Time and Redemption: Crimes Against Heaven

Posted on April 25, 2011 by ehurst

Our modern American justice system is a rank offense to God.

I’ve been privileged to see variations of justice up close and personal. On the one hand, I’ve had a fair selection of relatives who passed through the system. On the other hand, I and others in my family have worked in the enforcement industry. There is a vast substantial disconnect between God’s Covenant of Social Order (AKA Noah) and the fundamental assumptions of what we do today, particularly in America.

The purpose of God in the Law of Noah was redemptive. It was His provision for making the most of a bad situation. We are fallen; nothing we do can fix that. But we can salvage from this situation an opportunity to reach for a better place, an escape of sorts, by striving for another level of existence. You can’t actually have it without leaving this one, but you can surely be made aware of it, and initiate the process of making your home there in God’s good favor. Embracing the final revelation of His Son includes embracing the basic message of Noah — there is a thing called “sin” and you have to embrace God’s revealed judgment against it. Only then can you comprehend the mission of the Son.

The path to that reaching and striving is for us today through Noah. The fundamental statement of Noah in Scripture is symbolic; the Hebrew literary tradition which includes the Covenant of Noah presumes a wealth of information no longer easily accessed. It also assumes an intellectual climate our Western Civilization rejects, parodies and generally derides as primitive and dangerous. No surprise, then, to note the whole of Western Civilization stands condemned by God, because to be Western is to reject God’s revelation.

A particularly Western flaw is the way in which public order and the system of justice so utterly misses the point. Frankly, the whole thing is punitive, hateful and arrogant, versus the system God designed to be redemptive. God intended we should reclaim from the wreck and wrack of the Fall what He deemed salvageable. He remains the ultimate expert in the matter as Creator of all things. His limits were most thoroughly rooted in the reality of things on this plane of existence. That we complain He was too vindictive and assessed the capital penalty for too many things is merely our excuse for making certain groups of people as miserable as possible. We are the barbarians.

It is known for a certainty to those who wish to review the vast pile of literature on studies in human behavior: There is a limited window of opportunity for any system involving humans to reclaim what can be salvaged of fallen humanity. In broad terms, punitive confinement works only for a time frame up to, at most, one year. For the vast majority of humanity, half that is about it, but we can permit some room for those who are a little slow to respond. If we add conditions which are physically challenging, most folks capable of responding do so in a matter of weeks. If our purpose is to correct human behavior, longer sentences are an unreasonable waste of resources.

Our silly attempt at matching longer penalties based on some cultural assumptions about how much this or that action threatens society is pure fantasy. The entire political process of setting sentences reflects a perverse notion of putting a price on crimes assessed by how shocking they are to some artificial value system. It arises from the utterly evil materialism of the middle or merchant class which dominates Western political processes. Yes, the sum total of Western Civilization is little more than prissy middle-class values writ large. It’s the pretense of noble privilege without the actual nobility of character. Because it lacks that nobility, what we have as Western Civilization simply proclaims itself “noble” and all else as dangerous.

As such, most “crimes” are simply violations of that prissy idiocy, an unacceptable challenge to the materialistic orthodoxy. So long as you aren’t born and raised in such an atmosphere, it’s patently obvious to anyone with elementary intelligence the entire concept of civil policing is merely class warfare and oppression. The only reason anyone bears a scintilla of class consciousness is as a reaction to the excesses of the middle classes intent on enforcing a separation between themselves and everyone else. Their socio-economic existence is entirely due to materialism and greed, the demon-god of hedonistic comfort. It’s a rejection of those intellectual assumptions necessary to understand God’s provision for a decent life in this fallen realm.

Indeed, it should present no great challenge to discover civilian police forces as we know them today arose entirely from the urban middle class trying to force their social habits onto the working classes which made their prosperity possible. The first arrest powers were purely a matter of keeping the rowdy workers from blowing off a little steam. That’s it; the whole thing was preventing workers from acting like workers. Workers were supposed to be miserable. If you did not aspire to prissy middle class society, you were wrong already; no room for debate.

Contrast this with the history of rural policing, centered on the sheriff and simply keeping property losses to a minimum. There was no pretense of demanding a culture shift, since the difference between a poor peasant and rich peasant was a combination of personal aspirations mixed with the vagaries of circumstance. The presumption that the less fortunate were somehow inherently evil did not come from the rural folks themselves, but the urban middle class who had some fantasy of bucolic life they didn’t understand. What we call “suburbs” is the mass middle class version of rural life.

It would be easy to get lost in the differences in social history. The point is our modern American “justice system” is entirely the result of materialistic, anti-Christian middle class ogres who run things. It’s not about making things better for all, but making everyone miserable who dares to think differently. On paper it all looks okay, but in actual execution it turns the concept of justice on its head.

God’s idea was to decide as reasonably as possible what it takes to contain the natural threat arising from human fallen nature. Put them through the corrective process a few times; see if it helps. Not years upon years — that simply creates a stable counter-society of evil. Make it of short duration, so that a high turnover prevents anyone establishing an artificial world. Is there someone who, on the balance of actual record of behavior, shows themselves unwilling to value human life and what goes with it? Are they truly harmful, not just annoying? You can’t fix that; get rid of them. Is there a place you can send them away from threatening you? Do so. Can you keep them from coming back? Do so. Otherwise, there isn’t much you can do except execute them. They have shown themselves incorrigible predators.

I’ll leave for another day what sort of behavior constitutes a genuine threat to society as God sees it. The point is, our modern American way of doing things is the moral equivalent of poking God in the eye and laughing at His sorrow. We have so twisted and perverted the meaning of “justice,” we can’t even imagine it on God’s terms. America fully deserves to be destroyed, so don’t be surprised when God makes it happen.

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Martial Law? Of Course

Posted on April 23, 2011 by ehurst

Count on it. We will soon be under martial law in the US, or at least some parts of it.

The stage has been set. This is no joke, nor merely some hyperbole. That they have been slow to actually implement this martial law atmosphere is simply a matter of trying to scrape off the last thin patina of confiscable wealth. When there is nothing left to take, they’ll crack down on us to prevent anyone taking any of it back.

