On the Folly of Protests

Posted on May 19, 2011 by ehurst

Engaging in activism and public protest serves only to tag you as a troublemaker.

Most people don’t get it. Our cultural background in Western Democracy pretends it is noble to make an ugly noise when the government ignores the will of the people. Here in the US, that was the whole point behind the 2nd Amendment. All the blather about true patriotism insists only those who really love their country will rise up in protest at government sin. It’s considered craven cowardice if you go along to get along, and you can now find online tests to see whether you qualify for the epithet “sheeple.” All of this misses the point.

If you are going to ignore mysticism in your approach, the least you can do is engage wise tactics. Understand the context in which all these things take place, and decide whether what appears obvious may be hiding something sinister. Everyone can see it: We are sliding into a police state, for sure, and it’s all entirely illegitimate of itself. God and/or the cosmos does not like governments which oppress and make life unnecessarily difficult for those it rules. We know that instinctively. The problem is what we regard as noble sentiments. The business of “give me liberty of give me death,” was planted as a lie, a cynical propaganda ploy designed to make it easier to pull off the oppression planned all along. It’s not noble to play into the hands of evil tyrants.

Something in us thrills to see mainstream press reports of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. But it’s all lies. In a document easily obtained online [PDF], you can read the cynical planning which went into the CIA and other clandestine agencies funding the training and equipping of these movements. This was no spontaneous protest, despite appearances; it’s all scripted. But while the protests in some of these places is funded and supported by TPTB, with the end aim of actually overthrowing the governments there, that will by no means happen here. Yes, it is funded in the US, and places like Spain, but it’s a wholly different ball game. The only thing they have in common is that they are used by those who fund them.

All this activist stuff is, indeed, funded by the same secret ghost government I typically call the Illuminati. The money is passed through a completely different set of middlemen, though. They may have similar names and be linked in various other ways, but the linkage we see is fake. When Western democracies have their public rebellions, the purpose is to identify and herd the participants. These are more the sheeple than anyone realizes. Have you read how the hijackers of aircraft operate? They’ll pick on someone truly defenseless, like an elderly woman, so that they can provoke early in the game anyone likely to take action, to provoke those who are actually capable of resisting the hijacking by making them show themselves before they can plot an effective resistance. So some young and capable protector of the defenseless will jump up to protect the abused grandma and get himself tortured and killed. The rest of the crowd will be cowed. That’s the method behind all the provocations you see reported in the news here in the US and in other Western countries.

Sometimes the plan includes sending out the thugs to beat and scare the most active protesters. Meanwhile, the whole idea is to provide a field of activity by which infiltrators can discern who really is capable of organizing a genuine resistance to the government. Most of the black-clad anarchists are trained and funded by clandestine agencies as provocateurs who will bring out the strong protesters, or simply to justify a violent response from police. All that business of herding seemingly harmless and peaceful protesters into cages is more about identifying and adding them to the database. Sure, stand up for your rights. All you are doing is loading the gun which will some day be pointed at your head. You’ll be the first they grab some day in the future when it’s time for mass executions, or for sending warm bodies into the mines, as it were, after they have manipulated you into serving some other purpose which simply improves their process of cracking down on freedom.

Do you not understand the way cosmic justice works? You may not believe it exists, which is fine — you likely wouldn’t be reading this in the first place. It’s not necessary to believe in a God in Heaven to get as much justice on earth as is possible. You simply have to grasp the nature of things, and stop believing the lies fed to you by those who planned injustice all along.

Don’t ever believe any modern government can be moved to justice. It’s not possible. All of them are founded on false principles, and nothing any human can do will fix the basic problems. Particularly with the Western nation-states, the entire concept is a huge empty lie. It’s promoted because it is fundamentally wide open to abuse. Don’t look in that direction for justice on this plane of existence.

The only possible way to have any justice at all is simply to live it. Cosmic justice is entirely rooted in personal relations. Without that humane connectedness, that bond which forces us to recognize each other has humans, as real people, there cannot be justice. There is simply no way possible to objectify any principles or rules or laws, in the Western sense, which will offer true justice. You cannot create a structure which will of itself make good things happen. The only good possible comes from the bonds between humans, and justice means forcing people to interact on that level. Designing impersonal structures is simply the excuse people need to follow their bad instincts. We are all torn between our selfish interests with lazy, emotional entropy, versus the very real needs and rewards from dealing with other broken beings. There will be no justice until we remove the false structures and force people to interact.

This is more radical than most people realize. It’s not a matter of ripping out the old structures and creating more logical ones; that’s always a tail-chasing exercise. It’s so radical it means rewriting civilization itself. It’s one thing to have cultural channels by which we fulfill the cosmic obligations of interacting; it’s another to form channels which excuse the failure to interact. Don’t let people put barriers in place. The ultimate justice is doing anything necessary to remove those barriers, and nothing is so sacred it can’t be attacked when it forms a barrier.

