How to Save the World

Posted on May 11, 2011 by ehurst

Given my recent string of posts condemning Western Civilization and such, I would have thought it was obvious what it takes to make the world a better place. Apparently it’s not so obvious, because someone asked me. Rather than complicate things unduly by discussing the Laws of Noah, let’s establish for future reference one single action which would do more than any other to save humanity unnecessary sorrow: Abolish debt-based currencies.

Honestly, the single greatest threat to humanity right now is debt-based currency. If for no other reason, we can say this because it is the single point of power by which the forces of global government, and global oppression, are trying to take over the world. Take a look at all the crap behind the news, the facts you could find if you were to examine the documents ignored by the mainstream media, and it’s there in plain sight. All other factors make not a whit of difference, but if you attempt to take any country off the debt standard of banking, you will most assuredly see that country attacked.

Granted, it is always masked with other reasons, and there may well be other reasons some countries are invaded under whatever banner you care to name. And some countries are going through a revolt simply because their neighbors are and the provocateurs are the same bunch of folks in all the nations involved, such as we have with the so-called “Arab Spring” right now. It won’t matter if it’s NATO, the UN or the American flag. It won’t matter if there is an apparent uprising by any particular element within that country, there is one consistent factor in why anyone gets involved in someone else’s country, and that’s an attempt to pull out of the international debt-banking system. While the Illuminati are not necessarily bankers themselves, the banks are directly controlled by the Illuminati. By closing the borders to their influence and power, you would sign your own death warrant.

Sometimes it takes awhile, even decades. Once or twice this attempt to pull out came as a surprise to the bankers. But even when a nation reneges on a huge pile of debt, so long as they remain a part of the debt-based currency scheme, they can probably escape the worst repercussions. That’s because it’s not about the amount owed, but whether the hooks are still implanted after you default. Iceland is still safe, for example, because their banking system still relies on a debt-based currency. Libya is in trouble because Qaddafi was trying to shift to the gold dinar standard. Iran is doing something similar.

So there you have it. If by some means you can destroy the entire debt-based banking system, humanity could go back to dealing with far more mundane problems. There would be considerably less bloodshed, which cannot ever approach zero, but there could surely be a lot less. Poverty would still exist, but a lot fewer folks would be in it, or not in it so deeply. You also would not have a global cabal trying to take over the world. There is no other plausible reason, and no other plausible means, for anyone to try it on that scale.

Obviously, this is a pipe dream, since they own the system of government in all the bigger, wealthier nations. However, there is some hope for you and I as individuals: Dissolve all your personal financial debts and don’t take on any more. Again, the system is designed to make that impossible, but it’s mostly a matter of perception. That is, if you consider the loss of any mortgaged property in your possession something you can survive, then it’s almost as good as being debt free. If you are prepared personally, particularly in terms of survival skills and your basic approach to life, then you are essentially free. It puts you in a position to simply deny your share of national debts which the bankers use to attempt some claim on your person.

In case you are wondering, the Laws of God do not support our current debt system. While you are obliged to try repaying debts you voluntarily agreed to, the likes of those broader claims against citizens for national debts are, under His Laws, debts owed by the government people who ran them up. And then there’s that business of Jubilee; it still applies as far as God is concerned. Thus, you aren’t free if you don’t forgive debts owed to you.

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The On-going Trainwreck of the Linux Desktop

Posted on May 10, 2011 by ehurst

Opinionated rant follows…

KDE died for me with the birth of the new philosophy in KDE 4. Granted, the Trinity Project keeps hope alive, but frankly that community lacks the resources for delivering the goods beyond the Kubuntu desktop. I’m not a coder and I’ve already tried to promote it so others would join the project, but it’s just a little short of where I need it to be.

GNOME is going down the same path. GNOME 3 is already proving to be the same disaster, and so far, no one has appeared on the horizon to save GNOME 2. The Ubuntu replacement is Unity — a touchscreen cellphone layout forced to fit on the desktop. Sorry, but that doesn’t meet my needs. Indeed, the whole gamut of KDE/GNOME/Unity stands back and sneers at my needs. From my experience in the computer tech support ministry, I’d say the vast majority of ordinary computer users agree with me.

For those who find the RHEL 6 clones usable, you’ll have a stable late edition of GNOME 2 for the next seven to ten years. So far as I know, that’s the last great hope for sane workable desktops. That leaves only one option on the horizon if you don’t have time to twiddle and fiddle with the vast horde of window managers, all of which are either utterly devoid of integration (thus not a “desktop”), or are so foreign they make KDE 4 or Unity look downright homey.

