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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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Pearls Before Swine

Posted on July 6, 2011 by ehurst

There are people in this world you cannot help.

If you persist in trying to help them, you will only get hurt for no good purpose. We give ourselves completely and freely to truth, but we can’t decide that for anyone else. Nor can we pretend we have arrived at universal truth, only that we are committed to it. You aren’t really offering truth, but yourself. It’s the truth you know, and it’s not for everyone. Having and knowing the truth, being able to uncover it before the eyes of another, is not always the point. A part of that truth is there are people and contexts in which your truth is always hostile.

I find myself dismayed by my own demons in this. Truth is not a static pile of facts in properly ordered arrangement. Truth is a Person, and is all about linking others persons back to the Person which is Truth. There are times when being True means playing a child’s game in a child’s imaginary world. The child needs the truth of my caring so that I become significant enough to share the truth outside that fantasy world sometime later. Truth is the investment of building a pathway for tomorrow. Truth is not demanding full submission this day and hour as the price for being in my world.

You need not be indifferent to someone else’s ignorance to let it slide. You do need to know whether and when you are in a position to help them. You don’t give pearls to swine, nor even a plate from your table. You give them the rotting leftovers from your previous feast. If they learn to trust you as a source for what they believe they really need, perhaps they will learn to trust you as the source for things more important. But you cannot make a pig into a buddy. That is, unless you are a pig yourself, in which case you won’t care and won’t read my stuff.

It’s not a question of whether the person is worth your time. It’s a question of whether they are in your reach, and whether the issue at hand makes any difference. The world itself is a big lie, so why should you blindly try to fix every niggling factual mistake? This is why I say the Rule of Law is a fantasy, because it presumes the actual ability to be fair and disinterested on the part of anyone with power to execute the law. To find someone pedantically devoted to the facts means finding someone so deeply flawed they have no understanding of what matters, of why we bother to gather facts in the first place. We do it because people are more important than facts, particularly in the sense of whether people have their facts straight.

It’s not dishonest to offer slop to a pig, regardless what costume someone puts on that pig. Someone who wants slop has declared themselves a pig. In casual conversation, when you meet people, keep your mouth shut and your ears open. Smile and ask polite and careful questions so you know what you are dealing with. To fix old and broken relationships, just shift your tactics. Stop trying to correct their misunderstanding of reality. Be ready to dissolve partnerships not in your partner’s best interest, or at least some of the closeness. Draw back and set them free. You don’t have to wallow in the mud to appreciate the need for creating a mud hole for some folks. Meet their needs at the level they live, so far as you can discern. Deal with people on the level they choose for themselves, not where you want them to be.

Changing a pig to a person is not in your power.

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Being Held for Ransom Never Worries the Poor Man

Posted on July 5, 2011 by ehurst

The plundering is not done by half.

The most important thing I can do is help another person get past some barrier, or to be forewarned of a coming threat. For some years I’ve followed the alternative news sources because they generally have a better record than the MSM. Their pursuit of spiked stories often made the difference in how I perceived things. But sometimes you don’t need news stories to know something about the bad stuff coming. And when someone highlights a half truth or the wrong story, it’s worse than saying nothing.

In the US, our future has been plundered in the form of debt obligations. First it was the massive consumer spending come-on, and the building of insatiable consumption habits. Then the jobs were sent away, with bogus promises of the information economy. It never happened. Second, the houses people bought along with all the other stuff became impossible to keep. So there was massive foreclosure actions, but that’s been halted in some places, and that party is about over. And for the coming wave of consumer credit defaults, there really isn’t that much to take.

While we already know the various police agencies have been seizing anything beyond mere pocket change under forfeiture laws, people have figured out how to dodge most of that. So while we can expect this to morph into more different kinds of things being “forfeited” to policemen, that is now clearly on the decline as a source. At the same time, the prisons are overcrowded with petty drug offenders, and lots of normal human behavior is now criminal.

The flooding of the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys has resulted in a bold land grab of submerged farmland. That’s because the Big Agriculture industry is determined to gain full control over food production in the US. FDA enforcement actions are increasingly reducing the choices we are permitted to make in what we grow and buy, and yet giving full open highways for Big Ag. Look for an increasing consolidation of food production. It won’t be so absolute as to block every little backyard garden patch, at least not yet. But the bulk of what you will find available will have come from one of several oligopoly cartel members. Oh, they’ll provide, but it will be what they want you to have, what makes them the most profit, not what you wish.

I keep getting a vision of private gold confiscation. I have no idea how they’ll pull that off, only the certainty they’ll try. If you’ve posted online anywhere about buying and selling gold, they’ll come after you. All private pensions will be rolled over into government programs. All private retirements will become wards of the state, as it were. I expect to see savings plundered in some way or another.