By this I don’t mean to imply we’ll be singing around the campfire “Kumbaya,” because passionate hatred fulfills the requirements, too. That is, when someone cares enough to be aroused in anger against you, then you have become real to each other. The empty wrath of simply removing an impediment to self-will is not a vivid hatred; it’s just a visceral hatred of all things in general. When anger and hatred require engaging interaction, it accomplishes the mission of making people real to each other. It’s not possible for everyone to be happy with all others. Passion itself, whatever direction it takes, is a means to breathing life into each other. Genuine conflict is not injustice; learn to read it as the other face of love.

The world is broken and some things cannot be fixed on this level. Accept what is real; that’s part of justice.

The best way to organize for a valid protest is to create communities which simply ignore the unjust structures. Challenge oppression by refusing to go along with it. If your response is predictable and follows the plotted manipulations of tyrants, you haven’t accomplished anything useful. The current public demonstrations are exactly what the tyrants want. Creating a life of community based on real human interaction is the last thing they want to see, and the one thing they can’t really stop. It is the ultimate protest. It is also the one best way to gain the moral power of cosmic justice; it harnesses the power of life itself, which tyrants can’t fight. Do this, and you will surely win. Not every moment of every day, not in the full measure you might like in every context, but over time and overall you can appropriate the power of the universe itself by simply doing what is right.

Stop playing into their hands.

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This Is Not the Year of the Linux Desktop

Posted on May 18, 2011 by ehurst

I’m writing this from my Linux box, and once again, there is always something broken.

Don’t tell me your distro is the best, that if only everyone else would get behind it, Linux could overtake Windows or whatever else is out there. It won’t happen. No single distro will ever offer what the average computer user needs. They are all too busy either meeting some other market (for commercial distros) or are captive to demands of their fanboy user base. Most of them are frankly captive of their own developer teams’ biases against the average computer user.

But with Linux in general, nothing is ever really fixed. That is, not enough of any one distro can bring together a sufficient degree of making most things work all at once. Your success on your machine(s) this time does not translate to general success for a significant portion of the average user audience, so neither your anecdotes of success, nor my anecdotes of failure, are representative. But every time I persuade someone to install Linux on their primary system, it never fails to embarrass me. It never fails to fail.

It won’t matter whether Windows is no better, either. The world already knows Windows has problems, and requires diagnosing and tweaking on a minority of systems. But why should they try Linux when it’s not any better? Better the devil you know than some other devil. Linux has to be better. Further, it has to be better no matter which distro they try. Granted, it’s more likely they’ll be trying some iteration of Ubuntu, because that’s who gets all the press. But if any release of Ubuntu is broken on enough machines, all of Linux is tarred with the same brush. Not fair? Welcome to the real world.

Want to know who keeps using Linux after they try it? The folks whose hardware can be made to work the first time — all of their hardware. The single greatest failure there is printers. The second greatest failure is sound. That is, the failure of sound drivers to sense the headphones jack on the cheap hardware just about everyone runs. You can’t tell the users it’s not fair because some manufacturers won’t open their hardware specs; they don’t care. And even when the manufacturers cooperate, Linux can fail miserably. Want to try Natty with my Brother HL-2140? Epic failure, even though Brother is wide open. But if we can get past that, the people most likely to keep it are the ones whose relatives and friends keep messing with their Windows box because they are so sure they know what’s best for everyone. These folks don’t usually know how to mess up Linux, so the system remains safe. The other group of folks who keep Linux are the ones who insist on visiting websites or trying to open email attachments with nasties involved. So folks who can’t or won’t secure their system might keep using Linux if it works with their hardware.

That ends up being a very slender minority of folks whom I can persuade to try Linux. The vast majority of computer users will never be interested, because the barriers are simply too high. In one sense, there really is no single thing we can point to and say, “This is Linux.” That means there is no simple entry way everyone can take to get inside. Too many distros, too many interfaces, and none of them standardized, and increasingly so freakish no one cares beyond that passing gee-whiz glance. At some point, perhaps someone can get enough of it all together at once, working on most hardware properly, with no frequent major changes but offers a fairly consistent user experience over a period of several years, and basically reaches out to the average consumer. Nobody is doing that, and I doubt anyone will.

Much as I like using and poking at it, I seriously doubt there ever will be a year of the Linux desktop.

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The New Debt Feudalism

Posted on May 18, 2011 by ehurst

Proper Ancient Near Eastern feudalism was not about real estate or real assets; those things were secondary. The ultimate value was in the people, the retainers and servants who could turn sand and rock into crops and structures.

Western feudalism was about real estate and territorial rights. The people were little more than equipment, intelligent animals which were attached to the land. The modern fiat currency world with debt-based banking is simply an extension, even more dehumanizing. By law in most Western states citizens are first and foremost economic assets, machines with hair, as it were.

The dehumanization of mankind is complete. In the very near future, this will become painfully obvious to those with even a shred of awareness.