This one last refuge of sanity: XFCE. I’m currently using Xubuntu’s latest release. It’s sane, but it’s different enough I’m not fully acquainted with all the details of configuration. Of course, it’s not GNOME or KDE, and it’s much less configurable in the first place. That’s okay. So far, the options offered are tolerable, and a few of them prove less is more. But it’s now developed to the state it’s a respectable desktop and I’ve already gotten at least one clueless user to adopt it. I’m holding out hope the insanity of the Linux eye-candy fanboy herd doesn’t infect the XFCE project, so that we have something to offer the vast horde of ordinary computer users who can’t tolerate Windows any longer.

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Revolting Feminists

Posted on May 10, 2011 by ehurst

You may have heard about the Slutwalk brouhaha, which started in Canada. As I understand it, the promoters were reacting to an offhand comment from a police officer, to the effect the rape problem is not helped by women dressing like cheap hookers. The standard response by the organizers asserts women should be free to dress, or not dress, as they please, and such comments do not help the bigger problem.

This is a case of two sides talking past each other, and both are wrong.

The cop was wrong. The underlying question has nothing to do with whether enticing apparel on women is an invitation to rape. From what I can discern, not only was his comment taken out of context, but his context was not very thoughtful. There is a connection between them, but he attempted to make a direct connection and ignore the several layers of troubling reality between the two. He was wrong because his comment was shallow and pointless.

The organizers are wrong. They are responding to the cop’s words taken out of context, and everyone knows they were just waiting for such an opportunity to promote their evil agenda. Their whole mission in life is finding or creating a pretext to promote their fantasies, to force them through social and legal pressures upon the rest of the world.

Let’s unravel this. I’ll make the unspoken point for the feminists here: They want the legal protections which permit them to retroactively withdraw consent for sex. They have so abused, perverted and twisted the meaning of “rape,” it now means any sexual contact they decide they don’t like, whenever it is they decide it. Having done such a good job of slanting the entire legal system in their favor, they aren’t done yet. All this other stuff is merely symbolism at best, and is more likely intellectual dishonesty. They seek to create an atmosphere which grants them an even greater advantage than they already have, by asserting the underlying thesis all men are rapists by virtue of being male.

They deny there is a sexual factor in rape, by asserting it is wholly a matter of violence. Throughout human history, getting his rocks off, whether forcefully or otherwise, has been a chief instinct of men arising from the mere existence of testosterone in the blood stream. Nobody is arguing about that. The difficulty is in the degree of force, the types of force, and all the noise is not about moving the line this way or that, but granting each and every woman total control over that line, to include retroactive redefinition. It changes regret to rape; sex becomes a weapon. Here’s the reality: They want the ultimate free privilege of taking a ride on the Alpha Male carousel whenever they please, but every other man in the world had better act like a metro-sexual at their command. When they deign to get married to their chosen metro-sexual, he has no say nor interest in her vagina, beyond what she grants on the whims of the moment.

I could go on at length, but none of this is possible were it not for the utterly false cultural substrate on which it all stands: Victorian culture, which itself piggybacks on what is essentially Teutonic culture filtered through the late Roman culture. Teuto-Roman culture is what we call Western Civilization. In other words, feminism as we see it today is a thrice removed social neurosis. A neurosis is a maladaptive behavior pattern which seeks to stave off a natural consequence of human existence. Most of the obvious neuroses we see in people are simply the last layer of avoidance placed on top of the previous failed layers, each an attempt to deny reality and real consequences. It’s seeking a fantasy. Feminism is trying to construct a fantasy on top of two previous layers of fantasy. You can’t fix it until you peel it all the way back down to the natural starting point.

Showing too much flesh is a sin; so says God Himself. Not because the human form is sinful in itself, but because we are fallen, and our fallen natures can’t properly handle that much honesty. Our essential evil nature does not allow us to ignore what our eyes see, and we are literally damned if we do, and damned if we don’t, because we are all damned by default regardless. It is not possible to transcend that problem so long as we wear fallen flesh. The only antidote is death. God revealed His prescription through the Ancient Near Eastern culture, which requires women to cover up most of their flesh, and men do the same. If you really wanted to find out, there is sufficient record to indicate how much is “too much” for public life. Nor does it help if you cite anecdotal evidence of how this or that fellow isn’t really turned on by this or that exposed body part. The human race is shot through with all sorts of perverted desires and tastes. You can bash your senses and your conscience until you eventually get an abnormal answer, but it won’t change God’s revelation.

It’s also a sin to relegate social enforcement to the civil government, and our modern version of professional police forces is inherently a violation of God’s Laws. God asserts a separation between social and civil law, and the former is an obligation laid upon the community to handle. Rape is not a civil matter, but a social issue. When social structures work properly, there is less rape simply because it’s not possible. However, rape is merely a single point of failure, and should not be used as a fulcrum for leveraging the destruction of civilization. The Slutwalks are not the problem, but a symptom of major problems going far, far deeper.

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Phone Conversation Overheard Somewhere in Midwest City, OK

Posted on May 9, 2011 by ehurst

Hello? George! Long time, no see, dude. What’s up?