The business over the borrowing limit debate in Congress is a Catch-22. If the Republicans roll over, Congress becomes more of a rubber stamp. If they fight too long, I fully expect the President to declare unilateral authority to raise it himself. I think we’ll all be stunned at how far they can push it, how astronomical the figures can be. If the ratings institutions get too noisy, something will happen to them.

Somewhere down the road, most of us will be slaves of the government. Prisoners are already performing slave labor, particularly in private prisons, but something short of a criminal conviction will be created, rather like the old vagrancy laws. Anyone not gainfully employed in one of the officially approved Big Corporation operations will be forced to work for this or that government program, and some will be rented out on contract. Whether this involves FEMA camps is really not important. Keep your eye on plans for big stuff which is labor-intensive, and where they’ll need the bodies. Look for people to be pushed out of places where bodies aren’t needed for these plans.

As always, I can’t pretend to know how or when on this stuff. This is nothing more than my speculation based on what I can see. Watch the bigger trends; don’t get too wrapped up in individual crises which come and go. I get weary with all the frantic articles about this or that scary thing.

Fukushima will destroy a big chunk of the Japanese population, but here it will mean simply a rising background in sickness and early mortality. I believe the Gulf Oil Disaster is being dealt with, and it won’t be quite the environmental disaster we are expecting. It will be another kind of disaster arising from how they deal with it, using GMO oil-eating bacteria. The only remaining problem is not that there will be more such oil releases, but that there remains too many people on the Gulf Coast to fuss about it. They’ll move or the Corexit and bacteria will kill them. The government doesn’t want people on the Gulf Coast, especially independent folks who aren’t wealthy or petroleum workers.

Those who have will get more, and those who don’t will get even less. The economic middle will nearly disappear, and the gap will be huge between the haves and have-nots. This is not news, but it’s the obvious plan. If you have nothing they want, they’ll leave you alone. If you believe they are herding you in one direction, be prepared to go another and leave before they can cut you off. Train yourself to live as independently as possible.

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Premonition Four

Posted on July 5, 2011 by ehurst

(Note the “fiction” tag, folks.)

He was utterly certain no one would expect this.

Of course the raving conspiracy theorists had picked up on the leaks of some sort of false flag disaster, but they were all looking in the wrong direction.

There had been still too much resistance, too many people protesting and willing to actively interfere with the war making. Peace activists were one thing, but the damning logic of the writers and speakers who rallied those activists was a serious problem. There were too many of them to simply take out the big names.

So the climate had to be changed.

It required something unpleasant happen at the premier meeting of their own best publicity agency. Once an up and coming replacement or two was chosen, the grand old man of Christian Zionists could meet an untimely end, though only a year or two, given his poor state of health. Of course, the really important people would be in some closed door meeting elsewhere when it happened.

The promotional team had really outdone themselves. It seemed almost every evangelical church in the country had sent a delegation. This would be the biggest festival by far, right there in DC. Such nice festivities were laid on; too bad it was to be cut short. The bigger the tragedy, the greater the impact.

Of course, it was never hard to find a crack team of real or faux Muslims with Iranian connections. Expensive to lose good men, but it was the price for winning. For the hatred to work, these would have to be found and rounded up for the big show trial. His superiors had learned from the glaring shortcomings of the Trade Towers operation. No cutouts this time.

Of course, this was a much simpler operation in the first place. They would net more than 15,000 victims, when you add the support personnel, vendors, and those who were simply too close to the facility. At the cost of another few thousand lives, the American Zionists would rise in fury at the terrorist act striking at the heart of their rally against the enemies of Israel. They would not be bullied! Everyone who even appeared to support the end of the wars would be a traitor.

He chuckled at the thought of the evangelicals returning to their southern roots and lynching, though not with literal ropes, for the most part. He expected a lot of creative variations. Every major congregation in the US would have their own martyrs. For years to come, until the Americans exhausted their last ounce of energy, they would fight the wars for Israel.

It was time. From his seat near the main entrance to the meeting hall, with lovely energetic music and singing, he stood up and walked out the door. It was the signal. His giddy humor at the thought of getting jihadis to dress in drag, looking like pale-skinned church ladies so they could pass unnoticed in the crowd, was uniformly mistaken for the spiritual enthusiasm of the worship songs by everyone who saw him. A quick handshake or two, and he exited to signaled for his driver.

He was on an errand to the off-site leader’s conference, a faithful messenger of the main sponsoring organization, which was liberally salted with his fellow Mossad agents. The jihadis had no such cover.