I can’t speak for other nations, but in America we have brought this on ourselves. While ostensibly it is just under God’s Laws to resist tyranny, to fight back to preserve your divinely ordered prerogatives, that same cosmic justice requires we now prepare to accept the new yoke of servitude. More than simply the failure of Western Civilization itself, there were numerous points along the way when a thin minority of active citizens could have chosen the better path, and God would have blessed it. I’m referring to the people I know best, the American Christians and all those moments when the churches could have refused to compromise, could have clung to their other-worldly emphasis, and stayed out of politics and social advocacy. They were drawn into a fight which wasn’t theirs.

And there were days when citizens could have refused to tolerate some new encroachment on their liberties to choose what was right. That didn’t happen. There was no single issue, no particular single event we can point to, saying this or that day we went wrong. Any such moment would inevitably be mere symbolism of something deeper. Step by step, those in the position to choose Justice did not, until it was no longer possible. Now we are stuck with the consequences. Demanding your rights will no longer work. We as a nation have chosen slavery, by virtue of refusing freedom.

Christians should refer to my commentary on 1 Timothy 6 in reference to slavery. It won’t be a sin to accept these chains; it would be a sin at this point to fight them. Negotiate your own individual situation as best you can. If you simply cannot bow the knee, feel free to fight and die, but know you will also hurt innocent people. Perhaps you can escape and get away, but don’t expect to carve out some freehold. When the new owners take over the United States, it will all be theirs, and we people will be the machines purchased with the franchise. We are simply part of the inventory.

Not in the sense of embracing all the evil, but I am referring to accepting the justified enslavement in the general shift in thinking necessary to carry on in the future. There will always be things you and I simply cannot do, and we’ll face the consequences when they come. Cosmic justice bends only so far before it breaks. You’ll have to decide for yourself where you must bend and where you must resist. However, the notion we have something called “liberty” worth fighting for is sheer nonsense. The die is cast, and it’s too late for that.

If we will accept this as our just due, and start from scratching rebuilding what we tore down with our own hands, He will prosper our way. I don’t mean restore some fairy tale image of what American Christianity was once supposed to be. I mean restore the ancient biblical ways of living as spiritual tribes of faith. We will be certainly oppressed, and if we organize as we have in the past here in the West, we will simply make ourselves a target. We cannot use the fallen world’s ways of organization if we expect to claim the blessings of God. We must become the Tribulation Church, because the saints of God will tribulate.

This is our punishment, and it is just. Deal with it.

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Dark Vision: How America Will End

Posted on May 17, 2011 by ehurst

This is an intuition, not a prophecy: Keep your eye on the government budget issues in the US, both federal and state. Whatever else happens will simply aggravate and distract, but this will be the key to what destroys America, the means to God’s wrath.

You are aware Congress is all over this. The Republicans are talking about budget cuts, but not for the military and various spying or enforcement agencies. The Democrats are talking about raising taxes on the rich, but the rich never pay them. Meanwhile, what they won’t say much about is the necessity of vast borrowing. The amounts are already staggering, and it will escalate quickly. I feel certain our military commitments will surge, and we should be ready to see conscription sooner or later.

However, most of what you hear about this in the news is beside the point. There are a few honest people in the national government who have already had to change underwear a few times dealing with this mess. They are rightly fearful. When the mainstream stops talking about it, the really nasty deeds will have been done, and our national doom will be sealed. The honest folks will try to talk about, and will be shut up quickly.

Little people will disappear, die or be arrested on any number of bogus charges to make them look really nasty. The big names will be marginalized, maybe a few die in strange circumstances, but the biggest names will simply be handled with the most scandalous political corruption and transparent cheating, lawbreaking. If there are going to be riots this year, it will be because of that.

America will be sold into slavery, all nice and legal. A shocking number simply won’t believe it until it’s too late; many may not ever really believe it. Somehow the federal government will settle with the creditors, or fail to, in such as way as to destroy everything. The net result will be the same either way. In reality, it won’t be like any other nation going through various forms of IMF bailouts right now, simply because the numbers will be several orders of magnitude larger in terms of relative worth of the debt.

I don’t think anyone really knows just yet how this will play out in detail. For most people, it will be a simple loss of purchasing power, but I believe all savings and retirement accounts will be confiscated. Bad as the mortgage bubble is, I think it won’t be an issue in the way conventional wisdom is expecting. I believe in part it’s because there will be massive confiscations of all sorts of things, or leveraged forfeitures based on a sudden explosion in taxes and such. You’ll be allowed to rent all sorts of things, but no one will be able to afford to actually own much because of taxes, regulations, etc. We can’t imagine how intrusive this thing will be.

There will still be massive welfare programs. Most people won’t starve, not quite. But it will come with such an incredibly intrusive slavery, many will literally flee to avoid being forced into it. There will be no such thing as unregulated economic activity; it will be illegal and extremely difficult to do.