I need a job, man. My company went belly up.

You need to get in the school business, man. It’s keeping me fat-n-sassy, and it’s recession-proof.

I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout education.

Nobody does. We’re all faking it. That school administration degree I got was simply taking the path of least difficulty, but it pays pretty good if you’re patient.

I’m too old to go back to school.

So, start your own school. Look for some specialty that’s under-regulated… take the school food service program. Create a course for certification as food handlers, but make it for schools only. Make it about the Junior High level; nobody’s gonna know the difference. Add a couple of buzzwords in your course description. Heck, just cut a couple of videos and you can forget hiring any staff. And we can make it mandatory.

How would you do that?

Dude, this is Oklahoma. A bribe here and there in the right hands can work miracles. Otherwise, it’s just marketing, and you know how to do that. Make it sound like this is the real future for child nutrition, make those kids all brilliant and energetic, or whatever. Won’t matter what angle you push, just make sure the slogans are different from the ones they used in the last five years or so. I know who to talk to at the State Board of Ed.

State’s gonna pay for it?

Nah. This is recession, remember? It’s why you’re looking for a job. No, we’ll just sock it to the kitchen bitches. Something a little shy of a hundred bucks a head should do it.

Ain’t you worried they’ll unionize over that crap?

Oh, sure, and then they’ll pay several hundred instead. The union folks work with us, you know.

Last I heard you don’t pay ’em that much in the first place.

Like they got any better options in a recession? That’s what little people are for. You squeeze ’em because they got nowhere else to go.

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Some Interpersonal Implications of the Three Pillars

Posted on May 8, 2011 by ehurst

Basic principles will always be the same, but the implications will shift with the context.

For those of you just catching up, you can review the Three Pillars in detail here. For those familiar with the concepts, I’ll be offering a brief contextual reminder. I was asked some questions today and it sparked a bit of thought. For those living in a Western society in general, and here in the US in particular, there are some interesting implications of the Three Pillars in how you face your daily existence.

Because we do not trust anyone, we do not divulge anything more of ourselves than the context demands. You should enter every situation bearing with you an element of mystery. You should be aware there are some things you couldn’t divulge if you wanted, but you should be hesitant to volunteer even when you can vocalize it. Of course, in a civilized world we always avoid burdening others with more than they need from us, and that basic rule reflects the other face of our natural distrust. You can’t avoid making yourself a target for any particular abuse in this world, but you need not make it particularly easy. That’s not self preservation so much as the natural result of keeping the focus where it belongs, on the truth and away from yourself.

There is nothing wrong with folks having a false impression of you. Our commitment to truth is not about us, but about the truth. Correct the impression if it’s necessary in revealing the truth, but otherwise it’s really not your problem. Preventing wasted effort or waste of resources can be a good reason to explain something not obvious about yourself. For example, I’m a vegetarian for the most part, so when some activity involves food, I’ll decide whether my preference matters for the sake of time and efficiency of materials. For a one-time deal in a mass feeding operation, my peculiarities don’t matter. As a guest in someone’s home, they need to know as soon as possible to avoid embarrassment. Truth has a function; it is not an absolute value.

The mission always comes first. If you have no idea what your mission is, that’s the first thing to figure out. Everything else in your life can wait. Your convictions will set limits on what the mission can or can’t be, what it can and can’t include. Your mission may well be something which never changes, but most often it will drift with the context. Divulge as much of yourself as necessary for the mission. You’ll always be learning how to estimate that. The mission is simply a term to describe what you really must do in your personal commitment to the truth. It includes discerning honestly your talents, weaknesses and willingness to take risks. What drives you?

Every moment of every day you are evaluating how you can make your mission. All human interaction must serve that. How you open up or don’t will be a matter of your personal character in pursuit of that mission. You are the means to revealing some element of truth, so be as true to your mission as you know how, because otherwise you don’t matter at all, and neither does any one else. Be aware of the feelings others will surely have, as you will have your own, but feelings are not there to rule, nor even to vote. Truth rules, and your mission is the obligation you have to truth.

Even for those closest to you, the one best thing you can ever do for them is meet the mission. For most of us, people are the mission, in one way or another. We are always ready to sacrifice for others, even in futile gestures, if what we do meets the mission. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but you. Truth at its deepest is seldom logical by any human standard.

Be prepared for folks to think you a fool, and prepare yourself for the misery of those you love most failing to understand. You love them enough to take the hit, and wait for the time when truth vindicates you. It will; it always does, though not necessarily while you live. The treasure of truth means you can afford some personal loss, so make the mission first in all things. Realize not every part of any given situation is in your power, but work with what does rest in your hands. Don’t let your tenderness for someone be an excuse to compromise the mission.

