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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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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