It will not be the same in all places, because some states will find ways to resist. It should be obvious the largest urban areas will fall quickly, and states with major budget woes will have no way to resist, and some simply have already the bureaucratic mechanism in place. Jobs in state and federal bureaucracies are likely pretty secure. Some locales will make it too expensive to implement, but those places may have to struggle with refugees. Some of this may actually be encouraged by the new government to move populations to areas ripe for exploitation, needing only warm bodies to do it. But I rather expect various means of population reduction to be exercised, too, rather like the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Meanwhile, all pretense of democracy will become laughably thin or simply be dropped.

This is what I believe, and I can’t prove any of it. It could all be simply my private delusion, but I expect things to become painfully obvious to those with clear vision by autumn this year.

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Effect Is Intent

Posted on May 16, 2011 by ehurst

When you back off and see things from a wider perspective, very often the effect of certain actions is the key to intent.

This seemed to call for a second post today. One of the few justifications for a video is to quickly pass on information which arises from a live interview. It still lends itself to deception, but some sources are better than others. In general, I find RT is more likely to report honestly than just about any other major content provider. So I find myself in the unusual position of recommending a video interview with Ian Crane. In this case, he does a fine job of hitting the probable intent on several major news events by backing off far enough and gathering the critical details which most affect the broader outcome.

Related to his comments about the Osama bin Ladin adventure, you may want to take a look at this discussion of a live interview in Pakistan from an alleged eye witness. According to this fellow, only one chopper tried to land at the targeted compound, while two other choppers remained in the air nearby. The one which landed exploded when it tried to leave the area, scattering its parts and those of the passengers all over the inner courtyard. This fellow isn’t the only one to offer this story, and it is a far better fit with physical evidence observed during the light of day later that same morning after the raid. Ian Crane notes this serves to take attention off the fraudulent birth certificate.

Pay attention, not to what the MSM report, but to the broader effects of their reporting. Don’t always swallow the line taken by the alternative press, either. Crane could easily be wrong no several points, and admits it, but the asking of questions is what he emphasizes, not his own answers. This in itself gives him more credibility with me than a vast horde of other commentators and self-proclaimed insiders.

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Hoosier Courts: Just Being Honest

Posted on May 16, 2011 by ehurst

The recent decision by the Indiana Supreme Court regarding no-knock police raids is simply acknowledging the unofficial policy they’ve followed for quite some time.

Thomas Jefferson had it right when he insisted a good society would destroy it’s own government in a bloody revolt quite regularly. That’s the point of his famous quote about the Tree of Liberty and the blood of tyrants. Given the context of what folks taught and believed back then, it should be pretty obvious they envisioned a state apparatus which never quite gelled, never quite got a handle on things, because it was always at risk of complete overthrow. In their minds, the balance of power should tip toward the chaos of regular folks regulating themselves. This was the dominant political theory of the time, but it didn’t win out in the end. The US Constitution was carefully designed to give lip-service to such notions even as it left the door open for returning to the same calcified government oppression everyone had just fought to throw off.

That is, Jefferson was right in the context. However, that’s merely admitting you can’t put the genie back in the bottle for Western Civilization. If you understand the Bible, you know the entirety of Western Civilization is all wrong from the very start. The only form of government God likes is tribal national government, and there should be no such thing as the modern nation-state. The real problem is not the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court. That simply puts official sanction behind the unofficial policy of police state authority we’ve had for quite some time. The only relevance this story has is ripping the cover off, removing the pretense. Let’s be honest; it’s increasingly rare when the courts will hold the police accountable for misconduct. The laws do not apply evenly, and government thugs have a free pass. Your life is forfeit, citizen, because the government thugs are never wrong.

For now, a few states have on paper a theoretical limit. For example, here in Oklahoma, state laws include the notion a policeman can be wrong, and citizens can defy police orders they know are wrong. Police have been lobbying hard to remove that. They see themselves as too oppressed in their daily work, and reject the notion they should be constrained by such accountability. Get it through your heads: The police do not serve us, are not a reasonable extension of our desires for social stability. They protect the government prerogatives, whatever those may be, and the system will ensure no one coming into the system is permitted to make anything more than cosmetic changes. That’s because the police are duty bound in writing to ensure the system does not change. Where it’s not honestly enshrined in written policy, we know it’s simply the orthodox religion of the state.

The biblical approach recognizes there is no such place as Utopia — which means literally “no place.” It’s not possible to live in a safe and risk-free world. This world is broken and it will not be fixed. As noted in yesterday’s post, it’s blasphemous to assume God is responsible for fixing what’s broken here in this world, that He is somehow logically bound to explain how we can make a Utopia, and is required to make it possible. He said quite openly in His Word He is not going to do that. So all our theoretical foundations for having a stable society are blasphemy, because it assumes mankind can be reconditioned to act good enough to make it worthwhile. Thus, all this theoretical work and field tests — the whole gamut of behavioral science — presumes to do something God said couldn’t be done. Worse, it rejects what He said could be done to make it as good as it could be.