There are some who will make themselves the enemy of your mission, enemies of truth. Some of those people might live in the same house with you. Changing people is never the mission. All you can do is point out the path to change; it would never be truth if you could force someone to accept it. When necessary, you may be forced to take advantage of your enemy’s weaknesses. Not in the sense of abusing them, but understanding their foolishness so well, you manipulate them just enough to protect your mission. Speak whatever language they’ll hear, but don’t be deterred from the truth and your mission. It’s on your conscience to decide what that manipulation can include, and what shape it might take in a given context. Never do it when some other option is available to you. Never apologize for the mission, but always be prepared to heal any wounds, whether it’s your fault or not.

In the end, each moment of each day offers you an opportunity to pursue the mission. Success is not in what you accomplish, but in your commitment.

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Truth Is Personal

Posted on May 8, 2011 by ehurst

Truth is a Person, and can be communicated only person to person.

Aristotle’s insistence truth can be objectified served merely to guarantee the most important things we can know will never be addressed. The existence of all the universe is directly tied to the existence of a living being. Envision it as Creation, or however you like it, but the whole reason for the universe is a place for life. Given we know only the life on our own planet, there’s not much point speculating about other forms of sentient life on this plane of existence.  The problem is Aristotle in essence denied there was any other plane.

That we are detached from the higher plane is the result of choices made far away and long ago. We are born into a broken world, and before we can develop any sense of being ourselves, that brokenness is absorbed and forms a part of our nature. But if we do not absorb the brokenness, we are simply animals. Humanness comes from dealing with other humans, however many the barriers are between us. We all experience those nameless urges for some Other, despite how our communion with other humans never quite satisfies.

The only way we know anything at all is because of our contact with other knowers. I’m sure Aristotle and his friends were well acquainted with the various mystical religions of the world. We know those religions had representatives in that part of the world, and it’s hard to imagine their documents weren’t available in one form or another. Thus, it was a conscious choice of Aristotle to reject anything they suggested about knowing on a level beyond the conscious intellect. For those who accept the Bible narrative as any reflection of the truth, this was nothing more than affirming the Fall. Whatever else we take from the Fall narrative in Scripture, we can see that business of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was about taking the presumption of judging what was good and evil. It was the choice to place the intellect on the throne, and this was what severed our direct link to the higher realm, and to higher knowing. The stain was indelible, and spread to all humanity.

For a Christian, this means asserting truth can be propositional is simply asserting the Fall was the right choice, the Eve was right in taking the fruit of that forbidden tree. Agreeing with Aristotle is agreeing with Satan as to what our destiny in Creation should be. I find most of the ones who insist faith has to be reasonable are folks who simply fear the unknown ground of mysticism. They hate it because they can’t assert their control over it. The Fall is partially wrapped up in denying God’s authority, and seizing control over the business of knowing. There is evil to be found in exploring mysticism as an approach to knowing, but there is no truth in knowing without it.

A primary doctrinal assertion of our ministry has always been the utter necessity of person to person communication. We see historically how written communication can serve a useful purpose in either provoking interest, or reminding someone of an experience of personal contact, but nothing can replace face to face communion. That’s what we lost in the Fall, and we have to reestablish it to the degree possible. So while I am willing to put my ideas out here on the Net by writing, you will not ever see an audio or video recording. Those things build a false link; they give the impression of knowing another person, but it’s artificial, scripted. Nothing replaces time spent in the presence of another, seeing them when they aren’t performing for an audience — we all do it, it’s part of our brokenness. If you don’t like reading, you’ll need to arrange a face to face meeting with us.

It’s not simply the lack of technology which prevented the early Christians using any other means of communication. They knew instinctively it required time and personal presence. Had you given them a printing press, they would still have insisted on going in person to the places they felt led to take their message. That business of laying hands directly on another person was not entirely symbolic. There’s no magic, as we tend to think of things today, but it’s the necessity of hearing, feeling, even smelling another person which cannot be duplicated any other way.

Truth is communicated only through the living presence of someone who is wired to that truth. That’s because Truth itself is a Person, and He cannot be known objectively.

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Apocalyptic Deception

Posted on May 7, 2011 by ehurst

If your image of reality is flavored by movies in any way, you will never understand what’s going on.

Our minds have been conditioned to expect a dramatic shift overnight, that there will be massive destruction everywhere at once. Apocalypse won’t be like that. The conditioning is intentional, though not everyone involved was in on the game. The intent was to build an unrealistic expectation, so that when the real thing comes, no one will recognize it.

The US will not end up looking like Somalia, particularly the Somalia of the military adventure movies in recent memory. We will have blood in the streets; we do already. But it will continue to come in incidents our minds have been taught to consider rare. The reports will be few, unless you get your news from alternative sources.

But there’s a problem with those alternative sources, too. Most of those folks are trying to make a living, or at least have their website paid for by advertising. Precious few are honest brokers. Worse, most of them are also infected with the same movie-minded madness.

