s what we do for children. When you absorb the underlying concepts as best you can, and demonstrate some desire to internalize them, you are set free to innovate on the precise application. We aim more for effects and results, and offer a wide tolerance for those who can convince us they meant well. Yes, this permits shysters to get away with much, and it makes it really hard for those who aren’t good at communication, but those are limits which can’t be fixed. We accept there is much which lies beyond our human reach, and emphasize what lies within it.

Do not equate orthodoxy with faith. If you can understand it intellectually, it’s not divine. The inherent nature of the Fall was the presumption the mind could handle the divine. It’s the same evil which presumes to master the law. Don’t bend law to your fear and lust for control. Religion is law and that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Religion is simply a commonly agreed pattern of behavior and talk which facilitates serving God together. Never presume your religion and orthodoxy are anything more than your own expression of a desire for something you can’t possibly explain. If other people like it, share it. If not, press ahead with the best you can understand.

Don’t take yourself so seriously.

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Tribulation Church: Isolation Is Our Lot

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ehurst

I joined a House Church forum this week: Radical Christian Cafe. Not a lot of traffic; not too many members and they don’t do too much airhead chatter.

Granted, even here I will be an oddball. I don’t have to worry about rabid Zionists, but my lack of enthusiasm for Western Civilization makes me one of a kind there. Even with the very low level of organization natural to house church folks, they still tend to think in terms of human talent as an indicator of God’s calling. That is, if you are good at something as a sinner, the Christian equivalent is surely what God called you to do. I oversimplify, but that’s the flavor of it.

I can’t fault them for that tendency, because that’s just about the whole of Christendom for at least the past thousand years. And as always, I’m not going to cram my viewpoint down their throats. I’ll lurk and see what counts as sensitive topics, and what they tend to emphasize, so I can avoid being too alien and useless. I’m not the Truth Police.

So far as I know, we have maybe four to six locally who are comfortable with our teaching. So far as I can estimate, there are about twice that many online. Because I’m not playing the numbers game, I’m not bothered by the slow uptake. It’s not to say only a couple dozen people on Planet Earth really understand the Bible, but our portion is early in the mission. And from time to time I read bits and pieces indicating there is probably a much wider group of kindred spirits, but we are all thinly scattered and isolated.

Given what we believe about such things, it would be totally unacceptable to go into heavy advertising. My stuff has been published at an ezine with a fairly good readership, and only one person has responded positively, and anonymously. It’s not for everyone, and we simply do not mimic much of the mainstream behavior.

We few are the Tribulation Church, Christian Mystics, eagerly anticipating the coming trials, totally at peace with the promises of God.

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War Is the Key

Posted on July 7, 2011 by ehurst

It won’t matter how you analyze it, the wars in which the US are involved will expand at all costs. What follows is merely my own reasoning, so feel free to jump in and share your thoughts.

I hate war. Not a single war in the history of the US was justified. All of it was highly partisan hatred over things which just did not matter, needless provocations with an eye to private profit by one party or another. Always it was some large number of people killed, and massive quantities of property destroyed, because someone wanted a bigger cut of the pie. It’s like the thief willing to cost you thousands, and even take your life, for a short-term gain of less than $100. Not a single one of the proclaimed causes was genuine. I write that as someone who has been certified to teach history, if credentials matter to you.

As a degreed theologian who has been through the full breadth of what man has believed and now believes under the various stripes of Christian religion, I can assure you that war can be justified under certain narrow contexts. But so seldom has anyone in charge cared, we can count on our fingers the justified wars in recorded human history. We can also rest assured from God’s own mouth that wars will gradually increase until the end of history. It is something in fallen human nature itself that once any grouping of humanity embarks on the course of war for expansion of power, influence and/or resources, they will never consider withdrawing while they live.

This is the one fundamental fact of our existence here in the US: The current military adventures will not decrease so long as the current government exists. All the peace activism, all the political movements and any human effort, in any combination, on any scale, will not stop this. Should a genuine peace candidate make a credible run for president, he’ll be dead before he’s sworn into office. A genuine national uprising would not change it. Kill everyone in office, but as long as the current system exists, the wars will continue and expand. This is fact, not hyperbole. The people in office are not the reason for the wars; there is a very real and unresponsive shadow government behind them which is responsible while totally unaccountable. It won’t much matter how you envision them, because you’ll never be able to touch them, never be able to affect the course of their plans.

We can tell a few things about them and their plan, though. They are totally unconcerned about the country going broke, going into default on the debts, or any other fiscal concerns. It’s fair to assume they control the currency and debt in the first place. The US is a special case in their plans, not like Greece, Portugal or other nations nearing default. Since there is no other source of military power available to them in the near future, you can be sure they are determined to continue using the US for war. These folks are intelligent, and they are working all the angles at once.