Human government cannot ever be objective and fair. It’s a sin to believe is such nonsense. In God’s eyes, no one on this earth has any business poking around in your daily business who isn’t related by blood or covenant. I’ll cut off the silly discussions of The American Social Covenant by pointing out there is no such thing, because the Bible uses the word “covenant” differently than we do, because our use refers to something otherwise known as the Social Contract. A covenant is an agreement between individuals, personally sworn to and binding only upon their individual lives. No one can be born into a covenant; they have to individually sign on when they reach that point of accountability, or the covenant is void for them. It’s entirely personal. So any government which does not acknowledge the fundamental accountability between living individuals is not valid in God’s eyes.

It’s assumed on this blog you aren’t a sucker for the mainstream media, but you are no better if you are a sucker for the alternative press. All this rattling about what a horrific decision was issued by the Indiana Supreme Court, and the rumblings and threats traded by the government and the patriot underground — it’s just noise. It’s intended to keep you from thinking about what really matters. The US is a police state. Get over it. Commit yourself personally to living by God’s Laws to the degree you honestly can, and know He will surely bless that in various ways. It’s not as if He takes no interest in getting involved here, but He promised all His efforts would be either a response to our obedience to His Word, or something He planned for His own reasons. Fixing things in general has no part in those reasons. But He will offer some limited protection to those who, regardless how it crosses human government laws, are more interested in His Laws because those Laws reflect something from a higher plane, where things really do work as they should.

His Word was around before the lying press, and it will be effective long after the press is gone. That’s because His Word points to eternal truths, not some passing fancy of human interest.

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Implications in the News for the Ides of May

Posted on May 15, 2011 by ehurst

Some interesting threads in the news will help to clarify things not so obvious.

We have the story about Dominique Strauss-Kahn charged with sexual assault in NYC. There a couple of things to watch here. First, we notice it’s “sexual assault” versus “attempted rape.” Second, this is the head of the IMF. That he was arrested at all, and that we hear about it, shows quite a lot. He’s not a member of the inner circle of the Illuminati bankers, but an immediate servant. He knows who’s in charge, and precisely how it is they are in charge. If this story dies quickly, then we can surmise he’s being disciplined. If it grows legs, he’s being thrown under the bus for some reason. If he somehow dies very soon, they will have decided he was about to spill his guts on some of the plans of the Illuminati.

That’s the way it works. You can gain some interesting pointers on the system from the likes of Dean Henderson. His recent series on “Bin Laden & the 911 Illusion” is almost good journalism, but you’ll need to bring your salt shaker. Keep in mind, this fellow espouses the Watermelon Agenda: Using the green politics as the means to implementing communism. He’s not regarded as mainstream, but he does pull up some interesting facts on his way to attacking the big money capitalists. I wonder if he understands the Illuminati created communism as a means to their ends. I haven’t had time to read much of his work, yet.

As noted previously on this blog, communism is the materialistic perversion of good communitarian tribal government. But instead of the tribe owning everything, communists prefer the centralized state. It has been tried, and hasn’t worked, nor will it ever. The difference between greens and more conventional communists is the Green Religion, as can be seen in the old Greenpeace Manifesto. I can’t see worshiping nature directly, though I surely assert we are responsible to God for how we manage His Creation.

We have done a very poor job of that here in the US. Every big bold plan of the state has so far been a disaster. For example, all those levees and dams encouraging folks to put houses and farms on the flood plains is now coming back to bite us. I don’t believe anyone really has the means to control weather just yet, so I am not going so far as to blame the heavy precipitation upstream on human planning at any level. But the current major flooding in the Mississippi Valley is the result of very bad planning, and even worse implementation. By controlling it all centrally via the Army Corps of Engineers, a corrupt and bumbling batch of arrogant fools, everyone is forcibly dependent and none are permitted to implement any alternative planning for dealing with flooding. When centralized planning fails — as it must — you end up with the necessity of protecting cities, oil refineries and nuclear power plants versus the vast tracts of farm land which feed those cities. Indeed, this wipes out a major portion of the US food supply for the coming year.

Meanwhile, the entire Northern Hemisphere faces a very highly elevated risk of cancers and birth defects in the next few decades. TEPCO is finally admitting the conspiracy theorists were right. Fukushima Reactor 1 is officially in full melt-down, though the mainstream press hesitates to use the term. I suspect the other reactors are now, or soon will be, in the same dire condition. So we have not only a vast quantity of radioactive material being released in the air and in the sea, but stuff which is extremely radioactive — off the scale on all the metering equipment. No place is safe, as this stuff is already thickly distributed around the hemisphere, and it’s only going to get worse.