Let’s pick this apart. The first thing we need to accept is there is no way to stop this thing. The moment of departure was long ago, and we missed it, for much the same reason most will miss the really important shifts over the next few months and years. If everyone today rose up in arms against the regime, you’d have too many of the wrong people killed and not enough of the right ones, because no one really knows who They are. I don’t. Nothing runs in a straight line, and no single human, nor any group of humans, can grasp what tomorrow will bring if we change just this one thing, or that one. The fundamental flaw is not the mechanism, but the underlying assumptions and the very language of our brains about what to expect. We don’t even see the meaning of minor events we face every day; how can we grasp the big things? Apocalypse is already here.

This is not a zero-sum game. Any fool knows if food stops coming into your community, there will be armed revolts. If the flow of food simply slows a little at a time, until certain agencies are in total control, and most of what everyone eats is still available, simply at a higher price, there will be no riots. There aren’t enough folks devoted to growing their own organic food to prevent Monsanto’s lackeys in the FDA from making home gardens pointless. They won’t simply outlaw the home gardens; expect them to make the whole business more difficult, a death by a thousand paper cuts, as it were.

There is no single crazy project which holds all the answers to our sorrows. Agenda 21, the Carbon Tax scheme, Codex Alimentarius, mandatory vaccines, etc. — some of these overlap, but some of them are actually contradictory, and it doesn’t matter. The zeal of the promoters is the scam, and the zeal of the resistors is the predictable result which makes the scam work. Each of these is a real threat, but neither any single one, nor all of them together, is the real threat. They are simply the means to an end. Keeping us riled up on them will ensure we don’t pay attention to what really matters. Every crazy announcement which “leaks” out, like the federal highway tax-per-mile scheme, is just a test. It’s not a matter of whether it will be done, but how and when — and more importantly, how it will keep us tied up in knots while something else slips by unnoticed.

What’s really going on is the cultural conditioning in the background. Does it not occur to anyone the very use of videos as a means of communication is a fundamental element of this whole thing? When I see a thousand idiots and their earnest pleas for attention to some dire problem posting on YouTube or Vimeo, I wonder whatever happened to the intellectual depth it takes to write the same message in just a few paragraphs. I wonder whatever happened to the intellectual depth it takes to read and understand those paragraphs. Folks, the medium is the message; it is the means to control. Just my saying that guarantees a large number of folks will turn away from any message I might offer.

This is part and parcel to my contention we have surrendered the entire battlefield when we insist on Aristotelian logic. The entire ground of Western Civilization is the victory of evil. Freedom is not simply getting some government hack off our backs, nor keeping the international bankers from mortgaging every square inch of American soil, nor even the ability to grow your own organic food and homeschool your kids. If your homeschooling curriculum consists of Classical Western themes and topics, you are a slave before you start.

It’s bad enough American Christians have so deeply absorbed a pitiful nationalism to the point they are willing to promote Satanic methods to win whatever it is they think matters in human politics. Even as they mouth the words, “You can’t defeat Satan by using his weapons,” they are arming themselves with the tools of Darkness. But if you allow Satan to redefine the very nature of warfare and meet him on his battlefield of choice, any battle which follows is his game, his staged drama. You must attack his stronghold, not contest the yard in front of it. His stronghold is Western Civilization itself, the fundamental assumptions about the world. Any decent academic who doesn’t love Jesus can point out where we have departed from the intellectual assumptions of the New Testament, but we refuse to listen. We have so enslaved ourselves to this world, we don’t recognize the exit standing wide open.

That exit is the Ancient Near Eastern Mysticism by which Jesus Himself organized His own human thoughts. If you don’t know Jesus that way, you don’t know Him at all. But in a much wider sense, those of you who want to ignore the whole Jesus thing, let me warn you, too: Don’t lock your brain into a failed and falling civilization. When you acknowledge there are some things which can’t be explained in mere human intellectual terms, you are in a position to step out of the prison of your own limitations. You don’t have to embrace Jesus to take full advantage of understanding reality. Learn about intuition, and how the subconscious tosses things out for your conscious mind to notice. Realize when you buy into the grand visions of human unity, you are already chained to a lie. You have to find your own answers, and you won’t even get started as long as you swallow so much of the mass of lies, cutting yourself off from things you should explore for yourself.

Let me say it again, and invite you to explore a better way: Every truth becomes a lie when it has to pass through a video camera lens.

When something so important as truth is all prepackaged neatly, a sterile and fully digested slurry of sweet nonsense which prevents you exploring the thing itself, then you are simply buying into someone else’s private truth. There is no objective body of cosmic truth, that stands out there ready to be discovered if we just keep poking at the details of this or that observable fact. If truth does not live of itself inside you, it’s not truth. If I try to do more than simply point out where you can find it, then it won’t be truth for you. You have to do it yourself, and that means using all the means at your disposal. If you deny those means exist, you’ll never get there.