Yes, this is our government, Americans.

Barnett’s warning about “now is the time to act” may be true, but I’m sure he knows it’s flogging a dead horse. Not that nothing could be done; it could, but only in theory. That something is even likely in the other sense is a fantasy. It won’t happen. Most of those who should act are too fearful, believing they have too much to lose. They don’t realize they’ve already lost it, that when they finally see it being stripped away, it will be entirely legal and fully enforced. Too late.

Then there are some, like me, who honestly and truly believe it just doesn’t matter. Indeed, as a prophet of Almighty God, I’m warning you this coming martial law is in His hand, and it is justice due for our vast ocean of sins against Him. That it could come is proof we deserve it.

Yes, I know it will fall on me, too, but fighting it would be fighting God. Feel free to try that yourself, though, and tell me how it turns out. Meanwhile, I’m preparing myself to face it rather as a Mission Impossible type of assignment, as an agent without any of the incredible toys, unimaginable training, or backing of any authority on this earth. It’s truly impossible, unless, of course, you view this from the higher plane of existence. Then you’ll realize I’ve already succeeded.

For those of you who just don’t get it, never mind. Enjoy your martial law.

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A Prophetic Critique of Game Theory Model, Part 4

Posted on April 21, 2011 by ehurst

Fixing It

Starting with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, fallen man has been granted an ever-brighter light of revelation on the path back. The bare trace in the wilderness became a highway, until the very living Incarnation of God’s self-disclosure Himself was born. God didn’t simply choose a nation, but created one from scratch, arising from a particular cultural background. Revelation cannot take place in a vacuum. Inscriptions on stone are not sufficient; it must be living and breathing, including the whole of what makes up a dynamic human identity. The ancient Hebrew world was the setting God designed for His revelation.

It’s not simply a matter of 2000 years. First, the Son Himself pointed out how the nation at that point had long previously slipped away from its genuine Hebrew identity. They were not true to Moses, much less Abraham. The teachings of Jesus were a call to return to a very different frame of reference, so for us it’s more like 3500 years. Plus, it’s 5000 miles, several shifts in language, culture and civilization, and a wholly different intellectual frame of reference.

Grace cannot be grasped by the human mind. It can’t be told, only indicated. Only a living spirit can receive it. Human awareness itself was broken by the Fall, disconnected from a living spirit. In His mercy and wisdom the Father provided the means to call us back to the place where His Spirit stood waiting to reunite us with our spirits. The shining beacon of truth is beyond the fallen mind, so God offered a lesser expression, something which could be grasped in the fallen intellect. It’s primary expression is in the Law Covenants — Noah and Moses — as indicators, something the mind could grasp as a parable of the unspeakable Truth of God the Person. To know God is to know His will; that is as much as any human can know of God. The Laws of God were within reach of fallen man, the merciful provision of a path to grace. Law is not the goal, nor the sum total of revelation, just a mere manifestation. But even with that, we have a massive gulf to span on our human level. The thread of revelation through human history included not merely a pile of logical propositions, as if truth could be objectified. Nor is is sufficient to say revelation is in the gestalt, the whole of it. It’s a radical shift in epistemology, of awareness itself.

It’s not the data, nor the software to process it, but an entirely new operating system and logic, because grace completely changes the hardware. It’s a whole new architecture. You can only port so much of it without starting from scratch. As long as you read Scripture from a Western mind, you will miss an awful lot. You’ll get that you have sinned, deserve to go to Hell, and that Jesus is your only hope. You will have only a very poor idea how to follow Him, though. To fix the problems described above requires a radical solution most readers are not prepared to contemplate. God’s solution is mandating a change in cultural in our frame of reference. So long as there is a Western Civilization, there will be no solution, no good human government.

Learning the justice of God means, in part, embracing the decentralized tribal lifestyle which is assumed by God’s Law Covenants. No other social structure will do as much to maximize the variability and uniqueness of humans. A tribal culture makes no room for Alphas because there is no cohesive Beta class. There is no means to amassing that sort of power. Tribal elders are contextual Alphas in effect, but seldom with the underlying personality traits, since there aren’t that many genuine Alphas in the first place. Deltas and Gammas in a tribal society are too often pushed into the Alpha role, and it changes them. They won’t easily be demoted to Beta status, though. This is in part because their fundamental responsibility to their families, their tribal constituency, keeps them sensitive. Unaccountable and arrogant elders, which real Alphas would be, tend to get into too much trouble, because tribal cultures don’t permit unquestioning loyalty and conspiracies; too many different folks are jealously guarding their decentralized prerogatives as their duty to God.

Sigmas, Omegas and Lambdas are less likely to arise because virtually no one is permitted to be isolated. Close-knit families are like that, sticking their nose into your business. Truly different or odd people are kept inside the human society by family care and constraint, because the family as a whole is accountable to other families.

Since women are not forced to work out their own mating choices alone, the whole female hierarchy and competition is sublimated. That is, social controls make chasing an Alpha utterly forbidden. Instead, every other man is encouraged to manifest a little Alpha. The merry-go-round never completely goes away, but its rare because its scandalous; personal costs are too high. A woman’s attractiveness is evaluated differently, and may be irrelevant to her status. The mating instinct is regulated. The market is controlled, but not necessarily by males only. The nature of things prevents a pure patriarchy. A biblical society distinguishes between social and civil government. While men dominate the latter, they are not permitted to rule the former. It’s the wiring issue. Women cannot be kept out of social matters very long, and men invariably bungle it.

The single greatest failure of the modern nation-state government is absorbing social issues into civil government. This always happens incrementally, slowly corrupting any form of government. Western Civilization in particular has no resistance to this cancer. As opposed to the Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) form of civilization, the West emphasizes tangible property over persons. Even people are viewed as a form of tangible property, versus their value as humans. Thus, women are chattel, and their rightful place in social government is denied. But the wiring doesn’t go away, so women find other ways of asserting their power, which naturally requires leveraging their way into civil government in order to exercise their social instincts. Women are not wired for civil government, and we now see the horrors of what their presence brings in much of what is wrong with our world today.