The whole idea of using nuclear power simply to boil water is crazy in the first place. Consider we could have easily reduced the threat by choosing something much safer by developing thorium technology over uranium. That decision was ostensibly a corrupt deal with mining interests, but there may have been more sinister motives which are hard to discern. More importantly, our gooses are cooked because it was purely a matter of corporate neglect in favor of the profit motive which put the Fukushima reactors where they are, with such poor protections from what everyone knew were the greatest natural threats to such an installation. The greens are right about the naked greed and the horrendous lack of accountability for nature.

While it’s unlikely the Illuminati engineered this environmental disaster, nor the one in the Gulf of Mexico and a hundred other places currently where such things take place, we can be sure they guessed it would come. We can be sure they have laid on plans to protect themselves as needed, because while they didn’t actively plan these things, they had to know it was coming as the result of how they use their servants. Giving people the illusion of power and wealth so that they implement points of leverage is a very intelligent strategy, but inevitably messy. Of course, it’s all guesswork on my part, and that of others who know more than I of specific details. They have different notions, and who’s to say Benjamin Fulford, David Ickes or Les Visible have to be all wrong? Don’t take my word for things; make up your own mind.

The last thing I want to do is serve up a platter of stuff you are required to swallow. We have enough of that already, and I have a stated interest in destroying anything which serves to coerce or manipulate thoughts and actions. The world has gone crazy, and I’m none too sure it hasn’t affected my own mind. The most reliable and trustworthy thing I have to offer is already inside of you, if it is to be found at all. The only thing I have to assert at all is that this plane of existence is broken, and it’s not all there is. Understand this world as much as you dare, but use that understanding as the means to escape from it. The biggest mistake anyone can make is thinking God does or should spare much interest in saving this world. What matters are the souls of people.

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But … But … You HAVE to Help Me

Posted on May 14, 2011 by ehurst

Stuff happens, and you use what’s available.

If making public announcements in the town square was still an acceptable means of communication, I’d be doing what Paul and his friends did in the New Testament. Most towns don’t even have a public square these days, and yelling your declarations could get you shot, or at least arrested, never mind what you had to say. So aside from carrying signs or wearing t-shirts with silly slogans, I can either fund an expensive paper newsletter or just use the Internet — such as it is.

For a couple of days this past week, Google was dinging around with Blogger. You could read the blogs, but nobody could post anything new for about two days. My other blog is hosted there, the one where I post almost nothing but Bible studies. I started that one before this one; this one started out at MyOpera. Frankly, I love the service here, and spend more time writing here. But I wanted to keep certain things separated, and having two blogs seemed a good answer. There is also a different readership for each service.

At any rate, that wasn’t the first time Google made my unhappy. On the one hand, no has to use Google at all. On the other hand, most of the world does use Google, and if you don’t, you’ll be left out. Some of their services are really good; most are just a trap. Right after finally getting Blogger back online, they hit everyone with this demand for a cellphone number. Their intention is to use text-messaging to communicate password resets and other administrative traffic. This isn’t the first time they’ve pushed the idea, and this time they promised: without it, you aren’t going to get any answers from them.

I realize they have a massive user base. They reject any notions of accountability, though. Their track record is simply horrendous. Granted, they’ve never harassed me for anything I posted, but who’s to say when they might find a reason to cut me off? They’ve done it thousands of times to other users, and all the anecdotal evidence I can find indicates they can be very irresponsible and unresponsive. On the flimsiest of excuses, they’ll cut you off and refuse to discuss it. By comparison, WordPress might cut you off, but at least they’ll discuss it. Other services are hungry enough to play even more nicely, but using them tends to reduce exposure.

Then there is the problem with Google tracking your searches, your surfing, their ties to the NSA and CIA, secret government funding, etc. So while I could care less what my government knows about what I think, and my privacy was compromised long ago when I enlisted, then started using the VA medical system, I get tired of it. Yes, as a former Military Policeman I’ll be the first to warn you innocence is no excuse; when they decide to come after you, there is not a darn thing you can do, so long as you breathe and have a heartbeat. But sometimes it’s worth it just to make it more difficult by refusing to stand in the mainstream and expose yourself so completely.

Yesterday, I ceased posting new material on my Blogger account. I moved all that to MyOpera. I also will be switching all my Gmail traffic to a MyOpera (soulkiln AT myopera DOT com) account. For some things, a private Norwegian Internet company is better than the supposed international Google-octopus. I’ve continued using the Opera browser, not for everything, but for enough reasons I keep installing it on new systems and updating it. It’s the one best tool at reimporting it’s own email account data regardless of which OS it ran on last.

I suppose if free blogging somehow becomes impossible, I can always try to offer my writing via email newsletter, or I can self-host stuff on my account at Serverforest (which holds my soulkiln.org website), but it wouldn’t be the same. If you think it matters, drop me a line and I’ll keep your email address just in case things go crazy. If you are really determined, you can ask for a snail-mail address. Given my emphasis on helping everyone think and act independently from their own convictions, I rather hope the only reason anyone really wants that is plain old friendship, not some dependence on my writing.