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Just Passing Through

Posted on May 6, 2011 by ehurst

The original title to my blog (not just this post) was “Just Passing Through.” It was meant to be a religious statement, taken from a song commonly attributed to Albert Brumley:

This world is not my home, I’m just a-passin’ through.
My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue.
The angels beckon me from Heaven’s open door,
and I can’t feel at home in this world any more.

It hearkens to a previous era in American Protestant religion. While I know those in academia had changed their minds much earlier, and big churches with big programs had already moved with them, I can recall when the big shift in thinking began showing up in the little churches where I spent most of my time back in the mid-1970s. Up until that time, the adult leadership of those churches were pretty other-worldly. That is, they really didn’t expect much from this world, and knew things wouldn’t be good until they were in Heaven.

Songs like the one above were very popular, and these folks could recall when there weren’t even many American flags visible in those little country church houses. When politics got any mention, folks were typically old-line rural Democrats. Those days are gone. It’s not as if things were all sweet and dreamy all the time; you can corrupt anything involving humans. Nor do I find fewer genuine caring souls in the modern here-n-now generation. The problem is not the power of God to work in human hearts, but the overall thrust of thinking which contributes to the vast foolishness of Dispensationalism.

During my college years at Oklahoma Baptist University (I graduated in 1978), it was trendy and popular to say something like this: “If all this Bible stuff were simply a fantasy, I still believe living by Christian ethics is the best life one can have.” What a stinking bucket of manure! If all this is false, we have no power to live; we are just fooling ourselves. The underlying lie, the greatest threat to Christian faith since it all began, is that we can accomplish anything useful by human talent and intelligence. This is the basic idiocy behind the likes of Rick Warren and most of what passes for emerging church.

It is merely the latest manifestation of all that was wrong with the Crusades, the Inquisition and every other horror blasphemously attributed to Christ’s teaching. Today we have millions of feverish Christian Zionists demanding the slaughter of Muslims. They deny the words, but it’s what they hope to see. Draping the US flag over the Cross denies the very reason for the Cross, and Jesus died in vain. Most certainly it denies the power which took away the stone from the door of His tomb. If politics were a good way of doing things, Jesus would have embraced the Devil’s offer to proclaim Himself the political messiah everyone wanted.

So here’s another prophetic message from God for you American Christians: You blew it. You had a chance to keep America back from presumptuous sin, but you dove in head first yourself. When you decided God was running for office in US politics, and bought into the blasphemous arrogance that America was somehow God’s own nation, you nailed Jesus the Cross again. The reason our nation is such a horrible place to live is because you started meddling in the politics, and decided to support one party over another. You people are the reason American morals are filthy hedonism, the reason our taxes are soaring and our economy dying; you are the reason God allows so many natural disasters, and more you won’t believe until you see them. It’s all because of you and your fake religion of politics. Guess what? Everything you hate about the political situation today is God’s wrath on you. It’s all going in the toilet, and God is sponsoring it.

The One World government you fear and hate will come. The worst oppressions you can imagine will descend upon the land, along with starvation, natural disasters, diseases both natural and manmade, and more evil than you ever dreamed possible. You asked for it, and if you now decide to resist, you will be fighting God Himself. When they come demanding your children for use as soldiers to enforce martial law on behalf of the Antichrist, God will not hear your cries, because it is you who have thrown them into the arms of Molech.

The one last hope for a precious few of you is to embrace the otherworldly viewpoint. When you realize all this stuff you fight for does not matter, that it’s all futile and senseless, and only feeds the Kingdom of Darkness you claim to despise, then you’ll be free. Perhaps then, if you learn enough fast enough, you can claim the last few shreds of God’s promises for this realm of existence. No, not my particular brand of Christian Mysticism, but an end to your clinging to Western Civilization, to Aristotelian epistemology, and the intellectual lies that this world matters at all.

Can’t do it? Enjoy your sorrow, because tribulation is already here, and you won’t be raptured out of it.

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Make Sane Choices Against the Lies of the World

Posted on May 5, 2011 by ehurst

Having a vision of truth, of clarity and honesty, isn’t very useful to others if I can’t show an application.

First, an honest accounting of where I stand, of how I arrived at my applications. I take the Bible seriously. We might debate what it says, but I find that’s mostly a matter of whose glasses you wear when you read it. Again, there is no objective truth out there we can bring to the question, because humans are not capable of it; I choose my biases openly and wisely. A very fundamental issue in my reading of the Bible is my choice to wear the glasses of the Hebrew intellectual culture which brings us the Bible. In so doing, I reject the lenses offered by Aristotle and all of Western Civilization. Not so much that I have succeeded, but this is my commitment. You can read more about that here if you need an academic accounting of my approach. The point is, I have a bone to pick with almost the entirety of Western Christianity; someone paid big money for my Western Christian education, and I have a BA in Religion, and have not since then ceased to study, so I understand all too well what’s involved. If you are oriented toward the mainstream Western Protestant expressions of faith, we will have much to debate, but we can agree the Book is the basis for proceeding.