The broken system, with the false social hierarchies we have now, is the result of our inability to even conceive of God’s plan.

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A Prophetic Critique of Game Theory Model, Part 3

Posted on April 21, 2011 by ehurst

Recapitulation

Again, this is not God’s ideal. In the Spirit Realm we are all far more unique and individual than our fleshly confinement permits. Before the Fall, humans had a spiritual identity and full awareness. The Fall disconnected us from that identity and awareness. It is as if our spirits are dead, because they are waiting for us in Hell. That’s our condition by default, our fallen state. When our spirits are brought back to life, we are given back our Heavenly identity, our divine citizenship. But now it’s all foreign to us, and our fleshly nature has been too long established to easily step aside and surrender the throne. It is a painful transition, incomplete until the day we finally escape the fallen realm. The Bible refers to that as falling asleep, because it’s only half way there. The final redemption is Christ’s Return to restore what was lost in the Garden, with a new creation, a universe and body not entangled in the Fall.

Meanwhile, conquering the fallen flesh is our primary task. A fancy word for that is “mortification” — killing the flesh nature. We proceed individually because we are reclaiming our spiritual uniqueness, but we are in the company of many other fallen souls, so we also seek to mortify as much of our world as we can touch. An element of that is reclaiming ourselves, pulling back out of the system, refusing to let it rule us. That reclamation has limits, in that Our Lord only permits us a certain limited amount of power. Some portion of us remains linked to the Fall.

Our awareness generally precedes our using authority. Critical to breaking the power of the Fall is knowing how it affects us. As all human science is justified only insofar as it serves this purpose, all truth is God’s truth. Behavioral Science, such as it is, attempts to account for the mere fact humans are not living in isolation. Some portion of God’s purpose in Creation includes putting us at the crown of it, and our dominance regardless of the Fall is rooted in our ability to relate to one another. The whole point is to reestablish our relationship with God, and our social nature derives from that.

The more we fail in relating to God, the more severe our sins as a whole in how we relate to each other. We sin in allowing the development of a social structure which denies our uniqueness. Because we don’t understand how we are supposed to relate to each other, we tend to let things slide. When humans in their native fear congregate for whatever advantage that offers, there will always be a dehumanizing effect, something which constrains and limits our choices in our consciousness, making us more like the lesser creatures with whom we share so much. The ways in which we seek to secure our shalom — our instinctive search for security, social stability, the filling of our appetites — reduce us to a simple herd. When these things occupy our existence, the uniqueness which is our divine destiny is reduced to allowing a peculiar few variations.

Those few variations manifest in the roles of the hierarchy we have described. There are Alphas only because the vast uniqueness has been narrowed down to permit a tiny portion of human character to dominate the social structure. So those with a lack of fear who survive by craft, and a matching talent in manipulating their fellow humans, take the leadership. There are Betas because they don’t quite make the cut, but know they can benefit from sticking close to the Alpha. There are more of them, and they congregate to focus their combined force in creating a strong system. Sigmas are the Alphas who didn’t succeed in gaining Beta support. Neither above nor below the Alpha-Beta channel, they developed a limited sphere of dominance almost as parasites on the system. It still feeds them.

There are Gammas because, while highly talented in their own right, their talent arises from a passionate drive which somehow excludes their having any talent with people. The system keeps them around for their usefulness, but is either unable or unwilling to solve their social weakness.

Deltas, for whatever it is they may have, are unable to gain any distinction in their social context. They are useful as the asset pool, the tax base, the breeding stock for the Alpha-Beta dominance scheme. Without them, the Alpha-Beta symbiosis has nothing over which to seek an advantage.

There are Lambdas because there is always room for variations which serve to validate the system by the very depravity of appetites few are willing to indulge. They are the necessary foil of the mainstream sins. Omegas are an element of scenery, completely deprived of their humanity because humanity is reduced to something which excludes whatever uniqueness sets them apart. Their existence reminds us how evil the system really is.

Truly, we can do better.

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A Prophetic Critique of Game Theory Model, Part 2

Posted on April 20, 2011 by ehurst

The Hierarchy in Action

The Game Model hierarchy for manhood is pretty much the same in both the narrow socio-sexual sphere as well as the broader human society. The model applies well in several contexts. However, the model is itself highly contextual. The descriptions of roles in the hierarchy is derived; it is specific to modern Western Civilization. The roles take their shape and delineation from the cultural context, even as they reflect something fundamental to human nature. Our modern Western world consigns men to identities as a range of reactions to the particular stresses of our society. What you have here is a snapshot in time, through the lens of a particular functional approach, printed on the paper of one man’s writing skills (such as they are). Hopefully the colors and forms of this image can reflect something more universally recognizable.

In broad terms, God’s justice requires humans organize socially in units of household, clan and tribe. Any effort to centralize control beyond that is risky at the very least, and typically evil in almost every case. Pulling diverse groups in under a single governing entity cannot avoid injustice to one or more groups. Somebody will be forced to sacrifice something essential in the process, and lose part of their identity. Anything which reduces human identity is by definition dehumanizing, and that is the fundamental sin of all human government. This is an essential element in Western Civilization, and this prophetic analysis expresses the deeper failure of Western Civilization. Here we see yet one more way in which humans defy God by rejecting His guidance, particularly in dealing with other humans. Part of this critique is reviewing what evil shapes government takes when various approaches are applied, and the shapes tend to match somewhat the characteristic roles within the Game Theory hierarchy.

In particular, our modern Western frame of reference is the background of how men have ruled each other, in the various historical forms of government which appeared in the West.

When Alpha rules, it’s monarchy, which lends itself to despotic tyranny. The genuine human need behind the rise of any monarch is the necessity of vesting someone as warlord. When things get dangerous, somebody has to be quick to respond and take command, because war by committee never succeeds. But too many good warlords enjoy too much the benefits of this power, and keep it after the battle is over. Rare indeed is the winning warrior who forgets his armor. Even more rare is the hero commander willing to take off his badge of rank. It’s his whole identity. The definition of Alpha is the self-confidence which manifests in battle as courage against the odds. The Alpha may be deluded or merely bluffing, but if his enemy flees, no one will ever know. Perception is reality, and the role of Alpha is entirely a matter of having a society which validates his self-confidence. A people ill-informed of God’s justice will be slaves to some Alpha.