In the grand scheme of things, as an old civilization collapses, the replacement may not be able to salvage all the technology. This Internet stuff my go away, or change so much it would seem gone by comparison. While it’s convenient, we post and read on our blogs here and there, and maybe we are somehow made stronger in the process. But nobody owes us anything, and we use these things at some risk.

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Social Theory: Creating Prosperity

Posted on May 13, 2011 by ehurst

Promoting social welfare is not rocket science; it’s not that hard to do.

Economics is the study of human behavior in regards to material wealth. It is one of the Social Sciences, and all of them are linked. You can’t know much about any of them without dabbling in all of them together. Frankly, economics is highly dependent on other factors in any given society.

When people fear, they tend to hang onto whatever it is they think they have. If the world in which they live seems chaotic and unpredictable, they won’t take any risks. Without taking risks, there can be no economic prosperity. If the psychopaths running our government really wanted to have vast wads of wealth to tap into, so as to permit their schemes for exerting their political powers, they would stop using fear. Richard Maybury, a big money investment advisor, prefers to focus on two issues: Contract enforcement and property rights enforcement. When governments do those two things consistently, people will gladly take risks, and investment in high return projects will be common. There will be a matching high investment in research which produces the most amazing advancements in science and technology.

The problem comes when someone wants too much short-term control over some portion of this flow. Big Food (like Monsanto) and Big Pharma are two overlapping powers which currently militate against long-term prosperity, including their own. The Defense Industry is doing the same thing. When the parasites get greedy, the whole thing comes apart. That’s because economics and politics do not scale well.

Nobody seems to notice that. Indeed, take any course of study in the Social Sciences in any Western educational institute, and you’ll be led to believe exactly the opposite. All the pointers have been cherry-picked, carefully selected so the lessons of history always favor the short-term gains of the conglomeration forces, and utterly failing to see why this always led to ultimate collapse. The few rare subcultural entities which see beyond their own immediate generation are the ones which last throughout history. And the more any nation ignores the lessons of prosperity and stability, the greater will be its collapse.

You can find all this in the Bible, but it’s surely obvious without it. My education in the Social Sciences demands I point out what should be obvious to anyone, but my calling as a prophet burdens me with the necessity of warning everyone to flee any linkage to the US government. It is completely and insanely out of control. Perhaps you are like me, living in poverty. In my case, it’s the result of sane choices against an insane world. The only prosperity available right now is the result of doing evil, in most cases. So I’m stuck here, but I’m not tied to it. That is, I have no real allegiance to the system, because it’s about to come apart. It doesn’t require a Christian Mystical faith to make that choice.

What can you do with this? I’ll offer a few examples.

1. This is not a good time for men to get married legally. I’m all for life-long commitment, and I enjoy writing custom wedding ceremonies, but for the vast majority of American men in particular, and Western men in general, do not take a legal marriage contract with a Western woman. The state’s only valid interest is enforcing what the social structure demands, but the modern Western state has completely absorbed all social issues, and handles them so poorly, there simply are no words for it. Women are encouraged to act insanely, and you’ll lose everything you’ve accumulated. Not simply in terms of property, but everything a government can touch which makes life worth living. You can be thrown in prison for life simply on the basis of her personal spite. The state encourages her to be utterly deceptive and wholly untrustworthy before you ever meet her, creating desires and expectations neither of you can understand or ever achieve.

2. Don’t borrow from any institution. Loan sharks are currently more sane and safer than any lawful lending institution. I know no other way to put that, because the lending institutions currently run the entire government structure, and their reputation is whatever they say it is, even as they are wholly unaccountable. Loan sharks are still in the business of customer service and keeping a reputation which they don’t entirely control. Naturally, borrowing from more ordinary individuals is far smarter, if borrow you must, but this is the wrong time to sign any loan papers for anything. Anything.

3. Invest in usable items. In particular, prefer tools and equipment you know how to use, which are less dependent on the electrical grid, and don’t wear out quickly. Think about the stuff people need when life gets difficult, like after a disaster. It could be something as simple as good nylon ropes, solid shovels and axes, or a low maintenance hand truck or cart. How about sanitary liquid storage? Got emergency medical supplies? You might want to learn about such things as Dakin’s Solution [PDF] because you’d be amazed at what it can treat successfully. The one thing easiest to get and keep, and not lose to any hostile confiscations, is knowledge of how to live through a disaster, but short of that, good tools and supplies will mean the difference between life and death as things get more difficult.

4. Expect more natural anomalies and disasters. Aside from the nuclear meltdown in Japan and the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused by sheer human idiocy, we are already tasting a higher incidence of natural disasters. While the expectation is easy enough to observe, and scientific research backs it up, it might require an element of religion to understand this is part of the same package with the social disturbances. Either way, this stuff is coming all at the same time, and it won’t matter which you regard as causing the other: more colder weather in the Northern Hemisphere, more weather anomalies of all types, geophysical instability, inexplicable wildlife die-offs, etc.