From there, it’s a short step to declaring I utterly reject the modern nation-state called “Israel.” I’m asking you to make the sane choice of rejecting it, too. That is, let us regard that nation is the single greatest threat to human life on this planet. Yes, this awful world offers plenty of dangers, and we have no end of things we should call “sin” and demand they stop. However, the problem with Israel is so unspeakably huge because it steers most of what’s wrong elsewhere.

Getting back to that Bible business, my claim to be true to the ancient Hebrew understanding is the primary basis for rejecting any claims modern Israel represents any promises God made in the Bible. I’ll save you a lot of time: So long as Israel does not adhere to the Covenant of Moses, they cannot claim God’s favor as a nation. They do not, so they cannot; that’s in the Bible. As long as they reject Moses, they cannot claim the support of any Christian, either. Let’s pretend for a moment the political machinery of Israel is seized by the Orthodox Jews. Would that fix things? No. They adhere to the Talmud, and Jesus bluntly said that was contrary to Moses. Modern Judaism is Talmudism, a departure from the Old Testament religion. That’s also covered in my link above. Sorry, but unless there is a radical transformation and repentance in Israel and all Jews, they can make no claim to fulfill anything God put in His Bible.

So any Christians who agitate for political support for Israel are agitating against the Bible. I could go much farther, pointing out how Christ on the Cross completely ended the Covenant of Moses in the first place, but we don’t have room for that here. I could also take you to a thousand pages of facts which point out how Dispensationalism is a heresy, tracing the entire detailed history of where those ideas come from, but that’s more than adequately covered by others. If you want to know, you can easily find out how the whole thing came from some lying Catholic priests, ambitious and greedy English Protestant preachers, some wacko teenage girls, and all of it passed along through a series of politically ambitious preachers in the US. Sorry, but Jesus said in no uncertain terms no good thing comes from political activism.

So much is simply a long standing debate with ample record. Should you really want to know the truth, you’ll find it. If you don’t want the clarity and honesty, then nothing I say here will help you. The Bible itself destroys the claims of modern Israel. Any other position is blasphemy. It’s all stolen land, and the folks there are unspeakably evil oppressors of the previous occupants. Our political alliance with them is poking God in the eye. Thus far is theology. And for anyone who really wants to know the truth, almost all our adventures in the Middle East are at the behest of Israel’s political agenda. Any secular searcher of truth could figure that out.

Hussein was our hired thug; whatever he was doing was at the behest of the US political establishment, until at some point we suckered him into something we would not tolerate. Our rulers needed an excuse for a big show of warfare, and he took the bait as our faithful foolish servant. We were already in Afghanistan, in part because of demands from Big Oil. The Taliban, whom we created during the Soviet Occupation, were not showing themselves sufficiently grateful. None of this is secret, either. That there was a bigger agenda, with a plan to attack Iran all along, is also not hard to see. Look at a map. Afghanistan is east of Iran. Iraq is west of Iran. It doesn’t take a genius. And since Pakistan is south of Afghanistan, shifting from Afghanistan to Pakistan, or simply adding it on, hardly changes the underlying narrative of our activities there. Israel fears Iran’s nuclear ambitions because Israel intends to be the only nuclear power in the region.

And so on. The only reason most American Christians don’t see these things is because they are blinded by the Dispensationalist lies. Shed that insult to God and everything else makes sense. You really don’t need me for this part.

Now, let me shift over to another level. As part of my peculiar approach to the Bible, I believe God still uses folks to speak as prophets. I believed it before He gave me a prophetic word. I understood the prophetic background of His nation, ancient Israel, and where the boundaries were. I believe I understand how things were shifted to the New Covenant, and His church. Those things I realize require His Spirit to understand, and I have a strong theological basis for discussing the necessity of spiritual birth to understand how these things work. In theory, at least, anyone whose spirit the Lord has raised up to life inside their soul is in a position to hear a prophetic word on any question in their personal life. Sometimes what He has to say applies to more than the individual who hears it.

My warning about invading Iran could find a logical basis, but I’m not relying on that. While I don’t claim to have a word from God regarding Israel, it is my speculation from that prophetic word any attack they make on Iran is equally doomed. They got away with the last one; I personally believe they won’t get away with it again. I suspect they will act very soon, and that their failure will be what draws us into it. Never mind how I consider the government of Iran foolish and wrong; that’s not the point. This is a word from God, and some reasoning connected to it.