Where Alpha rules, there will always be Betas, who represent the nobility. This symbiosis defines the two roles of the hierarchy. To be an Alpha is to be insulated from the herd, and without the Betas, there is no insulation. Betas derive their power and mission from this supporting role. Alpha gets nothing done without them. They willingly enter into his adventures, making them possible through their resources and encouragement. He, in turn, will make sure they lack for nothing from his excess supply.

Critical to their function is keeping an eye on what is possible in the context of the Alpha’s adventures. They protect him from failure in part by advising him, warning him if something is not possible, or unwise. He is wired to discount such things, but they are wired to counter that. Disagreements are taken for granted when everything works, because men by their nature don’t internalize such disagreements much. Still, we have ample precedent of partnership failures. Alpha can decide to destroy them all, but he must replace them with a more pleasing group. Or, they can confine him by reducing his prerogatives, even to the point of killing him. However, in a very real sense, they are the de facto owners of this system — the enforcers. The Alpha is simply the figurehead. Wise Alphas know this, playing it for all its worth, but many aren’t so wise. Without Betas, none of this is possible.

When they get too powerful, we have oligarchy in its various forms. It still amounts to tyranny and slavery for the rest. Even a faceless bureaucratic committee government is composed of real people with real privilege, but the Alpha-Beta symbiosis tends to force them out in the open. Again, where the people are ignorant of God’s justice, they will be slaves.

Deltas are the peasantry and middle class, as it were. It’s not as if they can’t usurp the system, but where they do, it’s more likely things are not what they seem. When Deltas rule, there is a pretense to democratic government. The flavor of such a government will depend on any number of factors, but it will be popular in theory. Sadly, Deltas seldom escape the real power structure because of characteristic delusions. Shortly after the plebes revolt, removing the Old Guard Alpha-Beta system, another Alpha-Beta symbiosis forms and seeks ways to reassert their advantage. As Deltas are deluded about game, they are equally deluded about most other things, and the real government will encourage and shape that delusion. Thus, people ill-informed about God’s justice will still be slaves to some Alpha-Beta system. However, the mass delusion effect is probably far worse, and the task of restoring God’s justice is much harder.

Gammas can rule, too. The effects are similar to Delta rule, because the characteristic delusions overlap. Indeed, it’s likely Delta government itself will bring the occasional Gamma into power. But it’s pernicious, in that Gammas are even more deluded, notwithstanding their higher IQ. Gamma talent tends to be more narrow, and their delusions will reflect their specialty. This gives us more extreme forms of government, reflecting an obsession with a strict orthodoxy. Gamma government is frequently insane and short-lived, terrorizing at least part of the population, if not most of it. At its best, Gamma rule is somewhat technocratic. It’s still slavery, but more insane, far less tolerant. It is particularly given to persecuting anyone attempting to promote God’s justice, as if the truth makes one a heretic from the official orthodoxy. The Alpha-Beta crew tends to be a secret conspiracy in this case, but they never go away.

Omegas typically don’t bother trying to rule. It never occurs to them. They tend to have such a poor grasp of reality, it’s all they can do to interact in any significant way with other people. When intelligent, they may try to manipulate the system for inscrutable ends, which is hard to distinguish from more mundane crime.

There are no characteristic examples of Lambda government, so far.

Sigmas are typically contemptuous of government. Should they actually get their hands on any levers of power, it’s likely to be libertarian non-government, aimed mostly at dismantling just about any system they encounter. Since history indicates humanity abhors this sort of thing, we may never see any libertarian government. Western culture in particular can’t bear the notion of decentralization, and Sigmas generally know this. They are typically critics of any existing government, with varying mixtures of purity versus pragmatism in their philosophical approach. This is why they game every social system, not just the socio-sexual. They are fully capable of arranging the destruction of any system, but they find almost every possible alternative system repugnant, particularly within the Western frame of reference, so they offer no viable solutions.

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A Prophetic Critique of Game Theory Model, Part 1

Posted on April 20, 2011 by ehurst

Perhaps I can put this whole topic to rest somewhat.

Background

Game itself reflects nothing of God’s ideals; it simply organizes what can be consciously understood of fallen human nature in terms of human sexual response. It works so well in human sexual relations because it draws on more fundamental facts of human social behavior at large. The hierarchy list used here is just one of several possible lists. This is true of any model of human behavior, a topic so complex and variable, no single model can hope to cover all the bases. The wide array of schools of thought regarding human nature is itself a reflection of this basic truth. Some are more effective than others, and for different uses, but all models which remain in circulation will bear some element of that broader fundamental truth.

That we discuss a Fall itself should indicate something too easy to forget: This is not ideal, not at all what God had in mind. Some part of our human consciousness knows this, or we would never bother with studying human nature. The trouble is, the Fall itself darkens our perceptions of human nature, even our very self-analysis. That some have found an effective way of addressing the unfortunate consequences of the Fall should not lead us to believe their answer is necessarily redemptive. An awful lot of religion is merely navigating fallen nature itself in some vain hope of changing it. Most religion, particularly in the West, is just another human system, but with a pretense of some deity’s approval. The brutal fact of the Fall is we are bound under something which is not ideal, and the nature of this bondage is immutable from our position inside it. Until we see a need to get outside of this regime, we make no approach to the ideal we all instinctively know is out there.

Simply understanding the Game Theory Model is not redemptive in itself. It is by no means an attempt to escape, but to game the system as it exists. It does, most assuredly, offer personal advantages, but by its nature “advantage” means something not shared with the rest of the world. The whole objective of game is to maintain an imbalance, of keeping the majority below what little good is possible. It does not aim to raise the masses above the degrading sorrow of our human lot, but aims to steal from their fair share of what’s available, for whatever justification, and consume it upon oneself.