I doubt it matters to them whether they use delusion and manipulation or direct force to keep us on the task they have chosen for us. We should expect some of both. So long as it is physically possible at all, the US will be used for war. Consider what life is like in Gaza — our future won’t be that pleasant if we resist. They would be willing to decimate the entire population before they surrender control. We can be easily replaced by any number of populations who would gladly come here.

The likelihood of genuine wide spread resistance is really quite small. Given what you can easily see of our “culture,” you can understand my skepticism. We are a nation of spoiled brats and whiners. Take away almost everything else, but as long as there is something to stuff in our mouths and something on the TV screen, we’ll go along. For most people, the Internet is merely an alternate form of TV, and it will become more so. Our conditioning has really taken hold, in part because there is no legacy which gives us an old and solid identity. Our founding fathers were mostly rejects from their own homelands, so what little we might have had was quickly and easily forgotten. Our only national identity is our superior war making ability, matched by our arrogance and thorough materialism and hedonism. Everything else is fake. This is how we were shaped intentionally.

We are reaching a crisis stage, though it is largely artificial. Whatever happens will be very messy, but the underlying trend will not change. Our course is carved into stone. The population is highly fractured politically, but I estimate the most reliable voting block for TPTB is the Christian Right. This has been wholly hijacked by the Neocons. The nascent Tea Party was also hijacked and defanged. Token resistance is permitted, but will not accomplish anything of substance. I currently estimate Obama has run his course, and will be replaced by a Republican. While the Democrats have silenced the antiwar Left, there simply is not a big enough coherent voting block behind him any more. When Libya, Syria and Iran become a Right Wing war, the antiwar left will become the token dissent. I’m guessing there may be some event which will further discredit the Democrats to keep them from pressing signature Progressive causes with any real effect for awhile. I sense a coming crushing PR defeat for the Greens, for example.

To some degree, there will be an effort to recreate a WW2 atmosphere in the US. It should be entertaining to look for parallels, since WW2 was also a total PsyOp, too. Getting involved in a war effort will be just about the only way to eat for a great many people. At the same time, our warfare will become increasingly technology oriented, and less reliant on so much direct manpower. Yes, we all know nothing replaces living, breathing tactical troops on the ground, but the people in charge of strategy are trying to forget that. As we produce more and better high technology arms, and as we put a deeper layer of machinery between the troops and the targets, it requires less and less concern over consciousness and conscience. It’s easier to destroy and kill without conscience when it feels just like your computer video games, an industry fully sponsored by TPTB. More and more of the combat personnel will not need maneuver conditioning and training.

There will surely be a false flag event soon. They’ve already tipped their hand; we’ll see another Pearl Harbor. What form it takes depends on too many factors I can’t guess. It may not even be anything we expect, but something which has the effect of dampening dissent for just awhile, something which stirs some measure of patriotic fervor. Because it will be somewhat muted compared to previous efforts, I keep wondering how the slavery angle will arise. Somehow there will be a mass compulsory service requirement instituted, because I don’t believe poverty and fear alone are sufficient to raise enough voluntary compliance.

While all of this is evil, and by God’s Laws you can justify resisting, I warn that it’s mostly futile. If you can escape, do so. Not every part of the country will be affected equally by all this, so look for places where there is little federal activity to change the status quo. For example, I honestly expect less change here in Oklahoma. If you can stand the weather, North Dakota is another good place to go, as the economy is booming. More direct resistance will almost surely get you hurt or killed. They’ll break all the rules. All these brilliant political insights and powerful logical analyses are a waste of energy; the rules simply don’t matter to them. And again, I’ve never believed political activism accomplishes much. Even more so when the mere act of organizing will invite infiltration and disruption you would find hard to imagine. The only thing which can stop this train is if a significant number become fully conscious and informed, and there is a genuine cultural shift, a radical change in thinking shared across a very large part of the population. That simply isn’t happening.

Aside from that, I believe God Himself has warned this coming oppression is our just due, His appointed wrath on America’s sins. I believe He says fleeing is allowed, but that active resistance is a sin. He won’t support it. The moral fabric has been torn already, and we are exposed until it heals. America’s death warrant has been signed and sealed in Eternity. As you surf the Net in the coming days, pay no attention to anyone or any presentation which seeks to rally resistance through any combination of information or incitement. Don’t swallow any offering of false hope. I have no idea when the train is going to wreck, but that’s the only stopping point on the tracks ahead.

Game over, dude. Enjoy the fireworks.

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