I further speculate this stuff will happen this summer, or perhaps as late as the fall. No, that’s not part of the prophecy; it’s just my personal guess. I hope stay out of it, but I have no doubt it’s part of our government plans, and I suspect this disaster will have something to do with massive political changes in the world, particularly the US. I’m hardly the only sane man who thinks our national debt places us in precarious position, and any day now our currency will collapse in terms of how the rest of the world treats it. And while I don’t quite believe these images are the real thing (seen all over the alternate news and underground blogs in the last few days), the background story of something like a North American Union swallowing the US is entirely plausible. It’s entirely plausible some hidden agency has been trying to entice our government into reckless and endless spending and borrowing as the means to destroying what little is left of our national sovereignty. We have been ruled by some outside power for quite some time now, but getting the mass of citizens to go along with it is cheaper than simply sending the troops into the streets. All the more so since our troops are busy elsewhere right now. So I am utterly certain this whole thing has been set up in advance, and we have been nudged in this direction by conflicting stories which serve to herd us in a controlled panic when it becomes necessary.

I hope I’m wrong on most of this, because it will be very uncomfortable for me when it all happens. My beloved Internet will probably become difficult to access, if not impossible. The fun of fixing people’s computers will disappear for me, right along with the fun I have using my own. Most likely my veterans’ pension will disappear, along with a lot of other government funded support systems. I have little confidence there will be any useful replacement for that, and lots of people will be hurting. It doesn’t matter what I think of them in terms of proper libertarian economic policy; such a drastic change coming so quickly will be painful beyond imagining. I’m not looking forward to these things, but I am quite certain most of it will happen as I describe. The timing is merely my personal guess.

So I am trying to do a few things now which might help me stay focused and sane while the rest of the world goes mad. Part of that is simply keeping track of events and seeing how they confirm or deny my story line. You need to write your own story line. Don’t trust mine; I could be stupid and insane at the same time. That Israel is a big problem is hard to dispute, but you don’t have to swallow my approach to the the Bible to arrive at that conclusion. Realizing that messing with Iran will hurt the West does not require a prophecy from God. That our economy is about the crash is hardly a secret. But if you swallow the lies of our government, as told through the mainstream media, you deserve everything that’s coming.

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Transparency and Vision

Posted on May 5, 2011 by ehurst

You cannot easily see the truth if you aren’t willing to be the truth.

Whoever you are, I am no better than you. At most, I am simply somewhere out ahead of you. More likely, this blog simply offers some hope it’s worth the trouble to keep poking at the barriers in your own world. The ability to string words together in a way some find engaging is simply the act of holding up the torch for you to see where I’ve gone. Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking such a talent puts me on some level you can’t reach.

Over the past few years I’ve been put through the wringer on some things. At points I nearly committed suicide, and that should be sufficient proof I’m not that special. What is special, and what I want to draw your attention to is the call to clarity itself. It’s like a sword you cannot use until you have turned it on yourself, and it’s the only weapon which actually makes any difference. It’s a death defying act to grab the handle, and I’m still here somehow. The past few years I have been chasing the ghosts of forgotten sins, and some of them are fearsome threats to sanity.

This is not a question of achieving, but believing — believing it’s worth the price. So fully do I believe it I’m willing to expose myself unilaterally. I expose myself to one and all. Ask me anything. While civilization demands we keep some things to ourselves, it’s not about hiding truth, but leaving others unburdened with things unworthy of their attention. There are dumb questions, unworthy questions, but truth itself includes pointing out what matters and what doesn’t. So if some government agency really needs to see know what I do with my computer, they need only ask and I’ll provide a full accounting. I don’t run Linux to hide things, but to maintain a responsible control over things which matter to me in my burning search for clarity. Linux itself is not truth, not by any measure, but is simply a tool I use. In demanding the truth about the world in which I live, this is the right question for me to ask. Don’t emulate my choices unless they work for you; emulate the search itself.

That’s just one tool among many as I chase the lies out of my world. Right now, the Internet looms large on my horizon. I find moments of clarity from others. OBL? Don’t believe everything you hear. Especially don’t believe our government, which has proven beyond all doubt a willingness to lie about anything and everything. But I’m willing to be transparent to them because the way to fight lies is not to produce your own. Having nailed all that to the Cross, I’m not going to defeat the Darkness by hiding things. We don’t become sane by trading one madness for another.

There is enough madness simply living in this broken world. I can’t promise I’ve found the absolute sanity, as if it’s something so universal you need to buy my personal vision. Don’t follow me unless your feet can’t take any other path. I’m not building a cult and I don’t want your money, just a little of your attention until you no longer need what I offer. The most important thing you can do for me is claw at your own eyes, pulling away the mask, until you can trust the truth about yourself, until you can test your own vision against the light of honesty. I assert there is no objective truth we must all share on this plane of existence. Truth is not an achievement, a place you can go, but a path, a commitment. It’s the search which becomes so obviously necessary when you realize you can’t swallow any more lies.

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