This competition is the very nature of human society in the broader sense. A prophetic critique of Game Theory is best offered by linking socio-sexual behavior more tightly with human behavior as whole. Prophecy is a function of demanding justice on God’s terms, and while a specific correction of game theory in the socio-sexual realm is possible, redemption is incomplete without showing how it fits in the broader context of human need, and then fixing that bigger problem.

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A Minority Report: Will the Real Conspiracy Please Stand Up?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by ehurst

It’s not a matter of knowing precisely what is real, but recognizing what clearly is not.

Don’t pay any attention to me; I’m simply some nut claiming to be a prophet serving Jesus Christ. Most of the other people in world claiming Him as Lord will not agree with me on some of what I have to say. In particular, they have made it clear they reject my most basic underlying assumptions about the Bible, even though we all agree it is the essential source for all we claim. We all agree Satan is roaming the earth intent on deceiving and destroying our faith and witness, but I contend they chase a lot of those deceptions without realizing it. We who wave the Bible with sincerity are considered a fringe group, and I am a member of the lunatic fringe within that.

Knowing this, I am uninhibited in my writing because I have nothing to lose being honest. That anyone reads my blog at all is for me supporting testimony of God’s power to speak through the likes of Balaam’s Ass. I don’t claim to see angels with swords, but I do see things others do not.

I’m not sure whether I was ever actually a member of the Patriot Underground, AKA the Liberty Movement, and a few other nicknames. There was no single point of departure, though significant events litter my path into their company. No such events provide any clear milestones on my way back out, but it was clearly a different route. At any rate, it was just a sojourn, an exploration, an academic examination. I wanted to see if it felt like home; it did not. Meanwhile, I found this whole thing is much bigger than anyone realizes, yet is hardly so amorphous as anyone hopes. We all see through a mirror darkly, but some societies are more deceived than others. There is no secret army of freedom fighters scattered across America waiting some signal to attack the system and set us free. It’s hot air, a false sense of self-importance. Their targets are all well known, yet still actively going about destroying what shreds of liberty we may have ever had. Had there ever been a good moment to start shooting, it is well past. The Liberty Movement is loaded with hard ridges of fact almost drowning under oceans of self deception.

They are much like feminists in that sense. The feminazis do have a fair grip on what they don’t like, but they are utterly deceived about how to change it. They refuse see it: What they don’t like is actually hard-wired human nature. That’s the real failure of feminism, one they share with every political movement. They are all a big problem, but in their claimed agendas they are all toothless. Treating them as a genuine threat, or as a savior, is proof you don’t understand the bigger picture.

That is what the most dangerous people in this world want, those true servants of Darkness. We could debate forever labels and other extraneous issues, but until we see the real threat, we can’t ask God for guidance on how to respond and expect to understand the answer. There is a core group of humans seeking to take over the world, the real power behind much of what we see, or think we see. I call them the Illuminati, but often hedge a bit on the definition of the term. While it’s academically possible to draw clear distinctions, I suspect the boundaries are much softer, varying from time to time as to whom is included in this core group. I don’t think it matters in detail, but in concept. That’s because there are an awful lot of folks who appear to belong, but do not. These are the ones we see raised as examples of ultimate evil. They become a living propaganda screen, and it’s very effective. We watch their every move, record every sound-bite falling from their lips, and fear them. They are dangerous, and their threats are real, but if we killed them all, the plot would not change.

Let me offer an example, a thread of baloney which continues to keep folks distracted. Start with the understanding the real truth won’t make you much money. It’s not as if God won’t use someone with money and power, but He typically requires them to operate in low profile, while He gives prominence to folks everyone would prefer to ignore. That’s the nature of revelation — discounting the lies man already believes and promoting the truth he rejects. If it’s really important to the mass of humanity, it’s guaranteed to miss the point Heaven makes.

A major element in keeping the masses deceived has always been false threats, to create and maintain a false fear. A very popular recurring theme is threat to some major figure in the counter-establishment press. These people make their living from their high profile. It’s not that they are lazy; they work hard. But they work hard at something which isn’t productive, just very popular. They are primarily entertainers. They always have some facts right, or no one would pay attention, much less money. But part of their stage persona is the risks they take in bringing this precious truth to light. It sells.

My importance is only what God says it is, and it’s not up to me to decide for you. I realize it will seem like a counter-schtick, but I’ve learned the best way to make room for God in this writing business is to actively and playfully discourage people taking me seriously. I’m committed to truth, and can’t afford to get in the way. If I’m deluded, it’s my problem, but if I’m a genuine prophet, His people won’t be able to ignore me. That is, those appointed to hear the message I bear will come seeking it, even to the point of shaking it out of me. Part of getting out of His way means checking, and double-checking, to make sure I have no worldly vested interest in the message itself. I don’t place ads, don’t ask for money or sell anything, or even link to other blogs, not even my own other sites, except when it strikes me as relevant to the message. Let the message stand on its own.

Here’s a message for you: If the Illuminati want you dead, it will happen. I’ll be the first to tell you my encounter with the US Marshals was not persecution. I was a random, hapless victim of a bumbling dehumanizing bureaucracy. Had they really wanted to hurt me, I’d still be in custody, despite their general incompetence. But if someone really important wants to get me, you may never hear about it. The point of my story about Mr. Thompson and the US Marshals is what my encounter tell us about the War on Drugs, along with the nature of the US government lies about the the “goodness” of their various stated missions. I’m just a witness, and my involvement is merely a point of credibility.

Many of my readers probably know all too well Rush Limbaugh is primarily an entertainer. The only real result of all his work is a bigger bank account, which is itself result of his popularity, in turn arising from telling a wealthy segment of the population whatever is most likely to keep them listening. It’s not what he knows about politics, but what he knows about marketing that makes him successful. Most of you know Alex Jones is a cheap version of the same, who only wishes he could copy Limbaugh’s success. So he taps a smaller market, which happens to be more rabid. At one time I would have given some credit to the stories reported by Wayne Madsen, but it’s starting to wear thin. Were Madsen offering anything truly threatening to the regime, he would be gone already. Never mind whether he’s got anything on the Illuminati; the names and faces in Washington DC Madsen claims to expose are not that central core group, but they have more power and competence than the US Marshals who ruined my reputation in that tiny little church in East Texas.