He watched the traffic for a few seconds, but said nothing to his driver as the man did his best to fight his way through the mass of vehicles always clogging the streets of the nation’s capital. Instead, he stroked the face of his cellphone, then poked at it a couple dozen times. The text message would set off yet another chain of events of which the jihadis knew nothing. A much larger team of witnesses and informants were in place to make sure the jihadis never got very far. He looked up and smiled a bit to notice his driver had placed them in a fast peloton of taxis heading away from the conference center.

It was critical to get as far away as possible before the devices disgorged their toxic gasses.

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Dependence Day

Posted on July 4, 2011 by ehurst

Pardon me while I think out loud, here. Since I don’t take myself that seriously, you are welcome to ridicule or ignore, as you see fit. Meanwhile, I genuinely care about people and I’m trying to understand how I can help. Sometimes just spewing my brains on this electronic graffiti wall might trigger your own understanding of what you really need to do.

I’ve already posted quite often my underlying assumptions about what really matters and how we should face things on this plane of existence. I’ve also made it plain, I hope, my ultimate reliance on revelation from God as to how I should view the entire matrix of what is real. At the same time, readers should know by now I hardly read Scripture the same way mainstream Western theologians do. This is all the background, the terrain upon which I build.

Reading all the brilliant analysis in the world won’t necessarily answer the question of what you should expect. Take it all under advisement, but back off and try to observe as much as possible what is actually happening. Here is what I see with my limited field of vision.

1. The US economy was intentionally destroyed. Everything we can know points to this as fact. Whatever we’ve been doing up to now has not yielded enough support for the program. The more gentle steering touch has not worked well enough; it’s time for a more direct force. Preventing people from doing much with the resources at hand sets things up so the people and the resources can be controlled by others more overtly and efficiently. If everything blocks you from going about the business of life, it’s because someone wants to remove from your hands the decision-making power. They have to stop you from doing what you want, and make you hungry, dependent, pliable to their demands in exchange for your human needs.

2. The US government is gaining more and more direct control over the economy. Not just by regulation, but by outright ownership. Available credit is being increasingly consumed by the government. Available labor, when there is any labor at all, is increasingly government paid labor. All the basic pools of resource are being taken or bought by the government. What does it mean to you when the entire economy itself is simply the activity of the government?

3. The only thing we still produce as a nation, aside from massive quantities of food, is war materials and bodies. The one business which is reliably our greatest output is war. This is growing, and all efforts by hands outside the war machine to restrain are slipping. Watch what actually happens, not what anyone says. The warfare is not winding down anywhere. Meanwhile, most of our allies are backing out of this business. Again, pay no attention to the carping and posturing. America is becoming the West’s army, and all other players are mere tokens and supporters.

4. Money doesn’t really exist; it’s all notional, virtual. It’s currently whatever the market says it is, but that market is highly manipulated by mostly unseen hands. The minions of TPTB who run the markets aren’t really in control. It’s what keeps them in line; they are allowed to believe they have power and wealth. The power to expend resources in warfare only appears to be a matter of money and credit drawn from a market. If TPTB want war, they’ll have it. If the US defaults, it will only be a theatrical event designed to create a mass perception. It’s just an act of hypnosis, as it were. Regardless of all the twiddling in banking computers and the noise in the media, there will be resources and bodies committed to war against a certain range of entities.

5. Currently, the target of most warfare seems to be Islam. That’s not precisely true, though. It’s any nation with the notions of being independent of the banking system. That in itself may be just a means to something else, a way of identifying discrete targets. I tend to believe there is something in all this which seeks to level mankind under the basic materialistic assumptions of Western Civilization. Any tendency to think above the level of this plane of existence, any drive to do things for a genuine higher purpose, is the real target, I believe. I don’t think it matters whether there is any whisker of real truth in any religion, as far as TPTB are concerned. It’s only the apparent effects of a given religion that matters to them. Islam offers a set of motives which aren’t steered by material concerns, so it’s a target. Christianity is already subverted for the most part, and the whole range of Eastern religions currently don’t have enough mass appeal in the sense of making large populations act on non-material motives. Hindu people still fight over food, Buddhists still riot when things get rough materially, etc. They may have to be dealt with later, but the current target is mostly Islam.

Here on the 4th of July, we celebrate one of the biggest lies in history. I’m thinking right soon there will be something which serves as a military draft. It will probably start small, and it need not mean putting lots of folks in uniforms on the front lines, because the majority of all military activity is support functions for the front lines. It’s not exactly a slow drift, but a punctuated series of turning points, each itself a fresh increment toward fear, slavery and murder. I can’t predict specifics, but all the police state stuff seems aimed at suppressing only the peace activists so far. The state identifies with them those who support Palestinian freedom. Actions which tend to cast doubt, or signal an element of doubt, in the proclaimed mission of the state, will garner the same oppressive reaction. The Terror State will soon be aimed at crushing this portion of the population, and anyone who is associated with it somehow will become prime targets.

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