Fear in the broader sense of pessimism is currently an intelligent response. While the various government entities are trying to create a certain targeted fear to their advantage, it’s safe to ignore all that and recognize what is really worthy of fear. There is a lot of bad stuff coming, and prosperity is going away for most of us. Should you ride out the storm well enough, I hope you’ll remember why it all came apart, and do your best to promote a future prosperity on the other side of this mess. Don’t let things get so far out of control next time. Recognize what you can’t control, and accept the accountability for the things you can and should control. Concentrations of power and wealth are a threat to human life — always — and it happens when folks get lazy about taking responsibility for stuff God put in their hands.

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Let It Pass

Posted on May 12, 2011 by ehurst

I’m human. Like you, I’ve told lies in the past. I don’t want to be considered a liar; I’d rather have all the self-control it takes to always be honest. I look at myself in the mirror and realize I cannot guarantee I won’t lie again. I’m human.

On the one hand, we have this tendency to raise the alarm if some bigshot preacher lies about being a Navy Seal. On the other hand, the same people who censure the preacher have no trouble swallowing the official lies by the Navy Seals. It’s their job to lie, and it’s called “operational security,” keeping secrets from those who don’t need to know the truth. We think it’s the preacher’s job to tell the truth, even when we disagree with almost everything he might say from the pulpit. This is the schizophrenia of Western Civilization.

In the vernacular, I’m a clergyman. That is, I hold an ordination certificate from a religious organization which has the legal right to issue them. If you called that organization an ordination mill, it would probably stick. I’m honest about that, since the whole business of official certificates is to satisfy a civil government which has no business getting involved in the first place.  I’ve also held an ordination from a Southern Baptist church. They don’t have a central hierarchy officially, so any church can ordain anyone they like, and no other church has to honor it. I still have the certificate, and the church which issued it claims to still back it, though I’ve told them I’m no longer a Baptist.

At what point is this honorable or not? The precise fact of the matter is I’m not a pastor, though I do perform pastoral functions. I’m willing to solemnize wedding ceremonies, burials, etc. However, I distinguish between pastors and elders, and I am the latter. For most of my readers, the difference is insignificant, and I won’t bother detailing it here. I let it pass, because from what I know of my readers, they aren’t likely to care. It’s not a question of “need to know” but of civility: I’m not going to burden you with issues which don’t affect you. Sure, you come here to read, and by so doing, it’s an implied consent of some sort, but that’s not the point. My calling is to tell the truth, and I am not that important. It’s not withholding pertinent information, as if I’m keeping from you something which would affect you. The Baptist church which still backs my ordination feels they made the right decision at the time, and there’s no valid reason to rescind it. All the more so, given other Baptist churches operate on the same ethic, and aren’t likely to be fooled for long by a simple piece of paper.

We expect the government to lie even more than we expect our fellow humans to lie from time to time. The difference is we know government officials get paid to lie, and are more likely to keep back pertinent information, hiding things which do affect your life. Your fellow humans will lie for any number of other reasons, and most of the time it makes no difference.

There was a time when I used to tell a tale about surviving a terrorist attack while in the military. It was a lie. It arose from an inside joke about military training, how most US soldiers are required at some point to crawl through a sand pit with real bullets flying overhead. Stay below the barbed wire, and you are safe. Who wants to struggle to rise up through that much barbed wire, anyway? At any rate, this little thing metastasized into a lie about dodging bullets actually intended to kill me. I dropped that story some time ago. Did it make any difference? Only to my own conscience. Eventually the people to whom I told this lie would have decided for themselves whether I was flaky. It’s not hard to affirm for you now, in those days I was most certainly flaky. Whether I am now is simply a matter of opinion.

I let it pass, whatever you may think of me. If you tell me something unpleasant in the comments, it might offer some fodder for self-deprecating humor, but it won’t change the subject and thesis of what I write. I don’t matter, and nor does your response, in the grand scheme of things. What matters is being faithful to myself, in the sense of fulfilling the drive I have to write. If the hit count goes down, it won’t change the driving sense of necessity.

That driving necessity includes portraying a powerful sense of what it means to be a Christian Mystic, because I find this is the truest expression of what Jesus taught. That matters, not me. I let pass what you think of me as a person, because I know my time is limited, and I’d rather not stay here on this plane any longer than necessary to satisfy that driving sense of calling. What matters is the ultimate truth manifested in how and what I write, as a reflection of how I try to live. I call out to the world to withdraw from this plane and invest in the one above. Take it for granted your government lies, and that those around you will to a lesser degree. Take it for granted I can’t be trusted, nor necessarily my words, since they spill onto this blog from someone who admits he is broken. But if something in this speaks to you of things far beyond, and causes you to explore your own inner space to find something which belongs to that Higher Plane, my job is done.

What belongs to this level, let it pass.

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