Almost all the stuff you and I know about as really nasty and threatening to human life does not bear the fingerprints of the Illuminati, but some of their household staff, as it were. The nuclear missiles which slipped out of the Air Force control channel and onto that bomber might be useful to the greater plans of the Dark Overlords, but shows too much bungling. Okay, so maybe you believe it’s all part of the deeper deception to allow some news to leak out about the seven men killed who knew too much, or the lost sixth missile, etc. I say it’s not central to their plans, except as a distraction. Jones and Madsen whining about threats is almost iron-clad proof they don’t matter, or they wouldn’t be able to whine publicly.

The Illuminati are not more than humans, just smarter than average and generally better informed than the rest of us. We will probably never know who they are, any more than we can reasonably identify who was among them from history. Satan only shows his face when his target already knows him. He miscalculates, too. Surely his human servants, including those who serve him knowingly, are no more capable. But that still leaves an awful lot of room for competence in keeping us deceived. All the more so when so many people are actively seeking to be deceived. Crazy as it sounds, it’s more important we understand how all the current buzz is false than it is for us to actually know the dark secrets of the real threat. The Illuminati will eventually fail, and if Our Lord tarries, we’ll get a new crop of them later.

The real conspiracy is to keep us distracted from what really matters.

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Game Theory, Part 4: Epilogue

Posted on April 19, 2011 by ehurst

Plenty of people are not in the game, and have no status in the hierarchy. If you aren’t on the market, as it were, you aren’t in the game. You need not try to identify with any of these labels, but it helps to discern the meaning of how others respond to you in any given situation. For example, lots of exceptional ladies are treated as potential Tier Ones until the gamers realize the babe in question has opted out. The Alphas will move on, the Betas may later, but Deltas and Gammas don’t change their game a bit. Her lack of interaction on the game level is not entirely the point. A very large element of understanding how our world works requires familiarity with this socio-sexual model.

It may help if you understand where I am coming from in writing this. I refuse to participate in the game. The system has no claim on me. Were I to be involved in the game, I have no doubt the sytem would treat me as a Gamma. Somewhere early in my life I came to terms with the rejection on some instinctive level and simply withdrew. By the time it became physically possible for me to score, and before it became socially probable, I committed myself to the Christian ideal of sexual purity. That effectively ends any active participation in the game. When the time came for selecting a partner, I was in a totally different market, with entirely different rules. But I believe I understand the game model, even if only on my own terms.

I lack the physical endowments of an Alpha; genetics is a major factor. Purely as an accident of circumstance have I found myself in my element during brief episodes of life. During those few moments, I was the man to beat, and others handled me as Alpha, but only because there weren’t any real Alphas around. It was never my character. There was flirtation aplenty in those moments, but I don’t recall being conscious of genuine sexual offers, and was contemptuous of the prowl. Far more often, I was treated as a Beta, though I turned down the sexual offers I recognized in those settings. That was during the years I tried so hard to compromise with the mainstream socio-sexual system. I got over that. But I can’t possibly claim to be a Sigma.

By no means would any Alpha consider me a threat because they don’t take me seriously. Betas do because they are less self-absorbed. Part of my rejection of the game is a rejection of the whole social structure, of even Western Civilization itself. I have openly professed my desire and intent to see it destroyed, so the Betas, as guardians of the existing socio-sexual hierarchy, can’t ignore me when they become aware of me. The line between a madman and a visionary is blurred, and I am committed to destroying game as a prominent objective in my vision. This is hardly a matter of bitterness, since I am married to my one and only, and utterly contented sexually. Yes, all of us face temptations, even at my age, but I have so far been unyielding in my rejection.

The hostility I feel to the socio-sexual hierarchy is not at all personal, and my ego is neither fragile nor flimsy. My steadfast zeal comes from my sense of calling, an eternal fire which fell down from Heaven. I’m not hoping simply to burn everyone’s maps of reality, but to redefine mapping itself. Nor do I suffer delusions of grandeur, imagining I’ll claim my place at the center of human attention in some future society in any sense, much less in a socio-sexual hierarchy. I’ll be only too happy with my very marginal part in hastening what I see as the inevitable end of this sordid passage of human history.

I’m a Gamma with a great big grin.

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Game Theory, Part 3: Females

Posted on April 19, 2011 by ehurst

As noted, women are hardly immune to game. In modern Western societies, the vast majority of women are not fully conscious of game, and it is predictable precious few approach reality about their own placement, or how it works at all. They participate in spite of themselves. However, even women know instinctively the whole issue of socio-sexual hierarchy for themselves is placement in a parallel structure. The problem for us is realizing women by their nature are in some ways less variable than men, yet in another sense are far more variable, forcing us to organize the hierarchy differently. I find there are fewer levels for them than for men when it comes to this particular model.

Savvy gamers will focus on getting what they want from women, but a part of what they seek is not the same bland thrill from each conquest, but the infinite variability each woman represents. Men are actually more predictable in one sense, because game is their way of handling the real world for this narrow interest of sexual conquest. But prediction requires a longer, more detailed list, which list is much more firm by the very nature of maleness. The whole model itself is a man’s model. This is more about understanding men and how they pursue their interests. It offers no justice to women, but it does answer a man’s questions. Understanding it will also help women decide how to escape this beast. What is offered is the reality of a broken, damaged world, but a good hard look at how it actually works. Never mind what ought to be, this is; this is how men with feral desires and sharp intellect run the world, at least in reference to human sexual behavior.

Men are wired to seek one thing: beauty. That quality can be broken down into two obvious factors. First is mere physical manifestation, as this is initially what gets a man’s attention. While physical appearance is the dominant factor, feminine arts can serve to move a gal up or down a notch. Feminine charisma is a thing unto itself, but it attaches itself firmly to the man’s perception of beauty. Both are a matter of taste. The second factor is relative value in terms of ownership. What does he gain in “owning” her? Aside from the question of preening his own status in the hierarchy, she must be able to perform the sexual function which a man’s instincts tell him is possible based on that cursory visual examination. Men are wired to equate “hot” with “good ride,” even as they realize more consciously this remains to be explored.

The paradox here is a genuine virgin seldom performs well. Virtually all of men’s sexual psychosis is wrapped up in the fantasy of forcefully seizing something before any other man can soil it, but while most men are probably willing to expend the time training their virginal brides, they aren’t so patient with casual encounters. So while a highly skillful and experienced woman has her place, she’s just a replacement for masturbation. That middle ground where most men prefer to operate — sex as recreation — places a premium on minimal experience. Not actual experience, since no one expects an honest accounting of that, but the mere perception of her sexual experience level. He can pretend he’ll be better, more memorable in her estimation than a small number of predecessors, but knows he’ll be lost in her mind when that number amounts to a herd. Some refer to this as the Slut Factor. Again, it’s not a matter of actual body counts, but reputation. Perception is reality.

These two factors alone will relegate females in any given social situation to three primary tiers, and a good deal of space below that. There is no useful distinction below the line. There are as many scales are their are men enunciating them and using them, but there seems poor consensus for how to apply a hierarchy below the first three. Individual men are seldom unanimous in their evaluation of all the women present for any particular social occasion, so the hierarchy remains quite fuzzy; the correlations of the female hierarchy are weaker than for the one men.

Naturally Tier One is the rare creature no one can ignore. Other women hate her, and every man wants her. A high Slut Factor can pull her off the top row, but she can get away with a lot more, for much the same reason Alphas do. Her ability to flirt artfully and portray herself as the greatest thing any man could ever hold is a significant factor, but being a One still means she has the physical assets. This is the woman with perfectly symmetrical facial features, big eyes, small nose, narrower mouth and chin, prominent cheekbones, smooth skin, and long flowing hair. Take note: Men universally prefer long hair. Every word otherwise on this subject is a lie; the data from genuine objective research, every time it has been tried, is overwhelming on this question.

While cultural and personal tastes vary in terms of relative slenderness, a balanced proportion is the most significant asset. Behavioral studies point out men are hard-wired to read balanced proportion as highly fertile. These women are hard-wired to take maximum advantage of whatever window of opportunity their Tier One status gives to capture a stable provider of resources for her nesting instincts, such as they may be. She is fully aware of her status, fully game aware, and will competitively ride the Alpha merry-go-round for all its worth. They tend to be less deluded about game, which is how they hold their status. Marriage is merely symbolic, and often serial. Many Ones have children, but genuine nest-building doesn’t seem to happen much.

Still in the competition are Tier Two women. For whatever reason, she doesn’t quite rate first notice among the rest of the women — perhaps less charisma, or something in the physical presentation is less than perfect. However, a major factor in many of these is simply the matter of game savvy. Few of them will acknowledge their own secondary ranking, but men are seldom confused about it. They’ll ride the Alpha merry-go-round, too, but the very nature of being Alpha means she’ll never get all of him, and certainly less of him than a One. If she comes to her senses early enough, she marries a Beta and finds other ways to compete. She gets her best deal from the Betas, but a surprising number miscalculate, and play too long, ending up with Deltas.

A disturbingly high number of Twos profess a belief in the cultural orthodoxy, even as they respond predictably to game. This would mark a Two as an accessory, a toy, not a keeper. Amusingly, the primary failing characteristic is the hyper-competitive behavior pattern which betrays some insecurity that doesn’t afflict the Ones. In this sense, a Two may be a One in every way except self-confidence. So while a One can sometimes be a bitch and get away with it, Twos have to be more careful or they fall quickly down the scale. Being a Two tends to be the most fragile status for any given woman because precious few are comfortable with it.

Tier Three is the bulk of female humanity. This is the girl next door. She may well be quite the physical specimen, even a perceptual virgin, but lacks the competitive instinct, or perhaps carries some star talent but lacks on looks. She arrives at her Three status simply because she isn’t in the running, for whatever reason, to capture an Alpha, and knows it. To the degree she games, it’s only brief forays answering the call of nature. On the other hand, Threes make the best wives in the long run because of that. It’s a totally different category from the first two tiers, for whom game is life itself.

Sub-Threes: It’s hard to classify the rest. It’s not that lesser women don’t get in the game, simply because some level participation is a mere matter of making oneself available. But no one in the game takes these lesser creatures seriously except losers from the male hierarchy. These are the ones most likely to work at enforcing cultural mythology. While a depressingly high percentage of them actually do gain positions of real power in society, they scatter along a featureless wasteland of socio-sexual failure. They may be variations on too slutty, physically repulsive, a shrill harpy, project a creepy vacuuming neediness, or a thousand other ways women disqualify themselves from a game they really want to play. These are most likely to benefit from avoiding the game. We won’t pursue that here, except to note there are gay women, too, but it’s hard to find useful measures of their numbers, either in bulk or as a proportion. Visit any social scene where gays dominate, and men vastly outnumber the women (in terms of biological identity).

The question of feminine physical beauty remains the greatest paradox in the Game Model, as far as men are concerned. Women tend to take advantage of their assets, but frankly all their efforts are not aimed at provoking men’s notice, but the envy of other women. It’s not about the man, but the other woman. It seems to define her existence on some level. Where there are no valid competitors, women tend to act far less feminine; there simply is no game for her. She becomes nothing more than the animated trophy of the victor among the competing males.

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Game Theory, Part 2: The Hierarchy

Posted on April 18, 2011 by ehurst

First, credit for the original research on this goes to Vox Day. What follows is simply a restatement of his hierarchy from a different perspective, a different range of experience and purpose. I have no interest in making anyone a better player. Game is a petty tyrant who bluffs his captive subjects about the limits of his jurisdiction. If we don’t draw an accurate map, you’ll never escape the slavery of the socio-sexual hierarchy.

As with all things regarding behavioral studies, what follows are mere correlations and associations, not precise definitions. They are generally accurate, but never exactly applicable to any single individual. There is a broad overlap in the socio-sexual roles and those of the wider social intercourse. The key to the game model is grasping the male roles. The fundamental element is the masculine sense of self-confidence. This is the controlling factor for everything else. Not in every detail, but in the broad generalities, this is how the game works. In all social situations, the entire race of humanity is hard-wired to test this item first and foremost. The strength of a man’s self-confidence is central to his placement in the game, the key to everything. Physical characteristics are significant, but secondary.

Early in human development, it may be difficult to tell much more than some incipient indicators of a boy’s self-confidence. Not in the details of where he shines, but the overall quality and strength of the thing itself. Those who hold a strong measure of it will differentiate into various roles in the socio-sexual hierarchy. Beyond puberty, the social structure brutally punishes any weakness in self-confidence. By the same token, self-confidence determines how thoroughly one can reject cultural orthodoxy and choose a more independent path.

Again, this is not a question of what is normative. The definition of winning depends entirely upon the social context. One’s status may shift from one social situation to the next, in part because humans tend to adjust their behavior pattern based on any number of internal and external factors. Thus, the hierarchy is both a matter of being and doing, of having an identity and of playing a limited role.

At the top of the hierarchy is the Alpha Male. In every social situation, there is always at least one Alpha Male. Most of the time it’s the same guy across numerous situations. He is thoroughly self-confident, and self-absorbed. However, this must be matched with an equal measure of genuine charisma. It’s not enough to believe you are awesome; everyone else must believe it, or you are not Alpha. The Alpha is always the center of attention, and knows it.

He is competitive in whatever he does, and ignores any endeavor he can’t dominate, because he knows his weaknesses. He’s the Homecoming King, the Captain of the Team, the Class President, the CEO; he is The Man. Naturally, all the women are drawn to him. That’s the way women are wired. They will compete for his attention and his favors, and he will take what amuses him for so long is it amuses him. His entire universe is measured in terms of how he can use it for his own self-gratification. In this, he is reliably the bad boy. His social type may also be the rebel, the troublemaker, the biggest problem for the system. But he gets away with it because the system cannot function without him.

In the company of each other, they are wary but offer grudging acknowledgment as equals.

The Alpha will never stand alone. He has to have a gang composed of Beta Male roles. Alpha and Beta are symbiotic; their relative roles are interdependent. Their charisma differs only in degree. They posses their own good dose of self-confidence and talent, and still do well with the ladies. They are the support system which maintains the Alpha’s identity, his enabler. They they celebrate his dominance, form his posse for adventures.

They have no illusions about women, don’t embrace cultural orthodoxy. They win in the game by catching the disillusioned beauties cast aside by the Alpha, typically marrying such trophies. Every system needs at least one Alpha, but in a very important sense, the Betas are the system.

And every system has to have sufficient human bulk to function. This is where we find the Delta Male — the normal guys, the average, the majority, the herd. No one has to tell them they can’t score with the finest ladies; they noticed that long ago. But they still harbor serious delusions about women, having absorbed some version of the cultural orthodoxy. These are the White Knights who worship women. They further delude themselves about their own weaknesses and insecurities. Their success with women is more often a case of stumbling into it. They are the marrying type, quite faithful and constantly looking over their shoulder if they happen to win a gal above their league. They are clueless about women’s wiring, obsessively catering to point of annoyance, offering little which actually excites. Obsessed with preserving something obscenely precious to them, they take none of the risks which women admire. They never seem to understand why their marriages are weak.

On the lower edges of the social structure we find the Gamma Male. These are invariably more intelligent or talented than Deltas in one way or another, but lack even the Delta measure of self-confidence, holding a jillion self-doubts. Get them together and they create wonders to behold. This is role where archetypal computer geeks live. Quite useful in the broader social landscape, but disconnected entirely from game. Alone, they have a perverse self-obsession, analyzing everything with a sexual nuance down to the minutest flicker of detail. In the rare instances women notice the Gamma at all, it’s to manipulate him into providing some favor, seldom reciprocating in any meaningful way. These guys waver a lot, because their unstable egos twist and turn with the winds of the moment. They tend to be bi-polar, either worshiping or hating women at any given moment.

In their desperation, they easily slip into fantasies of control, where they conquering their sexual fate. Soul mates and suitable female partners are even more rare than such men. Too many of Gammas will capture some unfortunate gal in a bad moment, and this brief taste of satisfaction becomes his religion, in that she can never escape until one of them is dead.

But it could be worse. In every social hierarchy there are the untouchables, the thin layer wackos who don’t need a failed romance to be dangerous. They bounce off society in toto from the outside. The question of self-confidence is simply non-applicable, because there is no social interaction. He is by definition entirely singular — the Omega Male is downright creepy. People of every description look for excuses to avoid him, should they think about him at all. Omega returns the favor, unless he is a misogynist murderer.

There are others outside mainstream socio-sexual hierarchy. Among them is the rare Sigma Male. Society rejects him because in some ways he rejected society first. He plays the broader social system successfully, but holds it in contempt. Game is truly just a game to him, with no real stakes. The system as a whole is nervous about Sigma; Alphas are downright hostile. It’s not that Sigmas are competitive with Alphas, but are the sort of visionaries no Alpha could ever be. Sigma could as easily break the entire system itself, if he cared. He can have whatever he wants from the game, and is in some way still in it, but most women annoy him.

And in every thread of human history, one always finds one other element, the Lambda Male. For whatever reason we might want to imagine, some men reject the entire socio-sexual system in the sense they prefer other males. This alternative system has its own rules and hierarchy, is highly social, excessively dynamic, and impossible to understand very well from the outside. We cannot ignore the basic human fact a great many men throughout history were frankly bisexual or even omni-sexual. The point here is the current Western world possesses a parallel society of gays, a society which is self-defining, and retains the prerogative of accepting or rejecting anyone, regardless of sexual orientation.

Again, it doesn’t matter what you believe you are, because the whole hierarchy is organic and self-organizing; no one person can truly change the game. It’s all a matter of how it reacts to your presence. Concerted effort to understand and practice another role can have some limited effect, but actually being some other kind of man within the hierarchy is quite rare. The most important step is frankly accepting your current reality, because that is the key to how you exit.

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